The Quinnipiac Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 25

APRIL 24, 2019 • VOLUME 89 • ISSUE 25

The official student newspaper of Quinnipiac University since 1929

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ARTS & LIFE: GRADUATION P. 6

Three Quinnipiac administrators plan to leave university

By EMILY DISALVO News Editor

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After recognized shortages, CAS is in the process of making a comeback

By EMILY DISALVO News Editor

Come next semester, some professors in the College in the Arts and Sciences (CAS) will find their offices in a new location.

Executive Vice President Mark Thompson announced to the faculty senate this week that the university will be constructing temporary office space for faculty members in CAS. The temporary offices will most likely be stationed in the Pine Grove, according to faculty senate member Margarita Diaz, who was present during Thompson’s announcement.

Associate Dean of CAS Wesley Renfro, who was also at the meeting, seemed less certain about the location. He said the spaces could be located in the Pine Grove or behind CAS 3.

“I actually don’t know quite where they are going to go, but we will be housing folks in temporary offices probably for next year and the year after, maybe longer,” Renfro said. “The details are not really forthcoming, at least on my level.”

Renfro said at the meeting Thompson discussed various proposals regarding what these temporary structures will look like, but the details haven’t been ironed out yet.

“We have been told that they are going to be high quality and that they are going to be attractive,” Renfro said. “I don’t think

folks want things that don’t look aesthetically pleasing. The details on the location and how folks decide to go there– I don’t have any idea.”

Rebecca Bamford, associate professor of philosophy, said the addition of these offices could cut down on the number of CAS faculty sharing offices.

“Faculty have single offices at other Quinnipiac schools,” Bamford said in an email. “Only CAS seems to have to put our faculty in double and triple offices.”

Bamford said that the new offices will be helpful for advising meetings with students, but a faculty uses his or her office space for much more than that.

“The temporary faculty office space is not only for advising,” Bamford stated. “In addition to student advising, CAS faculty conduct a great deal of other work in their offices, including preparing classes, grading, meeting with students about their class work, holding some meetings with individual colleagues, some aspects of faculty service, and some aspects of faculty scholarship.”

The announcement comes after the hiring of 15 full-time faculty members in CAS, most of which are entirely new positions, to meet the demands of the growing student body.

“CAS did get permission to hire a number of full-time faculty that will start in 2019, but

again we are waiting to hear the final version of the strategic plan,” Renfro said. “They are distributed. Some are in biology, we have some in art, we have some in psychology, we have some history. We have some folks who will work in first-year writing.”

Renfro said the addition of the temporary offices will help to alleviate crowding when the new faculty start.

“CAS is really short on office space and any way that we can add capacity is really good,” Renfro said. “It takes a while to grow permanent capacity so if the university is going to do high-quality, temporary offices, that’s great.”

Renfro said that hiring new faculty opens doors beyond those leading to their new offices. It creates more opportunities for students.

“It will give us the ability to expand course offerings,” Renfro said. “We will be able to offer new types of courses, we will be able to enroll more students in courses that already exist that are very popular that in the past students have had a hard time getting in to. From our perspective, this is great.”

This large pool of new hires is the maximum number CAS can handle at a time according to Renfro.

Three high-level Quinnipiac administrators will be leaving the university, according to a letter from President Olian sent to all faculty and staff.

Lynn Bushnell, vice president for public affairs; Donald Weinbach, vice president for development and alumni affairs and Greg Eichhorn, vice president for admissions and financial aid have announced their departures.

Bushnell will be leaving in June 2019 after 25 years with the university for a “longplanned” retirement.

Weinbach will be retiring in June 2020 after 24 years with the university.

Eichhorn will also be leaving at the end of June, but has plans to continue leading the admissions process for the incoming class.

Mark Thompson, executive vice president, announced plans to leave earlier this year.

“In the coming weeks and months, we will have many opportunities to express our gratitude to Mark, Don, Lynn and Greg for their dedicated service and impact at Quinnipiac,” Olian stated in the email. “They have meant so much to our institution, and to our students, staff, and faculty. We wish them the very best in the next chapters of their lives.”

In the email, Olian also announced changes to the president’s office to “better align with the new organizational structure.”

Dean Jennifer Brown, who will take over the role of Interim Provost from Provost Mark Thompson on June 1, is moving into the president’s office.

Olian said these changes are advantageous for administration as well as students.

“At the same time, this renovation frees up space for the Learning Commons, providing new offices and one-on-one tutoring spaces for the six new academic coaches being hired to improve retention and enhance academic support for students,” Olian stated.

Read what Donald Weinbach and Greg Eichhorn have to say about their tenure at the university and their plans for the future on page 2.

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A fresh start President Olian announces changes for the upcoming school year With the beginning of spring and budding trees, President Judy Olian notified returning students about the changes they can expect in the next several months.

Olian addressed the Quinnipiac community in a short video on the Quinnipiac Instagram page last Tuesday. She then described the new upgrades in store for the 2019-2020 school year as well as for the commencement ceremony.

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ments to the Rocky Top Student Center,” Olian said, “adding furniture, a pool table, TVs and a bar area with extended food service.”

Senior and SGA Vice President to the senior class, Allison Kuhn, began working on the proposal for the York Hill pub last year. Kuhn said that she remembers “miniinitiatives” for arcade games at Rocky Top since she was a freshman.

“I was inspired to go for a pub after learning that Fairfield, Sacred Heart and a ton of other schools in the area have a pub,” Kuhn said.

Kuhn said she was not only thinking

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about the students. She noticed that alumni had nowhere on campus to go to mingle. Instead, they were going to establishments off campus, like Eli’s or Alberto’s.

“Getting alumni back on campus is a big part of this,” she said.

Along with Kuhn’s proposal came several trial and error pub nights on York.

“We were told that for the first pub night, we were going to go big or go home,” Kuhn said. “It was going to be a two-drink maximum, beer only. And we argued that is not realistic. A bar is going to have beer, wine and liquor and there would be no maximum.

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No one is going to come somewhere and have one beer.”

It was not a simple process. After Kuhn’s advisor, Matt Kurz, spoke the Vice President and Dean of Students, Monique Drucker, they agreed there should be no drink limit.

“They put the trust in the students to behave,” Kuhn said. “And students showed there was no problem with that. No one dropped a drink, no one was drunk, no one broke anything. There were no issues.”

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Weinbach plans to leave Quinnipiac in June 2020.

Donald Weinbach has spent the past two decades raising money for Quinnipiac. He oversees philanthropic support for all of the academic programs, co-curricular programs, athletic programs and “bricks and mortar” projects like the People’s United Center.

He was previously responsible for local, state and federal government affairs prior to the hiring of Bethany Zemba, the vice president and chief of staff for President Judy Olian.

He said his retirement was something he has been contemplating, but said he wasn’t ready to go until he sat in on the transition between President Lahey and President Olian.

“I wanted to make sure that that transition went smoothly and to spend a few years with the new president and then transition out in 2020 which has been the plan all along,” Weinbach said. “My wife and I want to go off and do other things with our life.”

After spending one year with the new president, Weinbach said he thinks the transition has been “fantastic.”

“Judy has hit the ground running,” Weinbach said. “We have our first truly strategic plan since I’ve been here. This is a comprehensive strategic plan that has included the entire university community. I’m excited that next week the Board of Trustees will be reviewing it and voting on it.”

After the plan is approved, a new capital campaign to fund the strategic plan will begin. Weinbach said the vice president for development and alumni affairs has a lot to look forward to.

“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.”

In almost a quarter of a century with the university, Weinbach said he has enjoyed seeing the impact that philanthropy has had on students and faculty.

“It’s not about the amount of money raised,” Weinbach said. “It’s more about the impact it has on the human condition.”

While he has enjoyed watching his efforts create tangible results for the Quinnipiac community, Weinbach said next year will be his 30th year raising money in higher education and it is time for someone new to take over.

