THE INDEPENDENT VOICE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SINCE 1896 • VOLUME CXXVII, NO. 25 Thursday, October 1, 2020 COVID-19 Tracker Current 196 164 7 CONFIRMED CASES AT Residential Cumulative Commuter Staff Cases UCONN STORRS Cases as of 6:26 p.m. on Sept. 30 53 Residential Cases Cases USG honors students who fixed Spirit Rock TEDxUConn prepares for virtual conference by Rachel Philipson STAFF WRITER
[email protected] TEDxUConn is having its 2020 conference “Patchwork” as a virtual livestream, Vin- cent Huang, TEDxUConn president and seventh-semes- USG honored the students who fixed the defaced Spirit ter civil engineering major, Rock. The two students were Omar Gebril and Colt Nichols, said. who changed it back to “Black Lives Matter.” PHOTO BY KEVIN LINDSTROM, PHOTO EDITOR/THE DAILY CAMPUS “Patchwork” will be a four- hour long YouTube livestream by Jake Kelly to electing to take a course having classes start Jan. 19 “We don’t think of it as some- airing Oct. 18 at 9 a.m., Huang CAMPUS CORRESPONDENT pass/fail, having up to three (with all classes online during thing that was that noteworthy,” said. “Patchwork” was origi-
[email protected] courses taken as pass/fail quarantine period) and spring Nichols said. “It was something nally going to be an in-person (counting toward major, mi- break lasting from April 11 to we were glad to fix for the com- conference during the spring On Wednesday, the Under- nor and general education re- 17. munity.” 2020 semester but had to be graduate Student Government quirements in all schools and This proposal was passed USG ended the meeting with postponed due to COVID-19.