The Quinnipiac Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 11

NOVEMBER 7, 2018 | VOLUME 89, ISSUE 11

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Saying ‘thank you’ to our veterans

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The Student Veterans Organization (SVO) had it’s annual Cup of G.I. Joe event Tuesday Nov. 6 outside the Carl Hansen Student Center.

The Student Veterans Organization (SVO) with free coffee, doughnuts and the chance Hockey game on Saturday, a food drive at the hosts two events a year, thanking the student to sign cards for care packages sent to troops Rocky Top Student Center on Sunday, and population and staff for it’s support and ac- deployed overseas. Other events this week Veterans will also be honored at the Men’s ceptance. Cup of G.I. Joe is an SVO event will include, Chuck-A-Puck at the Men’s Ice basketball game Nov. 15.

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Miller led the discussion on ways to identify plagiarism students don’t normally understand.

demonstrated a scenario where a student named Jonah gave his essay to his friend, Tara in order to help her with formatting her own essay. However, Tara ended up copying Jonah’s entire essay and said it was her own.

“Under the academic integrity policy, they are both at fault,” Miller explained to the audience. “This is plagiarism. She took somebody else’s work, not just even a few words but the entire paper. But Jonah’s got a problem too, this is facilitation. He enabled

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As the fall semester draws to a close, faculty members are reminding first year students who are enrolled in First Year Seminar (FYS) courses to adhere to the university’s academic integrity. Mandatory sessions were held in Buckman theater on Nov. 5 and 6 to discuss the causes of violation and how to prevent them from occurring. These sessions ran between 8 a.m. to 5 p.m, replacing the students’ normally scheduled FYS classes.

It is more likely for first year students to violate integrity since they are still fairly new to the academic community.

Professor of athletic training & sports medicine Lennart Johns said that the students will be asked to write more papers and complete group projects in FYS, which is a big reason for why they were told to attend the seminar.

“In the past, freshman were introduced to (academic integrity) during welcome weekend, but with a firehose of information, around many topics, being provided to freshman during those few days, some of that information gets lost,” Johns said in a statement. “With that in mind, we are working with the idea of reinforcing important information over a broader time period and this is an example of that effort.”

Professor of legal studies Michelle Miller hosted one of the many sessions, where she opened her presentation with a brief roleplay between two peer catalysts. They

the plagiarism by giving her this paper. It’s not like he intended to violate the policy. He wanted to help a friend, but facilitation is still against the code of academic integrity.”

Miller said that this type of scenario happens all too often at the university.

“One of the reasons why we like to start with this (example) is because we see this a lot,” Miller said. “The thing about this situation is you guys have friends and you really want to help your friends and you’re not really thinking about academic integrity.”

More examples like this were given, and students discussed amongst themselves whether or not they considered them to be violations. One of the answers was particularly surprising to the audience, where in an example a student was considered to be plagiarizing a textbook for writing a word-for-word introduction of the textbook for her essay, despite citing it and claiming that it wasn’t her words.

“What do you think the purpose of the assignment was for the professor? Did the professor want to know if (she) could read the lab manual?,” Miller said. “The purpose of this exercise was not to read the lab manual. We’d want them to figure it out for themselves.”

Plagiarizing can go beyond just copying off other people’s work; it can also include turning in a paper that’s already been submitted for a grade in another course, paraphras-

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If you’ve recently received an email on your Quinnipiac account stating that an unknown sender has a video of you watching porn and that you must pay in order to keep this information private, then you are a victim of a “Sextortion Blackmail Scam” affecting members of the Quinnipiac community.

Krebson Security, a website for in depth security news and investigation states that the scam email includes a message from a supposed, “hacker who’s compromised your computer and used your webcam to record a video of you while you were watching porn. The missive threatens to release the video to all your contacts unless you pay a Bitcoin ransom.”

According to a MyQ alert that was posted on Nov. 1, the emails that Quinnipiac faculty, staff and students are receiving, include a “new twist” on this spam email that has been circulating for months.

“The new twist with this particular scam is that the email includes a password previously associated with the recipient’s email address for an online account—likely a compromised password that was used many years ago,” stated Brian Kelly, the chief information security officer at Quinnipiac, in a statement included in the MyQ alert.

Kelly says that this variation on a known spam email is a clever trick on the part of the hackers.

“Most people go, ‘Yeah I haven’t been on porn sites or anything,’” Kelly said. “But what freaks people out is it’s a password that they’ve used somewhere in their life. It’s familiar. So that’s what grabs that users attention.”

The Krebson Security website states that the recipient’s password is included in the salutation of the email as a scare tactic reading,“I’m aware that <substitute password formerly used by recipient here> is your password.”

While this is an email being sent to Quinnipiac addresses, the passwords that have been compromised are not from Quinnipiac accounts. Kelly explains that the reason the spam is coming to the QU address is because of people’s tendency to use that address on other websites.

“What happens is, people tend to use their Quinnipiac email address for everything, right? So maybe you’ve got a credit card that you use while you’re on campus and those statements come to your Quinnipiac email address,” Kelly said. “Any of those places where they could have been compromised have your Quinnipiac email address.”

Typically, these passwords are old, and may be inactive. However, this is just another devious maneuver on the part of the “bad guys” according to Kelly. It’s a way for them to monetize off of seemingly useless

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MEET THE EDITORS MANAGING EDITOR Amanda Perelli CREATIVE DIRECTOR Madison Fraitag

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Philip MAJOR Finance Year Junior A: “My vote matters because the more people that say like ‘Oh my vote doesn’t

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MAJOR Biology Year Freshmen A: “I think my vote matters but I personally feel, because I just moved to the country, that I don’t have enough information to make an informed choice. I don’t want to vote for someone and be like ‘I made a mistake.’ So I think my vote will start mattering when I start to learn about more what’s going on in the country, what issues I’m interested in, how can I better impact America. So yeah, I think my vote matters but I need to be informed for it to matter.”

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MAJOR Physical therapy Year Freshmen A: “I think it does matter. My bio teacher was actually just showing us a bunch

of statistics today about how during midterm elections only like 23 percent of our age group 18 to 29 actually shows up to polls. And even in presidential elections it’s less than 50 percent, so even if just this entire campus voted it would probably make like a pretty big impact on the state of Connecticut itself.”

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Kelly: “It’s called ‘cyber hygiene’” SPAM from cover old passwords.

“If the IDs and passwords are old and no longer good, they can’t do anything with them they’re useless─until now,” Kelly said. “Some bad guy thought, ‘Well we’ll just send out emails and we’ll tell people that we have their password and we’ll see how many pay us.’”

Kelly warns all members of the Quinnipiac community to be suspicious of any similar emails and assures the recipients

that the sender does not have “evidence of the viewing of pornography” and there is no need to pay money.

However, there is a need to pay attention to the password mentioned by the hacker.

“If for some reason the password is still something you use, anywhere, you might want to change it as soon as possible,” Kelly warns.

Kelly says Quinnipiac’s information security team is doing their best to keep these emails out of Quinnipiac inboxes.

“What we’re trying to do from an email standpoint is limit those type of emails,”

Kelly said. “We talked about spam filters and junk mail filters and trying to tweak those filters to sort of keep the messages out of our user’s inbox.”

Overall, Kelly recommends changing passwords frequently and avoiding the use of the same password on multiple sites.

Kelly also suggests plugging your email address into a “Have I been pwned?” website which will allow you to check if you have an email account that has been compromised.

“It’s called ‘cyber hygiene,” Kelly said.

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Quinnipiac University Writing Across the Curriculum invites you to enter its

14th Annual Undergraduate Student Writing Contest

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 Reader.

This year’s theme:

Failure

Prizes will be awarded in two categories: Fiction (poetry, plays, and short stories) and Nonfiction (creative nonfiction, essays, and journalism).

Submissions Guidelines

Entries should be • Accessible to the wider university audience • Address any aspect of Failure and how it impacts our lives • Written while you were enrolled as an undergraduate at Quinnipiac University • Accompanied by a brief statement (up to 250 words) that explains how it is related to your classroom experiences at the University

To enter, attach your submission as a word.doc and email it to the Research and Writing Institute Director: Paul.Pasquaretta@QU.EDU

Submissions will be accepted until Friday, February 8th, 2019

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Thursday, Nov. 8 Donor registration drive The Quinnipiac Student Nurses Association will be hosting an event that allows students to register to the bone marrow donation registry for people with blood cancers. The event will take place in the Carl Hansen Student Center on Thursday, Nov. 8 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and will also educate students about bone marrow donation.

QUIC bake sale Quinnipiac University Irish Club (QUIC) will be hosting a bake sale in the Carl Hansen Student Center on Thursday, Nov. 8 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. The event will feature green cupcakes and cookies baked by members of QUIC. The money raised from the event will go toward St. Baldrick’s, a non-profit with the goal of raising money for children with cancer.

Pub night The Student Government Association will host a pub night on Thursday, Nov. 8 from 9 p.m. to 11:45 p.m. in the Rocky Top Den on the York Hill campus. The event will feature free food, music and alcohol for students who are of age.

The organization desires to gauge students’ interest in the potential addition of a pub on the York Hill campus.

Friday, Nov. 9 Love your roots Chi Upsilon Sigma National Latin Sorority, Inc., along with the Black Student Union and Naturally Me, will host the Love Your Roots event on Friday, Nov. 9 from 8:15 p.m. to 11:15 p.m. in the School of Business room 121. The event will focus on the importance of feeling comfortable in one’s own skin, especially on the Quinnipiac campus.

Monday, Nov. 12 Trivia night Pi Beta Phi will host its trivia night event on Monday, Nov. 12 from 9 p.m. to 11:45 p.m. at Burt Kahn Court. Teams of up to six people can participate at the cost of $5.

Food will also be available for an additional fee.

Tuesday, Nov. 13 QU passport day Quinnipiac University will host a passport day event welcome to all employees, family and friends Tueday, Nov. 13 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the piazza. Passport renewal and first time applicants are encouraged to come out via appointment through Raya at (203) 582-8425 or by walkin. Pricing varies on age and type of applicant. Typical forms of identification are required in order to be valid to apply.

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Students go head-to-head in six-hour coding competition

By JASON SCHOELLKOPF Staff Writer

Ten teams of students waited to see what their efforts were worth as the room fell silent in anticipation as assistant professor of software engineering, Stefan Christov, began to announce the winners of the Hackathon competition.

