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Funding the future

Quinnipiac has a new fundraising strategy with a new leader at the helm

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The Development and Alumni Affairs Department at Quinnipiac University is raising money for an unrestricted Quinnipiac Fund that will be used to carry out the university-wide strategic plan, according to Director of Annual Giving Andrew Bernstein.

Bernstein said in recent years, money raised by the university has gone toward the endowment.

“We haven’t had a traditional annual fund here at Quinnipiac (for many years),” Bernstein said.

Bernstein said when he graduated from Quinnipiac in 1997, the university did raise money that could be used without restrictions for student-centered projects, and now he and other leadership are bringing it back.

“We’re going to go back to trying to raise money for student initiatives and I’m not sure of the exact date of when that ended,” Bernstein said.

This fall, the annual giving department will be collecting donations under $10,000 for the fund. Last year, annual giving raised $1.67 million. Bernstein said the goal this year has not been finalized but is tentatively higher than last year’s earnings.

Bernstein is only responsible for these smaller donations, but the major giving department will also be collecting donations above $50,000 that can go toward the fund.

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Sloan’s office in the Alumni House on Hogan Road is the center for philanthropy and alumni affairs. leges across campus.

“Each dean will come up with a list of priorities that we can identify and go out to parents, alumni and friends and ask them to support the individual schools with gifts in the spring semester,” Bernstein said.

New Vice President for Alumni Affairs Todd Sloan said he will bring a donor-centered fundraising philosophy to Quinnipiac to raise money to help carry out the university-wide strategic plan.

He said throughout his 30-year career, most recently at American University, he always operated with a focus on learning about a donor’s passion, and then finding an aspect of the university that matches that passion.

“You start to dream with them and they can start to see the impact they can make,” Sloan said. “That’s being donor-centered.”

Sloan said that part of finding eager donors is generating an enthusiastic alumni community.

“I want everyone when they come in as an undergraduate, they are so inspired by what it means to be an alum of Quinnipiac, that as you are moving to that commencement day, part of the excitement about commencement is ‘Now I get to join this great alumni body,’” Sloan said.

Like Bernstein, Sloan emphasized that fundraising this year has taken on a whole new life when compared to years past.

“Alums were engaged (previously), but

because of the way the university funded itself, there wasn’t as much emphasis — the diversity of options for philanthropy was not as robust,” Sloan said.

According to Quinnipiac’s 990 form, the university raised $13.6 million in 2017, up from $8 million the previous year.

Sloan called the current Development and Alumni Affairs department at Quinnipiac a “university enterprise,” as opposed to a marketing tool.

“What was going on was not a fullfledged, vibrant fundraising tool which is what we are doing now, which I take no credit for. I’ve been here three weeks,” Sloan said.

Sloan said that in years past, the business model of the university was not based on leading alumni to philanthropy, but they still indicated in surveys that they had a strong connection with their alma mater.

Sloan replaced Donald Weinbach, who had been with the university for two decades prior to his retirement last year. Shortly before his retirement, Weinbach told The Chronicle that his successor was entering the job at a very exciting time.

“The person who is my successor probably has the best job in America,” Weinbach said. “In terms of where is Quinnipiac is positioned, in terms of academic quality, where we are positioned in terms of our alumni base and in terms of our leadership here.”

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Modernizing elder health care

Quinnipiac professor to visit the nation’s capital to discuss health care and aging policy

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A Quinnipiac University professor will meet with the nation’s lawmakers this spring to discuss health and aging policy after receiving a fellowship from Columbia University.

“When we go down to (Washington D.C.) again, we’ll have visits on the Hill with the Senate and the House of Representatives,” Angela Mattie, professor and program director of management and medical sciences, said.

“After this intensive orientation and educational period, not only do we get a deep dive into health care policy, we get an opportunity to develop a strong network in the health care policy community in D.C.” The Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program, based at Columbia University, is focused on providing professionals that are involved in the health field the necessary resources to contribute to health care legislation, specifically for aging Americans. The program is funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation, The Atlantic Philanthropies and Westhealth. This fellowship is for people that are looking to make a difference in the health care community.

“We went to the centers for Medicare and Medicaid. We met with each of their provision leaders, and those are the main organizations in charge of paying for health care,” Mattie said of

her trip two weeks ago to Washington D.C. “We will meet with people from several different agencies like the General Accounting Office and Central Research Service and organizations that are influential in health care policy.”

Aging and health policy is a difficult topic to navigate, Mattie said. It is filled with numerous issues such as the aging workforce, social security, patient safety and health care costs.

“Aging policy and health care policy is very complex, and not one discipline is going to be able to solve it.” Mattie said. “What I would like to do is start some interdisciplinary programs, establish the context and the knowledge that I’ll be fortunate enough to be exposed to down there, and look at how we can leverage Quinnipiac to be able to look at health and aging from an interdisciplinary perspective.”

Mattie and her colleagues earned the International Compliance Award for their contribution to the health care field. In 2013, Quinnipiac awarded her the Center of Excellence in Teaching Award.

“Everything I do is about my students,” Mattie said. “I hope to be able to bring back the knowledge but also find a way to incorporate my students.”

Mattie was involved in another fellowship during her time at Quinnipiac. It was focused on helping businesses understand the health care

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“Through the fellowship, we analyzed the Leapfrog survey and rating usage within Connecticut,” Quinnipiac graduate, and resident physician at Mount Sinai St Luke’s, Samuel Sondheim said. “Our research project led us down several different avenues and ultimately highlighted the lack of consistency between rat-

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Open house took on an updated format under the new vice president for enrollment management

Quinnipiac graduates relived their favorite QU memories at Alumni Weekend 2019

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Past years’ open houses at Quinnipiac have included big presentations and large crowds moving from place to place. Thanks to a format change for open houses, potential students are getting a more personalized experience this year.

“The intent is really moving things out of large Rec Center crowds, and into the buildings where students will be taking their classes and in front of the faculty that are going to be teaching those classes and with the students who are here is to give them more of what I’ll call an intimate experience,” Eric Sykes, vice president for enrollment management, said.

This is Sykes’ first year at Quinnipiac. He said that in large groups it is difficult to build relationships with the new students. The new format aims to create a better, more personal experience.

“It’s not done in a big crowd orientation,” Sykes said. “It’s done in a much more small scale where people can feel more comfortable asking questions and kind of getting into the details about their education.”

With this new format, the open houses start off in the Recreation Center where students register. Now, most of the time is spent in the individual school’s buildings where they can get a taste of where they would spend their time at Quinnipiac.

Sykes said that these are the locations where students can interact with the faculty that will be teaching them and the students who have their own experiences in those programs to share.

“One of the things we want to make sure they are aware of are what we’re offering from different programs,” Sykes said. “And what would be available for them for those different programs.”

Sykes said that open houses are the place where students can assess if they really “fit” here. With the previous format of moving people around in large groups, Sykes said that students were not getting the true sense of what Quinnipiac is really like at previous open houses.

“We’re not really presenting ourselves in the best light,” Sykes said.

“We’re not presenting ourselves as we would want to nor as we truly are, to give them a good sense of what they would experience here.”

While the numbers for the September open house were high, Sykes said that numbers don’t always translate into good outcomes, and he is more interested in making sure the students that come have the best experience possible.

By using students at open houses, the school now allows potential students to hear about Quinnipiac from those that are experiencing it first-hand.

“I don’t think a presentation by an admissions counselor, no matter how good they are, is nearly as convincing as an honest assessment of a students experience at the institution,” Sykes said.

Sykes said that the reactions to the first open house were positive, and he thinks it has to do with the open invitation for students to explore the campus and what they will be involved in.

Some of the students that attended the latest open house on Oct. 20, got the experience they were looking for.

Isabella Luce, a visiting student from Belgrade, Maine, said that she learned a lot from the open house and having people available to answer questions was helpful.

And for Luce, the open house delivered the kind of clarification she was looking for.