“No matter what you are, you’ve got to realize when it’s time to bring in new blood,” Weinbach said. “I have so many other interests I would like to pursue. Now is the perfect time to do this.”

After much thought, Weinbach said his future can be defined by the simple acronym, AGE- airplanes, golf and entertainment.

“Varied interests, but I love airplanes, I love playing golf and my wife is in the entertainment world,” Weinbach said. “I have a lot of opportunities in front of me.”

While his retirement is looking like a hole-in-one, Weinbach said he will miss Quinnipiac.

“I always say that we’re big enough to deliver, but small enough to care,” Weinbach said. “I think we have the perfect-sized university. We have a great culture here. It’s a winning-team spirit.”

Weinbach acknowledged that he is one of several administrators who has announced plans to leave Quinnipiac in the future, but said this is normal in times of transition.

“Any organization that goes through a change in leadership, this is what happens,” Weinbach said. “This is not unusual at all.”

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Eichhorn plans to leave Quinnipiac on June 30, 2019

Unlike Weinbach, Greg Eichhorn, vice president for admissions and financial aid, does not plan to retire after his departure from Quinnipiac. Eichhorn, who started his position in 2016 planned to stay at Quinnipiac for the long-haul but last week it was announced that his last day is June 30, 2019.

Eichhorn, joined by Associate Vice President for Public Relations John Morgan, said he made this decision after discussions with President Judy Olian and Provost Mark Thompson.

“At this time, we kind of both agree that strategically wise, in the direction they want to go, it is best that I finish up the year,” Eichhorn said. “They’re going to move in a different direction, especially in terms of the strategic plan.”

Space concerns as a symptom of a growing student body are a key motive behind the university-wide strategic plan. As a result of the plan, this next year’s incoming class will be smaller than the previous two, Eichhorn said.

“That should create some of that space and other ramifications for the first- year students,” Eichhorn said.

Eichhorn said the most difficult part of his job is making sure the university has enough resources for the students it enrolls.

“I am always concerned that we are budgeting correctly for financial aid and matching our goals from a quantity standpoint, that we’re marketable,” Eichhorn said. “With changing demographics, that’s what keeps me up at night. Do we have enough to afford the student body that we want and the resources to provide to them so we get the diverse student body and the numbers we need from a financial standpoint? As long as we dedicate the plan and the funding to those things success should happen.”

The vice president for admissions and financial aid position will be changing after his departure Eichhorn said.

“The plan is the position will be more enrollment management,” Eichhorn said. “There’s that strategic part of things. The position will be involved with more than just admissions, recruitment and financial aid.”

The incoming class is the final one Eichhorn will enroll at Quinnipiac, but he said they are a record-breaking group.

“This year we are having tremendous success with quality of the freshman class,” Eichhorn said. “We’ll set all kinds of records in every single one of our schools. Right now diversity looks really strong in the entering class.”

As for next year, Eichhorn won’t be doing AGE (airplanes, golf and entertainment) like Weinbach but rather IDK (I don’t know). Eichhorn said he currently has lots of options within the higher-education arena which he will continue to weigh with his family.

Previous to his career at Quinnipiac, Eichhorn worked at Albright University in Pennsylvania. He said he enjoyed the small-school environment because he was able to interact with the students more often than he is able to at Quinnipiac.

“I don’t have as much face-to-face time with students as I would like to,” Eichhorn said. “That’s function of the job and the bigness.

Hopefully I’ll get a little more interaction. My guess is I will go somewhere smaller.”

Looking into Quinnipiac’s future, Eichhorn said he thinks the university is on the right track.

“I wish the university nothing but luck and good fortunes and I think it’s poised for greatness,” Eichhorn said.

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Thursday, April 25 Montage Release Party Montage will host a party for the release of its journal on Thursday, April 25, from noon to 2 p.m in the piazza. Both contributing students and Montage members will get the chance to celebrate the hard work put into the journal. There will be free food.

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Friday, April 26 QU’s Note-able! Spring Concert Acapella group QU’s Note-ables will be hosting their spring concert on Friday, April 26, from 6 to 7 p.m. in the piazza. The group will be performing popular songs. It is free to attend and there will be free food and drinks.

Saturday, April 27 Nugs and Laughs The Student Programming Board will be hosting comedian Arvin Mitchell on Saturday, April 27, at 10 p.m. in the dining hall. Students can enjoy free nuggets and food from a variety of places while enjoying the comedian.

Sunday, April 28 The Legends A Cappella Spring Concert The Quinnipiac Legends A Cappella group will be hosting its annual spring concert on Sunday, April 28, at 5 p.m. in the piazza.

Students can enjoy free food as the group showcases its work from the semester.

New student-run business delivers gelato to residence halls

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As the weather is heating up, so is a new student-run business determined to cool you down.

Dorm Dash QU is a dessert, specifically gelato, delivery company run by three Quinnipiac students. The company started less than two weeks ago, but the three boys behind the magic say business is running smoother than a spoonful of gelato.

“We’ve made enough to cover our startup cost within the first few days,” said Vazul Hites, the mastermind behind the business.

“We’re on track to be profitable long before the end of the year.”

Hites is a sophomore entrepreneurial business major and said he currently has 200 ideas in his head. He approached two other Quinnipiac students in March 2019 with a list of ideas and gelato delivery was the one they chose. Hites said this is ironic because he acted as a consultant for an on-campus gelato company last year.

“They said, ‘How did that go?’” Hites said.

“I said, ‘Oh, it worked well.’ They said, ‘Can we do it again this year?’ I said, ‘Sure, we can try.’”

Last year, Gelato Q was shut down after violating Article 17 of the student handbook, according to a Chronicle article from May 2, 2018.

“The student handbook clearly states that the direct sale of merchandise or services without university approval is prohibited,” John Morgan, associate vice president for public relations, said.

Hites said he personally was not running the business but rather helped with the numbers side of things.

“I was brought on as a consultant, kind of a CFO position because I am good with numbers and that’s pretty much as much as I got involved with,” Hites said.

The issue with Gelato Q was that the students running the business last year were storing the gelato in their dorm rooms and operating the business from the residence halls.

“That was the legality of it,” Hites said. “We were not allowed to store or solicit business

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Junior Maddy Chiapperino enjoying her free pint of gelato. within the res halls and that sort of thing.”

Hites said he and his two business partners, Patrick Higgins and Trevor Duffy, avoided this regulation by opting to store the gelato offcampus at The Blue Dodo, a hand goods store in Hamden.

“I walked down a mile that way and a mile that way and I spoke to every business until I found one that said yes,” Hites said. “We rent out a space large enough for our freezer to fit and we pay a fixed amount per month.”

Hites said the gelato comes from Gelato Giuliana which is a gelato shop in New Haven.

“It’s this Italian lady– it’s her own recipe,” Hites said. “She makes it herself in her factory,

for about 12 years she’s been doing this.”

Once Hites or one of his two business partners receives an order, they spring into action.

They have a two-man operation system which involves a runner and a communicator.

“The runner, as soon as we get an order in, will instantly take off on his bike towards the location,” Hites said. “The communicator will speak to the customer. Find out where they are, what they want, method of payment that sort of thing.”

Hites said deliveries take about 10 minutes on main campus and between 15 and 20 on York because of the steep bike ride up the driveway.

“One of the guys we deliver to actually offered me to come up into his dorm and offered me some water because apparently I looked so out of breath,” Hites said, laughing.

To order a pint, students can message @ dorm_dash_qu on Instagram between the hours of 1 p.m. and 12 a.m. Sunday through Thursday and 3 p.m. to 3 a.m on Friday and Saturday. A pint is $9 which includes the delivery.

Sometimes the Instagram offers promotions such as $2 off or raffles for free pints. Junior mechanical engineering major Maddy Chiapperino, who follows the business on Instagram, won a free pint. She remembers the gelato from when it was Gelato Q and said it is just as good.

“I’ve had the gelato before when it was Gelato Q and it’s the exact same thing,” Chiapperino said. “Same packaging, same flavors– it tastes the same. It’s really creamy, same flavor and just better than ice cream.”

