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UConn Anti-Black racism course requirement placed on hold
The UConn Senate voted to delay the requirement that all undergraduates take a course on anti-Black racism amid concerns that requiring the course would be considered discriminatory by the Trump administration.
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Treasurer’s office to discuss investment firm’s connection with ICE flights
The Connecticut Treasurer’s office is scheduled to meet this week with one of its investment funds to discuss its involvement in deportation flights run by federal ICE.
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Suspended U.S. refugee program separates families, stalls resettlement
When Connecticut’s flagship resettlement agency lost $4 million in federal funding due to a Trump administration executive order, it closed offices in Hartford and New Haven.
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UConn students confront housing crunch as enrollment rises
With on-campus beds falling far short of student demand, many UConn students were forced into expensive off-campus housing, and for some, the financial and emotional burden is overwhelming.
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Graduating Sandy Hook survivor looks back and ahead
As Lenie Urbina graduated from UConn, her mind slipped to the Sandy Hook students and staff members who were killed in 2012 in a tragedy that shocked the nation. Lenie was a 4th grader hiding in the gym supply closet.
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Opinion: Federal cuts could snip away your local park
As the Trump Administration continues to make deep cuts to federal programs that support parks, I have begun to wonder what will I do if my main connection to nature is severed?
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Students still facing academic and mental health challenges post-COVID
The pandemic’s toll on student engagement continues to reverberate across campuses nationwide.
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Opinion: In Defense of the Dandelion
Through a desire to keep neighborhoods as idyllic as the ones in those advertising images, suburban homeowners came to despise the dandelion. But these little yellow flowers have a lot to offer us.
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How CT nursing home staff work to reduce social isolation
The job for retirement home staffers is to become like a family to the residents. For some people, coming into a retirement home is their first time living alone.
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Podcast: Pompous Politicians
The de-evolution of political discourse Politicians are pompous people. Nick Spinali hosts Pompous Politicians, a podcast focused on analyzing political discourse and its effectiveness as new communication techniques have grown in popularity. University of Connecticut Political Science professor Jeffrey Ladewig joins today’s episode. Listen to a preview this episode (3:32): Listen to the full podcast…
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Podcast: What does UConn’s recent OIE report mean?
Matt Corpuz, the host of Corpuz’s Corner is joined on this week’s episode with Jenn Longa, the Assistant Dean of Students for Victim Support Services and Bystander Initiatives at UConn’s Dean of Students office. The university recently released an OIE report with numbers pertaining to sexual assault, stalking, and intimate partner violence. Listen to this…
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First Night Selfies
UConn Journalism senior Olivia Mello ’25 captured this moment at the annual UConn First Night celebration of the men’s and women’s basketball teams on October 18, 2024. Jayden Ross (23) and KK Arnold (2) take selfies with fans in Gampel Pavilion.
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Stretching for the TD
UConn Journalism major Kaleb Jennings captured this moment during the UConn-Florida Atlantic University football game at Pratt & Whitney Stadium in East Hartford, Conn., on Sept. 21, 2024. UConn running back Durell Robinson stretches for the touchdown as FAU defensive end Wilky Denaud tries to pull him down by his jersey. UConn defeated FAU, 48–14.
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Criticism, conflict and courts: CT updates voting rules
Starting Oct. 21, for the first time in a general election, Connecticut voters can visit early voting locations to cast their vote up to 14 days before Election Day. Every town in the state is required to have a location. Voters must check in, and receive a ballot and envelope. Voters fill out the ballot in a…
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UConn’s main campus gets early voting location
UConn Bookstore will open an early voting site on Oct. 21 in an effort to focus on the age group that has consistently exercised its right to vote the least: young Americans.
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Meet the people behind the curtain on Election Day
It doesn’t matter if turnout is high – more than 1.8 million Connecticut residents in the 2020 presidential election, or low – around 741,000 voters in municipal elections last November.
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‘Lone Soldier’
The Israel-Hamas conflict through the eyes of an IDF paratrooper, who left his job as UConn Hillel’s assistant director to return to military service By LAURA AUGENBRAUN | UConn JournalismSeptember 3, 2024 Jared White explains his ‘lightbulb moment.’ It happened 20 years ago when he was sitting in a car in an empty parking lot…
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Tailor made
Joseph Grimaldi, who has owned the Manchester Tailor Shop for 60 years, says the minimum wage is not a livable income compared to when he opened his shop in 1964. Connecticut’s minimum wage was $1.25 when Grimaldi opened. Back then, Grimaldi recalled, he was able to live off the $400 a week the tailor shop…
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Penny’s Place
On Main Street in Manchester, a warm atmosphere welcomes guests as they enter Penny’s Place, a breakfast-and-lunch restaurant owned by Penny Braga. Braga said she has not drawn a paycheck since the business opened two years ago and has been forced to change her style of business. Braga says eight months ago, she paid servers $15…