The Quinnipiac Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 12

NOVEMBER 14, 2018 | VOLUME 89, ISSUE 12

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Students struggle at the polls College students in the New Haven and Hamden area were excited to turn out to vote this Election Day, but long lines and confusion about registration were among the obstacles that prohibited local millennials from casting their votes.

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Voters were told to ‘go home’ as they were ‘not guaranteed to be able to vote’ should the polls close. ing they registered to vote and were not reg- that mentioned that to us to tried and figure istered to vote when they showed up to vote, out where the issue lied,” Pezzella said. “It that’s obviously a problem.” was always with the student except in one inAlthough many students faced issues try- cident where the student [Iasso] changed their ing to register to vote the day of, some students address and their address was not reflected also faced issues registering weeks before. when they went to the polling location. Every “I submitted a change of address form other student that we’ve heard from had an isthrough the voter registration drive, who then sue that was their fault in registering to vote.” submitted to the town of Hamden’s registrars of Voters,” senior higher education leaderIn New Haven ship major Joe Iasso said of his voting exQuinnipiac students were not the only perience. “It was not processed even though college students in Connecticut who had difit was submitted well before the deadline. ficulties voting this Election Day. Students Luckily I was permitted to vote using my old at Yale University experienced several elecaddress [Mt. Carmel campus].” tion obstacles outside of their control that Despite Iasso’s issues with registering may have unintentionally disenfranchised through Quinnipiac, Pezzella felt that many of student votes in the area. the complications students faced were issues Jordan Cozby, junior Yale student and that could have been avoided. president of the Yale Democrats and Yale “We have followed up with every student Votes organization says that a number of

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“The fact that we even have to register to vote in this country is a form of voter suppression,” Director of Campus Life for Fraternity and Sorority Life at Quinnipiac Katherine Pezzella said. “It puts that one more barrier for someone being able to wake up on election day and go vote and someone who has to do all of this work in advance to make sure they’re okay to go vote.”

Pezzella spearheaded alongside the Student Government Association (SGA) the initiatives at Quinnipiac to encourage students to go to the polls. Pezzella and SGA held tabling events in the weeks leading up to Nov. 6, to help students register and prepare for Election Day. Pezzella says the fact that there is so many options for college students to register can actually make the process more confusing.

Students in Connecticut have the option to register at home and travel home to vote, register as a Hamden resident and vote here or order an absentee ballot. All three of these options involve planning and extensive knowledge of local deadlines.

“I had a lot of students email me, call me with questions about how to vote, where to vote, if they thought they had registered, why when they showed if they were not registered,” Pezzella said. “That caused a lot of concern for us obviously. If students were say-

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problems led to the confusion that Yale students experienced at the polls.

The confusion started long before Election Day, however. While students at Quinnipiac were able to request absentee ballots, this option was less appealing to Yale students who do not have free access to PO boxes said Cozby.

“In theory, you’re supposed to pay 80 dollars for a PO box, like the Post Office,” Cozby said. “For people who the only mail they receive would be their absentee ballot, expecting them to pay 80 dollars for a PO box is like a crazy poll tax and an issue.”

As a result, many Yale students decided to go to the polls on Election Day by registering to vote as a Connecticut citizen regardless of their home address. These students were met with even more obstacles starting with where they needed to report to vote.

“The polling place lines were different for state and federal elections in 2018 than for ward races in 2017,” Cozby said.

According to Cozby, the notification about the new voting locations were very last minute.

“Everyone pretty much knows ‘If I live in Ward One, I go vote at the library and if I live in Ward 22 I’m supposed to go at Wexler Grant School,’” Cozby said. “I guess because it’s not a city election, two days before the election we were all made aware of the fact that they weren’t using those lines.”

The second major issue was registration.

In Connecticut, citizens are allowed to register on Election Day. Due to high turnout for these contentious elections, the lines for same-day registration were long and understaffed.

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The Rocky Top Student Center on the York Hill campus was flocked with students ready to party at the university’s first ever Pub Night on Thursday, Nov. 8.

The event took place from 9 p.m. to 12 a.m. and was organized by the Student Government Association (SGA), promoting its initiative to have a pub on campus.

Senior Class Vice President Allison Kuhn said that SGA was pleasantly surprised at the big turnout. There was a calculated total of 475 people who attended the event, but Kuhn understands that this caused overcrowding, which made some students disappointed at the long line to get inside the temporary pub.

Senior nursing major Brooke Hamilton was one of several students who endured the long line to get inside the pub.

“I think Pub Night was a great idea, but due to hitting the max capacity so early in the night, I had to wait in line for 40 minutes with a one-inone-out system,” Hamilton said.

SGA members told students waiting outside the pub that they were free to wait until they’re able to enter and did not turn anyone away due to overcrowding, according to Kuhn.

“I don’t think everyone was completely satisfied due to capacity conflict, but to be fair we had no idea that the students would be as receptive,” Kuhn said. “The Fire Marshal gives us a number that we have to stick to. The number was 350 for our space.”

Pub Night was open to any undergraduate or graduate student 21 and older to enjoy a cash bar run by bartending service Two Pour Guys.

Alcoholic drinks like liquor, wine and beer were priced between four to seven dollars, with nonalcoholic drinks available for free.

Platters of free food were offered as well that had mozzarella sticks, chicken wings and jalapeno poppers. On top of that, there was a variety of card games and other activities like a giant Connect Four and a carnival-esque basketball free throw station.

Senior biomedical marketing major Jeffrey Kim said that he had a great experience at Pub Night.

“It definitely exceeded my expectations when I got there,” Kim said. “I was surprised that there was a lot of free food and Jenga and music. I think the school could definitely benefit from this. Boost morale, it just builds comradery between us and it’s just overall a lot of fun.”

Senior Class President Matt Corso said that

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Attendees were gifted with Pub Night memorabilia.

SGA worked for two months straight to bring like that. It kind of keeps everybody close togeththis plan to fruition, which included talking to er,” Glassheim said. “I look forward to hopefully many administrators of the school and just as having it more, and hopefully it becomes a staple many, if not more, strategic planning meetings. of Quinnipiac on the York Hill campus.”

“We worked with QU Dining and they Kuhn said that there is more that SGA supplied all of the food at the event and for hopes to accomplish in the future involving that we are very thankful,” Corso said. “We this initiative. are also very thankful to SPB who helped us “We would really love to do a pub night out with the event.” for a hockey game, and we would love to do a Corso sees having a pub on campus as a trivia night or a trivia happy hour. We’re workgreat tool to not only bring more life to York ing with SPB who would love to co-sponsor a Hill, but to also strengthen connections within trivia night,” Kuhn said. “Hopefully at the end of the academic community. the year, we would love to have an outdoor Pub “It could bring alumni back on campus, Night up at York.” and when there is a tight relationship with Kuhn wants students to know that if they are alumni, that usually helps schools out be- interested in supporting this initiative of having cause alumni then turn into donors,” Corso an on-campus pub, that they can help by attendsaid. “We have looked at other schools that ing more events like these. have pubs on campus and feel that it is part “We are really doing the best we can to build of creating a community.” something really great and we really appreciate Junior business marketing major Jake everyone’s support,” Kuhn said. “Student parGlassheim also sees the benefits in having a pub ticipation is what’s going to get this initiative as he says it can better protect the students. passed, so we need everyone.”

“You don’t have to worry about drunk driving and people going out and doing other stuff

Cozby: ‘They were like, ‘You might not be able to vote so you might as well leave’’ VOTING from cover “There was a big spike in people who wanted to vote,” Cozby said. “For whatever reason, the city of New Haven put two registrars on shift to manage that mass influx.”

Attorney William Bloss represents the state Democratic Party and expressed frustration at the inefficiency of the voting process in New Haven.

“Why were two people in charge of literally hundreds of people trying to sign up is a question that someone needs to answer for,” Bloss said in an interview with the Hartford Courant. “You would think a college town would be better prepared.”

Cozby and his organization were not made aware of the potential impacts of these long lines until much later in the day.

“We didn’t know this was going to be an issue, we assumed it was going to be easy,” Cozby said. “We had no clue until at around 4 p.m. on Election Day when the city workers came and out and they were like, ‘Hey, the line’s taking people four hours and we close at 8, so you might not be able to vote, so you might as well just leave’ and they put out signs to that effect.”

According to Cozby, whether this was truly a form of voter suppression is debatable because these voters were in line to register, not to vote.

“The law is that if you’re in line to vote, pretty much nationwide, you must be allowed to vote even if it’s afterward,” Cozby said.

“It’s not if you’re in line to register to vote. So they were going to not let these people vote and that’s not an expectation anybody walks in with. It’s voter suppression through incompetence, not through malintent.”

American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut legal director, Dan Barrett, expressed his disappointment with the problems that New Haven voters faced this Election Day, but also acknowledged that these difficulties were part of long history of incompetence for the City of New Haven Registrar.

“New Haven’s repeated failure to staff its polling places with enough workers to ensure people’s rights to vote is practically inviting a lawsuit,” Barrett said in a statement on the ACLU of Connecticut website. “The long lines and discouraged voters we saw today were a completely avoidable situation.”

Yale sophomore, Patrycja Gorska was determined to vote despite the long lines. However she said the situation was frustrating, confusing and time-consuming.

“I just kept hoping that I’d be out of the line in an hour or so, and the time estimate just kept getting longer,” Gorska said. “There was also no information on how long it would take to stay in the line.”

The legality of these actions by the City of New Haven was called into question. Cozby explained that Yale Law students and a local voting rights nonprofit called “Common Cause” arrived at the polls to counsel the vot-

ers who felt disenfranchised at the polls.

“Some of those volunteer lawyers got those potential voter’s contact info such that if they were disenfranchised they would be able to then file potential casework if there was an issue,” Cozby said.

Cheri Quickmire, executive director for the Common Cause in Connecticut, would like to see early voting expanded. She also thinks that making Election Day a national holiday would ease the same-day registration crowds.

“If we’re going to insist on sticking with the idea that it has to happen all on one day then it really should be a holiday,” Quickmire said in an interview with the New Haven Register.

While eventually, everyone was able to vote except for the people who walked away from the polls, students expressed public frustration at the difficulties they faced while attempting to perform their civic duty.

“They were loudly like, ‘You might not be able to vote so you might as well leave,’ and some random students started chanting out of the blue, ‘Let us vote, let us vote,’” Cozby said.

Cozby, who is from Alabama, was horrified at the fact that this sort of suppression of voters was happening in a state like Connecticut no matter how unintentional.

“I’ve seen the state laws they pass in places to intentionally disenfranchise people and that’s not what Connecticut is doing and the fact that this is happening in Connecticut is a huge problem,” Cozby said.