Over fifty Quinnipiac students competed at the Quinnipiac Computing Club’s (QCC) semiannual Hackathon on Saturday, Nov. 3. Hackathons are known by programmers throughout the world as competitions to solve real-world problems by creating websites or mobile applications. Each Hackathon has a different theme or issue. Saving the environment and helping people treat anxiety and depression are just a few problems that Quinnipiac students have tackled in past competitions.

“It was kind of stressful,” first place winner Julianna Shevchenko said. “In the past they had given more time. It’s kind of hard to get everything done. I’m glad that we scoped our project really well.”

During most college Hackathons, teams of students have one to two days to create their app, Christov said. However, Quinnipiac’s Hackathon is only six hours long. When the time runs out, each team must present their projects to a series of judges who determine the winners.

The theme of this Hackathon was political awareness. Students were tasked with creating an app or website that would help citizens become better informed about politics. Ten teams competed and three teams won prizes in the competition.

The first place prize of $400 went to team “Fantasy Font”, comprised of Alexandra Sazhin, Jonathan Bryce and Shevchenko. The team created a website called “Your Politics Tube”, which provided short videos that explain the different political parties and policies of the United States.

The time crunch was the same for the members of the second-place team, “CATS.” Charles Zhu, Kevin Sangurima, Massimo Angelillo and John Crawford won $300 with a website that provides users with suggestions on who to vote for in local elections based on their results from a political survey.

“It’s a rush,” second-place winner Charles Zhu said about Hackathon. “Those hours go by really quick. You plan out things that you try to do and sometimes you find out there are a lot of features that take way too much time and you gotta scale down and push out something that is presentable.”

In addition to Hackathon being a way for students to earn extra credit and win money, it’s a great experience and a potential resume-builder for future software engineers.

“The overarching thing is just to help the students get experience and get jobs,” QCC president David Lepore said. “It’s also for students to show their stuff to different companies, cause let’s say if you win, you can put it on your resume.

If you make something good, you can show it to

Students participated in the six hour Hackathon event for the grand prize of $400. different companies when you do an interview.”

Christov, has been helping QCC put on the event since 2014. In addition to being good experience for computer science and software engineering majors, Hackathon is a way to start networking, Christov said.

“Sometimes we have people from the industry to participate in the judging session,” Christov said. “I know students who got internships because they met these industrial people and they liked their presentation. So, they actually offered them internships. It could be good for students in many, many ways.”

The judges of Quinnipiac’s Hackathon are generally professors and alumni. Many of the judges this year were recently-graduated alumni who now work as programmers at Cigna Health Insurance, a global health insurance company based in Connecticut and Pennsylvania.

Though very rewarding, Hackathon is a challenging event. Once it starts, it’s a breakneck race against the clock to produce a functional app.

“We experimented and we found that this seems to be the best format for the college environment here,” Christov said. “Because if it’s too short, nothing meaningful gets produced. If it’s too long, then students just don’t have the time to put into it—especially given that now it’s this time of the semester when so much work has piled.”

Quinnipiac’s Hackathon has been changing over the past few years. More people are entering the competition each year, according to Lepore.

The apps from recent Hackathons also tend to be more complex than the apps from previous years.

“I think there’s a big improvement in the quality of the apps that are being produced compared to the first time we started,” Christov said. “I think

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part of it is because the software engineering program evolved and our courses started to teach more web technologies and mobile technologies.

So students already come prepared to build pretty sophisticated apps.”

However, not every change has been positive for students or the QCC. Budget cuts have shrunk Hackathon’s prize pool. This year, the first place prize was $400, whereas in 2016, the winners won $700.

“It’s lower because of the budget cuts in every student organization,” Lepore said. “But, this is the year that we probably had the most amount of people at the very start, so I don’t think it dissuaded anyone from coming.”

Lepore hopes that future Hackathons will be closer to 24 hours long, similar to how it’s done in other colleges.

“We’re trying to head towards that direction,” Lepore said. “Especially this year, we’ve gotten more people so hopefully we might be able to do that if we gauge more interest.”

Christov is hoping to see more participation from majors other than software engineering and computer science.

“Any major could contribute to improving the proposed solutions in the apps that students are building,” Christov said. “For instance, there could be somebody with graphic design experience who can improve user interface. If the theme is healthcare, then there could be someone from the school of health sciences who vets the suggested idea and makes sure it’s practical from the medical point of view. I think involvement of non-engineering students would be really cool.”

QCC plans to hold its next Hackathon in the spring of 2019.

Miller: ‘We are an academic community, committed to honesty’ FYS from cover ing without proper citation and contract cheating, which Miller described as when someone pays another person to do their work for them. This violation is becoming more common at the university, according to Miller.

Professor Brian Fitzgerald teaches an FYS course and said it is beneficial to have students comprehend the policies on the same level as the faculty members do.

“I think it’s very important to have a level set with regards to this particular issue so that the students are perfectly clear on just what the policies are, and some of the pitfalls that other students have dropped into in the past,” Fitzgerald said.

“Just (so they can) get the school’s perspective on this and share with the students so that everyone is up to speed in regards to this subject.”

Violations are also more than just plagiarizing, according to the university academic integrity policy. Violations could also include misrepresentation, misusing one’s relationship

with the university, and collusion.

The session went on to describe the academic integrity process for a student who is accused of violating the rules, what a student could do to defend themselves if they are falsely accused, and the consequences of being confirmed to have violated the policies.

“You will get an email from the [Academic Integrity] office to let you know that there’s a report of a possible violation against you and then you have 48 hours to fill out the response form,” Miller said. “Once you’ve done that, then what happens depends on several factors. If it’s your first violation and you and your professor agree, then you can sit down with your professor and come up with a joint resolution. You decide what’s going to happen yourselves.”

The consequences for violating academic integrity are called sanctions, which can range from a failing grade on the assignment, suspension, or even expulsion. Miller clarified that expulsions are very rare, and typically most students who violate academic integrity once do not repeat the offense.

Freshman journalism major Eric Kurt said

that the session was helpful for him.

“There were some things in the presentation that I did not know were essential for plagiarism, and knowing all that stuff about policies and not cheating on things,” Kurt said. “Some of the things on there weren’t really enforced at my high school, so it’s definitely good to know that kind of stuff now at Quinnipiac and for future classes.”

Miller concluded the session by recommending students to just be honest with their professors if they are having trouble with an assignment, set up an appointment at the Learning Commons or ask questions to be sure they are not violating any part of the policies.

“We are, as an academic community, committed to honesty,” Miller said. “We are committed to integrity.”

If students are interested in reading more about academic integrity, they can go on MyQ and look at the menu for academics where ‘academic integrity’ should be located. There students can read the presentation that was given at the sessions.

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Maryland took too long to fire DJ Durkin School’s Board of Regents reinstates coach before President fires him

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Jordan McNair, an offensive lineman for the University of Maryland football team, passed away this past June after suffering a heat stroke in a May 29 practice.

The incident led to an investigation into Maryland’s football program. Head coach DJ Durkin was placed on administrative leave by the university as the investigation was conducted into McNair’s death.

The University of Maryland reinstated head football coach DJ Durkin on Oct. 30, almost three months after he was placed on administrative leave.

The next day, Durkin was fired without cause, according to university spokesperson Jessica Jennings.

Durkin and multiple members of the Maryland training staff had been placed on administrative leave due to the handling of McNair’s hospitalization, and eventually his death.

While there was certainly time needed to conduct a proper investigation, Durkin should have already been fired by Maryland and should not have been reinstated, even if it was only for one day.

Durkin’s reinstatement had led to disapproval from players, the parents of the late McNair as well as the Governor Larry Hogan, according to USA Today.

SEC Network analyst, and former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow sounded off on how Maryland handled the situation, saying that the school allowed social media to influence the decision.

“You need to make a decision and stand with it,” Tebow said. “People are so afraid to have conviction to believe in somehting when they make a decision.

“It shouldn’t matter what I say, it shouldn’t matter what social media says. So many people want to be liked instead of being respected.”

Tebow has a point. Maryland waited for the public backlash before making a final decision. If you’re going to decide to keep Durkin, stand by it.

“This is not at all a reflection of my opinion of Coach Durkin as a person,” University of Maryland President Wallace D. Loh said in his statement. “However, a departure is in the best interest of the University, and this afternoon Coach Durkin was informed that the University will part ways.

“This is a difficult decision, but it is the right one for our entire University.”

Loh acted alone in the firing of Durkin, and it was immediately met with approval by Maryland Congressman Anthony G. Brown.

“Dr. Loh’s firing of Coach Durkin is the right decision and the decision that had to be made if the UMD community was going to ever move forward,’’ Brown said, according to ESPN. While Loh was critical of the original allegations against Durkin, the decision to even allow the coach to be reinstated or not was one that Loh was unable to make himself.

On Aug. 10, ESPN had reported allegations against Durkin and head strength and conditioning coach Frank Court stating that there was “a toxic coaching culture under Durkin and Court. Multiple sources close to the program describe past behavior of intimidation, humiliation and verbal abuse that created a culture of fear for the players. The sources also reveal allegations of unhealthy eating habits and using food punitively against the players.”

These allegations led to Durkin’s placement on administrative leave and the University of System of Maryland Board of Regents (USM) launching an investigation into the the May 29 practice that led to McNair’s death as well as the culture of the football program as a whole.

“I am profoundly disturbed by the media reports yesterday about verbally abusive and intimidating conduct by Maryland football coaches and staff towards our student athletes on the team,” Loh had said in a statement on Aug. 11. “Such behaviors contravene the educational mission and core values of our University. They are unacceptable. They will not be tolerated.”

On Tuesday, Oct. 30, the USM recommended to President Loh that he should reinstate Durkin and keep Damon Evans as athletic director.

The investigation done by the USM found that the cause of McNair’s death was due to improper treatment by the training staff for his heatstroke. The investigation also concluded that there was “no toxic culture” in the program, according to ESPN. “There was a failure to identify escalating symptoms associated with exertional heat illness,” Rod Walters said after investigating the May 29 practice. “Including as-

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DJ Durkin (center) was fired from Maryland after almost three seasons as head coach. sessing vital signs, identifying the condition the courage to hold anyone accountable for and aggressively treating the patient’s el- his death. If only they could have the courevated core temperature. No apparatus was age that Jordan had. It’s never the wrong used for prompt cooling of the patient.” time to do what’s right.”

