QUChronicle.com February 26, 2014 Volume 83 Issue 20 Proud recipient of the New England Society of Newspaper Editors' award for 2012 & 2013 College Newspaper of the Year
ARTS & LIFE Late-night show hits campus, pages 8-9
OPINION Don’t stop the presses, page 6
SPORTS Men’s lacrosse ready for MAAC, page 16
Flames engulf Aspen Glen building
Three hospitalized, university accomodates displaced students By STAFF REPORTS
A fire broke out at Building 3 in the Aspen Glen apartments Monday night, sending three people to the hospital for precautionary purposes, according to Hamden Fire Chief David Berardesca. The Hamden Fire Department do not know if the hospitalized residents were students. The residents of 308 Aspen Glen Drive alerted the Hamden Fire Department of the blaze, which affected three floors in Building 3, according to the Hamden Fire Department. “This fire was serious in a number of respects,” Berardesca said. “Mostly because of the life hazard that we were dealing with. We had a number of tenants in the building. Fortunately the fire alarm system notified them and they all got out without any injuries.” The cause of the fire is still unknown. ”There was so much heavy fire there,” Berardesca said. “It is hard to really pinpoint a cause without really digging through everything.” The department was notified of the fire at 11:07 p.m. and arrived at the scene at 11:11 p.m., according to Berardesca. “That took them only four minutes to get there, which is just outstanding,” he said. All visible fire had been knocked down as of 11:53 p.m., according to Berardesca. As of 12:02 a.m. Tuesday, the Hamden Fire Department determined the scene was under control, according to the National Emergency Alerts. Twenty-three Hamden firefighters were on the scene. The final unit was cleared from the scene at 2:54 a.m. “Our firefighters did an outstanding job and we are proud of their efforts,” Berardesca said. “There was a lot of fire in this particular incident and they did an excellent stop on the fire.” Aspen Glen resident Joe Contini, who lived in the complex for two and a half years, had his apartment destroyed by the fire. “I went out on my balcony and saw the flames shooting up so I picked up my dog and I ran,” he said. Seniors Theo Siggelakis, Chris Koop, Taylor West and Kathryn LeMonda live in See FIRE Page 4
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Twenty-three firefighters were called to Aspen Glen apartments Monday night after a fire broke out in Building 3. Three people were hospitalized and many residents were displaced.
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Leaks were found on some buildings on campus last week due to melting snow; however, most of the leaks are now under control, according to Associate Vice President for Facilities Operations Keith Woodward. “When you have this much snow and then you get the melting, I mean, it’s almost a normal course of action,” Woodward said. Facilities will continue to fix problems
caused by melting snow around campus. “The roof leaks will be looked at once the snow is off the roofs,” Woodward said. “And the facilities staff can move around safely on the roof and with clear line of sight to the areas that have reported leaks.” Snow came through one of the HVAC units in the Athletic Center, Woodward said. The roof leaked in the faculty office building and the Crescent residence hall. Students in two apartments in the Hill residence hall also ex-
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perienced leaks, according to Woodward. Sophomore Anne Noordsy lives in one of the apartments in Hill where melting snow flooded the floor in her common room. “We called facilities and they took forever to get back to us,” Noordsy said. “All the workers at the same time were on their dinner break and you know all our parents were calling, like, ‘You need to go to our daughters’ room and fix this. This is not good.’” Facilities fixed the problem in Hill over the
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course of a few days, according to Noordsy. “When [facilities] got there they just were pretty rude,” she said. “I don’t think they were working to fix the problem immediately.” There was a hole in the fascia board in Hill, which caused the leaking, Woodward said. Facilities closed the hole with a temporary fix, he said. Over spring break or the summer, facilities will put a permanent fix on the hole
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STUDENTS SPEAK UP
By AMANDA HOSKINS Photography by KATIE O’BRIEN Design by HANNAH SCHINDLER AND MATT EISENBERG
The Chronicle asked students what their thoughts were on the snow cleanup by Facilities over the past few weeks. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Katherine Rojas
Devon Toews | Freshman
SENIOR MANAGING EDITOR Matt Eisenberg
“There are a couple main pathways that are a little icy sometimes, but the roads seem to be fine. They cleared those pretty quickly.”
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“The only thing that isn’t clear is the bridge near Hep Creek. It is right by our dorm so we have to walk over it everyday and it is never cleared.”
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Caitie Nesi | Sophomore
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“My roommate fell on her tailbone and had to get an X-ray and stuff. Right near New Village, there was a huge sheet of black ice, and we told them it needed salt and she fell straight on her tailbone.”
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Amy Pannesco | Senior “I feel like the sidewalks and everything are always cleaned up and always in a very fast manner because we always have school the next day.”
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Beyond the Bobcats
By Amanda Hoskins A rundown on news outside the Quinnipiac campus
Study abroad student found dead in Rome
Drug lord captured after decade
Army to face potential reduction
It was confirmed on Saturday that 21-yearold John Durkin, a Bates College student who was studying abroad in Italy, was found dead, according to NBC Connecticut. The undergraduate, who went missing on Thursday after going out with friends in Rome, was found dead in a train tunnel. Durkin was a linebacker on the Bates football team and was selected with six others to study in Rome through a Trinity College program. The death is still being investigated, according to NECN; however, police say the death is not suspicious.
The world’s most wanted drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was captured over the weekend after being found in a beach-side condo tower in Mexico. Wire tapes and informants played a role in the finding of Guzman. The DEA, U.S. Immigration and Mexican officials worked together to track Guzman down at the condo. The U.S. attorney general says Guzman can be connected to the death of millions. Federal prosecutors are pushing to have Guzman transferred to face trials in the United States, but some believe he should be trialed in Mexico because he killed many on Mexican soil, according to CNN.
The Department of Defense will potentially be cutting down the size of the U.S. army, making it smaller than prior to WWII. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced the possible proposal of the reduction, according to The New York Times. Due to new technology in the past decades, the Pentagon says it does not need the same high numbers. Possible cuts will be made in weapon spending and personnel. This proposal is expected to be extremely controversial in Congress, according to CNN, due to questions being raised with politics and national security.
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Professor: leaks ‘seem to be a common problem’ FACILITIES from cover and check the other rooms to make sure there are no other holes. “If it could happen there I guess it could happen other places,” Woodward said. “So we want to make sure that we’re doing our due diligence and checking other spots to make sure it’s not going to happen there.”
“When you have this much snow and then you get the melting, I mean, it’s almost a normal course of action.” – KEITH WOODWARD
ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT FOR FACILITIES OPERATIONS Noordsy said nothing in her suite was damaged. “I was just afraid that [my suitemates’] ceiling downstairs was going to collapse,” she said. “Our RHD was like ‘You may have to move out because it isn’t really safe,’ so I didn’t want to have to do that. So it was just kind of stress on top of schoolwork and everything.” On the sixth floor of Crescent, water is leaking from the ceiling in the hallway. Facilities has set up a trash bag and and trash can to
collect the water. Junior Rachel Guketlov lives next door to the leaking ceiling in Crescent. “I was in the study room and I walked out and I see literally water everywhere and I was really confused,” Guketlov said. Guketlov said there have not been any damages to her room. “As long as [the water’s] not coming into our room,” she said. “If it was coming into our room, we probably would have complained more.” There are a couple stains in the ceiling of the Faculty Office Building because of leaks caused by melting snow, according to Director of the Interactive Media Program Phillip Simon, whose office is in the building. “It seems to be a common problem,” Simon said. “I know they’ve been on the roof looking at it and I think facilities is well aware of the problem. It’s a flat roof and flat roofs are hard.” The leaks are mainly in the hallway, according to Simon. Simon said he is “lucky” melting snow has never leaked into his office. The Facilities Department is doing its best to minimize the leaks around campus, Woodward said. “We can get up on the roof to clean out the roof drains to make sure all the water is draining to the proper locations,” he said. “If the water enters the building, we need to go into the building and evaluate the situation, try to make the repairs that we can inside the building.”
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After the ceiling in the sixth floor of Crescent residence hall leaked last week, the Facilities Department set up a trash can and plastic bag to catch the water.
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Washington DC program info session Students can attend an information session this Thursday for Quinnipiac’s Washington D.C. program on from noon to 2 p.m. in the Arnold Bernhard Library room 142. The program gives students the opportunity to take classes and intern in Washington D.C. The program is welcome to students in any major.
