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Uber passes the gates

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Department of Public Safety lifts ban on Uber

By SARAH DOIRON Co-News Editor

Students will now be able to catch an Uber safely after the Department of Public Safety’s decision to allow them on campus, according to the Chief of Public Safety Edgar Rodriguez.

This change in policy is not fully in effect yet, but Public Safety is working to allow students to meet their Uber driver in the carpool lot adjacent to the guard booth on the Mount Carmel campus, according to Rodriguez.

Rodriguez said a location for students to pick up an Uber on the York Hill campus is still being determined by Public Safety. He said this change comes after realizing students were still using Uber by catching them off campus.

“I know for a lot of our students Uber is economical and it is being used worldwide,” Rodriguez said.

Sophomore Sabrina Sergio said allowing Uber on campus is a good idea because most students don’t want to pay for a taxi.

“Taxis are expensive and Ubers are much cheaper,” she said. “A college student on a budget doesn’t want to pay a lot of money just to go somewhere.”

Rodriguez said even though Uber drivers will be allowed on campus, he recommends students use Metro Taxi.

“Metro Taxi is a professional organization that has marked vehicles, are insured, all taxi drivers have a public service license and the vehicles have a security camera in them,” he said.

General manager for Uber in Connecticut Matt Powers

said Uber has experienced tremendous growth within the New Haven area since the company expanded to the state in April 2014. “[Uber] is popular typically among college students because it is safe, reliable and convenient to use, especially when you don’t have a car and you need to get

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into the city,” he said.

Powers said it is important for people to not compare Uber to a taxi service.

“I think it’s an important distinction to make because many people assume it’s a taxi, but it’s a new innovative option for transportation that anyone can use,” he said.

Uber recently won the dismissal of a lawsuit by 15 Connecticut taxi companies because it could not be proven to be competing unfairly with taxi services.

Rodriguez said he has some issues with Uber’s safety, especially the fact that Uber cars are not marked. “[Public Safety] is more concerned about students who are leaving the nightclubs late at night and are trying to

catch an Uber,” he said. “Sometimes we aren’t as sober as we ought to be during these times and then we jump into the first car that looks like an Uber.”

Powers said Uber takes pride in the safety of their app because of the information a user is able to receive about their driver.

“There are all sorts of features on there that can help make Uber one of the safest transportation options out there,” he said. “You can share the ride with friends and as a user you can see your driver’s photo along with their contact information, license plate and the make and model of their vehicle.”

Sophomore Connor Carey said he is happy that Uber is no longer banned on campus so students aren’t walking off campus to meet their drivers.

“I think it’s a great idea; it’s better business for Uber and also helps to ensure more safety for students,” he said.

Rodriguez said when using an Uber it is important to make sure you know your driver’s name, car model and license plate number before hopping into a vehicle.

He also recommends students share an Uber with friends or download the Rave Guardian app to track your location.

“Our biggest concern is the safety of our students,” he said. “At least 75 percent of our Public Safety officers are parents, so we treat [students] like they’re our own kids.”

Editor’s Note: The Matt Powers interviewed in this article is not the Class of 2016 Student Government Association president.

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The university reached out to North Haven First Selectman Michael Freda about the property purchases, according to the New Haven Register.

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Those with a love for horses could be in for a surprise at Quinnipiac. The university might build an equestrian center in the near future, according to a statement from the Vice President for Public Affairs Lynn Bushnell.

“Quinnipiac is thinking very seriously about establishing an equestrian center in the future and we do expect to make a decision during this academic year,” Bushnell said.

There are currently 23 colleges and universities that offer equestrian as a NCAA sport, according to the United States Equestrian Federation. Among those colleges is Sacred Heart University, located in Fairfield.

Beyond just Division I interest, there are other nearby colleges with an equestrian club or team such as Yale University, Fairfield University, Wesleyan University, Connecticut College, Post University, the University of Connecticut and Trinity College.

Quinnipiac has purchased at least six properties in North Haven since 2013, according to documents from Vision Solutions, a company that keeps track of property ownership. Those documents showed that Quinnipiac purchased 999 Mount Carmel Ave., 1001 Mount Carmel Ave., 1155 Mount Carmel Ave., 277 Kings Highway, 35 Canterbury Way and 39 Canterbury Way. Most of these properties are vacant land, but the property on 277 Kings Highway has a barn on it, records show.

Though the university would not comment on whether Quinnipiac would use these properties for a possible equestrian center, the total amount spent on these properties was $12,890,000.

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STUDENTS SPEAK UP

In the past few years, Quinnipiac has purchased more than $12 million of property in North Haven, with two of these properties containing more than 6,000 square feet of barn space. With the possibility of a future equestrian center (see cover), students gave us their perspective on the situation.

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ART DIRECTOR Hannah Schindler

“I am actually a horse person and I have been riding for almost my entire life, so I would love to see an equestrian center here. I would join the team so fast, without a doubt. I was really disappointed that they didn’t have one, actually.

I think it’s worth the money, and I think it would bring people here, too.”

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Sydney Kinsman|Junior “Personally, I don’t see the point [of building an equestrian center]. I don’t see what that has to do with our school. I don’t see why we need horses, and I don’t agree with spending money to do that. I think that [using those funds to improve the track and athletic center] would be more useful because we could use it for track meets and people could use it to exercise.”

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“I think it’s good to have more diversity in sports.

We don’t have a football team or anything like that so I think it would be another interesting thing to add to the sports program. I don’t know if it’s worth [$12 million,] like they could have used some of that to put AC in the dorms, but I don’t think it’s going to waste.”

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Deanna Vitale|Freshman “I’m not really a big horseback rider, but my roommate is and I think that would be something good. She was actually talking about how much she misses her horses from back home so this is something that would be really good for students who are into horseback riding. I’m not sure if it’s worth the money, but it really just depends on how many people they can get to join.”

Beyond the Bobcats

A rundown on news outside the university.

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Delta State University Shooting

The Migrant Crisis

Ethan Schmidt, a Delta State University geography and social science professor, was shot at his desk Monday morning, according to Fox News. The main suspect, Professor Shannon Lamb, shot himself late Monday night as authorities closed in on him, according to CBS News. Mississippi police officials believe Lamb is also a suspect in killing a woman, Amy Prentiss. Allegedly, Lamb killed Amy Prentiss in Gautier, Mississippi, approximately 300 miles from Delta State University, two nights before Schmidt’s death. Lamb was romantically involved with Prentiss and believed Schmidt was as well, according to officials.

Many people from war-torn areas of Iraq, Syria and several countries within Africa are seeking asylum throughout Europe—especially in Italy, Germany and Hungary, according to BBC News. Many refugees pay human traffickers to get them to unguaranteed safety. Others seek out gangs and become slaves to pay for their passage. Surrounding countries are overloaded with refugees seeking asylum and as a last resort are increasing their measures for entrance. For instance, Hungary will begin arresting illegal immigrants in the upcoming days. Many say this is the worst migrant crisis since World War II.

Mitchell speaks out about prison break

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Joyce Mitchell said she flirted with prisoners Richard Matt and David Sweat, but was not in love with them and did not engage in sexual contact with Matt. In the interview, Mitchell stated she was not a “monster,” but got caught up in something she could not get out of. After the prisoners escaped in June, authorities searched for them for three weeks.

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A different direction

As SGA’s first VP of Student Experience, Lindsey Banks eyes ways to engage students

By NICK SOLARI Web Director

In April of 2014, Lindsey Banks began to feel apprehensive about running for Student Government Association (SGA) class representative.

Banks, a sophomore at the time, had already filled out the necessary paperwork to begin her campaign — which was scheduled to start the following day.

But when she went into the SGA office to give then-President Matt Desilets her paperwork, she informed him that she didn’t want to run. She asked to be taken off the ballot, because she wasn’t sure that she could take on the extra responsibility.

On her way out of the office she saw current student body president Jonny Atkin.

Banks told Atkin that she decided not to run, so he pulled her into an office to try and change her mind.

“I sat down with her and just told her, ‘Lindsey, you are perfect for this position,’” Atkin said. “She’s someone that listens more than she talks, and she’s always trying to find solutions to problems people have. I wasn’t going to let her back out.”

