The Quinnipiac Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 10

OCTOBER 30, 2019 • VOLUME 90 • ISSUE 10

The official student newspaper of Quinnipiac University since 1929

OPINION: ENVIRONMENTALISM P. 4

SPORTS: FIELD HOCKEY REFLECTIONS P. 12

ARTS & LIFE: TRAIL OF TERROR P. 6

Sit-down to fix town-gown

President Olian’s chief of staff starts a task force to improve the relationship between Hamden and students living off-campus

By EMILY DISALVO News Editor

Vice President and Chief of Staff Bethany Zemba developed a task force of Quinnipiac administrators and Hamden town officials to address concerns related to students living offcampus in Hamden neighborhoods, such as noise and parking violations.

The Quinnipiac/Hamden Off-Campus Housing Task Force, which met for the first time on Oct. 3, will help to create an open line of communication between the town and the university with regards to students living in the community, according to Zemba.

“Everyone in the room felt like it was going to be something they wanted to engage in, something they wanted to spend time doing,” Zemba said, of the first meeting.

Acting Hamden Police Chief John Cappiello, who is a member of the task force, agreed that the atmosphere in the room was ripe for positive change.

“Everyone was getting along, everyone was talking,” Cappiello said. “It was really professional.”

The task force includes members of the Hamden Police Department, a representative from Hamden Planning and Zoning, a Hamden tax assessor, the Hamden director of arts and culture, the Hamden council president, a Hamden building inspector and the Quinnipiac Valley Health district deputy director.

Cappiello said the police department has interacted with Quinnipiac in the past, but sitting

down as a group makes communication easier.

“For a while there it was always the town against the university,” Cappiello said. “I’ve always been a big believer that we need to communicate and do it as a team effort which is what we are doing now.”

Public Safety Chief Eddie Rodriguez, Dean of Students Monique Drucker and Zemba represent Quinnipiac at the table.

While Zemba emphasized that most student involvement in the community is positive, she said Hamden residents have expressed concerns about parking, trash and noise.

She said one of the biggest complaints is students parking in the grass instead of on the side of the road.

“Those are the issues that we can work together to fix because, again, our students want to do right by Quinnipiac and the town of Hamden and be good citizens,” Zemba said. “It might just be a process of reminding them that these are some of the things that we have heard that are concerns from the town’s perspectives.”

Members of the community can now call a hotline 24 hours a day to report a complaint regarding students living off campus, according to Zemba. The caller will be connected to a dispatcher who will help to address the complaint.

Residents with a complaints can either call the hotline at 203-582-3770 or email communityconcerns@qu.edu.

Students living off-campus also violate Hamden’s policy stating that only four students can live in one home. Zemba said many people

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A new task force, spearheaded by Vice President and Chief of Staff Bethany Zemba, seeks to encourage communication between Hamden and Quinnipiac. aren’t aware of the regulation, so they aren’t following it.

“I don’t know how carefully we pay attention to that zoning regulation so I want to draw attention to that and ask students to respect that so there isn’t eight students living in a house,” Zemba said.

Zemba said she is hoping to find a student representative and a landlord to complete the group.

Cappiello said having a student on the panel

is crucial, because it will help one side understand the perspective of the other. He said that when he and Public Safety were communicating separately, a lot of people got left out.

“It’s regarding (the students’) four years there, their life,” Cappiello said. “It’s a great idea to get them involved.”

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The Quinnipiac Student Government Association (SGA) has passed and implemented a wide range of high-profile initiatives.

Among these plans are free laundry for all on-campus students starting in the fall of 2020, open parking for juniors and seniors and an open forum town hall with President Judy Olian.

SGA President Austin Calvo credits the Olian administration’s new attitude toward student concerns as a big help.

“I think with President Lahey there was a little bit of a struggle of how to get student input,” Calvo said. “They weren’t really interested in what students had to say a lot of the time.”

Calvo compared the presidential transition from Lahey to Olian to a ship being steered in a new direction. He said that last year, students and SGA did not feel the difference, but now the changes are obvious.

Calvo also spoke about a book full of student concerns that he collected while he was campaigning. Olian was very receptive to the book according to Calvo and has been open to students voicing their concerns directly to the highest levels of the university.

For example, Head of the Board of Trustees William Weldon came and talked with SGA in a closed door meeting on Oct. 11,

addressing student concerns.

Calvo says that he spent nearly seven hours at a Board of Trustees meeting expressing student concerns. Calvo says that previous SGA President Ryan Hicks told him that Calvo would be kicked out in about 20 minutes.

“If someone asked me a question, I was not going to hold back because I’m sitting around a table with people that are worth billions of dollars collectively,” Calvo said.

“I’m going to say exactly what I think (the student body) would want me to say and not just be like, ‘Oh yeah. I think what the university’s doing, it’s fine.’”

Executive board members have all taken different approaches to their jobs this year.

Calvo has worked to try and pull SGA out of years of internal reform and strife and turn instead to a platform of student advocacy and transparency.

Vice President Sophia Marshall, an advocate of the free laundry initiative since her freshman year, has transformed the vice presidency into a way to communicate with external communities such as the town of Hamden and QU Dining.

She’s currently working to increase student voter registration and helped in hosting a District 9 debate on York Hill on Tues-

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day, Oct. 29. She is also trying to have SGA members attend Hamden legislative meetings. All of this is an attempt to help build a relationship between students and Hamden.

“Next semester we’re hoping to have a Q&A with the mayor, so he’ll come here,” Marshall said. “Basically President Olian would ideally be there and like, it’d be some sort of Q&A with him so we could kind of voice our concerns as Quinnipiac students to him. The dialogue (between Quinnipiac and Hamden) is kind of there with administration, but not really with the students right now.”

Vice President for Student Experience Esau Greene, who has fought for public town halls with President Olian, is using his position to encourage students to hold discussions with each other. Greene is also looking to expand the Ask Away program, and encourage events that create dialogues across different communities.

“When I think of higher education, I think of people openly going out to access new information,” Greene said. “That doesn’t necessarily mean learning through textbooks. I think the greatest way to learn is to learn from one another. I think my university of the future is a cross campus effort to go out of our ways to increase our own See SGA Page 2

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The city engineer of New Haven spoke at the event about how climate change will affect New Haven.

By EMILY FLAMME AND WILLIAM GAVIN

Students were recognized Wednesday, Oct. 23, for academic research as part of the Quinnipiac University Interdisciplinary Program for Research and Scholarship (QUIP-RS).

The QUIP-RS program is available to undergraduate students of all majors, and allows students to work with faculty members on research projects of their choosing over an eight-week period.

There were 11 students involved in QUIPRS this year, and all of them had a topic they researched with a faculty mentor. At the symposium, the students got a chance to show their discoveries through a poster presentation.

The event began with a keynote speech and presentation by Giovanni Zinn, the city engineer of New Haven, who has long worked on environmental and architectural issues in the city — ranging from reducing the carbon footprint, creating sustainable infrastructure and designing resistant shorelines.

“Long-term as a coastal community the biggest disruption that we face from an infrastructure and economic point of view is climate change,” Zinn said.

Like Zinn, students researched and developed theories and solutions to a great variety of problems and presented their findings at the event.

The research students completed included discoveries about the effects of prenatal

stress, underbillings for inpatients at hospitals, masculinity depression and stigma and professional probability in relation to sports brand sponsorship. Other topics of research explored the removal of lead from water, the tornadic inflow measurement probe and determining whether a bacteriophage affects the Lyme disease agent.

Ethan Moriarty is a junior mechanical engineering major who completed a research project on severe weather, specifically, tornadoes. He researched a new type of technology that more accurately predicts tornadoes.

“The tornado probe was fascinating, that was something that I had been following since the very beginning,” Dr. Alexandre de Lencastre, associate professor of biological sciences and Director of QUIP-RS, said. “We are just on the heels of having a tornado hit in Hamden, so this was perfect timing to study this.”

Joe Battalia, a junior biology major, studied the factors that affect the transition of dependence to independence in tree swallow chicks. He studied urban birds compared to rural birds and how that affects the birds’ life.

“A lot of us had some assumptions about birds, and how you sustain ecosystems for birds,” Dr. Katie Place, associate professor of strategic communication, said. “We had our assumptions smashed to pieces by this conversation about these birds.”

Two students, Juliana Shevchenko, a junior computer software engineering major, and Berrak Teklap, a junor industrial engineering major, worked on programming that would look into reducing underbilling for patients at Hartford Hospital.

“The students who partnered together to apply their computer science, their engineering skills, they helped to generate more efficient computer systems at a hospital,” Place said. “I think that’s fascinating too, to have a big impact on businesses and on society.”

The program has a committee of five members who oversee everything from the students’ application process to the final product. The program emphasizes the importance of research in a student’s education.