Health Center gives tips to avoid stomach virus
The Health Center warned students about the stomach virus last week. The stomach virus is contagious and causes vomiting and diarrhea. The virus is spread through oral contact and through sharing toilets with infected students. To keep from getting sick, Student Health Services advises students to wash their hands, stay hydrated and avoid using the same toilet as a sick person. Students can visit the Health Center if they do not feel well.
Quinni-Con approaches The Anime Club will host QuinniCon this weekend at the Rocky Top Student Center, a convention which celebrates Japanese culture, art, film, food and anime. Students and visitors can enjoy movie screenings, dances and guest speakers. Mike Pollock, PurpleEyesWTF, Chris Patton, Mike and Jessi, 501st Legion, Crunk Witch, Rusty Gilligan and Jim Taylor are among the guests coming to the convention. The event is free, but donations will go to the Child’s Play Charity.
Student to participate in play festival
Theater students will travel to New York city on Thursday to participate in the first New Play Festival with the Abingdon Theater Company. The students will rehearse in New York for four days until they perform on March 1. The students submitted 30 original plays to the Abingdon Theater in September, and the theater chose seven plays which will be performed. The students will direct, perform, stage manage, and create costumes and props for the plays. Students have worked with the Abingdon Theater Company before when the group visited the university and held workshops for students.
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SALT program helps dissolve student loans By JULIA PERKINS News Editor
Students can learn how to be financially responsible through the online program SALT, according to Dominic Yoia, associate vice president and university director of financial aid. The financial aid office partnered with the American Student Assistance (ASA) to bring the SALT program, which launched last Wednesday, to the university, according to Yoia. ASA has 220 other clients who use SALT, Yoia said. “It’s all for the benefit of the student,” he said. “It’s about educating the student with real-world lessons and possibly minimizing their loan debt, so when they graduate making those loan payments is much more manageable.” The university signed a twoyear contract with ASA for $10,000 for the program, which is free for students, according to Yoia. This money comes from the financial aid office’s budget, he said. “It just seemed like the pric-
ing was more than fair for what we were looking to do,” Yoia said. “It was a product that we felt we needed and requested actually last year an additional amount to be awarded in our institutional aid budget to cover that product.” The SALT program is designed to educate students through every step in their college careers, so they are not surprised by how much money they have borrowed at graduation, he said. “As a 17-year-old student, you come to college [and] you sign whatever your parents put in front of you,” Yoia said. “We’re trying to provide an ongoing education, so that they are fully aware of what they are doing and how much they are borrowing and what their rights and responsibilities are and what it’s going to cost and how to borrow responsibly.” Freshman Elizabeth Bartilucci said she is worried about paying her student loans back. “I think [the university] could make us more aware of what is going to happen or what we are going
to have to pay off once we graduate,” she said. “Right now it’s in the back of our heads, but it’s not, like, real.” Bartilucci said SALT is a “step in the right direction” to teach students about these issues. Freshman Rob Devine said he is a little nervous about paying back his student loans. “It’s going to be a lot of money,” he said. “But I just hope I find a good job out of college to help pay that back.” The program does not just teach about student loans. SALT also has information on credit card management, internships, job searching and interview tips, Yoia said. “Obviously the interview gets you the job,” he said. “The job gives you the ability to pay back your loans, so it’s all kind of connected.” The messages students receive from SALT will be targeted depending on their year. “Seniors might be getting information on loan repayment, job searches,” Yoia said. “And freshmen might be getting information about credit card debt and borrow-
ing responsibly and so forth.” The financial aid office has been working with the ASA for about a year to customize the product for Quinnipiac, according to Yoia. The university eliminated some aspects of the program. “We didn’t feel it was necessary to keep engaging students 10 years past their graduation date,” Yoia said. “We wanted to use this strictly for financial literacy education while you’re with us for four years.” The university will have a better idea of the number of students who have signed up and the success of the program in the early summer, according to Yoia. The financial aid office will be promoting SALT through social media, posters, emails, the Student Government Association, Residential Life and Student Affairs, according to Yoia. “It’s not just a financial aid product,” he said. “It’s paralleling the university learning paradigm where learning does go on outside the classroom.”
Berardesca: ‘Firefighters did an outstanding job’ FIRE from cover apartments affected by the fire. Siggelakis was hanging out in his room, about to relax and play guitar, when he heard the fire alarm in the hallway. Siggelakis did not smell smoke and thought it was just a false alarm, he said. Siggelakis said he put on a sweatshirt and moccasins and only had enough time to grab his keys, leaving his wallet and cellphone accidentally. Siggelakis said he felt pretty calm once he got outside. “I was thinking, ‘I’m safe;’ I was checking to see if the people around me were safe,” he said. “They got us confirmation pretty quick that everybody was accounted for, very relieving, and then I went and started talking to people, see who I could use their phone to contact my parents and contact friends to pick me up so I could find a place to stay.” David Kim, an Aspen Glen resident who moved to the complex in July, had just finished studying when he saw the fire. “I looked outside my window and then there was flames on the side of the building,” he said. “I just evacuated everyone that I could. They said the ceiling might collapse right now, so that’s why we had to get our stuff out.. … It was crazy. … I didn’t have time to think. It was just instincts kicked in.” The fire continued to grow as he stood outside, Siggelakis said. “The wind blew it all around and it was hard for the firefighters to get to the hose because it was blocked by snow,” he said. “But actually their response time was very quick. They really handled it very well. I was impressed. For a huge fire, it got out rather quickly.” Siggelakis stayed at Aspen Glen until about 1:30 a.m., thinking he may be allowed to go back to his room. He spent the night in his friend’s suite on York Hill, he said. Many residents were displaced
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Once firefighters arrived at Aspen Glen, it took them approximately 51 minutes to put the fire under control. Firefighters arrived to the scene at 11:11 p.m. Monday and the last unit left the scene at 2:54 a.m. Tuesday. immediately following the fire and the Red Cross was alerted, according to Hamden Police Sgt. Michael Cirillo. The Red Cross and Aspen Glen Management took care of the approximately 25 residents from Building Three who stayed at Aspen Glen, according to Berardesca. Hamden Fire Department does not know when residents will be allowed back into Building Three, according to Berardesca. “There is going to be a lot of demolition involved with a good portion of the building,” he said. “A lot of folks in the building will be able to go back into the building and retrieve many of their items.” Siggelakis went back to his room Tuesday to get his belongings. “My apartment was minimally damaged, just some water damage, mostly in the kitchen,” he said. “I’m in the process of finding where I’m going to stay for the next week, but Aspen Glen says they could have me back in the room by Saturday,
so they’ve handled it really well too. It’s a hard situation for anybody to handle.” Kim said his apartment has water damage, smoke damage and a little fire damage. Contini, however, said it will be months before he can move into his apartment again. “They say it is uninhabitable,” he said. “But most of my stuff, I think besides being smoky, is OK…They are going to talk to us tomorrow about possibly renting another apartment in here.” The university offered to temporarily host students who do not have a place to stay in York Hill, according to Associate Vice President for Public Relations John Morgan. “We want to help those students who have been displaced because we are a student-centered university,” Morgan said. “And we want to do everything we can to help them make it through this difficult period.” The university has space for 25
students, but as of Tuesday afternoon, only three students have requested housing. “We expect to hear from more students as the day goes on,” Morgan said. “As students return to their units and find that either they can’t get in or there is too much water or smoke damage for them to live there.” There are 443 units in the entire Aspen Glen complex, according to Alex Stanco, a worker at Aspen Glen. Stanco estimates about 65 people live in Building Three. Senior Emily Ott, who also lives in Aspen Glen, responded to a woman who was evacuated from the building. “My friend called me and we ran to the porch and saw [the fire] and immediately grabbed all our coats and boots and any blankets and ran outside,” Ott said. “When we ran out we heard people screaming. It was terrifying.” Aspen Glen would not comment on the fire.
