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Judas Priest ’50 Heavy Metal Years’ Tour Comes to Wallingford
Yes, old school metalheads, you read the headline right: Judas Priest is turning fifty, and they’re still out on the road! After a summer spent touring Europe, the soon-to-be Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees continue their 50 Heavy Metal Years tour in North America, kicking things off on October 13th at the Toyota…
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K-Pop’s Obsession with Black Culture
This article is produced in collaboration between the Echo editorial board and our partners at the Clio History Journal. For more of their articles, click here. Edited by Alivia Stonier K-pop, a genre first popularized in South Korea, is known for synthesizing together many genres including R&B, Rock, Hip-Hop and more. Since…
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Archaeologists Uncover Ancient Hercules Statue in Northern Greece
This article is produced in collaboration between the Echo editorial board and our partners at the Clio History Journal. For more of their articles, click here. Archaeologists with the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki recently concluded their analysis of a Roman statue depicting Hercules they had found in modern Kavala,…
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Campus Power Outages Expected
Updated 3:55pm September 30th According to a statement relayed to students by email from the Office of Deanna Cibery-Schaab, Interim Chief Facilities Officer & Associate Vice President for Campus Planning, the university has been notified by Eversource, the local electrical power company, of power outages expected tomorrow, Saturday October 1st, between 8:00am and 4:00pm on…
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The Velvet Underground: A Forgotten Legacy
This article is produced in collaboration between the Echo editorial board and our partners at the Clio History Journal. For more of their articles, click here. Co-Written and Edited by Alivia Stonier In the beginning of their musical career, The Velvet Underground was perceived as a group of inappropriate misfits who could not find…
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Congresswoman Hayes Returns to WCSU for Interview with WXCI
As previously reported, Congresswoman Jahana Hayes visited Western Connecticut State University last semester as a guest lecturer for American Government. On September 7th, the congresswoman visited campus once more, conducting a live interview with our student radio station, WXCI 91.7 FM. There were a multitude of topics discussed by the representative and the interviewer, Evan…
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Queen Elizabeth II Dies
Buckingham Palace has just confirmed the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest reigning monarch in British history, at her Balmoral estate at age 96. BBC reports that she was comfortable and surrounded by family in her last moments. In a public statement Buckingham Palace said: “The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon. The…
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Scientists Found Lab Grown Cells Can Aid in Liver Shortage for Transplants
This article is produced in collaboration between the Echo editorial board and our partners at the Clio History Journal. For more of their articles, click here. Due to the ever-growing chronic liver shortage, researchers at the University of Cambridge’s Biomedical Research Center, were forced to look for new options to fix the liver transplant…
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