The Quinnipiac Chronicle Issue #7, Volume 84

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ARTS & LIFE Pumpkin coffee reviews, page 10

2013 Clery Act statistics released

SPORTS

OPINION The dangers of overseas reporting, page 6

Peca’s consistency key for Bobcats, page 16

JOEY MULLANEY STRUGGLES WITH RARE GENETIC DISORDER, PAGE 6

University ticketing, towing cars with fake decals

By TARA O’NEILL

By JULIA PERKINS

Contributing Writer

Managing Editor

The number of reported liquor-law violations, forcible sex offenses, drug-related arrests and hate crimes increased on campus in 2013, according to Clery Act crime statistics released last week. Burglaries and drugrelated referrals decreased.

The Jeanne Clery Act is a federal law requiring colleges to release annual crime reports and keep a public crime log.

“We’re a greater population than we’ve ever been, so crime goes along with the amount of people,” Chief of Public Safety David Barger said. “So one could argue, we’ve been pretty much the same for years, but as the population grows [an increase in crime] is just taking into account the population.”

Liquor-law violations Associate Dean of Student Affairs Seann Kalagher said alcohol is related to many of the crimes that occur on campus.

“Alcohol impacts a lot of other incidents we deal with, particularly if you’re looking at incidents of assault issues, even some of the bias-related issues we deal with,” he said.

Kalagher said most liquor-law violations come from freshmen and sophomores.

There were 663 reported liquor-law violations on campus in 2013, according to the statistics. The university reported that 593 of these violations occurred in student housing, while the other 70 violations occurred in areas other than residential housing.

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Sophomore Joey Mullaney navigates the campus in his own motorized scooter as he fights Friedreich’s Ataxia.

Student hit by car on Sherman Ave. Senior suffers non-life threatening injuries A student was struck by a car at 4:30 a.m. on Oct. 5 near the entrance to the York Hill campus, according to a Hamden police report.

Junior Peter Lanwes was crossing Sherman Avenue when he was hit by a 39-year-old New Haven resident, according to the report. Police investigations show Lanwes was not using the crosswalk. The question of what he was doing at that time is still under investigation.

Both Lanwes and the driver of the vehicle were immediately transported to Yale-New Haven Hospital, with non life-threatening injuries.

Lanwes remained in the hospital Monday night. He has several bruises and cuts on his body as well as stitches in his chest. He currently cannot walk on his own because of the

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bruising on his left leg; however, he has been able to move using a walker, according to a post on Lanwes’ Facebook page.

Lanwes suffered a small skull fracture, but no nerve or spinal damage was found. Lanwes remained in the hospital until the doctors were sure no other issues would arise, but was scheduled to be released Tuesday morning.

“Despite all the injuries I am very very lucky,” Lanwes wrote in a Facebook post.

“This accident could have gone so much worse and I don’t even have a broken bone to show for it.”

Lanwes is back at his home in Long Island.

He is hoping to be back to classes on Monday, if things go as planned.

The investigation is still underway as to what led to the incident.

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The accident occurred near the entrance to the York Hill campus on Sherman Avenue.

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Forging an authorized parking decal would be a felony out in the real world. But this school year, students are forging university-issued parking decals without hesitation or fear of punishment.

Public Safety is currently ticketing and towing cars with fake decals, according to Chief of Public Safety David Barger.

Though he said each case is handled in its own manner, the risk of permanently losing parking privileges is possible.

“Students should be aware of the ramifications of their actions before carrying them out”, Barger said.

Sophomore students have been forging parking decals in the Hilltop parking lot on the Mount Carmel campus, according to Barger.

“The greatest problem we have is with the Hilltop lot,” Barger said. “It’s primarily sophomores doing it [making unauthorized parking decals].

But Barger said it isn’t just the sophomores making the passes; freshmen students have been making fake decals as well.

The parking system is based on a random lottery, according to Shannon Grasso, parking and transportation coordinator at Public Safety. Freshmen are not allowed to have any cars on campus. However, sophomore students can either get a parking decal for the Hilltop parking lot or the Westwoods parking lot, which is off campus.

Grasso said students contact her on a daily basis claiming to see open parking spaces in the Hilltop lot and ask to be granted a decal allowing them to park there, not realizing the impossibility behind their requests.

There are many students who register vehicles they won’t bring to campus until after Thanksgiving or winter break, according to Grasso. Though there appear to be open parking spaces, Grasso said there are never unassigned parking spots in the Hilltop lot.

“When you look at the Hilltop lot, there are open spaces,” Grasso said. “It paints a picture that there’s space available that we’re not giving to someone. Those spaces really belong to someone who registered a vehicle and, by lottery, was given a Hilltop decal.”

Still, this doesn’t stop students from finding ways to get access to Hilltop parking, according to Grasso.

Sophomore Toni Santillo thinks the sophomore class should be given more parking spaces since they are one of the biggest classes on campus, but she doesn’t agree that students should be making fake ones and selling them.

“The fact that people are making fake decals and are selling them is crazy and the fact that people are actually buying them,

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Beyond the Bobcats

A rundown on news outside the university.

By Amanda Hoskins

Supreme Court refuses to address same-sex marriage

U.S. man attempts to join ISIS

Spanish nurse infected with Ebola

The Supreme Court made the decision Monday to not address the legal cases for same-sex marriage in individual states, according to CNN. This means states will get to decide whether or not to allow samesex marriage, according to NBC. Men and women in more than 11 states may be able to get married because a number of states were pending the Supreme Court decision.

Appeals were rejected in Virginia, Oklahoma, Utah, Wisconsin and Indiana prior. But now, these delays on marriages have come to an end, according to NBC. Just hours after the decision by the Supreme Court couples in some states began applying for marriage, according to CNN.

A 19-year-old man from Illinois was charged with allegedly trying to join ISIS on Monday. Mohammed Hamzah Khan was trying to board a flight from O’Hare International Airport to Vienna when he was arrested, according to NBC. Investigations revealed he was trying to travel to Istanbul, then Syria and Iraq to join ISIS. Federal agents found letters at his home expressing his desire to join ISIS, according to NBC. A letter to his parents was also found, explaining his plan to them. He appeared in court Monday and remains in federal custody, according to NBC.

A nurse in Spain was identified with the Ebola virus on Monday. The nurse had worked with a priest who died from Ebola, according to NBC. He came in contact with the virus while doing missionary work. The 30 people working at the hospital in Spain who came into contact with the nurse will be observed for the next 21 days, according to NBC. On Monday, President Obama said although an epidemic of the disease within the United States is not likely, he called for new protocols to stop the spread of the deadly virus, according to CNN. The six people with Ebola in the United States came in contact with the disease in South Africa.

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University to host career fair on Wednesday

By JULIA PERKINS Managing Editor

About 160 companies will crowd the Athletic Center on Wednesday, Oct. 8 for the university-wide career fair.

The 31st annual career fair, held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., is open to students from all majors and years. The fair will allow students to network with companies such as Verizon Wireless, YaleNew Haven Hospital, CBS Radio, New York Life and Clear Channel communications.

“If you’re a freshman, sophomore, junior, [or] senior, you should network,” Director of Employer Relations Grace Peiffer said. “And even if you feel like ‘well there are no companies that really I’m looking for,’ [the career fair is] still a networking opportunity where you meet people who can point you to the right direction.”

About 800 to 1,000 students generally attend the career fair each year, according to Associate Dean for Career Development in the School of Business Jill Ferrall. The companies will be arranged in alphabetical order, with A’s in the front, closer to the tennis courts, and Z’s in the back toward Mount Carmel Avenue.

Assistant Dean for Career Development in the School of Communications Joseph Catrino said students should bring their resumes, business cards and a pen to the career fair. Students should dress professionally and expect to spend at least an hour at the career fair, he said.

But Catrino said going to the career fair is mostly about how students prepare beforehand.

He said students should check out the list of companies online at QU Career Connections, research the businesses and plan which ones they want to speak to.

“You can’t just wake up, put a suit on and say ‘I’m going to go do really well,’” he said. “You have to do a little bit of legwork on the front end to make sure you’re ready to talk to anybody and

everyone.”

Ferrall recommends students practice their elevator pitch, which is a 30-second to one-minute introduction to themself and their major.

“If a student goes in and they have a dynamite elevator pitch, they’re resume looks sharp and they have good questions and they’ve obviously done research on the company, that’s going to make the company feel very loved and impressed,” Ferrall said.

Peiffer said it is important for students to come up with questions to ask recruiters.

She said freshmen and sophomores should ask questions such as: What classes would prepare me for your entry level positions? Juniors and seniors should ask the recruiters: What do you think makes an entry-level candidate stand out? What is the typical career path for employees who start in this position?

Students should think of the exchange with the recruiters as a conversation, she said.

“The more relaxed you are, the more selfassured you are of what you’re saying and who you are, the better conversations you will have and the more you will learn, Peiffer said.

Some of the employers sit behind the tables, and students walk right by them, Peiffer said.

Instead, students approach these recruiters, she said.

“The student who reaches out the hand across the table and says ‘hi my name is so, I see your sign, could you tell me more,’ is the one who is proactive,” Peiffer said. “[This student] most likely will end up with some sort of a job with somebody because that’s how you just practice, practice, practice being self-confident by doing that.”

Junior biomedical marketing major Chris Popolizio said he will attend the career fair on Wednesday as part of Ferrall’s SB 112 class.

“I think it’s all about confidence,” he said.

“Even if you’re not specifically there to get

Students continue to forge parking decals PARKING PASSES from cover knowing they’re going to get caught is stupid,” Santillo said. “Instead of trying to work around the system why don’t they try and work something out with the people that are in charge.”

And students aren’t being very secretive as to how they are selling the passes.

“The sophomore students actually post on social media that they have passes for sale,” Grasso said.

Since the social media platforms are public forum, Grasso said the Public Safety office is using the social media sites to their advantage to keep the distribution of parking opportunities fair to all students.

But Barger said it is about more than just the fairness aspect. He hopes the situation will have a positive overall outcome by forcing students to learn from their mistakes.

The Public Safety office hopes to use the public social media postings to protect students who may fall victim to the illegitimate system that the sophomore students have created, according to Barger.

Grasso said she has seen students offer to sell their decals for $125 to $500.

Freshman Robert Cantafio said it is “ridiculous” that students are creating fake decals and selling them for so much money.