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Students ‘wear the world’ with Serengetee By SARAH DOIRON Staff Writer
The clothing company and philanthropic organization Serengetee is beginning to make an appearance on campus as four students become representatives for the company. The students’ goal is to sell Serengetee products to change the world, according to the company’s website. With more than 168,000 supporters, the company hires college students who promote the company as campus representatives through social media and wearing the products, according to junior marketing major and campus representative Meghan Curley. “I love to travel and to see something while traveling and being able to preserve that memory for other people is important to me,” Curley said. “Knowing that the money from buying clothing from [Serengetee] is going toward that is something I am passionate about.” Serengetee started when three college students traveled the world during the Semester at Sea study abroad program and launched the company to provide an easy way for college students to make a donation to various causes, such as the environment and poverty relief. “Serengetee really appealed to me because it’s a company started and run by college students,” junior public relations major and campus representative Melissa Chighisola said. “These guys created a job and
a life for themselves while still in college, which is really remarkable and something we all are hoping for but don’t always have the direction.” The company sells different articles of clothing, such as Tshirts, backpacks and shorts that have various fabrics with colorful designs from different countries around the world. Since its launch in 2012, Serengetee has raised more than $52,000. Each fabric is teamed up with a cause that is located in the same region, according to the Serengetee Facebook page. Five percent of the purchases then goes back to that area of the world, according to sophomore sociology major and campus representative Alexandra Mason. The website uses the slogan “Wear the World” to represent the various fabrics and styles from all around the globe. “It’s mostly going around on campus promoting their clothing,” Curley said. “Whether that is just bringing it up in conversation or wearing the shirt and having people comment on the design.” Mason said after finding out about the company through social media, she was excited to apply to be a campus representative. “[Serengetee] supports 32 different causes and you can see the positive change in each that the company has on that cause,” Mason said. “By only spending around $25, you know that that money is going
someplace that needs it.” Mason said social media plays a key role in promotion of the company; however, wearing the clothes is it is an important aspect, as well. “I have worn my Serengetee a few times this semester and it really sparks conversation,” Mason said. “It’s not like any other shirt I have seen people wear.” Mason believes there is a unique story behind every article of Serengetee clothing and it gives meaning to the clothing rather than “just wearing a shirt.” “You can have interesting things, but to have a story behind it is even better,” Mason said. “It’s the fact that you can say that this shirt is helping an organization that helps this area or region half way across the world.” Curley said Serengetee is a perfect opportunity for students on campus to get a hand in what [Serengetee] is trying to accomplish. “As small as Quinnipiac is, I think we have that common personality of all wanting to do big things and I think the general population would promote Serengetee,” Curley said. Sophomore health sciences major and campus representative Tyler Droste said Quinnipiac students love to give back to the community in unique ways. “[Serengetee] has a variety of styles and shirts that would appeal to college students,” Droste said. “It gives people a good feeling that
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Sophomore Tyler Droste, a Serengetee campus representative, says the brand has appealing clothes students would wear. the money is not just going to the company, but it is going to a cause greater than itself.” Mason said the campus representatives are trying to work together to set up a table in the student center with facts on Serengetee and discount codes for purchases.
“It’s just a really neat way to help people across the globe without having to leave where you are,” Mason said. “If you don’t give back then, in the end, what is the point? I think that you have been given so much that you should at least try to give back to others who need the help.”
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During my first semester at Quinnipiac in he sought to emphasize. He would explain the fall of 2012, I decided to enroll myself in things in layman’s terms, making sure that an entry-level history course. he was clearly being understood. He Signing up for “The U.S. Since made 6:30 p.m. to 9:10 p.m. every Reconstruction” may have seemed to Thursday go by far too fast. make little sense at the time, given I took another history course that I already planned to pursue a during my freshman year, and career in journalism. History had enjoyed that as well. Last senothing to do with my print journalmester, I was fortunate enough ism major, but I figured I would give to land a spot in another one of his the class a shot. courses. It was my third hisIt was one of the best tory class in three semesdecisions I’ve made in ters. Just like that, I had my time at Quinnipiac. found my minor. Part of me reasoned Nowadays I get surthat history wouldn’t be prising looks when I tell so bland at a college levpeople that I am a history el, while another part had minor. To other students, NICK SOLARI just gotten fed up with the to friends and even to famAssociate Sports Editor @ns0lar1 frustration that came with learnily, the idea of minoring in history ing how to sign up for classes via when I plan to make a career in MyQ. sports journalism seems pointless. It just so happened that the history lecI’m here to tell you that they’re wrong ture I had signed up for, in part out of los- and that it’s OK to minor in something that ing my patience, was my favorite class. My has nothing to do with your major. professor was extremely compelling, making Most people view a minor as an oppora topic that I was already drawn toward even tunity to acquire another skill pertinent to more interesting. your desired career. While it can surely be He would pace around the class as he used as so, there are other purposes a minor talked, raising his voice on certain points can serve.
For myself, minoring in something totally unconnected to my major served as a captivating learning experience. I looked forward to going to class when I had a history course. It also made me different, unusual in a good way. In an interview for an internship, I was recently asked why I had chosen such a minor, given my professional goals. My response sufficed the interviewer. More importantly, though, it made me stand out. I’m not the only one of my kind, truth be told. Emily Hauser is a senior media studies major, but is minoring in anthropology. She finds it to be a wonderful combination in many ways. Hauser interned for the National Archives in Washington D.C. this past summer, where most of the other students she was interning with studied history, she said. “They hired me because I was diverse,” Hauser said. “I had other interests than history that applied to the job, which really benefited me.” So regardless of what you plan on doing after your time in college, know that your minor doesn’t need to correspond with your major. Minoring in something else can benefit you in many ways. And if you so choose to do so, you’re not the only one.
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Negative university news shouldn’t be censored By choosing to go to a private university, students give up some of their rights our peers at public colleges and universities may have. For example, students do not have the right to privacy if Public Safety needs to search their rooms for drugs or alcohol. “The University, its officers, employees and agents have the right to enter an assigned room,” the student handbook says. “With or without notice for the purpose of inspection and repair, preservation of health, safety, quietude, recovery of Universityowned property and/or for suspected policy violations.” This makes sense because it is both a legal and safety issue. Students are living on private university property and the university has the right to enforce the law by ensuring underage students do not possess alcohol or dangerous illegal drugs. However, this does not mean members of the university community should have the right to limit students’ freedom of speech or press. Last Thursday, I distributed issue 19 of The Chronicle in Echlin Center. When I entered the building, I saw many families and prospective students milling around, getting ready to tour the campus. I walked down the hallway, placing the papers on tables and offering them to prospective students. When I turned around, I noticed a student, wearing one of the blue blazers tour guides sometimes wear, picking up the newspapers I just scattered around the building. I approached her and asked if she planned to give those out to the prospective students individually. She told me her superiors in the
admissions office had asked her to pick up which states marijuana is the most common the papers. The admissions office did not drug on campus. It could taint students’ want the tours to see the newspaper because image of the university. it had the word “marijuana” on the cover, But it is more important for the university she said. to provide a quality education and The admissions office keeps The experience for students today, than Chronicle behind the main desk it is to create a sugar-coated image and gives the paper to prospective for people who might come here students if they ask for it, the more than a year from now. student said. One way for the university A male worker came out of to offer a better quality of life the office and suggested we leave and education for students the newspaper facedown, is to promote freedom hiding the article on the of the press for media university’s illegal drug organizations. policy. When The When The Chronicle publishes Chronicle decided to articles like the story publish the article on on illegal drugs, the JULIA PERKINS the university’s illegal university should News Editor drug policy on the cover, we were be proud that the university’s @Shazam7986 not thinking, “Let’s put this abovejournalism program is teaching us to the-fold because it will make the university investigate what is really going on around look bad.” We were thinking, “This is campus, even if it might upset people. My important information students could benefit journalism classes have taught me the role from knowing or find interesting.” of the press is to inform people and be a Likewise, the admissions office probably check on the government. The role of The was not thinking, “Let’s censor The Chronicle is to do the same, but for the Chronicle by taking away its papers,” when Quinnipiac community. workers picked up the issues that day. A high school junior or senior considering But it is censorship all the same. Quinnipiac’s journalism program could Even though single copies of The have looked at a copy of The Chronicle and Chronicle are free, stealing multiple copies realized the School of Communications is of the newspaper is a crime (see disclaimer teaching students to be real journalists. This on page 2). This prevents students, faculty, could have made the student want to apply staff and prospective students from learning here. But if the prospective student could not what is going on in the campus community. see the newspaper because the admissions I understand why the admissions office office hid it from Echlin Center, he or she does not want high school students who are would never get the chance to see the real considering Quinnipiac to read a headline positive side of Quinnipiac.
