The Quinnipiac Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 13

DECEMBER 5, 2018 | VOLUME 89, ISSUE 13

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Attempted burglary at university-owned house

By MADISON FRAITAG Creative Director

An attempted burglary occurred at a university-owned house on New Road today, sometime between 10:30 a.m. and 1:20 p.m., according to Public Safety Sergeant Bob Vignola.

A female resident and Quinnipiac student returned home from class to find that the side door of her house had been kicked in.

The resident who found the opened door was unable to comment, however, her housemate was able to describe the events.

“My housemate got home and noticed that the door was kicked in and so she quickly called her parents and her mom told her to leave the house and then she picked me up,” she said. “We then realized that not only was our side door kicked in but my door, her door and then our guest bedroom door were all kicked in. We went to Public Safety and they called [Hamden Police].”

The resident said nothing appeared to be missing from the house, even though only one bedroom door was locked.

Vignola explained that since no property loss has been confirmed at this time the incident is technically considered criminal mischief, however because a door was kicked open he is calling it an attempted burglary.

“A burglary by Connecticut statute is when you enter a premise to commit a crime so basically it’s a burglary, but it’s an attempted burglary at this point,” he said.

Hamden Police Detective Joseph Liguori confirmed that there is an ongoing investigation and a notice will be sent to students, but does not

think students have cause to be alarmed.

The resident said she never feared for her safety in her New Road house, and is surprised that this happened so close to campus.

“I was in complete and utter shock,” she said. “I never thought that something like that would happen, especially in such a college area surrounded by other college houses.”

The students have requested to be moved to a different residence area.

“I am not staying in that house,” she said.

“Living in this house knowing that someone did that, especially knowing where it was, we were afraid something could happen again if they did come back.”

The resident, a junior at Quinnipiac living in the off-campus housing due to an accommodation, is surprised at the lack of surveillance on New Road.

“I’m shocked that there are no security cameras down New Road that Public Safety can watch just because it is such a residential neighborhood with all these college kids,” she said. “They have no idea, like nothing [about the incident].”

While New Road lacks video surveillance, Public Safety does patrol the area and will increase its watch as needed.

“We’re going to saturate the area, that’s natural anyway,” Vignola said. “We’re following up on a couple of leads but the area is heavily traveled, so there’s not a lot of criminal action down there. We’re picking up our patrol checks as needed.”

Public Safety also told the residents of the house that a maintenance worker reportedly

Dr. Bethany Zemba appointed as vice president and chief of staff

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A student found the side door of her New Road residence kicked in around 1 p.m. on Tuesday.

saw a suspicious car parked in their driveway as he drove by, but did not choose to investigate, according to the resident. Public Safety declined to confirm this to The Chronicle due to the case remaining open and ongoing.

Although the resident does not wish to remain in her current residence area, she was pleased with the support and attention that Hamden Police, Public Safety and her ResiSee BURGLARY Page 4

Dr. Bethany Zemba has been appointed vice president and chief of staff of Quinnipiac, announced today by President Judy Olian according to an announcement on MyQ. Zemba will serve as a senior adviser, working closely with the senior management team to direct the formulation and execution of the university’s strategic plan; coordinate institutional research; oversee community relations; and serve as the primary liaison to the board of trustees, according to the MyQ announcement.

“I am eager to begin working with President Olian and her senior leadership team, and to be joining an exemplary university community of faculty, staff and alumni committed to the collective goal of preparing future graduates for a lifetime of professional success,” Zemba said in the MyQ announcement. “I look forward to fostering partnerships across the university and embracing the many learning experiences that lie ahead in this role.”

Zemba will be coming into the role backed with 15 years of administrative leadership at Yale University, where she most recently served as senior associate dean, chief of staff and senior adviser to the dean of the faculty of arts and sciences. Prior to that, she worked for 12 years at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, according to the MyQ announcement.

Zemba officially began her position Tuesday, Dec. 4.

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The students who previously have had no reservations about Uber, were surprised at Brozek’s demeanor.

“Most of the Uber drivers around here know that it’s like college students,” Rosenblum said. “If an Uber driver looks sketchy in their profile and has a low rating, I’ll just cancel the trip but he didn’t seem sketchy. He has a 4.9 rating so I was like OK.”

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In an informal survey conducted by The Chronicle, 95 participants shared their thoughts on the current standards regarding Uber drivers on campus. Of those who participated 61 percent of people agreed that Uber drivers should not be allowed on campus. Yet, 13.7 percent of these people admitted that they have been picked up at the dorm by a driver.

Uber drivers are not the only vehicles allowed on campus that aren’t driven by Quinnipiac students, faculty or staff. Food delivery service drivers are allowed to drive through security booths and up to campus dorms. When participants were asked if they felt Uber services and food delivery should be treated differently, 50.5 percent voted that they did not think they should be.

Although Schmidt and Rosenblum were not affected by their ride directly, they don’t blame the school or the service for the separate incident that occurred. Schmidt noted that Uber drivers typically undergo a screening process that should prevent incidents like these.

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Public Safety issued a ‘timely warning’ regarding an ongoing investigation of an Uber driver that allegedly followed a female student onto the Mt. Carmel campus and entered a residence hall on Friday.

Driver Sean Brozek, 24, was arrested and charged with stalking, threatening and criminal trespassing, according to the statement posted on MyQ. He drives a white 2012 Nissan Rogue with the Connecticut license plate 581-ZJL. This is not the first time Brozek has been arrested. The driver was arrested on charges of third-degree criminal mischief and disorderly conduct July 9, 2017, according to a report by The North Haven Patch.

The warning, issued in accordance with the federal law, sent out at 7:44 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30 notified the university about an incident that occurred earlier on the Mount Carmel campus forwarded recipients to their MyQ account for more details. Associate Vice President for Public Relations Affairs John Morgan said that the reasoning for forwarding students to MyQ rather than explicitly stating the information in the alert was to provide a visual.

“We felt it was important to include the picture in the alert and MyQ provides the plat-

form to do that,” Morgan said.

Although providing a visual of Brozek was intended to help students identify him should he be spotted on campus again, many expressed that they were not happy with the way the original alert was put out. Freshman physical therapy Emily Menice was more concerned about the way her mom reacted to the notification being that she did not have her own access to MyQ. “As I tried to log onto MyQ to figure out what had happened, the page wouldn’t load, probably due to the amount of students who were trying to log on,” Menice said. “My mom had also called me about five times panicking about the situation.”

Sophomore health science major Alexa Schmidt and her suitemate, sophomore interdisciplinary studies major Brooke Rosenblum had Brozek as an Uber driver Thursday night, the day before the arrest. They noticed that he acted atypically, when compared to previous Uber drivers they’ve had.

“We had him as an Uber driver on the 29th of November from Main [Mt. Carmel campus] up to York,” Schmidt said. “I was with my suitemate, Brooke. He was talking to us, he was kind of weird and budding into our conversation. He wanted to know what we were talking about and where we were

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December 5, 2018

Triumph out of tragedy Parkland school shooting survivor and March For Our Lives co-founder David Hogg shares his story

By OWEN MEECH & EMILY DISALVO

David Hogg was just 17 years old when he survived the largest school shooting in American school history this past February.

Now an empowered 18-year-old, just nine months after that fateful day at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, Hogg speaks to audiences across the nation to promote active citizenship and gun control, including a stop on Nov. 27 at Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) in New Haven as part of the university’s “social justice month.”

“David’s grassroots activism and social media mastery has mobilized millions of young people to find their voices, speak out, and engage in change,” Joe Bertolino, president of SCSU, said in his opening address.

Some of these newly mobilized young people were sitting in the stands at the John Lyman Center for Performing Arts at SCSU as Bertolino spoke, eager to hear Hogg’s words of wisdom about how to best impact positive change in their world. The audience of primarily local high school and college students leapt to their feet to welcome Hogg as he entered the stage.

“I never felt that I had a voice strong enough or big enough to take on the gun lobby,” Hogg said after the applause died down. “Or that my voice even mattered that much.”

Hogg, who covered the shooting at his school as a student reporter, eventually realized his voice did matter. He became an activist out of a desire to educate people on what he believed was actually causing mass shootings ─ the inaction of our elected officials.

“Politicians have had the opportunity to change it for x, y and z reasons,” Hogg said.

“And those x, y and z are the NRA.” Following the tragedy, Hogg immediately turned his anger towards the NRA (National Rifle Association), a powerful gun rights lobby, into action by co-founding the March For Our Lives.

The movement took Washington, D.C. by storm in March 2018 when over a million people gathered to protest gun violence in the capital and throughout over 800 sibling events around the world.

“We were confident when we first started out that we could get 90 people,” Hogg said, to laughter from the audience. “Yeah, 90.

We had over a million. Thank you to each of you that went to that march. Because of that we have politicians that are now no longer running towards the NRA to get an ‘A’ rating. They’re running away from them, begging for an ‘F’ rating.”

In addition to March For Our Lives, Hogg has spent the last several months traveling the country speaking to gun rights activists who he believed wanted him dead.

The purpose of these trips was to prove that he and his fellow students were not “gungrabbing commies,” but rather kids committed to a safer future.

“My father is a gun owner,” Hogg said. “I understand why people have the right to bear arms. The same way that people who advocated for safer cars and safer roads weren’t anticar or pro-car. They were pro-more-peoplenot-dying. We are not pro-gun or anti-gun. We are pro-more-people-not-dying!”

Hogg recalled sharing this message in the 98 degree Texas heat to a group of angry gun owners, who Hogg later discovered were neo-nazis. The talk lasted over an hour, and by the end, Hogg said the initially violent group cried and hugged him and his peers because the conversation was informative and enlightening for the group who had been fed anti-gun control propaganda for years.

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Young voters turned out in higher numbers than any year before for the 2018 Midterms. what we don’t know,” Hogg said. “And if you can prove to people and explain to them what they don’t know, they can stop that hatred.”

Hogg’s visit to Connecticut comes at a particularly significant time in the state’s history, as the state approaches the sixth anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on Dec. 14, 2012, in Newtown.

At the time, the incident was the deadliest mass shooting at either a high school or grade school in U.S. history and the fourthdeadliest mass shooting by a single person in U.S. history, prompting passionate national debate about gun control and mental health.

Hogg believes there is more work to be done, however, and calls on young people to get informed and engaged in politics, citing November’s midterm elections as a step in the right direction.

His message of activism especially resonated with Alexandra Peixoto, a senior at Hamden High School who serves as president of Teens Against Gun Violence at her school.

“I was moved to tears at various times in the speech,” Peixoto said. “Hearing him speak just gives me more drive than I already had. They really believe we can make a change and trust me, we will fight like hell until that change is made.”

And change actually was made ─ in the form of increased voter turnout.

In comparison with the 2014 midterms, the surge in early voting was most pronounced among voters ages 18 to 29, with more than 3.3 million voters from that group who cast their votes early. This is a 188 percent increase from 2014, according to data from TargetSmart, a political-data-analysis firm.

Hogg emphasized young voters’ contribution to over 40 candidates who were backed by the NRA being voted out of office.

“There is a price on each one of our heads that has been put there by the gun lobby and so many different organizations,” Hogg said. “The option is up to us as Americans in this moment of history, in this day.