The USM Board Chairman, James McNair’s father, Marty, said that he felt Brady, pushed for Loh to reinstate Durkin, as if “I’ve been punched in the stomach, but in this situation he had all the leverage. and somebody spit in my face,” according Loh, who announced he would retire in to ESPN. June, was told by the USM Board he would Once Durkin was fired, McKennie and be fired if he did not reinstate Durkin, ac- teammate Tre Watson took to Twitter to excording to ESPN. press their feelings — feelings that I believe “We believe that Coach Durkin has been should have held more weight than the fact unfairly blamed for the dysfunction in the that Durkin wasn’t “fully responsible.” athletic department,” Brady said. “While he “IT’S NEVER THE WRONG TIME TO bears some responsibility, it is not fair to DO WHAT’S RIGHT!” McKennie tweeted. place all of it at his feet.”

Watson added: “Pressure busts pipes After major pushback because of the de- doesn’t it??” cision to reinstate Durkin, Loh acted against These feelings, expressed by players the board, and in my opinion, rightly fired who had to endure the loss of a teammate, Durkin the next day. show to me that Durkin should have never On Thursday, Nov. 1, Brady resigned been reinstated to begin with. from his position as board chairman, makIn addition to the players feelings that ing this situation even messier. were clearly against Durkin, ESPN found The problem I have with this situation that the investigation into Durkin found stems from the player reaction to the rein- players were uncomfortable going to Durkin statement of Durkin. when bullied and humiliated by Court.

With Brady’s resignation, there are even The fact that players couldn’t turn to their more questions around why the USM Board coach shows there was clearly a problem. had the power to force Loh to reinstate DurDurkin, who took over for Randy Edsall kin in the first place. in December 2015, made more than just one And while the USM Board did conduct mistake that cost McNair his life. a thorough investigation, I think the biggest His players proved that by advocating aspect that makes the decision to reinstate and praising his firing.

Durkin puzzling is based on the player reacThe USM Board was wrong to force tion it brought.

Durkin back in, and I credit President Loh “Every Saturday my teammates and I for doing what is right. have to kneel before the memorial of our It is hardly justice for Jordan McNair fallen teammate,” Offensive lineman Ellis and his family.

McKennie tweeted after Durkin was reinBut it’s a start. stated. “Yet a group of people do not have

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Continuing the conversation

What we can learn from athletes’ opening up about mental health If there’s one thing we can learn from athletes who have opened up about mental health, it’s that talking leads to selfimprovement, and hiding leads to self-destruction.

In March, NBA superstar Kevin Love revealed his mental health struggles with the world Staff Writer via The Players’ Tribune, to shine light on the topic and the importance of seeking help.

In the story titled “Everyone is Going Through Something,” Love wrote about a panic attack he suffered during a game with the Cleveland Cavaliers, and how hesitant he was to talk about his feelings.

“Call it a stigma or call it fear or insecurity — you can call it a number of things — but what I was worried about wasn’t just my own inner struggles but how difficult it was to talk about them,” Love wrote in the article.

Once he decided to get treatment, his life changed for the better. The Cavaliers found him a therapist and the sessions have worked wonders.

“In the short time I’ve been meeting with the therapist, I’ve seen the power of saying things out loud in a setting like that,” Love said. “And it’s not some magical process. It’s terrifying and awkward and hard, at least in my experience so far. I know you don’t just get rid of problems by talking about them, but I’ve learned that over time maybe you can better understand them and make them more manageable.”

The NBA isn’t the only league to see players open up about mental health struggles. It’s a prevalent issue in the NHL as well.

In September, New York Islanders goalie Robin Lehner wrote about his addiction and bipolar diagnosis in The Athletic, and just eight days later, Calgary Flames prospect Tyler Parsons used the same outlet to share his experiences with anxiety and depression.

A common theme in both stories: the importance of seeking help.

Parsons wrote about missing his flight to the Flames’ development camp because of an emotional outburst on his way to the airport. While in the car with his mother, he ranted about suicide and a desperate need to end the pain. His mother forbade him from getting on the flight and called the Flames organization.

“It’s super hard to explain,” Parsons said in his story. “But people who have been in that state, they would know. I don’t think if I went on that plane it would’ve been good. I would’ve freaked

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out. I felt like a monster.”

Parsons received full support from the Flames and treatment from mental health professionals.

“That’s when things started going in the right direction,” he said. “It was my first step to getting better. Those problems can be eliminated like that” – he snapped his fingers – “and more people need to open up about it. If you’re feeling down in the dumps, talk to someone. I finally spoke up. I felt like I had a thousand pounds lifted off my shoulders.”

Lehner’s story is quite different from that of Parsons, but still shows that seeking help is critical. He wrote about a panic attack he experienced during a game for the Buffalo Sabres in March and his addiction to drugs and alcohol. He also vividly described his recent journey through rehab at The Meadows in Arizona and the self-discovery that came with it.

“There were a lot of things growing up that I dealt with and were surrounded by,” Lehner said. “I saw and experienced things I want to forget. My personal battle was now complicated by my own childhood experiences of abuse, addiction and mental illness.”

Five weeks into treatment, Lehner was diagnosed with bipolar disorder I. He acknowledged that mental illness was not the sole reason for the bad decisions he made in his life, but that they definitely affected his mental state in ways he did not realize.

“The next few weeks in there would be life altering,” he said. “I started to get very emotional and determined. I wanted to feel happiness.”

In his story, Lehner wrote that he is now a happy man, trying to live each day in the moment. He’s back in the NHL, playing goalie for the New York Islanders.

“I never had the courage to get help earlier,” Lehner said. “I am not sharing this story to make people think differently of Robin Lehner as a professional goalie. I want to help make a difference and help others the way I have been helped. I want people to know that there is hope in desperation, there is healing in facing an ugly past and there is no shame in involving others in your battle.”

These types of stories have also been written by NFL players, including Gerald McRath, a former linebacker for the Tennessee Titans.

In his piece for The Players’ Tribune titled, “I’m Not Crazy,” McRath wrote about the emotional pain he experienced after his season-ending knee injury in 2012. Despite working hard to bounce back in 2013, he was never the same again physically.

Without football, he felt lost and like a failure.

“My self-loathing was constant, and it was exhausting — like, emotionally exhausting,” McRath said. “I just couldn’t get out of my own head. I was trapped. It got to the point where I couldn’t even sleep at night because I couldn’t turn my brain off.”

McRath turned to alcohol for self-medication, drinking two

24-ounce cans of beer a night for two years, while frequently experiencing panic attacks. It wasn’t until his wife, Genee, told him that he was depressed, that the road to recovery began.

“I don’t know why, but to that point, whenever I thought about mental illness, I thought about the Joker from the Batman movies,” he said. “I mean, he was insane, right? He was crazy. I don’t want to put too many labels on him because I understand now how dangerous stereotypes can be, but that’s the impression I got, and it stayed with me.”

It wasn’t the idea of help that scared McRath, but rather the stigma that comes with mental illness, if he were to tell somebody.

It would confirm his biggest fear: That he was crazy.

After a drunk driving incident that put him in a North Carolina jail cell, he experienced a moment of introspection that would change his life forever.

“For almost three years, I held myself hostage,” he said. “I put on the mask. I hid my struggles from the world and from those closest to me. Why? Because as an athlete, that’s how I had been trained. I had been taught to persevere. To never show weakness.

To be proud.”

Contemplating the choice between life and death inside that jail cell, McRath chose life. When he was released, he entered a rehabilitation program at the Eisenhower Clinic in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

“I spent 30 days at Eisenhower,” McRath said, “and the most important thing that happened there was that I was able to talk to somebody about what I had been struggling with,” he said. “And instead of judging me or telling me I was crazy — which is what I feared the most — they told me that everything I was feeling was normal.”

McRath, just like Love, Parsons and Lehner, emphasized the importance of opening up.

“If you’re struggling, don’t wait for something bad to happen.

Don’t wait for a wake-up call. Talk to somebody. It’s not as scary as you think. There is hope. There is light. Just talk to somebody.

Because fighting alone is the worst way to fight.”

All four of these athletes have struggled emotionally, and while none of the causes are the same, seeking help was without a doubt the common denominator for their improved mental states.

If you are experiencing emotional pain, you must accept it and seek help. Mental illness takes on many forms, and can be caused by pretty much anything, whether it’s genetics, environment, a break-up or pressure to succeed. The list goes on and on. If it’s causing you pain and suffering, then you have to talk about it. If you don’t believe me, maybe you’ll believe Kevin Love.

“No matter what our circumstances, we’re all carrying around things that hurt,” Love said. “And they can hurt us if we keep them buried inside.”

Why we need to stop establishing offshore areas for drilling

Do you know about the nation’s longest lasting oil spill? I’m willing to bet you don’t.

And did you know that it is still an issue?

I was unaware of the Taylor Energy Corporation until a close friend of mine brought up the oil spill. Somehow, amidst my past reStaff Writer search into offshore drilling, I had never heard of it. I am now more frustrated than ever.

For the last 14 years, oil has been spilling into the Gulf Coast, an issue that many U.S. citizens were not aware of before the last two months.

In 2004, Hurricane Ivan hit the Gulf of Mexico, destroying a platform owned by Taylor Energy that kept 28 oil and gas wells contained in the seafloor at the delta of the Mississippi River.

“Between 300 and 700 barrels of oil per day have been spewing from a site 12 miles off the Louisiana coast,” Darryl Fears said in a Washington Post article.

Oil was first seen and reported to the United States Coast Guard shortly after the storm, but despite the many attempts to clean up the deluge of oil, the problem was not resolved.

In fact, an estimate of more than 153 million gallons have flooded into the Gulf Coast since, CNN’s AJ Willingham reported.

Many of us are familiar with the BP oil spill in April 2010.

By June, more than 11 million gallons had flooded into the Gulf of Mexico. When the Exxon Valdez was capped a month later, that number had hit 134 gallons, according to Andrew Nikiforik at Britannica.com The federal judge who was overseeing the case considered it “gross negligence.”

However, Taylor Energy may be more comprehensive than the BP incident, which was once considered the largest oil spill in American history.

