The Quinnipiac Chronicle, Issue 12, Volume 86

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NOVEMBER 18, 2015

VOLUME 86, ISSUE 12

Lahey made more than $1.2 million in 2013 University presidents’ salaries in 2013

Public Safety adds shuttles for Thanksgiving travel

By THAMAR BAILEY Staff Writer

Fairfield University

$379,400

President Kaplan

University of New Haven

$707,353

President Salovey

President Lahey

President Roth

Yale University

$801,020

Wesleyan University

Quinnipiac University

$926,183

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President John Lahey made more than the college presidents at Wesleyan, Yale, University of New Haven and Fairfield in 2013.

By JULIA PARKINS Editor-in-Chief

President John Lahey made about $2.5 million less in 2013 than he did in 2012 when he had to report the full amount on his retirement plan, according to the university’s tax records. But he still raked in more than $1 million.

Lahey’s total compensation in 2013 was $1,274,279, while it was $3,759,076 in 2012. In 2012, Lahey became “fully vested” in his retirement plan, which is why his compensation that year was reported as more than $3.7 million, Vice President for Public Affairs Lynn Bushnell said in a statement. These earnings in 2012 had made Lahey the second-highest paid college president that year.

The 2013 compensation is an increase from 2011, however, when Lahey made $1,203,709.

His 2013 compensation is equal to about 22 students paying full tuition and room and board this academic year.

Bushnell said in a statement that the university looks at what other comparable colleges pay their administrators to determine how much Lahey and other executives should earn.

“The university adheres to the highest standards of corporate governance in establishing executive compensation for all senior-level officers. Compensation levels are set by the personnel committee of the Board of Trustees and are determined after reviewing compensation levels at comparable institutions,” she said. “An

independent compensation firm validates the list of appropriate peer institutions. The personnel committee sets salaries with an eye to attracting and retaining highly qualified and highly motivated executives, based on an annual review of agreed upon goals.”

Lahey earned more than Wesleyan University President Michael Roth ($926,183), Yale University President Peter Salovey ($801,020), Yale’s former President Richard Levin ($1,149,007), University of New Haven President Steven Kaplan ($707,353) and Fairfield University President Jeffrey P. von Arx ($379,400), according to tax records from each of these colleges.

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QU moves forward with Title IX field construction

By JULIA PERKINS and TARA O’NEILL

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“I believe that Quinnipiac has continued to progress in operating its athletics program gender-equitably and accountably, as the Decree requires,” Orleans wrote. “And that specific actions taken during this year, and that will be undertaken this summer, will provide for further substantial change beginning with the 2015-16 academic year this fall.”

But the university still has to spend $5 million to improve facilities, other than the T.D. Bank Sports Center, used by female athletes. In April 2014, Hamden’s Inland Wetland Commission denied the university’s original plan to upgrade the lacrosse, soccer and field hockey fields.

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Quinnipiac is scrapping its plans to put lighting on several athletic fields on the Mount Carmel campus so that it can upgrade these facilities more quickly, according to Sal Filardi, vice president for facilities and capital planning.

The university must improve several athletic fields on the Mount Carmel campus and build an indoor track and field facility

by June 30, 2018. These plans have been slowed several times as Quinnipiac awaits approval from Hamden to work on these facilities.

Quinnipiac was ordered to build these facilities in 2013 after it settled a Title IX lawsuit that arose in 2009 after the university tried to eliminate the women’s volleyball team. A judge ruled Quinnipiac could not get rid of the volleyball team because then it would not provide equal opportunities for women athletes, which is against the federal law Title IX. By law, the number of female and male athletes has to be proportional to the female-to-male ratio at the university.

The judge found the university was not in compliance with Title IX, so it had to make several changes in athletics in order to obey the law. These changes included giving more scholarships to female athletes, paying coaches of women’s teams more and adjusting the tiering of some teams. The university also created a strength and conditioning facility and converted part of an office suite on the second floor of the Mount Carmel Athletic Center into a new varsity locker room.

Jeffrey Orleans, the court-appointed “referee” who works with the university to make sure it is following the decree, said in a July 2015 report that Quinnipiac is making good headway to abide by the law.

proved the university’s new plan in January 2015 as long as the university did not use crumb rubber for the turf or have lights that were more than 35 feet tall. Assistant Town Planner Dan Kops said the commission believed the chemicals from crumb rubber could get into the water and high lights could disrupt the fauna in the wetland.

