Skateboarding Through Campus

Watch out URI campus. Early spring starts the skateboarding season again as snow and rain come to a stop and streets dry out throughout the campus. As walking across campus can be up to a fifteen minute hike up and down hills and cutting through grass paths, skating is not a bad idea for a vehicle on campus. In fact it is a lot of fun as skaters are often seen coming down Ranger, Lippit, and West Alumni Avenue. Not even to mention cutting across the quad and all spread out through campus with car to classroom access much faster than walking. It's common to see more long board skateboards on campus as we have large and long hills to propel skaters bombing downhill. However there has been a lot of short board skateboards that are more for tricks than cruising around, but can be used for both. A skate shop on campus would be pretty good to have for URI as so many students are forced to order parts online or take a trip into Narragansett to Gansett Juice or Warm Winds skate and surf shops.