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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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…
Quinnipiac students share their thoughts on a university cut short by a quarantine.
After months of uncertainty, something just became very certain. There will be MAAC basketball this season. The MAAC conference, home of Quinnipiac University men’s and women’s basketball, announced a revised schedule for the 20-2021 season. The season tips off Nov. 25, with the men’s team playing Fairleigh Dickinson and the women’s team playing Central Connecticut…
Around this time of year, college basketball would be in full swing, but of course, this is 2020, and nothing is going as planned. MAAC basketball intends to have a “20-game double round-robin conference schedule with five home series and five away series for each team,” which was approved with a 6-5 vote and should…
Quinnipiac University students are leaving campus for the remainder of the semester earlier than planned following the red alert level announcement. Due to the high-risk environment that Quinnipiac has become, living on campus poses more threatening health concerns than before. In response, the university started enforcing a mandatory quarantine, only allowing students to leave their…
One. That’s how many positive COVID-19 cases Quinnipiac University had on Oct. 1. Just 42 days later, that number has risen to 422. Of those, 247 are from Nov. 4-10, and 80 are from Monday and Tuesday alone. According to Quinnipiac’s COVID-19 dashboard, the university has 321 students in isolation, and its current risk level…
Quinnipiac University students expressed their joy and relief, while others raised their concerns about the presidential election results.
Quinnipiac students are facing a university-wide quarantine after a massive surge in positive cases.
(Additional reporting by David Rooney) Quinnipiac University has announced that it has entered alert level red. The announcement came on Nov. 6, in a message sent to the Quinnipiac community. This comes following an update that 115 new positive COVID-19 tests were reported between Nov. 4 and Nov. 6. “This weekend we must be especially…