But as for the lights, Filardi said they have to be higher than 35 feet.

“There are no sports lighting poles that are only 35 feet,” Filardi said. “They have to be higher just because of the geometry of the light.”

Filardi said the reason the university See TITLE IX Page 3

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This week leading up to Thanksgiving break, Quinnipiac will be servicing shuttles in order to facilitate students traveling home.

On Thursday, Nov. 19 an Friday, Nov. 20, the regular New Haven shuttle schedule will be canceled. Instead, starting at 10 a.m., the shuttle will be running from South Lot to Union Station every hour until midnight, according to Shanon Grasso, the university’s parking and transportation coordinator. The shuttle won’t be making any other stops so the travel time is approximately 20 minutes.

This year there will not be a separate shuttle that takes students to the Port Jeff Ferry due to a lack of student interest. Last year there was only one student on the ferry shuttle, Grasso said. However, there is still a way for students to reach the ferry.

After taking the shuttle students should get off at Union Station. Next, students should get on the Metro-North Railroad going toward New York City. Once on the train students should get off at the Bridgeport, Connecticut stop. The ferry property is directly at the bottom of the stairs the students will take upon exiting the train, said Grasso.

In an email sent to students Grasso said the ferry is 300 feet from the bottom of the stairs when exiting the train.

Freshman Mia Martinez believes the extra tasks involved in boarding the ferry add undue stress throughout holiday travels.

“I think that’s kind of inconvenient to have a stop rather than just to go back to the ferry. It’s a longer process for us to get home, which is kinda where we want to be on Thanksgiving, not worrying about what train’s going where and what time and things like that,” Martinez said.

But Erica Cianciosi, a senior at Quinnipiac, believes the train services provided by Public Safety are convenient.

“I think that it’s nice that the university is able to give students a way to get to the train station, so that it’s not inconveniencing parents who have to come pick up freshmen who might not have cars,” Cianciosi said.

“Or if you drove a car and don’t want to take it all the way home it’s nice that you can have a ride to the train station.”

While there isn’t a ferry shuttle for Thanksgiving break, there is a possibility of a ferry shuttle for winter break. Grasso is working with members from Student Government Association (SGA) to make a survey in order to assess possible ridership.

One venue that doesn’t appear to be a possibility for the future is a shuttle to the airport since the demand for an airport shuttle is scarce, according to Grasso.

For the few requests that Grasso receives, she gives students a list of companies that they can hire to get them to the different airports. Goairport.com and Connecticut limo are just a few places she refers students to.

Senior Tori Batiste, a Texas resident, believes a shuttle to the airport would help be beneficial to those who live out of state.

“Learning how to time my travel correctly so I don’t get lost or miss a train or flight is very difficult,” said Batiste.“If I had a ride to an airport it would cut down on cost and I wouldn’t have so much trouble figuring this out.”

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STUDENTS SPEAK UP

ISIS attacked a concert hall and several other locations in Paris last weekend. With more than 127 confirmed dead and hundreds more injured, France retaliated by bombing the Syrian city of Raqqa Sunday evening. Quinnipiac also has several students studying abroad in France who have been there throughout the violence, but are safe. Students give us their thoughts on the situation.

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“I know that some of the migrants that have been travelling over the past couple of months have slipped through the cracks and are actually a part of ISIS, so that is kind of scary. I actually have a friend studying abroad, and one of the attacks happened a ways down her street, so she is going to be returning. It’s really awful and a really big wake-up call for everyone.”

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Christiano Chavez|Junior|Health Science “I heard Paris is retaliating by bombing the airfields in Syria. I think we need to keep an eye on ISIS, and we need to do something, though I don’t know what that would be yet. We should band together and think of a plan to stop the violence and figure out where they are going to go next.”

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Rachel Beaulieu|Freshman| Film, Television and Media & PR “I think these acts are awful, but part of the issue is that people are immediately blaming all people that are Muslim. It is less than 2 percent of Muslims that even do anything close to racist acts and I think that what happened was awful, but there were multiple places that got attacked. Focusing on Paris is a little singular.”

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Emily Cirigliano|Freshman|Biomedical Marketing “I think it’s really a shame what happened because I heard a girl studying abroad who died [not from Quinnipiac] and I know a few girls studying abroad from this school. I’m glad that they’re safe, but they were the same age, so it really resonates with you. I’m from New York, so I know from the 9/11 attacks, that sort of thing is extremely upsetting.”