“I got a lot of information because I have kind of been picking between biomedical engineering and biomedical sciences,” Luce said. “So they’ve given me a lot of information kind of pushing me one way.”

The outcome that Luce got from attending the open house is exactly what Sykes has been aiming for with this new format, regardless of the number of students that attend.

“Rather than ‘We just want more people here,’ I’d rather have fewer people and a better experience,” Sykes said. “If there were a trade-off I had to take, that would be it.”

Quinnipiac University alumni gathered on the balconies of the Rocky Top Student Center on the evening of Saturday, Oct. 19, for the alumni weekend pep rally, backdropped by a sunset over views of southern Connecticut.

The pep rally was the second-to-last event of the alumni weekend, the signature event of the Alumni Affairs and Development Office. The weekend kicked off Friday with the alum golf tournament, which raised money for scholarships for current students.

“We’re expecting over a thousand alumni back to campus, which is great,” John Arcangelo, director of parent and alumni affairs, said, prior to the weekend.

The expected turnout seemed to be realized at the tailgate and pep rally before the hockey game, with the parking lot of the stadium and the student center packed with past graduating classes.

At the student center, a mix of alumni and their families sat together in groups across the tables and balconies enjoying catering from local favorite restaurant, Eli’s, and shared stories from their college experience and their lives since their time at Quinnipiac. A live cover band played popular hits from across the decades from Bee Gees to Daft Punk, bringing the alumni some musical memories from their time in college.

Out on the lawn, families watched their kids play a variety of games set up such as four-way volleyball, ladderball and for the parents, giant bucket-pong.

“I’ve loved all the family events,” Kirsten Ditzler, a member of the occupational therapy class of 2001 and 2003, said. “This is my kid’s first time at Quinnipiac.”

Ditzler and her family came up from Pennsylvania to come to Alumni Weekend and made sure to make the most of it. She shared the tradition of hiking at Sleeping Giant State Park with her family before attending the alumni picnic and the pep rally. Her child’s favorite event, however, was taking pictures with Boomer.

Ditzler said she was impressed with the growth of the pep band, as when she was a part of it there were only four members, a small number compared to the program today. She said had seen them on the ESPN broadcasts of the games but seeing them in person was going to be a different experience.

“I’m really looking forward to the game because I was in the original pep band at Quinnipiac,” Ditzler said, “I’m looking forward to the hockey game tonight because they’ll be there.”

The men’s ice hockey game was the culminating event of the weekend. The team came back from a defeat the previous day to University of Maine to rally and to take down Maine 4-3, soundtracked to the deafening cheers of alumni Bobcats that night.

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Wednesday, Oct. 23 AMA Apple Cider Donut Sale The fundraising chapter of the American Marketing Association (AMA) will be selling apple cider donuts to raise money for its AMA chapter. The organization will be tabling in the Student Center from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

WQAQ Beatles Promotional Event WQAQ will be hosting a Beatles-themed event to raise awareness and excitement about the radio station in the Piazza from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. The radio station will be playing music and have a Beatles backdrop that students can take a photo in front of.

Glow Barre QU Fit Fam will be hosting a glow-in-thedark barre class in Studio A in the Rec Center from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. The event is open to all students of any experience level and will be followed by a social.

Thursday, Oct. 24 QU Car Club Annual Car Smash The QU Car Club is having its annual Fall Car Smash with Wheelers Towing to raise funds for charity. Students can pay $5 to hit a wrecked car five times with a sledgehammer or bat in Hill Village Circle from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 25 Bake Sale Alpha Phi Omega will be hosting a bake sale from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Student Center tables. It will be selling baked goods and candy.

Diners, Drive-Ins and Bingo Students can enjoy free food and play Bingo for a chance to win food-themed prizes with The Student Programming Board (SPB). The event will be held from 10 p.m. to midnight in CCE 101.

Saturday, Oct. 26 Nug Night Students can enjoy free chicken nuggets and fries from their favorite fast food places.

SPB’s event will be held in the Piazza from 10 p.m. to midnight.

Sunday, Oct. 27 Self-Defense Class The Quinnipiac Mixed Martial Arts club will host a self-defense class taught by Robert “RJ” DeSilva at 9:15 p.m. in 207 AC. This class will benefit anyone looking to learn to protect themselves.

Tuesday, Oct. 29 Hand-washing event The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) is hosting a hand-washing event at the tables in the Student Center from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Students can stop by the table and learn some helpful tips to improve hand-washing techniques.

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Welcome back, Democrats

The Quinnipiac Democrats make a comeback as the 2020 Democratic primary enters a critical stage

By WILLIAM GAVIN Contributing Writer

Students showed up in droves to attend the debate watch party co-hosted by the Quinnipiac Democrats and the Quinnipiac Political Science Association Tuesday, Oct. 15, eager to watch a record-breaking 12 candidates make the case for their presidencies.

Members of both associations came out to learn about the presidential candidates and current issues. Students said not only how they came to the party in order to meet new people and discuss the candidates, but also because they understood the importance of political involvement.

“Politics affects everyone, including college students and as long as college students don’t pay attention to politics, politicians won’t pay attention to them,” Ryan Kelly, a freshman accounting major, said.

This is a shift for a campus in which a Quinnipiac Democrats organization has been inactive for the last few years.

Vice President of the Quinnipiac Democrats Hugo Sokolski credits the 2016 election for this enormous wave of political interest.

“Following the unprecedented 2016 election, political climate, I personally believe, has forever been changed,” Sokolski said. “People across the nation, especially students, are becoming polarized and ever more partisan.”

This benefits the Quinnipiac Democrats, an organization that had a fickle presence throughout the last few decades, often only gaining in prominence during periods of political intensity. The organization came to an abrupt end in 1996 following a lack of support and membership for the club, only resurfacing in 2003 when re-founder Brian Salerno noticed the lack of Democratic presence on campus. According to an article from The Chronicle at the time, Salerno had noticed that there was no Democratic club, while there was a long-running Republican group.

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Students gathered in the piazza to eat snacks and watch the debate Oct. 15. cess, bringing attention to more Democratic ideals in the University, even managing to coordinate debates with their cousin-club, the Quinnipiac University Republicans.

Unfortunately for the Quinnipiac Democrats, their momentary success died down. This can be attributed to the general “political apathy” that baffled students and professors alike in 2006.

The Chronicle reported in 2006 that the leadership of both the Quinnipiac Democrats and Republicans were astonished by how apathetic the students of Quinnipiac were.

According to current president, Gina DiVito, the previous version of the club, when she joined in 2016, was, “technically an organization on campus.” She said that the club was lacking in communication, as well as that the club was unable to effectively determine the times of meetings and even whether or not the organization was actually running that year.

Yet DiVito expressed pride in the organization in spite of, or perhaps because of, the obstacles in their way — namely lacking name recognition and proper management.

The goals of the Quinnipiac Democrats remain unchanged. The group is sticking with their old goals and continuing them into a new era: one filled with discourse and heavy partisanship.

The organization focuses on a two-tiered plat-

form of education and activism, and primarily on informing students, then having them take their knowledge into the real world — whether it be working on political campaigns, internships or voting in elections.

“My hope for the organization is that we can be a facilitator of educating about the political process along with hot button issues ... within the ideology itself,” DiVito said While there are no planned events yet, DiVito expressed her desire to take students off campus and get them involved in the political process, perhaps through volunteering for local campaigns or attending rallies for candidates.

DiVito also expressed her support for future debates with the QU Republicans during the 2020 Presidential election season, likely in a similar vein to those held in prior years, and in conjunction with the QU Political Science Association. The president was also open to inviting the Young Americans for Liberty to join the debates. Following this statement, DiVito denounced the idea of a political echo chamber and proclaimed the importance of political diversity and remaining open to all ideas.

“Students should want to be politically active, especially on college campuses because politics affects literally everything,” DiVito said.

“We are all the future of this nation.”

