Adrianna Duffy, a member of the Trinity College Class of 2013, passed away early Monday morning at Hartford Hospital. She was 17-years-old. She was taken to the hospital late Sunday evening after falling ill, and was pronounced dead a few hours later. The cause of death is pending a medical examiner's report, but preliminary information suggests she died of natural causes, despite an ongoing police investigation, which is protocol in all unexplained deaths.
0 CommentsA man was found in possession of illegal firearms after leading police on a foot chase in the area of Sigourney Street and Park Terrace last Wednesday night. The man, later identified as 26 year old Brandon Henry of 11 Greenfield Street, was initially pulled over for riding a bicycle without a proper illumination device.
0 CommentsRecently Trinity College students participated in the 11th annual Do It Day, volunteering around the Greater Hartford area at 48 different businesses and worksites. Do It Day began in 1999 as a way to begin the academic year by engaging Trinity students with the Hartford community.
0 CommentsIn a report released earlier this year, Hartford, Conn., was ranked as the third best mid-size city by the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) on their annual College Destinations Index (CDI). The index lists the top 75 cities and towns, split into four tiers by size, and takes into account not only their Academic Environment, but their Quality of Life and Professional Opportunity as well.
1 CommentsIn an effort to revamp its Web site, Trinity College hired the web design firm mStoner, beginning a year-long process of focus groups and meetings on campus. mStoner is headed by President Michael Stoner, a respected member in the area of new media. Founded in 2001 by Stoner and partners Voltaire Santos Mira and Rob Cima, mStoner "provides smart, sustainable communication solutions to the nonprofit community and the organizations that serve that community," according to the firm's website.
0 CommentsA team of a Trinity College professor and student was awarded the annual grand prize in the National Generational Theft Contest this past Monday. The contest, hosted and funded by Pajamas Television (PJTV), a subset of Pajamas Media (PJM), included multiple teams and hoping to shed new light on the recent economic recession, invited college students to join forces with their professors to calculate the financial impact of the current economic environment on a 2009 college graduate.
0 CommentsLast night the residents of Summit Street dormitories were awoken by the noise from a five-vehicle crash a little before 2 a.m. As students trickled out of their rooms to see what had happened, they saw that four separate cars parked on Summit Street had been hit by a wayward vehicle, the first of which had been pushed on to the grass and had its entire side scraped off.
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