This first issue of the Husky Handjob (February 23, 1969) was published to supply the UConn community with a “radical periodical,” as well as to address the university’s punitive treatment of politically active professors, including Jack Roach. Besides criticizing specific university administrators, the issue contains short articles and poems which reflect an anti-establishment and anti-war perspective. Some of the topics addressed concern UConn’s association with corporate interests, recruitment on campus, and the Vietnam War draft. Unapologetically critical and sarcastic, the issue demonstrates the concerns of students and faculty who saw their civil liberties as being encroached upon by the University’s President and Board of Trustees.
