The Quinnipiac Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 21

MARCH 27, 2019 • VOLUME 89 • ISSUE 21

The official student newspaper of Quinnipiac University since 1929

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A framework for the future

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Sleeping Giant set to reopen with concert

President Olian’s estate, the Strategic Plan and outlines for the future See photos of presidential estate on page 3

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Sleeping Giant has been closed since a tornado hit Hamden last May.

By AMANDA PERELLI Managing Editor

By JENNIE TORRES Associate News Editor

The university-wide strategic plan to renovate President Judy Olian’s estate was addressed in further detail by Vice President of Facilities and Capital Planning Salvatore Filardi on Wednesday, March 20. Filardi’s explanation brought up the motivation behind the ownership of the property and how this could benefit the student body for years to come.

The university-owned property is located at 305 Spruce Bank Road behind the Hilltop parking lot on the Mount Carmel campus.

Filardi explained why the ownership of the property is a part of the university’s strategic

plan by introducing the university’s history on attempting to purchase it.

“Most towns have planning and zoning requirements that only allow a certain ratio of building to overall land,” Filardi said.

“If you have a hundred-square-foot parcel and it’s 20 percent, you could only build a 20 square foot footprint. The other 80 percent needs to stay open. One of the things that we found over the years is that [the university is] butting right up against that ratio of the town.”

Filardi considers it a positive thing that the university is acquiring new land because it removes the ratio issue, however he says

it wasn’t easy to obtain at first.

The objective of gaining the property on Spruce Bank Road began in 1990, when the university was able to get board approval to go up to a certain dollar amount to bid for the property at a real estate auction. However, they didn’t count on being met with a higher bid.

“In the 28 years since, the owner of that property who outbid us that day became friends with the university, has been closely associated with a lot of things,” Filardi said.

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Hiroya Tsukamoto will perform a free concert, awakening the Sleeping Giant State Park from its nearly year-long slumber.

The composer, guitarist and singer-songwriter will perform April 2 at the Quinnipiac University Theater Arts Center, according to a Quinnipiac University press release.

The concert will serve as a celebration to the reopening for the park later this spring.

Tsukamoto will perform a special piece dedicated to Sleeping Giant that he composed, according to the press release.

The exact date the Giant will reopen remains unknown, but is expected sometime this spring.

The free concert is open to the public and is a part of a series of events planned to celebrate the reopening of the Sleeping Giant.

QU Physician Assistant program ranking drops from five to 15

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The Quinnipiac Physician Assistant program recently dropped in the U.S. News’ rankings from fifth to 15th. Despite this, students have not wavered in their support of the program.

“I don’t look at it as if we really fell,” Dennis Brown, the Program Director and Department Chair of Physician Assistant Studies, said. “We are doing this dynamic dance here with the top people.”

The program is in the top six percent of all Physician Assistant programs in the country, according to Brown, competing with 237 other schools like Duke University (1), University of Iowa (2) and Emory University (5). It is also currently the highest ranked in Connecticut and in the top one percent in the Northeast.

Before Brown joined the Quinnipiac faculty six years ago, the Physician Assistant program was 11th in the country.

“We came down and shared five with a few others for the past four years,” he said. “Now, with this latest rankings, they brought us up to share 15 with a few others.”

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students generally have GPAs in the top 10 percent of their high school class, SAT scores over 1400 and ACT scores over 30, according to Brown.

One senior in the Entry Level Physician Assistant Program (ELMPA), Kirsten Gardner, believes the program has not fallen in quality, despite the fall in rankings.

“In my opinion, 15th is still a great ranking considering all the PA schools there are in the country,” Gardner said. “It’s definitely a little upsetting to have dropped, but the reputation of the QU PA program is still exceptional.

Quinnipiac has had a 100 percent pass rate of the certifying exam for the past several years.”

Gardner said this program has continued to live up to her hopes.

“The ELMPA program especially is amazing because we are automatically accepted to grad school, which very few schools offer,” she said. “Graduate school is extremely rigorous, in attempt to prepare us for the real medical world.”

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March 27, 2019

Hamden Public Schools employee resigns following racist rant at ShopRite

By JEREMY TROETTI Copy Editor

A Hamden Public School system Central Office clerk has resigned from her job following the viral video in which she is seen shouting racial slurs and spitting on a man in the East Haven ShopRite, according to the New Haven Register.

Corinne Terrone is seen in the video yelling the n-word three times and spitting on two other shoppers – a man and woman, both of whom are black.

The video has been viewed and reposted by thousands of users on both Facebook and Instagram, according to a March 18 New York Times article.

Hamden mayor Curt Leng strongly denounced Terrone’s actions in a statement.

“What I saw was vile and shocking,” Leng stated. “While I am disgusted and disheartened seeing such hateful behavior, wildly unacceptable anywhere, I am thankful for the swift and effective actions taken by our school system to address this head on and make clear that hate and violence will not be tolerated.”

Freshman psychology major Gabrielle Woodward found Terrone’s actions to be disturbing.

“Honestly, I think the whole thing was really disgusting,” Woodward said. “Especially if she can use words like that so freely in public, it makes you think what [she is] saying at home and in private.”

Sophomore game design and computer science major Daniel Greenberg felt that there was not necessarily a connection between the video going viral on social media and Terrone stepping down from her position.

“I personally don’t really feel that [the viral spread of the video and Terrone stepping down] correlate,” Greenberg said.

“Certainly what she did was incorrigible and wrong, but stepping down doesn’t really

The incident happened at an East Haven ShopRite. change anything except make her job-less.”

The Hamden School District condemned Terrone’s actions in a statement posted on its website.

“The language the employee used in the video is in conflict with the values of the Hamden Public School System. Someone who will use that sort of language in any setting, whether public or private, is not someone we want anywhere near our children,” the statement read.

The statement also said that school administrators have filed a Department of Children and Families (DCF) report, due to Terrone’s children being present at the time of the incident.

Woodward felt that the quick action by the district to file a DCF report was a positive thing.

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“I think it was a fair play because if you listen to the 9-1-1 calls beforehand, she didn’t sound entirely mentally stable,” Woodward said.

Similarly, Greenberg felt that the district filing a DCF report was a step in the right direction.

“I think it was definitely a good measure in regard to making sure that the children aren’t picking up on the bad habits of their mother and are not being influenced in aggressive or racially bigoted ways,” Greenberg said.

The East Haven Police Department has urged anyone who was present at the time the incident took place to contact the department with further information to aid an investigation, per the Register.

New laws for New Zealand

Quinnipiac reacts to New Zealand’s gun control policy reform

By EMILY DISALVO & JEREMY TROETTI

Just days after the deadly attack on a New Zealand mosque, New Zealand leaders and some Quinnipiac students are already supportive of gun control policy reform.

“I was really impressed with how New Zealand’s government reacted really quickly in implementing gun control reform,” said Kassidy Berger, a freshman public relations major. “I wish we would see that change in our country, but it made me really sad because after Newtown we didn’t even see that, so I think it says a lot about our current political situation.”

Roughly 9,000 miles away from Hamden, a suspected white supremacist opened fire in two Christchurch mosques in New Zealand killing 50 people and injuring dozens more Friday, March 15. Hours later, New Zealand’s prime minister, Jacinda Arden promised to tighten the nation’s gun laws, according to CNN. Freshman political science major Jeremy Gustafson thinks she made a smart decision.

“Prime Minister Ardern is making the right decision enacting gun control laws,” Gustafson said. “The U.S. should have done similar gun control actions.”

In the U.S. alone, there have been 32 mass shootings involving a single gunman as of February 2018, according to Metro.us.

The last mass shooting in New Zealand took place in 1997 and killed six people, accord-

ing to the Atlantic.

Freshman occupational therapy major Ashley Amarante pointed out the disparity between New Zealand’s fast response to the mosque shooting and the United States’ non-response to the numerous shootings.

“I wish we would see that change in our country, but it made me really sad because after Newtown we didn’t even see that, so I think it says a lot about our current political situation.”

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“It only took New Zealand 24 hours to change their gun laws,” Amarante said. “The U.S. hasn’t changed [ours] even though we have had many more massacres.”