Hites said for most customers, the gelato is love at first taste.

“As soon as anyone tastes it, it’s ridiculous how often they’ll return,” Hites said. “We have several returning customers. Really nice guys.”

The business has just begun but Hites said he’s proud of the progress they’ve made.

“We’ll probably have around 300 followers on Instagram, we’ve probably sold between 30 and 40 pints,” Hites said. “It’s a great start.”

Renfro: ‘Any way that we can add capacity is really good’ CAS from cover “It’s a lot for a single year,” Renfro said.

“Adding that number of faculty at one time, that’s probably about as many as we can actually handle in one year so it’s really encouraging that the institution is giving us these positions. I think everybody is happy.

The administrators like me are happy, I know that the faculty are happy and that the students are happy. There is no downside to any of this.”

Another change coming to CAS next fall is the addition of a CAS advising commons which will be located in CAS 1 near the office of Dean Robert Smart.

The space, which is currently a classroom,

will be renovated over the summer to create a one-stop-shop for CAS career advising.

“That’s going to be a space students can use for advising and also for career things,” Renfro said. “That would include speaking with professional staff about what jobs might suit their interests and their skills. It might be a place where folks can do some preliminary interviewing, connect with folks who have opportunities in terms of jobs down the line.”

Information about the new advising center, including a computer-rendering of the facility, can be found at cas360.qu.edu.

Jeremy Gustafson, newly elected Student Government Association liberal arts senator said these announcements are encouraging

signs that the problems facing CAS are being addressed.

“The recent announcements of additional full-time faculty, temporary faculty office space, and an advising center is very exciting and promising for the future of the College of Arts and Sciences,” Gustafson said. “Hopefully, this is just step one in improving the overall experience for students in CAS.” Renfro agrees that CAS has room to grow, but affirms that these changes signal a positive future for the school.

“There’s still room for further improvement,” Renfro said. “But this is a really a great step in the right direction and it affirms the university’s commitment to a healthy CAS.”

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or outside restaurants would be running the pub, Kuhn answered that neither she nor the administration knew yet.

“I think obviously [QU Dining] would like to be a part of this,” she said. “[QU Dining] has done an amazing job at the Sacred Heart pub, it is a separate restaurant. It is not your regular dining options. We went to the Sacred Heart pub and it was phenomenal.

That is how I want our Quinnipiac pub to look like.”

UPDATED RESIDENCE HALLS In her announcement, Olian also said that sophomore residence halls would be upgraded over the summer, starting with Perleoth, Larson and Troup. A/C is one of the most

anticipated updates to the housing buildings.

The addition of air conditioning to the remaining residence halls will follow over the next few years, Olian reported.

When freshman journalism and psychology major, Gianna Petruccelli, found out that she had to live in Larson for two years in a row, she was not happy.

“Basically, when I found out I was living in Larson again, I was really angry,” Petruccelli said. “I’m not kidding, I was really angry. I was, like, this is going to suck two years in a row.”

Petruccelli said that, at the beginning of the year, she got bronchitis and had to go home because there was no A/C. When she saw Olian’s Instagram announcement, Petruccelli was excited.

“When I heard they were getting air conditioning, that was a game changer,” Petruccelli

said. “I would rather be in Larson with A/C than Village with no A/C. So, I’m happy.”

COMMENCEMENT Olian also highlighted in the Instagram video what graduating students would see at commencement on April 30 and May 1.

“It will include innovative academic work from students and staff, faculty and student talks and theatre and musical performances,” she said.

Senior John Khillah was pleased to hear Olian’s announcement, commenting that past senior classes never received shoutouts from former President John Lahey.

“I hope administration listens to seniors in the years to come to understand their concerns and make their experience better,” Khillah said.

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What’s wrong with the Boston Red Sox? Is it Chris Sale, the Red Sox’s offense?

The Red Sox are in a position no one expected them to be after winning a total of 119 games last season, including postseason play. Through 23 games, the team is 9-14, six games behind the Tampa Bay Rays in the American League East.

Staff Writer The main problem for the Red Sox is their starting pitching. The starting pitching’s ERA is 5.68, the worst since 1931 and the second worst in the MLB according to ESPN.com.

Red Sox ace Chris Sale is not living up to expectations He has finished in the top five in the AL Cy Young for five consecutive seasons, but he is not having that type of year so far. This is the worst Sale has ever pitched in his nine year MLB career.

After giving up four runs in five innings in the team’s 8-0 loss to the New York Yankees on Wednesday, Arpil 17, Sale’s record dropped to 0-4 on the year and his ERA to 7.43. He had a total of four losses in 27 starts last season.

“I just flat-out stink right now,” Sale said after the game.

“I don’t know what it is. When you’re going good, it’s good.

When you’re going bad, it’s pretty bad.”

For me, the issue with Sale is that he doesn’t have much confidence in his fastball. He only threw his fastball 35.5 percent of the time in his start vs the Yankees.

When he did throw his fastball, it was not effective. The Yan-

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kees went 5-8 versus Sale on his four-seamer when they saw it.

Sale threw his slider 49.5 percent of time versus the Yankees, the highest rate of his career, according to ESPN.com.

He had much more success with his slider, as Yankees batters went 1-8 with three strikeouts.

I would like, going forward, for Sale to establish his fastball early in the count. This will allow Sale to use his slider as his pitch to put hitters away with two strikes, where it’s lethal.

The Red Sox offense hasn’t been any better than the pitching staff. Though their offense ranks 20th in the MLB, a drop off from last season where they were the best team in baseball.

The offense is struggling because their best player, Mookie Betts has got off to a poor start. He is batting .244 through 23 games, and had only one hit in 15 plate appearances versus the team’s two series versus the Baltimore Orioles and Yankees.

Betts is starting to get frustrated with how he is playing.

“Basically, what I’m doing is unacceptable,” Betts said after the teams 8-1 loss to the Orioles on Monday, April 15.

“I have to figure out a way to get something done and help the team.”

I would like for Betts to be more aggressive earlier in the count. Betts has seen over 350 pitches this season, and out of 193 players who have seen over 200 pitches this season, he has swung at the eighth fewest pitches in the league, according to Baseball Prospectus.

Good news for Red Sox fans is that Betts is starting to snap out of his slump. In the three game series versus the Rays this weekend, Betts had six hits in 12 plate appearances.

He will look to carry this momentum when the team begins its 10 game homestand on Tuesday versus the Detroit Tigers Betts is not the only person to blame for teams struggles

on offense to start the season. The Red Sox are not getting any production from any of their second basemen.

Dustin Pedroia, Eduardo Nunez and Brock Holt are a combined 10-80 with no home runs and six RBIs. All three are currently on the injured list, so Tzu-Wei Lin will be the starting second baseman going forward.

Outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr. needs to step up his offense.

He is batting .141 and has only nine hits and two RBIs in 71 plate appearances. If Bradley continues to struggle, manager Alex Cora should consider benching him.

These players all bat at the bottom of the order. The team will need all four to set up their play because you can’t rely on your top players every night to give you offense.

This has resulted in the Red Sox having the third worst run differential in the league at -41, according to ESPN.com.

Only the Miami Marlins and Baltimore Orioles have a worse run differential than the Red Sox. Even though the Red Sox are not off to the start they want to, there is no need to panic.

The New York Mets got off to a hot start last year winning 12 of their first 15 games, but finished second to last in the National League East with a 77-85 record. The Los Angeles Dodgers got off to their worst start in franchise history at 1626, but finished the season at 92-71.

The team responded well after getting swept by the Yankees during the week. The team won three consecutive games this weekend versus the Rays, improving its record to 9-13 before dropping Tuesday’s game to the Tigers.

The Red Sox should be back to their winning ways during their 10-game homestand against the Tigers, Rays and Oakland Athletics.

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Ryan Miller Staff Writer

A decade ago, legal drama “The Good Wife” first aired on CBS. The series had a 156 episode, seven season run that included a Golden Globe win and over 200 total award nominations.

