Author: Lauren Baretta

Compensation or Cop Out? Understanding Conn’s Partnership with Reforest the Tropics

Opinions

Our Crozier-Williams (Cro) Student Center produces 593 tons of carbon dioxide a year. A 37 acre forest on the Las Delicias Farm in Costa Rica absorbs 22 tons of carbon dioxide annually.

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All It Took Was Blood, Guts, and Bad Poetry

Editorials

In tenth grade, I was given an assignment to finish the story The Lady or the Tiger by Frank R. Stockton. For those of you whose memory of...

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Shoot for the STARS: Conn Receives Silver Environmental Status

Opinions

“We are going to make gold if it is the last thing I do,” said Professor of Government and Environmental Studies Jane Dawson, in an...

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David Grann: An Explorer of Myths, Legends, and Murder

Opinions

Despite rarely slapping a Tilley hat on his head or strapping Merrell boots on his feet, David Grann is an explorer.

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A Generation Defined by Mass Shootings

Opinions

While reading the New York Times a couple weeks back, my self-identity received a serious blow.  I was born on October 6, 1996;...

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With Community Meals, BRIGAID Makes Nutrition Public

Opinions

“You’re trying to change food for people to be healthy and to try new things, but before that there’s the need for people to eat,”...

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Battling Food Insecurity in New London County, One Garden at a Time

Opinions

When I first arrived at the Giving Garden in Mystic, CT, I wasn’t sure whether I was in the right place.

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Art of Resistance Met with Reality of Complacence

Arts

The day after I gave a presentation about the Native American occupation of Alcatraz in 1969, I entered Cummings to find an imposing and...

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Colors and Torment

Arts

You claim my skin with teeth. Take red and leave purple....

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In a World of #MeToo, Women’s Empowerment Takes Initiative

News

A recent popular Twitter and Facebook campaign, #metoo, asked women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted to share and promote the hashtag in order to show solidarity and raise alarm. Though a laptop or phone screen has a way of diluting crises, Conn is not exempt from the systemic discrimination against women that this campaign renounces. For women on college campuses, sexual harassment and assault are all too real a threat.

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Caterpillar Army

Arts

Then. Mother’s lips meet gravel blackened knees and bug stung toes, while mice host tea parties in Father’s beard. Dandelion lovers...

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The Food We Feed: A Visit to Secchiaroli Piggery

Opinions

Upon entering Secchiaroli’s gravel driveway, the first thing that struck me was the smell. It turns out that rotting food, flies, and mud...

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