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SO HOT — SUMMER IN THE CITY // STORRS TO SANTIAGO — ALL ROADS LEAD HOME
M AGAZINE
SPRING 2023
Journalism Professor Amanda Crawford on Sandy Hook,
Alex Jones, and Our Culture of Disinformation
pg. 16
SPRING 2023
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Lake Effect
Drone photography continues to give us new perspectives on
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take a moment for an icy Mirror Lake to come into focus?
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FEATURES UConn Magazine FROM THE EDITOR
VOL. 24 NO. 1
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FOREVER YOUNG
University Communications, University
16 Truth is Dead. of Connecticut.
Long Live Truth. Editor Lisa Stiepock
The disinformation inferno that ignited just Art Director Christa Yung
hours after the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012 Associate Editor Julie (Stagis) Bartucca
caused a shocking number of Americans ’10 (BUS, CLAS), ’19 MBA
polled six months later to say they questioned Photographer Peter Morenus
the most basic facts surrounding the shoot-
Class Notes Grace Merritt
ing. Journalism professor Amanda Crawford
believes it was the first conspiracy theory to Student Workers Amanda Rodrigues ’24
catch fire in the social media age. (CLAS), Baker Charbonnet ’26 (SFA)
Left: Mary (McCarthy) Stagis ’85 (SFS), front row, second from right, at a 2022 reunion with
Copy Editors Sheila Foran ’83 (BGS), ’96
Ph.D., Gregory Lauzon, Elizabeth Omara- friends from Fairfield Hall. Right: Julie (Stagis) Bartucca ’10 (BUS, CLAS), ’19 MBA, second
Otunnu from right, with her UConn squad at the wedding of Deidre (Schelin) Salisbury ’10 (CLAS).
22 All Roads Lead Home Web Designer Yesenia Carrero
While interviewing Christine (Berry) Walker ’73 (ED) for our spotlight on life-
A storied Spanish hiking trail delivers a
University Communications long UConn friends on page 39, tears stung my eyes when she read me a message
full-circle moment for ’90s alum Alex Chang
from Patricia (Robustelli) Weber ’73 (CLAS): “We formed a very strong bond. I
and some lucky current students. “On the Vice President for Communications
think that’s why when I walk into a room at our summer get-togethers, I feel like
Camino everyone writes their own story,” Tysen Kendig
I’m 18 again.”
says Chang. “Everybody gets something Associate Vice President for I could relate. I love my alma mater for countless reasons, but 10 of them occu-
different from it.” Communications py space in my heart like no other: Ashley, Ashley, Christine, Emily, Deidre, Jess,
Michael Kirk
Julia, Kami, Lindsey, and Mary.
Senior Director of Creative Strategy and A dozen years after graduating, I still text daily with the group of women I met
30 So Hot Brand Management in Shippee Hall freshman Honors housing in fall 2006. Walking to the dining hall
Tracy Anderson ’09 MA together promptly at 5 p.m. to laugh over a lengthy dinner (and, often, peanut
The work the Connecticut Institute for
butter on ice cream) or dancing at Huskies Bar gave way to visits, trips, and get-
Resilience and Climate Adaptation at UConn Email: uconnmagazine@uconn.edu togethers, supporting each other through first jobs, weddings, babies — and even
Avery Point is doing today promises to make
Letters to the editor: divorces and infertility.
our city summers less oppressive tomorrow. lisa.stiepock@uconn.edu When I was growing up, my mom — Mary (McCarthy) Stagis ’85 (SFS) —
Address changes: would often share memories of her glory days in The Jungle (North Campus),
contactus@foundation.uconn.edu or
with a big, co-ed group that included my dad, Tom Stagis, and her longtime best
UConn Foundation Records Department,
Unit 3206, 2390 Alumni Drive, Storrs, CT
friend Leslie (Wohlhueter) Forte ’85 (SAH). The Fairfield Hall crew features in
06269 photos from my baptism and first birthday party, and I remember playing with
their children at parties. As family life became busy, they stayed in touch through
Additional Photo and Illustration Credits: Christmas cards and the occasional phone call, and in the past two years my mom
Cover Karagh Byrne and a few others began organizing large reunions.
Snap! Sean Flynn “We always pick up like no time has elapsed since we’ve seen each other,”
SECTIONS Table of Contents Karagh Byrne, Courtesy Mom says. I feel the same: Though our WhatsApp chat is very active, I leave every
of Fresco Tours, Peter Morenus, Saskia in-person gathering of my Shippee girls — fewer and farther between now that the
Keultjes
second generation has come along — feeling like I’ve been wrapped in a big hug.
Tom’s Trivia University Archives & Special
The foundation we built here, while living steps away from each other and even
1 36 Collections
sometimes sleeping on the same bunk beds, withstands time and distance, aided
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Fighting fast fashion, howling at the full For this Valentine’s Day edition, alums share affirmative action and does not discriminate on the basis of race,
color, national origin, disability, sex, age or other legally protected like home.
moon, fixing teeth for free, finding dinner enduring Husky love — platonic and romantic — characteristics in all programs and activities and supports all state
and federal laws that promote equal opportunity and prohibit dis-
on the evening bike commute, lighting
crimination, including the provision of reasonable accommodations
and fill us in on what’s new: a TV show, a hockey for persons with disabilities. To request an accommodation or for
questions related to the University’s non-discrimination policies,
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Here’s a sampling of comments on our last issue, edited for clarity and length. Find more
at magazine.uconn.edu.
Caribou & Coffee
➼ An exciting and informative article
with encouraging cooperation from
property owners and archaeologists.
Thanks for the positive presentation!
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Ellis McDowell-Loudan, McGraw, New
For the backstory, turn to page 13.
