{"id":21750,"date":"2010-09-27T08:25:26","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T12:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=21750"},"modified":"2012-02-29T14:51:42","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T19:51:42","slug":"spectacular-storrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2010\/09\/spectacular-storrs\/","title":{"rendered":"Spectacular Storrs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"<p>Jeremy<\/a>
Jeremy Teitelbaum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The dean of CLAS, a native of New York City and former resident of Chicago, touts the benefits of living in Storrs, Connecticut.<\/h3>\n

By Jeremy Teitelbaum, Dean<\/a>
\nCollege of Liberal Arts and Sciences<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat town is UConn in, anyway?\u201d is one of the most common questions I am asked when I speak to people who haven\u2019t spent time here on campus. \u201cIt\u2019s in Storrs,\u201d I tell them, \u201cthough there\u2019s not much there besides the University.\u201d And while the Mansfield Downtown Partnership<\/a> is working to create a college town next to the campus, in the meantime there is a kernel of truth to the cruel remark that \u201cStorrs\u201d should be called \u201cStore,\u201d because that\u2019s all the town really has.<\/p>\n

But who cares? The truth is that Eastern Connecticut<\/a> is a spectacular landscape of rolling hills, forests, rivers, and lakes. Those of us who live near UConn, in Mansfield, or Willington, or Coventry, or one of the other small towns in the area, drive to work or to the grocery store through one scene of natural wonder after another. On weekends, we have our choice of hundreds of different walks through woods<\/a> and by streams<\/a>, or up hills to lookouts<\/a> over the sparsely inhabited northeastern corner of the state, all within 15 or 20 minutes of our homes.<\/p>\n

\"<p>CLASA particular treat is the fact that we\u2019re far enough from big cities that we have a true, dark, night sky here. On moonless nights the Milky Way is clearly visible, and recently we\u2019ve had a truly spectacular view of the Moon and Jupiter. It\u2019s clear enough, and dark enough, that I can resolve Jupiter\u2019s moons with 8-power binoculars from my backyard. Unfortunately, I don\u2019t have the technology to take a proper picture of it.<\/p>\n

While each time of year has its particular charm, it\u2019s hard not to feel that right now is just about the most beautiful possible time of year \u2013 the trees have just begun to change, the light has a distinctly autumnal cast, and the temperature has started to really dip down in the evenings. I don\u2019t think John Keats ever made it to Connecticut in the fall, but he knew what he was talking about when he spoke \u201cTo Autumn<\/a>:\u201d<\/p>\n

Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
\nThink not of them, thou hast thy music too, \u2013
\nWhile barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
\nAnd touch the stubble plains with rosy hue.<\/p>\n

Since I carry my cell phone everywhere, and it has a camera in it, I collected some images of the walking trails in the area around this time of year and you can view them here<\/a>. I feel privileged to live in such a lovely part of the world.<\/p>\n

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Comments? Send them to: dean@clas.uconn.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has 23 departments in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences, ranging from physics to philosophy, and more than 15,000 students, 600 faculty, and 83,000 alumni. Check out our three initiatives: Health and Human Behavior<\/a>, the Environment<\/a>, and <\/em>Culture and Society<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Other CLAS Blog posts:<\/h4>\n

On Not Buying an iPad<\/a><\/p>\n

A Step Closer to Science Fiction?<\/a><\/p>\n

Academic Freedom Meets Freedom of Information<\/a><\/p>\n

Ambition and Intrigue in the Court of Henry VIII<\/a><\/p>\n

A Civil Conversation on Contentious Issues<\/a><\/p>\n

Academically Anchored<\/a><\/p>\n

Meditations on A(nother) Snow Day<\/a><\/p>\n

Coming to Grips with Climate Change<\/a><\/p>\n

Ideas — The Psychological Currency of the University<\/a><\/p>\n

‘Just Hire the Best’?<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>Will ‘Crowdsourcing’ Revolutionize Scholarship?<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>Hidden Symmetries<\/a><\/p>\n

Citizenship, Marriage, and Mosques: Problems in the Applied Humanities<\/a><\/p>\n

Of Deans and English Professors<\/a><\/p>\n

The Joys of Jamming<\/a><\/p>\n

Slick Calculations<\/a><\/p>\n

The Road to Agra<\/a><\/p>\n

UConn Over Yale and Other Tales from Jim Draper \u201941<\/a><\/p>\n

The Amazon, Avatar, and Smallpox<\/a><\/p>\n

The Value of Curiosity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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