The Quinnipiac Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 10

OCTOBER 31, 2018 | VOLUME 89, ISSUE 10

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We’re in crisis right now and we’ve been in crisis for several years.”

– Seán Duffy

Read below to find out what improvements members of the Quinnipiac community would like to see in future plans

Executive Director of the Albert Schweitzer Institute and professor of political science

CAS in crisis

How Quinnipiac’s space and faculty deficit are impacting the “core” of the university

By EMILY DISALVO Staff Writer

The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) is responsible for teaching most of the core classes at Quinnipiac, but is also at the core of the problems facing the university. Currently, Quinnipiac does not have enough faculty or facilities to maintain the high quality of education that it has become accustomed to delivering and the College of Arts and Sciences has been hit the hardest.

Chair of the department of political science and philosophy, Scott McLean, has felt the ef-

fects of the resource deficits in his department for years, but acknowledges that the problem is much larger than that.

“In the College of Arts and Sciences, the number of faculty is not keeping pace at all with the increasing number of CAS students that we have and the increasing need for general education courses,” McLean said. “And that’s affecting the quality.”

McLean received 25 new political science majors in fall 2017 and 52 more this fall. More students requires more faculty, but McLean said

he has fewer faculty than ever, resulting in larger class sizes and heavier advising loads for fulltime faculty.

“We have far more majors, especially in the freshman and sophomore classes and by the time those students become seniors,” McLean said, “it will be a real challenge to offer them the core political science courses in the way that we have become accustomed to.”

Sophomore media studies major and political science minor, Sophie Rodgers noticed registering for her political science classes seemed

a bit more competitive this semester than it was previously.

“There was only one section available,” Rogers said. “I remember there were three sections for this poli sci class and I really didn’t want to take the night one, but the night one was the only one available and the other ones said for poli sci majors only.”

Due to the fact that enrollment in the major has increased substantially, McLean has resorted See CAS CRISIS Page 4

Quinnipiac’s new strategy

President Judy Olian to announce strategic plan in January 2019

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Quinnipiac President Judy Olian plans to announce a new strategic plan in January that will result in significant changes to Quinnipiac’s staff, students and status quo. While the full plan remains under wraps, the plan is expected to include a new academic facility and more full-time faculty.

President Olian delivered a presentation outlining the strategic plan on Oct. 16. On a slide entitled “where we need to invest” Olian listed priorities such as “more classrooms and faculty to reduce evening classes” and “new building school building and other academic facilities.”

The strategic plan, under direction of President Olian and Provost Mark Thompson, con-

sists of different work groups focusing on specific areas of action such as facilities, budget and technology. Additionally, Olian and Thompson asked the dean of each academic school to submit a list of priorities to be included in the plan.

According to Robert Smart, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, the plan is something Quinnipiac has needed for a long time. While President Olian will be releasing the universitywide plan in January, Smart expects to hear from the College of Arts and Sciences in November.

“For five years we’ve been saying we need a strategic plan,” Smart said. “We need a direction, we need to know how all the parts are going to work together and this year we’re going to get one.”

Seán Duffy, executive director of the Albert

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Schweitzer Institute and professor of political science, believes the plan is going to create drastic changes here at Quinnipiac.

“What we’re engaged in is a very visible and open process to begin creating a long term plan that would include things like space, size of faculty, priorities, those kinds of things that are based on strategic thinking,” Duffy said.

Lisa Burns, chair of the media studies department, was the chair of the Faculty Senate last year. She presented to the Board of Trustees in May 2018, and talked about the the faculty’s hopes for the strategic plan that they helped to initiate.

Burns outlined several key staff priorities for the strategic plan, which she said Mark Thompson asked the Senate Finance & Future Plans

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Committee to help brainstorm.

“To be successful, a strategic planning process has to be inclusive and transparent,” stated Mark Thompson, executive vice president and provost in an email. “We want to hear from members of the university community and give consideration to the ideas that they think we should take into account as we put the full plan together for the university. This process is about the future of the university and everyone should feel comfortable weighing in on the direction that we should go.”

The resulting list of priorities, according to Burns, does not include “anything surprising,” but rather is just a logical fix to the problems

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MEET THE EDITORS MANAGING EDITOR Amanda Perelli CREATIVE DIRECTOR Madison Fraitag WEB DIRECTOR Kelly Ryan

Q: The Department of Cultural and Global Engagement put out its annual campaign, ‘My Culture is Not a Costume’ this October, leading up to Halloween. What are your thoughts on the campaign and its message?

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MAJOR Communications Year Junior A: “I think it’s a good idea that they’re instituting it. I feel like it’s been a problem for a while – people using other cultures as a costume. It’ll probably make people think more before they buy a costume, or at least make people think more about how important these things may be to other cultures.”

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A: “I’m glad that the school is really encouraging individuals not to depict

cultures inappropriately on Halloween costumes. I think that in the day in age today, people could find that offensive, so I appreciate that the school this year is making extra effort to ensure that individuals from different ethnic backgrounds and cultures shouldn’t have to feel uncomfortable with other students wearing costumes that depict their ethnicity or background.”

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whatever they want. Of course, don’t go too overboard with it. I was going as a Chinese take out box, so I really don’t think it should be a thing.”

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A: “My personal opinion on the matter is that I think someone replicating

someone or trying to mimic someone is a form of flattery. So in that regard, I’d say when people are wearing someone else’s cultural costume, it’s more of a sign of respect, rather than a sign of being negative. At the same time, I can totally understand how people who are being mimicked can be offended by that – I think it’s just up to personal opinion at that point.”

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MAJOR Health sciences Year Senior A: “I think it’s a really good campaign in general and I really like the way

Quinnipiac takes it to the next level and applies it to a lot of different things. I just wish it was bigger on campus… when I lived on campus as a freshman, it was plastered everywhere, but now it’s not as prevalent as before.”

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MAJOR Sociology Year Sophomore A: “I think it’s really great. I’ve never personally seen anybody wearing an offensive costume, but I think it should be talked about how that’s not okay.

Some people should be educated and if they really don’t understand, they should be willing to hear out people who are offended. I feel like people have every right to be offended.”

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Rispoli was arrested on accounts of third degree burglary and second degree criminal mischief.

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Hamden Police arrested Quinnipiac student Dillon Rispoli, 19, of Briarcliff Manor, New York for breaking into a building on Whitney Avenue early Sunday, Oct. 28.

Hamden Police Department Officer John Glass arrested Rispoli after responding to a burglary alarm at Biller, Sachs, Raio and Zito Law Offices, 2750 Whitney Ave. at approximately 1:15 a.m.

“Moments later, Officer John Glass observed a broken screen and window. He then observed a white male walking in the basement. Shortly thereafter, the white male

emerged from the front of the business. Officer Glass subsequently placed the white male, later identified as Dillon Rispoli, under arrest,” according to the Hamden PD press release.

According to Rispoli’s Facebook page, he started studying at Quinnipiac in August.

Rispoli was charged with third degree burglary and second degree criminal mischief and is held on a $5,000.00 bond. He is scheduled to appear in Meriden Superior Court on Nov. 12.

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Bobcat Club hosts inaugural Quinnipiac Basketball Tip Off Reception

By LOGAN REARDON Sports Editor

It’s not often that a college basketball broadcasting icon visits a small, mid-major campus, but that’s what happened last week when Bill Raftery came to Hamden.

Quinnipiac Athletics held its inaugural Quinnipiac Basketball Tip Off Reception on Thursday, Oct. 25 and Raftery delivered the keynote address.

Before Raftery took the microphone, Quinnipiac athletic director Greg Amodio, women’s basketball head coach Tricia Fabbri and men’s basketball head coach Baker Dunleavy each addressed the crowd of over 150 people.

The event was free for members of Quinnipiac’s Bobcat Club, which is essentially a group of alums and university supporters who donate at least $100 each year to Quinnipiac Athletics. Each member picks where their money goes, whether it be to any of Quinnipiac’s 21 Division I athletic teams, athletic academic support, intramural programs or sports medicine. Non-members were charged $20 for admission, which included food and drinks.

“We’re excited to have this event,” Amodio said. “It’s a new initiative to engage our fans and alums and the community. It helps people understand where we’ve been as an athletic program, the level of commitment we’ve seen over the years to get where we are today.”

In early September, Quinnipiac Athletics held its inaugural Quinnipiac Hockey Faceoff Reception, which was structured similarly with the men’s and women’s ice hockey coaches.

After Amodio gave a brief introduction speech, Fabbri took the podium to kick off her 24th year leading the women’s program.

“We talk about everything we’re trying to do as an athletic program – nurture individuals who will be great teammates,

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From left to right: Quinnipiac guards Cam Young, Aaron Robinson, broadcaster Bill Raftery and guard Andrew Robinson pose for a picture after Raftery’s keynote address. great student-athletes, great members of our institutional community – [Fabbri] does an excellent job [of that] on a year in, year out basis,” Amodio said.

The women’s basketball program has been one of the most successful on campus during Fabbri’s tenure. Last season, the Bobcats won their second straight conference championship and won an NCAA Tournament game for the second straight season.

“It’s an exciting time of year, a new season is on the brink for us,” Fabbri said.

“I am a part of a team, and I couldn’t do it without my team.”

Fabbri went on to praise her current senior class of Aryn McClure, Jen Fay, Paula Strautmane, Edel Thornton and Brittany Martin, who will lead the Bobcats into another season as conference favorites.

On the men’s side, Dunleavy took a different approach to his address. Rather than harping on the history of his program – he’s only in his second year as head coach – Dunleavy focused on the future.

“This is what an evening of Quinnipiac basketball should look like,” Dunleavy said.

“I couldn’t be more pleased to see this atmosphere – kind of like a standing room only, packed house – this is the enthusiasm we want to build around these programs.”

After Dunleavy finished up, it was Raftery’s turn to speak. Raftery, a 75-year-old from New Jersey, currently serves as a college basketball analyst and color commentator for Fox Sports, but worked for ESPN for 32 years prior to moving to Fox. Raftery is known for his untraditional broadcasting style, as he often yells out random phrases that seem completely un-

related to basketball. Perhaps his two most perplexing are “Onions!” when a player makes a big shot late in the game and “A little lingerie on the deck!” when a player makes a shifty move and loses the defender.

Based on those unique catch phrases, it was clear that everyone in attendance was in for an interesting night. Right out of the gates, Raftery was firing off jokes.

“Baker is someone special,” Raftery said. “He’s from an extraordinary basketball family, a close-knit family. He wanted [his former boss] Jay Wright here tonight, but Jay has become an author, but he’s writing a book on the 10 greatest American people and what Jay thinks of the other nine.”

