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QUChronicle.com February 22, 2012 Volume 81 Issue 18

Arts & life

Editorial

A new life in America, page 10 8-PAGE SPECIAL SECTION

Competition breeds Ex-champ focuses on better journalism, page 6 playoffs, page 13

BIG DAY AT BANK THEY’RE BACK

RIVALRY SPECIAL

Quinnipiac’s two biggest rivals arrive at the Bank on Saturday

ROBERT MORRIS

YALE

11 a.m.

7 p.m.

• Rivalry through the years, page 4 • Heroes Hat defined, page 3 • Playoff update, page 3

• How it became a rivalry, page 5 • Chip on his shoulder, page 6 • Keys toward the stretch run, page 6

Budget plans to cut Conn. students’ financial aid

Club budget process explained

By Katherine rojas

By Katherine rojas

Dominic Yoia, senior director of financial aid for Quinnipiac, sent out an email last Wednesday to all Connecticut resident students explaining that their financial aid is in jeopardy.

The email explained Gov. Dannel Malloy proposed a budget that will eliminate Connecticut Independent College Student grants and community service grants given to any student who attends a private college in Connecticut with an institutional endowment larger than $200 million.

The president of the Connecticut Conference of Independent Colleges, a group that all Connecticut private colleges belong to, sent

Tuition covers all aspects of a student’s college experience from making a beautiful campus to the classes they attend. One of the most memorable experiences is campus life, which thanks to student tuition, is possible.

The money comes from the student activities fees, which is part of students’ tuition. This year the fee was $210 per student. The fees have increased from $180 and will continue to increase for the next two years and stop at $230 per student, according to Manuel Carreiro, vice president and dean of student affairs.

The Student Government Association gets the majority of the student

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Yale tickets go on sale tonight, 900 available for students By anna brundage Photography Editor

Tickets for the highly anticipated men’s ice hockey game against Yale on Saturday will become available to students tonight at 10.

There will be 900 tickets available, according to a Friday email sent to students. This includes the entire student section, sections 108, 109, 110, 111 and standing room along the rails.

“It is going to be first-come, firstserved as far as kids being able to get a seat,” said David Caprio, group ticket sales and promotions manager.

“At the beginning of the year we made all of the games available, Yale was the only one we held out on.”

General admission tickets made available to the public for this game, including seats and standing room, are just short of being sold-out. Quinnipiac students have been asked to reserve their tickets through the online reservation system, Caprio said.

A link and tutorial video are available to students on WebAdvisor that leads to the online ticket reservation system.

“Last year we sent them a link and what they did was at 10 o’clock they clicked that link and put their first name, last name and student ID number,” Caprio said. “Then what I did was go in and ran a report and got the first thousand names and looked at the time stamp and it was 1,000 names in the first 40 seconds.”

Some students agree that the new online reservations are an improvement to the former process for obtaining tickets.

“I think it’s the best way to do it, I can’t see how they would do it any other way. It’s better than waiting in line and finding out that you’ve waited an hour but can’t get a ticket,” junior Jennifer Scarlett said.

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QU alumnus writes Monday’s episode of ‘How I Met Your Mother’

By Kim Green News Editor

George Sloan, Quinnipiac 2004 School of Communications alumnus, wrote Monday night’s episode of CBS sitcom “How I Met Your Mother,” and it received rave reviews from the Quinnipiac community.

After packing up his ‘98 Honda Accord with a degree in film and television production from the School of Communication, Sloan asked himself a question that he knew he could not deny. “[This] is the same question that I pose to anyone considering the move to L.A.,” Sloan recalled in a personal account on johnaugust.com of his move to Los Angeles. “Aside from film and television, is there anything else you can see yourself doing with your life?’ If the answer is no, pack your stuff and get out here.”

With $1,200 in his savings account, Sloan began his journey that brought him to the highly popular show “How I Met Your Mother.”

After numerous jobs in big-budget studio features, production companies and as an executive assistant, Sloan grew restless.

“I thought about why I moved to L.A. in the first place: to pursue my dream of writing and directing,” Sloan said.

He made a realistic goal for himself to find work as a writing assistant on a TV show, and was willing to “climb the ladder” in television writing, he said. Sloan received a call from a former employer who told him “How I Met Your Mother” was look from a new office production assistant. After working there for a few months, a writers’ assistant position opened up and he was promoted.

Today, Sloan has been an assistant to writers on 75 episodes, production staff on nine, and a script coordinator on four, working a total of 88 episodes on “How I Met Your Mother,” Sloan’s former professor Liam O’Brien said. After Monday night, he can also add solo writer credit to his list of achievements.

Michael Calia, director of the Ed McMahon Communications Center, worked with Sloan when he studied film and television production at Quinnipiac. Calia said that Sloan spent years as a writer’s assistant to the show, and now it’s finally paid off.

“He absorbed not only the general outlines of the well-established characters and their backstories, but he mastered the nuances of those See himym Page 5

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Media mania to take over Rocky Top

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QU students offer tax advice IRS-certified Quinnipiac students are offering free assistance for those getting ready to fill out their income taxes. The student volunteers will be available from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. each Saturday until April 15 in the Lender School of Business, rooms 112 and 114. Students can speak with a knowledgeable volunteer and learn which tax credits they may potentially qualify for this year. To find out more information, contact assistant professor of accounting Nelson Alino at nelson.alino@ quinnipiac.edu. – S. Riello

Schweitzer archives going digital Quinnipiac has received a $13,410 grant to preserve documents from the Albert Schweitzer Institute in its digital archives. These collections will now be available publicly to aid students, scholars and professors in their research. The grant was awarded to the university by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation in February. The majority of the money will be used to fund research by two consultants from LYRASIS, a non-profit organization that serves libraries and information professionals by providing international collaborations and networking opportunities.

The consultants will assess the Schweitzer collection and translate any documents that were originally written in German. This process will provide a better understanding of the collection, as well as open these documents to the academic community. – S. Riello

Blood drive in North Lot Today is the second and final day of the American Red Cross blood drive that is cosponsored by the student groups Community Action Project and Tau Kappa Epsilon. The drive will take place from 11 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. in North Lot. There will be a Red Cross bus parked outside of the Recreation Center for those who are interested. Walk-ins are welcome. To find out more, contact Ryan Lamb at ryan.lamb@quinnipiac.edu. – S. Riello

Summer public service fellowship Juniors and seniors of any major with a GPA of 3.0 are encouraged to apply for the 2012 Presidential Public Service Fellowship.

This 10-week leadership development program allows students to work full-time in the Hamden or North Haven communities from March 27 to August 7 and earn up to $3,500.

Participants will work with town officials on development projects and solving local issues in order to build communication and public service skills. Experience in leadership, community service, writing, computers, or creative arts is a plus. The deadline to apply is March 2 at 5 p.m. For more information, contact professor of political science Scott McLean at scott.mclean@quinnipiac.edu. – S. Riello

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Quinnipiac’s School of Communications will soon hold its first professional development event at the Rocky Top Student Center.

Called the Media Mashup, the event will bring all four SoC departments together for the first time for the weekend of April 20-21. The event will host more than 50 media companies looking to hire, a series of interactive sessions and 25 professional speakers.

“The more opportunities we give our students, the more successful they will be when they graduate,” Brett Orzechowski, professor of journalism said. “We want to start developing and strengthening that pipeline for media jobs and communications jobs around the region and country.”

Orzechowski said the idea to host the Media Mashup came from other similar events on campus.

“Of course you have to start somewhere, but the way we looked at it was more professional, the better,” Orzechowski said.

“We are a professional school, and our students expect to be polished when they graduate.”

Communications students themselves helped create the event, expressing what they wanted to see at the Media Mashup through a survey sent out in October. Since then, faculty and students have been working to make the event a success.

“The idea was a collaborative effort among the SoC faculty,” said Meaghen Kenney, executive student director of the event.

“They felt there was a need for a professional development event for communications students, and this was a great opportunity.”

The two-day event includes a career fair on Friday and professional development sessions on

Saturday. The career fair is designed to allow students to meet and network with over 50 media hiring companies that will be in attendance.

At Saturday’s interactive development sessions, 25 professionals will speak about various media topics during morning and afternoon sessions. Students can choose the sessions they wish to attend depending on their department.

The day will end with keynote speaker John Berman of ABC News.

The list of professional organizations for the event includes NBC, ESPN, the Dilenschneider Group, ABC and several others.

“We are giving our students a diverse program and three opportunities to network and listen to industry professionals, which is experience that they could get in the classroom, they can get in their internship,” Orzechowski said. “But

another day to have an audience of professionals is something that the School of Communication has never offered before.”

The event is open to all SoC students, but Orzechowski said that “seniors especially would be remiss if they didn’t attend because these are the fields they want to go in to.”

Kenney said that students should come prepared to network on both Friday and Saturday.

Interested students must register on the event’s website by March 1. Registration is free, and the first 200 students will receive a free gift and lunch.

The event is funded and supported by the Office of Academic Affairs and the New Synthesis Initiative, according to Orzechowski.

For more information and to register for the event, visit www. qumashup.com.

Budget plans to cut Conn. students financial aid

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Yoia a notification that students at Quinnipiac University, Yale University, Wesleyan University, Trinity College, Connecticut College and Fairfield University, will not receive CICS grants after Malloy’s budget plan is passed.

These six universities have an endowment more than $200 million. Endowment programs in schools are alumni donations and corporate donations; money that schools retain and earn over the course of time, Yoia said.

“Our students are being targeted to bear the brunt of CT’s ongoing budget woes, once again,” Yoia said.

CICS program funds were cut by 25 percent last year and another 25 percent decrease is scheduled for the upcoming year.

The state approbations allow up to $8,300 per student, according to Yoia. Quinnipiac has more students than it has funds, thus leaving Quinnipiac to award $6,000 per student.

“It’s a first-come, first-served grant that’s essential in putting together a financial aid package for a student to make an affordable

college [education] possible that we risk not having next year, or this year,” Yoia said.

Quinnipiac students received $2.8 million in CICS funds last year. After this year’s cut, the funds are a little more than $2 million, according to Yoia.

Quinnipiac was supposed to receive approximately $1.4 million to $1.5 million for the 201213 academic year. However, Yoia was notified last week that Quinnipiac no longer has access to those funds.

The approbations of the six colleges makes a total of almost $5 million, Yoia said. A million of that amount is going to subsidize a new loan forgiveness program for teachers serving in high-need, high-risk areas. The other $4 million is going into general funds and will not be appropriated back into higher education.

“We are not looking to alarm anybody,” Yoia said. “We’re looking to advert and educate everybody at this point. If the worst-case scenario happens, as a university, we haven’t thought about what we’re going to do or how we’re going to distribute the million and a half or two million dollars. We don’t have a money tree out back to pick from, and the

money has to come from somewhere.”

Eighty-one percent of Quinnipiac students receive financial aid in forms of grants or scholarships, according to Yoia. There are 475 students currently receiving either CICS grants, CICS community service grants or both.

Quinnipiac Connecticut resident freshmen who qualify for the $3,000 Capitol Scholarship, renewable for up to four years, were notified last May that the scholarship no longer existed in addition to the planned budget cut.

Furthermore, any student that qualified for Capitol Scholarship renewal before this change was notified that their award would be reduced to $2,000 annually.

“For many students they’ve gotten some state grant funding in addition to other funding. For some students, that’s their only funding,” Yoia said.

Gov. Malloy proposed a budget to help balance Connecticut deficits around this time last year, Yoia said.

Yoia, along with colleagues and students, testified on behalf of Quinnipiac students to prevent such a cut from happening around this time last year.

In a recent article by the Connecticut Post, Malloy said, “I don’t know if it’s making or breaking students’ ability to go to college...Say a rich uncle contributes $10,000 toward your tuition. Most schools, if they know this, would reduce financial aid by that amount. We suspect private schools treat our grant the same way. They reduce the amount of aid they would provide from other sources.

We have no confidence we are adding additional resources to Connecticut students in private schools.”

Said Yoia: “It’s insulting to me. It’s insulting to every student that we reward financial aid, and they’re not getting it because it’s a luxury, they’re getting it because it’s a necessity, college is very expensive.”

There was a planned public hearing at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford Tuesday night, with the Appropriations Committee hearing testimonies from school administrators, students and parents before coming to a final decision on whether to eliminate these grants for Connecticut resident students.

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Yale tickets go on sale tonight, 900 available for students tickets from cover In addition to the 900 tickets that will be made available to students online, tickets will be presented to the 100 students who have attended the most games this season. Those students will receive emails from the TD Bank box office before Saturday’s game.

“We like to have our students there because those are our friends, the ones that we spend a lot of time with, and their support means a lot to us,” senior captain Scott Zurevinski said following the Harvard game on Feb 3.

In order to attend the Yale game, students will not be able to simply swipe their Q-card at the doors,

Caprio said. A printed copy of the reserved ticket must be presented.

If students have difficulties printing their ticket or activating their online ticket reservation accounts, they are encouraged to contact the TD Bank Sports Center staff at (203) 5823905.

On Saturday, both the men’s and women’s basketball games

against Robert Morris, at 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. respectively, are expected to have a large turnout. Just as on normal days and unlike the men’s hockey game against Yale, students will be able to swipe their Q-cards for the basketball games but are still encouraged to reserve tickets online. A Q-card alone does not guarantee a seat.

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‘Freedom Riders’ inspire students to lead

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Two Freedom Riders encouraged students to stand up for what they believe in so that change can be made in today’s society during their presentation in Burt Kahn Court Thursday night.

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Two “Freedom Riders” who stood up for what they knew was right, putting themselves in danger, encouraged students to be leaders in Burt Kahn Court Thursday night.

Civil rights activists Bernard Lafayette Jr. and Ambassador Andrew Young, two Freedom Riders, rode buses into the segregated South in the 1960s to test a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that outlawed racial segregation in bus terminals.

