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Nobel Laureates Admissions hopes to reach 7,000 undergraduates by 2019 to speak at QU

An expanding student population

By MATT GRAHN Staff Writer

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Students wait in the post office line and crowd the hallways in between classes in the Carl Hansen Student Center.

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Lunch and post office lines are longer than ever before, entry level class sizes are increasing, new parking protocols have been implemented and sophomores are living on the York Hill campus.

Quinnipiac has a goal to reach 7,000 undergraduate students within the next two years, according to Vice President for Admissions and Financial Aid, Joan Isaac Mohr. According to the Quinnipiac website, there are 6,703 undergraduate students currently enrolled.

In 2014, the freshman class size was originally supposed to be 1,800 students.

Admissions enrolled 1,650 students for the current junior class and that small class size resulted in budget problems, according to Mohr. Over the last two years, admissions has been accepting more students, trying to make up for that small junior class.

“The goal over the next two years is to achieve 7,000 and then at that point, there is no additional growth planned,” Mohr said. “In terms of the residence halls, if we spread them out appropriately as well as classrooms, I think we can support 7,000.”

Sophomore Shannon Livingston said more students could be really beneficial

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for the university.

“With more students coming in, QU will have more money to spend on academics and new professors,” Livingston said. “There has also been talk that in a couple years, main campus will be all freshmen, and North Haven campus will house all health science majors. That really divides QU, we wouldn’t be as unified.”

The current freshman and sophomore classes are about 1,900 students each, according to Mohr. She said the univerSee RATIO Page 3

University welcomes new director of residential life

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Director of Residential Life Mark DeVilbiss has 17 years of experience working in student affairs.

“I looked a long time at the opportunity, and I just think that the campus itself, and more importantly, the people make this place,” DeVilbiss said.

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As Quinnipiac welcomes the new faces of its freshman class to campus, it also welcomes the new Director of Residential Life, Mark DeVilbiss.

DeVilbiss was the Associate Dean for Residence Life at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio for 17 years. There, he started working in residence life as a residence hall director, then moved on to be the Director of Student Activities before coming back to residential life.

“I could not be more delighted that Mark has joined the Quinnipiac community,” Cindy Long Porter, associate vice president of student affairs said to Hamden Patch. “His deep experience and his understanding of the needs of today’s college students and student housing make him a wonderful fit.”

DeVilbiss and his family have lived in Ohio and the decision to come to Quinnipiac was a new adventure for the family, according to DeVilbiss.

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Three Nobel Peace Prize-winners, or laureates, are coming to campus on Wednesday, Sept. 14. However, the important part, according to Professor Anat Biletzki, is that they are all women.

The event, “Nobel Women: The Struggle for Peace and Human Rights,” will take place in Burt Kahn Court at 7:30 p.m. David Ives, executive director of the Albert Schweitzer Institute, said the three featured women embody the meaning of courage.

The featured women include Leymah Gbowee of Liberia, Tawakkol Karman of Yemen, and Shirin Ebadi of Iran. Each of these women have made an impact in their respective homelands and throughout the world. Gbowee organized a peaceful movement that caused a dictator to resign, Karman is a notable part of the Arab Spring in 2011 as well as an advocate for freedom of the press, and Ebadi is the first female judge in Iran and an attorney.

The structure of the event is not meant to be a lecture, according to Biletzki. The speakers will come share their points of view and the Quinnipiac community will continue with the discussion.

“I want our students to ask questions. I want them to bring up anything that bothers them, anything that engages them so that these women will engage with them personally and immediately,“ Biletzki said.

The speakers themselves will also appear before the event at different parts of the Quinnipiac campus. Ebadi will be at the law school, and Gbowee and Karman will be at the medical school.

Ives said Quinnipiac is in a unique position to hold this event, in part because of the Albert Schweitzer Institute, named for another Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

“It helps me get some of these striking people, and that’s very unusual for any college or university to have three laureates on the stage at the same time, especially laureates as accomplished as these women are,” Ives said.

Graduate student Sara McWaters is enthusiastic about the event.

“It shows that we have a lot of connections with the outside world,” she said.

However, Biletzki doesn’t want the event to be thought of as being something self-indulgent for the school.

“I don’t want it to be seen as ‘rah rah rah, we are cheerleaders for these great peaceplayers’. … I want people to understand the complexity of the struggle [for peace]. It’s not just good guys, or good girls, against bad guys.” she said.

Ives said the laureates have the potential to inspire students to go out of their “comfort zone,” and hopefully bring about change.

“I think that when you get out of your own comfort zone, there’s better learning.

When you’re in your own comfort zone, by definition, you aren’t as curious or as determined to learn about as many things as

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STUDENTS SPEAK UP

On Friday September 2, Brock Turner was released after serving three months in jail for sexual assault, according to CNN. His official sentence called for six months of jail time. Students shared their opinions on the situation.

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“It’s messed up that he gets away scratch-free with nothing else just because maybe he goes to a prestigious school, or because he’s white or because he’s an average American compared to other people.

Spanish people could do something less bad and be locked away for the rest of their life.”

ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR Thamar Bailey ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR Kelly Ryan CO-ARTS & LIFE EDITOR Madison Fraitag CO-ARTS & LIFE EDITOR Nisha Gandhi ASSOCIATE ARTS & LIFE EDITOR Amanda Perelli SPORTS EDITOR Max Molski ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR Justin Cait

Alex Morgart | Senior | Health Sciences “He doesn’t deserve to be released early and I think he should die in a hole, alone and scared because no one should ever do that to another person.”

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Ryan Purdy | Freshman | Behavioral Neuroscience

DESIGN EDITOR Christina Popik

“Obviously, if a guy takes advantage of a girl that’s not okay. But, if a guy’s drunk and a girl’s drunk it can kinda go both ways. The guy was drunk too and they need to take that into effect.”

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Sarah Wiederecht | Junior| History “This piece of trash kid just got out of jail after three months claiming it on ‘good behavior’… I’m stunned at it. It’s just wrong. It doesn’t matter if you’ve been through this or if you know someone who has been through this, you should be disgusted no matter who you are. It says a lot about how our society works and what people favor.”

Beyond the Bobcats

A rundown on news outside the university.

By Samantha Bashaw

Silverback gorilla dies in Mexico City Zoo

Star of ‘Willy Wonka’ Gene Wilder dies at 83

Facebook implements computer based algorithms

A silverback gorilla died on July 6 at Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City after having a heart attack from being sedated, according to the Telegraph. The gorilla, named Bantu, was the main attraction at the zoo and was being transported to another zoo to mate, when he had to be sedated in order to get him to cooperate.

