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New School of Nursing dean appointed

Dr. Lisa G. O’Connor will become the School of Nursing dean effective July 1

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make her the ideal person to take on the position.

O’Connor holds a doctorate in educational leadership, a master’s degree in nursing education and a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Hartford. In addition, O’Connor has also received a diploma from the Ona Wilcox School of Nursing at Middlesex Hospital, according to Thompson’s statement.

Nursing students are excited to welcome O’Connor into her new position.

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Jacqueline Salaun, a freshman nursing major, has O’Connor as an advisor.

“As my advisor, she helps me pick my classes and gives me advice.” Salaun said. “I really like her… she will make a great dean.”

O’Connor is also excited about her new position saying, “It is an honor and privilege to be chosen as the next leader of the Quinnipiac School of Nursing.”

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Dr. Lisa G. O’Connor, associate dean of the School of Nursing will advance her career as the new Dean of the School.

O’Connor will ascend to the position as a result of the retirement of Jean Lange. Lange has been the school of nursing dean since its establishment seven years ago.

The School of Nursing and its 40 full-time faculty and staff members are, “committed to its students and has threaded the three pillars of interprofessionalism, holism and inclusivity into our curriculum and all nursing activities,” O’Connor said.

“As the next dean, I am dedicated to a collaborative model of leadership where we focus on high quality programs and a student-centered environment while continuing our commitment to these three pillars,” she said.

“Lisa O’Connor is highly qualified to lead the School of Nursing, which plays such an important role in preparing undergraduate and graduate health care professionals who go on to affect so many lives each day,” Mark Thompson, executive vice president and provost said in an announcement on April 16.

Upon coming to Quinnipiac 15 years ago, O’Connor developed her career substantially, starting as an associate before becoming a full professor. She also served as director and chair of the undergraduate nursing programs, associate dean and now Dean for the School of Nursing. O’Connor even earned the Nurse Leadership Award from the Connecticut League for Nursing in 2014.

Thompson explained that O’Connor’s commitment to nursing education, in addition to her experience in the field,

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Some residence halls at the university have reportedly been overrun with bugs for the past few weeks. Several students have commented on this incident, like sophomore public relations major Charlotte Garguilo.

Garguilo said she’s never personally experienced any insects while living in her residence hall on York Hill, but she been told of stories that her friends have dealt with regarding this issue, specifically within the Bakke residence hall on the Mount Carmel Campus.

“I know my friends in Bakke [told me that] there was a dune bug [in their dorm]. I think they’ve been killing them, a few of them,” Garguilo said. “They would wait for their friends to come back and kill it for them.”

Garguilo also mentioned that she’s seen similar insects roaming around the academic buildings, but is unsure of whether that situation is connected to the issues in the residence halls.

“I’ve noticed on the bottom of the window ceiling, as you could say, that there was a beetle. It was kind of like a dune bug,” Garguilo said. “I thought it was odd. I don’t know if there’s a lot of those or there’s just one of those things where it’s [because of] the weather.”

Junior 3+3 Health Science major Fiona LaPierre said she’s been noticing many bugs becoming infested inside her dorm inside The Hill residence hall, specifically carpenter ants.

“The majority of them are in the bathroom but I’ve found them in my bed, my closet, and most recently, in my water bottle.,” LaPierre said. “Every time I go into the bathroom or in

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Students discovered carpenter ants while living in the Hill Residence Hall on the Mount Carmel campus. the shower, I kill four or five carpenter ants.”

LaPierre’s roommate, sophomore psychology major Melissa Tufts said that she started noticing a few large ants in the dorm since the beginning of March and it would be easy for her to remove them from the dorm. Yet, as time went on more insects began to appear to the point where it’s been difficult to remove them all.

“I would just see one or two and I’d kill them but now they are everywhere,” Tufts said. “My direct roommate hates them and she’s seen them crawling on her bed, which freaked her out. The past two weeks I haven’t been showering in my own dorm because I feel grossed out.”

Tufts said she called the facilities’ office for a work order on April 9, and facilities arrived a day later to help remove the insects.

However, their efforts provided little assistance to the situation. “[Facilities] came and put traps, but it only helped lower the amount. More and more ants have been showing up in my bedroom where there is no opened food,” Tufts said. “I will probably be making another work order for the room.”

The university facilities was the only form of extermination that visited the dorm that day, according to LaPierre.

“They sprayed the corners of the bathrooms and put down a few ant bait traps but those haven’t been doing anything,” LaPierre said. “The ants are still crawling through the ceiling tiles and into the bathroom, the shower, and our rooms.”

The Office of Facilities and Residential Life were unable to comment about the situation.

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Students attend international summit in Jordan

By MARIA SPANO Staff Writer

The Albert Schweitzer Institute (ASI) sponsored a trip for select Quinnipiac students to attend The Laureates and Leaders for Children Summit in Amman, Jordan.

Leah Mantei, Layomi Akinnifesi, Franklin Ramsay, Velvet Chestnut, Margaret Crampton and Layla Hindiyeh were the six students who were able to attend the summit where they learned about the effects of the refugee crisis on children who have been displaced because of civil unrest. Professor of political science and Head of the Albert Schweitzer Institute, Sean Duffy, attended as well.

“I know that, from my perspective, the goal of the (ASI) is to provide all sorts of opportunities for students to explore the areas of focus that the ASI emphasizes: Peace and Human Rights, Health Care for Human Development, and Ecological Stewardship,” Duffy said.

The Institute is responsible for facilitating programs within the United States and internationally to connect education, ethics and volunteerism to give students a global perspective on certain issues.

“I have been to several conferences within the past three years, but this is the first time that I came back home feeling a sense of anger,” freshman health science studies major, Hindiyeh said.

“Not because the summit was poorly run, or not what I expected, but for the first time I was irritated that I was returning to a home where I can learn and voice my opinions when so many people cannot.”

The summit was held in Jordan because of the country’s willingness to accept refugees, especially children, from various countries. Many of the children are forced to be on the move and are stripped of many of their basic freedoms as a result. The Laureates and Leaders for Children Summit emphasized these issues.

The event was spread over the course of two days.

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Professor Sean Duffy, along with six Quinnipiac students attend the Laureates and Leaders for Children in the nation of Jordon. of round table discussions. Each table had about eight people, consisting of students and world leaders.

Day two consisted of break-out sessions where students were able to engage in interactive discussions where people shared a personal experience in which they dealt with a vulnerable child, and its impact.

“I learned that youth all around the world are incredibly engaged, well-spoken and inspiring,” Mantei, a second year student of Quinnipiac School of Law, said. “They are capable of bringing about the change that this world needs.

However, at the same time, I learned that sitting in circles and talking about issues is not going to solve them. I am glad that they started having a conference that focuses on issues specifically facing children, but what I also learned, with that in mind, is that we have so much more to learn to really build programs that are geared towards

improving childhoods and helping children.”

At the conference, students learned that as of 2016, more than 28 million children live in a situation of forced displacement. An additional seven million are internally displaced due to poverty, conflict, war or natural disaster.

These children also do not have access to education. Over 152 million children are child laborers, and over 263 million children are out of school. Approximately 40 percent of the Syrian refugees that live in countries like Jordan, Turkey or Lebanon do not have access to education, either.

The purpose of the event was to bring awareness to all individuals from around the world that something needs to be done and improved upon for future generations. This was done to emphasize that every single child in the world matters, regardless of where they live or the current situation they are in.

“Why was I given this life when millions of children are placed in conflict and on the move, suffering from physical and mental abuse?”

Hindiyeh asked herself. “I came home from the conference and quickly resumed my daily routine: studying, playing with the band, exercising, and other things that I consider normal. What I know now is that millions of kids are only hoping for food and shelter, not a quiet environment to study for their next exam.”

In a survey conducted regarding Syrian children who were refugees, over 60 percent of them had either lost a family member, been displaced due to house bombings or suffered war related injuries.

“I think my biggest takeaway is that there’s still a lot to be explored when it comes to having solutions like the refugee crisis and children without education,” Franklin Ramsey, a junior computer informations systems major who attended, said. “Personally, I learned to approach problem-solving in the way that you want to solve things looking at the big picture.”

This summit allowed for those present to see and hear the reality of these children’s lives in order to hopefully make steps towards peace and promise for these young individuals. It is an opportunity that not many people are given.

Duffy hopes that students gain a better sense of the connection between local and begin to find a way to connect thinking about things like human rights and acting on them.

“Albert Schweitzer is best known for his ethics of A Reverence for Life – the belief that all life is sacred, and that we should act always to promote, preserve, and protect life – and his hope that his life would be his argument,” Duffy said. “In other words, that he would demonstrate his values by the way he lived his life. ASI trips and programs are presented with the hope that students and others who participate begin to find their own way to live a life of meaning, true to their values.”

Former FBI Director James Comey sits down with George Stephanopolous

By ANDREW BREUNIG Staff Writer

Former FBI director James Comey sat down with news anchor George Stephanopoulos for an exclusive interview that aired on April 15, on ABC. The interview, which lasted an hour, delved into the strained professional relationship between the decades long public servant and newly elected President Donald Trump.

Comey first appeared in recent national headlines after 2016 “October Surprise” when the FBI director and his team of federal agents found evidence that then-Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton and her aides were, in Comey’s own words: “extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.”

While no charges were ever brought forward against Clinton, critics speculated that the FBI’s investigation may have hindered her chances of winning the election.

Comey stayed on as Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director after Trump was inaugurated in January, but was fired a few months later, on May 7, 2017. The Trump Administration justified Comey’s termination by stating that he had mishandled the Hillary Clinton email probe during the presidential elections.

Comey himself, however, attributes the firing to a lack of prescribed loyalty to Trump himself and his persistence in pursuing an investigation into Trump’s alleged Russian meddling.

The core of the interview could be surmised within Comey’s upcoming autobiography, titled: “A Higher Loyalty,” which touches on his own personal leadership experiences and delves into the details regarding his encounters with the 45 President of the United States.

During the ABC interview, Comey touched on two significant meetings with Trump that would forever change his professional rela-

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James Comey being sworn in while testifying before the Senate on Capitol Hill in June 2017. tionship with the President. One of those meetings arose after Comey was invited by Trump to dine with him at the White House on the evening of Jan. 27, 2017.