“Now I actually understand what it is to be a leader – not just

somebody who tells people what to do, but somebody who actually leads but doesn’t lead by force,” said Veronica Fletcher, freshman at New Haven Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School. The Alpha Kappa Alpha Emerging Young Leaders program invited a group of young teenagers to the event to be inspired by the civil rights leaders.

Similar to Lafayette and Young’s fight against racism is Fletcher’s fight against sexual orientation discrimination. Fletcher is an active member of the Gay Straight Alliance at her high school. She said homosexuals are now

the targeted group by bullies in school.

She asked Lafayette and Young what she could do to start a movement and become a leader.

“Volunteer to do the thing that nobody wants to do,” Young said.

“Do anything you can to help others. Leaders aren't people who tell people what to do. Do whatever needs to be done wherever you are; whether it’s at work or class.”

Fletcher was excited that she got to hear advice directly from the famous civil rights leaders.

“That was awesome because I didn’t have to go through anybody

to ask him; I just asked him myself so it was awesome,” Fletcher said.

The men also discussed citizenship education as a solution to society’s problems. Lafayette suggested that Connecticut create a junior legislature to teach 12 to 17-year-olds about the political system. Students would gain experience passing bills, they’d understand the system, and it would encourage them to get involved in public policy.

Today’s technology to learn, find knowledge and spread messages greatly enhances the ability for our society to progress, according

to Young.

“I believed we could change the world,” Young said. “But I didn't put a timetable on it. We didn’t even have cell phones; there was no such thing as an ‘Internet.’ The things that are happening technically — Internet, Facebook, Google — I get in arguments with young people and I can’t win because I am giving them all of the benefits of my years of reading, but before I get through, they Google it.”

Ed Gordon, host of BET’s "Weekly With Ed Gordon" moderated the discussion.

New dance event to raise money for kids By alex tusia Contributing Writer

This weekend, Delta Tau Delta and the Student Programming Board will be hosting Quinnipiac’s first Dance-A-Thon benefiting the Children’s Miracle Network. “[The Delts] have tried to pursue this for a few years now,” former Delt president Neil Brown said. “But seeing as we were new on campus we had to build up our reputation.”

After many years of discussing the organization of such an event, it was Interfraternity Council President and Delt junior Jaime Mor who brought the idea back up in September.

“Neil and I have always been interested into bringing this event onto campus,” Mor said. “We have heard and seen amazing things that this kind of an event can do for a community. When we got talking with SPB and realized that we could have this as an event in spirit week, we thought there is no better way to bring together our entire Quinnipiac community before the Yale game.”

According to Adnan Babaic, Delt’s public relations chariman, the event stemmed from the organization’s desire to hold a philanthropy event in the spring.

“Although Delt is known for Movember, we feel as though we

needed an event to bring to campus during the spring semester,” Babaic said. “We hope to move off the momentum of our first dance marathon and make this an annual event.”

Penn State held THON, a 46-hour IFC/Panhellenic dance marathon, last weekend, raising more than $10.68 million for pediatric cancer, according to a report in the Washington Post.

The total shattered last year’s record by over a million dollars. The fundraiser is the largest “student-run philanthropy in the world.”

“When I saw the $10 million reported, I was very impressed,” former Delt treasurer Ryan Parent said. “Penn State’s efforts are a

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They plan their events starting 18 months out and have total campus involvement. I think that Quinnipiac, and more specifically the sponsoring organizations, need to look at how this year’s event goes and build on the good and improve the bad.”

The goal of the event is simple: raise money for the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford and have a great time.

“The SPB goal is to have a successful co-sponsorship with a fraternity,” Kristin Cagney, SPB traditions and community chair said. “Our most important goal,

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Quinnipiac’s Dance Co. will help Delt choreograph their moral dance, which is the dance everyone will learn every hour of the dance-a-thon, Rebecca Peluso, Dance Co.’s president said.

More than 120 dancers have registered for the event on Feb. 24 from 7 p.m. to midnight in Burt Kahn Court, Parent said. Dancers will pay a $10 entry fee and will be given a t-shirt, food and entertainment.

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THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT

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Quinnipiac will release the Shuttle Tracker application soon to help students anticipate the shuttle’s arrival at the multiple campuses.

By staci canny Staff Writer

Are you tired of standing outside in the freezing cold, waiting for a shuttle? Well, wait no more. Quinnipiac will soon release its QU Shuttle Tracker application.

This smartphone app will run through the university’s mobile application, MOX, and will be available for the iPhone, Android and Blackberry.

Each bus will have a particular number, and using that number, the shuttle can be tracked, Chief of Security & Safety Dave Barger said.

For more than a year, several students and a professor, who have remained anonymous, have been developing the app that will enable smartphones to track the shuttles through a GPS system installed on the university’s leased DATTCO buses.

Assistant Chief of Security Edgar Rodriguez said that the University of New Haven has been using the same system on a smaller scale with three of its leased DATTCO buses.

With Quinnipiac getting this technology

now, Barger said that the university is not behind.

“We’re still relatively new in the whole realm of things with York Hill, the parking lots and the Westwoods lot,” Barger said. “The demand has now caught up with us and we now have to move along with the demand.”

Quinnipiac has shuttles that run to Hamden, New Haven, York Hill, Whitney Village and Westwoods.

Rodriguez said that this new app with help alleviate student complaints.

“We have students who say the bus never showed up here, and they call me up and I track it, and the bus was there,” Rodriguez said.

Students’ complaints led to recent policy changes allowing juniors living at York Hill to park on the Mount Carmel campus at any time, according to an email sent to students by Manuel Carreiro, vice president and dean of student affairs.

Yet, even with this parking policy change, Barger encourages students to use the shuttle system when possible.

“The attempt is to alleviate any anxiety the

students would have in getting here in a timely fashion from York Hill,” Barger said.

“You burn a gallon of gas only to go two miles round trip, so I would think looking at it like that, they would certainly want to use the bus.”

Sophomore Katie Foley said she is excited for the new app.

“There have been so many times that I’ve tried to log onto MyQ from my phone to find the shuttle schedule and it would never load,” Foley said. “So this will be awesome to actually know where the shuttle is and be able to see it on my phone.”

Still, some students have complained about the inconvenience of the shuttle system.

Pat Duffy, a junior living on the Mount Carmel campus, stopped using the shuttles to visit his friends on York Hill.

“There have been instances that I have had to wait 45 minutes to get the shuttle in the freezing cold,” Duffy said. “On the other hand, there have been moments that I just manage to grab it as it drives by.

“In almost all circumstances I use my car to avoid these situations.”

Said freshman Nicki Palmer: “The shuttles are always late, so even if you have a threehour break in between classes you are not guaranteed to get back in time for class.”

While some students find the shuttle system to be inconvenient, others appreciate this service.

Marissa Maturo, a freshman, says that because she cannot have a car on campus, she is at the mercy of the shuttle system.

“I like to think of it as better than nothing.

QU could chose to not provide us with any transportation so I think that it is a great perk,” Maturo said.

Despite the app holding promise for a more convenient means of transportation, Palmer said she still has some concerns.

“My only new concern is that everyone will try to get to the shuttle stop last minute and not everyone will be able to fit on the buses,” Palmer said. “Then, the app is essentially useless because you still have to wait around.”

SGA aims to extend RTSC hours By lauren epifanio Staff writer

For those York Hill residents who are frustrated with the limited hours of the Rocky Top Student Center, now is the time for students to voice their concerns.

Heidi Hitchen, a junior class representative for Student Government Association, would like for Rocky Top to be open 24/7, but realizes that asking for the student center to have

those hours is not feasible. Hitchen said she hopes SGA can get the opening times extended a few hours past midnight.

“There are pros and cons to that happening,” junior Alyssa Greenstein said. “Students would be provided with a place to study without having the hassle of driving to campus to utilize the library, but at the same time, I feel like keeping Rocky Top open 24 hours a day could be

detrimental in the sense that there is a potential that students could cause damage.”

On Monday, the junior class cabinet created a survey for juniors and seniors to determine how often they would use the student center after hours.

“We are currently working on a proposal to bring to administration, but we would first like as many people as possible to take the survey

that we have created to demonstrate that there is a want and a need for this initiative to go through to administration,” Hitchen said.

Hitchen posted the survey on her Facebook with the message, “All juniors and seniors at Quinnipiac need to take this so that the rocky top student center can stay open later!”

The proposal addresses the issues of occupied study rooms in dorm buildings, limited printing ser-

vices and shuttle service hours, leaving students to face the decision of studying in their rooms or traveling to the library on the Mount Carmel campus.

“Rocky Top is a great place to meet to work on group projects, but since it isn't open late, that limits the availability to do so, and with the study rooms being so crowded, there is nowhere else for students to go,” senior Scott Topel said.

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QU alumnus writes Monday’s episode of ‘How I Met Your Mother’

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George Sloan (left), Ian Anderson and Michael Calia. himym from cover characters and the structure of their relationships while peppering the episode with laughs and still moving the story line forward,” Calia said.

The ratings for “How I Met Your Mother” are up 19 percent in season 7, according to the Associated Press.

The first episode of 2012 helped CBS win the day with 11.9 million viewers.

“This is a great achievement

for George, and a proud moment for the School of Communications,” said Lee Kamlet, dean of the School of Communications.

“Delivering a script that meets the exacting, and often changing demands of the producers, directors, and actors of a top entertainment program like ‘How I Met Your Mother’ is fantastic.”

Liam O’Brien, professor of communications, taught Sloan and was proud of his accomplishment.

“George Sloan left Quinnipiac with the singular aim of pursuing a very difficult goal, to become a successful television writer in Los Angeles,” O’Brien said. “George is a shining example to every student at and graduate of Quinnipiac that

persistence does indeed pay off. And such a triumph could not happen to a nicer guy.”

On Monday night’s pivotal episode “No Pressure,” main character Ted (Josh Radnor) copes with his love for his on-again, off-again girlfriend Robin (Cobie Smulders) who he is convinced is still in love with Barney (Neil Patrick Harris).

Ted tells Marshall (Jason Segel) that he’s over Robin, but Marshall knows he’s lying and tells Robin she should move out of Ted’s apartment, and she does. In a twist of humor, the episode also featured Barney tearing apart Lily (Alyson Hannigan) and Marshall’s home to find a sex tape they made on a VHS tape, which he cannot decide if he should watch or

not, so he breaks the VHS player, solving his dilemma.

“Being as obsessed with HIMYM as I am, this weeks episode was made even more special because it was written by a QU alumni,” senior Rachel Francer said.

“While it was a bittersweet moment in the lives of Ted and Robin, I enjoyed every minute of it. A big step was taken this week, and I am really looking forward to seeing where they go next!”

Junior Jessica Joline said the episode was even more meaningful because of who the writer is.

“I think it’s awesome to have someone that went to school here write for my favorite show,” junior Jessica Joline said.

Club budget process explained: tuition goes toward budget tuition from cover activities fees in order to fund chartered organizations.

In addition to paying for student organizations’s budgets, student activities fees pay for the new student center construction, the health center, student organizations and programming, athletics and leadership programs, Carreiro said.

SGA’s budget is currently $550,000. The budget is divided to fund 44 chartered student organizations, including the Student Programming Board with a budget of $310,000, according to Erik Cote, vice president of finance for SGA. The remainder is then split between clubs and administrative costs, Carreiro said.

“SPB usually gets the largest sum because of the nature of what they do,” said Daniel Brown, assistant dean of student affairs and director of the student center. “By the nature of what SPB does, they benefit the most students because they’re programming for the entire student body.”

A student organization that wants to get funding from SGA cannot be exclusive and must apply for a one-year recognition status from the student center.

If an organization limits towho may join, it is not able to get a budget from SGA, Cote said.

Recognized organizations means they’re approved by the student center while chartered means organizations receive their budget from SGA, Cote said.

Chartered clubs apply for budgets every spring for the next year.

The budgeting process begins with budget workshops, in which clubs are informed about budgeting with SGA. Next, clubs apply for a budget with a requested amount, which is decided by the finance committee and SGA’s approval.

“What the finance committee and SGA look for when allocating money out is, is this program or event going to benefit the entire student body,” Brown said.

The Psychology Club has one of the smallest budgets, but finds the budgeting process helpful.

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“It’s actually a really easy process, I’m very happy about it,” Treasurer of the Psychology Club Adam Hoffman said.

Missing a budget workshop jeopardizes an organization’s chance of receiving funding, meaning it cannot get funding from SGA that year. This leaves an organization with outside funding or special appeal as their only options.

After missing a budget meeting, the International Club relied on special appeal money and outside funding from other multi-cultural clubs and the Albert Schweitzer’s Institute.

The International Club’s budget is around $2,000 this year compared to $4,000 it used to receive, according to Bigyan Dahal, a junior and treasurer of the International Club.

Student organizations must plan for events a year in advance in their budget proposals. Budgets are based on monthly events. Every month SGA takes back a club’s unspent budget money and reallocates it for special appeal, Cote said.

Any recognized student organization may go through special ap-

peal for money every month. The amount is usually about $5,000, Cote said.

President of the Anime Club Jennifer Andreozzi said the Anime club requested for $5,144.75 but received $3,913.80 as this year’s budget.

“I think it’s fair but it’s obvious that the really big clubs like SPB and QUAD get a lot more than everyone else but they’ve also been around a lot longer than other clubs and they know what to ask for and they have the set events that they do, so that makes sense,” Andreozzi said.

Members of the Anime Club funded for the club themselves prior to getting funding from SGA. “Not having a budget was simpler,” Andreozzi said. “We did not have to worry about it.”

SGA used to fund student media organizations, but it had very little control because they were very expensive with a lot of equipment and maintenance, Carreiro said. Anything with equipment works directly with Carreiro, including the Chronicle, Q30, WQAQ, Montage and the Summit yearbook.