The 24-year-old gorilla suffered a heart attack and could not be resuscitated. This comes after the death of Harambe, the gorilla who was killed at the Cincinnati Zoo after a 3-year-old boy slipped into his enclosure last May, according to CNN.

On Aug. 29, Gene Wilder died as the result of Alzheimer’s disease complications, according to People Magazine. The actor died at the age of 83 in his home in Stamford, Connecticut, just an hour away from Quinnipiac. Wilder is most widely known as the original Willy Wonka who made his first major appearance in the 1971 movie production of “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.”

Facebook’s “Trending Topics” are no longer run by journalists, but rather by computer-based algorithms, according to Forbes. The new system promotes no bias via conservative or liberal websites and replaces human error with mathematically sound facts. Facebook is confident in its decision to switch and hopes a more algorithmic driving process allows the company to cover more topics and make it available to more people globally.

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Engineering ninth school added to university University expands engineering curriculum, labs

By JENNIE TORRES Staff Writer

The Department of Engineering now has an official school of its own, making it the ninth school at Quinnipiac university. This recent addition was implemented by the university administration in consultation with faculty and deans during the summer on July 1.

The School of Engineering was in the process of being developed for several years, according to the Dean of the School of Engineering Justin Kile. “[The programs] originally were housed in the School of Business and Engineering to give them time to grow and develop before becoming a standalone school,” Kile said. “Over the last few years, our labs and other faculties have been built and are located in Tator Hall and the Center for Communications and Engineering.”

The school has already received positive reactions among students such as freshman physical therapy major, Madison Root.

“With the new classrooms, there’s more space and the new engineering school will open up more students to the university as well,” she said.

Sophomore mechanical engineering major Robert Kmetz appreciates how the university expanded the curriculum in order to invite more students.

“It’s nice to know that we are now a big enough portion of the student body to be called our own school,” he said. “The opening of the new school will almost certainly open up new opportunities such as more classes that cater to our specific branches of engineering.”

Kile states that the institute has 18 faculty members and will incorporate five degree-granting programs. These include civil, industrial, mechanical and software engineering, as well as computer science.

Currently, there is a total of 307 students attending this school, and there are 21 lab and classroom spaces.

In addition to the core curriculum, the School of Engineering will also have six

The engineering classrooms and labs are on the lower floor of the Center for Communications and Engineering. active student groups including QUESO (Quinnipiac University Engineering Student Organization), the American Society of Civil Engineers, Computing Club, the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers, Mechanical Engineering Club and SLATE (Service Learning Applications for Technology and Engineering). A seventh group, a chapter of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), is currently in the process of being established on campus.

Sophomore mechanical engineering major Mirana Jaundoo commends the university for strengthening the department into a separate school for prospective engineering students.

“I was talking to one of the professors around May, and he was saying that the engineering program in itself is only 4 years

old,” Jaundoo said. “So you see that it’s very young and it’s like a start-up program, but now it’s grown so much to the point where it’s got its own school.”

“The faculty and staff of the new School of Engineering are very excited to be a part of the vibrant Quinnipiac community.”

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with a more extensive space with work with.

“I think it will open up a lot of students now that we have that there, people could put that into consideration, for people like double majors or people who are thinking of adding in a minor, you can’t go wrong with engineering,” she said.

Kile said that the university is excited for the new school to be a part of Quinnipiac’s academic history and help enrich students’ learning experience.

“The faculty and staff of the new School of Engineering are very excited to be part of the vibrant Quinnipiac community and appreciate all of the support from the students, faculty, staff and administration,” Kile said.

Jaundoo also thinks that this school will encourage students to pursue the field now

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sity plans to keep that number consistent for a couple years until the goal has been reached.

“We accepted 100 more students this year than last, there will be a little bump when that junior class graduates,” she said. “Growth is always one way to increase your budget and availability, if the institution can handle it.”

Nicholas Camacho, a junior Biology major, does not think the university will be able to accommodate 7,000 students.

“It is already crowded enough, we have sophomores living on York, you can’t get food in between classes, it takes so long,” Camacho said. “It’s bad enough getting to campus on the shuttle, but parking is a nightmare. People do not know where to park and they put their cars where they aren’t supposed to.”

The university is accepting more students in hopes to align class sizes within schools and majors, according to Mohr.

“In terms of what we can serve our student population, part of it is balancing all of our different schools and majors,” said Mohr. “We recently started a School of Engineering and that first class was about 27 and now the most recent class is closer

to 100 students.”

As the University grows, more students are becoming interested in the unique opportunities Quinnipiac has to offer, according to Mohr.

“We’ve handled the growth very well and we are always looking for more ways to try and be more efficient in terms of assigning classroom space as well as faculty based on the needs of the program.”

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“Some of the things we are hoping for next year is more food options, places for people to go in terms of lunch,” Mohr said. “If sophomores have the option to live on York from the beginning, I think they’d find that attractive, and if we continue to put in the request for an expand on housing by a couple hundred beds, that

would really help.”

It is too soon for admissions to tell if the school plans on continuing the upward trend, even after reaching its 7,000 student goal. But there are plans to utilize the three campuses and have more students reside on the York Hill and even North Haven campuses, according to Mohr.

“We have on the drawing board an additional three hundred beds for York Hill that was denied by the town last year,” Mohr said. “Students next year will hopefully have the option to live in the flats on North Haven if that’s where their classes are.”

Although Melissa Frank, a junior Occupational Therapy major, thinks moving health science majors onto the North Haven campus would be convenient, she does not think that she would get her ideal college experience on a separate campus.

“The North Haven campus has a very professional feel to it which is great for classes and labs, but not for living,” Frank said. “Students need that casual homey place to escape to. Also the majority of students on North Haven like the idea of living in a house or apartment instead of a dorm. It would isolate the health science students even more than they already are by being on a completely different campus.”

Changing the university curriculum by eliminating QU201 and QU301 has freed up classrooms for other courses, according to Mohr.

“I think that [the campus flow] can depend on what major you’re in, what class you’re in, they’ve broadened the options for students,” Mohr said. “In the courses where it is appropriate to have labs or very small classes, such as the engineering labs, health science labs and biology labs, those are very small. I think going from to 24 to 26 students per class will not be a big problem.”

Camacho has experienced lack of seating in classrooms.

“I’m in an orgo class and there aren’t enough chairs for students, we have to sit in individual chairs with no desks,” he said.

Mohr has confidence and a positive outlook for the continual growth of the university.

