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On Monday, Oct. 23 the Student Government Association invited members of the community to speak at its event, “Your Voice, Our Quinnipiac,” in the Carl Hansen Student Center Piazza. The purpose of the event was to promote the “My Culture is not a Costume” campaign.

The event was going smoothly in the beginning, according to Vice President for Student Experience Tatyana Youssef.

“Everyone was feeling comfortable,” Youssef said. “It was going just as planned. People were saying they were enjoying it.”

Individuals spoke on personal experiences with racism, sexism and exclusion. Amongst the speakers was Sophomore Class President Chris Montalvo. He approached Youssef, who was facilitating the event, in order to sign up for a spot on the list at the open-mic style event.

“He said (to me), ‘I’m just going to share my life story...but I think you’ll appreciate it,’ and I trusted that,” Youssef said.

However, Montalvo’s speech challenged the claims of the first individuals who spoke, and he stated that he disagreed with everything that had been said.

“I am here to stir the pot...I’m here to cause controversy,” Montalvo said.

Montalvo ended his speech by talking about his tactics to ignore racially-biased individuals.

“I’m just not going to surround myself with that,” Montalvo said. “And if I see it, I’m not going to think anything of it...those people are so irrelevant. It hurts me that [these views] hurt people.”

Many were shocked by Montalvo’s statements, as acknowledged by the sophomore class president when he concluded his speech.

“I definitely shook some heads a little bit, but that’s just how I feel,” Montalvo said.

The future of his career in student government was challenged when senior Class Representative Ian Zeitlin drafted a petition to

“When speaking at an event where vulnerability and moments of pain were shared, that is a slap in the face to inclusivity,” Lemos said.

“That is the exact opposite of what Quinnipiac stands for. What we allowed on Monday, because he continued to speak, was a discussion on how the experiences of a white male could mirror the experiences of people that have faced racial bias their entire life.”

Professor of philosophy Joo-Hwan Lee read a prepared statement after Lemos spoke, and succinctly reprimanded the premise behind the impeachment.

“A university is not a safe place, nor should it be. A proper university, this place is a most dangerous place where you should be challenged and shaken to your core by your professors and peers as you learn to articulate and defend your views,” Lee said. “A university is a place of terrifying vulnerability where you learn to question all of your assumptions and presuppositions and subject them to logical scrutiny. Why? Because the unexamined life is not worth living, and you should know thyself.”

“I am here to stir the pot...

I’m here to cause controversy.”

– CHRIS MONTALVO SOPHOMORE CLASS PRESIDENT

“First of all SGA represents the student body, and as we know, there are people who think like that on the student body,” Gandhi said.

“It may even be necessary to have that voice on (SGA) because when you have a group of people who all think the same, nothing really productive comes out of it, regardless of which side it’s on.”

Wednesday, Oct. 25: SGA General Board Meeting During SGA’s Open Forum portion of its general board meeting on Wednesday Oct. 25 senior political science major Camilo Lemos,presented the issues with the statement Montalvo made at the event to the 41 members in SGA.

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Making judgments about other people without knowing them first hand as individuals, based on nothing else but the color of their skin is definitionally racist, according to Lee. “And let me be absolutely clear; there is nothing virtuous or noble about organizing a petition to silence a fellow Bobcat just because you disagreed with or discovered some unintended offense in their opinion,” Lee said.

Lee took a similar stance as Gandhi in stating that one should not be removed from their position because of differing opinions, especially when others may share the same opinion.

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whose feelings must be protected at all costs; who must never ever be offended or challenged even slightly because God forbid you’re just too weak and pathetic to handle it,” Lee said. “That’s a lie. And you know it. You have it in you to be so much more than that. But if you swallow that lie, hook, line and sinker, you won’t just ruin your own life, you will destroy this place and take it down with you, and that will be the end of the university.”

Lee concluded by urging this student body not to set the wrong precedent for the next generation of Bobcats.

Many students and representatives throughout SGA spoke both for and against Montalvo’s statements from Monday night.

“The first person that I reached out to talk to yesterday about what happened was Ali (Munshi),” Montalvo said. “I personally went up there because, like Ali said, we go to these events and we hear the same thing. So I thought I have a difference in opinion, however, I sit in the corner at every one of these events and say absolutely nothing; even though I don’t necessarily agree with what’s behind everything, I would like to discuss things.”

Montalvo opted out of speaking for a long time, but rather chose to open up his schedule, give out his personal email address and telephone number, in order to speak one-on-one with those he had offended.

“I will give you the opportunity to educate me and I will give myself the opportunity to show you the kind of person that I am, and why I might have the beliefs that I do,” Montalvo said.

Montalvo publicly gave his email and cell phone number at the forum to allow those offended to contact him directly.

Junior class president Jack Onofrio motioned to censure Montalvo as a response to his comments made on that Monday night.

A censure is an official showing of disapproval from SGA. “I wanted to stress the need for action from SGA,” Onofrio said. “...I conveyed to the student government that this is our opportunity to take action. When this many students show up and share their concerns, there needs to be some sort of response.”

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Sophomore Class President Chris Montalvo was censured and impeached due to his comments at the “Your Voice, Our Quinnipiac” event sponsored by the Student Government Association and the Multicultural Student Leadership Council.

impeach Montalvo for the views he expressed that evening.

“I think that, although we should never silence a voice in a room...I don’t think someone who holds those opinions should be put in a position of power such as sophomore class representative,” Zeitlin said. “We’re here to represent our students.”

Senior education policy major Nisha Gandhi spoke directly after Montalvo on Monday night, with the intention of giving a statement strong enough to invalidate what he has just said. “(Montalvo) was trying to place less importance on racialized issues,” Gandhi said.

“I understand his sentiment, but it’s hard enough to get up there and share something that intimate with somebody and then when somebody else invalidates what you’re saying, it’s discouraging.”

While Gandhi is opposed to the statement that Montalvo made on Oct. 23, she does not believe that removal from office is the right route to take.

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Psychology comes alive at Quinnipiac’s annual Fechner Day to celebrate the work of Gustav Fechner, a German philosopher, physicist, and experimental psychologist who pioneered the idea of psychology as a science.

It’s said that on Oct. 22, 1850, Fechner woke up with a new realization of how to study the mind; by examining the connection between physical stimuli and the sensations or perceptions they produce, according to Sharlene Walbaum, a psychology professor at Quinnipiac University.

Since then, psychologists have called Oct. 22 ‘Fechner Day’ to commemorate JULIA GALLOP /CHRONICLE Fechner’s findings and his contributions to Students experienced virtual reality at the Fechner Day exhibit on Sunday, Oct. 22. the field they now know and study.

Walbaum organizes a ‘psychology mu“I think students should attend Fechner seum’ and panel of professors to speak ev- chology classes put together exhibits for Day because it’s a way to keep up with old ery year on Fechner Day, allowing psychol- guests to try or interact with.

Destiny DeJesus, a junior psychology and modern-day psychology,” Rodriguez ogy students and professors to share their and sociology major created an exhibit for said. “You experience psychology every knowledge with the rest of the community.

“For me, it is a unique commemora- extra credit in her psychology statistics day and it’s so much more than just ‘abnortion,” Walbaum said. “It celebrates the in- class. mal’ psychology. It’s how our brain works, “What I’ve gotten from this experience the history of it, how you perceive things, tersection between creative and scientific thinking. Of course, they must go hand-in- is that learning doesn’t always have to be by and how certain models can be used in therhand but the role of creativity in science is the textbook or classroom setting,” DeJesus apeutic ways.” said. “You can learn in various ways and not always appreciated.”

Professors also enjoy the event to ‘give Walbaum said 263 students signed in to you can learn from the students and your psychology away’ to their students and walk through the psychology museum and peers around you, and just over all psychol- members of the Quinnipiac community. many stayed for the mini ‘TED talks’ panel ogy has a bunch of different windows and Professor Gary Giumetti, an industrial of professors afterwards in which several ways to it.” and organizational psychologist, is proud professors give five-minute TED talk style Psychology students can deepen their to see his students carry out the ideas and lectures. knowledge by bringing the subjects they experiments they learn in class.

“I also love the sense of camaraderie learn about in classroom to life through “Our celebration of Fechner Day means among members of the department,” Wal- exhibits for the museum, but some are also a lot to me as a psychologist and a profesbaum said. “We are doing something fun inspired by showing people the reasons why sor,” Giumetti said. “This is one of our ways and compelling together. I am amazed at they love psychology. of ‘giving psychology away’ by helping Zurama Rodriguez, a junior behavioral students, faculty, and staff at the university their willingness to take on such a challenge. Their contributions are always infor- neuroscience major, created the event for to learn about the interesting psychological her sensation and perception class, but had phenomena from our field’s past for them to mative, funny and interesting.” experience.”

Many students from a variety of psy- an interest in Fechner Day for years..

CAS launches new advising platform

By STEPHEN MACLEOD Staff Writer

The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) is launching a new website that allows students to be more independent in their studies.

The website, cas360.qu.edu, is designed for all students within arts and sciences.

Students can use it to read news and blogs, plan their courses and perhaps most impressively, nearly instantaneously set up meetings with professors.

The site is meant for both academic growth and career growth. While students can contact their professors and prepare for their next semester of classes, they can also find internships and careers. All of the sites frontpage is devoted to advice blogs, internSCREENSHOT COURTESY OF CAS360.QU.EDU ship opportunities and other helpful ideas.

“We want (CAS360) to be the first place The Quinnipiac College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) new advising platform, CAS360, is students go when they have a question,” the product of a three-year effort to improve student-advisor communication.

CAS Career Development Director Rick DelVecchio said. “You can find the answer set what emails and blogs they want sent to “This seems like a really good idea,” yourself or have the same resources as your their QU emails, meaning students will be Max Fortier, a Class of 2021 3+1 finance advisor or professor to find the answer.” able to only see messages they want to see. major, said. “Contacting your professors The website itself is designed to be easy This can be micromanaged right down to can be a pain. I really hope School of Busito use. Students are able to press on a pic- whether you see emails for QU in DC or QU ness does something similar because that ture of their professors or advisors and then in LA. Students can decide whether to see would save everybody a headache.” click to schedule an appointment. The stu- full-time, part-time, volunteer, internship or Contacting professors is not the only dent may then press a date and see all avail- even job shadows. News can be sorted by major function of the website. It can also be able times for the meetup to be made. Then, major or industry. used for networking with alumni, setting up the student confirms the appointment and a The site was the result of a three-year mock interviews and learn about potential receipt is sent to their QU email. Overall, effort to improve student-advisor commu- internship or career opportunities. setting up a meeting can be rapid.