Carreiro considers outside money, such as advertising, for media organizations’ budgets. As media organizations’ budgets increase, SGA’s budget does as well, he said.

The media organizations that receive the most funding are WQAQ and the Chronicle, each receiving around $30,000, according to Carreiro.

“Our budget is among the higher in the media groups, which is good because we need a lot of it for our spring concert and also our Music for Meals because those are expensive events,” WQAQ General Manager Kyle Murphy said. “We do meet our budget and I’m trying to exercise it as much as I can this semester so I can justify it for next semester.”

Media organizations’ budgets are reviewed during the middle of the year and at the end of the year, making sure they are following their budget proposal.

“The extra budget money goes back to an account that in case there is a rainy day in the future, you can use that account, so there’s no waste,” Carreiro said.

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Competition breeds Golf: A game for a lifetime better journalism Editorial

You probably noticed a different print publication spread around campus on Tuesday. The Quad News, a formerly online-only newspaper unaffiliated with Quinnipiac, published its first print edition and distributed it to students.

We don’t know how frequently we can expect to see this publication in print, but the Chronicle editorial board feels this move can help improve the quality of journalism on

both our online and print platforms.

A second publication that focuses primarily on Quinnipiac updates helps breed better journalism by pressuring the other to report information faster while still maintaining a high standard of accuracy.

Like The Quad News, the Chronicle has the right to free speech in its content and there is no censorship from any level on the work produced by students. The university’s

policy that caused the Chronicle to split in 2008 is no longer enforced, and has not been imposed in our editorial board’s tenure.

While we are officially recognized by the university, this only means we receive funding from Quinnipiac in addition to the advertising revenue we raise.

We will continue to publish our content in a weekly print edition and also update our website 24/7.

When watching the final round round can create a yearning to come of golf in this weekend’s PGA Tour back and play again. There is always Northern Trust Open, I was remind- room for tangible and attainable improvement. ed of why I love the sport so Golf is an obvious busimuch. It was a fantastic tourness tool, and as such, I am nament with many golfers in surprised there was not a golf contention in the final round, club prior to Catie Tobin, and ultimately coming down Erik Cote and Dan Dempsey to two playoff holes between founding one last spring. three golfers. Two were major Every time I watch champions, four-time a golf tournament I see major champion Phil golfers hugging their Mickelson and 2011 wives, kissing their PGA Championship Jeremy Stull Opinion Editor kids or giving their fawinner Keegan Bradley. @jpstull thers or caddies big high The third, Bill Haas, was the 2011 FedEx Cup winner. The fives after a win. As an individual tournament contained as much dra- sport, it produces a post-win reacma as one can ask for in a sporting tion unlike team sports.

For me, the family element event.

My appreciation for the game goes further. My father coached supersedes this single event how- many of my soccer teams growing ever, and I reflected upon that whilst up, but I no longer play soccer. We would work on projects around the watching.

After ridiculing the game for house, but I have since moved out. a few years, I picked it up in high Now, almost every time that I go school. I was no good. What golf home, my father and I go out and teaches though, is not necessarily play golf. Every family vacation involves a few rounds of golf (and a reflected in the final score.

While Quinnipiac is lucky enough few rounds of beer) between us. It is to have the QU Golf Club and a wom- something that we will always share en’s golf team, it no longer supports and can pick up where we left off, a men’s team. I argue that having the no matter how long the intervals are informal setting of a golf club does far in between outings.

I urge anybody that likes compemore for the community than having a tition, business networking, the outteam ever could.

Golf teaches self-discipline, doors, quality family time or Catie something more than a few Quin- Tobin to join the QU Golf Club. nipiac kids could learn (see: public It represents so much more than urination in New Haven). With the a sport. It can provide an informal implementation of handicaps, golf learning setting for beginners, or allows players of all levels to com- serve as just a cheaper way to get pete against each other. One purely- out and play the game you already hit shot from an otherwise abysmal love.

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Hello Bobcats, As the semester has turned over and we are quickly into the second month back, there are a few updates that we would love to share with you. We are currently looking into Mac compatibility on campus and how the Macs interact with many of the systems. We are pursuing the option of offering a program called Parallels that allows Mac users to run both Mac and Windows applications on their laptops.

We have also been diligently working on our proposals for a shuttle schedule for Mount Carmel-York Hill shuttles. We are hoping to ease the traffic and the amount of cars driving down by making an actual schedule to hold the shuttles accountable for being on time.

Our efforts to bring a coffee machine into the library are just about

to be realized. This has been an ongoing initiative that is awaiting some final approval before it can be placed.

Another exciting development that we are proud to announce is that in the fall, Quinnipiac will have a DVD rental service called Quick Flicks on both Mount Carmel and York Hill. These are DVD rental machines much like the popular Redbox. These are some of the main issues and ideas that we are currently working on in Student Government.

If you have any issues, concerns, or ideas please share them with us!

Our main contact for concerns is Vice President of Student Concerns Vincent Bond, who can be contacted at Vincent.Bond@quinnipiac.edu.

Please let us know what we can do for you and we will see you around campus! – Student Government Executive Board

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Gay Marriage

Separate is not, and never has been, equal

Gov. Christie should be ashamed of himself

I do not care, plain and simple. Sounds ap- ties protected by the Due Process Clause.” If athetic, right? But I think apathetic is the last this was stated 38 years ago, why is it still an issue? word I would use to describe how I feel about This all began long before the Wombreaking down “one of the last legalized en’s Suffrage Movement and the Civil barriers to equal rights.”

Rights Movement of the 20th century.

I have struggled for quite some Our country has been categorizing time with people who feel so passionanyone it deemed different as undeate about being against same-sex marserving of freedom since the founding riage and feel the need to defend of this country. their idea of a “traditional” marThe Founding Fathers boldly riage and family. All marriage is declared to the rest of the world a contract between two people that America is a ground-breakwho join together for love and ing democracy where ‘all men benefits. I believe no one should Kim Green News Editor were created equal.’ But, they rebe denied these rights because of @_kimgreen ally were not referring to what we his or her sexual orientation.

When contemplating what to write about today perceive as ‘all men.’ They were, howthis topic, I consulted someone who I rarely ever, speaking about white men of European ever see eye-to-eye with as far as politics go: descent.

When reading a section in my textbook for my Midwestern-raised, conservative father.

He enlightened me with a very simple state- Sociology: Race and Ethnicity on colonialment: “We are all suppose to be equal in this ism, William Muck said: “Forced to justify the country, aren’t we?” If he can see it this way, practice of slavery in the self-professed land of individual freedom, colonial Americans graviwhy can’t everyone else?

My feelings for equality do not stem from tated towards the ideology and science of race. how I was raised, or the people I have sur- If liberty was the natural order of things, the rounded myself with thus far in my life, as I do only way to deny a group of individual that not have many gay friends or acquaintances. entitlement was to invent a category which deIt is the fundamentals of rights and freedoms fined that group of people as somehow differthat our country is founded on, but chooses to ent and naturally interior.”

Unfortunately, we are still doing this today. withhold by separating groups of people and With seven states making the defining acplacing them in categories.

Many states have justified this separation complishment by legalizing gay marriage, it is by granting civil unions that provide legal not hard to see that one day, all gay Americans protection to couples at the state level but will be granted the right to marry – it just may omits federal protection. Many states see this take some time.

In the 1960s, during the height of the Civil as an effective form of separate but equal, but I see this as being just as effective and suc- Rights Movement, my father was just about cessful as the first time our country tried it my age. When learning about it in history books, it feels like centuries ago. Someday I out.

In 1974, the Supreme Court decided in can only hope my children will feel the same Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur that way and will be able to reap the benefits of “freedom of personal choice in matters of the fight for equality unfolding right before marriage and family life is one of the liber- our eyes.

Last week, New Jersey’s state Assembly and very foundation of what the state of New Jerstate Senate passed a bill to legalize same-sex sey is based upon: liberty and prosperity,” said marriage. According to The New York Times, 42 Alexis Gerleit, a senior public relations major from New Jersey. “By expressing his opstate senators and 24 state assembly members pressive, heartless, and ignorant views felt like the people of New Jersey were beon gay marriage, he is trying to limit the hind them in making the right of marriage freedom, power and love from the gay available to everyone. community.

The people may have been behind “Nobody voted on Chris Christhem, but Gov. Chris Christie aptie’s ability to marry his wife, so why parently was not. According to the should he exercise his authority Times and many other news sourcto limit others’ ability to do the es, Christie promised to quickly same?” Gerleit asked. veto the bill, and veto it he did Why, indeed? on Feb. 17, only one day after it Meghan Parmentier Senior Managing Editor In the past, Christie has argued passed the Assembly. @MegE921 civil unions are not discriminatory.

His reasoning in returning the But we’ve all heard the “separate bill to the legislature was because the bill is something of such magnitude, it but equal” excuse before, haven’t we?

If the governor truly considered the values “needed to be left to the voters to decide.”

All I understand from that, Mr. Christie, is of the New Jersey gay and lesbian community that you are quite a coward. Because, in terms equal to the heterosexual love he shares with his wife, he would have passed the bill. of democracy, it clearly already has been.

He needs to understand that this is not just I am not a political science major, but in my understanding of how things are supposed a conservative versus liberal issue. In New to work, when the senators, assemblymen and Jersey, the bill had the support it needed from assemblywomen chosen by their constituents Democrats and Republicans alike. It is plain believe they are correctly representing the and simple; a human rights issue, one I am people of New Jersey in their deliberations of ashamed still exists in this country. It is a situthe government by passing a bill, the governor ation that lets politicians who align with the majority use their elevated podiums of power should honor that.

It is not then up to the governor to let his per- and influence to tell others they are not alsonal bigotry overtake him and cause him to hide lowed to do something they themselves are albehind false “concern” for the people of his state lowed to do. Gov. Christie should be ashamed he just passed up the chance to make it right. by adding more steps to the legislation process.

My strong feelings of distaste for Christie’s Either Gov. Christie is letting personal views get in the way of allowing his state to actions could be motivated because they come join the six other American states plus the after I proudly watched my governor, Andrew District of Columbia who have legalized Cuomo, passionately fight for every last vote same-sex marriage, or he is scared of anger- needed to pass the same-sex bill in New York ing voters who could possibly support him in a this past summer. He then signed the bill into ludicrous presidential bid he has inferred may law later the same night. Gov. Christie just be in his future. But his excuses aren’t fooling had a similar chance for a momentous show of character and to make a difference bigger anyone.

“I think it’s terrible that Chris Christie than himself.

He failed. would implement his power by skewing the

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Sexting is a popular social trend, especially on college campuses.

Let’s talk about sexts

By ERICA SICILIANO Staff Writer

If the acronyms TDTM or IWSN do not look familiar to you, then perhaps you have never experienced the technological foreplay also known as sexting.

According to Urbandictionary.com, sexting is known as “the act of text messaging someone in the hopes of having a sexual encounter with them later; initially casual, transitioning into highly suggestive and even sexually explicit.”

While some may doubt that a few racy text messages have the ability to arouse another person, statistics do not lie.

Forty-three percent of women admitted to sexting in a 2012 Romance Report survey.

While that statistic may seem high, sociology professor Keith Kerr says that with increases in technology use, this behavior is not surprising.

“Technology has allowed us to know the private lives of famous people, just as we now know more and more about the private lives of our non-famous friends,” Kerr said.

“Sociologically, we see the disappearance of the backstage, or that space that used to be our private, hidden actions where we were allowed to make mistakes without fear of public

ridicule. Now, everything is front stage — a public spectacle, including sexual foreplay.”

As the distinctions between private and public continue to slowly disappear, it is becoming more socially acceptable for people to send a “sext” and think nothing of it.

“It’s definitely becoming more socially acceptable to sext,” senior Brendan Conroy said. “Slowly people are starting to see it as more socially acceptable, it’s less taboo.”

According to a study performed by the University of Rhode Island, nearly four in five college students (78 percent) have received sexually suggestive messages, and more than half (56 percent) have received sexually suggestive images. Two-thirds of the group admitted to sending the racy emails and texts.

Junior Taylor LePino says it is not inappropriate to sext another person, as long as you are in a significant relationship.

“Personally, I think [sexting] is okay to a certain extent. I know Jada Pinkett-Smith has openly said her and Will Smith sext, being that they are often apart from one another, but they are in a committed married relationship,” LePino said. “I think if your relationship is strong, it is a little bit better, but I don’t think it’s necessary. A lot of these cases

where sexting becomes a problem extends from the relationship being new or underdeveloped, where that trust isn’t there.”

As the sexting trend continues to rise, consequences can come from sending a sext. Legal officials recently amended laws to make tighter restrictions, in hopes of making the act of sending a sexually explicit text seem less appealing. According to the Connecticut State Police Department of Public Safety, the consequences of sexting include both social and emotional damage. In addition, those who receive a sexually explicit text from someone under the age of 18 may be considered a sex offender since under the law it is considered child pornography.

Although many college students do not think these legal limitations apply to them, some freshmen are only 17 when they enter college.

“I think if I sent the texts to other people, then yeah the police should get involved and I should be held responsible,” Conroy said.

“But if she just sends it to me and it stays between us, then I don’t think it’s necessary that I should be charged with anything [if she was underage]. At the end of the day I didn’t click the send button or force her to send it,

so I shouldn’t be held responsible.”

Sexting has become such a social trend that MTV launched a campaign earlier this month to deter young adults from sexting one another. The commercials feature high school and college students, mostly female, reacting to the consequences of sexting. MTV also premiered the made-for-television movie, “Sexting: When Privates Go Public,” to highlight the emotional and social consequences that can arise from sexting.

While some may view the documentary as overly-dramatized, the TV special highlights consequences that can occur from sexting.

The documentary explains that while sexters may trust the receiver, the recipient always has the ability to share the sexual photos or messages. With the simple click of a button, every smartphone owner has the power to send photos, text messages or emails to an unlimited number of people.

