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Media Watch (May 7 – 14, 2007)
Posted 5/15/2007
“Media Watch” is a round-up of recent stories in the media about the University of Hartford, as well as significant stories about other local and peer institutions and news about trends and issues in higher education.
Six alumni were honored by being inducted into the University's Alumni Athletics Hall of Fame this past weekend. Inductees were Samuel Bryan (’75- wrestling); Jeannae Dergance Cochran (’93, women’s soccer); George Kostelis (’94, men’s soccer); Jennifer Benet-Labier (’79 women’s tennis); Robert Tanguay (’82, men’s basketball); and Candace Ward (’95, women’s basketball). (The Hartford Courant, May 9)
The athletes taking part in the Connecticut Special Olympics Eastern Regional Games, hosted by the University of Hartford, received extensive media attention. Coverage included live reports during NBC 30’s morning newscast on May 12, interviews with athletes and University officials on NBC 30 and Fox 61, and a large color photograph on the front of the “Connecticut” section of the May 13 edition of the Hartford Courant. (NBC 30, May 12 and 13; Fox 61, May 12; WTNH-TV Channel 8, May 12; Hartford Courant, May 13; WTIC-AM, May 11)
Mary Christensen and Andrea Crittenden of the University’s Educational Main Street program were interviewed for a Hartford Courant article that highlighted EMS’s new program to promote reading among families in Hartford. The new EMS initiative works with North Hartford hair salons to turn them into reading salons by distributing free books to customer’s children. (The Hartford Courant, May 9)
The University's Construction Institute sponsored a panel discussion on the construction forecast for New Haven and Fairfield counties, which featured many project developers and city officials as speakers. Panelists said they expect Stamford and Bridgeport to be in a neck and neck race for the title of the state’s most populous city. (Connecticut Post, May 12)
Domenick and Linda Fiore, who are both instructors at The Hartt School, were mentioned in an article about the residential real estate market in Greater Hartford. The couple, who are relocating to Pennsylvania, are optimistic about the time needed to sell their West Hartford home. “I think it’s not a going to take a long time,” Domenick said. “The house was built in 1926. It’s in excellent shape, and we’ve been working on it.” (The Hartford Courant, May 13)
The Hartt School’s Theatre Department made NBC 30’s Erika Tarantal look like an elderly woman as part of an experiment to see how people would react to someone in need during the chaos of daily life. The segment began with a look at how members of the theatre department made the transformation happen. (NBC 30, May 8)
A young man who was visiting a friend on campus was arrested by Hartford Police on May 12 and charged with fourth degree sexual assault in an incident involving a female University student in the Regents Park residence hall. The young man, who was also charged with burglary in the third degree, is not a University student. (WFSB-TV Channel 3, May 13)
A third-grade student from University of Hartford Magnet School was part of a group urging legislators to pass a bill that would provide $11 million to retrofit the 3,400 school buses capable of accepting a filter system that would drastically reduce the emissions produced by these buses. The young student said, “I’d like all you senators and reps to help the buses be cleaner. Please vote for HB1032.” (The Hartford Courant, May 9)
Nancy Noble, an art history faculty member in the College of Arts and Sciences, was mentioned in an article about the Suffield Polish Heritage Group of which she is a member. The group is dedicated to documenting the way of life of early Polish immigrants who settled in Suffield and surrounding areas. (Journal Inquirer, May 9)
WFSB-TV Channel 3 did a story on an overcrowded party in a Village apartment during Spring Fling weekend that caused the floor of that apartment and the ceiling of the apartment below to crack. University officials noted that a structural engineer was called in to assess the damage to the apartments. (WFSB-TV Channel 3, May 7)
Other News
The University of Connecticut is marketing the academic and social advantages of being in an honors program at a large research university to lure high-achieving students away from highly selective liberal arts colleges, such as Wellesley College, Tufts University, and Smith College. (Hartford Courant, May 12)
Colleges should form broad-based teams to analyze threats to campus safety, a U.S. Secret Service agent told the state’s college leaders in a meeting prompted by the recent Virginia Tech slayings. The creation of “threat assessment teams” of mental health professionals, educators, social service workers, law enforcement officials and others is a key strategy in averting potentially dangerous incidents, said Robert J. Sica of the National Threat Assessment Center. (Hartford Courant, May 11)
Anti-war activists at the University of Michigan, Columbia University and Wayne State University are demanding their institutions stop investing in corporations that contract with the U.S. military to supply the war effort in Iraq. Last month, after a lengthy and impassioned debate, the Wesleyan Student Assembly approved a resolution denouncing such investments. Wesleyan’s portfolio includes holdings in Raytheon and General Dynamics. (Hartford Courant, May 11)
