The Quinnipiac Chronicle, Issue 8, Volume 86

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OCTOBER 21, 2015

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Two lawsuits, one week

Previous St. Patrick’s Parade chair sues Lahey

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Rick Seeley, the former women’s ice hockey coach, sued QU for wrongful termination.

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Rick Seeley, former women’s ice hockey coach, filed a lawsuit against the university which said he was wrongfully terminated on April 9, after allegations of verbal and physical abuse toward his players surfaced.

Seeley is asking for $15,000 in damages, attorney fees, punitive damages and interest, according to the lawsuit.

The lawsuit against Quinnipiac cited negligence, breach of contract and breach of covenant of faith and fair dealing as the defense against his wrongful termination.

Seeley was the head coach for women’s ice hockey at the university for six years before he was let go. He coached the women’s ice hockey team through their 26-9-3 record during the 2014-2015 season. Those numbers set a program single-season record.

“Under Coach Seeley’s leadership, the 20142015 Women’s Ice Hockey Season was the most successful season in the program’s history,” the lawsuit said.

The university approached Seeley at the beginning of January 2015 to renew his employment contract, according to the lawsuit. The contract was for five years, to keep Seeley as the head coach of the women’s ice hockey team.

Seeley accepted the contract at the beginning of February 2015.

Approximately three weeks after the 20142015 season ended in early April, university officials confronted Seeley about allegations—including an allegation that Seeley had yelled at a student athlete and grabbed her by the chin strap on her helmet during a game.

“Coach Seeley denied any wrongdoing or that his conduct at the time of the incident in question varied in any significant way from his coaching conduct at any time during his several previous years of employment with Quinnipiac,” the lawsuit said.

In the lawsuit, under the breach of covenant of good faith and fair dealing section, Seeley accused the university of failing to conduct a fair

and neutral investigation into the abuse allegations. Seeley also accused the university of terminating him without justification.

The university is also accused of disregarding good faith to protect Seeley from harm by not investigating allegations before formally terminating him in the lawsuit.

Associate Vice President for Public Relations John Morgan said the university does not have a statement about the lawsuit at this time.

“The university does not comment on pending legal matters,” Morgan said.

But the university is not the only target of the lawsuit.

David Bills, a father of a former player of Seeley’s during his time as a coach at Clarkson University, was also named in the lawsuit. In an interview with Q30 Television last semester, Bills spoke on behalf of his daughter’s experience with Seeley as her coach, during the 200304 season at Clarkson.

In the lawsuit, Seeley accused Bills of defamation, negligent infliction of emotional distress, intentional infliction of emotional distress, tortious interference with contract and tortious interference with business expectancies.

“The article published accusations of abuse

by Coach Seeley while coaching at Clarkson University,” the lawsuit said. “The accusations of abuse were previously investigated by Clarkson University and dismissed as unfounded.”

The statements made in the Q30 Television article and the handwritten notes regarding the alleged abuse throughout the article were all false, according to the lawsuit.

Seeley accused Bills of knowing what he said to Q30 was false, causing Seeley emotional pain and suffering, the lawsuit said. The lawsuit accused Bills of causing Seeley to lose income and benefits provided by his job because of his defamatory statements.

Bills is also accused of causing Seeley severe emotional distress and of interfering with Seeley’s employment contract with the university according to the lawsuit.

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The former St. Patrick’s Parade chairman filed a lawsuit against President John Lahey.

By SARAH DOIRON and JULIA PERKINS

The former chairman of the New York St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee filed a lawsuit on Monday against President John Lahey, who took over as head of the committee this past summer.

John T. Dunleavy, the former chairman of 22 years, alleges Lahey unseated him and was fiscally negligent concerning a dispute over which television station will broadcast the 2016 St. Patrick’s Day Parade, according to court records.

The suit claims Lahey chose to continue with a $175,000 contract with NBC to show the parade, even though Dunleavy said WPIX Channel 11 would televise the parade for free. However, the Irish Central reported in September that WPIX never formally offered to broadcast the parade.

WPIX did not return a request for comment.

The board ousted Dunleavy as chairman of the parade in July because he was against allowing LGBT groups to march in the parade, according to the New York Daily News.

The parade received a lot of flack for its historical exclusion of LGBT groups. The mayor of New York City and the City Council boycotted the parade in 2014 and 2015 for this reason, according to USA Today.

As vice chairman, Lahey worked to get the LGBT group Out@NBC to march in the parade in 2015, a decision Dunleavy opposed.

“At a previous board meeting I indicated that the parade is not in the business of promoting any lifestyle: Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, gay, straight,” Dunleavy said at an August parade meeting, according to Irish Central.

Lahey said in May that he would resign as vice chairman if the board did not allow another LGBT group to march, according to Irish Central. Since becoming chairman, he added a second LGBT group, Lavender & Green Alliance, to the parade.

Board members made this change because they wanted to celebrate “Irishness in all its forms,” the parade committee’s media liaison Pat Smith wrote in an editorial for Irish Central.

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“Parade Committee Chairman John Dunleavy has ruled the march with an iron fist,” Smith wrote. “But he threw one too many punches after this year’s parade when he vowed gay groups would ‘have a hard time’ marching in 2016, and started negotiating with other TV networks for coverage next year.”

Smith also said in his editorial that there had been financial mismanagement while Dunleavy was chairman. However, the lawsuit states the committee is not in debt, but has $400,000 to its name.

Francis Young, Dunleavy’s lawyer, said this suit is not about whether or not LGBT groups can march in the parade.

“Bottom line was that there was a gay group that marched in 2015, so for Dunleavy it’s not a gay issue, that’s water under the bridge,” Young said.

For Dunleavy, Young said, it is upsetting that he dedicated 22 years of his life to the parade and is now no longer chairman. Dunleavy wants his position back, Young said.

The St. Patrick’s Day Committee meets three times a year in February, May and December.

The lawsuit showed that around the May 2015 meeting, Lahey announced to the St. Patrick’s Day Committee that he was struggling to raise money for the 2016 parade.

The court records indicate that part of the money Lahey was trying to raise was to be used to pay a contract with NBC to broadcast the parade, which required a payment of $175,000 to NBC. WNBC had televised the parade in the past, but Dunleavy did not want the channel involved because of its part in Out@NBC marching last year, according to Irish Central.

Dunleavy then began to contact other television stations that would be cheaper than the NBC contract. It was part of Lahey’s job, not Dunleavy’s, to look for someone to televise the parade, according to Irish Central.

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STUDENTS SPEAK UP

Quinnipiac and Hamden’s relationship has been very tense over the past few years. With issues such as offcampus housing and parties, the town of Hamden has become frustrated with Quinnipiac students. Students had varying opinions about how to improve the town-gown relationship.

By DAVID FRIEDLANDER Photography by MEGAN MAHER Design by HANNAH SCHINDLER AND KRISTEN RIELLO

Chris DelVecchio | Junior | Legal Studies

ART DIRECTOR Hannah Schindler

“I think that Hamden might be overreacting...I think that we bring a lot of revenue in as Quinnipiac students going to WalMart or Stop & Shop...Maybe we do some things that they don’t like, like we don’t pay taxes on the houses that Quinnipiac owns, but I feel like we do a lot of good things for them too.

I think that [Hamden residents] overlook that and just look at the bad instead of the good.”

WEB DIRECTOR Nick Solari CO-NEWS EDITOR Tara O’Neill CO-NEWS EDITOR Sarah Doiron ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR David Friedlander ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR Adelia Couser ARTS & LIFE EDITOR Jeanette Cibelli ASSOCIATE ARTS & LIFE EDITOR Kellie Mason ASSOCIATE ARTS & LIFE EDITOR Kelly Novak SPORTS EDITOR Tyrell Walden-Martin

October 21, 2015

Sarah Tassinari | Freshman | Health Science “I just got an email saying that in order to better the relationship between Hamden and the Quinnipiac community, we can vote to make our voices heard next month. I think communication is definitely an important part of making Hamden more welcoming to Quinnipiac students...I’m sure both parties could go a long way to make our relationship better.”

ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR Jordan Novack

Chirag Patel| Sophomore | Finance

ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR Max Molski

“I know the residents of Hamden really don’t like Quinnipiac students. They actually have a Facebook group called ‘People of Hamden,’ which is just like everything bad that tarnishes QU...they really don’t like the students in off-campus housing that isn’t controlled

by QU...I think the residents could be more lenient with the way they go about things; they should talk to the neighbors and students that they live next to.”

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Emma Farquharson | Senior | Microbiology/Immunology “I know that the town is not a huge fan of us...I’m assuming that it is because the kids who live in apartments off campus get drunk and trash things. That tends to be what happens. I think in a neighborhood sense, students should be more restricted to certain neighborhoods...

There are a lot of people who have kids in the area and people don’t really take that into account.”

Beyond the Bobcats

A rundown on news outside the university.

By Joe Iasso

Mayoral candidates debate town issues

Possible alien structures discovered

Biden expected to announce candidacy

This Monday, Hamden Mayor Curt Leng debated against mayoral challenger Bob Anthony. They discussed a range of issues, including land conservation, supporting local business and the problematic Hamden pension fund. When asked about Quinnipiac, both candidates called the university “a great asset,” and expressed that the main Quinnipiac-related issue they want to address is privately-owned homes rented to students.

Last week, Pennsylvania State University researcher Jason Wright discovered what he described as a “swarm of megastructures” around a star about 15,000 light-years away from Earth. According to Al Jazeera America, the structures, which were observed through NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, are common among young stars. But the star under observation seems to be too mature for these structures to be present. Some have theorized that the structures were built to capture the star’s energy by an alien species. However, most scientists have called this theory unlikely.

Sources close to Vice President Joe Biden have said he plans to announce his candidacy for President this week, according to Fox News White House Correspondent Ed Henry. Biden has been expected to enter the race for several months, and was reportedly waiting to observe Hillary Clinton’s debate performance in the first Democratic debate before stepping in officially as a candidate. Biden has been featured in several major polls even though he was not officially a candidate at the time.

