URI senior sues over university’s coronavirus shutdown

SOUTH KINGSTOWN — A student has filed a class-action lawsuit against the University of Rhode Island’s board of trustees, demanding that the institution return part of his tuition and fees because the university moved to distance learning in March. The student, Logan Thompson, a member of the Class of 2020, says the university deprived him and some 17,000 fellow students from the “benefits of in-person instruction, access to campus facilities,…