government is running out of money faster than anticipated to respond to Hurricane Idalia, the wildfires in Hawaii and other recent costly crises. 1 issued an urgent plea for Congress to approve roughly $16 billion in new federal disaster aid, warning that the U.S. Becca Balint sent a letter to majority, minority and Appropriations Committee leadership in the Senate and House of Representatives urging them to ensure that Congress passes federal funding for essential recovery and long-term disaster mitigation work in Vermont. We are grateful that our congressional delegation is doing all it can to bring more aid to Vermont for flood recovery. We also want it to remain attainable.īarre-Montpelier Times-Argus. If you live in this state and get good grades in high school, UConn should not be a reach.
But it shouldn’t be out of range for so many good students in Connecticut. We want to see the school educate a diverse array of people, from all around the country and the world. So when UConn becomes more choosy, it loses out on something uniquely Connecticut. Improvements over the years have given the once-sleepy campus the feel of a real college town, even if no one will mistake it for Chapel Hill or Ann Arbor any time soon. Even as it can seem remote, tucked away as it is in the agricultural fields of northeastern Connecticut, Storrs offers a unique experience. One thing Connecticut decidedly does not lack is options for higher education.īut there’s something special about UConn.
Though they’ve had their struggles, many students receive a fine education every year at the four state universities, as well as the transforming community college system. This goes for the state’s non-UConn public schools, as well. There is more to college, after all, than getting a high-paying job afterward. There are more four-year universities per square mile than just about any place else in America, and many offer a solid return on investment, in addition to an enriching student life and exposure to new and interesting ideas. UConn can afford to be much choosier these days, and even highly ranked high school students are finding themselves going elsewhere.Ĭonnecticut is blessed with many good alternatives. Gone are the days when a public high school student in Connecticut would use UConn as a safety school and be all but guaranteed admission with good grades and a solid profile. Lately, though, that’s not necessarily the case.Īs UConn has grown in prestige, its exclusivity has also grown. It’s a public university and therefore should be considered the school of choice for in-state achievers. Yale, a private school, is defined by its exclusivity. But the schools aren’t trying to do the same things. It’s not on the same level as, for example, Yale University, which is No. Not only is that 50 slots higher than the last time the rankings were released, but it came in ahead of schools with higher academic pretensions, including New York University and Brown University, of the Ivy League.
46 in the Wall Street Journal’s recently released list of 2024 Best Colleges in the U.S. Or they may find themselves in parlor games of charades, spoonerisms, and pig Latin.UConn ranked No. Or they may be asked to come up with Auerbach, Bucyk, and Yastrzemski in an all-Boston spelling bee. In those puzzles, solvers may encounter a simple must-know fact (such as the name of the Fenway foul pole that stands opposite the well-known right-field Pesky Pole). In our own 40 years of making Sunday crosswords for this newspaper (the puzzle in the March 6 Globe Magazine is our 1,000th), we’ve had lots of fun with the English language, with a few tips of our hat to the Hub. Puzzlers Henry Rathvon and Emily Cox Jason Schneiderĭ on’t you think the ancient Greeks and Romans mixed a little fun into the news on their wax tablets and papyri? Didn’t the town criers of the Middle Ages pause in their accounts of wars and plagues to throw a few knock-knock jokes into the pot? Newspapers too have always given the public not just the hard facts as they were unfolding, but also a smattering of entertainment with comics, advice columns, horoscopes, recipes, chess and bridge problems, and, yes, word puzzles.
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