Are we going to stand up and fight back against corruption and create that America that it says it is on paper? Are we going to allow this to continue?”

According to Hamden High School senior and president of the school’s Pride Club, Emily Andrews, absolutely not.

“I need to be a voice in my community,” Andrews said. “It was refreshing for him to touch on [LGBTQ+ issues] as well be-

cause a lot of people don’t know that gun violence does affect trans women of color at a staggeringly high rate and it’s never talked about.”

While the results of the 2018 midterms are promising to Hogg, he acknowledged the selfish intent of many politicians that still linger on Capitol Hill.

“The first question on any politician’s mind shouldn’t be ‘how is this going to affect my election’ or ‘is this going to affect my corporate special interests that are running my campaign?’” Hogg said. “No. Their first question should be ‘how is this going to affect the next generation that comes after me? Because that is the generation that I need to be worried about.’”

Despite Hogg’s calls for action, some attendees were left with questions.

“I feel like in a way he just repeated himself,” SCSU freshman secondary education history major Gillian Farina said. “I want to know what he thinks about stereotypes of white shooters versus colored shooters because I don’t think he really talked about that.”

Although Farina didn’t receive all the answers she wanted, she expressed her respect for Hogg’s attempts to make a difference.

“I found it hard but inspiring for a teenager to be talking to a [such] a crowd,” Farina added.

Hogg says his passion about these topics stems from his desire to speak on behalf of those who are no longer with us and those who are yet to come.

“We, in this room have a chance,” Hogg said. “To stand up and speak out against violence and injustice for those who no longer can, to fight for those who no longer can and those that aren’t here yet.”

Hogg concluded his talk with a message of unity and hope for the future, reminding the audience that before any other label we place on ourselves, we are all human.

“We are human beings working together,” Hogg said. “Not as Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans, and fundamentally human beings united against gun violence. And together we can and will as long as we believe that and continue to remember who we are fighting for.”in the speech,” Peixoto said. “Hearing him speak just gives me more drive than I already had.

They really believe we can make a change and trust me, we will fight like hell until that change is made.”

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Former Quinnipiac President John Lahey awarded for service to Ireland

By CHRISTINA POPIK & AMANDA PERELLI

The President of Ireland honored Quinnipiac President Emeritus John Lahey with the annual Presidential Distinguished Service Award, according to a Quinnipiac press release.

The President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, honored Lahey for his service to Ireland and to Irish communities abroad, according to the release. Lahey served as the chairman of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in New York City, supported education for Irish-Americans at Quinnipiac and most notably, for his contribution and help in opening Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum in Hamden.

The museum houses the largest collection of Irish Potato Famine art and artifacts.

“I am deeply honored and humbled to be recognized by the Irish government in this manner, and grateful for the importance President Higgins has placed on Quinnipiac’s Great Hunger Museum,” Lahey said in the release.

Higgins met Lahey last March at the opening of, ‘Coming Home: Art and the Great Hunger,’ an exhibit that Higgins says will “come to be seen as a landmark event in our continuing attempts to understand the full complexity and totality of the Famine,

both in terms of its source and legacy.”

“There is now perhaps no deeper relationship between two peoples than that which exists between the peoples of Ireland and the United States, and that enduring bond has been greatly strengthened and deepened by the labours of Dr. John Lahey, for many years the President of Quinnipiac University,” said Higgins in the release.

The award ceremony was followed by a private dinner hosted by Simon Coveney, Ireland’s foreign minister, and Ciarán Cannon, Ireland’s minister for the diaspora and international development at Farmleigh, the official Irish state guest house, according to the release.

Coveney called the award, in its seventh year, “a very important opportunity to acknowledge those who have contributed to realizing Ireland’s place as an island at the center of the world,” according to the release.

In 2012, Lahey was honored as “Irish Person of the Year” at the Irish Leaders of New England Awards for his contributions to the Irish community and historical memory, as well as for his work in creating Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, Músaem An Ghorta Mhóir, according to past Chronicle coverage.

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Former President Lahey was honored by the President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgens.

Phi Gamma Delta fundraises money for victims of California wildfires

By JENNIE TORRES Staff Writer

Paradise, California was consumed in fire this past November which ended up spreading throughout Northern California, making it the nation’s deadliest wildfire in a century, according to USA Today. Because of this, the brothers of Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI) wanted to do something to help the victims in the aftermath of this natural disaster.

FIJI has been following their fraternity’s mission of building courageous leaders who serve the world as they have fundraised money for people affected by these California wildfires. FIJI’s fundraiser was located in the Carl Hansen Student Center, where the brothers collected donations.

“We’re including home essentials like bedding, towels, pillows, clothing, something that you would lose in a fire,” FIJI’s Correspondence Secretary Alex Bernabe said, who lives in San Diego. Bernabe says that these incidents are not uncommon.

“I’ve dealt with fires my entire life. We had a fire in 2004 come right through our town and rip it all apart,” Bernabe said. “I was in (Los Angeles) over Thanksgiving break, and I saw what happened because it was contained. I was like, ‘Wow, I just want to help.’”

Senior journalism major Brooke Reilly also had her own experience witnessing the damage done to California while she was interning there.

“I was interning with two television news stations, so I learned a lot about covering wildfires. I was in charge of monitoring updates and logging press conferences,” Reilly said. “I also saw some flames from my balcony on the evening of Friday, Nov. 9. The fires were luckily far enough away, but I was a little bit nervous that night.”

Reilly said that it is great what FIJI is doing to help the victims of the fires.

“It really is devastating to see how many people lost so much,” Reilly said. “Quinni-

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The Ferry Building, Bay Bridge and Treasure Island before, Nov. 16 (right) and after, Dec. 1 (left) the haze of the forest fires. piac has several ties to California between the QU in LA program and students being from there. I think that any contribution can go a long way.”

Bernabe was determined to help those in need, so he turned to his brothers to support this idea. It didn’t take long for all of the members to be on board with the plan, including sophomore physical therapy major and Intramurals Chairman Edwin Daneelian who also lives in California. He said that he has some friends there whose homes were damaged by the fire.

“I haven’t gotten the chance to go back home yet so I haven’t seen any of it first hand, but I know that from last year’s fire, it was a lot closer to my house,” Daneelian said. “You see how much it impacts everything. It’s like we need to start everything

back from the ground up.”

Daneelian has branched out FIJI’s fundraiser to his former high school in Los Angeles, Rose and Alex Pilibos Armenian School, where their student council will help FIJI with their donative drive.

“The school has had their annual walk-athon which is a big fundraiser that my high school does,” Daneelian said. “So (the principal) said once that fundraiser is done (she) will shift the focus of the student body to getting parents and family and alumni to donate.”

Junior journalism major Sean Raggio finds FIJI’s efforts to collect donations to be a great thing as well as a look into their character as a whole.

“I’m not sure, but I don’t even think this is their philanthropy through their fraternity, just something of their doing of their own

accord,” Raggio said. “It really says a lot about the character of the guys in FIJI. In a world where so many people think, ‘If I don’t do it, someone else will,’ these guys didn’t think that way, they went and took action.”

Junior biomedical science major and newly elected President of FIJI Krisjanis Ule said that the fraternity encourages their members to come up with ideas like this that they want to pursue.

“The biggest thing for us is if a brother is really passionate about something, we just let them think of an idea, try to plan something out, and if it works out logistically then we all are on board with it,” Ule said.

“As long as we can get all the proper paperwork done with the school in terms of tabling, then it’s just mostly PR work in terms of spreading the word, and then as soon as we have guys posting things on social media like asking for donations then it kind of pretty easy from there.”

Senior journalism major Justin Cait is from Los Angeles and he said the fires were close to his family’s home and it burnt down a camp that his mother worked at.

“I have friends that that had to evacuate their homes in Calabasas and stay with family elsewhere during the fires, but luckily, none of those close to me lost homes or anything more serious than having fire retardant sprayed on their homes by airplanes.” Cait said.

Cait said that any kind of help will be great for those in need of help from the aftermath.

“I hope that the community in Paradise, California, in Northern California receives a ton of help because that city is completely destroyed all at the hands of nature,” Cait said. “It’s something that is unexpected, shocking and really scary, so I hope that Paradise recovers as soon as it can.”

FIJI will continue their donations on Wednesday, Dec. 5 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m, Thursday, Dec. 6 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday, Dec. 7 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Wednesday, Dec. 5 Bake sale Delta Upsilon will host a bake sale event on Wednesday, Dec. 5 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Carl Hansen Student Center. The event will raise money for the family of a sister in Alpha Delta Pi, whose brother has a disability requiring a service dog. Members of Delta Upsilon are hoping to relieve some of the financial stress on the family.

SEA tabling Students for Environmental Action (SEA) will host a tabling event to spread word about the organization, its message and give students an idea of the environmental concerns of the student body on Wednesday, Dec. 5 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Carl Hansen Student Center. The event will feature a “give one, take one” format – students can write a concern, and in return get a reusable straw courtesy of SEA.

Thursday, Dec. 6 Wish week tabling Chi Omega will host a tabling event for its annual Wish Week on Thursday, Dec. 6 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Carl Hansen Student Center. Students and faculty members can stop by and write down wishes for the holiday season. For every wish, Macy’s will donate $1 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, an organization that grants wishes to children with critical illnesses.

Friday, Dec. 7 Final tips The National Residence Hall Honorary (NRHH) will host a tabling event to give students helpful advice prior to finals on Friday, Dec. 7 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Carl Hansen Student Center. Representatives from NRHH will provide studying and stress relief tips, materials such as highlighters and colored pens, and offer words of encouragement to students.

Saturday, Dec. 8 Public Safety toy drive Public Safety is collecting toys for the Hamden Toy Bank until Saturday, Dec. 8. Drop off boxes are located in the Public Safety offices on the Mount Carmel and York Hill Campuses.

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Pro-life feminism: a candid conversation

By OWEN MEECH Staff Writer

Professor Teresa Collett believes that women in the workplace have been marginalized by the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision and argued her opinion on Nov. 13 during her presentation, “The Feminist Case Against Abortion,” at Quinnipiac University School of Law. Collett, who serves as the director of the University of St. Thomas School of Law’s Pro-Life Center, claimed that women’s lives weren’t saved by the court’s ruling in 1973 that a state law banning abortions was unconstitutional, but rather by medical advancements and improved technology.

“I don’t think that equality means that women have the same reproductive lives as a man,” Collett said during Quinnipiac University School of Law (QUSL) Federalist Society’s final event of the semester. “I don’t see [the court’s ruling] as liberation.”

Collett points to 1992’s Planned Parenthood v. Casey, in which Justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote that “the ability of women to participate equally in the economic and social life of the Nation has been facilitated by their ability to control their reproductive lives.”

O’Connor’s statement in defense of the court’s ruling that spousal awareness prior to obtaining an abortion was invalid under the Fourteenth Amendment has been interpreted in many ways, but Collett deems her words to mean that “women must kill their children” to fully engage in the workplace.

Collett’s resume includes representing Congressman Ron Paul in defense of the U.S. federal ban of partial-birth abortions and serving over six years on the Pontifical Council for the Family after being appointed to the position in 2009 by Pope Benedict XVI. However, advancement in her career didn’t come without pushback from employers and coworkers.