Among the show’s accolades, lead actress Julianna Margulies won that aforementioned Golden Globe and two Emmy awards as the show’s pro-

tagonist, Alicia Florrick.

By snagging the awards for best performance by an actress in an American television series, Margulies made the show must-watch television and made herself a household name. She was appropriately rewarded for her success by being named a producer on the show and receiving a massive salary. In 2015 towards the end of the show’s run, Margulies made $10.5 million.

Following the end of “The Good Wife” in 2016, it was announced that creators Robert and Michelle King would be making a spin-off titled “The Good Fight” based on Diane Lockhart who is portrayed by Christine Baranski. In 2017, the series aired on CBS All Access, the company’s subscription service.

Now in its third season, “The Good Fight” has been moderately successful. Other cast members of the original show have returned such as Michael Boatman, Cush Jumbo, Sarah Steele and Gary Cole, to name a few. Those are pretty

decent characters from “The Good Wife” but fans have been clamoring for Margulies’ character, Alicia, to show up.

This season, it reportedly could have happened. The Kings had planned for a three-episode arc in which Alicia could return to the show. Margulies was on board. There was only one problem. CBS did not want to pay her more than a normal guest star’s rate to appear.

Let’s think about this for a second. Without Margulies, there would be no “The Good Fight” in the first place. If there is anyone that deserves to be paid a king’s ransom (pun intended) to appear on the show, it should be her. The show has already had a guest arc for “Friends” star Matthew Perry in its first season and has also egregiously misused former “Game of Thrones” star Rose Leslie since her season two arc ended.

The show has also tried and failed, to lure back fan-favorite Eli Gold, played by Broadway star Alan Cumming.

The character’s daughter, Marissa Gold, is a series regular and mentions her father often, but the show has been unable to work around his busy schedule for an appearance.

Margulies, upon being interviewed about the dispute, was “shocked” to find out that CBS refused to pay her.

Speaking with Deadline, Margulies said that she “really wanted to do it,” and brought up the obvious gender hypocrisies the television industry is displaying adding, “I wanted to be paid my worth and stand up for equal pay.”

Margulies is setting a great example by taking a stance.

In an era where women are fighting for equal pay, she should not settle for anything less than what she is worth. Immediately I thought of other spin-offs in recent memory that have heroically greeted its former male stars such as John Stamos and Bob Saget on “Fuller House.” Margulies felt the same

way apparently, adding “If Jon Hamm came back for a ‘Mad Men’ spin-off or Kiefer Sutherland wanted to do a ‘24’ spinoff, they would be paid.”

This is all on the heels of the entire “Roseanne” disaster on ABC so you would think CBS would strike on an opportunity to do the right thing. Granted that situation is different because Roseanne Barr barred herself from returning but doesn’t this set up a perfect PR move to combat the axing of the “bad” Roseanne with the triumphant return of “the good wife?”

Margulies could boost the ratings substantially and an appearance of her on the show can literally pay for itself if you factor in the additional subscriptions they would receive from fans who want to see her back.

Ironically, as this news broke about a week ago, the show had released the fourth episode of their its season “The One with Lucca Becoming a Meme.” During that episode, havoc breaks loose in the law firm when a character releases a document to everyone showing the pay discrepancies among male and female and white and black employees at their firm. Discussions between the characters seem almost too meta considering the glaring Margulies-sized hole in the show thus far.

Even more glaring for the company is the fact that CBS All Access is a paid subscription service, which quite frankly without “The Good Fight,” I would not even pay for. As someone who is handing over my money to CBS, I am asking them to have a say in how it is spent. Go bring in Margulies for three episodes or however long she wants to come back because you wouldn’t have me as a paying customer at all without her.

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Letter to the Editor

Intruder at Quinnipiac

After last week’s indicent, Quinnipiac’s security must be a top priority on its campuses Jeremy Wiss First year law student Last week’s security breach should be sounding alarms for students and faculty throughout the university about our serious security shortcomings.

As you well know, we had a stranger hop off of a bus and walk directly onto our campus with no security screening whatsoever.

On his Facebook page, Matthew Allen said that he wanted to sell energy powder. These are only his expressed intentions. Who knows what he would have done with more time on campus.

Allen has an extensive arrest record. The State of Connecticut has ran numerous tests on this individual to see if he was mentally fit to stand trial after prior offenses. A brief

examination of his Facebook page culminated into one daunting conclusion: this incident could have been a lot worse.

A few weeks ago this individual posted on his Facebook, “[C]ome here with any weapon including an RPG or a machine gun and we’ll fight to the death.” A concerning post like this aimed at a Federal Courthouse further highlights the need to screen campus visitors. Unfortunately, this is not the first safety scare for Quinnipiac.

Last November, Uber driver,Sean Brozek, 24, was arrested and charged with stalking, threatening and criminal trespassing. Brozek followed a female s tudent into a residence hall with uncertain intentions, which heightened the concern of many of the Mount Carmel residents. Again, he had no problem entering the campus.

These incidents must serve as a wake-up

call to the student body, school administrators and most importantly the Department of Public Safety. Anyone who has entered our campus knows that the security is a wellorchestrated facade.

If you want to drive into campus, a smile and a wave are sufficient. Nothing more, nothing less. Only occasionally they will ask for your Q-Card, but this is an anomaly.

Even so, what protections does this afford the campus?

Even more surprisingly, there is zero security screening for any person who enters on foot. Anyone entering on Mount Carmel Avenue or New Road can enter our campus with no security clearing whatsoever. All security experts agree the easiest way to keep threats out is to limit the number of entrances to a given location. Our campus has seemingly endless entry locations.

What’s more, there is no security to enter our cafeteria and Tator Hall from the New Road entrance, even with a car. The guard shack is located passed the Tator Hall entrance. No security shack guards the campus on New Road, leaving the campus vulnerable to trespassers. Only a plastic chain blocks the driveway by the Mountainview dorms.

Campus safety must be a top priority for our university. The university is fortunate to have evaded serious disasters. These incidents should serve as a catalyst for change at our university. Today, schools have become targets for people with dangerous intentions and the university must make security a top priority. Feeling safe on our college campus is a fundamental right, not a privilege. The screening of visitors must be heightened.

The number of entry points on campus must be reduced.

This one’s for the girls

Country music’s astonishing gender gap

Owen Meech Staff Writer

Becoming a successful female country artist in 2019 is like pushing a boulder up a mountain: near impossible.

Despite great strides made as of late by women in music, female country artists are shockingly underrepresented when it comes to radio, award nominations and overall recognition.

Using the year-end Billboard Hot Country charts from 2014 to 2018, Dr. Stacy L. Smith and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative found that a measly 16 percent of artists across 500 top country songs were women. Additionally, no women over the age of 40 were represented.

Over the last five years, only 15 percent of Academy of Country Music Awards nominees in four major categories were female.

Zero women have been nominated for either Entertainer or Songwriter of the year categories, and only two solo female acts have taken home the Entertainer of the Year trophy since 2000.

The data paints a bleak picture for new female artists, sending a clear message that there’s room at the top for just a select few.

And while female artists receiving airplay is few and far between, it’s certainly not because women aren’t producing good music.

Kacey Musgraves made headlines this year with her critically acclaimed album, Golden Hour. The project took home Album of the Year at the ACM Awards and CMA Awards, as well as Best Country Album and all-genre Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards. She is the first artist to achieve this feat since Taylor Swift did it almost a decade ago for her album, Fearless.

At this year’s ACM Awards, Musgraves also made history by picking up the ACM Award for Female Artist of the Year, ending

Miranda Lambert’s nine-year reign in the category. She’s now only the third artist to hold the title since 2006.

Musgraves was virtually ignored by country radio before finding mainstream success. In fact, she had to fight for the freedom to release the music she wanted.

While accepting her honor at Variety’s Power of Women event earlier this month, Musgraves explained how she had to push for her first ever single, “Merry Go Round.”