Beyond the Bobcats

A rundown on news outside the university.

By Tara O’Neill

Harvard evacuated after bomb threat

Police test body camera pilot program

The Science Center, Emerson, Thayer Halls and Sever buildings at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts were evacuated on Monday after an unconfirmed bomb threat, according to the Harvard University website.

The university received the bomb threat via email and police searched the four buildings for any evidence of a threat, according to the executive vice president of the university. Local and federal law enforcement were contacted to investigate the source of the threat.

Twenty-seven police officers from the New Haven Police Department are enrolled in a 90-day pilot program to test body cameras, according to the New Haven Register. Three different styles of body cameras are being tested among the officer volunteers. The program began in September and will be completed on Nov. 30. When the pilot program is completed, the New Haven Police Department hopes to choose one of the camera types to give to officers in the department to use on a daily basis.

ISIS threatens Washington, D.C. Social media accounts related to the Islamic State shared a video containing a message saying an attack similar to the ones in Paris could occur in Washington, according to the Washington Post. Wilayat Kirkuk, a group based in the Salahuddin province just north of Baghdad, posted the video.

Though authenticity of the video could not be confirmed, it closely resembled previous videos released by ISIS in the past.

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Do You QU process complicated but essential

By MATT GRAHN Staff Writer

From the outside, planning an event may seem simple for a student organization to function. However, there is more to it than at first glance.

There are a couple things groups have to do in order to put on a function, according to Associate Director of Campus Life Erin Twomey. First, they register a space two weeks before the event or meeting in the Event Management System (EMS). Facilities takes this time to understand what is needed for an event, including space and set-up.

The next step, according to Twomey, is that they file the event with Campus Life on Do You QU. Campus Life then checks, among other things, to see that they meet their purported Essential Learning Outcomes (ELOs). After this, the event is approved.

Even though student leaders receive a training session on how to properly use the event documentation, some confusion can still occur.

Jilian Pfeifer, president of Gay, Lesbian and Straight Supporters (GLASS), had issues with getting equipment for an event.

Once, for a comedian, Pfeifer requested a microphone in her documents, but it was not at the venue.

“I had to run around like a chicken with my head cut off to the communications buildings, trying to find someone who had a

microphone,” she said.

Pfeifer felt misled because she assumed the microphone was “set and done” when she requested it over Do You QU and EMS. But she later found out she also had to email Media Services to request the microphone.

Twomey acknowledged the system takes time to learn. She said student leaders often make mistakes with the planning. If there is a mistake that requires sending back the submission, Twomey said the issues are typically quick fixes.

Although he feels the paperwork can be tedious at times, Steven McCormack, president of Phi Gamma Delta (also known as FIJI), appreciates what Campus Life has done to help the fraternity’s events. He said he was grateful for what Campus Life and Facilities did when he hosted the fraternity’s Heave Ho for the USO event, which took place Saturday, Nov. 7.

“As far as Campus Life and Facilities setting up for us, they have been an absolutely enormous help. This event wouldn’t be possible without them,” McCormack said.

Along with the need for events is the need to promote the events. Pfeifer feels the ability for a group to promote an event is limited. This is due to the four poster rule created by Campus Life. The rule is that only four printer paper size posters can be approved to be put up on Student Center bulletin boards on the Mount Carmel.

Pfeifer said she thinks a limit makes sense, but that the current limit is too low.

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To register a meeting or event, student organization leaders must use Do You QU. She feels relying on other means for promotion, like flyers in the cafe, does not work.

She even recalled a time when the flyers GLASS put out in the cafe were gone after just two days.

Twomey said the four poster rule is enforced because there are only four bulletin boards in the Carl Hansen Student Center.

She thinks this issue is important and would

be willing to talk to student leaders about it, even though she said nobody has brought it up to her before.

No matter what their needs, Twomey wants to be helpful for the student groups.

“I want [students leaders] to have the best experience within that group, whatever it may be,” Twomey said.

This is a breakdown of the events that led up to and followed the Title IX lawsuit.

DESIGN BY KRISTEN RIELLO

FEBRUARY The former associate

vice president for athletic marketing and development tells the former athletic director to cut the athletics budget by 5 to 10 percent for the 20092010 academic year.