For about 10 minutes, Raftery electrified the crowd with dozens of jokes that kept everyone unable to contain laughter. Finally, though, he got serious.

“This is a community venture. I’m not shocked – I guess I could say surprised – with this campus,” Raftery said. “I basically visit every campus in the country that’s involved with college basketball, and you’ve got a gem here. You’ve got extraordinary people in your administration, your coaching and your players. It’s all about you getting behind them.”

Raftery mentioned some classic midmajor underdogs that have succeeded in college basketball – George Mason, Butler, UMBC – and said how he believed Quinnipiac could model itself after those programs.

The women’s team has already started doing that over the past few years, and the men’s team isn’t far behind, Raftery added.

Now through the first year of these season-opening events, Quinnipiac is ready to make it an annual tradition.

“This event embodies the commitment from the university for us to compete at the highest level – hockey, basketball and across the board – and provide our student-athletes with all the resources they need to compete for national championships,” Amodio said.

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Thursday, Nov. 1 YAWP! QU Creative Writing will host poet Javier Zamora as part of its series of events focusing on an open dialogue of creativity and the arts.

Zamora migrated to the United States from El Salvador at age nine and is a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University. His work has been featured in Granta, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The New York Times and in various other publications.

The event will take place on Thursday, Nov. 1 at 3:30 p.m. in the Carl Hansen Student Center room 120.

“Black ‘47” film screening Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum will host a screening of the film “Black ‘47” on Thursday, Nov. 1 at 7 p.m. in the Mount Carmel Auditorium. The film focuses on the Great Famine occurring in Ireland in 1847. The event is free for all Quinnipiac students. Registration can be found on the organization’s website, www.ighm.org.

Friday, Nov. 2 Yard show Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. will host its eighth annual yard show on Friday, Nov. 2 from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. at Burt Kahn Court. The event will kick off the organization’s founders week and will feature performances from members of the National Panhellenic Greeks, as well as Greeks in the National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations.

Saturday, Nov. 3 School of Law open house The Quinnipiac University School of Law will host an open house event for prospective law students. The event will take place on Saturday, Nov. 3 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the School of Law Center on the North Haven campus. Attendees have the opportunity to tour the center and learn more about the law school academic program. The event will also give insight on how faculty works closely with law students to develop a course of study that aligns with their academic goals.

Tuesday, Nov. 6 Teaching Kitchens Quinnipiac Dining will host an event called Teaching Kitchens on Tuesday, Nov. 6 from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the North Haven cafe. The event will give students the opportunity to learn how to make two different variations of salsa. Students can sign up for the event by emailing morgan.watson@quinnipiac.edu. It is recommended that interested students sign up as soon as possible.

me advocating for faculty because it’s what’s best for students.’

CAS CRISIS from cover for pre-registering majors required for political science. This creates a shortage of slots for minors and students looking to fulfill University Curriculum (UC) requirements.

“We are trying to serve more political science students with the same number of course slots,” McLean said. “More of our political science courses are set aside just to make sure our majors have their courses to graduate and that leaves fewer course slots for non-majors.”

Some of the shortages can be attributed to small changes, such as McLean teaching a communications course and a course in Washington D.C., as well as Professor Jennifer Sacco’s sabbatical leave. Another loss can be attributed to Professor Seán Duffy’s reduced teaching load due to his new position as the executive director of the Albert Schweitzer Institute.

Duffy, who was previously the chair of the political science and philosophy department, said that the problems have been building long before this year.

“I’m kind of intimately aware of some of these pressures and how these pressures have been building for several years,” Duffy said. “The world out there is now looking to the kinds of student skills that are taught in CAS majors, like critical thinking, like creative thinking, leadership, those kinds of things. When I started here at Quinnipiac somewhere around 20 percent [of students applied for CAS] and probably the norm here has been 18 to 20 percent of the students would come in interested in an arts and sciences degree and with the freshman class this year, 28 percent came in interested in arts and sciences.”

Duffy said one of the main issues within CAS is having enough staff to support the senior capstone requirements. The CAS capstone courses, which are a requirement for seniors to graduate, must be taught by full-time faculty, but this puts another strain on the number of full-time faculty available to teach regular classes within CAS. “If we have about 400 students graduating from arts and sciences in a given year, that means we need something like 25 or 30 sections of capstone to be offered every year,” Duffy said. “And we want them to be meaningful experiences so we’re going to need significant new resources to do this.”

However, these are resources that CAS does not have. Hiring more full-time faculty would be the only solution but according to McLean, this would be impossible due to space constraints. Full-time faculty need offices to advise and meet with students, but Quinnipiac does not currently have room for more offices.

However, Robert Smart, dean of CAS, is willing

to get creative.

“When you walk down into Tator where the bank used to be, you notice there’s no bank there,” Smart said. “We’re asking if we can use that for offices. We’re going to find offices.”

Smart is considering occupying some of the underutilized research space on the North Haven Campus known as the “vivarium,” but believes the situation is not ideal.

“I’ve been here long enough that I remember when President Lahey announced that we had bought North Haven. I remember he stood in front of all of us and he said, ‘By buying this campus we have solved the space problems for Quinnipiac University for the next 50 years.’

We’re out of space, and that was not 50 years ago.”

– ROBERT SMART DEAN OF THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES “Now we’re talking about how to connect the vivarium on North Haven to the vivarium here. Can we increase the shuttle schedule?” Smart wondered.

“For two years at least that’s going to have to be the game because it will take two years to build a building and then get in on-line.”

Smart is amazed at the speed at which Quinnipiac has outgrown its facilities, even after the purchase of the North Haven campus in 2007.

“I’ve been here long enough that I remember when President Lahey announced that we had bought North Haven,” Smart said. “I remember he stood in front of all of us and he said, ‘By buying this campus we have solved the space problems for Quinnipiac University for the next 50 years.’ We’re out of space, and that was not 50 years ago.”

Besides political science and philosophy, Smart identified criminal justice (CJ) as another department in need of resources.

“My CJ faculty are running on fumes, I have kids hanging out the window, I have advisors doing 45, 50 students. It’s crazy,” Smart said.

Increased class sizes is another problem occuring as a result of the faculty and space shortages in

CAS. In departments like political science, McLean said they have begun to offer “double-classes” to fit twice as many students into one class section.

“These are occasional courses where it makes sense to have a larger class than the usual Quinnipiac-sized class,” McLean said. “A couple of classes are going to be you know 45, 50 students instead of the usual 25, 30 students.”

Alan Bruce, chair of the criminal justice department, believes these larger class sizes are not suited to productive learning.

“I think larger classes discourage a lot of students from voicing their opinions and makes it more difficult to generate class discussion,” Bruce said in an email.

The shortages facing CAS have led to the hiring of significant amounts of part-time faculty, according to a Faculty Senate Report from May 2018, delivered by former Faculty Senate Chair, Lisa Burns.

“I think sometimes students don’t realize that their faculty are part-time or adjunct until you go to meet with them in office hours and find out they don’t really have an office,” Burns said. They don’t have office hours. Well that’s because they’re a parttime faculty and they might be teaching here and at two other universities.”

Students, however, have noticed part of the problem.

Class registration period ended on Friday Oct. 26, and students across campus expressed anger and frustration at the limited number of seats in their required classes. Freshman law in society major Tamia Barnes explained how difficult the process was for her.

“I minor in theater and I can’t take any theater classes,” Barnes said. “Like that’s ridiculous. People really need to get some availability, some sections so people can get into the classes they need.”

Getting availability is difficult, and will require significant investment in resources, but Burns thinks it is necessary for Quinnipiac to make these investments on behalf of the students.

“This isn’t me advocating for faculty because I’m a faculty member. It’s me advocating for faculty because it’s what’s best for students,” Burns said.

Burns believes Quinnipiac, especially CAS, needs significant resources to help restore the student experience to a respectable condition, despite the way the university has been able to make due with next to nothing.

“This is both our greatest strength and our biggest weakness,” Burns stated in her report. “It’s how we’re able to make things work in spite of being starved for resources. The problem is that we make it look easy, which has allowed the administration and this Board to assume that everything’s fine for too long. But it’s not fine.”

Thompson: ‘This process is about the future of the university and everyone should feel comfortable weighing in on the direction that we should go.’

STRATEGIC PLAN from cover Quinnipiac is already facing.

Burns listed more full-time faculty as her top priority in May. Months later in October, she still believes Quinnipiac is facing a faculty shortage emergency.

For example, the College of Arts and Sciences has lost 12 full-time faculty since the spring of 2015, but the student population in the college has increased by 1,659 students, according to Dean Smart.

“We don’t have enough faculty, full-time faculty, so we rely on a very large number of part-time faculty,” Burns said.

In her report, Burns said that Quinnipiac is “too reliant” on part-time faculty and a high percentage of the University Curriculum (UC) is taught by part-time faculty.

The UC, which comprises one-third of a student’s course-load, is taught by 79 percent part-time faculty, according to the May 2014 Faculty Senate report.

Even if Quinnipiac were to hire more full-time faculty, Burns believes Quinnipiac does not have the office or classroom space to house them.

“If we did have enough faculty, where are we going to put them?” Burns questioned. “A lot of times we just don’t have enough slots on the grid.”

Burns explained that the faculty and facilities

the resources. Because eventually the students start to notice.”

Burns noted that the struggles students experience during registration are a direct result of not having enough resources for Quinnipiac’s student population.

The other priority Burns listed in her May report is facilities that are “as nice on the inside as the buildings are on the outside.” Burns expressed discontent with the quality of the facilities in many of Quinnipiac’s buildings, particularly Tator Hall.

“Tator Hall is awful, it’s basically a cinderblock building that is probably worse than most people’s high schools that they went to, so it’s embarrassing to teach in Tator Hall,” Burns said.

Finally, Burns requested a budgeting process that allows academic units to be involved in the decision making process.

Whether the president’s final plan will include a new building or more faculty will be unclear until January, but Quinnipiac faculty, including Duffy, feel the plan is a promising and necessary fix to a serious problem.

“It would probably be two, three years down the road before we’d start seeing any sort of new CHAIR OF THE MEDIA STUDIES DEPARTMENT movement in that direction,” Duffy said. “I’m kind of optimistic that were starting off well but the problem is a lot of these decisions have been deferred for so long, that we’re in crisis right now “We can’t continue to do this, we’re burning out,” Burns said. “And you can’t expect the qual- and we’ve been in crisis for several years.” ity to remain the same if you’re not giving people crisis facing Quinnipiac detriments the highquality experience that Quinnipiac prides itself on. The problems have forced departments across campus to offer late-night classes, less personalized advising and classes taught by parttime high school teachers.

