QUChronicle.com April 9, 2014 Volume 83 Issue 25 Proud recipient of the New England Society of Newspaper Editors' award for 2012 & 2013 College Newspaper of the Year
SPORTS Little league, big Batten, page 20
OPINION Betta fish, best pet, page 8
ARTS & LIFE Behind the ink, page 10
Stepping up
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Elhaggar ready to become next student body president Associate News Editor
Mostafa Elhaggar walked into Quinnipiac with little experience under his belt and half the confidence and knowledge he now holds. He knew he wanted to be involved somehow at Quinnipiac, and decided his freshman year that the Student Government Association would be the perfect place to start. That’s why Elhaggar ran against nine others for the freshman class president position in the fall of 2011. He knew being class president would mean he was not only involved, but in a position in which he could help his class and community. After door-to-door campaigning and a long day of waiting for the votes to come in, he won the election that year and the following three years to come. But Elhaggar says he would never have guessed he would be the student body president his senior year. “I can say that I have grown in these three years through SGA more than I have probably in the 18 years before,” Elhaggar said.
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“I am really confident that I kind of know how the school works, the administration and what the students really want. I am always open to learn and to be modest and to accept being wrong or defeat.” Elhaggar and his cabinet brought the grocery and convenience store products to both the Mount Carmel and York Hill dining halls over the past three years. In addition, his team worked to renovate the basketball courts in Village and ran QU Idol for the past two years. Elhaggar admits he experienced failures over the past three years, but used them as a learning experience. “I think it’s not the outcome that is important; it is the outcome that is learned in doing these things and our cabinet and myself have learned a lot,” Elhaggar said. “Myself especially has learned a lot, and so I am looking to bring all these experiences that I have had and to carry them out my senior See PRESIDENT Page 3
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Junior Mostafa Elhaggar will become the next student body president after running unopposed in last week’s election.
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While Quinnipiac saw some housing changes this academic year, including sophomores living on the York Hill campus, Residential Life Director Jennifer Crane says not much will change in the upcoming fall semester. Residential Life projects sophomores will not live on York Hill next academic year, Crane said. Transfers, juniors and seniors will be housed on York Hill and surrounding university properties, she said. Current sophomores can also pick university houses on New Road for next semester. “These are available on a limited basis,” Crane said. “With the sense of independence coupled with the
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Facilities is considering themed housing in new residential buildings on the York Hill campus. Facilities will work with student affairs to program a housing plan that supports students’ desires, Vice President of Facilities and Capital Planning Sal Filardi said. In themed-style housing, students from the same organization or who have a similar “lifestyle” live under one apartment complex, Filardi said. The new buildings on York Hill could have 300 beds for themed housing and 300 beds for “regular” apartments, he said. “In the next six to 12 months, we probably will have a better idea of what it is we would like to build,” Filardi said. “And then once we identify what it is we want to build, then we would figure out the funding and what it actually is that will be constructed.” Filardi met with focus groups involving the Greek community earlier this year to discuss the possibility of Greek housing. The presidents of each chapter in Greek life, as well as recent members and a few others, were present at separate focus groups. Greek housing is not the only thought on Filardi’s mind See HOUSING Page 5
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luxury of Quinnipiac services, these houses will go fast.” The number of students who will live on campus as juniors next year increased, Crane said. “We are happy to report that more current sophomores paid a deposit for next fall than in the recent past,” she said. This year’s freshman class was the largest freshman class ever at Quinnipiac and one of the reasons why housing changes were made for this fall. As a result, sophomores were moved to the suite-style residence halls and freshmen were assigned in Mountainview. About 25 sophomores and all transfer students lived on York Hill, a campus traditionally meant for juniors and seniors.
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Sophomore Jeffrey Sarin said the university made the right choice to keep sophomores on the Mount Carmel campus next semester. “I don’t think sophomores should be up there [on York Hill],” Sarin said. “I know that transfer students have to live up there, so that’s not fair also, but I think the group should stay together, freshmen stay together, sophomores stay together.” Crane said the growing number of students on campus is a good thing. “We have spaces on York Hill to accommodate larger class sizes as they persist through their time at Quinnipiac,” she said. “We will be able to accommodate everyone who See RESIDENTIAL LIFE Page 6
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