A Yale student who says she was sexually brutalized after a party dubbed “Camp Yale” is accusing the university of not enforcing underage drinking laws or doing enough to warn students and faculty about sexual assault. The student, a junior at Yale, is suing her ex-boyfriend Gregory Korb and Yale University for $20 million in a suit filed in Supreme Court in Bronx, N.Y. The incident happened as students were coming back to campus in August 2005. Korb pleaded "no contest" last fall to reduced charges of misdemeanor assault and threatening and was sentenced to probation. (Hartford Courant, May 9)
The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on May 9 to ban gifts and payments by student loan companies to universities, showing bipartisan resolve to clean up the $85 billion industry. The vote, 414 to 3, demonstrated how politically potent the issue of paying for college has become at a time when tuition is steadily rising and millions of students depend on borrowing to finance college. (New York Times, May 10)
Theresa S. Shaw, head of the U.S. Education Department's student loan office, announced her resignation amid mounting criticism of the agency’s oversight of the loan industry. Shaw, a former executive at loan industry leader Sallie Mae, has held her department post for five years. Her resignation is effective June 1. (Washington Post, May 9)
A University of Pittsburgh graduate who owns the horse that won first place in the Kentucky Derby gave the university a $1 million gift to establish two scholarships in his name. James Tafel, owner of Street Sense, received a $1.45 million payday for the Derby victory. He has asked that his donation be used to create the James B. Tafel Expendable Gift and the James B. Tafel Endowed Student Support Fund to help students in the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business and the College of Business Administration. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 11)
Universities in New Orleans are expecting surges of freshmen for the fall semester, based on dramatic increases in the number of students who have made financial commitments to come to New Orleans less than two years after Hurricane Katrina blasted the city. Tulane has reported a 56 percent jump from last year in the number of high school seniors who have sent in their $300 deposits to reserve spots in the Class of 2011, and the number of $20 payments to Xavier University has risen by 30 percent, according to data from those schools. Loyola University, which requires a $200 deposit, has posted an 18 percent increase in those payments from this time last year. (New Orleans Times Picayune, May 8)
Upcoming
Darryl McMiller, assistant professor of political science, will appear as a regular commentator on WNPR’s “Faith Middleton Show” to discus the 2008 Presidential Election. The dates for the show are on Tuesdays at 11:30 a.m. beginning today(May 15), and continuing on May 29, July 10, July 24, and Aug. 7.
Richard Freund, director of the University's Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies, will be interviewed on WTIC-AM's "Morning Show" on Wednesday, May 16, at about 8:45 a.m. He will discuss the bone marrow transplant that saved his life. The interview follows Freund's participation in a "Gift of Life" event tonight (May 15) in New York City.
Six alumni were honored by being inducted into the University's Alumni Athletics Hall of Fame this past weekend. Inductees were Samuel Bryan (’75- wrestling); Jeannae Dergance Cochran (’93, women’s soccer); George Kostelis (’94, men’s soccer); Jennifer Benet-Labier (’79 women’s tennis); Robert Tanguay (’82, men’s basketball); and Candace Ward (’95, women’s basketball). (The Hartford Courant, May 9)
The athletes taking part in the Connecticut Special Olympics Eastern Regional Games, hosted by the University of Hartford, received extensive media attention. Coverage included live reports during NBC 30’s morning newscast on May 12, interviews with athletes and University officials on NBC 30 and Fox 61, and a large color photograph on the front of the “Connecticut” section of the May 13 edition of the Hartford Courant. (NBC 30, May 12 and 13; Fox 61, May 12; WTNH-TV Channel 8, May 12; Hartford Courant, May 13; WTIC-AM, May 11)
Mary Christensen and Andrea Crittenden of the University’s Educational Main Street program were interviewed for a Hartford Courant article that highlighted EMS’s new program to promote reading among families in Hartford. The new EMS initiative works with North Hartford hair salons to turn them into reading salons by distributing free books to customer’s children. (The Hartford Courant, May 9)
The University's Construction Institute sponsored a panel discussion on the construction forecast for New Haven and Fairfield counties, which featured many project developers and city officials as speakers. Panelists said they expect Stamford and Bridgeport to be in a neck and neck race for the title of the state’s most populous city. (Connecticut Post, May 12)
Domenick and Linda Fiore, who are both instructors at The Hartt School, were mentioned in an article about the residential real estate market in Greater Hartford. The couple, who are relocating to Pennsylvania, are optimistic about the time needed to sell their West Hartford home. “I think it’s not a going to take a long time,” Domenick said. “The house was built in 1926. It’s in excellent shape, and we’ve been working on it.” (The Hartford Courant, May 13)
The Hartt School’s Theatre Department made NBC 30’s Erika Tarantal look like an elderly woman as part of an experiment to see how people would react to someone in need during the chaos of daily life. The segment began with a look at how members of the theatre department made the transformation happen. (NBC 30, May 8)
A young man who was visiting a friend on campus was arrested by Hartford Police on May 12 and charged with fourth degree sexual assault in an incident involving a female University student in the Regents Park residence hall. The young man, who was also charged with burglary in the third degree, is not a University student. (WFSB-TV Channel 3, May 13)