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North Haven community timid about expansion

By TARA O’NEILL Co News Editor

Officials in North Haven admitted to having some concerns about Quinnipiac expanding further into North Haven, mainly the issue of problems surrounding off-campus housing.

Senior-only apartments will be constructed on both sides of Northern Washington Avenue in North Haven near the university’s North Haven campus, according to First Selectman of North Haven Michael Freda. The university and the town of North Haven chose to use outside developers to construct these apartments.

But this construction is not without worry, according to Freda.

“Our relationship with Quinnipiac - with Lahey - is such that the university certainly understands concerns that we may have about disruption in the neighborhoods and that is something that I get questions on from many of our residents,” Freda said.

But Freda said the university and the town of North Haven have built a relationship over the years that Freda believes will benefit the students of Quinnipiac and the residents of North Haven.

The main concern during this expansion is to minimize the amount of residential disruption, Freda said.

“Through the outstanding communication that we have with Quinnipiac University, we are trying to create what we call a town-and-gown model such that the university could grow, the town benefits from economic developments and jobs and positions of faculty and administrators, but also protects the residential areas … from any neighborhood disruptions,” Freda said.

Vice President for Public Affairs Lynn Bush-

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Above is the area surrounding the North Haven campus. The university plans to build senior-only apartments on Northern Washington Avenue. nell does not expect the university or the town of North Haven to experience any issues in regards to off-campus housing.

“I don’t believe the kinds of neighborhood incidents that have occurred in Hamden will take place in North Haven,” Bushnell said. “The Hamden issues really are a result of the town’s permit procedures for rental properties, which only the town can fix.”

Still, Hamden Mayor Curt Leng understood and supported Freda’s fears.

“The expansion into North Haven is a good opportunity for the university and I hope that the off-campus housing issues are thought out well in North Haven certainly so they don’t end up struggling with some of the same issues we have here in Hamden five to 10 years down the road,” Leng said.

Allie Otlowski, a sophomore whose father

works in Hamden, said she thinks the North Haven expansion will be good for her as a health science major.

“I’m going to be going into North Haven anyway my junior year so it’s good,” Otlowski said.

Otlowski said she thinks we should improve the relationship with Hamden before expanding into North Haven.

“It is kind of damaging to Hamden, but then again, our relationship isn’t very good.

But instead of trying to, like, run away from it, we should try and build on it and fix it so we don’t have as much tension,” she said.

Freshman Cooper Filhaber said he thinks this expansion might wake up the officials in Hamden to want to improve their relationship with Quinnipiac.

“I think we are sort of giving a low-blow to

Hamden...but, at the same time, they were lowblowing us to begin with. I mean, let’s face it: nearly every office in town has been buddybuddy with us for a while except for the absolute higher-ups and that’s where our problems are stemming from,” Filhaber said.

But Freda also knows the positives that come with the university’s expansion into the town.

“Expansion on the [North Haven] campus there is good for the town,” Freda said. “It brings in the opportunity for me to use Quinnipiac University as an economic development catalyst for Northern Washington Avenue.”

The residents of North Haven are supportive, but still concerned about the university expanding into their town, according to Freda.

“The town has reacted positively [to the news of the expansion],” Freda said. “But also, throughout the positive reactions, there are questions I’m being asked and there are some concerns about what could happen in the future.”

The university added two shuttles that go into North Haven from Quinnipiac.

Freda said the shuttle routes in North Haven have not changed anything about the town.

“I have not seen a dynamic change [because of the shuttles],” Freda said. “But the businesses on Universal Drive are very happy.”

But even though university President John Lahey was quoted in the New Haven Register saying some administrative offices might be relocated to North Haven, Bushnell said this does not mean anything about which campus is referred to as the “main” campus.

“We view all three campuses as ‘equals’ and there is no so-called ‘main’ campus,” Bushnell said. “Each has a different flavor and purpose, but one is not more important than another.”

Hamden mayor offers suggestions to improve town-gown relations Now that the university has called off its plans to build housing on York Hill, Hamden Mayor Curt Leng said he has other ideas to curb the conflicts between students who live off campus and their neighbors.

These ideas include the university requiring students to apply to live off campus in non-university owned housing.

“That allows the university [to have] some more control over real problematic locations,” Leng said. “Because the vast majority of our off-campus students are not causing problems in our neighborhoods, but the ones that do and do repeatedly should be dealt with.”

However, Associate Vice President for Public Relations John Morgan said in a statement that the university has no plans to do this.

Senior Bianca Waffenschmidt lives off campus. She said the university should not have the right to do this anyway.

“If I want to rent a house just like any other person in the Hamden community I don’t have to apply to rent, I just have to work out something with the landlord to rent it,” she said.

For years, Hamden citizens have complained

that students who live in residential areas are too noisy or destroy property. For example, residents became particularly frustrated in the fall of 2013 after the police broke up 14 different off-campus parties attended by hundreds of students. Several students were arrested that weekend.

But Leng said he does not want students to be arrested. He would rather have the university discipline students who consistently cause problems for police and residents.

“That’s not something I think is helpful to the student,” he said. “If someone’s just making some noise, I’m not looking to have them arrested, to have them have a record. Whereas if we’re working together with the university and we have a number of problems in a particular house, we could have a ‘three strikes and you’re out’ type of rule where the university then says look, you didn’t follow our code of conduct and you can’t live in the neighborhood.”

Leng also wants to have Resident Assistants (RA’s) patrol the neighborhoods, including the houses Quinnipiac does not own, with the police.

This is something RAs did about 10 years ago with the police on some weekends, including May weekend, Leng said.

“So if there was a problem off campus they would address it as a combo package,” he said.

“The RA would handle it from the student conduct side, the police department would handle it from the law enforcement side. The police chief expressed that that worked successfully, so I’m thinking that would be very helpful as well.”

“If someone is just making some noise, I’m not going to have them arrested to have them on the record.”

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Hamden mayor

The university also is not planning to have RAs patrol neighborhoods with the Hamden police, according to Morgan.

Waffenschmidt said she would not be happy if RAs patrolled with the police.

“I don’t see any reason why an RA should come to my house that I rent privately,” she said. “I mean not that I think that an RA would be called to my house because I’m not going

to do anything that an RA would be coming to my house, even if I lived on campus, but they shouldn’t be coming into my private property anyway.”

But junior Chris Gardner said he wouldn’t have a problem with this.

“I think that that’s a good idea,” he said. “It would keep Hamden and the school happy and in good terms, so I suppose it’s not a big deal.”

Although the town and university conflict on off-campus housing issues, this does not mean they cannot work together in other ways, Leng said. Hamden and QU can collaborate on student-learning opportunities and infrastructure improvements that help both groups, he said.

“For whatever reason over time that hasn’t happened in every area with the university and the town,” Leng said. “I think it’s mainly because the increase in the off-campus housing has made it difficult because our residents are frustrated and as mayor of a town with 60,000 people, my first responsibility is to make sure that there neighborhoods are protected and when I mention those people those are the students living there too.”

Young: Lahey ‘wanted to be front and center’ for parade LAWSUIT from cover Channel 11 (WPIX) said it would broadcast the parade for free, according to the lawsuit.

WPIX would also share some of the profits with the St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee.

Francis Comerford, an executive at NBC, is also the director of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade Inc. He talked to Lahey about keeping the broadcast on NBC, rather than exploring the option of broadcasting on WPIX, according to the lawsuit.

“It is believed that the actions of Mr. Lahey were done more to benefit NBC, Mr. Comerford, Mr. Lahey and Quinnipiac University rather than to benefit the parade and its supporters,” the lawsuit said.

Court records show Lahey held a meeting in June 2015 while Dunleavy was away to discuss removing him as chairman of the board of directors for the parade. He also proposed having three hand-picked directors for the St. Patrick’s Day Parade Inc., including an unnamed member from Quinnipiac University. Normally, those in the board know prospective members and can vet them, Young said.

“That was not the case here,” Young said.

“John Lahey simply grabbed people he wanted to vote the way he wanted to vote.”

Instead of using the committee’s secretary director to take minutes at the meeting, Lahey had a Quinnipiac employee do it, which is against the group’s bylaws, according to the lawsuit.

“Some have referred to Mr. Lahey’s meth-

ods as secretive, misleading and deceitful,” the lawsuit said.

When Dunleavy tried to talk to Lahey about this, Lahey hired a lawyer. The court documents allege that Lahey is using Quinnipiac’s money to pay the lawyer.

Young said he thinks Lahey’s lawyer said this when they spoke over the phone, but he is not certain this is true.

“That’s my recollection. I think [Lahey’s lawyer] did indicate he was paid by Quinnipiac,” Young said.

The lawsuit also stated Lahey’s actions are being referred to as the “Quinnipiac Coup.”

“The foregoing exposes that the actions of John Lahey were a flagrant power grab from someone who had worked for decades to

proudly present the St. Patrick’s Day Parade,” the lawsuit states.

However, Smith said the entire board voted on these decisions with a two-to-one margin. Lahey did not take these actions alone, Smith said.

“We can’t dignify these baseless charges with a response,” Smith said.

The 2016 St. Patrick’s Day parade will be an important one, Young said, because it is the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising, the rebellion that marked the beginning of Irish independence.

“I think Mr. Lahey wanted to be front and center for this special parade,” Young said.

The university would not comment to The Chronicle for this story.

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By Tara O’Neill

Quinnipiac United Way kicks off The university’s faculty and staff charitable campaign kicked off on Oct. 15. The theme of this year’s campaign is “making positive change happen.” The annual campaign will donate money to build a better community in the Greater New Haven area. There will be four sponsored events held throughout the remainder of the semester--food truck day on Nov. 4, an online auction from Nov. 9-13, a bake sale on Dec. 7 and a basket raffle from Dec. 7-11. Faculty and staff can make online donation and donations via pledge form from the individual faculty and staff team captains for the campaign.

University to celebrate Fechner Day The university’s psychology department will hold its annual celebration in honor of physicist Gustav Fechner on Thursday, Oct. 22.

