The University of Rhode Island is holding its 10th annual “Be 5K run/walk” for mental health awareness and suicide prevention on March 31 on the Kingston Campus. This event originally started exclusively as a walk and transformed to a 5K run. In the span of the 10 years since its creation, the event has raised…
An LGBTQ+ “Expression in the Digital Age” event took place at the University of Rhode Island’s Gender and Sexuality Center on March 19. Senior honors student Nate Vaccaro presented the talk specifically on the expression of the LGBTQ+ community in the digital age. The event was an hour long with the first half including a…
This week’s meeting of the University of Rhode Island’s Student Senate ended with a closed meeting for purposes of impeachment, however, the vote did not pass. At the start of the meeting, during approval of the agenda, Senator Ryan Menard moved to strike the closed meeting from the agenda as there was no bill for…
Gordon Ernst has been placed on administrative leave following the recent admissions scandals that have hit the nation. Photo courtesy of GoRhody. University of Rhode Island’s women’s tennis coach, Gordon Ernst, was indicted this past week in a national college admission scandal for accepting over $2.7 million of bribes. Ernst allegedly took the bribes as…
Society for Women in Computing works to expose women to different areas of technology while developing professional skills and establishing a supportive and encouraging community. Photo courtesy of S.W.I.C. Despite the high ranking, the department still looks for ways to improve The University of Rhode Island ranked 46 out of 252 four-year public universities for…
The sophomore housing has been under fire recently for a lack of RA supervision. Photo by Joseph Lachance. Although several students have expressed concerns that it is difficult to contact their Residential Advisors (RAs), the University of Rhode Island office of Housing and Residential Life (HRL) wants them to know that RAs are students too….
On March 7, the University of Rhode Island student body elected Nick Marotta and Amanda Marino as the next Student Senate president and vice president. The ticket received 749 votes from the student body for the position, according to unofficial election results from the Elections Committee Chair Jennifer Kohl. According to Moratta, the major initiatives…
Although the anti-vaxxers movement has become increasingly problematic across the nation, the University of Rhode Island has taken many precautions to ensure that students are protected from preventable infections. Nationwide, the anti-vaxxers movement has resulted in a comeback of some previously eradicated diseases, such as measles and tetanus. The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently…
Roosevelt Hall offers advising to students to fix problems originally made with their class schedule during summer orientation. Photo by Grace DeSanti. Summer orientation has been notorious among students for messing up schedules and putting students in classes that they already have credit for from high school. In terms of general education classes in the…
Student Veterans Organization members, pictured above, help veterans transition to student life. Photo by Greg Clark. The Student Veteran Organization (SVO) at the University of Rhode Island has grown in the last two years to provide resources to student veterans on campus. The SVO’s goal is to help facilitate successful veteran transition into civilian student…