Given the global financial crisis, parents sitting around the kitchen table worrying about paying the University’s $42,297 tuition fee should add another exorbitant cost to the list—textbook prices.
Although Connecticut is the third wealthiest state in America, upwards of 250 people in Middlesex County alone struggle to feed themselves on a daily basis, according to the Middletown-based nonprofit St. Vincent DePaul. Last Thursday, Muslim, Christian and Jewish students at the University—and at over 240 college campuses across North America—fasted in the spirit of Ramadan and charity for the University’s second annual Fast-a-Thon.
Mailman by day, restaurateur by night, Jerry Windsor, co-owner of Café Ology, has become somewhat of a superhero on campus.