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The QUINNIPIAC Volume 80 Issue 5
October 13, 2010
SHUTTLE ‘EM UP Kaplan
Schnabel
Two profs pass on By Joe Pelletier Editor in chief Quinnipiac faculty members Jack Kaplan, 61, and Joachim Schnabel, 65, died last week in unrelated circumstances, according to separate announcements on MyQ. Kaplan, a professor of mathematics, spent more than 28 years as part of the Quinnipiac faculty. He died at home on Thursday, according to the Weller Funeral Home in New Haven. According to Mark Thompson, senior vice president for academic and student affairs, Kaplan was an active member of the Quinnipiac community, and “beloved by students and his faculty colleagues.” Schnabel, an adjunct professor, taught classes in the School of Business and in the QU Seminar series before passing. On Oct. 4, Schnabel passed away at the Hospital of St. Raphael, according to the Iovanne Funeral Home in New Haven. Born in Germany, Schnabel became a naturalized American citizen in 1962, and served in the U.S. Navy as a gunnery officer. He was later awarded the National Defense Service Medal, an honor for serving at a time when a national emergency was declared.
University agrees to express shuttle service from York Hill to New Haven By Lenny Neslin Managing Editor
Quinnipiac University will add two express shuttles from the York Hill campus to downtown New Haven every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night, Assistant Chief of Security, Parking and Transportation Harry Needham said. The express shuttles will be marked as “New Haven Express” and will make direct loops from the York Hill campus to New Haven between 8 and 11:20 p.m. After 11:20 p.m., the two 50-person shuttles will loop from South Lot on the Mount Carmel campus to York Hill and then to New Haven. These express shuttles are in addition to the six that run directly from South Lot to New Haven until the last bus returns to South Lot at 3:25 a.m.
Needham made it clear that students riding directly from York Hill to New Haven should get in line early since there are only two buses with a maximum capacity of 100 students for the entire York Hill population (1,020 students). “If students leave York Hill at 8 p.m. and both buses are full, the shuttles won’t be back much before 10 minutes to 9 p.m. because they have to go to downtown [New Haven] and back,” Needham said. Ben Wald, Student Government Association’s liaison to security and transportation, initially told the Chronicle that York Hill-New Haven express shuttles would run this weekend. Needham confirmed the report and provided the specific schedule and routes of the two new shuttles. The idea of express shuttles originated
as a student concern, Wald said, but the Student Leadership Advisory Committee made it one of its initiatives to present to the administration in one of its four meetings together each year. SLAC is chaired by SGA President Louis Venturelli and is comprised of several organization leaders on campus. SLAC accompanied the news with a safety memo advising students to take safety precautions in downtown New Haven. “It is important for all of us to bear in mind that New Haven is a city and is susceptible to crime,” reads the memo, issued to the Chronicle yesterday. “It is with utmost sincerity that we would like to ensure that your years at Quinnipiac are some of the best years of your entire life. We ask that you please take care of yourself and others while enjoying all that the city has to offer.”
Late-night service Den ups hours to 1 a.m. on Fridays, Saturdays
The Bobcat By Jenn Lepore Den will remain Staff Writer open until 1 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays for the rest of the fall semester starting Oct. 15, according to Director of Chartwells Leean Spalding. If the late-night hours are successful, the schedule change will become permanent, Spalding said. The Student Government Asso-
ciation’s sophomore class first put forth the idea for a pilot run during which the Bobcat Den, better known to Quinnipiac students as “the Rat,” would extend its operational hours on the weekend. Spalding confirmed the new weekend hours on Tuesday, but would not comment further on the announcement. The hours of the Bobcat Den, along with their menu, are available on the Quinnipiac website.
Joseph Pelletier / CHRONICLE
Starting this Friday, the Bobcat Den will give students an opportunity to grab a midnight snack.
Attorney general debate heats up
Leading candidates Jepson, Dean point fingers in Grand Courtroom
CHARLOTTE GREENE / CHRONICLE
Attorney general candidates Republican Martha Dean (above) and Democrat George Jepson (below) debate Monday night at Quinnipiac’s School of Law.
Democrat George Jepson went so far as to discuss Brad Pitt’s body in Monday’s attorney general debate with Republican Martha Dean, while Dean shot By Matt Ciepielowski back with criticism of Jepson’s Senior Managing Editor tenure as Connecticut Senate Majority Leader. In the Grand Courtroom in Quinnipiac’s School of Law, the two debated everything from the scope of the attorney general’s powers to state nullification of federal laws. “This debate demonstrated Martha’s extremism,” Jepson told the Chronicle after the debate. “She would be more at home in Idaho than Connecticut.” Dean denounced Jepson’s time served as state Senate Majority Leader. “The last I checked, Connecticut is going bankrupt ... and Mr. Jepson presided over the [state] Senate Democrats during the largest spending increase in the history of Connecticut,” she said. Dean then said Jepson had voted to increase the income
tax, which she promised to end if she had the opportunity. James Brislin, a law student at Western New England College, was very impressed with the academic tone of the debate questions, which he said were focused around issues that would be discussed in law school. He thought that Dean was the clear winner of the debate, especially agreeing with her view that the attorney general should not represent private concerns. The candidates fought over the right of states to nullify unconstitutional federal laws, which Dean has championed in her run. Dean cited several examples of New England states nullifying federal laws, including opposition to the Alien and Sedition Acts and forced conscription. “It was thought of as sort of a pyramid shape, with the federal government having a small level of authority, the states having more and the people truly having the greatest level of authority, and we’ve inverted that now,” Dean said of the Constitution. Jepson responded that nullification was an outdated conDEBATE, continued on page 2