“The site will be constantly changing. nication. When CAS decided that the site “Before, it was hard to have all the in- was the way to go, they commissioned a At the department level, it will constantly formation so quickly and fully,” DelVec- company named UConnect to make a site be changing and evolving to best meet stuchio said. “Now students can have the same that would give students a strong platform dent demand,” DelVecchio said. “The webset of information that professors have. It’ll to make their plan. site will be live in the idea that it is conbe good for both sides.”

For now, the website is only for College stantly changing with advice columns and The site is also customizable. Students of Arts and Sciences, as it was an internal blogs and such.” can sign in with their QU accounts and tai- plan. However some students expressed a lor the site to meet their needs. They can desire for it to expand to their colleges.

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Quinnipiac changes housing and registration for 3+1 students

By JESSICA RUDERMAN Staff Writer

There are changes in store for both of Quinnipiac’s accelerated 3+1 programs- Business and Communications. Still fairly new in their sixth and second year, the Business and Communications respective programs are currently facing changes to their requirements and perks, some for students before the ink has even dried on their contracts.

Housing

The biggest of these changes comes in the form of residential status. Students were previously required to live on campus all four years, but can now live off campus during their fourth, graduate year, according to Director of Residential Life Mark DeVilbiss.

A requirement of the 3+1 program since its creation, the change came about based on student feedback and the increase in demand for housing, according to Assistant Dean of Academic Services Michael Taylor.

“As demand for housing has increased university wide, I know that Res Life has been looking for ways to not necessarily continue to have graduate students live in on-campus housing to make space for more undergraduate students,” Taylor said.

For students in the coming generations of these programs, housing all four years will not be guaranteed as a part of the contract.

“In the future, it will probably only be the same as it is for other students which is guaranteed for the first three years,” DeVilbiss said. “We obviously want to provide housing for as many students as we can that want QU housing.”

So far, there has been positive feedback from students who will get to utilize this new option of the 3+1 program. Maeve Hennigan, a first-year communications 3+1 student, felt restricted being required to live on campus all four years and is happy to now have the option should she want it.

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change,” Hennigan said. “Now I know I can live with friends outside of the 3+1 program off-campus my senior year.”

For some students, being mandated to live on campus for even the first three years is still an issue in regards to conditions of the program. Alicia Leo, a sophomore communications 3+1 student, expressed that housing should not be a requirement of the program so students can have more flexibility.

“I think that they should guarantee us housing for our fourth year, but not have it be mandatory,” Leo said. “I think that’s the most fair it can get honestly because we should be able to have the option.”

This change is seemingly a win-win, benefiting the surplus of students entering the school each year along with the needs and wants of current and past students.

“It kind of worked out nicely. It’s what Res. Life wanted and what a lot of the students wanted, and of course if those 3+1 students wanted to keep living on-campus, they could do that,” Taylor said. “They are not being forced to move off-campus they just have the option.”

Registration

Along with housing, registration modifications have also been made to the programs in regards to having priority status on courses in the respective schools.

Students in the 3+1 programs were previously promised priority scheduling in their classes to ensure that seats are available in all of their required classes.

Taylor explained that the reasoning for removing this ‘perk’ to the program was because students were not using the priority status properly.

“What we’ve found over time is that it definitely is possible for students to do on their own,” Taylor said. “If the student is rearranging their schedule, by design, they’re only getting into classes with seats open. So if they’re able to arrange their own schedule with sections that are still open, it means that they didn’t actually need priority registration in the first place.”

When students first became aware of the intent to remove priority status for registration, a group went to Taylor and brought to his attention that it was stated in the contract signed upon joining the program that

they would receive this perk all four years at Quinnipiac.

“Being relatively new to running the program, I didn’t realize that priority registration was a specific promise that was made to students when they were admitted to the program,” Taylor said. “Obviously as a promise that was made to them when they started Quinnipiac we didn’t want to then turn around and say that we’re no longer honoring that.”

Students in their first year of the business 3+1 program were not granted priority registration, but those in their second and third year of the program will retain their right to an early registration for the coming years.

In regards to the Communications 3+1 program, students received priority registration for freshman year last year, but were never promised the benefit in future registrations.

Current freshmen of the program did not receive priority enrollment in the previous registration along with the sophomores, the first generation of the program.

“The priority enrollment is nice especially for the freshman, but within the SOC, we can push to be put into a closed course really easily,” Leo said. “That’s something that needs to be clarified. I feel like there’s just a lot of miscommunication.”

Associate Dean of the School of Commuications Terry Bloom and Michael Taylor work with their students to fill academic needs as well as match the accelerated itinerary the programs requires. They hope to continue this pattern, developing a structured 3+1 program that allows them to expand for many other students to come.

“These programs are still pretty new, so as we have learned from the students who have gone through them what the needs are, what the wishes are, what the hopes are, we have learned and we continue to make adjustments which is good,” Bloom said. “This is the one that came up and we were able to go through channels and make that happen.”

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“Why don’t we address the reason that this happened?” Onofrio asked. “Why don’t we address Chris’ perspective? Why don’t we address the perspective of people who walked out of that room and try to understand each other here...People here are clearly very upset and there are clearly people here who are defending the virtues of free speech...There is a middle ground.”

The Impeachment Process Petitions for the impeachment of an SGA member require 10 signatures of current members in order to be recognized by the Executive Board. Zeitlin was disappointed by the amount of time it took to collect the signatures from his fellow SGA members, a process that took a few days.

This is to be compared to another incident, that of sophomore class representative Helen Dong, whose petition for impeachment only took about two hours to fulfill, according to Zeitlin. Dong’s impeachment is currently in the investigation process.

Removal from office is not necessarily a result of a successful impeachment. Any current elected member of SGA can initiate impeachment proceedings against any other SGA member.

The initiating member must submit the signatures of 10 members, or one-fourth of SGA, to the Vice President, who will notify the Executive Board of said concerns within 48 hours. All members of SGA will be notified at the next general board meeting, and a committee will be formed to address the

impeachment.

Committee meetings are closed to the public, and to non-committee members. If the committee finds the concerns of the initiating party relevant, they can make recommendations for addressing the issue, which call for a two-thirds majority of SGA in order to act on any of these recommendations.

Munshi is chairing the task force that has been assembled in regards to the situation as the student government moves forward to find the necessary repercussions for Montalvo’s comments.

“I have selected, along with the executive board, a small group of students who are going to serve on the task force,” Munshi said. “Should Chris Montalvo’s impeachment fail, the student government is going to take actions to show that they reprimand the comments that were made by Chris Montalvo, and censure him in some sort of regard.”

Youssef showed her understanding for those demanding Montalvo’s removal.

“I get it. You’re angry,” Youssef said.

“You were belittled. You were invalidated.

He represents you and you don’t feel safe with that. I get it. But it would be so wrong to just give up. We need to do the best we can to just continue the conversation.”

Schmedel believes that it is unlikely that Montalvo will be removed from office, but that does not mean that there will not be an opportunity for education.

“Unless it was in direct violation of the student handbook or our constitution, there is a pretty slim chance that he’s going to get (removed from office), but that is open.”

SGA President Ryan Lynch believes that there will be repercussions, regardless of whether Montalvo is removed from office.

“This can’t happen,” Lynch said, “And we’re trying to show that our organization doesn’t tolerate things and that if he were to not get impeached, that we wouldn’t just let things move on.”

The Impact Chris Montalvo apologized for his statements in an interview with The Chronicle following the SGA forum .

“My intentions were not to cause outrage,” Montalvo said. “It was to cause people to think from a different perspective, and I didn’t do that well enough at all...I went up there without regard for other people in the room, and I shouldn’t have.”

He said that his unpreparedness was the crux of his speech at the “Your Voice, Our Quinnipiac” event.

“In a sensitive environment, as it was, going up there unprepared was wrong,” Montalvo said.

Schmedel believes that the dialogue from this past week will spark a need for more conversations on campus.

“We (SGA) had briefly talked about creating a campus-wide event where both sides (would be) politically speaking on how we feel about the political climate right now,” Schmedel said. “It would consist of faculty, staff and students...to be able to show that not only are both opinions here, but they are both valid.”

Schmedel mentioned how she believes Montalvo’s comments to be a misrepresentation of a valid perspective.

“We do feel like Chris’ words were a very poor representation of what a lot of students here believe,” Schmedel said. “We do feel like what he said came off as bigoted

and racist when they were not intended to do so. We’re just trying to restore some legitimacy to both sides.”

Youssef talked about how she plans to further develop the “That’s Not Okay,” campaign on campus for the following year. The campaign was intended to encourage individuals to defend others when racism or other bias comes into play.

“The first step is “that’s not okay,” and you’re calling it out...the next step is about taking action,” Youssef said. “I’d like to hope that the efforts that we’re doing on campus are able to move us forward to the third step of the campaign, which would be implementing a positive mindset with all of this and celebrating diversity.”

Vice President for Public Relations Victoria Johnson believes that there needs to be more internal training to allow representatives to express themselves in a more respectful way.

“I would love to see SGA have someone come in from public speaking, because you need to learn how to say things in a public manner,” Johnson said. “I don’t think we know how to do that, and I think that’s how some people were offended.”

This training will allow people with opposing views to fuel more conversations on campus, according to Johnson. She continued to state that SGA is brainstorming ideas to help encourage dialogue and acceptance on campus.

“We’re working hard,” Johnson said.

“We’re trying our best to find a solution to make this place a better place for anyone of color, of any religion… We’re doing our best.”

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Wednesday 11/1 Teacher Appreciation Event Alpha Chi Omega will host its Teacher Appreciation Event. Sisters will educate professors about the philanthropy they participate in. The event will take place in Rocky Top Student Center 210 from 7:45 to 9:30 p.m.

Saturday 11/4 7th annual yard show Sigma Gamma Rho will host its 7th annual yard show to begin founders week. Many of the National Panhellenic Greeks (Divine 9) will perform at the event, including Dance Fusion, Beta Rho Cussies, Sigma Gamma Rho, Alpha Phi Alpha, Kappa Alpha Psi, Alpha Kappa Alpha, among others.The event will take place at Burt Kahn Court from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Sunday 11/5 Ball for Buckman

Monday 11/6 Sweetheart Competition Dance Company will host its third annual Sweetheart Competition.