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Students for Environmental Action shows university members how much food waste they are producing

By KELLY RYAN Web Director

Students for Environmental Action (SEA) is making it a point to show everyone at Quinnipiac just how much food they are throwing away everyday.

Weigh the Waste is a new initiative the club is putting on weekly. Members of the club are tabling Tuesdays outside the trash conveyor belt in the cafeteria, asking students and faculty to scrape their leftover food into the many clear buckets they set up.

“We explained a lot of people in the New Haven area are going hungry every day and we as a university are throwing away this much food that could otherwise be used to feed people,” Erin LeDrew, Event Coordinator for SEA, said. “People were really interested and receptive to that.”

Freshman Luca Triant believes bringing the food waste issue to light is crucial.

“I think that it’s important because we do waste a lot of food and having people step up and take action is great,” Triant said.

Last Tuesday, SEA tabled from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and collected 72 quarts of food waste in that time span. This Tuesday, 88 quarts of food went to waste within four hours.

LeDrew said some people didn’t want to see any of it because they found it disgusting.

“That’s kind of our idea–putting it in the forefront because you can’t really ignore it,” LeDrew said. “You’re throwing it away everyday.”

Weigh the Waste made junior Sam Leis consider how much food he wastes.

“It looks very helpful, otherwise this would all go to waste,” Leis said. “I know personally I waste a lot of food.”

SEA teamed up with QU Dining, who provided the buckets and the table and weighed the food waste.

Weigh the Waste was built off of another project SEA does in partnership with the International Students Association and QU Dining called Food Rescue. Cafeteria workers package up leftover food at night, and in the morning volunteers pick it up and bring it to different community organizations that use food to feed people who would otherwise not have a meal that day.

SEA is using the Weigh the Waste initiative to promote why Quinnipiac should have a compost on campus.

“Just in that amount of time on only one of our campuses, we are producing that much waste. That can be used to for better

SEA tabled outside of the cafe by the garbage conveyer belt to show students how much food they waster. purposes and be converted into energy,” LeDrew said. “We could use it to maybe make a community garden at some point.”

LeDrew has started having conversations with administration about the idea of having a compost on campus. A few weeks ago, herself and President of SEA Finn Barcheski met with Associate Vice President for Facilities Operations Keith Woodward to discuss it. Woodward told them there used to be a compost on campus, but it was not maintained for very long and didn’t end up being sustainable. However, LeDrew said Woodward is willing to try it again.

“We’re really hoping that SEA could adopt this, really get to new levels and continue it throughout the years,” LeDrew said.

SEA hopes to do a catalyst compost project to test out the idea before jumping into a full size compost. Though LeDrew is graduating at the

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Assorted bits and pieces of food piled up in the plastic bins SEA placed out for students.

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Students for Environmental Action (SEA) officially became recognized as a student organization at QU.

Tuesdays at 9:15 p.m.

SEA will be holding general meetings every Tuesday open to the public. Location is TBD.

end of this year, she would still like to the see a compost on campus before she leaves. With that being said, she still wants it done right.

“Our goal with it is that we want it to happen as soon as possible, but we also want it to happen the right way,” LeDrew said. “We don’t want to just jump into it without any background or research into it. If all went well we would hope to have it within the first half of the next semester so that we could really get people used to the idea of it and then by the time we leave next year people will be coming into it and will just know what to do.

If all goes well, SEA hopes to have a compost within the first half of the upcoming spring semester. The club plans to continue the conversation with administration to make it happen, including talking to President Judy Olian. LeDrew said President Olian has

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shown interest in environmental issues.

“I think with the new administration we have right now, it’s a really good time to push for it,” LeDrew said. “We really want to get into [President Olian’s] office hours, that is in our plans. We want to have a conversation with her about environmental issues because I don’t know if anybody has yet.”

The club’s next project is tabling, asking students to write down environmental issues they see at Quinnipiac in exchange for an SEA reusable straw. SEA also plans to look into the single stream recycling system at Quinnipiac to find out how that is actually operating, according to LeDrew.

“We are hoping to get our name out there and really create something that even after we leave will continue to be a club and have a lot of interest,” LeDrew said.

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Students placed their excess food into bins outside of the cafe rather than throwing it away.

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SEA will be giving reusable straws to students in exchange for offering an environmental issue they are concerned with.

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SEA brings leftover food from QU Dining as a donation to different organizations in need.

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Wednesday, Nov. 14 Homelessness awareness week Quinnipiac’s chapter of Habitat for Humanity will be hosting a tabling event to raise awareness about hunger and homelessness in America on Wednesday, Nov. 14 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Carl Hansen Student Center room 114E. The event will allow students to learn statistics about poverty, as well as donate to Sleeping Giant Build.

Blood drives Community Action Project is teaming up with the Red Cross to host a series of blood drives on campus. One of these drives will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 14 from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Carl Hansen Student Center rooms 119 and 120. Students will be able to donate blood on site at the event.

International Girls Day Kappa Delta will be hosting an event for International Girls Day on Wednesday, Nov. 14 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in Rocky Top Student Center rooms 311 and 316.

The event will feature a bonding activity with the Girl Scouts making calm boxes for mental health promotion and awareness.

Biomedical Sciences Club game night The Biomedical Sciences Club will host its first ever game night event on Wednesday, Nov. 14 from 9:15 p.m. to 11:15 p.m. in the Center for Communications and Engineering room 208. Attendees will be able to participate in a trivia game with prizes for the winners. Free food will also be provided.

Thursday, Nov. 15 National Smoke Out Day The Student Government Association (SGA) will be hosting a tabling event to promote National Smoke Out Day on Thursday, Nov. 15 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Carl Hansen patio north. The event will have free items that promote a smoke free campus and will have information available for students to quit smoking.

Game design program hosts Tom Shannon Quinnipiac’s Game Design and Development program will be hosting a talk by Tom Shannon, a technical artist on the education team at Epic Games, producers of the popular free-to-play console video game Fortnite, on Thursday, Nov. 15 at 7:30 p.m. in Echlin 101.

The talk will give attendees an in-depth look into the work done in the fields of games, real-time graphics, film, production pipelines and emerging technologies.

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Subjectivity and the Constitution

By OWEN MEECH Staff Writer

On the surface, President Trump’s call on Oct. 29 to end birthright citizenship via executive order is undeniably a blatant violation of the Constitution.

Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment clearly states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”

So does the president have the ability to override this right with the stroke of his pen? Not quite.

According to many legal scholars, the language of the Fourteenth Amendment is seen as an explicit protection of birthright citizenship, and House Speaker Paul Ryan agrees.

“You obviously cannot do that,” Ryan said in response to the president. “I think in this case the Fourteenth Amendment is pretty clear, and that would involve a very, very lengthy constitutional process.”

However, conservative legal scholars have pointed out five key words in question: “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”

Supporters of Trump’s proposal argue that this phrase has been misread, as the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment did not intend to give citizenship to children of temporary visitors and other noncitizens. They point to birth tourism–the process of coming to a country for the purpose of giving birth to an “anchor baby” who would become a citizen.

Only about 30 countries worldwide currently provide birthright citizenship, as many European nations have modified their requirements in response to this trend over recent years.

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In the weeks leading up to the Midterms, Trump has begun to question Constitutional amendments. changes with the times?

The common leftist argument for gun control is a helpful means of comparison.

The Second Amendment reads, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

U.S. Constitution Amendment XIV Section 1.

Not so easy in the United States.

Ratified in 1868, the text of the Fourteenth Amendment was included to extend citizenship to freed slaves and their children. The Constitution is virtually silent on whether or not the language of the amendment extends citizenship to anyone born in the United States, even if their parents are here illegally.

In fact, the language was derived from the 1866 Civil Rights Act, which provided that all persons born in the United States, “not subject to any foreign power” would be considered citizens.

In the Slaughter-House cases of 1872, the Supreme Court held that the qualifying phrase in the Fourteenth Amendment was intended to exclude “children of ministers, consuls, and citizens or subjects of foreign States born within the United States.”

Again in 1898’s U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, the court only held that a child born of lawful, permanent residents was a U.S. citizen.

So, is the Constitution up for debate?

Conservatives have long cited the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program, President Obama’s executive order to provide pseudo-legal status to children brought into the country illegally, as unconstitutional.

Today, discussion of the constitutionality of citizenship is more alive than ever.

If Trump’s supporters now claim the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment has been altered to harbor children born to illegal aliens, are conservatives the ones who view the Constitution as a living, breathing document that

Liberal interpretation of the Constitution has been such that the document changes as society changes, and the right to bear arms was introduced long before the introduction of assault rifles and other automatic weapons.

Arguably, the Second Amendment was written at a time when the right to bear arms was less about the individual and more about the militia and the prevention of needing a standing United States army.

This all changed after the landmark 2008 Supreme Court case, District of Columbia v. Heller, in which the court ruled any person could bear arms as a means of self-defense, overturning a longtime precedent that the right of individual citizens to bear arms only existed within the context of participation in the militia.

In the political mainstream, the Constitution has been manipulated by elected officials to apply to specific political agendas.

However, constitutional violations aren’t limited to just the political sphere.

On a daily basis, Sixth Amendment guarantees to a “speedy and public trial” are ignored when criminal defendants face lengthy pretrial detentions.

In fact, varying state laws can change the rights criminal defendants are entitled to, further fueling the state versus federal law conundrum.

The process of criminal prosecution and the legal controls upon its timing are decided mostly by prosecuting authorities, that is, the police and the prosecutor.

A vague description of a “speedy” trial has in turn allowed prosecutors to delay trials for any

number of loosely defined “practicality reasons.”

Gridlock and “confirmation wars” stemming from rampant divisiveness in Congress has additionally roiled the process of judicial appointments that could help turn cases over in a more timely fashion.

Such detentions have been shown to negatively impact communities for generations, and additionally may violate due process highlighted in both the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.

Meanwhile, the system of our electoral college outlined in the Twelfth Amendment has been continuously challenged by politicians when elections don’t go their way, as First Amendment concerns have erupted across the country – from local school boards all the way up to the relationship between presidents and the media.

Constitutional debates revolving around censorship of conservative voices on Facebook, Twitter and other social media outlets has ignited conversation regarding violations of rights to freedom of speech and expression.

Liberals have argued President Trump continually undermines the First Amendment in his outspokenness against what he considers the “fake news” media, while conservatives remember President Obama’s contentious relationship with Fox News, which he lamented was “entirely devoted to attacking [his] administration” in 2009.

While friction between presidential administrations and the press is commonplace, implementing policy is a completely different story.