April

Five volleyball players and the coach sue the university for violating the federal law Title IX.

2008

august QU announces it will add

May

A judge rules QU had to allow the volleyball team to play for now.

2009

March

QU announces it wants to eliminate the women’s volleyball team, men’s outdoor track, and men’s golf and create a competitive cheering team.

Cutting these teams would have saved the university $132,000.

october The Zoning Board of

April Volleyball team

and QU reaches a proposed settlement.

Appeals says QU can’t have lights that are more than 35 feet high on the fields.

women’s golf in the 2010-2011 academic year and women’s rugby in the 2011-2012 academic year.

2010 july

Judge rules QU is not in compliance with Title IX and that QU has manipulated its athletic rosters to make it look like women athletes have as equal opportunities to men.

2011 2013 2014 2015 december

QU filed to lift the injunction ordered in 2009 that does not allow the university to get rid of the volleyball team.

april

Inland Wetlands denies QU’s proposal to upgrade the lacrosse, soccer and field hockey fields, which it needs to do to comply with the Title IX settlement.

january

Inland Wetlands approves QU’s fields application as long as the university doesn’t use crumb rubber on the fields or have lights that are more than 35 feet high.

Filardi: ‘Hopefully we can add lights in the future’ TITLE IX from cover wanted to put lights on the field was because Orleans believed there should be lights. “[Orleans] told us it would be his opinion that the decree states that we have to build superior facilities and it’s his opinion that...a superior facility would have to have lights,” Filardi said.

The university took its case to the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) in October. The ZBA denied the university’s application too because it felt the university did not properly show why the lights were needed to fulfill

the Title IX settlement.

“The Zoning Board of Appeals felt they had not heard evidence that the fields couldn’t be used properly in a way that would meet requirements of Title IX without lights,” Kops said.

Now the university intends to build the fields without the lights, according to Filardi.

“I think we’re going to go back [to Orleans] and say we couldn’t get the lights approved but we’re going to build the fields so at least we have that and hopefully we can add lights in the future,” Filardi said.

The goal for completion of the fields is

the fall of 2017, according to Filardi. Construction for the fields is expected to begin during the summer of 2016 and to be completed during the summer of 2017, just in time to officially open for September of 2017.

Kops said the university’s application is a complicated one because of its many different components, including it is in a wetland area, the lights, perceived traffic issues and the fact that it is in a wetland area.

“With the renovation of the fields, the expansion of the spectator facilities, it’s going to theoretically increase the crowds that would come to watch the games,” he said.

“So the commission has to look at the impact on neighboring properties among those things.”

And since it is a “significant” application, Kops said, it will likely take three to four months for the university to go through the special permit process with the Planning and Zoning Commission. This means QU could get a decision from the Planning and Zoning Commission by early or late spring, Kops said, depending on how soon the university submits its plan.

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Students to perform in concerts There will be two musical events on campus Dec. 1-2. On Dec. 1, students will perform at the annual Quinnipiac Voice Concert from 7:30-9:30 p.m. in Buckman Theater. The concert will feature performances by vocal ensembles ranging from 20-40 students as well as solo performances. There will be classical, stage and popular styles of music. On Dec. 2 students will also perform in the annual ensemble night at 7:30-9:30 p.m. in Buckman Theater. This concert will feature jazz, chamber and orchestral groups that range from five to 20 students playing both jazz and classical styles. Both concerts are free to the public.

Intramurals offers dodgeball sign-ups Students can now sign up for an intramural dodgeball league. The league will run after Thanksgiving break and will end right before finals week. Each team can have six members and students can register their team at IMLeagues.com. The league is co-ed and the deadline to register is Nov. 29.

Short-Fiction and poetry prize accepting submissions All undergraduate students are welcome to apply for the Donald Hall Poetry Prize and Wilder Short-Fiction Prize. The first place prize for each contest is $300. To apply for the poetry prize, students must submit three poems, no more than five pages in length combined, to professor Jason Koo. For the fiction contest, students must email one short story that is no more than 3,000 words to professor Kenneth Cormier. Any in-person submission should have a cover sheet with the student’s name, titles of poems, student ID number and semester standing. The deadline is Dec. 18 and winners will be notified by email.