“It enables them to see how everything comes full circle,” Place said. “All of the skills you’ve learned throughout your college career can come together in this project. You learn how to accurately translate those results to meaningful implications to help communities and ultimately help society.”

The purpose of QUIP-RS is to foster students’ curiosity and provide them with the necessary resources to complete research on something they care about.

“The program teaches them resilience, it teaches them problem-solving and enhances their learning experience,” Lencastre said.

“I love this program because I get to learn things I knew nothing about from students who are passionate about their topic.”

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Participating students presented posters detailing their research.

Jean-Baptiste: ‘We want to portray ourselves as students and not just government officials’ SGA from cover perspective and background knowledge of what it means to be a person.”

SGA Vice President for Finance Glenn Adams has been training finance board members to help assist in reimbursements and communication to student organization leaders. Getting back reimbursements on time has been an issue for SGA in the past.

“We’re looking at just training them to do some of the things that I’ve been doing,” Adams said. “They’re working on reimbursements, they’re working on clearing the credit cards, stuff like that. The big thing I’m excited for is I’ve had them each take a handful of clubs to work with directly. It’s really helped with communication.”

SGA Vice President for Public Relations Jamien Jean-Baptiste has made meet and greets more common and pushed to make the SGA suite a welcoming place for any and all students.

“We want to portray ourselves as students and not just government officials,” Jean-Baptiste said.“I think it’s also important to maintain that professionalism. I think finding the fine line between professionalism and student advocacy and student en-

gagement is where I want to kind of draw the line for PR and hold the members of SGA accountable.”

In an informal survey by The Chronicle with 21 respondents, 62% of respondents said they approve of the job SGA is doing and 66.7% said that this year’s SGA is as good as or better than last year’s.

Students who approved of SGA cited that free laundry, reformed parking and the

people involved in SGA have made them better. Those who disapproved of SGA said that issues with reimbursements, lack of outreach and passed initiatives having little impact are reasons for concern. Some said they had not heard about what SGA had done this year.

Students with concerns can come to SGA’s weekly board meetings on Wednesdays at 4 p.m. in the Mount Carmel Auditorium.

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SGA Vice President Sophia Marshall worked alongside administration to enact free laundry on campus.

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Wednesday, Oct. 30 Suite Treats The Student Government Association (SGA) will be serving Auntie Anne’s pretzels and lemonade outside the SGA suite while encouraging students to come inside the suite to voice their concerns regularly. Students can enjoy food from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.

AMA Food Truck Festival The American Marketing Association (AMA) will be hosting food trucks on the Quad to raise money for the organization.

The food trucks will be on the Quad from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 31 Q-THON Tabling The Q-THON management team and committee members will be tabling outside the Student Center as a way to encourage dancers to remember the cause that they dance for. Tabling will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

October/November Blood Drive The Community Action Project (CAP) will be teaming up with The Red Cross to provide the opportunity for students to donate blood. The blood drive will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 1 Free Speech Ball The Young Americans for Liberty will be hosting its first Libertarian-inspired event of the year. The organization will have a large, inflatable ball for students to write their interests or political ideologies outside the Student Center from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Dia de los Muertos Latino Cultural Society will be hosting a celebration for the Mexican holiday, The Day of the Dead, at the Student Center tables from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Students can stop by and enjoy free food while celebrating this Latin holiday.

First Friday Films The Student Programming Board (SPB) will be showing a movie on the first Friday of every month at 10 p.m. in the Piazza. Follow @QUSPB on all social media for an updated list of the movies.

Comic Sans Improv Group Fourth Wall’s improv group Comic Sans will be hosting a live improv comedy show at 2 p.m. in Buckman Theater.

Tuesday, Nov. 5 Women Empowered Presents STEM Week: Science Day Women Empowered will be doing different science experiments such as making lip gloss and bath bombs to promote women in the STEM field. The organization will also have tables with information about scholarships and internships from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Student Center 119.

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The CEO of Fortune Magazine says his lecture at Quinnipiac, ‘The Death of Truth,’ is another flashy headline

By EMILY DISALVO News Editor

CEO of Fortune Magazine Alan Murray spoke to Quinnipiac students, faculty and staff on Oct. 25, about the assault on facts in the 21st century, but he said the truth isn’t dead just yet.

Murray’s lecture, titled, “The Death of Truth,” was a hyperbole, according to Murray. He said the truth still has a chance to come back to life “I was just trying to be provocative and get people to come to the lecture,” Murray said. “I get more traffic that way. Ultimately I am optimistic because I believe it matters because I meet young people every day who believe it matters.”

Some of these people filled the Mount Carmel Auditorium on Friday afternoon to listen to Murray speak about his lengthy career spanning the Wall Street Journal, CNBC and Fortune.

“His lecture made me consider truth differently in the context of the news, and how the rules of the game changed as technology developed,” Kelly Reynolds, a senior political science major, said.

The journalism and media industries have changed wildly throughout Murray’s career. Just like the sensational title of his lecture, he stressed that the business model for journalism is now about gathering a larger audience.

“There has been a desperate search for eyeballs because eyeballs are the way you get more ad dollars,” Murray said. “I think that has had a negative effect on the quality of the journalism. The kind of things you do to get eyeballs aren’t the kind of thing you would do to ensure the quality of the coverage.”

High-quality coverage is more important now than ever, Murray said. He warned that facts are under attack, which is an issue that transcends the election of President Trump.

“Yes, (Trump) has a peculiar attitude toward facts, but I think the problem we have as a society predated his election and will continue long after he is gone,” Murray said.

He said the trend away from listening to facts and toward listening to what one wants to hear is concerning.

“I do believe that facts are the most important building blocks of a successful society,” Murray said. “The discovery of facts is the first step in our legal process and understanding of facts is critical to the democratic process. A common understanding of facts is they key to being able to work together in our communities and in our nation.”

Reynolds said she respected how Murray didn’t talk about political controversy and

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Dean of the School of Communications Chris Roush interviewed Alan Murray about his career in the media industry on Oct. 25. instead stuck to how the political climate is affecting facts.

“I really appreciated how he began and immediately took politics out of the equation when he was discussing truth,” Reynolds said.

Chris Roush, dean of the School of Communications, said Murray has a track record of commitment to quality amidst changes in the industry, and that this is something aspiring communications students can learn from.

“Alan has done such a wide variety of things in journalism,” Roush said. “From helping the Wall Street Journal launch its website, to running the Pew Research Center, to helping Fortune sell Time to (billionaire Chatchaval Jiravanon) — he’s really at the forefront of what the media companies need to be doing these days.”

Murray said the Fortune’s website is moving to enact a paywall, which would force readers to subscribe for certain content. Murray said this is something that media companies should have enacted in the mid-1990s before readers became accustomed to free online content.

Members of the audience pressed Murray about how this additional barrier to factual information would negatively impact the average reader, forcing them to turn to social media for free, but not always factual news.

“We’re not talking about huge amounts of money,” Murray said. “Most people spend more money on their coffee every day than we will be asking them to spend on any of their news organizations.”

In an era when media companies are turning to billionaires, ad dollars and paywalls to fund them, and “fake news” is a household phrase, journalists find themselves in a quan-

dary Murray said.

“This is one of the hardest parts of the change because it’s consumer choice,” Murray said.

“People are getting the news that they want and you can’t really fault the news organizations for giving them what they want.”

Roush asked Murray how he could get his 79-year-old mother to stop reading Facebook for her news.

“She doesn’t want facts,” Roush said. “She just wants to read what she wants to read.”

Murray said that in order to survive as a society, “We will need to get beyond that” and educate people about what is factual and what is not.

Kerry Deasy, a freshman English major, said the accessibility of sources like Facebook makes the jobs of professional journalists challenging.

“It’s even more difficult now as real journalists have to work even harder to compensate for the availability and the appeal of the news that comes so freely from sources like Facebook or other social media even though it may not be as accurate as it should be,” Deasy said.

Murray believes it is possible to move past this era of assaulting facts because of the promising conversations he has had with young aspiring journalists.

“The first step toward solving the problem is recognizing we have a problem,” Murray said.

“And if young people are at the forefront of that movement, that’s great.”

Reynolds agreed that truth isn’t truly dead yet.

“As long as there are journalists and consumers who value truth it will remain in society regardless of the fact that there will also be lies intertwined with the truth,” Reynolds said.

Zemba: ‘Almost every time I talk to somebody, I find out something new they are doing with the community’ TOWN-GOWN from cover relationship with the town and said these conversations have been productive.

“He’s fully on board with trying to work with us on these initiatives,” Zemba said. “I think he likes that we have made this part of our strategic plan — to be great neighbors, positively nurturing our surrounding communities.”

