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FOI #24-404

Basketball Game Contracts

Name: Anthony Valentino

Affiliation: Withheld.

Location: UConn Storrs

Request Date Start: Withheld.

Request Date End: Withheld.

Details: Pursuant to Connecticut's Public Records laws, I’d like to request electronic copies of all non-conference game contracts and related addendums for the 2024-2025 season for the UConn men's basketball program. Thank you for your time, it is appreciated.

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FOI #24-402 (08-21-24, 12:58 pm)

MF030122-3

Name: John Boudreau

Affiliation: State of Connecticut Agency CT STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE - CAPITAL

Location: UConn Storrs

Request Date Start: 08/21/2024

Request Date End: 08/23/2024

Details: STATE CC- Capital Campus is undertaking a rebranding initiative and will be updating all campus signage. To help our campus facilitate this, could Uconn please provide the actual contract link or file for MF030122-3?
So that I may include this contract in my purchase requisition within the CSCU procurement system, which utilizes UCONN contracts to streamline some of our purchases.

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FOI #24-401

Police Report

Name: Carolynn Luzi

Affiliation: Esty & Buckmir, LLC

Location: UConn Storrs

Request Date Start: Withheld.

Request Date End: Withheld.

Details: Copy of the police/incident report regarding the accident that occurred on August 27, 2023.

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FOI #24-399

Withheld.

Name: Stephen Cyr

Affiliation: Derrevere Law

Location: UConn Storrs

Request Date Start: Withheld.

Request Date End: Withheld.

Details: Please accept this letter as our request for any and all records in your fiies related to a fire that occurred on April 21, 2024 involving the property located at 44 Avonwood Road, in Avon, Connecticut, including but not limited to reports, photographs, and video. This request is being made pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in anticipation of litigation. If you are investigating the above-referenced fire as potentially caused by arson, kindly include with your response your investigative file, including but not limited to any recommendation for criminal charges if applicable.

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FOI #24-398 (08-19-24, 10:27 am)

UConn and Unicor

Name: Ashad Hajela

Affiliation: Connecticut Public

Location: UConn Storrs

Request Date Start: 01/01/2021

Request Date End: 08/19/2024

Details: I am seeking copies of any and all communications from Jan 1, 2021-present, including emails and any attachments, between the University of Connecticut and Unicor/the Bureau of Prisons.

These should include emails from the domains @usdoj.gov or @bop.gov.

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FOI #24-396 (08-19-24, 6:45 am)

Defamation of Emma Roberts Following Her Decision to Attend Sarah Lawrence College When She Was 20 Years Old

Name: Michael Ayele (a.k.a) W

Affiliation: Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W ORCID.: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5780-6457

Location: UConn Storrs

Request Date Start: 02/10/2011

Request Date End: 08/19/2024

Details: What I am requesting for prompt disclosure are records in your possession detailing your discussions about [1] Emma Roberts as the founder of the book club Belletrist who has on (or around) July 05th 2024 (i) recognized that her professional career was very much adversely impacted by Internet trolls who wrote negative reviews (on the movie projects she worked on) solely for the purpose of perpetuating hate; (ii) condemned the culture of anonymous Internet trolling; [2] the decision of the Google and Bing/MSN Internet Search Engines (ISE) to very highly rank (and rate) a January 05th 2012 condescending, patronizing and sexist hit piece (i) whenever someone types in “Emma Roberts Sarah Lawrence College” and then presses the “Enter” keyboard; (ii) wherein Emma Roberts was referred to as an “entitled, smug little brat” for pursuing other endeavors rather than prioritizing her undergraduate academic career at Sarah Lawrence College (located in Bronxville, New York); (iii) that fails to deal with the freshmen undergraduate retention rate at Sarah Lawrence College during the time period Emma Roberts was a full-time undergraduate student; (iv) that fails to deal with the policies and procedures implemented by Sarah Lawrence College to provide a good and positive college experience to their freshmen undergraduate students for the purpose of improving their freshmen undergraduate retention rate; [3] the decision of the Bing/MSN ISE not to filter and distort the January 05th 2012 defamatory hit piece, which targeted Emma Roberts; [4] the strong likelihood that the January 05th 2012 misogynistic hit piece targeting Emma Roberts would have been called out if it had been directed at Taylor Swift; [5] the widespread May 2024 criticism, which had been directed at Kansas City Chief football player Harrison Butker following his decision to quote a Taylor Swift lyric during a speech he gave at Benedictine College (located in the Atchison, Kansas) where he went on to tell the graduates there that women should prioritize above everything else getting married and having children (after earning their Bachelor’s Degree); [6] DataCite Commons as a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) registering organization, which has on its official website (in the past) recognized that journal articles published or added on Figshare, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) – Zenodo, Open Science Framework (OSF) and ORCID “maximize their usefulness” when the data within is not modified “to make it false, incomplete, defamatory, or misleading;” [7] Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W as a Black Bachelor of Arts (B.A) Degree graduate of Westminster College (Fulton, Missouri) who was informed by CERN - Zenodo, Figshare and OSF that they could not make any guarantees on journal articles published on their platforms appearing “as is” on ISE such as AOL, Bing/MSN and Yahoo...

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FOI #24-395 (08-18-24, 2:18 pm)

email communications regarding Biology 1102

Name: Adam Fry

Affiliation: UConn

Location: UConn Storrs

Request Date Start: 07/01/2024

Request Date End: 08/16/2024

Details: Requesting all email communications between/among Pamela Diggle, John Cooley, and Elizabeth Jockusch that mention the words Biology / Biology 1102 / BIOL 1102 Lab Manual / 1102 / Lab / Lab 6 / Forensics / DNA / Bones / Adam / graduate assistants / content / or / Dr. Fry

Pamela.diggle@uconn.edu
John.cooley@uconn.edu
Elizabeth.jockusch@uconn.edu

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FOI #24-394 (08-18-24, 2:04 am)

Men's Basketball Game Contracts

Name: Alex Rosinski

Affiliation: Withheld.

Location: UConn Storrs

Request Date Start: Withheld.

Request Date End: Withheld.

Details: UCONN men's basketball non-conference game contracts for the 2024-25 season.

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FOI #24-393 (08-16-24, 6:50 pm)

Correspondence regarding FOI #24-052

Name: Student Student

Affiliation: Withheld.

Location: UConn Storrs

Request Date Start: 02/09/2024

Request Date End: Withheld.

Details: Correspondence to/from Radenka Maric, Michelle Williams, Anne D'Alleva, and/or Nathan Fuerst regarding FOI request #24-052 from 2/9/24-present.

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FOI #24-392 (08-16-24, 2:16 pm)

Email correspondence with and mentioning Steve Ginsburg

Name: Student Student

Affiliation: Withheld.

Location: UConn Storrs

Request Date Start: 10/01/2023

Request Date End: 08/16/2024

Details: Radenka Maric's email correspondence to, from, and mentioning Steve Ginsburg, Oct 1 2023 - present

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