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On UConn Magazine
➼ Irene [Soteriou] wrote the Alliance
Against Genocide’s monthly newslet- ➼ I thought I was unique
ters while she interned with Genocide having a Michigan vanity KUDOS
Watch. Her initiative and creativity auto plate that read “UCONN
made her one of our most outstanding 52.” That is until, returning I’m With the Band
staff members. How she found time from a doctor’s visit, I saw
to do that along with her many other and honked at a “UCONN 84” David L. Mills, director of the
activities still amazes me. I hope Irene plate. Then they passed me UConn Marching Band — known
will become a major advocate for returning my honk and wave. across the region as The Pride of
human rights in our State Department, It made my day. I look for- Connecticut — retired at the conclusion
the UN, human rights NGOs, or refugee ward to my UConn Magazine. of the 2022 season after 33 years at
rights organizations. The school and its students the helm. More than 600 alumni band
are doing spectacular things. members came out to the Homecoming
Greg Stanton, Founding President,
Genocide Watch, via our website I don’t think I’d qualify for football game at The Rent in celebra-
admission today. Keep it up! tion of Mills’ impressive career as a
Coveted Class music educator.
Bill Vollano ’52, Ann Arbor,
➼ It is great to read about the work you Homecoming weekend itself felt like
Michigan, by postal mail
[Violet Jiménez Sims] are doing to not a tribute to Mills, with scores of former
@uconnhuskies Our photographers don’t only prepare prospective educators, ➼ Thank you so much for band members filling alumni events to
miss #frozenfenway #icebus but also in facilitating the acquisition the arrival of the latest issue reminisce and celebrate his legacy.
of knowledge that your students must of the UConn Magazine! I Mills grew the UCMB from a
For more Huskies hockey, see page 40.
have in order to think on their feet and learned much history there in program with 120 members when he
always have a plan B. Well done. 1966-67. My adviser, A. arrived in 1990 to one of the North-
William Holland, was a east’s premier college marching bands
Out of the Minds of Babes Cindy Morrissey ’78 (CLAS), Tolland,
remarkable historian and and the largest student organization
Connecticut, via our website
➼ A wonderful story about an extraor- professor! He visited me on campus — 300-plus musicians
dinary young woman [Amanda Yagan]. in Bethel, Maine, every strong. In 2019 and 2021, UCMB was
There is no doubt that she will contin- Tom’s Trivia summer until his death. one of the three finalists for the Sudler
ue doing wonderful things regardless ➼ Wow! Love these facts! I only got Trophy, awarded every two years to the
Stanley R. Howe, Bethel,
of her eventual career choice. question 2 right, though. nation’s top college marching band.
Maine, by postal mail
—JASON REIDER ’15 (SFA), PROUD UCMB
Sandra Ulrich ’71 MA, Yarmouthport, Lauren Lee ’23 (CLAS), New London,
ALUM
Massachusetts, via our website Connecticut, via our website
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CHECKING IN WITH
#32 onships I have won. Helping the people
that are coming behind you is what
is, ‘What do you do and how do you do
it?’ Sometimes women don’t get the
really matters.” real answers, and I felt like there was a
Swin Cash ’02 (CLAS), the former Cash is proud of “She’s Got Time,” void of mentors for young women. I got
Husky star and current VP of Basket- a podcast and social media presence together with some friends of mine to
ball Operations and Team Develop- she started to help women navigate a create [She’s Got Time] and it is really
ment for the NBA’s New Orleans career in the business end of sports. my passion project right now. I want
Pelicans, was enshrined in the “I really wanted to create an inter- to give back to young women who have
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of generational type of connectivity and played the game, been managers, been
Fame last fall. We caught up with her in community for women who want to be involved in all parts of the game in col-
November at Gampel Pavilion, where in sports.” lege, and help them figure out what a
she became just the third UConn bas- In her NBA front office job, Cash’s full-time career path in sports can look
ketball student-athlete to have their responsibilities run the court. “I like for them.”
number retired. Cash’s 32 now hangs in oversee everything that touches our Cash and her husband Steve Canal
the Gampel rafters alongside Rebecca players, whether it is marketing, have two sons, Saint and Syer. They are
Lobo’s 50 and Ray Allen’s 34. branding, or social responsibility, and determined to make the future better
Cash’s on-court accolades are I am also involved in our scouting, through social justice and equity.
legendary — on her way to two NCAA draft, free agency, and trade deadline “The world is in a tough place right
championships and three WNBA processes,” she says. “It’s a multitude now, but I believe in freedom and the
championships, she was named a first of things that is a lot of fun and has also right to vote,” she says. “I try to lean
team All-American, an NCAA tourna- sharpened my skill set. My day-to-day into things where I can create change,
ment most outstanding player, a four- interactions and interfacing with the and one of the things I am most proud
time WNBA All-Star, and a member business side of the team is constantly of is working with local organizations
of the WNBA’s 2021 25th Anniversary growing my understanding of that side and institutions to make sure people
Team. But Cash was quick to tell us that of basketball.” have polling places to go to. I try to lend
she hopes to be remembered more for She translates that for the next my voice and my platforms to orga-
her contributions to the lives of others. generation. nizations to see how we can expand
“That to me is more important than “In my time with the Pelicans, one and continue to grow people’s rights. I
the baskets I have scored and champi- of the million-dollar questions I get think the world needs a lot more love
and less hate.”
The Hall of Famer continues to be
as “thick as thieves” with Husky mates
Sue Bird ’02 (CLAS), Asjha Jones ’02
(BUS), and Tamika Williams-Jeter
’02 (CLAS). “I feel like we helped tran-
sition UConn into a different strato-
sphere, from a cultural connectivity
standpoint, and we allowed Coach
Auriemma to play the game a different
way,” says Cash. “The previous groups
at UConn were different because they
had size, but we had a different speed
and athleticism, and the game contin-
ued to evolve.”