In addition to working with the town on this project, Zemba said she is collaborating with the Student Government Association (SGA).

Sophia Marshall, vice president of SGA, said this is the first year SGA has made “external affairs,” or relationships with outside communities, a priority. She developed three goals related to external affairs, which is commonly known as ‘town-gown relations’ when talking about universities’ relationships with the towns they inhabit.

The first is to work with the Hamden Police Department to allow students living in off-campus housing to safely park on the street without receiving a ticket.

The second is to hang banners and signs around Whitney Avenue that will have messages such as “Quinnipiac and Hamden – Better Together.” Marshall said this would promote “connectivity and spirit.”

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Hamden residents can call the community hotline to report complaints 24/7.

The third goal is to create a survey to gauge the needs of students who live off-campus. Marshall said talking with commuter students in SGA has provided important insight.

“I live on York Hill right now,” Marshall said. “I don’t necessarily know the needs of a commuter student. We do have commuters on

my committee, which was helpful too because they bring that really diverse perspective. On the other hand, we also are trying to figure out what we can do to better Hamden.”

Zemba said bettering Hamden is something that Quinnipiac already excels at. Part of her community outreach campaign involves keeping records of all the ways in which Quinnipiac is already involved in the community.

Zemba is working with the Office of Integrated Marketing and Communications to create community.qu.edu, which would make Quinnipiac students, faculty and staff more aware of what others on campus are doing to help those outside the campus.

“Almost every time I talk to somebody I find out something new they are doing with the community, so that’s fantastic,” Zemba said.

Zemba pointed out that the School of Communications, the Albert Schweitzer Institute and the Office of Community Service are working on food security projects in Hamden and beyond.

“Maybe we want to put together the Quinnipiac and Hamden Food and Security Task Force,” Zemba said. “There is already a group of people who are working with the community, and they are doing a great job. It’s just how do we bring that home so we are recognizing all of the different aspects and strengthening them.”

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Is environmentalism a classist issue?

Being green is centered around white, middle-class activists

By MAHI SUGEBO Staff Writer

In October of 2019, Brazil reported that more than 100 tons of oil had been spilled since the beginning of September. In February of 2019, National Geographic reported that there are 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic in the ocean. In August and September 2019, Brazil’s Amazon and Indonesia forests faced the worst forest fires in their history.

These are just some examples of the many atrocities that are being committed against the environment in the 21st century.

A result of these massive fires has been an environmental movement gaining incredible momentum. But these movements have left a crucial group behind: the working class. Environmentalism has become about the rich and the middle class, the white and privileged.

Even though lower-income groups and developing countries are the most affected by the decay of the environment, their participation in the green movement isn’t valued or even encouraged.

When we talk about environmental activists, we think of people like Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish environmental activist who has garnered internet fame. We don’t think of activists like Isra Hirsi, who has been fighting for Flint, Michigan, to get access to clean water. We don’t think of 14-year-old Autumn Peltier, an indigenous Canadian activist who is fighting for water conservation and the preservation of indigenous rights. We don’t hear about the Native Americans who have been fighting big corporations for the preservation of their lands in Alaska.

This isn’t the fault of Thunberg, but the fault of the media representation. The green movement is associated with activists who are white and middle-class, ignoring the huge strides that have been made by lower-income groups or people of color.

Misrepresentation remains to be one of the biggest reasons why these groups tend to be left behind. But that isn’t the only culprit. The environmental movement has been diminished and misconstrued by the masses to mean reusable straws and reusable cups. It’s been molded to center the environmental concerns of the middle class, and the more noticeable one just happens to be single-use plastic and sustainable living. But sustainable living is a luxury that’s accessible only to a few.

Lower-income groups don’t have the time to stop and think about how they’re living because they’re too busy trying to live.

They’re living paycheck to paycheck, which makes it impossible to sit and think about their effects on the environment.

On top of that, sustainable living has a price that’s not workingclass-friendly. We have an obligation to consider the deep irony in the unaffordability of sustainability for the working class, when they’re the most affected by it.

When talks of sustainability come up, the solutions are usually out of reach for the working class. The solutions usually mean investing in environmentally friendly forms of getting necessities.

One good example of this is the issue of sustainable clothing. The fact is that “fast fashion,” which is cheap and trendy clothing sold by stores such as Forever 21, H&M and Topshop, is one of the biggest industries that plague the environment.

In order to sell clothes that are inexpensive, accessible and trendy, fast fashion companies source cheaper garments, cheaper labor and cheaper production facilities. It’s basic economics: decreasing the cost of production keeps the prices of the products low, which increases profits for the company. It’s a system that’s taking advantage of lower-income groups being unable to afford other sources of clothing.

This is when the sustainability question comes in. While it’s

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Some lower-income groups have to compete with hipsters and environmentally-conscious millennials to get clothes from thrift stores. a system that benefits the working class and the companies’ capitalistic greed, it is highly unethical and extremely harmful for the environment. As a solution, consumers are encouraged by activists and sustainable lifestyle influencers online to get clothes from a sustainable fashion brand or shop at thrift stores. But sustainable fashion brands are usually expensive and high-end.

“Lower-income groups don’t have the time to stop and think about how they’re living because they’re too busy trying to live.”

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Being an ethical and sustainable company, your costs of production are going to increase. Which means you need to increase the price of your product to make up for it. Lowerincome individuals can’t afford to buy clothes from sustainable brands. This leaves thrift stores as the only realistic solution.

But that means lower-income individuals won’t be the only ones shopping there anymore.

Sustainable middle-class millennials and teens have started shopping at thrift stores. This puts them in competition with the demographic that thrift stores were originally meant for.

Lower-income groups then have less options to choose from as they shop; they now have to fight the hipsters and “e-boys” to get the bare necessities.

While this obviously isn’t the biggest issue lower-income groups are faced with, it’s a simple illustration of the neglect they deal with.

As an article from DAME Magazine, titled “The Environmental Movement Has a Classism Problem,” pointed out, “Low-income neighborhoods and neighborhoods with large communities of African Americans and Latinos were more likely to experience these increased emissions from nearby facilities — posing a risk for ‘severe and long-lasting’ health consequences ranging from asthma to cancer.” Factories are usually set up in the neighborhoods of lower-income groups, and these groups don’t have the political footing to fight these decisions.

According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine National

Institutes of Health, children located in Bronx, New York were 86% more likely to be affected by the aeroallergens in their neighborhoods than children from other areas. This puts them at highrisk for conditions like asthma.

The middle class argue on the side of a green future in regards of the future generation. But the fact that young people are already seeing the consequences of environmental harm right now is a factor that’s rarely discussed or pointed out.

Looking at it from an even bigger scale, developing countries are also left behind in this trek towards a greener future. In July 2018, the U.S. Court of International Trade banned the import of Mexican fish and shrimp that were caught by gillnets from Mexico’s Sea of Cortez. This is a possible way to protect the Vaquita Marina which holds endangered porpoise. While the protection of endangered species is imperative, authorities should consider the effect that bans have on lower-income fishermen.

Legal fishermen are the ones being harmed by this ban, while the real issue goes unaddressed: illegal fishermen poaching porpoises. And when bans like these are being debated, it should be considered that gillnets just might be the most affordable means of production for the fishermen. So, an environmentally friendly but just as-affordable solution for the fishermen should come hand in hand with laws like these. It’s a bitter irony that developed countries are telling poor countries to become environmentally friendly in their growth, when they already had their time to grow while destroying the environment.

Another example of this is the fact that rich countries send their trash in crates to developing countries. In June 2019, The Guardian exposed the way that developed countries actually get rid of and process their trash. They don’t.

They reported that last year, “an equivalent of 68,000 shipping containers of American plastic recycling were exported from the U.S. to developing countries that mismanage 70% of their own plastic waste.” Developed countries pack their trash away and send it off to poor countries to sort through the trash for them.

They do this because of the cheap labor they get from poor countries, like Bangladesh and Ethiopia. Not only does this harm the environment of developing countries, it puts the health of the cheap laborers at-risk.

They’re exposed to harmful trash in order to make a living.

This is a perfect illustration of eco-imperialism.

Developed countries are taking advantage of the absence of other income sources for women from poor countries — they’re exploiting them. The fact that women of color are being put at risk is “justified” because it’s seen as a necessary cost.

Even though the working class, people of color specifically, is the group that’s affected the most and directly by the environmental crisis, the journey toward a greener future neglects them. The movement is far too focused around the white middle class to tend to the ones that are being harmed right now. The lives of lowerincome groups are left out of the discussion. The focus is drawn away from the concerns of Indigenous activists across the U.S. and to the concerns of activists like Greta Thunberg.

If the movement actually wants to change current conditions, it needs to be holistic in its approach. The inclusion of lowerincome groups and developing countries is crucial in the fight for a greener future.