“I feel as though some people send [sexts] thinking it is the only way to keep guys interested,” LePino said. “But there are a lot of long-term consequences that come from sexting. You don’t know that the people who are receiving the picture are keeping it to themselves or making duplicates. In a world where technology is so fast, it’s a scary thought.”

Procrastination sites Social news media website Reddit users can read and post anything and everything they desire. Users, or “redditors” can vote links up or down to determine their placement on the ever-evolving pages of links.

Users can peruse the homepage or jump to the more specific categories of “subreddits.” Junior Corey Lynch said, “Reddit is the perfect place to post links and share things that people will find funny or interesting.” Whether it’s 10 minutes before class or a whole wasted afternoon, reddit never fails to spark your interest. – J. Stull

Though not as well-known as other time-wasting websites, Food Porn Daily deserves a spot in this procrastination suggestion box. The site’s tagline says it all: “click, drool, repeat.” Simple, high-quality and addictive, Food Porn truly lives up to its name. Just scroll through the pictures of gourmet and delicious-looking meals and desserts and allow yourself to sink into an imaginary food coma. It makes you want to learn to cook — for a quick second — and then it just makes you hungry. – M. Snow

Do you stumble? For those who have a desire for distraction, this website is a perfect fit. “You check off things you’re interested in and click ‘Stumble,’ and it brings you websites they think you will enjoy based off of your selections,” freshman Allie Penta said. “I’ve found some really good recipes from it. It’s really cool.”

This website will lead viewers to other pages, GIFs and images they may be interested in. StumbleUpon pages may also be shared on Facebook and Twitter, which are great ways to amplify one’s procrastination level. – S. Kozlowski

For many QU students, Tumblr has proven to be an excellent time waster.

“I probably have a minor addiction to Tumblr. No big deal,” freshman Aaron King said. Tumblr’s sole purpose is to entertain and help procrastinate.

“That’s exactly what I use Tumblr for — to help me procrastinate. I always go on when I want to avoid doing homework or to avoid doing pretty much anything productive,” King said. Tumblr is a giant blogging community that allows visitors to find pictures and quotes they like by sifting through other blogs and maintaining their own. – S. Kozlowski

Pinterest is an image-based website which allows users to “pin” or “repin” themed images on their personal pinboard. Pinterest caters to the interests of every user, as pinboard themes range from recipes to weddings, interior decorating, cute animals, vacation spots or fashion.

“You can create any kind of board that interests you,” senior Anissa Holness said. “For instance I made a board of Justin Bieber because, well I’m just obsessed with the kid, but anyone can make any kind of board they like. I like to think of it as a visual pinboard of my life.” – N. Fano

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CAMPUS-WIDE SING-A-LONG UNDERWAY if you want to get involved in a quinnipiac lip dub, here are some student info sessions: Friday feb. 24 12-1 mancheski

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By Christine BURRONI Associate Arts & Life Editor

All hands are on deck to produce Quinnipiac’s “lip dub” video, an innovative way to show off QU’s beauty and diversity.

“I’m really excited, we have a really beautiful campus and it will be cool to showcase that,” said Ben Goodheart, a junior FVI major and member of the lip dub committee.

According to Urbandictionary.com, a lip dub is a music video that features “lip-syncing and audio-dubbing,” that can be made with a single person or a group.

“Essentially it’s like one continuous shot of the majority of our student body to a song,” Goodheart said.

Peter Gallay, Quinnipiac’s academic technology multimedia producer, initiated the idea in December and generated interest through emails to faculty and students. Having seen other lip dub videos from colleges across the country, he wanted to bring this musical promotion to Quinnipiac.

“I thought that I could do something with my skills here and do something that can bring the community together,” Gallay said.

Although the song that has been selected to lip-sync to is being kept secret for now, it will be revealed on March 26, with teaser

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hints released along the way.

The video will begin on Bobcat Way and will lead up to the Quad, starring as many student organizations as possible including SGA, Greek Life, dance groups, multicultural groups and faculty and staff. The main idea of the video is to showcase a four-year experience at Quinnipiac with one song, starting from freshman orientation to graduation and all that occurs in between.

“I think the big thing about this is that the whole purpose of this is to bring the whole community together, not just students but faculty and staff,” Gallay said.

The committee producing the video meets once a week and consists of faculty members and students of many organizations, including SGA and student media. At the meetings they discuss ways to promote this new venture and ways to get students involved.

“It’s a fantastic way for the campus to come together in celebration and have some fun,” said Bruce White, a computer information systems professor and the committee’s faculty representative. It is his responsibility to get faculty and staff involved in the music video.

“Our job is to reach out to different student organizations and get everyone excited,” said

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Kaite Lovett, an SGA member and senior public relations and elementary education double major. Lovett and other students in the committee act as liaisons between the committee and the student body. Their job is to run the information sessions. Lovett plans for hundreds of people to be involved.

“I’m, like, super pumped,” Lovett said.

“I hope that in the end people are going to be happy to say that they went here, worked here or are going here.”

Filming will take place on Friday, May 4 at noon.

“That way it will come out during or right after finals, and it will keep school spirit up throughout the summer,” Goodheart said.

Information sessions begin this Friday and will take place on both Mount Carmel and York Hill. Faculty and staff are encouraged to reach out to Bruce White for more information on how to become involved.

The committee is working hard week by week to make this video successful and become viral via Quinnipiac’s YouTube channel once it’s released in May. “It’s just really trying to be able to showcase what Quinnipiac is and what our community really offers, I think that’s what the emphasis is really on,” Gallay said.

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Ben Goodheart is one of the members of the committee to bring a lip dub to Quinnipiac.

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Chef Marc Fugaro leads a workshop teaching college cooking for beginners at the Rocky Top Student Center.

college-Friendly apps Cardstar For frequent shoppers, CardStar is a must! This app lets users scan their favorite rewards and discount cards for local stores and businesses into their smartphones — that way you won’t have to carry around all those bulky cards in your wallet or purse.“I personally love this app because I leave my Stop & Shop card at home with my parents who earn gas points for me to use every time they go out grocery shopping,” junior Emily Riddlesworth said. – H. Alegbeleye

GasBuddy

Password King

lemon

fooducate

As college students, we have many other things we would love to spend our money on besides expensive gas. GasBuddy is an app that uses your phone’s GPS to locate all of the local gas stations in your area, no matter where you are. You can sort gas stations by cheapest price or shortest distance, then go straight for the cheapest.

This app is especially helpful to find the lowest prices in Hamden.

– H. Alegbeleye

From MyQ and email to Facebook and Twitter, remembering multiple passwords can be overwhelming, especially in our collegiate careers.

If you feel like you have too many passwords, you need Password Lock Lite. This app stores all of those important passwords in one place, in case you should forget. It even has a password generator, in case you only have a few days left on your old MyQ password. – H. Alegbeleye

For those who want to stop spending in denial, there’s Lemon. Scan pictures of your receipts with the camera on your phone, and the app stores all the information for you. You’ll see a graph of how much you’re spending and what you’re spending it on. You might be surprised to see how much you spend on food. And if you’re an online shopper, you can send your email receipts to your Lemon account, and those purchases get included in the graph too. – M. Snow

The next best thing to grocery shopping with a dietitian is grocery shopping with this app, designed to help you “eat a bit better.” Use your phone’s camera to scan bar codes on items or enter it manually. The app will then calculate a letter grade and tell you why it’s good (or not so good) for you. You can then pick a better alternative and find out more about nutrition. The FAQ section says that a future version of the app will include personalization features. – J. Hill

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THE REFUGEE

Bosnian war causes family to start over in America

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Adnan Babaic was born in Bosnia and, as a 1-year-old, barely survived an attack before his family moved to America.

NAME: Adnan Babaic BirthPlace: Bosnia HOMETOWN: Hamden YEAR: Junior MAJOR: Computer Information Systems

By Catherine boudreau

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t was April 1992 in Sarajevo, Bosnia. People ran frantically around the bus terminal desperate to find a way out of the city. Women begged to get on the bus without tickets. Mirsada Babaic stood firm as people pushed and shoved in line. She left without her husband because Bosnian men were taken off the buses and shot at various checkpoints. She clutched onto her 1-year-old son. She held German Marks she saved after selling her belongings. No one accepted Bosnian money. Mirsada spotted another booth opening. She ran faster than she ever had in her life. If only she and her son could catch the last bus out, she thought.

“I packed my whole life in a suitcase with a baby in hand,” Mirsada told her now 21-year-old son Adnan, a junior at Quinnipiac.

He was that 1-year-old toddler during the outbreak of the Bosnian War in the spring of 1992.

“I just feel so lucky to be alive,” Babaic said. “That little baby that my mom clenched onto could have easily not made it to Germany, much less America.”

In what Adnan describes as a miracle, both he and his parents fled to Munich, Germany, where they stayed with his grandmother.

His father joined them one month after his family left. Luckily, his father’s friend sneaked him into one of the last planes leaving Sarajevo.

The Bosnian War erupted one year after Croatia seceded from former Yugoslavia to counter the Serbian extremists’ plan for a “Greater Serbia.” In March 1992, Bosnian Muslims and Croats, also fearing a Greater Serbia, voted for Bosnian independence. Serbians depicted Muslims as extremist fundamentalists, causing many Bosnian Serbs to support plans for “ethnic cleansing,” or genocide. Ethnic groups were pitted against each other, thus setting the stage for war.

On April 6, 1992, Bosnian Serbs began the siege of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Babaic’s home.

The city was cut off from food, water, electricity and communication.

Babaic’s mother told him that she still turned off their lights because of snipers in the village when power was provided for a brief period of time.

After the family left, Babaic spent the next five years in Germany living in an apartment above his grandparents. His grandfather worked for the owner of a construction company that not only employed Babaic’s father, but also let them stay in his apartment for free.

Because Germans were fearful of refugees stealing their jobs, Babaic’s parents had to take entry-level positions. His mother worked as a maid and his father left behind his position as a German translator for an engine manufacturing company to do construction.

Out of the more than 2 million

people displaced due to the Bosnian War, approximately 320,000 settled in Germany. Once the war ended in 1995, Germany decided to send the refugees back home.

However, for Babaic’s parents, returning home was not an option.

“My mom told me that there was nothing left in Bosnia. We would have gone back to a house that was destroyed, where there was no economy. There was no food. Everything was destroyed,” Babaic said. “It was either go back or make a better life for all of us. It sounds clichéd but it’s true.”

According to the Center for Balkan Development, 60 percent of all houses in Bosnia, half of the schools and a third of the hospitals were damaged or destroyed during the war.

In August 1997, Babaic and his family journeyed to the United States. His aunt and uncle lived in Queens, N.Y., where 15,000 Bosnian refugees settled. They were able to sponsor Babaic’s family for immigration. Otherwise, they would not have been able to emigrate, according to Babaic.

“Leaving Germany was probably one of the saddest times. I was really close with my grandparents and I didn’t know if I was coming back,” he said.

Babaic’s family spent one night in Queens. The next day they packed up and left for Milford where his aunt and uncle were moving.

For about six months, Babaic lived with seven family members in one apartment: his younger sister Irma, his parents, his aunt and uncle and their two children. Milford is where Babaic entered first grade.

“I didn’t know any English since we had just moved here in August.

I only knew German and Bosnian, but nobody knew German and Bos-

nian,” Babaic said laughing. “My parents just enrolled me in school and were like, ‘OK, go to school now.’”

Babaic’s father worked at a gas station and his mother manufactured circuit boards for phones in order to save money. They permanently settled in Hamden where Adnan entered the fifth grade.

Currently, Babaic is studying Computer Information Systems at Quinnipiac. He is also the president of the International Business Society on campus, as well as vice president of public relations for his fraternity, Delta Tau Delta, which is evidenced by his brown pullover bearing the Greek letters.

Though Babaic has footprints in

“That little baby that my mom clenched onto could have easily not made it to Germany, much less America.”

– adnan Babaic multiple places across the globe, he considers America his home.

“The only thing that makes us different is that we were born [in Bosnia]. But technically all Americans are immigrants unless you’re Native American,” he said.

Babaic also mentioned that he and his father had discussed changing his name to something more Americanized, such as Adam.

Babaic said that because his name is Middle Eastern, his father worries about the negative stigma that comes along with that after 9/11. Changing his name would also make daily life easier, for many are

unfamiliar with “Adnan.”

But the idea was short-lived.

“Sure, the name doesn’t represent the American side of me. But I like my name,” Babaic said.

Since immigrating to the U.S., Babaic has visited both Bosnia and Germany on several occasions. For him, Munich is his favorite place to return to see his grandmother. His eyes lit up as he described their reunions.

“I don’t know how to explain our relationship, but she’s so loving, kind of like my second mother,” Babaic said. “Her face when I come back is crazy. It’s like I’m president of the U.S. or something.”

Babaic’s friend since the fifth grade, Rutu Patel, is also a junior at Quinnipiac. She describes Babaic as extremely genuine and caring, especially regarding his family.

She also said how smart he is. In eighth grade, both were nominated for most likely to succeed.

Junior Steve Ducos, Babaic’s friend and fraternity brother, recognized another special trait of Babaic’s.

“I’m sure moving into so many different settings was a difficult thing to do. For him to be able to embrace and make the best of every situation speaks volumes about his character,” Ducos said.

Babaic recognizes this quality in himself, as well.

“Going through that, especially when you are little, teaches you that worse things can happen in life,” Babaic said. “Just take every day and appreciate what you have, especially living here and being able to go to Quinnipiac.”

His experiences have contributed to his spontaneous nature, as well as his desire to travel, Babaic said.

He plans to enroll in a QU301 class that travels to Nicaragua.

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IDO Spotlight

sarah’s style

Mark Your Calendars: “Be Humble” Day

By SARAH ROSENBERG Associate Arts & Life Editor

above: Greg Rava, Sophomore, Uniondale, N.Y. left: Samantha Baccala, Senior, Marlboro, N.J.

