My friend, Evan, overdosed in 2016. He died a couple of months shy of his 21st birthday. I know because his birthday was only two days before mine. Evan was a great person. His warm heart made everyone smile, and his relentless love for Nicki Minaj was always the topic of conversation. A drug that…
Oct. 7, 2017 was the day I lost faith in McDonalds. This day is a day that will live in infamy. It was the day McDonald’s made a promise, that fell short and ruined the lives of many. What happened you ask? McDonald’s didn’t give us the Mulan Szechuan Chicken McNugget Sauce we were promised….
I’m 21 and I don’t drink. You read that right. The unpopular opinion. I don’t go to Ticket Tuesdays at the Ocean Mist,Chuck Mondays at Charlie O’s Tavern, or Bonvue Thursdays at the Bonvue Inn. I’ve been 21 for a solid four months and have yet to hop on the bandwagon of drinking on a school…
I’m a senior, and I’ve spent a lot of time in Swan Hall over the course of what has nearly been four years of school—but I’ve never had a class in the auditorium. This Tuesday, October 10, I completed my regularly scheduled English class—on the second floor—and descended down the staircase towards the entrance. I…
Three weeks ago, when we ran Kelsey Santmyer’s column about her rape, I never expected the positive reactions we received from the University of Rhode Island community. I was in awe at the overwhelming support Kelsey received in the column’s aftermath. URI community members held a rally that packed the Memorial Union Atrium to stand…
SYDNEY – Last week my entire article was about how beautiful New Zealand was, and how I wasted a golden opportunity in the country. However, New Zealand as a whole was not a wasted vacation. It was anything but. This is the story of how fantastic–albeit terrifying–New Zealand, “The Adventure Capital of the World,” was….
Maybe you’ve just seen the bill for your textbooks this semester and felt your stomach drop. Maybe you just never really had to pay much attention to how much you spent on groceries. Do you really want to save by canceling your monthly Spotify subscription? I don’t think so. Sticking to a budget can be…
A letter to Kelsey Santmyer Dear Kelsey, We cannot begin to count the number of ways our University has failed you. You were failed two years ago when you were raped. You were failed when you were shut out by your peers and slipped through the cracks of University policy. You were failed by all…
Dear University Community, As members of the University of Rhode Island Student Senate, we commit ourselves to preventing sexual violence here at this institution. We value and uphold the cornerstones of our University: to defend the rights and dignity of our fellow students, to create and maintain an environment that is conducive to personal health…
SYDNEY – When God, Mother Earth, Jake from State Farm, Tom Brady or whoever you choose to, or not, believe in made the Earth, I think they saved New Zealand till the end. They just looked at the islands and said “well, we have some leftover rainforest, mountains, glaciers, rivers, cliffs, fjords and a lot…