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Google ‘Google’ to learn about its corporate greed Search engine giant needs to be exposed for its unfair business practices

By EMILY FLAMME Staff Writer

Google, the most visited website in the world, is currently under investigation in 48 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico for antitrust violations.

Google is under fire for potentially breaking antitrust laws, which are laws that encourage competition and prohibit monopolies. However, Google may get off without punishment.

The issue cited is that it is controlling virtually all online advertising, smothering the competition.

Google is so dominant that nearly 90% of internet searches take place through the browser. Because they control nearly all of what internet users are seeing, it can control what is being advertised to its consumers — hence, where the problem comes in.

It is limiting competition not only in the search industry but also in the online advertising industry. Google is not only controlling what people are seeing but what people are buying.

Despite being dominant on the internet, Google and its subsidiaries are lacking something glaringly obvious: accessibility.

The internet, in general, lacks the proper accessibility it should have for its disabled users — most noticeably YouTube, which is owned by Google.

I wear cochlear implants, so I can hear well. However, my hearing is not as good as the average person, therefore I use closed captioning when I watch videos or TV. When I watch YouTube, I turn on its automatic captioning that most videos utilize, but, as many people are aware, they are highly inaccurate. According to an article by Duchin Productions, one out of every three words are incorrect. This is an issue because the meaning of the sentence can change with just one word being captioned incorrectly. If I find it difficult to watch YouTube’s videos, I can only imagine how completely deaf people feel, hence why I decided to research the legality of YouTube’s captions.

Title II and III of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 states, “Captions must relay the speaker’s exact words with correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar with 99% accuracy. No paraphrasing. Honor the original tone and intent of the speaker.”

However, this applies to videos that previously aired on televi-

sion. YouTube may not be breaking the law, but the law needs to be updated to reflect current societal needs. In 1990, when the law was written, the internet was not prominent in people’s lives, whereas today it is integral to people’s work, studies and recreation. Because of the internet’s huge impact on society, accessibility needs to be enforced. The internet is run by Google, which means they need to take accessibility seriously.

Google is an LLC, which means it is a privately-owned company. The company that owns Google is called Alphabet Inc. Alphabet is a publicly funded company that was created by Google in order to give themselves the benefits of both an LLC and a corporation. For a corporation like Alphabet that is receiving the benefits of being on the market, there is more recordkeeping. According to the Corporations Act 2001, corporations “must correctly record and explain transactions and financial position and performance and would enable true and fair financial statements to be prepared and audited.”

This law applies to Alphabet, not Google. For an LLC, there is less recordkeeping, so things like accessibility can easily slip through the cracks.

A potential digital monopoly is relatively new territory for America. That is why legislation has not been put into action regarding internet regulation. People involved in legislation do not bring up how much of what we see is controlled by Google because it is simply a fact of American life.

They are more concerned with the limiting of competition through targeted ad practices, privacy issues and the stifling of growth in the industry. Legislators from both sides of the aisle can agree that Google’s business practices have potentially undermined consumers’ choice, so why is it so hard to get a real result from investigations?

The issue comes in that the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 does not seem to apply to the digital world. This would be a false assumption to make. The law says it “prohibits monopolies or unreasonable combinations of companies to restrict or in any way control interstate commerce.”

This law is broad enough to include issues in today’s world, but people involved in the corporate world have tried to narrow

the definition to require proof of limiting competition through actual dollar amounts. However, on the internet, people “pay” for services through data.

While a person may not be paying physical money every time they make a search on Google, they are still contributing to Google’s spot as the most used browser. Since Google achieved this status, it knows that it rules the industry.

By dominating the industry, it can control what its users see through an algorithm they created. It is clear, however, that Google prioritizes search results from people who pay for ads.

When people use Google to search for a doctor, the first several search results should not be from practices who paid the most in advertising. America is supposed to be a country where anyone can be successful, and Google’s algorithm that prioritizes its partnerships threatens that.

Its business practices reveal a big company that is skirting around legalities and doing everything in its power to make money, much like the big oil companies of the late 19th century. It can be seen in almost every aspect of how they run their company and its subsidiaries. The lack of accessibility and transparency is just collateral damage from a company that is looking for total control.

History repeats itself, I just hope the country looks to the past and condemns Google.

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Nearly 90% of internet searches are done through Google.

3+1: A future investment done right

Accelerated programs help students work hard for the future and enjoy the present

By MICHAEL SICOLI Staff Writer

About six years of work finished in four years’ time.

The 3+1 program here at Quinnipiac University is an accelerated curriculum that allows students to graduate with a bachelor’s degree as a third-year student and receive their master’s degree in the fourth year. It is a demanding program that is not offered at nearby institutions and rewards those willing to shoulder the workload.

It asks a lot but, man, it pays off.

When asked about specific requirements, Dr. Terry Bloom, associate dean and director of the 3+1 communications program, responded, “If (the student) has a 1200 or higher on the SAT or a 25 or higher on the ACT and they’re in the top 20% of their graduating class.”

This program draws the more academically gifted to the school. The goal of any college is to attract just that — the best and the brightest. This is not exclusive to just test scores. Extracurriculars like being a part of a sports team, leading a club and showing leadership skills matter a lot. Participating in a club or sport program is one thing but going out of one’s way to step up shows that the student is able to handle the extra work and go the extra mile. Leadership shows diligence. When it comes to handling an extra class every semester, this is a desirable trait.

3+1 draws smart students with strong leadership skills. How great is that?

It is also a very tough program to get into, depending on your major. Only 54 3+1 communications and 109 3+1 business students are in this year’s freshman class. Bloom says that the communications program is looking to stay within the 50 to 60 student range for future years, maintaining that exclusivity.

This does differ from the School of Business. According to the Dean of the School of Business Michael Taylor, who is in charge of the 3+1 Business program, there is a different mindset.

“We don’t artificially limit it,” Taylor said. “There is no cap.

So, if we invited enough students and they all come here, we could have a 3+1 class of however many decide to come.”

This program is new and innovative, so much so that according to both Bloom and Taylor, the program is not offered by any nearby colleges. There are 4+1 programs offered at other regional universities but not 3+1. Saving money with a fixed tuition rate while not paying for extra years at a graduate school is such a good opportunity to have at a university. I know for a fact that without this program I may not have made the best decision of my life to come here for school.

The 3+1 program is an opportunity that most colleges do not offer.

This is a unique feature that many colleges do not offer. Regionally, there is no similar program around.

Now, it is important to note the rigor that the program offers.

As a 3+1 journalism student myself, I can certainly attest to this. To stay on track, I am taking 19 credits both this fall and next spring.

That’s an extra class every semester. The program challenges students that are able to succeed under a more difficult workload.

I also have to take summer courses every year and potentially January courses, otherwise known as J-Term. J-Term pushes a semester long class into two and a half weeks. An online experience during a student’s longest break since summer.

It’s a lovely experience.

Currently the program is invite-only. Bloom does not see that changing anytime soon.

“I think it makes sense for it to be invitation-only for a couple of reasons,” Bloom said. “One, because it is accelerated, you have to start it from the jump. You have to start it when you enter Quinnipiac. And any other model doesn’t make a lot of sense so the idea that you could apply into it after you arrive doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. The other thing is that it’s enough rigor and enough time management and enough degree of difficulty to get through the program with 19 credits a semester.

You have to go in summers, you sometimes need to take J-Term in some of the programs.”

Given the strenuous schedule, it is important to note how the acceptance process works. Certain students are selected to the program among the people who are accepted to the university.

These students, should they choose to attend, must decide as ear-

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ly as possible around the time of their commitment to Quinnipiac if they want to be a part of the program.

The reason Quinnipiac wants students to choose to be in the program so early is because it gives the school a chance to organize the schedule and economic plan for the student. Not only are there certain classes that need to be organized but the 3+1 features a fixed tuition payment as well as paid for J-Term and summer courses.

Students in 3+1 are also granted priority access to programs like QU in L.A., as long as they land an internship like everyone else. This is a terrific opportunity. While non-3+1 students are able to participate in this building program as well, having priority access eases the stress of travelling to study.

Finally, it offers the Living Learning Community (LLC).

These groups all of the students in the program together in a dorm. For example, all of my roommates are also 3+1 Communication majors that have majors ranging from media studies to journalism.

This has been my favorite part of college.

The people I have met in the LLC are some of the best I have ever known. I’ve made friendships I know will last a lifetime. Not only are these people great but they also understand your course load. They can study with you and be understanding if you need time alone to work.

I cannot emphasize enough how much of a right decision this was for me. The 3+1 program is an excellent use of an exclusive process that chooses the people who are right for it.