“We can’t continue to do this, we’re burning out and you can’t expect the quality to remain the same if you’re not giving people the resources. Because eventually the students start to notice.”

– LISA BURNS

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Getting political: Midterm Elections Why you should vote Democrat

Letter to the Editor Officers of the QU Democrats The 2018 Midterm Elections are most definitely one of the most crucial elections of our lifetime. While exercising your right to vote is always an important choice to make a difference, the issues that have arisen in this country since President Trump was elected are violations of what Americans stand for. The only way to change the direction our country is heading towards is by voting for Democrats up and down the ballot in Connecticut.

One might argue that voting for all Democrats is simply because one does not support the current president, however, the issues hit much closer to home for almost every American. Whether it be a family member with a pre-existing condition, a friend who has been affected by the travel ban, a member of the LGBTQ community or a person affected by the continuous gun violence in America; we have all been affected by the choices made by the election of Donald Trump and the Republicans.

In the state of Connecticut, Incumbent Democratic Sena-

tor Chris Murphy is running for re-election against Republican Matthew Corey. Chris Murphy cares about and continuously fights for issues that matter to Americans, such as the opioid epidemic in the United States that has affected millions of families every day. The Senate recently passed a bill for Support for Patients and Communities Act, a piece of legislation to fight the opioid crisis with Murphy-led provisions, according to Murphy’s official candidacy website.

Murphy fights for issues that CT residents care about and are affected by– women’s reproductive rights, climate change, the environment, Connecticut infrastructure, education, health care, gun violence, immigration and more.

Being located in Hamden, Connecticut, those who are voting here are in the third congressional district. Rosa DeLauro, current CT State Representative for the third district, continuously fights for budget reform, education, food and drug safety, gun violence, health care, veterans and the economy. With so many American families affected by gun violence in the U.S., the American Medical Association calling it a “public health crisis.” DeLauro continues to fight for gun control reform, introducing the Safer Streets Act, a piece of legislation which would incentivize owners of as-

sault weapons to turn them into a buyback program for a $2,000 tax credit, as a means to reduce the amount of gun violence at a local level, according to Delauro’s candidacy website.

If you are angry about the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh, a powerful man accused of sexual assault, being confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, vote for Democrats up and down the ballot.

If you are upset about women’s reproductive rights being stripped away or Roe v. Wade being overturned, vote for your local Democrats.

If you care about human rights issues and LGBTQ issues in America, vote Democrat.

There are so many other crucial issues that matter in the upcoming election, and every single person is affected by at least one issue at hand. Going out and supporting Democrats will fight for changes to be made against the GOP, which has continuously been dismissing issues that Americans care about. Voting for Democrats up and down the ballot will allow for change, and to prevent Republicans from undoing the progress we have made as a country.

Why you should vote Republican Letter to the Editor Officers of the College Republicans It is often said that the current election is most important in our history. In fact, one can find statements from nearly every politician in every election that the election happening right now is more important than any before it. This is obviously hyperbole, but nobody should be fooled that the midterm election before us is inconsequential.

However, not for the reasons you might think. If you have the misfortune of following politics at all, you’re probably familiar with how the conversation is being driven almost exclusively around President Trump.

The midterm elections are thus seen as a referendum on the President. This is undoubtedly true in some areas, but in Connecticut it isn’t, or at least shouldn’t be.

If you’re voting from your location at Quinnipiac, there are only two races of national importance on the ballot: Incumbent Democratic Senator Chris Murphy is facing a challenge from Matthew Corey, and the Democratic representative for Connecticut’s third congressional district, Democrat Rosa DeLauro is being challenged by Republican Angel Cadena.

Both races are rated as “safe Democrat” by poll tracker Real Clear Politics, and “solid Democrat” by poll tracker FiveThirtyEight, both of which are the strongest category possible.

In other words, the national races are not competitive, and at this stage are unlikely to become so. Democrats sweeping the national offices is something of a foregone conclusion then, though for whatever it may be worth, we offer both Mr. Corey and Mr. Cadena our full endorsements as sane, moderate candidates who would serve the state well if elected.

So are we to just say our vote doesn’t matter and stay home?

Absolutely not.

As former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neil put it, all politics is local. While Connecticut is very blue at the federal level, at the state level it is not. In the State House of Representatives, Democrats hold a thin 80-71 majority. In the State Senate, it is tied 18-18, though Democrats effectively still have the majority because ties are broken by the

Lieutenant Governor, a Democrat.

Why do Republicans have such a significant influence in a state Hillary Clinton carried by well over 10 points?

The answer is that the Democratic policies of high taxes and high spending practiced by Governor Dannel Malloy and enabled by other state level Democrats have led the state to economic ruin.

Connecticut has the second highest tax burden in the entire country, according to a study by the Tax Foundation.

Connecticut is one of the only states to be shrinking in population, in no small part to the tax burden. In 2016 alone, the state lost $2.6 billion to out migration, according to a study from the Cato Institute.

And despite those taxes, we still cannot balance the budget. The state debt stands at over $53 billion at the time of this writing, which is nearly 20 percent of Connecticut’s yearly GDP, according to UsDebtClock.org.

Pension liabilities in particular are a growing problem.

They have grown from $11.8 billion in 2010 to $20.4 billion in 2016 according to the Yankee Institute. A structural change to the pension system needs to be looked at; a change Malloy and state Democrats not only refuse to consider, but actively fight against.

Last year, Malloy signed a new contract with state unions pledging to keep the current system in place until 2027. This is simply not a feasible path forward. In order to pay for this, Connecticut residents would be crushed with even higher taxes for over a decade, if state Democrats were to get their way.

This would likely cause more people to leave the state as the cost of living went up, causing further tax hikes to compensate for the lost revenue, causing further migration, etc.

Connecticut voters aren’t ignoring this. Several polls, including one of our own at the Quinnipiac Polling Institute have found that Governor Malloy is less popular in Connecticut than even Donald Trump, according to the Hartford Courant.

The Republican candidate for governor, Bob Stefanowski, has proposed a better path. In order to stop the flow of people out of the state, Mr. Stefanowski has pledged to lower taxes, not increase them.

While not much can be done about contracts that have already been signed, Bob Stefanowski’s plan makes cuts where it can. Privatizing the DMV and providing addi-

tional protections for whistleblowers against abuse can trim around the edges to get spending down. Stefanowski has also pledged to take another look at the union contracts, a needed step if we are to get the debt under control.

Also on Stefanowski’s agenda is making sure the state government is more accountable who it ought to be: the voters. Allowing the recall of representatives who are not living up to their promises and imposing term limits both go a long way towards that end, and Mr. Stefanowski’s campaign has committed to both.

The Democrat running to replace Malloy, Ned Lamont, has rhetorically tried to distance himself from the unpopular governor, going so far as to lament the “fiscal crisis” and “endless tax hikes” on the middle class.

Lamont wants to expand Medicaid, something the state simply cannot afford. He supports a radical hike of the minimum wage to $15 an hour. A study from the University of Washington showed that in Seattle, where a $15 minimum wage has been implemented, the policy has hurt exactly the people who it was designed to help. It has caused layoffs, reduced new hiring and reducing available hours for the workers who kept their jobs. It was found that the average low wage worker in the city lost $125 per month due to the high minimum wage.

To his credit, Mr. Lamont does outline a plan to cut taxes on small businesses and the middle class. Taxes are indeed too high on those groups, and him and Mr. Stefanowski are in agreement that they should be lowered. However, the reason that Connecticut lost corporations that provided jobs to thousands of Connecticut residents, from General Electric to Aetna, is not because of those taxes. If you want to bring job creators and investment back into the state, you must bring taxes down across the board, for everyone.

So, on Nov. 6, remember that your vote matters. Will Connecticut be a state that’s affordable to live in when you leave this school and hopefully get a job?

The solutions Bob Stefanowski and Republicans running across the state will improve your life in marked ways, and those proposed by Ned Lamont and Democrats will only exacerbate the problems Mr. Malloy has caused. We intend to vote for Republicans, and we hope you choose to do the same.

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Appropriation versus admiration Children dressing up as their favorite Disney character for Halloween out of respect shouldn’t be shamed

I was listening to the radio the other day, and Damon and Cory, the morning hosts of Country 92.5, were talking about the controversy that comes up every October about culturally appropriate Halloween costumes.

They were specifically discussing little girls dressing up as Moana, a Polynesian Disney princess. Both hosts argued that there is no harm in Web Director children dressing up as Moana. Their reasoning stemmed from the children just wanting to dress up as a young female figure they look up to and someone who serves as their role model.

The hosts sent a message to parents listening to their show that it’s okay to allow their children to dress up as Moana for Halloween, saying it’s harmless because of the fact that children want to be Moana because of her character, not to mock her culture.

But of course, there is another side to this argument.

Some argue that dressing up as Moana, or any other character of another culture, is racially insensitive.

Quinnipiac University’s Department of Cultural and Global Engagement conducts an entire campaign related to cultural appropriation during Halloween on campus, titled “My Culture is Not a Costume.” It includes posters hung all around campus, aiming to raise awareness about cultural appropriation with the hopes of ending the trend of college students buying culturally insensitive costumes, like Native American costumes, Mexican costumes, geisha costumes and many others.

In doing research, one of the most commonly cited articles relating to this controversy, especially in relation to children’s Halloween costumes, is “Moana, Elsa and Halloween” written by Sachi Feris on raceconscious.org. Feris is a white mother with a white daughter. She tells a story of her daughter wanting to dress up as either Moana or Elsa from “Frozen” one year for Halloween. Feris had issues with both her daughter’s choices– she thought Elsa would reinforce white privilege and Moana would belittle Polynesian culture.

Feris wrote about what she told her daughter in her article.

“I don’t like the idea of dressing up using the same traditional clothing that someone from Moana’s culture may have

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worn because that feels like we are laughing at her culture by making it a costume,” Feris told her daughter. “A child whose family is Polynesian could dress up using that type of traditional clothing but Moana’s culture is not our culture.”

“If my insanely white child wants to dress up as Moana, that should be fine. Moana is a powerful, independent and fearless leader of her people.

Going as Moana for Halloween is about vocalizing a connection to an amazing character; it is not about trying to appropriate another culture.”

– LAUREL NIEDOSPIAL

POPSUGAR.COM CONTRIBUTOR In another article written by Redbook editors titled “Maybe Don’t Dress Your Kid Up as Moana this Halloween?,” they argue teaching children at a young age about cultural appropriation can begin when deciding what to be for Halloween and say this time of year is an easy way to introduce this issue.

