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WATCH: URI hold’s first annual safety week
The Department of Public Safety has come together to present URI’s first ever Safety Week to students and faculty. The event was held earlier this week over a course of three days. Students and faculty could sign up for the university’s emergency alert system, learn about bystander intervention and watch an FBI active shooter video,…
WATCH: Sigma Chi welcomes 58-year-old pledge
A former URI student is returning to campus to finish what he started – pledging Sigma Chi. Ed Johnson, a 58-year-old from Cranston, Rhode Island, attended URI back in 1975. He began pledging after the fraternity opened up their house for him to live in because there was no other housing available. After having to…
Narragansett discusses housing limit
Last Wednesday night the Narragansett Town Hall was packed to capacity with students, local residents and landlords as the town council continued the consideration of a housing ordinance, which would restrict homes to no more than four unrelated tenants. No final decision was made. After hearing from a number of different perspectives, they decided…
URI grads present at Amanpour Lecture
Two University of Rhode Island graduates gave presentations about their experiences in international and conflict reporting last night in the Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences. Mark Scialla, ‘13, and Reshad Kulenovic, ‘04, spoke at URI as part of the Christiane Amanpour lecture in international journalism. Both Scialla and Kulenovic both rely heavily on…
Cancer survivor holds head shaving event
University of Rhode Island student and cancer survivor, Ian Kanterman, assembled the university’s first head shaving event, which raised about $19,000 for the St. Baldrick’s childhood cancer research foundation on Monday.  Kanterman, a junior engineering major at the university, suffered from lymphoma at the young age of 5. He said that he first learned…
Majors receive different funding for buildings, update on Ranger Hall renovations Â
After Ranger Hall’s groundbreaking ceremony for its renovations this past November, there have been notable disparities between buildings for the arts versus STEM majors. The University of Rhode Island’s communication studies, film/media, journalism, public relations and writing and rhetoric departments will get a renovated building with the completion of Ranger Hall. But other programs,…
Fraternity brothers raise money for local girl with cancer
The Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity at the University of Rhode Island is raising money for a local 2-year-old girl who was diagnosed with cancer. Josie DeSimone, a resident of Narragansett, Rhode Island, was diagnosed with Wilms’ tumor on Dec. 21, 2015. A tumor attached to her kidney, the size of a softball, was…
Police Beat 3/9 – 3/13
On Wednesday, March 9, at 1:55 p.m., a report was filed for a larceny incident in the Memorial Union on Lower College Road. On Wednesday, March 9, at 7:56 p.m., University Police were notified of an animal complaint, either domestic or wild, in the Plains Road parking lot. On Thursday, March 10, at 1:26…
WATCH: Cigar Newscast 3/10
Reporters Allie Herrera and Marissa Tansino report on this week’s top stories.