“I was told that a debut female had to release something upbeat — the classic ‘Oh, we need something that everyone’s going to like,’” Musgraves said. “I was actually met with the word-for-word response from a grown man, one that runs a company, saying, ‘Well, sometimes in this business, you’ve just got to do things that you’re not proud of.’ And I said, ‘Well, that’s where you and me are very different.’”

“Merry Go Round” went on to become Musgraves’ highest charting single to date, and won a Grammy Award for Best Country Song. In many ways, Musgraves’ story is reminiscent to that of Swift, who dominated the country music genre earlier in her career. Back in 2006, Swift fought her thenlabel, Big Machine Records, to release “Tim McGraw” and “Teardrops on My Guitar” to country radio consecutively as her first two singles. Her team urged her to instead release more upbeat music, but Swift refused.

Flash forward to 2019 and Swift is now a 10-time Grammy winner who just this week covers Time magazine as one of the “Most Influential People of 2019.” She is the only female artist to grace the cover three times.

Swift was also honored last December as one of Time Magazine’s People of the Year after she won her case against radio DJ David Mueller, who she accused of groping her.

Swift sued him for only a dollar, a symbolic gesture to demonstrate that it is not about money, but about the treatment of women.

Within months of the resolution, Mueller was rehired by KIX 92.7, a country radio station in Greenwood, Mississippi. The decision was a giant slap in the face to not only Swift, but all female artists and women in general, showing that men could face due process, be proven guilty and still reap no consequences.

But even with the odds stacked against them, female artists are achieving unprecedented heights across the board. In February, Ariana Grande become the second musical act in history to occupy the top three spots on the Billboard Hot 100. The rare feat hadn’t been accomplished since The Beatles in 1964.

When it comes to country music, female artists still have a long way to go. In fact, there are currently no women within the most recent Billboard Hot Country Top 10.

Kelsea Ballerini, Maren Morris and Carrie Underwood are the only three female artists within the top 20.

“Even when I was growing up, I wished there [were] more women on the radio, and I had a lot more than they are today,” Underwood said earlier this year. “Think about all of the little girls that are sitting at home saying ‘I want to be a country music singer’...

What do you tell them? How do you look at them and say, ‘Well, just work hard, sweetie, and you can do it,’ when that’s probably not the case right now?”

Billboard reported late last year that for the first time since 1990, its Country Airplay chart dated December 8, which pulls from mainstream country radio stations, had no women at all in the top 20.

So why does such a glaring disparity exist? One of the main reasons is that men working in country radio haven’t historically been interested in promoting the music of women.

In 2015, big wig country radio consultant Keith Hill stirred up controversy by telling country radio trade publication Country Radio Aircheck that country music radio stations should not include consecutive songs by women in their playlists.

“If you want to make ratings in country radio, take females out,” Hill said. “The expectation is we’re principally a male format with a smaller female component… Trust me, I play great female records, and we’ve got some right now; they’re just not the lettuce in our salad.

The lettuce is Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton, Keith Urban and artists like that. The tomatoes of our salad are the females.”

Hill’s comments rightfully drew intense condemnation, and became known in the country music community as “Tomato-

gate.” Country artists such as Lambert, Jennifer Nettles and Martina McBride spoke out against Hill. During the following CMA Music Fest in June, t-shirts were sold with the slogan “Let the Tomatoes Play.”

The issue quickly went viral online and prompted a range of efforts to address the gender gap and introduce new women artists. Industry executive Todd Cassetty founded Song Suffragettes, a program based in Nashville, Tennessee aiming to highlight new and emerging women singers and songwriters. Radio personality Bobby Bones announced the launch of an hour-long program dedicated solely to female country artists.

Although Hill’s comments garnered widespread public attention, the gender gap has actually worsened in the years following. The state of country music radio today remains exclusive and heavily tilted toward male artists.

Record label executives argue that radio just isn’t as important for their artists as it used to be, particularly in the age of streaming.

“We don’t sign artists who live and die by the radio,” John Esposito, chairman/CEO Warner Music Nashville, told Billboard.

Troy Tomlinson, the president/CEO at Sony/ATV Nashville, added, “Publishers make the best pitch they can with the appropriate artists who are cutting. It is a loss for our format when we have limited opportunities for great songs that are clearly written from a woman’s unique perspective.”

However, labels are in fact pushing songs to radio. Billboard found that in a sample of 236 studied country singles in a period between 2014 and 2015, only 26.8 percent of the songs that large labels pushed to country radio included women, and 17.9 percent of those songs were just those by solo female artists.

While it isn’t the be-all end-a ll, country radio is still an important vehicle for artists.

Women’s voices deserve to be heard, and female artists offer unique perspectives that are lacking in the industry today.

Country music fans, it’s up to you to make a difference. Continue to stream female artists. Request their songs. Buy their albums and go to their concerts. Time is up for Nashville’s good ol’ boys club.

Giddy up guys and gals, or you might just miss out on the next country superstar.

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Seniors, it is almost the day you've been waiting for With commencement around the corner, here are all of the details that you, seniors, need to know to make sure that you will make the best out of this celebratory event. – J. Simms Undergraduate Ceremonies Keynote Speakers

Health Sciences and Nursing Ceremony The health sciences schools and nursing school will have Bryan Donahue be the keynote speaker for the ceremony on Saturday May 18. Donahue is a liver transplant recipient, veteran of the U.S marines, author of “On Borrowed Time, How I Built a Life While Beating Death” and a motivational speaker. His motivational speeches discuss his own personal transformation that he went through while undergoing a liver disease (Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis). He had to have an unbreakable mental toughness in order to survive.

Arts and Sciences and Communications Ceremony The College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Communications will have Reginald Dwayne Betts speak to them at the ceremony taking place in the afternoon on Saturday May 18. Betts is a poet and author of three books, one, “A Question of Freedom,” of which is the recipient of the NAACP Image Award back in 2010. Betts is currently studying at Yale Law School to earn his PhD. Business and Engineering Ceremony Both the schools of business and engineering will have Javier Polit speak at the ceremony happening on Sunday May 19. Polit is a chief information officer for Procter & Gamble, a multinational consumer goods corporation in Cincinnati. Polit graduated from the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program and has earned his Masters from other schools including Purdue University,

Budapest University of Economics and Science and the University of Miami.

Graduate Ceremonies Keynote Speakers Business, Communications and Education Ceremony For students a part of the business, communications and education graduate programs, the ceremony is taking place on Saturday May 11. John F. Lansing will be keynote speaker addressing these graduates. Lansing is the CEO and director of the United States Agency of Global Media, specifically the director of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). This is an independent federal agency that overlooks U.S civilian international media. Lansing joined BBG in 2015 after spending nine years as the president of Scripps Networks.

Arts and Sciences, Health Sciences and Nursing Ceremony Students a part of the arts and sciences, health sciences or nursing graduate programs will go through their graduation ceremony the afternoon of Saturday May 11. Dr. Reggie Eadie, the president and chief executive officer of Trinity Health of New England, will be the keynote speaker. Eadie is from Detroit and is a published author on obesity. Eadie received his medical degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine and also received his Executive Master in Business Administration from Michigan State University Eli Broad College of Business. He has recently been named one of the “100 Physician Leaders to Know” by the Becker’s Hospital Review.

Tips on how to decorate your graduation cap Graduation cap and gown pick ups just happened on April 22 to April 24, so now it is time to start thinking about how to decorate your cap. Here are some tips if you are unsure how to go about decorating your cap in the best possible way.

Grab decorating materials. For example, you may need a glue gun, paper, sticky letters, flowers, pearls and other items to glue onto your graduation cap.

Decide if you want to change the color of your graduation cap. If you want to change the color of the cap, grab scrapbooking paper from stores such as Michaels or Walmart.

Then cut the sheet to fit the cap and cut a hole to fit the tassel.

Glue the paper onto the cap with the hot glue gun.

