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Student center completion one year away By Matt Ciepielowski Senior Managing Editor Once construction is done on the Carl Hansen Student Center, approximately one year from now, the largest meeting room on campus will be on the newly added second floor of Alumni Hall. The trouble for student organizations will be the meantime, when meeting space in the student center will be cut to one room, SC227, after spring break. Construction on the Student Center is scheduled to be done by January 2012, according to Associate Vice President for Fa- ONLINE EXTRA cilities Administration >See Rubertone go through the Joseph Rubertone. blueprints in an He said the removal exclusive video at of hazardous material QUChronicle.com. from Alumni Hall delayed the project by about four months. “It’s changed the sequence of construction,” Rubertone said. “Things that you would have done first you’re now doing third, so that’s been the biggest difficulty.” Such sequencing will likely affect student organizations. Student Center Director Daniel Brown plans to clear the organization offices on the Student Center’s second floor by spring break, but Rubertone said the plan is not yet set in stone. Rubertone said the facilities department is working “hand in glove” with Brown to keep the project on schedule. The new Greek and student media suites will be located on the first floor of the renovated Student Center, along with four meeting rooms, a large seating area named the Piazza and a fireplace. The largest meeting room, student organization workspace, and roughly 60 lockers for organizational storage RENOVATION, continued on page 3
The QUINNIPIAC Volume 80 Issue 13
February 2, 2011
Egypt in turmoil
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Students get out of Egypt just before riots By Matt Ciepielowski Senior Managing Editor On Jan. 25, less than 10 days after 18 Quinnipiac students returned from a trip to Egypt for their QU 301 class, the country erupted into mass protest during what some organizers called “The Day of Anger.” The demonstrations, which coincided with Egypt’s National Police Day, were focused on perceived injustices committed by President Hosni Mubarak’s regime.
Professor Janet Bahgat, who taught the class, said, “I think this is a response to the outrageous prices, unemployment, and this regime that just seems to be out of touch.” Bahgat has been shuttling back and forth between Egypt and the United States for 30 years, since she was hired to teach American culture and English language at the American University in Cairo. While she insisted that she is politically neutral, she said she believed that
Mubarak’s days as president are numbered. “[The protesters] want a clean regime, they don’t want any traces of that old way of looking at things,” she said. There were many factors that contributed to the widespread outburst against Mubarak, including economic factors, as well as a lack of political freedoms. He has served as president since assuming power after Anwar El-Sadat’s assassination in 1981. EGYPT, continued on page 2
J-Term housing not cost-effective, officials say “Given the small number of students enrolled in the onground courses, it is not cost-effective to open residence halls for this period of time.” Mark Thompson, Senior VP for Academic and Student Affairs
By Amy Maciejowski Staff Writer Quinnipiac did not offer housing for students taking J-Term classes over winter break, and according to academic and residential administrators, it is expected to remain that way. According to Mark Thompson, senior vice president for academic and student affairs, opening up a housing option for the new
January term of classes would not be worth it. “Given the small number of students enrolled in the on-ground courses, it is not cost-effective to open residence halls for this period of time,” Thompson said. Out of the 13 courses offered in the Registrar’s course bulletin, seven courses were specified to take place on the Mount Carmel campus. The remaining were at the North Haven campus, online or off cam-
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pus such as “Inside Washington, D.C.” that took place at the nation’s capital. SB360 gave students the opportunity to travel to Nicaragua. Most on-campus course registration was capped at 20 students. “There are lots of facts that would have to be considered,” Associate Dean of Student Affairs and Director of Residential Life Cindy Long Porter said of modifying J-Term housing options. “We do need to have staff and provide ser-
vices if there were individuals staying on campus.” No housing option for JTerm will likely remain, Porter said. “It depends on the direction the university wants to go in, and right now it doesn’t,” Porter said. J-Term was created this year to give students an opportunity to take a class while studying abroad or take an online course the student previously failed, according to J-TERM, continued on page 3
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