“Why are you going to pay $500 dollars for a decal? You shouldn’t be creating [fake decals] and selling them,” Cantafio said.

After several meetings with the Student

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Students have been tring to recreate the above parking permits and selling them for $125 to $500.

Government Association, Barger and Grasso said they hope to alleviate the parking issues. They have strongly emphasized that students can request to be put on the Hilltop waiting list, available in the Public Safety office.

Cantafio said parking decals may not be forged if the university had more on-campus parking available, but at the end of the day this is an issue among the student body.

“Your decal is only good for you,” Grasso said. “It’s not transferable. You’re not supposed to create fraudulent ones and sell them. You can’t give them to a friend. Turn them back into our office and we will reassign [the decal to someone else].”

BEFORE THE CAREER FAIR

• Research the companies • Know your resume

DURING THE CAREER FAIR

• Dress professionally • Bring copies of resume, business cards and a pen • Send a follow-up email to recruiters, thanking them for their time

AFTER THE CAREER FAIR

an internship, if you walk in there and make it seem like you’re on a mission, you want to talk to someone, just really express who you are and even if they don’t offer you anything, they’re going to know who you are.”

Junior biomedical marketing major Samantha Caruso is also in Ferrall’s SB 112 class. Last year Caruso attended the career fair and made a connection that eventually led her to get an internship. She hopes to have the same success on Wednesday.

“As juniors I think it’s really important to get internships,” she said. “And even just introducing yourself and getting their contact information could really help in the future. You never know when you’re going to run into somebody.”

Sometimes students forget their job is not done once they leave the career fair, Ferrall said.

Students should follow-up with the recruiters through email and thank them for their time.

“It really makes a good impression,” Ferrall said. “If you get a thank-you note from somebody, it feels good, it always feels good.”

Peiffer said students can ask the recruiters in the email if they can connect on LinkedIn and what the best way to stay in touch with the em-

ployers is. This will help the recruiters remember the student when an internship or job opportunity comes up. “[The career fair is] ultimately about jobs,” Peiffer said. “But it’s not necessarily about getting a job today, at the moment that you went to the career fair.”

Catrino said upperclassmen tend to attend the career fair more than underclassmen. But he said freshmen should still check out the career fair.

“Even if you don’t want to talk to anybody, dress up and walk around and see what it’s like,” he said. “Because then next year when you’re a sophomore or a junior or a senior, you’re now more prepared on how to handle it.”

Caruso said when she went to the career fair as a freshman and sophomore, some recruiters turned her away because they were only looking for juniors and seniors. Yet, Caruso said the career fair is still a great experience for underclassmen.

“Don’t be discouraged,” she said. “Get your information out to everybody because when you do become a junior or senior, it can pay off.”

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CAMPUS BRIEFS

Dance for The Ability Experience

QU Ranked among best in country for media professionals Quinnipiac has been ranked No. 7 in America on LinkedIn’s list of best schools for media professionals.

LinkedIn uses the employment patterns of more than 300 million members from around the world to find out which graduates get their desired jobs, and then ranks the schools based on career outcomes. Quinnipiac trails behind New York University which is ranked No. 1 on this list.–S Doiron

Student Health Services prepares in case of Ebola outbreak The medical director and clinical staff of the health centers on campus will follow Center for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines for colleges and universities if any patients present symptoms with Ebola. The Ebola virus is only transmitted through close or direct contact with sick individuals and is not an airborne illness. Currently no cases of Ebola have been diagnosed in Connecticut. For more information, visit CDC’s website.–S Doiron

Fourth Wall Theater to perform ‘True West’ Students of the Fourth Wall Theater organization will perform the comedy “True West” from Oct. 10-12 in the Black Box Theater. The show is about the relationship between a screenwriter named Austin and his older brother Lee. Showtimes are 7 p.m. Oct. 10, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Oct. 11, and 4 p.m. on Oct. 12. Tickets can be purchased at the door for $5. To reserve tickets email QUFourthWall@gmail.com. -S Doiron

Albert Schweitzer hosts Local Nature Wonders photo exhibit The Albert Schweitzer Institute is hosting a ‘Local Nature Wonders’ photo exhibit from Oct. 1 to Jan. 19.

The exhibit features the work of independent photographer Ethel Garcia of Hamden, and includes images taken around Quinnipiac, including swans, ducks, horses, dee, butterflies, flowers and Sleeping Giant State Park. The exhibit is free and open to the public by appointment only. In order to schedule an appointment, call 203-582-3144.–S Doiron

By SARAH HARRIS Managing Editor

A carnival of dance, music and Bobcats; it’s an event like no other, and it’s for a good cause. Pi Kappa Phi is holding its first ever Electric Ability Carnival (EAC) on Thursday, Oct. 16. EAC is a philanthropy event taking place at Oakdale Theatre, something no other Quinnipiac fraternity or sorority has done before.

Raised money goes to The Ability Experience, previously known as Push America. Pi Kappa Phi usually hosts “Pedals for Push”, an event where students would cycle on stationary bikes for consecutive hours, but wanted to hold a more unique event.

Pi Kappa Phi owns The Ability Experience, which is run by Pi Kappa Phi chapters all around the country. It raises money and awareness for people with disabilities; the organizatio is for kids and adults, and the money goes to camps and programs that help disabled people.

“I’m all about thinking outside the box and doing something no one else has done before,” Mark Boulas,

the philanthropy chair of Pi Kappa Phi said.

Mixing a philanthropy event with students who may consume alcohol before the carnival is a worry that the fraternity does have, and they are trying to take the right precautions.

“That was our biggest fear, that people would associate the event with the alcohol,” Boulas said. “We, as an e-board and chapter, have been taking a lot of precautions to stray away from that.”

Rob Ciambra, junior, is not sure if he will go.

“I’m not an EDM person but it depends on who else goes,” Ciambra said. “I would donate regardless.

The fact that they got Oakdale is pretty cool. But it’s an EDM show; you don’t go to those sober.”

Courtney McKenna, the Director of Fraternity and Sorority life, says students will be asked to leave or refused entrance if they are visibly intoxicated.

“My big thing with this is that I don’t want people to put a stigma with our event,” Boulas said. “I don’t want people thinking ‘oh, it’s

like Barstool’. That’s not what it is.

Our biggest goal is still to raise money and awareness for people with disabilities.”

Every ticket that is bought has a slip of paper with the details of the event and information about the philanthropy.

Sophomore Chelsey Tahan is not associated with Greek life on campus, and said students may go to the event without thinking about what it means for The Ability Experience.

“Anything that helps philanthropy is a good thing,” Tahan said. “But you’re contributing to something without knowing what it’s about.

People aren’t necessarily going because they are helping the cause but rather to get drunk and have a good time.”

The fraternity is currently selling tickets for $15 in the Student Center and all Pi Kappa Phi members are carrying tickets. Ten dollars will go directly to The Ability Experience and $5 will go to help fund next year’s event. Shuttles will transport students from campus to the theatre.

There will not be tickets sold at the

door, and 1,800 people will be allowed in Oakdale Theatre.

The original idea for the location of the event was Toad’s Place, but Boulas decided to move it to Oakdale. He didn’t want people to associate the event with a night out at Toad’s but wanted something more unique than Burt Kahn Court.

Natalie Krohn, the director of special events at Oakdale Theatre, is excited to have the fraternity hold their event at the venue.

“We have worked with Quinnipiac before and are excited to have another event hosted here,” Krohn said.

There will be one DJ for the entire night, DJzehti, more well known as Joe Zehentner, a senior and member of Pi Kappa Phi. Boulas has no doubt that the event will be a success and hopes students have a safe and fun time for a great cause.

“It’s high risk, high reward,” Boulas said. “With anything out of the box and anything unique and anything new, there’s going to be risks with it and this is one of the risks that we think we can handle.”

Liquor violations, sex offenses increase in past year CLERY ACT from cover In 2012, there were 634 reported liquor violations on campus.

Meanwhile, the university reported 682 liquor violations in 2011.

“The number of alcohol violations we’ve had really hasn’t changed significantly over the past several years, even though our student body has increased,” Kalagher said. “So if you look at it just from the percentage of the student body it’s gone down, even though our violation numbers have been consistent year-to-year.”

Sophomore Rachael Tarbell said students are just getting caught drinking more often.

“I feel like it’s easier and easier to catch people,” she said. “That’s why the numbers going up, people are getting stupider and stupider.”

The Clery Act only asks universities to report liquor violations where students break the law, such as when underage students drink or students provide alcohol to minors, Kalagher said. This means alcohol violations, like when students get in trouble for intoxicated behavior, are not included in the Clery statistics. Even if a student is not found responsible for the liquor-law violation, the case is still included in the Clery report.

Drug violations There were six reported drugrelated arrests in 2013, according to the statistics. In 2012, the university reported three drug-related arrests, while Quinnipiac reported five drug-related arrests in 2011.

However, referrals for drugrelated violations decreased in 2013. The university reported 79 drug-related referrals in 2013, as compared to 111 in 2012 and 161 in 2011.

Six of the 79 drug-related referrals occurred in a non-residen-

tial area on campus, whereas 73 occurred in student housing.

Forcible sex offenses The university reported four forcible sex offenses in student housing in 2013. This is an increase from 2011 and 2012, when the university reported only one sex offense.

Chief of Public Safety David Barger said he cannot truly tell whether this means there were more sexual assaults on campus or if more students came forward to report this crime. Barger said more students may be aware of the resources available for sexual assault victims.

“I think they’re coming forward,” Barger said. “I believe that now there isn’t that fear of reporting it, that they know something is going to be done.”

Kalagher said more students are reporting sexual assaults to the university after Quinnipiac implemented a new Title IX policy in the fall of 2012. He said by the spring of 2013 more students were taking advantage of this policy, which investigates sexual misconduct, sexual harassment, partner violence and stalking.

Quinnipiac must report any time someone tells the university he or she was sexually assaulted on campus or on university property, Barger said. It does not matter if the victim or perpetrator was not a student; this report would still be included in the Clery Act statistics.

However, Clery does not allow the university to include sexual assault or crime reports that occur off-campus, such as in New Haven, Barger said. Parents who look at the Clery statistics want to see what happens on campus, so including off-campus crime would skew the numbers, he said.

Tarbell said she thinks the university is underreporting the num-

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ber of sexual assaults on campus.