“We’ve handled the growth very well and we are always looking for more ways to try and be more efficient in terms of assigning classroom space as well as faculty based on the needs to the program,” Mohr said.

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Center of Excellence award recipients announced This year’s recipients of the 2016 Center for Excellence in Teaching and Service to Students Awards were announced Sept 1. Among the recipients are Odette Franceskino, who is the director of financial aid for the School of Law, Lani Keller, assistant professor of biology, John Polascik, assistant bursar; John Reap who is the assistant professor of mechanical engineering; Mark Tortora, assistant director of the education abroad programs and Christine Van Cott who is the Foundations of Critical Care (FCC) preceptor at the School of Medicine.

Relay for Life to be held Relay for Life will take place on the Quad. It will start at 12-10 p.m.

Sept. 10 on the Quad. This fundraising event raises money that goes towards cancer research. There will be food trucks, a barbeque, Insomnia cookies and a donut eating contest.

There will also be activities such as, a hair cutting ceremony, tie dye, henna, lawn games, speakers and much more. Register for the event by going to relayforlife.org/qu

Fall Fest headliner revealed The Student Programming Board announced that Timeflies will be performing at this year’s Fall Fest. The concert will take place Sept. 17. It starts at 12:30 p.m. and is free to all Quinnipiac students.

Big Event info sessions begin Information sessions for students interested in becoming involved in the planning committee for the Big Event will be Sept. 7-8 starting at 9:15 p.m. in SC117. The Big Event is a day of community service that takes place in April.

Interfraternity Council to host event The Interfraternity Council will be hosting it’s annual “Meet the Fraternities” event in the Lender School of Business. All students interested in joining a fraternity should arrive at 9:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 6. This event will be held in SB 110, SB 111, SB 113, SB 119 and SB 123.

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Chartwells renovates stations in dining halls

By JENNIE TORRES Staff Writer

Café Q, otherwise known as the Mount Carmel dining hall, received several major renovations this year to improve the overall appeal for its students and staff, according to the District Manager of Chartwells Dining Services Chuck Couture.

Couture said these changes were made in response to the Fresh Eyes process, a series of focus groups presented last spring semester that encouraged students to be more open and honest about what they liked and disliked about the previous dining set up.

One of the major changes made to the cafeteria was its inclusion of new food stations that offer more variations of food.

“I like the cafe in the fact that there are so many options, and I have absolutely fallen in love with the yogurt station and Au Bon Pain,” Freshman Carley Wainwright said. “I also enjoy Sono, but I do wish for more vegetarian options.”

Chartwells has even created more options for people with a variety of allergies such as dairy and gluten.

“I think the biggest difference is the G8 station,” Couture said. “We don’t cook with the eight major allergens and that was to serve the population on the campus that has Celiac’s disease or can’t eat shellfish [and so on]. If you know you can’t eat wheat, you can just go over there.”

Pollo is another new station, which focuses solely on making food with different types of chicken.

“It’s unbelievable how much chicken we go through, so we wanted to open up a third deli line and just have it be dedicated to crispy and grilled chicken, buffalo chicken [and] wraps,” Couture said.

Associate Director of Dining Services Leean Spalding confirmed that there is also an increased diversity of food at the Rosse Ville station, which serves meals such as calzones, strom-

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Students utilize a new station which caters to those avoiding gluten and other major allergens in Cafe Q. bolis and hot Italian sandwiches. Also, at the station Create Global, Chartwells introduces menus that present food from different cultures, inviting people expand their taste buds by trying out more international flavors.

Sophomore Bryan Fitzgerald is thankful for the extended service hours.

“The later hours are a godsend because there were a lot of times where it will close on me just before I would go get dinner,” he said. “Last year, [the cafeteria] closed at 7 p.m. and this year they close at 8 p.m., so a little extra time is helpful.”

The Bobcat Den has also had its fair share of renovations. It is now using a different strategy to serve food to its customers, according to Couture.

“In the past, the Bobcat Den’s food was a rotating hot line, and there was one or two static entrees. They offered that all day, and then there was pizza,” Couture said. “So now, it’s ba-

sically the grill with breakfast all day there so it’s more fresh food to order.

If you order a burger, we cook it right then instead of pulling it out of a pan.”

Couture said now there is also a new smoothie station called Create, located in the Mount Carmel dining hall, and a kiosk at the Diners’ Express in the Bobcat Den that lets people order freshly made smoothies and milkshakes.

Freshman Jack Zieger enjoys both Café Q and the Bobcat Den’s food, as well as the service given by the staff.

However, he also said the prices of the meals on campus should be lowered.

“I truly believe that most of the prices for every food should be knocked down a dollar or two because of the portions that I’ve been consistently served,” he said. “I think the cafe needs to understand that we’re young adults and therefore, we have large appetites to satisfy.”

Aside from the dining changes,

the university also decided to be the first unit in the nation to become beta testers for new digital menu boards that will be used for the cafeteria. “[The menu boards] all have the nutritional information on them,” Spalding said. “Just on York Hill, we have the nutritional information wall and [we will] slowly work it into the other facilities.”

Spalding said that the university is planning to add an Au Bon Pain in the Center for Communications and Engineering.

“If we could pull 500 [to] 600 students out of [the Mount Carmel] cafeteria, that would make an impact,” Spalding said.

Couture said so far most of the reactions to the changes in the cafeteria have been excellent.

“You’re not going to please everybody all the time, but I think the general feedback has been really positive,” he said.

Biletzki: ‘Women can do just as much as men’ NOBEL from cover possible in the world that could be changed,“ he said.

Freshman Chase Bockoven is interested in listening to those with a different perspective.

“It sounds like they’ve been through a lot in their life, probably a lot more than I’ve had to deal with, “ he said.

Biletzki said the event stands to show the fact that there are powerful women in peace politics, even though she feels some people may

not be aware of it.

“I hope they take away that they are powerful enough as individuals to make change and confront injustice and discrimination against women in this world.”

– ANAT BILETZKI

SCHWEITZER PHILOSOPHY PROFESSOR “In human rights organizations around the world, there are many

more women who are active then men, but it’s still the men’s names you hear because men get to be the CEO’s , or the directors, or the managers, or whatever it is,” she said.

Biletzki still feels that all people are valuable to the human rights effort, but she wants the women of Quinnipiac to be aware of their potential in changing the world.

“I just want our women on campus to realize, as women, the can do as just as much as men. As women, they have a say,” Biletzki

said. “I hope they take away that they are powerful enough as individuals to make change and confront injustice and discrimination against women in this world, even here by themselves,” she said.

