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Mental Health at Conn: Are We as in Touch as We Claim?

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Conn’s award-winning Student Counseling Services (SCS) offer a plethora of therapeutic services to students, faculty, and staff alike in one convenient location, but you wouldn’t necessarily know that based on student conversations.

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iPhone 8 and iPhone X: When Did 7 8 9?

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The horrors of the iPhone improvements started to come to light as the excitement of Apple's presentation wore down....

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U.N. Mishandles More Than Sex Abuse Allegations

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he UN, it reported, had “mishandled 14 abuse cases involving peacekeepers in Central African Republic...The cases cited by the Code Blue...

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On the Growing Bar Culture at Conn: It Is Elitist

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I don’t think some people at this school realize how rich they really are. The New York Times did a piece about income inequality at elite colleges and named 38 schools that have more students from the top 1% of the income scale than the bottom 60%. Conn, along with almost every other NESCAC, was included on the list. The median family income of the Conn student body is just shy of $200,000 a year, and 73% of Conn’s students hail from the top 20% of the income ladder.

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The Food We Feed: A Visit to Secchiaroli Piggery

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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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The Barn Matters

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For those of you out of the loop, the Barn is the retired squash court next to the Sprout Garden. Its only resemblance to a legitimate barn...

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Legacies of Racism (Part 2)

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Media outlets, as a result of the fast-paced news cycle, may have largely moved past the deadly Aug. 12 clash that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, but the event has renewed a discussion that should have been salient in the public sphere before now.

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Legacies of Racism (Part 1)

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Let me start by saying that if at the current moment you are not threatened by the termination of DACA and thus deportation, it is your...

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Harvey and U.S. Hurricane History

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I was too young to truly understand what had happened when Hurricane Katrina decimated the Gulf Coast. Most people attempted to explain to...

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Reflections on Hybristophilia: Investigating Dangerous Affinities

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When I first heard of  “people attracted to serial killers,” I thought the idea to be preposterous. “Sexual attraction to...

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Examining Mental Health Services Abroad

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For many years, the siren song of the College’s Study Away program has drawn in students looking to expand their educational experiences...

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