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Requirements for your resume The job hunt begins with just about 80 days until graduation. Seniors, in addition to your thesis or capstone project, it’s time to work on your resume. In the words of Professor Joseph Catrino, “Your resume is never done.” Research shows employers spend about six seconds looking at your resume. That means your resume needs to look the most attractive to catch their eye. Some people like to add graphic design or color to their resume. Whatever you do, you need to remain professional. The Chronicle met with Catrino for a resume workshop before the spring semester began, and most of us were freshmen and sophomores. That shows you it’s never too early to start your resume. It’s important to have a resume ready as a college student; you’ll never know who you’ll meet here with all the lectures and networking events the university hosts. That’s why getting involved on campus is
important, so you’ll have something on your that happened this past weekend, honor resume. Employers want to see that societies you’re a part of, awards you’ve you take on opportunities to become received, relevant courses or volunteer a leader or a team player. That way experience. you can share examples to support You want your versatile your answers in job interviews. experience to appear on your Getting involved can also give resume, but you should also you hands-on experience where have different versions of the you can learn more than in document. Many jobs look for the classroom. Knowing specific things that may and hearing about how to differ from one another. deal with conflict in a With that, you must workplace is different have a resume that’s than having actual right for that job. experience. Having Maybe your volunteer these experiences gives experience only fits for you the upper hand in a certain job application, Katherine Rojas problem solving. then you’ll have to Editor in Chief Organizations are not the only remove it from your resume for @kathyreds thing you need to add to your other job applications. That’s a resume. You can also add conferences you’ve good thing. You can then expand on your other attended, like the Leadership Conference qualifications.
Resumes need to tell employers what you’re capable of. Thus, you have to explain and support your experiences with description. For instance, instead of just listing different positions you had in an organization, bullet point what you did for each position using active verbs, but keeping it concise. Catrino recommends you use the description and wording on the job application and show how you embody them. If you’re not sure where to start, Catrino recommends you start with a traditional layout for your first resume, keeping it to one page. Find the right format for you. You must master that first and build from there. However, he suggests you don’t use a Word template because it’s hard to edit and some may expire. Finally, a way to stand out is by making your name known. Your name must stand out the most at around 16-point-font size, as the largest font size and on the top of your resume, according to Catrino.
WISE WORDS FROM AN ALMOST ADULT
How to overcome body image issues It’s no surprise this country has a huge problem with body image. People are constantly being bombarded with images of unrealistic bodies in advertisements, social media and other channels. Women not only have to have Kate Upton’s breasts, Kim Kardashian’s booty, the face of Angelina Jolie and the perfect thigh gap which only the former CEO of LuLu Lemon would approve of. Men also face the same abuse, whether it is reality TV featuring roided out showoffs or H&M underwear commercials with super-lean David Beckham. Whether or not you admit to it, it hurts your ego to see these perfect specimens on ads telling you that you aren’t good enough to get the guy/girl, the job or any other of your goals. We live in a society where it is normal to see a girl in elementary school start a diet or a pre-pubescent boy start lifting weights before their body has yet to grow. According to an anonymous eating disorder specialist, 98 percent of women have eating disorder tendencies (i.e. food
rituals, constricting diets, calorie counting, excessive exercise etc.) and 50 percent of those are under the age of 18. In lieu of Eating Disorder Awareness Week, I want to shed some insight on how to overcome body image issues and become more body positive.
1. Don’t fat talk/body talk
2. Don’t let anyone bring you down There will always be someone at Toad’s or Aunchie’s who will sit back and criticize people for their appearance. They do not know how incredible of a person you are, and they clearly never received a type of love that allowed them to see beyond the skin. You should feel sorry for the haters. A great piece of advice I heard from the beautiful model Dita Von Teese is “You may be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world and there’s still going to be somebody who doesn’t like peaches.”
It does not matter if it is your best friend, your brother or your mom, the second someone starts discussing their own weight or someone else’s weight in a negative light, you leave the room. 3. Look at the greatness in things Some of the reasons why people become obsessive over their weight I have big, meaty thighs, a rounded (or, worse, develop an eating disorder) stomach and a pretty large derriere. I is because at a very young age they know these things, I have lived with overheard their parents talking them forever. Instead of looking at ANNA WAGNER Staff Writer negatively about their weight or my thighs and thinking “Jeez, why @AnnaKatWagner their appearance. Don’t tolerate it, isn’t there a gap there?” I think don’t be around it or change the topic. “Wow, look what they can do!” My thighs
are not here for show, they are not here to entertain others, they are strong and powerful.
4. You’re more than appearances Our bodies are not just our temples, they are our boiler rooms, our electricity plants, our well-oiled machines that can do anything we want them to. Our bodies are just vessels to carry who we really are. When you die and your grandkids say the eulogy, they aren’t going to say “Well… Grandpa had amazing abs when he was 20!” No! They are going to say how loving, smart and kind you are. Beauty is not everything. What matters most is the legacy you leave behind, not how good you looked when you were younger. Our experiences are what make us fulfilled humans. Before you talk fat, skip meals or tell that girl at the club that she is frumpy, think and understand how it affects people. Body image acceptance is not easy. It took me more than eight years to truly find peace with my body and there are still ups and downs. Just remember, you are truly magnificent.
Anna Wagner is a senior public relations major who strives not to be a hot mess. Her columns discuss the trials and tribulations of college life with tips and tricks to get you through.
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LATE NIGHT LAUGHS Kevin Carroll teams up with Q30 to create Quinnipiac’s first late-night show
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evin Carroll stands atop the piazza of the Carl Hansen Student Center. Sporting a pinstripe black suit and a pair of charcoal and neon green suede dress shoes, Carroll surveys the crowd. It’s certainly at capacity, with all 55 chairs filled and additional students standing about. A voice takes over the student center speaker system. It beams, “Live from the piazza at Quinnipiac University, it’s ‘Late Night with Kevin Carroll!’” Carroll runs down the piazza steps, pumping his arms before grabbing the microphone, to a cheering crowd. It’s all-routine for the senior. Carroll, who has been involved in comedy since he was 14, is about to put on his fifth show of “Late Night,” a program that launched October 2012. It wasn’t always this way, though. Just like his comedy career, the show began with a desire and a dream. *** It’s his freshman year of high school and a younger Carroll is walking down the halls of St. John’s Prep in Danvers, Mass. The Melrose native had just enrolled in the school after spending his entire life in the public system. Carroll’s mother, Kim, thought public schooling wasn’t the best option going forward, and it was time for a change. “My mom felt like I wasn’t getting what I needed from there,” he said. “It wasn’t a great school, and I was kind of coasting.” After enrolling at St. John’s Prep, Carroll felt lost and out of touch with his friends from home. Only in his first year of high school, he was without a license and a car. “Even the friends that I made there, couldn’t really hang out with them after school cause I had no way of getting there,”
Carroll said. Carroll’s mother pushed her son to get involved. Originally, he intended to join drama guild as a member of a stage crew, even though it didn’t appeal to him. “I went down to do that, just on a whim,” Carroll said. “I never really had any particular interest in it.” After walking to the club’s office, Carroll discovered it was closed. Yet across the hall, he noticed a black-box theater with an improv group practicing at the time. “I caught one of the jokes and I peeked inside,” Carroll said. Standing in the doorway to the theater, Carroll watched as the group went through its act, parts of which made him laugh. Noticing Carroll, the group motioned for him to participate as an audience member. Audience members, according to Carroll, “come up with new ideas or concepts for scenes.” Carroll immediately took an interest in the group, attending weekly meetings as a member of the audience. Shows were held on a monthly basis, Carroll later being asked to attend. “It was always a blast, always really funny,” Carroll said. “The practices, half the time, were funnier than the shows. That’s improv, it’s whatever you make of it.” Though he didn’t have experience working with the skits, Carroll sat in for his first show as a cast member. Carroll felt nervous with a crowd there. Deservedly so, because he was the lone freshman among a group of seniors that was about to go on stage for the first time. With little warning, an upperclassman in the group, Sam, grabbed Carroll by the shoulders to let him know that he was going out for the next act. The group was playing a game called Freeze. The audience gives the two actors on stage a scene. At
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Tom Valerio, Angelique Fiske and Kevin Carroll learn the morale dance for QThon during “Late Night with Kevin Carroll” last Thursday. The show launched in October and has recorded six episodes so far.