Sloan: ‘This is a school that can turn on a dime’ FUNDRAISING from cover Weinbach spoke about the importance of bringing in new blood. Sloan said during the transition, Weinbach told him to move to a different office. The old office was in the much older portion of the alumni affairs office and it often was too cold or too hot.

In a new office, and with a fresh perspective, Sloan is moving forward on the foundation that Weinbach and others built. He said he already feels at home.

“I have felt more welcomed here since accepting the position than anywhere I’ve ever been, and that includes my alma mater, Penn State,” Sloan said.

Sloan said Quinnipiac can use the strategic plan to motivate alumni to give back.

“Through the strategic plans and the strategic plans of the colleges to create– what are those funding priorities going to be?”

Sloan said. “We can really go to our alums and go to our constituents and say ‘This is how you can really start to invest philanthropically into the university.”

Budget cuts due to lower enrollment in the 2019-20 school year have led to almost all university departments to freeze spending – except for the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and the Office of Development and Alumni Affairs.

“This university of the future plan is really, really exciting to many and we want to achieve it,” President Judy Olian said in a September interview with The Chronicle.

“We want to realize that we want to execute on it and we also need to raise money philanthropically for these purposes.”

The strategic plan includes a new health and wellness facility that Olian said will be partially funded through philanthropy. Bernstein said the Quinnipiac Fund could be used to pay for this project, as well as new sports facilities for club and intramural sports.

Sloan said in his three weeks on campus, he’s already identified Quinnipiac’s biggest strength.

“What’s exciting about here and President Olian had said this to me in the interview process, this is a school that can turn on a dime,” Sloan said. “We can pivot, we are innovative, there is a sense of entrepre-

neurialism. We’re not weighed down by this bureaucracy other schools have.”

Sloan said he and other administrators can capitalize on the flexibility of the university to make drastic changes.

“A mentor of mine once said, put in your calendar, ‘Blow up the organization,’ meaning, rethink it,” Sloan said. “That’s part of what I’m doing right now.”

While Sloan said he has no plans of actually blowing up Quinnipiac, he said he and the senior management team are in the process of evaluating the things that Quinnipiac excels at and the areas that need improvement.

For people like John Arcangelo, director of parent and alumni relations, who have been with the university for a few years, Sloan’s willingness to take risks is promising.

“He’s definitely going to be a partner in all of our initiatives so we’re all very much looking forward to working with Todd and maximizing the opportunities we have with our alumni base, our alumni donors, corporations, foundations,” Arcangelo said. “The sky’s the limit for what we can really do here.”

Mattie: ‘I hope that we come to terms with an aging workforce’ FELLOWSHIP from cover that was presented to a national board,” Mattie said. “They did a peer-reviewed presentation about the pedagogy of developing active interdisciplinary learning activities.”

When Mattie has a chance to become more educated about healthcare, she takes it while seizing every opportunity to involve her students as much as she can.

“Professor Mattie’s dedication to the research and the students enabled us to embark

on an interdisciplinary project,” Sondheim said.

“Professor Mattie was truly dedicated to the success of the interdisciplinary student group working on the project in order to further our experiences and careers.”

Mattie hopes that from her time spent in her current fellows program she can earn the tools necessary to contribute to legislation that affects aging Americans.

“I hope that we will begin to have the conversation for end-of-life care. I hope that we come to terms with an aging workforce,” Mattie said.

“It’s very complicated, so you have to look at it

from an interdisciplinary approach. Quinnipiac is uniquely qualified to do that.”

She said she is grateful for the support she receives from the students and faculty at Quinnipiac to help her tackle these issues the country is facing today.

“I have to give a warm shoutout to my dean, Matt O’Connor,” Mattie said. “Matt has been supportive of the work I do, and meetings I take with health care executives and my desire to do interdisciplinary work. To me, it’s really going to make a difference in our health care system.”

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The rich need to be taxed more

Tax cuts should not benefit corporations or the wealthy

By MAGALI AGUILAR Staff Writer

Imagine having enough money to end world hunger and still have millions left over for yourself. For Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, this is a reality, not an unimaginable concept.

As reported by Forbes, Bezos’ net worth is estimated to be $111.3 billion as of Oct. 16. Bezos founded Amazon in 1994 and since then, it has become the largest internet company by revenue in the world. Amazon is now considered one of the big four technology companies, along with Apple, Google and Facebook.

Amazon has provided jobs for over half a million people around the country and it has brought Bezos an insurmountable amount of wealth. A recent global ranking by Bloomberg Businessweek gave everyone in the world a “wealth number” ranging from -2, the world’s poorest, to 11, the world’s richest. Only two people were ranked at an 11: Bezos and Bill Gates.

As the wealth number decreases, the number of people in the brackets increases, showing how significant of a problem unequal wealth distribution is. The number of people with a wealth number of -2 is estimated at 1.5 billion people.

The world’s top three wealthiest individuals, Bezos, Gates and Warren Buffet, have more money than the poorest half of the population.

The problem of wealth inequality has existed for decades.

In this country, presidents have a history of passing tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthy as well as corporations. Back in December 2017, President Donald Trump signed the Tax

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Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s tax plan calls for taxing Americans with wealth above $50 million.

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Cuts and Jobs Act, which cut individual income tax rates, but also cut the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%. The corporate tax cut is permanent, but the individual tax cut is set to expire at the end of 2025.

The unequal distribution of wealth and the disproportionate tax rates assigned to different tax brackets are two very important issues that citizens in this country, particularly ones in the middle and lower tax brackets, want to see addressed in a way that will benefit them more than it does the wealthy. In the Democratic debate that took place last Tuesday, Oct. 15, Sen. Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts and Sen. Bernie Sanders from Vermont defended their proposals to heavily tax the assets of the wealthiest Americans.

Warren’s tax plan calls for imposing a 2% tax on wealth above $50 million and a 3% tax on wealth above $1 billion. Over the years, Warren intends for these tax rates on wealthier Americans to raise money that she would use to implement a universal child care program, tuition-free public colleges and universities and student debt elimination for most borrowers.

Sanders’ tax plan is a bit more expansive in that it would tax a higher amount on a larger group of wealthy Americans.

His plan would help reduce the billionaire class in America, which he has said before should not exist. There would be a 1% tax on those with assets over $32 million, and the rate would increase gradually until reaching an 8% tax rate.

The tax proposals being presented by Democratic candidates are the latest attempts by the party to collect a substantial amount of revenue from the wealthiest Americans by changing the way they are taxed. Doing so could provide large sums of money to finance new social programs.

Democratic candidate Andrew Yang raised questions about the practicality of imposing a wealth tax and has introduced his own unique idea to work toward distribution of wealth amongst Americans.

Yang has introduced The Freedom Dividend, a form of universal basic income that guarantees a certain amount of money to every citizen within a governed population. Yang proposes a set of guaranteed payments of $1,000 a month to all U.S citizens over the age of 18. Current beneficiaries of welfare programs would be able to choose between welfare

benefits or the $1,000 monthly payments.

While there are pros, cons and differences to the plans Democratic candidates have proposed in order to fix wealth and tax inequality amongst the different economic classes in the country, the fact remains that it is an issue that needs to be solved.

The rich need to be taxed more in order to be able to fund programs for those that are less fortunate. No one person should have so much wealth to themselves and not contribute to the society that helped them succeed. People like Bezos and Gates came up with ideas that consumers fed into and it’s their moral obligation to contribute back to society.

If Bezos has enough money to end world hunger and still have millions left over, it doesn’t make sense for him not to do so. Amazon is one of the most dominant internet companies and it doesn’t show signs of slowing down. There should not be people going hungry and sleeping in the outdoors while people like Bezos have more money than they could possibly need.

The younger generation and people most affected by tax cuts that benefit large corporations and the wealthy need to make their voices heard. Many of the candidates running are proposing plans that will tax the wealthy appropriately. Those who are able need to vote for a candidate that will fight for the rights of the working and middle class, not the wealthy.