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Nicki redeems herself with ‘Starships’ TLC exploits the weirdos

cash money records

TLC

After a ridiculed performance at the recent Grammy Awards, Nicki Minaj has been able to redeem herself with the release of her newest single, “Starships.”

“Starships were meant to fly” is the first line to the track that is hands down Minaj’s best yet. Quirky, catchy and certainly addictive, “Starships” is radio hit material.

The upbeat tone combined with Minaj’s unique voice makes it spectacular. It is one of those singles that Minaj listeners have been waiting for without knowing when to expect it. In traditional Nicki Minaj fashion, the lyrics are puzzling, but then again, the meaning is not important when the beat is this good.

It is one of those tracks that makes listeners want to dance nonstop the moment the song begins. The way Minaj flawlessly adds her rap bits in “Starships” is unique, just like the song’s other aspects.

Words really can’t describe this one, though. It is pure musical genius. If this is any indication as to what will be on her upcoming album, then Minaj fans have much to look forward to. Yes, it is that good. – S. Corcoran

TLC is known as the learning channel for a reason. After watching the original series “My Strange Addiction,” I have learned just how bizarre some of my fellow Americans are.

The Feb. 12 season three premiere certainly lived up to its strange expectations. From snorting baby powder to dating a car, sipping on nail polish, eating tape and cleaning out your ears with a pair of scissors, TLC has somehow located America’s finest. Serious psychological addictions are nothing to joke about, but when someone agrees to broadcast his “secret” addiction to the entire nation, judgment becomes fair game.

Poor Nathaniel will forever remain in my mind as the man who had sex with his Chevy Monte Carlo.

“My Strange Addiction” successfully evokes an array of emotions from viewers, none of which are positive. From speechlessness and disbelief to disgust and annoyance, the stars of this show have quite the talent for eliciting responses from viewers. For all you nail biters, procrastinators, thumb suckers and scab pickers, these hardcore “addicts” are sure to make you feel better about yourselves.

It is too bad Sigmund Freud isn’t still alive – he would have had quite the field day psychoanalyzing these nut jobs. – N. Fano

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If you do a little research on Google, you will see that there are many strange holidays during the month of February. Today is “Be Humble” day. I like the idea of that, but being humble is difficult. Being humble is not firsthand to human nature because to me, it means much more than being modest or meek. It means not looking in a mirror to perfect yourself. It means saying you’re sorry for bumping into a stranger with your overstuffed backpack. It means stifling your urge to scream out your opinions in class and pick a fight with someone over a disagreement. It’s not a complete dismissal of your pride, but an acceptance of all of those things that make you truly human, what makes you vulnerable.

To be humble is to be real, to be not just yourself, but the best part of yourself. Being humble allows you to see through the eyes of someone else, to be empathetic, to be interested and observant of what makes them really light up, what gives them that look of carefree, genuine happiness. If you listen to someone else, you might learn that their favorite song is your favorite song; the movie they can quote over and over may change your life; their very favorite place on earth may be right at your disposal.

To be humble is to reach out, not just saying “thank you,” but meaning it. To be humble does not mean to let go of the things that make you great, but to allow the things people never expected of you to shine through. Letting your guard down invites a mess of things into your world, but out of the clutter of impossibility comes self-fulfillment, self-worth and maybe new things, new people to make you happy.

You don’t have to be completely selfless to be humble. You don’t have to abandon every conviction, belief or idea you’ve ever relied on. The act of being humble is simply adding another layer to yourself, knocking down your inner wall to let the world see you in the flesh and in the moment. So, in turn, you can see others – not just giving them the wheel, but helping them turn it.

If you’re humble, you can appreciate so much more. This isn’t a cautionary tale or a verbal filler to reprimand your subconscious for not holding the door or giving yourself one too may pats on the back; because you can be everything and still be humble. You can mess up and still be humble. You can be so great you salsa in the end zone after a touchdown, but you can still be humble.

Especially today. Today it really counts (but tomorrow, too, if you want).

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crossword: itunes top 100 song titles

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solution to last week’s crossword

solution to last week’s sudoku

ACROSS 3 This love crosses borders 5 Remixes are everywhere for this song, most popularly by Flo Rida and Skrillex, but the original remains on the itunes top 100 8 Maybe she wrote this one about Justin Bieber?

9 "all the other kids with the ________" 10 Anthem for victims and bullied kids everywhere, the country sweetheart was so surprised when she received a standing ovation for this song at the Grammys.

11 This song, by a young, family country band, is actually heartbreaking when you listen to the lyrics, or even read the title.

13 YOLO 14 This rapper, discovered by Jay-Z, lost in the Best New Artist category at the Grammys this weekend. In this song he wants you to "drop that thing down to the floor."

15 You've all seen the video of the grandma dancing to this behind her grandson in the black hoodie. "hunnets, hunnets."

16 According to an SNL skit, women love to cry alone to this song by a British powerhouse who swept at the Grammys.

DOWN 1 Some argue that this song is actually by DJ Calvin Harris.

Regardless, it's a club song that still hasn't gotten old.

2 This song, with a one word chorus and a verse by the artist from #_, has to be completely different on the radio.

3 After a tidal wave of post-mortem success, we've seen several covers of this timeless love ballad 4 What doesn't kill you makes you ______, sings this American Idol 6 Our rave of the week 7 "She Will Be Loved" band claims to dance like a famous rock star 12 A recently single and blue-haired pop queen sang this song at the Grammys

greek life word search Katy Perry Drake Adele JCole

Calvin Harris Rihanna The Band Perry Taylor Swift

Avicii Tyga Nicki Minaj Pitbull

sudoku: Easy

Foster the People Whitney Houston Grammys iTunes

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FRYKAS FOCUSED Wisconsin transfer ready for QU playoffs

By Matt eisenberg Sports Editor

Breann Frykas has seen the playoffs. She was a part of the team that won it all last year, but with a bigger role on a new team, she has blossomed into a team-oriented leader.

Frykas, a junior forward for the women’s ice hockey team, played for national champion Wisconsin last season, but transferred to Quinnipiac, where she has seen more time on the ice than she did last season.

“I got to practice a lot with top players, but not necessarily playing in game situations,” said Frykas, who played in all 41 Wisconsin games last year on the fourth line.

Frykas was with the Badgers’ national championship team last year, a team that won 25 of its final 27 games. Wisconsin outscored its opponents 212-70 in the 41 games, largely in part to Meghan Duggan, Hilary Knight and Brianna Decker, who combined for 120 goals.

“Not playing a lot, I was able to look at a lot of the role models of the team,” said Frykas, who scored four goals and had seven assists last season. “People like Meghan Duggan and Hilary Knight are great role models out there and I try and take the motivation of those players and put it toward my season this year.”

But Frykas isn’t concerned about her individual stats as long as the team succeeds.

“It’s about the big picture and about the team,” Frykas said.

Frykas said the national championship experience last season was an incredible and memorable event.

“It’s obviously a memory I’ll never forget,” she said. “It was an amazing experience.

It’s something I definitely look forward to do again in my future.”

But Frykas’ future isn’t in Madison anymore, but rather 1,000 miles east. She transferred to Quinnipiac over the summer and has seen an increased amount of playing time.

“You only have four years of college, so

it’s better to play than to sit on the bench,” Frykas said. “Obviously not playing a lot last year, it was a bit rusty in the playing area …

I definitely had some situations that needed to be fixed and [the Quinnipiac coaching staff] definitely helped me do that this year.”

Quinnipiac head coach Rick Seeley knew what Frykas brought to the table when she contacted him, as he had scouted her as a recruit.

“We were well aware of what she was capable of from scouting and recruiting her in the past,” Seeley said. “It was a no-brainer for us when she expressed interest in Quinnipiac as one of the schools she was thinking of transferring to.”

Seeley moved Frykas from forward to defense early in the season, but switched her back after a couple of weeks. It wasn’t because of poor play, but because of team necessity.

“She gave us a lot back there in terms of speed and moving the puck out of our zone, but we also needed that speed and scoring up front so that’s ultimately why we made the switch back,” Seeley said.

Frykas didn’t start off the season on fire, recording just two points in the team’s first 11 games.

“It’s a lot of new changes for her, obviously, coming from a talented Wisconsin team that you can just fly around,” Quinnipiac teammate Amanda Colin said. “I think as the season has gone on and progressed, we’ve both gotten a lot more well known with the system and that’s helped a lot. She’s obviously made huge improvements in situations of starting and stopping and you can see that in her contributions to the team.”

Frykas and Colin were roommates in the team’s first road trip to Mercyhurst the first weekend of the season, and played together on the same line in the second game of a twogame series. Frykas said she and Colin focus on their finesse moves with the puck and the two spoke with the coaching staff the first weekend to discuss how they can blend in

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Breann Frykas (second from left) and the team celebrate after a first-period goal in the team’s 3-0 win vs. Syracuse Jan. 27. their skills with the coaching staff.

It wasn’t quick, but they were able to put their skills to use in the team’s Nov. 22 win vs. then-No. 4 ranked Boston College. Frykas took a rebound and sent a shot on net, and Colin was there to pick up the rebound and send it past goaltender Corinne Boyles for the overtime win.

“I think that was a big turning point,” Colin said. “The whole play, you could go back to the game, but the whole situation just generated from just little details. I think that game was a good stepping stone forward and was something to look back and build on. We were successful, so if that’s all it takes then why not do it every game.”

Now Frykas has showed her scoring potential. She has scored four goals in the month of February. She ranks second on the team in scoring and third in points. But for her, it’s the ability to step up when the team

needs her to.

“For a leadership role on this team it’s helped,” Frykas said. “In the big picture, everyone needs to work hard and that is a big team aspect of how we’re going to do.”

Good timing, because the team plays at Clarkson in the ECAC Hockey quarterfinals this weekend.

Seeley said Frykas isn’t looking back at her title run to help this year’s team.

“She hasn’t said ‘This is how it’s done, guys, so jump on my back,’” Seeley said.

For Frykas, she said she would look to last year for herself as a memory.

“Some of those moments last year when we were going through the playoffs are ones that I want to go again through this year,” Frykas said. “I want to remember how good they feel, and just to worry about how important each game is and how much of an impact it can have for the big picture to succeed.”

Ryan: ‘QU best facility I’ve seen in New England’ By joe addonizio & GIOVANNI MIO

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Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan sits at press row during the Quinnipiac men’s basketball matchup against St. Francis (N.Y.) last Thursday. The Bobcats lost 64-56.

For the second time in as many weeks, a member of The Boston Globe was spotted on the Quinnipiac campus.

On Feb. 11, Matt Pepin, the sports editor from Boston.com, held a workshop for students interested in sports journalism.

On Thursday, Bob Ryan, longtime sports columnist for The Boston Globe was on the York Hill campus at the TD Bank Sports Center.

This was Ryan’s first visit to Quinnipiac and before the game, he was given a tour of the TD Bank Sports Center by Director of Athletics and Recreation Jack McDonald.

“This facility, its reputation is very vast. If you tell people that you are going to Quinnipiac, they say ‘Woo! Wait till you see it.’ I know I’ve been hearing about this place since they opened it,” Ryan said.

“It’s got a very good reputation and frankly it’s the best facility I’ve seen in New England.”

Ryan sat on press row to watch the Quinnipiac men’s basketball team take on St. Francis (N.Y.) on Thursday night. Although Ryan was

not covering a game story for the Globe, he was focused on his new preview for the Globe.

“I’m doing a project story in conjunction with the fact that the NCAA tournament is coming to Boston this year and so the Globe will be doing a preview section and feature stories on the idea,” Ryan said.

His plan was to visit every school in the New England area and see at least one basketball game from each of the 21 Division I schools, and Quinnipiac was the last stop on Ryan’s list.

His article is expected to be released in late March before the opening round of the NCAA tournament.

The Bobcats weren’t able to win in front of Ryan, as they fell to St. Francis (N.Y.) 64-56.

“I call them (games like this) ‘Sisyphus’ games. You’re pushing that rock up the hill and every time you get up, it comes rolling back up on you,” Ryan said. “You never get over the hill, it’s just one of those types of games. Usually once a year you get a game like this.”

Aside from Quinnipiac, Ryan saw schools in other conferences besides the Northeast Conference such

as the American East, Big East and Ivy League.

“I’ve seen the best and the worst.

I’ve seen Syracuse when they were ranked No. 1 and undefeated, I’ve also seen the team that Jeff Sagarin ranked worst in the country, Binghamton. So I’ve seen the two extremes,” Ryan said.

After writing for The Boston Globe for 44 years, Ryan plans to retire from his full-time job, but still wishes to work with it occasionally.

“I want to gain control of my life. I don’t wanna have to be responsible for anybody day after day after day after day. I want to be able to rearrange my life,” Ryan said.

“Retirement is a technical term that means you are no longer an employer of a company you worked for for x amount number of years. In my case, 44. It doesn’t mean you’re not going to have an association with them. I will have an association with the Globe. But it’ll be much scaled back.”

Although he may be retiring from the Globe, he still plans to appear as a TV talent on shows like “Around the Horn” and “Pardon the Interruption” for ESPN.

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The Rundown

WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY QU 5, RPI 1 – Saturday Kelly Babstock: 3 goals Nicole Kosta: 2 assists MEN’S BASKETBALL LIU-Brooklyn 99, QU 89 – Sunday Ousmane Drame: 16 points, 10 rebounds WOMEN’S Basketball QU 64, St. Francis (N.Y.) 41 – Monday Jasmine Martin:16 points

games to watch

MEN’S BASKETBALL QU (15-12, 8-8) vs. Robert Morris (21-8, 12-4) – Saturday, 11 a.m.

MEN’S ICE HOCKEY QU (16-11-5, 8-8-4) vs. Brown (815-4, 5-12-3) – Friday, 7 p.m.