Then Carly Hviding walked in, and began encouraging Banks in the same manner Atkin had. The meeting lasted for about two hours.

When it was over, Banks had to decided to run once again.

“I wouldn’t be in SGA if it wasn’t for them,” Banks said.

Fast forward to a year later — during April of 2015 — and Atkin and Hviding again found themselves encouraging Banks to run for another SGA position: Vice President of Student Experience. The position was new, resulting from the split between SGA and SPB last March. Both Atkin and Hviding had no doubt — based on her involvement in SGA from the prior year — that Banks was the right choice for the job.

This time, Banks needed no convincing.

She wanted to run.

“I always knew I wanted to be more involved, I just didn’t necessarily know where,” Banks said. “When this position was created I knew it was perfect. Everything I’m really passionate about, I thought it was encompassed in this position. It was kind of right there in front of me.”

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Lindsey Banks meets with the Student Experience Committee to discuss ways to involve the student body and to get feedback. experience, Banks is responsible for trying to find ways to engage the student population.

“My vision is that, at least once a week, we will be having some sort of conversation with the student body,” Banks said.

One of her main priorities is running the “We are Quinnipiac” campaign around campus.

“I’m kind of the messenger,” Banks said.

“I’m the one who puts the wheels in motion, and kind of puts things into the right places so that everything we want to accomplish can happen.”

She is also leading a statistical-gathering initiative, directed toward finding creative ways to survey as many students on campus as possible. With this data, SGA has the ability to approach the administration with more accurate data.

“She’s got the perfect combination of social intelligence and analytical intelligence,” Atkin said. “She can look at some survey results and find a trend, or she can listen to somebody talk

and key in on broader, important points.”

Hviding also thinks Banks’ unique skillset makes her a perfect fit for the new job.

“I can’t think of anyone who cares about the students more than her,” Hviding said.

“It’s almost as if Lindsey [Banks] encompasses this new position, and the position encompasses her.”

One of the most challenging things for Banks is the realm of uncertainty that comes with a new position. Unlike most other SGA members, Banks has nobody to go to for advice, and no blueprint to follow for a daily operation.

What she does have is other SGA members, which have formed a committee under Banks to help try and enhance student experience.

“It’s kind of up to me and my committee to form this position and decide what it will be in charge of in the future,” Banks acknowledged.

“It’s a lot of brainstorming and planning, kind of paving the way for the future.”

“Without the members of my team, I

wouldn’t be able to do any of this,” she added.

In the future, Banks hopes to offer a more accurate portrayal of the entire campus, including people of all sorts of interests. In a broad sense, she says, it’s her largest goal.

“If there are people here feeling like ‘[SGA] isn’t doing anything for me,’ then we need to do a better job,” Banks said. “That’s why this position was created. We’ve always been an umbrella over the student body, but a lot of what we’ve accomplished has been for student organizations. I want to engage everyone.”

And her peers have no doubt that she’s the right person for the job.

“I know that putting such an important development in her hands is going to be just phenomenal,” Hviding said.

“It’s going to be fun watching Lindsey [Banks] and her committee,” Atkin said. “I have no doubt that she’s going to make big strides and provide the framework for this position for years to come.”

Students, faculty victims of phishing incident

By MATT GRAHN Staff Writer

Emails sent from Quinnipiac accounts are generally trustworthy, but that isn’t always the case.

An scam email sent from a Quinnipiac account on Tuesday, Sept. 8 contained a message that said the email account was near capacity. Recipients were instructed to click on a link and enter their username and password—information which scammers can use to access more email accounts or Quinnipiac-related information, like the library databases.

According to Chief Security Information Officer Brian Kelly, this is known as phishing.

Merriam-Webster defines phishing as “a scam by which an e-mail user is duped into revealing personal or confidential information which the scammer can use illicitly.”

Approximately 9,000 copies of the email were sent to Quinnipiac faculty and student accounts.

Though in this case the origin of the phishing email is unknown, Adjunct Professor Barbara Cofrances-Nana was among the first to receive the email. Her email could

have been exposed to this scam through another phishing campaign, according to the Information Technology department.

At first, Cofrances-Nana didn’t realize that this email was not an official Quinnipiac email and gave the link her username and password. However, it didn’t take long for her to notice.

“All of a sudden I got email upon email on my email site that was saying the same thing: ‘Quota Warning,’ ‘Quota Warning’ …

I knew something was wrong,” CofrancesNana said.

As of Thursday, Sept. 10, an estimated 12 accounts have clicked on the link, according to Kelly. But that does not necessarily mean that all 12 accounts gave away personal information.

“Maybe we have a savvy, skeptical user base who, by and large, doesn’t fall for these kinds of things,” Kelly said.

Freshman Olivia Morgan, who received the phishing email, echoed Kelly’s sentiment.

“We kinda know not to click the fishy links cause most people looked at it and saw it wasn’t a real thing,” Morgan said.

Freshman Amanda Allen, who also re-

ceived the email, noted that students were also informing each other about it through social media.

“On Yik Yak, a lot of people were talking about [the email]… They pretty much just said don’t open it or don’t put your information in it, and if you already did, to change [your password],” Allen said.

After having discovered the nature of the email, Cofrances-Nana took her computer to the IT department on the third floor of the North Haven Campus. She said that the IT department took care of the problem within 30 minutes.

Cofrances-Nana said she is cautious when it comes to the Internet and uses various programs to protect herself on the web. However, Kelly said the user may have been tricked by the email into giving information.

“There’s a social psychology aspect to it, that they play on urgency… ‘if you don’t comply, [a] bad thing is going to happen,’” Kelly said.

When receiving official Quinnipiac emails, Kelly said to check if the email was sent from a quinnipiac.edu adress. She said official emails should also have a signature block, which in-

cludes a phone number so recipients can verify the authenticity of the message.

If a user’s account is near capacity, the official email they would receive is a message sent by the Microsoft Outlook program, which is used for Quinnipac email, that says “Please reduce your mailbox size. Delete any items you don’t need from your mailbox and empty your Deleted Items folder.”

Kelly said students shouldn’t use a password from another site for their Quinnipiac password. He also said students shouldn’t share their password with anyone—not even their parents.

“The students get a big kick out of that when their mom calls and says, ‘Hey, you told my son not to share their password with me,’ but it’s so critically important to protect [your password],” Kelly said.

Cofrances-Nana followed Kelly’s advice.

She changed her password after the incident.

She warned students and faculty to be careful in the world of cyberspace.

“You let your guard down one time, and crazy things happen,” Cofrances-Nana said.

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South Lot to close for Fall Fest The Department of Public Safety will close South Lot on Sept. 18 to begin preparation for Fall Fest. South Lot will be closed until Sept. 20. The concert will take place from 2-6 p.m. on Sept. 19. in South Lot. Anyone who uses South Lot can park their vehicles in North Lot. –S. Doiron

New workout area in Mount Carmel Athletic Center Room 147 in the Mount Carmel Athletic Center is being transformed into a new workout area for students and faculty to use. The room is located in the back corner of the Athletic Center near the exit closest to the softball fields. The room has a few weight machines, light weights, mats and stability balls. The area is also air-conditioned. Students who are interested can ask Athletic Center staff for a tour of the new workout space. –S. Doiron

University to host Falls Prevention Day Annual Falls Prevention Day will take place on Sept. 24 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Center for Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at the North Haven Campus. The event is free and open to all senior citizens who live nearby.

Attendees will learn what is considered a fall risk and how to install additional lighting and grab bars to help reduce falls. An exercise program will also be offered to help participants find good balance to prevent falls. Call 203-582-3144 for more information.

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QUAD to offer off-campus rock climbing QU After Dark will be going off-campus to go rock climbing at City Climb in New Haven on Sept. 18 at 9 p.m.

The event is free but a $5 refundable cash deposit is required. Sign ups will be on Sept. 16 at 9 p.m. at the tables in the Carl Hansen Student Center.