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A world that needs to be more accepting With the rise of anti-Semitism, this world needs to embrace religious tolerance

By JESSICA SIMMS Arts & Life Editor

As a Jewish-American woman, I am fortunate to say that I have not personally faced many acts of anti-Semitism, the hostility or prejudice against Jews. However, as a Jew living in the United States, I am still scared for myself and my fellow Jews due to the rising numbers of anti-semitic acts happening throughout country.

Just last year, the U.S experienced near-historic levels of anti-Semitism, according to a report documented by the AntiDefamation League (ADL). There were 1,879 attacks on Jewish institutions and Jews, making 2018 the third-highest year for anti-semitic acts on record since the ADL began tracking this data. However, in New York City, anti-Semitic hate crimes are up 63% compared to the amount in 2018 and in Massachusetts, there has been already 60 incidents of anti-Semitism reported, where in past years, like 2018, there were 35 reported incidents, according to WNYC Studios.

With this rise in anti-Semitic acts, it is a scary time to be a Jew. Seeing nearby communities being impacted by these crimes has been hard to watch. A town just a little under an hour away from my hometown, Franklin, Massachusetts, was just recently impacted by a form of anti-Semitism, when middle school students posted anti-Semitic comments over Snapchat. It is scary to see the children of our future acting in ways that I would have thought would be eliminated by now.

Hating others based off of differences such as religion, race and beliefs is not OK and seeing children acting that way toward their fellow classmates is upsetting. This hatred needs to stop now.

Not only are communities in the U.S having a rise in the number of anti-Semitic crimes occurring, so are other countries. Just very recently, on Yom Kippur, one of the holiest days of the year for Jews, there was a shooting rampage right outside a synagogue in Halle, Germany. This is just one example, probably one of the most disturbing examples, in my opinion, since it occurred outside a synagogue, a house of prayer for Jews, on one of the High Holy Days for the Jews.

This world needs to be more accepting of others, and the past few years have marked a disappointing trend of intolerance. For minorities, it is hard to be accepted and it has been recently, since the most recent presidential election. Two of the biggest acts of

A woman mourns the losses of the Pittsburgh shooting. anti-semitism in the U.S. occurred since Donald Trump was elected: the Pittsburgh shooting on Oct. 27, 2018, taking 11 lives and the Poway shooting on April 27, 2018, occurring the last day of Passover, another important Jewish holiday. Lori Gilbert Kaye, a woman who threw herself in front of the rabbi of the synagogue that this happened at, died that day.

The entire world is in a crisis of hatred toward those who deem themselves as different, but we are all different, aren’t we? If we were all exactly the same, then this world would just be sad. We need a little bit of uniqueness in our world making us the people

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that we are, but if we just criticized and condemned people’s differences, in turn, then we would all be hated on.

As a Jew, this topic was easy to write about, since it hits so close to home for me, but this world really needs everyone’s help to completely wipe out the hatred of another being different from yourself. We need to be more accepting, embracing people’s differences, no matter if they look different than you, believe in a different faith than you and are from a different place than you. Being different is what makes you who you are and we need to accept that.

Remembering America’s moral compass The life and legacy of Elijah Cummings serve as a reminder that, ‘We are better than this’

By EMILY DISALVO News Editor

Elijah Cummings is the embodiment of what America should stand for. He is the man reminding us that it is better to listen than to talk. He reminds us that we should choose our words carefully and precisely. He reminds us that we are living for our children, for the future. He reminds us that those who are last, come first.

His death on Oct. 17, reminds us that we as Americans must carry on his vision of morality, honesty and compassion in government and in life.

Cummings represented Maryland’s 7th Congressional District since 1996 and was a relentless champion for the people of Baltimore.

In Congress, he was chair of the Oversight Committee and was a leader in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.

Watching or reading political news in today’s day in age is exhausting. It is polarized, it is dramatic and sometimes it’s plain old scary. For me, Cummings’ voice over the airwaves was a voice of reason and a voice of relief.

He spoke in carefully-worded, passionate orations motivated by a love of democracy, rather than in tweets motivated by a massive ego.

His legislative goals focused on the people living at the margins of society, rather than the wealthiest business owners. He championed passing gun safety measures, ending mass incarceration and enacting criminal justice reform, rather than satisfying the NRA. He saw Baltimore as a city of beautiful people, not as a city of rats and crime.

He was known for respecting the perspectives of those across the aisle, rather than throwing temper tantrums and calling names.

He believed in the integrity of the voting system and protecting voting rights, instead of inviting foreign interference into the elections.

He believed families belonged together, not apart.

He saw America for something that was already great. He was known to remind his co-workers in the house that, “As a country,

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Elijah Cummings died Oct. 17, in Baltimore, Maryland, at John Hopkins Hospital.

we are so much better than this.”

He saw diversity as an asset to America, rather than a threat worth building a wall around.

When not in Washington D.C., he lived in inner-city Baltimore with his constituents, instead of returning to a posh golf resort.

He showed compassion for Michael Cohen and forgave him for his offenses. He embraced his willingness to stand up against corruption, unlike the man Cohen represented.

Cummings is the antithesis of Donald Trump and it is our job as Americans to carry on his legacy and pick up his work where he left off.

We must listen, truly listen to people when they are shar-

ing their grievances.

We must love America — the rats, the crime, all of it — and think about ways to reduce the rats and revamp the criminal justice system, rather than pretending it isn’t part of our country.

We must respect other perspectives, and respond thoughtfully and carefully, with the dignity of the other person in mind.

We must stand up for voting rights and advocate for legislation to protect the integrity of our elections.

We must call family separation policies what they are — racist.

We must remember that patriotism is knowing and understanding that America was always great and that we are so much better than this moment of division and confusion that Trump has driven us into.

We must welcome diversity and build bridges, not walls.

We elect government officials that represent the common Americans — not the ones that can afford to play golf at Mar-o-Lago.

We must show compassion for everyone, regardless of their past.

If we want to remember and respect the legacy of this great American, we must remember to continue where Cummings left off.

So many columnists and journalists have cited Cummings’ famous phrase about “dancing with angels.” Cummings is dancing with the angels now for sure, but he’s also watching Washington. He’s looking at us like his father looked at him when he was sworn into the House of Representatives for the first time.

On that day, his father said to him, “Isn’t the place they used to call us slaves? Isn’t this the place where they used to call us threefifths of a man? Isn’t this the place they used to call us cattle?”

Cummings answered, “Yes, sir,” and his father continued.

“When I see you being sworn in today, I now see what I could have been if I had had an opportunity.”

Cummings is watching us right now as his father watched him that day. He sees the possibilities we have to embrace hatred and division, or to embrace love and respect. He had an opportunity to embrace love and respect and he seized that opportunity.

It’s our turn now.

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By EMILY DISALVO News Editor

A passerby strolling the sidewalks may have heard an unusual chant emanating from the New Haven Green Saturday, Oct. 19.

“We are the menstrual movement! Say it with me! We are the menstrual movement," chanted Mariam Khan, a 17-yearold senior at Hamden High School and Connecticut PERIOD’s lead organizer for the rally to promote period equity.

The point of the chant though, was that talking about one’s menstrual cycle shouldn’t be unusual at all. The rally was hosted by Connecticut PERIOD, which is the local chapter of PERIOD, a non-profit fighting to end period poverty and stigma.

The rally was an opportunity for activists, students, women and supporters to talk openly and loudly about their periods, a topic that is normally spoken about in code or in whispers.

“When we have to go use the bathroom, we’re not going to hide our pad under our shirt and pretend it’s not there,” Khan said to a crowd of about a hundred enthusiastic activists. “We’re going to wave it around and be like ‘I’m on my period!’”

Period pride was the central theme of the event, which consisted of an hour and a half of chanting, speeches, songs, poetry and camaraderie. Attendees held red signs plastered with statements like “Stop Period Poverty” and “#PeriodPositive.”