The non-response that Amarante speaks of was illustrated by the Trump administra-

tion’s response to the 2017 Las Vegas shooting which killed 58 concertgoers. Unlike Arden, after the shooting, the Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said it was too soon to discuss gun control measures.

“There is a time and place for political debate but now is a time to unite as a country,” Sanders said at an October 2017 press conference following the shooting.

Junior journalism major Mike Clement thinks waiting to enact gun control laws in America has weakened the country’s reputation as the ‘greatest nation.’

“It took just one horrific event in New Zealand for their legislators to come together to take a unified stance on gun control,” Clement said. “If the United States truly is the ‘greatest nation,’ then why have we chosen to remain silent on the issue while we wait for the next mass murder to happen?”

University President Judy Olian called on students to take action against any form of bias and bigotry in a statement sent out via email on the morning of Monday, March 18.

Olian also listed various on campus religious resources that students can utilize, and closed the statement with uplifting words for the student body.

“Let us not be discouraged,” she said.

“Let’s all speak loudly and frequently against the hate and intolerance that propels such violence. And because we’re QU I know you will.”

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Wednesday, March 27 Autism awareness tabling Best Buddies and Alpha Delta Pi will host a tabling event for Autism Awareness Month on Wednesday, March 27 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Carl Hansen Student Center. The organizations are selling bracelets, from which the proceeds will go toward Autism Speaks. The event will also feature educational information related to autism.

Plant sale Delta Tau Delta will host a plant sale tabling event on Wednesday, March 27 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Carl Hansen Student Center. The event will raise money for the organization’s philanthropy, JDRF, which strives to find a cure for Type 1 diabetes.

Elementary school visit Community Action Project will host a trip to Bear Path Elementary School on Wednesday, March 27 from 1 to 3 p.m.

Students can visit the school and do crafts with one of the classes. This event is designed to help Quinnipiac students connect with the local community, all while having fun with children.

Friday, March 29 Ninja Gym trip Club Ninja Warrior will host a trip to the Ninja Gym in Hamden on Friday, March 29 from 8 to 9 p.m. The organization encourages students to push their teammates through the various obstacles and challenges of the course, all while getting physically fit in a non-conventional manner.

iBingo Student Programming Board will host its iBingo event on Friday, March 29 from 10 p.m. to midnight in the Mount Carmel dining hall. Students can compete in bingo to win various prizes from the Apple Store, as well as other technology-related prizes.

Monday, April 1 Roommate social Residence Hall Council will host a roommate social event for rising first and second-year students to meet potential roommates for the next school year on Monday, April 1 from 9 to 10 p.m. in the Mount Carmel dining hall. Ice cream and cookies will be provided, and Residence Hall Directors and RAs will be present to answer any questions students may have regarding housing.

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Clockwise from top left:The property includes four buildings, a place where the university President will reside, currently under construction, as well a carriage house, a multi-story event house and a stable.

FRAMEWORK from cover it’s named the Frank Perotti Jr. Arena. That’s the owner.”

Because of Perotti’s close relationship with the university, by the time he passed away in 2016, the university was given a right of last refusal in his will where it stated that the university was given priority over anyone else who was willing to buy the estate.

“Even though it wasn’t donated to us, it was part of his will that we were given a right to it. So, we ended up buying the property from his children,” Filardi said.

Filardi said that the process of obtaining the estate did not involve Olian, since she was not elected president when the university purchased the property on April 23, 2018.

The property includes a residence and alternative residence building, a stable and a carriage house, also referred to as a pavil-

lion. Now with the ownership of this property, the university is hoping that this would allow students to have greater accessibility to Olian as well as allowing Olian greater ability to host more fundraising events to benefit the student body.

Olian expressed her excitement about how this property can be a source of better accommodation for students as far as the developing in education. Her involvement in the strategic plan includes focusing on four pillars, the first one being distinctive programming for 21st century careers. This programming is expected to be involved within the university in the near future.

The second pillar is inclusive excellence where Olian plans to continue encouraging diversity among the campus as far as what types of students study at the university.

The third pillar is about nurturing internal and external community that is planned to bring about more classroom buildings and

meeting spaces, career advising that is sensitive to marginalized populations, and building more on health and wellness on campus.

The final pillar will incorporate more lifelong learning and connections to alumni.

“One of the things that a strategic plan helps you do is decide what is or isn’t core to where you are heading. The strategic plan enables us to be a bit more mindful,” Olian said.

Olian said that she plans on using the Spruce Bank property as a means to connect to the community within the university and outside of it, ultimately being a resource for current students and alumni to encourage lifelong learning.

“This would be a continuous resource within our senior management team who have provided not just the tangible advice required when you have a real problem, but just internal, informal, preemptive wisdom as part of our team,” Olian said.

Gardner: ‘In my opinion, 15 is still a great ranking considering all the PA schools there are in the country’ PA RANKING from cover Thippa was surprised by the drop in rankings, but doesn’t believe the goal is to just compete with other schools.

“I think our school is doing really well to prepare our students and the rankings merely represent that the U.S. is opening up more and more PA schools every year and each one is getting more and more advanced in the preparation of its students,” Thippa said.

Regardless of the ranking drop, Quinnipiac is still producing great results that yield stu-

dents desired by physicians all over the country, according to Brown.

“We do a great job,” Brown said. “We have great graduates that we put out into the workforce and the faculty is totally into getting the students what they need and graduating quality ones. Rankings are nice, our students are still a top choice for employers. Almost all of them get their first choice of a job.”

Brown said he gets calls from all over the country from employers, asking for his stu-

dents in their programs.

“The fact that most students are offered multiple jobs before they even graduate from PA school also shows our maturity and readiness to participate in the clinical setting,” Thippa said.

Gardner was not deterred by Quinnipiac’s drop to 15th.

“I’ll still be extremely proud of saying I’m a Quinnipiac PA grad, no matter our ranking,” she said.

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Path problems

Quinnipiac’s struggle with roadways

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Associate News Editor Quinnipiac has paved out a clear and promising path toward a successful future for its students, but it struggles with the more literal sense of the word.

Quinnipiac’s Quad is iconic because of its stone paths which lead to almost every conceivable building on campus to avoid any temptations of stepping on the grass.

I have three distinct problems with the walkways and roadways surrounding Quinnipiac that will uphold our reputation as a path-friendly university.

1. The network of paths covering the Quad is only handy on non-rainy days.

When it rains, or even just sprinkles, these paths become the enemy. They have absolutely no drainage capacity. It is impossible to get to class without leaping over massive puddles and streams. We all remember the great flood of 2018 when the entire university became an ocean and freshmen whipped out their bikinis and their boxers and went bodyboarding down Bobcat Way. For those of us who lacked a bikini to wear, but did have a class to attend, the evening was a lot less enjoyable. It involved taking leaps of faith over huge puddles throughout the Quad and despite our best efforts, still arriving to class looking like a sewer rat. This is even worse for admissions events. Imagine being a prospective student and your family and taking a tour of a university and having to deal with our puddle trouble. Rainy day tours are bad enough, but when you have to focus on surviving the lazy river, you just aren’t going to care that our average class

size is 25. You’re going to care that your average sneakers are soaked.

2. I almost got hit by a car trying to get to the Albert Schweitzer Institute.

This university-owned property has absolutely no path leading to it and no crosswalk across New Road. In the snow, accessing the building is treacherous. You can either walk down the path to the Peter C. Herald House for Jewish Life and then walk down the side of New Road or you can walk through the snowy field in the visitors’ lot. We need a path and a crosswalk ASAP. 3. My last issue with paths is the road that leads to Quinnipiac itself–Mount Carmel Avenue. The Quinnipiac website’s directions for getting to campus direct visitors onto this road which is like giving your new boyfriend directions to your house that involve a backpacking trip through the Rockies–it’s just not the first impression you want to leave. Let’s not scare anyone off! In case you’ve somehow avoided it, let me tell you about it. To say this road has potholes

is like saying Donald Trump has affairs. It just doesn’t do it justice. You can’t count Trump’s lies and you can’t count the pot holes on Mount Carmel Avenue. It has no shoulder. One wrong turn sends your wheels careening into the caverns and bramble lining the road. Additionally, it usually has a rushing stream running down the middle of it, bent trees that scrape the roof of your car and an occasional pileup of rock and silt from a mini-avalanche. This road is not welcoming for guests, including my mom, who will probably refuse to visit me if that road gives her a flat tire. It’s time for Hamden to step in and pave the road.