Jeff Amy and Michael Kunzelman at the Associated Press

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wrote an article Sept. 18, describing how expansive the Taylor Energy gulf oil leak really is.

They cited a report conducted by a government hired scientist – Oscar Pineda-Garcia, an adjunct professor at Florida State University – to study the ongoing impact. According to that report, the “oil is thick enough that people need to wear respirators because of fumes.”

Garcia also stated that the chemicals bubbling to the surface of the ocean are not only oil residues. Natural gas is also being released, which is seen as “brown oil emulsions” in many places.

These are the risks the country is taking if there are new areas established for offshore drilling or if we continue to drill in overused areas, such as the Gulf of Mexico.

Nonetheless, the impacts of drilling and eventual oil spills are often downplayed in the light of the opportunities for the country, as mentioned above. For instance, the United States could no longer become dependent on foreign imported oil and in turn could create thousands of new jobs for U.S. citizens.

New York Times reporter Lisa Friedman said in an article that “President Trump signed an executive order in April [2017] requiring the Interior Department to reconsider Mr. Obama’s fiveyear offshore drilling plan”, which prohibited new sales of large areas of the Arctic and Atlantic for drilling rigs.

To me, this is horrifying. It led me to wonder if there are cases of other oil spills off coasts, where the impact can not be immediately recognized.

For instance, since 1969, we have had 44 oil spills, each with over 420,000 gallons that have affected direct U.S. waters, according to the NOAA Office of Response and Restoration. Yet, these are the only ones exhibiting major consequences that are recordable.

Yet, President Trump said that Obama’s law “deprives our country of potentially thousands and thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in wealth.”

While drilling and fracking does promote job growth and income for the nation as a whole, there are discrepancies in the argument of economic expansion.

The Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), is considered the largest wildlife refuge in the United States, spanning over 19 million acres, large reserves of oil were first discovered in the early 50’s.

After geological surveys were conducted, it was discovered that this area in Alaska proved to be an effective breeding ground for oil companies.

In subsequent years, there have been repeated attempts by government officials to legalize drilling in the wildlife reserve. After several unsuccessful efforts, Congress signed into law the bill “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” in November 2017, which officially legalizes drilling by private companies off the shores of the wildlife reserve.

This bill enacted the companies, that were officially leased rights to the land, to “draw down and sell from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve 7,000,000 barrels of crude oil” between the years 2026 and 2027. Furthermore, each lease sale could not be less than 400,000 acres, setting the grounds for drilling at a higher stake, and therefore creating higher chances for subversion.

These numbers may appear insignificant, seeing as it is only designed to occur during a two year period. However, these high data points signify how exponentially these companies will work to develop their drilling wells.

By expanding the programs that quickly, there are higher chances of wildlife and natural environments being affected too.

In particular, the food chain is at high risk for major alterations.

One argument was that drilling into the refuge would depreciate the value of gas. Yet, based on how much oil is present in the ANWR, it would strain to keep the price where it sits currently.

“The U.S. currently uses about 21 million barrels of oil a day, about six million of which is produced domestically,”according to John W. Schoen, a senior producer at NBC News. Drilling into ANWR would only maintain this 6 million, not increase the data point.

Why is it that we overlook the destruction of our natural environments, if the benefits are minimal in the end? These are the same environments we depend on for food, clean water and essential life cycles.

If we – as a society – refuse to change our ways and alter the misconceptions of drilling, this issue is not going to change.

Instead, it will just expand the crisis until we can no longer reverse the effects.

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Arts & Life Take advantage of your rights

By JULIANNA JOHNSON Staff Writer

Taylor Swift uploaded a post on Instagram encouraging people to vote. According to CNN, 65,000 people registered to vote within a 24-hour period after Swift’s post on Oct. 7.

“So many intelligent, thoughtful, self-possessed people have turned 18 in the past two years and now have the right and privilege to make their vote count,” Swift said in her recent Instagram post.

It is no surprise that technology has been rapidly evolving.

Social media has created an enormous impact on people of all ages. Networks such as Instagram and Twitter have become a place for teenagers to define themselves. It is also a place for people to feel involved in what is going on around the world. While some may think that technology has created a negative impact on young teens, it also has its benefits of being fast and efficient with information. It has become a place where young people can take advantage of voting, and it is crucial for younger generations to acknowledge their rights.

“Data reveals that college age students have one of the lowest voter turnouts for all age groups, yet are going to be the ones that have to live the longest with the policies put in place by whoever we elect,” Vice President of the Student Government Association Luke Ahearn said.

Celebrities Creating an Impact: Sophia Bush: An American actress, fashion model, and activist is known as Brooke Davis in One Tree Hill.

She encourages millenials to vote in the November midterm elections.

“Assuming that you don’t have to actively participate in your society is really disrespectful to the people whose lives are on the line whose worlds your participation, or lack thereof, effects,” Bush said during an event hosted

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Social Media Creating an Impact:

Why You Need to Vote:

The social media networks that many millennials have on their smartphones are working hard to encourage young voters to participate in this years midterm elections.

There is a decline in voting from young people according to “The Best Colleges.” Although, it is important for people between the ages of 19-29 to vote because every election relates to the many concerns of students and professionals.

“The right to vote may be the most important right that Americans have and it is central to all of our other rights,” Ahearn said.

It is crucial that millennials take the time to understand the midterm elections, and what is going on in the world around them. Many are unaware how important their vote is and how much of an impact it can have on the world we live in.

Instagram:

Instagram has come out with different stickers to add to your story such as “I Voted,” to encourage network users to get more involved among their friends. Instagram’s assisted participation with TurboVote has offered users to register to vote, find early voting location and apply for an absentee ballot.

Facebook:

Facebook, the social media and networking company that launched in 2004, is also the proud owner of Instagram.

Facebook has partnered with TurboVote to help make things easier for people to participate in the midterm elections. They have also included a feature under “2018 Election,” to inform people on who the candidates are in the area, and what their goals for action are.

Snapchat:

According to Snapchat, its registration campaign has helped 418,000 people register within a two week period. Account users can decorate their stories with voting stickers for the purpose of spreading the word and creating a popular trend. The network has created a feature on Snap Maps to help users figure out where their polling location is.

Twitter:

Twitter has followed Facebook and Instagram’s footsteps to partner with TurboVote to create informational Tweets to assist the voting process. Clicking on one of their prompts can direct users to a different page to enable them to sign up for election reminders, apply for absentee ballots, and registering to vote.

Michael B. Jordan: An American actor who is known for his film role antagonist Erik Killmonger in Black Panther (2018) has been visiting homes in Atlanta to motivate members of the black community to vote for the upcoming midterm election.

“I’ve been making surprise visits with @ VotingWhileBLK in Georgia to talk to Black voters about how important it is to vote next Tuesday,” Jordan said in his Twitter post on Oct. 31.

Shonda Rhimes: The American television producer, screenwriter and author is best known for being the executive producer of Grey’s Anatomy and she urges young women to vote during this year's election.

“You do not want anyone else determining the course of your future,” Rhimes said in her speech in front of over 10,000 women at the LA Promise Fund’s Girls Build Leadership Summit.

Michelle Obama: Former first lady Michelle Obama has taken the time by visiting schools to explain the importance of voting.

“But when we all vote, we get new ideas and new energy,” Obama said during a public service announcement that was released on Sept. 20.

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SOCIAL MEDIA IRL

Gab.com propagated much of the hate underlying the recent Pittsburgh shooting

By AMY THORPE Staff Writer

Following the mass shooting at the Squirrel Hill Synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday, Oct. 27, officials are investigating the digital footprint of the alleged shooter, Robert Bowers. His online activity reveals the dark inner workings of social media and highlights the drastic impact they have on the real world.

Just before entering the synagogue, Bowers posted an antiSemitic message on Gab.com, a social media site built on free speech and populated by extremists. “[The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society] likes to bring invaders that kill our people,” Bowers wrote. “I can’t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I’m going in.”

At approximately 9:50 a.m. Eastern Time, the shooting unfolded during the synagogue’s morning Shabbat service. Bowers entered and fired at people in each of the three congregations being held, before barricading himself in the third floor of the synagogue and engaging in a shootout with police. By the time he was taken into custody, 11 were dead and six were injured, making this the deadliest attack on Jewish people in America’s history.

“I think [the shooting] does speak to our country’s attitude towards minorities,” Alessandro Woodbridge, senior business operations management major and International Student Association president said. “There is a freedom of religion and a freedom of speech but I feel people have manipulated this to fit their own ideologies. I feel like it’s time that freedom of speech doesn’t give the right for people to practice hate, as this may one day lead to an act of hate such as the shooting at the synagogue.”

In the wake of the tragedy, Gab’s site was dropped by both its cloud host, Joyent, and domain provider, GoDaddy. However, in a recent statement, Gab CEO Andrew Torba made it clear that the company was cooperating with the FBI and that they “will exercise every possible avenue to keep Gab online and defend free speech and individual liberty for all people.”

Since its launch in August 2016, Gab has amassed over 600,000 users and has had a highly controversial existence.

Keegan Hankes, an expert of online extremism at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), told Yahoo News why he believed the platform was established.

“The most extreme hate groups, leaders and extremists

Gab is a far-right social media website known for conservative users.

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being purged from major social media platforms for blatantly inappropriate and harmful behavior [participate in Gab]. It didn’t take Gab very long to find itself a bona fide murderer, allegedly, on its platform,” Hankes said.

"Refugees flee hate, and for this kind of vile act to happen in our country is devastating,” HIAS President Mark Hetfield told NPR. “On top of that to have it happen in a sanctuary, on the holiest day of the week, is unfathomable."

This hate crime comes on the heels of decades of gun violence in the United States. In the same week as the Pittsburgh massacre, two other shootings occurred at a high school in North Carolina and a grocery store in Kentucky, both of which resulted in fatalities. Gun homicide rates are 25.2 times higher in the U.S. than in other high-income countries according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

“I would hope that [the Squirrel Hill shooting] is a wakeup call, but then again, we say that about every mass shooting,” Emily Micka, junior political science and public relations double major said. “We have seen a lot more people speaking up about preventing gun violence and showing their support for increased gun legislation but unfortunately our federal government has failed to act which I believe is an extreme injustice to everyone.”