“I feel like that number’s too low, even for here,” she said.

But Kalagher said Quinnipiac can only report sexual assault incidents that students tell the university about.

“None of us are saying that we know that’s the only amount of number of sexual misconduct situations that happened on campus,” he said. “What we are saying is that was what was disclosed to us.”

Sophomore Ruth Onyirimba said the university should talk more about sexual assault in the classroom. This would cause more students to report sexual misconduct, she said.

“I feel like people are either too scared to say something, like with every campus, or just straight up don’t realize that it’s sexual assault for them to report it,” Onyirimba said.

Other crimes Burglary on campus decreased slightly. In 2013, there were nine cases of burglary, eight in residence halls and one elsewhere on campus. Meanwhile, in 2012, there were 10 cases of burglary in student housing. In 2011, there were

only three reported cases of burglary.

Barger said he does not think the university has seen more burglaries, but that Public Safety has gotten better at knowing when a crime occurred, versus when a student has misplaced something.

The number of reported aggravated assaults in student housing has stayed at three assaults for the past three years, according to the statistics.

Disciplinary referrals for weapons possession also decreased.

There were no reported cases of this in 2013, but five cases in 2012 and seven cases in 2011.

The Clery Act changed their rules for what is classified as a weapon, Barger said. Colleges no longer need to include possession of paintball guns or BB guns in the report.

In 2013, there was only one fire on campus. Barger said this was a stovetop fire. In 2012, there were three stovetop fires, and there were zero in 2011.

Check online to learn about the reported hate crimes in 2013.

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Philanthropy and football go hand in hand

Pi Beta Phi hosts annual Angels in the Endzone event

By MATT GRAHN Contributing Writer

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Players from Delta Tau Delta (in blue) and Sigma Phi Epsilon (in white) participate in Angels in the Endzone flag football philanthropy event.

The Quad was the center of sports action on Sunday. Pi Beta Phi held its third annual Angels in the Endzone flag football tournament. Proceeds generated will be donated to the sorority’s Read>Lead>Achieve philanthropy. The amount raised is still being calculated.

More than 16 teams signed up for the event. The games were played with seven people on each team. Each game lasted 25 minutes and no contact was allowed. The tournament was single elimination.

The winning team received a Buffalo Wild Wings gift card. In addition to the flag football games being played, there were raffles, a DJ and a bake sale at the event.

The tournament began when a former vice president of philanthropy for Pi Beta Phi wanted to create a fundraiser for the Read>Lead>Achieve foundation.

She noticed that among other fundraisers, flag football was not represented. The tournament has received a strong following across the Quinnipiac community, especially with Greek Life, according to Pi Beta Phi chapter president Kaitlyn Clark.

Anthony Lancia took part in the event on Sunday. He is the president of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity.

“I wanted to come out here today (sic), support a good cause, and have some fun at the same time with my brothers,” Lancia said.

Senior Rachael Casanova of Pi Beta Phi also felt a sense of bonding during the event.

“It feels good,” she said. “It’s fun to hang out with your sisters and help to fundraise.”

Fundraising in past years has generated as much as $1000 for Read>Lead>Achieve.

The program intends to inspire “a lifelong love of reading that can unlock true potential creating a more literate and productive society,” according to the national Pi Beta Phi website. In recent years, the national organization has donated $1 million for literacy and has given away 1 million books to needy children.

The sorority encourages members to go out into local schools to help children as a part of Read>Lead>Achieve and their philanthropic message as a whole. Senior Pi Beta Phi member Stephanie Chapman remembers one story of hers as a part of the program.

“One day, after I was done with the homework club, the person that was running it came up to me and said ‘You know what Steph, the girl you were working with today… she has never ever responded to anybody the way she responded to you.

The work that she got done today was beyond anything she’s done before.’”

Current Vice President of Philanthropy Amanda Miller also remembered her Read>Lead>Achieve experience.

“It’s rewarding to see the kids faces. They’re excited,” Miller said.

“It’s someone younger than their teacher but older than them. They really look up to you.”

Given that it is a positive experience for all those involved, this fundraiser is something president Clark says her chapter looks forward to each year.

“We hope to keep improving every year,” she said.

Overall Clark was happy with the turnout this year, and those who attended say they had a great time.

“At the end of the day, it’s for charity and that’s what it should be about,” Lancia said.

Professor to offer nutrition seminars

By SAL SICILIANO Staff Writer

Within the last year, a new tool for healthier living has become available to students and faculty at Quinnipiac University–a tool that many do not even know about.

Rebecca Purcell, a professor of SCI 161 Nutrition: An Investigative Experience, as well as a certified dietitian under the Commission on Dietetic Registration, has been holding open nutrition seminars in Tator Hall for the past few semesters.

No matter what’s on your plate, Purcell’s lessons on better eating are open for all to hear in SC 225

at noon on Oct. 20, “Smoothie 101” and Nov. 17, “Holiday Survival”– the final two seminars of the fall semester.

Her intent, she says is to educate the community on healthy eating.

She tries to focus on a different topic each month.

While she provides a wide variety of information on personal health to all, Purcell says she feels nutrition is already something that is valued highly on campus.

“I think that today’s college student is very aware of the importance of good nutrition and fitness, espe-

cially here at QU,” Purcell said.

Students who eat healthy in college lower their risk of diseases like heart disease and diabetes, she said.

“Also, if students are eating a healthy diet and getting the recommended nutrients, it will be easier to focus on school work and get better grades,” Purcell said.

Sophomore physician assistant major Kyle Liang said he may be interested in attending one of the nutrition seminars.

“I’ll be honest, I ate very healthy at home,” Liang said. “But [a nutrition seminar] sounds like a good

idea… If college students don’t learn how to make the right choices with their eating habits now, they may never.”

Purcell also offers advice in maintaining a healthy college experience, including ways to escape from the infamous “Freshman 15.”

“The ‘Freshman 15’ can be avoided with a little motivation to be physically active and eat a well balanced diet everyday,” Purcell said. “Don’t skip meals, don’t eliminate any major food group and make snacks a healthy choice (especially the late night snack.)”

Students should focus on getting adequate calories through fruits, veggies, whole grains, lean protein and low-fat dairy, she said.

Liang agrees Quinnipiac, like many colleges, has students who make healthy choices and others who do not.

“What I’ve noticed in the cafeteria is that the students of QU, for the most part, do seem to care about what they eat,” Liang said. “But you will see, the kid who gets to the register to pay for a waffle with a scoop of ice cream on top and a large cup of Mountain Dew at 10 a.m..”

QuinniPR hosts fourth annual Passionately Pink event

By NICOLE HANSON

Student-run public relations firm QuinniPR will continue to raise breast cancer awareness this Wednesday with its fourth annual Passionately Pink event.

From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Oct. 8, students can buy pink hair extensions, participate in raffles and pay tribute to those affected by breast cancer in the Piazza.

Created in 2011, Passionately Pink supports the Susan G. Komen Foundation in its fight against breast cancer. The disease is the second leading cause of death among women, according to the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

Former VP of Media Relations Michele Monteiro was inspired to bring the event to campus after a family friend battled breast cancer, co-director Christine Patti said.

Over the past few years the event has helped promote both breast

cancer awareness and QuinniPR. “At the time we didn’t really have a lot of events that we did for ourselves, we were more focused on doing things for clients,” Patti said. “We thought it would be a great way to promote ourselves while also helping a great cause.”

Two new additions to this year’s event include #Strands4Hope bracelets and a photo booth. Students can buy the pink bracelets for $1 and are encouraged to use #Strands4Hope when posting their photo booth pictures on social media.

Freshman Olivia Tsouprake heard about the event from flyers in the café and said she’s excited that QuinniPR is raising breast cancer awareness on campus.

“I think the pink hair idea is a really cool idea and it’s a fun way to get awareness out,” Tsouprake said.

Students from the Paul Mitch-

ell cosmetology school in North Haven will oversee the installation of the pink hair strands. Patti said she has really enjoyed working with the Paul Mitchell students in the past couple years.

“They’re very qualified and very professional,” she said. “I think it’s a draw for students because knowing that they’re professionals overseeing everything is a cool aspect to it.”

Patti says she hopes to see a more educational aspect brought to the event in the future, especially considering that the majority of Quinnipiac students are female.

“I think it’s an important event especially on a campus where there are a lot of women,” Patti said.

“It’s important to get the word out and keep your friends healthy and take care of yourself.”

Though Tsouprake said she likes the current setup of the event, sophomore Percy Algarate said he

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would also like to see more information about breast cancer at future events.

“If there’s a way to incorporate it with all the fun that’d be a really good idea,” Algarate said. “People from different backgrounds might

not know about it because they didn’t experience cancer in their family so they’re not aware of what it means to have that support and how much they can really help someone else.”

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Dealing with a degenerative disease

By AMANDA HOSKINS News Editor

Joey Mullaney was sitting on the bench; he had been doing this for a couple of games and he was starting to get fed up. Mullaney watched his twin brother, Sean, dribble across the court. He watched his legs move as he sprinted back and forth, his body covered in sweat because he had played the whole game.

And when the final whistle blew and Joey still had not moved from the bench, he was more than upset.

Why wasn’t he playing? Why had he been sitting out? Yes, he was not as fast as his brother, but was he really getting worse?

It was that night his parents told him the news. Holding back the tears, the 13-year-old sat with his family and was told everything.

Joey Mullaney had been diagnosed with Friedreich’s Ataxia, a rare degenerative neuro-muscular disorder.

About one in 50,000 people in the United States have the disorder, according to the Friedreich’s Ataxia Research Alliance (FARA).

Joey and his older sister are a part of that fraction.

His twin brother Sean says that was the worst night of his life. He was made aware of the diagnoses, but his family had decided to wait to tell Joey until they really needed to.

Until that point, Sean says, he tried not to accept that his brother too had the disease. He did not think another one of his siblings could have been diagnosed.

“I was young and I kind of wanted to think it wasn’t going to happen,” Sean said. “But then I started to see changes in the way he ran and the way he walked and that is when it really hit me and that is when my parents kind of knew too that he couldn’t wait any longer and he needed to find out.”

