Digest (8 issues), Jan 2006 - Dec 2006

Includes Jan, Mar-Jul, and Dec.

January 2006 Digest: Nov 3, 18, Dec 13, 2005: Magnet school draws interest; Nov 23: WestConn to offer Smithsonian exhibition, concert, academic conference for Vietnam Week; Nov 29, Dec 2: Prof Carina Bandhauer to hold immigration forum; Dec 4,11: Author James Loewen to speak on historical myths; Dec 4: Reporter Sabrina Tavernise tells stories of Iraqi suffering and suvival; Dec 5: Officials to tighten penalties against landlords; Dec 7,9: WCSU Theatre Arts Department to offer one-act plays then "Holiday Tidings;" Dec 11: Campus police chief forms law enforcement group; Dec 17: CSUS names David Carter chancellor; Dec 18: Marjorie Portnow, assitant art professor gets national recognition; Dec 21: New elementary magnet school presented to Bd. of Ed; Dec 21: Prof John Briggs named one of nine 2005-7 Fellows for Black Earth Arts; Dec 26: Tek-Air partners with WestConn; Jan 4, 2006: Activist Dave Bonan displays copy of his alternative newspaper, The Hat City Free Press; Jan 6: Magnet School sign-ups start; Jan 11: WestConn enrollment rising; Jan 12: Dr. Martin Luther King's legacy.

March 2006 Digest: Dec 30, 2005: Shirley Ferris creates scholarship for nontraditional students; Jan 5, 12, 2006: Orianna DeMasi volunteers for Australian program; Jan 22: Muscians gathre in New Milford to honor Skitch Henderson; Jan 25:Magnet School meeting; Jan 27: Magnet school to open; Jan 31: International projects get WestConn funds; Gail Hill Williams new director of Hord Foundation; Feb 6: Jane Copeland Stevens interview; Feb 7: Susan York runs Hunt Hill Farm Trust; Feb 10, 16, 25: New magnet school to teach about global community; Feb. 19: Prof Shouhua Qi book 'When the Purple Mount Burns;" Feb 26: WCSU students travel to proverty-stricken Bangladesh.

April 2006 Digest: Feb 3: Susan York named Director for Hunt Hll Farm Trust; Feb 8: Prof Averell Manes explains roots of racial tension in France; Feb 8, 27: WestConn's Roger Sherman Debate Society; Feb 10, 17: WestConn graduates paint mural at YMCA; Mar 1, 2, 3: "As You Like It" by the WCSU Theatre Arts Department; Mar 11: Old Quarry Nature Center; Mar 16: Fairfield Hills Hospital; Mar 22: WestConn science par plans moving ahead; Mar 26: The Rise and Fall of Valley Forge (Connecticut); Mar 28: State to buy house for WestConn expansion; Mar 29: Darla Shaw "World's Slowest Speed Skater."

May 2006 Digest: Adwoa Adarkwa and WCSU's debate team; Mar 23: Neil and Carolyn Wagner receive WestConn Society Distinguished Service Award; Mar 24: First Macricostas Lecture in new WCSU series; Mar 31: Richter kicks off season with memorabilia exhibit (Herb Janick and "Danbury Then and Now;" Apr 6: Isabelle Farrington is honorary chair for WCSU Foundation's annual ball; Apr 16, 21: WCSU's Opera Enseble performs "The Merry Widow;" Apr 21: Jazz pianist Chick Corea at WestConn; Apr 25: Jane Goodall and th Roots and Shoots program; Apr 27: Brice Assie set to go pro; May 1: Frank McCourt to speak at WestConn.

June 2006 Digest: Apr 30: WCSU hosts 20th Ball; May 5: WestConn at Waterbury; May 12: WestConn actors a smash hit in Ecuador; May 19: WestConn Symphony Orchestra; May 24: WestConn protester says graduation speech by Catherine Crier shouldn't have been political.

July 2006: May 17: WestConn's Newman Center group aid hurrican-ravaged Mississippi; May 31: WestConn offers music camps; Jun 6: Connecticut grapples with shortage of nurses; Jun 9: After al-Zarqawi; Jun 17: WestConn Mural pays tribute to Charles Ives and Marian Anderson; Jul 3: WestConn's 800 space garage to open by autumn; Jul 6: WestConn's new Westside campus center anticipates January opening; Jul 12: Prof Jennifer Frederick show teachers how to explain a chemistry concept to middle and high school science students.

December 2006 Digest: Oct 18, 20,21,25: WCSU students and Dr. Darla Shaw offer ghost tours for Halloween; Oct 20,24,25,29, Nov 1,3, 10: WCSU's production of "The Full Monty;" Oct 31: WestConn students to help at polls on election day; Nov 8: Yankees' general manager Brian Cashmen lecture at WCSU; Nov 17: Students learn diversity through dance; Nov 29: Grant to help WestConn spruce up locker rooms, other facilities.

Sports: Nov 4: Women's soccer in LEC semis; Nov 5: Women rally to win LEC soccer title; Nov 7: WestConn to host NCAA games.