The occurrence of mass shootings has become more frequent in recent years, as has the presence of hate groups across the United States. There are currently 953 of them operating in the U.S. according to the SPLC, many of which utilize social media platforms such as Gab to spread their messages. Although it monitors its content, Twitter alone saw a 900 percent increase in likes given to tweets and comments produced by hate groups between 2014 and 2016.

This contributes to a larger trend of negativity that exists in social media. A recent study done by Pew Research states that 95 percent of teenagers surveyed own or have access to a smartphone, 24 percent of whom felt social media had a mostly negative impact on their lives. Today, social media is an integral part of our culture, and it is up to the users to do their best in combating hate with positivity.

“As individuals, we play a huge role in reducing negativity online,” Micka said. “Regardless of political opinion, at the end of the day all of us want to be safe and happy and they only way we can do that is if we are able to actually sit down and truly listen to one another.”

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Hell comes to Quinnipiac Fourth Wall produces Jean-Paul Sartre's 'No Exit'

By JASON SCHOELLKOPF Staff Writer

Fourth Wall, Quinnipiac’s student-run theater group, is bringing an experience that is just as entertaining as it is thought-provoking.

“No Exit” by Jean-Paul Sartre is a play that has the power to teach the do’s and don'ts of life through the existential drama that ensues between its troubled and relatable characters.

The story begins with three adults that wind up in hell together – but there are no fiery pits, brimstone floors nor demonic torturers.

Rather, there is a boy (Jamie Ackerman, junior) that brings the three damned people to a small room with no exits and nothing to do but talk to one another. The conversations that spark between new hell residents Cradeau (Paul Zoppati, junior), Inez (Julia Brignano, sophomore) and Estelle (Kayla Jarry, freshman) bring out their true selves and force them to confront their insecurities.

Emotions run high as the trio reflects on their lives, causing fights, tears and lust to make their predicament ever-more difficult.

Paige Parton, president of Fourth Wall and junior theater and philosophy double major, said that the members chose “No Exit” as its fall performance because they wanted to put on a play that would resonate with students and give them a chance to ask themselves important questions.

“We don’t always want to do comedies,” Parton said. “We want to have pieces of theatre that make people think. We want people to MORGAN TENCZA/CHRONICLE leave with questions about their own lives.”

Students involved in the student-run production auditioned in the summer to secure their roles.

Connor Whiteley, director of “No Exit” and senior economics and theatre major said the fact that friends aren’t always honest with two people who don’t know each other. So, you it’s still fun,” Whiteley said. “It’s really wellknow, a lot of awkward laughs and a lot of very written and the actors are doing an amazing job. that the play has already helped him take a one another about their faults.

“A lot of my shortcomings were things careful, step-by-step processes and asking if If anything else, just come enjoy that.” closer look at himself.

“No Exit” is Whiteley’s debut as a director.

“Every time I read the script and every time that I never knew I was taking part in,” everything’s okay and everyone is comfortable.

After taking directing classes and working with I watch the actors perform, I think of how the Whiteley said. “It took having a close group It can take about 45 minutes to rehearse a kiss.”

Late-night rehearsals are an additional directors as a props designer, he knew that he people who bug me the most tend to be the most of people to actually call me out on some like me,” Whiteley said. “It’s taking a hard look of that stuff. And I think that’s kind of hard challenge for the cast and crew. Because Fourth wanted to direct a show.

For him, the allure of the job is the deep at yourself and thinking, ‘Why do I hate that to find – especially in a setting like college Wall’s rehearsal space isn’t available to the group person for seemingly no reason?’ Being self- where you’re kind of just thrown together until after classes, most rehearsals run from 9:30 engagement with both the text of the play and with the actors themselves. He revels in aware is incredibly important. You need to know with people and you make friends based on p.m. to 11:45 p.m.

“The rehearsal process has been grueling,” analyzing characters and gradually figuring out who you’re presenting yourself as and who who’s next to you a lot of the time.”

Rehearsing for any play has its own unique Whiteley said. “Most of us are coming who they really are. you truly are. If those are two different people, “I knew it was something I wanted to try,” there are going to be issues. If you’re not always set of challenges, and “No Exit” is no exception. straight from a night class or from a different taking a look in the mirror and you don’t have The sexual content in the show calls for the rehearsal. No matter what show you’re doing Whiteley said. “I was very thankful that I was there’s never enough time to get it done. So, chosen to direct this show.” people to hold you accountable for things, you actors to overcome awkwardness.

“It’s sort of tricky,” Whiteley said. “Whenever it’s a lot of work, but you know, a lot of laughs The opening night of “No Exit” is Nov. 30. can be stunted from there.”

Whiteley added that “No Exit” is there’s a show that has sexual content in it, like come from sleep-deprived, stress-filled, late- The performance will be held at Quinnipiac’s Theater Arts Center, which is accessible by the particularly relevant to college students due to ‘No Exit,’ it can be kind of weird navigating with night rehearsals.”

Whiteley said that despite the difficulties, green and orange shuttles. rehearsals have been very productive.

Tickets can be bought online or reserved The bulk of rehearsal is finished, and now online to be paid on entry. They are available the actors can focus on relating to their until the show runs, but it is recommended characters and making them their own. to buy tickets as soon as possible. Student “We’re at the point now where scripts are tickets are $8 and non-student tickets are $10. out of hand; they’re memorized,” Whiteley For more information or to buy tickets, go to said. “The blocking is done. This is where we qufourthwalltheater.com. sort of tweak and flesh out the reactions and Parton wants the Quinnipiac community to the emotions and where the actors can really know that Fourth Wall isn’t just an organization discover the characters for themselves.” for theatre-lovers; the club is a place for all types He is confident that his team will of artists to participate. By organizing open mic produce a spectacular show. nights and story slams, Parton tries to involve “I have a wonderful cast,” Whiteley said. as many students as possible in Fourth Wall, “They really dove in and just are embracing regardless of what they are interested in doing. these characters and these are really tough Musicians, dancers, writers and comedians are characters to play. Lauren Rosenay, our set often featured at Fourth Wall’s open mic nights. designer, is amazing, as well as our lighting Parton hopes that the club’s efforts designer, Joe Powell – just coming up with a will help change people’s perception that light scheme and a set that really embodies this Quinnipiac isn’t a place for the arts. show. The team that I was surrounded with is “My request to the community is just to incredible, so I have full faith in this show.” realize that there is arts on campus,” Parton said.

Despite the show’s serious subject “There’s this sort of closed-minded concept that, matter, Whiteley believes that “No Exit” you know, there is no arts on campus, and it is a play that anyone can enjoy. The show precedes theatre. It’s dance and music and fine has comedic elements and is entertaining arts and everything that goes with it. We work so for those who don’t enjoy analyzing the hard to try and do not only what we love but to meanings and themes of plays. try and bring awareness to the community.

“If you don’t like reading into that stuff, Members of Fourth Wall prepare for its opening night on Nov. 30.

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The 90s never felt so modern Jonah Hill skates the ramp from actor to director with film 'Mid90s' All the characters have extremely believable chemistry and bounce off each other extremely well. A dynamic that was particularly interesting was between two of Ray’s friends within their group, Prenatt’s character Fuckshit and McLaughlin’s Fourth Grade. Both of these characters are lost in such a lawless land, following Ray with contrasting levels of innocence.

From a directorial angle, “Mid90s” is impressive coming from a first-time director. Hill and cinematographer Chris Blauvelt frame every shot extremely well with such little space. Every scene, simple or complicated, is discernible without becoming mundane.

Several scenes are filmed handheld, and the subtle shaking works to portray the danger of skating and the crazy nature of the time.

As a director, Hill blurs the boundaries between the basic and abstract, reflecting the changes Stevie is facing in his life.

At under an hour and a half in length, the film never slows down or leaves the audience bored. The story is fast paced, while also giving Stevie time to grow from playing video games on his couch to smoking cigarettes on a skateboard. While some characters get more screen time than others, no one feels under utilized or stiff like a caricature. However, the film ends abruptly, with one or two loose ends hanging.

“Mid90s” features a great balance between Hill’s experiences as a teenager and his own creative input as he explained to NPR. “Even though this isn't my story, I wanted to show someone going through deep pain and a real sense of hope through community,” Hill said in the interview.

In fact, Hill makes “Mid90s” his own story through it’s unique portrayal of a time mostly untouched by film. In the grand scheme of things, the 90’s were not that long ago and the film paints a beautiful picture of a land where rules did not exist and teenage angst ruled the streets.

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Film studio A24 has produced a number of acclaimed indie films in the past four years, including 2017’s best picture winner, “Moonlight” among others such as “The Disaster Artist,” “Lady Bird,” “Ex Machina” and “Good Time.” Its newest feature, “Mid90s” directed by Jonah Hill, sets out to capture the mid-90’s skateboarding scene in the Los Angeles area.

Hill has already had a successful year, starring alongside Emma Stone in Netflix’s “Maniac,” but now he’s positioned behind the camera and on the typewriter. Hill’s transition to director is surprisingly fluid, calculated and nostalgic. “Mid90s” is filmed with a slight 90’s grain in a 4:3 aspect ratio. While so focused on re-creating an era, the film does not alienate viewers who never lived during that time.

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross team up to score the film, creating a synth heavy ambient score that is a wonderful addition to emotional scenes. Beyond the score, “Mid90s” features a plethora of 90’s music featuring artists such as Wu-Tang Clan, Nirvanna and A Tribe Called Quest. The soundtrack is always booming while complimenting the sun soaked skate parks.

Sunny Suljic plays Stevie, a sheltered 13-year-old who lives with an abusive older brother and his caring, yet busy mother.

Stevie lacks a sense of belonging and befriends four teenagers working at a skateboard shop. As he becomes more enthralled in the world of skateboarding, Stevie learns to become more rebellious and open minded, finally feeling like he has some skill.

For the first time, Stevie is in a world without boundaries and rules, as his friends guide him through the chaos.

The performances in “Mid90s” are extremely impressive given that there are few professional actors in the film— Sunny Suljic, Katherine Waterston and Lucas Hedges.

The extras in the film were pulled off of the street and in one moment, there were professional skateboarders such as Olan Prenatt, Ryder McLaughlin and Na-Kel Smith participating in the scenes. The stand out performance was Smith as Ray, the bighearted and extremely talented skater who Stevie worships.

In an interview with Consequence of Sound, Hill explained his

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The film currently has a 75 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

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vision for the actors.