Start decorating. Here are some design ideas: Put a quote on it Movie or book quote?

Make it creative by incorporating your interests Maybe incorporate your major somehow Make it funny Make it sparkly Put your initials on it Pair it with a friend

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Scandal 101 Here are some updates about the college admissions scandal

By ALEXIS GUERRA Managing Editor

Standardized tests, tutors and college decision making–what a stressful time in our lives. But what if we had the opportunity to get into our top choice stress-free? That was the reality for many highschoolers whose parents pulled a few strings for them.

On March 12, news broke about a massive nationwide college entrance exam cheating scandal. Dozens of people were charged, including “Full House” actress Lori Loughlin and “Desperate Housewives” star Felicity Huffman. The FBI referred to the scheme as Operation Varsity Blues.

Along with cheating on the SAT and ACT, parents also bribed college administrators and coaches to recruit students as athletes, according to the US Attorney for Massachusetts Andrew Lelling.

“There can be no separate college admissions system for the wealthy and I will add there will not be a separate criminal justice system either,” Lelling said. “For every student admitted through fraud, an honest, genuinely talented student was rejected.”

Awkwardly, many of the students who took their exams were unaware that their parents had made arrangements for them to cheat, according to the criminal complaint from the FBI in Boston. University athletic coaches and administrators were also bribed to designate students as athletic recruits even if they didn’t play the sport they were recruited to play. In some of these cases, photos of students were edited onto the bodies of real athletes.

The schools that accepted these students include Yale, Stanford, UCLA, Georgetown

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Olivia Jade and Isabella Rose got into USC as a part of the admission scandal and University of Southern California.

William Singer was the head of the operation and funneled the money through a “charity” he established called the Key Worldwide Foundation, according to NBC News. He pleaded guilty on the charges of racketeering, conspiracy, money laundering and obstruction of justice.

“I am absolutely responsible for it,” Singer told a federal judge in Boston. “I put everything in place. I put all the people in place and made the payments directly.”

Loughlin and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, were charged with paying $500,000 in bribes to get their two daughters, Youtuber Olivia Jade and Isabella

Rose, into USC. They were going to be admitted as recruits for the crew team despite the fact that neither of them played the sport.

The parents were charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud. Just last week they announced that they would be pleading not guilty.

Because of the couple not taking the plea deals, they were also indicted with money laundering charges which carries a 20-yearmaximum sentence on its own, according to Elle. Their minimum time behind bars would be four years and nine months, according to TMZ. Huffman was one of the first parents to announce that she would plead guilty. She allegedly paid a Harvard graduate $15,000 to

correct her daughter’s SAT exam. Huffman was released from custody after a $250,000 bond. Because of her lack of criminal history and the lower amount that she paid the Harvard graduate, Huffman could face only four to 10 months and serving that time in her home, according to the LA Times.

“I am in full acceptance of my guilt and with deep regret and shame over what I have done, I accept full responsibility for my actions and will accept the consequences that stem from those actions,” Huffman said in a statement.

“I am ashamed of the pain I have caused my daughter, my family, my friends, my colleagues and the educational community.”

The universities themselves have also recently made plans in reaction to the scandal. USC plans to use any money received in connection with the scheme to fund scholarships for underprivileged students, according to CNN. Georgetown also put a new policy in place to “strengthen the recruitment and admissions process.”

Kim Kardashian is among the celebrities who have made their reaction to the scandal public. CNN news commentator Van Jones asked Kardashian if she would do the same for her kids during an interview on April 21.

“If [my kids] couldn’t get into a school, I would never want to use privilege to try to force them into a situation that they wouldn’t thrive in anyway,” Kardashian said in the interview. “I want my kids to be kind. I want my kids to be as grounded as possible. To buy your way into something just wouldn't benefit anybody.”.

SPOILER ALERT

Winter has come The final season of 'Game of Thrones' has begun

By TIM POWERS Staff Writer

The television phenomenon, “Game of Thrones,” has returned to the small screen for the next six weeks. On Sunday, the show’s eighth and final season premiered, setting the tone for the final chess pieces to be played.

Last season left off at a cliffhanger with the White Walker army taking down the Wall that separated Westeros from the outside. It was an intense scene for the mythology of the show. For the first few seasons, all the characters were separated across different lands and locations and now they are coming together. Last seasons’ cliffhanger and this new episode are representative of that.

“Game of Thrones,” especially in the earlier seasons, has always had a magical power in setting up the plotlines of the show with the pace of reading a book, page by page. Every plot line gets its fair amount of attention and this episode was no exception.

The primary goals of this episode were clearto set up the storyline for the future, but that is not to say the episode was not entertaining.

The show has become known for its high production quality and stunning visuals, but those shots don’t come without a price tag.

Each of the final six episodes of the show cost about $15 million to produce, according

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Emilia Clarke plays Daenerys Targaryen in the eighth season of 'Game of Thrones.' to "Variety."

This season began with the arrival of Daenerys Targaryen, The Dragon Queen, and the return of Jon Snow, King of the North, to Winterfell to fight the inevitable war with the White Walkers. The pair have recently struck up a relationship despite their blood relations, but they haven’t learned that important bit of information yet. This arrival

proved to be a tense situation for the people of the North. Not everyone is as happy as Jon Snow is to have Daenerys around.

Later on in the episode, Samwell Tarly arrives in the North to talk to Jon about something. Sam tells Jon that he is actually the true heir to the iron throne, not Daenerys. And that he is the son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark, not the parents

he originally thought he had.

As the episode is ending, everyone is arriving in the North to fight the White Walkers including the rest of the Starks, as well as some of the Lannisters. This poses an interesting dynamic with Bran Stark and Jaime Lannister seeing each other for the first time since the first episode of the first season when the later pushed the former out of a window.

The slower pace of the show, with its language-focused scenes, make these moments like Bran seeing Jaime or Jon finding out about his parents, all the more exciting. This is what makes the show so great to watch. The creators certainly know how to create tension and keep their audience on the edge of their seats.

There is still much left to discover about the world of Westeros and with so little time left. But through this premiere, we have come one step closer to finding out who will end up sitting on the Iron Throne. Will it be Jon Snow? Daenerys? Cersei Lannister? Or someone else?

“Game of Thrones” has become the world's biggest show since its premiere in 2011. With the premiere of this season, all eyes are on the cast and crew to see what is going to come out of the final episodes of one of the most important shows of the last decade.

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Let’s 'Talk' about Khalid’s new album The R&B artist is no longer 'Young, Dumb and Broke'

By RHEA GHOSH Contributing Writer

My first reaction to the album was instant tears.

Listening to a voice that is so calm and peaceful amongst all the chaos that is your life. Khalid is very open with his audience and now his transition from his freshman album “American Teen” including all of his EPs like “Suncity”. "Free Spirit" shows maturity and what he went through in his life on his journey to write all the beautiful songs in this album. He explains that the music he is writing now is self-reflective.

“I feel like I've learned so much about myself and how I like to write that it’s allowed the music to improve” Khalid said to Billboard.

Each song is different and personal to Khalid in different ways. “My Bad” and “Bad Luck” were each written in 10 minutes comprised of freestyling. However, “Free Spirit” took a couple months to develop. This shows how much each song means to him and how each song is a step closer on his journey to being a “Free Spirit”.

For an artist to share his struggles in life gives fans hope that they’re not alone in what they’re going through. The emotion he puts in his songs is relatable. Everyone has felt them at one point or another in their life.

“With 'American Teen', the theme was just growing up, a coming of age, high school graduation celebration," according to Billboard.

The first song I ever listened of Khalid's was “Therapy." Before that, I had seen him in some Youtube videos. He has something so special about him and I instantly fell in love with his voice. I was a junior in high school going through the same emotions he went through while writing this album. When “American Teen” was released, each song held such a significant part of my life from junior year until

'Free Spirit' received a 4.7 rating on Pitchfork.

I graduated high school. He wrote “American Teen” about high school and made it a coming of age story. Through his songs each person can relate to it in some way.