These problems may seem petty but it’s hard to get students to blaze their own trails at Quinnipiac if they can’t even blaze the road that leads here or the paths that connect our buildings. Paths are important and this is my official plea to make drainage, a path to the Albert Schweitzer Institute and a repaved Mount Carmel Avenue part of the University-Wide Strategic Path.

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Magic Johnson deserves all the blame for the Los Angeles Lakers disappointing season, not LeBron James

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The Los Angeles Lakers have lost 10 of their last 11 games and will miss the playoffs for the sixth consecutive year. The team was officially eliminated from the playoffs after losing to the Brooklyn Nets 111-106. Many expected the Lakers to at least make the playoffs after signing LeBron James this summer.

Laker’s President of Basketball Operations Magic Johnson deserves all of the blame for the team’s season. Apparent trade offers from Johnson and the Lakers were leaked to the press in the days following Pelicans forward Anthony Davis’s trade request.

“We got off the phone with [the Lakers] and a minute after later, offers are out there,” a Pelicans source told The Athletic’s Shams Charania.

Lakers beat writer Brad Turner reported on his Twitter on Feb. 4 what the Lakers were willing to give up for Davis.

“Magic Johnson, Dell Demps talked twice today, per source. Lakers willing to give Pelicans cap relief for Anthony Davis by taking Solomon Hill for Lonzo Ball, Kyle Kuzma, Ingram, Rajon Rondo, Lance Stephenson Beasley and two first round picks,” Turner said.

Johnson should have never entertained the offer because the Pelicans know that the Lakers’offer will be there this summer. It makes

sense for the Pelicans to wait until the summer because the Boston Celtics have the most assets to offer as they have potentially three firstround draft picks in the 2019 NBA Draft.

New Orleans believes that Celtics starting forward Jayson Tatum can be the franchise player to replace Davis.

“The Celtics know the Pelicans are enamored with Tatum, whose potential to develop into a franchise forward dwarfs that any player the Lakers have to offer,” said senior writer for Sports Illustrated writer Chris Mannix.

Johnson made questionable signings this offseason. He decided to sign Stephenson, Rondo and JaVale McGee to one-year contracts.

These players are not known for their shooting.

Rondo’s career three-point percentage is 31.4 percent, Stephenson’s is 31.5 percent and Mcgee’s is .087 percent. This is why the Lakers are the second worst shooting team in the league at 33.1 percent from three.

Fox Sports Radio host Colin Cowherd reported on his show “The Herd” on Mar. 7 what James said to people close to him back in January about the roster Johnson put together.

“LeBron told people close to him that this roster makes no sense,” Cowherd said.

James knows he needs to have shooters around him. He had the most success when he was with the Miami Heat because he played with Mike Miller, James Jones, Shane Battier and Ray Allen, all who are known for their three-point shooting.

Johnson tried to make up for the team’s lack of shooting at the trade deadline by acquiring Reggie Bullock and Mike Muscala.

These acquisitions have not worked out as Johnson expected.

Bullock is shooting 31.4 percent from three, averaging 8.6 points per game in 17 games. These numbers are down from when he was with Detroit before getting traded, as he shot 38.8 percent from three and averaged

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In his first season with the Lakers, LeBron James will find himself at home during the NBA playoffs for the first time since 2005 .

12.1 points per game in 44 games.

Trading for Muscala makes no sense if you’re barely going to play him. He is averaging 2.5 points in 11 games for the Lakers, only averaging 9.3 minutes per game. Muscala was a solid bench player for the Philadelphia 76ers. He averaged 7.4 points per game in 47 games, playing 22.1 minutes a game.

The other mistake Johnson made was not listening to the coaching staff to keep Julius Randle and Brook Lopez.

According to Bill Oram of The Athletic, Johnson “ignored the pleas of the coaching that he retains the two bigs following the signing of LeBron James and instead added Javale McGee, Michael Beasley and Lance Stephenson.”

Randle is having the best year of his career with the Pelicans. He is averaging 21 points per game along with 8.7 rebounds per game and 3.1 assists per game. Randle would have helped the Lakers, as he is a player you can give the ball to in the post and get a bucket

for you. The Lakers don’t have another player besides James that can do that.

Lopez is also having a good year for the Milwaukee Bucks. He is shooting 36.1 percent, averaging 12.5 points per game and is a perfect fit for the Bucks as he provides spacing for Bucks All-Star Giannis Antetokounmpo.

He has made 167 three-point field goals this year, shooting 36.7 from three. The most three-pointers by a Lakers player this year is Kuzma with 105.

There will be pressure on Johnson to get a star this offseason. I think the team will go after the Charlotte Hornets’ starting point guard Kemba Walker, Philadelphia 76ers small forward Jimmy Butler or Warriors center DeMarcus Cousins.

If the Lakers can’t get a superstar this offseason, then Johnson has failed because he is expected to land another superstar to play with James.

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The case against abolishing the Electoral College We are all old enough to remember the 2016 election. That being said, you might recall that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton decried then-candidate Donald Trump’s refusal to commit to accepting the results of the election. So much so, that she called that refusal “a direct threat Staff Writer to our democracy.”

Well, for the last two years, the Democratic Party has spent their time refusing to accept that Trump won the presidency fair and square. The same people that condemn the president’s violations of civic norms now advocate packing the courts and repealing the Second Amendment, among other things. But by far the worst of these is the campaign among the 2020 Democratic candidates to abolish the Electoral College.

To begin, it’s difficult to ignore the context in which the arguments against the Electoral College occur. Abolishing the Electoral College is always talked about, but never has it garnered the attention it has now been given. One does not have to look far to figure out why: President Trump’s victory in the Electoral College while losing the popular vote. Narrow wins in large states like Florida, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan gave Trump victory despite getting blown out in California and New York even worse than Republicans usually do.

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Of course, to suggest that Trump should not be President because he did not win the popular vote is akin to a chess player who has been checkmated suggesting that they ought to be the winner because they have more pieces on the board.

Both the Trump and Clinton campaigns went into the election trying to win the Electoral College, which was the agreed upon method of deciding the winner. Had the popular vote been the deciding factor, both campaigns would have almost certainly acted differently.

But this is surely not all of the problems raised against the Electoral College. As I noted at the outset, it is not as though there were not critiques made before now. Still, I remain convinced that it is the system we should continue to stick with.

To some, the Electoral College is a fundamentally undemocratic institution and should be abolished on that basis.

That a candidate can win the most raw votes and still lose the election is seen as an affront to democracy. States are not represented in strict accordance with their population, giving small states a disproportionate influence and making some votes count more than others. Some voters are simply never talked to; Republicans in blue states and Democrats in red states may as well not even show up to vote.

To say the Electoral College is anti-democratic is a correct assessment. However, this is to its credit. The United States is, as suggested by the name, a union of states. We are not a democracy, we are a federal republic. We forget that at our peril. The states are themselves intrinsically valuable and unique units, and they are what make up the nation.

Were it not so, why not break up large Democratic states like New York or California for political advantage?

The idea that some voters have more electoral power

than others is true, but it also isn’t unique to the Electoral College. The Senate is also an example of this, because the Senate represents states, not people. Hence Vermont, population 617,000, has the same number of senators as Texas, population 21,780,000.

Nor is it true that only a few states get all of the candidates’ attention. It is true that in any given electoral cycle, the number of swing states is quite small. In the upcoming 2020 election, for example, the only true swing states are Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and New Hampshire, according to the University of Virginia Center for Politics. But that ignores that those swing states are constantly changing. In 1976, Democrat Jimmy Carter carried every state of the former Confederacy aside from Virginia, according to the election site 270 to win. In 2016, Republican Trump did the same.

It is also not true that Republican voters in blue states or Democratic voters in red states aren’t counted, it is simply that they are outnumbered. This is why we have the House of Representatives, to represent the people directly.

If you were going to make a case that those voters aren’t being represented, you would do better to aim your fire at gerrymandering. Unfortunately, that isn’t a partisan issue.

