In 2013, Samuel Ogundare was asked for his picture to be taken for the company Microsoft. Little did he know his face would be seen in an article on the topic of accidental racism. He said that the essential edition of the book had a picture of him and his friend on the cover and…
The University of Rhode Island announced Monday the launching of the new academic health collaborative where a new college of health sciences will join the colleges of nursing and pharmacy. The idea of the collaborative is to make students studying all areas of health, familiar with each other’s majors. Dean of URI’s College of Pharmacy,…
The University of Rhode Island was one of at least a dozen universities nation-wide to receive racist and anti-Semitic fliers remotely sent to their public printers last Thursday. Director of Public Safety Stephen Baker said that the fliers were sent to all public access printers in the library on the Kingston campus and in…
So this has been a long time coming. I’m proud and humbled to help usher in what I hope to be a new tradition here at The Good 5 Cent Cigar. This edition of the paper is going to be dedicated to discussing the current state of race relations in both the University of…
The Muslim Student Association will be holding a two-day event this week to help get rid of misconceptions about Islam. The event, called Islamic Awareness Week: Misconceptions About Islam, will take place on Thursday, March 31, and Friday, April 1. On the first day of the event, the Muslim Student Association (MSA) will be…
Running through the headlines in seemingly never ending streams are stories on racial tensions here in the United States. Fights for equality followed by the faces of young black men lost in the battle continuously flash across screens at home. As these tensions rise, awareness of the American issue of racism slowly begin to…
Throughout the country, sororities and fraternities alike have a stereotype attached to them concerning an underrepresentation of minority students within Greek Life. Students from different ethnicities, religions or sexual orientations can be deterred from joining a Greek Life organization because they feel like they don’t belong. A lack of representation within the organizations and financial…
The History Department at the University of Rhode Island recently welcomed two new professors to their faculty. While both are experts on Early American History, they each have particular specialties that are shown through their education, extensive research and work. One of the new professors, Marcus Nevius, specializes in this history of slavery and…
With race-related events like those in Ferguson and in Baltimore, police all over the country have had their actions watched closely. The University of Rhode Island Police Department works toward a safe and peaceful campus through community policing. Police Major Michael Jagoda said they are always “under the microscope,†adding that he knows what…
Student Senate began their first meeting of the night by discussing an appeal of the stipend review process for Yearbook Renaissance’s Editor in Chief. During the stipend review process, Yearbook lost all their stipends. The Student Organization Advisory Review Committee (SOARC) cut the Yearbook’s Editor in Chief stipend because they felt that the Yearbook…