The day honors Fechner for the discovery that psychological experience could be measured in a scientific way. This year’s celebration will be held from 5-7:30 p.m. in the Center for Psychological Science in the Center for Communications & Engineering.

Theater group to perform For one night only, Tieline Theatre will have a performance in the Blackbox Theater in CAS2 on Oct. 24 at 7:30 p.m. The play, “Twelfth Night,” is about a shipwreck survivor who falls in love. Tieline Theatre describes the play as Shakespeare’s most lyrical and funniest romantic comedy. There will be no charge for admission, but seating is limited. To reserve a seat, email tielinetheater@gmail.com.

Thanksgiving bus service available The Quinnipiac University Parents Association is providing three bus service options for students to travel home for Thanksgiving break-Natick, Massachusetts; Uniondale, New York; and Paramus, New Jersey.

Limited seats are remaining on the bus to Massachusetts. The buses to New Jersey are currently full, but a third bus will be added if there is enough interest. Students looking to go to New Jersey can be added to a waiting list.

The buses will depart campus on Nov. 20 at 5 p.m. and will depart from their individual locations to return to campus on Nov. 29 at 2 p.m. The cost of a round-trip ticket is $45. Seat reservations can be made at www.quinnipiac. edu/holidaybuses15.

October 21, 2015

The clock tower music is a tradition that is over half a century old

By JENNIE TORRES Contributing Writer

Across the Mount Carmel campus, sounds of music ring out at every hour from the clock tower on the Arnold Bernhard Library. While the library provides peace and quiet, its clock tower keeps people updated with the time through short jingles.

Vice President of Facilities Operations Keith Woodward explained the origin of the clock tower.

“When the Mount Carmel campus was proposed in the early 1960s, university officials had a different plan for the clock tower,” Woodward said. “The tower was going to be in the center of the Quadrangle and not attached to the library, but in 1964 or 1965, the government mandated that the tower had to be part of a building to qualify for government funding.”

Woodward said the clock tower originally contained a Carillon system, which is the part of the tower that actually plays the music, donated by the Nils Sahlin family. But the new Carillon system has digitized music that cannot be played by hand. This feature makes it impossible to replicate the clock tower music on the system.

A Carillon is a musical instrument that is composed of at least 23 Carillon bells, according to the Guild of Carilloneuers of North America’s website.

The only time the Carillon was ever played manually was back in 1976, for Hamden’s bicentennial firework display, according to Woodward. It was manually played by a faculty member from a keyboard that was formerly in Alumni Hall--now the piazza of the Carl Hansen Student Center.

Now, the music from the clock tower features tunes that originated from popular franchises.

“New music is added to the bell tower playlist every few years,”

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The clock tower is located at the top of the Arnold Bernhard Library.

Woodward said. “The university’s senior superintendent of mechanical services goes through a music catalog and selects songs he thinks are reasonably recognizable.”

Freshman Andrew Gentile recommended some possible clock tower music--mainly for this month of October.

“For Halloween, they could play the Halloween theme or ‘This is Halloween’ [from ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’],” Gentile said.

Junior Alexi Mangili, said that she too would like Halloweenthemed music to play when the holiday arrives. Like Gentile, Mangili requested ‘This is Halloween’ as well as the ‘Monster Mash.’

The university’s method of choosing the clock tower music frustrates some students, like sophomore Felicia Duch.

Some students mentioned not being able to remember some of the songs, including Duch, who said

that though the music is refreshing, she wished there were more recognizable songs.

“I understand preserving tradition,” she said. “I just think that it’s also important to include newer songs.”

Duch suggested a song by Bruce Springsteen or the Jackson 5.

Other students actually do recognize some music, like freshman Austin Scudder.

“I think they played ‘Sweet Caroline’ once and I was loving it,” Scudder said.

Freshman Nivea Acosta said she likes the music, except at night.

“The music is really nice, but sometimes I find it really eerie during the later hours,” Acosta said.

But, despite that, Acosta said she appreciates the university’s efforts to offer students with unique musical snippets.

“What other universities have that?” she asked. “At least here you get to hear ‘The Godfather’ theme and ‘Star Wars’ and that’s a nice change.”

Acosta even requested for the clock tower to play a favorite of hers called, “Welcome to the Jungle” by Guns & Roses.

Freshman Nhung An said she would prefer if the clock tower played music from the musical “Les Misérables” since she has a love for musical soundtracks.

It is uncertain whether or not these requests can be implemented right away, but Woodward did confirm that the clock tower music won’t be silenced any time soon.

“The Carillion continues to play the music thousands of students, parents, faculty, staff and other friends of the university hear each time they step foot on the Quadrangle on the Mount Carmel Campus,” Woodward said.

SGA senior class cabinet hosts pre-game

By KELLY RYAN Staff Writer

The Student Government Association’s (SGA) senior class cabinet put on its first ever Men’s Hockey pre-game event for seniors only on Tuesday, Oct. 20 before the game against the University of Maine.

The first 100 seniors to reserve a $2 ticket were invited to attend the pre-game in the basketball concourse at the TD Bank Sports Center at York Hill, where they were fed endless appetizers, allowed to purchase drinks at a cash bar and admitted into the hockey game for free.

Every senior was required to bring photo identification when picking up the ticket, as well as when they arrived at the event. Seniors under 21 were able attend the event but did not receive a wristband allowing access to the cash bar.

The pre-game event began at 5:30 p.m. and ran until game time.

SGA’s Senior Class President, Matthew Powers, said the senior class cabinet came up with the idea after a similar event was put on prior to a basketball game when he was a sophomore.

“We wanted to adapt that to a hockey game and do the same kind

of thing,” Powers said.

To get approval for this event, the senior class cabinet had to meet with facilities to make sure space was available to hold a large group of people.

Then the senior cabinet met with Executive Director of the TD Bank Sports Center Eric Grgurich to make sure he was on board with the idea.

Finally, catering was set up in conjunction with Chartwells.

Since SGA sold alcohol at the event, the organization had to follow specific regulations for admittance.

“We have to check [seniors’] birthdays through the university’s system. We I.D. them when they buy the ticket and also at the door. People can still come if they’re not 21 and they’re a senior, but they won’t get a wristband,” Powers said.

Bartenders only provided alcohol to students with wristbands and facilities put a 100 person cap on the event due to the limited amount of space in the basketball concourse.

SGA hopes to have another event before a basketball game in the spring that will draw people to both women’s and men’s basketball.

“I’m kind of excited that it’s a senior event because we don’t really have any just senior events,” senior Amanda Stephan said.

Senior Nikki Schultz believes

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Student Government Association’s senior class cabinet sold tickets to the pre-game in North Lot last week. the pre-game is a safe environment, even though alcohol is served.

“It definitely brings people together,” Schultz said. “I think it’s a great idea that SGA is actually putting on a drinking event in a safe way...not in an unsafe way.”

Despite the excitement from seniors, some underclassmen felt a bit excluded.

“I am wondering why underclassmen can’t go and just not get

wristbands. It should be welcoming for everyone,” freshman Rachael Durand said.

Powers said the goal of the pregame was mainly for seniors to socialize with each other, as well as with SGA, and to rally more people to attend the men’s hockey game.

“We want to get seniors excited about our sporting events,” Powers said.

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Slow BobcatNet frustrates students

By HANNAH FEAKES Staff Writer

This past week, the lack of wireless connection and the snail-like speed of the internet has been worse than usual.

Executive Director of Technology Infrastructure John Scott manages a variety of groups that handle different areas of technology and infrastructure, including networking.

“We were definitely experiencing a problem within our wireless network and the impact was ultimately very widespread and caused outages for many users on the Mount Carmel campus,” he said. “We saw glimpses of the issue late on [Oct. 8 and 9] but at that time we did not have any formal complaints from end-users and decided to continue monitoring the situation over the weekend.”

Scott said the issues continued and even worsened on Oct. 12. At first, Scott said it was obvious that the issue involved many layers of technological difficulties. But once the true problems were found, the connection was stabilized by the following afternoon.

“We continue to monitor and work with our vendors to make sure we do everything possible to prevent this sort of thing from happening again,” he said.

Although BobcatNet is currently undergoing maintenence, many students who are unaware of the attempts to fix the connection are getting frustrated with the wireless.

When freshman Elise Arsenault was asked what came to her mind when she thought of BobcatNet, she responded with: slow, unreliable and poor quality.

Junior Allie Weber, who lives on York Hill, experienced the network problems and expressed frustration when it came time to submit an assignment online.

“BobcatNet has been terrible lately,” she said. “The slow connection takes forever to get Wi-Fi and it is really frustrating when I went to do an online assignment on Blackboard and couldn’t because the Wi-Fi kept disconnecting.”

Freshman Nicole Gacsi, said she blames an overpopulated server for the problems.

“I don’t appreciate it at all,” Gacsi said. “[The internet] is faulty and overpopulated. Too many people use it at once and our class is so big that they can’t handle all of us.”

Scott provided more technical details about the problem and gave a day-by-day report on what went wrong with BobcatNet last week.

He explained that all wireless devices “search” between the thousands of wireless access points deployed all around campus in order to access the internet.

“As a device roams and connects to a different access point, it needs to re-associate with our network,” Scott said. “Each time it re-associates, a small, and usually unnoticeable, transaction must occur to ensure that roaming is smooth and the connection stays secure.”

Scott said the issues over the last week and a half were caused by the systems on the back-end of the wireless infrastructure. The solution was found when necessary adjustments were made to the system, according to Scott.

Most of those changes were made late on Tuesday, Oct. 13, and the performance and availability was normal again through the rest of the week.

A majority of students, including freshman Hailey Bergquist, have reacted negatively to the slow connection, claiming it could pose a threat to their grades.

“The [poor connection] is definitely inconvenient,” Bergquist said. “I cannot rely on the Internet to get my work done and I use ‘Webassign’ a lot which means I have online deadlines and I can’t submit my work on time.”