Khalid describes his sophomore album “Free Spirit” in a Billboard interview saying, “to be a free spirit means you have no restrictions, nothing holding you back." The whole purpose of his album is to make the listener feel something and help us on our own journey to being a free spirit.

“You find freedom through conversation, through interactions with your friends, through experiences, going on vacation. To be a free spirit, it has to be something that you don't turn off. It has to be automatic. You have to feel it

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all the time. I know that I don’t feel that all the time,” Khalid told Billboard.

Khalid starts the album off with his song “Intro." This song holds so much emotion and you can tell the amount of effort that went into producing and writing this song. An album review from “The Post” claims that Khalid is “playing it too safe” and “doesn’t show is usual personality." In my opinion I disagree with this.

In his first album “American Teen,” his main purpose was to put himself out there and relate with so many teens that are going through what he went through.

“Free Spirit” showed the true Khalid. It showed raw emotion and the troubles he’s facing in his personal life as well as dealing with his

fame at such a young age.

His song “Hundred” depicts the emotion of a busy life with people constantly needing you. “Twenty one” was in a way a sequel to “8TEEN” from his “American Teen” album.

This showed how much he grew up but made the song about himself to allows us to get an insight into his life. The songs “Heaven” and “Alive” are some of the most beautiful songs on the album where he expresses deep emotions and has a conversation with death conveyed in the lyrics “I shouldn't have to die to feel alive."

Khalid was inspired by his own album and came up with a short film with Emil Nava that goes by the same name. The short film follows a story of a friend group in a town they grew up in. Each character has their own problems and secret life whether it be family or money struggles.

The group feels trapped and want to break free. Khalid and his friends set out to go on a road trip to the city. Throughout the road trip, friends come and go and fear of the future sets in.

Each song from the album is played at different times of the movie to set a specific mood. This movie had a special meaning to Khalid because all of his friends play a character. This movie was in theaters for one day to show to fans who are dedicated to his music and art. It was beautifully constructed to make you feel exactly how the characters felt.

Each album served a purpose in significant points of his life. “Free Spirit” not only revealed Khalid’s truest form but paved the path to so many more great albums in the future. Each of the song lyrics flows into the next and the music is beautifully produced making Khalid in my opinion, the King of R&B of our generation.

The Happiest Place on Streaming

Disney announces release date for streaming platform

By RYAN MILLER Staff Writer

Look at this stuff. Isn't it neat? Wouldn't you think my collection's complete? That’s what guests at Disney’s annual Investor Day on April 11 may have felt after watching the presentation on what to expect on Disney+, the company’s upcoming streaming platform.

Disney+ is slated to launch exclusively in North America on Nov. 12, 2019. The platform had originally been announced to launch in September 2019, but the company wanted to make sure an ample amount of content would be available from the jump on day one.

With Disney now owning Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Lucasfilm, Marvel Studios, National Geographic and recently acquwired 20th Century Fox, there is seemingly an endless supply of entertainment aimed to compete directly with big-name streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu. Perhaps not uncoincidentally, Disney’s contract with Netflix expires this year, which currently grants them the exclusive right to newer Disney films such as “Coco” and “Incredibles 2.”

With Disney+ in development for several years now, there are many original series and films already in the works. Among them will be a live-action adaptation of “Lady and the Tramp,” a spin-off “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series,” “Star Wars” first ever live-action scripted series “The Mandalorian” and docuseries “The World According to Jeff Goldblum.”

Pixar will be getting in on the action too, with a “Monsters Inc.” inspired animated

series “Monsters at Work.” Original stars Billy Crystal and John Goodman are slated to return as Mike and Sully respectively.

Following the release of “Toy Story 4” in the summer, “Lamp Life,” a short film centered around the character Bo Peep will be available upon the launch of Disney+.

Disney CEO Bob Iger was excited for the announcements to finally be official.

“It’s a big deal. All Disney in one place never existed before,” Iger said while speaking on Good Morning America, “that’s (like) going to Disneyland every day of the week.”

When asked to describe how to categorize the shift in Disney’s direction going forward Iger said he believes that it is not a re-imagination of the company, but rather, “an extension for the company of what it has done for 96 years,” adding, “we don’t try to live up to (fans’) expectations, we try to exceed them.”

The starting price for Disney+ will be $6.99 per month with the option of saving money to lock in for a whole year at $69.99.

The service will also begin ad-free. For QU students who are already piling up the subscriptions to other services such as Netflix and Hulu, it still seems to be worth the hype.

Freshman diagnostic medical sonography major Morgan Figueira says, “I would want a free trial to see if it would be any better than Netflix,” but goes on to add, “I’d be willing to pay as long as I could play it on multiple devices.”

Similarly, sophomore biomedical science major Ally Maas also felt like the cost was not bad.

“I think that’s a reasonable price. If

you’re a super fan, then it’s definitely worth it,” Maas said. “If you aren’t, then you probably wouldn’t be getting it anyway.”

According to Disney’s Twitter account (@Disney), “In year one, you’ll be able to rediscover more than 7,500 episodes and 500 films from our library.” In terms of television shows this includes old fan favorites such as “Boy Meets World,” “Goof Troop,” “Kim Possible” and “DuckTales.”

With the 20th Century Fox merger, Disney also now owns the rights to “The Simpsons,” whose entire 30 seasons will be available exclusively on Disney+. As shown on a segment during “Good Morning America,” this acquisition also allows Disney to put classic film “The Sound of Music” right next to the likes of “Mary Poppins”

a Disney+ revitalization. Fans of Cartoon Network series “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” can look forward to a seventh season of the show that was thought to be finished.

In addition, Disney Channel hit “Phineas and Ferb” will return with an original movie in which most original voice actors have signed on to reprise their role.

As we have come to learn, Disney is full of surprises and magic. It shouldn’t come as a surprise if even more shows and films are added to the already stacked lineup between now and November. Until then, fans will have to see Disney’s blockbusters on other platforms or the old fashioned way, in theaters.

and “Cinderella.”

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GAME OF THE WEEK

Quinnipiac women’s lacrosse loses to Monmouth

Bobcats fail to qualify for the postseason following the loss at home

By JARED PENNA Sports Editor

The Quinnipiac women’s lacrosse team stumbled in its final game of the season on Saturday, April 20, dropping the home matchup against the Monmouth Hawks by a score of 19-12.

The scoring started early in this one, with Monmouth (12-5 overall, 6-2 MAAC) putting in its first goal just two minutes and 50 seconds into the game. The Hawks quickly followed their first score with another just 40 seconds later to make the score 2-0 early.

Quinnipiac (5-11 overall, 2-6 MAAC) struggled to maintain possession in the first five minutes of the game, making Monmouth look like a real powerhouse on the field.

Quinnipiac had a hard time connecting on most of its passes on the offensive end. Whenever it managed to create a scoring opportunity, it was almost always soiled by an inability to complete a pass.

“I think overall it was a gritty game,” Quinnipiac head coach Tanya Kotowicz said. “[Our stronger play] came a little late.”

The Bobcats opened up their scoring courtesy of two, back-to-back free position goals.

Junior midfielder Brianna Fitzgerald carried the ball both times, charging straight towards the goal and shooting low. She put both in, closing the gap to one goal with plenty of time remaining in the first half.

The scoring didn’t stop there, as Quinnipiac made its way back from down three goals to tie the game with 17 minutes remaining in the first half. Senior attack Allison Kuhn saw an opening in front of the net and took her shot, screaming it passed the goalkeeper to even the score at 3-3.

“It’s kind of funny, in our scouting report we said we’re going to steal momentum and we’re

going to break momentum,” Kotowicz said.

“Normally, when three goals happen we call a timeout, but this time we thought ‘let’s let this one ride, [our players] know what they need to do’ and they did it.”

The momentum didn’t last long for Quinnipiac, though, as Monmouth would net two consecutive goals in a matter of moments, taking less than a full minute between goals to regain the lead.