QU (16-11-5, 8-8-4) vs. Yale (1213-2, 9-10-1) – Saturday, 7 p.m.

WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY QU (17-14-2, 12-8-2) at Clarkson (21-8-5, 15-5-2) – Friday, 7 p.m. (ECAC Quarterfinals) QU (17-14-2, 12-8-2) at Clarkson (21-8-5, 15-5-2) – Saturday, 4 p.m.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL QU (21-6, 13-3) vs. Robert Morris (16-11, 10-6) – Saturday, 1:30 p.m.

Quinnipiac Bobcats Sports Network is your source for live broadcasts.

Follow @QUChronSports for live updates during games.

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Former captain excels overseas By joe addonizio Associate Sports Editor

After playing with the Quinnipiac women’s ice hockey team for four years, last year’s assistant captain, Kelley Davies has continued her hockey career in Europe.

In August 2011, Davies packed up her life and flew to Austria, where she signed with the Neuberg Highlanders of Austria’s EWHL Division II league, where she currently leads her team in points with 24.

Davies originally thought her hockey days would be over once she played in her final game as a Bobcat. But, with the job market looking tough, the print journalism major decided to see where hockey could bring her.

“I originally planned to go to Switzerland and play hockey there but I had not fully committed,” Davies said. “Former teammate Elysee Cole told me on Facebook about the team she was playing on in Austria and it seemed like a better deal with more benefits. She got me in contact with the team's manager and I just sent them my hockey resume. Before I graduated, they told me they were interested and I committed after that.”

Playing in another country isn’t the easiest thing to do, but Davies has adjusted to the change in culture.

“I struggle every day still with the language barrier,” Davies said.

“It's definitely nice that mostly everyone can speak English here but I would have liked to know German so I could engage in more conversations with people.”

Davies had never left the U.S. before playing in Austria, but she doesn’t seem to be homesick and is really enjoying being in Europe.

“The best part about playing

hockey here is the atmosphere and surrounding area,” Davies said.

“Austria is such a beautiful country.

Being in a different culture and being able to travel to different countries is the best part about being here.”

Davies is planning on returning to the team next season and continuing her professional hockey career.

Current seniors Chelsea Illchuk and Kate Wheeler have also committed to the team for next season and will join Davies in Austria.

Wheeler took Davies’ spot as the Bobcats’ assistant captain this year.

She has recorded 13 points on seven goals and six assists.

“I think it’s such a great experience to live in Europe and getting to know a whole different life style.

If she didn’t take the offer, I think she would regret not going since it’s a once in a lifetime opportunity,” Wheeler said. “In my mind, you can work you entire life, why not take a year to travel and experience something different?”

Current head coach Rick Seeley, who coached Davies for three season, enjoys seeing his former player succeeding at the next level.

“I am so proud of Kelley. Kelley is taking this experience and getting everything she possibly can out of it. She is playing exceptionally well, traveling as much as possible and blogging for a local newspaper,” Seeley said. “She took on this experience with an entirely open mind and a good understanding of what it could be. She has done it for all the right reasons.”

Although Davies found playing under coach Seeley tough, in the end it was extremely rewarding.

“Coach taught me a lot of things that I couldn’t only use in hockey but

Photo courtesy of kelley davies

Former Quinnipiac women’s ice hockey player Kelley Davies skates for the Neuberg Highlanders of Austria’s European Women’s Hockey Division II League. Davies leads the Highlanders with 24 points. in my life after hockey. I was not as talented as most players in Division I but he knew what I could bring to succeed at that level,” Davies said.

“The most important thing he taught me was to not think and just do. I would get tangled up in my head and stop skating. He just told me to skate or ‘fly’ and that seemed to work the best for me as a player.”

Seeley’s first season coaching Davies was when she was a sophomore, and he said that she was very shy. But over the years, she developed into a leader and ran the team’s community service projects her senior year.

Current senior captain Jordan Elkins followed under Davies leadership last season. Elkins said that although Davies wouldn’t lead a lot by voice, she did so by example instead.

Davies finished her career at Quin-

nipiac with 32 points but went through the extreme ups and downs with the team. After the team combined for four total wins her first two seasons, the team had 41 in her last two.

“From barely winning any games my freshman year and having a different coach to being a team among the top 10 in the nation with a new coaching staff, it has been a quite unbelievable turnaround. The atmosphere, culture, and work ethic of the team is something I will remember forever,” Davies said.

Davies has one more regular season game remaining.

“The hockey is not nearly as good as the Division I level but I have enjoyed being somewhat of a superstar over here,” Davies said.

Davies continues to share her experience playing overseas with her blog, http://skatingthedream. blogspot.com/.

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No longer Bab-stuck

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Clockwise from top left: Quinnipiac forward Kelly Babstock scores a second-period goal in Saturday’s win vs. RPI; Babstock takes a shot in Friday’s game vs. Union; Babstock hits an RPI player to the ice in Saturday’s game vs. RPI; Babstock scores an empty-net goal in the third period of Saturday’s game vs. RPI. Babstock, who had been one goal away from breaking the program scoring record for eight games, scored five goals over the weekend to shatter Elysee Cole’s record of 43 career goals.

by the numbers

ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

44

Cory Hibbeler

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Hibbeler scored two goals this weekend in a weekend split against RPI and Union. The defensman now has eight points on the year with six goals and two assists.

Recordbreaking goal for sophomore kelly babstock on Friday against Union.

Number of road wins for the women’s basketball team, which leads the nec.

Men’s ice hockey Defenseman

Sophomore St. Charles, Mo.

Kelly Babstock

Women’s ice hockey Forward

Sophomore Mississauga, Ontario

Babstock scored five goals on the weekend sweep over ECAC opponents, Union and RPI on her way to breaking the schools all-time goals record of 43. Babstock finished the weekend with 47 career goals in 70 career games.

102

BGoals scored this season by men’s ice hockey team, which is 3rd in the ECAC

17-0

the women’s

basketball team’s record when it outshoots its opponent.

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Conversion rate for women’s hockey team on the power play this weekend (6-of-12)

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BEAT YALE

RIVALRY SPECIAL

ROBERT MORRIS 11 a.m.

• How it became a rivalry, page 5 • Chip on his shoulder, page 6 • Keys toward the stretch run, page 6

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Gearing up for tripleheader

Arena’s operating director prepares for busy day at the Bank

By Matt Eisenberg Sports Editor

No one really notices the small gameday operations: the scoreboard, the music, the speakers, etc. Just how Andrew Castagnola likes it.

Castagnola, Quinnipiac’s associate athletic director of operations, handles all the small game-to-game operations to make sure everything runs smoothly.

“Every game is being watched by somebody,” Castagnola said. “When I do my job right then everything goes smoothly.

Everything’s done a certain way and it’s that way for a reason.”

In addition to making sure the facility is prepared for each game, Castagnola also assists the teams that travel to Quinnipiac and make sure that they are satisfied with their trip. It’s a two-week process for each team, he said.

He usually starts with an email that introduces himself to the coaches and other staff members.

“The email will basically introduce myself, the facility, where you’re parking, the locker rooms, uniforms and basically anything after that,” Castagnola said. “After a week goes by, then I call you and if you don’t call me back then I call you again.”

Castagnola helps accommodate the opposing team to the Hamden area, from hotels to restaurants.

“I won’t get on the bus or anything like that, but I’ll send them down to Eli’s or any restaurant in the area,” Castagnola said.

Before St. Francis (N.Y.)’s men’s basketball team played Quinnipiac last Thursday, it requested a shootaround time that night, the same time as a women’s basketball game between Quinnipiac and Central Connecticut State.

“I don’t plan anything different for a TV game or a big game. Every game is a big game.”

— Andrew Castagnola Quinnipiac associate athletic director of operations

“We do our best to accommodate the needs of the visiting team so we would get the same respect when we go there,” Castagnola said.

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Sophomore Kristin Foley checks a woman’s ticket before the men’s basketball game last Thursday vs. St. Francis (N.Y.).

The next morning, St. Francis had a 10 a.m. shootaround.

Castagnola was there an hour earlier.

“I was at the building at 9 a.m. setting up,” Castagnola said, helping the team with clock management, waters and equipment. “They come in and practice for an hour, then go to their hotel and come back later. Then they call me when they arrive, I make sure they have everything, make sure the locker room is set up and ask if they need anything.”

The Terriers came in at 5 p.m., two hours before tip-off.

Castagnola was there three hours before the game, as he is for every game.

“I want to have everything set up before anyone walks into this building,” he said.

In addition to making sure the other team gives him the OK, Castagnola manages a staff of work-study students who help with the tickets at each game.

“We have to get here two hours before the game starts,” sophomore Sarah Violette said. “Andy wants us here half an hour early just because that way if someone doesn’t shows up, he has time to hunt us down before he really needs us. It’s not

really a problem.”

This is one of the biggest weekends for Quinnipiac sports this year, as the men’s basketball team plays Robert Morris in a nationally-televised game at 11 a.m., the women’s basketball team plays a game right after and the men’s ice hockey team hosts Yale at 7 p.m., a game that normally sells out within minutes.

“I like the big games, I think they’re really fun,” Violette said. “Most people don’t; some people try to get out of working the Yale game, but I like it. Time goes by really fast when you have a lot of work.”

Castagnola said he plans to get to the Bank at around 6:30 a.m. on Saturday.

“I don’t plan anything different for a TV game or a big game. Every game is a big game,” Castagnola said. “Whether it’s a small game on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon or a big game coming up next weekend, they’re all big to me because my job reflects on how that looks.”

And last Thursday, Castagnola was more than confident in how the day will go.

“I’m ready to go if it was tomorrow,” he said.

ESPNU, SNY to feature games on Saturday

By JON ALBA Staff Writer

Quinnipiac University has a busy day in store on Saturday, as three of its athletic squads will head up to the TD Bank Sports Center for one of the busiest days in school history.

The men’s basketball team will face Robert Morris at 11 a.m. in a game televised on ESPNU, followed by a women’s basketball game which will be featured on ESPN3 at 1:30 p.m.

The men’s ice hockey team will also take on Yale at 7 p.m. in a contest on SNY across the building.

With three games in one day, the staff at the arena along with athletics administrators will have their hands full. A day of such a magnitude is not thrown together so easily.

“We start lining up promotions, ticket sales, what’s on TV the second you get the schedule,” said Eric Grgurich, executive director of the TD Bank Sports Center.

Grgurich said that Quinnipiac has not had a day like this in several years, but even with the anticipation of large crowds, the arena will not be prepared much differently. However, he said it will be a busy day for all of the arena’s

workers.

“We’ll have full staff, we’ll have everyone that we call on throughout the year for all hands on deck,” Grgurich said. “Everyone will be ready to go.”

The annual contest against Yale is typically one of Quinnipiac’s most highly-attended games. Last year, 1,300 tickets were sold in the first four seconds after they became available online.

“It was like a big name concert, which is kind of cool to see that much demand,” Grgurich said.

Administration expects the game to completely sell out quickly once again this year, and said that standing room may even be exceeded eventually. If this occurs, people will be turned away, Grgurich said.

However, one of the draws that makes Feb. 25 different than many other days at the building is the national television coverage.

ESPNU will be the first to arrive at the arena to cover the basketball contests.

They are expected to begin setup as early as 6 a.m., long before fans are let inside the building.

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Getting the game scheduled for ESPN, Grgurich said, was no coincidence.

“The Northeast Conference decides the TV schedule in the beginning of the year, so it’s a compliment to us that they felt we could fill the arena at 11 a.m. on a Saturday,” he said. “[ESPN] chose to showcase us, which is a testament of the rivalry that this has become with Robert Morris and the fans that we have.”

Fan attendance at the games this season has sparked much controversy on the Quinnipiac campus.

“We don’t know why the students aren’t showing up, and we want that to change,” said Jack McDonald, director of athletics and recreation.

The department has discussed making the shuttle service more accessible for games at the Bank, though no decisions have been made as of yet.

In regards to the Grandparents Day promotion being held on the same day, Grgurich said that it’s another way to encourage students to bring their families to the game.

The directors know they will have little

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difficulty getting fans to attend the Yale game, so the promotional focus is on basketball.

“We’re really pushing the basketball games because we really want that to fill in.

With the hockey game sold-out, it allows us to put emphasis on basketball,” Grgurich said.

In the end, the day will serve as an opportunity to sell the public on making commitments to Quinnipiac athletics.

Administration will be pushing season ticket sales, along with playoff packages.

Grgurich believes the results will be positive.

“When there’s a big crowd here, it gives them a different perspective of the arena and it makes them want to be a part of it, so it’s a great way to sell season tickets,” Grgurich said. “It’s a great way to showcase the building.”

The day is expected to go down as one of the highest grossing days the TD Bank Sports Center has ever seen. With a national television audience, three playoff-bound squads and an expected packed house, Saturday may be a historic day for Quinnipiac athletics as well.

The cameras will certainly be on.

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THE REAL HEROES

Men’s ice hockey enters pivotal twoConnecticut’s tribute to fallen firefighter game stretch

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By Giovanni Mio

Sept. 11, 2001 was a tragic day for America. We all remember that fateful time when our country was under attack from terrorists from the extremist organization al-Qaeda. Countless lives were lost as four passenger jets were hijacked.

Two planes were hijacked and intentionally crashed into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan.

The 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center has special significance for the Quinnipiac University community. Joseph Mascali, a firefighter for Staten Island N.Y. Engine Company 5 lost his life battling through the aftermath of 9/11. Mascali lost his life trying to save lives after the destruction of the twin towers on that catastrophic day. Mascali was the father of Quinnipiac alumni Chris Mascali ‘05, Jennifer Mascali ‘02 and current sophomore Katie Mascali, as well as the husband of Lori Mascali.