She still uses the lessons she learned
under Auriemma and Chris Dailey, as-
sociate head coach. “UConn helped set
that standard I have today. I always tell
people that not only is there a day-to-
day approach to the details at UConn,
At Gampel Pavilion last fall, Cash — with husband Steve Canal, sons Saint and Syer, and but also attention to driving the culture
Coach — became the third Husky to have a basketball number retired. “I feel like we helped of the program, and the expectation
transition UConn into a different stratosphere,” says Number 32 of her ’02 Husky team. that the bar is set high.” —MIKE ENRIGHT
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Madeline Kizer models an Urban UCONN TALKS
Outfitters jumpsuit from an overstock
retailer, an upcycled license plate cuff, a
$1 thrifted belt, Mudd shoes from eBay, On algae as the new kale:
and thrifted jewelry. On establishing more than $100,000 in fellowship funds:
“This crop doesn’t require fresh
also can have clothing altered, attend water. Doesn’t require land.
workshops on sewing and upcycling, “It is our responsibility as successful women to
Doesn’t require fertilizer.”
hear talks about fast fashion, and shop stand at the door and let other women in.”
for goods from student-run small Marine sciences professor emeritus Charles
businesses. Yarish, National Geographic, Nov. 8, 2022.
As a first-year student in UConn’s
F3 program for female entrepreneurs, University President Radenka Maric, Connecticut Magazine,
Kizer, who grew up thrifting with her January 2023
grandmother, created a thrifted cloth- On using fast-growing hemp to make
ing brand she called “kizerskollection.” an alternative to plastic:
Through her research, she came across On why the violent religious On the doubling of Connecticut’s
clothing swap events in the U.K. and fervor behind the Jan. 6
decided to bring the concept to UConn.
Asian American population since “There’s a reason why
Capitol attack should not 2000:
“In the fall of 2021, I started hosting shock us: they call it weed.”
small events and pitching at various “Asian American migration
pitch competitions,” says Kizer. “I “The riot was a pitch-
realized that it would be beneficial for to the state has been part
students to have a place where they
perfect performance Chemistry professor Greg Sotzing,
of every industry — from News 8, Oct. 31, 2022
can go and just recycle everything they of the kind of white
have at school.” the aerospace industry, to
Christian nationalism
At first, Kizer’s plan was met with insurance and accounting
some doubt, but she wasn’t dissuaded. that has ebbed and On what to do if you come across turkeys
She applied for and received a UConn
firms, to the incredible battling over pecking order:
flowed throughout
IDEA grant and then, with Koomson medical research facilities.”
and Andrick, a grant from the UConn American history.” “If it were me, I would settle in
Office of Sustainability. After official History professor and director of the and watch the spectacle!”
approval from UConn President Sociology professor Ruth Asian and Asian American Studies
Radenka Maric, the three set up shop Braunstein, Time magazine, Institute Jason Chang, Connecticut Ecology and evolutionary biology professor
OUR STUDENTS in a former café space in the Family Dec. 30, 2022 Insider, Dec. 29, 2022 Chris Elphick, Salon, Nov. 11, 2022
Studies Building.
RAGE AGAINST THE Compared to a cash business, the
swap model “is almost more beneficial”
FASHION MACHINE
to spurring a cultural shift, Kizer says,
ON CAMPUS
“because it encourages students to
think about how much they’re consum-
Madeline Kizer ’24 (BUS) would like fast fashion is harmful to the environ- ing and to look back in their closets for All Smiles
us all to take a moment to consider ment and to human rights, says Kizer. things they can donate to pursue this Last November the UConn School
what is required to make a single cot- “If something is so cheap, that’s how item that they think they’re going to get of Dental Medicine hosted the
ton T-shirt: land, labor, pesticides, and you know it’s not sustainable.” more use out of.” Connecticut Mission of Mercy Free
other resources to grow and process Last fall Kizer, with Efua Koomson Kizer hopes the Swap Shop — where Dental Clinic for the first time in
the cotton; chemicals and dye to turn ’22 (CLAS) and Lyla Andrick ’24 students have donated gems such as the clinic’s 15-year history. Over two
the fiber into fabric; labor and power to (CAHNR), opened the UConn Swap never-worn Doc Martens and Ugg boots days, a team of 800 volunteers that
transform that fabric into a shirt — not Shop, where students can purchase and “amazing vintage pieces” — will included 160 UConn dental students,
to mention transportation through clothing with credits earned from open people’s eyes to what is possible. faculty, staff, and residents and 30
each step. Chances are that a consumer donations to promote sustainable “Throughout all of the swaps I’ve held, School of Medicine Urban Service
buys the tee for significantly less than shopping habits. “We want to raise I have really tried to glamorize thrifting Track students provided vital dental
the cost of the labor and resources used awareness about sustainability and get so that it attracts more people and en- care to more than 1,000 patients.
to produce it. people to talk about it,” says Kizer. courages those who wouldn’t normally —COURTNEY CHANDLER ’21 MBA
The current culture of disposable or At the campus Swap Shop, students thrift to do so.” —ELAINA HANCOCK
Read more at s.uconn.edu/dentalclinic.
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3 BOOKS TRENDING
Scribbling in the Margins
When we spoke with Fany DeJesús Hannon ’08 MA in November, she had just begun week ROAD
EATS
two of her appointment as Interim Dean of Students after a decade as director of PRLACC,
UConn’s Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural Center. Her books are always hard copy and
often end up full of scribbled markings, sticky notes, and folded corners — things to remem-
ber and things to share. Not surprising for this collector of wisdom and friends, Hannon is It started when he posted a video of
constantly seeking ways to grow and to support others in their growth. When we went to himself taking a bite out of an onion he
press she had just added a doctoral degree in higher education administration to her laurels. found on the side of the road. TikTok
went nuts.
His partner was the one who pointed
Just Finished: Reading Now: On Deck:
out that it was about eating. Most
“Isabel’s Hand-Me- “Warrior of The “Mexican people don’t eat stuff they find on the
Down Dreams ” Light” by Paulo Gothic” by Silvia side of the road, she said. They don’t
by Isabel López Coelho Moreno-Garcia even touch it.