BobcatNet undergoes occasional network maintenance, according to Scott. He said it is not uncommon for the system to experience hardware failures and impact users. BobcatNet is currently in the process of completing a multi-year network upgrade, which Scott predicted would be done over winter break.

“Once complete, we expect even better performance and greater reliability in all aspects of our campus network, including the wireless,” Scott said.

For some students, the lack of internet connection is affecting their opinion of Quinnipiac’s ability to take care of their students and academia.

“It honestly does [affect my opinion of Quinnipiac] because I pay $60,000 a year to go here and I can’t even get good internet,” Bergquist said.

Sophomore Darcy DiModugno said the poor Internet becomes a problem when she

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A student struggles to connect her laptop to the wireless router in her room. needs it to complete something for class.

“When you’re trying to do homework online that is due at a certain point but you can’t because the connection won’t work, it is frustrating,” DiModugno said.

But DiModugno said this problem could be solved if the Wi-Fi was split between grade levels or alphabetically.

“They need to have more than one available Wi-Fi,” she said. “They should find a way to split up students and put them on different serv-

ers so not every single person on campus is on the same Wi-Fi...[having] too many people on at the same time is why it is so slow.”

Senior Maggie Cashman lives in a house off campus and compared BobcatNet to her Comcast network at home.

“When I open my laptop at home, my internet has already connected,” Cashman said. “When I’m at school, I have connection issues… I feel like it is impairing my ability to do the work that I need to in class.”

Health Services provides flu shot clinics

By MATT GRAHN Staff Writer

With flu season coming around, Student Health Services is making sure that the Quinnipiac community is well prepared by offering free flu shots.

There will be four upcoming flu clinics on Oct. 21 and Oct. 22 at the York Hill Campus, Nov. 3 in the Carl Hansen Student Center and Nov. 5 at the North Haven Campus.

They are all open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The vaccines are free to students, faculty and staff, according to Director of Student Health Services Christy Chase. However, there is a limited number of vaccines available. The vaccines are on a first-come, firstserve basis, and clinics may close earlier than the listed 5 p.m. time.

If the school runs out of vaccines for the season, Chase urges students to receive a vaccine from a pharmacy. She wants people to understand the seriousness of the flu, despite it being common in a world where other illnesses can receive more attention.

“People would have wanted a vaccine for [Ebola]. Well, a whole lot more people die from the flu than Ebola in this country,” she said.

Senior Sara Olyaei, a biomedical science major, also understands the importance of having the flu shot. She says that it’s necessary to keep up with the vaccines so that, over time, one’s body is prepared for a variety of flu types.

Olyaei understands that some people may not vaccinate for moral reasons, but she doesn’t understand why someone wouldn’t

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Free flu clinics are available throughout the months of October and early November. get a vaccine otherwise.

“Would you rather sit down and watch TV for five hours and just like, end up doing nothing, [or] you can get a vaccine and not expose yourself to any type of the flu,” she said.

Freshman Zoey Moniz is someone who doesn’t usually get a flu shot. She said that

it isn’t because of any religious or moral views, but just that she hasn’t gotten it in the past and doesn’t see the need to get it now.

“I have two other sisters and we usually don’t get the flu shot and … we usually don’t get the flu,” Moniz said.

If people are afraid of getting the flu shot due

to possible side effects, Chase said not to worry.

The virus within the vaccine is inactive, so the recipient cannot get the flu. Chase said the side effects usually include aches, swelling around the injection site, headaches and perhaps a mild fever. Any side effects that would happen would occur within two days of receiving the shot. If the recipient experiences discomfort, Chase said they can take acetaminophen or ibuprofen for it.

Junior Sara Jess was a student who was at an earlier clinic this semester. She said the only side effect she experienced was her arm being sore for the rest of the day.

Jess says she saw fellow undergraduates in the Health Science program administering the shots, some of whom she knows. Jess feels that it was a good idea to get the shot because she would not want to get sick while she’s away from her home in New Jersey.

“It’s awful. Your mom isn’t here to like, I don’t know, make soup and stuff. You’re on your own and you still have to do everything,” she said.

Along with having the vaccine, which takes two weeks to be active, Chase wants students to take care of themselves during the flu season, including good hand washing, coughing into one’s sleeve and being well-rested.

Even though the school isn’t required to provide for flu shots, Chase likes that the school puts in the effort to do so.

“I think they look out for the wellness of their students, and it’s a great service they provide, trying to keep the community healthy,” she said.

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Students attend annual career fair

By VICTORIA SIMPRI Contributing Writer

Each year students get decked out in their best attire to market themselves at the university-wide career fair.

The career fair is an annual event that helps students get in contact with high-end companies and get some facetime with actual representatives from corporations in the Greater New Haven area and the country.

Nearly 200 companies signed up to seek out new hires from Quinnipiac students this year. Big name companies like Verizon, Amazon and BMW were in attendance while smaller companies such as the Housing Authority Insurance (HAI) Group and the accounting firm BlumShapiro attended as well.

Jill Ferrall, associate dean for career development for the school of business and engineering, has been in charge of running the career fair for the past nine years, and this year the fair had a great turn out from both students and companies.

“The numbers have always been pretty good,” Ferrall said. “This year we have 200 companies, last year we had 175. Which is good, it is showing that more employers want our students.”

Approximately 800 to 1,000 students attended the career fair this year, according to Ferrall.

“I was pretty pleased with the turnout that we even had a line out the door. That made me really happy, and it makes the employers feel really good it makes them want to come back if they feel wanted,” Ferrall said.

According to Ferrall, it is best to come to the career fair as a freshman and get a feel for the environment.

“The main thing is when you show up, even as a freshman feeling it out, is to be

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Approximately 800 to 1,000 Quinnipiac students searched for jobs and internships at this year’s career fair on Oct. 15. professionally dressed. You don’t have a second chance to make a first impression.”

Senior media studies major Annie Noordsy has been coming to the career fair since she was a freshman and has learned since then how to prepare for the career fair.

“Freshman year I didn’t print out a resumé; I didn’t really have a resumé freshman year,” Noordsy said. “But every year since I’ve printed out resumés and dressed in a business appropriate outfit.”

Noordsy also sympathized with first-year students attending the career fair.

“I know it’s really hard to go up and start talking to people you don’t know, but the companies will appreciate the effort that you are putting in, even so early,” she said.

There can be huge benefits for those who attend to career fair, according to Noordsy.

“I know people who have interned at certain places and those internships have turned into jobs, so the career fair definitely helps,” Noordsy said.

Brain Zaletta, a representative from BMW of North Haven as well as a Quinnipiac alumni, stated that there are currently

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When it comes down to it, your resumé is the deciding factor on whether you get your dream job. Noel Turano, a representative from Edible Arrangements, said it is important that your resume is laid out professionally.

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Imagine: You’re sitting in class and there’s been a school shooting that day somewhere in America. The professor asks the question: Why do you think school shootings happen?

All across the room you hear uproar. A quarter of the class screams it’s a lack of gun control. A quarter defends that guns aren’t the problem, that the foTHAMAR BAILEY cus should be on mental Staff Writer illness. The remaining @ThamarAleese half of the class is mute, some are rolling their eyes because this has become common discussion topic, heard again and again.

The fact of the matter is, school shootings are too common. One school shooting that struck the hearts of Americans nationwide is the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting in 2012. Adam Lanza, 20, shot and killed 20 children and six adults.

There has been approximately one Adam Lanza per week. In other words, on average there has been one school shooting per week since 2013, according to everytownresearch.org.

“Somehow this has become routine. The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine… We’ve become numb to this,” President Barack Obama stated after a recent school shooting.

In October alone, there have been three school shootings.

On Oct. 1 at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, Christopher

Harper-Mercer killed nine and wounded an additional nine people, according to ABC News.

On Oct. 9 a gunman, suspected to be Steven Jones, shot and killed one and hospitalized three others at Northern Arizona University, according to ABC News.

In addition on Oct. 9, a gunman at Texas Southern University shot and killed one person and wounded another, according to BBC. After each school shooting politicians, eyewitnesses and average people alike made speculations regarding the leading cause of such a heinous crime.

Republicans pointed out mental illness as the culprit, while Democrats placed a blinding light on gun control laws.

But some people cited violent video games for a possible explanation for a rise in school shootings.

Chris Mintz, an army veteran who was an eyewitness at the Oregon shooting stated the gunman acted “like he was playing a video game.”

Are video games a determinant in school shootings? Indeed, they are common in popular culture; however, does that make them a culprit?

According to the study findings of Christopher Ferguson, a psychologist and professor at Stetson University in Florida, there is no clear proof that there is a correlation between violent media and violence. In fact,

Ferguson went as far as to question the methods of studies that have proven the correlation between violent media and violence.

Video games are a stress release for much of the population. Yes, there are games that revolve around shooting and killing people.

But does that mean everyone who picks up a video game is going to kill someone? In my opinion, no.

People have different predispositions, different morals and definitions of right and wrong. There is a certain concoction of personality, development, psychological and circumstantial elements that create a killer.

So does that bring mental illness into question? Certainly, people with mental illnesses have a different perspective on the world and may create false realities and preconceived notions of the circumstances that surround a situation. However, do not fall into the fallacy that all shooters are mentally unstable because they’re not and shouldn’t be treated as such.

As for gun control, suppose gun laws are stricter. Does this solve the problem? A common criticism for the change in gun law policy is that it doesn’t change the possibility of a person stealing a gun from a family member or someone within proximity and committing a crime.

In any case we need to stop talking about what ifs and possibilities and lock down on the problem, because this problem is becoming a norm.

You can never have too many guy friends Sometimes I question why I hang out with so many guys, even though I’m a girl.

In high school I had tons of guy friends, and college has proved no different.

The majority of people I am still friends with from high school are all guys and I hang out with them regularly when I’m home. My first friend at Quinnipiac is a guy and he is still one of my best friends to this day.

I sometimes feel like people look at me funny or judge me when I am the only girl surrounded by a group of guys, but then I realize that it really doesn’t matter and it is very trivial for someone to judge you because you’re with a group of the opposite gender.

