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FEBRUARY 10, 2016
VOLUME 86, ISSUE 16
Sig Ep president has high hopes for fraternity
PHOTO COURTESY OF ROB COWAN
(Left to right) Sophomore Jack Wigglesworth, junior Mike Rocco, junior James McQuade, junior Jonathan Volpe, junior Rob Cowan, junior Jonathan Nanna and junior Kevin Casserino make up the new executive board for Sigma Phi Epsilon. By TARA O’NEILL Co-News Editor
Sigma Phi Epsilon is active again after returning from a September cease and desist order. The fraternity’s new president said the chapter is recruiting members and working to increase philanthropic efforts. Junior Robert Cowan was elected president after the university gave the fraternity
a deferred suspension in December. The deferred suspension means the organization is allowed to resume operations while it cooperates with the fraternity’s headquarters’ member review, develops a new-member program, and holds education programs on risk management, alcohol and hazing. The university began investigating the fraternity for hazing allegations in Septem-
ber, causing the chapter to have to halt all operations. Although Cowan would not comment on the hazing allegations specifically, he said the members of Sigma Phi Epsilon handled the situation well. “I was just so proud of our guys,” Cowan said. “They handled the situation with class, professionalism and patience that things
would be resolved soon enough.” But Cowan doesn’t want the cease and desist to define the members and the organization in the long term. He said he hopes the members of the Quinnipiac community can look beyond the situation and see the organization for their positive attributes. “Going through this process, I’m sure many people start to form opinions or generalizations about our organizations without knowing all of the information,” Cowan said. “Although unfortunate, we would rather let our actions as leaders on campus, our work ethic in the classroom and brotherly love toward one another speak for themselves.” Now that the members are allowed to resume activities, Cowan said Sigma Phi Epsilon is ready to get back in action and create a stronger organization. “After receiving the email that the cease was lifted, I think we all felt incredibly excited and ready to get back to work,” he said. “Being back, we’re excited to keep getting better as an organization, growing through recruitment and building balanced men at Quinnipiac.” Like the other Greek life organizations, Sigma Phi Epsilon is in the midst of informal recruitment. Cowan said so far recruitment has been incredibly successful. “Our numbers have not been noticeably affected by the cease,” he said. “By all accounts, we are receiving just as many men as some of the other fraternities of similar size. I think that is attributed to the type of men we have in our fraternity already. They are so involved in other organizations on camSee SIG EP Page 3
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Chartwells’ food costs vary between university’s three campuses
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Like many other students, junior Caitlin Reid goes to the dining hall every week. However, she never noticed that some items cost more or less depending on which campus they are sold: Mount Carmel, York Hill or North Haven. Some food items at Cafe Q on Mount Carmel are less expensive than the same items in Rocky Top Student Center on York Hill or the North Haven cafeteria, and the food at North Haven tends to be the most expensive of the three campuses. For example, a personal cheese pizza costs $3.35 at Cafe Q and $5.15 at Rocky Top on York Hill. A bottle of Gatorade costs $2.59 at Cafe Q and Rocky Top, but $2.89 at North Haven. Reid said she thinks these price discrepancies are unreasonable for graduate students who attend all of their classes at the North Haven campus. “I feel like that is an unfair price gap, because North Haven caters to mostly the graduate or future graduate students who will have years of tuition to pay,” Reid said. Associate Director of Dining Services Leean Spalding said Chartwells will work to make sure the prices are the same on all three campuses in the future. “Pricing for items sold in the dining fa-
cilities is approved by the university,” Spalding said in a statement. “The products sold across campus are priced the same with only a few exceptions due to supplier pricing. This is the first time the price discrepancies have been brought to the attention of the university and Campus Dining, and we will be auditing all the pricing on all three campuses so pricing will be consistent. Students and all guests should report any concern about campus dining directly to management.” Reid’s opinion is shared by senior Jackie Dembro, who also had not noticed the differences in price between the three campuses. Dembro said it is unfair for York Hill to charge more for the same food items, since students on York Hill are given less money on their meal plan. The Bobcat Dining plan, a meal plan of $1,420 per semester, is given to students that live in traditional residence halls on Mount Carmel, such as the Commons, Village and Mountainview. Students living on York Hill are provided with the Boomer Dining plan, which consists of $1,020 per semester. “People who live on York Hill already have less meal plan money, and because of that, need to buy more groceries,” Dembro said. “Some people might not have time to See CHARTWELLS Page 3
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FOOD COMPARISON ROCKY TOP
MOUNT CARMEL
$3.
49
.74
$5.
99
85
49
$7.
$8
$2.59
$5.
$5.
65
49 $7.
NORTH HAVEN
$2.59
$2.89
$5.
$6.
99
05
INFOGRAPHIC BY HANNAH SCHINDLER
Personal pizzas, bufallo chicken wraps and Gatorade costs more on North Haven.
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