PHOTO CREDIT: Maddie Bataille | Photo Editor I honestly cannot believe that this day is here. This sounds cliche, but it really does feel like yesterday when I showed up for my first Cigar meeting back in 2019. I had known I wanted to join a bunch of journalism-related organizations back then, and in the…
PHOTO CREDIT: Maddie Bataille| Photo Editor In my three and a half years as a student at URI, I have never known life without the Cigar. From the very first day of classes, the paper gave me an identity that I could be proud of in a time when I didn’t know who I was….
PHOTO CREDIT: Maddie Bataille| Photo Editor Since September 2, 2019, my life has been dominated by one thing: the Good Five Cent Cigar. That was the first Cigar meeting I ever attended. It was only my second week at the University of Rhode Island, and though I would never have admitted it, I was lonely…
I am writing this article not to state what some may see as obvious, but rather to check the mode of operations which is so clearly lacking in quality. What I am gesturing at is the control and disposal of information supervised by administrations at academic institutions. Of issues both social and political, it is…
As a senior project, South Kingstown High School class dedicates mural to mental health. PHOTO CREDIT: Griffin Lamoureux | Contributing Photographer Now that we find ourselves in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, our concerns are drawn toward the state of mental health after such radical lifestyle changes. This idea is becoming increasingly more important,…
While many people tend to delegate writing specifically to assignments for school or work, I find it very advantageous to spend more time writing in your day-to-day life, both in terms of creative expression and increased knowledge of writing that can be later infused into my school or work-related assignments. Whether longhand or on the…
PHOTO CREDIT: harrington.uri.edu John Pantalone, a professor of journalism at the University of Rhode Island, will be stepping down as chair of the journalism department and adviser of the Good Five Cent Cigar at the end of this semester. Pantalone is an institution at the Cigar, being the first editor-in-chief when he was a student…
Photo contributed by: Christian Silvia | Staff Reporter I wrote my first article for the Cigar just before the pandemic started, it took weeks to edit since it was so poorly written. I often wonder what would have happened if I never nervously walked into the Cigar office midway through sophomore year and took those…
Photo contributed by: Kayla Laguerre-Lewis | Entertainment Editor Emerita When I moved on from the position of entertainment editor at the end of last semester, the editors I had started with were all publishing their own goodbye columns. I decided to hold off until the very last minute, which is now. I did that for…
Photo contributed by: Greg Clark | Staff Photographer I never intended on joining The Good Five Cent Cigar. During my fall semester freshman year, Kayla Michaud, who was the entertainment editor at the time, asked me to photograph the play that was about to open on campus. I had nothing better to do, so I…