Even with the all trouble in the world, Biletzki does not want to give up on the ideal of peace.

“I sometimes distinguish between the political fight and the moral fight. Even if the political struggle is sometimes hopeless, keep holding on to hope as a moral imperative, not a political imperative,” she said.

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DeVilbiss attended the University of Evansville in Indiana. There he studied communications, which lead him to his career in student affairs.

“I was the student government president back in the day. I got to know my dean very well, who re-

ferred me to this field of student affairs and I just loved it,” DeVilbiss said. “One thing led to another, although teaching was kind of a side step. And it was more of an adventure, to tell you the truth. I finished my education and I really could go anywhere or do anything and I chose to go overseas.”

Being from Ohio, DeVilbiss said he knew there would be a big move coming for the family.

“It did cause us to have some thoughts like, ‘Wow, this is really moving fast,’” DeVilbiss said.

“And with children at home and my daughter going off to college at the time there were a lot of changes all at once.”

DeVilbiss is now awaiting his family’s arrival to Connecticut.

“It’s just a little difficult now when they’re in school and they’re playing sports, and I always did all of that stuff and now I’m missing that.”

DeVilbiss said he and his family are planning to buy a house in this area and he has enjoyed looking at the surrounding communi-

ties.

“It’s been fun to look at Hamden itself and see what’s the best school system and what’s the best place for my family and I to make home as I work at Quinnipiac,” DeVilbiss said.

DeVilbiss is enthusiastic about making a name for himself on campus.

“I only get to be new once and I want to use this whole year to look at everything with fresh eyes and just have a new perspective,” DeVilbiss said.

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Losing the creative community Every new year at Quinnipiac comes with new changes across campus, throughout the residence halls, the majors and the professors, but where does that leave us as students?

Freshman year, I went on something called the Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) retreat.

All interactive digital design (IDD), game design and development (GDD) and theater majors were required to go.

Initially, I was dreading KRISTEN RIELLO a weekend trip with a Creative Director bunch of strangers, but @ KristenRiello little did I know that the stranger who fell asleep on my shoulder on the way there would become my best friend and roommate for the next three years. I had no idea that some of the people on that trip would become my best friends and remain some of my closest friends to this day.

In a campus of what felt like business and health science majors, I found people who had a love for the arts and who I had things in common with.

My freshman year was the last time my program did the retreat. As much of an unfortunate cut this was, it’s not my biggest

problem. My problem is with all the other cuts made to my program.

My junior year, 2015-2016, was the year that IDD was switched to the School of Communications. With that switch came a new lab and new changes.

Our old lab was in Tator Hall, and it was open until midnight, unless of course you were pulling an all-nighter. The sense of community that came along with all of us IDD majors stressing out in one room until the wee hours of the morning is something we lost when our lab got switched to the Center for Communications and Engineering.

The lab closed at 10 p.m., making it not even worth going into. We lost that community that we once held onto so closely. If ever I had a design question, I could count on a friendly upperclassman to be in the lab to help me out.

When I was first starting out in the program, I learned so much from my senior friends who hung out in the lab. Even if we didn’t have work, we would hang out in there just to help others out, provide moral support and

even offer comic relief.

Some people think all these changes may seem great, and some of them actually are. I think IDD majors should have been in the School of Communications the whole time, although it’s disappointing that my major wasn’t there in the first place. But a lot of these changes have hindered the community that design majors and creative thinkers really need.

We needed that extra learning environment outside of the classroom so that we could learn from people with more experience and talk through our design problems.

There’s no longer any transcendence between the upperclassmen and the students just starting off in the program. In such a small major, a sense of community is so important, and now it’s gone.

These are just some of the changes in one major, which brings me to think that these changes are probably happening in every other major. Are students continually losing the sense of community within their major?

Are all these changes cutting off learning opportunities for those who need it? As students, we’re left to pick up the pieces and left to figure out all the changes for ourselves and how they affect us.

Lessons from the summer job search Summer 2015 was excruciating. I spent more than 30 hours a week mowing lawns and made more wraps at New Britain Stadium than Gucci Mane did in prison.

One year and two semesters later, summer 2016 arrived and I had an internship once a week and some on-call reporting work lined up. I figured I had made enough money the previous summer to kick back and decided to take it easy.

After a few weeks, I fell into a boring “Groundhog Day” cycle. Instead of rotting on a couch, I decided to look for part-time employment.

As a 20-year-old, my first instinct was to check the internet and look for job postings.

I subscribed to monster.com and indeed.com emails and opened them up each morning, only to stay up until 2 a.m. some nights filling out applications.

This is where my frustrations began. They started out pretty basic. They would ask for name, address, resumes and then (redundantly) ask for job history. The repetition was something I could deal with because every company deserves to know those particulars. However, the lengths some of these companies went to “get to know” me were rather extreme.

One of the applications featured 180 questions that pinned two ideas against one

another and asked me to choose “agree” on either side, “somewhat agree” or “neither.”

This would make sense if “I like a relaxed environment” and “I like to be told what to do” were opposite one another since those two views are related. However, that would be too plain for some of these companies.

Instead, it seemed the employer wanted to know if you could concentrate and keep consistent answers. It would put, “I show up to work on time” against something along MAX MOLSKI the lines of “It is best if my Sports Editor boss makes the rules” on @molesdontski page two and later, “I enjoy appreciation for my accomplishments” on page eight. If an employer wanted to know if I could keep a straight story, couldn’t he or she just ask me about things on my application, resume or LinkedIn at an interview?

That brings me to my greatest irritation with these online applications: the communication on the end of the employers. Of the numerous companies I applied to for part-time summer employment, only two bothered to contact me.

The first of the two was one where I filled in a paper application. It was so extraordinary I almost forgot how to hold the pen when writing it out. After my interview with said company,

I deliberately asked if I would hear from them whether I got the gig or not. The interviewer said “yes” and then, for all I know, fell off the Earth. I never heard back.

I finally ended up with a part-time job in early July. From there, I was then in the uncomfortable position to divert eager applicants from the counter and manager to their homes.

My managers seemed to notice the applicants that made a personal appearance above those who remained online, but this shift towards online-only applications is keeping applicants away from face-toface impressions.

Long story short, I am grateful that Quinnipiac is infinitely more tech-savvy than the place I encounter when I’m back home. While professors may occasionally post to Blackboard, most of the online interactions I have with campus employees are two-sided.

I could probably draw a greater lesson from this and say that older generations are incorrectly “adapting” to the digital age by leaving applicants in Davey Jones’ cyberspace locker. However, I think it is easier to say that companies at least owed me a phone call or an email that said “nah.”