Connecticut has not had a single Republican representative since 2009, despite Republicans winning 38 percent, 41 percent, and 41 percent of the presidential vote in 2008, 2012 and 2016 respectively, according to 270 to win.

This is not to say that the Electoral College is a perfect system, far from it. But it seems to be the best of all the bad options. Our politics are quite volatile enough right now without throwing such a huge wrench in the process.

Dear Mr. President, leave John McCain alone President Donald Trump just can’t give it a rest.

Nearly seven months after John McCain succumbed to brain cancer, the commander in chief has decided to reignite his feud with the deceased war veteran.

McCain has long been the subject of Staff Writer Trump’s ridiculous tirades, but the President’s most recent statements and attacks on Twitter have reached a bizarre new low.

On March 16, Trump quoted Ken Starr on Twitter, writing, “Spreading the fake and totally discredited Dossier ‘is unfortunately a very dark stain against John McCain.’”

He followed it up by retweeting a woman claiming, “We hated McCain for his ties to the Russian dossier & his vote against repealing Obamacare.”

The president likes to pretend his antipathy towards McCain is the result of his vote against one of the GOP’s ObamaCare replacement bills or the fact that he turned over the unverified Steele Dossier to the FBI. In reality, Trump is haunted by the memory of a true American hero and his renewed attacks are just red meat for his base.

Not everyone has to like McCain or agree with his politics, but we have a responsibility to be decent and respectful at a bare minimum. Trump and McCain seldom agreed with each other, and that should’ve been okay.

Instead, Trump has shown this week that he lacks the basic human decency to let things go and leave McCain to rest in the peace and dignity he so deserves.

Throughout his life, McCain selflessly served his nation and showed incredible courage in captivity. He was a giant on congressional oversight of federal agencies. He was open and honest in his battle with cancer. He was a man who will be remembered for reaching across the aisle.

McCain’s ObamaCare repeal flip-flop and handling of the troubling Dossier are undoubtedly worthy of criticism, but adults should be able to discuss things like adults. President Trump has degraded the acceptable level of rhetoric to an irredeemable standard.

Yes, McCain campaigned on repealing and replacing ObamaCare – just not the way Trump wanted to do it. Republicans had ample time to come up with an alternative solution but failed to provide a comprehensive free-market healthcare plan. It was all “repeal” without the “replace.”

Trump’s disdain for McCain began long before he entered office, however, because McCain had pegged Trump for what he was.

During the early stages of his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump belittled the senator’s service in the Navy by dismissing his time as a captive of the North Vietnamese as

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a failure. Trump infamously declared McCain was not a war hero, adding “I like people who weren’t captured.”

But while Trump (who has never served in the military) was dodging the draft with claims of “bone spurs,” McCain was flying combat operations in Vietnam and fighting on behalf of his country.

As a prisoner of war, McCain was regularly beaten, tortured and starved for almost six years, yet he never blinked or wavered in his devotion to the United States.

Again in May 2018, The Hill reported that White House staffer Kelly Sadler allegedly mocked then-ailing McCain, saying his opinion about CIA Director Gina Haspel “doesn’t matter” because “he’s dying anyway.”

“There is just no reason to be talking about Senator McCain after he has passed.

He is not your political enemy, Mr. President.”

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The White House never condemned Sadler’s remarks, sending a clear message that the Trump Administration has no problem pushing people to the side once they become sick or “too old.”

Trump’s continued attacks on McCain will never alter the legacy of service and integrity he leaves behind. His thinly-veiled onslaught is nothing more than a reminder of the President’s own lack of character.

“I was never a fan of John McCain, and I never will be,” the President told reporters in the Oval Office, doubling down on his claims.

If Trump has nothing but disparaging things to say about a beloved POW, he should refrain from saying anything at all. When a president wages war with a departed war hero, it’s simply for attention.

I implore the President to honor the late senator’s memory by focusing on the future of our country, rather than dominating the news cycle with his resentment and stale talking points. Trump claims he’s simply answering reporters when he criticizes McCain, but we all know Trump has no problem ignoring questions he doesn’t like. It’s 100 percent intentional.

Spend some time focusing on real issues, Mr. President.

Talk about tax reform or immigration or foreign policy. Talk about the shooting in New Zealand or border security. Leave John McCain’s name out of your mouth.

Adding insult to injury is just par for the course in Trump’s playbook, though. We would be spinning our wheels if we held out hope that one day Trump would decide to simply take the high road. On March 20, Trump further complained to a crowd at an Ohio event.

“I gave him the kind of funeral that he wanted, which as President, I had to approve,” Trump said. “I don’t care about this, I didn’t get a ‘thank you.’”

Trump’s claim was instantly refuted by a spokesperson for the Washington National Cathedral the following day.

“Washington National Cathedral was honored to host the funeral service for Senator John McCain. All funerals and memorial services at the Cathedral are organized by the family of the deceased; only a state funeral for a former president involves consultation with government officials,” the spokesperson said in a statement to The Hill on March 21.

McCain received the funeral he earned and deserved, full stop. Not everything is about Trump, and nobody in the McCain family owes him a “thank you.”

To the Republicans in Congress who have remained silent in the wake of the President’s attacks understand that history will look on this moment. Your spineless silence has enabled President Trump to cheapen the dignity of the White House.

We can debate about politics until the cows come home, but at the end of the day, character and morality still matter.

Trump claims to be a counter-puncher, but repeatedly throws punches at a dead man and his grieving family. Continuing to attack an American war hero when he’s no longer here to defend himself is worse than distasteful – it’s classless.

John McCain was a man of service, a man of country and a man of integrity. He would get a kick out of the fact he’s still managing to piss off Trump posthumously.

McCain’s widow, Cindy, recently shared on Twitter just one example of some of the violent and threatening messages she’s received against her and her family over the past week, including a message telling her daughter Meghan to “choke to death.”

I can’t help but think to Melania Trump’s “Be Best” initiative, which aims to combat cyberbullying. Although I would never directly blame the president for the words of others, the fish stinks from the head. Trump ought to take the first lady’s advice and devote his attention toward setting a better example.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) summed it up best on Twitter: “There is just no reason to be talking about Senator McCain after he has passed. He is not your political enemy, Mr. President.”

President Trump has picked a fight with a dead man and lost.

McCain may not have been a saint, but he was a brave and patriotic man. Hitting him when he can’t hit back is revolting.

When all is said and done, Trump’s words will always reflect more on Trump himself than they ever will on John McCain. May he rest in peace.

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QTHON raises more money than ever before

By JESSICA SIMMS

Associate Arts & Life Editor

Quinnipiac University’s annual ten-hour dance marathon, QTHON, again proved that miracles can happen when it surpassed its goal of $323,000 by raising a total of $332,567.12 for Connecticut Children’s Medical Center (CCMC).

This year’s QTHON took place on Saturday, March 23, after the QTHON management team and its many committees spent months preparing for the event.

“We’ve spent since September working towards this [QTHON]; putting on different events, fundraising and promoting the event,” Jonathan Sweeney, the multimedia chair for QTHON’s management team said. “Being on management was a blessing because everyone had a mutual goal to save lives.”

However, QTHON could not have been possible without the dancers who signed up in teams or individually to raise money for the kids. After signing up, each dancer chose a personal fundraising goal that they pledged to achieve by the end of the event.

Organizations such as the Quinnipiac Student Nursing Association, Alpha Phi Omega and many Greek-affiliated organizations worked all school year to fundraise in order to be able to sponsor a “Miracle Child” for the event. These children, who came to QTHON, were previously patients at CCMC and have benefited from the money that has been raised from past dance marathons.

QTHON 2019 began at 2 p.m. on March 23 when all the dancers and members of the QTHON committees and management team took to their feet, pledging to not sit for the

full ten hours until the clock struck 12:01 a.m.

However, there were events held throughout the night to keep the night fun and uplifting including a talent show put on by the Miracle Children, performances by Quinnipiac student organizations, such as Dance Fusion and Dance Company, and the hourly MORALE dance.