Students can enjoy music and trivia, as well as free refreshments. A portion of the proceeds raised will go to the American Cancer Society. The event will take place in the Piazza from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Tuesday 11/7 Girl Scout Cookie Sales Kappa Delta will host its annual Girl Scout Cookie Sale to benefit the local Girl Scout troops of Hamden and New Haven. The event will take place from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the SC 200 Rotunda Lounge.

Socrates Cafe The departments of Philosophy and Political Science, along with Students Of Philosophical Hypothesis in Academia (SOPHIA) will host a Socrates Cafe on Tuesday, Nov. 7 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The event will take place in the Buckman Theater and discuss the topic of music as a form of political protest.

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Crohn’s Silver Lining Professor starts fundraiser for Chron’s disease and Colitis

By JONCARLO DEFEUDIS Staff Writer

When one meets Frederick Raudat, a QU201 and QU301 professor, he or she wouldn’t know he suffers from Crohn’s disease, a disease that attacks the lining of the intestinal tract. Now, numerous surgeries later and still standing, Raudat peacefully ponders the classroom discussion in his seminars and responds to students’ debates with wise insight.

To celebrate his birthday on Monday, Oct. 23, Raudat asked for a different kind of gift. He created a fundraiser on his Facebook profile and shared it to his friends. The fundraiser link is titled: “I’m Donating my Birthday to Connecting to Cure.”

Friends on Facebook can use the link to go to a website/foundation of the poster’s preference, such as Raudat’s Connecting to Cure (a foundation which uses donations to fund research to find a cure for Crohn’s and Colitis) and donate in the person’s honor. “(The Fundraiser) was kind of a whim, I thought if I raised $200, I would be happy,” he said.

What came of the fundraiser far surpassed the $200 goal. The amount donated in Raudat’s name recently reached just over $1,400. Raudat said he was touched by the generosity of his friends.

When people think of Crohn’s disease, they may think of the Humira commercials, which show concerned looking people hurrying to the bathroom.

In reality, Crohn’s is a life-altering autoimmune disease which largely goes unspoken amongst the public, according to Raudat. Crohn’s undercuts the public eye because of the often-gruesome effects that plague those who suffer from it.

Raudat, who has been at Quinnipiac for over a decade, learned that he had Crohn’s disease when he was just 18 years old.

“After having gone to a series of doctors, [and] being told I had one thing or another, [I realized] it wasn’t a disease that was talked about back then,” Raudat said. “[Crohn’s] is a disease where they treat the symptoms, [doctors] don’t really have anything to get at the underlying causes.”

Today, doctors are much better informed about Crohn’s disease, but a cure has still not been found.

Crohn’s disease is a chronic inflammatory condition of the gastrointestinal tract (GI) and it commonly

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Professor Raudat celebrated his birthday on Oct. 23 and created the fundraiser in place of gifts.

affects the end of the bowel and the start of the colon, but it can affect any part of the GI system, according to the Crohn’s Colitis Foundation website.

A colleague of Raudat, professor Sean Duffy of the philosophy and political science department at Quinnipiac held his own Facebook fundraiser before Raudat’s birthday. That in turn inspired Raudat to dedicate his own birthday to fundraising.

Raudat and Duffy first met about 10 years ago when Raudat started teaching the QU seminar series.

Raudat has not always been teaching at Quinnipiac, though. The disease set him back time and time again, and it has taken him a long road to get where he is today.

“It affected me growing up. I dealt with depression a lot,” Raudat said. “I kind of limped along until 2001; by that time, I had to have a colostomy because of the scarring.”

The day which Raudat’s body had enough happened to be Sept. 11, 2001. It was because of the bladder and fistulas, that doctors who had looked at his cat-scans told Raudat that his intestines had calcified “like cement.” He was rushed to the hospital for surgery.

“Knowing what happened to the people on Sept. 11 in a weird way gave me hope because I was like ‘Wow look at what those people went through’,” Raudat remembered. “It was just like, if they can go through that, I can go through this…That was probably the scariest [point of the disease] for me.”

Raudat spent about a month of 2001 in the hospital healing from his

ailments. After that things still did not break in Raudat’s favor.

Despite the month-long recovery, Crohn’s still had a hold over Raudat’s body.

Around July 4, 2002 Raudat was once again told he was going to need another ostomy operation. Although this time things would be different.

Raudat values Mt. Sinai Hospital, where the turning point in his arduous battle against Crohn’s disease occurred.

“At Mt. Sinai they hooked me up with this [surgeon], A.J. Greenstein,” Raudat said. “I knew from the minute I walked in his office [that I would be okay] when [Greenstein’s] said, ‘I’ve done a hundred of these, and I’ve had complications in only a handful of operations.’”

Raudat has not needed an ostomy since.

Due to his willpower facing Crohn’s, Raudat was finally able to do what he loves, being a teacher and helping students learn about the world and its many secrets. “[Crohn’s] is not insurmountable. It’s difficult, and in some ways, it’s set me back professionally and when I got out of school, but in other ways I have more depth … I’m happier with the simpler things,” Raudat said.

Many students at Quinnipiac dread the QU Seminar courses, but not Raudat’s. Students can feel Raudat’s authenticity when discussions

arise in his open environment classrooms, and that makes them feel at ease.

Senior public relations major and currently Raudat’s QU301 student, Kyle Adams said Raudat has a way of facilitating meaningful interactions in the classroom. “[For] most classes that are seminar based…I don’t think participation being graded is incentivization alone to facilitate discussion,” Adams said. “[In Raudat’s class] people want to participate just out of the fact that he has this relaxed personality as well as a knowledge base to offer.”

Raudat’s impact on the Quinnipiac community and student body is not unnoticed by his students. Raudat truly cares for his students and wants to allow students the opportunity to have their voice heard in his classroom.

Next semester and beyond, Raudat will be teaching the new series of freshman seminar courses as well as pursuing his other passion, writing, as he will be teaching EN101 and EN102.

Goal: $1,200

The brothers of Delta Tau Delta will host Ball for Buckman, a 3x3 basketball tournament. Proceeds from the event will go to a GoFundMe page to benefit Gabby Buckman, a member of the Quinnipiac community who was diagnosed with two forms of malignant brain cancer.

The event will take place at the Burt Kahn gymnasium from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m.

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Women Empowered helps boost students’ self-confidence

By ALEXA NIKITAS Staff Writer

Women Empowered sponsored its last event for the fall semester, She Leads, at Burt Kahn Court in Monday. The event lasted from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., and brought multiple groups out to participate in confidence boosting activities.

This is Women Empowered’s first year as a chartered organization. Since the former president of the club graduated last year, senior behavioral science major Zara Khan has taken over the position.

“At this point, empowering other women has become a part of my identity,” Khan said. “It makes me want to exude positivity and encourage others to do the same.”

Women Empowered reached out to sororities for volunteers for She Leads, and Kappa Delta decided to attend and help out with the event. The organization also got in touch with the Latino Cultural Society, who also helped out with the event.

“Confidence is a big thing for Kappa Delta, and we really wanted to help out with this event for women empowerment,” senior physical therapy major Bridget Sorohan said.

Junior journalism major Charlene Torres said the Latino Cultural Society wanted to collaborate with Women Empowered for She Leads.

“It seemed like a good event to get involved with,” Torres said.

Even though She Leads was a women-centered event, Khan explained that it was not just

a women only event. Men were encouraged to join as well.

Women Empowered set up different tables coordinated to building confidence. Belly dancing and teaching good posture was one of the tables set up for students to participate in.

First the students would watch a video on arm, shoulder and back exercises that contribute to belly dancing. The volunteers at the table explained that belly dancing is a great way to experiment what a body can do.

“I was a dancer in high school and I think dancing really has a positive effect on women’s confidence,” freshman physical therapy major Gianna Marzullo said. “It makes you feel like you can do whatever you want. It also is great way for women to express their individuality.”

Students could also receive henna tattoos.

These designs symbolized self-care and selfconfidence.

Crystal corner was a table with small rocks in a bottle that are supposed to help students with anxiety and such emotions. Even though these rocks cannot, it can serve as a placebo.

For next semester, Khan said she hopes to reach out to the community more. The organization will be teaching children at a local elementary school the importance of women empowerment.

“The glass ceiling still exists and it is up to us to educate others that women’s rights isn’t just a women’s issue, it’s a human issue,” Khan said.

At another one of the tables at She Leads, students wrote down a negative thought on a

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Members of Women Empowered set up tables with activities such as DIY perfume, Henna tattoos and writing inspirational messages on rocks.

piece of orange paper. They would crumple up the paper and throw it out. Next, they would take a pink piece of paper and write a positive thought and put it in a jar.

Swapping negative thoughts for positive thoughts is a good way for students to cleanse their minds. This exercise is a good way to boost women’s confidence.

“I just think that people have been used to stereotypes for such a long time but now women are fighting for their rights,” freshman physical therapy major Tara Della Torre

said. “Confidence is a major key in letting the younger generations believe that they can become anything they want.”

Although this was Women Empowered’s last event of the semester, the group plans to continue spreading the importance of confidence in women when spring semester approaches. Everyone is welcome to join.

“She Leads is supposed to be about building each other up, not breaking them down,” Khan said.

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It is no secret that humans are resistant to change.

We love the idea of longevity, control and a routine.

At one time or another in our lives, we all have probably been forced to change something we didn’t want to. And I’m sure that everyone has been told before, “Change is good.”

Geoffrey Chaucer, a poet and the author of the renowned “Canterbury Tales,” once said, “All good things must come to an end.”

Sure, there are things that we all wish would never change or end. But when something changes and is outside of your control, it is necessary to embrace that change.

A study by Scott Eidelman, Jennifer Pattershall and Christian Crandall in The Journal of Experimental Social Psychology found that people like when things are reliable and around for a long time more than something new.

They used students to demonstrate this by changing their curriculum. The study concluded that students would rather maintain the status quo, even if it meant more work than change to a new version.

Psychologically we correlate consistency and longevity with goodness. However, change or new things in our lives are associated with the unknown. Therefore, when people are presented with change, they meet it with resistance because of the uncertainty surrounding it.

Through a series of experiments, Eidelman, Pattershall and Crandall found that people were more fond of something when they were told it was older. For example, when people were told acupuncture had existed for 2,000 years, their responses were much more favorable than those who were told it was around for just 250 years.

They found this behavior to be true when they asked people about the appearance of a tree as well. One group was told the tree was 4,500 years old and another was told it was just 500 years old. As you could expect, the group that thought the tree was older admired its appearance more.