The organizers of the event, who were all local high school students, outlined three major goals their movement hoped to accomplish.

The first was to eliminate the luxury tax on feminine hygiene products that exists in 35 of the 50 states.

Connecticut is one of the 15 without a tax, but protestors were eager to support their neighbors.

Rachel Spells of New Haven said she brought her niece to the rally because it is important to understand the inequality of the tax.

“On top of us not making as much as men, we also then are taxed, a luxury tax, on a necessity of life,” Spells said.

“She should know this, she should start the fight now.”

The second goal of the rally was to increase access to pads for those who cannot afford them.

Rachel Spells and her niece attended the rally to protest the inequality of the luxury tax on feminine hygiene products.

Menstruators and allies congregate on the New Haven Green to end the stigma and inequality associated with periods

Eileen Berry of Granby, Connecticut, is a member of Days for Girls, which creates and distributes sustainable feminine hygiene products. She agreed that it is unfair to women who cannot afford to buy feminine hygiene products in stores. Her organization provides an alternative.

They distribute cloth feminine hygiene pads that can be used and washed over and over for four years. She said she is teaching women, particularly in Kenya, how to make these pads themselves, which empowers them to break the cycle of poverty and oppression that starts when girls get their periods in developing nations.

“Young girls don’t have any sanitary products and when young girls don’t have any sanitary products, they have to drop out of school,” Berry said. “When they drop out of school, the dads know, now they can produce babies. So the dads sell them off (to get married), but if we can keep them in school, they get educated and the world is getting bigger and the girls are understanding, ‘I have other choices.’”

The third goal of the rally was to decrease the stigma around periods. Khan acknowledged how hard and awkward it can be to talk about one’s period.

“I’m sure everyone has their personal story with the period stigma and that’s why we are here to change that. We are going to lead a movement,” Khan said.

The rally also had legislative goals in mind, beyond increasing awareness and activism. State Sen. Alex Bergstein, who represents Greenwich, New Canaan and Stamford, spoke at the rally about the importance of petitioning the government to take action on providing free period products and gender equality in general.

“I want Connecticut to be the leader in eliminating all barriers, for everyone, so everyone can be fully empowered so we can achieve gender equality, and that’s what we want, that’s what we deserve and that’s what we’re going to keep fighting for,” Bergstein said.

Bergstein introduced two Greenwich High School seniors, Amy Barratt and Charlotte Hallisey, who have started a petition, which garnered 1,200 signatures, asking the Connecticut Legislature to pass a bill requiring free period products in all public schools.

“When that bill gets introduced in Hartford, hopefully sometime this spring, I need you all to come to the Capitol

and make your voices heard,” Bergstein said. “Are you going to do that? With your voices that is how we make change happen. Do we have a date? Will I see you at the Capitol?”

The crowd roared their approval for Bergstein and two young activists who have already convinced the Greenwich Board of Education to enact the same rule within their school system.

Other speakers included Megan McNamara of Manchester, Connecticut, a fertility awareness educator. She said her approach is looking at the whole menstrual cycle, not just the time when women bleed and she seeks to educate women about why they bleed.

“I’ve had clients into their 30s and early 40s who still don’t know why they bleed or what menstruation is and the biological processes behind that,” McNamara said before her speech. “I feel like education is the root of empowerment and being able to speak up about fertility and periods more candidly and openly.”

During her speech, McNamara talked about how she has gotten to a point in her life in which she embraces her period rather than hates it. She said she used to make jokes about her period, but said these jokes are toxic.

“I still joked about my bleed with friends calling it the ‘red curse’ and all these other derogatory names,” McNamara said. “Doing that at the time just seemed silly, but we were actually perpetuating all this negativity and fear and limiting beliefs about our cycles by using those words.”

At least one Quinnipiac student attended the rally, at the encouragement of her friend who attends the University of New Haven. First-year law student Kayla Steefel said she was glad she came.

“It’s not just a woman’s issue,” Steefel said. “It’s an everybody issue, in my opinion.”

One of the high school organizers, Farah Najjari delivered a poem about the period movement called “More than a woman.” The previously rambunctious crowd listened silently and intently as she delivered her powerful words.

“This body, it’s sharp edges, gentle curves,” Najjari read.

“It is laced with battle scars because we women are survivors.

And not one leering face or angry word can take away what we have fought for today. Remember, life giver, miracle creator, magic maker, woman. You are more than just a woman.”

State Sen. Alex Bergstein spoke at the rally about the importance of petitioning the government for gender equality.

Hamden High School students helped lead the rally as members of Connecticut PERIOD.

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THE COLOR PINK IS THE COLOR OF H PE Survivors, volunteers and loved ones came together to fight breast cancer

By JESSICA SIMMS Arts & Life Editor

The color pink was spotted from all over the Lighthouse Point Park on Sunday, Oct. 20. People from all around Connecticut came together to walk, volunteer and celebrate Making Strides of Greater New Haven’s 13th annual breast cancer walk.

The American Cancer Society started the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk to bring together communities to help fight against the deadly disease of breast cancer.

These walks, that occur nationwide, help raise money for the American Cancer Society to continue breast cancer research and provide other patient services, such as free rides to chemotherapy treatments, free places to stay near where these treatments occur and to continue having a live, 24/7 cancer helpline.

“Remember, what unites us, ignites us,” Danny Lyons, the main speaker of New Haven’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk, said right before the walk began.

“Today we are all united in our effort to defeat breast cancer.

Don’t let the excitement and hope that you feel today end when the walk is over.”

Hundreds of loved ones, survivors, supporters and teams made up of families, students and friends stood by the pink starting line at around 1 p.m. to begin walking for the hope to cure breast cancer. Many teams wore shirts with the name of someone they were walking for, just like Christa Anderson and the team she was walking with.

“I am here (at Making Strides of Greater New Haven walk) to support one of my dear friends, Audrey,” Anderson said wearing a shirt with Audrey’s name on it. “This is my first time (participating in the walk). (Audrey’s) fighting breast cancer right now. She should be (at the walk) soon too. That’s why we’re here.”

Alongside walkers, supporters and volunteers, the walk was also blessed to have many breast cancer survivors attending and participating in the walk. These survivors were encouraged to stop by a booth, just meant for them, to pick up sashes to wear, roses and pins indicating how long they have been cancer free for.

“It is an honor to work at the survivor table,” Suzanne Powell, a volunteer working at the survivor table, said. “To cheer them on and listen to their story and celebrate them.

We were asked to do it and happy to volunteer.”

Volunteers, just like Powell, helped make the overall experience of the Making Strides of Greater New Haven walk be special and meaningful for the teams, walkers and survivors that came out to participate. Not only did

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Breast cancer survivors received sashes and pins at the walk to celebrate the amount of years they have been cancer-free. these volunteers help run booths, such as face painting and booths to buy merchandise, but a lot of these volunteers had strong connections to the cause of breast cancer and overall dedication to help make the experience for any one who came out to walk, the best it could be.

“I just enjoy helping people,” Renee Kennedy, a volunteer at the Making Strides of Greater New Haven walk. “This is a great event. You know people who have survived and went on and it is just good to give back.”

Quinnipiac University students also came out to volunteer and make teams to participate to help benefit this meaningful cause. Students from many organizations, such as sororities and fraternities, worked booths, such as the face painting one, to help out the volunteer staff.

“My aunt had breast cancer and some of my family members did, so it means a lot to me to be able to come out here and help out as much as I can,” Delaney Brown, a junior history major, said.

Walkers stood at the starting line at 1 p.m. to officially begin the walk.

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For all, the walk was powerful. The feeling of community, camaraderie and hope took over the Lighthouse Point Park as walkers, volunteers and survivors came out in front of the stage, waiting for the walk to begin, listening to speakers, such as Dawn White, who have a personal connection to breast cancer and the American Cancer Society.