Soon after the Mascali family lost its father, husband and loving member of the Quinnipiac community, Quinnipiac Director of Athletics and Recreation Jack McDonald established the Heroes Hat. This honor commemorates the lives lost in the World Trade Center attacks. It also remembers the bravery, heroism and courage of Joseph Mascali and countless others who went above and beyond the call of duty by saving numerous lives from the death and destruction of the twin tower attacks.

“After Sept. 11, seeing as the school became a source of comfort for me and my family was definitely an awesome thing and this just made me realize this is where I am supposed to be and this is where my dad would want me to be,” Katie Mascali said last year in an interview with Comcast Sports Net. The Heroes Hat will will honor the 10-year anniversary of the attacks on Saturday. The trophy was originally presented to the winner of the Quinnipiac and UConn season series during its first four years from the 2001-02 season to the 2004-05 season. The award was not distributed in the 2005-06 campaign, as Quinnipiac was making the switch from the Atlantic Hockey conference to the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference.

The Heroes Hat was reborn the following season as Quinnipiac and Yale renewed the tradition, bringing two ECAC Hockey teams and rivals together.

"It is our hope that the Heroes Hat be a Connecticut sports tribute to the many heroes and their families involved in the September 11th tragedy," Quinnipiac head coach Rand Pec-

Currently sixth in the conference, the Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey team is preparing to make a deep playoff run.

“I think we played pretty well this season,” senior defenseman Mike Glaicar said. “This year is a little different than others.”

The Bobcats, who have cracked the top-20 rankings a few times this season, have seen an immediate impact on the ice when former Quinnipiac defenseman Reid Cashman came in as an assistant coach.

Cashman, a former Bobcat, was hired by head coach Rand Pecknold after former assistant coach Ben Syer left for a job at Cornell. Cashman was ranked as one of the top 50 greatest hockey players to ever play in the ECAC. “Cash has had a great impact,” senior captain Scott Zurevinski said. “He’s brought our defensive players closer.”

At this point, the Bobcats trail fifth-place Harvard by one point and fourth-place Clarkson by two points. In first place with

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“We want to beat Yale, but we want to keep that Heroes Hat in our dressing room and we feel that it kind of belongs in our community.”

— Scott Zurevinski Men’s ice hockey senior captain

knold said during the inauguration of the award.

Overall, Quinnipiac has won the Heroes Hat nine out of the 10 seasons it has been awarded, with the only loss coming last sea-

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Quinnipiac Director of Athletics and Recreation Jack McDonald presents the Heroes Hat to forward Brandon Wong after the Bobcats beat Yale, 4-3, on Feb. 27, 2010, the last time Quinnipiac has won the Heroes Hat. son in a 6-1 Yale victory. This year’s meeting is the the sixth time Quinnipiac and Yale will play for the prestigious award.

The Heroes Hat has significance for the Yale community as well.

“We were all deeply touched and truly inspired by the heroism of so many first responders on Sept. 11 and the days following the brutal attack,” Yale head coach Keith Allain said. “It is fitting that Yale University and Quinnipiac University honor the heroism and sacrifice of Joseph Mascali with the playing of this game.”

But for Pecknold, the award is more than a symbol of victory; it is a reminder of how precious love is.

Pecknold’s wife, Nikki, a Yale graduate, was working in the World Trade Center and was supposed to have training on the 35th floor that day. He didn’t know if his wife was going to make it out alive after seeing the towers collapse. It was a moment of uncertainty and it truly sticks out in Pecknold’s mind.

“I vividly remember that day and the chaos,” Pecknold said. “I had to drive down that night and pick her up. She eventually got out and went to Jersey City. I had to go around the city and pick her up because you couldn’t go through the city. That does add a little something for me but I think it’s a nice tribute.”

The Heroes Hat is not only special to the Mascali family and Pecknold, but to the players who are competing on the ice to try and represent those who died in 9/11 as best as possible and bring the award back to their community.

For senior captain Scott Zurevinski, the heroes hat is very special.

“It’s a great event,” Zurevinski said. “It really brings the community together and the school of Quinnipiac together. It’s real exciting for our team and everyone involved with

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our organization.”

After losing the Heroes Hat for the first time last year, the Bobcats are looking to bring the trophy back to their locker room.

“We want to get the Heroes Hat back. We had the Heroes Hat forever, we never lost it. Last year was the first time we lost it. It’s been nine years. We won it when it was with UConn and now with Yale. That’s big for us,” Pecknold said. “The incentive is always there.

It’s there whether we have it or we don’t have it. We want to win that game.”

Zurevinski said that one of the best things about the rivalry game is the packed crowd.

“It’s a lot of fun seeing the rink packed and seeing all the students out and how the community comes out and supports us,” Zurevinski said. “That’s something you don’t really get to be a part of all the time. It’s an honor to play for and I will definitely miss it.”

For Zurevinski, a special memory from the rivalry was his sophomore season when the team won 4-3.

“It was a pretty back and forth game. We were down 3-2 at one point and maybe even 3-1,” Zurevinski said. “I think it really brought the school together and everyone enjoyed beating Yale especially with how close we are together. It was a great memory.”

The Bobcats said the Heroes Hat belongs with them, and they will try to reclaim it Saturday at 7 p.m.

“Obviously we want to beat Yale, but we want to keep that Heroes Hat in our dressing room and we feel that it kind of belongs in our community,” Zurevinski said. “We take pride in it and we always have a couple of families come and talk to us before and after the game.

So seeing the emotions that they have and following the game, it gets you more pumped up and you want it just that much more.”

“We need to stay sharp.

Everything needs to get better and we need to keep improving as a team.”

— Rand pecknold Men’s ice hockey head coach

30 points stands Union, followed by Cornell with 28.

With two games remaining in the season, Quinnipiac could reach third in the conference if they win out while the other teams ahead lose every game.

The rules for the ECAC playoffs allow each team to make the playoffs, the top four teams get a first-round bye. With Quinnipiac currently ranked sixth, the Bobcats would host a firstround series against a bottom-ranked team in the conference.

The first round is a best-of-three series, so Quinnipiac has to win two games in the first round to advance to the quarterfinals.

The Bobcats aim to focus on their strengths on the offensive end with Kellen Jones’ teamleading 31 points. They also continue to focus on the penalty kill, which they are third in the nation.

With the playoffs and matchup against Yale on the horizon, what the Bobcats may be most confident in is their ability to come from behind.

“As of last weekend, I think we’re really resilient,” Zurevinski said. “We got down both nights down 4-0 to St. Lawrence and a lot of teams wouldn’t come back but we did. We were down by multiple goals against Clarkson and we fought back.”

Pecknold still sees plenty of room for improvement for this team.

“We need to stay sharp,” said head coach Rand Pecknold. “Everything needs to get better and we need to keep improving as a team.”

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Bobcats, Bulldogs resume War for Whitney Ave Web Editor

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While it may not have the history and tradition of the “Battle of Comm. Ave.” between Boston College and Boston University or even the “Border War” between the University of Maine and the University of New Hampshire, the “War for Whitney Ave.” is a growing rivalry for Quinnipiac and Yale.

Quinnipiac joined ECAC Hockey for the 2005-2006 season, and on Jan. 8, 2006, a natural rivalry was born when the Bobcats traveled less than nine miles down Whitney Avenue for a “home” game against Yale at Ingalls Rink.

It took just 40 minutes to get some bad blood flowing. In the third period, the Bobcats’ All-American defenseman Reid Cashman was hit into the boards and came up bleeding.

The rivalry took off from there. In the seven years since, the Bobcats have held the edge in the series with a 7-5-1 record against their ECAC neighbors.

“Anytime you play Yale, it’s exciting,” Quinnipiac head coach Rand Pecknold said.

“The guys get fired up for it. Both teams are in the area, they know each other.”

The players enjoy the games just as much as the fans.

high-profile game, the loss put a damper on the good feelings for the Bobcats.

“It wasn’t great for us because we didn’t win,” Zurevinski said. “We were on a hot streak then, (12)-1 when we played them. It was kind of the start of our downfall. I don’t like to think about that one as much.”

Even when the teams aren’t ranked, there is nothing like a Quinnipiac-Yale game, Pecknold said.

“The Yale home game is the best atmosphere we’ll have of any game we’ll have all year,” Pecknold said.

Since the start of the rivalry, one team has swept the two games in the regular season three times. Yale has the most recent sweep, outscoring the Bobcats 11-2 last season.

This season, the Bobcats have a chance to return the favor after winning at Yale in early January. And Quinnipiac is looking for the sweep.

“That’s definitely going to be a goal and we’re going to do whatever it takes to get the job done,” Zurevinski said.

A sweep would give the Bobcats bragging rights, at least until next season.

“It would always be nice to sweep them,” Heichman said. “It’s always good to get a win against Yale, them being the close rival. We see them quite a bit, so it’s good to get the upper hand on them.”

If the Bobcats complete the sweep and win at home, it would mean the return of the Heroes Hat to Quinnipiac. Last season was the first season that the Bobcats did not win the Heroes Hat.

“We’ve always made it a point that we like to keep that trophy,” Heichman said. “Last year we had a little slipup but we’re definitely going to take that trophy back this year.”

But even though Quinnipiac-Yale games are often heated and very exciting, it sometimes isn’t viewed as a rivalry. Yale naturally views Harvard as their rival.

While Yale may not always view Quinnipiac as an immediate rival, the Bobcats definitely see Yale as their direct competition.

“Certainly Yale has long-standing rivalries with some of the other Ivies that go back a hundred and some odd years,” Pecknold said.

“We don’t have that. If you go to the game at Yale or the game here, it’s a rivalry.”

The players believe it’s a rivalry too.

“Oh yeah. It’s definitely a rivalry whether or not they say it or not,” Zurevinski said. “It’s a huge game for both teams.”

Whether people think it’s a rivalry or not, whenever Quinnipiac and Yale meet it’s always an intense, high-energy game. And neither side wants to lose.

“I don’t want to lose to those guys,” Zurevinski said. “I don’t like those guys.”

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“It’s a lot of fun. It’s probably the most anticipated game,” Quinnipiac senior captain Scott Zurevinski said. “And probably the most fun to play in all year, especially when it’s the last game of the season, pretty much.”

The players aren’t the only ones who highly anticipate this game. The Yale game has always sold out and is the hardest ticket to get on campus.

“We always have a lot of students, a lot of local people coming to the game,” Quinnipiac assistant captain Spencer Heichman said. “It’s always a great atmosphere. Fans are riled up, we’re riled up, Yale’s riled up.”

And it’s even more than just a hockey game, Pecknold said. According to Pecknold, it’s more of an event than a hockey game.

The popularity and great hockey atmosphere has been there since the very first game.

According to Pecknold, Quinnipiac students made the trip down to Yale and were “chanting and cheering” an hour before the first game.

The excitement and anticipation of the game has only increased through the years.

And when both teams are playing well, it rises to another level.

On Dec. 4, 2009, the Bobcats entered the game at Yale ranked No.4 in the country, while the Bulldogs entered at No. 10. The Bulldogs outmuscled the Bobcats to a 7-4 victory that night.

“It was just good to have two top ECAC teams play against each other,“ Heichman said.

While it was good for the league to have a

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Quinnipiac goaltender Eric Hartzell reacts after he allows a second-period goal to Yale’s Brian O’Neill in last season’s 6-1 loss to Yale on Feb. 18, 2011.

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Quinnipiac looks for redemption vs. Colonials Staff Writer

Imagine a fire that continues to die and retreat into strands of smoke as the last few pieces of kindling burn slowly. Now imagine the fire and its wild, uncontrollable nature after dumping gasoline on the growing flames.

In the last three years, Quinnipiac and Robert Morris have escalated their rivalry from a gritty conference matchup into a heated Shakespearean-esque feud. The two teams have upped the ante by meeting three straight years in the later rounds of the Northeast Conference tournament.

Unfortunately for the Bobcats, they have drawn the short straw on both occasions.

Flashback to 2010, thousands of blue and yellow-clad mourners exited the TD Bank Sports Center with expressions of devastation and disappointment flushed across their faces. The Bobcat faithful had just witnessed a heart-wrenching two-point loss to the Colonials in the NEC championship game.

A year later, the semifinal meeting between the two teams was advertised like a classic heavyweight bout between prizefighters. Back

at the Bank, Quinnipiac was out for revenge as Robert Morris was looking to start a trend of exerting its dominance over the Bobcats in the postseason.

At the sound of the final buzzer the Colonials were the last ones standing after KO’ing the Bobcats in the final minute once again.

The NCAA Tournament remains an exclusive night club and once again, Quinnipiac was left waiting in line against the velvet rope.

“In this league it’s just about trying to get that NEC ring and they have two of them,” Quinnipiac head coach Tom Moore said about Robert Morris.

In the first meeting, the game was locked up at 48 with 1:18 remaining until Robert Morris’s Velton Jones knocked down a jumper to break the tie. Two more at the line from the Colonials put the game out of reach with seven seconds remaining, as Robert Morris won 5250.

The second time around, the Bobcats were up by one, 62-61, with 57 seconds left after Dave Johnson hit a pair from the free-throw line. Robert Morris tied it up on a free throw and then took the lead with 4.3 seconds left on a Jones runner, making it a 64-62 game. James Johnson bobbled the inbound pass and slipped on a potential game-winning 3-pointer as time expired.

“In the two tournament games, they have amped it up one more possession then we have,” Moore said. “I think we’ve been good in both of those games but they’ve been one

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play better in both games.”

The Bobcats have won three of the last five matchups with Robert Morris, but all three of their victories have come in the regular season. The two losses came when the lights were brightest and everything was on the line. It would be easy to get discouraged by the losses but the Bobcats are using it to fuel the fire.

“Since my freshman year we have had the score (52-50) on the board (in the locker room), us losing by two points,” junior forward Jamee Jackson said. “It remains up there so every time we play them it’s in the front of our head.”

Another thing the Bobcats will have to think about when the two teams meet for the second time this year is putting the clamps down on Jones. Jones, a junior, is putting up more than 16 points per game this season and has been the man down the stretch in both of Robert Morris’s postseason wins over Quinnipiac.

