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QU’s class of 2021 is walking across a stage, but the class before it gets a drive-by ceremony

Quinnipiac’s class of 2021 will walk across the stage during commencement. Class of 2020 graduates will be able to re-visit campus the following weekend.

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Hamden trampoline park fined $500 for violating COVID-19 capacity restrictions

Hamden Police fined Funz Trampoline Park on Dixwell Avenue on Jan. 25 for violating COVID-19 rules after a brawl between two teenage girls caught on camera showed a large crowd surrounding them without social distancing. Funz exceeded the state required limits on gathering size on Jan. 23, according to Quinnipiack Valley Health District Director Karen…

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In the age of COVID, students make their own experience

What happens when work at home and study at home meet

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COVID-19’s impact on Connecticut’s special education services

Many special-needs students were forced into a world of remote learning due to COVID-19, and as a result new challenges, with some positives, were introduced to the new virtual world.

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Mental health issues emerge as a pandemic within a pandemic

Anna Yusza felt the deepening toll of COVID-19 during the spring, months before she enrolled at Quinnipiac University where strict social distancing guidelines and mask-wearing made college a less than normal experience for most students. Yet Yusza, 18, a first-year accounting major at the Hamden, Connecticut, school, knew what to expect based on her high…

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Suffering Still.

By: Kaye Paddyfote 1 in 1,125 Black Americans has died (or 88.4 deaths per 100,000) according to APM Research Lab. That is the highest amount for any race in America. This is a problem because the health care system is failing Black Americans because they are dying of this virus at higher numbers.

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‘I just want to eat’ Hamden looks to solve rise in homelessness

John Kennedy spends much of his day next to a concrete divider in the Walmart parking lot on Dixwell Avenue in Hamden. He’s not there by choice, although passers-by may think that’s the case. That, however, may change with a partnership that evolved among the Hamden Police Department, the Hamden Community Development Department and the…

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New Haven Jazz: its history and future

Think New Orleans, New York, Chicago, and even Washington, D.C, and jazz comes to mind. New Haven? Not so much. Yet the Connecticut city known more for Yale and pizza has a deep jazz culture that is tragically silent as of late, and COVID-19 is making matters worse. The History “I know several people that…

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Quinnipiac University students give feedback on school’s COVID-19 protocols

Quinnipiac students share their thoughts on a university cut short by a quarantine.

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“Zoom University” impact on college education and mental health

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected everything in its path, but perhaps one of its biggest impacts has been on education.