Joey is one of four. He and his twin brother Sean are 19. His oldest brother Ryan is 26 and his sister Kayla is 24. Kayla was diagnosed with the disease when she was young and Joey watched her struggle with it. *** When a person has Friedrich’s Ataxia, it is because their body has a genetic mutation that limits the creation of frataxin, a protein that helps move iron and form ironsulfur clusters in the body. With the disease, the spinal cord and peripheral nerves degenerate, according to FARA. Joey was a junior in high school and had just finished working out in the gym. He walked downstairs to go to the locker room, and went to take a left into the locker room when he fell.

His ankle wouldn’t turn like he wanted to. It just didn’t move.

He got up, shook off the fall and told himself he had just worked out too much. But his mind was really racing. This disease was real, and he was really starting to feel it.

But he kept instances like to himself. He didn’t tell anybody what he was going through; anybody except his twin.

“He is my biggest fan, biggest

“The key is to be yourself and I really think that is what helped me make friends here.”

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Joey Mullaney only toured a few collegees, including Quinnipiac, because they had to be handicap accessible. supporter,” Joey says. “He has always been there for me no matter what.”

It was the first week of their junior year when Joey and Sean finally informed the student body at his high school, Lawrence Academy, of what was going on.

“I think he accepted it but didn’t want everyone else to know yet,” Sean said. “And then junior year it was obvious and at that point Joey was like ‘okay I need to do something.’”

Sean got up at an assembly in front of the school and explained Joey’s disease to everyone. He told them about why Joey had been struggling to walk. He answered the unanswered questions.

It was – in Sean’s eyes – a turning point.

“It was at that point Joey started to be significantly more confident and everyone was there to help him and he wasn’t trying to hide stuff,” he said.

The last two years of high school passed by and it was time to pick a college.

Joey only toured a few schools; he had to think about how accessible it would be for him. In the end, he only applied to Quinnipiac.

But the decision process was not easy for him or Sean.

“I always knew that I wanted to play baseball in college it was just a matter of where,” Sean said. “In the back of my mind I really didn’t want to have to chose to go anywhere until I knew Joey’s situation and where he was going to go and I wanted to be closer–not the same school but just be near him–but then it eventually came to a point where it just wasn’t going to happen. And I was really upset with it.”

But with his cousin and close school friend also attending Quinnipiac, Sean says he was happy with Joey’s decision. Sean later chose to

attend Bowdoin College in Maine.

“I really never told him but in the back of my mind I wanted to just know that he was going to a place where he was not only going to be accepted but had friends their prior.”

Sean says he knows now how much of a support system Joey has at Quinnipiac, but even so he is just a phone call away. *** Symptoms of Friedreich’s Ataxia include loss of coordination in the arms and legs, fatigue, vision and hearing impairments and slurred speech, according to FARA. College was the first time Joey moved to the scooter. Prior, he had more strength, but knew in college he was going to need it.

“Coming into school I was very afraid I didn’t know how people would treat me,” Joey said. “But the guys on my floor and my roommate were very supportive of me right away.”

Joey moved onto campus in the Fall of 2013 into the Mountainview residence hall. Just down the hall lived Matt Blumenthal, Mike Rocco and Jon Nanna. All four became friends freshman year, and all four are now members of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.

Joey says the key is not acting like he is disabled.

“The key is to be yourself and I really think that is what helped me make friends here,” he said.

Nanna, Rocco and Joey all live together now.

“I think it has made me a lot less selfish,” Nanna said. “He has become like my brother. I would take a bullet for him. I think he has shown me what having a true brother–a true best friend–is all about.”

Rocco feels living with Joey has impacted him as a person.

“I think of my life before meeting Joey and then I think of my

life now knowing Joey and I think wholeheartedly I like the person I am much more after meeting Joey than the person I was before. He has had such an impact on me,” Rocco said.

Rocco and Nanna think he changes the lives every person he interacts with and are honored to be as close as they are with him.

After seeing some of his friends join a fraternity in the fall of their freshman year, Joey decided it was something he wanted to be a part of it. And now, he says it was a great decision.

“I get the term brotherhood but they honestly define that and maximize that,” Joey said.

And the brotherhood is supporting Joey every step of the way.

Blumenthal had become a good friend of Joey’s. He had helped him as much as he could freshman year,

but he wanted to help with something long term.

“As his group of friends, I feel like we need to be doing something more to help him, not just with his daily life but something that will make a difference long-term” Blumenthal said.

After researching, he learned about a bike race, “Ride Ataxia” that was going on near his home in California through FARA. Blumenthal signed up right away. With Joey’s consent, he sent a link to his brothers letting know he was going to do the race. Within one week they had raised $1,200 and eventually Blumenthal raised nearly $1,600.

After following the race and talking and seeing others like Joey, Blumenthal decided he wanted to bring it back to Quinnipiac.

Now that idea has become a reality.

FARA and Sigma Phi Epsilon teamed together to bring a bike ride to campus on Sunday, Oct. 12.

That same day, thousands of riders will ride for FARA in Philadelphia.

The ride here will start at 10 a.m. near the Westwoods parking lot. It will consist of five miles on the Farmington Canal bike path through Cheshire and five miles back.

From 12-3 p.m., Sigma Phi Epsilon will hold a reception on the basketball courts outside the rec center on the Mount Carmel Campus. There will be food, games and raffles all to raise money.

“I cant stop smiling when I think about it,” Joey said. “What they are doing for me right now is incredible. I never thought this would happen, I just thought we would be very close, but when I say that they are my brothers they really are because I care about them as much as they care about me.”

Joey hopes the event will have a big turnout. He wants to inform people about his disease and fight it.

“This disease is not going to win. I am not going to let it take over my life.”

To sign up for the ride go to www.teamfara.kintera.org.

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York Hill cafe hours inconvenient Three or four times a week I find myself having to drive off campus late at night to get food, and there’s really no reason for it.

I’ve got two 6:30-9:15 p.m. classes on my schedule this semester, and I’m often down on the Mount Carmel campus until at least 9:30 p.m. or 10 p.m.

By the time I get back to my room on York Hill, I’m pretty hungry.

But there’s one problem: the York Hill Cafe closes at 9 p.m. on weekdays, and as early as 7 p.m. on the weekends.

That means I need to either cook late at night, or if I don’t have food I need to drive off campus.

That wouldn’t be necessary if the York Hill Cafe extended its hours to 11 p.m. on weekdays, as the Bobcat Den does on the Mount Carmel campus.

The York Hill Cafe would only be extending its time open by two hours, which isn’t much considering it’s the only place to get food on the campus.

It would make a world of difference, at

least for people like me. And I’m not the only one who stays up late at night.

A study in the “Journal of Adolescent Health” from 2011 found that the average college student goes to sleep at 12:20 a.m. during NICK SOLARI weeknights.

Sports Editor That means on @solari_nick weekdays, the average student living on York Hill is expected to go more than three hours without being able to eat at the school’s cafeteria?

Instead, I often have to spend my own money to buy food that is less-than-desirable in both taste and health. Most food places are closed, and sometimes fast food is the only affordable option.

I’m not the only one who feels this way, either. Junior Kyle Joyce shares the same views, and wishes that he didn’t have to eat so much food off campus.

“We don’t always have food, and you

can’t always just hop in the car and go get it,” Joyce said. “And you can’t always order Dominos every night.”

Joyce thinks if the York Hill cafe was open later at night, that he would definitely head over for a meal routinely.

“After any night class and over the weekend I definitely wish the cafe was open,” Joyce said.

“Even if you have pasta, you aren’t going to make in on a Saturday night when you get back from Toad’s. It would just be much more convenient if the cafeteria up here was open longer.”

Overall, it just seems like leaving that cafeteria on York Hill open longer at night makes all the sense in the world for students, and for those who profit off selling the food Chartwells serves.

The dangers of overseas reporting In 2014 alone, 40 journalists have been I read a Facebook post the other day killed, according to the Committee to Protect from an anchor I used to work with.

It asked if you were a journalist and Journalists. Ten of those have been killed in had to choose between two assignments: Syria and five each in Iraq and Ukraine.

Twenty percent covering the war or covering have been freelance disease outbreak in a foreign journalists. country ... what would you AMANDA HOSKINS And it was pick?

News Editor also a freelance And now that question has @ahoskinss journalist that was been resonating with me for a just diagnosed with while.

Ebola.

Aren’t they both wars, just As scary as it different killers? is to report in places where your life is at What has this world come to?

If you weren’t sent out on an assignment risk, there must be something great about it. overseas, your biggest story would most Something great about knowing that you are likely be a shooting at a place where most working to gather facts and tell a story to the of the population isn’t even old enough to public about what is going on in the world, keeping the public calm even if your mind hold a gun.

The horrifying death of journalist James is racing during live television because you Foley shocked so many, but many people know your own life is at risk.

This is oddly enough something that is aren’t aware of how many journalists are very appealing to me. I want to be one of the actually dying overseas.

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journalists people look to, to find out about these things. I want to be able to find out the information and tell stories to the public they wouldn’t necessarily know otherwise.

Journalists risk their lives to put out stories so the public becomes aware. They find out the information that the general public would otherwise not know of; the information the people in power often have control over.

Watching journalists report overseas at times like these fortify the reason of why I think the journalism profession is important and why I want to pursue such a career.

I take pride in knowing that I am going into a profession like this and hope people understand the risks journalists are taking to make the public aware. The death of James Foley was one of a kind, but with the impact ISIS is having, a death like his may not be the last.

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Students must put effort into York Hill better than expected classes The rumblings are vaguely audible, education can occur inside a classroom— poorly constructed and terribly stated, the rest is on you.

Now let’s look at the latter: The but the complaints are thrown to the wind regardless of a speaker’s fallacious logic. The complaints brought forth from those who rhetoric is bitter, the comments are stinging, think professors expect too much. These and the arguments are terribly misguided. professors create courses that stimulate Often (not withholding the possibility of the intellectually curious and frustrate the intellectually unwilling. This is what better constructed sentences) a I say to those bothered by these statement will begin like this: professors: If you don’t like it, leave.

“Such and such a professor I may sound harsh, and if not, is terrible. We don’t: a.) Get I implore you to take it that enough work, or; b.) Get a way. A professor who expects break from all this work. solid academic performance Note who the blame is is no different than a future placed on in both scenarios— employer who will expect the fault placed externally rather than same—so why do we treat it any internally. Without considering the different? People go to college counterargument, students create today expecting the parties and assertions and make and levy the epic weekends and the throngs deductions that inaccurately vilify of new people; unfortunately they educators at universities. It is a ANDY LANDOLFI neglect the true goal: Furthering classic, and somewhat juvenile, Staff Writer @AndyLandolfi your education. Going to college “It can’t possibly be me, so it must infers a student’s willingness to be you” kind of argument.