I have plenty of friends who are girls and I love them just as much as my guy friends.

But I am well aware that when I count all the friends I’ve made in my life both from home and from Quinnipiac, the majority rules: I have more guy friends than girl friends.

As a kid I always felt like I was “one of the boys” because I generally found myself surrounded by my guy friends in school. I had a handful of girl friends, but most of the time I would spend recess playing with all the guys, whether it be an intense game of

The most important thing I have learned hide and seek or kickball.

I still feel that way to this day. Sometimes over the years is you shouldn’t see gender I would rather sit down with my guy friends when choosing your friends, especially your best friends. and play a 30-move game Sure, it’s great to have of Mario Party until 2 SARAH DOIRON a lot of girl friends when a.m., screaming, laughing you’re a girl because you and cursing at one another Co-News Editor get to do what are considwhile stuffing our faces @SarahDoiron31 ered “girly things,” but with pizza. it’s also good to have a Now I am not saying group of guys to hang out that I play to the genwith to balance it. der stereotype, because Even though my scale is slightly off, I I would most certainly do the same exact thing with any of my girl friends. But not all love all of my friends the same. Whether it’s girls like to do that, and that’s okay. Some a guy friend or a girl friend, I’m friends with of my guy friends don’t like to do that either them because they make me laugh, make me feel better when I’m upset, they listen to me and that’s fine, too.

It’s important to know that as a girl, rant and they’re just great people to spend there’s nothing wrong with having too many time with.

So just remember: it’s okay to be one guy friends. In fact, there’s no such thing as too many guy friends. The only person who of the boys sometimes. It’s okay to have an enormous number of guy friends if you’re can judge you for it is yourself.

For the longest time I always felt weird a girl. It’s even okay to have a lot of girl because I would constantly find myself friends if you’re a guy. In the end, if these walking around campus with a group of people make you happy and you always guys, but now as I enter my junior year I want to spend time with them, that’s what realize that no one really cares who you’re best friends are, right? hanging out with.

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THE TRUMP DEBATE

Which side are you on?

Trump is dangerous to our country ANTI-TRUMP

When Donald Trump announced over the summer that he was running for president, I— like many people—laughed. I looked forward to the hilarity that would be his campaign. No one could possibly take this joke seriously, I thought. But at least the entertainment factor of some rich reality TV show guy running for president would bring more attention to the election, causing more people to vote, thus improving our democratic process.

Yet, as Trump’s campaign has gone on, his candidacy has become a lot less funny and a lot more problematic.

Trump showed us his ignorance when he said in July that Sen. John McCain, who was tortured during the Vietnam War for more than five years, should not be considered a “war hero” because he was captured.

He displayed his sexism when he remarked on CNN that Megyn Kelly, one of the hosts of the first Republican debate, had “blood coming out of her...wherever” when she asked him a question about his attitude toward women. Trump later said he meant

Kelly’s nose or ear, but in reality it was a hidden reference to Kelly’s menstrual period. In other words, Trump was saying women cannot ask tough questions, cannot be strong.

When they do, they are just angry and hormonal because they’re on their periods.

Worst of all, Trump’s sweeping generalizations about Mexicans are sickening. His idea to deport all the undocumented immigrants in the United States is not only a logistical nightmare, but a sign of xenophobia and hatred. As many people have pointed out on social media and in the news, the way Trump places the problems in American society (for example, a struggling economy and unemployment) on immigrants, resembles how Adolf Hitler scapegoated the Jews for Germany’s economic issues after World War I. This comparison may sound extreme, but Trump’s rhetoric creates an environment of fear and hatred toward a particular group.

Some Latinos say they have noticed people have treated them differently since Trump called Mexican immigrants “rapists” and criminals in his candidacy speech. In one editorial for The Guardian, Tina Vasquez,

a Latina woman, describes how in the past few months strangers and acquaintances have asked her friends and family members about their legal status.

“As a lightskinned, biracial Latina in one of the JULIA PERKINS most diverse and Editor-in-Chief Mexican-centric cities in the nation, @JuliaPerkinsHP I have never been asked the type of questions I’m now fielding from white people,” Vasquez writes.

Already Trump’s views may be inciting violence toward Latinos. For example, the Boston Globe reported in August that two men beat up a homeless Hispanic man, and one of the alleged assaulters told the police: “Donald Trump was right, all these illegals need to be deported.”

Trump’s response to the incident was no less disturbing.

“It would be a shame,” Trump told the Globe. “I will say that people who are fol-

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PRO-TRUMP

As of Oct. 19, “With the backing of 25 percent of Republican primary voters, Trump is at his highest level of support in the poll since entering the 2016 race,” according to NBC News.

If you’re like me, you don’t see the name “Trump” and immediately shudder, feel sick to your stomach and quickly move on. I commend you for this but I wouldn’t blame you either if you do. So where we are left: Trump either has your favor or you still think his campaign is an asinine exhibit.

But is his harsh/blunt approach on issues his problem or is over-sensitivity our problem?

To quickly debrief, Trump has caught a lot of flack for his blatant social and economic views.

College students who are interested in politics typically have an agenda that focuses on social issues, because it’s more relatable and easy to understand rather than focusing on the economy.

It’s not how we view issues but rather the issues we are viewing.

It’s no surprise that Trump is most noted for his “woman-hating antics” or being racist. It’s easy to argue that he has no filter but people don’t argue about his policies, because people don’t care about them. It’s more interesting to talk about him calling all illegal aliens rapists, which is why the media focuses on that aspect so often.

The current American society is one of acceptance, but those who most strongly advocate for it will simultaneously shut you down the moment you voice any opinion other than theirs.

Trump is really just saying what no other politician will say. Politicians feed us so

with

Trump speaks his mind

much bullsh*t all of the time and you have to wonder what they really mean by what they say, but with Trump, it’s different.

Trump has more ability than others to speak his mind on issues because he funds himself.

“I’m using my own money. I’m not using the lobbyists; I’m not using donors,” he boasted to an audience. “I’m really rich!”

In the past few months he was able to close his wallet a bit because of the support he is getting from voters.

“The contributors are in small towns, suburbs and big cities. He’s raised money from hundreds of retirees, ranchers, dentists, physicians, real estate executives and financial consultants,” according to PBS. He doesn’t need to please his donors.

The only people he needs to please are the American people. And he is, as you can see in the first sentence of this article.

Trump calls things as they are, and the media and voters from all parties may not approve, but not many accuse him of his content being incorrect.

For instance, when he called all illegal aliens, rapists. Direct quote: “...people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

To be honest, we wouldn’t even be having a conversation about immigration if it weren’t for Trump. He isn’t just making assumptions, he’s exposing the broken immigration system. People are so focused on the offensive speech that they ignore the facts.

lowing me are very passionate. They love this country and they want this country to be great again. They are passionate.”

The way Trump dismisses the actions of his supporters shows how illprepared he is to be president.

Part of the job should be standing up for what is right and shutting down bigotry and violence.

Instead, Trump capitalizes on the backing of right-wing extremists. It is not a coincidence that white nationalists are throwing their support behind the candidate, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. They know Trump best represents their racist ideology.

Supporters praise Trump for saying what’s on his mind, even if it’s not “politically correct.” But one should not say offensive and incorrect things, especially if he is running for president. It would be one thing if Trump pushed for positive change by speaking his mind. But he has only fostered hatred.

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And it’s true, not all immigrants are rapists, but here are the facts. In 2014, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) committee released a document stating that in 2013 there were 193 murderers with homicide convictions, 426 people with sexual assault convictions and 16,000 criminal illegal aliens with drunk driving convictions.

“The document reveals that the 36,007 convicted criminal aliens freed from ICE custody in many instances had multiple convictions. Among them, the 36,007 had nearly 88,000 convictions,” according to the Center for Immigration Studies.

Did you read that correctly? Illegal aliens, who are criminals, were freed from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Their job is border control, and to enforce these rules to protect our country and they aren’t doing it. Trump is trying to fix the system, not just throw all illegals aliens out of the country. But the mainstream media doesn’t cover this because it’s not as sexy as Trump name calling.

“I love our country, but sometimes it’s jobs that a citizen of the United States doesn’t want to do,” Trump said in an interview with CNN. “I mean, there are jobs that a lot of people don’t want to do. I want to move them out, and we’re going to move them back in, and let them be legal, but they have to be in here legally. … Otherwise, you don’t have a country.”

If everyone were one-issue voters and their main concern was jobs, Trump should be seriously considered.

“I will be the greatest jobs president that God has ever created,” he said.

Yes, yes you would, Donald.

Trump plans on cutting the corporate tax rate. This isn’t just for giant companies, it’s all companies including mom-and-pop shops that will stimulate the economy by creating jobs, and an increase in GDP growth.

You can think Trump is an ass.

You don’t have to agree with what he says or his policies. But you should find it refreshing to hear a voice running for office that isn’t just an extension of someone else’s. And maybe the issue we should start to expand on isn’t his opinions but his lack of ability, as well as ours, to have opinions anymore without being labeled as a bigot or close-minded.

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Alexander Danieli is not your typical senior. Outside of class, he is busy making his musical dreams a reality.

Danieli’s interest in music sparked when he was about 4 yearsold. His older sister, Gabriella Taranovich (now age 25) took piano lessons but was not very serious about it. According to Danieli, Taranovich did not enjoy performing music in general, as she tried her hand at flute as well.

However, Danieli was definitely more intrigued by his sister’s contact with music than she was. He would constantly run into the piano room and steal his sister’s keyboard so he could play some tunes in his room.

“He definitely got the artistic gene,” Taranovich said. “He loves performing and writing music and is very talented in both aspects.”

Danieli’s music career intensified during his junior year of high school through songwriting. At first, he started to experiment with classical music, but then decided to switch over to pop music. “[Switching over from classical to pop music] was kind of my teenage rebellious moment,” he said with a smile on his face.

