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…
The University of Rhode Island’s local foods market have disappeared from campus again, but this time students can blame the Coca-Cola company for the absence. The return of the URI Slow Food’s market was short lived, only appearing once on Feb. 2 for a few short hours. Two days later, official word from Coca-Cola came…
Faculty members have been working together to make a new change to the general education structure. The current system we have now was first implemented in 2001. For the past couple of years, faculty have been working behind the scenes to develop an entirely new structure to the system. “It’s been a controversial time, but…
At the end of every semester, students flock to the bookstore to sell their textbooks and hopefully make a few extra dollars. Unfortunately for many of these students, the money they get back is nothing compared to the amount that they spend on the books. In some cases, students get absolutely no money back for…
Rhode Island Secretary of State Nellie M. Gorbea spoke to students at the University of Rhode Island this past Tuesday on behalf of the Rock the Vote Campaign, encouraging the college demographic to vote in upcoming elections. Â On this particular Tuesday, known as Super Tuesday, 12 states and one U.S. territory voted in…
Researchers at the University of Rhode Island are currently involved in several ongoing projects where they use salt marshes to further their understanding of the relationship between sea level change and climate change. A salt marsh is an area of coastal grassland that is often subject to flooding from the nearby saltwater. They are…
   On Wednesday Feb. 24, Room 402 in Lippitt Hall was packed full of people all to hear Dr. Richard McIntyre speak about Democratic Socialism. In conjunction with South County, RI for Bernie Sanders and the University of Rhode Island economics department, students and people of the community filled this room to nearly…