September 28th, 2018 Dear Constituents, The University of Rhode Island Student Senate (Senate) is currently involved in discussions regarding the manner in which student organizations are funded and the matters for which they may not be funded. Since May of this year, the Senate has been in correspondence with an organization known as the Foundation…
On Thursday, September 20th, three members including Allison Lantagne, Jay Rumas, and myself from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of URI presented in front of Faculty Senate. Our cause: to work with Faculty Senate so that URI lives up to its stated values, one of which is “Engaged learning and civic involvement”. Currently classes…
Dear Editor, As the residents of Narragansett “try to get their town back,†they should keep in mind that it is a team effort.  As Brianna Montecalvo, the Student Senate External Affairs chair said in the article, “Student/resident relations evolve ‘down the line’,†students and residents need to work on cohesiveness.  Not just students,…
(This is in response to the article https://rhodycigar.com/2015/10/10/two-football-players-arrested-for-fighting/. The information on what President Dooley has said about this situation comes from the article http://ripr.org/post/uri-president-david-dooley-campus-violence.) Dear Editor, Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Broken noses. Fractured jaw. Fractured arm. These are just a few of the injuries sustained by Chi Phi brothers after members of the URI football team came into…
Dear Editor, I came across a rather inconvenient situation last week while in search for a text that is mandatory for one of my courses. There was an issue with the shipment of this text; Therefore, I went to the university library in hope for some guidance of obtaining a copy within the week. A…
Researchers in Dr. Kathleen Melanson’s Energy Balance Laboratory at the University of Rhode Island study a crucial area of research that examines eating rate and healthy dietary habits. Currently over 60 percent of the US population is overweight or obese. There are hundreds of strategies designed to help people lose weight, yet many people find…
On Wednesday October 28, University of Rhode Island Part-Time Faculty Union President Ed Inman was joined by URI part-time faculty members, labor leaders, community activists, and students to present a petition to President Dooley. The petition calls for President Dooley to take action and remedy the employment status of the University’s part-time faculty members who…
For any college, it is important to create a visually pleasing campus as well as one that functions to help students learn and eventually graduate with degrees of their own. Doing that requires a massive effort from a team of dedicated maintenance workers in order to maintain a large sprawling campus like the University of…
The Rhode Island Superior Court has ruled, October 1, 2015, in favor of the URI Part-Time Faculty United (URI/PTFU) union in the URI/Board of Education (BOE) appeal of an arbitrator’s earlier decision which determined that the University acted in violation of the URI/BOE and URI/PTFU collective bargaining agreement. In this context, it should be mentioned…