By LAURA AUGENBRAUN | UConn Journalism January 18, 2022 Evan White was in his second to last lacrosse season at Foran High School in Milford, Connecticut in spring of 2019, when suddenly his team started hearing rumors of their games being rescheduled and even canceled. “It was actually really scary because we weren’t sure what was…
Some have no plans to return to the classroom post-COVID By JOHN LEAHY | UConn Journalism January 18, 2022 GLASTONBURY — Colin O’Doherty woke up one morning and had an idea. It was June 2020, and the 19-year-old college student had been conflicted for months. His school, the University of Vermont, had announced that it would conduct…
By MAYA MOORE August 22, 2019 Special to The Chronicle STORRS — Many of the most notable events of the Civil Rights movement were still a decade in the future. Jim Crow laws reigned in the South and, in Connecticut and at its flagship university, racism and discrimination wasn’t as overt. But it was still prevalent in the…
By GABRIELLA DEBENEDICTIS August 20, 2019 Special to the Chronicle STORRS — Edwina Whitney focused on the future in her professional life as a librarian at what would become the University of Connecticut. But she was also nostalgic for the past. A lifelong Mansfield resident who, for decades, worked for the university her family helped establish, she…
By GINO DE ANGELIS July 21, 2019 Special to the Chronicle STORRS — Paul R. Zilsel faced a tumultuous spring of 1953. That March, he received a subpoena to appear in Washington, D.C., before the Velde Committee investigating suspected communists in American colleges. He, along with three other University of Connecticut professors, were accused of being communist…
By SARAH AL-ARSHANI July 16, 2019 Special to the Chronicle STORRS — Mildred French was a pioneer for females at the University of Connecticut in the era between the two world wars. An independent woman who studied at five different institutions of higher education, she earned both undergraduate and graduate degrees at a time when few women…