The purpose of the private dinner meeting, Comey claimed, was for him to pledge loyalty to the President. “And the purpose of the meeting,” Comey said, “was for him to extract from me a promise of loyalty. My insight was right, it was to make me a friend of (his).”

“I expect loyalty, I need loyalty,” Comey said Trump told him. “You will always get honesty from me,” Comey replied.

The second fateful meeting occurred on Feb. 14, 2017 in the Oval Office, when Comey was briefing the President and members of his staff on terrorist threats in the United States. After the meeting concluded, Trump requested Comey

stay behind. “(Trump) then ended the meeting by thanking everybody.” Comey said. “and pointing at me saying, “I just want to talk to Jim.” And excused everyone, including the vice president.”

When Comey was alone with the President, he stated that Trump asked him to drop the criminal investigation on Michael Flynn (who at that time was charged with lying to the FBI). “He’s asking me to drop the criminal investigation.” Comey said. “of his, now former, national security advisor”.

One of the most provocative statements Mr. Comey made during the ABC interview was comparing the President to a “mob boss.”

“What I’m talking about is that leadership culture comes back to me when I think about my experience with the Trump administration. The loyalty oaths, the boss as the dominant center of

everything, it’s all about how do you serve the boss, what’s in the boss’ interests. It’s the family, the family, the family, the family.”

Ali Munshi, a senior political science major, drew parallels from the interview to the uneasy political atmosphere most Americans find themselves in today.

“It’s a scandalous time, in different ways,” Munshi said. “If Comey steps forward and says something about the administration, I’m not sure why others wouldn’t. How valid is everything? How much of this is Comey just trying to protect himself? We’re all just trying to get to the bottom of this.”

Munshi also stated that the new interview wouldn’t shed light on any new developments.

“I don’t think the interview will give us a lot,” Munshi said. “We’re still dealing with internal politics that unfortunately our leaders will not rise above, and I don’t believe James Comey is any better. I’m not sure all the the questions we’re going to have are going to be answered tonight.”

As tensions continue to rise across the political landscape, the Comey interview only seems to raise more questions than answer them.

Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel to the Department of Justice on May 17, 2017; just eight days after Comey was fired. He was tasked with investigating any Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, including exploring any links or coordination between the Trump campaign and the Russian Government.

“If Trump fires Mueller, it would set off alarm bells that this is the most serious attack yet on the rule of law,” Comey said. “This is about the values of this country and the rule of law. And it would be to the everlasting shame of partisans if they were unable to see that higher level and to protect it.”

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Students display ‘I.T. for Good’ in capstone showcase

By MATT GRAHN Staff Writer

On May 2, a semester’s worth of work will come to fruition. The students of CIS490, the computer information systems (CIS) capstone, will present their semester projects to a panel of judges, which include professors and the clients that they have been working for.

Associate Professor of computer information systems Kiku Jones, who teaches the course, said there are four projects that the class worked on this semester.

“Preventable” is a project that would let people track where instances of violence are occuring with the hope of preventing future problems.

“Health Now” is a database of currently uncured diseases, with information and research about them. The others are for the Center for Women in Business, and the School of Business’ mentorship program.

For this showcase, Jones is looking forward to how the clients will respond to having more than one team work on each of their projects.

“I’m excited for the clients, because they actually get to see more than one team that selected their projects, and they can take a look at the different options,” she said.

The work starts with obtaining clients.

Jones focuses on non-profit clients, as it falls in line with the CIS major’s idea of “I.T. for Good,” which means that the students “get to use their skills and ability in a positive way.”

Next is getting the projects started. Max Goldfarb, a senior CIS major and a current student in the class, said that the students choose what topic they’d like to work on. Jones hides the identity of the client requesting the project, so the students can make their decisions without biases.

Projects may be rejected by virtue of not having enough students supporting them. Even though this class’ bunch ended up being projects inside QU, other areas off the community

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Students prepare for their capstone showcase that will take place on May 2 in the Mount Carmel Auditorium. may get involved as well.

After that, the roles of the students in the project is determined. Goldfarb, who is currently a project manager for two of the projects, said that nearly everyone in the class applies for that role. For those who don’t make it into that position, other tasks on the team are determined, like team leaders, analysts and developers.

In order to have the development process be organized, Goldfarb said that the project was broken down into milestones, based on accomplishments, like finishing the user side of the website. Even after they hit their milestones, they will keep working until they create a prototype (or as they call it, a minimum viable product).

During the night of the showcase, there will be two featured projects. Jones says that the two teams chosen will be able to go up on stage

and present their work. As well, judges will be there to commentate on the student work.

These judges can be the clients themselves, CIS professors and people from various companies like Deloitte,a consulting firm, and The Hartford, an insurance company. During the evening, the students will also be given time to engage in networking.

However, Goldfarb thinks that the most important part of the evening is having the group projects approved by the client, so they might negotiate terms for continuing work.

“If the clients are extremely happy with the product that the team developed, they have the ability to start a business with that product. We can start a business with that client afterword, and continue to develop it,” he said. “We’re talking about 490 students having the opportunity to not only start a business with a great

idea, but you also have the opportunity to work with some of these panels.”

Edward Brady, a senior entrepreneurship major, is a fan of the capstone program at QU, as it is beneficial for students when they get into the real world.

“What the CIS majors are doing right now is great; being able to work for a company, and build a software for them and potentially put it on their resume is huge, especially in today’s day and age,” he said.

When asked about past capstones, one project stuck out in Jones’ mind. Last year, students were asked to design a registration site for Leah’s Dragonfly Run. The event raises money for the Leah Rondon fund, which was started in the memory of the child it was named after.

Jones knew Rondon, so she thought it was “a big one.” The organization liked the work that the students from CIS 490 did. The project created by that class is expected to go live soon.

Goldfarb felt that the class was a good way to sum up all of his experiences in the CIS major, before having to go into the real world.

“Before CIS 490, I wasn’t sure how I’d be combining all the different skills. I needed to pick a direction of what I wanted to do… the CIS 490 project is doing an amazing job of helping me all ign the vocational goals, along with jogging my memory of skills that I learned at the beginning of my educational career,” he said.

When asked what a student joining the class should be prepared for, Jones says that there will be a lot of work, but it will be worth it because the students will want to give it their all.

“It’s about getting that last semester to hone in on those skills, and tighten them up before you walk across that stage and graduate,” she said.

Remembering the Holocaust

By VICTORIA SIMPRI News Editor

The Peter C. Hereld House for Jewish Life, along with the Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) fraternity, hosted Alan Berkowitz, the son of two Holocaust survivors on Wednesday, April 11 in a discussion commemorating the Holocaust.

This is the first year that the Hereld House has hosted a second generation Holocaust survivor rather than a first generation.

“We’ve had three, but this was the first time with the twist being that it was not a first survivor,” Rabbi Reena Judd said. “It wasn’t someone who survived Auschwitz and the camps.”

Judd was advised to contact Berkowitz through the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in Hamden. The ADL advocacy and programs focus on anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, extremism, hate crimes, civil rights, interfaith and inter-group understanding and peace in the Middle East, according to its website.

On Holocaust Memorial Day, communities and universities throughout the world do programs to commemorate the war as best they can, according to Judd.

When Judd received word of the program that Berkowitz was involved in, she deemed it thought provoking enough to reach out to him in particular to invite to campus.

“He was the next generation sharing a different story,” Judd said.

While Berkowitz is the son of two survivors, he does not consider himself the child of Holocaust survivors.

“My father was never in a death camp,” Berkowitz said. “My father in-law was in Auschwitz, he has the tattoo on his arm to

prove it, but my family didn’t talk about it at all. My dad died when I was 10, but all our friends were generally survivors.”

The event aimed to commemorate the Holocaust and to remember the six million who suffered along with the millions who were victimized.

“When we talk about the Holocaust we can never forget the unique nature of the Jewish experience,” Berkowitz said. “In that six million were purposely, intentionally murdered for no other reason except what their faith was and how that was somehow wrapped up in Nazi racists and redemptive ideology.”

“...Six million were purposely, intentionally murdered for no other reason except what their faith was and how that was somehow wrapped up in Nazi racists and redemptive ideology.”

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On Nov. 9-10 in 1938, the German Nazi’s attacked Jewish persons and their property on what is now known as the Night of Broken Glass, Kristallnacht.

“They had their soldiers and stormtroopers dress up in plain clothes because they wanted the general population to think that this was an uprising against the Jews,” Berkowitz said. “They didn’t want it to seem

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Rabbi Reena Judd and Alan Berkowitz take part in the silent walk from the Peter C. Hereld House. like something top down, they wanted it to seem like something that was bottom up.”

The pogroms, or organized massacres, continued through the day on Nov. 10, 1938 with acts of violence following for several days.

“On Nov. 9 and 10, shops were vandalized, people were murdered and synagogues throughout the country were burnt to the ground,” Berkowitz said.

The discussion then moved to the history of the word Holocaust and the impact it has now. Berkowitz explained how the word Holocaust comes from the Greek word holokauston, translating from Hebrew to mean “completely burnt offering to God.” “When we’re talking about it, it’s really hard to make sure that we’re honoring the victims and not minimizing the experiences

of others,” Berkowitz said.

Judd and Berkowitz then led the students and faculty in a walk from the Peter C. Hereld House to the Complex Courtyard.

“During the walk it should be silent so when people ask you what you’re doing we’ll have these little pamphlets to hand out,” Caleb Shulman, AEPi president, said.

The discussion that Berkowitz held impacted both the faculty and students that were present, according to Judd.

“There were more faculty than I had expected,” Judd said. “It impacted, in my opinion, the faculty differently than it impacted the bulk of the students. It was interesting to watch, they were caring and they were very much present.”

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Old man on campus

Drug addiction delayed my college experience. As graduation nears, it’s time to reflect on my journey as a 27-year-old at Quinnipiac, and why I’m grateful for all of it.

Ryan Chichester Staff Writer

I remember my first day on Quinnipiac campus like it was yesterday. My fiancé Ashley and I had just visited a university in New York, where a heavy rainfall had obstructed our view of the urban campus. Wet and exhausted, we trudged further north to Hamden.

