University of Rhode Island student and cancer survivor, Ian Kanterman, assembled the university’s first head shaving event, which raised about $19,000 for the St. Baldrick’s childhood cancer research foundation on Monday.  Kanterman, a junior engineering major at the university, suffered from lymphoma at the young age of 5. He said that he first learned…
After Ranger Hall’s groundbreaking ceremony for its renovations this past November, there have been notable disparities between buildings for the arts versus STEM majors. The University of Rhode Island’s communication studies, film/media, journalism, public relations and writing and rhetoric departments will get a renovated building with the completion of Ranger Hall. But other programs,…
The Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity at the University of Rhode Island is raising money for a local 2-year-old girl who was diagnosed with cancer. Josie DeSimone, a resident of Narragansett, Rhode Island, was diagnosed with Wilms’ tumor on Dec. 21, 2015. A tumor attached to her kidney, the size of a softball, was…
On Wednesday, March 9, at 1:55 p.m., a report was filed for a larceny incident in the Memorial Union on Lower College Road. On Wednesday, March 9, at 7:56 p.m., University Police were notified of an animal complaint, either domestic or wild, in the Plains Road parking lot. On Thursday, March 10, at 1:26…
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Last weekend, the Multicultural Unity and Student Involvement Council, better known as MUSIC, held its second annual DIVE RI Conference. DIVE, which stands for Diversifying Individuals Via Education, is a two-day student-run and student-led event. The purpose of this conference is to engage students in a meaningful discussion on race and ethnicity issues that…
The Student Senate’s Student Organization Advisory Review Committee, or SOARC, decided in the fall 2015 semester to do a review on positions from all student organizations that receive a stipend on campus. These meetings involved one to two students representing each stipended position, and explained their role and outlined their need for a stipend…
Monday night, Dr. Katherine A. Kuvalanka gave a presentation about her recent study, called the “TransKids Project,†which explores the lives and experiences of 49 different families who have transgender or gender non-conforming children. The entire Union Ballroom was packed with students, faculty, and members of the community as they listened to Kuvalanka. In…
This December, the University of Rhode Island Dressage Team was denied $4,200 in additional funding from Student Senate to continue the lease on their horses for the spring semester. Without this money, the team’s coach would be forced to sell the horses and the URI Dressage Team would cease to exist. But that was…
On Tuesday, March 1, at 12:42 a.m., a report was filed after university police were notified of a suspicious person in Browning Residence Hall, on Butterfield Road. On Wednesday, March 2, at 11:48 a.m., a report was filed for a drug offense in Browning Residence Hall, on Butterfield Road. On Wednesday, March 2, at 9:09…