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QU301 info sessions to be held Students who want to learn about the QU301 travel abroad seminars for the spring semester are invited to attend information sessions. Information sessions will be held on Sept. 21 and Sept. 24 at 8 p.m. in the Echlin Center Room 101. –S. Doiron

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Infamous day from a new perspective Director of Veteran Affairs remembers 9/11

By DAVID FRIEDLANDER Associate News Editor

It was late on Sept. 12, 2001, just a day after two passenger airplanes flew into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, when Lieutenant Commander Jason Burke, now the Director of Veteran Affairs at Quinnipiac, received a message. He had to fly to Smith Equipment Manufacturing in Watertown, South Dakota, to pick up equipment that would help find survivors in the mounds of debris at Ground Zero.

“Fortunately, the Smith Cutting facility was right by the runway,” Burke said. “The employees had stayed up over 24 hours to make these torches that were extra long so they could get through rubble and get through rebar because at the time, we thought there were a lot of survivors in the wreckage of the towers that came down.”

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had grounded everything, and the only air traffic that Burke heard were some F-16 Fighting Falcon jets over Minneapolis looking for fuel from a tanker.

“We landed in Newark, [New Jersey] and as soon as we landed there were trucks waiting,” Burke said, “so they had these conveyer belts—loaders—that took them right off the plane into the back of a truck.”

Burke said that even a day and a half after the attacks, he could still see Manhattan smoldering from Newark which is about 15 miles from where the World Trade Center towers stood a day prior.

“They didn’t find any other survivors after that,” Burke said. “Everybody was just pulverized from the weight and heat and debris and all that. They’d find small body parts; it’s kind of gruesome, but people were just gone.”

On Sept. 11, 2001, Burke was working at Willow Grove Naval Air Base—which was transferred to the Pennsylvania Air National Guard in 2011 and renamed Horsham Air Guard Station—outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. When the attacks ensued at the World Trade Center in New York City and at the Pentagon in Maryland, the base increased its security measures almost immediately.

“It went from relatively easy, to locking down the bases...one entrance in and out with checkpoints both ways,” Burke said. “Kind of overkill, but it was that way for years, and still is that way.”

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Burke (left) with his interpreter (right) posing with two children during his tour in Afghanistan.

The attacks didn’t just impact security on base. Burke worked with a squadron with several reservists, and some of them were airline pilots, one of which flew for United Airlines and had an international route heading back from Europe.

But when news of the attacks got out, he was diverted into a small town in Canada where they had to stay for almost a week until people could fly back into the United States, according to Burke.

“I knew another guy who flew for Southwest and he was going into Baltimore and he heard one of the pilots on the radio being attacked... being slashed by one of the terrorists,” he said. “So he heard screaming on the radio and the controllers told him to land at the nearest suitable field. So they were already coming out of altitude into Baltimore, so they just sped it up and landed back where they were supposed to be.”

Burke also knew someone who was killed when American Airline Flight 77, flying from Dulles Airport in Virginia, was hijacked and flown into the West Wall of the Pentagon.

“I had a guy who I went to the Naval Academy with that was killed because [the plane] hit the one side [of the Pentagon] where there was a heavy concentration of military,” Burke said.

Twenty-one years before Sept.

11, 2001, Jason Burke was just a 14-year-old Boy Scout, but he knew he wanted to fly. It all started when he was on a Scout bus trip from Pennsylvania to Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarron, New Mexico,

where he would camp out with other scouts.

“You’re there for a week, living in tents, you backpack for a week out in New Mexico. I did that and each night we spent the night in some high school gym,” Burke said.

“But we visited spots on the way like the Indianapolis 500, we did Pikes Peak, and we went to the Air Force Academy.”

It was the trip to the Air Force Academy that changed Burke’s life forever. He saw the jets on display, grabbed a catalogue, and knew this is what he was interested in doing.

“I applied to the Air Force Academy, but my dad said that the Navy had planes too, and I was like, ‘Really?’ I didn’t know…so I applied to the Naval Academy as well since I wanted to fly,” Burke said.

Burke was accepted into the Naval Academy during his senior year of high school. He attended the Naval Academy prep school in Newport, Rhode Island for a year and spent four years at the Academy.

“It was like a five-year college program, but this was all before Top Gun came out in the mid-80s, so I was lucky because then it was a rush and everyone wanted to do it,” Burke joked.

After 26 years, Burke retired from the Navy in early 2013 as a captain. And following a short stint as a consultant at an oil and gas company, Burke became Quinnipiac’s first director of veteran affairs, and is now in his third academic year in this position. With that, he is one of the most respected individuals in the

community, according to those who have worked with him.

Quinnipiac sophomore Michael Cosgrove, a former sergeant who was an infantryman stationed with the Army’s Old Guard at Fort Meyer, Virginia, said Burke was an incredible resource during his application process, and continues to be today.

“Jason [Burke] is exceedingly knowledgeable and competent. The man is universally respected and admired within the veteran community at QU,” Cosgrove said.

Sgt. Christopher Bolduc, a junior at Quinnipiac and a former marine, said that Burke truly went above and beyond.

“When I got out of the Marine Corps, he went beyond extraordinary measures to make sure I was fully set with everything I needed,” Bolduc said. “From setting up my yellow ribbon program, to getting me into classes that might have been full, Jason is the reason that veterans have and will be successful in the community.”

While the student veterans on campus are grateful for Burke, he feels very lucky to help them.

“Being an advocate for somebody who is your mission, no matter what it is, and in this case it’s students getting a degree and bettering their life no matter if they’re 20 years old or 50 years old,” Burke said. “That’s why I’m here—to support that mission—to take any burden off their shoulders, and really giving somebody some steerage and helping them to get to their goal.”

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Junior Ali Sicbaldi has been riding horses for 12 years at Rabbit Hill Farm in Newtown. But coming to Quinnipiac meant she couldn’t ride as a Division I athlete in college because she wanted to do more events with her riding that involved cash prizes—which NCAA athletes are not allowed to accept.

“I was interested in riding for college but I signed away my right to ride D1,” Sicbaldi said. “I feel like Quinnipiac would be a good fit for an equestrian team because it’s an up-

and-coming sport and I know of a lot of girls who’d like to have it here.”

Sicbaldi’s beliefs for the center coincide with Bushnell’s expectations.

“An equestrian program and center would fit very nicely with Quinnipiac’s mission and the interests of our students,” Bushnell said.

Though she wasn’t able to compete on a Division I team, Sicbaldi has faith that a potential Quinnipiac center could grow to be on that scale.

“The facility Quinnipiac is hoping to build can lead to D1 competition because horseback riding is becoming popular and New England could use a

top-tier facility,” Sicbaldi said.

Sophomore Max Gomes doesn’t share the love of horses that some of his Quinnipiac peers have.

“To be honest, I wish that Quinnipiac would have a pool instead of an equestrian center,” Gomes said. “I feel like other things should be improved with that money, but that’s just me.”

Senior Nadia Jarvis, who rode and owned horses for about 10 years in Port Republic, New Jersey, considered pursuing riding in college but ultimately chose Quinnipiac because she got a scholarship for track.

But Jarvis isn’t sure there

would be enough prospective riders for a center.

“I don’t think there is enough interest for an equestrian center,” Jarvis said. “I think it would be a great idea but not enough for D1.”

Bushnell’s statement counters this. She said the center would provide more than just a new asset for Quinnipiac and could gain a greater audience.

“Such a center could serve as a wonderful resource not only for our students, but also for the North Haven community, making it possible for young people to take riding lessons,” Bushnell said.

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The United States of America has long and is the envy of the citizens of other countries stood as a cultural pillar for democracy and that do not extend the same freedoms we are freedom. In fact, freedom is kind of America’s granted here. In fact, after the marriage deci“thing.” America became a little freer on June sion, many Australians took to social media in 26, 2015 when the Supreme Court ruled in fa- support of the Supreme Court, expressing the vor of the legalization of gay marriage in the desire for similar rights in their own country.

The most recent face of gay marriage opUnited States of America.