It would be foolish not to recognize that each branch of our government is riddled with human error, but we must be able to depend on the stability of our American institutions.

To avoid utter anarchy, we have no other option than to look to the rulings of the Supreme Court and demand our elected officials engage the proper legal channels when challenging such rulings in enacting policy.

It’s truly miraculous that our founding fathers created a document that has guided the direction of the United States since 1787, but at the rate we’re going, the Constitution will soon become too subjective to hold any relevance.

When it comes to the Constitution, it’s all or nothing. We can’t cherry pick which amendments we choose to abide by.

Republicans can’t simultaneously cite constitutional integrity in defense of the Second Amendment while trying to abandon the Fourteenth.

Likewise, Democrats can’t cry foul at those questioning the Fourteenth Amendment while attempting to undermine or in some cases even repeal the Second Amendment altogether.

It’s decision time. We simply can’t have it both ways.

If the most important document in our nation’s history can change its meaning with each political inkling, partisan interpretation may soon render it obsolete.

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What’s wrong with America?

Americans are killing each other and we’re numb to it

Amanda Perelli Managing Editor

“Several college women were celebrating their 21st birthdays.”

“Country music was blaring and beer was flowing.”

“Then all of a sudden, into ‘College Country Night!’ at the Borderline Bar & Grill stepped a man with a gun.”

These quotes are pulled from a New York Times (NYT) article on the most recent mass shooting on Nov. 7 in Thousand Oaks, California, where 12 were

killed at a country music bar.

As a college senior, a 21-year-old who often goes out to celebrate 21st birthdays and parties with friends, I think this sort of shooting should have been talked about more.

How many of you were shocked when you heard the news? Surprised? Angry, definitely. Frustrated, for sure.

But, I know I wasn’t shocked at all. I wasn’t surprised by the news because it’s become somewhat of a ‘norm’ in our culture.

In the United States, there have been 307 mass shooting this year, 346 the year prior and 382 in 2016, according to Gun Violence Archive.

In our history, we remember the earlier shootings; like Columbine, Colorado in 1999; Sandy Hook, Connecticut in 2012; Pulse Nightclub, Orlando in 2016 and now Parkland, Florida this year. Besides those, there are hundreds of others scattered in-between that we are not even aware of or are ever talked about.

Twelve people were killed last Wednesday – making the charts as one of the top deadliest shootings in the United States. To put that into perspective, 13 people were killed during the Columbine massacre, 28 were killed in Sandy Hook, 49 in Orlando, and 17 in Parkland.

Out of those 12 were college students – just like us –

and yet how many college students are talking about what happened last Wednesday? Why are we only remembering those few shootings mentioned above? Is it because now shootings have become normal and the news is no longer shocking?

I want to bet that more than half of you reading this heard the news, read the first couple of sentences or watched the first few minutes and moved on with your day, midday forgetting about the entire thing. But I don’t blame you, I did it too. We’ve reached a stage where we have become numb to the news of mass shootings in our country – and that scares me a lot.

There are a number of things which I believe have contributed to this. First, the internet and social media for providing us with minute-by-minute information about everything happening in the world at our fingertips. Second, it’s depressing, we feel helpless (although we are not) and we don’t want to talk about it because talking about it makes it real. Third, Quinnipiac is located on the other side of the country, so for the most part, we don’t know the people affected and we are far removed from the situation, except again, we’re not.

We are the same as them. We go out, we celebrate birthdays and we dance to music with our friends. This can happen anywhere. It’s real. So, at least for myself, I want to start talking about mass shootings more. I want to ask why and I want to know how other people around me are feeling about it.

Even though we aren’t talking about the most recent shootings, I believe that we are still thinking about them.

I don’t know the best way to put an end to them, but I do think that if we had more open conversations about what’s going on, especially as young people whose generation is a target, than together we will grow stronger in combating the issue.

Share your thoughts on these events with your friends and start up healthy conversations about what’s going on.

Educate yourself on the facts and realize that this is more than just another shooting, it’s a big deal, but only if we care can we prevent it from happening again.

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This pattern of abuse is preventable Waterbury priest sued for sexual abuse

Garret Reich Staff Writer

“If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one,” Mitchell Garabedian said in the 2015 movie “Spotlight.”

I watched this movie last week for the third time. Even then, I did not realize how relevant the issue of sexual abuse in the Catholic church still is today.

Nor did I think that it

would hit so close to home.

Last Wednesday, it was revealed that a former Connecticut priest is being accused of sexual abuse toward Kevin Distasio, an altar boy at the Waterbury Blessed Sacrament Church in 1980.

The Waterbury Church is only half an hour away from Quinnipiac.

Now, 38 years later, 46-year-old Distasio is suing.

“When he was about 10 years old and serving as an altar boy, the suit alleges he [Vichas] sexually abused Distasio before an early morning Mass while he was putting on his vestments in the church,” Jonathan Shugarts, a Republican American reporter, said on Nov. 7.

Despite the fact that Reverend Walter Vichas died 10 years ago, the case is still on track, with the Hartford Catholic Diocesan Corporation as the lead defendant.

What bothers me the most is, before these issues draw any kind of attention, they must require one of two key

traits: magnitude or proximity. Why is it that we, as a society, decide things must change when they happen right outside our door? Or when the problem grows so large that everyone is forced to look?

This is not the first case of negligence of the priests under the supervision of the Diocesan Corporation. In 2015, Jacob Doe came forward to say that he was molested by Father Ivan Ferguson as a child, according to the Supreme Court of Connecticut.

The Supreme Court of Connecticut added that, at the time that Ferguson was originally appointed as the director of Saint Mary’s Elementary School, he was an alcoholic who publicly admitted that his acts of child molestation were tied to his drinking.

It was not only known by the corporation that he was susceptible to an alcohol addiction. He was previously admitted to the Saint Luke Institute for observation where they would first “work with his chemical dependence and then his emotional and psychological problems over a four to six month period,” the Supreme Court of Connecticut reported.

Shortly after that period, upon the advising of Father Gene Gianelli (who oversaw the case) and Archbishop John Whealon at the Diocesan Corporation, Ferguson was assigned to “serve full-time as assistant pastor of Saint Mary’s Parish” and then as a director of Saint Mary’s School shortly after.

The plaintiff, Jacob Doe, and his friend, R, quickly became favorites of Ferguson at Saint Mary’s. This friendship was considered to be a privilege by all students at the school.

However, this came with a price. Ferguson would invite the boys “to restaurants and for sleepovers at the rectory.”

He would also “molest the plaintiff and R both on and off the grounds” of the school and “step in for the female

gym teacher to supervise the male students in the communal shower after physical education classes.” The court also added that “he would soap the boys’ backs and make comments about their genitals.”

Thankfully, the Ferguson case was settled in a $1 million settlement to the plaintiff for compensation.

Despite that the settlement resulted in a large sum of money, the number of emotional damages far outweigh the cash profits.

As mentioned above, the movie “Spotlight” tells the true story of a group of investigative reporters at the Boston Globe in 2001. The Boston Globe Spotlight team uncovered a complex and broad web of molesting by priests, which were consistently covered up the Roman Catholic church in the late 1900’s. The priests would be assigned to a different church, depending on the severity of the case.

Hundreds of people came forward to share their own stories after the Globe wrote their initial story. Many of them never gained the same profits that Doe received.

While some may dismiss this as a problem resolving with time, let me rest assure you that it continues to this day.

“A Pennsylvania grand jury named more than 300 clergy in a report which found more than 1,000 children had been abused” this past August, according to the BBC. In June, the BBC reported that, “a former Vatican diplomat was sentenced to five years in prison for child pornography offences.”

There are thousands of kids, like Distasio, who deal with men like Vichas. Yet, this long standing issue of sexual abuse under the supervision of the church is preventable.

Why is it that we allow this mindset of willful ignorance to persevere?

November 14, 2018

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Crossing the line

Uber drivers, NHL players and single-party consent We all have days where we need to vent and get everything off our shoulders. These days typically are not pretty and show a lot of tension. They may happen because of work, family life or your boss, but nonetheless, they release a lot of pent up frusStaff Writer tration. I can vouch for most people and say I’d prefer no one film me during those kinds of moments. I especially would not appreciate it if the recording of what was said or what occurred be released.

Unfortunately, that was the case for seven Ottawa Senators players on Oct. 29. A disgruntled bunch of players on the road let out some of that frustration in an Uber ride. The Uber driver recorded visual and audio of the conversation between the players with a camera attached to the rearview mirror. The players seemed to be unaware they were being recorded.

The Senators were on an off-night after three straight losses to the Boston Bruins, Colorado Avalanche and Vegas Golden Knights. They were outscored 14-to-7 in those stretch of games. The players commented on how the other teams were breaking out with ease against them and that the coaches refused to change anything.

“Marty Raymond, the only coach in NHL history to have the worst power-play and the worst PK within a calendar year,” Senators forward Matt Duchene said in the recording. He was referring to Martin Raymond, Ottawa’s assistant coach in charge of the team’s penalty-kill system this year and power-play setup last season.

The players continued to take pokes at the staff following each comment with laughter. Defensemen Thomas Chabot and Chris Wideman talked about film sessions and how poorly Raymond ran them. The other players involved in the car ride were newly acquired Chris Tierney, Alex Formenton and Dylan DeMelo.

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“Do you notice that when (Raymond) runs the video, if you actually do pay attention, he doesn’t ever teach you anything? He just commentates what’s happening,” Wideman said. “I also hate how he quizzes us.”

“I would never expect a cab ride conversation to be made public.

But that’s the world we live in right now. Everybody’s a snitch.”

– RYAN REAVES

VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS FORWARD

For a team trying to rebuild and reconstruct themselves after losing superstar Erik Karlsson, this is a setback. It created an unnecessary tension. The players show passion for their team, as stated in their apology statement, and hope to learn from this experience. Luckily, the comments they made were not too damaging, and they were only related specifically to hockey.

To most people that have played a sport and have played on a competitive team, coaching matters. If players and coaches are not on the same page, it does not bode over well. However, tensions do arise occasionally and players and or coaches display their frustrations.

A group of players discussing how ineffective their coaching staff has been recently and making a few jokes about it, that’s expected and there should not be a problem with it. Most of the hockey world is disgusted with the Uber driver for recording the players without their consent and then releasing the tape. The driver does not have a right to record audio or video without the agreement of the people in the car.

Now, there is an argument about Arizona being a single-party consent state. This means that if the driver is actively involved

in the discussion, they may record and release whatever occurs.

However, this driver asked one question during the clip released.

He did not engage in conversation with the players in the car.