“There’s no better time than when a kid is in their formative years to teach them that it’s not OK to mock other people’s cultures,” Redbook editors wrote. “That’s the sort of attitude that will ultimately bleed into the way they behave and think as they get older — do they respect the personhood of those unlike themselves, or is their only concern doing whatever they think is fun?”

I would like to say that I wholeheartedly understand the motive behind the “My Culture is Not a Costume.” I do not agree with college students ignorantly dressing up as things like a Mexican person with a sombrero and a mustache or as a Native American person with a headdress. I do think that is appropriating cultures.

I agree that adults can also be racially insensitive and do not agree with that age of people ignorantly dressing up either.

However, I do feel differently about the Moana situation.

This is an example of a child dressing up as an actual movie character- not a stereotype. While I do think it’s important to teach children at a young age about respecting other cultures, their own and others’ included, I have a difficult time completely agreeing with the idea that a child dressing up as Moana for Halloween is cultural appropriation.

Here’s why: I agree with the radio hosts’ idea that most children want to dress up as a characters like Moana because of her character– because of who she is as a human being. I believe it is acceptable for children to dress up as a characters for Halloween, not a culture.

Laurel Niedospial wrote an opinion on popsugar.com titled “No, Dressing Up as Moana is Definitely not Cultural Appropriation.” She argues it shouldn’t matter whether or not a child’s ethnicity perfectly matches the character being portrayed as long as their costume is of an individual.

“If my insanely white child wants to dress up as Moana, that should be fine. Moana is a powerful, independent and fearless leader of her people,” Niedospial said. “Going as Moana for Halloween is about vocalizing a connection to an amazing character; it is not about trying to appropriate another culture.”

Niedospial does point out in her article that when people don’t dress up as characters or individuals, but when cultures are just shown as stereotypes, then that is not okay.

“A girl can dress up as Sacagawea, complete with a map, or look like her coin, but she should not dress up as a general Native American person,” Niedospial said. “Instead of honoring a specific person, this reduces a culture to stereotypical characterizations, thus homogenizing huge groups.”

I agree with Niedospial. If I had a daughter, I would not tell her she couldn’t be Moana for Halloween. I would be proud of her for seeing Moana as a strong young woman–an individual. I would be proud of her for fostering tolerance and acknowledging that people from all different cultures can all be admirable characters. If she appreciated Moana for her character and loved her because of it, I would want her to walk around trick-or-treating dressed as someone she admires. And if that is Moana, then okay.

I will continue to support Quinnipiac’s efforts of ending the trend of college students dressing up in culturally insensitive costumes with no respectful motive behind it because I stand behind that.

But when I see a little girl dressed up as Moana this Halloween, it will make me smile knowing how much she looks up to her.

Elizabeth Warren’s tribal politics

When Sen. Elizabeth Warren decided to release the results of her DNA test Oct. 15, she applied a new test of her own.

For her next act, Warren will test if advancing oneself through blatant cultural appropriation is a disqualifying offense.

The Democratic senaStaff Writer tor from Massachusetts is currently in the home stretch of her bid for re-election in this November’s midterms, but has long been scrutinized by President Trump for her claims of Native American heritage.

And apparently, for good reason.

Warren’s DNA report, conducted by Carlos D. Bustamante, a Stanford University professor of genetics and adviser to genealogy companies Ancestry.com and 23andMe, suggested the existence of a Native American ancestor in Warren’s pedigree, “likely in the range of 6-10 generations ago.”

This would mean that Warren could be anywhere from 1/32nd to 1/1024th Native American, which is potentially EVEN LESS than the average white American.

Her questionable decision to send up this weather balloon of vague findings seems to be Warren’s effort to put a longstanding controversy to rest before her expected run for the presidency in 2020, but it has likely done more harm than good.

In her self-proclaimed effort to rebuild “trust in government through transparency,” Warren has done precisely the opposite.

Despite possessing any evidence, Warren self-identified as a “Native American” in The Association of American Law Schools’ directory of law professors in every edition

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printed between 1986 and 1995, according to Benny Johnson of The Daily Caller.

After becoming a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Warren changed her faculty listed ethnicity from “white” to “Native American.” Her career was propelled to the next level when she was touted by Harvard Law School as a “woman of color” with a “minority background.”

While Native heritage does appear to exist in somewhere along Warren’s family tree, most tribes require a specific percentage of Native “blood.” The minimum requirement to claim this minority status usually ranges from 1/16th to 1/4th Native American – a requirement Warren failed to meet.

The DNA test also didn’t sit well with Cherokee Nation Secretary of State Chuck Hoskin Jr., who released a statement in response to Warren’s claims.

“Using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong,” the statement said in part. “It makes a mockery out of DNA tests and its legitimate uses while also dishonoring legitimate tribal governments and their citizens, whose ancestors are well documented and whose heritage is proven. Senator Warren is undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage.”

Point blank, Sen. Warren has committed racial fraud for decades, from citing the “high cheekbones” of certain family members, all the way down to submitting multiple recipes in “Pow Wow Chow,” an “Indian” cookbook in which she signed her name, “Elizabeth Warren – Cherokee.”

It has become abundantly clear that Warren’s public identity is based upon an utter fallacy.

Admittedly, President Trump’s preferred “Pocahontas” nickname for Sen. Warren is crude, but where is the appropriate condemnation of Warren’s behavior from today’s social justice warriors?

Warren will more than likely retain her seat in the U.S. Senate given the overwhelming liberal sway of Massachusetts voters, but falsely claiming a minority status on federal forms is unjustifiable deception that aims to reap benefits that marginalized groups are entitled to.

Cultural appropriation is defined by the Cambridge English Dictionary as the act of taking or using things from a culture that is not your own. How can one argue that Warren has not done just that?

By using a fake minority status to advance her academic and professional career, Warren has lost all clout when regaling some of her favorite topics on the Senate floor – including oppression, white privilege, Affirmative Action and the system being rigged for those at the top.

Don’t get it twisted. Warren is the oppressor. Warren is the problem. Warren has rigged her way to the top. For those on the left who are truly troubled by cultural appropriation, of the advancement of some at the expense of others, Warren should be asking for your forgiveness before asking for your vote.

Elizabeth Warren is simply a whiter-than-average white woman who has been masquerading as a Native American for years, consistently spitting out family folklore as fact in attempts to both victimize herself and play identity politics.

It would be refreshing to see the same level of backlash for her use and abuse of Native American heritage as we see against President Trump for pointing it out, but I won’t hold my breath.

Through unchecked selective outrage, the message to our young people is this: cultural appropriation is permissible so long as you’re a white Democrat.

Fail to recognize this, and what you (don’t) see is what you’ll continue to get.

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‘Chilling Ad ventures ’ on Netflix

Streaming site premieres new series based on 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch' comics

By CHARLOTTE GARDNER Arts & Life Editor

For this year’s round of Halloween tricks and treats, Netflix cast a spell on viewers with top trending releases. The latest release is the new series “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” (CAOS) on Friday, Oct. 26.

This version of the comic is a reprise of the old Sabrina Spellman series, “Sabrina the Teenage Witch,” which premiered in 1996. However, this version of the stories is focused on the original Archie comic books and magnificently contrasts the old show.

The show focuses on our beloved teenage witch, Sabrina Spellman. Spellman was born as a half mortal/half-witch and has been immersed in her mortal life up until her sixteenth birthday – which falls on Halloween. As her birthday approaches, Spellman and her aunts, Zelda and Hilda, are preparing for the biggest decision she will have to make in her life. On every witch’s sixteenth birthday they must attend their very own “dark baptism” in order to sell their souls to the leader – Satan, the devil himself.

In doing so, they relinquish their own freedom in exchange for more power and must do the devil’s bidding.

Since she was raised with a mortal life, Spellman is torn between giving up her friends Susie and Roz, and she’s especially worried about losing her boyfriend, Harvey Kinkle. But the pressure to please her family and her coven, The Church of the Night, is tearing Spellman in two different directions.

The show takes place in Greendale, the first connection to other Archie comics world, Riverdale. The town is filled with images of nostalgia – old cars, diners, vintage movie theaters and even the wardrobe fits the 60’s. However, no one is really sure what time period the show is set in since Kinkle uses an iPhone, which takes away the 60’s theme.

The casting for the show was quite perfect. Kiernan Shipka (Sabrina Spellman) plays her character with courage and heart, showing the viewers how strong female empowerment can be.

“It’s been a wild ride,” Shipka said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight. “It’s been a crazy character to play – so

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The show premiered just in time for Halloween, and harps on Satanic and witchy themes.

amazing, so fun. And just to play someone that really does have an arc and growth is just amazing.”

In fact, female empowerment is a main theme in the series and is touched upon in every episode. In the first episode, Spellman, Susie and Roz create a women’s club (W.I.C.C.A.) at their high school, Baxter High. This club is utilized throughout the show to prevent harassment and bullying, sexual offenses and gender equality.

Spellman’s main conflict revolves around whether she wants to give up her liberation for Satan, a man. This meaningful storyline was well-appreciated, but seemed a bit forced at times.

For example, a group of football jock-jerks punch Susie in the face which seemed very unrealistic and over-dramatized.

Another aspect of the show that didn’t quite work was the film style. To add to the haunting and sinister vibe of the show, the lens becomes distorted and fuzzy around the outer frame of the shot, adding a disorienting element to the scene. When done sparsely, it is a really cool detail that enhances what is happening in the moment, but in some moments, the camera became fuzzy throughout the whole image, making everything blurry. This became distracting and since the camera barely had a focus, it was hard to realize where the eye should be looking.

Unexpectedly, the show was quite mature in its content.

The show included small amounts of nudity and a LOT of blood – there was even an episode fixated on cannibalism.

When the show first began, it seemed to be very similar to the PG content that “Riverdale” exhibits, much the show tended to make much darker turns.

Each episode is at least one hour long, and covers a lot of plot lines so attention is highly necessary. The episodes are rich in hints and different lives of the characters so it isn’t hard to get distracted, but it is easy to want to zone off to since it can be a little overwhelming.

Due to the show’s success, Netflix will be renewing the series for a second season with no released premiere date.

“It gets even crazier,” Shipka said. “It gets even crazier, and darker.”

Will you be haunted by the ‘Haunting of Hill House’?

Third adaption of the 1920's novel is breaking necks

By JESSICA SIMMS Staff Writer

Just in time for the season of ghost stories and horror films, Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel “The Haunting of Hill House,” was released as a television series on Netflix, bringing a new light to the mansion that has been overtaken by paranormal activities.