Individual states could no longer ban position is Kim Davis, the county clerk from Rowan County, Kensame-sex marriage, making tucky, who was recently America the 20th country to jailed for six days afallow nationwide marriage JENNA MANDOZZI ter refusing to issue equality. This was a day Staff Writer marriage licenses to long-awaited by the LGBT same-sex couples in her community and their straight @Jdozz09 county. She cited her allies. There were nationwide Christian beliefs as the nuptials and celebrations for reason and has become a this legalization of love. martyr of sorts for some “It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the religious groups.

“We serve a living God who knows exactidea of marriage…They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants ly where each and every one of us is at. Keep them that right,” Justice Anthony Kennedy pressing. Don’t let down,” Davis said upon her release, according to TIME magazine. wrote in the decision.

But here is the thing. Despite Davis’ perOften times, the United States stands divided on many social and political matters, and sonal beliefs, she is professionally obligated to this decision has caused a great deal of social serve the Kentucky citizens who elected her backlash from religious and political conserva- into office, not God. Whether or not she as a tives who do not support the idea of same-sex human being with her own opinions agrees with the marriage equality ruling, she is lecouples getting married.

Society struggles with change, especially gally obligated to distribute marriage licenses when specific communities feel their values to whomever enters that courthouse in the purare being threatened. This is human nature, and suit of love, simply because it is now the law it continues the pattern of opposition to social in America. Though entitled to her beliefs, her profession is not an opportunity to push her progress.

However, when has this kind of progress personal agenda or to deny freedoms constituever proved to lessen America’s social or po- tionally allowed within this country.

Republican presidential candidates have litical strength? For every human rights movement we have seen come to fruition and reach flocked to defend Davis in an effort to garner its goals, America has only become mightier more political support.

“We gather here today because we love God and this country. And we do not want to see this country become the smoldering remains of a great republic,” said Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas and presidential candidate as he introduced Davis to speak before a crowd.

Yet, what point does this reinforce? That these Republican candidates who so freely support a woman who refuses to uphold the law because of her religious beliefs would perhaps be willing to do the same? Is that a quality that America should look for in the next leader of its nation? And what part of the pursuit of equality for every member of this nation is going to render America the “smoldering remains of a great republic?”

But here is what I want to say to Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis: perhaps before you use your religion and your position in the community to determine what constitutes an appropriate marriage, you should reflect on your three divorces and then decide if you should be considered an advocate for the sanctity of marriage. The idea of the separation of church and state exists to protect people from the intermingling of politics and world religion so that no individual is politically oppressed by the spiritual beliefs of others. America is not a theocracy, but rather, a democracy.

America is constantly striving for equality and freedom for all. We have a long way to go, no doubt, but nothing threatens this progress more than the country’s own citizens who try to strip rights away from one another. When individuals try to take away the rights of others because of their own individual beliefs, we jeopardize the very foundation that America was built on.

Busywork inhibits our ability to learn

Entering the final year of my college education, I expected to be applying skills and building on previous knowledge that I learned in my previous classes. This is the year that I take the capstone courses that the school requires and complete the most advanced classes that my major offers. Therefore, the work assigned, and the in classwork should be applying the concepts learned, rather than just memorizing definitions and/or formulas. We’ve been doing this for the past three years. I think we all know how to do this by now.

Just two weeks into classes, I’m already being assigned busywork.

Here’s my problem with busywork. Summarizing an article, or memorizing definitions doesn’t add value to what I have learned. I spend three hours a week in each class, and after all that time, I’d rather apply what I have learned rather than just doing the same thing outside of class.

In one of my classes, we have seven different assignments where we are supposed to read an article and then write a one-page summary of what we read. I’d love to know how I am gaining

anything by this. If I read the article, I obviously every concept. However, there are several majors know what it’s about. Shouldn’t we be spending where the students spend more time completing busywork than they do actually understanding that time discussing why we read it?

In addition to taking valuable time away and applying the new information.

At my internship this summer I applied more from our education, there are countless other reasons why busywork is such a problem on of what I have learned in an 11-week period than college campuses. With so much busywork I have my entire college career. Every time new information was presented comes cheating. Most colto me, I was immediately lege students have done this.

JESS SWEENEY given a project that related You have a million and one to what I had just been assignments to complete and Associate Design Editor taught, and I was able to you’re crunched for time, so @JesssSweeney fully understand the mayou copy your roommate’s or terial because the work I your friend’s work in order to was doing mattered. focus on the assignments that I understand work and are actually presenting new information or causing you to think. If it’s just school are different; of course you’re going to busywork, it’s not like you’re learning anything apply concepts at work, that’s just what you do.

I’m just saying the same can be done in college anyways.

I’m not saying this applies to every major or classrooms. Students would get so much more even every professor. There are plenty of majors out of their classes if professors took the time where all the work is meant to test what you they used to create those busywork assignments know and apply it to actual situations, and there on coming up with ways to have students actuare a handful of professors who make you apply ally apply the material.

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Miss America objectifies to whole new levels

I would like to know who came up with the idea to have women parade around in bathing suits, gowns, perform mediocre “talent” and attempt to answer questions on social issues.

Who? Whose idea? I’m guessing it’s someone who has a strong male-gaze and who enjoys objectifying women.

I had never actually watched Miss America before but last year in women studies, we discussed how demeaning the entire show is toward women. And then today, I was scrolling through the New York Times opinion page and one of my favorite feminists wrote an article on why she likes to watch the show, and I was taken aback by her opinion.

So this year I decided to see SARAH HARRIS what it was all Managing Editor about.

Well, it’s @sarah_harris7 about creating a picture-perfect American woman, who loves helping people and also happens to look like a Barbie—definitely no coincidence there.

Can we start with how painful it was to watch them dance? I muted the intro for a bit because frankly, I just don’t care about your state and what percentage of the world’s potatoes you grow there. And the dancing, oh my gosh, the dancing.

The first competition was the bathing suit pageant. They literally have these girls parading around in bikinis. It should be noted that they used to wear one piece bathing suits.

I want to know exactly what the judges are looking for while they analyze these women.

Are you looking at how skinny, how blonde, how well their hair bounces, how they strut their “stuff” in heels? I know they’re not looking at muscles because God forbid those chicks have actual abs.

That’s the thing with this competition: You are telling women to be Miss America, you have to be a size 0-2, decently tall, have long hair and

be able to have some mediocre stage talent.

America has these women represent each of our states and our country. I wonder what other countries would say if they saw this.

Did you know that in 1969, 400 feminists protested the contest by going to the Miss America venue in Atlantic City? They threw fake eyelashes and tore down banners. Did it work? Not really, but it says something. Where is our form of protest? I personally took to social media as did many others, but is it enough? Will there be change?

My favorite part was the women’s answers to the social questions. First of all, how is it fair to ask someone who they want on the $10 bill and then ask another woman how she feels about Planned Parenthood? And their answers, oh, their answers. This is how you know these women were chosen to be in the pageant because of their looks.

You could tell that none of them have any sort of brain cells, probably from inhaling too much spray tan.

During the question round, they asked Miss Georgia, the winner, about Deflategate. The judge asked her if she thought New England Patriot’s quarterback, Tom Brady, cheated. ARE YOU KIDDING? Because her answer, whether yes or no, is going to help the judges determine if she deserves to win a $50,000 scholarship...what has the world of entertainment come to?

And the woman who said presidential candidate Donald Trump is just entertainment, couldn’t back up her answer for the life of her, considering she repeated herself about five times.

Josh Randle, chief operating officer of the Miss America Organization, said in a Mashable.com article that they try to empower young women to be whatever they want. Well I hate to tell ya, Josh, but you can empower women in hundreds of other ways that doesn’t involve them parading around in swimsuits and asking them how they feel about Donald Trump.

