QUChronicle.com September 12, 2012 Volume 82 Issue 3 Proud recipient of the New England Society of Newspaper Editors' award for 2012 College Newspaper of the Year
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Au Bon arrives iTickets Public Safety goes digital
By KATHERINE ROJAS News Editor
The Mount Carmel Dining Hall freshened up with a new cafe bakery, Au Bon Pain, on Tuesday morning. Students lined up as soon as they saw the bakery’s gates open at 8 a.m. Au Bon Pain offers sandwiches, wraps, soups, specialty salads and a fresh bakery with croissants, muffins, cakes and more sweet desserts. The new bakery is going through a trial run this week, Director of Chartwells Dining Services Joseph Tobin said. The Chartwells staff is training with Au Bon Pain workers all week; together, they brightened up the cafe with their fast service. “It’s really exciting, I’ve never tried [Au Bon Pain] before,” freshman Anna Rovins said. “I wanted to try something new; I’m glad they’re switching it up.” The waiting area had students
By DANIEL GROSSO Associate News Editor
Au Bon Pain opened in the Mount Carmel Dining Hall Tuesday morning. anxious to pick up their order, ready to eat. Senior Malina Andre was waiting for a wrap as her first taste of Quinnipiac’s Au Bon Pain. Holding an Au Bon Pain iced coffee, Andre expressed her uncertainty of its location.
“I don’t really think it’s in a good area because it’s a really trafficked spot; there’s a lot of commotion,” Andre said. “They’re definitely getting a lot of attention.” The bakery is part of student meal plans and will run on the same
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hours as the station usually does, Tobin said. The bakery’s schedule is Mondays through Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., and from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Fridays, according to Associate Director of Dining Services Leean Spalding.
Upperclassmen may have noticed something strange when they picked up their parking decals at the beginning of the semester. Each sticker now features a unique barcode, part of Quinnipiac’s Department of Public Safety’s new digital ticketing system. In the coming weeks, with the help of software provider Adirondack Solutions, Public Safety will be able to digitally ticket cars, track ticket payments and keep records of repeat offenders. Public Safety officers will soon carry digital scanners, and can scan the parking decal’s barcode if a student’s car is found to be parked in an incorrect lot. The scanner will print a ticket on the scene for the officer to place on the car’s windshield, but the new system will take further action later. At the end of the day, the scanners’ data will See TICKETING Page 3
faculty, staff fight for spots too
Fire alarm chaos in Commons and Crescent By CAROLINE MOSES Contributing Writer
On Tuesday, Sept. 4, residents of The Commons residence hall evacuated their building for the fifth time that day. This repeated event brought the total number to eight fire alarms that set off in the past two weeks for that building. Residents assumed the alarms were false and just students pulling the alarms themselves, while others blamed it on the weather. On the York Hill campus, residents in The Crescent had to evacuate their rooms when a fire alarm went off at 3 a.m. Chief of Public Safety, David Barger, explained all alarms weren’t false, and resulted from different student activities. “All five fire alarms that went off in the Commons have been ‘bonafide,’ meaning that none of these were false alarms,” Barger
said, stating that students smoking, cooking or even burning their bags of popcorn contributed to setting off the sensitive alarms. Crescent’s early morning evacuation was cooking related, according to Barger. The alarms function as they are supposed to, Barger said. They detect the faintest smell of smoke to prevent any major damage. “This is a very sophisticated system, working to detect small amounts of smoke, so that small fires don’t become big fires,” Barger said. Students were impressed with the intricate and effective device, but still found the constant alarms frustrating. “It’s good that these fire alarms are so sensitive, because I feel safer knowing that they detect any small amount of smoke,” Commons resident Stefanie Vitulli said. “But it does get annoying when they go off every time someone burns a bag of popcorn.”
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Students aren’t the only ones who are afraid they won’t find parking on the Mount Carmel campus. Faculty lots are also filling up by 10 a.m. on some weekdays. By SUSAN RIELLO Staff Writer
Students aren’t the only members of Quinnipiac with parking issues. Faculty members have been struggling with parking as well. Though there are multiple parking lots designated for both students and staff, many faculty members attribute their difficulty in finding parking spaces to an increase in staff hiring. Others said that students may be causing the problem. “We have had an increase in faculty, but we still have a sufficient amount of spaces if they are utilized correctly,” said David Barger, chief of public safety. “A lot of the complaints
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revolve around students occupying spaces that are designated for faculty.” Students who commute to campus can park in either North Lot or Hogan Lot, while the lot behind Buckman Theatre and South Lot are reserved for faculty and staff members. There are also specific areas for faculty to park by the Faculty Office Building, the health center, the facilities building and in front of the Law School. Residents of the York Hill campus and Whitney Village are allowed to park in North See PARKING Page 3