The thudding rain on the roof of my Hyundai slowly silenced as we drove up the Merritt Parkway, and dark clouds almost immediately gave way to sunshine when we pulled into Quinnipiac’s Visitor’s Lot. Ashley and I saw the shift in weather as a sign from above. After a tour and chats with journalism professor Molly Yanity and the faculty, it was a done deal. I wanted to be a Bobcat.

Despite the relief of finally knowing where the next step of my life would take me, there was a noticeable sense of uncertainty and discomfort. What exactly was I doing? Here I was, at 25 years old, deciding where I would spend the final two years of my delayed college career. Sure, 25 is considered to be someone’s prime years in the grand scheme of life, but in university years, I was a wrinkled old man.

Would my classmates welcome me to my first Quinnipiac classroom with a walker and plastic covers for my seat?

The truth was, I didn’t care. After spending two years of my life walking in and out of rehabs and living in a flyinfested one-bedroom shithole while using an old t-shirt to wipe my ass (we couldn’t afford toilet paper), there was not much left that could embarrass me anymore. So I signed up to go back to school and star in my own ‘Billy Madison’ sequel.

I had given college a try before, back when the students surrounding me were all my age. I had started school at Middlesex County College in Edison, where I was ready to lay the path to becoming the best damn sports writer that Central Jersey had ever seen.

At least I thought I was ready.

I had begun my descent into drugs long before I graduated high school. I decided that life was better when I was high. All the time. As an addict, I have come to understand that I have this unique void in my soul that drives me to escape my own reality due to my delusional acceptance that my reality isn’t good enough. Drugs were my escape. By the time I walked onto Middlesex campus for the first time, I was high on heroin. My writing aspirations disappeared in a cloud of white smoke with every line of white powder I snorted up my nose. I was a full-time student holding a rolled-up dollar bill in my hand more than a pen or pencil.

I kept my secret for years, but like all addicts, the walls started to crumble around me. The drugs weren’t working anymore, and neither were my lies. I was trapped in my own insanity, doomed to keep repeating the same empty routine of driving to Newark for drugs, only to return home to nothing. My dogs were the only companions in my life that didn’t look upon my pale, caved-in face with pity.

Finally, on my 22nd birthday, something changed. I had

a rude awakening in the form of a birthday card from my mother. My mom has always been the kind to wear a smile at all costs and keep things positive. But there was nothing positive left of my miserable existence. I opened her card to me and saw nothing but a quick blurb: “Dear Ryan, my birthday wish for you is that you live to see your next one.”

The one-ounce card hit me like a wrecking ball. I thought about what she said, and a wave of fear rushed over me. But it wasn’t the fear I expected. I realized in that moment that while I could die from an overdose on any given day, that’s not what I was afraid of. I was more frightened of living through another year enslaved to a bag of white powder.

So I agreed to try to get help

once again. A week after my birthday, I was on top of a mountain in Vernal, Utah with nothing but some clothes, a sleeping bag and a notebook. I spent my days sitting on the hard dirt, writing about what brought me here and what I planned to do with my future. I wrote every day.

The first few days were tough. Withdrawal symptoms caused me to vomit a few times, and I had to dig a hole, bury it and carry on with my day. But things got better. My head cleared. I hiked peaks and valleys and saw some of the most beautiful creations of God that my eyes will never forget.

Most importantly, I found myself. Four months later, armed with a new sense of self-worth, I returned to the real world.

So here I am at 27 years young, getting ready to graduate from a school that I am eternally thankful for agreeing to attend on that sun-splashed rainy day two years ago. All of the uncertainties I felt when I first decided to come to Quinnipiac were washed away within weeks of my first semester.

There was no judgement, only friendships that I’ll take with me wherever I wind up next. It took five years after putting the drugs down, but I got to experience the college life.

Well, maybe not the same college life as others. While

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classmates and friends talked about going out on a Friday night, I was heading to work or a Narcotics Anonymous meeting. Aside from a Halloween concert, I have never been inside Toad’s.

I still don’t know what the hell Clubhouse is. I may be disconnected from that part of Quinnipiac, but I never felt disconnected from the people that make up the Bobcat community.

Now I will begin my search for something new, and flatout scary: a job. Years of recovery and soul-searching have made me realize that I still want to be in sports journalism.

My family, my fiancé and the people here on campus have taught me to go for it no matter what. So that’s what I’ll do.

It will be difficult, but hey, I’ve survived worse.

There have been times during my two years here that I’ve stopped briefly to wonder what exactly I’m doing here.

I dismiss it quickly. The amazing faculty and students that I get to see every day is more than enough evidence that I made the right choice.

If those conflicting thoughts creep in, I just look above my kitchen table, where my wonderful fiancé hung a white wooden sign that reads, “It’s never too late to be what you might have been.”

That sign is my physical reminder to keep moving forward. The Chronicle and the people of Quinnipiac who have made it so easy to share my story serve as my living and breathing reminder that it’s never too late for anybody.

For that, from the bottom of my heart, I thank you all.

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Going against the grain with The Chronicle Sports Through persistence and experience, Quinnipiac’s student-run newspaper gave me a multifarious platform for success as a sports journalist “What?

California?

What are you doing here?”

I have officially lost count of how many times I have been asked those series of quick questions during my three years at Quinnipiac. And I don’t blame people for asking either.

Web Director When taking a step back, it definitely sounds kind of strange for a 17-year-old to pack up and leave Los Angeles to experience — what is supposed to be the prime years of young adulthood — four years of college in Hamden, Connecticut.

I get that, but I can explain once and for all. Let’s start from the top.

I’m from the West Coast, but my Dad, a good Canadian boy, brainwashed me into loving hockey. I had a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey ready for me when I came out of the womb (whaddup, Mom).

I played youth hockey throughout my childhood and teenage years, but as soon as I realized I couldn’t play professionally — this revelation came at a sprite 12 years old — I wanted to become part of the sports media world.

At 16 years old, I was starting to narrow down where I wanted to pursue sports journalism and came across a college hockey team with bright yellow jerseys and a wild name playing on ESPN in the 2013 Frozen Four. That planted the seed.

A few months later, my high school’s college guidance counselor gave me a list of recommended schools to apply to. I spotted that weird-looking name and it intrigued me.

An opportunity to move across the country, live on the East Coast, have two of the largest sports media corporations in-state and maybe, just maybe I could work my way up within student

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media to cover the powerhouse of a men’s ice hockey team.

It took a couple of college tours and some courage to leave home, but by the middle of my senior year of high school, I was all in on Quinnipiac.

In Hamden, I didn’t go to my freshman year involvement fair. I heard about different student media organizations from a few orientation leaders, but it was flat-out intimidating.

As a quiet and nervous aspiring print sports journalist, I didn’t know how to separate myself from the pack within the heavy sports-oriented organization like QBSN or Q30 Sports. In order to get involved at all, it took a friend to drag me into The Chronicle meeting in mid-October. By the end of the meeting I was assigned to cover a game of women’s rugby over the weekend.

That was the start.

With each piece I wrote and graphic I created, I gained confidence in my abilities. Even if it was through The Chronicle, which was (and might still be) frankly the atypical sports group within student media, I wasn’t just doing, I was learning.

Through The Chronicle, I received an unbelievable foundation which I could build upon. I was able to get the handson experience necessary to improve in the field, but also received repetitive criticism that helped me grow into a real and ethical journalist.

The foundation of AP Style in writing and proper use of images within creating graphics became second nature to me by the end of my freshman year. I was able to consciously create without the pressure of not knowing how to do it correctly.

By my sophomore year, I accomplished my college goal of becoming a Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey beat writer and simultaneously became the one throwing out ideas at weekly staff meetings rather than being assigned.

Without even knowing it at the time, The Chronicle molded me into a more professional writer, provided connections through experience and forced me to break out of my shell.

At this time last year, I became the Sports Editor of The Chronicle and if you asked freshman Justin, it was a role I never saw myself taking on, especially in that short amount of time. I never thought I’d be well-versed enough in newspaper jargon, personable enough to delegate work to staff writers or let alone have any kind of influential say in this organization.

My comfort zone no longer existed and that carried over into becoming the Web Director of the newspaper in the middle of this year.

OK, if you’ve made it this far, shouts to you. Here is the point to all of this background information.

I was just a communications major with a desire to do something big, but never had the courage to actually go out there and do it. Joining a relatively low-key sports organization within student media like The Chronicle wasn’t my ideal plan.

As an underclassman, it was tough to be the only reporter representing a student media organization when the more prominent sports organizations had two, three and sometimes six or seven kids covering a game.

The benefit I didn’t know I had at the time, was that others were doing the same things I was, just with a more defined label attached to them. The ability to stick with a more esoteric group provided me with more opportunities.

And this isn’t a knock on any of the other student media organizations at Quinnipiac, we all work hard and do what we can to succeed in our own ways.

I just wouldn’t trade my decision of breaking the norm by coming to the oh-so foreign land of Connecticut, working for a comparatively smaller student media organization and accomplishing more than I could have imagined in my three years, for virtually anything.

The Chronicle sent me down an unbelievable path. Now it’s time to utilize everything I learned and continue to go against the grain in my next phase of sports media.

Conservative Corner

Pay gaps have to do with more than just gender About 37 years ago, economist Thomas Sowell did an hour long interview on William F Buckley’s “The Firing Line.” What is surprising is that many of the myths and falsehoods of the time are still being repeated to this day.

One of the most impervious was one put Staff Writer on display right here at Quinnipiac. It goes along the lines of this: women earn only 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. This is evidence of discrimination on the basis of sex. In order to bring attention to this issue, there was a table in the Student Center on April 10. They were selling pizza, charging women one dollar, and men two. When people asked why there was a difference in cost, the “pay gap” was explained as the justification.

Even if such a pay gap existed, and women were paid less than men on the basis of sexual discrimination, the answer to that is not more sexual discrimination in the other direction. You do not balance out injustice to one group by committing injustice against another. All of it goes on the same side, and I do not think the people on that side are company reasonable people would want to keep.

But this is to assume too much. To say that men are earning 23 cents more per hour for the same work is wrong. It is not wrong in the sense that I disagree with it or that it is misleading. It is as wrong as saying that the Earth is flat.