While changes in our lives aren’t as simple as the age of a tree, they maintain a similar concept. It is hard to be willing to adjust to a new lifestyle, especially if you are

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comfortable with the one that you are currently living.

When approached with change, we ask “Why?” rather than readily accept the new idea. It’s completely normal not to embrace change. In fact, it’s hard to.

College brings a new version of a lot of things. It brings new friends, new ways to learn, new freedoms and new problems. Like other people, I used to think that this change was more of a burden than a blessing.

Now in my second year at Quinnipiac, I wish I would have embraced change sooner. Not that I have regret, but rather that I was more willing to change things about my life that I was still holding onto, and they may have been holding me back.

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“Psychologically we correlate consistency and longevity with goodness. However, change or new things in our life are associated with the unknown. Therefore, when people are presented with change, they meet it with resistance because of the uncertainty surrounding it.”

– PETER DEWEY

STAFF WRITER

Look, we all have our 4,500-year-old tree that we admire and don’t want to get rid of. But unfortunately, some things are out of our control.

You see, the great thing about change is it brings new experiences, new opportunities, new mistakes and new ways to learn. Yes, I said mistakes because nobody walks through life doing everything right. But unless you take a chance, you can’t learn from those mistakes.

In high school, I had an English teacher, Mrs. Salafia, who showed me a video by a motivational speaker named Eric Thomas. Now, I don’t know how many people have heard of his speech about success, but it has stuck with me from the first time I heard it in my 10th-grade English class.

In the speech, Thomas said: “When you want to succeed, as bad as you want to breathe, then, you’ll be successful.”

That quote has been the lock screen on my phone for the past five years. It reminds me every day that if I want to chase my dreams, I not only have to work harder than anyone, but that I also have to be open to change, whether I like it or not.

New opportunities present themselves at various times throughout a person’s life and unfortunately things we don’t want to change do.

Harvard Business Review’s Rosabeth Moss Kanter wrote an article about 10 things that cause people to be resistant to change. I want to highlight one of them: Everything Seems Different.

Kanter writes that we are “creatures of habit” and that when we change, we should try to keep as many things as possible similar to as they were before. I think that when we make changes in our lives, everything will seem different for a moment, but then that moment of haziness will subside.

As much as change ILLUSTRATION BY IAN BERKEY is good, there are always things, whether they are friends, family or an activity that we can count on. I think that sometimes change helps us find those people in our lives, and helps us realize who is really there for us when times get tough.

Contrary to Chaucer’s belief, I think that not all good things come to end, but rather sometimes we need a reminder that they are still there.

And if a good thing does come to an end, don’t get discouraged and don’t think this change can only bring negativity.

In the words of Eric Thomas, “become a victor, not a victim.”

Whether we like it or not our lives are going to change, for better or for worse and it is usually outside of our control.

So, I’ll leave you with this: Don’t be afraid of the unknown side of change, embrace it, because for all we know, it could be better than what we had before.

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Man frowns upon huMANities

Why humanities majors are looked down on At a time when society is turning its tide, some old-fashioned values are fading and art is slowly losing its prestige. Today, the idea of having a humanities major is a laughing stock to some. But go ahead and laugh, because the joke is on you.

CONTRIBUTING WRITER In recent years, the liberal arts degree has been under the microscope as critics say the humanities are in crisis and that it has fallen out of favor.

Critics have been wrongly led to believe this because of significant budget cuts to liberal arts programs all across the country and because of the idea that a profession in any of these fields will sentence someone to an impoverished life.

On several occasions, I have found myself face to face with a critic of the liberal arts degree. This person outright told me that a liberal arts major is useless.

However, I myself am in the midst of my liberal arts degree pursuit and have to say it is extremely valuable. Majoring in English, I’ve been able to cultivate a skill set that allows me to persevere in any other classes I take outside of my major.

In my business courses, I am able to apply the critical thinking skills I have developed to solve problems. In addition to that, having a better knowledge of language and words takes me even further.

But, what sense does it make to argue that a lack of funding means that humanities is no longer important? And, for those who idolize money, well, news flash: money doesn’t make the world go around.

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What makes the world go round and always has, are the arts of communication and teaching, two things that would not even exist without the liberal arts degree. The truth of the matter is that a humanities major is needed now more than ever.

Here is some clarification for all those out there who frown upon a liberal arts degree. Fact number one, liberal arts graduates have a long track record of long-lived success.

Studies from the Association of American Colleges and Universities have shown that earnings gaps have been closed by liberal arts majors. What’s more, on average, liberal arts professions make approximately $2,000 more annually at their peak earning ages compared to the overall average.

That also goes without mentioning that unemployment rates are low and decline over time for those graduates.

And why is it that liberal arts graduates get to indulge in long-term success?

Pursuing a humanities discipline supplies graduates with a practical and versatile skill set that employers love.

Having a liberal arts degree provides one with qualities like being adaptable, detail-oriented, as well as a strong work ethic, according to a 2006 survey con-

ducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

Furthermore, it builds character, communication skills, a better awareness of society and critical thinking skills.

As a matter of fact, some of the nation’s top CEOs graduated college with a liberal arts degree. Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of YouTube, has a bachelor’s in history and literature. Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks has a communications degree.

Let’s not forget the CEO who brought thousands happiness at the Walt Disney Company, Michael Eisner. Guess what, folks? Eisner has a degree in English literature and theatre. And the list just goes on and on.

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State Event Coordinator Micah Cutler adds some fun to raising money for ninth annual Friendship Walk Micah’s Donation Incentive System When Cutler reached these fundraising goals, he completed these tasks for the person who helped him surpass the goal.

$1000

Get a Best Buddies tattoo

$500

Clean donor’s house/dorm/ apartment/room

$400

Serenade someone of donor’s choosing, whenever and wherever

$300

Free rides to and from New Haven for donor

$200

Dye hair purple

$100

Ridiculous beard

Cutler and his buddy, Ry an.

By JENNIE TORRES Staff Writer

What would it take for someone to dye their hair purple, clean someone’s entire house and get a tattoo? Senior occupational therapy major Micah Cutler promised all three and more while raising money for Best Buddies.

Best Buddies is the world’s largest non-profit organization whose mission creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships as well as integrated employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).

Cutler dedicates his time assisting to the organization as state events of the editorial board, especially during its annual event: The Best Buddies Friendship Walk (BBFW). The event brings supporters from across the state to help raise money and awareness to the organization. This year’s ninth annual friendship walk took place on Oct. 29 at the North Haven campus.

“I have a buddy. His name is Ryan.

He’s 24 years old and one of my closest friends at college. We go to the movies together, we go out together, it’s just a great program and you could really change someone’s life through being a friend to someone.”

- MICAH CUTLER BEST BUDDIES MEMBER

Cutler decided to raise money for the friendship walk by encouraging people to donate and by doing so, he would perform an act depending on how high the donations were.

“I just find that people are more likely to donate when they get some sort of thing out of it whether it’s me doing something or they get a reward of some kind,” Cutler said.

The inspiration behind this plan came from senior president of Best Buddies, Nicholas Donohue, who earned $950 for the friendship walk last year.

“I did it to help show people how dedicated I am and tried to help get more people to donate,” Donohue said in an email. “Best Buddies is an organization I am extremely passionate about and is not just a random cause that I am raising money for.”

Senior Vice President Erin Schirra also participated in performing amusing acts to raise money for the friendship walk.

“We tend to do a lot of incentive fundraising, where we offer to embarrass ourselves depending on how much we raise,” Schirra said in an email. “This year, I had to wear a banana suit for the entirety of the Friendship Walk and for the entire day on Oct. 31.”

Cutler said he wants to continue doing this type of work after graduation.

“I’ve been working with people with special needs almost my entire life and that’s what I want to do with my life,” Cutler said. “It’s all about being yourself and being a good person and just putting yourself out there and accepting people for who they are and not looking at their disabilities, but seeing them as another person.”

Cutler’s contribution to Best Buddies began during high school, where he was the president of his high school’s program.

After joining the university’s program, however, the members and buddies became more interactive with each other by allowing them to get out into the community more by doing activities like bowling, apple picking, halloween parties, and winter parties, according to Cutler.

“I have a buddy. His name is Ryan. He’s 24 years old and one of my closest friends at college,” Cutler said. “We go to the movies together, we go out together, it’s just a great program and you could really change someone’s life through being a friend to someone.”

Cutler managed to raise $2,149.18 individually which was added onto the Quinnipiac Best Buddies team, thereby having the team earn a total of $8,370.18 altogether. The donations they received will be donated to Best Buddies Connecticut to fund more chapters within the state, according to Cutler.

Cutler said that the friendship walk was ultimately all for the buddies so they can have a day of fun, since the event was structured in a way that gave people the opportunity to enjoy themselves no matter the circumstances.

“There’s kids who typically might not get to go to this type of style of event like a carnival or a walk or a fundraiser, whether it’s something sensory or they can’t stand loud noises or large crowds,” Cutler said. “We just try to make it so everyone has a great time and that’s our real goal for Best Buddies.”

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Best Buddies Friendship Walk Chapters of Best Buddies throughout Connecticut gather for a day of friendship

By VICTORIA SIMPRI News Editor

“I think anyone, regardless of ability, should have someone who they can call a friend,” senior occupational therapy major and President of Quinnipiac’s Best Buddies chapter Nick Donohue said.

On Sunday, Oct. 29, the ninth annual Best Buddies Friendship Walk was hosted by Quinnipiac on the North Haven campus. Best Buddies chapters from all over Connecticut joined in on the day of friendship, fundraising, inclusivity and fun.

The goal of Best Buddies is to establish a world-wide volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), according to the Best Buddies mission statement.

Over 1,600 participants registered to help

raise funds and awareness for Best Buddies on Sunday.

“Best Buddies is that real unique one-toone connection, and just a sense of friendship I think is so important in society,” Donohue said.

Donohue became a member of the organization during his freshman year and has been paired with his buddy, John ever since.

The goal for Sunday’s event was to raise $140,000 as a state.

“On top of that (our goal is to) have fun, obviously we want to have a great time,” Donohue said. “Some of the things that’ll be at the event, (Porsche Audi of Wallingford) brings a display of their cars, so that’ll be there, but we’re hoping if the weather is calm enough we have inflatable games like foosball, an inflatable basketball game coming.”

When it comes to those with intellectual and developmental disabilities, what seems to be lacking these days is inclusion, according to

senior entry-level masters physician’s assistant and Vice President of Quinnipiac’s Best Buddies Erin Schirra.