’75 (CLAS) Really, there are two types of people
I love Paulo Coelho. I’m very curious in the world. One sees something lying
In my second year He’s a Brazilian about what is going in the street and thinks, “Trash.” The
at PRLACC, Isabel author and the first to happen to the other sees something lying in the street
emailed me saying book of his I read, heroine in this and thinks, “Yes! A 30-pound package
she was a founder like everyone else, novel. My go-to is of frozen cookie dough!” Geno Villa-
of PRLACC, had was “The Alchemist,” and I fell in love to support Latinx fano, Ph.D. student and pro cyclist for
just written her memoir, and would like with his writing. “Warrior of the Light” authors and this is the first book I’m Cannondale, is one of the latter.
me to read it. I read it back then, and I is basically short passages about this reading by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. I love He scored the cookie dough along
just read it again. She talks about com- warrior who is facing obstacles and movies like “The Others” that are psy- Storrs Road last summer. It was still
ing to UConn in the ’70s, finding only 17 finding opportunities. You can take this chological with a little bit of horror and frozen. Had to have fallen off a truck
Puerto Rican students, and protesting book like a daily devotional. There’s a not too much gore. This is a psychologi- earlier the same day. Other stuff he
to start PRLACC and give them a home. story but not a linear story. I can open cal thriller that takes place in the 1930s finds isn’t always obviously fresh, so he
For our 50th anniversary, Ana Isabel, it anywhere and find pieces of wisdom in an area in Mexico where there were uses his background in biochemistry to
as she is now known, contacted those and a bit of perspective. Every single many factories and people were dying. judge safety.
17 students, who all came back to Storrs thing I read, I always think about how The cousin of the protagonist is very “I’m acutely aware of how many
for the celebration. It was wonderful to can I apply what I have read? Whether sick, keeps having hallucinations, and heat cycles that sandwich or bag of
see them all in person, like seeing her it’s fiction or nonfiction, I may not have they don’t know what’s wrong with her. chips has gone through,” Villafano
book coming to life. I was especially all the answers but the hero of this story The protagonist sets out to solve the explains. The finds come on his 30-
over the moon to meet Isabel and have might. Coelho talks in this book and mystery of what’s wrong with her. mile commute to and from Rockville, Ph.D. student and pro cyclist Geno Villafano finds the craziest things on the 30-mile commute
her sign the book, which I have been us- in “The Archer” about how you never It had great reviews so I’m hoping Connecticut, to Storrs, specifically between his Rockville home and a Storrs genomics lab. He posts most. He eats many.
ing for years in teaching peer mentoring know who you’re going to encounter or winter break will give me the opportu- Leighton Core’s genomics lab, where
classes. I hope she knows the impact what people are carrying inside of them, nity to read it. I think I’m going to have he is developing assays to measure
she’s had on me and every single Latinx and asks how can you unpack that and more time now that I’m done with my how genes are expressed — so we don’t their owners, and is not above tucking
student we’ve had on this campus. help them. dissertation. question his precision calculation the occasional half-drunk bottle of
credentials. Other favorite food finds Hennessey into his waistband. And he
include fresh asparagus, sacks of pota- does it all with zero carbon footprint.
toes, and oyster mushrooms. The man may just be the superhero of
THIS JUST IN
But Villafano also finds stuff that our time.
isn’t food. He usually picks that up, too. But Villafano begs to differ.
Pool cues, socket wrenches, sleds, foot- “As a kid I was very turned off by
Some Viruses Turn Humans Into Mosquito Magnets
long framing nails, Bose headphones road cycling because it has a very
Zika and dengue fever viruses alter the scent of mice and humans they infect. The altered — it all gets put in his backpack or tied pretentious vibe, a lot of gatekeeping.
scent attracts mosquitoes, which bite the host, drink their infected blood, then carry the vi- to the bike frame and either used or I post videos of myself eating stuff off
rus to their next victim. Researchers from UConn Health are part of the team that uncovered decently disposed of. He posts them all the road because I like to make a joke
this sneaky way viruses increase odds of transmission. Find more at s.uconn.edu/skeeter. on his TikTok channel as ride finds. of it. You don’t have to train religiously Wondering what else Villafano
Villafano cleans up trash, rescues or take it seriously. Biking and eating is finds on his rides to Storrs? Go to
baby turtles, returns lost phones to fun!” —KIM KRIEGER s.uconn.edu/roadfood.
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What’s in a Name?
It’s not an acronym. What would
the two Ns stand for? The O?
We know — the magazine you’re hold-
ing has it in big, bold, capital letters on
its cover: UCONN. But that’s an excep-
tion to the rule, like Jonathan’s T-shirt
at right. There’s only one way to go
when using the University nickname
in a sentence — with a capital “U,” a
capital “C,” and a lowercase “o-n-n.”
“As a former English major and
current pedant, it drives me crazy to
COLLECTIONS
see it written ‘UCONN,’” says Meghan
Bard ’03 (CLAS), a contributor to the
PERIOD PIECES UConn sports blog “A Dime Back.”
“It is not an acronym, it’s an abbre-
Christian Brückner, head of UConn’s chemistry depart- viation of the University of Connecti-
ment, started collecting more than 45 years ago when he cut, so only the U and C should be the primary visual identifier of the in- says Tom Breen, UConn’s director of
was a young teen in Germany and his father a metallurgist capitalized. It … shows a lack of care stitution as part of a major rebranding news and editorial communications,
who’d bring home laboratory leftovers. From an early when a publication gets it wrong.” effort in partnership with Nike. before catching himself. “No, wait,
19th century bottle of mercury salt to manganese nodules The moniker surfaced shortly after While many naysayers point to that scratch that. It is a huge deal. It is the
scooped from the bottom of the Pacific, Brückner’s child- the Connecticut General Assembly logo as a driver of this widespread con- hugest deal. Please stop writing
hood collection grew through the decades, reaching more approved a bill changing the formal fusion, pay attention next time you’re ‘UConn’ in all caps. You’ll feel better,
than 1,000 pieces. Many now grace a wall-sized interactive name of the institution from Con- texting about another household name we’ll feel better; the world will be a
periodic table in an atrium of the Chemistry Building. necticut State College to the Universi- with an all-caps logo: How would you better place.” —TYLER R. MORRISSEY ’14
Every item has a story. “I wanted to connect each element ty of Connecticut in 1939. In 2013, the capitalize American Express? Whole (CLAS)
to the natural world, our daily lives, and the work that we University adopted “UConn” and an Foods? Tesla? (Even Nike.) Read more at
do in research labs,” says Brückner. Find Kimberly accompanying all-caps wordmark as “Ultimately, it’s not a huge deal,” s.uconn.edu/allcaps.