It flies in the face of all of the evidence. Even thirty seven years ago, it was still wrong.

To be clear, discrimination is real and does happen, and when it does it should be confronted and stopped. But if it can explain disparities between male and female earnings is a theory to be tested, not something to be assumed by the disparity existing. Disparities can exist for a wide variety of reasons.

For example, consider the class of 2013. That year, 140 women graduated for every man, and women earned more associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s, and doctor’s degrees than

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men, according to the Department of Education. If disparities indeed imply discrimination, what are we to make of that?

The reality is that disparities are perfectly natural and to be expected. Consider that among siblings, there are large disparities. For example, it has been consistently replicated that first born children have higher IQ’s than children born second. The same holds true with second born children compared to third born.

Other studies have shown first born children to be overrepresented in lawyers in the Boston area, and in Members of Congress. Of the 29 astronauts who took part in the Apollo program, 22 were either first born or only children. This is all to say, if people born to the same parents, in the same households, raised with the same educational and cultural standards do not have equal outcomes, why would we expect society at large to in the absences of discrimination?

Another problem is the assumption that people share the same goals. Men and women are not working exactly the same jobs in exactly the same proportions, nor do they want to. A meta analysis of the scientific literature by NYU professor Jonathan Haidt and Sean Stevens found “large” differences in interest and enjoyment between the sexes in math/science professions.

There is not a country in the world where women are the majority of garbage collectors, and not one where men are the majority of nurses. If these differences are socially constructed, biologically determined, or some combination of the two is up for debate. What is not up for debate is that they exist.

This is why the “77 cents on the dollar” figure is misleading, because it is not for the same jobs. It is not unjust that Katy Perry makes more for doing a concert than I do for bagging groceries at Walmart, because they are different jobs. This is why like must be compared with like when testing for discrimination.

“The main reason why women still get paid less on average than men is not that they are paid less for the same jobs but that they tend not to climb so far up the career ladder, or they choose lower-paid occupations, such as nursing and teaching,” according to The Economist.

Even in the same job, there are reasons for disparities

that are not discrimination. A Bureau of Labor study from 2015 found that among full time workers, men worked an average of 8.2 hours and women worked an average of 7.8 hours per day. It would be fair to say that being paid more for working longer is not unjust.

This may seem trivial, but at the population level of the United States it adds up. When you take part time work into account, men work 42 more minutes per day on average.

That’s an extra 14 hours every month.

Another factor is that women tend to take more time off to look after their families than men. This leads to something of a statistical anomaly; married men make more than unmarried men, but unmarried women make more than married women. Usually, the same factors cause similar results across groups (for example, college education increases average income across all ethnic groups), but not here.

Thus, if we want to compare like with like, you have to filter that out. And studies have done so: among full time workers ages 21-35 without children, the pay gap is less than three percent, and among full time workers of that same age group who live alone, there is no statistically significant pay gap.

This is without taking into account various other factors that have already been touched on, such as differences in hours worked among full time workers and different occupations.

This is all long form to say; why men and women earn different amounts of money is a complicated issue that cannot simply be reduced to “discrimination.” There are a multitude of factors involved. To ignore all of them is to do everyone a disservice. It is not empowering to be told that no matter what you do, you will make a quarter less than your male counterparts for the same work, especially when it is demonstrably not true.

I walked up to the table at the student center and gave them a copy of Doctor Sowell’s “Economic Facts and Fallacies,” the third chapter of which is dedicated to explaining why the 77 cents on the dollar talking point is untrue.

I would be surprised if they read it and altered their opinions in the face of new evidence, but I’ve been surprised before.

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Khalid reflected the excited energy in the TD Bank Sports Center during the annual Wake the Giant concert that followed opening act, Daya, while performing some of his most popular songs.

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By MELISSA BUCK Staff Writer

On the first beautiful spring day of the year, the warm weather set the mood for the annual Wake the Giant concert that would take place later that evening. On April 14, the Quad was packed with students soaking up the sun, participating in Greek Life events, tossing frisbees and playing spike ball. A sense of joy and excitement could be felt radiating across the campus. While the warm weather was an added bonus, many students were focused on what was to come later that night.

“For my first concert, it [Wake the Giant] was perfect,” freshman undeclared student Rose Martinez said. “I got to stand front row in front of one of my favorite artists.”

Members of the audience were amazed by Khalid’s ability to interact with the crowd despite some restrictions from security.

“My favorite part was Khalid telling me he loved me,” sophomore education major Nina Castro said. “The overall experience was well worth the wait because we ended up being in the front row.”

By these students’ reactions it was no wonder that tickets sold out within minutes of the ticket portal opening.

When the lights finally went down on Lender Court at the TD Bank Sports Center, it was President John Lahey who set the mood for the concert. Having invested not only his time, but a large portion of money into the event, it was no wonder President Lahey was just as excited, if not more excited, than his students.

“Quinnipiac University has the best students in the world,” President Lahey said. “You work hard and God knows you play hard!”

After delivering his short speech, Lahey high-fived the front row of students who were ecstatic about President Lahey’s presence.

Donned in a yellow Quinnipiac University hockey jersey, Khalid opened the show with his hit song “American Teen.” The jersey featured Khalid’s name and the number 18 referencing his hit song “8TEEN” which was released in 2017. After greeting Bobcat Nation with his first song of the night, Khalid thanked SPB for the gear.

“Yo, this sh*t’s dope,” Khalid exclaimed as he flexed his number 18.

Khalid brought along two back up dancers who also represented the spirit of the Bobcat in yellow long-sleeve shirts that can be found in the campus bookstore.

The artist performed a wide variety of songs including hits such as “8TEEN,” “Another Sad Love Song,” “Location,” “Cold Blooded” and more.

Along with his hit songs, Khalid decided to throw in two acoustic renditions, something that he rarely does. The performer even admitted that he was nervous but laughed the nerves away.

Unfortunately, the night did not start off smoothly. The microphone died out on three different occasions throughout the night, but the audience carried the songs on for the artist.

In a professional manner, Khalid kept the performance going through a series of spinning dance moves and high kicks.

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Expanding his stage, Khalid jumped onto the high speakers to get closer to the audience allowing a few members to touch Khlaid’s hand. While his interaction with the audience was limited by security, Khalid did his best to interact as much as he could. On many occasions the singer pointed out specific audience members that he saw. A dance party even broke out between Khalid and a student in the general admissions seating.

The final performance of the night was the hit song “Young Dumb and Broke.” The chorus follows the lyrics of, “young, dumb, broke high school kids.” But at the draw of the concert the last lyrics out of Khalid’s mouth were “young, dumb, broke college kids.” The rendition was met with a roar of screams of surprise and excitement as the singer left the stage.

"Khalid was a logical choice as he was rising in fame and we wanted to bring fresh, popular talent to campus our students would recognize and enjoy."

– JOE MANIA

STUDENT PROGRAMMING BOARD MAINSTAGE CHAIR At the close of the concert, Khalid took to Instagram posting two images from the performance where he proudly wears his Bobcat jersey that garnered over two hundred thousand likes.

Khalid was not the only one to post images from the concert, as many members of Bobcat nation took to social media to express their love for the performer. A few technical difficulties did not take away from the artists performance.

While many students had their eyes set on April 14’s concert, SPB Mainstage Chair and senior BS/MBA major Joe Mania and his team had been hard at work for months.

“Planning for Wake the Giant began the day after Fall Fest back in September,” Mania said in an email interview.

“It is never too early to start looking for potential talent for the spring! Overall, I would say a great deal of time goes into planning this event. While I rely on my team of directors and committee members for support, many months go into successful planning. We really get started right before winter break.”

Despite Mania’s excitement for the performer and overall event, SPB does not choose the performers based

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on their own opinions or their personal favorite artists. The original list of artists starts out at over a dozen potential options and SPB works with availability, pricing and the opinions of the student body.

“After surveying the students, we learned that Khalid and Daya best fit the data for genres our students want to see,” Mania said. “Khalid was a logical choice as he was rising in fame and we wanted to bring fresh, popular talent to campus our students would recognize and enjoy. Daya was a great pick for a first act as she represents students interested in pop music and has many successful hits.”

However, graduate students from the university were not in sight at the concert, which had initially caused uproar from the student body.

“Ticket sales originated with undergrads first as our funding for the event (and all SPB events) comes from the undergraduate student activity fees, which are allocated to SPB from the Student Government Association,” Mania said. “Our priority is to ensure undergrads have the first chance to purchase a ticket if they chose to do so. After careful decision making, the remainder of the tickets were opened to all undergraduate and graduate students.”

While audience members were busy singing and dancing with Khalid and Daya, the SPB team was feeling slightly emotional about the event.

“Very bittersweet,” Mania said. “I have been working on Wake the Giant for almost seven months with my team of directors and all of SPB. I could not have asked for a better show. I wish the show could never end! However, it is very gratifying that I played a large part in over 2,000 of our students’ college experience. I feel like I left my legacy at QU.” Mania was not the only SPB member who was relieved and happy to see all of their hard work pay off.

“Overall, I think it went well,” stage crew volunteer Jessica Maricich said. “A few of the directors were stressed before the concert because of the last minute things that needed to occur, but everything came together nicely.”

Along with Mania and Maricich, Hospitality Director Naomi Robinson could not have been more pleased with the outcome.

“I was happy,” Robinson said. “The show was great from start to end and I couldn’t have asked for anything better.”

With the success of this past weekend’s concert, SPB has set the bar high for the 2018-19 Wake the Giant concert as Khalid’s performance generated one of the largest positive responses from the student body in years.

“This concert was a sold out Wake the Giant which hasn’t happened in a while,” Mania said.

As for next year, Mania hopes that the next Mainstage Chair will feel the same pride and joy that he has felt running the concert.

“I still watch the reveal video that our publicity director made since it makes me so glad our hard work in finding an artist paid off,” Mania said.

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Earth Day

People all across the globe will gather to celebrate clean air, land and water on Earth Day on April 22

By ADRIANNA LOVEGROVE Staff Writer

Earth day is an annual event that is celebrated worldwide in an effort to sustain the life of the planet. It was first introduced in 1970 and is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network.

