QUChronicle.com October 17, 2012 Volume 82 Issue 8 Proud recipient of the New England Society of Newspaper Editors' award for 2012 College Newspaper of the Year
ARTS & LIFE
OPINION
Best pumpkin beers, page 13
Obama’s plan better for graduates, page 6
SPORTS
Top Quinnipiac fantasy athletes, page 16
SMOOTH AS ICE More photos, Page 9
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School of Medicine prepares for next fall With preliminary accreditation granted for the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University, Dr. Bruce Koeppen, Dean of the School of Medicine, announced: “[w]e’re open for business.” “What we are building here on the North Haven campus will be absolute state-of-the-art,” Koeppen said. Faculty and facilities at the School of Medicine will foster an inter-professional education for all health science disciplines, in which students from the health science and nursing schools can collaborate with medical students to gain real-life experience working as health care teams, Koeppen said. Junior health science major Domingo Perez plans to apply to the School of Medicine in his senior year and benefit from this interdisciplinary program.
“That would be really beneficial,” Perez said. “It’s kind of like a full-circle system, more of a hospital simulation, which is basically as close as you can get to in-field training without being in the field.” Students will have the opportunity to work in four collaborative classrooms in the new building, according to Koeppen. Each classroom was designed to accommodate four groups of eight students, who can share resources electronically. Students will have access to learning materials in an entirely paperless curriculum, including electronically administered exams. “It’s probably the nicest teaching space I’ve ever seen in any medical school,” Koeppen said. Prospective students can preview the prototype of one of the classroom’s tables, located in the Fred Tarka Conference Room in the Arnold Bernhard Library. For junior health science major Becky Paugh, the addition of the School of Medicine at Quinni-
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piac comes at a pivotal time in her college career, as she will soon be making decisions regarding graduate school. Paugh is planning to apply to graduate school at Quinnipiac, but she is also considering applying to schools in California, where she can benefit from in-state residency tuition if she lives with her brother. The news of the School of Medicine’s interdisciplinary interactions and real-life hospital environment, however, has Paugh reassessing a move to California for graduate school. “I think that’s kind of rare,” she said. “That makes me excited to go here.” The School of Medicine is planning to offer a dual program for future freshmen interested in studying medicine, in which students who apply to Quinnipiac would simultaneously apply and be interviewed for the School of Medicine, accord-
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By ANDY LANDOLFI
On any given day, Bobcat Net hosts Internet access to 22,409 devices. With so many people connected to the network, when the Internet access malfunctions, many will notice. On Oct. 8 at 4:11 p.m., a combination of a technical error and a human error caused Bobcat Net to crash, according to Information Security Officer Brian Kelly. Kelly said the error occurred while changes to the firewall were being made in order to support Quinnipiac’s new website. “It is as simple as making a typo,” Kelly said. “We made a mistake, hit save and boom.” An additional error occurred when a loop appeared in the network. A loop is when the network recognizes a single device as being in two different places at once. This causes confusion within the network. By 6 p.m. that Monday, nearly 70 percent of the network was down. “We knew what we did, and we knew how to fix it,” Kelly said. “It just takes time.” To fix the network Kelly and his team of six others were required to manually reconnect small portions of the network piece by piece until the entire network was running again. The first portion of the network to be fixed belonged to the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. When connection was lost, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) was in the process of filming a segment of 150 pollsters calling people about the presidential election. Without Internet connection it would have been
Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey players Eric Hartzell and Loren Barron look at teammate Zach Tolkinen’s head after the team participates in Sunday’s St. Baldrick’s event. The team raised more than $24,000 for cancer research.
By REBECCA CASTAGNA
More users, more problems
Chartwells, Tapingo release new order-on-the-go app By JOSH BREWER Staff Writer
As of Monday, students and faculty are able to purchase food at the Bobcat Den in a new way. Chartwells, in conjunction with Tapingo, have created an iPhone and Android app that allows you to order on the go. The app is free and is available on Apple’s App
Store and Android’s Play Store. The free service is also available on the web by visiting tapingo.com. “What our product is doing is it’s helping students get what they need to get without having to worry about waiting in line and also about waiting in line to pay for their item,” Director of Campus Marketing for
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Tapingo Mickey Katz said. Once the app or website is open, a prompt will open asking for the student’s name, location, phone number, and Q-card number. When the form is completed, it will provide the student with locations that accept payment via Tapingo. By clicking on the Bobcat Den,
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students can view the menu and make an order. Orders take 15 minutes to be completed at most. When an order is sent via Tapingo, the staff in the Bobcat Den receives it. “There is a printer in the back of the kitchen and when you’re order is placed, [the printer] buzzes three times and then the kitchen staff un-
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derstands your order was placed. They will prepare your food. They will wrap it up for you…If it’s hot, they keep it hot, if it’s cool they keep it cool,” Katz said. When students arrive at the Bobcat Den, there is a designated area to See MOBILE APP Page 3