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College Sex Magazines Making Their Way Through Connecticut, Too

Brian Fairbanks — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:45:00 GMT

Wesleyan University-- notable for its beautiful campus, inspiring teaching staff, and carefully-cultivated crop of the generation's next leaders-- is about to be known mainly for having a sexy sex magazine filled with nude students and tips on buying condoms, among other "controversies."

The Hartford Courant looked at Unlocked's contents and came away with this impression:

Unlocked features photographs of naked and partly clothed Wesleyan students, campus sex polls, tutorials, articles, interviews with sex workers and counselors, and guides to condoms and sex shops.

Wesleyan students and faculty members have strained and broken sexual barriers before, with a course on pornography, student-hosted "moaning" sessions, a "gender blind" dormitory and a "queer prom," among other initiatives. [Courant.com]

We've located an original ad, which really makes us want to check this out. They seem to actually, honestly want "all shapes and sizes" (unlike Craig's List ads, which claim to want that, but end up only choosing too-skinny female models.)

WE WANT YOU
Thats right folks, Unlocked (the Wesleyan Sex magazine) is looking for models. We're looking for every possible gender, body type and sexual expression. Photo shoots may be explicitly sexual, rabidly political, or just fun and hilarious. Do it alone. Do it with a friend. Do it with a fuck buddy. Do it with your future partner for life. All you need is a sense of humor and a willingness to do something a little wild, and if you're not comfortable with what we propose, you can tell us to go fuck off.

If you're interested, email unlockedmag@gmail and yes, you can be totally anonymous if you'd like. [Wesleying]

Ben Kuller and Yannick Bindert, both of next year's graduating class, thought Wesleyan was "due for a good dose of artistic sexual expression in the print format." Hear, hear.

Their next issue will be out sometime this spring and we'll try to obtain a full-color copy. Via The Hartford Courant.

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Brian Fairbanks — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:52:00 GMT

Katie Rees, Miss Nevada USA 2007, who was stripped of her crown following this and other "scandalous photos"

Let me tell you something about Hartford, Connecticut, the city, I, Scanner Brian was born in.

Actually, better yet, let's not tell you anything about Hartford, Connecticut, because it would just be a waste of space after you read this story. Anything I tell you about Hartford will be brutally shoved aside after you read about one 17-year-old Miss Connecticut Outstanding Teen, a volunteer with Mothers Against Drunk Dumbasses, decided to do with her Saturday night when her parents went out of town.

If you think it's entertain little orphan boys with stories from award-winning children's authors, well...

Rachael Ramonas competed in the Miss America's Outstanding Teen competition in Florida this past summer, returning home without the ultimate title. Perhaps she was disappointed by her defeat and decided that, instead of continuing to volunteer with MADD, she would stop being an Outstanding Teen the minute her parents left her goody-two-shoes self at home for the weekend.

On Saturday night, cops arrested two dozen underage drinkers at the home of Miss Ramonas. Reports indicate that most of the kids were beyond wasted-- although, since Ramonas is a juvenile, cops can't say whether she was one of them, or even if she was arrested at all. According to this source:

Officers responding to an anonymous call about underage drinking Saturday night found beer, rum and items commonly used for a drinking game called beer pong. [AP News]

Luckily, no one was arrested for DWI's, so there's at least that bit of sanity... although we doubt she could've kept an eye on all 24-plus peeps who had vehicles to make sure they didn't further embarrass her or reveal some sort of "hypocrisy."

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Today in the Apocalypse: Hartford Hit And Run

Brian Fairbanks — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:30:00 GMT

We aren't kidding when we say this will mess with your head.

Has anyone ever seen The Death of Mr. Lazarescu? It's an amazing, very, very dark "comedy" about a man who is ill and tries to seek medical treatment, only to be delayed, denied, and dead by the end of the film. (If anyone thinks we're giving away anything, they obviously did not read the name of the film carefully.)

This police surveillance video depicts what is clearly one of the craziest examples of (in)humanity ever documented in the YouTube era and a real-life Lazarescu moment...

After a seventy-eight-year-old man was hit by one of two street racers driving erratically on the wrong side of the road.

Pedestrians gawk but do nothing. One driver stops briefly but then pulls back into traffic. A man on a scooter slowly circles the victim before zipping away.
The victim, Angel Arce Torres, was in critical condition in Hartford Hospital. Authorities say he is paralyzed.

See the three-minute video, which ends with the police finally responding to the scene... by coincidence only, having been on another call...

Via WTIC and Hartford Police.