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Public safety incident leaves officer injured, suspect flees scene

On Oct. 14, an officer was hit by a suspicious vehicle in the North Lot at about 12 p.m., according to an email by Chief of Public Safety Tony Reyes. The unnamed driver was determined to not be a member of the Quinnipiac community and was using an unregistered vehicle. Once public safety officers called the…

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Quinnipiac University physical therapy students host health fair in Hamden

This physical therapy capstone group watched the culmination of a year’s worth of hard work pay off this week.

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Culture on the Quad: The Quinnipiac Multicultural Student Leadership Council holds its annual Culture Fair

Most Quinnipiac University students spend their Friday nights unwinding from the academic week and gearing up for the weekend. However, on Friday, Oct. 15, the Quad was filled with students learning about cultural organizations, eating food and enjoying the community.

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Quinnipiac hosts event for Latinx heritage month & LGBTQ+ History month

Quinnipiac hosted Luz Burgos-Lopez and Sergio Gonzalez on Oct. 14, to talk about Latinx and LGBTQ identity, homophobia, transphobia and ally-ship. The event was hosted in the SC133 Plaza in the Carl Hansen Student Center at Quinnipiac University. Lopez came to the meeting in person, while Gonzalez was over zoom controlling their slide presentation. One…

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Quinnipiac University sees increase in hate crimes and burglary

The university released its Clery Report this past week, where they saw an uptick in some areas.

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QU Car Club’s fourth-annual Car Smash Fundraiser is a ‘smashing hit’

Quinnipiac Car Club’s car smash event enables students to relieve suppressed stress and anxiety during midterm week. Local company Wheelers Towing brought “the same plan as usual,” supplying a totaled car for students to smash in the Hill Village Circle on campus from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. To participate in the event, students are…

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Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Hamden-Quinnipiac ongoing reckoning

Indigenous Peoples’ Week is a considerable opportunity for Quinnipiac University and the Hamden communities to acknowledge the stolen land they inhabit.

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‘A pollinator of justice:’ Making Quinnipiac a more equitable community

Professors Marcos Scauso and J.T. Torres have noticed that some students don’t feel a part of the Quinnipiac community. So they did something to help fix that.

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New Quinnipiac community garden is all the buzz

A multi-year effort to build a community garden began at the Albert Schweitzer Institute on Oct. 8

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Quinnipiac’s on-campus flu clinics come to an end

As fall began, and the weather started to change, cold and flu season arrived. Quinnipiac University Senior Medical Advisor Dr. David Hill assured students and faculty through email that COVID-19 cases on campus have remained low and manageable, with 94.2% of students vaccinated and 97% of full-time faculty and staff vaccinated.  While COVID-19 remains a…