The MORALE dance is put on by QTHON’s MORALE committee, which is responsible to keep the spirits high through encouraging the dancers to keep on dancing throughout the night. Every hour on the hour, the MORALE committee performed a tenminute dance and encouraged the dancers to dance with them. The MORALE committee taught the dancers its dance so they would be able to follow along with them.

“MORALE’s job at QTHON was exactly what it sounds like–to keep morale up,” sophomore health science studies major and member of the MORALE committee, Francesca Link, said. “We all made sure people were smiling, dancing, laughing and having fun. We also encouraged everyone to fundraise as much as possible and taught people the dance. MORALE is supposed to have high energy all the time and we try to make sure all the dancers have the same energy we do.”

On top of hyping all of the dancers up, members of MORALE were constantly fundraising throughout the night and the weeks leading up to the event, which got them to be the second top fundraising team by raising $23,002.60.

“We [MORALE committee] were striving to fundraise as much as we possibly

could the whole week before and were constantly sending our donor drive around to family and friends,” Link said.

What really sets QTHON apart from other events was the passion that every person who helped play a part of the day had for the kids whether they were a part of management, MORALE or were a dancer. However, the whole day could not have been possible without each member of management and the committees showing their utmost dedication to what their role was and giving it their all since being offered their positions.

“I served on the 2019 QTHON management team as the multimedia chair, which was an incredible honor,” Sweeney said. “I was approached by the co-executive directors after I applied to be on the Public Relations committee and I’m extremely grateful they did.”

For the executive directors, specifically, work to prepare for QTHON was done both on and off Quinnipiac’s campus.

“At a higher level, Sydney [co-executive director] and I had the opportunity to participate in the nation wide Dance Marathon Leadership conference where we collaborated with dance marathon leaders from hundreds of universities,” Nicole Bosta, one of the co-executive directors of the QTHON management team, said. “We also work with our hospital advisors, as well as our Northeast Regional Dance Marathon Manager to come up with new ideas to ensure that QTHON is improving each year for our students and CCMC.” For some, joining committees, such as

the high-energy MORALE committee, was decided from being at past QTHONs and seeing the passion and dedication these members had for CCMC. “I wanted to join MORALE because last year when I was a member of the Boomerthon Committee, I basically watched MORALE all of QTHON,” Link said. “They were super into the theme hours, had crazy high energy and kept everyone going. That’s what I wanted to be.”

For others, like Bosta, the decision to step up and hold a leadership role was due to how QTHON has touched their life through personal experiences.

“QTHON is more to me than just an organization,” Bosta said. “It has developed me into the determined, dedicated leader that I am today and has positively impacted my life both personally and professionally.

After beating a cancer diagnosis of my own this past year, it is even more rewarding to see how all of the hard work that we put into our event is so essential to the patient care experience that CCMC provides.”

The moment of QTHON that everyone waits for is the reveal of how much money Quinnipiac raised for CCMC and this year, that was a very special moment for everyone involved.

“My initial reaction [when we saw how much we raised] was to celebrate,” Bosta said. “Sydney and I, along with the entire management team, worked extremely hard toward our goal of $323,000 by March 23 since we set it as our goal last April and to finally see it become a reality was extremely rewarding and surreal.”

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Time to see ‘Us’

Jordan Peele’s follow up to ‘Get Out’ is a magnetic horror masterpiece

By TIM POWERS Staff Writer

“Us,” the film by cinematic mastermind Jordan Peele, is a stunning achievement in film making. It was released in theaters on March 22. The film ponders the questions of who we really are and what lies underneath.

This is Peele’s second horror film that he has directed, written and produced after 2016’s “Get Out,” which was a pop culture phenomenon, creating a dialogue about race, as well as many thinkpieces and memes.

"Get Out" won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and also became only the sixth horror film to be nominated for Best Picture. The stakes are certainly high for this latest film and I can confidently say that the film clears every hurdle.

Peele's films tend to deal with societal issues and major themes, and “Us” is certainly no different. The film centers around a family of four who go on vacation to a beach house. However, per usual for horror films, this house has a dark past.

Adelaide, played by Lupita Nyong’o, has a traumatic experience as a young child at the beach near the house. Young Adelaide wandered away from her father on the boardwalk and walked into a hall of mirrors.

And what Adelaide saw there changed her life forever; herself in the mirror but it wasn’t a reflection.

Soon after arriving at the beach, Adelaide experiences a similar situation when she

loses her son. She then begins to feel uneasy, and later that night tells her husband, played

by Winston Duke, she wants to leave the home. But before the family can, things take a turn. A family appears in their driveway, a family whose members look exactly like them. From there we see the family fight for their survival against their oppressive abusers in every way possible.

Finally getting her due for a leading film role, Nyong’o, a previous Academy Award winner, shines ever so brightly. In a dual role with the complexity of a Rubik’s Cube, Nyong’o radiates a power that only a few actors have shown before. She transforms into her two roles and creates a haunting figure with a voice that will keep viewers, myself included, up for nights on end. This performance is by far one of the best horror performances I’ve ever seen on film.

The rest of the cast includes Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Shahadi Wright Joseph and Evan Alex. They all give wondrously layered performances. Duke is as funny as he is terrifying playing Gabe.

Moss is as terrifying as her character is obnoxiously narcissistic. Joseph’s character has as much angst as she does passion.

Alex’s character has as much brains as he does youthfulness.

The score by Michael Abels soars. It is hauntingly operatic. It does more than let the audience know when something is about

to happen, it is another character in the film.

It is alive and it wants you to know that.

The film’s script is one of the best released this year, so far. Peele has created a story that is as meaningful as it is haunting.

Peele is so detailed and doesn’t miss a beat.

Looking back on the events of the film there were so many signs of the impending disaster that, at the time, seemed insignificant. That is when you know you’ve seen a great horror film; when the signs were clearly there and you miss them completely.

The direction of the film is sharp and creative. Peele’s use of suspense, tone and symbolism is truly a masterclass of virtuosity. Peele works in the constraints of the horror genre and it results in a finished product that can be thought about outside of the horror genre. This film certainly places Peele in the upper echelon of horror and cinematic geniuses.

Peele wants to take a look at who we are. What lies behind the curtains, the makeup, the facades and the carefully curated Instagram profiles. And what is there is not something pretty. It’s dark and it’s suppressed. Who we really are has been seeping through the increasing cracks in the mold, dying to break free. The film is a detailed character study of us, average Americans. Seeing our true selves can be just as scary as some paranormal activity, a murderer or a killer shark.

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'Us' has a 94 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

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Step up your grocery game

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Not all grocery stores were created equally. Similarly, not all shoppers are searching for the same things. As college students, we must consider how far from campus we have to travel, the quality of food and products we are buying and of course, how much we are spending. Here’s one Bobcat’s ranked guide to grocery shopping in the QU area. –M. Fraitag

1. Trader Joe’s

Location: Quality: Price: Address: 560 Boston Post Road, Orange Hours: 9 a.m. – 9 p.m.

2. Aldi

Location: Quality: Price: Address: 2300 Dixwell Ave., Hamden Hours: 9 a.m. – 8 p.m.

3. Stop & Shop

Trader Joe’s is the happy medium that we’ve all been searching for. With delicious, fresh and affordable produce and proteins, this chain is worth the 20-ish-minute drive from Hamden. With an assortment of store-brand products for less than many big-name chains, it is easy to save a few dollars–if you want. On the other hand, it is pretty damn easy to go crazy in this aesthetically pleasing market, so the length of your receipt may shock you. With daily samples of coffee and fresh flowers greeting you at the door, it’s hard to leave this store without a smile on your face.

This hidden gem is a bargain hunter’s haven in Hamden.

Located less than 10 minutes off campus, Aldi provides affordable and attainable alternatives to name-brand products. The environmentally-conscious store requires a 25 cent fee to use a cart and either a 10 cent fee for plastic bags or six cent fee for paper bags at check out, encouraging shoppers to bring a durable reusable bag instead, which of course they sell as well. Overall, if you don’t mind off-brand products and a smaller selection of fresh produce, Aldi is a great option for students looking to save a few bucks. Fun fact: Aldi and Trader Joe’s actually have quite a storied past, being referred to as “estranged cousins,” “step-brothers” and “in-laws” by thekitchn.com.

