The Diversity Center is a great resource for students to learn about fun activities for everybody. Photo by James McIntosh. The University of Rhode Island’s 23rd annual Diversity Week began this Monday, featuring workshops, lectures and events that are held throughout the week to focus on issues of race and religion. Diversity Week is hosted…
After students had negative reactions to gluten in paper straws, many food services around campus have made warning labels. Photo by Melissa Marchese. In early October, Karen Orabona, a nutrition specialist at the University of Rhode Island, sent out an email to students with gluten intolerances to warn them that the paper straws on campus…
As a part of the URI 101 curriculum, all freshmen are now required to receive a certificate for completing a Title IX quiz in order to learn about discrimination on the basis of sex in education and the workplace. According to the University of Rhode Island’s Office of Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity and Diversity’s website,…
The Gender and Women’s Studies (GWS) Department kicked off a lecture series this semester that covers a variety of topics within feminism and intersectionality, which is an extension of this year’s religion-based honors colloquium. The lectures include: African American Women in the Suffrage Movement; Protestantism and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Oaxaca; Establishing Feminist Perspectives on…
The Pawtucket Police Department detective who created playing cards with the faces of cold case victims on the back recently spoke at the Forensic Science Seminar and shared information with the audience regarding cases she has worked on. The seminar, given by Detective Susan Cormier, was held last Friday at the University of Rhode Island…
Judith Weisenfeld, a professor of religion at Princeton University, discussed the correlation between race and religion. Photo by James Singer. The sixth installment of this semester’s Honors Colloquium featured a guest lecturer from Princeton discussing the correlation of race and religion in America on Tuesday night in Edwards Auditorium. The lecture was given by Judith…
Students get together to share their experiences regarding mental health and to give each other support. Photo by James McIntosh. A chapter of Active Minds, an organization that promotes conversations on mental health, was founded at the University of Rhode Island last spring. In the spring 2019 semester, then-junior kinesiology and psychology double major Stephen…
The Gender and Women’s Studies major will kick off new classes for students next semester. Graphic made by Elizabeth Wong. The University of Rhode Island’s Gender and Women’s Studies Department (GWS) will be offering new, specialized sections of GWS 350 for students to enroll in this spring. Four new sections of the class will be…
Photo by James Singer. Friday, Oct. 25 At 1:12 p.m. a motor vehicle accident occurred on Campus Avenue. No injuries occurred and a police report was filed. At 4:41 p.m. drug offenses occurred in Hillside Hall. Saturday, Oct. 26 At 7:35 a.m. an accident occurred on Lower College Road. No injuries occurred and a police…
Two new resolutions passed at Student Senate’s weekly meeting yesterday evening. The first of these bills was a resolution calling to take $675 from the Multicultural Unity and Student Involvement Council budget. The number was decided in order to make up for t-shirts the program had bought against the laws of Student Senate, who decided…