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Why 9/11 needs to stay relevant Sept. 11, 2001, was one of the most con- her drive from work. fusing days of my life. I was 8 years old Those images on that screen changed and in the third grade. There was nothing me. The billowing smoke that chased people too remarkable or different the morning it down city blocks, covering them in rubble happened. I went through my day just like and debris, still haunts me. I used to be terriI always did. fied every time I heard a plane fly overhead But right before lunchtime, the desig- for at least a year. While I personally did not nated time when one of the teachers would know anyone who died from the tragedy, come in and read a book this day always hits me to us before lining up to hard. I can’t even imaghead to the lunchroom, ine what someone who KELLY NOVAK the classroom phone startlost a family or friend ed ringing. The teacher Associate Arts & Life Editor must feel like on the anpicked it up, listened to niversary of this day. @Kellelaxo the message on the other The current freshmen end, and hung up. She anwere only 4 years old on nounced my dad was waitthe day that this national ing for me in the office horror occurred. They and that I should go meet him. may not remember too much of it, if anyI was actually excited at first because thing at all. 9/11 might have the same relthere was the possibility of going home evance to them as the JFK assassination or early. When I walked to the main office, the Pearl Harbor. hallway was crowded with parents, and the But it has to be more than that. Future line spilled out into the vestibule and out the generations need to know that this attack front entrance of the school, but I didn’t see changed so many things for us as a country: my dad. security, media, privacy. Once considered I went back to lunch, not sure why I was the safest way to travel, airplanes became being lied to, but after many back and forths, sources of fear. Routine security procedures I was finally united with my father and my at the airport that we know today only came two siblings and left the school. into effect after 9/11. Our country’s landAs we walked to the car, holding my fa- scape, both metaphorically and physically, ther’s hand, I asked him what had happened was altered forever after this act of hate. that caused so many parents to pick up their Never was America attacked on such a children. massive scale, on our own soil, causing us “Well, two planes hit the World Trade to lose one of our greatest landmarks. But Center,” he said.

America banded together like it never did “Oh,” I happily replied, not even know- before, inspiring a wave of patriotism and ing what the World Trade Center was. kindness that showed why we are the stronWhen we got home, we all had lunch and gest country in the world. sat in front of the TV. The burning towers This day can’t go down in history as and their subsequent fall was the only thing just another incident in the “war on terror.”

I watched on that screen all day (and for the It has to be explained, commemorated and next week after that). I anxiously looked out respected. It has to be a lesson to everyone the window waiting for my mom, who re- that our nation is resilient, our nation is unitported she could see the smoke in the sky on ed, and our nation is great.

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Relay returns after year-long hiatus

By ADELIA COUSER Associate News Editor

Relay for Life returned to Quinnipiac on Sept. 11 after a hiatus during the 2014-2015 academic year.

The overnight fundraising walk took place on the Mount Carmel campus from Friday at 6 p.m. until Saturday at 6 a.m. Participants remained outside on the Quad until 10 p.m., when Relay moved indoors to the Athletic Center.

Approximately 600 participants raised more than $36,000 for the American Cancer Society this year, according to event co-chair Abbie O’Neill.

Although this amount is lower than the last Relay for Life at QU, which hosted 900 teams and raised $70,000, the executive board is happy that they took a year off to accommodate changes to the event.

“To try and balance out the year we’ve moved Relay to the fall,” said co-chair Abbie O’Neill, who has participated in Relay for Life since first grade. “There are a lot of philanthropic events in the spring, and we don’t feel that Relay should be competing against them–we don’t want to take away from someone else’s philanthropy.”

In addition to the date change, Relay for Life participants also experienced a location change. In the past, the event has been held at the TD Bank Sports Center, but this year it took place on the Quad and Athletic Center.

“We made the decision to bring it down to main campus for a few reasons,” O’Neill said. “One, we wanted to make it more accessible to students, especially freshmen and sophomores who don’t necessarily have a car. Two, we

wanted to try an outside relay—a lot of community relays are outside and we wanted to bring that to the college atmosphere.

The only way to do that is to have [Relay] in the fall semester because you don’t really want to do it in the snow.”

Many students, including freshman Jaycee Schwarz, enjoyed attending the event outdoors. Schwarz was a volunteer at this year’s Relay and helped implement the event at her high school last June.

“It’s really different from the one I did in high school and I love it,” Schwarz said. “My whole family has had breast cancer—my grandma and all her six sisters, so [Relay] is something I feel like I should do to give back to them. I’m definitely planning on doing it throughout college.”

The only negative feedback that O’Neill received was last year from members of the class of 2015, who were unhappy about missing their last undergraduate Relay. However, many of them formed alumni teams and participated in this year’s event.

In addition to the constant walking around a track to symbolize that “cancer never sleeps,” students could participate in a variety of activities: performances by Dance Company and improv group The Right Amount of Silence, games, Zumba, a photo booth, Oreo sales by QU After Dark, arts and crafts and periodic ceremonies throughout the night.

Sophomore Alex Clarke’s favorite part of the event was the Luminaria ceremony, when participants decorated paper bags to remember loved ones lost to cancer and honor those who continue to fight.

“My mom had cancer, so it was nice to be here and see how many people have been affected by cancer–not just someone in my family,” Clarke said. “This is my first time doing Relay for Life and I think it’s a great experience. It’s really nice to be involved and have a cool night with a lot of people who have the same experiences and the same effects from cancer.”

Her opinion is shared by senior Allie Iannicelli, who attended the event with members of the Honors Program to support junior Nathan Orsini. Orsini was diagnosed with brain cancer last November and was the speaker at the opening ceremony.

“Our team was named after him–we’re Nathan’s NeuroNinjas–and I’m happy we were able to come and support him,” Iannicelli said. “It gave Relay a real meaning this year; not that it hasn’t in past years, because we all know someone who’s had cancer, but it was really great to be able to support someone as they’re currently fighting.”

Overall, the event was “pretty successful,” according to O’Neill. She says that executive board applications will be open soon and encourages any interested students to apply.

The board will be selected by mid-October and will begin fundraising in the spring for the ninth annual Relay for Life.

“I’m really proud of the way the community came together tonight to support this,” O’Neill said. “I know it means a lot to me and the board to see everyone walking the track. We had probably half to three-quarters of the track filled during the Luminaria ceremony, which is huge...to see that support was great and I’m really proud.”

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‘Keep fighting’

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Junior Nathan Orsini delivers emotional speech

Nathan Orsini speaking at the opening ceremonies of Relay for Life with his father, Dan Orsini.

I’m Nathan Orsini and was loving my sophomore year here at the great QU. Then, on my 20th birthday, Nov. 11, [2014] I received one of the most unimaginable presents ever — a diagnosis of diffuse intrapontine glioma, an inoperable and incurable brain cancer.

I was loving life and now it was all flipped upside down.

No trip to Disney that winter, and no move to North Carolina that summer. I underwent the radiation and chemotherapy treatments and started to feel normal again. I was going to the gym, coaching soccer and taking an online class–Psych 101 was pretty awesome. The hardest part was losing my independence. But I was able to work it back.

I couldn’t have done this without the support of my community, friends and family. I can’t tell you how nice it was to come home from Philly every day during treatment to a nice dinner prepared by a friend and dropped at our house.

It never failed to put a smile on my face when I received cards or notes from friends showing their support.

Getting a diagnosis of cancer is incomprehensible until you go through it, and you really begin to appreciate everything around you. It opens your eyes to new experiences.

You really don’t know how much you take for granted in life until you are faced with something like this. It is important to stay positive during the journey. I wish I knew before to take advantage of all the opportunities out there.

This Relay For Life walk is an opportunity for us today to support the fight against cancer. Hopefully, we will see people celebrate more birthdays. My next one is two months from today, and I plan on being there for my first drink.

Progress is being made slowly every day. Even though life gives us these hurdles we keep plodding along. Everyone has rough days but you need to keep fighting. So let’s walk tonight to continue the fight, raise some money and have some fun.

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Clockwise from top left: First lap around the Quad was dedicated to survivors, several survivors attended the event, Luminaria bag honoring a breast cancer survivor, the Quinnipiac Honors Program came out to show support for fellow Honors student Nathan, Luminaria bags were lit around the Quad for those affected by cancer.

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Working for Big Brother

The invasiveness of modern American corporate culture and the Internet

By NIKITA POLIAKOFF Contributing Writer

Several years ago, I scoffed at my sister for her decreasing social media use – an unkempt Instagram and the lack of a green dot next to her Facebook name was, at the time for me, unnatural.

In her assertion that she was doing it for a good cause she came across as some sort of Neo-Luddite, denying its technological importance and integrity to people. She spouted warnings about how social media is controlling her and that she shouldn’t have to be measured by it. I nodded to her words as I double tapped away on Instagram.