Earth Day is now observed by one billion people in 192 countries, including Denmark, England, Japan, Canada and Johannesburg, South Africa.

U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, Gaylord Nelson, came up with the idea of an Earth Day after he saw massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California. The 1969 Santa Barbara spill poured approximately 3-million gallons of crude oil into the ocean, killing thousands of birds, fish and sea mammals, according to the Los Angeles Times.

He was inspired by the student anti-war movement and realized he could use that energy to raise awareness about the current air and water pollution. On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans rallied across the nation for a healthy and sustainable planet. They chose April 22 because it fell in between spring break and final exams, according to the Earth Day Network website.

By the end of 1970, the first Earth Day led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Clean Air, Clean Water and Endangered Species Acts were passed.

Since Earth Day, people have become more aware of the role they play in protecting the environment— which in reality, is a very fragile thing. Since the very first Earth Day in 1970, practicing recycling has become a regular activity. But recycling is just one of the many ways to be eco-friendly.

Although, many nations have made immense progress when it comes to caring for the environment, there are still many things that pose a threat to nature.

Switch

Instead of buying bottled water, use a reusable water bottle. A water filter to purify tap water is also a great alternative to bottled water as well.

Bulbs Use alternative, more energy efficient forms of energy, such as compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) light bulbs.

Rainforests once covered 14 percent of the Earth’s land surface.

Today that number has dropped to a mere six percent, according to the Tropical Rainforest Coalition. Experts estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years.

A new climate change study reported by the Guardian states that unless global fossil fuel output is substantially curbed soon, by the mid twenty-first century human beings will have achieved a climate change rate not seen for the past 50 million years, back when the Ice Age came to an end. The effects of this unprecedented rise in temperature continue to be felt across the globe.

The polar bears certainly feel it, as the number of polar bears is shrinking as the temperature increases. It is believed that there are only 20 to 25 thousand polar bears left living in the wild. The International Union for Conservation of Nature reports that the ice cap is predicted to completely melt within the next 100 years, leaving these creatures without a home.

In this day and age of constant and instant information, people are beginning to understand the consequences of their actions and the impact they have on the world. Earth Day is important because it educates people about what they have and what they are losing by acting in ways that are not environmentally friendly or energy efficient. This day serves as a reminder of everything that can be done to take action before it’s too late.

According to the EPA, the average family can waste 180 gallons of water per week or 9,400 gallons annually from household leaks alone. Nationwide, a household can waste up to nearly 900 billion gallons of water annually.

This year the Earth Month Network has developed this year’s theme as “Plastic Pollution.”

Plastic is a material made to last forever even though most of it is used once and then thrown away. It also doesn’t biodegrade,

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Walk or bike to work or school to save gas. Another way to cut down on gas is to carpool whenever possible.

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By making your own cleaning supplies, you can make effective non-toxic cleaning products whenever you need them.

which makes it pile up in the environment.

“Americans alone discard more than 30 million tons of plastic a year; only eight percent of it gets recycled,” according to the Plastic Pollution Coalition (PPC) website. “The rest ends up in landfills or becomes ‘litter,’ and a small portion is incinerated.”

There are tens of thousands of landfills across the globe and buried beneath them are plastic toxins seeping into the groundwater and flowing into lakes and rivers. Plastic also threatens animals.

According to the PPC, even plankton are ingesting microplastics and absorbing their toxins. When plastic falls into environments where animals live, it can result in entanglement, ingestion and habitat disruption. Plastic debris outweighs zooplankton in our ocean by a ratio of 36-to-1.

Member of the Quinnipiac Sustainability committee, Kimberly Palencia, is hoping to get more students involved in the occasion.

“Students have such great energy,” Palencia said. “That's why I love working here and being around them. I was a student years ago too, and I remember the passion and motivation that would drive me to do things and we never lose that but sometimes everyday life, school work— or for me work— can deviate us from remembering what's important. We have a lot of important things in our lives, our family, friends, our well-beings.”

As Palencia works to get students involved in making the planet a better place, the Sustainability Committee will be having an Earth Day Fair on the Quad on April 22 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

“We all live on the same planet and it's important that we also take time to make sure that when we are busy doing the everyday things we are all doing, that we make decisions that don't impact it negatively,” Palencia said. “We can really make small changes, each one of us, that can really make a difference.”

Turn off

Turn the tap off when brushing your teeth. Doing so can save up to 8 gallons of water per day.

Unplug

Unplug appliances that aren’t in use. Or use a “smart” power strip that can sense when appliances are off and cut off energy use.

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If there’s ever been a surefire way to get attention for an event, it probably has something to do with ice cream or charity.

Combine the two, and people are guaranteed to be interested.

Such was the case at Ben and Jerry’s in New Haven last Tuesday, where the local creamery handed out free ice cream cones in support of The Greater New Haven United Way. Holly Lajoie, who co-owns the Temple Street Ben and Jerry’s with her husband Dan, explains that free cone day is a company-wide tradition, and is a way for store owners to give back to their communities.

“There are no sales on free cone day, it’s just come get your ice cream and have fun,” Lajoie said. “The thought is, instead of people paying for ice cream, they donate to the charity.”

Tuesday’s event proved particularly popular among high school and college students, who appeared in large numbers to enjoy a free treat.

One Quinnipiac junior, Meagan McConlogue, says that the event was a great way to bring together the local community.

“It was nice to see all kinds of people enjoying the same thing,” the econometrics major commented. “Everyone was smiling and enjoying being together.”

This year, Lajoie and her crew used a couple of new tactics to increase donation rates. An express line was offered to customers who wished to donate, and staff members were not shy about asking for a small offering.

While they may seem like minor details, these tactics proved successful, helping the local franchise to raise over $4,000 for The Greater New Haven United Way. This is a stark improvement to last year’s numbers, which didn’t quite reach $1,000 in donations.

The United Way is a non-profit organization with local branches across the nation. It is the largest non-profit in terms of total donation and helps communities to fight all sorts of social issues, according to The Economist.

For Greater New Haven, those social issues generally take the form of homelessness and drug addiction, things that Lajoie, a Wallingford resident, witnesses on a daily basis.

“The first 20 people who walked through the door were homeless,” Lajoie said. “We had a lot of homeless who were here enjoying an ice cream. They got to have a treat that they normally wouldn't be able to afford.”

Unfortunately, Tuesday wasn't the only day people got their hands on free ice cream from Ben and Jerry’s.

“One homeless man did steal a pint out of the freezer,” Lajoie said. “I deal with that all the time. They’ll come in and try to distract people behind the counter and then steal something. It’s tough. It’s a huge problem.”

Lajoie says the issues of homelessness and addiction are so visible that she’s had to go so far as to call the police to remove an unconscious man from blocking the entrance to her store.

“Ben and Jerry's says choose a charity- whatever’s close to your heart,” Lajoie said. “And I said, the first thing I notice here is the homeless and the hungry. This is the most visible for us at the store.”

McConlogue agrees that New Haven’s social issues are one of the first things she noticed upon arriving to the area from her native Long Island.

“It’s so sad to see, because it’s everywhere,” McConlogue said. “ Whenever I’m in New Haven, I always notice people panhandling or looking like they have nowhere to go. It’s not hard to find.”

New Haven is home to several methadone clinics, which serve not only locals but residents of neighboring cities.

While these methadone clinics are certainly an important part of the fight against the opioid epidemic, they do impose certain challenges for local business owners such as Lajoie.

But thanks to last Tuesday’s free cone day, the United Way is $4,000 more equipped to fight these ongoing issues New Haven faces.

Free cone day started in 1979 at the first Ben and Jerry’s, located in Burlington, VT. The owners wanted a way to thank their loyal customers, and has since blossomed to its current form involving different charitable causes.

ALBUM REVIEW

From madness to 'Melancholy'

The Weeknd returns to his moody, thoughtful roots in surprise EP

By ALEXIS GUERRA Staff Writer

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After almost two years since the release of The Weeknd’s third studio album “Starboy,” Abel Tesfaye revives his dark musical style in “My Dear Melancholy,” (and no that’s not a typo, the official title includes a comma to mimic the beginning of a letter).

The six-track EP (extended play) features 22 minutes of music that address his own sadness and crumbling relationships.

The EP was released on March 30 after being heavily teased by The Weeknd. The R&B artist suggested that he was in the concluding stages of completing a project after sharing multiple mute videos on Instagram of a recording studio. The videos were posted with the caption, “mastering.” On March 28, he also posted a screenshot to Twitter of a text message to Creative Director La Mar Taylor.

“Should we drop Friday? I’m indifferent to be honest,” the text message read.

What followed two days after was the release of a skin-andbones EP that followed a distinctly different trajectory than the two albums that preceded it. Although this mini-album doesn’t break any new ground as The Weeknd’s music has done in the past, the subdued nature of “My Dear Melancholy,” doesn’t undercut from the concise and focused nature of the R&B production.

The opening track, “Call Out My Name,” defines the emotional vulnerability found throughout the EP. “My Dear Melancholy,” features melodramatic lyrics such as, “I almost cut a piece of myself for your life/guess I was just another pit stop ‘til you made up your mind.”

Lyrically, the EP has some thoughtful lines but is profoundly supported by The Weeknd’s signature non-lyrical crooning.

The track “Try Me” has the light notes of trap from coproducer Mill Will Made-It. This continues with “Wasted Times” being the outlier of the six songs, featuring indie-techno beats.

The next two songs both hold synthetic influence from French techno artist Gesaffelstein on “I Was Never There” and “Hurt You.” The Weeknd closes the EP with the song “Privilege,” which truly resonates with the artist’s older fans with it’s slow and dark musical tones.

Overall, The EP is a bitter mixture of confessionals, remorse and reflection that has been met with positive reception. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. This

is The Weeknd’s third consecutive No. 1 on this chart. Because of the hype, critics have heavily weighed in on the EP. “‘My Dear Melancholy,’ surprisingly provides the clearest, most engaging example yet of The Weeknd’s angst,” Rolling Stone’s Tirhakah Love wrote for the publication. “It’s the sound of a man kneeling at love’s alter still in such of an elusive healing.”