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Where is the love (and peace)?

University takes a step backwards by removing CAS Peace Pole Last November, I wrote my third full displayed this message of equality and length article for The Chronicle about how harmony, I felt comforted by this mirrored meaningful the Peace Pole in Pine Grove value in my university. Coming on campus this semester and seeing leading to the College all of the advancements of Arts and Sciences and renovations was buildings was to me. Now MADISON FRAITAG exciting, but when I saw I write an overwhelmingly Co Arts and Life Editor that a harmless display of disappointed opinion @ madisonnrosee13 acceptance was removed, article about the removal leaving nothing but a sad of this same Peace Pole. patch of dead grass in the While I’m sure ground, it broke my heart.

Quinnipiac administration Who is this benefitting? What good can has their reasons for this removal, I am honestly not interested. That Pole meant possibly come from literally removing peace something to many people, myself included. from our campus? For the next few months, Coming from a high school that also proudly this place is our home. While the freshmen

a replacement. Why wasn’t this done? It’s definitely not because the university has insufficient funds. Additionally, there are several ethnic clubs on campus that I am sure would have been eager to help support the funding of a replacement.

For the record, I am a caucasian female with no obvious ethnic flares. If I find this disheartening, I’m positive others do as well. I understand that no harm or offense may have been meant by this, but I simply can’t keep this feeling of unease to myself.

Although a part of our community that represented coexistence and cohesiveness is gone, I just hope the peace itself can remain.

may not realize what has been taken away, the rest of us know that our campus has been robbed of something good.

Quinnipiac likes to call itself “diverse.”

While frankly that is just not true, many races, religions and cultures are in fact represented on campus. One would think that in an effort to highlight this encouragement of diversity, we wouldn’t throw away a pole reading “May Peace Prevail On Earth” in six languages. One would actually think that Quinnipiac would make a pretty big deal out of it.

Okay, so maybe there were structural issues with this particular pole. There is a website where you can very easily order

Old fashioned isn’t overrated Sometimes I feel like I am living in the wrong generation. It could just be that I was raised differently than others, or it could just be that society has changed so much. I want to go back to a time where people held the doors open for others and a simple “thank you” could be said. I guess you could say that I am just old-fashioned.

Even dating has changed so much.

Where are the guys that come and pick you up at your door with flowers or just take you out to dinner? Why can’t people have actual conversations and start talking? Instead, people just see each other at Toad’s and hook up and then possibly start talking. It is supposed to be the other way around, The

generation we live in now uses Tinder, to just hook up with people.

Co-founder of Tinder, Sean Rad, said in an interview with Issie Lapowsky for inc.com, “The idea for Tinder came along when I started thinking about the fact that there are a lot of great platforms that help us communicate with people we already know, but there isn’t a way for me to meet new people.” Our generation took this idea that was meant to be a modern and younger version of eHarmony and turned it into a means of getting a quick hook-up and never having to talk to that person again. There is like a 1 percent chance that it will work in the way the founders intended the app

to be used, but that other 99 percent are contributing to the hook up culture we now live in.

One of the issues is that everybody is apparently too scared of catching feelings for a person, but why is that so ERIN KANE bad? If people could just Photography Editor say how they felt, as scary as that may sound, this whole dating thing could be a lot less confusing.

And I am also not saying that after a few dates and expressing your feelings that a relationship will just start. That is something that takes time and

it is a two-way street. All of this can be very overwhelming and that is the society that we live in now. There is pressure to go out on dates and to be in a relationship with somebody. Saying how you feel, going with the flow and doing what makes you happy is important, you should not have to conform to society. This is definitely easier said than done, but this is something that also takes time, and it is a great feeling at the end of each day to know that you are just being you and doing what makes you happy.

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Arts & Life A change of scenery

Here’s a glimpse at our newly renovated campus school of business school of business

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BOOK REVIEW

On the shelf: ‘The Hidden Oracle’

By JULIA GALLOP

Associate Photography Editor

This summer was jam-packed with book releases, which means every book-lover was over the moon with happiness. One particular book that was released in early May was “The Trials of Apollo, Book 1: The Hidden Oracle” by Rick Riordan.

This first book of Riordan’s new series is about the Greek god Apollo, who is being cast out of Olympus (to find out why, I highly recommend you read the “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” series and the “Heroes of Olympus” series by Rick Riordan) and turned into a mortal, 16-year-old boy with no godly powers at all. As the story goes on, we follow Apollo and his friend Meg as they try to figure out how Apollo can regain his godliness and get back to Olympus.

This is not just another adventure story with demons and monsters. There is plenty of that, indeed, as well as fantastic humor.

One very impressive theme in this book is LGBTQ-related. Apollo, we find out, is bisexual. The best part? He doesn’t make a big deal about it. He simply acknowledges it and accepts it. Apollo even says in the book, “We gods are not hung up about

such things. I myself have had... let’s see, thirty-three mortal girlfriends and eleven mortal boyfriends? I’ve lost count.” Apollo certainly does not really understand why people, gods and mortals alike, make a big fuss over particular LGBTQ issues. That matters when it comes to LGBTQ factors, as well, because readers who are exposed to this kind of dialogue can get a certain perspective about LGBTQ people.

This book is geared towards young adults, like most of Rick Riordan’s books.

Therefore, it is great that he has included LGBTQ topics into his novels (including some that were published before “The Trials of Apollo”). Sometimes the discomfort in one’s young adult life can include figuring out one’s sexual orientation. Exploring this, as well as other aspects of the self such as gender identity, can take a toll on one’s emotions, part of that being worrying about what other people might think. These feelings are normal, but what is so good about the younger generations and the ones yet to come is that sexual orientation is not something to be ashamed about.

Thanks to Rick Riordan, who is now subtly showing in his new series that one’s

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“The Hidden Oracle”, the first book in “The Trials of Apollo,” series tackles many issues through its unique plot which is targeted towards young adults.

individual sexual orientation is natural, his young adult audience can perhaps feel better about talking about their sexual orientation and accepting it. For in the end, not something to worry heavily about.

With a large population of young adult readers and a large group of seasoned “Percy Jackson” fans, Riordan has and will make us all proud with his new series “The Trials of Apollo.”

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ALBUM REVIEW

Back and blond(er) than ever

By ANA GROSSO & CULLEN RONAN Contributing Writers

Four years after his debut album, “Channel Orange,” R&B singer-songwriter Frank Ocean released his highly anticipated follow-up: “Blond(e).” Ocean recorded the album over a span of three years, and fans met the months leading up to its release with much confusion.