Phillips’ story on Brückner and his collection, along with
more photos and video, at s.uconn.edu/period.
UCONN ON WIKI
Lubbie Harper Jr.
The Honorable Lubbie Harper Jr. ’67 MSW, ’75 JD is a retired judge and public
servant and the third African American to serve as a Justice of the Connecticut
Supreme Court. While serving temporarily on the court in 2008, Justice Harper
cast the deciding vote in Kerrigan v. Commissioner of Public Health. The ruling
legalized same-sex marriage in Connecticut.
Born and raised in New Haven, Harper became the first in his family to go to
college. He earned a Master of Social Work degree from UConn in 1967 and a JD
from the UConn School of Law in 1975. A judge since 1997, he has been entrusted
with judicial office by a Democratic and two Republican governors. His deciding
vote in Kerrigan v. Commissioner of Public Health made Connecticut the second
state in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage permanently.
Justice Harper joined the Connecticut Supreme Court full time in 2011 and
retired the following year. He continues to chair the Commission on Racial and
Ethnic Disparity in the Criminal Justice System. The New Haven Register named
him Person of the Year in 2018, and he accepted the Public Service Award from the
UConn School of Law Alumni Association in 2022. —MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ
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GOOD TASTE someone could die.” This book, she
says, is perhaps the most universal.
“Essays in academic journals only
EAT YOUR get read by other academics,” Bloom
says. “This book literally gets people
WORDS where they live, gets people talking.”
“Recipe” begins by taking the subject
at face value, breaking down the com-
The Best
Passed down ponents of a recipe as an instruction
Blueberry Pie
through gener- guide. “A recipe is a success story,”
ations, written Bloom writes. “A recipe tells the story To eat this pie is like eating
fresh berries, only better. Use
on index cards, of how any cook, however naive or
the largest, plumpest berries
posted to the web sophisticated, in partnership with the to fill the pie shell.
at the bottom of a recipe’s words and music, can trans-
meandering story form often disparate ingredients into a Serves 6-8
about a blogger’s congenial — even exciting — treat.” 4–5 cups fresh blueberries
1 9-inch pie shell, baked and
family hike — a Centered on chicken noodle soup
cooled
recipe is much and its countless variations, from Jew- 1/4 cup water
more than a step-by-step guide to ish Penicillin to The Chicken Soup of 3/4 cup sugar
creating a delectable dish. the Chinese Aunties, that chapter is the ½ teaspoon salt
Lynn Z. Bloom, Board of Trustees spool from which the rest of the book 1–2 tablespoons cornstarch
Distinguished Professor and Aetna unwinds — even Bloom’s exploration of 2 tablespoons butter
Chair of Writing emerita, unwraps the recipe as a how-to is multilayered, 1 tablespoon Grand Marnier
(optional)
all the symbolism in something so playing with the unique spin every
1/4 cup fresh raspberries
ostensibly simple in her latest book, cook puts on every dish, every time, (optional)
“Recipe,” part of the Bloomsbury and the way personal tweaks become
Distribute 21/2 cups fresh
Publishing “Object Lessons” series in favorite family recipes.
blueberries evenly in cooled
which writers explore “the hidden lives Each chapter is anchored by a repre- pie shell. Cook water, sugar,
“Why is the moon so hungry?
of ordinary things.” sentative dish to dissect deeper mean- salt over medium heat
Because it’s only full once a month.”
A fan of the “top-flight” series of ings: macaroni and cheese for comfort, until sugar is dissolved. Add
Bobby Flowers ’24 (BUS)
“short, quirky, unusual” books, Bloom the Thanksgiving meal for celebration, remaining blueberries (2–2½
challenged herself to write a proposal chocolate for cooking improvisation. cups) and stir over low heat
until the mixture thickens —
CLUBBING that would be accepted in the highly (You’ll find Bloom’s favorite sentence
less than five minutes. Some
selective series. “I’ve always liked to in that last chapter.) of the berries will burst
cook, everybody likes to eat, everybody And even in what she says is the one
LUNACY in my family cooks, it’s fun to do,” she “distressing” (but vital) chapter, on
during this process, turning
the mixture beautifully blue.
Moon Club is relatively new at UConn. a strong sense of kinship with the drums ... it’s just fun to meet a ton of says. “So I thought I would write a food insufficiency, recipes have a place: Avoid cooking them to mush.
Students across years, majors, and moon and, you know, it’s just a really, people.” proposal based on unusual ways to look This section probes the numerous If the sauce is too runny,
interests gather on the Great Lawn to really cool celestial object,” Vladimir at the process of how most home cooks ways to make simple porridge. Bloom mix 1 tablespoon cornstarch
Sociology master’s student and club
and 1/4 cup cold water, then
celebrate each full moon. It’s known for Klyukin ’26 (ACES), known here as VP and Instagram manager Nicola do what they do.” in her research found a cookbook
briskly stir in a few table-
Instagram memes and accusations of “Staff Guy,” told me. Wilk ’22 (CLAS), aka “Moon Mommy,” She was thrilled to learn her pitch written by prisoners in a Holocaust spoons of the hot mixture
being a cult, but for students it seems to Recent transfer students Amethyst says the club started small, but “blew was accepted as the pandemic and camp. “The recipes were a link to their until blended. Whisk this
be about community — and lunacy. Van Antwerp ’25 (ED, CLAS), Riley up” in COVID 2020. “It was one of the lockdowns took hold and people the heritage,” she says. slurry into the cooking ber-
At November’s Blood Moon meeting, Smith ’25 (CLAS), Tyler Conroy only clubs on campus that got to meet world over ramped up their home “When you’re looking at food, you’re ries and continue whisking
on the eve of the 2022 midterm ’24 (CLAS), and Hannah Renzoni in person, a lot of people were able to cooking, spawning terms like procras- looking at culture, history, hospitality, for about a minute until the
elections, I meet UConn Joker; ’26 (CAHNR) say they came out of tibaking. “This was the perfect thing community, transmission of values, mixture thickens as desired.
