The Students Rights and Responsibilities Committee has decided to remove the “three-strike†policy from the University of Rhode Island campus policies. “With the three-strike policy, the student conduct administrators are held to ‘one, two, three, I have to suspend you,’†said Katrina Dorsey, associate dean of Students and Community Standards for URI. “In that we…
On Friday, Sept. 11 at 11:17 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on 54 Fortin Road, which led to an arrest due to the underage alcohol possession. On Saturday, Sept. 12 at 1:57 a.m. a report of suspicious activity in the north east corner of Keaney Lot lead to an arrest. The only charges brought up…
The three-wheeled Segway students may have seen University of Rhode Island Police riding around campus on is a part of newly appointed Major Michael Jagoda’s effort to increase community policing at URI. The Segway is not entirely brand new, Jagoda said.  The police department has had it for three years, yet only started using it…
A colorful array of traditional festivities are coming to URI in honor of the Chinese Moon Festival to celebrate the joy and peace of the full harvest moon in China. Â The event is held in honor of the ancient Chinese ritual of gathering to rejoice the harvest during the autumn season and celebrate the…
For many incoming freshmen, the advertisements for a university-sponsored event closely resembling a mile long streak across campus may be perplexing. But these intriguing advertisements are doing exactly what they are meant to do: raise awareness. The Nearly Naked Mile is hosted annually by the Student Alumni Association in order to collect clothing donations that…
The Puppy Raisers Club, a student organization at the University of Rhode Island, have recently been bringing puppies they trained to campus and into classrooms to expose and socialize puppies to everything and anything. Since its conception about a year ago, the Puppy Raisers Club has grown tremendously. Finally recognized by Student Senate, the group…
Student Senate President Amanda Rode talked about the importance of the upcoming elections on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1. With just one more day left before the declaration period ends, Senate has just barely enough people running to fill the open positions making it a completely uncompetitive election. With 23 senators leaving senate by…
Local News Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo stepped forward and stated that she is willing to assist the federal government in hosting Syrian refugees in Rhode Island. In the coming year, the United States intends to accept 10,000 refugees. Raimondo recently told WPRO-AM that the civil war taking place in Syria is a humanitarian crisis…
After being closed last semester for renovations, Butterfield is back and better than ever. With the dining hall open once again, students can come in for breakfast, lunch and dinner on weekdays. But now that the dust has settled, so to speak, what changed— and what hasn’t— over at Butterfield? The most noticeable change to…
In an internet security breach at the University of Rhode Island this August an unknown party, that was neither a university student nor employee, found out the passwords to the uri.edu email accounts of around 3,000 students. An overwhelming majority of the email accounts affected, 97 percent, belong to women. Around 1,200 of those accounts…