A third-grade student from University of Hartford Magnet School was part of a group urging legislators to pass a bill that would provide $11 million to retrofit the 3,400 school buses capable of accepting a filter system that would drastically reduce the emissions produced by these buses. The young student said, “I’d like all you senators and reps to help the buses be cleaner. Please vote for HB1032.” (The Hartford Courant, May 9)
Nancy Noble, an art history faculty member in the College of Arts and Sciences, was mentioned in an article about the Suffield Polish Heritage Group of which she is a member. The group is dedicated to documenting the way of life of early Polish immigrants who settled in Suffield and surrounding areas. (Journal Inquirer, May 9)
WFSB-TV Channel 3 did a story on an overcrowded party in a Village apartment during Spring Fling weekend that caused the floor of that apartment and the ceiling of the apartment below to crack. University officials noted that a structural engineer was called in to assess the damage to the apartments. (WFSB-TV Channel 3, May 7)
Other News
The University of Connecticut is marketing the academic and social advantages of being in an honors program at a large research university to lure high-achieving students away from highly selective liberal arts colleges, such as Wellesley College, Tufts University, and Smith College. (Hartford Courant, May 12)
Colleges should form broad-based teams to analyze threats to campus safety, a U.S. Secret Service agent told the state’s college leaders in a meeting prompted by the recent Virginia Tech slayings. The creation of “threat assessment teams” of mental health professionals, educators, social service workers, law enforcement officials and others is a key strategy in averting potentially dangerous incidents, said Robert J. Sica of the National Threat Assessment Center. (Hartford Courant, May 11)
Anti-war activists at the University of Michigan, Columbia University and Wayne State University are demanding their institutions stop investing in corporations that contract with the U.S. military to supply the war effort in Iraq. Last month, after a lengthy and impassioned debate, the Wesleyan Student Assembly approved a resolution denouncing such investments. Wesleyan’s portfolio includes holdings in Raytheon and General Dynamics. (Hartford Courant, May 11)
A Yale student who says she was sexually brutalized after a party dubbed “Camp Yale” is accusing the university of not enforcing underage drinking laws or doing enough to warn students and faculty about sexual assault. The student, a junior at Yale, is suing her ex-boyfriend Gregory Korb and Yale University for $20 million in a suit filed in Supreme Court in Bronx, N.Y. The incident happened as students were coming back to campus in August 2005. Korb pleaded "no contest" last fall to reduced charges of misdemeanor assault and threatening and was sentenced to probation. (Hartford Courant, May 9)
The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on May 9 to ban gifts and payments by student loan companies to universities, showing bipartisan resolve to clean up the $85 billion industry. The vote, 414 to 3, demonstrated how politically potent the issue of paying for college has become at a time when tuition is steadily rising and millions of students depend on borrowing to finance college. (New York Times, May 10)
Theresa S. Shaw, head of the U.S. Education Department's student loan office, announced her resignation amid mounting criticism of the agency’s oversight of the loan industry. Shaw, a former executive at loan industry leader Sallie Mae, has held her department post for five years. Her resignation is effective June 1. (Washington Post, May 9)
A University of Pittsburgh graduate who owns the horse that won first place in the Kentucky Derby gave the university a $1 million gift to establish two scholarships in his name. James Tafel, owner of Street Sense, received a $1.45 million payday for the Derby victory. He has asked that his donation be used to create the James B. Tafel Expendable Gift and the James B. Tafel Endowed Student Support Fund to help students in the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business and the College of Business Administration. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 11)
Universities in New Orleans are expecting surges of freshmen for the fall semester, based on dramatic increases in the number of students who have made financial commitments to come to New Orleans less than two years after Hurricane Katrina blasted the city. Tulane has reported a 56 percent jump from last year in the number of high school seniors who have sent in their $300 deposits to reserve spots in the Class of 2011, and the number of $20 payments to Xavier University has risen by 30 percent, according to data from those schools. Loyola University, which requires a $200 deposit, has posted an 18 percent increase in those payments from this time last year. (New Orleans Times Picayune, May 8)
Upcoming
Darryl McMiller, assistant professor of political science, will appear as a regular commentator on WNPR’s “Faith Middleton Show” to discus the 2008 Presidential Election. The dates for the show are on Tuesdays at 11:30 a.m. beginning today(May 15), and continuing on May 29, July 10, July 24, and Aug. 7.
Richard Freund, director of the University's Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies, will be interviewed on WTIC-AM's "Morning Show" on Wednesday, May 16, at about 8:45 a.m. He will discuss the bone marrow transplant that saved his life. The interview follows Freund's participation in a "Gift of Life" event tonight (May 15) in New York City.
