Eastern students address problem gambling
By Caitlin Emma, The Daily Campus, April 29, 2010

When five social work students from Eastern Connecticut State University began an awareness campaign this spring about problem gambling, they soon learned that most students - themselves included - knew little about it. "I used to think, 'If you have a problem gambling, then that's your problem,'" said Amon Gitau, a junior and member of the college's Problem Gambling Awareness Task Group. "But I've learned so much."

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UConn slow to respond to growing gambling culture
By Jeremy Katz, The Daily Campus, April 28, 2010

An 18-year-old UConn student drives to Mohegan Sun, one of the two large casinos within an hour of the campus. He carries a Sun "Club Card" and fake ID, which he knows will get him onto the gaming floor. A 19-year-old UConn sophomore frequently enters online poker tournaments and wins big. He has made almost $175,000 gambling online in recent years, but has also had a single "downswing" of about $40,000. Several UConn students gather for a weekly poker game in the study lounge of a residence hall. The game is just one of many scattered about the campus, with buy-ins ranging from $5 to $200. These students, all of whom are male, offer a glimpse into what Barry Schreier, UConn's director of Counseling and Mental Health Services called "widespread" gambling at UConn that includes online poker and sports betting, and is magnified by the school's proximity to Connecticut's two casinos. Despite this growing gambling culture, UConn has been slow to respond with policies or student outreach.

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Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling Opposes Rell's Keno Proposal
by William Sokolic, Norwich Bulletin, May 29, 2009

Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s proposal to permit electronic keno games has resulted in an urgent call to step back and think twice, according to a release Friday from the Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling.

“The proposal is born of desperate thinking and is likely to create more problems than it solves,” the council says.

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A Lifetime of Losing
New Haven Register, Sunday, November 2, 2008
By Jim Shelton, Register Staff

Time was, a missed layup at Yale's Payne Whitney Gymnasium could send Leonard Grossman into a full-court rage.

It might have been understandable if Grossman was a player. But he wasn't. He was just a guy in the stands, trapped in a 50-year gambling addiction that started when he was a teenager and didn't stop until after he became a grandfather.

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Group to Push for Gambling Courts in Conn.
By Stephen Singer , Associated Press Writer
November 8, 2007

An advocacy group in Connecticut, home to two of the world's largest casinos, is pushing for new courts that would provide treatment rather than jail time for chronic gamblers charged with stealing to support their habits.

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Who Are The Gamblers?
Hartford Courant Editorial, July 30, 2007

The General Assembly has finally listened, but with only one ear. After years of delays, it has approved money for a study of gambling's effect on the state - but not enough money to yield useful data in the home of the two largest casinos in the world.

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