QUChronicle.com November 1, 2012 Volume 82 Issue 10 PROUD RECIPIENT OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY OF NEWSPAPER EDITORS' AWARD FOR 2012 COLLEGE NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR
ARTS & LIFE
Mr. and Ms. QU, page 8
OPINION
SPORTS
Surviving Sandy, page 6
Champions since 2005, page 12
hurricane sandy strikes qu
Director of Health Students evacuated to Rec Center, classes canceled Services passes away CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
Classes and all university operations on Mount Carmel Campus will remain closed until Monday Nov. 5 due to the effects of Hurricane Sandy, according to an e-mail to the student body. Students on the campus are being encouraged by the university to return home due to struggles with generator power. Larson, Perlroth, Troup and Complex residence halls have been running without power since Monday, according to the email. ³:H GRQ¶W KDYH D ¿UP WLPH or date when power will return,” Associate Vice President for Public Relations John Morgan said. On Saturday at 9:37 p.m., the university canceled all classes on Monday and Tuesday in preparation for the category 1 hurricane. Earlier in the day, Gov. Dannel Malloy declared a state of emergency. President Barack Obama declared an expedited major disaster for New Haven County, among other counties in Connecticut. Many towns along the shoreline in Connecticut, New York and New Jersey were left severely damaged, ZKLFK KDV PDGH WUDYHOLQJ GLI¿FXOW Many students returned to their hometowns during the storm. “We’re concerned about our students in residence halls living without generator power, so we’re accommodating them in the rec center,” Morgan said. “To those students, especially those affected by the generator we would like to encourage them to move.” The university announced Tuesday night that classes on the Mount Carmel campus would be closed on Wednesday, but classes at North Haven and York Hill would still take place. Several buildings on the Mount Carmel campus have been running on generator power since Monday evening. At the peak of the outages, nearly 8,000 Hamden residents were without power. Approximately 8.4 million
By DANIEL GROSSO Associate News Editor
MADELINE HARDY,/CHRONICLE
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deadline has also been extended to Nov. 9. The volleyball team and men’s soccer team both have home games this weekend, and those are still scheduled to go on as planned. All other on-campus events, including the leadership conference on Saturday, have been canceled.
Quinnipiac University lost its long-time director of Student Health Services on Monday. Kathryn Macaione died at Yale- New Haven hospital after a brief ill- ness, according to a statement from the university. She was 75. “The University was saddened to hear of the passing of Kathy Ma- caione, the director of Student Health Services who dedicated 42 years of service to Quinnipiac,” Vice Presi- dent for Public Affairs Lynn Bush- nell said. “During her career, Kathy touched the lives of literally thou- sands of students, faculty and staff who respected her professionalism, compassion and dedication to pro- viding high-quality care and educat- ing the university community about WKH PDQ\ EHQH¿WV RI OLYLQJ D KHDOWK\ lifestyle. She will be sorely missed.” 0DFDLRQH ¿UVW FDPH WR 4XLQQL- piac in 1970 and served as the di- UHFWRU RI WKH ,Q¿UPDU\ DW ,UPDJDUGH Tator Hall. During her time at the university, Macaione expanded the LQ¿UPDU\ LQWR ZKDW LV QRZ 6WXGHQW Health Services. She also helped SODQ DQG RUJDQL]H WKH DQQXDO IUHH ÀX clinics at Quinnipiac. Macaione was widely recog- nized in the nursing community. She was the founding director of the Connecticut College Health As- sociation of Nursing Directors, and was chair of the organization from 1994-1996. In 1985 Macaione re- ceived the Women in Leadership Award and awarded the Florence Nightingale Award for Excellence in Nursing in 1995. The Tau Rho Chapter of the In- ternational Honor Society for Nurs- ing inducted Macaione earlier this year, recognizing her work as a nurs- ing director. Macaione leaves behind her hus- band, two children, a step-daughter and four grandchildren. Funeral ar- rangements have been made at the Blessed Sacrament Church for Sat- urday, Nov. 3.
EDITOR’S NOTE: While the Quinnipiac Chronicle typically publishes and distributes on Wednesdays, we were forced to publish and distribute on Thursday because of power outages across Connecticut due to Hurricane Sandy.
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