After the release of “My Dear Melancholy,” a behind-thescenes video was posted to The Weeknd’s Youtube channel on April 9 titled “He Was Never There, Docupoem.” The mini documentary details the recording process behind the song “I Was Never There.” The Joachim Johnson-directed video also features audio clips from interviews with those who took part in the production.

The music video for “Call Out My Name” was also released on April 12. The majority of the video is The Weeknd walking alone down a dimly lit street singing along to the first track of his EP. One thing that “My Dear Melancholy,” proves is that there’s no better inspiration for music than having your heart broken.

The EP has presumed to have been based on The Weeknd’s past relationships with model Bella Hadid and music artist Selena Gomez. His decision to narrate his real-life experiences through his lyrics has been met with positivity from fans, who believe that the choice was courageous.

On the other hand, a recently published article by Marie Claire online has called out the double standard of the reception received by both The Weeknd and Taylor Swift. According to the article, Swift is infamously known for using her celebrity relationships as inspiration for her lyrics. This has earned devotion from her fan base but also backlash from critics who believe Swift “plays the victim” with her music.

“Yet men in the music industry are getting praised for doing -literally- the exact same thing,” Marie Claire’s Emma Henderson wrote. “Because he [The Weeknd] is a man, he has every right to tell his side of the story. Women who lay their emotions bare, on the other hand, are hysterical and crazy.”

Whether The Weeknd’s intention was to call out his ex’s or to have artistic freedom with his lyrics, the emotional EP is still successful among both critics and fans. “My Dear Melancholy,” shows that The Weeknd is not afraid to put his feelings on display.

The famous Walmart yodeling kid, Mason Ramsey, appeared on “The Ellen Show,” after being recognized as the star of the viral video of him yodeling the Hank Williams Sr. song “Lovesick Blues” in his local Walmart. Not only did Ramsey get to perform on the show, he also had opportunity to sing at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry theater and at the annual Coachella music festival in Indio, CA.

JAMIE LYNN SPEARS HAS SECOND DAUGHTER, IVEY WATSON Jamie Lynn Spears officially welcomed her second child Ivey Joan Watson on April 11. Ivey was born in Covington, Louisiana and named after Spears’s aunt who passed away from ovarian cancer 10 years ago.

Spears and her husband, Jamie Watson, announced that they would be having Ivey in December through a family photo of the couple and their 9-year-old daughter Maddie Briann. The caption of the reveal said, “Looks like we are starting off 2018 with another big milestone...sooo happy to announce that Maddie is FINALLY going to be a big sister.”

'THE INCREDIBLES' RETURN The anticipated sequel to “The Incredibles” debuts June 15. It has been 14 years since the original film premiered in theaters. The trailer that just premiered shows that in this film, Elastigirl (voiced

by Holly Hunter) is getting recruited for a new job that will have her husband, Mr. Incredible (voiced

by Craig T. Nelson), staying home with the children.

Of course there will be action of having to deal with Frozone (Samuel L. Jackson), but the family of superheroes will have to defeat a new villain known as the Screen Slaver.

WHAT'S NEW WITH THE PENTATONIX The popular a capella group, Pentatonix, just revealed its new album “PTX Presents: Top Pop Vol.1” on April 13. This album features a set of new covers of popular songs, including the song “Havana,” originally sung by Camila Cabello, that has over 18 million views on YouTube. The threetime Grammy Award group will also be going on a 39-city North American tour that begins this summer. The tour will be hitting major cities such as Dallas, Charlotte and Phoenix.

LET'S GET READY TO RUMBA The new cast for “Dancing With the Stars” has been announced. This season, however, ABC has decided to make all of the 10 competitors athletes with hopes that the competition and pressure will be more intense. The cast was announced on “Good Morning America” on April 13 and includes Adam Rippon, Tonya Harding, Kareem AbdulJabbar, Mirai Nagasu, Chris Mazdzer, Johnny Damon, Jennie Finch Daigle, Josh Norman, Arike Ogunbowale and Jamie Anderson.

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Formal formalities

‘Formal szn’ is the most important season for members of Greek Life

By CHARLOTTE GARDNER Associate Arts & Life Editor

Most students during the spring semester are waiting for the snow, rain and fog to clear out of Hamden. The bright spring days can’t come soon enough. However, for members of Greek Life, they have been waiting for something else for much longer.

Formal season has dawned upon Quinnipiac, as this annual event takes place during the weeks of late March into late April.

Girls head to Tommy’s to get their discounted spray tans while the guys have it easy until the day of.

But much more goes into planning these formals than meets the eye, and the outcome has a very special meaning to all those involved.

President of Chi Omega, Noelle Murphy, revealed the details of planning this year’s Chi Omega formal.

“Since last semester we have been thinking of formal,” Murphy said. “It is such a fun event and definitely needs a lot of planning to be a success. You have to be ahead of the game with many organizations on campus looking to hold their formals around the same time. Our social chairs always do a great job so I have no doubt in my mind [our formal] will be great.”

Francina Garcia, President of Phi Sigma Sigma, added that their formal took three months to plan.

“Planning a formal takes most of a semester starting from when we get into our positions all the way to [formal],” Garcia said. “My risk chair, and two formal chairs have been planning this for three months.”

Every Greek organization has one risk monitor, usually on the organization’s executive board, and one sober monitor per 13 people in attendance at the formal.

Some popular destinations this year for formals have been Amarante’s Sea Cliff , Anthony’s Ocean View and Cascade— all local venues for weddings, parties and events.

A sales associate at Amarante’s Sea Cliff explained more about the process of reserving a formal.

“It depends on the package, pricing varies during the process,” she said. “We usually schedule formals as a dinner buffet and open bar. But pricing can range anywhere from $39.95-$69.95 per

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Members of Phi Sigma Sigma at formal this year. From left to right: Quinn Bouchard, Megan Stanszack, Alexis Buote, Vanessa Brokaw, Monica Dominguez, Sabrina Moller and Anne Pascale.

person if it includes the open bar.”

President of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, James Burnham explains that there are specifics when choosing these venues.

“It must meet many requirements beyond just the location and food,” Burnham said. “It must also have the correct insurance, capacity and other things you would not think of.”

This year, pictures for the event were scattered throughout Mount Carmel campus and the York Hill campus. The steps of the Arnold Bernhard Library have always been a classic picture-taking spot along with Rocky Top Student Center for its amazing views. But, for the sororities and fraternities who didn’t reserve a spot early enough, they had to use the less frequented picture spots like the College of Arts and Sciences Lawn and the Mountainview Courtyard.

Although formal is a time to have fun with your sisters or brothers, there is a limit to how much fun you can have. There are often cash bars at the venues for those 21 and up, but that does not

mean that you cannot let your actions get out of hand.

There is a severe consequence if someone at the formal is too intoxicated. Some of these include being sent directly to the Health Center on the Mount Carmel campus for an evaluation.

“If someone needs to be sent home from formal for whatever reason, they are sent home with a sober monitor and are taken to the Health Center as a precaution,” Murphy said.

Guests can even be sent home by a cop car or ambulance, according to the Quinnipiac regulations. Another method of transportation if you need to be sent home is to Uber back to the dorms. But, the person and their date must leave with a sober monitor and pay for both the Uber that goes to the dorm, and another for the sober monitor to go back to the venue. And with these venues being around 20 minutes away, those trips will add up.

The sales associate at Amarante’s Sea Cliff spoke about how the venue itself has certain protocols in a contract that all Greek life must agree to before the day of the formal.

“We have our contract which has all of our policies and rules on the back, there’s a lot,” she said. “It’s a normal contract that is used by any business. We have a security officer and advisors, and we require guests to be wristbanded if they’re over 21.”

Luckily enough, not many people have been escorted out of their formals, and many formals continue wihout incident.

Formal is an event that celebrates all of the sororities and fraternities, and celebrates all their triumphs during the year.

“The best part of formal is being with all of your brothers, dressed up for a nice occasion, and celebrating all of our year’s success we have accomplished together like our philanthropy events and just building a strong relationship with the organization,” Burnham said.

Comradery seems to be the overwhelming theme for all the formals, which exhibits how close-knit and inseparable the bond between Greek life can be.

“I think everyone is really excited for the event, and being together with everyone,” Murphy said. “For the seniors, it’s really special for them because it’s their last [formal].”

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Female game design and development major Katie Rosell does not let her gender impede her confidence in pursuing her passion

By ALIZA GRAY Staff Writer

As kids, we played “CandyLand” with our families around the kitchen table. As we grew up, we began spending afternoons after school in our friend’s living rooms, eyes glued to the televisions screens, completely enthralled by a round of “Mario Kart” only to go home begging our parents for the newest gaming system.

Today, games like “FIFA” and “Fortnite” have taken college campuses by storm. Whether you consider yourself an avid gamer or haven’t sat down to play anything since your last disastrous round of “Monopoly,” the significant role gaming plays in our everyday life is undeniable.

This role has been especially meaningful in the life of sophomore game design and development major Katie Rosell.

Like many, her interest in games was piqued in childhood. As the years progressed however, Rosell’s interest rapidly evolved into a passion; one that she’s now pursuing as a career.

“It’s something I’ve loved for a really long time,” Rosell said.

“I’ve always loved playing video games and board games with my sisters when we were younger. I’ve found it’s an awesome way to bond with people too.”

Rosell has always been driven. Since she was a freshman in high school she knew that she wanted to pursue a major in game design in college. Due to it being a relatively young industry, the curriculum at Rosell’s high school in her hometown of Pelham, New York did not provide her with the opportunity to develop her abilities. She didn’t let this obstacle inhibit her growth as a game designer, however.

Throughout her high school career, Rosell took advantage of every chance she could to put her passion into practice.

During high school, Rosell made it a point to intertwine her pursuit of game design with her other hobbies. For example, during her senior year she created an educational game about fire safety as she pursued the Girl Scout’s prestigious Gold Award.

She didn’t stop there. Prior to her arrival to Quinnipiac, Rosell traveled across the Northeast to partake in summer programs designed to let her put her skills to the test every day. These programs let Rosell utilize her creative abilities in ways that her high school wasn’t equipped for.

“When I was 14 I went to a summer camp at Bentley University that was all about focusing on game design,” Rosell said. The next two summers I went to other, really similar camps at Marist College and Purchase College in New York.”