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For 25 years, the Trail of Terror has created fear through volunteer work

By JESSICA SIMMS Arts & Life Editor

In Wallingford, Connecticut, during the Halloween season, a beloved haunted attraction opens up to ignite fear within anyone that chooses to stop by.

This cherished and fearful attraction is known as the Trail of Terror. It was created by Wayne Barneschi, a resident of Wallingford, 25 years ago and was originally opened up as a home haunt.

“It was in our house. It was a home haunt,” Barenschi said. “We did that for three years. People loved it so it filled my grass and my house. So I said ‘I have to move somewhere else.’ So I decided to do an official one. The Trail of Terror.”

The big changes within popularity and what the Trail is today began when Barneschi decided to move this Halloween attraction to its current location in Wallingford 17 years ago.

“The front line area, which we thought was going to be our parking lot, it would’ve filled up in minutes,” Barneschi said explaining how popular the Trail is now today. “Now we require a football field full of cars or a soccer field full of cars. That’s each hour, it’s not like the old days. Now we have timed ticketing, so people come in, they buy their ticket and they can leave. Before you buy, you had to be in line at a certain time and then several hours later they get in.”

After having close friends and family help, the Trail of Terror is now a professional non-profit haunted attraction that has 100 volunteer performers and more than 25 volunteer staff that work together to continue bringing frightening entertainment to the Trail each weekend in October for the approximately 2,000 customers that attend the Trail a night. For some of these volunteers, working at the Trail is something they have been doing for years.

“This is my eighth year (working at the Trail),” Natalie Campagnuolo, a volunteer at the Trail of Terror, said. “It’s my 13th year in haunting, but this is my eighth year here.”

The staff and volunteers that work at the Trail of Terror spend hours at the Trail each weekend, preparing and working to put on the performance that will scare each and every person that steps foot on the Trail. Lots of hard work and dedication goes into each night at the Trail of Terror.

“Some people come all day and we prepare everything,” Barneschi said. “Some people are out back fixing what broke last night and everyone starts to come around three.

Our makeup department and costume department come right after that. At 5 p.m. we start assigning characters in. Then, in two hours, we have to get 150 or more characters in costume, in makeup and everything else.”

This year, especially, some of the veteran volunteers have noticed a change in the number of ticket sales, making this current Halloween season one of the best years the Trail has ever seen.

“From a business standpoint, (the Trail of Terror) has changed dramatically in a very positive way,” Campagnuolo

said.“This, I think, is one of the quickest years we have ever sold out. The industry is ever changing in lue of code and building and stuff like that, it’s more strict now to keep everybody safer, which is not a bad thing.”

Even within the staff, despite some hard times, the volunteers had a good time spending time with one another and working together to keep the Trail a fun and scary attraction during the Halloween season.

“On a personal level, with seeing everybody (at the Trail of Terror), we’ve been going through some struggle years with keeping everybody high morale,” Campagnuolo said.“But I would say this year was the year that everybody had fun. It’s getting there.”

For volunteers at the Trail of Terror, the experience is enjoyable, but also takes time and the ability to be cautious is very important in order for the customers to have a worthwhile and safe experience going through the Trail.

“There’s the difference between if you have a prop that you carry and just character wise because you have to be careful,” Jewel Munck, a volunteer who has to carry a prop during the Trail, said. “Because we could have lawsuits against us.”

Change is a big part of what makes the Trail of Terror such a unique Halloween attraction. Each year, the Trail itself is different when it comes down to the overall theme, scenes and characters. This year, for example, is the Trail of Terror’s 25th anniversary, so the theme is called “Fear Takes Time.”

“We change every year,” Barneschi said. “We change about 70% every year and next year we have big changes again. I always say I’m not going to make big changes, but we have big changes for next year and they are already in the works. So we already started, not built yet, but planned out already. We will start the day after we close or a few days before we close. We’ll start tearing things down and start getting ready.”

However, some of the main scenes stay the same, to keep the originality of the Trail of Terror there for loyal fans.

“It’s changed a lot since I’ve been here,” Munck said.

“All the scenes change each year, except the main ones like the clowns and the chainsaws and stuff.”

Another aspect that sets the Trail of Terror apart from other haunted attractions is that it donates to many different local non-profit agencies. Over the years, the Trail has donated close to a million dollars to nonprofit agencies such as the Wallingford Emergency Shelter, the Red Cross and has worked closely with the Community Revitalization Efforts of Wallingford to support students who provide humanitarian aid in areas that need it, according to Connecticut Visit.

For many, the Trail of Terror is a place to go to for the Halloween season, but for many volunteers it has become a place that they can call their second home.

“I love seeing my friends and my family every single day,” Campagnuolo said. “The Trail is kind of home at this point. All my best memories and people are here.”

Clowns were featured prominently as part of the Trail's frights.

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BEST BUDDIES SHINE IN THE FRIENDSHIP WALK The yearly Friendship Walk was a rousing success, even if Mother Nature failed to cooperate

By PHIL AKRE Staff Writer

If there’s one thing you can count on at every Best Buddies Friendship Walk, it’s a big, enthusiastic crowd. It doesn’t matter if there’s rain, gray skies or heavy winds –those in attendance are always smiling or laughing, the joyous hum palpable.

Such was the case on Sunday, Oct. 29, at this year’s iteration of the Best Buddies Friendship Walk, held on Quinnipiac University’s North Haven campus.

“Everyone is just happy to be where they are, and that’s what our whole mission is. Everyone is just happy to be together,” said Valerie Sobol, senior and Quinnipiac's Best Buddies' chapter vice president.

Best Buddies Friendship Walks occur in 32 states, raising funds to benefit Best Buddies, the largest organization that strives to end the social, economic and physical isolation of 200 million people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Best Buddies’ programs help members of the organization create meaningful friendships with peers, secure jobs, live independently and feel valued by society.

For Connecticut’s own Best Buddies Friendship Walk, the forecast saw rain from morning to night and heavy wind gusts, forcing the walk to take place inside the parking garage for the second time in three years. It didn’t make much of a difference, as enthusiasm ran high from start to finish. It is consistently one of Quinnipiac’s best university-hosted events, as it reaches a big audience and following beyond Hamden. The walk is for inclusion, but its mission goes further.

“I think a branch off that is to represent schools in Connecticut that don’t have Best Buddies programs,” Katie Blackwood, the president of Quinnipiac’s Best Buddies chapter, said. “A lot of what we raise goes towards opening new chapters in Connecticut.

That’s a very, very cool aspect because it’s almost like walking for our future friends.”

Before the walk started, families, students and various faculty members roamed the confines of the garage’s first floor to play games, enter contests and catch up with one another. It was clear to feel the warm sense of community humming throughout the crowd. Attendees shared memories from past walks, caught up

Many gathered to participate in this year's Bust Buddies Friendship Walk. about one another’s lives and generally beamed positivity.

“We’re all connected to the same thing,” Sobol said. “It doesn’t matter if you go to school in Cheshire, or North Branford, everyone is just friends. They know each other because they’re all connected from one organization.”

This year’s walk was special for another reason, as 2019 marks the 30th anniversary of the non-profit’s founding. At Quinnipiac, its Best Buddies chapter has become a leading student organization, offering students the chance to be a part of something bigger than a school group. At the university’s involvement fair in early September, the group had an estimated 200-250 new students sign-up.

“I have made a ton of friends, like chapter presidents, people

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from other states or buddies,” Blackwood said. “These types of events are a perfect time to catch up with them. I definitely think you see continual connections, even if it’s not directly with your buddy.”

Blackwood is one of many students across the country who participate in the yearly Best Buddies Leadership Conference.

Over 2,000 students and advisors attend the conference, which focuses on the growth and successes of chapters across the U.S. The walk is a yearly reminder of Best Buddies’ continual mission and a celebration of the rich community it has built.

“The Friendship Walk is by far my favorite event for the fall,” Blackwood said. “It kind of embodies everything we talk about and what Best Buddies means to me.”

A MAGNIFICENT MALEFICENT ‘Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’ is a devilishly fun film

By TIM POWERS Staff Writer

“Maleficent: Mistress of Evil,” the follow-up to 2014’s massively successful “Maleficent,” a retelling of the Disney classic “Sleeping Beauty,” not only holds up to the standards of the first film, but expands on the universe’s mythology and characters in a meaningful and interesting way.

The film begins a gleeful five years after the events of the first film. Prince Phillip enlists the help of the creatures of the moors to propose to Princess Aurora (Sleeping Beauty), who eventually says yes. But not everyone is as happy as she is.

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'Maleficent: Mistress of Evil' premiered on Oct. 18.