Initially the album was rumored to be titled “Boys Don’t Cry” and accompanied with a July release date. However, when that date passed, it caused a stir in the Frank Ocean fan base.

Eventually, after numerous online teases, his more aptly named “Blond(e)” became available on Aug. 20. Despite being marred with release date pushbacks and album title confusion, “Blond(e)” still found itself debuting at No.1 on the Billboard 200.

Ocean’s new release includes a plethora of A-list features with the likes of Kendrick Lamar, Beyonce and Andre 3000 lending their voices to the project. Ocean’s work this time around has taken a completely different turn than its predecessors, with “Blond(e)” featuring a more mellow and laid-back sound. Ocean’s contentious new style has appealed to many but has also been met with criticism.

“The album was too slow,” freshman Chris

Park said, who didn’t appreciate Ocean’s new artistic turn. However, sophomore, David Lowe, believed that Ocean’s modern approach “seemed to be more relatable, especially lyrically.”

“Blond(e)” features a more minimalist approach, as the album paints the listener a picture of loneliness and tranquility, with soft instrumental music accompanied by fluctuating moods and melodies. “Blond(e)” also features ambiguous lyrics including social commentary and experiences with drugs, all while weaving in his own brand of storytelling. To witness Ocean’s more mature style firsthand, some notable tracks include: “Solo:” Arguably Ocean’s strongest vocal performance on the album, the listeners will catch themselves in awe of his subtle chorus delivery and talk-singing verses numerous times. These verses in particular give the song a whole new feel, something never before explored. Ocean so beautifully recites his lyrics, making sure each spoken-word-like verse sounds rhythmically crisp, eventually leading into the chorus which features some of his most angelic vocal runs to date. There is familiarity in his voice, as it comfort the listener in the idea of this classic Frank Ocean style. With the church-like organ based background sound being subdued and

RAVE A warm welcome

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Like everyone else, I was nervous about going to college. My life would be changing in a huge way. Luckily, Welcome Weekend helped introduce me to all of the aspects of life at Quinnipiac. I was able to adapt to life here thanks to all the events and help from staff.

Move-in Crew was super helpful with getting all my junk into my room. After that, all the mandatory, school-related events were actually okay. Initial meetings by majors on Friday were a good way to see who else shared my major. I found people to talk to who had similar interests and experiences as I. The presentation on York Hill was a worthy experience, too. Seeing the entire class there really boosted my sense of community and made me realize just how big the freshman class is. The speeches and presentations were way better than normal introductory ones.

Dr. Thomas Pruzinsky’s speech was especially thought provoking and intriguing and is something that resonated with me after the weekend was over. Even the skits used to teach about safety were as good as they could be. Skits on safety are never a fun time, but these ones kept the quality high, were engaging and effectively illustrated safety techniques.

On a lighter note, the optional activities were great as well. The comedian was reasonably funny and the hypnotist was amazing.

The events of Welcome Weekend made for a fun introduction to Quinnipiac. They helped us connect as a class and made Quinnipiac less intimidating. -G.Amill

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Frank Ocean’s newly released album, “Blond(e),” features a more minimalist approach, giving his voice more attention than the instruments behind it.

tame, it allows Ocean to be able to take over the track with his voice, which should delight every Frank Ocean fan.

“Ivy:” One of the more lyrically transparent and upbeat songs on the album, “Ivy” has a dreamy and unique feel given its lack of percussion. The lyrics speak of Ocean’s failed relationships, all while subtle guitar flows perfectly with his raw voice, emphasizing the emotion that is the driving force behind this song.

While four years may have seemed a bit lengthy between two releases, it was certainly worth the wait. While not as genre-defining or catchy as his previous release, “Blond(e)” features some of Ocean’s heaviest lyrical content to date, while also showing off a more ambitious experimentation in his sound. These factors alone allow Frank Ocean to stand out not only as a musician, but as a true artist.

WRECK

Throwing in the towel

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One of the first changes I noticed coming back this fall is something minor, yet bugs the hell out of me: the addition of hand dryers instead of paper towel dispensers in the Carl Hansen Student Center.

I don’t know if it is just me, but I have this weird thing against hand dryers. The idea of cold air hitting my wet hands makes me really uncomfortable. Not to mention it is dirty, dusty air hitting my freshly washed hands. Hand dryers take longer to dry your hands, yet never really completely dry them.

As someone who wants to spend the least amount of time possible in a public bathroom, I am pro-paper towel because it is quick and more effective. With hand dryers, you often have to wait in line just to use it because it takes longer.

One thing I hated about the freshman residence hall bathrooms last year was the fact that there were no paper towels. Most times, I either grabbed toilet paper to wipe my hands or wipe them on my shirt, which is inconvenient and not ideal.I used to be able to use paper towels when I was in the student center but that’s no longer an option.

If the school is trying to create a more germ-free environment, a no-touch paper towel dispenser is the way to go. If cost is an issue, well, it shouldn’t be. For all that I am paying for tuition, I think management can splurge just a little and spend the money on paper towels.-C. Popik

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RUNDOWN MEN’S SOCCER QU 1, Fordham 0 – Friday Connor McCoy: 1 goal QU 2, Lafayette 0 – Sunday Rashawn Dally: 2 assists WOMEN’S SOCCER QU 6, Delaware State 2 – Sunday Ally Grunstein: 3 assists Sarah Pandolfi: 2 goal 1 assists FIELD HOCKEY Central Michigan 2, QU 1 (OT) – Saturday Savanna Reilly: 1 goal, 3 SOG Michigan State 4, QU 1 – Monday Reilly: 1 goal VOLLEYBALL QU 3, Bryant 0 – Wednesday Kat Miller: 10 kills, 8 blocks, 7 digs QU 3, NJIT 0 – Friday Maria Pensari: 29 assists, 2 aces St. Francis 3, QU 2 – Saturday Pensari: 40 assists, 4 aces Allison Leigh: 14 kills, 10 blocks Fordham 3, QU 0 – Saturday Pensari: 25 assists Natalie Alechko: 9 kills, 9 digs RUGBY QU 32, Army 19 – Wednesday Ilona Maher: 3 tries, 1 assist MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY 1st Place (Stony Brook Invitational) - Saturday WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY 2nd Place (Stony Brook Invitational) - Saturday

GAMES TO WATCH MEN’S SOCCER QU vs UMass Lowell – Saturday 2 p.m.

WOMEN’S SOCCER QU at Bryant – Wednesday, 3 p.m.

QU at Albany – Wednesday, 1 p.m.