join and just, like, appreciate the moon
Repeat if necessary.
someone playing the accordion; a curiosity, but seem like converts. “You from a safe distance, staring at it.” to write where I could not think of nurturing, celebration. You can’t do
Remove from heat. Add
person dressed as Jesus; a guy with can just be comfortable here, there’s no The question remains: Is it a cult? disease, death, or disaster,” says Bloom. any of these without food.” butter and Grand Marnier.
a decorated skull staff; and students judgment,” says Smith. Moon Mommy says no, but others “I wanted it to be a happy book.” Bloom leaves the reader with what When cool but not con-
chanting, “Moon Club just allows you to meet remain skeptical. Bloom taught at UConn from 1988 she says is “the best recipe, maybe of gealed, pour the sauce over
dancing some really out-of-the-box people “I don’t think it’s organized enough to 2015. She’s written more than 25 anything” for a pie that contains so berries in the shell. Chill until
in circles, that you would never imagine meeting to be one, but it’s basically one. It’s books, including an in-depth biogra- much fresh fruit she thinks it could ready to serve. Decorate with
fresh raspberries, if desired.
and doing in everyday life,” Sophia Rogers ’24 beginning, it could be one. It has phy of famed child-rearing expert Dr. practically be considered a health food.
cartwheels. (NUR) tells me. “I’ve witnessed a potential,” says Conroy. —KAYLEIGH Benjamin Spock, who taught her about Bon appétit! —JULIE (STAGIS) BARTUC-
“I find bagpipe, a mandolin, people playing COLLINS ’24 (CLAS) precision: “If you don’t write clearly, CA ’10 (BUS, CLAS), ’19 MBA
14 UCONN MAGAZINE | MAGAZINE.UCONN.EDU Milton Levin ’04 Ph.D. Illustration by Saskia Keultjes SPRING 2023 15
political reporter, Congresswoman
Gabrielle Giffords. The shooting at support had failed in an increasingly
Giffords’ constituent event in a grocery polarized and dysfunctional Congress.
store parking lot in Tucson in 2011 left When Bloomberg News closed
six people dead, including a staffer, a several regional offices, including mine,
federal judge, and a 9-year-old girl. I did about a year after Sandy Hook, I was
not personally know any of the people weary of gun violence and politics and
who were murdered, but several close was, frankly, disillusioned. I accepted
friends did and were shattered by the a job as a journalism professor in Ken-
losses. After that, it seemed, the gun tucky, a state neither my new husband,
massacres didn’t stop. I was in Aurora, Toby, nor I had visited before my job
Colorado, in July 2012 to report on a interview. We settled into a creative
were killed at a Texas church in Novem- mass shooting at a movie theater there nook in the Bible Belt, the college town
ber. The traumatized survivors — like for Bloomberg News. A couple of weeks of Bowling Green. There, we performed
By Amanda J. Crawford, those from almost every high-profile after that, there was a mass shooting together in a band and opened a music
UConn Journalism Professor mass shooting since the massacre at at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin and, in studio and arts venue in the front of the
Sandy Hook Elementary School in December, the massacre at Sandy Hook green Victorian we rented downtown.
Illustrations by Karagh Byrne
Newtown, Connecticut, five years Elementary School. I helped cover the I taught, gardened, and wrote about
earlier — faced heinous accusations tragedies and, in the aftermath, wrote a things unrelated to guns as political
that they were willing participants in a lot about guns: gun manufacturing, gun polarization worsened and America’s
It all started in a false-flag plot to take away guns. trafficking, gun buybacks, and gun back- mass shooting crisis continued.
Of all the markers of the post-truth ground checks; guns in public buildings, Then, in early 2017, our little
fever dream on a small era, the cruel and politically motivated guns in bars, guns in schools, and the Kentucky town became the subject
ish channels thick with mangroves. denial of these tragedies bothered me of a firestorm over fake news after
sailboat off the coast As we sipped cerveza under a palapa
power of the gun lobby. Changes to
the most. As a journalist, I had covered national gun laws had seemed all but Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, on
of Jalisco. in the sand, my eyes grew bleary, my several mass shootings, starting with inevitable after Sandy Hook, but within a TV news program, cited a made-up
lungs tightened, and my head throbbed. one that had gravely wounded someone months even modest, common-sense massacre in Bowling Green to justify
Our friends set off a few months earlier I could no longer deny the truth that I had known for years as an Arizona proposals with broad bipartisan public the administration’s ban on travel
to travel the world by sea. My husband threatened to disrupt this magical
and I joined them in southern Mexico journey just as it started: the influenza
for the first week of 2018. It was a time virus I had contracted along the way
of transition in our lives, and we looked took hold.
to the trip for tranquil respite on the
cheap as we tried to figure out what In the weeks leading up to the trip,
came next. I had been thinking a lot about
The journey to meet them was long; truth. At the end of 2017, I certainly
we flew into Puerto Vallarta and then wasn’t the only one. The 2016 elec-
traveled several hours by bus. But tion, marred by fake news and a Russian
when we set sail north along the Pacific disinformation campaign, had deliv-
coast the next morning, everything ered a presidency of “alternative facts.”
seemed perfect. The boat cut a swift Time magazine asked on its cover, “Is
white line between indigo water and Truth Dead?” President Donald Trump
periwinkle sky. Wave-sculpted stacks told more than 2,100 lies to the public
of rock pierced the meniscus of the sea, his first year in office, an average of six a
and a humpback whale and her calf day, according to The Washington Post.
burst from the sparkling waves before Outrageous conspiracy theories and
us. That evening, we anchored in a extremism poisoned public discourse
near-empty lagoon and were lulled to as anti-vaxxers, flat-Earthers, and cli-
sleep by the lilt of the sea. mate change deniers waged an assault
When I awoke the next morning, on science. That August, hate and white
though, the pressure in my head felt nationalism had crawled out of the
as if I had spent the night on the shadows and into the torchlight of the
ocean’s floor rather than bobbing along Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville,
on top of it. My friends insisted I was Virginia. Then two of the deadliest
just seasick and would feel better mass shootings in modern U.S. history
off the sailboat. So we piled into a occurred just five weeks apart: 58 peo-
dinghy to explore the shore and brack- ple were murdered at a concert on the
Las Vegas strip in October 2017, and 26
16 UCONN MAGAZINE | MAGAZINE.UCONN.EDU SPRING 2023 17the community,” she wrote. “If you care
from several majority-Muslim nations. so much about fake news, why don’t you
She blamed the media for people not do something about it?” engagement without any regard to its
knowing about it. It was ludicrous. We ran a nonprofit that organized social value or veracity.