Maleficent, her godmother, doesn’t like Aurora’s betrothed because he is human, and his family doesn't like her because she is of the moors. Tensions between the two parties reach a high point when they meet for the first time and it doesn’t go well, resulting in Maleficent “attacking” Prince Phillips’ father. But, secretly, Prince Phillips’ mother, Queen Ingrith, is planning an attack on Maleficent and the people of the moors because of her disgust for how they are magical creatures instead of humans.

The film features Angelina Jolie returning as the magnificent but maligned, Maleficent in pitch-perfect casting. The first film should have garnered Jolie an Oscar nomination, at the very least, with her take on the famous villain. Jolie, once again, gives a delicate and hilarious performance as the mistress of evil. Jolie gets many wonderfully dramatic one-liners that bring a lighter tone to the film. With just a smirk or a wink, Jolie is able to convey an enormous amount of emotion. The actress continues to add to the magic and takes Maleficent’s story beyond the page, making her one of the most complex characters Disney has ever had.

Elle Fanning, who reprises her role as Princess Aurora, is given more to do in this sequel. Fanning really brought out her acting chops for this film, showing audiences exactly why she was the perfect choice to play the Sleeping Beauty. In one particularly harrowing scene for the princess, Fanning is able to show us different sides to her character that aren’t often associated with Princess Aurora. It is quite nice to see Disney take one of its most famous characters and do something different with her.

The standout moments of the film are the visuals that are on display. Disney spares no expense when it comes to how a film looks and “Mistress of Evil” is no different.

With impressive visual effects that build up the “Maleficent” universe, flawless, unforgettable and visually-pleasing scenes are created. It is hard not to want to walk through the fields of the moors and swim in its lakes with how beautiful they are.

The costumes are even better this time around. Jolie and Fanning have many striking costumes that are sure to earn the film’s costume designer, Ellen Mirojnick, an Oscar nomination later this year.

The narrative comes to a climax with the big battle that is very reminiscent of the ideas behind World War II and the Holocaust. It was surprising at how dark this film was willing to get considering it is a Disney movie. If anything, that was its struggle: maintaining that balance of telling a story of sorrow and keeping it family-friendly. This is most evident at the end of the film when the tone shifts from the imagery of a big, deadly battle to the imagery of a happy wedding in less than five minutes. It was a sudden change of tone that seemed out of place and like a decision made by an executive.

Overall, the film provides an entertaining two hours for audiences through telling an interesting story. It has everything anyone could want: romance, drama, action, funny one-liners and beautiful shots to admire. This is by far one of the best sequels Disney has released, especially in regard to its live-action remakes. If you enjoyed the first film, you will love the second.

4/5 STARS

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Quinnipiac’s Car Club held its annual event for breast cancer research

By MELANIE CARERI Contributing Writer

As students walked by Hill Circle, they saw other students smashing an old, wrecked car painted silver with red graffiti drawn as targets. As they smashed the car with a hammer, volunteers yelled, “Wanna come hit a car for a Chick-Fil-A sandwich?” More students piled in and decided to join in on the fun. After hitting the car 10 times, they walked away feeling relieved and satisfied with their sandwich.

On Friday, Oct. 26, Quinnipiac University’s Car Club held the annual Car Smash at the village circle to raise money for breast cancer research.

Three years ago, former Quinnipiac student Caroline Ringle decided to start a charity dedicated to breast cancer research called, “Race for a Cure.”

“I know breast cancer is a big thing in Caroline’s family and she wanted to do something to help, so she came up with Car Smash,” Johnny Marquadt, the social media chair for the Car Club, said.

“It’s a fun way to raise money for breast cancer research.”

Ever since, Car Smash has been improvinge its efforts to raise money for breast cancer research. The way the club collects the money is by having people pay $10 to hit the car 10 times and then giving them a Chick-Fil-A sandwich. After volunteering for two Car Smash events, Marquadt saw that the Car Club has been raising more money over the years.

“Last year they raised $150 and this year they raised $400,” Marquadt said. “The main reason was the location. Last year, it was in the north lot and this year it was in the village circle, so more people came across it.”

A lot of hard work and preparation went into the event.

“Weeks of preparation included getting the car, getting it transported here, ordering the sandwiches, getting them to school, spreading the word of the event, getting the area for the event and getting public safety to approve and to get our advisor to approve it,” Marquadt said.

While preparing for the Car Smash event, the Car Club faced some unavoidable bumps in the road.

“We had a few difficulties early on due to weather when we had everything planned out,” Sigurjon Magnusson, the president of Car Club, said. “We had to cancel the first time and reprep everything. It was easier when the outside business wanted to help and get involved. It was approximately a month.”

Money raised by the Car Smash event was donated to breast cancer research.

These outside businesses included Chick-Fil-A in Wallingford and Wheeler’s Auto Service who provided the club with the free car. Magnusson says that Wheeler’s Auto Service completed all the necessary preparatory work on the car.

The club also had to ensure safety by finding a location where there weren’t too many people and could keep everyone safe.

They also could not use any sharp tools, only sledge hammers.

Car Smash not only benefited “Race for a Cure” but also everyone who got involved. Marquadt says that being a part of Car Smash made him more aware that he should be doing more community service and help the community more.

“It was definitely a good stress reliever,” Marquadt said.

“Taking your anger out on an object that can’t hurt you back.”

Car Smash is not only a stress reliever, but, according to Magnusson, it also breaks the stereotype of the Car Club.

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“It’s not just messing around and having fun with cars. It shows a different side by getting involved in the community for bigger causes,” Magnusson said. He also mentions that it’s also a great way to make friends.

For Magnusson, being the president of the Car Club and being a part of Car Smash was a rewarding experience.

“It was a good learning experience of managing a team and being sure everyone was on the same page of having an end goal that we all wanted to strive for,” Magnusson said.

Magnusson has a few words for those interested in Car Smash.

“It’s a good time," Magnusson said. "A lot of camaraderie at the event this year and last year. It becomes a small little family when you get in the Car Club and coming to the events shows our little family and what we can do, including giving to breast cancer research.”

THE END IS COMING

A final look at ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’

By MATTHEW TRAVIA Staff Writer

The epic conclusion to the Star Wars saga keeps getting closer and closer.

The trailer for the final installment of Star Wars was released Monday, Oct. 21, during halftime of the Patriots and Jets game. The trailer didn’t have anything as new or surprising as any of the other trailers, but questions still remain about the movie.

“Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” is set to be released on Dec. 20, 2019. This ninth movie is set to be the final movie of the Skywalker Saga.

The trailer begins with Rey running through a forest and jumping across land. It seems as if she is finally training, which is something viewers haven’t seen her do in any of the other previous movies.

We then get to catch a quick glimpse of all of our heroes in small cut scenes, then get a shot of Rey on what looks like a destroyed Death Star in the middle of roaring waves and a rainstorm. Rey’s voice is heard by stating “People keep telling me they know me ," which is followed by, “No one does.”

In the middle of the surging rain, we see Kylo Ren with his unique lightsaber and you hear a response to Rey’s comment. He responds to Rey with, “But I do.” They seem to have this weird connection they have been showing since “The Force Awakens.”

Throughout the past two movies, Rey has been trying to figure out who she is and who her parents are. The force seems to have found her, but she isn’t sure as to why. Kylo seems to know the most about her and tries to bring Rey under his wing.

Despite Rey and Kylo having their different views of the force, they seem to have a connection through the force. Is their connection legit or just a tactic for Kylo to use to have Rey turn over to the dark side?

We then see a quick glimpse of a new ice world that is pretty unique and something viewers haven’t seen before. After that,

The trailer for 'Stars Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' premiered on Oct. 21. viewers see a throne and a familiar voice is heard saying, “Long have I waited.”

It is none other The Emperor (Palpatine) who is responsible for all of the chaos in the first six movies. We are still unsure who can be behind the First Order, we all thought it was Snoak, but could it be someone of higher authority? Perhaps The Emperor has been the mastermind behind all of this madness?

We then see C3-PO getting worked on, perhaps getting rewired, as we are not sure as to what is going on with the droid.

Po then asks C3-PO what is going on with them, C3-PO responds with “Taking one last look … at my friends.” What can this mean for the droid?

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There’s a scene where we see the back of what seems to be The Emperor walking towards Rey. What can be his master plan? Why is Rey so important to him?

Is Rey a Skywalker?

There are so many questions that are unanswered. Some questions relating to this movie and questions regarding the entire trilogy.

The rest of the trailer contains mostly action shots and other quick glimpses of the movie.

After 42 years and eight main-series movies, the Skywalker saga is finally coming to an end.