“My mother was a breast cancer survivor for 12 years,” White, the president of Sisters' Journey, a breast cancer support and advocacy group for women of color, said.

“Unfortunately, she eventually passed away from metastatic breast cancer. My personal experience with the American Cancer Society was when my mother was sick with breast cancer for the second time and I was absolutely devastated and looking for answers. I called ACS and not only got answers to my questions, but also got comfort in knowing day or night I could call someone to talk about what I was going through with my mom.”

Connection to breast cancer was a reason why some people decided to come volunteer or participate in the walk on a crisp fall day, but for some others, the feeling of community is what helped them decide to come out to the Making Strides of Greater New England walk.

“Just being together,” Kennedy said about what she hopes herself and others take away from this event. “Just being here for each other, no matter if you know them (the other) or not. Praying for them.”

Hope is another reason why people came out to the walk.

The idea that maybe there will be a world without forms of cancer, such as breast cancer, is what helped people decide to come and participate in the walk. The fact that the United States, with help from walks and events such as Making Strides, is helping increase the survival rate of breast cancer.

“Your help in the American Cancer Society made progress possible and because of that, their efforts are having an impact,” Lyons said into the microphone before the walk began. “Listen to this statistic. The United States breast cancer death rate has declined, yet again, from the time in 1991. This time by 40%. That translates to more than 348,000 lives saved.”

With statistics like that, showing that participants in walks, such as Making Strides, can make an impact, people leave the walk, feeling hopeful, encouraged and motivated to continue making an impact.

Kathy Duda, volunteer at the survivor table, listed off what she hopes participants and volunteers take away from being at the Making Strides event.

"Encouragement. Hope. Awareness.”

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October 23, 2019

DISNEY SHOWS ITS BIG EARS

Will Disney+ triumph over Netflix and other streaming services?

By MATTHEW TRAVIA Staff Writer

Disney fans, hopefully you’ve been counting down the days until Disney’s new ultimate streaming service — something big is coming from Mickey Mouse.

We all know about Disney, with its multiple theme parks around the world and its well-known characters, Disney is one of, if not, the most popular corporation in today’s world.

Walt Disney had a vision for his brand to be known around the world one day and it has. Disney has kept moving forward with its brand. It has been making people smile while making its fair share of money.

Disney knows how to make money from its customers but it does it in a way where customers know what they are getting out of it. It can make its customers feel as if they are getting their money’s worth. Whether it is from the theme parks, resorts, television shows and movies, its customers always feel happy from what they’re getting.

Now Disney has another way to keep its fans entertained while making its money. It has decided to create an all Disney streaming service called Disney+. The new streaming service is set to be huge.

Disney+ comes out on Nov. 12, and there’s so much to it that will make many fans excited. With a lot of content to be added, fans will never be bored of watching anything Disney.

The first thing that has to be discussed is the price of Disney+. For a monthly subscription, the price will be around $7. For a yearly subscription, it will cost around $70 which is roughly around $5.83 a month. There will also be a bundle deal that features Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ for only a subscription of $13.

Before people start judging Disney+ solely off of the prices, there is so much content that is coming with the streaming service it will absolutely be worth considering subscribing.

Disney+ is set to have all of Disney’s original content which includes its television shows and its original movies.

Not just its current shows and original movies, but all of its original shows and movies will be on Disney+. For the older viewers, that would mean its childhood comes back and

Disney+ will be released on Nov. 12. they get to relive the nostalgia. Even the classic movies that Disney and Pixar have made will also be featured on Disney+.

Disney+ also features all of its other owned brands such as Marvel, Star Wars and National Geographic. And for a couple of bucks extra, you can have all of that content including Hulu and ESPN+.

It doesn’t stop there, however, as Disney+ will also feature original, exclusive content. This also includes Fox programming such as “The Simpsons” and “Malcolm in the Middle.” Now Disney+ sounds like it’ll be a great deal now, right?

With the new streaming service coming out, will there be competition with another popular streaming service such as Netflix? It probably doesn’t seem like a competition

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since a subscription to Netflix is $16 monthly. Price is one thing, but the amount of content also shows Netflix slacks in comparison to Disney+.

Netflix’s streaming service doesn’t seem to have a lot of things that makes it stand out, it does have good original content but it loses some of the movies or shows that it features. Disney will keep its original content thanks to ownership, and it owns a fair share of additional content with Fox, so it wouldn’t be losing what it puts on.

Disney is doing what it does best and that’s finding a way to make its audience of all ages engaged with its content and making money. Its new streaming service will provide quality content for everyone.

‘BIG MOUTH’ SEASON THREE EXPLORES

GROWING UP, PUBERTY ... AND BEYOND Netflix’s comedy stays with the times while reminding us of our past

By PHIL AKRE Staff Writer

“Big Mouth” is a great show, depending on who you ask.

Some think its unabashed approach to explaining teenage years is indeed unconventional, yet tastefully done. Others may view it overdone or too profane, even a little much for Netflix standards.

But that’s why Nick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg’s show has been a critical success — it doesn’t adhere to a set of rules.

It's always been its own, offering a familiar feel in animated comedies, but in a refreshing, sometimes volatile manner. Season three continues the things fans fell in love with from seasons one and two, from a diverse range of characters and the clever stories based on teenage problems, from large to small.

What season three excels is with character development.

We meet an entirely new side of the shows regulars, such as Missy’s confident and often brash attitude, or Jay’s admission of bisexuality. Character individuality and their representations have long made the shows character’s easily admirable. They represent the people, situations and growing pains many of us encountered in adolescence. In a larger sense, many of the shows bigger takeaways hold up into and beyond early adulthood.

There’s a reason the shows one-liners are often on point, and it’s partially thanks to the hormone monsters for proper delivery.

As in seasons one and two, both Maurice and Connie reside in the limelight. Such is the case in episode five, “Florida,” when Nick and Andrew venture to Florida for a spring break vacation.

Upon arrival, Nick is disappointed to find out the “vacation” is really a few days at Andrew’s grandfather’s retirement home.

Always quick to brighten moods, Maurice and Connie appear in exactly what you’d imagine a recently Florida retiree wearing the unbuttoned button-down, golden chain, slicked hair and tinted sunglasses. It’s the small moments that usually do the trick in Big Mouth, and the hormone duo excels in that area.

While the hormone duo flashes its brilliance, new characters also a chance to shine. Matthew, the single gay student at Nick and Andrew’s middle school, is a shining example. Mostly a secondary character in the first two seasons, he gains a ton of screen time this time around. His increased role focuses on him landing a crush of his, which he succeeds in doing. Matthew is one of the few

Hormone monsters, Maurice and Connie, still play pivotal roles in season three of 'Big Mouth.' characters in the show that audiences can consistently side with.

He is sweet, clever and plenty funny. Every character is, but most with glaring personal weaknesses.

Love or hate her, Missy shines in season three. She certainly has her standout moments and gains a new sense of confidence in just a matter of episodes. Her sequences as spaceship captain when controlling her emotions are creative and make a simple scene something brand new. There’s something to admire about Missy, and we’ve all known one at some point in our lives. We may not think we act as awkward as her, but we sure have surely related to her on a number of feelings.

Nick and Andrew remain the show's best pairing, and there’s something to be said about Andrew’s reactions. You feel bad for his self-induced panic attacks, though it’s hard not to laugh at the situations he nearly always gets himself into.

Most notably of season three is the show’s increased ability to stay with the times in a fresh way. There are constant references

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to now-everyday terms, like Venmo, Snapchat and smart phone addiction. It also succeeds in showing various causes of modern teenage stress, like phone addiction and overreaction to ordinary problems. Nick soon becomes obsessed with his phone, effectively offering a reality check to the viewer on their own relationship with technology.

Perhaps that’s why the newest season feels like one of the best yet. There’s a lot to unpack in the episodes, but the messages are usually easy to see. We’re reminded, once again, that growing up can suck sometimes. But, it doesn’t have to as much if you’re around a few people who care. It also offers the painful reminder that growing up means growing apart from people and the past.