“They [the kids] didn’t want to improvise,” Hill said. “They were super hyped on becoming these people in a script I had worked on for three years.”

Best week to eat

One of New Haven’s most prized celebrations is its bi-annual, six-day celebration known as Restaurant Week. The festival takes over the city and has welcomed diners from across the globe. More than 30 restaurants serve prix fixe menus each year. Here are just a few of the restaurants participating in this fall’s Restaurant Week. – J. Simms

Tarry Lodge

Heirloom

Prime 16

The Italian style restaurant, Tarry Lodge, is a great place to have a nice sit down meal with friends and family. Lunches during Restaurant Week include options such as gnocchi, a porchetta panini and pizza, with dessert including soft serve ice cream.

Lunch will be served from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dinner will begin at 3 p.m. and will continue to be served until closing. Some options of dinner meals include salads, soups, short ribs and fettuccine.

The dessert will be soft serve ice cream.

A more relaxed setting, Heirloom serves seasonal flavors within its farm and coastal cuisine. Lunch is two courses, including dishes such as butternut squash soup, kettle chips, avocado toast and cast iron mac & cheese. Dinner is multi course and includes a few of the same dishes as lunch. Some different ones include caesar salad, gnocchi, mahi mahi and pork belly. Dessert choices include apple pie sundae, lemon panna cotta and butterscotch pudding.

Known for its burgers, Prime 16 is just the place to go if you are looking for all-American cuisine. A two course lunch will be served from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Choices include butternut squash soup, street tacos, buffalo skewers, different types of burgers and chicken sandwiches. Dinner begins at 4 p.m. and continues on until 10 p.m. The three course meal includes some of the same dishes as lunch, but others include a prosciutto plate, salmon, mushroom risotto and Mediterranean chicken. The two choices for dessert are white chocolate cheesecake and pumpkin bread pudding.

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Miya’s Sushi If you are a sushi fan, Miya’s is the place to try for Restaurant Week. Miya’s will serve multiple different types of dishes. These include spring rolls, miso, teriyaki, plant-based sushi and seafood sushi. There will also be desserts that include tempura ice cream and a special type of dessert sushi.

Union League Cafe

Looking to feel like you are in the beautiful city of Paris?

Union League Cafe is the place. Dishes include salmon terrine, vegetable soup, seared Maine hake and veal roulade. Dinners have four choices of dessert that include vanilla ice cream, warm hazelnut chocolate pudding, apple tart tatin and calvado chantilly.

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All listed eateries will charge the same amount for their Restaurant Week menus:

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November 7, 2018

RUNDOWN MEN’S HOCKEY QU 5, Harvard 3 - Friday Brogan Rafferty: 3 assists Odeen Tufto: 1 goal, 1 assist Chase Priskie: 1 goal, 1 assist Brandon Fortunato: 1 goal, 1 assist Karlis Cukste: 2 assists Dartmouth 5, QU 1 - Saturday Priskie: 1 goal Tufto: 1 assist Rafferty: 1 assist Keith Petruzzelli: 22 saves WOMEN’S HOCKEY QU 1, Harvard 0 - Friday Kenzie Prater: 1 goal Kate MacKenzie: 1 assist Zoe Boyd: 1 assist Abbie Ives: 17 saves Dartmouth 3, QU 2 (OT) Saturday Taylor House: 1 goal Sarah-Eve Coutu-Godbout: 1 goal MacKenzie: 1 assist Courtney Vorster: 1 assist Ives: 11 saves VOLLEYBALL Marist 3, QU 1 - Saturday Kat Miller: 20 kills, 20 digs Morgan Sherwin: 8 kills Maria Pansari: 39 assists Alejandra Rodriguez: 14 digs QU 3, Siena 1 - Sunday Miller: 25 kills, 13 digs Sherwin: 14 kills Kaleigh Oates: 14 kills Pansari: 59 assists MEN’S SOCCER QU 6, Monmouth 0 - Wednesday Rashawn Dally: 2 goals, 1 assist Eamon Whelan: 1 goal, 1 assist Dejan Duric: 1 goal Alex Holle: 1 goal Salah Oumorou: 1 goal

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

QU vs. Union - Saturday, 7 p.m.

MEN’S BASKETBALL QU at Villanova - Saturday, 8 p.m.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL QU at Drexel - Friday, 7 p.m.

QU at Bucknell - Sunday, 4 p.m.

VOLLEYBALL QU vs. Canisius - Saturday, 1 p.m.

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

MEN’S SOCCER QU vs. Marist (MAAC Semifinals) - Thursday, 12 p.m.

WOMEN’S RUGBY QU vs. Notre Dame College (NIRA Quarterfinals) - Saturday, 1 p.m.

MEN’S AND WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY QU at NCAA Regional Championships - Friday, TBD

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GAME OF THE WEEK

Quinnipiac volleyball defeats Siena, improves to 6-10 in the MAAC The Bobcats pick up a MAAC win with two games remaining in the regular season

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Quinnipiac freshman middle hitter Lydia Jones had three kills in Sunday’s win over Siena.

By JORDAN WOLFF Staff Writer

Following a loss to Marist on Saturday, Quinnipiac volleyball (7-19 overall, 6-10 MAAC) came back at home on Sunday to defeat the Siena Saints (3-26 overall, 1-15 MAAC), 3-1.

The win wasn’t as dominant as a 3-1 score indicates, as Quinnipiac trailed by five or more points in each of the first three sets.

In the first set, Quinnipiac was down 14-9, but a rally started off by a kill from freshman outside hitter Maggie Baker got the Bob-

cats to eventually even the score at 21. Baker finished the game with five kills.

Quinnipiac forced the first set to go down to extra points where they took the lead 27-25 on a kill by sophomore right side Morgan Sherwin. Sherwin finished the day with 14 kills and the Bobcats won the set 28-26.

Quinnipiac senior right side Kat Miller got the final two kills of the first set and finished the game with a team-leading 25 kills. Miller continues to impress head coach Kris Czaplinski with the way she can take control of any situation during a game.

“She’s been great for us all year,” Czaplinski said. “She’s our only senior right now and she’s had to take the majority of the sets and her doing so makes her that much more valuable right now.”

The second set continued the trend of coming from behind as the Bobcats were down 24-19, and came back and scored five unanswered points to notch it at 24. Siena got the final two kills this set and win 29-27.

In the third set, Quinnipiac was down 15-9 and came back again to win 26-24. Another Bobcat that has caught Czaplinski’s eye is junior setter Maria Pansari who finished this game with 52 assists.

“She didn’t lose anything from yesterday,” Czaplinski said. “Her

passing was a little off Saturday and today (Sunday) it was right back on as she was able to make cleaner sets.”

The fourth set for the Bobcats was where they did the most damage as they had their second highest team kill total with 18 and at one point had a 23-9 lead. The Bobcats ended up winning the set 25-13, their biggest margin of the match.

The Bobcats will have to shift their focus to Saturday, Nov. 10, as they will play their third consecutive home MAAC matchup against Canisius.

Canisius is 12-4 in the MAAC and 14-11 overall, and knowing the competition, Czaplinski wants his team to play a less streaky game.

“Just staying more consistent,” Czaplinski said. “If we play more consistent and not be as up and down then we can have a good shot of winning on Saturday.”

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Quinnipiac women’s ice hockey falls to Dartmouth in overtime

By MATTHEW JARONCYK Staff Writer

In a game that seemed like anyone’s to take, the Quinnipiac women’s ice hockey team fell short against Dartmouth Saturday afternoon in overtime at the Frank Perrotti, Jr. Arena, 3-2.

Quinnipiac head coach Cassandra Turner acknowledged the inaccuracy of the little things that the team needs to work on to get back on track.

“We made too many mistakes to end up on the right side of the game today,” Turner said. “I think there is a lot of things that we need to work on and get ready to go over these next two weeks before we hit five games in nine days.”

From when the puck dropped, the game jumped to a fast start. Less than a minute into the game, sophomore center Taylor House getting both her first goal of the season and the Bobcats in front 1-0.

House described the moment of getting her first goal of the season and how they were able to get it.

“First shift, kind of getting our legs going,” House said. “Skate harder than them and we just popped into the goal.”

Not even 20 seconds later, the Big Green responded with a goal of their own from senior forward Tess Bracken, also scoring her first goal of the season and tying the game at one.

From that point, both teams had opportunities to score, but Dartmouth’s senior goalie Christine Honor and Quinnipiac’s junior goalie Abbie Ives played from that point flawless, saving every opportunity set up by both teams. De-

spite the fact that the teams were tied at one after the first period, it seems as if Quinnipiac dominated the first period, outshooting Dartmouth 11 to four.

The second period, in a sense, played out to be a replication of the first period. The first quarter of the period was a defensive battle, until the Big Green took the lead again, this time from junior defensive man Bailee Brekke, who was the third player in the game to score her first goal of the season.

Playing with a chip on their shoulder, the Bobcats were able to claw their way back into the game and score a goal before the end of the second period to tie the game again, this time from Sarah-Eve Coutu-Godbout, who was also able to get her first goal of the season. It still looked evident that that Bobcats should be winning the game, as they were yet again outshooting the Big Green six to two in the period.

Going into the period, both teams were trying to close this game out, but weren’t able to. Both teams were putting up results to try and score, with the Bobcats putting up eight shots in the period, while the Big Green put up six. However, those shots were played well by both goalies, who were able to let nothing behind them and force the the game into overtime.

When overtime came around, it seemed like Dartmouth was able to control the period, as its defense was able to force Quinnipiac to no shots on goal, while putting up two shots on goal, one being the game winner by sophomore forward Jennifer Cos-

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Quinnipiac freshman defenseman Zoe Boyd recorded one assisst during the weekend series on Friday against Harvard.

ta, the final player in the game to get their first goal of the season.

In the end, Quinnipiac head coach Cassandra Turner believes her defense wasn’t playing the best in the game and there is room for improvement.

“I don’t think they [goaltending and defense] would be happy with the way they played today,” Turner said. “I think they all had some good moments, but we needed better.”

The Bobcats look to get back on track as they play the Cornell Big Red on Friday, Nov. 16 at Frank Perrotti, Jr. Arena. With what they learned from this game,

Coach Turner knows what her team must work.

“Making plays together, we really got individual in the third period,” Turner said. “It showed, as we lost the puck in transition back as we were changing poorly.”