any point, someone can yell freeze and replace a member of the cast. “I don’t even know what was going on in the scene, or what I came out and said. I think I did some sort of ridiculous dance,” Carroll said. “But I’ll never forget it got a laugh. That to me was a feeling unlike any other.” From that point on, Carroll became even more involved with the club. By his junior year, he was president, a title he also held through graduation. “Comedy has always been my thing,” Carroll said. “Didn’t have much going for me in athleticism, or good looks or any of those other things that make you cool in high school.” *** Carroll took an interest in stand-up from his best friend, Brad DePrima. The two originally met at orientation after Carroll told his orientation leaders that he was interested in comedy. “They said, ‘You gotta meet Brad,’” Carroll said. “We’ve been best friends ever since. He’s a real role model of mine.” Carroll would watch DePrima’s stand-up shows at Side Street Bar & Grille or at Joker’s Wild in New Haven, as the two would travel to each location together. “We’d write stuff together, pretty much hit off through that,” DePrima said. “He got a lot better at it.” The performances inspired Carroll to try stand-up comedy. He made his first appearance at a “Ledges Got Talent” show his freshman year. “It was awesome,” Carroll said. “It was all my friends, so I never really could separate the genuine laughs from the pity laughs.” “Maybe it was a mix of both,” Carroll added, grinning. With his first show in the books, Carroll began pursuing stand-up opportunities in the Hamden area. He later took an internship during his sophomore year at Laughing Buddha Comedy, a comedy school in Manhattan. “We started getting showcases in Hamden, like at Side Street,” DePrima said. “A show a month, every couple weeks that we did with some other comics.” Local acts and an internship at a comedy school were under his belt. So it was only appropriate his next venture would combine the two, and push Carroll’s creativity to its fullest potential. *** “Late Night with Kevin Carroll” started as a dream, figuratively and literally. Rebecca Castagna, co-executive producer of “Late Night,” fell asleep on an early-morning train ride to New York City last August. When she woke up, she realized she dreamt about Carroll hosting a late-night show for Q30 Television. Castagna, who hadn’t spoken with Carroll in a few months, texted him about the idea, of which he approved. “Good morning. I just had a crazy, cool dream you hosted a late-night show for Q30. You were great, people loved it. You should do it in real life,” Castagna texted him. “This was nice to wake up to. That might actually have to happen,” Carroll responded. Castagna then messaged Q30 General Manager Jon Alba and Q30 Vice President Sarah Violette, also getting positive reactions. “I had no idea who Kevin Carroll was at the time,” Alba said. “She told me, ‘He’s hysterical. I want to do this. What are the odds of it?’ I said, ‘You have to figure out the logistics, figure out the sound, figure out how you’re going to get the video, etc. And more importantly, it has to be funny.’” Carroll and Castagna first met at orientation 2013, both
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Senior FVI major Kevin Carroll looks over to his special guests during his sixth episode of Late Night. serving as orientation leaders(OLs). They got to know each other when the OLs had free time during registration. “I just decided to drill him with a ‘bazillion’ questions,” Castagna said. “That’s when I found out all this cool stuff about him. I just saw from the way he was. He was just so talented. He would be a fantastic host for a show.” With Castagna, Alba and Violette on board, the last obstacle in the way was physical approval by Q30. “That was the big hurdle for us to get over,” Carroll said. “They’ve never really done anything like this.” At the beginning of the fall 2013 semester, Castagna once again approached Alba with her idea. Alba requested that Castagna find another executive producer, Sommer Rusinski, and also write a proposal. Alba approved the show, although he was still somewhat skeptical. After the first show, Alba was still unsure about its ability to grow. “I liked what I saw, but I wasn’t sure how much better it
“Comedy has always been my thing. Didn’t have much going for me in athleticism, or good looks or any of those other things that make you cool in high school.” – KEVIN CARROLL
HOST OF “LATE NIGHT WITH KEVIN CARROLL” could get,” Alba said. “This is not something you’re going to find anywhere else in the country, as far as I understand. I don’t think even that crew, at that time, understood how much time needs to be put in for a show like this.” Carroll too, believed the first show was “madness.” “We were kind of winging it,” Carroll said. After the second episode, things changed. The piazza, where the show is filmed, began to fill with people during taping. As the head count shot up, so did the view count on YouTube. The first episode of “Late Night” currently has 1,169 views, as of Feb. 25. “The views for the first couple episodes were off the charts,” Alba said. The “Late Night” staff has a set schedule for preparation and filming of the show. As a biweekly program, the show is taped on Thursday’s, and is posted to the Q30TV YouTube account on
Sundays. The staff also holds meetings every Tuesday. In a typical two-week schedule, the staff spends the first Tuesday meeting discussing which ideas will be incorporated into monologues, segments and interviews. Segments are assigned and written as necessary. For the next Tuesday meeting, segments are filmed, edited and ready to go. That night, the monologue and transitions are written, to be finished by Wednesday. By Thursday at 6:30 p.m., set-up for the show begins. Cameras are arranged and white balanced, while crew positions are assigned. The 30-minute show goes live at 9:30 p.m. Editing is typically completed by Sunday night. *** It’s approximately 8:30 p.m. inside the media center. An hour before showtime, Carroll rehearses his monologue with sidekick Tom Valerio. Minutes later, the band (which doesn’t have a name) begins its sound check. Carroll, who was previously dressed in his street clothes, now struts out of the media center in a suit while bobbing his head and snapping his fingers to the jam. “Sounding good!” he shouts. Castagna, hustling about, is making sure everything is in order. Schedule blocks are posted to camera tripods, while staff members prepare for taping. A little after 9 p.m. the crowd begins to file in. Carroll, whose parents and two sisters surprised him in attending, hugs his mother and father. The clock strikes 9:30 p.m. and Carroll greets the audience to much applause. “Late Night” has a live band for the second time this year, and in order for the show to be produced correctly, it will perform first. The band cycles through Sublime’s “What I Got” and a tune that wasn’t given a name. With time needed to break down the drums and set, members of the “Late Night” staff play music to pass the time. The guest, Angelique Fiske, co-chair of QThon, dances to Pharrell’s “Happy” while Carroll sets up his lavalier microphone. Finally, it’s show time. Carroll runs down the stairs before taking the floor. “What’s up everybody? How you all been?” Carroll says to the crowd. It’s been awhile since Carroll has last performed live at Quinnipiac. He was absent in the Feb. 7 edition of “Late Night,” spending time in Los Angeles to film a web series. Carroll opens with his traditional monologue, tackling pop culture subjects with Valerio.
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“I really feed off of what Kevin gives. We’re a fun duo,” Valerio said. “It seems like [it was] the first time me and Kevin really went back and forth with the banter.” “Late Night” then moves on to a pair of pre-recorded segments. This week, “Hot Lunch” and the “Quinnipiac Olympics” are featured. After segments, Fiske is brought in as the guest interview, and Carroll throws out a pun. “They told me I was interviewing the morale chair. You’re more of a human than a chair,” Carroll said, as the audience members go wild with laughter. Valerio, so red in the face (as of 2:30 p.m. Tuesday) from laughing, fans himself. Near the end of the interview, Fiske teaches Carroll and Valerio a dance. Following a series of foot stomps, claps and left-toright shifts, Macklemore’s “Can’t Hold Us” bursts out of the sound system. The trio continue its dance, though Carroll ends up winded. “I can’t count to eight,” Carroll says. “Someone call Shakira, cause my hips don’t lie.” The show closes, as Carroll shakes hands with audience members. He hugs Castagna, and proceeds to take photos with fans. He later spots his family, before sharing another hug. “That was a surprise, a little nerve-wracking,” Carroll said on his family attending. “I did not have any time to prepare for them being here. It was a nice surprise.” Carroll’s father, Mark, meanwhile, could not have been happier with his son’s performance. “It’s seems like yesterday he was a freshman here,” he said. “He’s very quick, he’s witty, he’s got good material. I’m just so proud of him.” After the show, the Late Night staff will gather and the media center to share final thoughts. When the crew is done wrapping up, Carroll heads home to relax, hang out, watch TV and make himself a nice meal. He won’t rest for too long though. Because next Tuesday, it all begins again.