I despise the idea of single-party consent. It is not OK to film someone’s actions or what they say without that specific person consenting to it. This was an invasion of privacy and many NHL players recognized how big of an issue this is.

“I would never expect a cab ride conversation to be made public,” Vegas Golden Knights forward Ryan Reaves said, according to NHL Network’s Chris Johnston. “But that’s the world we live in right now. Everybody’s a snitch.”

NHL superstar Sidney Crosby condemned the action of the Uber driver as well. He also concurs with the fact that players may badmouth their coaches.

“It doesn’t matter whether you’re a hockey player or someone looking to jump in a car. It’s too bad to see that,” Crosby said Tuesday Nov. 6 according to Trib Live. “People try to do the responsible thing, especially when they’ve been drinking and things like that, try to be responsible and jump in a car and to be taken advantage of like that, I think it’s wrong.

Uber Canada general manager Rob Khazzam came out with a statement following the incident.

“A video was released by the media today of several Uber passengers being filmed without their consent while having a private discussion during a trip through Phoenix. This is a clear violation of our terms of service and we worked vigorously to investigate this issue,” Khazzam said via Twitter. “Filming or recording passengers without their consent is totally unacceptable and if reported/detected we will investigate + take action to preserve our communities privacy and integrity. In this specific case, we made efforts to have the video taken down.”

Understand that this is an issue that should not have occurred, however, do not let your guard down by being free with whatever you say. Everyone makes mistakes and it is very easy to say something offensive when frustrated. In this day and age, it is impossible to tell if you are being recorded from any angle. Make sure that if you are venting to someone, keep it in a private situation to prevent an incident like this occurring.

The pressure on LaMelo Ball

The high expectations may deter him from his NBA dreams “We got the guy who can make the blind see and the cripples walk in LaMelo Ball,” Spire Institute (in Geneva, Ohio) head coach Jermaine Jackson said.

“Like Magic Johnson said in the 80s, don’t look down because you might miss something.

It’s showtime baby.”

Staff Writer LaMelo Ball, 17, announced his return to high school and his decision to enroll at Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohio on Tuesday, Nov. 6. This move back to the amauteur ranks comes as a surprise since the reason he left school was for an opportunity to play as a professional and go into a situation that can can best prepare him for a hopeful career in the NBA. LaMelo and his older brother LiAngelo Ball arrived in Lithuania to play for the BC Vytautas on Jan. 3. After a brief stint playing overseas, LaMelo returned to the U.S. to play in the Junior Basketball Association (JBA) over the summer. The only thing you need to know about this basketball venture is that the league was created by his father and LaMelo famously slapped an opponent in a game and was only punished with an ejection that same day.

Characterizing LaMelo’s basketball journey as unique would be a mild way of describing it. Basketball fans, young and old, have never seen so much turnover and uncertainty in a highly ranked amatuer athlete in such a short period of time.

His athletic background becomes even more convoluted when you take in account that he was committed to playing at UCLA at the age of 13, he has a signature shoe, his oldest brother is in the NBA, his middle brother left UCLA as a freshman after refusing to be suspended for stealing sunglasses in China, his father has a history of controversial remarks regarding his sons and the family business (Big Baller Brand) and he and his family starred in a reality show aired weekly on Facebook.

Even with a bizarre laundry list of events and storylines, LaMelo’s focus remains on making it to the NBA. The only new aspect about his goal is that he is returning to high school and believes that Ohio’s Spire Institute is the appro-

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priate place to do it. Besides LaMelo and his family thinking that this move is better than playing at the JBA (obviously), the reasoning is unclear to why have a drastic change. Justin Brantley the associate academy director of Spire explained to ESPN that he thinks LaMelo’s decision is more about the high school experience he can receive at Spire.

“My understanding is [LaMelo] was looking to relive that high school experience, looking to really focus on his game, as well as his education, and graduate,” Brantley said. “It’s more so of a feeling-out process to make sure it was the right fit all the way around, make sure we can help him, make sure we can provide him what he needs socially.”

Brantley also explained that former NBA player and head coach Jermaine Jackson has trained Brandon Ingram, Laker teammate of LaMelo’s oldest brother, the past few summers. He said that relationship helped Spire connect with LaMelo. There are also reports that LaMelo’s return to high school will be a chance to showcase his skills against top talent his age. The most notable point to this argument is the highly anticipated Dec. 3 matchup of LaMelo against the No. 3 player in the class of 2019, Cole Anthony.

LaMelo was introduced to Spire not only with a press conference filled with reporters, but also with a LeBron-esque billboard in downtown Cleveland on Friday, Nov. 9. In this press conference, LaMelo revealed that he hopes to play college basketball at a top school like North Carolina, Kentucky, Duke, Kansas or Michigan State.

Those schools are not assumably out of the picture since prior to his dropout of high school at Chino Hills he was a five-star recruit ranked No. 16 in the ESPN 100 as of January 2017. He also received such hype as a player thanks to an extraordinary 92-point outing in February 2018. LaMelo’s exploits as a junior in high school rightfully linger with him and preserve his reputation as an elite player.

As promising as such a claim to play for a top tier basketball school, there are questions and complications that can cease that from happening. There is skepticism over whether he’ll be able to play basketball in the NCAA. “The Ball brothers’ stint in Lithuania paired with LaMelo’s signature shoe “jeopardized” his NCAA eligibility, per Yahoo Sports’ Jeff Eisenberg.

College athletes are not allowed to receive compensation in

order to maintain their amateurism.That includes money made playing professionally in Lithuania, the JBA and from the selling of his signature sneakers.

According to Spire’s Justin Brantley, LaMelo “never received payment” for playing in Lithuania or the Junior Basketball Association over the summer. LaMelo will also have to prove the proceeds from the signature shoes were part of the family business and that he did not directly profit from.

Currently, it is unclear if LaMelo is eligible to play college basketball. The NCAA will have to investigate and decide if their is proof of maintained amateurism. Regardless of the mystery of LaMelo’s eligibility, coach Jackson has no question of his newest player’s talent.

“LaMelo Ball can be the No. 1 pick in a year or two going to the Cleveland Cavaliers,” Jackson told TMZ Sports.

“Ain’t no question about it. He has the talent that, some of it just can’t be taught.”

LaMelo is going to be a story basketball fans will be reminded of occasionally throughout the year whether he excels or struggles on the basketball court. The reality of his eligibility to play college basketball I expect will be a moot topic rehashed as the 2019-20 college basketball season comes closer.

I wish all the best to LaMelo and his basketball endeavors because he is a very talented player who has a chance to join his oldest brother in the NBA. However, I think there are some things that can interfere with his dream of going to the NBA coming to fruition. There are incredibly high expectations and a lot of attention on him at a young age.

I am concerned that the expectations to be a player who deserves a LeBron-esque billboard is impossible for any high schooler to do. I expect LaMelo to be enabled to do whatever he wants on the court.

If LaMelo does struggle in high school and has issues making it to the NBA years from now, I will cite the biggest reason for this as the ancillary people and events that do not involve his skill on the basketball court. There is only so much pressure a player can handle before it affects his ability to perform at a high level. Especially if his new head coach believes he can be a No. 1 NBA draft pick in a year or two and can “make the blind see and the cripples walk.”

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November 14, 2018

A historic number of women elected into Congress after 2018 election

By AMY THROPE Staff Writer

A record-breaking number of women who ran for Congress during the 2018 Midterm Election emerged victorious on Tuesday, Nov. 6 and are poised to bring diversity and change to America’s government in 2019.

With results still being finalized, an unprecedented 98 women have been projected to win seats in the House of Representatives, which is an increase from the 84 who are currently seated. An additional 13 women won races for the Senate, excluding the 10 who were not up for re-election.

This means that at least 121 women will be serving in the United States Congress in 2019, and will occupy 23 percent of the 535 seats.

These results contribute to an increasing presence of women in Congress, the population of which has been just 20 percent female in 2018.

“Historically, I think that people have been hesitant to elect women,” senior psychology major and Women in Support of Humanity President Mikaela Rooney said.

“However, I think this recent election shows us that these attitudes are slowly changing. Perceptions of women have come a long way in the past 100 years, but we still have work to do.”

The 2018 Midterms have been widely anticipated as an opportunity to gauge America’s political climate and to gain insight into the attitudes of voters. The almost two years of Donald Trump’s presidency have polarized much of the nation, and have stirred up issues that hit close to home for voters including immigration, race relations and gender equality.

Women have been quick to make their voices heard in the midst of the political tension. Immediately after Trump’s inauguration, millions of people across the country participated in The Women’s March, an effort to promote equality and the largest single-day protest in American history, according to crowd scientists. Since then, mobilization has continued in the form of the #MeToo movement, the Time’s Up campaign and now a groundbreaking number of women running for office.

“This president has spurred on women to [race],” sophomore political science major and Quinnipiac Young Americans for Liberty President Alexander Burns said.

“President Trump has been a very divisive president and I’m sure his words brought many more women out.”

Overwhelmingly, the women who ran and won during the midterms were Democrats: 84 of the 98 women elected to the House and 10 of the 13 elected to the Senate, to be exact. This still leaves room for Republican women to make gains in Congress during future elections.

"Without the full participation of women on both sides of the aisle, it will be impossible to achieve gender parity in Congress,” Rutgers Center director Debbie Walsh said to USA Today.

Despite the one-sidedness of the victories, the female winners of this election will be bringing a great deal of ethnic and racial diversity to Congress in 2019.

In series of milestones for the nation, Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN), will be the first Muslim women to ever be elected to Congress. They won their races with 84.6 percent and 78.3 percent of the vote, respectively.

“Every progress this country ever achieved came about because people were willing to do something to make that progress happen,” Omar said to CBS. “In this time, in our nation’s history, I couldn’t sit on the sidelines and not be

part of a group of people who were insisting on a set of values that got us closer to the America we know we can have and the America we know we deserve.”

Joining Tlaib and Omar in the pages of history will be Young Kim (R-CA), the first Korean-American woman to be sent to Congress, as well as Sharice Davids (D-KS), and Debra Haaland (D-NM), the first Native American women to be elected.

“Seventy years ago, Native Americans right here in New Mexico couldn’t vote,” Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, said to supporters on election night.

“Growing up in my mother’s pueblo household and as a 35th generation New Mexican, I never imagined a world where I would be represented by someone who looks like me. Tonight, New Mexico, you are sending one of the very first Native American women to Congress.”

“Perceptions of women have come a long way in the past 100 years, but we still have work to do.”

– Mikaela Rooney

Senior psychology major and Women in Support of Humanity President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), also broke records by being the youngest woman to win a Congressional seat, at age 29. A Latina from the Bronx, Ocasio-Cortez came from humble beginnings and ran a 100 percent people-funded campaign advocating for “dignified healthcare, tuition-free higher education, quality employment, and justice for all.”

