The University of Rhode Island will host its second annual Rhody Halloween 5K to support the Exeter Animal Shelter this Sunday, Oct. 30. The race will begin at noon on the Quadrangle, and participants are highly encouraged to come dressed in their favorite costume and to bring along their four-legged friends. Christina Savoie, fitness and…
St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church on Lower College Road held their second “Feed a Friend” event of the year Tuesday night, which invited students to enjoy a home-cooked meal with absolutely no-strings-attached. Archdeacon Janice Grinnell, who joined St. Augustine’s in 2012, is always looking for ways to get involved with the student community and established the…
Madelynn Schulte, Marissa Tansino, and Jessica Pace bring you this week’s headlines.
Marissa Tansino and the Cigar news team bring you this week’s headlines.
Starting in fall of 2017, students in the University of Rhode Island College of Nursing will be required to travel to Providence at least once a week for classes at the brand new Rhode Island Nursing Education Center. The $25 million, 133,000 square foot building occupies a renovated power station downtown through a partnership with…
On Thursday, Oct. 13 at 2:18 p.m., a report was filed for suspicious activity on the Quad. On Friday, Oct. 14 at 8:20 p.m., university police were notified of suspicious activity in Eddy Residence Hall, on Complex Road; a report was filed. On Friday, Oct. 14 at 10:33 p.m., a report was filed for suspicious…
The names of students and staff interviewed have been changed to protect their anonymity.* The decriminalization of marijuana went into effect on April 1, 2013, in Rhode Island, but there is still a stigma surrounding the use of marijuana for both medical and recreational purposes. Although marijuana has been decriminalized in Rhode Island, that does…
The Student Senate started its Wednesday meeting with Finance Chairman Ryan Buck introducing a finance bill which recognized a category transfer of $5,000 from “Convention and Registration” to “Travel and Lodging” for the Alpine Racing Team. Chairman Buck noted that these types of transfers happen regularly at this time of year to accommodate for different…
Since Hillside Residence Hall was built at the University of Rhode Island in 2012, rumors have spread around campus regarding a faulty structure and a sinkhole, but Housing and Residential Life finally put these assumptions to an end. Hillside Hall is home to 600 first-year students and includes several living-learning communities including the Harrington School,…
While many classes at the University of Rhode Island require students to purchase a textbook, only a select few of those are written by the professors actually teaching the course. Whether or not it’s morally correct for professors to profit from both teaching at the university and requiring their own textbooks, however, is debated by…