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MEN’S SOCCER QU 3, Monmouth 2 - Wednesday Tomas Svecula: 1 goal, 1 assist, 4 shots Jared Mazzola: 8 saves, 2 GAs Iona 2, QU 1 - Saturday Eamon Whelan: 1 goal, 2 shots, 1 SOG Mazzola: 4 saves, 2 GAs WOMEN’S SOCCER QU 1, Manhattan 1 - Wednesday Selena Salas: 1 goal, 2 shots, 1 SOG Meaghan Phillips: 4 saves, 1 GA FIELD HOCKEY Old Dominion 4, QU 0 - Friday Julianna Cappello: 2 shots, 1 SOG Mack Vorel: 8 saves, 2 GAs QU 5, Brown 2 - Sunday Bianka Strubbe: 2 goals, 1 assist Eva Veldhorst: 2 assists VOLLEYBALL Fairfield 3, QU 0 - Saturday Georgia Tselepi: 5 kills, 4 digs Alejandra Rodriguez: 11 digs MEN’S ICE HOCKEY QU 4, Vermont 0 - Sunday Ethan de Jong: 1 goal, 1 assist Keith Petruzzelli: 21 saves, 0 GA WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY QU 6, Sacred Heart 0 - Friday Kenzie Hauswirth: 2 goals Logan Angers: 16 saves, 0 GA QU 5, Sacred Heart 0 - Saturday Taylor House: 2 goals Angers: 14 saves, 0 GA

GAMES TO WATCH MEN’S SOCCER QU at Siena - Wednesday, 3 p.m.

QU vs. Fairfield - Saturday, 1 p.m.

WOMEN’S SOCCER QU vs. Siena - Wednesday, 2:30 p.m.

QU vs. MAAC Quarterfinals - Sunday, TBD VOLLEYBALL QU at Manhattan - Saturday, 1 p.m.

QU at Iona - Sunday, 1 p.m.

FIELD HOCKEY QU vs. Temple - Friday, 3 p.m.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL QU vs. Drexel - Tuesday, 6 p.m.

MEN’S ICE HOCKEY QU at Arizona State - Friday, 9 p.m.

QU at Arizona State - Saturday, 9 p.m.

WOMMEN’S ICE HOCKEY QU at Cornell - Friday, 6 p.m.

QU at Colgate - Saturday, 3 p.m.

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Canadian soil, American turf

How Meaghan Phillips is juggling a new life and a new home

By JARED PENNA Sports Editor

A new country. A new home. A new life.

Freshman Meaghan Phillips is experiencing plenty of change right now, but you wouldn’t be able to tell from the outside.

As the goalkeeper of the Quinnipiac women’s soccer team, Phillips has recorded five shutouts this season. In another game, she recorded 80 minutes of play without allowing a goal. Her 81.5 save percentage is the highest mark of all four goalkeepers on the team’s roster and on pace for fourth-best all-time in Quinnipiac’s history.

But behind the solid play is an 18-yearold girl who was thrown piles of responsibility in a new country.

Phillips hails from Aurora, Ontario in Canada, a whopping 556 miles from her new home in Hamden, Connecticut.

Despite the challenges that come with moving to a new country, Phillips has been cool, calm and collected on the field and off.

“It’s not that different. It’s pretty much the same, just in a different country,” Phillips said.

“The only thing that’s really different about my life is I’m a student athlete, so this is like my fulltime job. Being at home it’s like you’re a student, and then an athlete is just on the side.”

One reason the transition has been so seamless is because of the support system that Phillips brought with her. Her twin sister, Cassidy, joined her on the trip from Ontario to Connecticut.

“We’re really close, so it’s nice,” Phillips said. “I moved to a different country with my best friend, I’m going to school with my best friend. So it’s a lot easier, because it’s like taking home and moving it here. We live across the hall from each other so it’s kinda funny, we just knock on each others doors.

It’s like I’m back home.”

Cassidy Phillips runs for Quinnipiac’s women’s cross country team in the fall. The sisters have found comfort in having one another so close in a new place, but also intend to have their own separate experiences.

Phillips has experienced plenty in her first year at Quinnipiac. In her first season in the MAAC, she’s allowing 0.67 goals per game in conference. Monmouth and Fairfield, the first and second place teams in the MAAC that average 2.4 goals per game combined, have combined to score 0.5 goals per game against Phillips, nearly two full goals fewer than their averages.

Phillips isn’t just adjusting, she’s excelling. A big reason she’s been able to play well with her new team is because the team doesn’t feel new at all. Phillips and other freshmen were immediately welcomed by the upperclassmen on the team to make adjustments as smooth as possible.

“It’s such a great group of girls, we work really well with each other,” Phillips said.

“You just have to learn quickly that you have to mesh, because whether you’re a senior or a freshman coming in, you’re going to be playing with each other for that year. So, right away, right off the bat, you’re just in it with each other, and you’ve gotta pretend like

Freshman goalkeeper Meaghan Phillips takes a goal kick. you’ve known each other for years.”

Even when things do get challenging for Phillips, she handles the adversity with grace and confidence, the way any good leader would. As a freshman, Phillips is still finding her role in the locker room, but on the field and outside of soccer, she considers herself somebody people can rely on and look up to.

“As a person I’m very outgoing, I consider myself to be a leader,” Phillips said. “I’m a very hard-working person, and I always try — especially being the goalie — you have to talk to everybody so you have to be a leader on the field.

So I always just try to think of myself as being a leader and being outgoing enough to get to know other people, because I need to make connections off the field in order for the connections to be on the field.”

The bonds she has formed with her teammates look sturdy. Whether she’s in the stands with teammates to watch a men’s soccer game or in the net barking out orders, Phillips is vocal and an active member of conversation.

Her ease in forming those connections has proven vital early on. Growing up, Phillips had always played a certain style of soccer. As a citizen of Canada, she played the same way her fellow Canadians did. The move to Quinnipiac opened Phillips’ eyes to a new style of soccer, but with the help of her teammates, she’s handled the adjustment with ease.

“It’s a lot faster. Canadian soccer and American soccer, they’re similar styles, but American soccer is a lot more aggressive and it’s really fast, especially playing at this level,” Phillips said.

“I’m playing with girls who are four and five years older than me, so you just have to adapt really quickly. In practice too, we don’t cut off on each other, you’re just going at each other.

You’re just working as hard as you can, so you just really quickly pick it up.”

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Freshman goalkeeper Meaghan Phillips makes a diving attempt at a save on a penalty kick.

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Not every challenge is met with perfection, though. One area Phillips has struggled in is recovering from a defeat. As a goalkeeper, there’s a sense of responsibility for a loss other teammates can’t relate to. Had the job been done perfectly, the result would be a draw at worst.

“I think the most challenging thing is just bouncing back,” Phillips said. “In practice, we work on it, but sometimes there’s just the heat of like, ‘Oh we lost.’ We came into the season and we won, and then we went on a three-game losing streak, and it was like, ‘What happened.’

We were playing so good in the end of preseason, and then all of a sudden it just hit and we weren’t winning.”

The winning returned, however, and the team surpassed last season’s win total with three games left on its schedule. Now with just one game remaining, the team hopes to make one last playoff push.

Only six teams make the playoffs in the MAAC, and the Bobcats currently sit fifth in the standings. At 4-4-1 in the conference, Quinnipiac has little wiggle room entering its final game.

If the Bobcats lose, they could get pushed down to sixth in the conference and face a tougher path to the championship.

Phillips, though, is looking forward to the challenge, just as she looks forward to all challenges in life. While there’s cause for anxiety and fear, Phillips is more optimistic than anything else.

“I’m excited,” Phillips said. “A little bit nervous, but nerves are always a good thing, it just shows that you care for the game. Just really excited though, because I know how the team’s done in the past.

“I’m excited to see what this team can do.

We’ve been doing pretty good, we’re playing really well — and with a bunch of freshmen and sophomores, who are coming in (and) learning.

And then obviously, our senior core which is fantastic. We’re just gonna keep building, and hopefully we keep building throughout the playoffs.

We’re gonna take ourselves far.”

The team has lost just one of its last five games. With Phillips at the helm, the defense has been stout, allowing just two goals over the fivegame span. Whatever the Bobcats have been doing, it’s been working, and the plan is to maintain the success the same way it was created.

“You’ve just got to prepare the same,” Phillips said. “Every day you’ve got to take one game at a time. One day after the next, it’s just, ‘Here’s the next game.’ You can’t think, ‘This is the first playoff game,’ it’s just another game.

You don’t want to get into your head too much and think too much about it. You just want to go in, play with your heart and do the job.”

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Main: ‘They would have dominated (the MAAC) for four years’ FINALE from Page 12 she didn’t realize how much she needed her,” Main said. “So, on Sunday, she even said, ‘I cannot believe how much I value those three years I just had with you. I took them for granted because as soon as you were gone, I needed you.’”

Even without her sister, Martinez has dazzled in her senior season. A season after being named NCAA Statistical Champion with nine defensive saves, Martinez is leading the Bobcats with six assists and three defensive saves.

