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It’s Time to Run … for Office

It’s 2018. You open the news notification on your phone to find President Trump has announced on Twitter that he’s persecuting millennials found to be killing traditional industries, the pothole in...

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This Isn’t Your Father’s Classroom: Technology in Education

In a week that had the Red Sox and Yankees fined for Apple Watches and clandestine dugout cell phones, it’s a reminder that even a stalwart like our national pastime isn’t immune from the infiltration...

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We Deliver: Bringing The World to Your Dorm-step

You haven’t had dinner … or started that essay due tomorrow. You’ve sweat through another bundle of gym clothes – the more to add to your aromatic heap of dirty laundry. It’s happened to the best of...

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Substance-Free Unwinding

The academic year is just starting and that means the stress is on. Lots of students unwind with alcohol or smoking weed, but both those things cost money ­– and if those are the only coping methods...

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Survival of the Fall Semester

“Oh fall semester, we meet again. Far too many times have we faced off. I, still beaming with the glow of whimsy from summer vacation, welcoming you into my life with the promise of the nourishing...

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Flying in All Types of Weather

Leroy doesn’t have gloves. To protect his fingers from the cold – which is pretty intense today – he keeps his parka pulled down over his hands; it makes holding his cardboard sign difficult, and he...

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Resolve to Meet Your Neighbors

I’ve always been obsessed with my neighbors. It’s not entirely in a Rear Window way — although I love that movie, and The Burbs is my most-watched-movie of all time. I grew up in the north end of...

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Feel Better Tips for 2018

This has been a tough year, what with terrorism, wildfires, the disintegration of political reason  and the unfathomable dick banging between the oval office and Kim Jong Un. To quote Rudy Cheeks,...

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Explore Rhode Island’s Ecological Treasures

Rhode Island may be the smallest state, but it contains an abundance of green and blue places ripe for investigation. Your two feet can carry you along our treasured bay, through the largest forest...

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Survivor Guilt in the Midst of a War

It has been exactly one year since I wrote my piece “Walking While Black.” Yesterday I watched the Unite the Alt-Right rally on a live Facebook feed and saw a car plow through a crowd of...

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The Social Impact of Working from Home

If you work from home in Rhode Island, prepare yourself each winter for a wave of resentment from friends and family. Watching your car disappear under an igloo of snow until you’re ready to dig out,...

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Roommate Wanted

Living with roommates is a quintessential college experience for most people: get assigned to a stranger, move in with them, and learn to mesh your lifestyle, personality and habits with another’s....

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To Your Health!

Dear C, I caught my boyfriend  masturbating when I woke up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom. He says he read online that it was good for his health and “keeps him young” if he does it...

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Not a Residence, but a State of Mind

Living in little Rhody isn’t just about residency, it’s a mind state — a long, convoluted path of weird and cool chill spots and a ton of brand loyalty. If you’re new, you have a lot to learn, and if...

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Battery B First Rhode Island Light Artillery Lives History

Phil DeMaria was standing guard over an army camp one night, talking with the other guard on duty, watching over a trench full of men, some asleep, some awake. The moon was shining down; the camp was...

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Lost (and Found) Providence: Four Houses That Tell the Story of Urban...

David Brussat, the former architecture critic for The Providence Journal, published a book called Lost Providence two days before I filed this draft. There’s nothing original about Brussat’s title –...

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Advice from the Trenches: Macrobiotic Woes

Dear C, Right now, I feel like a swallowed a balloon. My pants are so tight I can barely zip them shut. Nothing seems to help. I’ve seen a doctor, but nothing shows up on the tests, and all he did is...

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Alt-Health: Healthy at Every Size?

Healthy at Every Size is a movement with a message that is changing the way we see ourselves: Women don’t have to have to starve themselves to squeeze into the ‘fit body’ image anymore. If you are...

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Student Friendly Chill Spots: Day and Night

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It’s Time to Run … for Office

It’s 2018. You open the news notification on your phone to find President Trump has announced on Twitter that he’s persecuting millennials found to be killing traditional industries, the pothole in...

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