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By LOGAN REARDON Sports Editor

The Quinnipiac men’s basketball team has some lofty goals this year. For the first time in a while, though, that ultimate goal is realistic.

“At the end of the year, I just [want] to hold that MAAC trophy,” Quinnipiac senior forward Abdulai Bundu said of what he wants to accomplish in his final season. “I came here my freshman year and I’ve seen this place do a complete 180 [since then]. At the end of the year, I [want to be able to say I] started a legacy.”

After a surprising run to the MAAC semifinals last March at the tournament in Albany, there is no limit to what this team can do. The Bobcats weren’t a great team last year – finishing just 12-21 overall and 7-11 in the MAAC – but they improved as the season wore on. Quinnipiac was picked to finish last (11th) in the MAAC last year before the season and it ended up seventh.

That was all last year. Things are different now.

In the MAAC Preseason Coaches’ Poll, released on Oct. 23, Quinnipiac was voted to finish tied for third in the conference with threetime defending champion Iona. The only teams ahead of Quinnipiac were Rider and Canisius, the latter of whom Quinnipiac upset in the MAAC Tournament last season.

Graduate student guard Cam Young and sophomore guard Rich Kelly were also recognized in the poll. Young, who broke Quinnipiac’s single-season scoring record in 2017-18, was a First-Team All-MAAC pick while Kelly was named to the Third-Team All-MAAC. None of this happens, though, without Quinnipiac head coach Baker Dunleavy, who is entering his second season at the helm.

In a recent piece by The Athletic, senior writer Brian Hamilton listed 30 up-and-coming college basketball coaches to keep an eye on over the next few years. The list included assistant coaches from the staff’s of Villanova, Duke, Louisville, Gonzaga and Michigan – five schools that have made Final Four appearances in the last several years. Tucked in the middle of all that was Dunleavy, a former Villanova assistant himself.

“No, the 12-win first season with the Bobcats wasn’t ideal,” Hamilton wrote. “And the program may not even be the favorite in the MAAC this season. But Dunleavy has more to work with this year – including a potential allconference guard in Cameron Young – and realistically this is about improving the program

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just enough that it backs up the 36-year-old’s impeccable Villanova pedigree.”

As Hamilton mentioned, Young will be at the forefront of everything the Bobcats are trying to accomplish this season. His story is welldocumented – he played two years of junior college ball, came to Quinnipiac for his junior year and played eight total minutes for former Quinnipiac head coach Tom Moore and then went off for 622 total points in his senior campaign with Dunleavy as his coach.

Young thought last season was the end.

Players in the NCAA are granted four years of eligibility, but can be granted a fifth year if they miss a season due to injury or don’t play a certain amount of minutes. After petitioning to the NCAA, it ruled that Young’s junior season at Quinnipiac was a redshirt year and he was given one more shot.

“I was excited,” Young said when asked his reaction to the news. “Coming off a pretty good season last year I was just excited to get back with the team and get ready to make another run.”

Young was strong in nearly all aspects of the game last season. Scoring is obviously what he’s known for, but he also led the team in rebounding at 6.8 per game and was second in assists at 2.8 per game. He did struggle in some areas, finishing second on the team with 2.8 turnovers per game and shooting just 30.3 percent from 3-point range. He could be even better this season if he improves as a ball handler and shooter.

“I’m excited about the opportunity as a coach to take his game to the next level,” Dunleavy said. “We all know he can score, but we’re trying to help him become a more wellrounded player before he leaves here. It’s just an awesome opportunity as a coach.”

Young, too, knows that his game can be improved.

“I’m just trying to be as versatile as I can be,” Young said. “Late in the season people started forcing me left, so I’ve been working on my left hand. Also shooting the three better.”

At 6-foot-6, Young is one of the bigger guards on a team filled with backcourt depth.

Dunleavy will likely use a lot of three-guard – and sometimes even four-guard – lineups.

“We’re going to play a lot of guard-heavy lineups, so we’re going to need to finish possessions on the defensive end,” Dunleavy said.

“Our forwards – [junior] Kevin Marfo and

Abdulai Bundu – are as good of rebounders as you’ll find, but we can’t just leave them on an island. Our guards are capable and they just have to be willing to get in there and mix it up.”

Young and Kelly will likely start alongside 6-foot-5 junior guard Travis Atson, 6-foot-6 sophomore forward Jacob Rigoni and either 6-foot-7 Bundu or 6-foot-8 Marfo.

Atson and Marfo are both new to the active roster in 2018-19. They both transferred to Quinnipiac last year and, due to NCAA regulations, were forced to redshirt for one season before coming back to play. As redshirts, they were allowed to practice with the team, but not suit up for games.

“There’s naturally going to be a little bit more of a purpose toward some of the intricacies of what we’re doing because they can play games now,” Dunleavy said. “A lot of their responsibilities last year were to be more scout team just because they couldn’t play. But all along they were picking up our core values, our principles.

“Both of those guys are coming back, maybe not with the experience of a guy who played last year, but they’re certainly not like newcomers. They know what we’re doing.”

Atson didn’t get to practice much last season, as he tore his ACL in early October, costing him the year of practice.

“I officially came back when summer practices started,” Atson said. “I’ve just been grinding all summer, getting back into things. It feels great.

It’s been a long time sitting out all year just rehabbing, so now getting back into it feels amazing.”

Marfo, who averaged 2.7 points per game (PPG) and 2.8 rebounds per game (RPG) in 23 games as a freshman at George Washington, is expected to fill the void left down low after Chaise Daniels’ (‘18) graduation. Marfo and Bundu are the only two true big men on this roster. They will likely split time pretty evenly, but one of them will be in the game at all times.

“We all got a job, everyone has a different role,” Marfo said. “I just have to do what they tell me to do. The coaches know what’s best so we just have to listen to them and pretty much just go from there.”

Rigoni, who will play a lot of small-ball four, was a pleasant surprise as a freshman last season. He scored in double figures in just one of his first 10 games, but he accomplished that feat in 15 of the Bobcats’ final 22 games to finish the year. He shot 45.5 percent (75-for-165) from deep, good for third in the MAAC and

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the only freshman in the top-10.

“Taking the next step as a defender,” Dunleavy said when asked what Rigoni needs to improve this season. “And then expand his game to know how he can contribute to the game when teams take away his shot.”

Dunleavy is hoping to get another crop of freshman contributors this season. None of them are likely to play as much as Kelly (34.2 minutes per game [MPG]) or Rigoni (26.0 MPG), but they still have a shot to play.

Freshmen guards Tyree Pickron and Tyrese Williams are expected to be key guards off the bench along with senior guards Andrew and Aaron Robinson. The other freshmen on the roster are guards Savion Lewis and Matt Balanc.

Pickron appears the most ready of the freshmen to get major minutes. His capability to play either guard spot and to rebound has Dunleavy excited.

“Tyree can play with other guards,” Dunleavy said. “He compliments other guards with his ability to shoot the ball. He can shoot it from very deep. He’s just solid and he’s got a toughness about him – he really plays bigger than his size (6-foot-3). On the defensive end, he’s a guy that should give us rebounding.”

Quinnipiac’s season tips off on Saturday, Nov. 10 on the road against defending national champion Villanova at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, home of the NBA’s 76ers. Dunleavy’s ties with that program (former player and assistant coach there) led to this matchup.

Villanova has won two of the last three national championships, so this is about as a good of a test as any to open the season. This is undoubtedly the best team Quinnipiac will play all season.

“No matter who you play in game one, it’s just a feeling out process,” Dunleavy said. “You don’t really know how your team is, so I’m just excited to see how we compete. Regardless of who we’re going to play, I’m excited to see us out there on an NBA court, playing in that environment and seeing how we respond.”

Between the women’s program’s perennial dominance and the much-improved men’s team, the basketball buzz is palpable at Quinnipiac. This season, Quinnipiac realistically could make the NCAA Tournament. Think about telling someone that in March of 2017.

PREDICTION 22-10 overall, 13-5 MAAC MAAC championship game loss

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By PETER DEWEY Opinion Editor

Coming off back-to-back Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) championships, leading to two NCAA tournament berths, the Quinnipiac women’s basketball team is “Juiced up” to build on the previous seasons’ successes.

“Juiced up” has been the team’s slogan since this summer, emphasizing bringing energy and effort every day.

“I think we’re just excited,” redshirt senior Jen Fay said. “Obviously we have to take it one game at a time and we have to get that MAAC championship first, so that it always our first goal. Then getting back to the tournament, we’ve done it before so I think everyone is believing.”

The Bobcats were picked as the preseason favorites in the MAAC this year after going 28-6 and 18-0 in conference play last season.

While they were unable to get back to the Sweet Sixteen, the Bobcats were awarded a No. 9 seed in the NCAA Tournament and knocked off Miami in the first round for the second consecutive season, before losing to perennial championship contender UConn in the second round.

“The first two times [in the NCAA tournament] were unbelievable,” Fay said. “Getting to the Sweet Sixteen, winning one game was our goal, and then we won two games.

Obviously getting back there last year, we didn’t get back to the Sweet Sixteen but we played the powerhouse of UConn and really put our name on the map again.”

Quinnipiac has certainly put itself on the map, as for the second consecutive year, the program earned points in USA Today’s Coaches’ Poll. This year, the Bobcats received eight points in the Coaches’ Poll, but head coach Tricia Fabbri is focused on her team getting better every day.

“Each part of the year is very different,” Fabbri said. “I think we’re all getting a little itchy at this point to start the season. Even when we begin the season, we aren’t going to be as good as we can become in March.”

The Bobcats return four starters from last year’s team in senior forwards Aryn McClure and Paula Strautmane, senior guard Edel Thornton and Fay. McClure, who averaged 12.2 points per game and 5.8 rebounds last season, was se-

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lected as the MAAC’s preseason player of the year for the second consecutive season after being named First Team All-MAAC last year. “[McClure] is elite on both ends of the floor,” Fabbri said. “I like that she wants to be a consistent 3-point shooter and continue to develop her game. She’s done that every year over the summer developing an aspect of her game and that’s what makes her great, she’s just never satisfied.”

“It’s a great honor, but it really doesn’t mean anything because it’s the preseason,” McClure said of being picked as MAAC preseason player of the year again. “But it’s good to be recognized by the other coaches in the league.”