Blum has also showcased spectacular play over her four years. She tallied career highs with five goals and three assists during her junior season. Her senior season is less statistically appealing, but it featured her best game ever, according to Main.

“She did have a little lull in September, and she spent the last two weeks really hard working that out,” Main said. “Then I saw Friday night’s game at Providence was the best game I’ve ever seen her play in her entire life.”

Blum scored her first goal of the season against Providence in her standout game. That said, her play on the field isn’t the most noteworthy thing about her.

Last season, she won The Bobcat Award, which is awarded, “to a player that exemplifies the principles of being a good teammate,” according to Quinnipiac Athletics.

“Amanda is just the most selfless person,” Perkins said. “Even if she’s struggling, she will be the first person to go over to somebody and help them, even if she might not feel that she has the energy to do that … Amanda is always there if you need her.”

In order for Blum, Martinez, Perkins and Strubbe to stand out, they needed people to do the “grunt work.” Denion and Jannell played that role.

Jannell, who transferred from LIU Brooklyn in January 2019, hasn’t seen any time in the 2019 fall season. Still, she’s at the forefront of the senior class and has set an example for the underclassmen.

“Molly gets dressed like, I mean you can

tell that kid’s had her pads on for four years in college and for three or four years before that,” Main said. “She’s the first one out, and she’s always the first one there. Even today, she was the last one off the field.”

Denion, like Jannell, is someone who pushes her teammates every day and is an integral part of the team despite not playing much.

Main understands that teams cannot play all 25 players, but she values each player because of what they all bring to the table.

Without Denion and Jannell, Main believes the team is without those who can analyze the game and motivate the players while the team fights on the field.

“There have to be people like Molly and people like Sarah who are pushing no matter what, showing you an example,” Main said. “That’s who you want to work with in a corporation or higher ed or in any kind of situation.

“You want people that maybe aren’t getting the star and putting on the presentations, but they’re the one that did all the grunt work. That’s a Molly, and that’s a Sarah. So, if you don’t have that, then it’s really impossible for the team to shine without them.”

The diversity of on-field success, personality and being the first core to play four years in the Big East is why this senior class is extraordinary.

Next season will be different. Lots of familiar faces will return, but the leadership roles will be in the hands of the rising upperclassmen. The game against Temple on Friday, Nov. 1, will be the last opportunity to see the senior class play on the AstroTurf as Bobcats.

“It’s easy to go, ‘I’m going to miss what she does this on the field,’” Main said. “‘When Molly makes a save, I miss this. I miss when Bianka takes a corner shot. I miss when Val dribbles through three people.’

“But I think the thing you usually don’t really realize you miss until February when you start with a new team without them is the character and the personalities. But this group, I absolutely know that’s something I miss already more than anything else that they do on the field.”

“And even when I’m writing the speeches — I read a speech for each of them. I write them and then the day comes, and I’m trying to be all serious and focused. And then the speech has started, and the feelings go.”

– BECCA MAIN

FIELD HOCKEY HEAD COACH

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Graduate student midfielder Bianka Strubbe fights for the ball in the midfield.

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Quinnipiac senior forward Eamon Whelan scored his 31st career goal as a Bobcat. He’s tied for third most goals in Quinnipiac history.

For 42 days, the Quinnipiac women’s soccer team either shutout opponents or were shutout by opponents. That streak broke on Oct. 23 in a 1-1 draw with Manhattan.

Quinnipiac field hockey head coach Becca Main won her 200th career game on Sunday against Brown 5-2.

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For the fourth straight game, Quinnipiac ice hockey sophomore forward Wyatt Bongiovanni scored a goal. His four goals this season are the most in ECAC Hockey.

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Field hockey finale COURTESY OF QU ATHLETICS

As Quinnipiac field hockey’s 2020 graduating class approaches its final game, its members take time to reflect on their experiences.

By BRENDAN O’SULLIVAN Sports Editor

“Over this weekend was probably the first time I thought about what life will be without them. And that was something that I’m not interested in even thinking about yet.”

It’s been 55 days since Quinnipiac field hockey head coach Becca Main said this about the 2020 graduating class.

Now that there’s a few days left until the 2020 class plays its last game at Quinnipiac, Main reflected on the memories she made with the group.

“I was forced, I guess, to think about it last weekend to this weekend because it was our Senior Day on Sunday,” Main said. “And even when I’m writing the speeches — I read a speech for each of them. I write them and then the day

comes, and I’m trying to be all serious and focused. And then the speech has started, and the feelings go.”

The graduating class is made up of six players: graduate student midfielder Bianka Strubbe, senior forwards Amanda Blum and Valerie Perkins, senior midfielder Inès Ruiz Martinez, senior goalkeeper Molly Jannell and redshirt junior midfielder Sarah Denion.

For Blum, Denion, Martinez and Perkins, it’s the end of four years of Quinnipiac field hockey and four years of Big East field hockey — the first Quinnipiac class to do so.

“I would say it was the hardest four years of any athletes that they’ve had to go through in terms of shifting from a conference,” Main said.

“They would have dominated (the MAAC) for four years and been in a completely different

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Senior forward Amanda Blum dribbles the ball up the field against Brown.

situations than they are now.”

This group is also a part of the team that first played on the brand-new AstroTurf at the Quinnipiac Field Hockey Stadium. Previously, the team shared the Quinnipiac Rugby Field with both soccer and lacrosse teams, the field for intramural sports and the Quinnipiac Soccer & Lacrosse Stadium.

Main has a coaster in her office with a picture of the 2017 team walking on the turf for the first time.

And on that turf is where so many memories were made.

“I think my favorite moments are when I’m able to spend so much time at practice,” Blum said. “And then finally it leads up to a big events where I can either score, or I have a moment that’s just like, everything you put into it is glorified in that one moment.”

It’s more than just on-field moments that made the team diverse. It’s the character and leadership development from the players, even if they didn’t see a lot of playing time.

Strubbe has dominated the offensive side of the ball. The graduate student is in her second year with the program and leads the team in goals (8) and points (19) this season — both totals are the most since Savanna Reilly had nine goals and 22 points in 2016 as a graduate student forward.

The team looks up to Strubbe on and off the field. She referred to herself as a sophomore, yet her teammates and Main call her the “mom” and “grandma” of the team.

“This year she’s found this really pleasant place where she can be hard-hitting, going after it, supporting her teammates and also bring them along” Main said. “I think they appreciate her more.

“We had a big conversation a couple weeks ago because we weren’t communicating on the field, and it was like, ‘Well, who do you want to do all the communicating?’ And everyone was like, ‘Bianka.’ Where last year, they had a hard time like, ‘I don’t know. She’s kind of abrasive.

She yells at me.’ This year, it’s like, ‘Tell me what to do. Tell me what to do now.’”

Strubbe, despite viewing herself as a sophomore, sees that the underclassmen look up to her because of her experience.

Prior to Quinnipiac, she played for Poland’s

Junior National Team from 2009 to 2015. She moved up to Poland’s Senior National Team in 2015 and still plays to this day. She also won the Polish Championship six times and placed second five times.

Her experience has bolstered the Quinnipiac program and put her in the position to lead the Bobcats.

“Bianka is the most highly-skilled, worldclass athlete I’ve ever had,” Main said. “She is a lead-by-example, but she also is tough and pushing the people that are around her.”

Unlike Strubbe, Perkins gets her word across in a quiet manner, according to Main. Nevertheless her voice is heard loud and clear.

“I try to lead by example,” Perkins said.

“Whether we’re just going to get water, I always try and run off the field, be the first person out. I just want people to give it their all every practice.

I try to give everyone the motivation to want to be here every day and to try to show them that you have a great opportunity to play every day.”

Since senior year of high school, Perkins has mentored freshman forward Julianna Cappello.

The two went to Lakeland High School together when Perkins was a senior and Cappello was a freshman. Cappello was called up to the varsity team for the postseason and got the opportunity to play alongside with Perkins.

“I saw the potential that she had when she was that young,” Perkins said. “I definitely wanted to take her under my wing.”

Like Perkins, Martinez is a soft-spoken leader.

Martinez traded Madrid, Spain, for Hamden, Connecticut, and joined the Bobcats in 2016, one year after her sister, Elisa Ruiz Martinez, did. For three years, Elisa and Inès shared the midfield.

Main and Elisa saw Inès’ potential before Inès was a freshman at Quinnipiac.

“We’ve liked Inès from the beginning,” Main said. “Inès came to a clinic on a wet, rainy day and she did a whole bunch of little things. Elisa kept on saying, ‘She’s better than I am.’”

This past spring season was the first time since her senior year of high school that Martinez didn’t have her sister with her.

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