She is one of 25 newly-elected millennials to be a part of Congress in 2019, who together will be lowering the average age of federal lawmakers by 10 years.

“Ideally, this progress should have happened sooner, but our country is going through a period of reckoning at the moment,” Rooney said. “Social movements like Black Lives Matter and the #MeToo movement are forcing people to look at the grave injustices within our society. This is why I am incredibly optimistic about the diversity that we are seeing in Congress.”

Many individual states made strides as well. Among them were Maine and South Dakota’s first elections of female governors, Democrat Janet Mills and Republican Kristi Noem. Though the two represent vastly different political viewpoints, they both succeeded in conveying their missions and defeating their biggest opponents by margins of 3.4 and 7.6 percent.

Republican Marsha Blackburn also broke convention by being elected Tennessee’s first female senator after defeating democratic candidate Phil Bredesen, who was recently endorsed by pop star Taylor Swift. The win was a historical one, as were the three in Iowa that resulted in the state’s election of its first female governor and first two female House members: Republican Kim Reynolds, Democrat Abby Finkenauer and Democrat Cindy Axne.

“This [midterm] does make me optimistic about the level

of diversity in our country’s leadership,” sophomore political science major and Her Campus co-president Elizabeth Lupinacci said. “I do think this increase in diversity should have happened earlier, however, it is happening now and I don't think it should stop!”

Further breakthroughs from this midterm took place in Texas, which will be sending Democrats Veronica Escobar and Sylvia Garcia as its first Latinas to Congress.

Additionally, Massachusetts’s democratic Ayanna Pressley and Connecticut’s democratic Jahana Hayes are the first African-American congresswoman from each state.

Hayes, the winner of the race for Connecticut’s 5th Congressional District, defeated her Republican opponent Manny Santos by a margin of 11.6 percent. She promoted progressive policies throughout her campaign and resonated with her community as a dedicated and relatable candidate.

“You know what I stand for. You know what I believe in,” Hayes said during a speech on election night. “But the votes show that you also believe that we are so much better together. You also believe that true leaders lead from the front and lead by example, and you reject all of this hate and intolerance and this indescribable fear that does not define who we are.”

Hayes acknowledges that she couldn’t have won alone.

Connecticut saw a 65.81 percent voter turnout rate during this election, which just exceeds the usual range of 55 to 65 percent according to a report from Connecticut’s Secretary of the State Denise Merrill. The majority of votes were for Democrats, upholding Connecticut’s reputation as a primarily blue state.

Nationwide, the United States Election Project estimates that 47 percent of eligible voters, or 110 million people, cast their ballots during the midterms, which comes close to surpassing record turnout of 49 percent in 1996. This is an impressive number given that in the 2014 midterms, only 36.7 percent voted. Female voters were an influential part of this year’s voting demographic, making up 52 percent of the vote.

“It may be women candidates who save our enthusiasm advantage by mobilizing women voters,” Democratic pollster Celinda Lake said to Reuters. “Women candidates help get women voters out, and that is a very important thing for [our government].”

In a survey done by Reuters and Ipsos, “when asked to rate their anger on a scale of 1 to 10–with 10 being extreme anger–Democrats were a 7.6 toward Trump, with Democratic women more angry than men.” This showed in the midterms, with 59 percent of women voting for Democratic candidates, according to CNN exit polls.

“I think that the country’s attitude on women is shifting,” Lupinacci said. “I believe the shift is coming from current events such as the Kavanaugh hearings where some American women's faith in the system was diminished.

People are getting mad and they are getting motivated to do something about the issues that are concerning to them.”

In short, women on both sides of the campaigns have set a new precedent for the next election. In 2019, America can expect to see the new female officials bringing diversity, new perspectives and long-awaited representation to Congress.

“Women, specifically women of color, are taking matters into their own hands and I think that it shows,” Rooney said.

“I think the past two years have proven that women have something to say and they are demanding to be heard.”

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November 14, 2018

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President Judy Olian's '10 point countdown' to being female leader

University President Judy Olian spoke to a crowd of Quinnipiac students and working professionals on her experience as a woman in leadership at the People's United Center for Women & Business event "Connecting Women. Building Community." last Tuesday morning. After reflecting on her experiences of coming to America from Australia, recounting her international studies and cracking a

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few jokes at her ex-husband's expense, Olian expressed her thoughts on women in leadership in 2018.

"Who would've thunk that in 2018 we still wouldn't be there," Olian said to the crowd.

The president then delivered her 10 best pieces of advice for women aspiring to be leaders. Here's what she had to say. – M. Fraitag

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Figure out what you're really good at and not good at.

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Say yes to assignments you're given whenever you can.

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Reflections and aspirations from the women of The Chronicle Editorial Board

We are living in a pivotal moment in history where, unfortunately, women are still being forced to celebrate assuming leadership that men have held for years. We, the female leaders of The Quinnipiac Chronicle, want to start a dialogue on these achievements, but not consider them unwarranted or surprising, because to do this would be to

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I can’t imagine living in a time when women were not allowed to vote, were not apart of the workforce and were expected to be the sole caretaker of the family. I am so lucky for the privileges and growth I get to enjoy by being able to attend college, hold a job and be a student leader. But I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for the female predecessors who fought hard for my future even when there was the possibility they wouldn’t see the day their work paid off.

We have seen significant progress in the past 100 years but it isn’t enough. The the gap of inequality between men and women has gotten smaller but some issues have remained and rather evolved. We must keep fighting; for ourselves and for the future women of the next generations.

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This election has reignited the hope I have for equality to be spread over this country. Women are capable of anything they put their minds to and do their tasks with swiftness and courage. There are so many huge problems affecting women that impact our daily lives and are selective to us, never revealing their true devastation to members of the opposite sex.

As an editor on The Chronicle, there is a strong bond between the female staff, and it is a strength to be an editor under another female while we make this paper something we’re all proud of. To also attend Quinnipiac University with current president Judy Olian leading the student body, it sets an amazing example for every woman at the university and shows us that progress can be achieved.

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halt any sort of normalization of women in leadership.

Rather, we hope to shed light on the women who have been acting as leaders in this country for decades, whether they held the title or not. All of the women you’ve read about in the news lately may have just earned a title, but they have undoubtedly been leaders for years.

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It is not enough to look up to women in leadership. We, as young women, must strive to be the leaders that we would have looked up to as girls. Whether it be as politicians, as journalists, as students or simply as people.

We have come a long way, but there is still so much more work to do before we can truly achieve equality. If we don’t assume this responsibility as our own, that journey will be even more prolonged. So step up and be the leader you’ve always wanted to look up to, if you don’t, who will?

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One hundred years ago, women couldn’t vote. They couldn’t serve on a jury, they couldn’t become lawyers or accountants.

Today, more women will serve in Congress than ever before.

Some the youngest, some of the first of their race or ethnicity and for some, they will be the first woman to ever serve in their state.

This has been a monumental year for women in leadership in our country and we will never go back to where we were 100 years ago. We can only go up from here because we can, we will and we have always been capable.

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The inequality women face in society has become something more of a joke nowadays. I never considered myself a feminist growing up because of the negative association that surrounded the term, but that doesn’t mean when my guy friends constantly badgered me to ‘get in the kitchen and make them a sandwich’ that it didn’t tug at something beyond the annoyed grimace or laugh I used to play it off.

The first step towards changing the stigma is acknowledging the stigma and although there’s been progress, especially this year, I don’t quite think we’re there yet. It’s a humanity movement, not just a women's movement and society has not grasped that, but that doesn’t mean we, as women can’t take the first step.

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Women have grown up learning about the successes of men in government for decades. Now it’s time for women to make history as a new wave of female leaders step into government roles.

As women, we must believe in ourselves and each other.

Not just believing that we can do anything a man can, but that we can do all of that and so much more. Don’t stop and assume the ‘comfortable’ positions. Reach for the ‘untouchable’ ones that no female has dared to do before.

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it be Congress or local, have become the first of their race, gender or sexual orientation to represent their area. It is amazing Arts & Life Editor to experience these firsts but it is even more exciting to know that in the near future, the country won’t need to celebrate these We broke through one glass ceiling, but there are still victories because it will just be normal.

These achievements in Congress show the power of this many more to break through. Women are getting stronger and stronger because of everything we've been through, generation and how we view women and people of different ethnicities and cultures as equals to white men. This election from voting to breaking gender norms.

The revolution is not over, there are more voices to be heard showed record numbers of voters in the youngest demographic.

We made a difference and it can only go up from here. and understood. This is just another step to an equal society.

– Charlotte Gardner

As females in a college setting in 2018, we are fortunate enough to apply for and assume leadership roles without the question of our gender. That is why we, the nine female leaders on the fall 2018 Editorial Board, want to use our voices to spread appreciation, admiration and motivation for the women in leadership of yesterday, today and tomorrow.

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– Morgan Tencza Photography Editor

– Jessica Ruderman

News Editor

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The amount of progress made in the past decade has been extraordinary and yet, it’s still not over. Women need to continue to believe in themselves and in their abilities. These milestones reached during the midterm election show that women of all different ethnicities are capable of creating a change.

It’s empowering to see myself represented in the new wave of politicians that have joined congress. It also instills hope that there will be policies made with my generation of women in mind. With all of this history being made, I hope that it inspires more women to realize the worth of their voice and that anything is possible.

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– Alexis Guerra

Associate Arts & Life Editor

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'It wasn't me'

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Everyone has their embarrassing moments. I know I have had my fair share - well, maybe more then my fair share. But I try to keep moving forward and just own them. This week I went around the student center asking bobcats what their most embarrassing moments is. Check out this spread to read about students who own their moments too. – M. Fortin

Giulia Fabrizio, freshman nursing major "My whole life is an embarrassing moment.”

Ernie G Santiago III, freshmen nursing major “Tomorrow is my mom’s birthday. So me and my sisters were in a group chat amongst ourselves and we were kind of like, what are we going to get her? And as I’m getting out of class, down near the hall, so someone says, 'Hood morning.' I say, 'Good morning. Would you like a condom?' Just out of nowhere. So I am thinking it would be an awesome joke just to get one of the female condoms and give it to my mom as a birthday gift.”

Sydney Iannarone, freshman health science major “Junior year in high school we went to D.C. for a school trip. And we are on the way back and we took a bus so it was all my classmates on a bus. My stomach hurt really bad. So I had to use the bathroom and I had no option. My stomach hurt but I couldn’t go so my friend had to give me Pepto-Bismol. And then there was a bathroom on the bus. So I had to go on the bus. But as I was going to the bathroom the door flew open and there was a kid in the back of the bus that was a year younger than me but I’ve seen him since but it’s awkward when I see him because we made full eye contact and the door was wide open.

