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Increased screen time leaves students anxious and vulnerable for eye damage

With remote learning popularized across the country, students are stuck staring at screens for hours, causing headaches, dry eyes and potentially long-term eye damage.

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Quinnipiac provides transportation to polling locations

Quinnipiac University students are set to vote in the 2020 presidential election, and the university offered free shuttle rides to local polling locations for students living on-campus.  Vincent Contrucci, director of the Office of Community Service, emailed students about the opportunity and was in North Lot checking people in prior to the shuttles’ arrival.  Shuttles…

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Quinnipiac University reaches 26 positive COVID-19 cases

Quinnipiac cases continue to rise as the semester reaches its halfway point.

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CIAC high school sports set to play on Oct. 1

For the first time this year, sweat, yelling and competitive 11-on-11 boys soccer was the sight at Hamden High School. The boys junior varsity and varsity teams played against each other in what was both teams’ first full-squad practice. Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) officials cleared all schools within the conference, which includes Hamden High…

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Hamden cautiously re-opening parks

Hamden parks, playgrounds and fields reopened on Sept. 4, as a part of the town’s gradual reopening process amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “Hamden has been very — almost extra — cautious,” said David DeMartino, Hamden’s recreation supervisor. “Basically, we’re just trying to follow the state guidelines as best we can and making sure we’re comfortable…

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QU won’t test faculty and staff — yet

Despite requiring students to take COVID-19 tests, Quinnipiac University isn’t holding faculty and staff to the same standard. Because faculty and staff are typically older than students, they are more susceptible to contracting the virus, according to the CDC. Still, Dr. David Hill, professor of medical sciences and director of the global health program, said…

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QU’s COVID-19 protocols keeps cases down, for now

Quinnipiac University’s layered defenses against COVID-19 appear to be working as the second week of the semester draws to a close.