Fay and Strautmane also received honors, Fay as a preseason First Team AllMAAC selection and Strautmane was preseason Second Team All-MAAC. Fay echoed her fellow seniors thoughts, highlighting the team-first mentality that has been so key to their success over the past few years.

“It’s always nice to be recognized for your accomplishments and everything but we really focus on team basketball at Quinnipiac so whether or not we have one player or two players [on All-MAAC teams] we know at the end of the day we’re just going to work hard for each other,” Fay said.

“All summer everyone has been working.

Everyone has been working on their game and trying to improve on their strengths and weaknesses and it’s been showing.”

McClure is among them, as she has focused her efforts this offseason on improving her outside game.

“I want to shoot the three consistently this year,” McClure said. “I failed to do that the last three seasons but this year I want to be recognized as someone who can step behind [the arc] and nail it a few times.”

Quinnipiac returns five seniors and four juniors that have faced just about every challenge thrown their way the past two seasons.

“It’s so comforting as a coach to know that you have all this experience that is returning,” Fabbri said. “That does make a difference because when you’re in those spots of adversity, we’ve been there and we’ve built up those experiences.

“It’s having success in those most adverse spots, whether it is being at home against Marist or on the road up at Siena or seeing Miami again in the NCAA tourna-

ment, all those situations and having success in them with this core senior unit allows them to lead from experience and wisdom.”

For the second consecutive season, Fabbri has challenged her team with a difficult out of conference schedule. The Bobcats will open the year against Drexel (picked second in the Colonial) and Bucknell (picked first in the Patriot League) before taking on Providence and No. 11 Texas.

The Bobcats will play the Longhorns in their first game of the Florida Gulf Coast Showcase before possibly squaring off with another top-25 team in their second as they will play either Michigan or No. 16 Missouri.

“We’re ‘Juiced Up’ this year, we’re ready to go. Everyone has the same mindset.”

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“I didn’t lighten the load at all for these seniors,” Fabbri said of the team’s out of conference schedule. “They want to be challenged. They’ve been apart of a team that has not only been to the NCAA Tournament but a team that has won in the NCAA Tournament. To keep them hungry and to keep their attention, this schedule reflects that in the non-conference.

“A big part of the goal is to beat these teams not only when we are seeing them in March, hopefully, but also to see them in November. That is a big part of our recipe again to see where we are having success against really great teams early and to see where our deficiencies are and where we need to get better immediately.”

The Bobcats will not play a home game until Dec. 2 when they take on Central Michigan at the People’s United Center.

Around that time, the Bobcats could be getting an extra lift in their lineup as well.

Junior guard Vanessa Udoji, who tore her ACL just six games into last season, is eye-

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ing a late December return.

“Right now I’m at eight months [in my recovery],” Udoji said. “We’re looking at maybe conference play, maybe the end of December [for my return]. There’s no real timetable it’s just how my body is feeling. I don’t really want to rush anything but when it’s time to go it’s time to go, I’ll be ready.”

Udoji, who started all six games she played in, averaged 8.5 points and 3.5 rebounds per game before going down. However, that has given her all the more reason to get back to where she once was.

“There’s always that motivation that you want to get back to where you were,” Udoji said. “It’s kind of just always taking it dayby-day, staying positive and just working all the time and knowing you are working for a great reason and end goal.

“It’s always nice to have my team, the coaching staff, my family and everyone who is really supporting me. It’s nice having the support, everyone’s pushing for me to come back so it only pushes me to go harder and harder every day.”

Udoji would provide a huge lift for the Bobcats as they look to once again go undefeated in conference play.

“I feel like the last couple years we’ve had that target on our back [in MAAC play],” Fay said. “Of course coming off a championship and an undefeated season every team really wants to beat us. We know we’re going to get every team’s best shot every game and we look forward to it, that’s what makes it fun to compete and play in those tight games.”

The MAAC tournament will take place from March 7-11, where the Bobcats will once again look to win it all and clinch an NCAA Tournament berth.

“We’re ‘Juiced Up’ this year, we’re ready to go,” Udoji said. “Everyone has the same mindset. Our seniors now, they know what they want. Everyone is just fighting for the same thing.”

PREDICTION 30-4, (18-0 MAAC) MAAC Champions NCAA Tournament second round

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November 7, 2018

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Murphy’s law Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey splits opening ECAC Hockey weekend

By BRYAN MURPHY Associate Sports Editor

What started as a weekend with a lot of promise for the Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey team took a drastic turn on Saturday.

A win against Harvard on Friday gave the team its first ECAC Hockey win on the season and brought a lot of momentum. But all of that momentum vanished against Dartmouth on Saturday – the team had a long ride home back to Hamden to think about how it ended the weekend.

Quinnipiac split its opening ECAC Hockey weekend, winning the opener against Harvard, 5-3, but getting heavily outplayed by Dartmouth and losing, 5-1.

“This past weekend was really our first challenge as a young team to go out, win in an away opponent’s barn, and then come back the next night and repeat the same performance,” senior defenseman Chase Priskie said. “Obviously we didn’t play well enough against Dartmouth whatsoever. It shows that it was a lack of mental and physical preparation for that Dartmouth game.”

To put it simply, the team that went out and defeated Harvard seemed to have gotten stuck somewhere between Cambridge, Massachusetts and Hanover, New Hampshire.

Because the team that showed up against Dartmouth was far from the team that had won the night before.

Let’s start on the bright side. The team’s win against Harvard was a big one. Quinnipiac outplayed Harvard for a good chunk of the game, going up 4-0 at one point before Harvard finally woke up and decided to make it interesting.

“I was really happy with how we played at Harvard,” Priskie said. “It wasn’t exactly a clean game, but our compete level was really high and we just won a lot of little battles. I think in the end, that’s why we ended up winning that game, just how hard we decided to play for a full 60 minutes.”

It was a game, where as we’ve seen before,

the points were very much spread out. Junior defenseman Brogan Rafferty had three assists, and senior defenseman Brandon Fortunato, sophomore forward Odeen Tufto and Priskie all contributed a goal and an assist.

Freshmen forwards Ethan de Jong and William Fällström finished the goal scoring and junior defenseman Karlis Cukste added two assists.

It hasn’t been just one or two players that are getting the points. Through seven games, the team has nine players who have at least five points on the year.

Most notably, it’s been the top line of Tufto, de Jong and freshman forward Wyatt Bongiovanni that has been producing.

The line has combined for nine goals and 11 assists on the season, good for 20 points through seven games.

“I’m excited to have them as linemates,” Tufto said. “They’ve had a big adjustment from playing juniors and now they’re on the first line and the power play, so it’s a big adjustment for them. They’ve had a lot of responsibilities right off the jump. But they’ve been good.”

Not only was the first forward line and the offense clicking against Harvard, but the defense, and more specifically the penalty kill, was very effective. Harvard had gone 5-for-7 on the power play in its first game of the season against Dartmouth. It went 0-for3 against Quinnipiac.

It was one of the key points heading into the game that head coach Rand Pecknold knew his team needed to focus on, especially with junior defenseman Adam Fox, who Pecknold called “probably the best power play defenseman in the country.”

But the penalty kill units limited Harvard to only four power play shots on goal and came out of the game at a perfect 100 percent on the kill.

“I thought we had great buy-in [on the penalty kill],” Pecknold said. “We know how good

Fox is, we know how good the Harvard power play is...we just weren’t going to let them score.”

That excellence on the penalty kill was absent 24 hours later. Two power play goals propelled Dartmouth to a 5-1 win in a game in which Quinnipiac was heavily outplayed.

This against a Dartmouth squad that was on the Quinnipiac side of the script just the night before, losing handedly to Princeton, 7-1.

After the game, Pecknold said the penalty kill simply wasn’t good enough in all aspects.

It wasn’t just the penalty kill that wasn’t good enough. The passing was ugly, as pucks were either going into skates, missing sticks by inches or simply just not being handled. It seemed that there were more missed passes than those that connected.

The team had multiple turnovers throughout the contest, with one causing the puck to end up in the back of the Quinnipiac net.

There was miscommunication by the defense behind their own net and the puck found its way to a wide open freshman forward Jeff Losurdo who had all the time in the world to fire it past Petruzzelli.

According to Bongiovanni, communication is one of the key things the team needs to work on moving forward.

“We got to communicate out there,” Bongiovanni said. “I think we lack that at times, and we need to be able to build a trust with one another...as a unit, we just need to grow together.”

Quinnipiac has been a team that has come out flying in the opening minutes of games. In the previous three games before Dartmouth, it had scored a goal within the first three minutes of the game each time.

But it was Dartmouth that had the immediate advantage out of the gate.

“There’s games where we know we can win in the first five minutes and we wanted to do that against Dartmouth, but we just came out flat,” Tufto said. “We gave them the jump and we didn’t have it.”

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The Dartmouth game was so bad that even Pecknold had a hard time coming up with a positive after it was all over.

“I don’t have [a positive] right now,” Pecknold said. “I probably could eventually come up with one.”

While Pecknold may not have had a positive from the Dartmouth game, there were a number of positives from the weekend in general.

Priskie scored his team-leading sixth goal on the year, which also brought him tied for the Division I program record for career goals (28) with Dan Ennis (‘03). And de Jong’s goal against Harvard was his first of his collegiate career.

Also, despite the loss to Dartmouth, Quinnipiac moved up in the USCHO rankings from No. 15 to No. 13. So while it didn’t end on the best note, it certainly was a good learning experience.

“We’ll be ready as the season progresses on how to be able to [prepare for back-to-back games],” Priskie said. “It wasn’t how we want out first ECAC weekend to go, but at the same time, there are a lot of positives and there a lot of things we can learn from and get better from. In conclusion, it was a good weekend.

Disappointed with the Dartmouth game, but very happy with Harvard.”

It won’t get easier for the Bobcats. This upcoming weekend, they’ll be paired with matchups against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and No. 12 Union. RPI is sitting at first in ECAC Hockey with a 3-1 conference record. It took down Union twice and also St. Lawrence, but were beaten by Clarkson.

Union, while only 2-2 in ECAC Hockey, boast a 6-2-1 overall record. This includes wins against Clarkson and two wins against No. 15 Northeastern.

“It’s the same game plan we have every weekend,” Priskie said. “We need to go in, sustain a forecheck and we need to have all 19 players just be able to roll over the boards and be tough to play against. When we do that, we have a lot of success.”