Collett claims she was urged to wait to have a baby and even told to have an abortion by a female coworker when she became pregnant while practicing law. Despite this, she worked up until she was eight and a half months pregnant.

“Pregnancy discrimination is real,” Collett said, as she presented statistics showing that most women aspire to a happy and lasting marriage, and to eventually have children.

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Collett discussed her experience as a woman and the difficulties she faced. lives, Collett explained, workplace pressure justified by the court’s decision in Roe v. Wade is partly to blame.

“Why would we assume that a woman getting an abortion is a good thing?” Collett asked her audience. “Abortion shouldn’t be the solution.”

Collett believes that more legal protections must be put in place to assist women who plan to start a family while maintaining a career.

In addition, Collett advocated for more transparency from Planned Parenthood and state governments to report accurate abortion statistics.

In spite of Collett’s detailed presentation, her argument did not sit well with everyone in attendance.

Quinnipiac Law Professor Linda Meyer noted that “we don’t live in a utopia yet,” and it’s imperative to support women’s reproductive rights, including access to abortions.

Others in attendance believed Collett’s argument conflated a woman’s right to choose with employers essentially forcing women to abort their children, and accused her of using dated case law and statistics.

Third year law student and Women’s Law

Society President Taylor Matook pointed out what she believed were “many holes” in Collett’s argument.

“Professor Collett structured her entire ‘feminist pro-life’ argument around the argument that employers who discriminate against pregnancy can use abortion as a lever to propel that discrimination against pregnant employees, or those who want to have children in the near future,” Matook said.

“Her entire presentation lacked any implementation of intersectionality, a core component of feminism, and wrongfully assumed that all women work for employers that offer adequate maternity leave,” she added.

Regardless, Matook was pleased to see such a large turnout of students who were able to pose questions of disagreement with respect.

Cameron Atkinson, vice president of public relations for QUSL Federalist Society, agreed.

“Events like these are why the Federalist Society exists,” Atkinson said. “Abortion remains one of the most divisive issues of our time, yet over 90 students and professors participated in a civil and earnest conversation about it. Mission accomplished!”

Resident: ‘Hamden PD took really good care of us and they were really nice and kind and understanding about it’ BURGLARY from cover Residence Hall Director showed her and her housemate.

“Hamden PD took really good care of us and they were really nice and kind and understanding about it,” she said. “They really were here to talk to us and help us out as soon as possible, along with Res Life. The amount of people that did get involved so quickly was really nice to see, but I still don’t feel like this is the safest place living in

this house.”

One neighboring female student was in her house on New Road when Hamden Police knocked on her door.

“It was like 2:15 [p.m.] and a police officer came to the door and he just asked if I had seen anything weird,” the student said. “[He told me] there had been a burglary nearby and there were a couple cars parked outside a house just a couple doors down from us. He asked if our house had any cameras, and I had only been home for less than an hour, so he only asked about the last hour

if I had seen any weird cars parked outside, but I hadn’t noticed anything.”

Hamden Police did not give any further information to the neighboring student, neglecting to reveal that the house in question was universityowned.

The Chronicle reached out to one New Road resident assistant. She said she was unaware of the situation.

Stay with The Chronicle for further updates as they become available.

Schmidt: ‘I don’t think it’s necessarily Uber’s fault or Public Safety, everybody could do a better job, but things happen’ UBER from cover

Dog finals Quinnipiac’s favorite golden retrievers Ben and Tucker will be returning for Dog Finals Monday, Dec. 10 from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.. Ben and Tucker first came to QU five years ago as puppies, offering their calming, cheery influence to test-taking students, test-giving professors and stressed staffers on the Mt. Carmel campus.

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ally let you through,” Schmidt said. “Uber-wise, they’re supposed to do background checks and stuff I guess, but that doesn’t mean if you had a clear background a few years ago, doesn’t mean you’re going to have one now. So things change, I don’t think it’s necessarily Uber’s fault or Public Safety, everybody could do a better job, but things happen.”

The evaluation of background checks can vary from city to city and is based on criteria specified in local laws and regulations govern-

ing ridesharing drivers, as well as Uber’s internal safety standards, according to Uber Help. Major driving violations or a recent history of minor driving violations may result in disqualification.

Convictions for felonies, violent crimes, sexual offenses and registered sex offender status, among other types of criminal records, are also disqualifying.

In response to this incident, participants of The Chronicle survey made suggestions as to what they think Public Safety can do to prevent something like this from happening again.

Some of the suggestions included having more officers placed at Hogan Lot behind Mountain View, being more diligent at checking IDs at

the security gates, setting up a sign-in/out policy and moving the Uber spot to North Lot to be further away from the dorms.

Rosenblum says this experience taught her to think twice about getting into the car with Uber drivers in the future.

“I’m just kind of now like you have to be careful who you get in the car with,” Rosenblum said. “You don’t know, just based on a picture.

You just gotta be smart and safe.”

The warning encourages anyone who spots Brozek or the vehicle on any of Quinnipiac’s campuses to contact Public Safety immediately at 203-582-6200.

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The NFL and domestic violence

The Kareem Hunt incident shows the NFL needs to improve its investigations

Peter Dewey Opinion Editor

It is not secret that the NFL and its players have had an issue with domestic violence allegations and incidents, especially since Ray Rice was handed just a two-game suspension in 2014 after brutally beating his then-girlfriend in an elevator.

This caused the NFL to implement a new policy on domestic violence allegations against players, which saw players such as Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott receive six game suspensions for allegations brought against them in the past few years.

The new policy states that, “The league would suspend first-time offenders for six games, and a second offense would result in a lifetime ban from the NFL (in reality, it was an indefinite suspension with the possibility of reinstatement after one year),” according to the Huffington Post.

TMZ released a video of Kansas City Chiefs running back Kareem Hunt on Friday, Nov. 30, showing him shoving and kicking a woman in his Cleveland residence earlier this year.

The NFL immediately place Hunt on the Commissioner Exempt List and the Chiefs released Hunt from the team after the video went public.

The NFL’s personal conduct policy states that, “In cases in which a violation relating to a crime of violence is suspected but further investigation is required, the Commissioner may

determine to place a player on the Commissioner Exempt List on a limited and temporary basis to permit the league to conduct an investigation.

Based on the results of this investigation, the player may be returned to duty, be placed on the Commissioner Exempt List for a longer period, or be subject to discipline.”

In addition to that, “A player who is placed on the Commissioner Exempt List may not practice or attend games, but with the club’s permission he may be present at the club’s facility on a reasonable basis for meetings, individual workouts, therapy and rehabilitation, and other permitted non-football activities,” according to the NFL’s personal conduct policy.

While Kansas City was right to release Hunt immediately, this situation brings into question the effectiveness of the NFL investigations into domestic violence allegations.

First of all, the assault by Hunt occurred in February 2018. The NFL conducted its own investigation, but it was determined that they did not interview the woman involved, according to ESPN. Hunt also lied to the Chiefs in their discussions of the incident earlier this year, something he admitted to on Sunday, Dec. 2.

“I didn’t tell them everything,” Hunt said in an interview with ESPN’s Lisa Salters. “I don’t blame them for anything. My actions caused this.”

Hunt owned up to everything that occured in February, even apologizing to the woman in the video, the Chiefs and his own family.

“I was in the wrong,” Hunt said. “I could have took responsibility and made the right decision to find a way to de-escalate the situation.”

Now, Hunt finds himself out of the NFL for the time being, and the league itself faces a looming question.

How did they miss this information in their investigation?

Similar to the Ray Rice case, where the video evidence led to a heftier penalty, the NFL reacted instead of being the first to issue the penalty against Hunt.

While the league reached out to the woman

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Kareem Hunt is the latest NFL player involved in a domestic violence incident. and her friend,they did not answer according to While you can’t completely put the blame ESPN. The NFL still has to be better in investi- on the NFL because it is not a law enforcement gating these incidents, especially since they have agency, there needs to be a faster process to learn previously been made aware of them. the scope of these allegations.

“Whenever the league office becomes For the truth of the Hunt incident to come to aware of a possible violation of the Personal light almost 10 months later and the league be Conduct Policy, it will undertake an investi- completely clueless is inexcusable. gation, the timing and scope of which will be Hunt’s actions are clear. He committed an based upon the particular circumstances of the act of domestic violence and lied to people who matter,” according to the NFL’s personal con- trusted him in the NFL and the Kansas City duct policy. “Any such investigation may be Chiefs organization. conducted by NFL Security, independent parNow, it leaves the league at a crossroads with ties, or by a combination of the two. In cases yet another star player on the wrong side of a that are also being investigated by law en- scandal that is much bigger than football. forcement, the league will work to cooperate Just like the Ray Rice incident, the league with and to avoid any conflict or interference looks as if it is too soft on domestic violence alwith the law enforcement proceedings.” legations an image in which they have spent the Unfortunately, there is too much wiggle past four years trying to change. room with this investigations. With the league Ray Rice never played in the NFL again. finding itself missing on yet another big piece of It wouldn’t surprise me if Kareem Hunt is evidence, they find themselves behind and look facing the same fate for his actions. bad for being there.

What Donald Trump can learn from George H. W. Bush

Stephan Kaputska Staff Writer

George H. W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States died at age 94 on Nov. 30. Mr. Bush served as President from 1988 to 1992, Vice President under Ronald Reagan from 1980 to 1988, also served at various times as the head of the CIA, the chair of the RNC and ambassador to the United Nations.

Before that, he served in the navy during the second World War. He was born in Massachusetts and the son of Senator Prescott Bush before moving to Texas. In other words, it is difficult to think of a more American story than that of the late president. Perhaps the most characteristic moment of his life is a note that he left for President Clinton in the Oval Office after the 1992 election, in which Bush was defeated. It read in part: “...I wish you great happiness here. I never felt the loneliness some Presidents have described. There will be very tough times, made even more difficult by criticism you may not think is fair. I’m not a very good one to give advice; but just don’t let the critics discourage

you or push you off course. You will be our President when you read this note. I wish you well. I wish your family well. Your success now is our country’s success. I am rooting hard for you. Good Luck — George” It is difficult to imagine such a gracious concession in today’s political environment.

Nobody should operate under the delusion that things in the good old days were good and civil, but they were certainly weren’t as tense than they are today.

And for the current occupant of the White House, what can the 41st president teach him?

Firstly, Trump should remember why he was sent to office he now occupies. President Bush ran for office on the promise of continuing the Reagan revolution. In the now infamous line, he promised “read my lips: no new taxes.”

That he went on to raise taxes played a significant role in his loss to Bill Clinton in 1992. In that way Bush may have had the opposite problem Trump did. Bush ran as somebody that would continue the traditional Republican order, and then tried to govern as his own man. Trump ran as an outsider, but has governed as a traditional Republican. The lesson for President Trump is simple; keep the promises you make. Remember, Trump ran against the Republican orthodoxy on many issues and cleared out a primary field of over a dozen Republicans because of it.

Trump should stick to his campaign promises to the greatest degree possible.

This means things like the border wall and repealing Obamacare, which is unlikely as long as Democrats control the House of Representa-

tives. But it also means cracking down on lobbying, imposing term limits and improving infrastructure, all of which seem to have been moved to the backburner, and all of which the resurgent Democratic Party may be interested in negotiating on if they can avoid recoiling from Trump’s mere involvement.