If you’re seeking a unique grocery shopping experience, turn right around because you’re not going to find it here.

Stop & Shop provides the stereotypical grocery store experience, with a deli counter, seafood section and 1 million shopping carts scattered around the parking lot like a makeshift obstacle course. Finding deals here is easy, and a free membership to the rewards program does make a difference at checkout. The produce is decent, and you can save a trip to the drug store with its self-care, beauty and home goods selections. All around, this is a pretty reliable stop for Bobcats based on location, variety and hours, taking home the title of the only 24-hour option around.

4. Thyme and Season

5. ShopRite

6. Whole Foods

I like to call ShopRite "Stop & Shop’s ugly sister." The stores are extremely similar, with minor variations in selection, location and price. If we’re getting down to it, I’d have to commend ShopRite on its slightly lower prices, but at the cost of quality and shopper experience. The two neighboring stores even share half a name, which can truly lead to a complete lack of differentiation between the two, but alas, ShopRite lands at number five due to its grimier appearance and lack of parking due to the heavily trafficked strip of shops just next door. Heed my advice, go across the street.

Ahh, Whole Foods. Who doesn’t love this magical emporium of fresh food, Amazon Prime discounts and an actual section just for cheese? Well, college students 25 minutes away with a tight budget, that’s who. It is comforting to know that this is an option, but honestly, with dorm cooking and student loans, Whole Foods is the unattainable goal we all see in the distance. No one is arguing the quality of a trip to Whole Foods, but for the price and the time spent traveling, the spot tripped and fell to the bottom of my list.

Location: Quality: Price: Address: 3040 Whitney Ave., Hamden Hours: 8 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. (9 a.m. – 6 p.m. on Sunday) If location is everything, then Thyme and Season is a shoo-in. This organic market is within walking distance from the Mount Carmel campus (if you’re up for it, of course) and boasts a small but mighty selection of healthy, ethical grub.

From the locally grown produce to the apothecary section in the back, you’re guaranteed a unique experience that you simply cannot get at a chain. However, quality comes at a price. If you’re looking for tasty organic, vegan or glutenfree options and are sporting a relatively thick wallet, you’ve found the place for you.

Location: Quality: Price: Address: 2100 Dixwell Ave., Hamden Hours: 7 a.m. – 11 p.m. (10 p.m. on Sunday)

Location: Quality: Price: Address: 2335 Dixwell Ave., Hamden Hours: 24/7

Location: Quality: Price: Address: 1686 Boston Post Road, Milford Hours: 8 a.m. – 10 p.m.

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Welcome to 'Heaven'

Meet the cast and crew of Fourth Wall's 'Seven Minutes in Heaven.' Performances are scheduled for this coming Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Theater Arts Center on Sherman Avenue. Tickets are eight dollars for students and are available at qufourthwalltheater.com. -M. Fraitag

Nicholas Fetherston Joseph Powell

Tess Adams

Nico Vazquez

Amanda Bushman

Haley Baranowski

'Derek' Sophomore theater major

'Wade' Junior theater & GDD major

'Phoebe' Sophomore theater & English major

'Hunter' Freshman mechanical engineering major

'Margot' Junior graphic & interactive design major

'Ballard' Freshman media studies & communications major

Previous acting credits: 'Brad Majors' - "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" 'Glenn Cooper' - "Rumors" 'Nick Bottom' - "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Previous acting credits: 'Sister James' - "Doubt: A Parable" 'Chris Gorman' - "Rumors"

Previous acting credits: 'Egeus' - "A Midsummer Night’s Dream"

Previous acting credits: Debut

Previous acting credits: Debut

Paige Parton

Abby Nasworthy

Kaitlyn Fisher

Camille Manley

Lauren Rosenay

Matteo Longobardi

Director Junior theater & philosophy major

Assistant Director Sophomore theater major

Stage Manager Freshman FTM & theater major

Assistant Stage Manager Freshman law & theater major

Set Designer Junior theater & media studies major

Lighting Designer Junior civil engineering major

"I love my cast and crew and this whole experience has been amazing. Come see 'Seven Minutes in Heaven'... or some 90’s nostalgia!"

"'Seven Minutes' will take you through a rollercoaster of thoughts from in your mind to laughter. Its such a funny show that [people] can relate to."

"I’ve loved diving into the mindset of a teenage girl living in the 90s to create this space. It’s been a lot of fun!"

"Come watch the show. The cast and crew has worked hard to make this amazing show come to life."

Previous acting credits: 'Lysander' - "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" 'Father Fylnn' - "Doubt: A Parable" 'Brad' - "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" 'Mr. Kipps' - "The Woman in Black" 'Audrey II Pupeteer' "Little Shop of Horrors"

"['Seven Minutes in Heaven'] is raw fun and certainly a trip down memory lane to those awkward and angsty teenage years of crushes, heightened drama and heartbreak."

"This has been a wonderful experience and I couldn't have asked for a better show, cast, or crew to start with!"

‘More than a makeover’

The Fab Five return in ‘Queer Eye’ season three

By ALEXIS GUERRA Arts & Life Editor

Before the five men of the “Queer Eye” crew appeared into her house, Jody, a 49-year-old correctional officer, only owned camouflage clothing and went hunting in her free time. Her husband, Phil, loves her but wants Jody to start loving herself first. And just like the birds in "Cinderella," the men swarmed Jody’s daily lifestyle to offer some help.

Netflix released the third season of its hit reboot “Queer Eye” on March 15. The members of the Fab Five – food expert Antoni Porowski, fashion guru Tan France, grooming professional Jonathan Van Ness, interior designer Bobby Berk and life coach Karamo Brown – ventured to Kansas City, Missouri for this season to solve a set of new cases of domestic crises through makeovers and therapy.

Although the routine of positivity in “Queer Eye” is familiar to its returning audience, there is a new element of discovery. Each episode requires work from the viewer, as well as the Fab Five, to figure out what really is fueling these people’s bad habits – whether that be an all-instant ramen diet or a lack of showering.

Brown, in particular, sets the stage for delving deeper into each person’s life, who have the platform to open up more in this season than cases in the past. He gets Jody to open up about a life-changing tragedy that stopped her habit of self-love. In later episodes, he gets others to open up about

lost loved ones, alcoholism and social anxiety. Brown is able to grapple with these issues with physical, therapeutic exercises that weren’t found in the seasons prior.

While this feel-good show teeters on the line of being too cheesy for some viewers, “Queer Eye” saves itself with its continuous effort to adapt. Among the Fab Five’s jokes and critiques of each case’s fashion sense, there is an understanding of what each persons needs.

What worked for Jody wouldn’t have worked for Jess, a lesbian whose parents disowned her, and the Fab Five realized that. In scenes such as when Brown has a conversation with Jess about what being a proud black woman meant to her, “Queer Eye” proves just how versatile its queens are.

Season three did, however, miss the mark when trying to touch on deeper subjects, such as gun control policies. The scene between Jody and France discussing the topic felt staged and the conversation seemed to resolve itself too quickly. This was so unlike season one’s approach to controversial subjects, in which police brutality was discussed in a vulnerable and engaging way.

“The original show was fighting for tolerance,” France said in the first episode of the series. “Our show is fighting for acceptance.”

But in this season, fighting for acceptance didn’t seem necessary. All of the people appeared to be comfortable bonding with the Fab Five. While this is a win for the LGBTQI+ community, it does take some

'Queer Eye' season three premiered on March 15 on Netflix. emotion and conflict out of the show.

“Queer Eye” also introduces a more diverse cast, which was a common critique of the previous two seasons among viewers.

The prior two seasons took place in Atlanta, Georgia and only featured one woman.

There is also not as much emphasis put on each person having a simple ‘happily ever after’ ending. Instead, the message of this season is more focused on self-care, as well as pushing the concept of gender roles and breaking free of any social limitations. It encourages each person to find their own

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happiness while still living with pain from their past.

Seeing each person find that happiness is what makes watching “Queer Eye” a pleasure. It’s the kind of reality television that blends together wholesome humanity and amazingly simple, but useful, lifestyle tips (can’t forget that French tuck!). It manages to stay fresh by pushing, for a moment at least, the boundaries of class, gender and sexuality with a gentle hand. Overall, the show satisfies a specific, but universal, need in the realm of feel-good television.