That seemed to be the theme for Monmouth throughout the entire first half, as the Hawks scored two goals separated by less than a minute on three different occasions, making it next to impossible for Quinnipiac to find its way back into the game.

“Momentum swings definitely got us today,” Kotowicz said. “We talk a lot about breaking the play, the little things matter, and we started to do that better in the second half. I think the first half, though, we could have done a better job.”

After six goals in the final 10 minutes and 20 seconds of the first half, Monmouth entered halftime leading 11-4 and with all sorts of momentum. The game seemed decided with the entire second half to play. “[The message at halftime was] we’ve got to believe, got to keep going,” Kotowicz said.

“There’s another 30 minutes, and we’ve done this before. We’ve been down before and we’ve won the game, so let’s go, and they did that.”

Quinnipiac came sprinting out of the gates to begin the second half. Junior attack Megan Szawlowski scored her team-leading 33rd goal of the season just 23 seconds into the half to cut the Monmouth lead to six goals.

Following an incredible display of lockdown team defense, freshman midfielder Gabby Beckett put in her first goal of the day to cut the Hawks’ lead to five goals. Just over one minute

later, Beckett scored again to cut the lead to four.

Monmouth had an answer to the Bobcats’ hot start in the second half, scoring its first goal of the half 58 seconds after Beckett’s second goal, extending its lead back to five. “[Our players] came out in the second half and they were ready to fight,” Kotowicz said.

The Bobcats had an answer, scoring two minutes later to cut the lead back to four, the score reading 12-8 with 23 minutes and 37 seconds left to play. The momentum only lasted so long, though, and Quinnipiac soon found itself down 14-8 with less and less time to erase a deficit that kept growing.

Monmouth would go on to score six of the next seven goals, extending its lead to nine with 11 minutes and 40 seconds remaining in the second half.

Quinnipiac showed signs of life late, as Kuhn and Beckett both scored their third goals of the game within the last six minutes and 40 seconds

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Quinnipiac women’s lacrosse senior attack Allison Kuhn netted four goals in her final game at Quinnipiac.

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The Quinnipiac women’s tennis team secured the No. 1 seed in the MAAC Tournament after winning its sixth straight regular season MAAC title.

In a 10-9 win on Saturday, Quinnipiac men’s lacrosse senior attack Foster Cuomo was responsible for scoring 60 percent of the team’s goals.

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Sophomore Annie Hage carries the ball up the field as senior Allison Kuhn trails her.

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of the game, but the true dagger came when the Hawks scored their 19th goal of the day at the four-minute mark. The goal extended the Hawks’ lead to eight, ending any chance of a comeback.

Following this loss, Quinnipiac was officially eliminated from the playoffs, making it the last game of the Bobcats’ season. The Bobcats finished the year with a 5-11 overall record and 2-6 in the MAAC, good for eighth of the nine teams in the conference.

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Quinnipiac softball freshman pitcher Lauren King threw a complete game shutout against Marist on Wednesday. King allowed just five hits and struck out three batters.

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Quinnipiac softball freshmen and first-year coach brings fresh view

By BRYAN MURPHY Editor-in-Chief

The Quinnipiac softball team has made the MAAC Tournament once in the last six years.

To the seven freshmen and the new head coach, that’s unacceptable.

“I think that was the problem,” Quinnipiac head coach Hillary Barrow said. “[The previous teams] set their goals really low, in my mind. We talked about that. Why just get to the tournament, why not win the tournament?

What’s the point of just getting there, anybody can just get there.”

Barrow’s image for a new program at Quinnipiac was quickly accepted by both new faces and old, even before the season had begun. “[Barrow] acknowledged, and I thought it was awesome that she did, that you guys have been doing the same thing for a long time and it’s going to change drastically, but we’ve all got to be on board,” freshman catcher Lo Yarnall said. “It’s going to be a journey for all of us.

The motto for the year has been a new era. We are going to rewrite who we are.”

When Barrow came from Florida to Hamden for her first gig as a head coach, she knew that she had a perfect opportunity to bring a fresh start to a program that has struggled in the MAAC the last few years.

“I knew taking the job it was going to be tough and I knew it was going to be a culture that we had to change,” Barrow said. “I think we’re getting to where we need to be. I

like having so many new girls. Just because they don’t know any different than the culture I’m teaching. So it is a blessing having so many new girls.”

Along with the seven freshmen on the team, sophomore infielder Kayla Jensen also came to Quinnipiac this season, transferring from the College of Central Florida. Additionally, redshirt senior Jen Fay, known for her dominance on the hardwood with the Quinnipiac women’s basketball team, brought her winning persona to the softball field by joining part way through the season.

The decision to have Fay join the team was a unique one. It isn’t common for someone to play two sports in college, but since Fay has joined the team, she has been nothing but a positive addition, according to Barrow.

“Her attitude and her willingness to work hard,” Barrow said on what Fay brings to the table. “She goes 100 percent all the time and she doesn’t let things affect her. She doesn’t let not playing for five years get her down. I think the girls just feed off of her energy. They see her leadership and they want to be like Jen.” When it comes to the freshmen, there’s a ton of them, and transitioning to Division I isn’t the easiest thing. It’s something that Barrow knew would be an obstacle for the team to avoid.

“It’s more of a mental game,” Barrow said.

“It is really tough for them. You’re learning how to get more mentally tough, but it is a process getting them there. They have their good

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First-year softball player Jen Fay slides into home plate to score the game’s first run. days and they have their bad days, just like any other person does.”

The newest Bobcats have fed off of Barrow’s mentality for the team. After seeing what the team had accomplished, or rather had not accomplished, in years past, they knew that it was time for a change and were excited about the opportunity.

“We knew we would have to buy into a new program,” freshman infielder Alexis Otero said.

“We were all open and willing to do that because if not, things might not work out. It was awesome to see everyone buying in and wanting to do more for the program.”

On the field, the freshmen have wasted no time making an impact. Otero and infielder Bridget Nasir have started in every game this season. Yarnall has played in every game except two, and both outfielders Danielle Sorenson and Hannah Davis have seen significant playing time.

In addition, two out of three pitchers for the Bobcats are freshmen. Brooklyn Maguire and Lauren King have been taking the rubber for the Bobcats, with King leading the team in appearances with 30 and Maguire providing a third arm in the bullpen for Barrow to use.

“Brooklyn, I know she doesn’t throw the hardest, but she’s a bulldog and I know she wants the ball all the time,” Barrow said. “It’s been fun to watch her grow. I know she’s only going to get better because she’s a self-motivated kid and you can’t teach that. Those are things that you have to want yourself.

“With Lauren King, she’s just naturally talented. [She] has never had a pitching coach before. It’s been a process teaching Lauren, but

it’s been fun because that’s my favorite thing to do is to teach...Sometimes I see glimpses of greatness in her. It’s just a process.”

The team as a whole currently sits in the middle of the MAAC with six conference games remaining on the year. There is still a ways to go for this Bobcat team and according to Yarnall, there’s a hump this team needs to get over this year if a MAAC title is still in its sights.

“It’s a game of inches,” Yarnall said. “It’s going to be for our pitchers, hitting the pitches every time. For hitters, it’s going to be being aggressive. We put ourselves in holes a little too often and it’s going to have to be having the intent of stepping in the box and smashing the ball...When we do that, we win. It’s obvious, we did that and we beat Marist.

“Our coaches said it, it depends on the team that comes out. If it’s a timid team that’s a little bit in over their heads, that’s when mistakes tend to happen. But when we come in and we’re like ‘listen, at the end of the day it’s a game and we’re here to ruin people.’

That’s when we win.”

For the program, Barrow understands that the change is gradual, and knows that it’s something that isn’t going to happen right away. But she’s happy with what she’s seen so far from the team.

“It’s a process getting there,” Barrow said.

“I know it’s not going to happen overnight or as fast as I wish it would happen. But it’s a process getting there, getting to where we need to be. It’s a learning process, it doesn’t happen overnight.”