QUChronicle.com March 26, 2014 Volume 83 Issue 23 Proud recipient of the New England Society of Newspaper Editors' award for 2012 & 2013 College Newspaper of the Year
ARTS & LIFE InstaGreek, page 10
OPINION A question of safety, page 8
SPORTS Frozen in time, page 16
Students give back to Haiti over spring break
Professor McLaughlin remembered By KATHERINE ROJAS Editor-in-Chief
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Sophomore Nina Brandi co-led the first university-sponsored service trip to Haiti over spring break, where the students spent time with former restavecs or child slaves. By JULIA PERKINS AND AMANDA HOSKINS
Sophomore Nina Brandi approached the tent for the pediatric unit of Les Cayes Hospital, where a small boy was sitting outside in a broken-down crib without a mattress. Inside the tent, children were laying under a little sheet with IVs and a baby was sitting in his feces. Another little boy was screaming in pain. “Don’t cry,” Brandi told herself, smiling to keep the tears from coming. “Don’t look at these people like you’re scared.” Brandi and Global Public Health Program Coordinator Katherine
LaMonaca co-led 20 other students on the first university-sponsored service trip to Haiti over spring
“I was so blessed to have parents that love me and a childhood where I could play outside. ... A lot of these kids didn’t have that.” – NINA BRANDI break. There the students worked with children in homes run by the Restavec Freedom Alliance, an organization which gets Haitian
children out of slavery. The Les Cayes Hospital is not affiliated with the Restavec Freedom Alliance, but the group’s parent organization Bethesda Evangelical Mission is fundraising money to build a hospital in Les Cayes, so children will no longer have to receive pediatric treatment in a tent, Brandi said. The students were impacted by visiting the pediatric tent, Brandi said. “People looked at it and they said, ‘how could it be that people could live like this?’” she said. “I think what made people happier was knowing that there are people that want to do something about
it and this organization is in the works to do that.” Visiting the hospital was only one small portion of the trip. The students spent most of their time painting one of the Restavec Freedom Alliance’s homes and playing with the children in the homes. The children were restavecs or at risk of becoming a restavec, which means they once were in child slavery. In most cases, the child’s parents lived in poverty and were unable to keep the child, so they gave him or her to another family who they thought would See HAITI Page 4
A foreign correspondent, wellrespected faculty member and friend, Bill McLaughlin passed away from cardiac arrest on March 7 at 76 years old in a Waterbury hospital. He was visiting the United States from France, where he and his wife live, to see his son and had plans to visit his former colleagues and friends. McLaughlin joined Quinnipiac’s faculty in 1993 and was one of the founding members of the School of Communications. He taught junior and senior seminars in television reporting. Associate Professor of Journalism Richard Hanley knew McLaughlin for 10 years, from his first day at Quinnipiac in 2001 until McLaughlin retired in 2011. Hanley and McLaughlin would talk about global issues and coverage just about every day. “[He was] really a classically educated person who could speak eloquently about many different things, whether it was war in the Middle East or the New York Yankees,” Hanley said. Hanley had made plans to go to Luce for lunch with McLaughlin when he arrived to the United States. “His absence, certainly in my life, is noted,” Hanley said. “Not having that person to talk to about these things is something that I will certainly miss. And I will miss his class and his presence.” See PROFESSOR Page 6
Men’s ice hockey to play Providence in East Regional
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has started all 39 games for Quinnipiac and leads the nation in minutes played with 2,349:29. He is second in the country with six shutouts. Much like Quinnipiac, Providence also has a deep core of skilled players. Thirteen players have accumulated 10 or more points. Senior Ross Mauerman leads Providence in goals with 34 points on 19 goals. Nick Saracino 26 points, Mark Jankowski 24 points, Noel Acciari 22 points all are high caliber players. Saracino leads the Friars in assists. Sophomore goaltender and Calgary Flames draft-pick Jon Gillies posted 45 saves in the regular-season meeting. Gillies is 18-8-5 with a 2.20 GAA and .929 save percentage.
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For the second consecutive year, the Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey team is headed back to the NCAA Tournament. The Bobcats are the No. 2 seed in the East Regional, hey will play third-seeded Providence on Friday at 5:30 p.m. at Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport, Conn. The game will be televised on ESPNU. Quinnipiac will face Providence for the second time this season and for the third time in the last two years. The two squads skated to a 3-3 tie on Nov. 27 in Hamden. Last season, the Bobcats shut out the Friars 2-0 in Providence. Quinnipiac is the only team in
the nation ranked in the top five in both scoring offense (3.62 goals per game) and defense (1.97 goals against average). The Bobcats have 15 skaters who have more than 10 points. Freshman Sam Anas leads Quinnipiac with 45 points on 22 goals and 21 assists, while Connor and Kellen Jones have recorded 42 and 38 points respectively. Matthew Peca also has notched 38 points with a team-leading 26 assists. Jordan Samuels-Thomas has recorded 29 points although he has only played in 33 of the team’s 39 games after missing a few weeks in February with an upper-body injury. Sophomore Michael Garteig
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