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FEBRUARY 24, 2016
VOLUME 86, ISSUE 18
Students frustrated with QU-Yale, Fetty Wap ticket issues
Students compensated after dorm flooding By THAMAR BAILEY AND SARAH DOIRON
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Left is part of the student section at last year’s QU-Yale game. Right is part of the crowd at last year’s Wake the Giant concert. By TARA O’NEILL Co-News Editor
For many Quinnipiac students 10 p.m. usually means winding down from their day. But on Sunday, Feb. 21 and Monday, Feb. 22, 10 p.m. meant stress, aggravation and– for some–disappointment. The tickets for the QU-Yale men’s ice hockey game became available on Glitnir Ticketing at 10 p.m. on Feb. 21, and the Fetty Wap Wake the Giant concert tickets
went on sale, also on Glitnir, at 10 p.m. on Feb. 22. With 1,200 tickets available for the QUYale game and 2,600 tickets available for the Wake the Giant concert, there is a large section of the student population who did not get tickets to at least one, if not both, events. For most men’s ice hockey games, 1,000 student tickets are available, but an extra 200 standing-room only tickets are available
for the QU-Yale game, according to the Executive Director of the TD Bank Sports Center Eric Grgurich. He said the tickets sold out in less than a minute. With some students taking to social media to say the online ticketing system was not efficient, Grgurich said doing the tickets online is the best solution. “It’s the fairest way to do it,” Grgurich See TICKETS Page 5
Challenging Chartwells Student gathers complaints against dining service By THAMAR BAILEY Staff Writer
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by a manager or sent via email to Chartwells directly. Student discontent with Chartwells food is not unheard of across campus. Many students become discontent with the lack of food variety and some, such as senior political science major Maria Praeli, change their diet altogether. Praeli used to be a vegetarian, but had to
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Carleigh Peterson, a sophomore marketing major, arrived at Cafe Q on Feb. 1 and bought a muffin, which she later found was raw. This was not the only instance in which Peterson had an issue with Chartwells. In late January, Peterson was overcharged when purchasing two individual uncooked eggs. Peterson, according to a Facebook post she wrote the night of the incident, decided “this sort of thing goes on far too often here” and submitted a negative response about Chartwells Dining at Quinnipiac as a whole. After setting up a meeting with the directors of food services for the following Thursday, Peterson went to Facebook to ask the Quinnipiac population for evidence of raw or otherwise inedible food. By the time of Peterson’s planned meeting, she had compiled a document more than 20 pages long, filled with pictures and student testimonials, only for her meeting to be canceled. “I was very upset. They added $20 to my account to make up for the muffin and the eggs which was great,” Peterson said. “But originally it seemed like that was supposed to be in place of the meeting. And I basically sent back that I would still like to meet, but thank you for the credit to my account.” According to Peterson, the meeting was rescheduled to the following Thursday. It was then that Director of Dining Services Joseph Tobin and Associate Director of Dining Services Leean Spalding made it clear that student complaints need to be immediately addressed
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stop during her freshman year. “I started eating chicken my second semester here because there just wasn’t enough options,” she said. “Salads got boring and there’s just not enough options for dietary needs.”
The university compensated several students who were displaced after flooding in their residence halls on the Mount Carmel campus. But some of these 49 students received more money than others, while others were not compensated at all. Seven of the 14 students who were displaced after a pipe burst in Hill on Jan. 29 were given $15 each for laundry and $50 in meal plan money, according to Assistant Director of Residential Life for sophomore housing Michael Guthrie. During the morning of the flood, a damaged toilet caused a pipe to burst and water to leak from Hill 10 room 12A into the ceiling of Hill 10 room 11A. The water continued to spread throughout the suite, according to sophomore Nicolas Colon, a resident of Hill 10 room 11A. As a result, Facilities gave some of the Hill residents money through Q-Cash in order to pay for the cleaning of their wet clothing. This money allows the students to do five loads of laundry for clothes that may have been wet or damp because of the leak, Guthrie said. Colon said the compensation awarded to him and his roommates helped offset the cost of laundry and make up for their inability to cook for themselves. “Although it did take some time, it was the appropriate gesture from Res. Life and Facilities,” he said. “It was enough for the circumstances, but we will see what arises in terms of property damage.” Guthrie said the residents of room 12A were not compensated because the damage to their room was minimal. “It is my understanding that [the residents of room 12A] did not experience the level of damage that [room] 11A experienced and [room] 12A was also able to return to their room significantly sooner than [room] 11A,” Guthrie said. The Hill 12A residents were relocated to Village and returned to their original housing assignment four days later. Meanwhile, the seven residents of Hill 11A moved to Perlroth, a residence hall without a kitchen, for a total of two weeks while renovations were ongoing. This is why these Hill 11A students received extra meal plan money, Guthrie said. “The reason being is when a student goes from Hill, they have a partial meal plan and when a student goes to Perlroth they have a full meal plan because there’s no kitchen,” he said. Sophomore Benjamin Tzodikov, resident of Hill 12A, said he wasn’t compensated and didn’t expect to be. “Instead of getting compensated, Public Safety and Facilities tried to blame us for the flooding even though it was clearly not our fault,” he said. “If there was someone in our room right away fixing this problem, which when they came only took them a matter of seconds to turn off the water, then we would not have had to move out and create all of this mess.” Sophomore Josh Gonzalez, a resident of Hill 12A, said they called Public Safety immediately following the constant swirling of the toilet and were assured someone would arrive soon. However, approximately 10 minutes before Public Safety arrived, the pipe behind the toilet burst. That is when the
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