“The louder the opposing crowd is, the bigger the spot, the more focused (Jones) is,” Moore said. “He got a lot of confidence as a freshman when he came into this league and was in big games and flourished in big games.”

Whoever has the edge in the matchup of Johnson and Jones will likely dictate the flow of the game. Quinnipiac does a great job of controlling the boards and working for second-chance points but the Bobcats offense

comes and goes with Johnson’s success on the perimeter.

“James Johnson’s leadership is good for this year’s team because we’re so young,” Moore said. “I think they do feed off of him making shots. I think they get confidence as a team when he makes threes because he is clearly our leader.”

In Quinnipiac’s last three regular season wins over Robert Morris, James Johnson is averaging just over 29 points per game. He is shooting 57 percent from the field and a whopping 64 percent from beyond the arc. On Jan. 27, 2011, James Johnson erupted with his highest scoring output of his career, exploding for 38 points as the Bobcats beat the Colonials 69-61.

However, it’s been a tale of two seasons for James Johnson. In the two postseason losses, he is averaging just nine points and is shooting a pedestrian 24 percent from the floor.

The two teams will meet in the last game of the regular season, which will have seeding implications for the NEC tournament.

Once the tournament begins, these two teams have a way of finding each other one way or another.

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Robert Morris guard Velton Jones hits the winning floater in last season’s NEC semifinal matchup over Quinnipiac’s James Johnson with 4.3 seconds remaining.

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Bo looks to put end to Bobby-Mo woes By joe addonizio Associate Sports Editor

With only two seniors on the 15man men’s basketball roster, senior James Johnson is undoubtedly the leader of the squad. Johnson, better known by the team as “Bo,” is a four-year starter and has started in 121 of the team’s 122 games in his collegiate career.

“Big, big leader. He’s the only senior on scholarship right now so we all follow his lead,” junior forward Jamee Jackson said. “It’s really his team, he’s been a four-year starter, sets great examples. We’re like his soldiers, he’s the general.”

Johnson has improved his ability to score each year, and led the team in scoring last season as a junior, averaging 16.1 points per game.

He also leads the team in scoring this year at 16.6 points per game.

Following Saturday’s loss to LIUBrooklyn, he is 42 points shy of the program’s Division I scoring record.

“I know a lot of our young guys, we all follow him, look up to him,” junior guard Dave Johnson said.

“Bo’s a great leader, he’s a good guy, he’s like a brother to me.”

But as the leader of this team and the only four-year starter on the squad, there is something James Johnson has yet to check off his todo list: beat Robert Morris in the Northeast Conference tournament.

Each of the last three seasons, the Bobcats have been eliminated by Robert Morris in the NEC tournament, starting in Johnson’s freshman season. That year, they lost in the semifinals 75-48 at Robert Morris.

The following year, Quinnipiac won the NEC regular season title and made it to the NEC Championship game. A victory would have

clinched the first NCAA tournament berth in program history. But again, Robert Morris was the challenger with an unexpected villain by the name of Velton Jones. The Colonial freshman crushed the Bobcats’ dreams by hitting a go-ahead floater with 1:18 left that sent Robert Morris to the big dance.

In his junior year, Johnson exacted as much revenge on Robert Morris as he could by dropping a career-high 38 points on 7-of-13 shooting from behind the arc to win 69-61 in a regular-season matchup.

“He’s been able to get revenge on those guys in the regular season a couple of times, but he and I both know and guys on the team know that we really won’t get revenge on them until the NEC tournament,” Quinnipiac head coach Tom Moore said. “The finality of the NEC tournament, of losing in the NEC tournament at this level. It’s so hard to deal with because that’s the last game of your season.”

But in the playoffs, it was déjà vu for the Bobcats. Late in the game, Robert Morris called a timeout with the ball and 13 seconds left on the clock. Robert Morris’s Jones got the ball, dribbled to the right of the key and lofted a floater that found its way through the net and give the Colonials a 64-62 lead with 4.3 seconds left.

Johnson took the ball up the court, looking for a miracle and slipped as he threw up a prayer as he crossed midcourt. For the third straight year, the Queens-native had his season end by the team that is now Quinnipiac’s biggest conference rival.

“To have them eliminate us, (the) same team with a lot of the core same guys eliminate us on our

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James Johnson drops to the ground in disappointment after the Bobcats lost to Robert Morris in last year’s semifinals, 64-62. Johnson has fallen to Robert Morris in the NEC playoffs in each of his three years at QU. court two straight years,” Moore said, “it has been difficult on everyone in the program.”

As Johnson’s collegiate career winds down, he continues to improve as the team’s leader.

“He has been very vocal in practice over the last two or three weeks about us improving defensively,” Moore said. “He’s taking at it as a source of pride and he’s explaining to our guys that we’re getting results because we’re committing to defense. So he’s spreading the word that I want spread to the team in a

really positive way.”

Quinnipiac and Robert Morris have both clinched playoff berths and the two teams could meet again in the tournament, although this year it would be played at the Charles L. Sewall Center in Pittsburgh if the two teams meet.

“Eat or be eaten,” Jackson said.

“It’s a must win, everyone’s going to be fired up, focused, no bigger game than that right there.”

Although Quinnipiac is 0-3 in the last three years against Robert Morris in the NEC tournament, the

Bobcats are 3-0 against Robert Morris in the regular season.

“The fact that we’ve beaten them the last three times in the regular season helps because we’ve done it before. They know that it’s not something that’s impossible,” Moore said. “So the fact that they know they can beat them and some of the ideas that we have leading up to playing them work against them it’ll be an easier sell if we play them in the NEC tournament. It’ll be fun to play Robert Morris whether it’s here or down in Pittsburgh.”

Bobcats sit fifth in NEC, strive for better results

By Kerry Healy Staff Writer

The Quinnipiac men’s basketball team has faced many obstacles this season, but overcame the youth factor and offensive struggles by focusing on the most important aspect of the game: defense.

“I am very pleased with our commitment to defense recently. They work very hard and have an unselfish attitude,” head coach Tom Moore said. “They strive to get better everyday in practice and they are very resilient individually.”

The Bobcats, who will be in the Northeast Conference tournament for the seventh straight year, will sit closer to the bottom seed in this year’s tournament. Unlike last year when the Bobcats were the No. 2 seed, the team currently sits in a three-way tie for fifth place heading into games vs. Saint Francis (Pa.) and Robert Morris.

“We’re excited about heading into the NEC tournament. We don’t have as much margin of error as we have had with the past two teams,” Moore said. “They were a little bit older and they had a little bit more perimeter offensive depth, and there was a little bit more margin of error where we could survive an NEC tournament game if a couple things weren’t really working as well or at a higher level.”

Quinnipiac will continue to focus on its strengths as tournament time rolls around.

The Bobcats are the second-leading rebounding team in the nation with 43.8 rebounds per game, 16.9 of them on the offensive boards, which leads the country.

“I think this team does well with the rebounding, and how we’ve been defending,” Moore said. “If we can maintain that level and we can play decent offense, I think we can be a very tough team in this tournament.”

Senior James Johnson has been the offensive team leader for the Bobcats, averaging 16.6 points per game.

“He’s done a good job this year with being vocal in huddles and trying to will the team to win and him more than anyone on the team understands the importance of these next couple of weeks,” Moore said.

Besides Johnson, Ike Azotam, who averages nearly 31 minutes per game, is falling into a leadership role. Azotam averages 9.4 rebounds per game and 16.4 points per game.

“He’s had an incredible sophomore year,” Moore said. “When you take a step back and look at his numbers from his freshman to sophomore year, he’s had an incredible leap in production, and it doesn’t surprise me because he is an incredibly talented young guy.”

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— Tom Moore Men’s basketball head coach

the NEC tournament,” Moore said. “It is literally a day-to-day thing … I do expect him, and he fully expects to be healthy and hopeful to be healthy in all of the NEC tournament games.”

While Azotam and Johnson are the only players averaging double figures for the Bobcats, Moore said other players have also stepped up.

Moore spoke of Garvey Young becoming an offensive threat as well as Ousmane Drame.

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Drame is used mostly for his height to get rebounds and blocks, but he has shown flashes of becoming a secondary scorer. Guards Dave Johnson and Zaid Hearst also will be looked to step up on the offensive end.

“Depending on the opponent and how we are playing and the style of the game, it could be any of those guys stepping up,” Moore said.

Young was ineligible to play last year after he transferred from the University of Vermont after the 2010 season.

“I think that we have been getting better all year. I’m glad I’m able to get on the court and help the team both offensively and defensively,” said Young, who averages 22.1 minutes and 5.8 points per game.

Young said there are many players on the team who have not experienced the tournament atmosphere and both veterans and rookies will need to be ready to step up.

“My role of the season is to come off the bench and create a spark, to come in and play defense and bring energy and keep everyone composed. And I bring my experience to some of the younger guys on our team and help us stay together during the tough times in the game,” Young said. “Its up to me, Bo, and Kevin Tarca to actually help the young guys come through for us when we need them to.”

Forward Jamee Jackson has missed 12 games since Dec. 22 after he injured his foot, and re-aggravated a lower leg injury in mid-January.

Moore said the team is planning for Jackson to return for the tournament, but wants to make sure he doesn’t hurt it again.

“That’s the catch-22. We need these next games for seeding and to make sure we stay in the tournament but everyday of rest that (Jackson) gets will help us ensure that he’s healthy for

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athletes to watch The Quinnipiac men’s basketball team will host St. Francis (Pa.) on Thursday and look to snap a two-game losing streak.

They will then play Robert Morris on Saturday to close out the regular season. Look for Ike Azotam (right) to step up big in these two games.

The 6-foot-7 sophomore from Boston had 22 points in a loss to Long Island University last Saturday and has had 95 points in his last six games. Azotam leads the Northeast Conference with 9.4 rebounds per game and leads the Bobcats in double-doubles, field goal percentage and blocks. – J. Nadeau

The Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey team plays Brown on Friday followed by Yale on Saturday for the final game of the season.

A key player this weekend will be sophomore Connor Jones (left), who has had an assist in nearly 25 percent of the Bobcats’ goals this season.

Despite not scoring a point in the team’s two games last weekend, Jones has been hot lately with five points in his last five games and nine points in his past seven games. He leads the Bobcats in assists (24) and points (31). – J. Nadeau

Women’s basketball tied atop conference

By Bryan Lipiner Staff Writer

The Quinnipiac women’s basketball team has been something special all year long. The Bobcats have won 11 of their last 12 games, have the nation’s Divison I leader in steals per game and a freshman who averages almost 11 points per game like it’s no one’s business.

And that is why they currently stand tied with Sacred Heart atop the Northeast Conference standings.

The Bobcats (21-6, 13-3 NEC) square off against Robert Morris Saturday at the TD Bank Sports Center before hosting Saint Francis (Pa.) on Monday as the season finale.

“We’re happy to be at home for three out of our last four games, we’re a game out and we can’t stumble, we’re still playing for that one seed,” Quinnipiac head coach Tricia Fabbri said. “Every game means so much when we’re trying to win our conference, get that regular season title and host three games for a championship.”

One of the biggest places the Bobcats have had success has been on the road, where they’ve established an 12-2 record, including rattling off a four-game win streak against Saint Francis (Pa.), Robert Morris, Bryant and Sacred Heart in January.

“Every time we get on the road and stay in those hotels, we’ve been really successful. I think it allows the kids who enjoy each other’s company to be with each other,” Fabbri said.

“There’s less of a distraction when you’re all together, it just became part of our routine early in the season.”

Fabbri attributes the team’s road success to

the confidence they’ve played with, believing that it’s something earned with effort and feeling good about the game you’re playing.

It started at the beginning of the season, when Quinnipiac won two games vs. Minnesota and Saint Mary’s in California in November.

“This team played from the first official workout with a lot of confidence in their own abilities,” Fabbri said. “When we got that first win under our belt we were really able to exhale, and when we headed out west beat Minnesota at the buzzer, it was a tremendous confidence builder for a really young team.”

Quinnipiac wouldn’t be where they are without productive defense and strong offense, both of which have been anchored by junior Felicia Barron and freshman Jasmine Martin.

Barron is currently leading the country with 4.3 steals per game, and has notched 115 this season. Barron also set the program record for most steals in one game with 12 on Dec. 3 versus Bryant.

“After I got my braces off my knees from tearing both of my ACL’s I felt faster and able to move laterally better,” said Barron, who is third in the NEC with 17.1 points per game. “I have long arms and use anticipation to go out and get those steals.”

Quinnipiac leads the NEC with 11 steals per game as a team, and the Bobcats have allowed fewer than 50 points on four separate occasions. They held Sacred Heart, who averages more than 65 points per game, to 34 points in a Jan. 23 game.

“We just have to keep playing hard every game,” Barron said. “Our defense is our key to our victories, and if our defense is strong for

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The Quinnipiac women’s basketball team finds itself tied atop the NEC with Sacred Heart sporting a 13-3 conference record. The Bobcats have won 11 of their last 12 games, including a 37-point victory over Sacred Heart on Jan. 21. these last six or seven games, we can make it all the way.”

On the offensive side of the ball, Martin has grabbed the spotlight throughout her freshman year, notching 10.9 points per game and 293 total points on the season, second on the team.

“It’s something that I take pride in,” Martin said. “I wanted to come somewhere where I knew I’d be able to play and make an im-

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pact, and I’m really happy I’ve been given that chance.”

Martin said the team’s road to the championship won’t be easy.

“It’s going to be a challenge [in the playoffs],” Martin said. “We gotta keep working hard and go out and play every game. Everything has to be at it’s sharpest, because that’s when it really counts.”

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Quinnipiac’s two biggest rivals arrive at the Bank on Saturday

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• Rivalry through the years, page 4 • Heroes Hat defined, page 3 • Playoff update, page 3