QUChronicle.com September 11, 2013 Volume 83 Issue 3 Proud recipient of the New England Society of Newspaper Editors' award for 2012 & 2013 College Newspaper of the Year
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Greek recruitment jumps to fall By Amanda Hoskins and Sarah Doiron
With the start of a new semester, students throughout campus are getting involved in new organizations, and for the first time ever, students can become part of the Greek community in the fall semester. Recruitment for fraternities and sororities will begin this weekend and extend into next weekend. The university previously held formal Panhellenic recruitment in the spring, but Greg Fink, the assistant director of the student center, said that fall recruitment is the normal process for universities around the country. “That is the common practice,” Fink said, “We were in a sense doing an uncommon practice.” Senior and Vice President for Recruitment for the Panhellenic Council Caitlyn Martin is excited that recruitment has been moved to the fall. “It provides the opportunity for freshmen to go out for recruitment right away, which can be beneficial for them in many aspects,” Martin said. “It is an easier transition in the sense that they can get involved right away and they don’t have to have that semester where they are not involved and then sort of reteach themselves how to time man-
age.” Jamie Mor, the graduate assistant for Fraternity and Sorority life said fall recruitment would have been beneficial for him as a freshman. “If freshmen come to campus and they realize that’s what they want to do and this is what they want to be a part of and the organization is right for them, there shouldn’t be any reason that they should be held back from that.” Mor, former undergraduate member of Delta Tau Delta, envies the incoming freshman. “I wish I could have been able to have the opportunity to kind of do this while I was an undergrad student.” Both Martin and President of the Panhellenic Council, Cara Gilmartin, believe joining the Greek community creates additional opportunities for involvement in other organizations across campus. “For many people, getting involved in Greek life opens them up to getting involved in other organizations because they meet people who are involved in other things,” Gilmartin said. According to Gilmartin, statistics from campus life show that Greek life on campus makes up 30 percent of the Quinnipiac population, 25 percent being female and
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Kori Deitz, Marie Frey and Nicole Sparapani hold Alpha Chi Omega letters at the Meet and Greek Carnival on Aug. 30. five percent being male. and that students involved in Greek life generally have a higher grade-point average than students who are not involved. Gilmartin believes that becoming involved in Greek life also helps to steer students in the right direction. “You’re learning how to be a better version of yourself and you’re learning the difference between making a right decision and a wrong decision,” Gilmartin said. “People take those values that they learn in their organizations and they
put it into their everyday lives.” Some freshmen, however, say there are disadvantages to formal recruitment being in the fall. “Fall recruitment is not a good idea,” freshman Andrew Croteau said. “Freshmen have so much to handle their fall semester, whether that is academics, clubs or a fraternity.” Although she still plans to go out for recruitment, freshman Rachel Moran fears that joining a sorority right away may be overSee RECRUITMENT Page 4
Chartwells introduces new omelette station
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With incoming classes larger by the year, long lines at Mount Carmel Dining Hall are the norm; especially during breakfast hours. In response to the demand, Chartwells introduced Breakfast All Day, a new omelette station. “Over the last couple of years the breakfast and deli lines were starting to get too long,” said Joseph Tobin,
Chartwells’ director of dining services. “With the addition of a larger freshman class, we decided we needed another breakfast line where we could serve eggs through lunch and later if needed.” The new station can produce up to four omelettes at a time and students choose how much of the ingredients they want as opposed to the old breakfast station, The Kitchen, where the cook selects the quantity of toppings.
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“I think the new omelette station is an innovative idea, but from my observations it seems to take too long,” junior Dan Burdick said. The Kitchen currently stops serving breakfast around 10:15 a.m., but the new station will remain open for lunch and alleviate some of the pressure, according to Tobin. “The station has been well received and has helped with the morning rushes,” Tobin said.
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Omelettes at each station are the same price and should have similar toppings available. “We will experiment with the egg line in the evening and if it is popular we will consider offering it through the evening,” Tobin said. Breakfast All Day is just one of the few additions Chartwells has introduced to help provide a wide variety of food and quicker service. Last year Chartwells opened Au Bon Pain which serves both egg sandwiches and deli sandwiches all day to satisfy the increasing number of students, Tobin said. This summer, Chartwells initiated Frozen All Natural Smoothies (F.A.N.S.) at the Bobcat Den, which provides a healthy blend of fruits with vitamins, protein and fiber. While Chartwells does not plan to alter or add new food services, students may still voice their opinions to the staff. Tobin noted that although there are no current plans for changes, adjustments can be and are often made. “We will take requests for ideas from the Quinnipiac community, no matter how big or small,” Tobin said.
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The Mount Carmel Dining Hall is home to a new omelette station that can make up to four omelettes at once. By jOSH BREWER
North Haven campus to get fitness center
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The university is currently in the process of planning an 8,000 squarefoot fitness center on the North Haven campus that should be ready for student use by the beginning of the 2014-2015 school year. The gym will include a spinning class room, men’s and women’s locker rooms, aerobics room space for free weights and other cardio equipment such as treadmills and elliptical machines. University officials were hoping to have the gym open earlier, but ran into issues and have other renovations to complete before they begin work on the new fitness facility. “There’s a sequence of renovations that need to happen before we can get to the fitness center,” Vice President of Facilities and Capital Planning Salvatore Filardi said. “Because of the mechanical changes we have to make we have to go through other spaces to get into the fitness center.” Over the summer, the university moved information services from the Arnold Bernhard Library to the North Haven Campus building number four. It is the same building that the university plans to build the new fitness center. “We have to move those people out of the space before we can go through with it,” Filardi said. The way the building is designed creates an east wing and a west wing. Information Services will be placed in the west wing. In order to not interfere with the workings of Information Services, who are currently working in a different part of this building, the west wing will have to be completed first, and then work on the new fitness center would follow shortly after. “We have to move these people out of the spaces before we can go through with it,” Filardi said. Although drawings with plans for how the gym will look have been drafted, there has still not been a contractor who has signed on to the project yet, Filardi said. Due to this, there is also not any estimates of total cost. These are details that should be released within the next few months, Filardi said. Currently the space has not been worked on yet and remains as just an open layout. “It’s a complete comprehensive fitness center,” Filardi said. “It’s a pretty nice facility.”
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