When considering the plight of many enhance his or her mind. The motivation to professors, the situation appears somewhat attend college should not be the final degree, bleak; a classic dam*** if you do, dam*** but should instead be the degree to which a if you don’t predicament. Students want student’s outlook on the world around them either the easy “A,” (little work, little has been transformed.

What I would like to do now is take a learning, little anything, really) or they want a class that they get something out of look at ratemyprofessor.com. Here is the (more reading, more papers, more research). Holy Grail of poorly written (obviously Professors who choose to please the former, some of you should have spent less time upset the latter, and, subsequently, if a complaining and more time listening in your professor attempts to please the latter, they EN 101/102) and laughably out of place complaints about professors who expect anger the former.

When a professor appeases those who something out of their students (how dare want a simple course—an inexcusable they).

One complaint stood out in particular: action in my mind—those who yearn for a challenging course complain about the ease “Annotate everything, take note during of the course. This is what I say to you: Go discussion, it will come up later! Just be further on your own; just because a professor thoughtful and think very deeply in your fails to meet his or her obligation does not papers- explain everything and back it up mean that a student can not set a precedent with evidence or else!” (Note: I did not edit of their own. Once you terminate your this entry).

In this comment, a student warns others complaints, open up the course book and read further—rarely does a class ever cover about expectations given by the professor, an entire text completely. As you read, let seeming to assert that the expectations are your intellectual curiosity guide you toward unfounded, although, ironically, the warning subjects and topics unbeknownst to you. A is exactly what a student should be prepared professor, regardless of the course load they for. The statement exemplifies exactly what plan to unpack on students, can only do so is wrong with college education—not the much in the approximately two and a half professors, but the students. hours of class time a week. Only so much

Last year, the thought of living up on York have to put on a winter coat and boots and Hill seemed like a miserable experience. I go out in the snow just to visit.

The Rocky Top Student Center is usually would hear people walking down the hall very quiet and peaceful or in the café complaining to go and study if your about how horrible it was room gets too loud or to wait for the shuttle or HANNAH SCHINDLER you need a different drive down and park far Design Editor atmosphere.

There away. @hschindlerr are also study rooms, It seemed like most scattered all throughout sophomores dreaded living Crescent, which most up on York. When I asked of the sophomore people who lived there already what they thought about it, I always residence halls also did not have.

And for people who have cars there is got those “eh it’s okay” responses. Every once in a while someone would say they a parking garage. This means everyone, not just the lucky students, can park on the same liked it or that you would grow to like it.

From all these negative comments I felt campus they live on. You don’t have to take like all I wanted to do was find a way to a shuttle to get to your car (ugh Westwoods, live on Mount Carmel for four years. But I the struggle).

Although in a few weeks when the didn’t want to be an RA, so I accepted the temperature drops and I’m freezing at the unfortunate reality of moving up to York.

So that was why I was surprised when shuttle stop, I might regret raving how I moved in and realized it wasn’t that bad. nice York Hill is. But for now all I have It was actually pretty nice. I mean you are positive things to say about it. I do, can’t beat the view and the rooms are so however, miss being able to wake up 10 new. Although the common rooms are a minutes before class and still make it on little smaller than most of the sophomore time. Within the first week of class I learned residence halls, there are kitchens in all the how much time I needed to give myself to rooms and two bathrooms. That’s more than get to class. Living on York just requires a little more planning, which when you think most of us got on main.

Also, most of the juniors are all connected about it when you get a real job (yikes) you in the same building, so if you want to visit will have to be able to do anyway. your friend in a different room you don’t

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October is here, which Photos by HANNAH SCHINDLER means pumpkin-flavored everything. A common classic Fall favorite is pumpkin-flavored coffee. Three self-acclaimed coffee lovers went on a journey to Whitney Donut, Cheshire Coffee and Dunkin Donuts to see which place made the best pumpkinflavored coffee. Below are the highly anticipated results.

Pumpkin Spice Latte from This latte was the most pleasing to the eye, overflowing with whipped cream and topped with cinnamon. Even though the latte didn’t have an overwhelming pumpkin taste, the coffee itself was delicious and was reasonably priced for the size received.

I would definitely recommend trying any of Cheshire’s seasonal drinks and staying for the relaxed, cozy atmosphere.

Rating:

-Kelly Novak

Cheshire Coffee

This latte was hot and by hot I mean it looked great. There was whipped cream on top, with probably nutmeg sprinkled on top, great presentation, the most expensive and it wasn’t that big. It was a good latte but didn’t taste much like pumpkin and I don’t think I would have realized that without tasting it next to the other two drinks. Cheshire Coffee has many fall drinks but I won’t be ordering the pumpkin latte again.

-Sarah Harris

Pumpkin Coffee

This was by far the best latte out of all of them. It was sweet, but not super sweet like Dunkin. It had a little hint of pumpkin without it being overloaded.

It was medium sized and had the best presentation.

-Hannah Schindler

from

Whitney Donut & Sandwich Shop

At only about $2.23, Whitney’s Donut’s small size coffee is the cheapest and largest of the three sizes, so you get more for your money. However, the coffee itself didn’t taste or smell like pumpkin at all and it was very watered down, so I wouldn’t head here for your pumpkin fix.

Rating:

Pumpkin Spice Latte from If you want the authentic taste of pumpkin in your coffee, Dunkin Donuts is the place to go. The raw pumpkin taste and just the right amount of sweetness make this the go-to for the fall season. I would suggest getting a medium or large to make it worth your money; you won’t regret it!

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-Kelly Novak

-Kelly Novak

This “coffee” was more like water with a bit of coffee in it. It didn’t taste like pumkin either. We had it with cream and no sugar and it was absolutely awful. It was the cheapest, I think but they gave us a size of a medium coffee from Dunkin.

Not impressed and definitely do not recommend.

-Sarah Harris

Dunkin Donuts

Dunkin Donuts never fails. Seriously. We got this latte first and didn’t drink it for like 20-30 minutes until we had the other drinks and it was still delicious even though it had become lukewarm. It actually tastes like pumpkin and ugh it’s so delicious. These lattes have become a weekly staple for me.

- Sarah Harris

I was actually really surprised I liked Dunkin as much as I did. It was really small which was kind of disappointing, but the taste was strong and sweet. It tasted the most like pumpkin but was a little too sweet for my liking.

-Hannah Schindler

I was pretty disappointed by Whitney Coffee. It was watery and did not really even taste like pumpkin at all. You do, however, get more for your money. Still, I would prefer to get a better coffee that was smaller though.

-Hannah Schindler

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Gone to the Movies

By JEANETTE CIBELLI Staff Writer

Whether you see it in theaters or read the novel, “Gone Girl” will shock you.

The highly anticipated film adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s best-selling book was released Friday, Oct. 3. It has already earned rave reviews from “Entertainment Weekly,” “USA Today” and “Rolling Stone.” Michael Phillips of the “Chicago Tribune” has called it “a stealthy, snake-like achievement,” which would certainly be a compliment in Flynn’s eyes.

Directed by David Fincher and written by the author herself, the film remains true to jaw-dropping twists and complicated characters of the novel. The most impressive acting performance is that of Rosamund Pike, who portrays Amy Dunne, the “gone girl.”

Ben Affleck stars alongside Pike as husband Nick Dunne, the other half of a

marriage that went from picture-perfect to downright resentful. On their fifth wedding anniversary, Amy goes missing and a whirlwind of confusion, deceit and anger ensues as the police attempt to uncover the truth. Did Nick kill his wife? Is Amy actually dead?

Carrie Coon also delivers a very believable portrayal of Margo Dunne, twin sister to Nick. In a film that treats suspense in such a cool, collected way, she satisfies the audiences by offering the understandably panicked and emotional response to each crazy turn of events. The film also features big-ticket actors Tyler Perry and Neil Patrick Harris, starring as Nick’s funny, quick-witted defensive lawyer and Amy’s creepy and quietly obsessed ex-boyfriend, respectively.

This film is cool, understated and sleek, yet completely compelling. Lately, we have become accustomed to the wild, dramatic

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style that is often seen from the blockbusterdriven Hollywood, so “Gone Girl” is a welcome change. That being said, its honest scrutiny of relationships and marriage does not make it a great choice for date night.

As is the case with all novel adaptations, those who have read the book will know what’s coming next. This inevitably removes some of the intrigue and suspense from the movie-going experience, which can make it seem like some scenes are passing too slowly.

If this is the case, take the time to step back from the plot to appreciate the acting and consider the way the shifting narrative of the story was handled expertly.

Flynn’s novel is largely told through the shifting perspective of Nick’s present-day experiences and Amy’s past diary entries.

This sets the stage for the startling plot twists, as well as providing a backstory to explain the decline of the Dunne marriage.

In comparison, the film’s flashbacks of the light-hearted, compassionate beginnings of Nick and Amy’s romance are juxtaposed to the grim present-day scenes of Nick handling Amy’s disappearance. Though Flynn was able to weave a richer web of intricacies into the novel, the film still captivates the audience and plays some tricks of its own.

Though far from a Halloween horror flick, “Gone Girl” feels like a perfect movie for October. Its thriller/drama genre provides just enough on-the-edge-of-yourseat suspense without being terrifying, and the weather is growing colder, just like the characters. Be sure to catch “Gone Girl” before it’s, well, gone.

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Chocolate almonds make life complete

Love/hate relationship with “Anaconda”

There’s something to be said for healthy study snacks. Sure, we all get in that mood for the refreshing taste of an apple, the bite of a granola bar, the creamy cup of yogurt. But let’s be real here for a second: chocolate covered almonds from our beloved Au Bon Pain?

A whole lot better.

There’s the crunch factor, right? There’s the satisfaction of popping one in your mouth and hearing, feeling and tasting it all at once. The chocolate is smooth and sweet, the almond itself round and crisp: a beautifully dynamic duo.

They’re what I call a flexible snack - they partner well with endless yummy drinks. I take mine with an iced caramel macchiato, but one could easily pair them with hot chocolate, tea or any other cafe refreshment for an equally enjoyable experience.