For a coming-of-age show with a more nudity than ever (yes there's a lot more), it seems hard to believe that these values can come across so simply. “Big Mouth” portrays the modern teen, but it holds us closely to the past versions of ourselves.

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VETERANS In addition to losing Young, the Bobcats said farewell to seniors Abdulai Bundu, Aaron Robinson and Andrew Robinson. The 2019-20 team doesn’t have any seniors, so Kelly, redshirt junior forward Kevin Marfo and junior forward Jacob Rigoni will be leaned on as the leaders of the young team.

Since freshman year, when Kelly was thrown “into the fire,” according to Dunleavy, the point guard has had a significant role in the offense. He led the team in minutes played his freshman year and was third last season.

Another year in which Kelly takes on a significant role is expected, but he may see more time off the ball with redshirt freshman Savion Lewis entering the lineup.

It’s a role that Kelly isn’t accustomed to, but he’s excited for it nevertheless. He said the last time he played off the ball was in his junior year of high school.

“I think sometimes I’m going to have to take a little more of a scoring mentality this year when I’m off the ball,” Kelly said. “I’m ready to flip the switch a little bit when needed.”

Despite primarily playing point guard thus far, he showed the ability to knock down threes consistently during his sophomore season. From his freshman to sophomore year, he jumped from 31.7% to 45.7% in his three-point percentage by lowering his release point. He said he studied guards such as Steve Nash and Stephen Curry to quicken his release.

Kelly’s new role in the offense is not the only offensive shakeup. With Young gone, Marfo understands that everyone has to contribute. He sees a lot of ball movement thus far in the scrimmages; assist numbers are reaching 25. Marfo only expects that number to keep rising throughout the season.

Rigoni, like Kelly, will see a larger role in the offense. The junior forward brings an elite level of three-point shooting to the team. He scored 10.3 PPG on 38.2% from three on 5.6 attempts per game last season.

As he sees his offensive game expand, he’ll look to return to his freshman year shooting numbers. In 33 games, Rigoni shot 45.5% from distance on 5.0 attempts per game.

With Rigoni and Kelly seeing expanded roles, Marfo sees potential in the offense and believes that different players will be scoring in double figures throughout the season. If one guy is cold, someone else will step up in his place.

Marfo then talked about the importance of the defensive side of the game. Marfo is the anchor of the team. He led the Bobcats in defensive rating — an estimate of points allowed per 100 possessions, according to Basketball Reference — with a 100.6 rating. The next closest was Bundu at 104.2.

“I was never an offensive player, so the defensive side comes much easier to me,” Marfo said. “I think it’s about learning and forcing yourself to want more and have more of a mindset that you got to take things personal on the defensive side. And once we start doing that, I think that’s when we can be a real scary team.”

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Redshirt junior forward Kevin Marfo and sophomore Tyree Pickron celebrate during a game.

NEWCOMERS Marfo has taken freshman center Seth Pinkney under his wing early in the season. The two have the potential to be the top two defensive players on the roster, both protecting the rim at a high level.

“Seth is super talented,” Marfo said. “I tell him that all day, every day I see him. Want more from yourself because he’s so shy. He’s seven feet, but he doesn’t know he’s seven feet yet.”

Pinkney stands at 7-foot-1-inch, the tallest player Quinnipiac has ever rostered. His height and length are paired with rare mobility for a player of his size.

He joins the Bobcats after playing a postgraduate year on the 2018-19 Center for Basketball Development (CBD) National team at Montverde Academy in Montverde, Florida.

The CBD is designed to make student athletes more fundamentally sound while also developing a strong skill set. While Pinkney didn’t play with other Montverde alum, including firstround draft picks RJ Barrett, D’Angelo Russell and Ben Simmons, he still brings a great deal of experience to Quinnipiac.

In his short time here, he’s been open to learning something new every practice. “(He’s) always asking for feedback and moving onto the next play,” Kelly said. “He never gets too down on himself, and I’m really looking forward to that. (He’s) just that type of guy when you’re in battles and he’s like ‘What’s next?’”

Alongside Pinkney, the Bobcats welcome freshmen forwards Brendan McGuire and Jamal Riggins and graduate student forward Aaron Falzon.

Falzon, who according to ESPN was ranked 75th in the nation in the class of 2015, redshirted his sophomore season after suffering a season-ending injury just three games into the season. He’ll play his last year of eligibility with the Bobcats.

The graduate student adds to the team’s offense with good three-point shooting. In his freshman and redshirt sophomore seasons, he shot 35.4% and 37.5%, respectively. In his redshirt junior season, he shot 31.7%, but he was limited to 17 games due to injuries.

Falzon formerly played for Northwestern in the Big Ten, a top-tier basketball conference.

This allowed him to bring a different level of experience to the Bobcats.

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“Almost every night it’s a big game, it’s a huge game,” Falzon said. “The arenas are sold out, everything’s loud, everybody’s energetic.”

That said, Falzon is still in his first year with Quinnipiac and is already learning what it takes to be a Bobcat from the underclassmen.

“I kind of felt like the freshman again,” Falzon said. “Every day they’ve kind of helped me become part of the program.”

Some of the underclassmen, specifically two redshirt freshman Lewis and Matt Balanc, haven’t touched the hardwood yet.

Despite not playing last year, both players have been able to practice and bond with the team.

Balanc, a bouncy, 6-foot-3 guard, is expected to come off the bench for Dunleavy. He does a little bit of everything on both ends of the floor but will primarily be used as an energy player. “(Dunleavy) made it clear that I was going to come in and be a hustle player, someone who can just really get the team going,” Balanc said.

“I can score and stuff like that, but I’m going to bring the team together, make some hustle plays and hard-working plays.”

Lewis, New York’s 2018 Mr. Basketball — an award given to the top high school boys’ basketball player — has showcased his quickness and ability to drive to the rim. Dunleavy is most excited for his driving capabilities along with his activeness on the defensive end of the floor.

In addition, Lewis is fearless attacking the basket. He’s listed at 6-foot-1 and 165 pounds, but isn’t afraid of any big. Part of this is his mentality, but his physical growth over his freshman season plays a huge part as well.

“It doesn’t really scare me at any point,” Lewis said. “I don’t see a bigger guy as someone that’s going to take me off my game or make me not want to take a certain shot.”

Lewis is expected to play a lot of point guard for the Bobcats this season, even if Kelly is on the court. The two point guards have different play styles, as Lewis is quicker and more athletic in comparison to Kelly.

That said, Lewis said he studies Kelly’s game and has learned to become more patient and disciplined, allowing him to read the defense better.

Both point guards feed off of each other and it’s clear that the two have a special bond thus far.

“Savion is not only a great player, he’s also a great guy,” Kelly said. “Naturally, as a player, you’re a point guard and you see another point guard come in and you’re like, ‘Oh, this is my competition.’

“I met him knowing he’s a great dude, so I was happy to have him. I think we play well together, and when I’m not in, I think he does a great job as well.”

The new-look Bobcats are turning the page and beginning a new chapter of basketball in Hamden.

Kelly was selected to the MAAC AllRookie Team and the All-MAAC Second Team in his freshman and sophomore seasons respectively but remains focused on goals beyond individual success.

When asked what’s next in his development, Kelly simply said, “A MAAC Championship.”

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“I remember how she was extremely frustrated with the whole process,” Savage said.

“Because it was really hard to catch up to where everyone else was because they had been playing before and she was the only one that came on that hadn’t played before.”

Savage said her and other freshmen would work with Maples after practice each day to help her with the basics. On the field during practices and games, Maples was surrounded by upperclassmen who had AllAmerican talent. The team fostered an environment where Maples could not just learn the game but also excel at it.

“They helped me a lot,” Maples said. “I wouldn’t have been able to learn so quickly if they weren’t so patient and understanding that I literally had no idea what I was doing.”

