QUChronicle.com April 30, 2014 Volume 83 Issue 28 Proud recipient of the New England Society of Newspaper Editors' award for 2012 & 2013 College Newspaper of the Year
SPORTS Second-year success, page 20
OPINION Senior sendoffs, page 8
ARTS & LIFE Top 5 summer reads, page 13
Fields of the future
Three arrested over weekend for marijuana possesion By JULIA PERKINS Managing Editor
in the future. The university hopes to build a new lacrosse and soccer field, a field hockey field and a rugby pitch by the fall of 2016 to comply with the Title IX case Biediger, et al. v. Quinnipiac University, Vice President of Facilities and Capital Planning Salvatore Filardi said. The women’s volleyball team sued in 2009 after the university
By JULIA PERKINS Managing Editor
Facilities will redesign its plans for new lacrosse, soccer and field hockey fields after the Hamden Inland Wetland Commission shot down approval of the university’s original design, administration said. The university will re-submit these new plans to the commission
tried to eliminate the team. Quinnipiac agreed to settle the case last April, promising to spend at least $5 million to improve athletic facilities and make strides to treat men’s and women’s varsity athletic teams equally. The Hamden Inland Wetland Commission chose not to approve
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The Quinnipiac Turf Complex has served as the home for the field hockey and lacrosse teams since 2005. The university hopes to build a new soccer and lacrosse stadium on the site by 2016.
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Career fair recruiter banned from university By NICOLE HANSON Associate News Editor
The university asked a recruiter from a legitimate financial consulting company to not return to campus after he offered students “unrealistic” job opportunities at a School of Business career fair last month. Associate Dean of Career Development Jill Ferrall described the man as “aggressive.” When interacting with students at the career fair, the recruiter focused heavily on the amount of money students could make working for his company, Ferrall said. “His sales tactics to get students to interview with him were a bit too
strong and too pushy and I did not appreciate the fact that he was really pushing the money aspect as opposed to the experience aspect,” Ferrall said. Ferrall said she prefers School of Business students receive a base salary upon entering the career field. Instead, this recruiter offered students a commission-based salary. The recruiter told students they would make between $400,000 to $2.7 million, Ferrall said. “If somebody says that to anybody, it goes with the rule: if it’s too good to be true, it’s too good to be true,” she said. After students said the recruiter made them feel uncomfortable, Fer-
rall asked the man to stop contacting students. “He has been blocked via our IT security where he cannot email students,” Ferrall said. “I even contacted security and gave them a description of him and said, ‘if he ever tries to come on campus, please tell him he’s not welcome to come onto campus.’” Ferrall said she will meet with Chief of Public Safety David Barger in June to see if there is anything she could do differently in terms of registration or security for future career fairs. Senior finance major Nicholas Guarino said preventing the recruiter from coming back to campus was a
good precaution to take. “If he’s kind of a fraud, it wouldn’t be good for students to go to him or even to hear what he has to say,” Guarino said. “I don’t think he would be a harm, but it’s just the right thing to do.” Ferrall said this situation was a “fluke” and hopes it will not happen again. “We have really good students here at Quinnipiac and they’re here to get a good education and they really want to work by their education to make a living, and I felt that he was pushing the wrong end,” she said. “It was all about money, money, money.”
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The seniors were out celebrating their last spring break, but Jason Sullivan was back and forth with doctor’s appointments, a biopsy and CT scans. In the blink of an eye his life would take a sharp detour. “There is a 20 percent chance the bump is Hodgkin’s Lymphoma,” the doctor told him that Friday after operating on a lump Sullivan found in his neck. “When they said that, I immediately had a panic attack,” Sullivan said. Three days later, Sullivan was back at his off-campus house when he got a call from his mother.
On March 15, 2014 Sullivan was diagnosed with stage 2 Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system of the immune system. Stage 2 means two lymph nodes have the cancer or the cancer is in the portion of tissue or an organ close to the lymph nodes, according to the Mayo Clinic. “It was completely overwhelming,” Sullivan said. “I was at my house and I just remember just shaking and being so afraid.” Sullivan said he immediately wrote to his Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity brothers in a Facebook group, See SULLIVAN Page 3
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Jason Sullivan (right) was diagnosed with stage two Hodgekin’s Lymphoma on March 15.
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Hamden police arrested three students for possession of less than four ounces of marijuana, and students punched out more than 240 ceiling tiles in freshman residence halls, Chief of Public Safety David Barger said. Barger said he does not connect the arrests to May Weekend because about two students are caught with marijuana on the average weekend. The number of vandalism incidents increased as compared to most weekends, but decreased as compared to May Weekends in previous years, he said. The “most serious” vandalism occurred in Commons, where students punched out more than 150 ceiling tiles, Barger said. He estimated students punched out more than 50 ceiling tiles in Ledges and more than 40 in Mountainview. “I think that a lot of it has to do with the quote-on-quote urban legend of May Weekend, this particular vandalism,” Barger said. “And the fact that the students, the freshmen, think that they have to live up to that, whatever the urban legend is.” Students also may have vandalized residence halls because they were inside due to the rainy weather on Saturday, he said. Freshman Commons resident Brian Eisenberg said students vandalize Commons often. “I knew it would get worse during May Weekend,” he said. “I thought it was absolutely disgusting. I saw food all over the floor and walls, ceiling tiles were punched out and all over the floor. It was gross.” Taylor Brock, a freshman Commons resident, described the residence hall as a “war zone” over the weekend. “I went down to the boy’s floor to a friend’s room and saw a disaster of ceiling tiles on the floor and trash all around the hallways,” Brock said.“I was tripping over everything. I just don’t get the point of it and why people feel the need to make a huge mess while they’re drunk.” Public Safety is investigating who may have punched out the tiles, and the students involved will be brought through the conduct process, Barger said.
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