“Some people get intimidated or nervous or they don’t know how to interact with those with special needs,” Schirra said. “Our friendships with our buddies, whether it’s our one-on-one buddies or our buddies in the entire chapter, those are just regular friendships that Quinnipiac has brought to us.”

There are two levels of friendship, associate members and the one-to-one peer buddy members.

Associate members consist of individuals in the entire chapter, while there are those involved in the one-to-one matching as well.

“We go through the interview process to get to know likes and dislikes because the buddies on their end will fill out a form that has their likes, their dislikes; kind of their personality types.

Those get matched into friendships,” Schirra said.

Schirra kicked off the events on Sunday by

singing the National Anthem during the opening ceremonies. Soon after, the walk began. Buddies pairs could be seen dancing, smiling, laughing and making the most of the rainy Sunday afternoon.

Assistant Clinical Professor of Occupational Therapy Valerie Strange is on the Advisory Board for Best Buddies, but came out to the event for more than that.

“Best Buddies, what it means to me is inclusivity and an opportunity for our buddies to find true friends so yeah it’s pretty special,” Strange said. “As much as this is a rain-out, it is amazing to see our buddies coming together, it doesn’t even matter if it’s raining.”

At the end of the day Best Buddies raised $94,476.80. All funds raised will go towards providing the necessary tools for those with IDDs to become more independent, esteemed members of our society.

“In the end, Best Buddies is a big celebration of friendship,” Schirra said.

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Local record store Replay Records stays true to its roots after 28 years, even in the era of digital music

By MATTHEW FORTIN Staff Writer

In an ever-more-digital world, it’s easy to forget the comfort that comes with once common activities. Whether it’s sealing a letter to mom or dusting off some old records, there’s something about these tactile experiences that’s missing from their digital counterparts.

Replay Records in Hamden makes the latter simple to relive.

Replay, located at 2586 Whitney Ave., is a quintessential record store. Walking through the front door, customers are greeted with stacks of dusty records, the sound of 80s rock played over a crackling Pioneer stereo and an intangible quality that screams “authentic record store.”

Doug Snyder has been the owner of Replay Records since he and his wife opened it in New Haven in 1989. Snyder, a lifelong lover of music, knew he wanted a career in the industry. Prior to the opening of Replay, Snyder worked as recording engineer at a studio in Wallingford and put out several albums of his own. Before long, though, he realized the music business was not something he wanted to be a part of.

Snyder, sporting a tie-dye shirt and shoulderlength silvery hair, is an epitomical record store owner. He talked about his reason for getting involved in the store almost 30 years ago.

“I had an idea when I was younger that

it'd be nice to have a place to go buy records even when they’re out of print,” Snyder said.

“This ended up being a good fall back- I’m still involved in music and associate with a lot of musical people.”

After navigating through three store locations, thousands of records sold and 28 years in business, Snyder has seen everything.

But after all those years, one thing remains a constant: the music.

“Every year, thousands of albums come out that are permanently available as a past record that didn’t exist before,” Snyder said. There’s a continuity of good music that’s lasted ─ people are still listening to music from the 70s.”

That extensive catalogue of music at Replay invites shoppers to casually shuffle through stacks of albums. If you’re going, plan on staying a while to find those hidden gems.

That’s not to say Replay is unorganized, though. Albums are meticulously organized based on genre, artist and price point.

Snyder explains that the physical element that comes with looking for an album is one of the reasons for vinyl records’ recent resurgence in popularity, particularly among millennials.

“Vinyl is about being serious about owning music and enjoying it in your home and sharing it with your friends,” Snyder said. “People feel it, see it, love it. That’s

where vinyl made a comeback.”

Snyder isn’t the only record store owner who is seeing albums under the arms of a younger generation. As CD’s rapidly become a relic (sales are down 16.3 percent) and mp3 music sales plummet (down 20.1 percent,) vinyl records have seen a 260 percent increase in sales since 2009, according to Forbes. In fact, revenue from vinyl records has outpaced that of streaming.

This is good news for an industry that has not yet figured out how to properly monetize streaming music. The music business has been hemorrhaging money since the introduction of music sharing websites like Napster and LimeWire in the early 2000s.

Fast-forward to 2017, and the majority of people are listening to music through ad-based streaming services like Spotify or YouTube.

This may be legal, but it isn’t much better for the business because of diminutive royalty rates (although they are improving).

Even with the increase in vinyl sales and boost in streaming rates, the music industry is a little over half the size it was during its 1999 peak of $14.6 billion, coming in at $7.65 billion in 2016, according to Billboard.

This is, however, an increase over the $6.87 billion notched in 2015. The improvement can be attributed to increased paid streaming subscriptions, slightly higher royalty rates and,

you guessed it, vinyl record sales.

“We’re starting to see that optimism was justified,” chief executive of Warner Music Stephen Cooper said about vinyl sales, according to The Financial Times. “But it would be dangerous to get too carried away.”

The music business can be particularly volatile, leaving investors and industry insiders skeptical of vinyl’s ability to maintain its current figures.

Snyder, on the other hand, is confident in records’ potential to be successful in 2017, especially considering its following among college students’ age.

Gregory Hardman, a sophomore Film and English double major, noted the store’s distinctive charm as its biggest draw.

“It was like a little capsule of the past,” Hardman said. “It was hard to leave.”

And if the trendiness and tangibility of vinyl aren’t enough to get you into a record store, there’s still another reason that might convince you.

“Digital doesn’t add anything to music, it’s just a cold, hard thing,” Snyder said. “The vinyl has been adapted to make it sound good over the years. It’s not technically perfect sound, but it’s good for the ear; it’s natural.”

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Fall just got a lot

'Stranger Things' brings bigger mystery and horror in season two

By ALEXIS GEURRA Staff Writer

Netflix’s original series “Stranger Things” returned last Friday with just as much mystery and heart as last year.

Last fall, the show proved itself a cultural phenomenon that demonstrated what the streaming service had to offer.

“StrangersThings” quickly became one of the most watched and completed shows on Netflix, mixing comedy and horror perfectly in addition to an amazing cast.

The show stars four children: Mike (Finn Wolfhard) as the leader of the party, Lucas (Caleb Mclaughlin) as the confident one, Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) as the welcomed comic relief and Will (Noah Schnapp) as the nervous one.

The first season of “Stranger Things” ended with the whereabouts of our beloved heroine Eleven left unknown and with Will experiencing strange visions of the upside down, a dark and mysterious alternate dimension. The first episode of season two deals with Mike’s emotional fallout over Eleven’s disappearance and the introduction of a new female lead.

A new female character by the name of Max (Sadie Sink) joins Lucas and Dustin as their potential love interest. Max is another female character who breaks female stereotypes, just

as Eleven did in the prior season. The female characters in “Stranger Things” are unique, in that they aren’t defined by their gender. Rather, they are their own people with their own personalities and flaws. Even without much context for Max’s character in the first episode, it’s clear to viewers that “Stranger Things” isn’t shying away from strong females in their new season.

It is revealed in the first episode that Will is having visions of the upside down again. He describes his visions having an ominous storm brewing, as he is frozen in place as a mere spectator. Will reveals that he feels as though he shares a bond with the darkness he encountered.

This plot point has major foreshadowing for the episodes later in the season. In “Stranger Things,” every line that is delivered and every detail has a purpose, making the show enticing to viewers to watch over again.

Nancy, Mike’s older sister, is also back in the action in season two. She is experiencing emotional turmoil from her friend Barb’s death in season one. Nancy has exceptional character development coming into season two. Natalia Dyer, who is cast as Nancy, sympathizes with viewers with a heart wrenching performance in episode one that would make anyone want to sob along with her.

For those who are fans of the kindling love between Mike and Eleven will have their heart broken in episode one. Season two takes advantage of the fans’ desires of Mike reuniting with Eleven by showing the opposite. Mike goes to sit in his basement in the exact spot where Eleven took shelter in season one. He attempts to contact her via walkie talkie, but only gets static in response. The show does an excellent job of making you care for the characters, and takes advantage of the emotional investment most viewers have made in season one.

“If you’re out there, say something.” Mike persists, “Give me a sign. I won’t even say anything. Just…. I wanna know if you’re okay.”

The show's strength lies in its charming child cast. With a lot of television and movies using adults to play teenagers, it is refreshing to see a show not afraid to have actual children play children. Their responses to mysterious forces beyond comprehension are made more interesting by their vulnerability and immaturity.

They are loved for their weaknesses and for their unexpected bravery in the face of danger. In so many stories, the hero is already grown, but in “Stranger Things,” we get to see them grow up.

Season two builds off of what made the first season amazing, while still bringing more

to the table. It develops the original cast while still introducing new characters and settings organically. In the midst of the conflict against a growing monster, the creators have interwoven mysteries that can be explored further.

“Stranger Things” season three has been confirmed by the creators of the show, The Duffer Brothers, much to the delight of those who’ve already binge watched season two.

“We’re thinking it will be a four-season thing and then out,” Ross Duffer said in an interview with Vulture.

It is clear the creators have a plan for the show, but now are facing complications with one of their actors. Charlie Heaton, the actor who plays Jonathan Byers, has proven the opposite. Heaton missed the premiere of season two in Los Angeles because he was denied entry into the United States. This was due to traces of cocaine found in his luggage by drugsniffing dogs. No arrest was made, but Heaton was sent back to London and has released a formal apology.

Despite these recent complications, the mysteries and events of season two will play a part in a much larger story and viewers can’t wait to see what’s next.

Now Playing "Masseduction"

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St. Vincent (born Anne Clark) is one of those musicians that is mythical with her methods. She comes from the David Bowie school of having a specific type personality along with her music. Bowie was an outer space alien and flipped gender roles on its behind. Clark is impervious, longing for something and often frustrated. This is most evident in her latest release, "Masseduction."

The idea of getting more famous and looking back at the past has been spoken about in music since the The Beatles became, well, The Beatles. It is hardly a novel subject matter.

This makes Clark’s work on her album all the more impressive.

An artist making something well-known sounds original is an attribute that separates the haves from the have-nots.

On two songs, Clark looks at her career in the center of two famous cities. ‘’New York’’ is a Lorde-sounding (It makes sense – Jack Antonoff, who produced Lorde’s Melodrama, also helped produce this album) song about the wish for a different New York than there once was. Something is different. Someone is missing.