And the president’s extremely high approval ratings from his own party mean he should be able to get more than a few Republicans on board. Going into 2020, this is all the more important as it looks increasingly likely Democrats will nominate someone who runs far to the left.

Back in 1988, Bush beat Dukakis specifically because Dukakis was perceived as somebody who was out of the mainstream.

I believe that Trump can portray himself as somebody who is willing to reach across to achieve the things he wants.

The problem with the president’s current approach is that it alienates both types of swing voters. Those who voted for Romney in 2012 and Clinton in 2016 are still off put by the president’s rhetoric, even if he governs not unlike Romney would have. And those who voted for Obama in 2012 and Trump in 2016 can simply be reminded that Trump has governed like the man they voted against in 2012 and they return to the Democratic column, as it appears they did in 2018. To sum it up, the president needs to pick a lane and decide if he is going to be defined by his populist rhetoric and impulses, or his traditionally conservative policymaking.

Secondly, Mr. Trump would do well to learn from President Bush’s grace. Many things have been said on the subject of the current president

and his Twitter habits, so much so that I probably don’t have to spend much time listing all of the specifics. To be straight to the point, often the best response is no response.

That doesn’t mean President Trump must totally abandon his pugilistic style, and H. W. Bush was certainly not above hard hitting political attacks. However, the more outlandish of Trump’s tweets are not doing him any favors. It is unusual that the President’s approval ratings are mired in the low-to-mid 40s with the economy doing so well.

Additionally, the President should learn how to navigate around losses.

The 41st president did not coast into the office.

Bush lost twice when running for the Senate in Texas, lost the 1980 presidential primary to Ronald Reagan and lost the presidency in 1992 to Bill Clinton. In every case, he acknowledged the defeat and worked to move past it. While the 2018 midterms were not an unmitigated disaster for the GOP, the House is now controlled by the Democrats cannot be taken as a good sign, even if it is the usual for a president’s first midterm.

Donald Trump cannot campaign as if the 2016 miracle will repeat itself. It very well might, but it would be a bad idea to rely on it.

This is not a call for Trump to become H.W. Bush, that was not why he was elected, and to a degree the ascension of Trump to the Republican nomination was a rejection of the Bush project in the GOP, as embodied by the late president’s son, Jeb. In my view, that was a necessary thing. But like the rest of us, a lot of good could be done by studying the life of the 41st President.

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Dark history, darker tourism Exploring Prague’s abandoned past

History is impossible to remove from the minds of inhabitants, especially an entire nation’s past. It reminds them of everything they, or those before them, fought for and eventually lost.

The hardship and torment can be seen in the Staff Writer very architecture, and if walls could talk, they’d surely cry out. Regular buildings no longer hold their innocence as every physical object takes on a new negative connotation.

Countries like Germany have dealt with this positively, owning up to the war crimes their ancestors committed. The Czech Republic, however, has not.

The capital city of Prague is a metropolis that, despite its newfound cultural optimism, has been beaten down by tyranny and existed under the boot of powers much larger than their own.

Yet, there is a previously unknown demographic of travelers that would be ecstatic to uncover the darker sides of the nation’s history. These individuals travel the world, specifically visiting the strangest and most infamous tourist attractions offered ‒ and sometimes restricted ‒ on the map. Visiting historical sites closely connected to death or tragedy is known as “dark tourism.”

Dark tourists get engrossed in the past in the oddest ways possible, whether on a stroll through the highly irradiated city of Chernobyl or a drive past the assassination spot of President John F. Kennedy. When death and tragedy strike, you can be sure a dark tourist will be there a few hundred years later, Geiger Counter and a digital camera in-hand.

Despite being highly criticized as yet another way to des-

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ecrate or exploit a historical area and the dead associated with it, the popularity of Dark Tourism has risen in the last decade.

With the popularization of shows like the Netflix Original “Dark Tourist,” hosted by a New Zealander journalist, David Farrier, a whole new generation of dark tourists have emerged. Those who have seen Farrier’s excursions have witnessed an exponential amount of dark, thrilling, and outright controversial historical sites and experiences.

This is not your family’s average summer trip up to Mount Rushmore. In the show, Farrier meets Pablo Escobar’s charismatic enforcer, Popeye, in Columbia, and is guided through Escobar’s former apartment by the drug lord’s sister-in-law. David then witnesses an exorcism in Mexico and participates in a faux illegal border crossing.

That is just the first episode. Viewers see the danger and the controversy as appealing elements to this strange take on a traditional getaway.

The popularity of dark tourism has brought light to areas otherwise forgotten by society. Along with the extension of tourism, there is a necessity to address these events as something that has indeed happened and impossible to be neglected further. Cue the Czech Republic.

Under the site of what was once a 14,200-ton statue of the international icon of tyranny, Joseph Stalin, lives Prague’s newest and most innovative dark tourism hotspot. Organized by “Post Bellum,” an organization preserving Czech historical memory, this new exhibit opened to touch all recent modern cases of threatened life in the Czech Republic.

The exhibit offers a truly immersive look into Czech oppression of the 20th century. A dark, narrow-gated hallway with the only sunlight intruding from the doorway behind, leads visitors’ way to the viewing room. As the gate stops further down, ominous spotlights greet you.

From there you are thrown straight into a memorable experience filled with artificial gunfire, neon lighting and even a secret police interrogation similar to those done to

political prisoners in the early 1950s. A projector lights up the floor with planes bombing the terrain. The room paints a grim moving picture of Czech Jews being herded into concentration camps, like unsuspecting cattle to the slaughter.

You are then transported into the crypt of St. Cyril and St. Methodius Cathedral, where the paratroopers sent to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, a high-ranking German Nazi official, are killed by overwhelming German forces. The room begins flooding and gunfire ricochets off the cement walls.

Though only a simulation, the threat of danger seems real.

Dark tourists will immediately be intrigued by the immersive experience of reliving central Europe’s most gruesome moments. However, the purpose of this exhibit is not to purely glorify violence.

The experience is meaningfully disorientating, revealing a fraction of what the country has had to go through to shape itself into what we know it today. It is no coincidence that this exhibit correlates with the 100th anniversary of the Czech Republic’s establishment, as it was designed to illustrate the long process of forming a cultural identity.

There is a separate portion of the exhibit with an enclosed screening room where you can hear actual testimonials by those who lived in the eras of outright oppression.

Jewish concentration camp survivors, former Communist party members and victims of the vast oppression have all been recorded to give an oral first-person report of what transpired. This puts a face to the chaos and gives you an opportunity to sympathize.

Prague has limited museums covering this era, and none of them offer this intense look into almost a century of oppression and hardship. Presenting this narrative using particular lighting and audio arrangements convey the point well, simultaneously attracting dark tourists. That is what may just normalize the nation’s dark history: a darker form of tourism.

We must understand asylum seekers

Awareness of issues at the United States border needs to be evaluated “If for any reason it becomes necessary, we will CLOSE our Southern Border. There is no way that the United States will, after decades of abuse, put up with this costly and dangerous situation anymore!” President Trump tweeted on Nov. 24.

My opinion is not that Staff Writer you should take a single stance on immigration. It is that immigration, in the context of U.S. law, is not scrutinized enough in the eyes of our younger generations.

For example, when was the last time you took a peek at the Declaration of Independence? This isn’t a history test. I, for one, could not tell you when I last read it.

Yet, who hasn’t heard this line: “We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independent, that form that equal creation they derive rights inherent & inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, & liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” according to the final draft of the United States Declaration.

This quote holds a certain weight for me when I think about innocent people fleeing persecution from their home country.

I write this article, as I do all of them, not to urge the reader to believe one way or another. But I am frustrated by the lack of interest in issues, such as these, that exist at our very own borders. I believe before one calls themself an “American,” one must understand the weight of our immigration systems, whether they be lenient or firm.

For instance, the laws that pertain to immigrants coming into the United States–seeking asylum–states that anyone can apply for asylum status, either on U.S. soil or at the “designated point of entry,” according to CBS News.

But what does asylum status actually entail? According to the American Immigration Council, it is the “protection granted to foreign nationals already in the United

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States or at the border who meet the international law definition of a ‘refugee.’”

There are a number of laws that oversee the protection of refugees, specifically those that are applying for asylum from their own country. One of these laws, the 1967 Protocol, establishes that “the United States has legal obligations to provide protection to those who qualify as refugees,” according to the American Immigration Council.

“Before we can refrain from allowing asylum seekers within our borders, we have to understand what it is they are fleeing from and what we are turning our cheeks to.”

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STAFF WRITER

Some may wonder what kind of persecution refugees are fleeing from.

As I mentioned above, those fleeing to this country are looking to escape persecution. To be specific, they are looking to escape persecution that includes detainment, torture and death “when they oppose repressive governments,” according to a 2018 article written by professors at Yale University, University of Connecticut and the University of Virginia. The article also said that it includes attacks based on ethnic or religious affiliations.

It also includes criminal and extrajudicial persecutions for those with non-conventional sexual orientations.

I spoke with one of these authors, Katherine C. McKenzie, in an interview. “We get people who have fled

to the United States, claiming persecution in their own countries and they are seeking asylum in the United States,” McKenzie said.

As the director for the Yale Center for Asylum Medicine, McKenzie clarified that the Center is not responsible for the health or the result of the refugees that come through the Center. However, her team conducts objective medical evaluations for those seeking asylum. “What we are offering is a piece of the legal puzzle for the attorney,” McKenzie said.

In the article mentioned above, McKenzie collaborated with Jon Bauer and P. Preston Reynolds to discuss the role of physicians for asylum seekers in our modern world. In the article, they stated that “in 2016, over 65 million individuals were displaced from their homes due to human rights abuses” and that “262,000 people applied for asylum in the USA.” Organizations, like the Yale Center for Asylum Medicine, conduct assessments based on the health of refugees to aid or deter their legal case. In cases where the refugee is able to provide proof in the forensic report that they were persecuted in one of the following ways–“political opinion, race, religion, nationality or membership in a particular social group”–according to McKenzie’s article. Often, proof of persecution is physical or mental forms of torture: blunt trauma, sharp trauma, thermal trauma, electrical shocks, forced positions and inhumane conditions of confinement.

However, since Trump’s tweet regarding the inclusion of asylum seekers into the country, the conditions of these refugees have not been mitigated. Instead, asylum seekers are now being marked with individual numbers on their arms in permanent marker at the border in El Paso, according to Newsweek.

I understand the fear and the worry that comes with the thought of immigrants coming to the United States.

However, before we can refrain from allowing asylum seekers within our borders, we have to understand what it is they are fleeing from and what we are turning our cheeks to.

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We’ve all been there. All of your exams piled into one day or even assignments being due within hours of each other. Although it may seem too much to handle, as you're getting through finals remember that it's also important to take care of yourself. - A. Guerra

Hit the gym

Make sure to unplug

Treat yourself

This one’s a stretch if you haven’t worked out all year but exercise in almost any form is a great stress reliever. Any kind of physical exercise releases endorphins in the brain that trigger feelings of positivity. Quinnipiac offers a variety of fitness classes including spin, yoga, Zumba and Barre.