The ten episode Netflix series was created by Mike Flanagan, a known horror filmmaker. The television adaptation of the novel focuses on five children who lived temporarily in the Hill House where a strange tragedy occurred, forcing the children to leave the home unexpectedly. Over 20 years later, the now grown children and their father meet up again to figure out what happened in that haunted house.

After only being on Netflix for a few weeks, the show has proved to be a huge hit for the streaming company. The series has received a critical approval rating of 90 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and an 80 percent from Metacritic. Even well-known horror mastermind Stephen King had something positive to say about “Haunting of Hill House.”

“The ‘Haunting of Hill House,’ revised and remodeled

by Mike Flanagan,” King said via Twitter. “I don’t usually care for this kind of revisionism, but this is great. Close to a work of genius, really. I think Shirley Jackson would approve, but who knows for sure.”

The story of “The Haunting of Hill House” has been adapted for the big screen twice before the Netflix series, once in 1963, written by Robert Wise and titled “The Haunting”. The second time in 1999, for a film called “The Haunting,” directed by Jan De Bont. But, Flanagan’s television adaptation, that he both created and directed, took the story a step further with his decision to veer away from the original plot of the novel and revive the story of Hill House in a unique way.

Instead of having Hugh Crain be the builder of the haunted Hill House, he was a new owner that moved his family in, hoping to spruce up the house and resell it.

The team of researchers in the novel are actually Crain’s children in the spinoff series. The overall plot of the novel is incorporated in the series in a different, but interesting way.

On top of the developed plotline that overall has a creepy vibe, the show incorporates a ton of jump scares and other

The Hill House was bought by the Crain family and holds dark secrets within. elements that will keep audience members completely engaged with the storyline. Yes, it will definitely keep them on the edge of their seat with scenes that include bugs crawling out of mouths, spirits of all ages popping up all over the screen and even some faces that are melting before the audience's eyes, but this is the aspect that makes this series stand out beyond the other horror films making its way to Netflix. The plotline and the overall filmography of the show has given this series lot of praise from other horror masterminds.

Even with the hidden ghosts and other paranormal activities that are incorporated in all the episodes, Flanagan was more drawn to the psychological aspect of what it means to be scared. Through going back and forth from present time to when the Crain children lived in the Hill House, Flanagan was able to show viewers how the Hill House terrifies each and every Crain when they all lived in the house and also when they have completely moved out of the house. Flanagan shows how the Crain family are still

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haunted by their past.

Although the flashbacks help viewers understand just how horrific the Hill House is since it was these experiences that caused for each Crain family member to still be haunted during their adult lives outside of living in the house, it was difficult for the actors in the show to master.

“I think what I found most challenging about this show is that the… and that’s not per say the role, is that the story is so big,” Michiel Huisman (Steve Crain) said to Express. co.uk. “In the ten episodes there are so many flashbacks.

Towards the end it gets complex. And there are so many time jumps and I think that was hard to keep track of that.”

Even amongst this difficulty, Huisman thinks that the show could possibly get a season two, if it is as big as a hit that it seems to be.

“We’re first going to wait and see how the audience responds and if it’s a success then I’m sure we’re going to talk about season two,” Huisman said.

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Facilitating a home

Introducing one of the many Commons facilities workers who strives to make the dorms perfect for freshmen

By JULIANNA COSCIA & CHARLOTTE GARDNER

Settling into a new dorm building doesn’t always feel the same as settling into your room at home. It can feel unfamiliar and out of touch – lacking the unspoken comfort that only a place like home can have. However, in the Commons residence hall, notorious for its messy bathrooms, facilities workers try to give students a simple sense of home in the best way they can: by cleaning and maintaining the building.

“We do as much as we can...to have the bathroom cleaned, since you guys are away from home,” facilities worker Caroline Luna said.

Commons has a reputation for being the most poorly-treated freshman dorm on campus. Residents were repeatedly fined last year for knocking out ceiling tiles and breaking exit signs during May Weekend.

The bathrooms unfortunately receive the same type of treatment, resulting in emails being sent out reminding students of actions and behaviors that cannot take place in the restrooms.

“It’s a hard task,” Luna said about maintaining the bathrooms every day, “but we try to make it possible.”

For Luna, her journey to Quinnipiac was not planned from the start. Before she came to the United States, Luna had already begun her career working as a dental assistant.

“I left what I went to school for and came to Quinnipiac University,” Luna said.

“There’s more opportunities for my kids and for myself.”

MORGAN TENCZA / CHRONICLE From a young age, coming to the United Luna has been working at Quinnipiac University for four years after leaving her job as a dental assistant.

States was a dream of hers.

Born in the Dominican Republic, Luna likes soccer [and] she’s running everywhere.” members, to the RA staff who continually members’ working lives is their interactions waited patiently for 21 years before she was Being a facilities worker at any college address these concerns, and to one another with the students. Luna remarks that she has able to come to the U.S. can have its challenges, and Quinnipiac is no as shared community members. We expect made great connections with the students “I come from a tropical place, the exception. With each communal bathroom that these behaviors change immediately.” who live on the floor she is in charge of, and Dominican Republic,” Luna reflected. “I shared by roughly 40 people, the areas Luna concedes to Turner’s claims about that these relationships mean a lot to her. was adopted...my mom got her papers, and frequently get messy, and often become a the states of the bathrooms, but she uses “The students [on her floor] know my she had to come here [to the United States]. point of concern for residents and facilities these moments to work on making the name,” Luna said. “It’s very important to But since I wasn’t her natural childhood workers. This semester, the Commons bathrooms more functional and sanitary for interact with them and sometimes I feel daughter, ...she couldn’t ask me to come to resident director, Josh Turner, has sent three the residents’ use. that some of the kids are going through the United States.” emails to the residents of Commons regarding “Everyday we try to improve,” Luna struggles, so it’s good to let them know Luckily, love came into play and was the poor conditions the facilities have been said. “Sometimes there are better days, that [when] they are away from home...they able to help Luna come to the United States. left in – specifically the boys’ bathrooms. sometimes there’s horrible days.” have somebody here. So I think I have good She married an American citizen, and communication with them.” expressed her thankfulness and gratitude to When asked what the best quality of the be able to move here. residents is, Luna explained that it is their “He brought me over, and the rest of my respect and well-mannered behavior. family was here,” Luna said. “But after that, “They say hi – not all of them, but most I came here because my mom, my father, my of them,” Luna said. “Since I have all girls sister – everybody’s here. So it was a good they’re really nice… they are respectful here opportunity, and I was blessed to come here and I appreciate that. Sometimes they’re to the U.S.” like ‘Oh Caroline do you want something?’

Luna has been employed at the university or whatever, so that’s nice and I see that for four years, working every Monday from them, it’s really good.” through Friday from 7:30 a.m until 4 p.m.

But what Luna values most is the Working at the university has heavily opportunities Quinnipiac has given to her COMMONS FACILITIES WORKER and her family. benefited Luna and her family, but has also given her a job that has brought her “I love working here. I love the staff happiness above all. [and] I love all the opportunity that “Trust me, I love it here,” Luna said.

“Every mess that Facilities has to clean up Having resident assistants and the residence Quinnipiac [has] offered me.”

“They say you need to love what you do, (above and beyond standard cleaning) has a hall directors send out these emails has The facilities staff may be seen as probably it's not a job that I want to do, but fee assigned,” one email form Turner reads. been extremely helpful to the facilities staff, familiar faces walking around residents just to feel like I'm helping you guys, you “You will be billed at the end of the year for regardless of the inclusion of potential fines. halls, seemingly focused only on cleaning. know? And just because its helping myself the cumulative total of all these incidents.

“So far my RA’s are really great,” Luna But they are more than just strangers who too, helping to raise my kids.”

We are taking this action since the behaviors said. “I get along with all of them, and if come in every day to maintain the students’ Luna is mother to two girls, Gabriella, have not changed and no resident has come there are any problems I tell them, and they buildings – they genuinely care for their 10, and Mia Bella, five. forward to take responsibility, and no send an email...I think they do a really good jobs, the university, and the lives of all those “I have a 10 year old, Gabriella,” Luna resident has indicated that they know who is job. We tell [Turner] so he can address the who attend it. said. “She loves piano, music [and] art. And responsible. These behaviors are extremely problem.”

“It changed my life completely,” Luna then I have Mia Bella. She’s five, and she’s disrespectful to each of our Facilities staff Another helpful addition to the facilities said. “Just thinking about my kids [being] totally the opposite. She’s really active, she secure in college – it’s a relief for me.”

“They say you need to love what you do, probably it's not a job that I want to do, but just to feel like I'm helping you guys, you know?”

– CAROLINE LUNA

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What would Canela think?

'Brother Nature' gets 'canceled' after old tweets come out of hibernation

By JULIANNA JOHNSON Staff Writer

Kelvin Peña, also known as “Brother Nature,” has caused an uproar when his old tweets were released and labeled as racist, antisemetic and sexist. The tweets included language regarding Hitler, women's rights and racial slurs targeted at black people.

Peña has been creating videos of his interactions with deer since he was 18 years old, and currently has 1.58 million followers on Twitter. He is known for uploading a video of himself with a doe he refers to as Canela, that went viral in 2016. The Twitter community was amazed at how this animal whisperer was able to attract wild creatures and create videos of him feeding them with organic foods such as apples and grapes, for the most commonly known deer he named Canela and Tay Tay. As his fan base began to increase, so did the different animals he encountered including pigs, goats, squirrels, llamas and many more as he travels to other parts of the world.

Peña’s tweets were revealed from 2011-12 that were identified as offensive by many. When asking Quinnipiac students how they reacted when seeing his tweets, many concluded that they were disrespectful, but expressed sympathy for him. “...you’re still maturing and going about your life [and] not having a sense of how much your actions can affect everyone else around you, but at the same time you can't take back the words you said,” freshman psychology major June Kim said.

The world we live in has become more aware of sensitive content that is posted on social media, and people are expressing their opinions loudly. It is apparent that there will always be someone who will challenge a person’s perspective. It has come to question whether Peña should be punished for what he said six years ago.

“Punishment sounds really harsh because he apologized and he knows what he did wrong. I feel like everyone should learn to live and move on,” Kim said.

According to his apologetic note on Twitter from his account, @COLDGAMEKELV, the backlash caused him to admit to “seeking attention,” and encouraged his fans to believe that he has matured over the years to become a role model for others.