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Episode 1: 1,172 Episode 2: 741 Episode 3: 971 Episode 4: 813 Episode 5: 470 Episode 6: 370
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Emily's Music Corner Silver lining in the music industry
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Louisa Rose Allen, also known as Foxes, is a British singers songwriter, known for being the main vocals in Zadd’s Clarity.
The music industry will always be faced with the challenge of keeping up with everevolving technological advancements and changing listeners’ preferences. With the digital age, the industry was thrown into a state of turmoil as record companies scrambled to remain profitable. Artists relied
almost completely on concert ticket and merchandise sales to make money. “The music business has seen its sarkest days. I see nothing but tremendous possibilities, great ideas and extraordinary music that will continue to inspire people,” said Lori Feldman, SVP brand partnerships and music
licensing at Warner Bros Records. In 2014, Foxes’ music is about to blow up the music industry is finally discovering a everywhere. After winning a Grammy for silver lining in their nightmare of a gloomy her collaboration with Zedd on “Clarity,” future. Foxes’ own unique personality is taking Focusing more on brand and off on her recently released singles, artist promo, and creating strong “Holding Onto Heaven” and “Let personal relationships with fans, Go For Tonight,” and she proves the industry is fighting back. that she has what it takes to Spotify, iTunes, SoundCloud, soar. What makes her music VeVo and Pandora have so pure is her passion. As fueled this intense Lousia Rose Allen in comeback, and although an interview with record companies are not Billboard Magazine directly reaping the full said, “My music record sales as they did that's my baby, in the past, the number and at the end of records to hit a million of the day, units sold increased from 10 to that's the most 13 in the last quarter of important thing to By EMILY MISIEWICZ Contributing Writer 2013. Some critics will me” (Billboard, Jason argue that online music Lipshutz). platforms such as YouTube are allowing You’ll like Foxes if you like Ellie what would be sales for record labels into a Goulding, Florence & The Machine, Lana streaming paradise for users. Del Rey and Lorde. Technology has made music readily available with the click of a button, and when Emily Misiewicz is a senior marketing major you have such an immense access to music, from Southbury, Conn., has a passion about it only seems fair to believe that more music music and the future of the industry. She has in general is being listened to and therefore; interned for Sony Music Entertainment in RCA the job of the record labels is more vital than Records and Legacy Recordings, and writes a ever. Another undeniable fact is that today’s music blog called “The Music Dose.” music makers are extremely talented as writers, producers and entertainers.
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Energize your week with Zumba
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This Zumba instructor is leading students with a combination of exercise and dance routines. By JEANETTE CIBELLI Staff Writer
An hour of Zumba on a Wednesday evening may be just what you need to overcome the mid-week slump. Emily Machado, a sixth-year physical therapy student from Dracut, Mass., teaches a weekly Zumba class every Wednesday night at the Mount Carmel campus Fitness Center at 6:15 p.m. The class runs for one hour and is held in Studio B. Zumba is a workout program that combines cardio with elements of various styles of dance, such as salsa, hip-hop
and merengue. It was founded in the 1990s by Alberto Perez, a Colombian-American dancer, and has grown in popularity. According to Zumba Fitness, LLC, there are certified instructors in 185 countries and more than 14 million participants worldwide. Machado is a certified member of the Zumba Instructor Network (ZIN), an organization that provides instructors with DVDs, CDs and advice for a monthly fee of $30. Three years ago, Machado took her first Zumba class at Quinnipiac and has been teaching ever since. As a former gymnast, she finds
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Orange is the New Black
Almost every college student has been posed with the problem of running out of things to watch on Netflix. Well, worry no more! The popular site has just recently announced the return of the series “Orange is the New Black.” Fans everywhere anxiously await the new episodes that are scheduled to be posted on June 6. The show follows main character, Piper Chapman, a privileged “WASP” into prison, virtually the last place anyone would expect to see her. Along the way, viewers are introduced to other inmates who allow for an interesting mix of characters. For the most part, the actors featured in the show are not well known. However, Jason Briggs, who starred as Jim in “American Pie,” is featured as Piper’s fiancé. Each storyline introduced is interesting and comical. In an all women’s prison one can only imagine the drama that takes place but each episode is equally as shocking as the last. Netflix has created a trend of “binge watching,” in which people watch multiple episodes one after another. “Orange is the New Black” is the perfect candidate for a rainy day with no prior plans made. The episodes are 50 minutes long and the best thing about them is that there are no commercials. Season one was a huge hit and only contains 13 episodes so it’s not completely impossible to watch all in one sitting, because it is just that good. Similar to the shows found on HBO there are not many boundaries the writers aren’t willing to cross, this is what makes the show so intriguing. If nothing else, “Orange is the New Black” can give insight as to what it can be like in prison, and how one stupid mistake of holding a suitcase of drug money can land you in the slammer 10 years later. Netflix has truly outdone themselves with the original series “Orange is the New Black.” The show is worth investigating especially if the snow and rain continue. -V. DiPersia
that Zumba satisfies her passion for dance. No two Zumba classes are the same. Machado’s classes guide students through a combination of cardio, leg and abdominal exercises that together create a full-body workout. She describes her style as hip-hop and reggaeton. “I like to keep [the music] trendy, upbeat and fast-paced,” Machado said. Zumba requires stamina, rhythm and hand-eye coordination, but don’t let the fear of failing deter you. Some of the routines may initially prove to be a challenge, but you will become increasingly familiar with them if you consistently attend Machado’s classes. No one will judge you if you feel a little awkward at first. Machado’s class on Feb. 19 and was led through 13 unique dance routines as well as two cool-down routines. I recognized many of the 13 songs, such as Flo Rida’s “Club Can’t Handle Me” ft. David Guetta, Jason Derulo’s “Talk Dirty,” Shakira’s “Waka Waka” and many records featuring Pitbull. Other songs were sung in Spanish or taken from Zumba CDs. Machado says one third of her routines come from Zumba videos, one third from YouTube and the remaining are original. Many Quinnipiac students take advantage of these free Zumba classes. Though the Feb. 19 class had low attendance, Machado reports her classes are often larger, with 63 being the largest amount she has ever had. Zumba is a great way to switch up your workout routine. “[Zumba is] fun…especially when you go with your friends,” said freshman advertising major Lindsay Adam. Freshman Cara Coogan, an undecided liberal arts major, enjoys Machado’s classes. “It doesn’t even feel like you’re working out,” Coogan said. Machado also teaches Zumba from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Friday’s in Studio A of the Mount Carmel campus Fitness Center. She encourages everyone to come to her classes. “I’m showing them my passion,” Machado said. “I love getting people hooked.”