(Later, she said she misspoke.) I penned community arts events. I taught jour- The air temperature reached toward
a satirical response for The Huffington nalism and coordinated the university’s 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and my inter-
Post, and a friend, who thought it was First Amendment Studies program. I nal temperature soared even higher as I
funny, printed us a vinyl banner that tried to reason with her. This was not fretted about the incredibly high stakes
stated simply in bold red and black a nameless troll. It was someone in for our society and our democracy. I
type: “The Bowling Green Massacre our community. But it was no use. The closed my eyes against the sunlight.
Never Happened.” We hung the quirky woman’s nasty messages and posts on There is a quote that I often share with
testament to our town’s moment in the our social media pages continued until my students when I lecture about free
fake-news spotlight from the edge of we blocked her. expression. It’s from John Milton’s es-
our front porch. Tomato plants grew say “Areopagitica,” an early argument in
over the banner that summer, and we A week later, I was sick on favor of a free press, written in 1644. It
often forgot it was even there. is a bromide that I have turned to over
the deck of the sailboat in
Then, in December 2017, an angry, the years just as others take comfort
shaggy-haired stranger drove to our Mexico. As my friends swam
from their favorite Bible verse:
house and parallel parked out front. in the lagoon, thoughts “And though all the winds of doctrine
When he saw one of our acquaintances about truth, democracy, were let loose to play upon the earth, so
on the porch wearing a local govern- fake news, conspiracy theo- Truth be in the field, we do injuriously
ment windbreaker, he started shouting … to misdoubt her strength. Let her
about deep-state conspiracies. When ries, online cruelty, and
and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew
Toby came out, the stranger pointed at real-world violence swirled Truth put to the worse in a free and open
the sign: “Are you still butt-hurt about in my feverish skull. I had encounter?”
Trump?” he yelled. Then he grabbed become a journalist because I believed
my husband, who was standing five tall in the essential role of a free press in de- A hot breeze rocked the sailboat,
concrete steps above him, and pulled mocracy: to seek the truth, hold those lulling me in and out of conscious-
him down onto the sidewalk. The men in power accountable, and empower ness. All the winds, I thought. All
tussled on the ground, and the strang- the people for self-governance. I had the winds. Abstract notions took
er landed a hard kick against Toby’s walked away from organized religion shape in the pastel dreamscape of my
head. Eventually, Toby was able to pin many years ago, but my faith in the mind, and I watched Milton’s words
him and call the police. (The man was power of truth — and the concept of the play out on a battlefield. It was an
charged with a misdemeanor.) The local marketplace of ideas that is the foun- impressionist depiction that only
newspaper wrote about the incident dation of modern First Amendment makes sense within the omniscience
and people reminded us over and over jurisprudence — had never wavered. of dream: a bundle of color that I knew
again how lucky we were that the man But the marketplace of ideas had to be Truth, beset on all sides. Battered
didn’t show up with a gun. never been as free as it was after the by armies of wind. All the winds of
Then, the backlash started on social advent of social media. Suddenly all the misinformation. A tempest of fake news
media. People called us “libtards” and gatekeepers — journalists, publishers, and propaganda. Winds of hate. Winds
accused Toby, who was left bloodied universities, scientists, government of willful and wanton ignorance.
and bruised in the encounter, of beating officials, and other institutions that had It was the second decade of the third
up an innocent Trump supporter who previously vetted ideas before their millennium, and all the winds were
was minding his own business on a mass distribution — had been sidelined. blowing. They blustered along the
public sidewalk. A middle-aged blonde Truth competed online with an infinite superhighway of information, gained
woman who ran a booth in an antique number of outrageous ideas. Vicious strength in the chasms that divided us,
store where I frequently shopped sent hate speech, fake news, anti-science and rattled the very foundations of our
me dozens of vitriolic social media gibberish, odious conspiracy theories, democracy. Truth was in the field, but
messages telling me we deserved to be hoaxes, and the manifestos of madmen she was bloodied. I was not alone in
attacked. zoomed around the world to billions doubting her strength.
“You should be doing things to unify of people in a flash and were promoted
by computer algorithms that favored
controversial content that spurred
18 UCONN MAGAZINE | MAGAZINE.UCONN.EDU SPRING 2023 19When I got home, I tried to orga- government in ways that had fractured
nize the thoughts the fever dream wage war with trolls on social media and wrote about another leading Sandy our common perception of reality. peaceful transfer of power for the first
had inspired — and sort out what misinformation on their platforms. As and flag hoaxer content for copyright Hook conspiracy theorist, a retired phi- I became increasingly worried that time in our country’s history. The entire
this meant for the direction of my outcries over censorship went up from claims or violations of internet compa- losophy professor and Holocaust denier conspiracy theories like this would nation now seems to be transfixed by
research. I knew every generation had the right, I knew I had found the battle ny guidelines. who Pozner successfully sued for defa- lead to political violence. But even as I the fight against misinformation and
carved out the parameters of accept- between conspiracy theories and truth By the time I met Pozner in person mation in Wisconsin. Though the man pointed to the growing number of “Q” debating the future of free speech in the
able speech in consideration of the that I wanted to chronicle. I thought by for the first time in Florida in early 2019, fancied himself a champion of academic signs at Trump rallies — a reference to digital era.