Like I grabbed the door and grabbed it shut but it was wide open. We had a good moment.”

Joe Pham, junior sports medicine major “Last year I was an (athletic trainer) for the hockey team. And I was on the other side filling the water bottles for the opposite team. And it was like Cornell game so the whole like stadium was filled.

And I walked out of the other side’s bench, and the Zamboni went by. So then I literally walk and I slip and fall right in front of like the whole… and everyone started cheering. Everybody started going nuts. So that was not a fun time.”

Elena Yvarira, sophomore international business major

Queenie Lai, sophomore marketing major

Chloe Martinez, sophomore business major

“I lost my virginity at fat camp. It was after fat camp prom, and so we were watching a movie, and we just decided to do it in his brother’s bed.”

“So I woke up and was wearing the same clothes and I tried to remember something and I couldn’t and I was like what the fuck happened? And I tried to get my phone and I couldn’t see it. I was in a bunk bed in Commons and was like where the fuck is my phone? And (my friend) says ‘in your coat.’ I put my hand into the pocket and I get this huge thing of keys.

One for a Mercedes… like 20 different keys. I was like ‘What the fuck is this?’ It looked like it was from a bouncer, like who’s going to have 10,000 keys? So we called Dick’s and we’re like ‘So by any chance is someone missing keys?’ And (the bartender) was like ‘Oh my God Roberto lost his keys last night.’

(When we got there) it was the bartender and a girl so I was like ‘Thank God he’s not here’ but suddenly I hear something and I turn back and I see Roberto coming! He came up to me and started shaking me (saying) ‘I’m going to kill you!’ He was like ‘I couldn’t go home last night. I couldn’t close the bar!’ I was like ‘Sorry, I don’t remember anything.’

“Okay so I’m from Spain. So I didn’t know what a syllabus was until my freshman year, November or something like that. So I went to class and they were like ‘homework’ and I was like ‘What homework?’

They were like ‘exam.’ And I was like ‘No, no idea.’

And I was like how do you see all this stuff and they were like a syllabus. And I was like what’s a syllabus?

I know what a syllabus is now. I’m a sophomore so it’s not too late. And I passed all of my classes.”

“Okay, so there was someone waving towards me but to the person behind me and I thought he was waving at me, so I waved back. And he high-fived the person behind me. It’s happened like three times this semester!”

Alexis Springer, junior behavioral neuroscience major

*This one is anonymous, but too good not to include*

“I was in the Bahamas on my senior trip. I was with my friends. And I was really, really drunk and I thought that this pepper spray bottle was my inhaler.

So I squirted it in my mouth twice. Basically I cried for about two hours and I lost my voice for about four weeks. And I was just like sick. It was so bad. I don’t really remember the pain honestly because I was so drunk, and when I got out of my drunkenness I was like ‘Why can’t I feel my mouth.’”

Rachel Hickey, senior physical therapy major “This is going to sound so bad. Because I don’t want to be rude to anyone who has children or anything, but with my experience with kids, I just don’t want any. And at this age, I’m only 21, having a kid wouldn’t be the greatest thing for me. So I was at a Halloween party and my friend and I were talking about like kids and what not for some reason, and one of his friends caught the last end of our conversation and just heard ‘baby,’ and turns to me and goes, ‘Oh do you have a kid?’ or whatever. And I just said ‘Oh my god no. I don’t want to fuck up my life.’ And he goes, ‘Oh, well I have a son.’ And I like lost it. And he’s younger than me, so I didn't expect him to have a kid. So I was like ‘Oh god… I’m so sorry.’ And the whole night I was just stressing about it.”

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A 'Rhapsody' INDEED

Biopic centered on the band Queen provides for an enjoyable and entertaining night at the movies

By TIM POWERS Staff Writer

The sounds of a roaring crowd begin as Freddie Mercury (Rami Malek) appears across the screen, mustache and all.

Mercury prepares himself for the crowd with the iconic British rock band Queen reuniting to begin its set at the 1985 Live Aid concert. The film then abruptly cuts to years earlier when the idea of Queen was just a pipe dream in a few kids’ heads. We are then treated to the story of the rise of Queen and its percieved downfall before finally landing back at the first scene of the film where Queen plays at Live Aid. This is the story of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the film that topped the box office in its opening weekend, bringing in $50 million in the North American market.

The first half of the film is somewhat underwhelming in my opinion. This part of the film never reaches any depth. The rise of the band is told too fast, it never feels like the band struggled. There are clear signs of it, such as performing at college parties, and the inclusion of various financial troubles. But it’s quickly swept under the rug in favor of the success. Although, this success never felt earned through the eyes of the film. I believe this is mainly to do with problems with the screenplay. It often feels more like reading a Wikipedia page on the band as opposed to a surreal cinematic experience.

Another problem with the screenplay is the character development. There is very little, in particular with the handling of Mercury’s sexuality. The film has come under fire from some fans of the rock star for its handling of the subject. Fans say that the film attempts to shy away from his male sexual relationships and instead focus on Mercury’s relationship with Mary Austin, a woman who he was involved with. In the beginning of the film, it is only implied that Mercury has an interest in men. It is done through a

montage sequence rather than giving depth to this part of his story. When the film does begin to dive into the story, it is only ever in relation to Mary. It’s like the creators are afraid to show who Mercury was beyond how it affected his female relationships.

The direction also plays into the general feel of rush and lack of strong storytelling. The production experienced trouble when the film studio, 20th Century Fox, temporarily halted production because of the absence of the film’s director Bryan Singer. Singer was then fired due to his erratic behavior according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Filming was then completed by another director, Dexter Fletcher. Singer had been accused of sexual misconduct by multiple people. However, Singer is the sole director credited on the film.

As the film progresses, I believe the writing certainly gets better. The second half of the film is powerful and quite emotional. It handles the back half of Queen’s career with a strong grip. The writing dives deeper into the characters and examines their complexities of themselves as well as the relationships they surround themselves with. It’s a shame that the film achieves this nirvana towards the end of the film. Had it maintained this strong feel throughout, it would have had the power to become a classic biopic, but alas.

One of the film's saving graces is Malek. The role is not like anything else Malek has ever done, with being mostly known for his roles in the television show “Mr. Robot” and the film franchise “A Night at the Museum.” Malek gives an astounding performance as the eccentric rock star, Mercury. Malek plays Mercury with gusto and force that ultimately pays off in the end. The emotions feel real and earned. Malek disappears into the world of Mercury. This is a performance where an effort was clearly put into the role and award attention would be greatly deserved.

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The new release has garnered a 62 percent on rottentomatoes.com

One of the other stronger aspects of the film were the musical sequences. They were energetic and were well directed. Often musical films botch the musical sequences and can never capture the energy the song requires.

However, “Bohemian Rhapsody” is not one. They will have you up and singing along.

Overall the film was entertaining. The story of “Queen” was engaging and interesting to watch, despite the flaws of the film. The film brought out many emotions ranging from laughing to crying to singing.

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So long, Rick Grimes... for now Main character leaves 'The Walking Dead' for AMC Movies

By ANNIKA GUSTAFSSON Staff Writer

Many "Walking Dead" fans were left teary-eyed after Andrew Lincoln announced the exit of his character Rick Grimes earlier this year. However, they were met with a surprise during Lincoln’s last episode, when it was revealed that Grimes would live on outside of the television hit, starring in three upcoming AMC Movies.

The news broke on "Talking Dead," "The Walking Dead’s" after-show.

“This is the end of Rick Grimes on 'The Walking Dead,' but this is not the end of Rick Grimes’ story,” Chief Content Officer Scott Gimple said. “We are going to continue telling Rick Grimes’ story in a series of AMC original films.”

Fans across the world believed this episode would be the true end for Grimes, as the show had been promoting his leave for months.

Grimes’ final episode, titled “What Comes After,” picks up after a dramatic cliffhanger from episode four, where Rick finds himself impaled on a rebar with a herd of walkers closing in. The protagonist manages to free himself, and he embarks on a painful horseback ride, bleeding out and trying to “find his family.” Along the way, Grimes slips in and out of consciousness, reconnecting with lost friends each time he passes out. Actors Jon Bernthal, Scott Wilson and Sonequa Martin-Green returned for the episode, reprising their roles as Shane, Hershel and Sasha respectively. When talking with his fallen allies, Grimes receives one final lesson from each of them, giving him closure on his lost relationships.

The episode reaches its climax when Grimes crosses the bridge his group has constructed with the walkers not far behind. Moments before he gets bitten, an arrow flies into the head of a walker, signaling the arrival of Daryl Dixon, Michonne, and the rest of Rick’s group. Rick remains still, waiting to see if the bridge will give out under the weight

of the undead bodies. After trying so desperately to find his family, Rick realizes they are right in front of him trying to save his fleeting life. With very little time left, the sheriff realizes what he must do to save the ones he loves. Whispering “I found them,” Grimes shoots a box of dynamite that has toppled over in the herd, blowing out the bridge and what seems to be himself as well. The remaining characters are left heart-broken, watching their leader fall in front of them.

In the final minutes of the dramatic episode, fans were left stunned as they tried to process the death of the series’ star character. Before tears could be shed, an almost-lifeless Rick Grimes appears on the bank of the river and is evacuated via helicopter by Anne, a character Rick met a few seasons ago. The Internet blew up after the helicopter flew away, with tweets pouring in about Grimes surviving the blast.

Some fans did not know how to react, feeling deceived after the months of build-up regarding the character’s demise.

Others were elated after watching their favorite southern survivor be spared, announcing their excitement for the upcoming movies.

Andrew Lincoln has his own thoughts on Rick’s future.

“It’s not the beginning of the end, it’s the end of the beginning,” Lincoln said, displaying his happiness and excitement for the continuation of Rick’s story.

Originally, Lincoln had wanted to leave the show in season eight, but as production continued, he knew it was not time for Grimes to say goodbye. In addition, several versions of his final episode were filmed, some of which depicted Rick meeting his end entirely. AMC chose to spare Grimes in order to give his story the ability to progress.

Lincoln enjoys having the chance to explore more of Rick’s background, saying “I love this character. I love the world that we inhabit.”

The first of the three movies is set to begin production

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Lincoln is set to star in three new spin-offs of the beloved show.

in as early as 2019, with a potential release date sometime in 2020. As for the television series, actors such as Norman Reedus and Danai Gurira are expected to take on larger roles, propelling the story along with Cailey Fleming, who will portray Rick’s daughter Judith. Rick Grimes may not be a part of the television world anymore, but his character will continue to be explained and adored in the Walking Dead universe.

