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What’s Trending Around Campus: Are the Construction Workers Around Campus Impacting Students Style?

Subcultures collide on URI’s campus with students adopting style trends from construction workers’ unofficial uniform: Carhartt hats and Timberland work boots. URI is no stranger to construction work, and with the new engineering building and dorm hall being built this past semester, an abundance of construction workers have been present on campus. While these construction…

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A New Era for Journalism

Sunday, Jan. 20 will be a day I remember forever. It’s the day I left home for the start of the Spring 2019 semester, and truly realized that I was the next Editor-in-Chief of The Good Five Cent Cigar. Being in charge of a 48-year-old newspaper with only three semesters of collegiate journalism experience is…well…absolutely…

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Super Bowl commercials power ranking

by Jack Cederberg, Nolan Reilly, and Will Pipicelli Super Bowl LIII was watched by an estimated 100.7 million people on Sunday night among all available viewing and streaming platforms, as reported by Variety. Although that seems like a massive number, the earliest Nielsen projections have the big game being watched in 44.9 percent of all…

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Book Review: ‘Sourpuss’

Right from the get-go, “Sourpuss” descriptively pulls you into the world of a college student. To kick it off, senior Mallory Wahl sets the scene of party culture that every college student has encountered– drunk frat guys. This is when the reader starts to get accustomed to Mallory’s judgemental, superior attitude that isn’t too misguided….

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