Technology is both a blessing and a curse. Taking time away from your phone or computer can put you back in touch with reality so you’re completely focused on the task at hand. The 'Do Not Disturb' feature on both iPhones and Mac’s can prove to be helpful when you need a break from everyone.

Finals are creeping up right after Thanksgiving, so why not take advantage of Cyber Monday deals?

Most of them are extended through the end of the month or even to the end of the holiday season. And if you don’t have the funds for a shopping spree, having a self-care night can work too.

Break that diet

Make a plan & a study guide

Go to relaxing events

That pint of ice cream is calling your name–and after all your hard work, you deserve a reward. Take the time to sit and have a meal instead of eating on the run. Eating regularly is vital when attempting to get through finals week as painlessly as possible.

Nothing is more annoying than having two huge exams on the same day during finals week. In addition, how will you have any time to focus on both at once. With study guides already completed in advance, you’ll be saving yourself a lot of stress and time. Get your studying started ahead of time, map out when you are going to do the rest of the projects left in the semester finished so that you can stick to your routines during finals week.

Along with final’s week, this is also the time in the semester where meal plan runs low. If you’re in the same situation, be sure to attend the Student Programming Board’s Moonlight Breakfast for a free breakfast buffet on Dec. 7 in the lower cafe. You can manage an hour away from studying, rest assured.

Secure your study spot

Near the piazza fireplace If the rest of the Student Center is flooded with people trying to get their dinner, head to the piazza. It’s in close proximity to Starbucks, which may be vital if you’re itching for a caffeine fix.

If you’re trying to avoid distractions while you get work done, the fireplace is the perfect barrier between you and everyone else.

Outside Buckman Theater With comfy chairs and a printer nearby, what more could you ask for when trying to write a last-minute paper? Sandwiched in between mostly science labs, people are typically settled into their classroom for awhile causing fewer distractions.

Second floor of CAS

Have a class over in CAS and think it’s a waste to hike all the way over there?

Well maybe you should check out the second floor of CAS1. With a few mini tables and benches lined up in front of a nice window view, there’s more to offer than you think. Also, there are plenty of outlets to go around for your various chargers.

The CCE basement One of the quietest places on campus besides the library is the bottom floor of CCE. There are clusters of tables, chairs and added natural light from the skylights above with a nice variety of cushioned seats and high top chairs.

Library chairs

Even if you don’t have a study room booked, you should still checkout the library for an available spot at the chairs by the back windows.

With all of that peace and quiet just be careful not to get too comfy, you’re trying to study after all.

Rocky Top Student Center Drastic times call for drastic measures. If you live on main, taking the shuttle might be necessary to stop procrastinating.

With beautiful views and a quiet setting, you’re bound to at least get a part of your paper done. Be sure to grab a pizza or head to the pasta bar if you’re in Rocky Top during dinner time.

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STUDENTS MAKING MIRACLES HAPPEN Organizations on campus are awarded miracle points by raising money for QTHON

By KRISTEN ALTMEYER Staff Writer

QTHON is one of the biggest events of the year on campus. The 10-hour dance marathon is an all-hands-on-deck event. QTHON is a nationwide effort for the Children’s Miracle Network hospitals. This year, there are about 50 different teams signed up to raise money for the dance-a-thon.

QTHON’s work goes beyond what is seen the day of the dance-a-thon, as there is a lot that leads up to raising a total of $265,431.79, the amount raised at last years event. In order to create more involvement for organizations on campus, “miracle points” are awarded by the QTHON executive board. Organizations can obtain miracle points by the percentage of members in their organization that are registered for QTHON and their attendance at QTHON events prior to the main event in the spring.

“The establishment of the QTHON Miracle Point Program gives organizations of all different sizes an equal opportunity to be recognized for their dedication to our cause,” said QTHON’s student organization coordinator, Allie Glickman. “Organizations

with the most miracle points get the opportunity to sponsor a miracle child on the day of QTHON, or the opportunity to take a tour of Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, as well as a variety of other prizes and acknowledgments.”

This program gives smaller organizations the opportunity to also achieve what bigger organizations are capable of. Miracle points help to assure smaller organizations are that they will be highly involved in QTHON. The percentage-based system is shown to the smaller organizations to demonstrate the equal opportunities for groups of varying sizes.

Organizations are able to see who is in the lead on QTHON’s website. As of now, the top three organizations outside of the QTHON executive boards are: Gamma Phi Beta, Alpha Delta Pi and Delta Delta Delta.

The hard work of all the different organizations does not go unnoticed by the QTHON board.

“When I see how many student organizations are involved in QTHON, it reminds me that we are all part of something so much bigger than ourselves,” said Glickman. “Each organization

here at QU is so unique and special in their own way. When I see all of these different groups coming together to support such an incredible, meaningful cause, I am reminded that the community that we are part of as Quinnipiac students is unlike any other.”

The varying philanthropies the fraternities and sororities support are at the heart of the work they do. Along with Greek Life’s own work, their presence and support for the dance marathon is apparent.

“It's important for our sorority, and I think everyone, because ultimately it is so important to give back,” said Phi Sigma Sigma’s QTHON chair, Brianna Caponi. “These kids exhibit great strength and the least we can do to respect and honor that is to continually raise money so they can receive great care.”

Phi Sigma Sigma set a goal last year for $5,000. The goal is set the same again this year.

They are hoping to surpass the amount again.

“Last year, we completely exceeded our goal and raised over $7,000,” recalled Caponi.

“We got to sponsor a miracle child at last years QTHON, a sweet girl named Emma, and it was

amazing to not only see our sisters so passionate, but to the see the impact that this had on kids like Emma.”

QTHON has different committees including a management team, hospital relations, dancer relations and morale. The committees are designed to help make the process leading up to and the day of QTHON extremely successful.

Health science studies junior Valerie Sobol, is on the morale committee. This group helps to keep the energy and positivity alive during the event.

“To be a part of something so much bigger than myself in order to bring more smiles on children’s faces is the most incredible feeling,” said Sobol. “We are so lucky to be able to dance, so why not use this opportunity to dance for those who can’t?

Even on the actual day of QTHON, the the fundraising does not stop until the end of the night. QTHON’s goal this year is to raise $323,000. The dance marathon will be held this year on March 23, in the Burt Kahn Court.

Participants can expect to dance the night away, with a different theme each hour.

POLITICS, PUBLIC IMAGE AND THE PRESS How the freedom of the press has changed, from The White House to college campuses

By AMY THORPE Staff Writer

From national news outlets to student media, the tension between journalists and the governing bodies they keep in check has seemed to have reached a high point. In a country built on free speech and free press, President Trump’s battle with CNN, as well as educational institutions’ conflicts with vocal students and staff, reveal the fight that journalists on many levels are undertaking to ensure their rights.

Some of the most well-known clashes have involved the federal government, particularly during Trump’s time in office.

President Trump has been a long-time critic of mainstream media, especially the more liberal news outlets, tweeting on multiple occasions that they are the “enemy of the people,” as the New York Times observed. This distaste came to a head in the White House’s news conference on Nov. 7, when CNN’s Jim Acosta attempted to ask a follow-up question concerning the ongoing Russia investigation.

“I am not concerned about anything with the Russian investigation because it is a hoax,” replied Trump. “That is enough, put down the mic. I tell you what, CNN should be ashamed of themselves having you working for them.”

Shortly after the press conference, Acosta’s press pass to the White House was revoked, though later restored after CNN sued the White House and the U.S. District Court Judge Timothy

Kelly ruled in their favor based on a violation of Acosta’s Fifth Amendment right to due process.

“The President’s ongoing attacks on the press have gone too far,” CNN said in a statement on Wednesday. “They are not only dangerous, they are disturbingly un-American. A free press is vital to democracy and we stand behind Jim Acosta and his fellow journalists everywhere.”

This ruling represents a slight shift in the balance of the scales between the press and the President and has received an outpouring of support from other news organizations.

However, the White House has attempted to regain ground by establishing a set of rules for future news conferences. Essentially, they ensure that reporters will only be allowed to ask “a single question” – no follow-ups will be permitted.

Though America has yet to see how the new regulations will play out, speculations have been made that the fight for a free press is far from over. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press legal director Katie Townshend expressed her concern to Variety.

“The way [the rules] are written leaves wide open the possibility that the [White House] will use them as an excuse to avoid answering questions it does not like, or — as it did with Mr. Acosta and CNN — to punish particular reporters and news outlets based on what the [White House] views as unfavorable coverage of the administration."

This could prevent media outlets from

performing their watchdog role in relation to the government, which 42 percent of Republicans and 89 percent of Democrats feel “keeps political leaders from doing things that shouldn’t be done,” according to a 2017 Pew Research poll.

“The media, on any level—whether that be through major news outlets, local news, newspapers, or even social media— is meant to bridge the gap between the citizens and people of higher profile, namely the government, and should be used as an informative source,” Quinnipiac University Democrats president and sophomore political science major Gina Divito said.

However, even student media outlets have experienced struggles with ensuring their right to inform the public.

“What we’re seeing is the convergence of two worrisome trend lines,” Student Press Law Center director Frank LoMonte said to The Atlantic. “Colleges are more obsessed with ‘protecting the brand’ than they’ve ever been before, and journalism as an industry is weaker and less able to defend itself than ever before.”

A recent case at Butler University in Indianapolis is just one recent example of this. Butler University newspaper advisor Loni McKown, a long-time professor at the university who had helped the paper rack up multiple national awards, was unexpectedly removed from her position in 2017. Having adopted a management style that allowed

the students to publish what they wanted, she was replaced by a public relations expert appointed by the university.

The conflicts that Butler has seen are not uncommon. Similar controversies have unfolded at Northern Michigan University, Auburn University, Fairmont State University and countless other colleges and high schools across the country.

“College students and young people in general have the potential to really impact and cause change within the government,” said sophomore journalism major Alexis Rossi.

“I believe student media is vital because it allows the spread of information among a group of people that have only recently been allowed to vote.”

Though more states are beginning to adopt laws and programs that protect student journalists, like the New Voices Act and the Save Student Newsrooms initiative, the free speech and free press struggles that continue to unfold are an indicator of the extensive obstacles facing journalists in student and professional media.

“News coverage at all levels is important for several reasons including the current political climate,” said DiVito. “Allowing students to receive news from their peers connects the media to the people on a more personal level and gives sometimes even better insight or different perspectives.”

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MEMEINGFUL PAST Depending on who you ask, they’re either the crowning achievement of the internet, or the garbage of the web. Whether you love them or hate them, you can’t argue that memes have not become a cultural phenomenon in and of themselves. Read on to find out what they actually are, how they started and which memes kept us from ending it all over the years. - M. Fortin What do you meme, meme?

The term ‘meme’ actually isn’t exclusive to those viral captioned tweets or Vines. The word was coined all the way back in 1976 by Richard Dawkins in his book, “The Selfish Gene.”

“Gene” is one of the most celebrated books on evolution in the last half century, and in it, Dawkins discusses the way cultural

information is spread. That’s essentially what he calls a meme– just a piece of cultural information.

That makes an internet meme simply a subset of the general term, and is specifically used to describe a piece of information that is created and spread within the context of the internet.

Internet memes are usually presented as a piece of media– it

could be a photo, video, gif, text, Vine, etc– and may be shared alongside an additional phrase or caption.