Another reason to obsess over these little things - as if taste weren’t enough - is the perfect package they come in. It’s a little plastic container with maybe 20 almonds total - an excellent serving for that paper you’re writing or that episode of Grey’s Anatomy you’re watching on Netflix. It’s enough for one task and no more, which is great; make servings any bigger and I’d down far too many for my own good.

So next time you’re not really feeling that apple or granola bar or yogurt cup, swing

by Au Bon Pain. Let those chocolate covered almonds into your life. Besides the slight inconvenience of acquiring a new obsession, you’ll be glad you tried them out. Take my *crunch* word for it *crunch*. –A. Mark

This song is truly a diamond in the rough. Just to clarify--I mean this in the most sarcastic way possible.

This song has been stuck in my head ever since it was released Aug. 4 and it has been quite the roller coaster ride trying to get literally anything else stuck in my head.

I honestly didn’t even know 95 percent of the lyrics until just now after looking them up.

But her lyrics are meaningful and she brings up some pretty solid points.

I mean, like, in the words of Nicki Minaj, “he don’t like ‘em boney, he want something he can grab / So I pulled up in the Jag, and I hit ‘em with the jab like / Dun-d-d-dun-dund-d-dun-dun.”

I’m joking, of course. There’s nothing meaningful about these lyrics and I don’t think I’ve ever hated, yet loved a song so much in my life.

The song itself is bad enough. The lyric “Dun-d-d-dun-dun-d-d-dun-dun” is enough evidence to back that up. But the music video is equally terrible. Having her huge butt plastered everywhere for everyone to see is not exactly what I look for in a music video. But I’ll give her credit for making one that at least reflects her trainwreck lyrics.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m in full support of Minaj promoting women with curves, but I think that support could have been mastered in a classier way. After all, this butt-obsessed culture is getting a little too out of control. –S. Kozlowski

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The new kid on the block

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A worker posting a sign with the weekly deals for JC’s Place. The bar opened at the end of July, so it’s still gaining popularity.

By CHASE MONTANI Contributing Writer

Jason Cutler sits in his bar on a Wednesday afternoon, chatting with the regulars and enjoying his latest entrepreneurial venture.

While he shares the same last name as the famous Chicago Bears quarterback, Jay Cutler, he resembles more of an offensive lineman, with broad shoulders and a wide base. He is intimidating at first glance because of his size and stature, but he opens his mouth and smiles and you realize he’s harmless.

JC’s Place opened over the summer, after Cutler took over the Northside Tavern, a biker bar on Whitney Avenue in the shadow of the Sleeping Giant State Park. From the outside, it doesn’t look like there would be much room to breathe inside JC’s Place. It is a one-story building made up of brown bricks with a brown roof. After passing through the tunnel-like entry way, accented in white and black stripes, and through the front door, it quickly becomes a breath of fresh air compared to the other bars in Hamden. It is well lit and clean, and doesn’t have the smell of dried beer and food grease yet. The light tile contrasts with the wood molding and the dark, stained doors.

It takes the best qualities from Andale’s (often referred to as Dick’s) and Odie’s Place and welcomes customers right away with a large u-shaped bar. Six drafts, two mini-fridges and two rows of liquor bottles occupy the bar, and Cutler knows where everything is as if it were second nature.

The Yankees game is on, but since they’ve dropped out of playoff contention customers do not pay much attention to the television.

Cutler is quick to jump behind the bar to get a beer or make a drink for his regulars, and does it all with a big smile on his face.

Cutler hasn’t always had the luxury of being a laid-back bar owner. Previously he owned two nightclubs in New Haven: Pulse and Center Street Lounge. Being a nightclub owner is a strenuous position, especially in New Haven, which Cutler believes is becoming a ghost town.

“New Haven basically fizzled out,” Cutler said. “It just went to hell and I just couldn’t go on down there. I had sold one of the clubs a year and a half ago and I closed the other in February. I got so fed up and just decided to close it down. I was tired of the

hustle and bustle.”

One of the most notable differences between JC’s Place and other bars in Hamden is the drink specials. JC’s Place has drink specials that are consistent throughout the week including $1 Natural Lights, $2 cans of beer, and $3 shots of Fireball whiskey.

Other places in Hamden will run the already thin pockets of college students dry.

“I don’t want to be greedy,” Cutler said.

“I want people to be happy, I want people to come in here and see that my overhead is much lower than a lot of other places on this strip. They usually have other business partners, this is just JC, it’s all me.”

Cutler is a Hamden native, and lived there up until six years ago when he purchased his house in North Haven. After graduating from Hamden High School, he went on to receive his associate’s degree at Gateway Community College. During his time at Gateway, he was a bakery manager at Stop and Shop. After working in retail for a long time he decided he wanted to do something different. He started investing in real estate, doing rental properties until about seven years ago when he found a nightclub for sale on Craigslist.

“My uncle had owned a bar so I always thought I would own a neighborhood bar or something,” Cutler said. “When the club came up, the price was right, but I didn’t know anything about the business.”

Cutler’s inspiration from his uncle sparked interest in running a profitable business of his own. He ended up going into business with his friend who was a bartender and a restaurant manager. For the first year he continued to work at Stop and Shop and manage the nightclub. He put all of his money into it and wasn’t sure exactly what to expect out of his investment. Within a year, Cutler had bought himself a house and quit his job at Stop and Shop, becoming a full time owner of the Center Street Lounge.

After four years of owning Center Street, JC found another investment opportunity on Craigslist.

“Whether it’s buying a piece of property, renting a piece of property, buying a business, you name it. I live my life on Craigslist,” Cutler said.

Cutler is a man of opportunity. Living his life moment to moment and trying to capitalize on any great prospect he can.

His determined demeanor has helped him

to create rewarding investments across the table. That next prospect he found became the nightclub Pulse. Any Quinnipiac students enrolled during 2011 and 2012 would surely remember the line of freshmen dressed in their club attire, piling into the shuttles to go out to Pulse.

For two years, Cutler ran both clubs simultaneously. Since they were a block away from each other, it was easy for him to manage both at the same time. After some time, Cutler decided New Haven was getting too rocky for him and he had to sell one of his clubs.

“I had to get out of one,” he said. “I sold out to my business partner on Center Street and I managed Pulse on my own. I did that for another year and a half until New Haven finally just hit the bed and I moved forward.”

Cutler closed Pulse in February and decided to take some time off. With no real idea of what his next move would be, he looked into the Northside Tavern, which had closed down in December. He started talking to the landlord and finally acquired the property in June. Then began the transformation into JC’s Place.

Kenny Pilanski is a senior psychology major. He met Cutler over the summer while he was residing in Hamden. After coming in to see what the bar was all about, Pilanski wanted to help get this years senior class to make JC’s a new hotspot.

“I feel that JC’s will be a big hit amongst the senior class,” Pilanski said. “They are strict on ID’s, have cheap drink deals, and a good amount of space. Overall, JC’s is doing it right, and I feel that they will be successful.”

Matt Cugine, a senior studying computer information systems, went to JC’s Place on a Wednesday to play some pool and enjoy cheap drinks. Upon arrival, Cugine’s ID was checked by the bouncer.

“We snapped three Pennsylvania fake ID’s already tonight,” said the bouncer to Cugine. “Congratulations you’re the first one to get through.”

JC’s Place is making its push to be the new hot spot in Hamden. While Cutler explains he isn’t interested in claiming a specific night, he has implemented Karaoke on Wednesday nights. He also plans to get live music and DJ’s to bring in large crowds to the bar.

While it isn’t the biggest place in Hamden, it may make a case for being the nicest and cleanest. The floor isn’t sticky, the toilets actually flush, and the stools aren’t wobbly. The back room houses a pool table that is actually functional and has yet to have a drink spilled on it. Surrounding the pool table are white leather couches that you would never expect to see in a bar.

“You know what, you go to places and you see different things,” Cutler said.

“You go to clubs you go to bars, you know.

Complaints I hear about [Andale’s] and

“I don’t want to be greedy, I want people to be happy, I want people to come in here and see that my overhead is much lower than a lot of other places on this strip. They usually have other business partners, this is just JC, it’s all me.”

– JASON CUTLER OWNER OF JC’S PLACE stuff is how trashy it is, how disgusting it is, how the urinal has been broken for years. I can’t operate like that. I wanted something different, not high end, but casual and classy.”

That mindset has helped JC’s Place to boom in popularity so far this semester.

Some upperclassmen have gone to JC’s Place during the week instead of usual hot spots like Odie’s Place or Andale’s.

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Cutler: ‘I wanted something different’ JC’S PLACE from page 12 Tori Lo, a senior occupational therapy major, was a bartender at JC’s until recently.

While she doesn’t have a professional relationship with Cutler anymore, she still frequents JC’s Place during the week.

“Jay is different from other bar owners in the way he promotes his bar,” Lo said. “I think the way he promotes his business is pretty beneficial to JC’s. He definitely has good ideas that will help him be successful.

It’s tough to compete with bars that already have reputations for being popular but with his cheap drink prices and a set-up that people enjoy being around, he’s certainly doing it right.”

Senior Jake Carleton works as a bartender at JC’s Place. Carleton created a Twitter for JC’s Place so that he could gain some buzz around the bar before the school year began.

Cutler runs the Facebook page himself.

“We created the twitter in hopes to gain a following at Quinnipiac,” Carleton said.

“We weren’t really known as we opened at the end of July this year, and the hope was to share our great deals and the proximity to campus in order to attract the Quinnipiac population.”

Cutler has just recently partnered up with Spuds Your Way, a food truck company from Hamden that frequents Quinnipiac’s farmer’s market in the Fall. They are known for their loaded baked potatoes, including steak and cheese or grilled chicken.

Having this partnership has also helped differentiate JC’s Place from the Mexican

style menu or pizzas that are usually seen at bars in Hamden.

“You can go anywhere around here and get a pizza, but again this is different. I don’t want to be like any other bar on this street,” Cutler said.

Once business starts getting busier,

Cutler said he plans to do late night meals for Quinnipiac students.

While the semester is still young, JC’s Place is already starting to become the hot new spot. What started out as a vision for a new kind of neighborhood bar has flowered into a profitable business that shows no

signs of slowing down at this time.

“You know what, it’s up and down,” said Cutler. “I don’t have any specific night, one week it’s a Monday or a Tuesday. I couldn’t tell you any consistency, but again it’s only been seven weeks. Every day is a learning experience for me.”