“Wait until you start looking for internships, Nikita,” my sister said. “Those pictures of you playing beer pong are going to be coming back to haunt you.”

That was years ago. I sheepishly recalled the photos and relaxed in knowing that even if these alleged beer pong pictures were still up on Facebook, I could untag myself or ask my friend to delete it. Only afterward did I start receiving the bombardment of warnings telling me that every post I make on the Internet is

there forever – but not so much the posts that other people would make about me as well.

As I sit here writing this, I am also looking at my tagged Facebook pictures, and I feel antsy. I’m technically already screwed, but why should that be?

If you have been on Facebook recently, you may have noticed new features for tagging people in pictures. There is one feature in particular I find unsettling. If you move your cursor over a person’s face, the social network will prompt you to tag the person depicted into the photograph with startling accuracy, even if their face is blurred or only partially exposed.

Now, the main problems with this are a separate argument, perhaps for a later story, but the fact that Google’s facial recognition software, among other technologies, is helping so much to log your entire online existence (a prevalent component to the lives of most young jobseekers) enables employers and bosses to exercise an increasingly invasive agenda of controlling their employees’ behavior.

Having an “acceptable” online presence devoid of any content that could potentially compromise you is the newest component to

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The grass is greener at QU

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What would a new year be without proper recognition of the landscaping done at Quinnipiac? Every year I hear freshmen on the Quad comment on how green the grass is.

But this year, I was shocked to find, it’s not just main campus! The grass is green at both York Hill and the North Haven campus as well!

What does this mean? This means that even after the grass dies this winter, it will be back, as green as ever in the spring, thanks to our tireless groundskeeping crew. I find it interesting that despite the beauty of our buildings’ brick and glass exterior, the clock tower, the new medical school and the residential campus we have literally placed on top of a mountain, people cannot seem to get over the quality of our school’s grass. But after all, green grass is the foundation for any good outdoor Instagram. #blessed.

In closing, there is no doubt that we QU students are incredibly fortunate to have three lush, green campuses, as opposed to all those other universities that only have one.

Thank you, Quinnipiac, for always having sprinklers running, even when it’s raining (good thing Connecticut isn’t in a drought like those poor schools in California). Thank you, groundskeeping crew, for the work you do to make this place beautiful. I wish I could count on anything being as consistent as the quality of the grass on campus. –J. Mandozzi

any resume. If your social media presence is not up to par with potential employers’ standards of excellence, then the rest of your resume probably won’t matter.

I hope your Facebook is ready, along with your Twitter, Instagram and search history.

In all organizations there exists a corporate culture. The organized corporate culture of a business reflects the values, beliefs and principles of its leaders and bosses. Sure, any private corporation should reserve the right to enforce their values. They don’t have to prove whether that picture of you contained a beer or a soda, a joint or a lollipop; your employment is at their absolute discretion, and if an employer thinks your consumption of lollipops and sodas will somehow jeopardize the good of the company (your credentials, achievements, ethics, degrees and experience notwithstanding), they are entitled to not hire you.

The problem lays herein the fact that American corporations frequently do exercise stringent policing of its employees’ and interviewees’ entire online presence.

My sister told me that an employer had asked her to log into her Facebook so her employer

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As an incoming freshman at Quinnipiac, I shared one major concern with all of my future classmates: What are we going to eat?

Entering the cafe for the first time was, to put it plainly, overwhelming. Where will I eat? What will I eat? Who will I eat with? What does “Tap it” mean???

Just as with all the unfamiliar things a freshman encounters, this process eventually got easier with time. After a week or so, it became second nature to find the shortest line and order the cheapest (and most seemingly edible) food option. I was under the impression that I was in the clear, at least regarding my food.

I was wrong.

One evening, after strolling into Café Q at the very reasonable time of 7:15 p.m., I was informed that I was too late. I was as shocked as I was hungry. I find it difficult to believe that on a campus where academic hours do not end until after 9 p.m. it is acceptable to stop serving full meals at 7 p.m.

While I am well aware that the revered Chartwells employees work very hard all day to keep us “fat and happy,” so to speak, this is a very stressful time of year for college students, especially freshmen. Without my late-night binge-snacking, I just don’t know if I will be able to handle it.

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could get a full, unrestricted look at it – right before she asked to see my sister’s credentials.

When I created my Facebook, I had not known I would be subjected to this type of scrutiny. The previously nonexistent ability of employers to peer into the lives of their workers through the Internet is very new, developing and most of all, exploitative.

Before Facebook, access to information like this was not possible, and the people trying to create this access weren’t subjected to this same level of invasive attention.

Unless you created your Facebook with the purpose of it looking eye-catching to employers, it may already be too late. No deletion or un-tagging is enough to have your name and face kept away from the highly advanced eye of big corporations. I do not support the dismantling of this technology, nor any other type of technology – progress is always good. However, the negative implementation of it by companies to dictate the lives of their employees is only disabling.

Don’t use the technology against the people; there’s LinkedIn for a reason.

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The ‘guitar guy’ Freshman doesn’t fear playing in public

By ALYSSA BROWNE Staff Writer

When it comes to showing off his musical skills, freshman Nicholas Cotharin isn’t afraid of the public’s opinion. Since arriving on campus, he regularly plays his guitar on the steps of the Arnold Bernhard Library.

“When I got here, it just felt right,” he said. “I like to play for people in public.”

Cotharin began playing guitar when he was about 10 or 11 years-old. He admits that at first, he hated playing the guitar. However, as time went on, something changed.

“Music came kind of [naturally] for me,” Cotharin said.

Last summer, Cotharin went on vacation and when he got back, something just “clicked” in his head. All of a sudden, he wanted to play the guitar, so he bought one at a pawn shop.

Cotharin listens to classic rock bands, such as the Rolling Stones and AC/DC, and he is also a huge Beatles fan. He says Jimi Hendrix and B.B. King are his inspirations.

After picking the old hobby back up, Cotharin has now been playing for about a year, although he says he’s better at playing improv than chords. Cotharin said he’s “not the best” on campus.

During his time at Quinnipiac so far, he has met a couple of people that also play guitar, and they are now friends.

Cotharin and his friend, freshman Ryan McCarthy, plan to eventually form a band, but they say if it doesn’t work out, they will

“jam around places with other people.”

Cotharin plays lead guitar and McCarthy plays back-up guitar. In addition, they also have a drummer lined up for when the future band starts, freshman Tom Gilmore.

“When I first heard Ryan play, I knew right away that we could start up something big,” Cotharin said. “Ryan is an amazing guitarist that I am going to learn a lot from in the future. We both have learned a lot about each other already; we both have unique style that just works so well together.

It was like it was meant to happen.”

The feeling seems to be mutual between the two friends.

“Nick is one of the best players I’ve ever played with, and he’s only been playing a year,” McCarthy said. “It’s really outstanding.”

Cotharin and McCarthy both have different schedules so they only practice together for short periods of time, but on they make an effort to meet daily. However, it’s not always easy.

“It’s hard to pass around one guitar in a dorm room,” Cotharin said.

Despite this, Cotharin says he will continue to play outside around Quinnipiac with his future bandmates when time allows, but they are trying to get a studio at school so they can “really play together.”

All future band members agree their “chemistry playing together” is really what makes them special.

McCarthy said Cotharin also plays the

Nick Cotharin and his friends have plans to form a band on campus. drums and piano. But around campus, Cotharin is known as “guitar guy,” as quoted

by Yik Yak. Despite what people will think of him

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playing in public, Cotharin says that is the least of his worries.

“I’m not afraid of putting myself out there,” he said. “I just want to express myself.”

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What to expect at What do students think of the line up?

“I’ve heard of none of them except for obviously Jamie Lynn Spears...I feel like we can get better artists.

They’re all country I assume, which I guess fits the theme or whatever, but I don’t know I feel like we could do better….I’m not that into country, but I mean [I would like to see] Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith.”