And there’s no getting him/her back. It is a fate that isn’t rare in human interaction, but it hurts. Something happened, and there is no getting it back, no matter how hard you try. ‘’Los Ageless’’ is a tale that takes place in Los Angeles. It sounds like it could have been in the movie ‘’Mulholland Drive’’. ‘’New York’’ is short, subtle, and low-key. ‘’Los Ageless’’ is explosive. It has guitar riffs and synthesizers done by Jack Antonoff. There’s an authenticity missing in that city. She deduces: ‘’In Los Ageless, the winter is never comes.’’ Something is missing again. But this time, it’s a livelihood.

With this album, Clark is attempting to make her act, St. Vincent, as big as any pop act out right now. – J. Buford

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November 1, 2017

Fourth Wall does 'Time Warp'...again

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Improv group, Fourth Wall, presented its take on 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' in prelude to Halloween

By LESLIE SANCHEZ Staff Writer

As the audience quieted down and the lights went low, a young woman skated on stage while lipsynching the opening song “Science Fiction Double Feature,” setting the stage for the anxious and excited crowd.

QU Fourth Wall showed their presentation of Rocky Horror Picture Show in Buckman Theater on Oct. 27 and 28 at 7 p.m. The audience was filled with “antici-pation,” as Dr. Frank N. Furter said in the film.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show was played by a shadow cast, in which the actors are on stage, lip-synching the words, while the movie plays simultaneously in the background.

The musical was directed by Jake Forsdahl, a sophomore, with Rocky Horror being his directorial debut. Christy Dzubay, senior, and Lauren Rosenay, sophomore, served as the stage manager/choreographer and assistant director, respectively.

“It was a lot of stress this last semester,” Forsdahl said. “We started rehearsal, like, October, the very beginning, and the show is up by the end of the month. It’s a lot of work.”

Tickets were $5 and audience members would picked up a goodie bag on their way in. In the bags were a sponge, a newspaper, a playing card and toilet paper. The purpose of the items were to throw them up whenever a certain line or phrase was heard.

Throughout the show, the audience was encouraged to yell out “asshole” and “slut” whenever someone said Brad and Janet’s names, since it’s done similarly with what the movie does. The director and assistant director were also shouting out commentary along with the show.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a play about newly-engaged Brad Majors (Nicholas Fetherston) and Janet Weiss (Laura Smullen), who get stuck with a flat tire and end up in the mansion of Dr. Frank N. Furter (Louis Napolitano), a transvestite scientist.

The couple is greeted at the door by RiffRaff (Tyrell Latouche), and his sister Magenta (Haneen Hamdan). During this scene, the show’s most popular song, “Time Warp”, starts playing, introducing Napolitano’s character.

During the song performance, the cast ran around the theater and interacted with the

audience, which entertained fans of the cult classic film. The whole cast knew how to keep the audience engaged and entertained with their take on the characters they portrayed.

Frank N. Furter then invites Brad and Janet to his lab where he introduces his newest creation, Rocky (Jack McKay).

In the middle of the Rocky’s introduction, the play had a minor technical difficulty with sound, but that did not stop the show. They started speaking their lines, not dropping character, until they could find a perfect spot to pause the show.

“That did not happen before,” Forsdahl said. “I’m glad that the audience was so understanding during our little mishap.”

The cast and crew picked themselves off the ground and managed to deliver their lines with poise and professionalism. They continued the show like nothing happened and were as eager as ever to continue the production.

Cast member Brynn Martin, freshman, who played Columbia, walked into production not knowing what to expect.

“This is my first college show,” Martin said. “It was so amazing just to meet all the

cast and connect. Because we’re such a small cast we clicked very fast.”

The makeup for the show was done by freshman Taina Echevarria, her first experience in Quinnipiac’s theater department. Echevarria describes the makeup itself as difficult, but also one of the best parts of being involved in the production. She was not used to doing such raunchy makeup for anyone, let alone the cast she grew close during production.

“It’s so cringey, but that’s what makes it great,” Echevarria said. “I love being around them, I love coming to the rehearsals, even though I’m not a part of the cast.”

At the end of the show, “Time Warp,” started playing again, with the audience and cast members participating in the famous dance that goes along with it.

It was a fun experience for the audience because it would make them feel like they were in the show themselves.

As Magenta said, “I’m lucky, he’s lucky, we’re all lucky!”

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Sketch comedy show, Quinnipiac Tonight, gives more than just a reason to laugh

By HANNAH TEBO Staff Writer

Bright red caution tape that reads “Zombie Crossing Zone” wraps around the wooden beams in the entrance to the Piazza. Scattered throughout the chairs are smiling people, some dressed as pirates and witches, others wearing headsets and directing people around. Spider webs are lazily strung about the fireplace and plastic skeletons are posed in a provocative, yet amusing position.

On the set of Quinnipiac Tonight, actors and crew members decked out in silly Halloween costumes, assemble to the left of the stage laughing loudly and smiling vibrantly.

Quinnipiac Tonight first premiered in March of 2015 and was recently nominated for the Best College TV Entertainment Program in the Nation by the College Media Association.

On Friday, Oct. 27, Quinnipiac Tonight placed third in the nation in the competition.

“QU Tonight has grown exponentially in the span of three years,” senior student and Associate Producer for Quinnipiac Tonight Anna Castro said. “When I started working with working with the show my freshman year it was a late night show. Now it’s a sketch comedy show with more producers, more content and a more stylized format.”

As a girl behind a camera dressed as pirate begins the countdown, a video plays on the screen above the stage which introduces the cast in an SNL type way. The host, Andy Dixon welcomes the audience and introduces the first sketch.

Sketches ranging from a cast member dressed

as the Grim Reaper walking around campus interacting with Quinnipiac students to live performances of “If I Only Had A Joint” sung in the tune of “If I Only Had A Brain” from the “Wizard of Oz” entice and humor the audience.

“I feel you can get a fun effect in comedy with camera moves and what you show,” junior, and Associate Producer for Quinnipiac Tonight, Brandon Nieto said. “I feel the camera can be used to make the audience laugh in ways people don’t expect.”

“If I’ve learned anything from ‘Lilo and Stitch’ it’s that ‘'ohana' means family and family means no one gets left behind,’” Isabella Purcell said to Michael Zukswert in a sketch called “The Cast of the Cursed Masks” on Quinnipiac Tonight.

Family, the one word that perfectly describes the cast and crew of Quinnipiac Tonight.

“As an organization, QU Tonight is a family,” Castro said. “We manage to cultivate an environment that is welcoming and friendly as well as extremely professional. And that extends beyond QU Tonight to really all of Q30 because they have given us so much room to grow into what we are now over the years. Working for the show has introduced me to some of my best friends and some extremely talented individuals.

It’s a network of professionals and a group of really close friends.”

The bond between the cast and crew is apparent on stage and in the hilarious sketches.

“The type of atmosphere that was established by the shows creators and the Cabinet of Q30 at the time is what really solidified that this show was something I wanted to be a part of,”

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Cast member, Tyler Mowers (left), and host, Andy Dixon, perform a skit in front of a live audience.

Executive Producer and senior, Derick Rivas said. “All of a us became this one giant friend group that honestly feels like family.”

Rivas believes that Quinnipiac Tonight was the reason he didn’t transfer from the school, showing the kind of power the late night comedy skit show truly has.

“Being a part of Quinnipiac Tonight allowed me to pursue passions and ideas, like some of the skits I was able to produce when I was an

associate producer, I never thought I would be able to make real,” Rivas said. “Being a producer taught me so much about how to produce, film, and edit videos and motion graphics. The show also truly taught me how to truly be a leader.

Really, a lot of what I want to do for the rest of my life stems back to all the fun I’ve had being on the show.”

Quinnipiac Tonight will air two more times on Nov. 9 and Dec. 7 at 9:30 p.m. in the Piazza.

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2017-18 Common Prompt Call

Quinnipiac University Writing Across the Curriculum Invites You to Enter Its

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2016-17 WAC Writing Contest Winners: Kyle Liang, Catherine D. Martin, Jessica N. Solomon

Each winner will receive a $150 cash prize, gift card, and book chosen by the judges. Selected winners will have the opportunity to have their work published in The Little Bobcat Handbook.

This year’s theme:

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The 2016-17 contest asked students to interpret an America that is 23 years into the future. An excerpt from one of our winning entries,”Please Rise,” by Physician Assistant major Kyle Liang, is reprinted here. Kyle’s complete poem, along with his interview with QUWAC, are available in the “The Quinnipiac University Casebook,” published in the The Little Bobcat Handbook, W.W. Norton, 2017.

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somewhere another child is born without feet while an expecting father whispers to his wife’s doctor that he wants a son who can pitch a baseball one-hundred & twenty miles per hour & strike women down with just one look of his piercing blue eyes

*** Submissions should be accessible to the wider university audience and address any aspect of compassion and how it makes a difference in our lives.

Any genre is acceptable, including but not limited to autobiography, business plans, cartoons, creative nonfiction, ethnographic reports, fiction, health plans, humanities and social science essays, letters, news stories, plays, poetry, and scientific articles.

To enter, attach your submission as a word. doc and mail it to the Research and Writing Institute Director: Paul.Pasquaretta@QU.EDU Submissions will be accepted until Friday, February 2nd, 2018.

“Hands up!” / with your fingers crossed. / You can’t be pulled over taking public transportation/ so guess who would rather ride the bus/ every morning in t-shirts/ with amendments screen-printed on the front/ in case the shell falls/ faster than words travel.

*** The university is proud to announce that there will be two new courses added to the university curriculum.

Both will be offered starting in Fall 2040 and include HS 170 U.S. Since Deconstruction and BIO 150 Creationism with a virtual lab component.

We hope that you will consider both of these options when registering for classes.

― Kyle Liang From the interview with QUWAC: “When I first saw the email for the prompt, I felt kind of like a cynic let out of his jail cell. I also specifically remember thinking to myself, ‘wow, nice job QUWAC’ because there’s no better way to encourage college kids to assess the current social, cultural, economic, technological, and political climate and consider the implications of current events than by tempting them with prizes and allowing them to respond to a prompt in any medium.”

