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…
The annual Be 5K was held Sunday with over 135 people participating Students and faculty participated in the Be5k walk early Sunday morning to raise money for mental health. Photo by Greg Clark. Despite poor weather conditions, the University of Rhode Island hosted the annual Be 5k walk/run in support of mental health awareness and…
Yesterday’s University of Rhode Island Student Senate meeting was marked mostly by elections, as six new members of Student Senate were sworn in. Breanni Torres was elected as an at-large representative and Bella Cadavid was elected as a representative for the College of Business. Michael Rios, Tim Berard, Lance Mitchell and Kevin Bugbee were elected…
Academic credits earned will be averaged to establish priority The Brookside Apartments are still under construction, however, Housing and Residential Life recently began accepting applications for potential residents for the spring semester. Photo by Greg Clark. The University of Rhode Island’s Department of Housing and Residential Life (HRL) recently opened the application period for students…
Butterfield residence hall was one of the locations on campus where voyeurism was reported in the showers. Photo from URI. On Tuesday the University of Rhode Island warned students on-campus of instances of video voyeurism in showers in Butterfield and Weldin Hall which took place late Sunday and Monday evening. On-campus residents were sent an…
A Rabbi from Massachusetts kept the audience entertained with his humor Rabbi Daniel Judson delivered a speech on Judaism in America on Tuesday in Edwards Auditorium, as the fifth speaker as part of this year’s Honors Colloquium’s series on Religion in America. Judson is the dean of the Hebrew College Rabbinical School in Newton, Massachusetts….
When a storm caused a power outage on Oct. 17 it put the entire campus without electricity, heat or hot water, and some began to question why the University of Rhode Island did not have emergency backup generators ready. The Memorial Union, Hope Commons, Butterfield Dining Hall and Health Services all had generator power because…