Through this transition, Danieli’s music has now transformed into a mix of indie pop and alternative. According to Danieli, the alternative aspect comes from the fact that uses atypical instruments, such as the viola, cello and violin. Additionally, he has incorporated screams, whistles, and door slams into some of his work. His inspirations, Regina Spektor and Florence and the Machine, have contributed significantly to the music style and the sort of sound that he wants to convey.

Danieli is known as the Sixth Ocean when he is on stage or recording. He came up with the stage name during his transitional phase as a junior in high school. Danieli has said there is no particular reason for the name, it just happened. His main goal through the music he writes is to reflect upon the narratives from his life.

“The main reason why I got into music is because it is a good way to give an inner monologue about the things that are going on in my life,” Danieli said.

Leah Caplan, a sophomore and a friend of Danieli, thinks highly of his personality and his path to success.

“I think on and off stage Alex pretty much has the same personality. He’s incredibly talented and infectiously happy,” Caplan said. “I think his music career is going to be very successful.”

However, his rise to success hasn’t been without challenges.

The main problems are time and money.

“As a broke college student, it gets difficult to manage living expenses,” Danieli said.

Danieli lives off campus with two roommates in Waterbury

and has to support himself. In order to ease the financial burden, he works as a barista in West Hartford.

“It’s pretty standard for musicians,” he said with a laugh.

Time has also been a key challenge that Danieli has learned to combat. Danieli is graduating two years early as a public relations major with a minor in music.

“Graduating in two years is probably my proudest moment.

It’s something that I did not think I could do,” Danieli said. “It took a lot of hard work and I am proud of myself for getting it done.”

He was able to pull this stunt off because he had many credits from high school and has been doing 26-credit semesters. Needless to say, classes have taken up a lot of his time.

“I have been doing a lot,” Danieli said. “I actually started [as] pre-med, too. So it has been a weird and rocky journey, but it has been good and I survived. I’m good at time management.”

Danieli ended up leaving the pre-med track relatively quickly.

Pre-med was not the best choice for him, as it did not give him room to pursue music in the way he wanted. The change to public relations was certainly for the better, he said.

Public relations gave him the opportunity to market himself, as he is self-creating his career, according to Danieli.

“All the skills that I have gotten through my PR training here have helped me enormously with music, which is great,” he said.

Danieli says he does find it slightly disappointing that Quinnipiac does not have a music major.

“I definitely weighed [Quinnipiac’s lack of a music major] in when I was looking for colleges,” he said. “I picked QU based off on the fact that it was closer to my family and it was still a very good school, despite not having the strongest music program.”

Originally, Danieli wanted to go to Brown University because of its music scene. However, he found that although the music program at Quinnipiac is small, it is very welcoming and warm.

“I started learning the harp here, which is cool and I use it in my music now,” he said.

Danieli believes there are still many ways to get involved with music at Quinnipiac. He recommends WQAQ in particular.

He is not personally affiliated with them, but he has consistently participated in their annual event, Battle of the Bands. He won the contest in fall 2014, the first semester he played.

Despite these obstacles, Danieli is not slowing down. Recently, he was one of the top 24 scorers for the 24 Hour Film Race. He was given the opportunity to attend a gala in New York City.

During the gala, there was a screening of the top 24 short films, followed by an awards ceremony, in which Danieli was nominated for Best Score and Best Film.

Sixth Ocean’s first EP album “Sleepcycles” is out now and has been received well by others. His only single is off the first EP and it is called “Strange Dreams.” There is also a Sixth Ocean music

video out, which can be found on YouTube, called “Something Here Where Nothing Used to Live.”

Caplan has no shortage of good things to say about Danieli and his work.

“I met him this summer, right when he was recording,” Caplan said. “I immediately noticed how extremely motivated he is.

He is such a genuinely good person and the type who deserves recognition. ” As for Danieli’s future plans?

“Pending on a few things that I need to finish, I want to move to Brooklyn and pursue music fulltime,” he said.

Be on the lookout for his upcoming album, “You Are Everything I Do Not Love About Myself,” set to come out in early 2016.

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Mental illness is a ‘Hot Stove’

Pi Beta Phi and the Psychology Club prompt discussion about the stigma of psychological disorders

By NISHA GHANDI and KELLIE MASON

Mental illness is often considered “taboo” in our society. More often than not, talking about psychological problems is considered “weird” and something to avoid. Last Wednesday, Pi Beta Phi and the Psychology Club came together to tackle the stigma against mental illness.

For the first 30 minutes of the event, the groups showed “How to Touch a Hot Stove,” a documentary explaining the negative meaning attached to the term “mental illness,” why it’s so important to break this tendency and how we, as a society, can go about doing this.

Many students attended the screening in the Mount Carmel Auditorium.

“This was a well put on presentation that open my eyes to a mental awareness movement that I wasn’t aware of,” Sara McWaters, a 3 + 3 physical therapy major, said.

According to the documentary, the word “stigma” was originally used to signify a mark burned onto a criminal or someone similar in order to differentiate them from the rest of the

world. Examples given were Hester Prynne’s “A” in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel “The Scarlet Letter” or the gold stars worn by Jews during Nazi Germany.

Sophomore psychology and criminal justice major Danielle Farrell said the event was eye-opening.

“It was only a short film but it made a big impact on everyone who was present to see it,” Farrell said.

The documentary emphasizes the perceived shame of mental illness has been made public, but was previously hidden and discussed less. It claims that the media plays a role in establishing this pattern, which ultimately makes those who have a mental illness feel isolated and misunderstood.

The stigma has also made it difficult to gain acceptance among peers and realize that their illnesses don’t define them.

Farrell said even though mental illness is a sensitive subject, it needs to be talked about.

“No progress happens without first opening the door for communication,” Farrell said. “When people don’t understand

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something, they have a tendency to fear it and consequently avoid it.”

“How to Touch a Hot Stove” shares some ideas about how to change society’s perception of mental illness. To start, they say that it is important for those with these diagnoses to have a support system and maintain relationships.

For example, one man in the film said that something that helped him the most was continuing to go to school so he could see his friends and still feel like he had something going for him.

In addition to this, the documentary argued that the easiest way to avoid shaming those with mental illnesses is to educate children about the disorders at a young age. By doing this, these children would grow up more knowledgeable and therefore accepting of those with mental illnesses, looking at them as they are just another person in society as opposed to an alien.

Farrell said if people educate kids at a young age about what it means to be classified with a mental disorder, then they can

become a more accepting and understanding generation.

The second half of the presentation was a discussion lead by Penny Leisring, a psychology professor at Quinnipiac. Leisring specializes in abnormal psychology and says she has a true passion for exploring mental illnesses and their effects on society.

McWaters said she thought Leisring did a good job at facilitating the discussion, she made listeners really think about what was said in the video.

In order to emphasize all the points brought up by the documentary, Leisring prompted the audience with questions about what they found most interesting about the documentary, new information we’d learned and various observations we’ve all made in our society overall.

“We must look at the person as the individual,” McWaters said. “Their diseases don’t define who they are. Every person has his or her own individual struggle and we aren’t here to judge him or her, we are here to help him or her.”

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Getting into the Halloween spirit

Shuttles waste gas and time

Think you’re too old for haunted houses and Halloween monsters? Think again. At the Trail of Terror in Wallingford, parents are encouraged to think twice before bringing their children to this autumn attraction that truly lives up to its name.

The trail is an outdoor maze with different “rooms” that are decorated for the theme of the year. This fall, it’s a haunted carnival. The staff is made up of volunteers who are dressed to impress, or rather, to scare the crap out of you. Who wouldn’t be frighted by a creepy, chainsaw-wielding clown following you around in a dark maze?

The wait is long, as this is a popular place for the brave souls and the friends they tricked into coming, but creepy carnival characters pop out and prey on those in line. It is highly encouraged that you purchase a time-specific ticket online instead of buying general admission at the gate, because they sell out fast. Worried about the price? While it is fairly expensive for the average college student, ringing in at $15-20, a large portion of the proceeds go to the Wallingford Emergency Shelter. Additionally, there’s a group discount for parties of 10 if you happen to be thrifty and popular.

If you’re worried you’ll be too busy screaming and running away to take a commemorative selfie, there is a conveniently located midway point that is great for photo opportunities and also serves food. Score! –C. Millin

Last Wednesday at exactly 1:52 p.m., there were well over 50 students at the shuttle stop in South Lot. Presumably, many of these students had just gotten out of their 1 p.m. classes and were headed up to York Hill to relax, study or eat a lunch that didn’t come from the cafe. I was one of these students, but none of us got on a shuttle until 2:05 p.m.

Now, you may be thinking, “Stop complaining, it was only 13 minutes,” but there were three shuttles in South Lot. THREE. And all of them were on break.

I’m not saying shuttle drivers shouldn’t get breaks. Obviously they should. But why can’t the people in charge of the shuttle schedules stagger drivers’ breaks, or plan breaks for less popular times?

Or better yet, hire more drivers so the drivers can take a break but the shuttles can keep running.

When I finally got on a shuttle, we drove up to the Westwoods parking lot. You know, the parking lot that no one uses anymore. Why is there no system to call for the shuttle when you need one? It would be way more energy-efficient to only make detours to the Polling Institute or Whitney Village when someone requests a ride to or from there. Shuttles making these unnecessary routes wastes gas, increases carbon dioxide emissions and annoys students (or at least, me).

I have some perspective. I’m thankful for the slew of shuttles that regularly take me to my dorm, which is more than can be said for the international students living near the Hamden Plaza (see last week’s issue). But I’m still annoyed. –J. Cibelli

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Getting ‘Goosebumps’ R. L. Stine’s young adult series converted to film

By ALAN JOHNSON Contributing Writer

For a certain generation, R. L. Stine’s “Goosebumps” book series evokes a large amount of nostalgia. Too scary for little kids, but too childish for adults, “Goosebumps” was the king of the young adult genre, long before Katniss

Everdeen volunteered as tribute. With more than 300 million books sold in 32 different languages, it was only a matter of time before Hollywood came knocking on Stine’s door.