FIELD HOCKEY QU at Vermont – Friday, 3 p.m.

QU at Michigan State – Monday, 11 a.m.

QU vs. Lafayette – Sunday, 5:30 p.m.

VOLLEYBALL QU vs. Farileigh – Wednesday, 7 p.m.

QU at La Salle – Friday, 5 p.m.

QU at Holy Cross – Saturday, 1:30 p.m.

QU at Providence – Saturday, 5:30 p.m.

RUGBY QU at American International College – Thursday, 6 p.m.

WOMEN’S GOLF QU at Navy Chesapeake Bay Invitational – Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.

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GAME OF THE WEEK

Women’s soccer tops Delaware State Bobcats offense shines in 6-2 victory

By JUSTIN CAIT

Associate Sports Editor

Quinnipiac women’s soccer remained undefeated at home after a commanding 6-2 victory over Delaware State on Sunday afternoon.

“We finished our chances, which we haven’t been doing consistently of late,” head coach Dave Clarke said. “Even though we’ve scored goals, we’ve created more chances.”

Senior Sarah Pandolfi led the way with 2 goals in the contest.

Sophomore Nadya Gill tacked on a goal and an assist while freshman Ally Grunstein set a Quinnipiac Division I single-game record with 3 assists.

From the get-go, scoring chances and offensive opportunities were plentiful in this matchup for the Bobcats.

Just 3:33 into the match, Gill finished off a crisp passing play between Pandolfi and junior Jillian Consolini to open up the scoring.

It only took six minutes for Quinnipiac to find twine again. This time senior Jess Fontaine followed up on a shot that hit the post to score her first goal of the season and put the Bobcats up 2-0.

Although the game looked to be all Quinnipiac early on, Delaware State answered with a goal of its own just two minutes later to cut the lead in half.

“Human nature is, when you go up a couple of goals you take your foot off the gas,” Clarke said. “Our team, we have to learn to maintain that consistency.”

Fortunately for the Bobcats, the consistent offensive pressure continued as Pandolfi scored her first of the match to give Quinnipiac a 3-1 lead midway through the half.

And it didn’t stop there.

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Sophomore midfielder Madison Borowiec averts a Delaware State defender in Sunday’s 6-2 win.

With just under 12 minutes to play in the opening period, Gill crossed a ball to sophomore Al Pelletier who made no mistake finding the back of the net for a 4-1 lead.

One minute later, the Hornets kept buzzing and found a way to narrow their deficit to 4-2 before the end of first half action.

Through one half, Quinnipiac heavily outshot Delaware State 172, a plan that was worked out ahead of Sunday afternoon’s tilt.

“Coming out, our main goal was to get a certain amount of shots off,” Gill said. “As an offensive unit we tried to shoot as much as we could.”

The offense continued to shoot and generate production in the sec-

ond half.

Just 1:54 into the final half of play, Pandolfi placed a perfect kick just under the bar for her second goal of the game and gave the Bobcats a 5-1 lead. “[Joanna Proctor] had passed me the ball and I took a shot that I didn’t really think would go in,” Pandolfi said of her second scoring play. “A lot of credit goes to the defense who passed the ball up for that.”

Proctor was one of 11 substitutions in this game for the Bobcats.

Clarke sees his substitutes’ contributions as a valuable asset moving forward.

“We got a lot of players in, we have competition for places,” Clarke

said. “We were able to put players on to give them that opportunity to show what they can do.”

Finally in the 75th minute, sophomore Katrina Friedman found the back of the net after Delaware State goalkeeper Michele Lammers bobbled the initial cross. Friedman’s tally was the last of the game, but the first of her collegiate career.

In total, Quinnipiac racked up 25 shots to Delaware State’s 4 and outmuscled the Hornets en route to its 6-2 win.

The Bobcats take on Bryant University on the road in hopes of further progressing before beginning MAAC play later in September.

Carlson: “Let’s be prepared” for travel exhaustion RUGBY from Page 12 ergy and being a lot smarter with the ball.”

The Bobcats are left to take their new approach all across the country this season. While construction is taking place on the ‘old’ rugby field, the Bobcats are left with a schedule of exclusively road games.

The “senior day” game against American International College on Oct. 29 is currently listed for Hamden, but the team has already accepted the idea that they will have to pick up and enter enemy territory every game.

“It is disappointing to have to travel each weekend and it is going to be tough, especially with

our studies and body in general, the mental and the physical aspect, but we’re going to take it one game at a time and work through it as a team,” Myles said.

Carlson is not sugarcoating the issue, either.

“What I’ve told them is ‘Let’s just be prepared for this. Let’s be prepared for the fact that you’re mentally and physically exhausted by the time October comes and that’s the last push you have before the championship,’” she said.

The QU Rugby Field served as both the game and practice field for the Bobcats. With the construction, the Bobcats have moved their practices to the soccer practice field. Not only is the playing area smaller than that of a standard rugby field, but there are not

posts on the field. Myles says that the team is “just guessing where the ball is going to go” on their kicks. The team made only one of six conversions against Army on Thursday.

“I think every year we go through some type of adversity. This year is no different. We’re working with what we have been given.”

– MAGGIE MYLES RUGBY CO-CAPTAIN

“I think every year we go through some type of adversity.

This year is no different,” Myles said. “We’re working with what we have been given. We’re grateful enough to have a practice field, at least.”

The Bobcats’ next game is on Friday at American International College in Springfield, Massachusetts. Maher scored five tries in last year’s lone matchup, a 54-21 win for Quinnipiac.

As the Bobcats continue to take their title on the road, they hope to take fans along for the ride and bring a second title to Hamden.

“What’s better than this type of story?” Carlson said. “You move to a different field, you played every single game away and then you win it. That’s way better than just having everything handed to you, isn’t it?”

Glaab: “Finishing second in the MAAC would be a very successful season” GLAAB from Page 12

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challenge and think it will make the team stronger.

“I couldn’t be happier that we’re ranked seventh,” Fearon said. “It helps us come to practice every single day with a strong mindset. I know

for a fact that we’re not the seventhbest team in the MAAC, or the fourth worst.”

Fearon said that Glaab can guide the team to a strong season.

“We’re going for second [in the MAAC],” Fearon said. “Obviously it’s your goal to win at everything you, but we have a strong team in

Iona in our conference who is ranked seventh in the country now and we have to be realistic with our goals.

That’s been our goal for the past couple of years. We finished in third a couple of years ago and that was a tremendous season and we’re looking to do better than that this season.”

Glaab also believes his new team

can have a great season in his first at the helm.