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GAME OF THE WEEK

RUNDOWN WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY Dartmouth 1, QU 0 – Friday Abbie Ives: 15 saves QU 3, Harvard 1 – Saturday Taylor House: 1 goal Kate MacKenzie: 1 goal Melissa Samoskevich: 2 assists MEN’S SOCCER QU 2, Siena 0 – Wednesday Eamon Whelan: 1 goal, 1 assist Rashawn Dally: 1 goal Paulo Soares: 1 assist Monmouth 1, QU 0 - Saturday Chrys Iakovidis: 1 save WOMEN’S SOCCER QU 3, Rider 1 – Sunday Nadya Gill: 2 goals Al Pelletier: 1 goal Ally Grunstein: 2 assists Manhattan 3, QU 2 – Tuesday Madison Borowiec: 1 goal, 1 assist Olivia Myszewski: 10 saves Hannah Reiter: 1 goal VOLLEYBALL Fairfield, 3, QU 0 – Friday Maria Pansari: 33 assists, 7 digs Natalie Alechko: 10 kills, 5 digs FIELD HOCKEY UConn 3, QU 1 – Friday Lauren Belskie: 1 goal Montana Flemming: 1 assist RUGBY QU 74, American International College 5 – Saturday Flora Poole: 5 assists Ilona Maher: 4 tries, 1 assist MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY MAAC Championship - Saturday 8th out of 11 teams WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY MAAC Championship - Saturday 3rd out of 11 teams

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

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Quinnipiac rugby shines on Senior Day

Bobcats score 12 tries in rout over American International

By JONCARLO DeFEUDIS Staff Writer

The Bobcats celebrated Senior day on Saturday, Oct. 28 by scoring a season-high 74 points in a 74-5 rout over the American International College Yellow Jackets. The win on their home field also brought them to a 5-0 record in front of their home crowd.

Senior fly half Flora Poole who had five assists in the match was happy that the parents were there for the festivities too. “[The ceremony was] pure happiness really,” Poole said. “There wasn’t any sadness, I was just excited to be here. I’ve played with these girls for three and a half years. It was just so much fun. and to see everybody’s families, our family support is fantastic, [and] our fans follow us everywhere, but very rarely do we have...all of them in one place.”

Senior center Ilona Maher, who was the national player of the year last season, had similar feelings on her final regular season match. “[Our parents] have been supporting [us] these past years,” Maher said. “They’ve been doing everything.

They’ve been listening to [our] phone calls, they’ve been coming to games [and] bringing food, so to have them be represented as well is amazing.”

After the seniors received honors at the opening, the Bobcats put on a

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Seniors on the rugby team were honored before Saturday’s game at home.

strong display of rugby for their parents and the supportive home crowd.

The team scored 12 tries as a whole and senior kicker Margaret Wesolowski knocked in seven conversions.

Maher also performed well as she led the Bobcats with five tries. More than once Maher sprinted the length to beat the last Yellow Jacket down the field for a try.

“That was a lot [of running]. I got my exercise in for the day for sure,” Maher said. “I definitely would’ve like to have passed it off more, but once you see that open field it’s hard to not just want to take it yourself.”

American International College had one lone try that came with about seven minutes remaining in the first half after multiple efforts against a sturdy Quinnipiac back line.

The Bobcats were able to respond before the half ended by putting up two more tries in the closing minutes from graduate student Taylor Schussler and junior fullback Emily Roskopf. The first half came to a close with an advantage of 45-5 in favor of Quinnipiac.

The second half had a different tone, as American International College came out ready for the Bobcats’ speed. Quinnipiac head coach Becky Carlson noted that the second half adjustments were all about making effort on every play and doing the little things instead of running down the field at will.

“That’s what really is going take you all the way through the playoffs,” Carlson said. “It’s more important in the game of rugby to be a team that is

sustainable in their attack plan.”

Although the Bobcats changed their style in the second half, the result was still much the same. They scored another four tries from textbook passing and hardy effort, running through the Yellow Jackets defense routinely.

It was with seven minutes remaining in the second half that senior wing Rebecca Haight also joined the party by scoring the 10th try for the Bobcats.

The win marks the Bobcats’ fifth straight against the Yellow Jackets.

With that win in the books the season comes to a close, but the playoffs begin. Led by the seniors, the Bobcats have their eyes on their third straight NIRA championship belt.

“We’re very confident,” Maher said. “I think that there’s still a lot of work that needs to be done in these next three weeks that can’t stop.

There’s going to be a lot of different teams with different strengths that we’re going to play.”

The NIRA postseason tournament begin on Nov. 11 as the reigning champion Bobcats take their 7-2 regular season record looking to defend their title.

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Glaab: ‘The results don’t tell the whole story’ CROSS COUNTRY from Page 16 provide their own surprise outside of the locker room and at the finish line in Holmdel Park this weekend.

Picked eighth out out 11 in the preseason poll, the Bobcats planned on making an unexpected mark on the tournament Saturday afternoon after finishing seventh each of the past two seasons.

“We’re shooting for a top five finish, possibly top four,” sophomore Tommy Consalvo said. “We have the weapons to make that happen.”

While the team doesn’t practice an annual tradition like the women’s team, it enjoyed its own impromptu celebration at practice on Tuesday.

Heavy rain began to pound the ground around the runners’ feet as they made their way through the practice run. It wasn’t ideal conditions, but the Bobcats made the most of it.

“When it was raining, it turned into one of those really fun workouts,” head coach Josh Glaab said. “They’re stoked and excited for this weekend.

That’s the best attitude you can have.”

The unexpected downpour was welcomed by a team looking for a cleansing of past trials and misfortunes that hamstrung the team for much of the regular season.

While the women’s team room was saturated by décor, the men’s locker room was ravaged by illness.

A nasty cold swept through the roster last week, taking down sophomore Michael Kiernan and junior Ben Lanza.

“It scared the crap out of me,” Glaab said. “I was scared we wouldn’t be ready for this week.”

Fortunately for the Bobcats, the team is back to full health and feeling whole again as they prepare for the conference championships, rain or shine.

“We’re such a small team,” junior Ryan Ansel said. “If we lose three

guys, that’s a fourth of our roster.

There’s been those ups and downs, but I think right now we’re ready to take on the big show on Saturday. We’re all coming together at the right time.”

If the men’s team were to decorate their lockers with encouraging quotes, the most relevant one might be from Vivian Greene: “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.”

While the men’s squad entered the championships as an underdog, the women looked to blaze a path of redemption after missing out on a first place finish by a mere two points in Florida last season.

The Bobcats are led by a pack of seniors who won it all in 2015 and are hungry for a return to the top, and will feel more at home in the hills of Holmdel, New Jersey than they did last year in the Sunshine State.

Rather than jogging the flat plains of steamy Florida, both teams will be able to flex their muscles in the hills of Holmdel Park, giving the Bobcats a ‘Giant’ advantage.

“This year we’ve run Sleeping Giant a few times and Hogan Hills,” Roberts said. “I don’t think anyone else has a Sleeping Giant across the street to train on.”

To prepare for the MAAC Championships last season, Martin had her team running in long sleeves during the warmer months to prepare for the scorching Florida heat. With more inclines at Holmdel Park, Martin took her squad to nearby luxury Sleeping Giant State Park.

“When we previewed (Holmdel Park) in September, we got down the hill we said if we can run up the Giant, we can handle any hill that’s in our way,” senior Emily Wolff said.

A Colorado native, Wolff has been bred to take on inclines, and figures to be a leading force for the

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Quinnipiac men’s cross country placed eighth out of 11 MAAC teams.

Bobcats come Saturday.

“She’s going to eat it up,” Martin said with conviction.

The men’s team shared the same confidence, thanks to its own prolonged preparation.

“We’ve done hills, on hills, on hills,” Consalvo added. “We’ve been preparing for this all season. This is going to play right into our strengths.”

The men’s team had to conquer some hills along the way to surprise the crowd and finish among the top in the conference. It will be tough, but the team has overcome uphill climbs all year, both literally and figuratively.

Fast forward to Monday in Hamden. Shredded tree branches and power lines litter the roads, as a vicious storm swept through town, cutting power and setting fire to transformers on Whitney Avenue.

The men’s team may have enjoyed a rainy practice the week before, but a run in these conditions seems irrational.

The team was recovering from an eighth place finish at the MAAC Championships as the result of a tiebreaker that dates back to the regular season.

“The results don’t tell the whole story,” Glaab explained. “The indi-

vidual results are a much better indicator of the impressive growth that happened this season.”

Glaab is certainly not wrong. After a 79th place finish last season, Ansel skyrocketed up the ranks and finished a team-leading 14th. Consalvo jumped from 55th to 25th, while Tyler Mannion moved up almost 50 spots to 59th.

It wasn’t the desired finish, but the blueprint is in place for a successful 2018 campaign.

The women’s team might be feeling a similar emotion, as the team recorded a third place finish on Saturday. As predicted, Wolff gobbled up the Holmdel hills, leading the team with a sixth place finish.

“Emily came off a tough outdoor season last year and she has come into this year with a new fire,” Martin said.

“I am really proud of how well she has done this season.”

Roberts and Kaitlin Bakas joined Wolff in the top ten. Still, for the first time in over a decade, the Bobcats finished below second place, which will be tough to swallow.

This isn’t the end, however, as both teams prepare for the final race of the season at the NCAA Regionals in Buffalo.

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Turner: ‘[Kilponen] competes at an elite level’ KILPONEN from Page 16 she explained how she wasn’t completely lost.

“Well I had a map, so I kind of felt like a tourist,” Kilponen said.

The women’s ice hockey team emerged as her tour guides, and then closest friends on campus. “[My teammates] have been super helpful and supporting,” she said. “There’s a lot of new stuff. I said before I felt like a freshman my first weeks here because I didn’t know where to go or anything really.”

Before long, Kilponen became an integral part of the closely-knit squad.

“We just welcomed her onto the team,” Quinnipiac sophomore goaltender Abbie Ives said. “We’re all really close, so it hasn’t been hard for us to just become really good friends with her.”

Between playing hockey and studying psychology, the school was the fit for Kilponen, and the acquisition became a fit for Quinnipiac’s women’s ice hockey team.

“It was a huge get for us to get her,” Ives said. “Especially with a young d-core, I think to have an experienced, really reliable defenseman come in and be part of our young d-core is so important for us.”

Kilponen did not come to Quinnipiac with just two years of play in the Western

Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) and a trip to the Women’s Worlds. Back in 2014, Kilponen made it onto Team Finland and played at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia at just 18 years old.

“It was awesome,” Kilponen said of playing for Finland on the Olympic stage. “It was something that I have dreamed about since I was a little kid and my dream came true.”

Kilponen notched two assists in six Olympic contests, but even though she has performed at the pinnacle of women’s hockey, she says she hardly discusses it with her Quinnipiac teammates.