Students will crowd into South Lot on Saturday for the third annual Fall Fest, sponsored by the Student Programming Board. The outdoor concert, featuring Jamie Lynn Spears, Tyler Hilton and Josh Thompson, begins at 2 p.m. and will end at 6 p.m. -J. Perkins

tyler hilton Like Jamie Lynn Spears, 31-yearold Hilton also starred in a television show that shaped our youth.

Hilton played the character Chris Keller in the second, third, fourth and ninth season of the CW’s “One Tree Hill.” His music was featured on the show’s soundtrack, as well as the soundtrack of the 2005 movie “Walk the Line,” according to Hilton’s website. Hilton also played the young Elvis Presley in the film. It was not until 2010 that Hilton released his first full-length album “The Storms We Share.” His fifth full-length album “Indian Summer” came out in 2014.

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“I actually hadn’t heard of one of them, but I knew Jamie Lynn Spears from a TV show back in the day and I knew Tyler Hilton from various songs. I’m pretty into country music, so I was pretty excited about it. I didn’t go to it last year. I think I was home for the weekend. But I was pretty excited actually knowing some of the people going into it.”

-Jack Pantziris Sophomore | Political science

“I used to watch “One Tree Hill”, but I don’t know who the other guy is...And I know who Jamie Lynn Spears is, I used to watch “Zoey 101”...I don’ t know, I kind of feel pretty neutral about it.

I’ll probably go because it’s my senior year, but I definitely feel like we had better performers in the past.“

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“I didn’t even know [Jamie Lynn Spears] sang and I don’t even know who the other two are. [I was] a little disappointed because I heard Jason Derulo was here last year...I thought Quinnipiac was going to turn into PCA.”

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jamie Lynn Spears Most students may know Jamie Lynn Spears from her lead role in Nickelodeon’s “Zoey 101” or as the little sister of Britney Spears.

But 24-year-old Spears kickstarted a country music career in 2013 when she released her single “How Could I Want More.” The song was named as a “Taste of Country” Critic’s Pick.

Spears went on to put out a five-song EP called “The Journey” in 2014.

josh thompson The 37-year-old Josh Thompson jumped into the country music scene later than Spears and Hilton. He did not start playing guitar until he received one for this 21st birthday and did not start writing songs for another six months later, according to his website. He released his first album “Way Out Here” in 2010 and his second album “Turn It Up” in 2014. Thompson plans to put out his third album “Change” in early 2016.

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RUNDOWN FIELD HOCKEY Michigan St. 3, QU 2 – Saturday Lafayette 2, QU 1 – Sunday MEN’S SOCCER Rhode Island 2, QU 1 – Saturday WOMEN’S SOCCER QU 3, Maine 1 – Sunday WOMEN’S RUGBY Army 29, QU 24 – Saturday WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL Fairleigh Dickinson 3, QU 0 – Wednesday Holy Cross 3, QU 0 (UMass Lowell Invitational) – Friday San Jose St. 3, QU 1 (UMass Lowell Invitational) – Saturday UMass Lowell 3, QU 2 (UMass Lowell Invitational) – Saturday

GAMES TO WATCH MEN’S SOCCER QU vs Holy Cross – Wednesday, 4 p.m.

QU at Yale – Saturday, 7 p.m.

QU at St. John’s – Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.

WOMEN’S SOCCER QU vs. Rider – Saturday, 1 p.m.

MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY Rider Invitational – Saturday, TBA WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY Rider Invitational – Saturday, TBA FIELD HOCKEY QU vs Maine – Thursday, 2 p.m.

QU vs Holy Cross – Tuesday, 3:30 p.m.

WOMEN’S RUGBY QU vs Dartmouth – Saturday, noon WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL QU at Canisius – Saturday, 1 p.m.

QU at Niagra – Sunday, 1 p.m.

WOMEN’S TENNIS QU vs TBA (Quinnipiac Invitational) – Friday, 10 a.m.

QU vs TBA (Quinnipiac Invitational) – Saturday, 9 a.m.

QU vs TBA (Quinnipiac Invitational) – Sunday, 9 a.m.

MEN’S TENNIS QU at Yale (Connecticut State Championships) – Friday, 10 a.m.

QU at Yale (Connecticut State Championships) – Saturday, 10 a.m.

QU at Yale (Connecticut State Championships) – Friday, 10 a.m.

WOMEN’S GOLF QU at Navy (Navy’s Chesapeake Bay Invitational) – Saturday, TBA

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Fontaine lifts women’s soccer over Maine Bobcats improve to 4-1 on the season

By TYRELL WALDEN-MARTIN Associate Sports Editor

Behind two first half goals by junior forward Jess Fontaine, the Quinnipiac women’s soccer team downed Maine 3-1 at the QU Soccer Field on Sunday afternoon.

With the win, the Bobcats improve to 4-1-0 on the season, already surpassing last season’s win total of three games.

“I think it is a whole team effort,” senior goalkeeper Natalia Grodzki said about the feat. “We say it is a 27-player effort. It is a great atmosphere and one of the best team attitudes I have seen in my four years here.”

Quinnipiac took a 1-0 lead 1:25 into the match after Fontaine scored. Freshman Nadya Gill was credited with the assist.

“It was a quick start and I wasn’t expecting us to score a goal early on,” Fontaine said.

“Nadya placed one towards the goal and I ended up getting on the other end of it.”

Fontaine’s goal was followed up by freshman Jess Gargan, who found the back of the net for her first goal of the season 5:38 into the match.

“It was a free kick and a scramble in the box,” Gargan said on the goal. “It fell to me and I put it in.”

Later on in the first half, Fontaine was able to score her second goal of the game after getting through in a scramble in the box that was set up by a free kick.

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A group of players celebrate following a goal in Sunday’s 3-1 win over Maine.

“If we didn’t have players that worked hard for the free kick, then it wouldn’t have happened,” Fontaine said. “It was a full team effort.”

Women’s soccer head coach, David Clarke was pleased to get off to a good start, something his

team has lacked this season.

“We have been a second half team. This is the first game that we didn’t trail in the second half,” Clarke said. “To get off to a 3-0 start was unexpected against a very good Maine team. They beat Marist 5-0 and they are one of the

top teams in our conference.”

Grodzki, who had five saves in the win, was pleased with being able to play with a sizable lead, as well.

“It is not something that we are used to from the past few years,” Grodzki said. “It is something that we are working on this year and it is nice.”

The Bobcats went on to give up one goal three minutes before halftime, but that was the last time any team scored.

Quinnipiac held Maine to just three shots in the first half, but allowed Maine to attempt 10 shots in the second.

“We got a little hectic in the second half because we aren’t used to having a lead, but it ended up working in the end,” Fontaine said.

“At times we looked frantic and tired in the second half,” Clarke said. “But I would rather be up [3-1] and frantic, than down and pressured. We held on and won and that is something we can build on.”

The Bobcats are back in action Tuesday, when they host Albany at home. Game time is set for 4 p.m.

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Osanitsch hopes to lead team to tournament OSANITSCH from Page 16 tion you can get. That was a draw for me,” Osanitsch said.

Osanitsch ended up going the field hockey route despite having to walk-on at Quinnipiac and attend the university without a scholarship. Quinnipiac head coach Becca Main said once she saw Osanitsch play she put the offer on the table.

“She is not someone we highly recruited, gave a scholarship offer to, or pursued,” Main said. “We [the coaching staff] were like, ‘You’re good. We really want you.

If the school is a fit, let’s come here.’”

Main said she planned on Osanitsch being an important player on the team her freshman year. However, while running a scrimmage drill during a normal practice, the entire outlook of Osanitsch’s Quinnipiac career was thrown up in the air.

As she was going down towards cage, one of her teammates laid a block tackle. She stepped on top of the stick, fell down right onto her foot, and sprained her ankle. Osanitsch was on crutches for two and a half weeks following the injury.

Main says she was unsure of what

to expect of Osanitsch following the injury.

“I remember finishing the season and I kind of forgot how she played. I remember thinking ‘I remember she was good,’ but I forgot how she played,” Main said.

Main decided to make Osanitsch a medical redshirt for her freshman year. Since she had not played beyond the first fourth of the season, she was eligible to redshirt which now allows her to play in her fifth year.