Sometimes, that help came through tough love.

“One of our first practices, we were

The Quinnipiac Chronicle learning to tackle, and I was in a group with Hailey Wyatt who was an All-American and Karee Helgerson who’s just so strong,” Maples said. “And I just got put on my butt just time after time after time. I just remember laying there and I was like, ‘Why did I choose to do this? This sucks.’ But I’m happy I did.”

Her biggest supporter may have come from back home. Her father played rugby in college at the University of Montana. He taught her the basic rules before she left and spoke with her every day during her freshman year, learning how his daughter progressed in the sport that brought him joy during his college years.

“I think he’s kind of astonished that I stepped into his shoes a little bit because I was supposed to go do track in college,” Maples said. “Rugby was not an option. And then it became one and he was like, ‘Oh, this is so cool. My daughter’s doing exactly what I did.’”

With the help of her father, her coaches and her teammates, Maples turned into one of the best collegiate players in the country, and possibly one of the humblest. She’s become a leader who looks out for her teammates and uplifts them even during the team’s recent struggles.

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Senior center Mikah Maples hesitates as she approaches a defender.

“On the field definitely she’s a threat,” Savage said. “Off the field, people can go to her and she just kind of provides a positive spirit for everyone.”

That positive spirit is easy to spot. Questions about her accomplishments elicit responses from her that are more about the team instead of herself.

“To see us grow from our freshman to our senior years and see us all improve so much, I love that,” Maples said. “It’s fun to celebrate everybody else’s accomplishments.”

Maples doesn’t just want individual accomplishments for her teammates and herself.

She wants to win. Winning two national championships in one’s first two seasons could spoil an athlete and ruin his or her love for the game when the team can’t match that same success.

For Maples, there’s no semblance of a spoiled athlete. Just one who looks like she’s having the time of her life.

“Mikah is always playing to win,” Carlson said. “If we were 0-10, she would give you the same interview about how she loves the sport. It’s rare.”

Carlson knows players like Maples can help the game grow at the collegiate level.

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In the two-game series against Maine, the Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey team took 28 more shots on goal than Maine.

Volleyball sophomore outside hitters Georgia Tselepi and Olga Zampati and senior middle blocker Kaleigh Oates tallied 36 kills against Niagara.

In the 60th minute, women’s soccer sophomore forward Emily Loney buried a penalty kick to give the Bobcats a 1-0 win over Saint Peter’s.

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chosen sport at the collegiate level, but that doesn’t mean they can’t find a new path. Maples is a perfect example of what’s possible for a dedicated athlete when he or she tries something new.

“It’s a continued process to bolster rugby onto the NCAA stage,” Carlson said. “And players like Mikah are proof that rugby belongs in the NCAA and can cater to that triplesport athlete that maybe they want to do something different. They have all the athleticism and all the tools to be able to seamlessly insert themselves into this game.”

Maples didn’t just seamlessly insert herself into the game. She dominated it. She’ll be remembered as a hard worker who started with no experience but became a team leader. She was a triple-sport athlete who became an AllAmerican in a sport she didn’t need. She’ll be the role model for other athletes who want to try a new sport. But they’ll have to learn it took her more than athleticism to be successful.

“You can have a triple-sport athlete and them not have the desire and the drive that Mikah has,” Carlson said. “Aand it wouldn’t end this way. It wouldn’t be like this. But she has it.”

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In the shadow of Sleeping Giant, the Quinnipiac Rugby Field is an impressive sight.

When you combine it with the piercing sounds of lawn seeders roaming the grounds, you get the impression the Sleeping Giant is wide awake, roaring as he stands tall above it all.

It’s a strong image. But it doesn’t come close to the strength senior center Mikah Maples brings when she steps on the field.

“She’s just a workhorse,” Quinnipiac rugby head coach Becky Carlson said. “She was always strong when she came in.”

In her four years on the team, Maples has put together an impressive résumé. She has two national championships under her belt.

As a junior, she was named team MVP and earned NIRA All-American honors. Other teams make sure to set time aside to scout her, an impressive feat in a sport with so few teams and such little exposure.

The most impressive part of her résumé may be that her story doesn’t begin with her experience on a club rugby team, or with any rugby experience at all. Her story begins as a three-sport athlete in high school, in a town of 1,831 people.

The city of Moweaqua is in the center of Illinois. That’s fitting for an athlete who deservedly became the city’s center of attention while in high school. As a volleyball player, she earned All-Area honors. In basketball, her team won a state title. On the track and field team, she earned state medals in both the discus and shot put.

She had the chance to continue her career in track and field and became a member of Quinnipiac’s team her freshman year. But a connection between her high school basketball coach and Carlson crafted a different path for Maples that can only be explained as destiny.

“One of the athletes that graduated several years after me ended up being Mikah’s basketball coach,” Carlson said. “She happened

to mention to me, ‘Hey I know you guys love crossover athletes, I got this kid, she plays basketball, she’s got every bit of the work ethic.’ I was like, ‘Don’t tell me anything else. I want to just see her play basketball. I want to see this.’”

Carlson saw an energetic player who passed that energy on to her teammates. She saw a player who told a reporter at halftime of a state championship game that her team wouldn’t lose. She saw a signature celebration that Maples ended up bringing to the Quinnipiac rugby field. Most of all, she saw an athlete who didn’t need rugby, but chose it anyway.

“Mikah could easily have gone and played Division III, Division II basketball,” Carlson said. “She’s that talented. I’m sure she could have played volleyball. There’s many things that Mikah could have done.”

Most collegiate rugby players come from a background in club rugby. There are a few who have no background in the sport, but Carlson thinks there could be more if coaches

paid attention. She’s seen the unique mentality of three-sport athletes drive them to success when they try something new, including rugby. Maples was no exception.

“Mikah just looked at this and was like, ‘This is a new challenge for me, and I want to do something different,’” Carlson said. “And I don’t think she’s alone in that.”

The story would be great if it went to say Maples was a rugby natural the moment she stepped onto the pitch. It would also be untrue.

Maples struggled at first. The skills that make up a great rugby player take time to develop, even for an athlete like herself.

“I didn’t know how to tackle,” Maples said. “I didn’t know how to pass. I didn’t know all the rules. I couldn’t learn that at home by myself, so I just had to wait until I got here.”

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THREE IN THE KEY

A new chapter

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Silence.

Junior guard Rich Kelly remembers the quiet locker room following the 98-92 loss to the Monmouth Hawks in the MAAC quarterfinals.

A feeling that he said will never go away and is thankful for. Something that he believes it necessary for this year’s success.

“I’m really excited that we lost that game with the perspective I have now,” Kelly said. “In the moment, it sucked. It was one of the worst losses I’ve ever taken, but now looking back at it, I’m glad it happened because it’s only going to propel us forward.”

Despite being upset in the MAAC tournament, the 2018-19 Quinnipiac men’s basketball team set a standard for regularseason success with its 16-15 overall record and 11-7 MAAC record, both the best finishes since the 2013-14 season.

Quinnipiac head coach Baker Dunleavy enters his third season as the head coach, and one challenge that he faces is the loss of reigning

MAAC Player of the Year Cam Young.

Young averaged 23.5 points per game (PPG) on 48.2%/43.7%/76.6% shooting splits. He scored 699 points last year, the most by a Quinnipiac player, breaking his own record of 622 the previous year.

Without him, there’s a glaring gap in the offense, a 23.5 PPG gap. Dunleavy doesn’t necessarily see a single player filling that hole. Rather, he’s expecting the whole team to step up.

“We have not just one guy that fits that role, but maybe three, four, five guys,” Dunleavy said.

“Cam averaged 24 points per game for us last year. We don’t have anybody that’s going to average 24 more points.”

The team welcomes three freshmen, two redshirt freshmen and one graduate-student transfer from Northwestern. These six, along with the returning Bobcats, are seeking an improvement despite losing a Quinnipiac star.

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