“I don’t think I have brought it up that much,” Kilponen said. “I am not the loudest person, even if I would speak Finnish...I try to things as well as I can and hope people will follow me.”

The former Fighting Hawk has meshed with the Bobcats in the early part of the season.

Through seven games, Kilponen has one goal, two assists and praise from her head coach.

“She competes at an elite level,” Turner said. “It’s kind of those little things that really stand out with her and have made a difference in terms of our culture and having younger players be able to see and watch how she does things.”

One area where she has emerged is special

teams. Quinnipiac is 8 for 37 on the power play this year, good for 14th in the nation, and Turner cites Kilponen’s ability to shoot off the pass as a reason for why the team is that high.

“She’s been pivotal on our power play,” Turner said. “Our power play is sitting pretty high in the country right now and she’s a big piece as to why we’re there.”

As the team begins facing ECAC foes, Turner is confident that Kilponen can continue evolving.

“She has everything,” Turner said. “She has all the tools, and for her to play at that elite level every single moment of every single shift, I think that’s the next step for her.”

The Bobcats will be without Kilponen for some upcoming conference play.

The Finnish defenseman is set to head down to Florida with her national team to compete in the Four Nations Cup, a pre-Olympic tune-up tournament between Finland, Sweden, Canada and the USA. Kilponen will not say that she has a spot on the squad for the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea this February, but she is looking to avenge an underwhelming showing in Sochi.

“Last Olympics, it was a big disappointment with our placement in the tournament

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for the whole team, so that’s obviously something,” Kilponen said. “All of us in Team Finland want to be much better than that.”

Seniors’ significance greater than on-field production COLUMN from Page 16 to the Big East made by the field hockey team.

In their first two years at Quinnipiac, the field hockey seniors played in the MAAC just like most teams at the school. In those two years, the Bobcats made it to the MAAC Tournament, losing in the semifinals the first time and then in the championship game the second time.

Even though they didn’t win a championship, Quinnipiac’s field hockey team joined the

Big East the following year.

Quinnipiac’s first season in the conference wasn’t great, but it wasn’t bad for a new team, as the Bobcats went 3-4 in conference play in 2016.

In 2017, the team finished with the same record in conference play as last year, but showed that it earned its place in the conference.

On Sept. 22, the Bobcats upset No. 21 Liberty, 1-0 and the victory could be considered the biggest in program history. It also felt like a vin-

dicating moment for the team, as they improved to 2-0 in conference play at the time.

Although they did lose four out of their last five, three of those losses came by a one-goal defeat.

The one game the lost by multiple goals came on Friday when Quinnipiac lost to undefeated No. 1 UConn, 3-1. But in that game, they were the only team in the Big East this season to have been tied with UConn outside of a score of 1-1.

Not bad for players that were recruited to play for the MAAC. Behind the on-field successes of the rugby, men’s and women’s soccer, both cross country teams and the progression of the field hockey team, these fall sport seniors have a lot to be proud of as they’ve surely left their respective marks on Quinnipiac.

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Quinnipiac women’s cross country placed third in the MAAC Championships on Saturday. Three Bobcats finished the race in the top 10, led by senior Emily Wolff, who placed sixth.

Eight of Quinnipiac men’s soccer’s games this season have ended in a 1-0 score, including Saturday’s loss at Monmouth. Quinnipiac lost six of those eight games.

Quinnipiac women’s ice hockey fired 61 shots on goal, but failed to score in its 1-0 loss to Dartmouth on Friday. Dartmouth managed just 16 shots on goal in the game.

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Quinnipiac rugby’s senior center led the Bobcats to a 74-5 Senior Day win over American International College on Saturday. The reigning MA Sorensen Award winner as the nation’s top women’s rugby player had a team-leading four tries and one assist in the regular season finale.

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Not ‘Finnished’ yet

After her former program was cut, transfer Anna Kilponen found a new home at Quinnipiac CONOR’S COLUMN

Give the fall senior athletes more credit

By MAX MOLSKI Web Director

Anna Kilponen was on the bus with Team Finland this past March preparing for an opening game against Russia at the 2017 Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship.

Surrounded by her Finnish compatriots, her mind quickly shifted to her teammates in Grand Forks, North Dakota, whose college team was about to meet its sudden end.

Kilponen was scrolling through Twitter and found out that the University of North Dakota (UND) was disbanding its women’s ice hockey in addition to men’s and women’s swimming and diving programs on March 29 to comply with new budget restrictions.

“At first, I didn’t really want to believe it,” Kilponen said. “I was like, ‘That must be a misunderstanding or something,’ but then it was true.”

Kilponen’s North Dakota (UND) teammates were on the ice practicing while the world got news that the university was cutting their team. It wasn’t until later that day when the players had a chance to meet with the school’s president and athletic director, according to North Dakota leading scorer Amy Menke’s account from The Players’ Tribune.

At the meeting, the university attempted to justify its decision, but Kilponen says a lot of the athletes wanted more of an explanation. “[My teammates] weren’t really happy with [the meeting],” Kilponen said. “They had so many questions, but nobody answered them about anything. That’s what I heard and understood.”

North Dakota has proven itself as a hockey school, leading the NCAA in game attendance with upwards of 11,000 fans on average for each men’s team game. While Kilponen acknowledges that the men’s team is more popular at the school, the women’s team consistently cracked the top five nationally in average attendance. Eliminating the women’s team became a blow to the entire sport.

“It was a sad moment for women’s hockey,”

Conor Roche

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Junior Anna Kilponen has recorded one goal and two assists since her arrival at Quinnipiac.

Quinnipiac head coach Cass Turner said. “North Dakota is really synonymous with hockey. It was just a tough situation to see something that we saw as pretty concrete and strong make the decision to cancel that program.”

Kilponen and Team Finland went on to finish third at the Women’s Worlds, demolishing Germany in the bronze-medal game. Following the triumph, though, she quickly had to consider where she would play collegiately with two years of eligibility still remaining.

She began exchanging emails with some of the top programs in women’s hockey, including Ohio, St. Cloud State and Mercyhurst. Quinnipiac popped up on her list and was a completely new name to her.

“Gotta say that I didn’t really know about

Quinnipiac at all because when I got recruited to UND, I didn’t look at east coast schools,” Kilponen said. “So I had no idea where it is, who plays here and stuff like that.”

Turner and Quinnipiac had Kilponen come down for a visit this May and the junior defenseman was struck by the New England scenery.

“I loved it,” Kilponen said. “It’s so pretty out here. I love the nature with little hills, trees. We didn’t have that much at UND. It’s like more close to what we have in Finland.

Facilities are awesome here, too.”

Kilponen moved to Hamden a few weeks before the fall semester began. Stepping into a brand-new environment, she laughed as See KILPONEN Page 15

Quinnipiac men’s and women’s cross country take to the MAAC Championships

By RYAN CHICHESTER Staff Writer

In the Quinnipiac women’s cross country locker room, Bobcat blue and gold has given way to an overhaul of black and orange. The contrasting colors wash over the locker doors, separated by postings of inspirational quotes and various candies and chocolates.

It’s a steady transformation that takes place in just a week’s time. The team arrived on Monday, Oct. 23 to find a handful of lockers doused in decorations and treats. Tuesday, a few more took on the same appearance. One or two more followed on Wednesday. Walking into the locker room each day to find more decorations feels like driving home on crisp winter evenings and noticing a new house littered with Christmas lights as the holidays neared.

Welcome to Halloween in Hamden, where the cross country team begins its unique festive celebration. The tradition, which the team calls ‘Boo!,’ takes place every Halloween week leading up to the MAAC Championships, which began this Saturday.

The girls make sure their locker room is fully decked out before heading to the biggest

Although no one is graduating yet, many Quinnipiac class of 2018 athletes have celebrated the conclusion, or near-conclusion, of their collegiate careers. And while the fall athletes aren’t celebrated as much as the winter athletes on this campus, Associate Sports Editor the fall athletes have a lot to be proud of.

Men’s soccer captain James Doig, who is technically a graduate student, became the program’s winningest player in history this fall. The seniors on the women’s cross country team won the MAAC championship in 2015 and finished in the top three their other three years. The men’s soccer team seniors have made it to the MAAC championship twice and could get there for third time next week. The same goes for the women’s soccer team, who finished one game away from reaching another MAAC Championship game.

But there are two big things that the fall athletes of the class of 2018 have done, one being on the field and the other being off the field.

In 2015, the rugby team won the national championship over Army. Not only was it the first national championship in program history, it was also the first national championship in Quinnipiac history.

Even though they were national champions, the controversy surrounding the program would only begin to arise after its accomplishment.

In the same academic year, the men’s ice hockey team made it to the Frozen Four, and shortly after, the national championship game.

But the men’s ice hockey team didn’t have the same fortune as the rugby team, losing to the University of North Dakota.

However, that didn’t stop Quinnipiac president John L. Lahey from sending a letter out to the school community congratulating the team on its season. There was a problem with that however; Lahey didn’t do the same thing after the rugby team won its title.

The controversy spilled into the following season when the rugby team lost its field due to stadium construction. Unlike the other teams at the school that were temporarily displaced by the construction, the rugby team had to play all but one game on the road. The team’s one home game was held in Southington, CT at the Southington High School field.

Nevertheless, the team persisted. Now-senior Ilona Maher led the team to an 8-1 regular season record, including a 213-0 victory in one game, as she won the MA Sorensen Award as the women’s rugby national player of the year.

In the tournament, the Bobcats won all three games by an average of nearly 53 points per game, securing their secondstraight national championship.

In 2017, the Bobcats returned to Hamden and went 7-2 in the regular season. As the NIRA tournament starts next week, the Bobcats will enter the field as the No. 1 team in the nation and look to three-peat.

The other accomplishment made by the fall athletes of the class of 2018 was the transition

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Both Quinnipiac cross country teams spent this fall preparing for the MAAC Championships.

race of the season.

“It’s like a Halloween aisle exploded in the locker room,” senior Kaleigh Roberts said.

‘Boo!’ is a time for the team to show their appreciation for one another, bringing the concept of Secret Santa to the Halloween season, or more importantly, the conference championship season.

Each runner draws a random teammate from a hat and picks a day of the week to decorate the locker of whomever they picked in an effort to

boost morale and decrease tension heading into the biggest race of the season.

“They do a surprise where they get each other their favorite things for that week,” head coach Carolyn Martin explained. “It’s a team thing.

You’re trying to get each other motivated for the MAACs (Championships).”

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