The only question would be what story to use for the film. Would it be “The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena,” in which the titular character terrorizes the California town? What

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Actor Jack Black speaks about “Goosebumps” at the San Diego Comic Con.

about “Night of the Living Dummy,” featuring the creepy Slappy the Dummy? Or perhaps “Monster Blood,” with a slime that makes people grow bigger into giants? How about all of those and every other iconic character from the “Goosebumps” series?

The film begins like a classic “Goosebumps” book. Teenager Zach, played by Dylan Minnette, moves to Madison, Delaware where he meets his neighbor Hannah (Odeya Rush) and her mysterious father, played by Jack Black. In a clever twist, it is revealed that Black’s character is actually R.L. Stine, who keeps the original manuscript of all his books. When the books are opened, all of the classic “Goosebumps” monsters are released in this small town.

With 20 or so monster antagonists, there is not enough time to focus on all of them individually, so diehard “Goosebumps” fans may be disappointed with the little screen time of some of the lesser beasts. However, the aforementioned Slappy the Dummy is made the main antagonist and reminds millennials of how spine-chilling his original story was.

It is possible to assume that most members of the audience were not familiar with the series.

The film is aimed at children who were not yet born during the series’ height, so this film is a great introduction to the classic novels and will encourage viewers to buy the books.

The highlight of the film is Jack Black’s characterization of R.L. Stine. Stine, a real life recluse, is played by Black as one of Black’s classic characters, transforming the buttoned-up author into an energetic man-child. The best jokes of this family horror-comedy come from Stine, who forgets the plots of some of his most famous

books, thinks Stephen King is a hack and is overly protective of his daughter.

However, most of the other jokes, especially the ones delivered by the teenagers, do not land. Zach is supposed to be a whipsmart, sarcastic leading man, but he mostly comes off as a bystander to all of the action happening around him.

While the heavy special effects create terrifying-looking monsters, besides Slappy the Dummy, none of them have any personality and it becomes difficult to remember what monsters our heroes have vanquished or have left. While Stine’s books always followed the same formula of Hitchcockian style suspense, the film tends to rely on the characters being chased by the creatures, followed by the currently very popular form of jump-scares. Obviously, Stine could never employ the jump-scares in his written work, the lack of serious peril felt by the characters is disappointing and the low stakes definitely lower the horror factor considerably.

“Goosebumps” is not the scariest movie you’ll ever see, nor is it the funniest. However, it takes what is great about supernatural horror, puts a kid-friendly take on those tropes and has enough humor to make a decent family film. Students at Quinnipiac expecting a major nostalgia film will be disappointed. However, maybe seeing the crisp film renditions of the Abominable Snowman and Slappy the Dummy might inspire a new generation to read the classic books.

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Service with a smile

Quinnipiac Theater for Community delivers a weekend of comedic performances

By CAROLINE MILLIN Staff Writer

This past weekend, the tiny stage in Buckman Theater transformed into a Venetian town bustling with vivacious chaos. Directed by Dr. Crystal Brian, Quinnipiac’s Theater for Community staged a production of Carlo Goldoni’s “The Servant of Two Masters.”

The play follows a servant, Truffaldino, who takes on two jobs at once in order to earn double the pay and double the food. Instead, he causes a series of mishaps that tangle an already complicated social web. The cast effectively engaged with the audience to create an inclusive and intimate atmosphere.

The set was well built, clean and functional.

Audience members were whisked away to the play’s Italian setting. Various exits and entrances served the chaotic feel of the play, as the actors moved swiftly in and out of the doorways around them. The physical elements worked to complement the human performers without becoming distracting.

The entire cast was enthusiastic and wellprepared, but junior Christina Comizio stood out as one of the strongest performers onstage.

As Beatrice, who disguises herself as her dead brother, Comizio effectively played the part of a character who herself had to play a part. She was

genuine and funny, bringing life to the part of a woman who must deceive her way into a happy ending. Though all of the actors performed well, Comizio’s character felt the most real and her emotional reactions were realistic and well-timed.

This was an extremely high-energy show, and the performers never lost any of their steam.

Especially impressive was the over-the-top enthusiasm of senior Gerard Lisella, who played Truffaldino. As the servant to which the play owes its name, Lisella spent most of his time on stage and never faltered in his ecstatic performance which engaged the audience and drove the play forward at an appropriately brisk pace.

A less impressive aspect of the performance was the explanation of plot that occurred throughout and served to recap the events that had just transpired on stage. Though the actor’s interactions with the audience were comical, it seemed unnecessary for a college show to stop and make sure the audience was following the plot. The explanations were odd interruptions to the flow of the play, as the point of the art form is inherently to show and not tell. This did not take away from the overall quality of the performance, however, and sophomore Nicolette Fino as the maid Smeraldina was especially adept at interacting with her audience.

To get a general public opinion, I posted an

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Some of the most commonly used terms to describe the play are displayed above. anonymous survey in which students could share their unfiltered thoughts about the play. Here is a sampling of some of their responses: “Awesome!”

“Fairly funny but at times it seemed as if the actors were trying too hard to make it funny.”

“The cast was hilarious! Their facial

expressions, gestures and interaction with the audience truly brought the performance to life.”

Overall, the cast and crew worked well together to create a generally pleasant and stimulating experience. Everyone involved contributed to a nearly seamless show, provoking laughter and applause from audience members of all ages.

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Battle of the bands

Students competed in WQAQ’s event to show off their musical talents on Friday in the Piazza.

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RUNDOWN MEN’S ICE HOCKEY QU 5, Arizona State 0 – Thursday FIELD HOCKEY QU 3, Sacred Heart 2 – Friday QU 4, Siena 2 – Sunday MEN’S SOCCER QU 2, Manhattan 0 – Wednesday Canisius 1, QU 0 – Saturday WOMEN’S SOCCER Manhattan 1, QU 0 (OT) – Wednesday QU 3, Canisius 0 – Saturday WOMEN’S RUGBY Central Washington 33, QU 12 – Sunday WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL Marist 3, QU 1 – Wednesday Iona 3, QU 0 – Saturday Manhattan 3, QU 0 – Sunday WOMEN’S Golf 1st Place Finish (2015 Delaware State Invitational)

GAMES TO WATCH MEN’S ICE HOCKEY QU vs St. Cloud State – Friday, 7 p.m.

QU vs St. Cloud State – Saturday, 7 p.m.

WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY QU vs Yale – Saturday, 4 p.m.

MEN’S SOCCER QU vs Fairfield – Wednesday, 2 p.m.

QU vs Iona – Saturday, 2 p.m.

WOMEN’S SOCCER QU at Fairfield – Wednesday, 2 p.m.

QU at Iona – Saturday, 2 p.m.

FIELD HOCKEY QU at Rider – Friday, 4:30 p.m.

QU at Monmouth – Sunday, 4:30 p.m.

WOMEN’S RUGBY QU at American International – Thursday, 6 p.m.

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL QU vs Fairfield – Thursday, 7 p.m.

QU at UMass Lowell – Sunday, 1 p.m.

WOMEN’S TENNIS QU vs TBA (ITA Regionals @ Dartmouth) – Thursday - Monday, TBA MEN’S TENNIS QU vs TBA (ITA Regionals @ Yale) – Wednesday - Monday, TBA WOMEN’S GOLF QU vs TBA (St. John’s Invitational) – Monday - Tuesday 8 a.m.

CROSS COUNTRY QU at Central Connecticut (CCSU Mini Meet) – Friday 3:30 p.m./4 p.m.

Follow @QUChronSports for live updates during games.

October 21, 2015

GAME OF THE WEEK

Rugby falls to Central Washington Wildcats end Bobcats’ four-game win streak

By JUSTIN CAIT

Contributing Writer

Quinnipiac women’s rugby played host to the Central Washington Wildcats on Sunday. Following their 53-7 victory over Brown in their last outing, the Bobcats were looking to keep things going.

Quinnipiac had to fight from behind the whole game and eventually fell to the Wildcats 33-12, bringing an end to its four-game winning streak.

“We definitely played hard out there,” sophomore center Ilona Maher said. “Some things didn’t come together, but we’ll get back at it next game.”

Central Washington opened the scoring with a Hannah Lewandowski try 27 minutes into the first half, followed by a successful conversion.

The Wildcats would score again with five minutes left in the half, putting the Bobcats behind 14-0 just before intermission.

Quinnipiac challenged Central Washington’s defense with a few long runs from sophomore flyhalf Flora Poole and junior fullback Maggie Myles. However, he Wildcats backs would deny their efforts near the goal line.

“They are a solid technical and fundamental team,” Quinnipiac head coach Becky Carlson

said after the game in an interview with Quinnipiac Athletics.

“They did the things right that they needed to.”

The Bobcats started the second half strongly, scoring their first try of the game. Maher muscled her way into the end zone for her 10th try of the season to cut the lead to 14-5.

The Wildcats then scored two consecutive tries with one conversion to make it 26-5.

On the final offensive possession of the game, a costly interception would seal the Bobcats’ fate as Central Washington would solidify their 33-12 lead.

Following the game, Carlson discussed how the team passed up on opportunities and that the loss will serve as a learning experience.

“We had some solid, good, positive, moments,” Carlson said. “Then we’d kind of take one step forward, two steps back.”

Despite the loss ending their winning streak, Carlson managed to find the silver lining in the game.

“We’re grateful for playing teams like Central Washington who seems to be able to pick out where and what exactly we need to work on,” Carlson said. “Then sharpen our strengths and figure out our weaknesses.”

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Lillian Weldon attempts to receive the ball during a line-out.

Maher felt that the team’s effort level was not the cause of their loss.

With the loss, Quinnipiac falls to 5-2. The Bobcats play again on Oct. 22 against the American International College Yellow Jackets.

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Da Costa: ‘We can beat anybody’ MEN’S SOCCER from Page 16 them away, frustration and anxiety sets in and you start to overthink things.”

Da Costa believes he is at fault for the team’s struggles this year, as well.

“I take all of the responsibility. I’m the coach of the team, I’m the leader of the group,” Da Costa said. “When we play well, the players are doing their jobs and when we don’t, myself and the staff has to do a better job.”

