Author Archive
Relay for Life
As much as you may hate Bright Eyes, you can hardly argue with the title of one of his most melodramatic songs ever: A Line Allows Progress; a Circle Does Not. At least, that’s usually true. One of [...]
Death of Apathy at Relay for Life
As much as you may hate Bright Eyes, you can hardly argue with the title of one of his most melodramatic songs ever: A Line Allows Progress; a Circle Does Not. At least, that’s usually true. One of [...]
Campus Trends: Bad News Beards
Have you ever seen Braveheart? I have. That’s why I know the quintessential man’s man (Han Solo notwithstanding) is a bearded man. Certain campus males discovered the simple social fact of The [...]
Conn and New London Communities Unite for Benefit Show
Conn students are not the most likely of characters to encounter downtown. On some level, the fault lines of disconnection in our relationship with the New London community are mostly widened by our [...]
A Journey Outside Structure: Computers, Card Catalogs Can’t Keep up with Niantic Book Barn
When the stone retaining walls and castellations of our windy campus begin to feel claustrophobic, take a sun-bleached Saturday afternoon and head out into the wilds of Eastern Connecticut. To [...]
Let’s Talk About Sex… and Sexual Violence Prevention
Do you want to talk about sexual violence? Darcie Folsom does. The US Department of Justice just gave our College a grant to “reduce domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and [...]
New Race and Ethnicity Surveys Spark Concern
Over winter break, a sophomore who declined to be named (let’s call her Anna Z) logged into Banner Self-Service, and the website greeted her with a complicated question divided into neat [...]
Pulitzer Winner Gives Brief, Wondrous Book Reading
Sometime between 7:25 and 7:35 on Wednesday evening, Blaustein’s Ernst Common Room went from crowded to packed. Weaving his way through the crowd was an unassuming man in glasses and a green [...]