most odious ideas of the time. I could examining this dark corner of the mis- he had become an expert in the opaque freedom, he sent a letter to UConn’s the absurd QAnon grand conspiracy Though I believe that there are still
think of no conspiracy theories more information crisis, I could shine light rules of the private companies that con- leadership trying to get me fired after I theory about the deep state — many many challenges on this front ahead, I
odious than the denial of the uniquely on many of the existential challenges trol so much modern public discourse. wrote about his trial for The Chronicle people I talked to didn’t believe these do see hope for the future. Many people
American horror of public mass- facing our nation. I began interviewing He kept his son’s Batman costume of Higher Education. He enumerated 26 outlandish notions could have much of have awakened to the dangers of false
casualty gun violence and the cruelty people who had been directly impacted and small flip-flops in his drawer so complaints about my conduct, one for an impact. “What happens to democ- beliefs and, as the results of many 2022
to vulnerable people that those false by the conspiracy theories, including he would see them every day when he every letter in the alphabet. Among his racy if members of Congress promote midterm contests showed, are rejecting
narratives inspired. Just over a month victims’ family members, survivors, dressed, then he crossed his apartment strikes against me was speculation that these kinds of outrageous false beliefs?” candidates who cater to extremism and
later, on Valentine’s Day 2018, another local residents, first responders, and to his computer, where he spent hours I might be Jewish since I once spoke at I asked. I had no way of knowing at that promote election lies. As someone who
high-profile school shooting in Park- members of the clergy. every day skimming through hateful a Hartford synagogue. time that conspiracy theories would studies media law, I also see hope in the
land, Florida, brought mass-shooting Among those I connected with was content trying to preserve his son’s The further I got into my research, lead to a violent insurrection at the American judiciary. The final bulwark
denial back into the limelight. In the Lenny Pozner, the father of Noah memory. He and his volunteers had the more concerned I became about U.S. Capitol, but I felt certain that they in the defense of reality, judges and
aftermath, teenage survivors, whose Pozner, the youngest and only Jewish succeeded in getting thousands of social where misinformation could lead. would continue to spread online and juries in courts around the country are
calls for change reinvigorated the gun victim of the Sandy Hook shooting. media posts and blogs deleted from the Initially, some of my friends, family, and cause escalating harm in the real world. starting to weigh in by punishing those
policy reform movement, were vicious- Pozner has made it his life’s mission to web, and he had helped persuade sev- colleagues questioned whether deep- Since then, we’ve all lived through a who spread lies that defame and cause
ly pilloried online. Soon after, families fight back against those who claimed eral platforms to change rules to block state conspiracy theories were really global pandemic made worse by false real-world harm. As I write this in late
of Sandy Hook victims filed lawsuits in Noah and other victims never existed. denial of tragedies like the Sandy Hook that widespread. But I continually ran beliefs that it was a government hoax. 2022, Jones and Infowars have been hit
Texas and Connecticut against right- “I felt like I needed to defend my shooting. But his success had come at a into normal people around the country, The “big lie” that the 2020 election with judgments of nearly $1.5 billion in
wing disinformation purveyor Alex son,” Pozner would later explain in cost. He faced continuous harassment and even in Connecticut, who pro- was stolen was promoted by Trump, lawsuits by Sandy Hook families. And
Jones of Infowars. For years, Jones had court. “He couldn’t do that for himself, and even death threats. He had moved claimed with certainty that the Sandy right-wing news outlets, members of courts around the country are taking up
told his audience of millions that the so I needed to be his voice.” a half-dozen times, altered his appear- Hook shooting didn’t happen. Normal, Congress, and elected officials across cases against those who have promot-
mass shooting in Newtown was a gov- At first Pozner, whose journey I ance, and lived in hiding. workaday people who didn’t spend the country. The election lies along ed election lies and other conspiracy
ernment-staged hoax to take away guns later chronicled for Boston Globe The day after I met Pozner, I drove their days in alt-right forums or trying with the QAnon conspiracy theory led theories.
— and encouraged them to investigate Magazine, had tried to reason with across Florida to meet with a man who to reach the darkest corners of the web. to the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol All the winds are still blowing, but I
it. Families that had endured a horrific deniers — thrusting himself into hostile had been Alex Jones’ lead “expert” on There was the waitress at a Cracker on Jan. 6, 2021, that sought to block the continue to have faith in the power of
tragedy and suffered an unfathom- online forums and releasing his son’s Sandy Hook. A one-time cop and school Barrel in Florida. The bartender and truth.
able loss were accused of being “crisis personal records as proof Noah had employee, the retiree had spent years the cook at our favorite Connecticut
actors” in the deep-state plot. They lived and died. But he soon realized his tormenting Newtown officials and bar. My husband’s friend of more than
truth didn’t stand a chance against the victims’ families and targeting surviv- 20 years. The doubts about Sandy Amanda J. Crawford, an assistant professor of journalism
were harassed and threatened online,
ing children with outlandish claims. at UConn, is writing a book that explores the dual crises
and sometimes confronted in person, onslaught of lies. So Pozner started a Hook, though thoroughly debunked,
of misinformation and mass shootings. You can find links
too. Jones has claimed he was just nonprofit called the Honr Network and He handed me a background check on had permeated mainstream society
to her recent work at s.uconn.edu/crawford.
asking questions, reporting on internet recruited a team of online vigilantes to Pozner, convinced the grieving father and fed distrust of the media and the
Leanora Benkato
rumors, and exercising his free speech. was a deep-state operative. I later met
But while opinions are protected under
the First Amendment, defamatory false
statements — like the many Jones had
made over the years insisting that there
was proof of a hoax at Sandy Hook —
are not protected and are punishable
under the law.
Around the same time the lawsuits
were filed, I was offered an assistant
professorship at UConn. In August,
as my husband and I settled into a
rented colonial in the Quiet Corner,
several social media companies acted
in near unison to ban Jones, Infowars,
and others who had spread hate and
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