University to hold vigil after Paris attacks Student Affairs and the Office of Religious Life will be holding a vigil in the Carl Hansen Student Center for “In Solidarité with the City of Lights: A Candlelight Vigil in Support of the People of Paris” at 7 p.m. on Nov. 18. The honorary consul of France in Hartford, Madame Isabel Evelein, will speak at the vigil.

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Pirates of the Caribbean course offered

By KELLY RYAN Staff Writer

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life is on campus, but it is not Captain Jack Sparrow’s ship that has anchored.

Professor Sasha Turner teaches the History 376 course, “Pirates of the Caribbean,” which originated from the “Women in the Caribbean” course also offered at the university.

Turner, who teaches both courses, had a conversation with the then-chair of the history department, David Valone. The two discussed students’ interest and excitement about studying pirates.

“There was certainly an interest from students who had a little buzz from just looking at that very short section for ‘Women in the Caribbean,’” Turner said. “So I just sort of took the idea and ran with it.”

Since fall 2012, Turner has offered this course to students. She pointed out that around the time she was developing the course, the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise was in the middle of its own era.

“It was easy for me to sort of capitalize on student interest,” Turner said. “It’s out there in popular culture.”

However, Turner expressed that the course is not the study of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies.

In fact, the course does not really have anything to do with that series.

“The title [of the course] actually captures students, so it can be misleading that it’s going to be a fun course,” Turner said. “It’s a fun course, but it’s a fun and rigorous course.”

Senior Paige Ferreri who took

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Professor Sasha Turner teaches the “Pirates of the Caribbean” course. the course said she didn’t have expectations for the class, but that it changed the way she thought about the history of piracy.

“I had no idea what to expect coming into this class,” Ferreri said. “It has definitely changed my perspective on pirates. Their portrayal in the media drastically differs from how they actually were.”

Turner said she does not show the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie in the class and has not even seen the movies herself. But students do watch other films about pirates in the class.

Some of the films watched in the class include the 1960s produc-

tions, “Queen of the Seas,” as well as “Seven Seas to Calais.”

“I was very deliberate in choosing films that students had not seen and not heard of,” Turner said. “The idea is to understand how perceptions of piracy in popular culture has changed.”

Turner stresses teaching the concerns of a particular generation about piracy and how it is captured in film.

In addition to films, students learn from both primary and secondary sources.

Students read books by pirate captains, as well as eye witnesses who saw pirates in action. Students

are able to work with those documents to create their own interpretation of pirate history.

With secondary materials, students look at what historians are saying about piracy. Opposing theories about the origins and functions of piracy are also discussed.

Turner said students are excited about this course because it challenges a lot of what they thought they knew about pirates and piracy.

“There are a lot of ‘ah-ha!’ moments,” Turner said. “I think one of the big ones was thinking about women as pirates.”

She believes it is a shocking topic because most of the representation of piracy in popular culture tends to emphasize it as a masculine world and portrays it as “a band of brotherhoods.”

It was very surprising to her students to look at women as key members of the band of pirates, rather than being on the side lines.

She also points out the stereotype of pirates being “gangsters” and “motivated by greed” and that her students were amazed when they saw that those stereotypes are not entirely true.

Students from various majors are able to take this course but there is 200-level history course prerequisite required to take the class.

“I honestly can’t think of an aspect of the class I didn’t like,” Ferreri said. “Just be aware that you’ll be expected to work and write at an advanced level.”

Post office fixes technical issues with emails

By JEREMY TROETTI Contributing Writer

The Quinnipiac post office recently resolved issues with students not properly receiving email notifications for packages. But some students still feel uneasy about trusting the post office.

Several students have complained that they are not receiving their mail or packages because they are not receiving emails notifying them that their packages have arrived.

Freshman Christopher Inlaw expressed frustration regarding the situation.

“I believe it is disorganized,” Inlaw said. “In the beginning of the school year, I tried to receive something from the post office, and I got an email saying they didn’t have my package.”

Inlaw went on to say that the post office questioned whether he received an email from them.

“I don’t think that this is the beginning… I don’t think this is the first time this has happened. I think this has also happened to a

lot of other students beforehand,” he said.

Inlaw eventually received his package, after “weeks and weeks” of waiting, he said.

Supervisor of Mail Operations Dino Martone stated in an email that the post office staff resolved this issue as of Oct. 29 and that any emails since then have gone out properly.

Martone explained changes to the email server caused these problems.