It was here that Rosell learned the basics of game design. At Bentley University she was exposed to a variety of different game engines and first began to develop her own games.

“I’m really not sure how many games I’ve designed,” Rosell said. A lot of the games I’ve built aren’t fully fleshed out just yet, there’s always space for improvement. I’d guess though that I have maybe five or six that are fully finished.”

Although she remembers these summers fondly, Rosell also recalls that it was during these programs that she became acutely aware of just how male-dominated her chosen field of study is.

“When I was at Bentley, there were 37 other kids there, and I was the only girl. Not only that but I was also 14 that summer, and all of those guys were 17 or 18,” Rosell said. “They were all getting ready to go to college and I’d just barely finished my freshman year of high school.”

"I definitely felt pushed to the side some of the time there. People didn’t always want to hear me because they felt I was less experienced, and being the only girl made it hard for me relate with the other kids there."

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Being significantly younger than her fellow camp participants, coupled with the fact that she was the only girl, was sometimes an isolating experience for Rosell.

“I definitely felt pushed to the side some of the time there.

People didn’t always want to hear me because they felt I was less experienced, and being the only girl made it hard for me relate with the other kids there. Still, I’m glad I did it.” Rosell said.

Her experience at Bentley was not a unique one. Being interested in game design has, on numerous occasions, led Rosell to find herself to be the only girl in the room.

Although the video game industry has been experiencing rapid growth in recent years, the workforce has continued to be predominately male. A 2014 survey conducted by International Game Developers Association (IGDA) found that of the 3,000 video game industry professionals polled, only 22 percent identified as female. When the industry was further divided by job description, the IGDA reported that Rosell’s area of interest, design, is completely maledominated. A staggering 90 percent of survey participants within the field of game design identified as male.

Quinnipiac’s game design and development program is no exception to this trend of gender disparity. The already small program has just a handful of female students, Rosell

among them. Unlike her experiences during earlier game design programs however, Rosell has never felt marginalized at Quinnipiac due to her gender.

“It’s a small program, so it's a very tight-knit community. I see a lot of the same people in all of my classes and I’m good friends with a lot of the guys and the girls in my program,” Rosell said.

The game design and development program at Quinnipiac is comprised mostly of labs, and the major emphasizes the importance of team work. Students begin in their freshman year by working independently on smaller projects and developing their skills. Upperclassmen spend the majority of their time working collaboratively in groups, creating larger-scale, more complex games. Her time management skills are constantly being put to the test, Rosell noted, as some of her most elaborate projects have taken weeks to bring to fruition.

“It’s nice that everyone in the program is so close, it makes it easy to bounce ideas off each other in group work.

You also get to learn what you’re best at, what you specialize in, like for me I’m more into the artistic side as opposed to the analytical.” Rosell said.

While Rosell admits that her love for game design is rooted in creativity, she notes that this preference pushes her to learn more about other facets of her major.

“I’ve always loved developing characters and drawing, so my program really tests my problem solving skills while still letting me use my artistic skills and combining them all into a study,” she said.

Although it hasn’t always been easy being the only girl in the classroom, Rosell says she simply can’t envision herself following any other career path.

“I knew before I even started applying to schools that I wanted to come to Quinnipiac,” Rosell said. “I wanted a school within two or three hours of home with a program specifically for game design, and Quinnipiac was the only one. I didn’t really consider other schools because they didn’t have this program.”

Since arriving to Quinnipiac in the Fall of 2016, Rosell has been involved in student life outside of her program as well.

Rosell is an enthusiastic member of Quinnipiac’s Eta Pi chapter of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority. Since rushing in the fall of her freshman year, Rosell has routinely taken an active role in her sorority’s social and philanthropic events.

Rosell encourages any girl with an interest in game design and development, or any similar field, not to hesitate in pursuing it just because it's a traditionally masculine industry. Just as the industry continues to grow rapidly, Rosell predicts that soon the number of female game designers and engineers will multiply as well.

“My advice for any girl that’s interested in game design is to just go for it,” Rosell said. “The key is really just to have confidence in yourself and to do what you want to do. You’re the only one standing in your way.”

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RUNDOWN BASEBALL Boston College 9, QU 5 - Wednesday Kyle Horton: 2 H, 3 RBI, 1 BB QU 12, Siena 4 - Friday Ben Gibson: 4 H, 5 RBI, 2B, HR Andre Marrero- 3 H, 3 RBI, 1 HR Ian Ostberg- 2 H, 2 RBI, 1 2B QU 5, Siena 2 - Saturday Evan Vulgamore: 1 H, 2 RBI Siena 12, QU 4 - Saturday Vulgamore: 2 H, 1 RBI, 1 2B, 1 HR SOFTBALL Yale 8, QU 0 - Wednesday Maranda Magana: 1 H Iona 6, QU 0 - Friday Casey Herzog: 7.0 IP, 6 ER, 9 SO Iona 6, QU 5 - Friday Keilani Finley: 2 H, 2 RBI, 1 HR QU 3, Marist 0 - Saturday Finley: 1 H, 2 RBI Marist 9, QU 6 - Saturday Brighid Douglas: 2 H, 1 RBI, 1 HR MEN’S LACROSSE QU 19, Canisius 14 - Saturday Jake Tomsik: 4 goals, 2 assists WOMEN’S LACROSSE Fairfield 11, QU 10 (OT) - Wednesday Allison Kuhn: 5 goals Canisius 12, QU 7 - Saturday Ashley Bobinski: 2 goals, 1 assist MEN’S TENNIS QU 4, Marist 3- Tuesday QU 6, Siena 1- Friday WOMEN’S TENNIS QU 5, Providence 2- Thursday QU 6, Siena 1- Friday QU 7, Marist 0- Sunday

GAMES TO WATCH

BASEBALL QU at Bryant - Wednesday, 3 p.m.

QU at Canisius (DH) - Saturday, 12 p.m., 3 p.m.

QU at Canisius - Sunday, 12 p.m.

SOFTBALL QU at Siena - Saturday, 3 p.m.

QU vs. Monmouth - Sunday, 12 p.m.

MEN’S LACROSSE QU at Monmouth - Friday, 4 p.m.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE QU at Siena - Wednesday, 4 p.m.

QU at Niagara - Saturday, 1 p.m.

WOMEN’S TENNIS QU vs. Middlebury - Friday, 3:30 p.m.

WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD QU at Stony Brook Invite - Saturday, all day MEN’S TENNIS QU at Fairfield - Wednesday, 3 p.m.

QU vs. Monmouth - Saturday, 1 p.m.

WOMEN’S GOLF MAAC Championships - Saturday, Sunday

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Quinnipiac men’s lacrosse tops Canisius on Senior Day

The Bobcats improve to 4-0 in the MAAC with two regular season games to play

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The Bobcats graduate an unprecedented 14 seniors, including four of 10 usual starters and third leading goal-scorer Brian Feldman.

By SEAN RAGGIO Staff Writer

On what may have been the nicest Saturday of the year so far in terms of weather, the Quinnipiac men’s lacrosse team defeated Canisius 19-14 in a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) clash on its Senior Day. “I thought it was a good game, I thought we played really well,” Quinnipiac head coach Eric Fekete said. “I thought other than the last five minutes, as I said to the guys ‘it’s a really great movie until the last 20 minutes’ and then it kind of has an anticlimactic ending, but going 4-0 in the conference is what we wanted. I believe mathematically we clinched a spot in

the playoffs today and that’s really what this is all about.”

The Bobcats (7-5, 4-0 MAAC) were caught in a back and forth tilt until they went on a 6-0 run in the second quarter. The run saw multiple goals from freshman attack Jake Tomsik and senior midfielder Ryan Corcoran.

The Bobcats used 18 substitutes compared to the Golden Griffins (5-7, 2-2 MAAC) who used 11. The Bobcats’ subs helped to win the ground ball battle which is a key to winning games, according to Fekete.

A key to giving the energy and jump to the subs comes from the Bobcats top line of Tomsik, junior attack Foster Cuomo and junior attack Mike Fletcher. The trio combined for 11

VULGAMORE from Page 16 thing and he had a summer to develop plus this past fall and now you see his production.”

Tommy John surgery is necessary when an elbow suffers a tear, so players have surgery to replace it with a tendon or another ligament from a donor. For a baseball player, it affects their throwing because they aren’t able to throw with the same mechanics as before and you either come back throwing faster, slower or the same as before.

Training isn’t the only thing that Vulgamore credits towards his improvements. That family atmosphere is something that is keeping Vulgamore working harder and

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Vulgamore only had 22 starts last season, but he has started 32 of 34 games for the Bobcats in 2018. harder each time he takes the field or steps up to the plate.

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“I mean there’s definitely a couple factors,” senior long stick midfielder Adam Bellamy said. “It’s sunny and 70 out right now, senior day, so we brought a lot of energy for that. A lot of emotions, we have a huge senior class so we just got the boys going.”

This senior class has accomplished a lot in their time at Quinnipiac, including winning a MAAC Championship back in 2016.

“It’s hard to see anyone go,” Fekete said. “Usually my wife gets more emotional than I do and I remind her that if I’m doing my job, they should be gone in four years.

If you look at the sample of work over the four years, they have a pretty strong resume moving in to where they are today.”

The Bobcats look ahead to another MAAC matchup at Monmouth on Saturday, April 14.

“It’s going to be easy to get up for these guys for sure,” Palmer said.

“We’ve had a rivalry ever since we’ve been here, it’s just been great games with them and we’ll be ready to play.”

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the coaches and staff have really helped me,” Vulgamore said. “When I’m down, I know that there is some-

body to pick me up or a pitcher telling me I’m going to pick you up on the next play. My teammates and coaches I give credit to for always having my back in those situations.”

For the Bobcats, they are currently 16-18 overall and 8-1 in MAAC play, their best start under Delaney, who was been at Quinnipiac for four years. Vulgamore sees that this team has the potential to go a long way and he’s glad that he’s able to contribute to it.

“For us it’s MAAC championship or bust,” Vulgamore said.

“We have the it factor that we’re looking for and we want it all year.

Also, we love the support because we don’t get a lot of it and we recognize that and feed off of it.”

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goals and 15 points on the afternoon.