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Give thanks to your friends It is the time of year to start looking forward to the big turkey dinner that will be spent with loved ones on Thanksgiving day. But what about your friends here at QU? How can you celebrate the holiday with them before you head home for break? Here are some ways to celebrate the holiday honored as “Friendsgiving." – J. Simms

Make it a potluck

To make sure that one person is not the sole contributor to the Friendsgiving meal, have all attendees bring something for the meal. Whether they buy it from the grocery store or make it themselves in their kitchen, it is nice for everyone at the dinner to bring something to ensure the dinner comes together. Also, it is only fair for everyone to bring a dish so one person is not doing it all by themselves.

It does not have to be traditional

A Friendsgiving celebration does not need to have all the traditional Thanksgiving dishes. You can be creative and try out new recipes. You can even talk to your friends and make your dinner themed. Have some fun with what dishes make it to your Friendsgiving meal because it does not have to only be restricted to turkey and stuffing.

Decorate

Make the room feel special since you are about to sit down to a nice Thanksgiving inspired meal with friends. Put a nice tablecloth down and buy some fall themed paper plates and napkins. You could even make your own centerpiece and other decorations if you are the creative type (check Pinterest for ideas) or you can even go and buy some if you do not have time to them yourself. Make the room look festive to make it feel as if its not just a normal hangout between you and your friends.

Make it small

It is not every day that you hold a celebration like this, so make it special. One way to do this is make the gathering small.

This will allow for you and your friends to bond and make memories beyond just your normal day-to-day activities. Sit and talk. Make it a quaint and intimate event.

Keep it casual

Although this is a special celebration between you and your good friends, you are not required to make it overly fancy.

Allow for your guests, if you are the host or hostess, to wear comfy clothes and not feel obligated to dress up. Decorate the table nicely, but not feel as if you need to bring out your best cutlery. Invest in some disposable plates, cups and silverware to make cleanup as easy as possible

Take pictures

What is an event without taking pictures? Get out your phones and cameras to document the fond memories you are about to make with your good friends. This will allow for you to always remember the enjoyable Friendsgiving celebration you had with your QU friends.

Make it special

Holding an event like this is special, so make it that way.

Avoid just sitting around and watching television because you can do that at any point in time. Enjoy each other’s company and do something interactive. Play a card game or listen to music together. Just be present in the moment because that is the whole point of making a Friendsgiving celebration.

Will Part Time get the recognition he deserves?

Part Time releases a tasteful new album that harkens back to the 80s

By MAXFIELD MASCARIN Contributing Writer

Los Angeles singer-songwriter David Loca, the mastermind behind his band Part Time, has quietly been making a name for himself in the indie music community since the release of the band’s 2011 debut album “What would you do?” Since then, the band has released five more records, the most recent of which titled “Spell #6” was released on Nov. 6.

Part Time is signed under the New York based indie record label known as Mexican Summer, which has a talented roster including Allah Las, Drugdealer, and most notably, Ariel Pink.

The latter of which is featured on the third track of "Spell #6," “I Can Treat You Better." Each act signed under Mexican Summer has a niche sound they are associated with, Part Time’s being a throwback to 80s synth with a touch of garage rock and psychedelia.

Part Time’s greatest talent is Loca’s ability to create catchy, synth based music that feels reminiscent of eighties acts like Tears For Fears, Falco and the Thompson Twins (among many others) without sounding like a rip-off. Common criticism that myself and many others hold of their earlier work is its lack of diversity. Many of their tracks sound very similar to one another with their bouncy synthesizers, punching snares and slightly over-the-top vocals. However, the release of Part Time’s 2015 double album "Virgo’s Maze," Loca showcased more complex songwriting with a vast range of style among the tracklist, it quickly became my favorite among their discography.

“Spell #6” was also produced by Cult Records, the record label founding by The Strokes frontman, Julian Casablancas, as Loca said in an interview with Weirdo Music Forever, “Julian Casablancas has been a fan of my music since my first album came out in 2012.”

Part Time's album dropped on Nov. 6.

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The album feels noticeably more produced, which is strange considering Loca is considered one of the “bedroom producers” of the music, but the production of "Spell #6" had Loca actually recording in a studio for once.

The first of twelve tracks is titled “Before You Fall Apart,” an upbeat song with foggy synthesizers on top of a solid bass line and complex drumming, already setting itself apart from Part Times past discography. The song’s chorus goes “Take my hand before you fall apart” speaking of themes of emotional stress and coping.

Instrumentally the strongest track among the album is titled “The Boys that Made Her Cry." The track features Bowieesque vocals and a heavily distorted guitar riff, along with muted keys and a cappella vocals in the background. The song discusses the topics of relationship woes and romantic patterns.

Several tracks among the album have a slowed down,

nearly jazz-like tempo such as “I Didn’t Know," “It’s Alright With Me” and the titular track “Spell #6”. This is a nice change of pace for Part Time, as a lot of their music is energetic and fast-paced. I really enjoy when an artist continually pushes boundaries or tries new tactics in their production.

“Shattered Love” is the fourth song on the album, which showcases several complex high pitch guitar tracks over each other, complimented a brute yet bouncy synthesizer track. In a sense, this song reminds me of Duran Duran’s “Hungry Like the Wolf” with its sharp guitar riffs. Oddly enough, the song also contains several unexpected but welcomed harmonica solos.

Personally, my favorite track is listed at number five, “So Far Away." The song is very eery and starts off very simplistic, but slowly a complex, high pitched synth track and several vocal samples. For me, the strength of the song lies in what I believe to be it’s meaning, dealing with the struggles of ambition in failure. Overall, “So Far Away” is melancholy, that being said, right before the final chorus come the lines “Begins a world anew, and you’re wearing the crown.”

While some tracks are better than others, there is not one bad song on "Spell #6." I’m really happy to see Loca further pushing his limits as a singer and a songwriter, fusing his typically synth-based retro sound with more blues and folk influences. While I don’t enjoy "Spell #6" as much as the previous album, "Virgo’s Maze," it is still very consistent and creative in its fifty-two minute run time.

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Quinnipiac men’s soccer falls to Rider in MAAC Championship The Bobcats finish the season one game short of the NCAA Tournament

By JARED PENNA Staff Writer

Rider was crowned the 2018 men’s soccer MAAC Champion after its 1-0 victory over Quinnipiac in Sunday’s match at Quinnipiac Soccer Stadium.

“We did everything we could,” Quinnipiac’s head coach Eric Da Costa said of his team’s effort. “We didn’t quite get the bounces that maybe we got in past games this year, and that’s the difference.”

Da Costa summed it up nicely, as Quinnipiac found trouble trying to start anything offensively all day. The ball was shared mostly between Quinnipiac defenders in their own half of the field, with very little forward progress being made.

The lone goal of the day came in the 54th minute of the game. Rider’s junior forward Clement Bourret fed sophomore forward Pablo DeCastro, who was able to sneak the ball just passed Quinnipiac sophomore goalkeeper Jared Mazzola for his first goal of the season.

The overwhelming feeling after the game was disappointment on the Bobcats sideline, but that was quickly replaced with reflection. Players and coaches alike reflected on the year they just went through as a team, as well as the game they had just played.

“If you’re going to lose a final (this was the way to do it),” Da Costa said, “To leave everything on the field like we did today and put everything that we could into the game to try to get back and tie the match, and hopefully go on and win the match, I can’t ask anything more from these guys.”

The game was hard fought all the way through, and the Bobcat players let it show. Their emotions on the field were felt throughout the stadium, with frustration and excitement boiling over at points. Quinnipiac earned three yellow cards and one red card on its way to defeat, playing hard until the clock hit triple zeros.

For the seniors, the game was especially

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The Bobcats will graduate eight seniors. including their second and third leading scorers (Rashawn Dally and Matthew Taylor). emotional, as it was the last of their Quinnipiac careers. Senior defender and captain Derek Parker took the time to reflect on his final game.

“It’s a bit of a heart breaker, you know?”

Parker said. “To go through a long season and come up this short, it’s tough.”

He was able to take positives away as well, reflecting not only on this one game but his Quinnipiac career and this season as a whole.

“It’s always a special honor being captain,” Parker said. “And then when you get to captain a team that’s as successful as we are and as close as we are, I wouldn’t give anything up and I would do this year all over again, no matter the end result.”

He had more to say about the season, reflecting on this year’s team and how they

were able to find success despite a slow start.

“Absolutely a success,” Parker said.

“Whenever you can make it to a final and give your team an opportunity to win, it has to be a successful year.”

Da Costa agreed, mentioning that in his 14 years as head coach, this season has to be close to the top. Following the defeat, he remained a class act as he was all season.

Despite this being Quinnipiac’s second loss in a finals match in the past three years, Da Costa found ways to stay positive and congratulate his opponent.

While he did remain private about what was discussed during his long embrace with Rider head coach Charlie Inverso after the game, he did share his thoughts on the 2018 MAAC champions.

“They’re a deserving champion,” Da

Costa said of the visiting Rider Broncs. “Four straight appearances in the final, they’ve got some real quality. The seniors have done a great job over the course of four years.”

Da Costa shared that he believes it’s too early to start thinking about next season, but with eight seniors departing after today’s game, he’ll have to do some serious planning sometime soon.

For now, though, it’s about accepting and coming to terms with this defeat.

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Chase Priskie breaks Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey Division I record

By BRYAN MURPHY Associate Sports Editor

Freshman forward Peter DiLiberatore skated the puck into the defensive zone of RPI. He stopped and fired a pass across the blue line to his defensive partner, senior defenseman and captain Chase Priskie.

Priskie didn’t tee up his go-to slap shot.

Instead, he stuck to the wrist shot and slung a shot on net, beating RPI junior goaltender Linden Marshall on the blocker side.

While the goal put the Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey team up 3-0 in the game on Friday night, it also engraved Priskie into Quinnipiac history.

With his tally, his seventh on the year and his 29th career goal, Priskie surpassed Dan Ennis (‘03) for the Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey Division I record for career goals by a defenseman. Despite the great achievement, Priskie kept to his humble self when asked about the recognition.

“It’s great to be in the record books, but at the same time it’s the players that I’ve been able to play with for the last four years,” Priskie said. “Without them, a lot of those goals don’t happen and I can’t give enough praise to the guys I’ve been able to play with that have been able to get me the puck in the right situations. I’ve been able to do the easy part. I just try to come in and do whatever I can to help the team win.”

While Priskie praised his teammates, they were the ones that were giving all the credit to him.

