Karie Orendorff Lecturer in Kinesiology Marissa: What exactly is this organization? Karie Orendorff: It’s called Teaching in Tanzania. I take students from the University of Rhode Island, actually any university is welcome to come, but it’s for the kids here because that’s where I teach. We go over to Africa, to Tanzania, and…
A Rhode Island native was caught in the middle of chaos inside the Capitol Building after Capitol Police shot and wounded a suspected gunman inside the Capitol Visitor’s Center in Washington, D.C. on Monday afternoon. Cynthia Sexton of Portsmouth was taking a guided tour inside the Capitol Building when the shooting occurred. “There was…
In 2013, Samuel Ogundare was asked for his picture to be taken for the company Microsoft. Little did he know his face would be seen in an article on the topic of accidental racism. He said that the essential edition of the book had a picture of him and his friend on the cover and…
The University of Rhode Island announced Monday the launching of the new academic health collaborative where a new college of health sciences will join the colleges of nursing and pharmacy. The idea of the collaborative is to make students studying all areas of health, familiar with each other’s majors. Dean of URI’s College of Pharmacy,…
The University of Rhode Island was one of at least a dozen universities nation-wide to receive racist and anti-Semitic fliers remotely sent to their public printers last Thursday. Director of Public Safety Stephen Baker said that the fliers were sent to all public access printers in the library on the Kingston campus and in…
So this has been a long time coming. I’m proud and humbled to help usher in what I hope to be a new tradition here at The Good 5 Cent Cigar. This edition of the paper is going to be dedicated to discussing the current state of race relations in both the University of…
The Muslim Student Association will be holding a two-day event this week to help get rid of misconceptions about Islam. The event, called Islamic Awareness Week: Misconceptions About Islam, will take place on Thursday, March 31, and Friday, April 1. On the first day of the event, the Muslim Student Association (MSA) will be…
Running through the headlines in seemingly never ending streams are stories on racial tensions here in the United States. Fights for equality followed by the faces of young black men lost in the battle continuously flash across screens at home. As these tensions rise, awareness of the American issue of racism slowly begin to…
Throughout the country, sororities and fraternities alike have a stereotype attached to them concerning an underrepresentation of minority students within Greek Life. Students from different ethnicities, religions or sexual orientations can be deterred from joining a Greek Life organization because they feel like they don’t belong. A lack of representation within the organizations and financial…