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Quinnipiac is stuck in a winter wonderland. Despite all of the accumulated snow over the course of the past month, Quinnipiac’s landscape maintenance crew has truly done an incredible job clearing the snow and making conditions safer for students. Taking care of the school’s campus undoubtedly equates to very early mornings and a lot of draining physical work. The crew works hard as the rest of the university continues to sleep into the early morning hours. More often than not, maintenance workers are forced to deal with the snow even as it is rapidly falling. I have the utmost respect for those who work to maintain all of Quinnipiac’s campuses. However, there is one problem that seems to bother every York Hill resident in regards to the snow cleanup crew. On numerous occasions many students, including myself, have been woken up early in the morning, usually around 7:30 a.m., to an extremely loud noise that is able to penetrate through windows and walls. As many of us have figured out, the noise is due to the snow plows scraping the pavement, resulting in a horrific noise that resembles nails scratching a chalkboard. The sound is annoying, loud and inescapable. Being abruptly woken up never results in a happy morning for anyone, but this isn’t just about a noise suddenly waking students up. Students are unable to go back to sleep long after they’ve woken up from the plows. The noises from the plows continue all morning, so the chance of getting a few more hours of sleep before class is nearly impossible. The sound of the plows scraping the pavement is a noise that is extremely difficult to ignore. Some might argue that this is not something that should be complained about and that the crew is just doing its job and normally I would agree with that. However, the noise is at its worst when there is no longer any snow left to plow. If the path is already fully plowed, then why are crews continuing to plow them? I don’t necessarily understand it, but who knows, maybe there’s more to snowplowing than I realize. -S. Kozlowski
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Boomer a staple of Quinnipiac athletics BOOMER from page 16 me the job, but they needed somebody for that night.” Calcagni was soon informed about Boomer and handed him the job right away. If Boomer wants to go out during the ice hockey games, he must also need to know how to skate. Luckily for him, that was just one of many skills he brought to the table. “We definitely think of that in considering on who we have for the hockey games, so we try to tailor it to their strengths,” Calcagni said. Boomer has other gametime requirements just as any other athlete would. As much as he interacts with fans in the stands, he cannot express his emotions through words, so the job becomes that more difficult during the games. “Requirements for Boomer is Boomer cannot talk,” Calcagni said. “He cannot reveal his identity. What we look for is the interaction between Boomer and the fans, the crowd, the youth. The little kids that go to the games, sometimes they’ll watch Boomer more than they’ll watch the game. But we need him to be interactive, have a lot of energy, a lot of spirit.” Boomer partakes in many of the promotions the arena offers,
whether it’s through basketballshooting contests, sideline cheer or running out with the players during introductions. “I work at a daycare at home, so my favorite part is the kids,” Boomer said. “You can say when the lights go out and there’s 3,000 screaming people, but just seeing the joy in the kids faces when I walk over to them and playing with the 1- and 2-year-olds. That’s what I do at home. That’s what I want to do in life. So it’s just cool to see them in a different kind of venue and different kind of, obviously, outfit.” The Boomer outfit has been around for 10 years, but the jersey has changed over time. Now that the basketball program has entered the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, he receives new jerseys with the basketball teams. “We got three new basketball jerseys, which we actually never had,” Boomer said. “We got a white, gold and blue, so it was really cool to have the exact jersey. They put it in with the team order, so it was cool to walk into the arena one day and have three new uniforms.” While Boomer has received new uniforms and cheered on all four of the basketball and ice hockey teams, he remains ambitious. As unforgettable this year
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Boomer spends time interacting with fans during a Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey game. has been, he plans to make all of his years memorable while at Quinnipiac. “I love it,” Boomer said. “I
think it’s a great job, I get a rush skating out there in front of all those people. I just love doing it. It’s a cool job to have and in 10
years I could say I was the main mascot here for Quinnipiac. And that’s something I’ll always have with me.”
Women’s basketball wins third straight By GENE DEMAIO Staff Writer
After a slow start Saturday, the Quinnipiac women’s basketball team came back for a dominant victory, 67-44, over the St. Peter’s Peacocks on Senior Day at TD Bank Sports Center. The Bobcats shot 56 percent from the field in the second half to rally back from a seven-point halftime deficit. Prior to the game Quinnipiac honored its three seniors, Brittany McQuain, Ellen Cannon and Camryn Warner. The three players make up one of the most successful senior classes in the program’s history with
over 80 wins, two postseason appearances and a Northeast Conference championship under their belts. After the ceremony, the two teams took the court and neither could get anything going offensively. The first points were not scored until Warner’s free throw nearly five minutes into the contest. The Bobcats took an early lead despite shooting under 25 percent from the field; however, St. Peter’s would end the half on a 12-0 run to enter the break with a 28-21 lead. St. Peter’s would not hang around much longer as Quinnipiac came out of halftime on fire. The
Bobcats held St. Peter’s to just 21 percent from the field in the second half. Meanwhile, it seemed like every shot was falling for Quinnipiac, as the Bobcats shot approximately 66 percent through most of the second half before finishing with 56 percent on the day. When it was all said and done, Quinnipiac coasted to a 23-point victory, outscoring St. Peters by 30 in the second half. Samantha Guastella and Jasmine Martin led the way with 13 points each, while McQuain nearly posted a double-double with nine points and as many rebounds. Gillian Abshire chipped in a game-
high nine assists along with four points on the day. Starting slow is nothing new for Quinnipiac. In fact slow starts and hot finishes have been the norm for the Bobcats this season. Quinnipiac has trailed at halftime in five of their last six games, and in those games the Bobcats are 4-1, often times winning by large margins. “That seems to be a little bit of our M-O, how we are playing games these days, really slow in the first half, much better offensively in the second half,” Quinnipiac Coach Tricia Fabbri said. “We were missing a lot and we weren’t getting any of-
fensive rebounds. The ball is gonna go in the basket. You gotta believe it and if it doesn’t we have to do a better job on the boards.” Quinnipiac’s furious second half comeback saved the Bobcat’s from the disappointment of losing on senior day. McQuain was one who was extra appreciative that her team could pull out a victory. “We expect to win every night, especially on Senior Day, you don’t want to go out with a loss. So it was a really nice way to go out,” McQuain said. “I think we all played really well as a team especially on defense tonight.”
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GAME OF THE WEEK
RUNDOWN MEN’S BASKETBALL QU 90, Niagara 88 – Saturday Ousmane Drame: 26 points, 18 rebounds WOMEN’S BASKETBALL QU 76, Siena 66 – Thursday Brittany McQuain: 14 points, 14 rebounds QU 67, St. Peter’s 44 – Saturday Jasmine Martin: 13 points MEN’S ICE HOCKEY Cornell 2, QU 1 – Friday Tommy Schutt: 1 goal Colgate 3, QU 1 – Saturday Connor Jones: 1 goal WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY QU 2, Cornell 1 – Friday Kelly Babstock: 1 goal, 1 assist QU 3, Colgate 0 – Saturday Shiann Darkangelo: 1 goal, 1 assist MEN’S LACROSSE Brown 13, QU 6 – Saturday Ryan Keenan: 2 goals WOMEN’S LACROSSE UConn 17, QU 7 – Saturday Aileen Carey: 3 goals, 1 assist ACROBATICS & TUMBLING QU 279.39, Baylor 278.83 – Sunday
GAMES TO WATCH MEN’S BASKETBALL QU vs. Siena – Thursday, 8:30 p.m QU at Marist – Sunday, 2 p.m. WOMEN’S BASKETBALL QU vs. Iona – Thursday, 6 p.m. QU at Manhattan – Saturday, 2 p.m. MEN’S ICE HOCKEY QU at St. Lawrence – Friday, 7 p.m. QU at Clarkson – Saturday, 7 p.m. WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY QU vs. St. Lawrence – Friday, 7 p.m. QU vs. St. Lawrence – Saturday, 4 p.m. QU vs. St. Lawrence (if nec.) – Sunday, 2 p.m. MEN’S LACROSSE QU at Providence – Saturday, 1 p.m. QU at Harvard – Tuesday, 4 p.m. WOMEN’S LACROSSE QU at Albany – Saturday, 3 p.m. BASEBALL QU at Tennessee – Friday, 3 p.m. QU at Tennessee – Saturday, 1 p.m. QU at Tennessee – Sunday, 1 p.m.
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Men’s ice hockey falls to Cornell By NICK PALMA Staff Writer
The Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey team fell just short in a 2-1 loss to ECAC Hockey opponent Cornell Friday night at TD Bank Sports Center. Despite having 41 shots on net, the Bobcats couldn’t find ways to capitalize on their opportunities. “It’s not often you lose a game when you outshoot a team 41-14, but it happens so we’re certainly disappointed.” Quinnipiac Coach Rand Pecknold said. Quinnipiac had its chances to tie the game late in the third period with a power play. On a man advantage at 13:37 of the third period, a Devon Toews shot hit inside of the post that left Kellen Jones with an open net, only to fire it wide. Then, with under a minute to play, Sam Anas teased the crowd when he received a rebound and backhanded it off the side of the net. “Yeah, shots are overrated,” captain Cory Hibbeler said. “Iles is a good goaltender and we had a couple of opportunities there in the third and even before that when we missed the net. Against a goaltender like [Andy] Iles, you got to capitalize on your chances and we didn’t do that tonight.” Iles, Cornell’s goaltender shut the door by stopping 40 of 41 shots.