“Cuomo, Tomsik and Fletcher, those guys continue to produce,” Fekete said. “There’s a harmony with all three of them, they love playing together. We talked last week about how sometimes one of them can go off and it seemed like all three had big days today. I’m fortunate to have those guys, they’re all up in the mid thirties in points, they make a big difference for us.”

The Golden Griffins also had their top players play as such. Sophomore attack Mathieu Boissonneault, senior attack Connor Kearnan and senior midfielder Steven Coss combined for eight goals and 14 points on the day.

Things got interesting in the fourth quarter as Canisius caught fire, rifling off seven goals to Quinnipiac’s four, but the Bobcats managed to hold on.

“I think we just let off the gas a little bit,” senior defenseman Riley Palmer said. “We got a little complacent towards the end looking at the score, it’s happened before and hopefully it won’t happen again, we’ll fix it this week.”

The Bobcats are losing 14 seniors to graduation at the conclusion of the season, which is something that helped motivate the team to win, resulting in the team scoring a new season-high in goals. The goal total of 19 surpassed that from earlier in the season when they defeated the New

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The Bobcats won their first eight MAAC games before Saturday’s loss. order to sweep you have to rely on

By JORDAN WOLFF Associate Sports Editor your talent to perform big.”

The Quinnipiac baseball team In game one, sophomore third (16-18 overall, 8-1 MAAC) beat baseman Evan Vulgamore was a big Siena (6-24 overall, 6-6 MAAC) offensive catalyst for the Bobcats.

5-2 in the first game, then lost 12-4 Vulgamore had two RBIs and went in the second game of a double- 1-for-3 at the plate. header on Saturday.

“The past couple games I’ve “Game three is the toughest game been struggling at the plate and my of a series,” Delaney said. “Winning swing has gotten very long,” Vula series is what you plan to do, but in gamore said. “Today [Saturday]

I was just trying to slow it down, find pitches I could hit and drive and I found a couple.”

A big contributor on the defensive side was graduate student pitcher Brandon Shileikis. Shileikis went seven innings, giving up two earned runs on nine hits and striking out five. Shileikis now improved his record to 4-3 with a 3.36 earned run average.

“I was able pitch well by staying in the zone and the guys behind me were making great plays,” Shileikis said.

“Overall, it was a great team effort.”

Game two was a different story for the Bobcats. They sent out junior pitcher Tyler Poulin who has the third lowest earned run average on the team with 3.02. However, Poulin struggled, going four innings, walking six batters, giving up three runs on three hits and striking out five.

Delaney appreciates how Poulin

competed, but expects him to pitch at a much higher level in the future.

“Poulin didn’t give us his best outing, it was probably his worst of the year,” Delaney said. “He didn’t throw enough strikes and had some situations which they were productive in and it cracked the game open.”

A positive aspect the Bobcats can take from this series is overall defensive play. In the first game, they only made two errors and in the second game they made just one.

“Defense since we’ve been home and in conference play has been a lot better,” Delaney said.

“A lot of that has to do with limited time on the field and up until two weeks was when we started to play games. It’s going to take time when you look at our team because they’re not a lot of older guys out on the field, mostly freshman and sophomores.”

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Clockwise from top left: Quinnipiac women’s lacrosse senior attack Caitlinn Riedell (27) celebrates with teammates after a goal in Saturday’s Senior Day loss; Quinnipiac men’s lacrosse senior midfield Ryan Lawson holds the ball in Saturday’s Senior Day win; Riedell and her teammates celebrate; senior midfield Ryan Corcoran moves through the defense.

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The men’s tennis team is off to a 4-0 start in MAAC play with three games left before the MAAC Tournament.

Senior first baseman Ben Gibson hit his team-leading eighth home run of the season on Friday.

The women’s tennis team won its 36th consecutive MAAC game on Sunday with a 7-0 win over Marist.

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Sophomore Evan Vulgamore rose from unknown reserve to middle of the lineup power bat for Quinnipiac baseball BRENDAN DILLON/CHRONICLE

By JORDAN WOLFF Associate Sports Editor

Becoming the starting third baseman on a Division I baseball team, earning all-state honors and managing course work as an athletic training major can be a lot, but it’s just life for Quinnipiac sophomore third baseman Evan Vulgamore.

Vulgamore, a native of Bow, New Hampshire, flourished at the high school level. During his senior year, he had a .646 batting average (BA) and hit five home runs (HR). He also earned all-state honors for all four years. This was enough for Quinnipiac head coach John Delaney to take notice.

“His energy stands out, his leadership skills and seeing the way he acts on the field,” Delaney said. “He’s very vocal and that’s what we look for when recruiting and for Vulgamore that’s the number one thing that stood out to us.

His talent is above average among most kids, but the other part [leadership] is what makes him an above average college baseball player.”

Choosing the right college can be tough

for anybody. Luckily for Vulgamore, he felt an instant connection to Quinnipiac when going through the recruitment process and Delaney was a big part of that. “[Quinnipiac] originally saw me play at an area code tryout,” Vulgamore said. “Right off the bat I fell in love with the campus and the coaches. Coach Delaney made me feel a part of the family and that’s the atmosphere you look for when you’re trying to play in college athletics. He made me feel I was going to fit in right away and I did.”

Vulgamore is also dedicated to what he is doing off the field. He is an athletic training major and it can be tough to manage practice and game times with the course, but for Vulgamore it is a skill he feels is necessary to learn.

“I just have to get my work done when I’m assigned it,” Vulgamore said. “I have to balance everything equally and keep up on my studies.”

Vulgamore had a tough start to his Quinnipiac career during his freshman year. He had a .172 BA, only producing eight hits and 15 RBIs while hitting just one HR. He

played in 31 games and made 23 starts.

Vulgamore was not alone, as he had help along the way not just from Delaney, but from some of his teammates, including senior first baseman Ben Gibson and graduate student relief pitcher Wyatt Hamilton.

“He has done a lot of the learning himself,” Gibson said. “He came in here as a guy who wasn’t afraid of that college atmosphere. He showed that he was able play ball at the college level with all of us and it’s been awesome to watch.”

Vulgamore also credits the mentorship he’s gotten when things don’t go his way on the field.

“If I’m ever down, [Hamilton’s] the kid I always go too,” Vulgamore said. “[He] keeps me level-headed, puts things into perspective, always keeps things positive and really keeps me loose and is one of the funniest kids I’ve ever met.”

Vulgamore has turned it around during his sophomore year. He currently has a .288 BA with 36 hits, seven doubles, six HR and 24 RBIs in 36 games.

“I definitely learned how to fail,” Vulgamore said. “I didn’t have the freshman year everyone thought I would and now if I have a bad game I don’t let it get to me because I know I have another game the next day.

What makes a college baseball player stand out is being able to play at the same level defensively and offensively. Being better at one only creates a disadvantage for the player.

Versatility is as important as ever showing coaches that a player can field multiple positions at a high level. With Vulgamore having to move from blocking balls behind the plate as a catcher, to fielding ground balls at the hot corner known as third base, Delaney mentioned how he feels the process is going.

“Experience,” Delaney said. “He had Tommy John surgery his senior year of high school and when he got here he was still rehabbing. The fall season is a big point for freshman to develop and he didn’t have the chance to develop. Experience is the biggest See VULGAMORE Page 14

Quinnipiac women’s lacrosse defeated by Canisius on Senior Day

By BRYAN MURPHY Staff Writer

The Quinnipiac women’s lacrosse team (5-9 overall, 1-5 MAAC) battled it out with MAACleading Canisius on Saturday afternoon in Hamden, but ultimately fell 12-7.

Canisius’ junior attack Jourdan Roemer led the way for the Golden Griffs with four goals and five assists, good to bring the MAAC leader in points to a total of 65. Quinnipiac’s sophomore attack Ashley Bobinski and junior midfielder Allison Kuhn each contributed three points for the Bobcats on their Senior Day. Canisius and Quinnipiac exchanged goals in the first few minutes, making it 2-2, but Canisius then went on a 6-0 run and closed out the half leading 8-2. Roemer was good for two goals and four assists in the half, with sophomore midfielder Bryar Cummings, senior attack Allie Stewart and senior midfielder Jen Reininger all collecting two goals for the Golden Griffs.

“I think we’ve had a record of being a second half team,” Quinnipiac senior defender Kiera Kelly said. “That’s something we’re trying to change going forward. Although it’s unfortunate

where we were at halftime, we’ve been there before and there’s an opportunity to come back. It’s not something we hadn’t done before.”

The second half showcased a much different Quinnipiac team. Sophomore Allie Kelsey replaced senior Kyle Larkin in net at the start of the final 30 minutes, as Larkin finished her day recording two saves.

It wasn’t just the personnel that changed as Quinnipiac battled throughout the half. The Bobcats fell down early 10-4, but were able to scrap three goals and close the gap to 10-7 with about five minutes left. However, Reininger’s third goal stopped the comeback and Canisius would hang on to win 12-7.

“We struggled clearing the ball ourselves,” Kelly said. “We kind of lost it ourselves. We had a lot of turnovers on our end and our clear percentage wasn’t too good, so I think that’s something we can fix going to Siena.”

The Bobcats only have two games remaining in their season and currently sit eighth out of nine teams in the MAAC. While a MAAC tournament berth looks bleak, the team won’t be giving up in their final matchups.

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Sophomore attack Ashley Bobinski had two goals and an assist on Saturday to add to her team-leading 45 points on the season.

“It’s not over until someone tells us it’s over,” Kelly said.

Quinnipiac may not have gotten the result it wanted, but it was able to celebrate its four seniors in a pregame ceremony. Senior attack/defender Caitlinn Riedell, senior attack Loren Antonacci, Kelly and Larkin were all recognized with family members and teammates surrounding them.

“It’s awesome, I’m definitely going to miss it

a lot,” Kelly said while reflecting on her Quinnipiac career. “I’ve played next to Haley [Everding], Aubrey [Conti], playing next to Maddy [Lamanga], Kyle [Larkin], Allie [Kelsey]. We just form our own little unit. And with the middies and attack, it’s definitely something I’m going to miss.”

Quinnipiac’s next game is on Wednesday, April 18 against Siena (4-9 overall, 0-4 MAAC) at 3 p.m. in Loudonville, New York.