By Kevin Crompton Matt Sanzaro suffered a concussion this season as starting quarterback when his helmet fell off during a game at Bentley University. “It was a rollout pass and the ball got tipped up and it actually came right back to me,” says Sanzaro, a junior. “I tucked and ran and ended up bumping into Dan Carbonaro,...
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By Genevieve Jaser It is a warm morning in August, and alarm clocks across Connecticut blare the all-too familiar tone; it is the first day of school. For freshmen, both those who reside on and off campus, transitioning from high school to college may be an exciting but overwhelming thought. It signifies moving onward, and invites one to...
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By Amanda Cavoto The concept of binge drinking fosters misconceptions across college campuses. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism defines binge drinking as a pattern that increases one’s blood alcohol concentration above 0.08 g/dL. Generally, this happens when men consume five or more drinks, or when women consume four or more drinks in about two hours....
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By Meghan Olson The former Student Center still stands behind the School of Business but lacks foot traffic with no active classrooms, departments or offices. These are some photographs inside the worn walls of this forgotten place.PHOTOS | WILL ALIOU & MEGHAN OLSON Meghan OlsonPhoto Editor(Vern Williams/Crescent Magazine)
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By Jacob Waring From 1948 to 1952, Carolyn Vanacore attended Southern during the era before campus was bustling with student life. She recalls the days when there were only two structures that housed a collegial community; a classroom and an administration building. She experienced the humble days of the university being a two-year teachers school and lived to...
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By Jonathan Gonzalez With more than 55 million Latinos living in the United States, according to the 2016 U.S. Census estimate, Spanish is becoming a prominent language in the country. While Spanish is the second most spoken language in the United States, according to census estimates, English is still spoken by the majority of the country. Although it...
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https://youtu.be/5B-onSAEzac By Jason Edwards 1 DUNKIN’ PHOTOS | August Pelliccio Located in the Michael J. Adanti Student Center, Dunkin’ serves students their favorite Dunkin’ menu options, from bacon, egg and cheese to coffee and coolata. Dunkin’ is a go-to for early morning classes, and includes a quiet sitting area with views of Fitch Street. Based on its long...
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The Connecticut Hall kitchen is closed and the last of the students are exiting the cafeteria. Leftover pizza, and other entrees remain under the hot lights waiting to face their fate; the trash bin. From the bin to the dumpster to the landfill, there the food was to remain and decompose. (Meghan Olson/Crescent Magazine) However, in 2016, the...
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Renee Bennett, 30, says she recently watched on helplessly as doctors investigated her 2-year-old son, Taekyung. If it was a cold, Bennett knew how to handle it; a little Tylenol would combat the typical ills a child would get. But this time, doctors eventually figured out that her son had a virus called gastroenteritis, which is an infection...
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Just three faculty members, including Principal Arthur B. Morrill, and fewer than 90 students, all of whom were female, attended for the first day of school at what would later become Southern Connecticut State University on Sept. 11, 1893. Then called the New Haven State Normal School, the institution was used to train educators according to Thomas J....
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