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RUNDOWN

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL SDSU 76, QU 65 - Saturday Jen Fay: 25 points, 9 rebounds Paula Strautmane: 15 points Aryn McClure: 11 points, 3 rebonds Edel Thornton: 4 points, 5 assists Brittany Martin: 2 points, 2 rebounds BASEBALL Yale 11, QU 2 - Wednesday Andre Marrero: 2-4, 1 RBI QU 13, Saint Peter’s 0 - Saturday Samuel LaChance: 3-5, 3 RBI QU 5, Saint Peter’s 4 - Sunday Marrero: 2-3, 4 RBI QU 2, Saint Peter’s 0 - Sunday Evan Vulgamore: 1-4, 1 RBI SOFTBALL CCSU 3, QU 0 - Wednesday Kayla Jensen: 2-3 QU 5, CCSU 4 - Wednesday Otero: 3-4, 2 RBI MEN’S LACROSSE QU 12, St. Bonaventure 7 Saturday Foster Cuomo: 3 goals, 1 assist Jake Tomsik: 2 goals, 1 assist WOMEN’S LACROSSE Marist 10, QU 9 - Saturday Gabby Beckett: 2 goals

GAMES TO WATCH MEN’S HOCKEY QU vs. Arizona State (NCAA Regional Semifinals) - Saturday, 7:30 p.m.

BASEBALL QU vs. Dartmouth - Wednesday, 3 p.m.

QU at Niagara (DH) - Saturday, 12 p.m., 3 p.m.

QU at Niagara - Sunday, 12 p.m.

QU at CCSU - Tuesday, 3 p.m.

SOFTBALL QU vs. Manhattan (DH) - Saturday, 12 p.m., 2 p.m.

QU vs. Saint Peter’s (DH) - Sunday, 12 p.m., 2 p.m.

MEN’S LACROSSE QU at Sienna - Saturday, 3 p.m.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE QUvs. Fairfield - Wednesday, 3 p.m.

QU at Canisius - Saturday, 11 a.m.

MEN’S TENNIS QU vs. UConn - Saturday, 1 p.m.

QU at Harvard - Sunday, 4 p.m.

WOMEN’S TENNIS QU vs. Binghamton - Sunday, 1 p.m.

QU vs. LIU Brooklyn - Sunday, 5:30 p.m.

QU vs. Providence - Tuesday, 3 p.m.

ACROBATICS & TUMBLING QU at Gannon - Saturday, 6 p.m.

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GAME OF THE WEEK

Quinnipiac men’s lacrosse extends win streak to five Foster Cuomo records third-straight game with a hat trick as the Bobcats down St. Bonaventure 12-7 on Saturday

Quinnipiac men’s lacrosse had seven different goal scorers and had four of them registering a multi-goal game.

By JORDAN WOLFF Staff Writer

Coming off an overtime win against Hartford last Tuesday, Quinnipiac men’s lacrosse (5-3 overall, 2-0 MAAC) continued to carry momentum as it defeated St. Bonaventure (0-7 overall, 0-4 MAAC) 12-7 on Saturday in Hamden.

The Bobcats extended their winning streak to five games after starting the season 0-3. Despite St. Bonaventure’s record, senior attack Mike Fletcher made sure that his teammates weren’t going to take the Bonnies lightly.

“It doesn’t matter how good someone is, you play like a champion and you always play your best,” Fletcher said. “Just keep on going out there and run hard.”

The Bobcats had a tough task in front of them as they went up against St. Bonaventure’s freshman goaltender Brett Dobson,

who’s second in the MAAC in saves per game with 14.25. However, the Bobcats were unphased as they scored four goals in the first quarter.

“You just vary your shots and vary your shot location,” Quinnipiac interim head coach Mason Poli said. “We kept him guessing a little bit and had some success, he still had 14 or 15 saves in the first half. So credit to him, he’s a phenomenal goaltender.”

Another factor in the Bobcats’ attack was their ability to get contributions from a variety of players. Quinnipiac had seven players score with four of them netting two or more goals.

However, senior attack Foster Cuomo is the player who made the most impact. With missing the first five games of the season, Cuomo’s return has given new life to the Bobcats as he scored

three goals and is second on the team with 13 goals. “(Cuomo) just lets the game come to him,” Poli said. “He’s not trying to force it, he’s making quick decisions and attacking the goal when he can. When he sees that double coming, he’s quick to move that ball and letting it come to him is the key for him in which he’s doing a phenomenal job.”

The Bonnies didn’t quit as they scored four goals in the second half to cut it to a 12-7 lead. Freshman attack Jackson Rose and midfielder Cian Collins had two goals each, but it wasn’t enough to stop the Bobcats’ offense.

In total, the Bobcats finished the game with 64 shots and 33 shots on goal. However, they only scored 12 goals, which is something Poli wants his team to fix.

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ward,” Poli said. “Sixty-four shots and only 12 goals, we need to get that shooting percentage up.”

Quinnipiac will shift focus to next Saturday, March 30, as it takes on the Siena Saints, who currently sit at the top of the MAAC, at 3 p.m. in Loudonville, New York. Fletcher believes the Bobcats have to convert on more chances to come out with a favorable result.

“I think our shot placement was good,” Fletcher said. “All we have to do is put them in the back of the net. We have to ride out the second half and don’t give up too easily.”

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Walker has been an offensive force this season. He is tied for second in the nation in goals with 23 and tied for second in power play goals with nine. Walker was nominated for the Hobey Baker Award for the best collegiate hockey player, but he did not make the top 10 cut.

The biggest storyline for this game lies in between the pipes.

Quinnipiac junior goaltender Andrew Shortridge and Arizona State junior goaltender Joey Daccord both had outstanding 201819 seasons. Both are finalists for the Mike Richter Award, which is given to the best goaltender in NCAA hockey.

Shortridge’s season has been a spectacular one. He leads all goaltenders in goals against average, with a career-high 1.51 GAA, and leads the nation in save percentage as well, 9.41 percent. The Anchorage, Alaska native comes into the tournament with a 17-6-2.

Daccord has enjoyed a muchimproved junior year. After a sophomore season that saw him register an 8-19-5 record to go

with a 3.51 GAA and a .909 save percentage, Daccord has improved mightily, going 21-12-1 with a 2.36 GAA and .926 save percentage. He also has posted seven shutouts on the year, which is tied for first in the country.

Not only that, but Daccord was praised by Pecknold and a number of the players about his puck-handling ability and how what adjustment the team has to make in order to make sure the Sun Devil goalie doesn’t burn them. “[Daccord] is the best puck handler in college hockey by far,” Pecknold said. “He’s the best

goalie I’ve seen in a while at our level, so we have to be aware of that. It just changes the game a little bit, if you’re napping a little bit, there’s that 110 foot pass and there’s that breakaway.”

The two teams have become fairly familiar foes. Before this season, the two teams had met in the regular season for three straight years. In five games played, the Bobcats own a 3-1-1 record over the Sun Devils.

But the Bobcats have experience that the Sun Devils don’t have, specifically in the NCAA Tournament. The group of seniors

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Quinnipiac finished the season ranked No. 7 in the nation, enabling it to received a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament.

were apart of the 2015-16 team that made it all the way to the national championship, falling to North Dakota 5-2 in the finals.

“We need them to play well,” Pecknold said of the senior class.

“They’ve been to the Frozen Four, they’ve done a lot of good things, they’ve been in the NCAA Tournament. They need to help the younger guys prepare this week and prepare for Saturday’s game.

“In the end, the most important thing is they need to play well on Saturday. If they play well, it’ll just permeate down [the lineup].”

There’s no more room for mistakes for the Bobcats. It’s pretty simple–you win, you move on.

You lose, you go home. Four wins and you’re crowned national champions. That journey begins with Arizona State on Saturday at the PPL Center in Allenstown, Pennsylvania, with gametime set for 7:30 p.m.

“It’s a tough matchup, but we’re excited for it” Pecknold said. “They play a hard, heavy game and they’re physical and they work hard. For us, we need to worry more about ourselves.

