QUChronicle.com September 18, 2013 Volume 83 Issue 4 Proud recipient of the New England Society of Newspaper Editors' award for 2012 & 2013 College Newspaper of the Year
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West coast wishes
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A new School of Communication’s internship program may make students’ dreams of working and living in Los Angeles a reality for this upcoming summer. The School of Communications and School of Business are working together to create a program where Quinnipiac students can study and intern in Los Angeles for a semester or summer.
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Community Action Project members and volunteers hosted their annual Helping Hands event Saturday, Sept. 14, in the greater Hamden and New Haven area. The event was established in order to offer a “helping hand” to the community. CAP is a community service organization dedicated to granting students with the opportunities to give back. The organization regularly hosts events to promote this objective and generate as many volunteers and supporters as possible. Helping Hands is just one of the organization’s many events that endorses this mission. “Helping Hands is a way to give back,” sophomore event co-chair Jenna Bedard said. “Sometimes we get a bad rep as college students living in Hamden but it shows how
caring we can be and the things we are willing to do.” At the event, students met at the Rocky Top Student Center before breaking into groups to complete three hours of community service. Students were encouraged to sign up at tables or online on Do You QU beforehand, sophomore and co-chair Kaitlin Cotter said. “[We did this] to try and spread the word as much a we could,” Cotter said. Although fewer students volunteered this year, CAP still considered the event successful. “It’s really rewarding for me and for everyone else involved,” Bedard said. “It’s just a really good way to show that you can have fun while doing community service, and it could be a really fun day, hanging out with your friends while doing something for the community.”
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Although nothing has been cleared yet, Assistant Dean for Career Development Joseph Catrino says that he hopes the program will be able to start this summer. This was simply an idea for a great deal of time, but Catrino says “significant strides” have been made to get the program started. Dean Catrino, Dean of the School of Communications Lee Kamlet, Dean of the School of Business Matthew O’Connor and Director of Employer Relations Grace Peiffer spent four days in Los Angeles this past July speaking with prospective companies and touring potential housing. In addition, they have hired a satellite person based out of LA. According to Catrino this person will serve as a local contact for students to assist them with internships and classes. Essentially this program will be similar to a study abroad program, says Catrino, but rather than traveling overseas, students will stay in the country and continue to be full-time students.
Catrino hopes that students will be able to complete six-credit internships while taking a few classes either online through the university, or with a university nearby. Quinnipiac will assist students in finding safe housing in the city. Catrino has looked at housing in LA, Burbank and Marina del Rey. A key aspect to this program is that it will be available to a variety of students. “I think that the thought is that this program is going to be film centric, but it’s really not,” Catrino said. “I think it opens the door for students to get into whatever industry they are interested in working in on the west coast.” Sophomore business student Andrew Brucella said that if he does not study abroad, this would be a program that would allow him to have a similar experience. “I think that Los Angeles provides a lot of opportunity and experience,” he said. Catrino and his team have been
The North Haven Law School building is currently under construction in preparation for its opening in 2014, according to administration. However, plans for the Law School building on the Mount Carmel campus are yet to be decided. “We are actually still in the planning process,” said Salvatore Filardi, vice president of facilities and capital planning. “There are a whole host of needs on campus that need to be fulfilled.” Filardi said that the building is the university’s best option to fulfill needs for more classrooms. “We plan to use the space available for growth in other schools,” Filardi said. New to the Law Library this year are two 24-person classrooms as well as a lab built specifically for calculus-
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Larger lectures, earlier mornings
Professor John Morra teaches a Sports Studies 101 class with 60 students. By adelia couser Contributing Writer
Imagine waking up before 6 a.m. to get ready for a class or sitting in a lecture hall listening to your professor along with 60 other students. Although Quinnipiac is known for having smaller classes of between ten to 30 students that begin no earlier than 8 a.m., this semester more
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than 800 students at Quinnipiac are experiencing larger class sizes and 7 a.m. classes. The university currently has 19 class sections with an enrollment of 40 or more students and one QU 201 class that runs from 7 a.m. to 7:50 a.m., according to Assistant Registrar Jamie Lussier, who is in charge of scheduling course sections to aca-
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demic spaces. She says that the larger classes are often double sections, with two regular classes of around 40 students coming together to form one large lecture class. There is no shortage of space on campus; the North Haven campus See classes Page 3
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