“Finishing second in the MAAC would be a very successful season,” Glaab said. “We talk about finishing top 15 in the region, and if we have a really great race we can finish in the top ten. That’s the dream.”

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The men’s soccer won its first game at home in two years. The Bobcats beat Lafayette 2-0 at home on Sunday, the first win on home turf since Oct. 29, 2014.

Quinnipiac’s women’s soccer team leads the MAAC with 14 goals for this season. The Bobcats are also first in the league for points with 42.

Quinnipiac’s men’s cross country team posted 26 points to pick up its first victory in program history at the Stony Brook Invitational on Saturday.

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK

Clockwise from top left: The men’s soccer team gathers to celebrate a goal in Sunday’s 2-0 win over Lafayette; sophomore defender Derek Parker works the ball up the field; senior goaltender Brian Westerman, who entered for freshman Chrysostomos Iakovidis in the second half, corrales the ball in the box.

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Quinnipiac women’s soccer forward Ally Grunstein earned three assists against Delaware State on Sunday to set a Division I program record for most assists in a game.

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“Day by day they’re getting better and better, whether it’s in practice or in games.”

— KRIS CZAPLINSKI VOLLEYBALL

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A year after winning Quinnipiac’s first national championship, the women’s rugby team continues to face adversity on it’s road to repeat

By MAX MOLSKI Sports Editor

Quinnipiac’s women’s rugby team earned the school’s first national championship last season, going 11-2 on the year and defeating Army 24-19 in the National Collegiate Varsity Women’s Rugby Association (NCVWRA) Championship game. Although it is the team’s title to lose, it is making a new mission for the new season.

“It’s not really defending a title. It’s just coming after another one,” head coach Becky Carlson said.

The Bobcats no longer have the NCVWRA to reclaim. The conference has added five new programs and renamed itself the National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (NIRA).

With a bevy of new opponents entering the NIRA, Quinnipiac opened its season on Thursday with a rematch against Army.

“I think it almost gets the nerves out. We can think of them as our biggest competition,” senior co-captain Mason Johnson said.

“That can really set the tone for the rest of the season.”

The Bobcats went out to West Point, New York and earned a 3219 win over the Black Knights for their third straight win in the series. Junior Ilona Maher, another of the three captains on this year’s

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Emily Roskopf leads the charge in a 43-5 women’s rugby win over Dartmouth last season.

squad, led the way for Quinnipiac with three tries and an assist. Carlson said Maher, who earned 27 tries in the 2015 season, is able to torment teams by attracting the defense.

“They can forget about her and

she can walk across the try line or she can dish it off to somebody else. Either way, she is pretty unstoppable.”

Maher wasn’t Quinnipiac’s only All-American to strike on Thursday. Sophomore Emily Ros-

kopf, who was second on the team with 17 tries in her freshman campaign, took one to the house off a pass from Maher to give Quinnipiac a second-half lead that it did not give up.

“Em [Roskopf] is definitely a

rock. She comes out every game, never misses a beat,” Johnson said. “[She’s] always there, almost a quiet energy.”

The team brought in five freshmen on the season. While none of them scored a try in Thursday’s opener, senior co-captain Maggie Myles believes that all of them are capable of a breakout rookie season like Roskopf.

“They’re all sticking out in their own way at their own positions,” Myles said. “It’s kind of hard now to tell who would be a standout. I think all five of them are here for a reason.”

The addition of five first-year players is not the only change on the field for the Bobcats. Carlson has implemented a new pattern for her team. The pattern is a shift towards anticipation of placement on the field and aims to create a more calculated offensive and defensive approach, according to Carlson.

“What we’ve done is create some keywords and created some key mechanisms so that the team knows where the next strike is, not just ‘this is where the ball ended up,’” Carlson said. “They know, via certain verbage, where that ball is going to be so they can already set and be ready for that. We’re actually conserving a lot more enSee RUGBY Page 10

Josh Glaab begins reign as head coach of men’s cross country

By CONOR ROCHE Staff Writer

Josh Glaab is the newest Quinnipiac men’s cross country head coach after Carolyn Martin got promoted as the director of cross country and track and field.

Glaab comes from Colorado, where he coached high school cross country for the past ten years. Although this is his first job at the collegiate level, Glaab has been expecting to make the jump for some time now.

“There was a few other Division I schools I talked with before I got hired by Quinnipiac,” Glaab said.

“A small, Christian school in South Carolina was one of the schools that contacted me in the past.”

Glaab wasn’t named as the head coach until July 18, but he had an idea that he was going to get the job before that and got straight to work.

“The process for hiring really started in April. It was long,” Glaab said. “I was actually offered the job before July. It just had to go through some paperwork. I knew it was coming. I spent some time before July preparing to talk to the guys and get ready for that and when they finally officially gave me a letter, it was time to go.”

Even though Glaab is considered to be a highly-respected coach in the cross country community, no one on the cross country team had heard of him when his name was brought up in the hiring process. Once the team started to learn more about him, they liked what they heard.

“I went to Colorado this summer with a couple of my teammates. Going around Boulder and other places, the name Josh Glaab resonated with people. [They] know who he was and said he was a great guy,” senior captain Dylan Fearon said. “That just got us even more excited for the season.”

Although Glaab is new to collegiate coaching, he had a successful running career in college.

“I walked on at Colorado State and ended up being our top runner,” Glaab said. “I went to nationals four times, three times with my team and once as an individual. I ended up with a school record in the 5K at Colorado State at 14:02, which was also a conference record at the time.”

Glaab was also only six spots out from making the All-American team his senior season. He continued to run what he called “semi-professionally” after college, but wasn’t making enough money to continue. This

paved the way for him to become a cross country coach.

Glabb says he likes coaching more at the collegiate level because the runners have more passion and he appreciates having a smaller team.

“One of the big reasons I wanted to make the jump was because it’s a better situation for developing relationships which is what I feel like makes the best athletes,” Glaab said.

“With a smaller team we can have deeper relationships and get to know each other better. I can also have more of an effect on what they’re doing.”

And his runners have liked the change so far.

“It’s been awesome,” Fearon said. “We just added a strong coach who has a great running IQ, is a smart guy and knows a ton about the sport and cares a ton. Especially in my last year, we want to go out on top and just to have an extra person here who gets to devote 24 hours a day to us is tremendous.”

The Bobcats were predicted to finish in seventh place in this season’s MAAC preseason poll. Fearon and his teammates are welcoming the See GLAAB Page 10

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Josh Glaab is taking on his first collegiate coaching job this season.