Spring Break
Students, faculty, staff and community members joined with the UConn Army ROTC and the Air Force ROTC in a Veterans Day commemoration service at the Hawley Armory Thursday morning. There were no empty seats, as audience members stood in the back and listened to speakers at the service who included a cadet, an army chaplain, a military science professor and a member of the administration who emphasized the importance of honoring and saying thanks to those who fought and served in America's wars.
Students remain safe despite the fact that fire code violations were identified in a number of UConn residences, according to Linda Flaherty-Goldsmith, vice president and chief operating officer. University officials found several fire code violations in Hilltop Apartments, Husky Village and Charter Oak Apartments and Suites, Goldsmith said.
A meeting held Thursday night just off-campus addressed questions regarding the potential of a future draft. The meeting entitled "Conscience and the Military: Draft Resistance, Conscientious Objection and the Poverty Draft," held in the Storrs Friends Meeting House on Hunting Lodge Road, helped to educate the community on what can be done to prepare for a possible draft and attempted to clarify some issues that concerned the general public.
India's industrialization must increase in order for the country's growth rates to grow rapidly, Arvind Panagariya said Thursday in a lecture entitled "Emerging India: Threat or Opportunity" at the Dodd Center. Panagariya is a Jagdish Bhagwati professor of India's political economy at Columbia University in New York City.