“He is very humble,” senior forward and assistant captain Scott Davidson said. “He

knows that he’s put the work in, so I think that’s where he’s at. He is proud, but he shows the humble side. That’s why he plays the way he does, because he knows he does that extra stuff to play that way.”

Priskie has made a big presence since he arrived at Quinnipiac as a freshman. His first year, he scored four goals and tallied 22 assists, which gave him 26 points that ranked third among freshmen in ECAC Hockey.

He was also named to the 2015-16 ECAC Hockey All-Rookie Team.

The summer going into his sophomore campaign, Priskie was drafted in the sixth round by the Washington Capitals in the 2016 NHL Draft. He backed that up with seven goals and 19 assists and an ECAC Hockey Third Team selection in the 201617 season.

In Priskie’s junior year, he was given the captain patch, making him the first junior to be named a captain since 2010-11. He scored a career-high 11 goals and 14 assists, putting him third on the team in points and tied for third with goals.

In his final season in a Bobcat uniform, Priskie has been one of the big reasons as to why the team is off to a 7-2-0 start. He is first on the team in goals (seven) and points (11), and in terms of the conference, is tied for first in goals and tied for fourth with points. His performance has certainly been recognized, as Quinnipiac head coach Rand Pecknold has said on multiple occasions that Priskie has been the team’s best player, and that the honor seems like a right fit for Priskie.

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The Bobcats are still searching for their first win of the season after two weekend home series’ against Ohio State and Maine to begin the year.

“I didn’t know what the record was, I didn’t know where [Priskie] was, I didn’t know if he was even close,” Pecknold said. “But it makes sense to me. He’s been that good, he’s that consistent. And he’s a goalscorer.”

With Priskie and the team currently focusing on the upcoming weekend with games against Cornell and Colgate, Priskie said he believes the honor is something that he will reflect on once he no longer dons the

blue and gold.

“I’ll probably think about it more when I’m done [at Quinnipiac] and I hang my jersey up for the last time,” Priskie said. “As of right now, I’m just trying to do whatever I can to help the team win games.”

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MEN’S HOCKEY QU 3, RPI 0 - Friday Chase Priskie: 1 goal, 1 assist Odeen Tufto: 1 goal, 1 assist Daniel Winslow: 1 goal Andrew Shortridge: 12 saves Union 5, QU 1 - Saturday Michael Lombardi: 1 goal Keith Petruzzelli: 18 saves MEN’S BASKETBALL Villanova 86, QU 53 - Saturday Cam Young: 18 points, 3 assists Travis Atson: 11 points Kevin Marfo: 5 points, 8 rebounds WOMEN’S BASKETBALL QU 56, Drexel 52 - Friday Jen Fay: 15 points, 8 rebounds Paula Strautmane: 11 points Aryn McClure: 9 points, 6 rebounds Bucknell 75, QU 58 - Sunday McClure: 16 points, 9 rebounds Fay: 11 points, 4 assists Taylor Herd: 11 points, 9 rebounds VOLLEYBALL Canisius 3, QU 0 - Saturday Kat Miller: 10 kills Morgan Sherwin: 10 kills QU 3, Niagara 0 - Sunday Miller: 16 kills, 18 digs Lydia Jones: 15 kills MEN’S SOCCER QU 3, Marist 3 (QU in PKs, 8-7) MAAC Semifinals - Thursday Eamon Whelan: 1 goal, 1 assist Rashawn Dally: 1 goal Jeppe Haehre: 1 goal Rider 1, QU 0 MAAC Finals - Sunday Jared Mazzola: 3 saves RUGBY QU 46, Notre Dame College 5 NIRA Quarterfinals - Saturday Mikah Maples: 2 tries Margot Vella: 2 tries Emily Roskopf: 2 tries Allison Koenig: 2 tries

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

QU at Colgate - Saturday, 7 p.m.

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

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

QU vs. Merrimack - Tuesday, 6 p.m.

MEN’S BASKETBALL QU vs. Hartford - Saturday, 7 p.m.

QU at New Hampshire - Tuesday, 7 p.m.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL QU at Providence - Thursday, 7 p.m.

VOLLEYBALL QU at MAAC Tournament - Thursday-Sunday RUGBY QU at Harvard (NIRA Semifinals) - Friday, 1 p.m.

GAME OF THE WEEK

Quinnipiac rugby defeats Notre Dame College on Senior Day The Bobcats advance to the NIRA Semifinals and will face Harvard this weekend

By JORDAN WOLFF Staff Writer

In a game where the stakes were high, the Quinnipiac women’s rugby team (4-4 overall, 3-3 NIRA) delivered once again as it defeated Notre Dame College (4-4 overall, 4-4 NIRA) 46-5 on Saturday to advance to its fourth straight semifinal game.

With the Bobcats not having played a game in two weeks, head coach Becky Carlson was confident in the fact that her team would show no signs of regression.

“If you’re going to have a confidence builder into the semifinals, this game would be it,” Carlson said. “In practice they did all the little things and you can’t ask of anymore from your players.”

The Bobcats opened up the first half with senior outside center and captain Emily Roskopf diving into the Notre Dame zone to give the Bobcats a 7-0 lead.

Prior to the game, Roskopf and senior wing Catria Sands were honored for their contributions to the program. With having the experience of winning three championships, Roskopf made sure to tell the underclassmen the importance of this game.

“It’s kind of a one and done, so if you don’t show up today, then there’s no tomorrow,” Roskopf said. “It’s a mentality of be strong, go out there and keep going.”

Sands, who has played in almost every match for the Bobcats,

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also made sure to tell the underclassmen to not take Notre Dame lightly.

“We haven’t played too much together as a team,” Sands said.

“This is the time to come together and show them that we can play together.”

The Bobcats continued that momentum as freshman fullback Allison Koenig scored two consecutive tries to extend the lead to 17-0. Junior center Mikah Maples converted another try for the Bobcats to put them up 29-0 going into the first half.

Despite the offensive outburst, the Bobcats only allowed the Falcons to convert one try, and that’s something that has caught the eye of Carlson.

“You know when you’re putting your head down because it’s not a shutout means that there has been a big emphasis on defense,” Carlson said. “We really tried to put a focus on the defense because we know going into next weekend, it’s not going to be about how many offloads or tries you have, it’s going to be about how many times you stop your opponent.”

Stopping the opponent continued to be a challenge for Notre Dame as freshman wing Margot Vella scored two tries to put the Bobcats up 34-0. Mikah Maples scored her second try of the game to put the Bobcats up 44-5.

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The Quinnipiac rugby team is now just two wins away from its fourth straight NIRA national championship. travel to Hanover, NH to face Harvard. Now how can the Bobcats stop an opponent that’s beaten them twice this season? Carlson believes in the phrase “the third time’s the charm.”

“We don’t know what team comes out on any given day,” Carlson said. “They are fast on the breakdown, fast on the back of scrum, have a good 15 and nine.

Work on stifling those possessions

and communication and today the communication was back.”

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No. 13 Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey drops game to No. 12 Union

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November 14, 2018

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The Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey team wore its camo uniforms on Saturday in honor of Veteran’s Day.

By JORDAN WOLFF Staff Writer

In a night of first and seconds for No. 13 Quinnipiac, the men’s ice hockey team (7-2 overall, 2-2 ECAC) was defeated by the No. 12 Union Dutchmen (7-3-1 overall, 3-3 ECAC) on Saturday in Hamden, 5-1.

It was the second loss in which the Bobcats were defeated 5-1, but head coach Rand Pecknold credits Union for bringing the fight to Hamden.

“I thought Union was really good tonight,” Pecknold said.

“I thought [goaltender] Darion Hanson was the best player in the game and we have to do a better job of trying to score goals since we had 35 shots and only one goal to show for it. Union was the better team and they deserved to win that game.”

Union didn’t waste any time as 3:12 into the first period, senior right wing Ryan Walker put one in off a rebound to give the Dutch-

men a 1-0 lead. However, the Bobcats limited them to one goal and finish the period outshooting the Dutchmen 9-8.

In the second period, Union continued its offensive push as sophomore right wing John Kosack would put the Dutchmen up 2-0. However, freshman center Michael Lombardi scored his first career goal on a wrap around to cut the Bobcats lead to 2-1.

Taking the place of injured junior forward Nick Jermain, Lombardi wanted to put more emphasis on the team’s performance instead of his own accomplishment.

“It would’ve been nice to get two points, but it still felt good getting it off my back,” Lombardi said.

“Our team doesn’t quit, and from top to bottom our team buys in and so there is no quit in our group.”

Although Lombardi tried to spark the Bobcats, Union’s offense found its rhythm in the third period as junior forward Anthony Rinaldi scored consecutive goals to put the Dutchmen up 4-1. Kosack scored his second goal of the game on a 2-on-1 opportunity to extend the lead to 5-1, which would be the game’s final score.

Pecknold decided to start sophomore goaltender Keith Petruzzelli on Saturday, who made 18 saves on 23 shots. On Friday, junior goaltender Andrew Shortridge recorded a shutout against RPI while making 12 saves.

Pecknold still believes that the two-goalie system will be the

most effective moving forward.

“We have two good goalies,” Pecknold said. “We gave them both a chance to play and will play it by ear and see what happens next weekend.

As for next weekend, Quinnipiac will have to travel to face the perennial ECAC Hockey contender Cornell on Friday, Nov. 16, who are 4-2 overall and 2-2 in ECAC Hockey play.

Despite not being on the team last season, since his first day in the program Lombardi was instructed of how important ECAC Hockey games are and especially ones against programs like Cornell, who knocked Quinnipiac out of the ECAC Hockey playoffs last year.

“We had the Cornell News [headline] that said, ‘How sweep it is’ in our weight room all summer,” Lombardi said. “There is definitely an added motivation going into this game.”

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Clockwise from top left: Quinnipiac men’s basketball senior guard Aaron Robinson dribbles the ball up the court in Saturday’s loss to Villanova; graduate student guard Cam Young drives the ball against a Villanova defender; freshman guard Tyrese Williams drives and looks for an opening; senior forward Abdulai Bundu takes the ball toward the hoop.

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Four different Bobcats had two tries in Quinnipiac rugby’s 46-5 win over Notre Dame College on Saturday.

Quinnipiac men’s soccer junior forward Eamon Whelan finished the season tied for 10th in the nation in goals (11).

Quinnipiac senior Chase Priskie recorded his 29th career goal, setting the Quinnipiac record for career goals by a defenseman.

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Quinnipiac volleyball senior outside hitter Kat Miller recorded her 1000th career kill on Sunday in the team’s win against Niagara. She is the only Bobcat to ever record 1000 kills and 1000 digs in the D-I era.