Harrison’s Kickoff Remarks Carried by AP, Meiser on WDRC Radio, Coleman in the Hartford Business Journal, and More

Randy Morris, a sophomore at the University who is known as “Green Man,” was the subject of the feature photograph on page one of the “CT Now” section of the Wednesday, Sept. 8, edition of the Hartford Courant. Morris created the Green Man persona last year when he wore a green, full body suit nearly all the time. This year, he wears the suit every other day. Why? “Green’s my favorite color since I’ve been a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle fan when I was little,” he explains. To see the photo, which shows the Green Man walking across Alumni Plaza, click here.

University President Walter Harrison’s remarks at the annual Faculty/Staff Kickoff event on Aug. 25 about the University’s budget picture were reported in an Associated Press story on Saturday, Sept. 4 and carried in Newsday, and on Fox CT and NBC Connecticut. The stories noted that President Harrison was cautiously optimistic about the University’s financial outlook and that he did not foresee the need for any additional layoffs.

Patricia Meiser, the University’s director of athletics, was a guest on WDRC Radio’s (1360 AM) Morning Show with guest host Dan Lovallo on Tuesday, Sept. 7. Meiser talked about the “State of the Hawks,” and the topics ranged from the opening of fall sports, the men’s basketball team’s trip to Australia, new coaches (John Gallagher of men’s basketball and Diana Consolmagno of softball), and a look ahead at basketball season and the spring sports.

Erica Beverly, a standout player on the Hawks women’s basketball team and now director of operations on the staff of Coach Jen Rizzotti, was named a “2010 Sports Person of the Year” representing the City of Bridgeport by the Fairfield County Sports Commission, according to a story in The Hour newspaper of Norwalk. The local sports honorees will be recognized at the annual Sports Night awards dinner on Monday, Oct. 18, at the Hyatt Regency Greenwich. To read the story, click here.

The “Of Note” column in the Monday, Sept. 7 issue of the Hartford Business Journal noted that the University of Hartford’s Center for Personal Financial Responsibility has received a silver Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Innovation Prize for its work to address a lack of financial literacy in college students. The center was founded by Susan Coleman, professor of finance at the University’s Barney School of Business, and Mitchell Weiss, an adjunct faculty member at the Barney School. Coleman and Weiss created the center in 2009 in response to the economic recession and its varied impact on students and their families. To read the item, click here.

In his Aug. 25 “Behind the Curtain” blog, Hartford Courant columnist Frank Rizzo noted that casting has been completed for the staging of “Antony and Cleopatra” at Hartford Stage and that Hartt School students in the cast are Kendra Underwood as Octavia, JP Qualters as Mardian and Michael Gregory in a role yet to be named. To read Rizzo’s blog, click here.