A large portion of his viewers have defended him on social media by acknowledging that our community ignores public figures who express racist and sexist material to the

Peña is known on social media as 'Brother Nature' and has many animal friends. public, but will cancel people like Peña for the immature actions he made as an adolescent.

It is unknown whether the community outside of Twitter is aware of his charity work, the Everybody Eats Foundation, a nonprofit organization that helps single-parent families during the holidays and after-school children. There is a debate on whether people should give Peña a pass for his mistakes in the past, or whether he should adhere to consequences. The Twitter backlash has created the question whether everyone should have to pay for their actions in their adolescent years.

“I guess it does make him a good person, but not overall.

It does not make up for what he said [in the past],” freshman health science major Chris Johnson said.

In today’s society, people heavily rely on the internet to stay updated on the latest trends and topics. Once something is uploaded on the internet, it never goes away. Many internet-users are unaware of the things they have uploaded

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in years past, which can result in consequences – whether they be negative or positive.

“Sure it was a while ago, but the internet is the internet; it’s still there,” sophomore psychology major Sal Maglione said.

Social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, have become a network that provides people a place to express their opinions and thoughts. It can also be a place to look for information and media evidence. Peña uses Twitter as a place to encourage people to donate money and get involved with his Everybody Eats Foundation.

“I feel like in the social media aspect he definitely built himself up, and he has a platform for himself where he can now provide for people in need,” Maglione said.

According to Twitter, there seem to be both negative and positive reactions after Peña uploaded an apology note.

“Everyone changes, everyone learns, and everyone makes mistakes,” Peña writes in his apology note on Twitter.

Treasures may be hidden in your dorm with the old ones and our new one in a new bottle.”

Across campus, freshman Peter Danison also found something unique in Commons.

“My roommates and I were sitting at the window seat the first week, kind of messing around,” said Danison. “We knew that the ceiling tiles popped up, so we popped up some of them and found red solo cups and stuff and thought ‘oh maybe there’s something cool in here’, and we popped up this one and found this little message on the wall.”

The note Danison and his friends found was from the Class of 1996. It contained four names, and their room number, with a penny glued to it.

“It was pretty cool, it was kind of exciting and it was a good story to share with other people that we met here.”

There may be more hidden time capsules scattered throughout campus. If you find one, be sure to send them to The Chronicle on social media, listed on page one.

By KRISTEN ALTMEYER Staff Writer

The Quinnipiac residence halls have their own character and charm to them. Quads, doubles and sometimes triples to suite style: the buildings each offer something different.

Roommates going through the ups and downs of college life together, sharing laughs, tears and some not-so-pretty moments. But the walls hold the true stories. And the real stories lay within the walls.

All students leave their mark on campus when they sign the Book of the Legend at orientation. Some students take it a bit farther though. Signatures can be found on the tops of the doors in the residence halls. For students that are more curious, they found more than that.

“One night we were all in our room and we had a bunch of other friends over,” freshman Christian Santos, a resident of Larson said. “Someone was saying that they heard about the time capsules and we were all curious about it because we had never heard it, so we decided to go and check for ourselves.”

The scavenger hunt turned out to be successful for Santos and his friends.

“We stood up on top of one of the toilets and pushed the ceiling tile up and we found a bottle stuffed with letters,” Santos said.

The next step was to open up the message in the bottle to see what they found.

“So then we put the bottle inside a garbage bag, broke the bottle took the letters out and we started reading them,” Santos recalled.

The bottle contained three notes. One was illegible, but assumed to have been there for years because of the faded ink. The second letter was from the Class of 2013 that had

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One of the many time capsules found in dorm rooms- this one resides in Commons in room 223.

words of advice for the freshman that would follow them.

The third letter, was from the residence of Larson of the Class of 2018 and this one stated to always have each other's backs.

“We are going to continue the tradition and make one

Here’s some tips for you and your roommates to build your own time capsule.

Step 1: Pick a place you want to place the time capsule.

Step 2: Find an aluminum, stainless steel or coffee tin to place the items in. These are the best options for durable containers.

Step 3: Write your letter to the future with careful deliberation and thought.

Step 4: Seal the capsule airtight.

Step 5: Bury the capsule three to four feet underground.

Step 6: Be sure to mark where you placed it so that you can easily detect it years from now.

Step 7: Let time pass before you go back to find it, if someone has not already done so!

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October 31, 2018

Tingles and shivers

Delving into the mystical world of ASMR

By JASON SCHOELLKOPF Contributing Writer

Those who spend a lot of time on YouTube may have come across videos of people whispering into microphones and tapping on household objects. Some people who stumble upon these videos are confused and discomforted, while others find themselves pleasantly entranced. Those who are in the latter category may experience a phenomenon known as ASMR. ASMR, which stands for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, is a unique sensation of relaxation, joy and an odd tingling around the head and neck. Time Magazine describes it as “a brain orgasm.” This sensation can be triggered by listening to certain sounds, usually with headphones. Whispering and light tapping on surfaces are a few common “triggers” that make people experience ASMR. Some self-titled “ASMRtists” have found their career making YouTube videos to help people experience this phenomenon.

Many people, however, first feel ASMR accidentally, when going about their day-today lives. Some say they first experienced the tingling sensation as children, when a friend played with their hair. For others, the feeling is triggered when they watch people write on paper, play music, repair broken objects or perform other tasks that require focus.

A scientific study on ASMR found that the most common triggers for study participants were whispering, personal attention, crisp sounds and slow movements. These triggers could stem from a mental association with interpersonal bonding, according to Dr. Craig Richard, publisher of the study and founder of ASMR University, an online resource center for ASMR. Over 11 million ASMR videos exist on YouTube, and some videos get as many as 40 million views, according to Medium. However,

not every one of these views represents the footprint of an ASMR enthusiast. Some viewers are merely bewildered by what they see and hear in ASMR videos.

“At first I thought it was a little weird,” freshman graphic and interactive design major Michael Palumbo said. “It was definitely intriguing. I don’t know if I’d watch another video though. I didn’t get chills or anything like that.”

Some people have a more negative response to ASMR videos. “[It made me feel] uncomfortable,” sophomore accounting major Nicole Ninesling said, who had watched an ASMR video that included the sounds of a person eating. “I just did not like the way the sounds were.”

Garrett Levine, freshman game design and development major, had a similar experience when watching an ASMR video. “[I listened to it] once. I didn’t like it. It was a lot of mouth sounds. I know that some people find it soothing or therapeutic, and I completely respect that. That kinda stuff is just not for me,” Levine said.

Brianne Swanson, freshman biomedical sciences major said that listening to an ASMR video was, for her, akin to hearing “nails on a chalkboard.”

Though ASMR is not yet a widelyresearched phenomenon, one scientist has a theory as to why some people don’t experience ASMR, and why some even have negative reactions to common ASMR triggers. He believes that some people have ingrained, biological affinities for ASMR, while others do not.

“Nearly everyone produces endorphins, dopamine, oxytocin, and serotonin. But the ability to feel those molecules in response to a ‘strange’ stimulus [such as ASMR] may differ between individuals,” Dr. Craig Richard wrote in his origin theory of ASMR.

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The sensation of ASMR can be best experienced while wearing headphones to better hear the binaural audio.

“Some individuals have a strong negative reaction to the sound of whispering, chewing sounds, mouth sounds, plastic crinkling, tapping and other popular ASMR triggers.

This type of negative reaction to a sound is called misophonia. At this point it seems the ability to experience ASMR, and the preferences for specific ASMR triggers is very subjective.”

Despite the fact that not everyone has the same response to ASMR videos, an increasing number of people with insomnia, anxiety, and depression are finding relief in them.

In the ASMR communities of YouTube and Reddit, many people with anxiety and depression say they have felt an improvement in their mental health after they began to watch ASMR videos. Those with insomnia report better sleep when they listen to ASMR sounds in bed.

For those who don’t know if they can experience ASMR or not, there are various videos on YouTube that feature common ASMR triggers. Some of these are named “ASMR Tests” and are generally best watched with headphones.

The movie 'U' should see

The powerful drama about police brutality has been released in theaters

By TIM POWERS Staff Writer

The film adaption of the young adult novel "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas was released at the beginning of October to rave reviews. The film details the powerful story of Starr Carter, a high school student who suffers a great tragedy through the death of a friend she has known since her childhood.

The film begins with Maverick Carter teaching his three children, all at the age of 10 or younger, the ins and outs of what it means to live as a black person in America.

He educates them of the possibility of racial profiling and how to react when it occurs.

The film then cuts to Starr, now in high school, who lives in the all-black neighborhood of Garden Heights but attends the mostly white school Williamson Prep.

She details how she has two versions of herself–the Garden Heights version and the Williamson version, and how the two may never intersect with each other.

As the scenes of the film moves along gracefully, we find Starr meeting up with her friend Khalil at a party. Eventually, after gun shots ring out at the party, the pair get into a car and begin to drive. They are pulled over by a white police officer. The officer refuses to announce his reason for pulling the car over. Khalil, frustrated by racial profiling, begins to argue with the officer. The officer instructs Khalil to step outside the vehicle and takes his license and registration.

While the officer is running the license, Khalil reaches into the car to reassure Starr.

Starr is being very careful and making sure her hands are visible. Khalil then innocently reaches for a hairbrush on the seat. The scene then turns deadly, with the cop shooting Khalil–Starr being the only one to witness the horror.

Following the shooting, Starr goes through a difficult, psychological journey of self discovery to find her voice. Not just for herself, but to honor and defend Khalil as well.

Starr, played by Amandla Stenberg, most known for her role as Rue in “The Hunger Games,” gives a breakthrough performance.

The capacity of emotion she displays in one single image of the film is astounding.

Stenberg gracefully shows Starr’s rise from quiet girl to a social justice warrior.

Russell Hornsby, who plays Starr’s father Maverick, gives an emotional performance as a man trying to defend and hold his family together. It is one of the most emotional and powerful parental performances I’ve seen in years. Hornsby gives a performance that warrants Oscar attention.

The screenplay written by Audrey Wells, who passed away from cancer the day before the film was released, is a magnificent piece of film writing. Wells is able to juggle various storylines without the film losing focus or feeling that it will buckle under the pressure.

This is also because of the swift direction completed by George Tillman Jr. The film is able to make agile shifts from a comedic note to a tear jerking one in a matter of seconds and never does it feel like a tonal mess.

The film takes a strong inspiration from

real life cases of police brutality that have become prevalent in the news in recent years. From the moment the news of another shooting hit the waves of social media, people’s anger began to boil. Protesters took to the streets and fought for justice for the various victims. Hashtags were created and a movement was born, similar to the events of the film.

The shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin ignited the “Black Lives Matter” movement. Since then various cases have added fuel to the fire like the strangling of Eric Garner. Garner was approached by officers under the suspicion of selling cigarettes without tax stamps. Garner complained of harassment by police officers and was then placed under arrest, but he moved his arm away. Garner was then placed in a choke hold on the ground by officer. Garner told officers the he couldn't breathe four times during the encounter. Nevertheless the officers did not listen and Garner died.

There are many high profile cases of police brutality such as the cases of Philando Castile, Michael Brown and Sandra Bland. In each instance a black person was shot by a white police officer. More often than not the officer faces no consequences for their actions.

This movie is more than just a young adult film. It encompasses emotions that few young adult films have been able to. “The Hate U Give” moves the genre in a strong step forward. This film has the power to become a classic and inspire people like few movies have done before.

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'The Hate U Give' is in theaters now with a 97 percent approval rating on rottentomatoes.

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RUNNIN’ THE POINT

Quinnipiac men’s basketball guards gearing up for season

The Bobcats’ young backcourt could be the key to a successful MAAC season and deep postseason run

By LOGAN REARDON Sports Editor

In college basketball, it seems as though every good team in March has two key components – strong guard play and upperclassmen leadership.

Just look at the last three national champions.

Last year for Villanova, it was junior guards Mikal Bridges and Jalen Brunson. North Carolina had junior guards Joel Berry II and Justin Jackson. Villanova’s 2016 squad had junior guard Josh Hart and senior guard Ryan Arcidiacono steering the ship.

It’s clear that guard play is the key to success come tournament time, but is it possible for a team with young guards to make noise?

That’s what the Quinnipiac men’s basketball team is going to find out. Sure, they have graduate student guard Cam Young – one of the best scorers in the MAAC – but he won’t be bringing the ball up and running the offense. That responsibility lies with sophomore guard Rich Kelly and freshman guards Tyree Pickron and Tyrese Williams.

Kelly averaged 34.2 minutes per game (MPG) last season, which means he only sat for about six minutes every game. To put it in perspective, only eight other freshmen in the country played more MPG than Kelly last season. By the end of the year, Quinnipiac head coach Baker Dunleavy was constantly saying how Kelly wasn’t a freshman anymore because of the minutes he had played.

Now in his sophomore campaign, Kelly is sensing a noticeable difference in physical state.

The Bobcats have been practicing for almost a month now and he is holding up just fine.

“My body feels a lot better than it did last year,” Kelly said. “I’m able to recover a lot quicker. Last year I needed two or three days, but this year I only need one day and my body is ready to go. I’m ready to go.”

As for Pickron and Williams, things will be

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For the second straight season, the Bobcats will rely on young guards to lead them to victory.

a bit different in their freshman season. Kelly was forced to play a ton of minutes because of transfers and overall lack of depth. Many key guards transferred from Quinnipiac when Dunleavy was hired and Kelly was basically the only true point guard left.

After a year of recruiting, the Bobcats are now loaded at guard – other freshmen guards Matt Balanc and Savion Lewis join Pickron and Williams in the backcourt. Pickron and Williams figure to get the majority of minutes at the point guard spot off the bench, though.

Kelly, the most experienced point guard on the roster, is doing all he can to help his young backcourt mates as they get up to speed on the Quinnipiac system and college basketball as a whole.

“I went through a lot of ups and downs last year,” Kelly said. “I learned a lot through failure. I’m just trying to help them learn without them having to fail so they can avoid that, but still learn their lessons.”

Pickron is a player that can play either guard

spot, but he’ll be asked to run the show when Kelly sits – which, if last year is any indication, won’t be for long.

“Tyree’s a lot of fun to coach,” Dunleavy said. “He’s been really good so far. I’ve seen him play for a long time. He’s adjusted really well, he’s really coachable and he shoots the ball well.

The area that the whole staff has been impressed, though, has been his willingness to defend and do other things. He’ll fit right in.”

At 6-foot-3, Pickron is slightly undersized to play the off-guard spot, but in the MAAC it can work. Last year, Quinnipiac played thengraduate student Isaiah Washington, 6-foot-4, at shooting guard alongside Kelly and the Bobcats still went deep in the MAAC tournament.

Dunleavy believes Pickron can fill Washington’s role.

“Tyree can play with other guards,” Dunleavy said. “He compliments other guards with his ability to shoot the ball. He can shoot it from very deep. He’s just solid and he’s got a toughness about him – he really plays bigger than his

size. On the defensive end, he’s a guy that should give us rebounding.”

Now less than two weeks away from its season-opening date with defending national champion Villanova, Quinnipiac is strengthening up some of its weaknesses.

“With every day [our chemistry] gets better and better,” Kelly said. “Last year we were the best team possible at the end of the year, and I think it’s going to be similar this year. We’re just going to keep getting better and better.”

Over the past two Saturday’s, the Bobcats held “secret scrimmages,” playing at Delaware on Oct. 20 and hosting Princeton on Oct. 27.

“I thought the scrimmage was positive, just in the sense of being able to see us up against somebody else,” Dunleavy said after the Delaware scrimmage. “It put us in some situations that we haven’t seen in practice and under the situation where there’s some whistles. By the score, we played well, but we know we have a lot to work on. Whether you win or lose those scrimmages, you come away with new things you need to emphasize in practice.”

Now that the scrimmages are over, a week and a half of practice is all that stands between Quinnipiac and the regular season.

The game at Villanova isn’t one Quinnipiac is expected to win – or even keep close, for that matter – but nevertheless, it’ll be a huge step for the program. Playing on the national stage against one of the best programs in the country will be a test to see how far Dunleavy has truly brought this team as he kicks off his second season.

Villanova, as mentioned above, has trotted out some of the best guards in the nation over the years, including NBA players in Bridges, Brunson, Hart, Arcidiacono, Kyle Lowry and Randy Foye.

We’ll see if Quinnipiac’s young guards are up for the challenge.

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RUNDOWN

MEN’S HOCKEY QU 4, AIC 1 - Friday Craig Martin: 2 goals Odeen Tufto: 1 goal, 1 assist Chase Priskie: 1 goal, 1 assist QU 9, AIC 2 - Saturday Alex Whelan: 3 goals Brandon Fortunato: 5 assists WOMEN’S HOCKEY QU 4, Brown 0 - Friday Lexie Adzija: 1 goal, 1 assist Kati Tabin: 2 assists Abbie Ives: 17 saves QU 2, Yale 0 - Saturday Kenzie Lancaster: 1 goal Tabin: 1 goal Ives: 16 saves VOLLEYBALL QU 3, Fairfield 2 - Saturday Kat Miller: 15 kills, 11 digs Morgan Sherwin: 16 kills Lydia Jones: 14 kills FIELD HOCKEY QU 5, Temple 2 - Friday Valerie Perkins: 2 goals, 1 assist Amanda Blum: 2 goals QU 4, Holy Cross 3 (OT) - Sunday Bianka Strubbe: 1 goal, 2 assists Brooke Whipkey: 2 goals MEN’S SOCCER QU 2, Niagara 0 - Wednesday Eamon Whelan: 1 goal Oriac Vila Rotxes: 1 goal Salah Oumorou: 1 goal QU 1, Marist 0 - Saturday Rashawn Dally: 1 goal WOMEN’S SOCCER QU 1, Manhattan 1 (OT) - Wednesday Hannah Reiter: 1 goal Siena 2, QU 1 (MAAC Quarterfinals) - Sunday Kelsey Goldring: 1 goal MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY QU at MAAC Championships 4th out of 20 teams WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY QU at MAAC Championships 4th out of 11 teams

GAMES TO WATCH MEN’S ICE HOCKEY QU at Harvard - Friday, 7 p.m.

QU at Dartmouth - Saturday, 7 p.m.

WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY QU vs. Harvard - Friday, 6 p.m.

QU vs. Dartmouth - Saturday, 3 p.m.

VOLLEYBALL QU vs. Marist - Saturday, 7 p.m.

QU vs. Siena - Sunday, 1 p.m.

MEN’S SOCCER QU vs. Monmouth - Wednesday, 1 p.m.

QU vs. TBD (MAAC Quarterfinals) - Sunday, TBD MEN’S TENNIS QU at CT State Championships - Friday - Sunday

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GAME OF THE WEEK

Quinnipiac women’s ice hockey defeats rival Yale

The Bobcats have recovered from an 0-4-2 start to win two straight games

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Freshman forward Lexie Adzija totaled two points last weekend, keeping her tied for the team lead with five points on the season.

By MATTHEW JARONCYK Staff Writer

After a poor start to the season, the Quinnipiac women’s ice hockey has won its past two games, this game a win on Saturday afternoon at Frank Perrotti, Jr. Arena, as the Yale Bulldogs were defeated 2-0.

This win also gave the Bobcats their second straight win in ECAC Hockey play.

Quinnipiac head coach Cassandra Turner acknowledged a difference in the way that her team’s been playing in the past two games, compared to how they started the season.

“I think we’re playing with a little more confidence than we were earlier in the season,” Turner said. “Our kids have a quote on

the board on the locker room today just about believing. I think they believe in a different way now than they have done prior to the last two games.”

The first period was full of action. Both teams were pushing the pace on offense and creating opportunities to score. It was Quinnipiac who broke open the game with a goal from senior forward Kenzie Lancaster, getting her first goal of the season, while giving the Bobcats the lead 1-0 with 12:12 in the first period.

Though she was not sure how the puck got in to the net, Lancaster knew the way she shot the puck, it was going to go in.

“I was trying to get my body in

position to the inside and it turned out to be great,” Lancaster said.

The Bulldogs had their opportunities to score, with sophomore forward Laura Lundblad getting a penalty for holding at 9:01 in the first period and the amount of times they went on the breakaway. Despite the fact the Bulldogs were down one at the end of the first period, both teams had nine shots on goal.

From that point forward, the Bobcats were in control of the entire game. Though there were no goals scored in the second period, you could see that the Bobcats were in control. They were hustling to the pucks faster, creating more scoring opportunities and more aggressive than the Bulldogs.

This was shown in the fact that at the end of the second period, the Bobcats put up 18 shots on goal alone in the period, upping their total shots on goal to 27, while the Bulldogs only managed to put up three shots in the second period, putting them at 12 shots on goal through two periods.

Going into the third period, the Bobcats took the momentum from the second period and brought it with them. They were as aggressive as they were in the second period and did not look back. Eventually, their aggressive gameplan led them to another goal, this time from junior forward Kati Tabin, also getting her first goal of the season and giving the Bobcats a comfortable lead with 15:36 remaining in the

third period.