Due to the nature of social media and its emphasis on instant communication and sharing, memes often rapidly spawn fads and significant cultural sensations, such as the Harlem Shake and Grumpy Cat.

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2011: Pepe the Frog: One of the original viral memes, Pepe the Frog came in hundred of variations representing just about every emotion and reaction. In more recent years, Pepe has become something of a hate symbol, after being adopted by extremist alt-right groups.

2012: Grumpy cat: Tardar Sauce the cat garnered attention because of his distinctly grumpy expression, which is actually caused by feline dwarfism and a severe underbite. Nonetheless, Grumpy Cat skyrocketed to fame, now holding 2.4 million followers on Instagram.

February 2015: The dress: The blue and black dress. Or maybe the gold and white one. This originally innocuous post snowballed into something that has the potential to tear apart families.

May 2015: The Dab: The dab originally developed as a hip-hop dance move in Atlanta, and gained prominence once NFL football players began using it to celebrate a successful play. It resembles dramatically covering a sneeze with an elbow.

June 2016: Caveman Spongebob: This still of a prehistoric ancestor of Spongebob (originally from the episode SB129) became a popular way to describe a situation perceived as frantic, frustrating, wild or sexual.

December 2016: Send Nudes: The send nudes meme pokes fun at the creative ways to request sexually explicit photos. Generally follows the format of items being dropped and forming the phrase in question, as pictured with Yu-Gi-Oh cards.

October 2016: Cash me outside: Danielle Bregoli first turned heads as a Doctor Phil guest, where she shocked with her unique dialect. Her infamous phrase, “Cash me ousside, how bou that?” spawned Instagram captions a-plenty, and helped her launch a rap career.

May 2016: Harambe: Everyone’s favorite tragic figure. Harambe was shot and killed by his zookeepers after a three-year old boy climbed into his enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo and was dragged by the gorilla. T-shirts, halloween costumes and memes ensued not long after in his honor.

April 2016: Confused Mr. Krabs: A confused and utterly shook looking Mr. Krabs is commonly used to convey a sense of uncertainty and surprise.

May 2018: Is this a pigeon: In an episode of the 1990s Japanese anime program, “The Brave Fighter of Sun Fighbird,” a human character gestured towards a butterfly asking, “Is this a pigeon?” It has since been used on the internet to express confusion or mock someone’s misunderstanding of a situation.

November 2018: Shocked Pikachu: A shocked looking Pikachu is one of the latest memes to make Twitter rounds, and has a host of applications.

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May 2017: Mocking Spongebob: This meme is commonly used to communicate frustration or a mocking tone in response to someone's opinion.

The photo originated from a scene in the episode “Little Yellow Book” which originally aired in 2012.

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July 2017: Dancing hotdog: Originally debuting on Snapchat, the dancing hotdog made his rounds on social media sites for months.

August 2017: Distracted boyfriend: The distracted boyfriend is commonly used to reflect diverting one’s attention or interest to somewhere it probably shouldn’t be.

January 2018: Tide Pods: The brightly colored orbs of Tide laundry detergent began circulating as a meme when people began to consider what they’d taste like and how appealing they look.

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PROCEED WITH CAUTION Mariah Carey brings the heat with her fifteenth studio album, 'Caution'

By MATTHEW FORTIN

Associate Arts & Life Editor

“How about you get the fuck out?”

That’s Mariah Carey’s message to her man in “GTFO,” the sleek, sweet and airy opener on her latest release, “Caution.”

It’s also indicative of a rejuvenated Carey, one who doesn’t seem to have any more fucks to give.

“Caution,” her fifteenth studio release, comes on the heels of an unprecedented career upheaval. Her reputation has been marred by a series high-profile mishaps, reducing her name from unrivaled pop vocalist to a waning star best suited for the butt of internet-based jokes.

Her answer? A defiantly current, cohesive album that manages to straddle slow-burning R&B with glistening pop – and ultimately creating her best work in over a decade.

Her last release, 2014’s “Me. I am Mariah.

The Elusive Chanteuse” offered fans solid material, but ultimately suffered from poor promotion and failed to make a lasting impact on the charts.

Carey has been pining for a return to commercial success for years now. Her last number one single, “Touch My Body,” was released a decade ago, and she is yet to craft an album that matched the glory of her last blockbuster, 2005’s “The Emancipation of Mimi.”

This one might do it.

At a lean 38 minutes and 10 tracks, “Caution” wastes no time on filler, opting for an album of highlights only.

There’s the nostalgia-tinged “With You,” harking back to her 1990s power-balladry– not without a contemporary hip-hop beat courtesy of DJ Mustard to provide the backbone.

Then there’s the Lil’ Kim sampling, keyboard

stabbing, “A No No,” where a brazen Carey flaunts her lyrical genius and iconic sense of humor, proclaiming there’s “snakes in the grass, it’s time to cut the lawn.” Rumor has it, a remix is on the way featuring Lil’ Kim herself and hiphop newcomer Cardi B. “Caution” comes to a true climax by track six, where Carey unleashes an instant classic, potentially career defining song. “Giving Me Life” soothes you in with a hazy beat and gritty synthesizers before the songstress does what she does best- take her listeners on a sonic journey with her carefully chosen lyrics and thoughtful delivery.

On “Giving Me Life,” that journey happens to revolve around reviving a romance with an old flame – as Carey asks the accompanying Slick Rick, “If you’re so inclined, let’s take a ride tonight.”

Carey has been making media rounds to promote the album, stopping by Good Morning America, Jimmy Fallon and Watch What Happens Live to promote her material. It’s the first time she’s been making headlines in years for her music, a nice change of pace for fans of Carey the musician.

She’s become increasingly known as Carey the diva, a diva whose unfortunate slip-ups have dominated her public persona as of late.

It’s not hard for anyone with even a limited pulse on social media to recall the firestorm of criticism and jokes pointed at Carey following her infamous 2014 Rockefeller Tree Lighting performance. The situation was exacerbated by disgruntled sound engineers, who leaked the isolated vocals of the singer struggling to reach her signature high notes. TMZ reports that the issue came after Carey opted to ditch rehearsal in favor of meeting with divorce lawyers. She’s defended the performance

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The ‘We Belong Together’ songstress will be stopping at the Oakdale during her Caution World Tour on April 5. since, saying she had bronchitis.

Two years later, her showing at Dick Clark’s Rockin New Year’s Eve resulted in an even more disastrous outcome when her in-ear monitors failed, causing the performance to spiral out of control.

She appeared to not be able to hear anything in the song essentially spent the seven or so minutes on stage walking while “We Belong Together” (recorded vocals and everything) echoed through Times Square.

Needless to say, mockery ensued and has not quieted – even after an incredible performance the following year.

That professional turmoil, combined with a messy divorce and a broken engagement made for a harrowing period– and to the fans’ (or the Lambily, as they call themselves) delight, Carey emerges unaffected in her triumphant return to music.

Well, for the most part. There are points

during “Caution” where a hint of melancholy can be detected– primarily in the introspective closing track, “Portrait.” It’s a mellower vibe than the rest of the record, but its soft vocals and light piano accompaniment fit alongside many of her intimate fan favorites.

Aside from that, her fifteenth LP glazes over her missteps, instead opting to be optimistic, mature and forward-thinking.

“They just wanna be us,” Carey belts on her Ty-Dolla Sign assisted “The Distance.” “They don’t wanna see us going the distance,” TyDolla Sign replying with a bold “Fuck all the comments- they be so toxic”– a direct message to her haters, disguised in a glittery pop song.

And it’s that Carey–class that makes “Caution” so refreshing. It’s not vindictive.

It’s not dramatic. The priority here is clearly the music– something Mariah Carey – despite the mishaps and image – happens to be pretty good at.

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THIS WOMAN'S WORK

'Widows' lights up the screen with fiery action and tense drama

By TIM POWERS Staff Writer

She stands in front of the mirror, dressed in black. A wail of pain cries out of her mouth. Not one that is cut from a physical cloth but from a visceral one. It’s only for a second. It’s the kind of cry that is so painful it struggles to come out.

It’s not long before the woman composes herself, hiding her pain away as so many women in her position are forced to do, as she proceeds to prepare for a funeral.

That woman is Veronica Rawlings, played by an exceptional Viola Davis, who has just lost her husband, Henry Rawlings, who is a criminal for a living. But his long reign of criminal activity has come to an end, as Henry and his cohorts have died in a violent shootoutexplosion with the police. Veronica and the wives of Henry’s partners are now widows forced to face the struggles that their husbands have left behind for them.

The reality of their struggles becomes clear when Veronica receives a visit from Jatemme Manning, an associate of Jamal Manning, who is running for the position of alderman for a Chicago south side precinct. Apparently the money that was stolen belonged to Manning.

Manning faces challenges of his own with campaigning for a position that has long been held by Manning’s opponent, the Mulligan family political dynasty. Veronica is given a time frame to find a way to return the stolen money to Manning or else things will end badly for her.

Veronica in her staunch wisdom realizes she cannot complete this task on her own and she enlists the help of the widows of Henry’s

criminal partners to complete a job to steal money from the Mulligan family that Henry left behind in a notebook.

"Widows" begins as a slow burn, allowing the characterization to settle in. But once the movie begins to roll, the story speeds along.

The characters that are conjured up by Gillian Flynn and Steve McQueen are complex figures that act as chess pieces in an overarching story of surviving. Surviving abuse, grief, oppression, poverty and most importantly the survival of women against the patriarchy. These women have been under the control of the men in their lives for far too long and they are now just proving their strength and fighting for their place in the world. A message that is all too relevant in today’s world.

Flynn and McQueen write a script for a story that has many strings to tie together. The words and themes that connect the characters together makes for some powerful storytelling. The script aims to not only provide audiences with an edge of your seat character development, but also robust action scenes. It’s not your typical action movie, it wants to say something more than just completing the good guy vs. bad guy story.

The direction, also done by McQueen, is striking at times. McQueen begs to show the story rather than say it. This decision often leads to powerful statements in regard to various political matters. McQueen who was hailed for his greatness in directing the 2014 Oscar winner for Best Picture, “12 Years A Slave,” provides us with a strapping follow-up.

The cast of the film is one of magnificence.

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So far, "Widows" has earned a 90 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

The cast boasts such talent as Viola Davis, Daniel Kaluuya, Elizabeth Debicki, Cynthia Erivo, Liam Neeson and Michelle Rodriguez.

Viola Davis, an Oscar winner for “Fences,” gives a towering performance as a woman forced to face the flames fired at her feet by the foul fixations of her foes. Davis plays Veronica in a fashion that makes clear the desire of her characters determination for her salvation is achieved. Davis’ performance is one of passion and lights up the screen with it’s fire.

Kaluuya, most famous for his Oscarnominated work in “Get Out,” is absolutely terrifying in this role. Kaluuya plays the

enforcer to Manning’s commands. It’s a type of role that is different for him and it shows his range as an actor.

“Widows” provides for more than just an entertaining night at the movies. It provides action while also adding in a bit more substance that action movies, more often than not, lack.

It’s the kind of movie that rarely gets made in Hollywood in regard to its storytelling that it would be a shame to miss it.