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Some bars in Hamden have specific days where business is always booming, but Cutler said it’s always different each week for him.

UN SPEECH BRINGS FEMINISM TO THE FOREFRONT

By JULIA PERKINS Managing Editor

“Harry Potter” actress and United Nations Women’s Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson took to the podium last month to officially launch the UN’s new feminism campaign HeforShe. Watson’s speech on feminism took over our news feeds, as people shared the video of her speech and posted about the campaign on social media. In the speech, Watson extends a formal invitation to men to join the fight for gender equality. She says both men and women suffer from gender inequality.

“I want men to take up this mantle,” Watson said. “So their daughters, sisters and mothers can be free from prejudice, but also so that their sons have permission to be vulnerable and human too—reclaim those parts of themselves they abandoned and in doing so be a more true and complete version of themselves.”

More than 169,000 men across the world have joined the HeforShe campaign, including celebrities like fellow “Potter” actor Matthew Lewis, “Glee” actor Chris Colfer, Prince Harry and “Avengers” actor Tom Hiddleston.

Brenna Sheehan, co-president of Women in Support of Humanity (W.I.S.H.) at Quinnipiac said she loved Watson’s speech.

“I thought she was so well-spoken, so conscientious and just so articulate, really an incredible, incredible speech,” Sheehan said.

“And I really fully believe what she said. I think it’s not fair that men have gender roles and stereotypes too and how it then affects female gender roles and stereotypes and how they’re so poignant still today. It’s just horrifying that it’s still [like this].”

Assistant Professor of Sociology Lauren Sardi, who has a certificate in Women’s Studies and researches gender and sexuality, said Watson’s speech got people talking. But Watson did not say anything revolutionary,

Sardi said.

“I think [Watson’s] been saying the stuff that second and third wave feminists have been trying to get across for decades,” Sardi said. “But I think just because younger folks tend to really admire her that was something that people were maybe finally ready to hear for the first time.”

Sardi said feminism is about equality for men and women, but there is a negative perception of feminism in society. The media has perpetuated a false stereotype that feminists are bra-burning man-haters, she said. This causes many young women to not identify as feminists. “[College women] don’t want to claim a label like that because they’re perceived as being man-haters or lesbians as if [being a lesbian] were a bad thing to be,” Sardi said.

“And I think we need to move away from this very false dangerous mislabel of feminism as being man-haters. That’s absolutely not what it’s about.”

Sheehan said she does not understand why someone would not identify as a feminist.

“To put it bluntly, feminism is really about equality,” she said. “So I don’t know who wouldn’t believe in equality in this day of age.”

Sophomore Brent Peiffer said he believes in gender equality, but he has never identified as a feminist.

“I haven’t really thought about it,” he said. “It’s not one of those things where it’s like I don’t want to or why would I do that, it’s just not one of those things where I’m like ‘oh, I’m a feminist.’”

Similarly, freshman Jackson Powers said he thinks it is a good idea that the HeforShe campaign encourages men and women to fight for equality. But Powers said he has never called himself a feminist.

“I never have taken the time to really think about it and create an opinion on the matter,” he said.

Sardi said most students are feminists; they just may not understand what the word means.

“If you are about equality for men and women then that in it of itself means you’re a feminist, whether or not you want to claim that label or not,” she said.

Two weeks ago W.I.S.H. set up a table in front of the Carl Hansen Student Center and encouraged students to write why they need feminism on a whiteboard. Sheehan said the event was to promote that feminism is about equality for all.

“[College women] don’t want to claim a label like that because they’re perceived as being man-haters or lesbians as if [being a lesbian] were a bad thing to be. And I think we need to move away from this very false, dangerous mislabel of feminism as being man-haters.

That’s absolutely not what it’s about.”

– LAUREN SARDI ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY “We also want to encourage men to be a feminist or be involved in feminism,” she said.

Sheehan said the club is mainly female students, but they do have a few male members.

“It’s getting better,” she said. “But in past years it’s been a little bit more difficult [to get male students involved.] They’ve been a little more shy.”

Inequality hurts those who are privileged too, Sardi said, so men should care about feminism. For example, men pay taxes to help women who are victims of domestic abuse.

“If that weren’t something that were happening you’d have more money in your pocket, honestly in a very real way,” Sardi

said. “[Saying] things like you don’t really care if you make more money than a woman does doing the same work, well that woman could be your wife or your sister or your daughter.”

Yet, Sardi said there has been a feminist backlash as women gain higher positions in their careers and society.

“It’s not a coincidence that as women have been gaining more rights, the objectification of women has also increased,” she said. “It’s kind of like, we’re going to put you back in your place, physically and metaphorically.”

Watson is not the first celebrity to start a conversation about feminism, Sardi said. In August, Beyoncé sang behind a large sign with the word “feminist” at MTV’s Video Music Awards. Time Magazine columnist Jessica Bennett called this the “holy grail” of feminism endorsements.

Media outlets have covered women’s rights issues more intensely, especially as sexual assault on college campuses has become a greater issue. Just days before Watson’s speech, President Barack Obama launched the “It’s on Us” campaign. The initiative encourages Americans to do more to stop sexual assault and works with colleges to develop better ways to respond to sexual assault, according to the White House website.

“All of this together is getting people, I think, more involved [in the feminism movement] and I think that’s what’s making a difference,” Sardi said.

Sardi said she hopes the HeforShe campaign changes the way people look at feminism, but she is not sure if it will.

“I really feel like we are at this moment now where [feminism is] suddenly becoming a thing to talk about,” she said. “I just hope we don’t lose the momentum in general. I don’t know [whether] we need a [HeforShe] campaign to do that, but I think it’s very much a grassroots effort to be honest.”

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RUNDOWN MEN’S ICE HOCKEY Acadia 4, QU 1 - Saturday Tim Clifton: 1 goal Sean Lawrence: 14 saves Jacob Meyers: 10 saves WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY QU 3, Connecticut 0 - Friday Nicole Brown: 1 goal Nicole Connery: 1 goal Taylar Cianfarano: 1 goal Nicole Costa: 5 shots Chelsea Laden: 9 saves MEN’S SOCCER QU 1, Canisius 1 (2OT) Saturday Machel Baker: 1 goal Borja Angoita: 5 saves James Doig: 2 shots, 1 SOG WOMEN’S SOCCER Canisius 2, QU 1 - Saturday Jessica Fontaine: 1 goal, 3 SOG Kelly Caruso: 1 assist FIELD HOCKEY Providence 5, QU 1 - Sunday Megan McCullough: 1 goal Megan Conaboy: 5 saves WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL Marist 3, QU 0 - Saturday Katie Urycki: 21 kills Cody Michaels: 11 digs Siena 3, QU 0 - Sunday Katie Urycki: 35 kills Tierra Allen: 20 kills

GAMES TO WATCH MEN’S ICE HOCKEY QU vs. Bentley - Saturday, 7 p.m.

WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY QU at Penn State - Saturday, TBA QU at Penn State - Sunday, 2 p.m.

MEN’S SOCCER QU vs. Rider - Saturday, 3 p.m.

WOMEN’S SOCCER QU at Rider - Saturday, 1 p.m.

QU vs. Marist - Wednesday, 3 p.m.

FIELD HOCKEY QU vs. Brown - Wednesday, 3:30 p.m.

QU at Siena - Friday, 3 p.m.

QU vs. Old Dominion - Sunday, 1 p.m.

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL QU at Siena - Wednesday, 7 p.m.

QU at Saint Peter’s - Saturday, 12 p.m.

QU at Rider - Sunday, 1 p.m.

WOMEN’S RUGBY QU at Brigham Young - Saturday, 12 p.m.

Follow @QUChronSports for live updates during games.

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GAME OF THE WEEK

Women’s ice hockey wins opener

By MICHAEL HEWITT Contributing Writer

Behind goals from three left wingers, Quinnipiac opened up its season with a 3-0 win over Connecticut at High Point Solutions Arena on Saturday night.

Nearly halfway into the first period, freshman, T.T. Cianfarano notched the first goal of her career, as well as Quinnipiac’s first of the regular season, to make it 1-0 Bobcats.

“It’s definitely one to remember, but without the help of my teammates, it would not have hapQU - 3 pened,” Ciansaid.

UConn - 0 farano “All three lines played well and everyone worked together.”

Nicole Brown and Nicole Connery each scored a goal in the second period, pushing Quinnipiac’s advantage to 3-0.

“I’m proud of our team. I was really happy with our performance tonight,” Quinnipiac head coach Rick Seeley said.

All three Bobcats’ lines scored during the game. Seeley was impressed with the depth and chemistry.

“The three top lines are really

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Erica Uden Johansson skates in on the net during Friday’s 3-0 win. clicking,” Seeley said. “All three the puck in the attacking zone.

“When I’m watching my team lines should threaten every night. I don’t remember any game with three produce in the offensive zone and see lines producing. The [goals] were them working hard, it’s easy to stay not flukes. The goals were a result focused,” Laden said. “When it is my of good effort, good long shifts and time to produce I have to be ready.”

Laden finished the game with good puck movement.”

Quinnipiac outshot the Huskies nine saves. Her counterpart, Elaine 67-21 for the night. The Bobcats had Chuli had 33 saves.

Seeley was also happy with the 36 shots on goal to Connecticut’s performance from his defense. nine.

“I’m thrilled with the effort of the Senior goaltender Chelsea Laden recorded her tenth career shutout, defense,” Seeley said. “The energy and said after the game that she en- of our defense was great. We got the joys watching her teammates keep puck back pretty quick in our zone.

When you dominate, you start looking at the six shots [UConn had] and say they could have had none, if we played better.”

Still, Seeley thinks there is room for improvement. “[We] mishandled the puck a lot,” Seeley said. “We had a lot of opportunities to get to openings that we didn’t take advantage. As the lines play together more, we should be able to exploit those opportunities. “ Quinnipiac looks to build on its first win of the season on Oct. 11, when the Bobcats visit Penn State.

Peca: co-captain status means ‘more responsibility’ PECA from page 16 Couple that with the fact that Peca will play alongside Sam Anas to start the season, as Quinnipiac head coach Rand Pecknold said during Quinnipiac Men’s Ice Hockey Media Day on Sept. 18, and it looks like all signs are pointing upward for his senior year.