Tabin talked about her first goal of the season and how it felt that it went in at that moment.

“The first goal of the season to me was good,” Tabin said. “I was shooting a lot, but none were bouncing the way I wanted it and when it bounced the way I wanted it to, it felt nice.”

From that point in the third period, the Bobcats defense dominated the rest of the game, only allowing four shots on goal.

In the end, it was the defense that really came to play today, Tabin pointed out.

“We really focused on defense today, with preventing shots and not allowing anything to get behind us,” Tabin said. “I think we took a step in the right direction these past two weeks and we just have to build from here.”

The Bobcats look to move their winning streak to three games as they play the Harvard Crimson on Friday, Nov. 2 at 6 p.m. at the Frank Perrotti, Jr. Arena.

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Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey rolls past AIC to stay unbeaten

By JON SURRATT Contributing Writer

The Quinnipiac Bobcats men’s ice hockey (5-0-0, 0-0-0 ECAC Hockey) went up against the American International College (AIC) Yellow Jackets (2-4-1, 2-11 Atlantic Conference) winning by a score of 9-2 on Saturday at home to stay undefeated.

The Bobcats came out gunning, scoring four goals in the first nine minutes. Freshman forward Wyatt Bongiovanni and senior forward Alex Whelan each had two of those first four.

This was a major game for Whelan as he had his first goal on the season and his first career hat trick. He scored the third goal 12 minutes into the third period to make the lead 7-2.

“I think today I had a little more space out there,” Whelan said.

“First few games I wasn’t finding my usual space. It felt really good [to get my first goal]. Last year... beginning of the year I started really strong. I wanted to get out there and help my team win” The Bobcats’ offensive chemistry showed out as well with five different players scoring and great passing from everyone. Senior defenseman Brandon Fortunato had a career night as well, notching five assists for a career high.

“Played a lot of games in my career,” Fortunato said. “Definitely up there [in reference to career high in assists]. It’s a great feel-

ing. Really tried working hard.”

The Teletubbies, a fan group for the Bobcats, were not out there for the support, but the Bobcats did not need it, outshooting the Yellow Jackets 36-17. They came out and scored as many goals as they had the past three previous contests combined.

“I thought it was a good win tonight,” head coach Rand Pecknold said. “We battled. Got some fortunate bounces earlier in the game to get us that early lead. It was one of those nights that things went our way.”

There are some areas the Bobcats need to improve before going into ECAC Hockey play. One major thing is the penalty kill, as the Yellow Jackets did get one of their goals on the power play in the third period to make the score 6-2. However, throughout the night, most of the shots the Yellow Jackets took were on one of their five power play opportunities.

“Just a few things to work on and clean up some areas,” Pecknold said. “Penalty kill [biggest thing to work].”

Throughout the third period, the Bobcats had the puck around the net looking to score and Bongiovanni shot the puck but missed, but was hit high by a Yellow Jacket and got hurt. Bongiovanni would not return to the game afterwards.

A few other players that stood out were junior defenseman Brogan Rafferty, sophomore forward

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Junior forward Alex Whelan netted his first career hat trick in the dominant victory.

Odeen Tufto and senior defenseman Chase Priskie. Rafferty had two goals on the night and Tufto and Priskie both had one a piece.

This win has the Bobcats remain undefeated on the season as they go into ECAC Hockey play.

With a young team and high expectations, they cannot get ahead of themselves.

“We are feeling good,” Whelan said. “Everybody knows ECAC is going to be different. We just go to focus on working hard and playing a full 60 [minutes] and I’ll

think we’ll be good.”

The Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey team will play at Harvard University its first ECAC Hockey matchup of the season on Friday, Nov. 2 at 7 p.m.

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Clockwise from top left: Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey freshman forward Wyatt Bongiovanni fires a shot at the net in Saturday’s win over AIC; sophomore forward Odeen Tufto battles for position with a defenseman; senior forward Scott Davidson races to get to the puck before the defense; freshman forward William Fällström skates across the ice.

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For the first time in program history, the Quinnipiac volleyball team defeated MAAC rival Fairfield, 3-2, on Friday.

Including Quinnipiac, there are just five D-I men’s ice hockey teams that remain undefeated.

The Quinnipiac women’s ice hockey team recorded a season-high 42 shots in its 2-0 win over Yale.

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The Quinnipiac women’s ice hockey junior goalie registered her first and second shutouts on the year, as she made 17 and 16 saves respectively in the team’s 4-0 and 2-0 wins against Brown and Yale.

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Freshman Mckenna Haz is standing out as a leader on a young Quinnipiac rugby team heading into the playoffs

By BRENDAN O’SULLIVAN Contributing Writer

Her season is almost over, but her journey has just begun.

Quinnipiac freshman Mckenna Haz grew up in Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia playing a variety of sports other than rugby.

Most crucially, she played soccer and developed a strong kicking game that was transferrable to rugby. However, Haz’s rugby career didn’t begin until high school.

“I went to boarding school in Canada called Brentwood College School, and we had academics six days a week, so that’s a little bit different,” Haz said. “We are a part of a tripartite program, so you actually had to play a sport, and you had to do an art. So rugby was kind of introduced to me because I had to take a different sport during my first semester, and I thought I’d try it out.”

Although Haz started playing rugby late, she had interest in the sport since middle school. She also had ancestral ties to rugby, which also drew her to the sport.

Haz was not allowed to play rugby in middle school, so she thought it would be fun to try it out in high school. She continued a legacy set by her grandpa, the captain of the rugby team at her high school. Her grandpa’s high school friend and teammate, Marius Felix, was Haz’s high school coach and main mentor for her during these developmental years. The first year, Haz was placed on the wing, so her job was to get the ball, run with it and score tries.

Prior to coming to Quinnipiac, Haz traveled the world. She played in Canada for years and even received offers from Queen’s University, University of Victoria and University of British Columbia to play collegiate rugby. Ultimately, she turned down those offers and adventured to New Zealand to play 7s rugby for eight months.

Normally rugby is played with 15 players on each side, but Haz opted to go with

a faster-paced game with only seven on a side. In 7s, the teams only play seven minute halves rather than the normal 40 minutes. “[New Zealand] was faster pace, those girls definitely know how to play because they’ve been playing it since five years old,” Haz said. “That’s the difference between America and Canada – they have a ball in their hands from a year young age, and their parents played, their grandparents played, their siblings played. Everybody plays.”

After eight months in New Zealand, Haz felt it was time to play collegiate rugby. Haz previously conversed with Quinnipiac rugby head coach Becky Carlson over email and Skype, but it wasn’t financially feasible for her to enroll. Haz reached back out to Carlson, and they bonded quickly.

“We talked, and you could just tell that she was independent, and she was just one of those people who goes after whatever it is that she can tackle like she’s going to go after,” Carlson said. “I mean that figuratively and literally. She just had this persona where she was so together, and she answered every email and was so polite. Those things actually matter to a college coach. Her playing was secondary to how well she handled herself in the process of being recruited.”

Haz knew Quinnipiac was the school for her. It provided her with a balance between strong athletics and strong academics that cannot be mirrored in many other universities. She took notice of some Quinnipiac players – including All-American Ilona Maher – during a 7s tournament in Barbados.

“There were a few strong players that were playing on the Quinnipiac side,” Haz said.

“Also, coach [Carlson] was recruiting another one of my friends to come here, but she didn’t end up coming. Overall, I knew about the accelerated dual degree program, and I knew that I wanted to go down the advertising/entrepreneurship/media studies type way. Everything seems really meant to be.”

With all the opportunities at Quinnipiac, Haz finds herself greatly busy. She is a 3+1 communications student on top of being a collegiate athlete.

“I’m running around a lot like a chicken with its head cut off,” Haz said. “It’s manageable. I think I’ve just had such a routine oriented lifestyle since I was younger, constantly running from sports to school that it’s kind of easy to simulate into college. I’m definitely used to it.”

Haz plays flyhalf for a young Quinnipiac squad that is coming off three-straight national championship titles. Losing key seniors set the team back, but that never stopped Haz from taking a leadership role. Carlson has been inspired by Haz’s work ethic and leadership qualities at such a young age.

“She’s intense and focused,” Carlson said.

“As a coach, I need to be direct, be bright, and be gone, which means Mckenna doesn’t require a whole lot of peppering in the coaching. She’s more of a player that’s like, ‘Why use 15 words when five will do?’ She is processing exactly what you’re saying and she’ll go out and execute it. She will be direct and ask questions if she doesn’t understand something, but that’s not very often.”

Haz has naturally taken on the role of being a leader as the starting flyhalf, but she credits the seven other freshmen teammates for sticking together and being a strong unit where each player is a leader on the field.

Carlson has been impressed all season by Haz’s leadership, especially since she plays an extremely difficult position.

“I’ve never had a freshmen starting at flyhalf because they have so many decisions to make,” Carlson said. “In an instant, you got defense on you and you’re the person that’s responsible for whether or not you’re going to attack, you’re going to kick, you’re going to dish out. There are so many things and decisions that Mckenna needs to make, that I think she’s adjusting to those.”

In addition to her academic and athletic

activities, Haz has created and continues to run an organization called KidLED. “My younger brother and I started it in grade 11,” Haz said. “Our mission is funding brighter futures. We create campaigns for charities and organizations. Our first campaign was in support of Wounded Warriors Canada.”

KidLED is designed to raise money to provide kids with a bright future in Leadership, Education and Development. Haz and her brother, Cooper, have recently partnered with Drumroaster Coffee for their newest campaign.

“We have seven sports teams signed up for our new coffee fundraising campaign,” Haz said. “We partnered with Drumroaster Coffee, it’s a local coffee shop. For every coffee bag a sports team sells, they make $5 on it.”

Throughout this busy season, Haz and the other seven freshmen progressed each day on and off the field. The team is 3-4 on the season with the playoffs nearing. Carlson knew this would be the case prior to the season.

“I had to take a huge step back before the season started,” Carlson said. “We didn’t drill into them like we previously had about championships, and we didn’t talk about a four-peat. We didn’t do any of that because we really had to fall in love with the process and kind of let go of the result.”

Carlson hopes for the team to return to its championship ways in the upcoming years as the freshmen mature. Carlson sees Haz as a leader among the rest of the freshmen, and believes success is in the future. “[Haz’s] demeanor and energy was two of the most inspiring things,” Carlson said.

“She also had a directness about her when she spoke and we when we would Skype.

We chatted for a pretty long time, and I just got the sense that she was one of those athletes that would do anything to achieve that level of success.”