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'Lion King' comes full circle (of life) Viewers can 'feel the love' after watching Disney's new teaser trailer

By JESSICA SIMMS Staff Writer

Get ready to head back to the Pride Lands in July because Disney released its first teaser trailer for the remake of “The Lion King” on Thanksgiving Day during the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins football game.

In just a 90 second video, viewers get to see part of the iconic first scene from the classic film that debuted in 1994. This includes the song “Circle of Life,” playing as different animals make their way to Pride Rock to watch Rafiki present baby Simba to the kingdom. James Earl Jones narrates the trailer as he is reprising his role as Mufasa for the remake by telling Simba that he will soon be the ruler of the Pride Lands.

In just 24 hours of being online, the trailer received 224.6 million views worldwide, according to Variety. This made “The Lion King” trailer Disney’s most viewed teaser trailer within the first day of release. It also is the second most viewed trailer within one day across all studios, with “Avengers: Infinity Wars” receiving 238 million views when it was released at the end of 2017.

“The Lion King” film is directed by Jon Favreau who was the mastermind behind the “Jungle Book” remake that premiered in 2016. Other than having Jones voice Mufasa again for the remake, Favreau has created an entirely different cast for the live-action film. Donald Glover is playing Simba, while Beyoncé is the voice of Simba’s best friend and love interest, Nala. Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen play the dynamic duo, Timon and Pumba. Lastly, Chiwetel Ejiofor is the voice of Simba’s Uncle Scar and John Oliver is voicing Zazu.

Favreau even got the original songwriters to come back and work on new music for the remake. Hans Zimmer, composer who worked on the original “The Lion King,” has been working on a new score for the remake and Elton John has reworked and will

include some of the famous songs he wrote for the 1994 film, including “Circle of Life,” “Can You Feel the Love Tonight,” “Hakuna Matata” and “I Just Can’t Wait To Be King.”

John is also looking to work with Beyoncé to create a new end credit song.

Despite the hype that the trailer and the first poster of the film created worldwide on Thanksgiving Day, there has been debate whether this new film is truly live-action due to the fact that Favreau is not using real animals.

The remake is mainly animated and is shot against a blue screen. All the visual effects are added later after shooting. The crew members and actors use virtual reality headsets, while walking around the set to get immersed into the animated set that Favreau will create in the remake. Despite not using real animals to play the characters, Rob Legato, the visual effects supervisor of the film, does not believe that this movie is considered an animated project.

“I consider this just a movie and this happened to be the best way to make it,” Legato said to THR. “We made it comfortable for Jon Favreau to come in and be able to direct as if it was a live-action film.”

Another topic of conversation that came up right after the teaser trailer was released was that the trailer for the live-action film was almost identical to the one released for the original film in 1994. Some viewers liked the fact that it was very similar, but others were upset with Disney who seemingly made a movie that is an exact copy of the original.

Some fans have questioned whether there will be any differences in this remake.

It is really too soon to tell Disney’s aim with this remake, but it seems like fans are overly positive about this new cast and the quality of the computer-generated imagery. Overall, people are hopeful that this new film will recreate the magic that the 1994 movie made allowing it to gross $968.8 million at the box office.

“The Lion King” remake is scheduled

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Cast members of the new film include Donald Glover and Seth Rogen. to be released on July 19, 2019, adding to the collection of live-action Disney films that are set

to premiere this upcoming year, including Tim Burton’s “Dumbo” and Guy Ritchie’s “Aladdin.”

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MEN’S HOCKEY QU 3, Princeton 0 - Friday Odeen Tufto: 1 goal, 1 assist Chase Priskie: 1 goal Scott Davidson: 1 goal Andrew Shortridge: 20 saves QU 6, Princeton 3 - Saturday Priskie: 2 goals Craig Martin: 2 goals Tufto: 4 assists Luke Shiplo: 1 goal Michael Lombardi: 1 goal Peter DiLiberatore: 2 assists Keith Petruzzelli: 27 saves WOMEN’S HOCKEY Princeton 3, QU 2 - Friday Kenzie Lancaster: 1 goal Brooke Bonsteel: 1 goal Abbie Ives: 26 saves Princeton 4, QU 1 - Saturday Zoe Boyd: 1 goal Melissa Samoskevich: 1 assist Lancaster: 1 assist Ives: 35 saves MEN’S BASKETBALL UMass 69, QU 62 - Wednesday Travis Atson: 16 points, 8 rebounds Aaron Robinson: 15 points Jacob Rigoni: 10 points Cam Young: 7 points, 3 steals Kevin Marfo: 3 points, 8 rebounds Stony Brook 71, QU 61 - Saturday Young: 29 points, 3 steals Tyrese Williams: 9 points Abdulai Bundu: 6 points, 10 rebounds Rich Kelly: 7 points, 6 assists WOMEN’S BASKETBALL QU 72, Harvard 67 (2OT) - Friday Jen Fay: 17 points, 5 rebounds Aryn McClure: 16 points, 10 rebounds Paula Strautmane: 8 points, 3 assists Edel Thornton: 8 points, 5 assists Central Michigan 67, QU 52 - Sunday Mackenzie DeWees: 13 points Fay: 11 points, 7 assists Brittany Martin: 8 points McClure: 5 points, 9 rebounds

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QU at RPI - Saturday, 3 p.m.

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GAME OF THE WEEK

Quinnipiac women’s basketball drops home opener The Bobcats honored redshirt senior Jen Fay for scoring her 1,000th point last week, but then dropped their first home game in nearly a year

By JORDAN WOLFF Staff Writer

After six games on the road to open the season – which included a one-point loss to No. 10 Texas and a double-overtime win against Harvard – the Quinnipiac women’s basketball team (4-4 overall, 0-0 MAAC) returned home on Sunday, losing to Central Michigan (7-1 overall, 0-0 MAC), 67-52.

Despite the loss, Quinnipiac head coach Tricia Fabbri praised the Central Michigan program for bringing the fight throughout the whole contest.

“Central Michigan is a great team,” Fabbri said. “We didn’t respond out of the third quarter and that’s been a bit of a signature for us. We’ve definitely responded when we’ve come away with wins and when we’ve come out flat, we’ve gotten results like this one.”

The Bobcats came out in the first quarter and shot 33.3 percent from the field and went 1-for6 from three. Central Michigan found its rhythm right away as it shot 43 percent from the field despite going 0-for-5 from three.

The Bobcats bench also scored the first nine points of the game.

The Bobcats found some life in the second quarter, as they shot 50 percent from the field and cut the lead to 28-27 and end the half trailing 35-30. Redshirt senior

guard forward Jen Fay went 2-for3 beyond the arc, but had a lot more on her plate than basketball.

Fay, is the latest Bobcat to join the 1,000-point club and was honored before the game by the university. Fabbri discussed how much she has meant to the program and realizes how much she’s going to miss Fay. “She’s just been so good for all season long,” Fabbri said. It was really nice for her to get that accomplishment and in a packed house, it was nice to be recognized in front of a nice home crowd. Shout out to Jen Fay, well deserved and well earned.”

Quinnipiac freshman guard Mackenzie Dewees made an impact, scoring the highest point total for a Quinnipiac freshman in two years with 13.

“Mack (Dewees) has been coming, and we needed to find her some more minutes,” Fabbri said. “I’m really pleased with her continuing to get better, and the results she got in the game today because that’s what’s been happening in practice.”

The Chippewas regained all the momentum in the second half, and that started with senior guard Presley Hudson, who finished with a game-leading 25 points and seven assists. Senior forward Reyna Frost finished the game with 13 points and 11 rebounds.

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Senior guard/forward Aryn McClure shot just 1-for-4 from the free throw line in Sunday’s loss.

Sophomore guard Micaela Kelly finished with 16 points and seven rebounds.

Quinnipiac will travel to Princeton on Saturday (2-7). Before Sunday, Princeton was the last team to beat Quinnipiac in the People’s United Center, 358 days ago.

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The Bobcats fell to 4-10-3 after getting swept in the weekend homeand-home series against Princeton.

By MATTHEW JARONCYK Staff Writer

In a revenge game for its prior meeting, the Quinnipiac women’s ice hockey team was defeated by the Princeton Tigers Saturday afternoon at the Frank Perrotti, Jr. Arena, 4-1.

“Princeton is definitely a good hockey team,” Quinnipiac head coach Cass Turner said. “They deserve that undefeated status that

they have in our conference. They were opportunistic when they had their chances and they put so much pressure on us today.”

Early into the first period, it was all Princeton. The Tigers were firing shots from anywhere they wanted, but these shots were saved by junior goalie Abbie Ives. Later, the Bobcats were on a powerplay and were able to take the first lead of the game on a goal from fresh-

man goalie Zoe Boyd, notching her first goal of the season.

Boyd described the moment of getting her first goal of the season and how the team was able to execute it.

“It was really a good feeling,” Boyd said. “Honestly I was just happy to put the puck in the net for the team and get the first goal there.”

It was actually Turner who called that this moment was going to happen for her freshman defensive man.

“Well we said before the game, ‘Zoe you’re going to get your first goal today’ and she did,” Turner said.

“The play we drew up, she did it and I was excited for her.”

Minutes later, the Tigers came back with a goal. This goal, coming from freshman forward Sarah Fillier, getting her second goal of the season and tying the game at one.

At the end of the period, Princeton was able to take the lead for the first time in the game, this time with a goal from senior forward Karlie Lund, getting her seventh goal of the season and putting the Tigers up 2-1 before the end of the first period.

It was Princeton with the shooting advantage, outshooting the Bobcats 14 to six.

Moving in to the second period, the whole period was yet again dominated Princeton. The Tigers added on two goals. The first of the two coming at 8:35 with a goal coming from Sarah Fillier, getting

her second goal of the game, getting her third goal of the season and extending the lead to 3-1. The second goal came at the end of the second period from senior right wing Carly Bullock.

At the end of the second period, it was Princeton who was again outshooting Quinnipiac, this time outshooting them 15 to eight.

The third period was more of a defensive battle, with each team not allowing many shots on goal.

“We mixed up the lines a little bit to get some different looks and I thought it created a little jump in the third period,” Turner said. “I think that’s what the team needed, you know to push ourselves and to make ourselves better.”

At the end of the third period, the Bobcats seemed to keep the shots limited, but was still outshot 10 to seven for the period and 39 to 21 for the whole game.

The Bobcats look to bounce back in their next game against the Union Dutchmen Friday, Dec. 7 at Messa Rink in Schenectady, New York.

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Priskie: ‘For me, it’s just being able to match [UMass’] speed’ LAW from Page 16 Hockey East for a while and hasn’t budged. It is coming off a 7-4 victory against UConn on Friday, Nov. 30, a team Quinnipiac beat earlier in the season 4-1.

UMass also went undefeated in November, going 7-0-0 during the month and are riding that nine-game winning streak, its longest in program history and longest active streak in college hockey.

Much of that is due to the play of their top four goal scorers, the biggest name being sophomore defenseman Cale Makar. He was drafted No. 4 overall in the 2017 NHL Draft by the Colorado Avalanche and people had high expectations of him this season.

He has certainly answered those expec-

tations and probably more, with six goals and 12 assists, tied with sophomore forward Mitchell Chaffee for the team lead in points with 18. Makar was also named Hockey East Player of the Month for October.

