2008 Woodie Awards
Vote Absentee
What was to be a lecture on the differences between liberalism and conservatism became heated Tuesday when the man known simply as Warrior came to the Dodd Center. The night quickly changed from a love fest over the Ultimate Warrior and his career in what was then known as the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) to an attack on his personal beliefs.
Since March 2002 U.S. Armed Forces have remained tethered to Iraq where tenacious insurgent groups seek to undermine the formation of a stable democratic government. During the five semesters the nation has been at war, life in Storrs has continued without any significant interruptions.
Two UConn members of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars (NSCS) have nominated two UConn professors for the organization's 2005 Faculty of the Year Award. Courtney Hill, a 6th-semester psychology major, nominated sociology professor Ralph McNeal and Kerry Kozaczuk, a 10th-semester fine arts and women's studies major, nominated Cora Lynn Deibler of the Department of Fine Arts.
A mysterious shell disease is slowly eating away at New England's lobsters. Afflicted lobsters are being pulled up with rotting exoskeletons that do not so much affect the lobster meat as lower their value on the market. Lobsters from western and eastern Long Island Sound have been found with signs of the disease, according to Hans Laufer, emeritus professor at UConn in molecular and cell biology.
