With a week left before students leave campus for Thanksgiving break to finish the semester online, the University of Connecticut has placed all residence halls under quarantine.
SUBOG and USG held a hilarious question and answer session with John Mulaney on Thursday, with Catherine Casey, SUBOG’s comedy chairwoman, acting as moderator. As Casey read out the questions students had submitted earlier in the week, fans were able to get a peek into the mind of the comedian they love.
I’ve been slowly making my way through Eric Newby’s classic travel book, “A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush”, which recounts Newby’s attempt to ascend the 20,000 foot Mir Samir in the Nuristan province of Afghanistan with uncanny eagerness and scant mountaineering experience. Rife with humor and resplendent descriptions of unfamiliar landscapes and bizarre encounters, Newby’s writing is purely pleasure reading—exactly the sort of escapist adventure I enjoy being sucked into before bed in my efforts to buffer the screen time of that day with the screen time awaiting me in the next.
With a week left before students leave campus for Thanksgiving break to finish the semester online, the University of Connecticut has placed all residence halls under quarantine.
With a week left before students leave campus for Thanksgiving break to finish the semester online, the University of Connecticut has placed all residence halls under quarantine.
UConn Dining Services announced in a Daily Digest on Thursday, Nov. 5 that the Dairy Bar is offering three sizes of eggs from UConn poultry. Eggs can only be purchased via an online pre-order.
Earlier this week, companies Pfizer and BioNTech announced that the preliminary results of their COVID-19 vaccine trials suggest the vaccine was about 90% effective. Although these are only preliminary tests and nothing is official yet, these results are groundbreaking. So far, there have been no known negative effects of the vaccine, which is a very good sign.
Students and members of the UConn community gathered for a vigil dedicated to Breonna Taylor on Oct. 23 at 4 p.m. on the Student Union Lawn. The vigil included several speakers commemorating Taylor, who discussed the need to empower Black women and stop injustice in our society.
On Wednesday, the Undergraduate Student Government at the University of Connecticut held their bi-weekly senate meeting, discussing pass/fail legislation for the 2020-21 academic year, a new proposal for the spring 2021 academic calendar and honoring the two students who fixed the defaced Spirit Rock.
The University of Connecticut’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion discovered the person behind the vandalization of the campus’ Spirit Rock is not part of the UConn community.
When you first arrived at the University of Connecticut, I always said you were dealt a bad deck of cards. You walked into a series of events that were unprecedented. I told others I felt bad for you and that hopefully, this would all blow over soon.
After the declaration of Joseph R. Biden Jr. as the 46th President of the United States on Saturday, the Trump campaign still has yet to concede as they file lawsuits in multiple battleground states. President Trump is currently working on new lawsuits to sue multiple states over various elements of the voting process and is asking for recounts.
The 2020 election panned out to be one of the most interesting and controversial election cycles this country has ever witnessed. In addition to the highly contested presidential election race, there were also important races in the House of Representatives and the Senate, which are still taking place and could provide Democrats with the opportunity to regain control of the Senate.
n case you missed it in the midst of last week’s election chaos, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.-14) found herself facing widespread condemnation for her actions on Twitter. Ocasio-Cortez, the freshman Democrat commonly known as “AOC”, tweeted the following on Friday, Nov. 6.
