Task Force recommends no 2011 Spring Weekend for UConn

January 21, 2011

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Mansfield Today (CT)

By Brenda Sullivan

"In a message to the community, Acting University of Connecticut President Philip E. Austin said Thursday (Jan. 20) that he accepts and supports a report submitted by a task force grappling with the many and unsavory issues engendered by the annual Spring Weekend tradition."

"In May 2010, then-President Michael Hogan established a task force charged with coming up with strategies to “de-escalate” Spring Weekend, which has become widely known for its massive off-campus drinking parties and violent incidents. ..."

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