“Well he’s the best player on the ice and he won the game for them,” Pecknold said. The only goal surrendered by Iles was one that deflected off his own player’s skate. With 7:06 left in the first period, Tommy Schutt scored his third goal of the year when he backhanded the puck off Iles. After going off of Iles’ left leg pad, the puck deflected off a Cornell defenseman’s skate to slide in into the net. Cornell wasted little time to tie it up, when defenseman Joakim Ryan took a shot from the top of the circle to put it past goaltender Michael Garteig less than a minute later. Hibbeler went on to talk about how the team needs to be more consistent in bringing mental toughness onto the ice. “I think it’s something we’ve been struggling with,” Hibbeler said. “We’ve had it some games and it’s just a little bit consistency for us, is probably the toughest part for us to bring it every game.” The Bobcats were held to a scoreless second period, as they were only able to get one shot on net in their lone power play of the period. Quinnipiac also outshot Cornell 8-4 during the period. Cornell broke the tie with 6:26 left in the second period when Brian Ferlin went top shelf on a
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Freshman defenseman Connor Clifton recorded one assist in Friday’s 2-1 loss to Cornell. breakaway to beat Garteig. “Ultimately, we had some issues defensively at times,” Pecknold said. “When you give up 14 shots, you can’t give up breakaways.” From there on out, Cornell’s main focus was to maintain Quinnipiac’s aggressive offense. In the
third, the Bobcats fired off 14 shots to the Big Red’s three. “They shoot the puck, obviously, from a lot of areas,” Cornell Coach Mike Schafer said. “One of the things we wanted to do was to keep it on the perimeter and I thought we did a pretty good job at that for a couple of periods.”
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1, the Bobcats will take on Providence. Fekete felt there were two games last season the team should have won. The first being an 11-9 loss to Binghamton and the other
representing the 15-14 NEC semifinal loss to Robert Morris. “I think we played well at a point,” Fekete said on the 2013 season. “I think we blew some games that we probably should’ve won.” The Bobcats will face Marist
and Detroit, the No. 3 and No. 2 seeds, in consecutive weekends at the end of March. They take on No. 1 Siena April 19. While Saturday was not a direct step in improving upon last season, the year is young and the team still believes it can make some noise as
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new guys as long as the teamwork stays consistent. “I think if our offense just does the right things and the guys around me play well, they’re going to help me out and things aren’t going to change,” Sagl said. “We’re just going to have success.”
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Flips and sticks
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Jamsine Martin has scored in double figure points in each of her last eight games, dating back to Jan. 26.
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Percentage of draws won by Connor Jones in Friday’s loss to Cornell.
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The women’s ice hockey team has now won at least 20 games for its third season in program history.
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Clockwise from top left: Sophomore Kayla McCormack and three teammates compete in the third heat of the tumbling event in Sunday’s meet vs. Baylor; sophomore midfielder Nate Nibbelink passes the ball in Saturday’s game vs. Brown; McCormack and her teammates flip in the air; freshman forward Tommy Schutt fights for the puck in Saturday’s game vs. Colgate.
OUSMANE DRAME Men’s basketball Junior Drame dropped 14 points and grabbed 13 rebounds in Thursday’s win at Canisius, then followed with a 26-point, 18-rebound effort in Saturday’s win against Niagara. Drame is averaging 13.7 points and 10.4 rebounds per game this season. BRYAN LIPINER/CHRONICLE
CHELSEA LADEN Women’s ice hockey Junior Laden made 27 saves on 28 shots in Friday’s 2-1 win over Cornell, then recorded her seventh shutout of the season in Saturday’s 3-0 win against Colgate. Laden has a 92.9 percent save percentage on the year. MATT EISENBERG/CHRONICLE
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Buzzer-beater 3-pointers men’s basketball guard Umar Shannon has hit this season.
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Meet the mascot
Boomer the Bobcat has been around for several years, but has recently become even more popular.
By NICK PALMA Staff Writer
Boomer the Bobcat is widely recognized throughout the Quinnipiac community. In recent years, people in the Hamden area have gotten to know Boomer. Since the basketball and ice hockey teams have rose to prominence, he has subsequently grown in popularity. Fans are constantly interacting with Boomer at the games, whether it’s taking pictures together, competing in half-time contests or even seeing themselves dance with him on the scoreboards. While many admire the character on the outside of the costume, some often wonder who is really beneath the suit. Not just anybody can become Boomer, though. He or she must fulfill a genre of requirements before the job is handed to them. “Each year we have a workstudy position that’s dedicated for Boomer,” Ticketing Manager of TD Bank Sports Center Matthew Calcagni said. “Throughout the summer we’ll get maybe a handful of applicants that are interested. We do host an interview where we follow up with the students when
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Boomer the Bobcat is active at most basketball and ice hockey games. they arrive on campus in the fall.” The interview process is rather unique, as applicants have to put on the suit and perform to see if they are equitable for the job. Once that is done, Calcagni then looks at their class schedule to see
if it works with the events up at the arena. Being Boomer isn’t necessarily easy. Along with being an outgoing and entertaining person, he is constantly filled with events to attend, some outside of the univer-
sity’s campus. Calcagni said that there are about 100 events that Boomer can attend each year, so schedule flexibility and level of interest is a key factor to Boomer’s attributes. “I’m an athletic training major
so it puts a lot of stress with clinical on my time, especially playoff time because we have to start traveling,” One person who dresses as Boomer said. “You just find a way to make everything work. Obviously I’m here for school but this is as important to me, so I’m going to do everything I possibly can to make both these things work, going forward.” Boomer started during his freshman year he saw the ad online and walked up to the office to apply for the job. It was an unusual way as to how Boomer received the job because Calcagni was intending a meeting at the time. The only person in the box office at that time was season-ticket holder, Jim Piscitelli. Piscitelli is one of the most interactive ticket holders in the Quinnipiac community and because of that, has made a name for himself around the arena. “He was talking to me, he went through my phone looking at my girlfriend. He was just a great guy,” Boomer said. “That was basically it, I guess maybe my attitude got See BOOMER Page 13
Men’s lacrosse ready for new conference By IAN MCCRACKEN Associate Sports Editor
The Quinnipiac men’s lacrosse team was picked to finish fourth in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference preseason poll. Quinnipiac Coach Eric Fekete, however, believes the team will finish higher come season’s end. “One of the things that is unique about this team is, in the junior group, we started eight freshman when they were freshman,” Fekete said. “I think we are seeing the dividends. We probably have more juniors with 30-plus-game experience than anyone in the country.” In Fekete’s opinion, being first just means there is “always someone chasing you.” His players hold an identical mindset. Junior attack Michael Sagl and senior goalie Gill Conners find the prediction inaccurate. “It’s a little disrespectful,” Sagl said. “We heard about it and it definitely lit a fire under us. We found out about it in the preseason and it was kind of our fuel. Every day we went out there, we thought about it, and it made us work that much harder to prove everyone wrong.” Both Sagl and Conners were chosen to the All-MAAC Preseason Team. Sagl has 42 goals and 42 assists over his first two seasons and Conners had the 15th best save per-
centage in the nation last season. Both honorees are taking their selection with a grain of salt. While Conners views it as a reflection of the success, Sagl doesn’t want to dwell on speculation. “Right now it means nothing,” Sagl said. “The preseason is all predictions. So we have to work really hard this year. It’s all about the end of the season, not the preseason.” Being in the new conference,
“The preseason is all predictions. It’s all about the end of the season, not the pre-season.”
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JUNIOR ATTACK
Fekete feels his team has something to prove, especially the 13 juniors. In 2012, the team went 3-11, facing adversity that Fekete feels ultimately strengthened the younger players. “They took a licking their freshman year,” Fekete said. “They improved last year and they’ll improve again this year. At this point, I think we are pretty poised and experienced. The dividends should be paying more now that we have all
that experience on the field.” “I think our chemistry over the past years really built up a lot, just because we haven’t lost a lot of guys,” Conners added. “We lost some guys on offense, but we’re actually returning a good amount on defense, so I think that’s really going to help out.” One team the Bobcats are familiar with is Brown. The Bears traveled to Quinnipiac to open the season last Saturday. Fekete believes the bouts between the two teams are becoming “a good New England rivalry.” In 2013, Quinnipiac stunned the Bears by defeating them in Providence 9-7 in its first game of the season. Prior to Saturday’s game, he felt there was going to be a “lot of motivation for those guys” to come in and take one on the road. Brown turned the tables Saturday, handing the Bobcats a decisive 13-6 victory, leading most of the game and rattling off six unanswered goals. After the game, Fekete wasn’t upset, noting it was “the first game out of 14.” Last season, the Bobcats went 6-8 overall and 3-2 in the Northeast Conference. After victories in their first three games, they went on to lose their next five. On March See LACROSSE Page 14
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Michael Sagl recorded a goal and two assists during the men’s lacrosse season opener Saturday.