“We had a discussion, me and the coaching staff, that I would be red-shirted,” Osanitsch said.

“There probably wasn’t going to be any way that I would come back for much of the season at all, and if I was, it would have been postseason.”

Osanitsch has since earned a four-year scholarship and been on the field ever since for the Bobcats. After starting all 21 games for Quinnipiac her junior year, she played every minute of her senior year. According to Main, nobody on the team wants to see Osanitsch leave the field.

“She plays both ends of the field. Sometimes I forget that she probably needs a break. I’ll look over and ask, ‘Does Meg O. need

a break?’ and everybody turns and goes ‘No, she’s fine,’” Main said.

In her 1,390 minutes on the field in 2014, Osanitsch helped lead Quinnipiac’s defense to the top of Division I Field Hockey with 13 defensive saves as a sweeper.

Osanitsch says she is gratified to have helped the defense earn the national accolade.

“I contributed to it and they’re my backfield, and I am so proud of them for it. But really they did most of the work for that,” Osanitsch said.

This year, Osanitsch is not only using her experience during games. She says she leads by example in order to create a culture for her teammates.

“I want to better myself and want the girls to see me doing that because if they think ‘Oh, this fifth-year senior is still working her butt off everyday and still try to make those gains,’ there is no end to the gains you can make here,” Osanitsch said.

Osanitsch is one of Quinnipiac’s three team captains along with Megan Conaboy and Haley Swartz. Osanitsch says that her blunt approach helps her lead the Bobcats.

“Yeah, I’ll rally the troops if I

have to. I’m not afraid to yell at the team if I feel we are underperforming or not working together, those kinds of things,” Osanitsch said.

Osanitsch has entered Quinnipiac’s graduate school in the physical therapy program. She will have two more years of graduate school to follow in order to earn a doctorate in physical therapy. Although she is currently interested in prosthetic rehabilitation, she says she has not made any concrete decisions about what direction she wants to take that in.

“I’m kind of open to anything and I am not really cementing myself into anything into one area or one section,” Osanitsch said.

In the meantime, Main hopes to keep Osanitsch on the field for the entire season again. Osanitsch, on the other hand, says she hopes to help get the team back into the national tournament in her final season.

“I feel if I show up, work as hard as I can, and push the person next to me to do that, that person pushes the girl in front of her and then it kind of domino-effects all the way down the field until everybody is at a top performance level,” Osanitsch said.

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Competing for control

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Clockwise from top left: A Maine player pulls at Madison Borowiec’s jersey while fighting for the ball, Jess Gargan makes a move with the ball in open space, Jessica Jankowski fights ahead of a Maine player for the ball, and Nadya Gill gets up from the ground to beat the Maine goalie to the ball in Sunday’s 3-1 win.

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In its first six games on the season, the field hockey team has been outshot by their opponents by 38.

Katie Urycki accounted for 33.6 percent of the women’s volleyball total kills this past weekend in the UMass Lowell Invitational.

Women’s soccer goalkeeper Natalia Grodzki has given up only five goals in 457 minutes of play.

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Federico scored two goals and one assist in the two games this past weekend. In the 3-2 loss to Michigan State, Federico scored a goal and tallied an assist. The sophomore then scored the lone goal in Sunday’s loss to Lafayette. Federico has two goals and two assists on the season.

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“Stepping back and looking at it, we are a young team learning to win again.

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Terrific transition Women’s soccer freshman Nadya Gill has scored three goals in her first five collegiate games ing job teaching us the system we play in so it has been effortless,” Gill said. “Our build-up play really begins with [Natalia Grodzki] in goal, works its way up through our talented midfield, and I am just lucky to be able to be up top and finish it.”

For Gill, this isn’t her first time making an instant impact for her team.

In 2013, at just 15, Gill played a major part in helping Team Canada bring home silver from the U17 CONCACAF tournament. In the tournament, the top teams from North and Central America, as well as from the Caribbean compete for a place in the World Cup.

“Like with Matt Peca and

Sam Anas in hockey, if you are a good player you are a good player, and Nadya is a very good player.”

– DAVE CLARKE

WOMEN’S SOCCER HEAD COACH

Nadya Gill has recorded a point in each of the women’s soccer team’s four wins.

By JORDAN NOVACK Staff Writer

For women’s soccer freshman Nadya Gill, the transition to college athletics has gone without an issue. In fact, it’s gone better than she might have imagined.

“Despite coming a long way from home, I have had a very easy

time adapting to college,” Gill explained. “My teammates and coaches are like my family, and any problem I have had so far they have been able to help me figure out.”

The Toronto native, who won’t turn 18 years-old until Sept. 26, has scored three goals in her first

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five collegiate starts. All three of her goals were game-winners.

Despite her individual success, Gill is quick to pass the acclaim off to others.

“All of my success starts with the play of my teammates. They are so helpful communicating and [coach Dave Clarke] did an amaz-

Despite never starting for the team, Gill scored a goal in each of her four relief appearances. This time playing for the national team is an experience Gill will never forget.

“Having that experience playing for my national team was incredible, and really helped prepare me for many of the things I am dealing with now that I am at [Quinnipiac] University,” Gill said. “The feeling of playing and representing your country and knowing you have an entire nation

of people is an incredible experience not many people get to have, and I feel beyond lucky to have experienced that in my life.”

It was this time playing for the national team that eventually put Gill on Quinnipiac’s radar. When it came to choosing schools, education was something that Gill really focused on.

“Nadya was a player we noticed in the Canadian national program as being undecided, but interested in coming to the United States,” Clarke explained. “When it came to her school, she wanted an Ivy League or somewhere very well respected because she wants to study law.”

With the school meeting Gill’s criteria, Clarke would use his connections in United States soccer to open the conversation with her and her national team coach.

“We reached out and talked to both her and her U17 coach, Brian Rosenfeld,” Clarke said. “And then she visited, took a look at the school, did some research and everything just fell into place.”

Gill has had instant success in her short tenure in a Bobcat uniform, but it isn’t a surprise in the eyes of coach Clarke.

“When you look historically at the best players in the history of the program—Furtuna Velaj, Sarah Lawler—they are all international players who hit the ground running,” Clarke explained. “When a good player is good, there is never an issue.”

“Like with Matt Peca and Sam Anas in hockey, if you are a good player you are a good player, and Nadya is a very good player.”

Osanitsch leads field hockey team in her fifth season

By MAX MOLSKI Staff Writer

Since joining the Quinnipiac field hockey team five years ago, Megan Osanitsch has fought for everything she has earned. From walking on the team and coming back from an injury, Osanitsch has earned the captain spot.

However, a five-year career with the Bobcats was not Osanitsch’s original plan. Yet, she has turned a career which began with an ankle sprain early in her freshman year into one where she is a big part of Quinnipiac’s defense.

“Being a fifth-year player, I feel that I am someone that the younger players can trust,” Osanitsch said.

“I have been through pretty much anything you can throw at a person in their four years of playing.”

Osanitsch grew up in Harwinton. Before she played field hockey, she played soccer, lacrosse and danced. It wasn’t until she went to Lewis Mills High School that she even knew the rules of field hockey. Once she got to the school’s preseason camp, her coach, Maggie Tieman, inspired Osanitsch’s career.

“Maggie (Tieman) coached at the camp, I fell in love with it, I tried out for the team, and it jumped off from there,” Osanitsch said.

Osanitsch helped lead Lewis Mills to the Berkshire League Championship three times from 2007 to 2009 and made the AllBerkshire League and All-State teams in 2009 and 2010.

She faced three different op-

tions coming out of high school.

The first was playing field hockey at Bryant University. The second was attending and potentially walking-on to the Quinnipiac field hockey team. The third was entering the Coast Guard Academy.

Osanitsch comes from a military family. Her dad was in the Army and served in Desert Storm, her uncle is an army veteran and her cousin is a Marine. She says the mix of her upbringing and academic opportunities at the Coast Guard Academy made it a consideration.

“It’s a mentality of discipline, honor and respect that I grew up with. Any of the military academies have some of the best educaSee OSANITSCH Page 14

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Megan Osanitsch played in every minute last season for the field hockey team.