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New softball coach announced; Fairchild out STAFF REPORT
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Jill Karwoski was named interim head softball coach, according to a Tuesday press release. She was a former assistant coach for Providence College and head coach for Merrimack College.
The Quinnipiac softball program has a new head coach. Director of Athletics and Recreation named Jill Karwoski interim head softball coach in a press release Tuesday afternoon. Karwoski replaces Germaine Fairchild, who was head coach of Quinnipiac softball since 2001. Fairchild was an assistant coach for the team beforehand. As recently as Aug. 14, there was a job posting on higheredjobs. com as interim head softball coach at Quinnipiac University. The posting was taken down on Aug. 19. Monday night, the athletics website listed “TBA” for the softball head coach position. The university did not talk about
Fairchild’s dismissal. A former softball player said there was miscommunication between the coaching staff and players. “I will say that Coach G knows a lot about the game of softball and has a great deal of insight,” the former player said. “I just think sometimes it was difficult for her to communicate that to the players.” The former softball player said a group of players, both current and former, had meetings with the athletics department to talk about the softball program. “She said that she based everything off of numbers and stats, yet girls were killing it in practice and never saw the field,” the former player said. “... They were in complete shock and I could tell that they felt terrible about what some of us
went through.” The former player added: “[T] hey were going to have a couple meetings and do what they felt was best for both the softball program and [Fairchild].” Under Fairchild, the Bobcats were 292-356-1 and did not win a Northeast Conference championship. Instead, Karwoski will be interim head coach as the Bobcats head into their first season in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. Previously, Karwoski was an assistant coach for Providence in 2012-13, also serving as Merrimack head coach in 2011-12. Karwoski, a 2001 graduate from Lewis University, was the associate head coach and recruiting coordinator at Boston College from 2007 until 2011.
Residential Life makes housing changes By JULIA PERKINS News Editor
About 25 returning sophomores and all sophomore transfer students are living on the York Hill campus due to the large number of freshmen and sophomores on campus, according to Associate Director of Resi-
dential Life Melissa Karipidis. The sophomores must live in Crescent at York Hill because they were not assigned housing last April or were meant to live in the Complex 80s, Karipidis said. Instead, freshmen are living in the Complex 80s this year.
Residence Hall Irma has two study rooms that were converted into dorm rooms, Karipidis said. The students living there will be moved to different housing once space becomes available, according to Karipidis. When freshman Ryan Flagg
found out he would be living with two other students in a converted study room, he was initially skeptical, but now likes living there. “Living in the lounge is really See HOUSING Page 3
School of Medicine opens during summer By julia perkins News Editor
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according to Associate Vice President for Public Relations John Morgan. There are 22 full time faculty and 298 clinical faculty, the press release said. Quinnipiac is also one of less than 100 universities to have both a School of Law and a School of Medicine, according to Morgan. “The need for well-educated and
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highly trained physicians has never been greater,” Koeppen said in the press release. “The Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine is poised to develop physicians who will become integral members of patientcentered health care teams, working closely with other health professionals to provide comprehensive care.”
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The Frank H. Netter MD. School of Medicine at the North Haven campus opened this summer to 60 students. Classes began on Aug. 19.
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This August, the university celebrated the opening of the Frank H. Netter MD. School of Medicine, located on the North Haven Campus. On Aug. 12, the 60 students arrived on campus for orientation. Class began a week later on Aug. 19, according to a press release from Associate Vice President for Public Relations John Morgan. Governor Dannel Malloy took a tour of the Medical School on Aug. 15 with university officials, including President John Lahey, Dean of the Medical School Dr. Bruce Koeppen and Chairman of the Board of Trustees Richard Howard, according to Quinnipiac’s website. Students also attended a White Coat Ceremony on Aug. 16, where they were presented with a physician’s white coat and a stethoscope, Quinnipiac’s website said. Speakers at the ceremony included Lahey, Koeppen, Dr. Jessica Israel, chief of geriatrics and palliative medicine and medical director of the Inpatient Hospice Unit at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, N.J. and Dr. David Hill, director of the Global Public Health Institute in the School of Medicine.
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FILE PHOTO: Germaine Fairchild argues a call with an umpire in a 2011 softball game. Fairchild is no longer the head softball coach as of Tuesday afternoon.
3 commencement ceremonies for 2014 By JULIA PERKINS News Editor
The university will hold three commencement ceremonies for the graduation of the Class of 2014 on May 18, according to a press release. The School of Business and School of Communications will graduate at 9:30 a.m. At 2 p.m. the School of Nursing and School of Health Sciences ceremony will take place. The ceremony for the College of Arts and Science is scheduled for 6 p.m. This is the first year that the university will have three ceremonies instead of two. “By moving to three ceremonies, the university is able to ensure the safety and comfort of each of our graduates, as well as their families and friends,” Lynn Bushnell, vice president for public affairs and chair of the university’s commencement committee said. “Students made clear that it is very important that the exercises remain on the Quadrangle, that each graduate’s name is read as he or she walks across the stage and that a keynote address is delivered at each ceremony. With this change, we are able to accommodate each of these wishes.” Senior Taylor Fitzpatrick will graduate at 6:30 p.m., but his twin brother will graduate at 9:30 a.m. “I think it would be more convenient if it were at the same time just so we can get out of here, but if it is shorter then I’m completely fine with that,” he said. The ceremonies will take place on the Quad, but in the event of rain, commencement will be moved to the TD Bank Sports Center. Students will receive four tickets to the ceremony to be used if commencement is held at the TD Bank Sports Center.
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