Zach Hurwitz aspires for unprecedented political success URI freshman Zach Hurwitz is running in the RI state gubernatorial race as the youngest candidate. PHOTO CREDIT: zach4gov.com Zach Hurwitz isn’t like most first-year college students. At 18 years old, Zach Hurwitz is the youngest candidate in the 2022 Rhode Island state gubernatorial race, running as an…
Forum speakers clash over student representation, town identity Starting this academic year, the Narragansett Town Council is only allowing three unrelated undergraduate students to live together in any Narragansett rental property. On Sept. 19, Narragansett’s Town Council opened the floor to concerns regarding both the zoning ordinance and the new rental registration. Narragansett Town Council…
Joe Biden celebrates his new position as the President of the United States. Photo from nbcnews.com. On Saturday, Nov. 7, the majority of media outlets called the 2020 United States presidential race, naming Joseph Biden president-elect and Kamala Harris vice president-elect. The highly contested and publicized race has been met with mixed reactions from the…
Incumbent President Donald Trump. Photo from Whitehouse.gov. Gone are the days when you’d wake up on the first Wednesday of November every four years and know the victor of the United States presidential election. In a divisive Election Week in American history, the presidential contest of Republican President Donald Trump vs. former Democratic Vice President…
The aftermath of students rioting after Super Bowl LIII. Photo contributed by Joe Lachance. Regardless of who is declared the next president of the United States this election, the University of Rhode Island is preparing for students to exercise their First Amendment rights and organize in protest or celebration. Emergency Management Director and Assistant Director…
President Donald Trump takes off his mask shortly after being released from the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for COVID-19 treatment. Photo from CNN. On Oct. 2, it was made public that President Donald Trump, as well as several members of his inner circle, had tested positive for COVID-19. With the election under a…
URI Votes participants (left to right) James Houghton, Gretchen Macht, Tim Jonas, and Nicholas Bernardo, received a research grant for the coming elections. The University of Rhode Island Voter OperaTions and Election Systems (VOTES) project recently received three grants totaling $700,000 to research how COVID-19 will affect the upcoming election. The program, led by assistant…
Students Mackenzie Cetta and Tori Nelson express support toward students going to vote. Photo by Autumn Walter Starting in the fall of 2020, the University of Rhode Island will give students Election Day off during even numbered years to encourage civic engagement. Originally, Faculty Senate, the group that votes on the academic calendar, had to…
The 2018 midterm election resulted in Democrats winning the House, Republicans maintaining their majority in the Senate and the highest voter turnout in decades. The Democratic Party took the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time in eight years, flipping over 28 seats from 2016, according to Politico. Republicans kept their majority in the…
On Nov. 6, people across the country will vote for their elected officials and referendums during the 2018 midterm elections. Brian Krueger, a professor of the political science department, said that this year’s midterm elections are particularly important because they could change the makeup of the entirety of the United States House of Representatives and…