Anas led the team with 43 points during his freshman season, winning the NCAA Division I National Rookie of The Year award in the process. He played alongside the Jones twins on the first line for Quinnipiac, and both Kellen and Connor had fantastic years, putting up 42 and 38 points, respectively.

But this year’s first line presumably won’t have three standouts, at least to begin the season. There are only going to be two big names, Peca and Anas, that will skate together.

The Bobcats lost three of their top five scorers from last season’s squad, returning only Peca and Anas from that bunch.

The veteran offensive presence of Jordan Samuels Thomas and the Jones brothers is gone, and it’s Peca’s time to carry the load for Quinnipiac.

Pecknold has elected Peca and

defensemen Dan Federico as captains this year, which Peca weighed in on during Quinnipiac’s media day.

“It’s definitely more responsibility,” Peca said. “I think it’s pretty big shoes to fill, but it obviously means a lot to us because it shows [Pecknold’s] confidence in us.”

But captains aren’t inconsistent— they show up ready to play night in and night out.

The Bobcats need Peca to be a consistent scoring source during every month of the season. Quinnipiac isn’t as deep on the scoring end as it was a season ago, so they’re counting on Peca to pick up some of the slack.

He can’t afford to have another 13-point first half.

There’s a reason the Tampa Bay Lightning traded a minor league prospect to draft Peca in the NHL’s Entry Draft three years ago. There’s a reason why he made the ECAC All-Rookie team as a freshman. There’s a reason why he recorded the fastest natural hat trick in NCAA history during the Bobcats run to the Frozen Four in the 2012-13 season.

Peca is talented, more talented than a normal college hockey skater.

He might be only five-foot-nine and

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Matthew Peca enters the season as the fifth-highest active scorer in Division I hockey.

And if he does that, and is a con165 pounds, but he’s savvy with the puck and has a knack for finding the stant force on the offensive end, Quinback of the net. For all these reasons, nipiac has a good chance at reaching he’s going to be expected to have more its ultimate goal in getting to another Frozen Four. than 38 points this season.

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MCKEEVER from page 16 Aine brings all those characteristics to our team.”

Carlson sees that McKeever has potential in rugby because of her experience in soccer.

“I love crossover athletes because they can bring over so much from their former sports to our team,” Carlson said. “I will relate something that we

are teaching her to something in soccer and she’ll understand it.”

Carlson also sees leadership from McKeever, and she believes that comes from her experience on the soccer pitch.

“It take a lot to join a sport that she has never played before and be vocal, but her leadership still shows,” Carlson said. “She is confident in the things that she knows.

McKeever also gets to use some

skills she received from soccer by kicking conversions for the Bobcats. Most recently, McKeever went four for six in conversions on Sept. 27 against Norwich.

“Playing soccer has given me the confidence and experience to kick the conversions for the team,” McKeever said.

For McKeever still misses soccer at times. However, winning with the women’s rugby team is a great way to

relieve those feelings, as she puts it.

“I still miss the sport, it’s a religion to me,” McKeever said. “I made some great connections from the team, but I didn’t achieve what I wanted to achieve in soccer, but I’m hoping I can live the dream through another sport.”

Carlson, meanwhile, is excited and optimistic about having adding McKeever to the team.

“It’s been fruits of the loom awesome for us,” Carlson said.

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Past and present

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Clockwise from top right: Former men’s ice hockey forward Jeremy Langlois handles the puck in Thursday’s AHL exhibition game, Tanner MacMaster battles for a loose puck in Saturday’s 4-1 loss against Acadia, Travis St. Denis skates during introductions, Matt Lemire skates behind the net.

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The women’s ice hockey team held UConn to only nine shots on Friday night. The last time Quinnipiac held an opponent to under 10 shots in a game was on Nov. 16.

Women’s volleyball’s Sierra Dawson has nine games with 20plus assists this season.

The women’s soccer team had 16 corner kicks in Saturday’s 2-1 loss, while visiting Canisius didn’t have any.

The men’s soccer team has been outshot in three of its last four games, though they have gone 3-0-1 during that stretch.

Quinnipiac vs. Bentley - Men’s Ice Hockey

The Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey team opens up its regular season at High Point Solutions Arena against the Bentley Falcons on Saturday night. The Bobcats ended last season with a first-round of the NCAA Tournament after losing 4-0 to Providence.

National Rookie of the Year Sam Anas returns after leading Quinnipiac with 43 points in 2013-14, including 22 goals. Quinnipiac also returns goalie Michael Garteig in net. The junior started in all 40 games last season and posted a 1.94 goals against average, which was third best in the nation.

Head coach Rand Pecknold announced that Dan Federico and Matthew Peca would be the captains for the Bobcats this season, as the two seniors will lead a young team with nine freshman.

Last season, Quinnipiac downed Bentley 4-3 on Oct. 22.

Game time is set for 7 p.m.

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“We got a good evaluation of the freshman, guys that are fighting for a spot in the lineup, and I think that this game will help us.”

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From soccer to scrums Aine McKeever has joined the women’s rugby squad after playing four seasons as a midfielder for the women’s soccer team.

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Aine McKeever joins the women’s rugby team after four year’s on the women’s soccer team.

By ALEC TURNER

Associate Sports Editor

After four years of playing for the Quinnipiac women’s soccer team, Aine McKeever is still dressing in a Bobcat uniform.

McKeever, a graduate student, has donned the number four jersey for the women’s rugby team in 2014, just like she did during her fouryear stint on the pitch with the women’s soccer team.

But rugby hasn’t always been something familiar to McKeever, not the way soccer had

been. In fact, she just started playing and learning rugby a month ago.

Prior to coming to Quinnipiac, McKeever played Gaelic football, the national sport of Ireland, along with soccer while growing up in Derry City. McKeever helped her team win the Oliver Garvan Cup in 2010, and was awarded the Gaelic Football Players Player Award that same year.

For McKeever, learning rugby was easy because of her past in Gaelic football.

“It has some similarities to rugby, so that is

Peca’s consistancy paramount for Bobcats

how it caught my interest when the opportunity came,” McKeever said. “Going from a game where you only really use your feet to a game where handling the ball with your hands is important, Gaelic football has definitely helped me with that.”

That opportunity came when McKeever was recruited by women’s rugby assistant coach Michelle Reed in July. Reed knew that McKeever had one more year of eligibility in a different sport and told her to think about the possibility of joining the rugby squad.

“She’s a phenomenal athlete, and we thought she would be a good fit,” Reed said.

It only took one day for McKeever to think about it, then she went to Reed and head coach Becky Carlson to confirm that she was joining the team.

For McKeever, she has had the support of her teammates and coaches to help her adapt to the new sport.

“It’s been too good to be true honestly. The team has been fantastic and the coaching staff has been great,” McKeever said. “You can’t teach the team chemistry that we have, and I can’t thank them enough.”

Carlson feels it has been McKeever’s leadership and athleticism that has helped her adapt so easily.

“When I explain something for her to do, she will do it once and do it perfectly,” Carlson said.

“That is a very rare thing to find in a person.”

In Carlson’s eyes, converting an athlete into a rugby player is easier than most believe. She compares it to the difficulty it would take to try baseball or softball with no experience prior.

“It’s easy to teach someone to run, kick and pass rather than teach someone to step in a batter’s box and try and hit a ball,” Carlson said. “Rugby is the grace of soccer, the speed of track and the power of football all together.

The Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey team is going to rely heavily on senior Matthew Peca this season.

So heavily, in fact, that Peca is the Bobcats’ x-factor heading into the 2014-15 season.

Peca tallied 38 points last year as a junior, scoring 12 goals to go along with 26 assists. And with 107 career points, he’s the fifth-highest active scorer in all of Division I hockey.

And still, there’s great room for improvement in those numbers based on both his skill set and the situation he’s in this year.

In the first half of last year, from October to the end of December, Peca recorded only 13 points.

The second half of the season, from January to March, was a completely different story altogether. The Ontario native tallied 25 points during that stretch, nearly doubling his first half production as the Bobcats skated to a top-10 finish in the national rankings for the second-straight year.

Peca’s second half was indicative of what most had expected his full junior season to be like. He skated fast, found the puck in good position, and played to a high level in virtually every appearance on the ice.

If he had played to his second half totals during the first half of last season, Peca would have ended up with 50 points. That would have made him one of the nine best scorers in the country, and he would have led the Bobcats by a wide margin.

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Women’s volleyball drops weekend set

By NICK PALMA Staff Writer

The Quinnipiac women’s volleyball team lost its fourth straight game on Sunday to Siena College. The loss comes after Quinnipiac dropped three straight sets to Marist College on Saturday.

The Saints defeated the Bobcats, 25-22, 2517 and 25-23 in the three sets to pick up the victory, dropping Quinnipiac’s conference record to 0-5 on the year. Katie Urycki led the team with 11 kills, which is her eighth double-digit kill performance this year.

The Bobcats have now dropped 12 straight sets dating back to the Fairfield game on Sept. 27.

“We got to start focusing on the process,” Quinnipiac head coach Kristopher Czaplinski said. “We’re looking too ahead. We’re looking to the win or the loss, we have to focus on individual performances. Making sure that you’re doing the right things, passing the right things,

and blocking.”

Injuries have hurt the team’s depth chart throughout the season, but now that conference play is in stride, it is important that the players Marist - 3 stick to the fundamentals of the game to help put QU - 0 the team in the win column, according to Czaplinski.

“If we can start focusing more on fundamentals I think the confidence will come,” Czaplinski said. “That starts in practice and there’s some good talk going around right now but they realize that they’re not giving everything they can right now and until they do then it will start coming out in games.”

Czaplinksi added, though, that the talent lies within the team that he lines up game in and game out.

“Talent is the farthest thing from the problem

right now,” Czaplinski said. “It’s making sure that we focus on the process and get some confidence. Coaches are shocked that they’re beating us. The adjustments don’t need to be made with our end. They need to be made with our confidence because we have all the talent in the world.”

In order for this team to move forward and succeed, this young team has to make their presence known and start adjusting to the style of the league.

“We’re a very young team and I think we’re losing these games because of that,” Czaplinski said. “Right now they have an opportunity to start right away and the process is getting away from them. There’s a lot of stuff that we got to do within ourselves.”

The Bobcats return to action on Wednesday, Oct. 5 when they look to get back on track against Siena.

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Sierra Dawson sets a ball to Elizabeth Kloos in Sunday’s loss to Siena.