Hamden residents and Quinnipiac University students offered authentic reactions to Tuesday’s volatile debate that featured President Donald J. Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden. Tuesday’s highly anticipated debate will go down in history. Those who tuned in found the debate difficult to get through. Throughout the debate there were a total of 93 interruptions, according…
Category: Connecticut
Dozens of members of the Quinnipiac Jewish community gathered behind the Peter C. Hereld House for Jewish Life to celebrate Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish faith.
On Sept. 19 the first Black Lives Matter mural was painted in New Haven, Conn. It is located on Bassett Street and is about 277 feet long and 22 feet wide. The mural was painted by Kwadwo Adae, a visual artist and muralist living in New Haven. “The area of Bassett Street was chosen by…
If you are entering Hamden off the highway, you may be greeted by homeless people. Hamden has seen a surge in homelessness recently. But, it seems as if there is a misconception between different types of homeless people in the area. “There are a lot of sloppy homeless people who steal from us,” said an…
Restaurants across Hamden welcomed in guests as part of the town’s 10th annual restaurant week. Through unique menus offering prix fixe options and buy-one-get-one deals, restaurants are able to draw in entirely new audiences and display their unique styles. Nancy Dudchik and others working at the Hamden Regional Chamber of Commerce created the event in…
With all the uncertainty in the world right now, there’s one thing that is certain: Quinnipiac University has the lowest COVID-19 case total in Connecticut. Another week of testing results came out today, and the number of positive COVID-19 cases among Quinnipiac students remains at one. Though 23 students were either suspended or disciplined for…
Quinnipiac University has suspended 12 students and sent another 11 students home for four weeks due to the violation of COVID policies.
Quinnipiac University will outsource its annual flu shot to CVS this fall, school health director Christy Chase said Tuesday. Every fall, Quinnipiac student health services administered free flu vaccines for students, faculty and staff in the Carl Hansen Student Center and on the North Haven Campus. COVID-19 social distancing guidelines made it impossible for Quinnipiac…
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…
Every fall semester at Quinnipiac University, hundreds of students line up in the student center for their free seasonal flu shot. But this year, flu season will intertwine with COVID-19, which may raise the difficulty of getting a flu shot, and the anxiety for anyone with flu-like symptoms. Whether students and faculty are breathing down…