Certainly we’ll worry about them a little bit, but we’ve got to play to our identity and almost have a game similar to that against UMass when we beat them here at home 4-0. That’s the game we need on Saturday night.”

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“Basketball has been an important piece to who they are, and what they have done for this university nationally to bring the recognition in such a classy way has made me very proud...and has brought incredible notoriety to our university.”

That notoriety includes most of the major media outlets having to learn how to properly pronounce “Quinnipiac” on air and even spelling out the phonetic sounding of the name when it made its Cinderella run to the Sweet 16 the seniors’ sophomore season. This points to a common theme the sports world has shown to the Bobcats’ seniors – one that lacks recognition for their individual accomplishments.

There is a common saying in sports:

There is no “I” in “team.” Yet, when a team displays such consistent and dominant success, it should be impossible not to recognize the individual players for their personal accomplishment and contributions to the team’s success. Right?

“I’d be remiss if I didn’t say it’s amazing that these seniors, as juniors and seniors, and as sophomores went to a Sweet 16 and individually they were not recognized,” Fabbri said after winning the MAAC championship for the third straight year. “They would tell you that they don’t care, and I get coach of the year. I don’t get coach of the year without players. I’m the coach I am because of the players that we have in this program and it hurt me that they are not individually recognized amongst the league as the best.”

Here’s another question: how can three 1,000-point scorers not be recognized by the league?

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The senior class goes out having won three MAAC championships, with three of the five seniors reaching 1,000 career points.

They reached this while having other prime scoring options on their teams over the years both inside the paint and beyond the arc. This came in the form of former Bobcat guards Adily Martucci (’17) and Carly Fabbri (’18), and forwards Sarah Shewan (’18) and Morgan Manz (’17).

Despite all of this, it doesn’t look like they’ve received respect for their accomplishments from the outside world, but that never really mattered to them, according to Fabbri.

“They’ve been an incredible group of young ladies that never cared about the recognition, the individual accolades,” Fabbri said.

“They cared about this program, being their best and how they were going to contribute to making this program be their best. They’re outstanding young ladies and I look forward to sharing what’s coming next for both of us even though it’s not on the court.”

As of now, it’s certain that one Bobcat senior will be heading back to the floor post-grad.

The Trinity University Meteors announced on Monday, March 18 via Twitter that Thornton would be joining the team while pursuing a Masters in Psychology.

“Blessed that basketball has given me so many opportunities in life, including this chance to study my dream course, at a world renowned university and play ball w/ Meteors,” Thornton tweeted. “All while being back on IRISH SOIL.” While Thornton’s basketball career isn’t over, her and her class have pulled off the blue and gold for the final time. They are leaving behind a legacy that will inspire future student athletes to take the court for the Bobcats trying to emulate their success, and to add to the history that will forever hang from the rafters of the People’s United Center.

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The Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey team captured a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament.

Quinnipiac men’s lacrosse senior attack Foster Cuomo netted 10 goals in the last two games. The Bobcats are 2-0 in those contests.

Quinnipiac baseball head coach John Delaney recorded his 100th win in a 13-0 victory over Saint Peter’s on Saturday.

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Quinnipiac baseball junior outfielder Andre Marrero hammered two home runs in a 5-4 victory over Saint Peter’s on Sunday. He now has four homers on the season – eclipsing his 2018 season total total of three.

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Era is defined as long and distinct period of history with a particular feature or characteristic.

For the Quinnipiac women’s basketball team, that feature has been the senior class, consisting of guards Edel Thornton and Brittany Martin, redshirt forward Jen Fay and forwards Aryn McClure and Paula Strautmane.

The senior class is responsible for a 108-29 career record, including a 70-6 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) record which includes back-to-back undefeated seasons from the 2017-18 season to the 2018-19 season. They’ve also been successful at defending their home court, going 37-6 at home, good for a .860 win percentage.

“Great season for our Bobcats, end of an era for an incredible senior class,” Quinni-

piac head coach Tricia Fabbri said after the team was eliminated from the NCAA Tournament. “Unfortunately, I’m saying this too soon. [They are] the best senior class to come through Quinnipiac Bobcat history, so it’s a bittersweet moment for me right now.”

Quinnipiac lost to South Dakota State University at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse 76-65 on Saturday, March 23. Who led the way for the Bobcats? Their seniors.

Fay, Strautmane and McClure all scored double-digits for the team, fitting the overall shape of their senior season as they were the top scorers and rebounders for the Bobcats all year long.

Adding in Thornton and Martin, the class accounted for five out of the top six scorers while its forwards were three of the top five rebounders on the team. They recorded 71 per-

cent (268-of-375) of the team’s steals on the year and the senior class owns the top five in terms of assists on the year.

While the class’ forwards have consistently brought it, Martin had to silently work off the bench until given the opportunity to step up to the plate, and she ran with it.

“She knows that this is her last ride into the sunset with her teammates that have accomplished so much and you just want to leave it all out on the floor,” Fabbri said after Martin scored a career-high 20 points against Manhattan back on Feb. 28 in Hamden. “Her confidence level has been unwavering all season long.”

Thornton, an Ireland native, has been a thorn in the side of offenses everywhere, consistently bringing staunch defensive play.

Her steals total reached a career-high 61 this

past season.

This all en route to a third straight MAAC championship, including a 52-game MAAC win streak, and third straight NCAA Tournament appearance. The senior class has knocked off the University of Miami twice in the “Big Dance” as well as Marquette, and now has a 3-3 NCAA Tournament record. This gave Quinnipiac its first three wins in the tournament and improved upon its 0-2 record prior.

This season not only helped highlight the impact that this team has had on not only the program, but the university.

“The compete level, the absolute loving the challenge of going out and playing the Texas’, the Missouri’s, the Miami’s, whoever,” Fabbri said. “The compete level has been second to See ERA Page 11

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Dancing with the Devils

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For the Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey team, the ECAC Hockey tournament probably couldn’t have gone much worse.

Two games and two blown leads in the third period enabled Brown to come into Hamden and sweep top-ranked Quinnipiac in the conference quarterfinals, giving Quin-

nipiac its first home playoff series loss ever.

“I thought the Brown series, while I give Brown credit, they played well, we just didn’t play well,” Quinnipiac head coach Rand Pecknold said. “We weren’t hungry, we weren’t relentless, we didn’t play to our identity.”

Quinnipiac has had some time to reflect and regather itself after being the victims of that stunning sweep. It now turns its focus on

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The Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey team went 11-1-0 in non-ECAC Hockey games.

the NCAA Tournament and Arizona State, who will be the team’s opponent in the Midwest Regional semifinal.

It’s safe to say Quinnipiac didn’t end ECAC Hockey play on a high note. But it has a chance to prove the Brown series was a fluke by competing for the national title.

“It’s all preparation,” freshman forward Wyatt Bongiovanni said on what needs to change heading into the weekend. “You got to change some things in preparation and I think those two [Brown] games, we lacked details as a team. I think that we clean up in areas like winning our shift and getting back to our identity.”

Quinnipiac has had plenty of time to adjust and prepare for Arizona State. It will have had a two-week break heading into the game on Saturday, as it joins Harvard, Clarkson and Cornell as the four teams representing ECAC Hockey in the tournament.

“We’ve had two weeks to prepare,” Pecknold said. “We cleaned up some things with our penalty kill, we’ve had a lot of reps and put in some new things for our power play to give them new wrinkles, some different looks.”

On the other side of the script, Arizona State has had some setbacks as well. And probably are in a much worse state heading into the postseason.

Because Arizona State is an independent team with no conference to play in yet, there was no conference playoffs for the Sun Devils. So while everyone else was busy battling for the conference title, the Sun Devils had to sit and prepare for the NCAA Tournament.

As a result, Arizona State has not played a game in nearly a month. It finished its season getting swept soundly by Minnesota on March 1 and 2 by scores of 5-1 and 5-2. So the Sun Devils are heading to Pennsylvania ice cold.

“Not playing in five weeks, I think they’re not going to have their game legs right away,” sophomore Odeen Tufto said. “That’s something that we have to recognize and that first five minutes is going to be huge. Not only if we don’t score but getting the momentum to start, that’s going to be important.”

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