Chaffee himself continues to put his name all over the scoresheet, as he had two goals and two assists against UConn. He has 10 goals and eight assists so far this season and his goal total has him also tied for fifth in the nation with Tufto.

The other two dominant scorers to watch out for are sophomore forward John Leonard and senior forward Jacob Pritchard. Leonard is third on the team in points, right behind Makar and Chaffee with 17, and Pritchard is behind him with 15.

“The biggest thing is matching their

speed,” Priskie said on how to defend these elite players. “A lot of the elite players in our league they have high-end speed. With that high-end speed, they can make plays...For me, it’s just being able to match that speed, taking time and space away from them. And forcing them to make a play that they necessarily wouldn’t want to make.”

If you look at the team statistics, these two teams mirror each other. I’ll give you a quick rundown.

In ECAC Hockey, Quinnipiac is first in goals per game (3.87), first in goals against (1.77), third in power play percentage (27.3 percent) and first in penalty kill success (87.7 percent).

In Hockey East, UMass is first in goals per game (4.08), tied for first in goals against

(2.00), first in power play success (32.1 percent) and second in penalty kill (87.7 percent).

So have two teams with high scoring offenses, shut-down defenses and exceptional special teams. Should be a fun one, huh? “[The team needs to] just enjoy it,” senior forward Craig Martin said. “Stay evenkeel, can’t get too high, can’t get too low.

Do what we’ve been doing, stick to our details and play our game.”

Bottom line this is absolutely mustwatch hockey. Whether you’re a die-hard hockey fan or someone who has never seen a game before, these are the games to go out and watch. Mark it on your calendar - 7 p.m.

Friday in Hamden and 7:30 p.m. in Amherst, Massachusetts. You are not going to want to miss it.

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The player that appeared to be suffering the most without Kelly was sophomore forward Jacob Rigoni, who had just four points in each of the first two games after averaging 9.8 points per game (PPG) as a freshman. Kelly is generally the guy that gets Rigoni good looks at the basket.

But, moving into the second stage of the season, Rigoni is the guy that helped the Bobcats pick up their first win. The Australian exploded for a career-high 23 points and nine rebounds in Quinnipiac’s 69-63 victory.

The Bobcats shot just 11-for-21 from the free throw line in that game, which is a problem that’s been plaguing them all season. Through six games, Quinnipiac is shooting 61.3 percent from the line and has shot 60 percent or lower in three of those games.

The next win over Maine was no different, with the Bobcats going 9-for-20 at the stripe.

This time, it was Williams and Robinson saving

the day. Williams had a career-high 19 points and seven rebounds while Robinson added 11 points, three rebounds and three assists off the bench. Most importantly, each only surrendered one turnover in the game.

“It felt good it was kind of electrifying, just knowing that I can do that,” Williams said of his performance. “My teammates do a great job finding me if I get going.”

Maine threw a 2-3 zone at Quinnipiac in the first half to limit the Bobcats to 19 points, but a three-quarter-court press by Quinnipiac in the second half forced turnovers and led to easy buckets.

“On your non-conference schedule you have such a small sample size of what every team is doing,” Dunleavy said. “You almost have to go into every game assuming they’ll give you some man, some zone, some press.

You have to have the full repertoire as ready as you can. I think a lot of teams play zone early in the year because they know it’s hard to have that [scheme] ready.”

It seems like the different defenses Quinnip-

iac is facing is having an impact on the offense, as the Bobcats have shot over 40 percent as a team in just one game so far.

That brings us to the third and final stage, back-to-back road losses against quality opponents in UMass Amherst and Stony Brook.

Quinnipiac came out slow in the first half in each of these games, facing deficits of 11 and 14, respectively, at halftime of those games.

The positive was that the Bobcats didn’t go down without a fight, winning the second half on both nights but still coming up short.

Still, these first half performances are a concerning trend.

“It’s the way we practice, our practicing habits,” senior forward Abdulai Bundu said when asked what was the cause of the slow starts. “We have slow starts in practice. We have tendencies where we start practice and everyone isn’t locked in, then mid-way through the practice we pick it up. You practice how you play.”

On the bright side, Kelly made his season debut on Saturday against Stony Brook. The sophomore played 24 minutes off the bench,

contributing seven points and six assists. The six assists were the most by a Bobcat in a game all season.

“I just tried to turn a negative into a positive,” Kelly said of what he did with his time on the mend. “I learned how we have to come every day with a certain approach in order to be successful and how big communication is.

That has nothing to do with putting the ball in the basket, but it makes a big difference at the end of the day.

Looking ahead, Quinnipiac will wrap up its three-game road trip at Dartmouth (4-4 overall) on Wednesday, Dec. 5 and then come home to host Lafayette (2-5 overall) on Saturday. The Bobcats edged Dartmouth, 78-77, last season in their home opener, but lost at Lafayette, 79-58.

“The one thing that doesn’t change for us is playing Quinnipiac basketball,” Bundu said when asked what differences there will be playing those teams again. “We’re going to play hard and step up for the man next to us.”

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There was no time on the clock when Quinnipiac women’s basketball redshirt senior Jen Fay hit a gametying 3-pointer in OT against Harvard on Friday.

Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey sophomore forward Odeen Tufto has 14 points in his last five games.

In the loss to Stony Brook, Quinnipiac men’s basketball senior guard Aaron Robinson scored a career-high 15 points.

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Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey senior defenseman Chase Priskie scored three goals this weekend in the team’s series against Princeton. He now leads the team with 11 goals and he is tied for third in the nation.

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No. 8 Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey will face its toughest test of the season this weekend against No. 1 UMass

By BRYAN MURPHY Associate Sports Editor

On Friday night, the No. 1 team in the nation is going to be marching into the Frank Perotti, Jr. Arena in Hamden.

No. 1 UMass will be squaring off against the No. 8 Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey team in a home-and-home series this weekend in the biggest test of Quinnipiac’s season.

“UMass is arguably one of the best D-cores in the country,” senior defenseman Chase Priskie said. “So I think a lot of their offense is going to start from their [defense]. They have got three big names that bring it every night.”

Each team is coming in smoking hot - sixgame winning streak for Quinnipiac and a ninegame winning streak for UMass - and both are sitting in first in their respective conferences.

However, a few months ago, this game just appeared to be another out-of-conference series for each team. When the schedule originally came out in the summer, someone looking at the Dec. 7 and 8 matchups between Quinnipiac and UMass probably would not have thought anything of it.

In September, the preseason polls came out. Quinnipiac was slated at No. 7 and 8 in the ECAC Hockey coaches’ and media polls respec-

tively. It received eight votes for the USCHO top 20 rankings. The team was being written off as a middle of the pack conference team.

UMass was looking at the same predictions. No. 6 in the preseason coaches’ poll for Hockey East and received 35 votes for the USCHO top 20. And I mean, who could blame people for predicting that? UMass has not had an over .500 record since 200607, only even reaching .500 once during that span.

Flash forward to now and these two teams are in a direction to finish far, far above those preseason rankings. Quinnipiac boasts a 13-20 overall record and a 6-2-0 ECAC Hockey record. Yet the Minutemen of UMass have an even better record, with a 12-1-0 overall record and are undefeated in conference play, going 7-0-0.

Quinnipiac created some space between itself and ECAC Hockey opponents this past weekend with a sweep of Princeton. Princeton, who now have lost five in a row, was right behind Quinnipiac in the standings, sitting in second, but given the weekend results, has now fallen to fifth.

“Just in the league in general, we approach it like it’s two points, and against a

team that might be there at the end, it’s four points,” associate head coach Bill Riga said in regards to the sweep of Princeton. “It’s basically a four-point swing. I think [Princeton] is going to get it going here and put points on the board and we’re going to have to have those eight points that will be big for us at the end of the year.”

Priskie registered three goals in the series, one Friday and two Saturday. Two of those tallies came on the power play, bumping his season total to six, which is tied for the league lead in power play goals.

Priskie’s goal total is now 11, which leads the team and puts him not only first in the nation for goals by a defenseman, but tied for third out of all players.

Priskie was named ECAC Hockey Player of the Week after his performance against Princeton. It is the second week in a row Quinnipiac has garnered that honor, with last week being sophomore forward Odeen Tufto.

Speaking of Tufto, he is right behind his captain as he is tied for fifth in the nation with 10 goals. Tufto enjoyed a six-point performance this past weekend, with a goal and five assists in the two games. He leads Quinnipiac

in points and is now in third in the nation in points with 24. He was named NCAA second star of the week.

Not only that, but Tufto has a ridiculous 14 points in his last five games, four goals and 10 assists. He is proving his freshman campaign was no fluke as he is on pace to break last year’s score of 41 points.

“I think [Tufto] is getting used to team’s focusing on him a little bit,” Riga said. “He’s being more creative and finding ways to get open and finding shots for himself.”

Also for Quinnipiac, freshman forward Michael Lombardi was named ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Week, the third week in a row a Quinnipiac freshman has been recognized with that achievement. He is riding a fourgame point streak and added a goal and assist this weekend.

“It was kind of slow at the beginning,” Lombardi said. “But obviously you get comfortable with the level of speed and size. It’s just been easy. My linemates have made it easy for me too.”

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RUNNIN’ THE POINT

Quinnipiac men’s basketball finding wins in losses

By LOGAN REARDON Sports Editor

Six games into the 2018-19 season, the Quinnipiac men’s basketball team has been underwhelming on paper.

But, looking at the bigger picture, this team has made strides over the first three weeks of the season.

To this point, the season has been broken up into three stages. First, there was the two-game losing streak – at Villanova (an obvious tough game) and the home opener against Hartford (one where the Bobcats could’ve played better).

Next, there was the two-game winning streak – at New Hampshire and at home against Maine.

And now, there is the current two-game losing streak – on the road against UMass Amherst and Stony Brook (both quality opponents).

Let’s dive into these three stages of the young season and see where the Bobcats did well, and – most importantly – where they can improve.

Kicking things off, the Villanova game was

an impossible one. Sophomore point guard Rich Kelly – selected to the preseason AllMAAC Third-Team – sprained his right MCL just before the game (more on Kelly later). That meant freshman guard Tyrese Williams and senior guard Aaron Robinson had to fill in at the point. Neither has ever played point guard, as both are traditionally off-the-ball scorers.

“The biggest thing with Tyrese is I don’t want him to be tentative,” Quinnipiac head coach Baker Dunleavy said. “I think he’s been aggressive. He’s made mistakes, but as a coach we put him in that environment [at Villanova], probably an unfair position, but I thought he kept battling and handled it well.

“In an unfamiliar position, overall I think [Aaron has] done pretty well with it. We can use this as experience going forward, certainly it can be valuable.”

Quinnipiac had nine turnovers in the first half against Villanova, but settled down and only had four in the second. Realistically,

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The Quinnipiac bench celebrates a big play in the Bobcats’ win over Maine last week. there’s not a ton to take away from this game. It went pretty much as expected (86-53 loss), and it was a valuable learning experience.

The home opener against Hartford was a tougher pill to swallow, however. Hartford came into the game 0-3, but the Bobcats didn’t really show up. Quinnipiac was down 13 at the

half and ultimately lost 68-54, again struggling to score without Kelly running the point.

“Rich gets our guys going and he makes guys better,” Dunleavy said after the loss. “I think right now we don’t have a player that is See POINT Page 14