Senior defender Tobias Esche takes some responsibility to the lack of offense, although he plays defense.

“Everyone can score,” Esche said.

“Scoring starts from the back. If we start to play slow, it’s difficult for the forwards to get on the ball, we don’t always get the ball there. It’s a respon-

sibility for all of the players to score.”

Esche believes the big thing holding the team back is that they haven’t been able to put up a complete performance.

“Many times we’ve played well, but one, two, three, four, five minutes, there were just out-of-place individuals making mistakes,” Esche said. “We haven’t been able to put in 90 minutes as a whole performance.”

Although the Bobcats have had a rough season, Da Costa wouldn’t consider the season a failure just yet. “[We’re] slowly progressing,” he said. “I think we’ve done a lot of really good things. Unfortunately the record doesn’t reflect that...but I think we’re all smart enough and objective enough to know that we’ve been playing some

good soccer, we’ve done some good things at times.”

Esche echoed his coach’s sentiments, even though this is the team’s worst season in his four years at Quinnipiac.

“I’m definitely not disappointed in the team,” Esche said. “We do everything we can in practice and the games.

It’s not that we’re not a good team.

Obviously we’re disappointed by the results, but you can’t look back at what happened. You have look forward to what’s happening.”

Although the season hasn’t been successful, Da Costa believes this season still has some meaning for some players.

“This is really important for [the non-seniors], you don’t know what it

takes to win unless you’ve lost,” he said.

And more importantly, Da Costa still thinks Quinnipiac has a chance in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Tournament at the end of the season.

All 11 teams make the tournament, which is scheduled to take place at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Kissimmee, Florida from Nov. 5-9, regardless of their records.

“We can beat anybody” Da Costa said. “We’ve proven we can compete against some of the better teams in the country. The fact that we’re going to Disney for an 11-team playoff and everyone has a chance at it, I’ll take those odds with this group any day.”

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“He goes to the extreme when he does things,” Martin said. “He is serious and he is focused on race day.

He knows what his plan is. He’s a little more quiet on race day than he is normally at practice but he’s all business.... He knows what he wants to accomplish and he knows what the team wants to accomplish and he keeps that focus the whole time.”

His will to compete is what brought Fearon to Quinnipiac University in the first place. In fact, Fearon turned down a scholarship from Hofstra for a chance to run with the Bobcats.

“Hofstra offered me $10,000 a year to run for them, plus academic money so I wasn’t going to be paying much to go there, and I was also going in knowing I was going to be the No. 1 runner for all four years,” Fearon said.

Why would Fearon turn down a scholarship and a guaranteed top spot on Hofstra’s roster?

It’s simple; he wanted to win.

According to Fearon, this was his thought process: “I can get money but I’m going to be the best and it’s not going to be that much fun because our team isn’t going to be very good. Or I can go somewhere else and walk on and work my way up and try to contribute to

the team and not take any money.

So I ended up coming here.”

Fearon emphasizes hard work and trust in his coaches as the keys to his success.

“I was probably the worst on the team when I first showed up,” Fearon said. “But you trust the system, trust your teammates, trust your coaches and you work hard.”

As far as Fearon is concerned, there is only one way to improve.

“The only thing you can do is bring your everything because nobody is going to treat you seriously if you don’t,” he said. “So I just had to start bringing it every day, started getting better, and started

improving.”

“No one is going to run more miles over the summer,” Fearon added. “I ran 105 miles one week this summer. I was consistently running 85 miles per week. I hit 90 a couple times and then one week I just felt like going all out and I threw down 105.”

Immediately before his junior year, Dylan Fearon was awarded his scholarship.

“Did I expect it?” Fearon said.

“Maybe not this soon, but I definitely knew it was attainable to be one of the top guys just because I’m a grinder and no one is going to outwork me.”

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Men’s ice hockey goalie Michael Garteig got his third career assist on the first goal of the team’s 5-0 victory over Arizona State on Thursday.

Senior goalie Natalie Grodzki recorded her 11th career shutout in women’s soccer’s 3-0 victory over Canisius on Saturday.

Freshman Proyfon Lohaphaisan became the first women’s tennis player to reach the 20-win mark this season with her two wins against Saint Peter’s on Saturday.

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK

Clockwise from top left: Fans cheer on field hockey during its 4-2 win over Siena on Sunday, Lauren Belskie tries to get past a defender, members of the crowd support Quinnipiac seniors, Meghan McCullough and Megan Osanitsch defend a Siena player, Michelle Federico looks to make a move with the ball.

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Sophomore Felicia Costanzo scored her first career two-goal game in field hockey’s 4-2 win over Siena on Sunday. She is tied for the team lead with five goals on the season.

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“The highlight for me was when we were up 5-0 late in the game and Connor Clifton drops to block that shot.

That’s what we want to do, that’s what we need to do.”

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Walk-On Warrior

Dylan Fearon passed up an athletic scholarship from Hofstra to tryout for Quinnipiac men’s cross country

Dylan Fearon earned an athletic scholarship from Quinnipiac University this past offseason.

By SAMUEL DaCOSTA Contributing Writer

Imagine the surprise of Quinnipiac cross country head coach Carolyn Martin, when one of her freshman runners showed up to practice in bright white cross-training shoes.

It was 2013, and Dylan Fearon came to practice as a was a walk-on — still learning the ropes of collegiate-level cross country.

“They were almost like what a nurse would wear to work,” Martin said. “They were not running shoes. We didn’t let him run more than three miles in those shoes that day because we didn’t want him to get injured.”

But regardless of his shoes, Fearon impressed Martin.

“He asked a lot of questions, and it was fun

to kind of teach him,” Martin added. “If you asked him to jump he’d say ‘How high coach?’”

Martin praised Fearon, now a junior, as a hard worker who would always do what was asked of him. Fearon would need this work ethic and drive if he ever wanted to contribute to the team.

Before Fearon committed to Quinnipiac, Martin was not even sure she would have room for him on her roster.

“Based on his performances from high school, he was a solid runner but wasn’t someone that we could potentially give any money too,” Martin said.

At the end of his freshman year, Martin noticed that Fearon started making massive improvements.

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“His first season was a transition,” she said.

“He’s really learned how to run…. he’s the type of kid that does anything you ask of him. He focused on learning the sport and learning as much as he could. He learned a lot and now he really is one of the more knowledgeable athletes on the team.”

Now, the enthusiastic walk-on who once brought his cross-training shoes to practice is on scholarship as one of Quinnipiac’s top runners.

“He’s been a huge addition to our team,” Martin said. “We were really lucky to get an athlete like him. I can’t wait to see what he is going to do next because he really is going to improve. It’s been exciting. He has turned around my entire team.”

Fearon is currently having one of the best

seasons of his career for the Bobcats. Fearon started the year with a career-high 11th place finish, placing him at a career-high second place for his team at the Stony Brook Invitational on Sep. 5th.

Fearon ran an even better race at the Rider Invitational on Sep. 19th, where he built upon both career high finishes from Stony Brook.

Fearon finished No. 7 overall, posting the fastest time for the Bobcats, both of which are his new career-high placements.

Fearon finished 35th overall and first for the Bobcats for the second meet in a row at the Paul Short Invitational on Oct. 2nd. Finishing fourth for the Bobcats and 91st overall at the New England Championships on Oct. 10, Fearon has scored in every race for the Bobcats this season.

“We thought this year was going to be a little bit of a down year, having Brendan Copley who was our top runner last year red-shirting this year,” Martin explained. “Dylan stepped it up and he’s filling in the gaps.”

Fearon is nearly impossible to miss with his 6-foot-5-inch frame and his outgoing personality. Whether you see him in his cross country uniform, his suit for Q30, or his everyday street clothes, Dylan Fearon is a memorable character.

“He really has a contagious personality,” Martin said. “So he’s really helped change my team outlook and he helps keep everyone positive and helps get everyone pumped up. He really has a personality where he can get people to follow him. He’s a leader.”

A major key to Fearon’s success is his competitive drive, which he believes comes from his father.

“My dad’s from England and he’s a huge soccer guy,” Fearon said. “Ever since I was a kid we would watch soccer every weekend and we’d be super competitive and my dad would just be screaming at the TV. His passion for sports rubbed off on me.”

Fearon’s passion for sports and competition has been the key to his breakout season, and it shows in his attitude when he runs.

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Men’s soccer struggling to find its stride

By CONOR ROCHE Staff Writer

NICK SOLARI/CHRONICLE

Max Rothenbucher has tallied two points on the season.

Quinnipiac men’s soccer has finished in the top two spots of its conference every season since 2012. That period of success includes two firstplace regular season finishes, and a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Tournament Finals win in 2013.

But so far in 2015, things have been different.

The Bobcats are 1-8-4 this season. Their first win didn’t come until October 14, earning a 2-0 victory on the road against Manhattan.

The Bobcats only have five points in the conference heading into their final four games of MAAC play. How did the Bobcats go from being

a top team in the MAAC, to one of the bottom three teams in just one year?

Following the 2014 season, Quinnipiac lost two-time MAAC Goalkeeper of the Year Borja Angoitia, as well as its two leading scorers, forward Machel Baker and midfielder Raphael Carvalho. All three graduated at the end of the 2014 tilt.

Junior midfielder James Doig, who recorded the third-most points for the Bobcats last season, has also only played three games this season due to injury.

Quinnipiac head coach Eric Da Costa, however, believes the offensive struggles are due to a lack of execution.

“It’s been the frustration,” Da Costa said. “It’s not necessarily a lack of offensive production it’s more just more of that frustration and not capitalizing on the chances we’re creating.”

Da Costa, who is in his 11th season with Quinnipiac, thinks that because of the missed opportunities, the team is lacking confidence to make the right plays.

“It becomes a little bit of confidence, it becomes inexperience,” Da Costa said. “We have some young players in our offensive positions who are learning and growing as the season goes on and when you’re not getting the results and you’ve created the chances and you’re not putting See MEN’S SOCCER Page 14