“The service provider for the package delivery email server made wholesale changes to their system to upgrade security. This inadvertently caused a temporary disruption in e-mail distribution,” Martone said.

As for any undelivered packages, Martone said the post office staff is working hard to fix the problems that occurred and make sure they don’t happen again.

“Quinnipiac mailroom personnel and management are working with the service provider to continue to identify and reconcile any undelivered packages,” he said.

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The post office recently experienced issues with its emailing system.

“Only a small number were affected, but maintaining the integrity of the delivery system has slowed... the process.”

Despite the recent issues, several students said they have not experienced any issues with the post office or its email system.

Junior Christie Albers states

that she has had no problems receiving packages or mail. However, she does see room for improvements with service at the post office.

“I think that they should have better hours, because their availability isn’t very realistic,” Albers said.

Lahey’s compensation dropped $2.5 million in 2013 LAHEY from cover Freshman physical therapy major Emma Varco said she would have thought Lahey made about $100,000 a year. He should be making less than $1.2 million, she said.

“I feel like it’s not fair because that money could be going toward something else, maybe to help the campus as a whole as opposed to just all going in his bank account,” she said.

But senior health science major Melissa Griffith said the amount Lahey makes is not surprising, given what CEOs make. Top CEOs make

about $16,300,000, which is 300 times more than the average worker, according to Forbes.

And Lahey has worked for his money too, Griffith said.

“It’s not like he’s just getting the money and the school isn’t growing and expanding,” she said. “I mean, look what’s happening at North Haven, all the purchases they’ve made in North Haven, so it’s not wasted money. I think it’s earned.”

Plus, Lahey is, in Griffith’s words, “awesome.”

“He’s just a cool guy,” she said.

“Every time I see him I’m like, ‘Oh

my God, it’s Lahey.’ He comes to the hockey games and he’ll take pictures with you. He’s a really cool president.

When I studied abroad, I didn’t even know who my president was at that university in Australia, so to know our own president at our university is pretty cool. And he’ll come out on the Quad during nice days and come say hi. He’s really personable.”

Quinnipiac’s next top-earner in 2013 was Executive Vice President and Provost Mark Thompson with $631,127. This is less than half of what Lahey made.

Thompson’s compensation is fol-

lowed by now retired Senior Vice President for Finance Patrick Healy ($612,991), men’s basketball head coach Tom Moore ($498,884), Vice President for Development and Alumni Affairs Donald Weinbach ($484,899), Dean of the School of Medicine Bruce Koeppen ($473,713) and Vice President for Admissions and Financial Aid Joan Isaac Mohr ($432,220).

The administrators’ compensations for 2013 are the latest that are publicly available.

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By now everyone has heard about the terrorist attacks in Paris. With at least 129 people dead and hundreds more wounded, the whole world has been reeling in the aftermath of the violence. Within hours, millions of people all over the world started posting their condolences using #PrayForParis to make their voices heard.

Buildings all over the world were lit with the French national colors and MEGAN MAHER every news agency was telling their version of the Photography Editor events that night. @meganmaher4 As soon as I heard what was going on, I immediately glued myself to the television, trying to get every detail I could. After spending four months studying abroad in France last year and leaving Paris a day before the Charlie Hebdo shootings, this attack definitely hit close to home.

After everything that France has been through this past year with the shootings in January, the beheading in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier in June, and the Thalys train attack in August, the media has extensively covered this country. But not as much as the events on Friday, Nov. 13.

While this can be good because it makes it hard to stay ignorant about the attacks, what I find troubling is the fact that all the media outlets are trying to outdo each other on the gruesomeness on the night’s events. One CNN reporter went to so far as to talk about the suicide bombings outside the Stade de France, then proceeded to show the blood and pieces of flesh left from the

attacker.

Other sources like Fox News are comparing the ISIS attacks to what Adolf Hitler did to Paris during World War II. While France is preparing for war with ISIS, trying to compare this attack to others throughout history is distasteful to say the least. History is history for a reason and we should not try and repeat it because something similar happened many years ago.

The media has also been trying to pull every little detail from the night, from the reactions of the people of the city, to the reactions of other places around the world. The American media is leaving no room for grief as they are interviewing survivors, showing pictures and video of the carnage throughout the night, and trying to figure out the most horrific way to describe the attacks.

With the attack, came an outpouring of solidarity throughout the world, most of which happened on social media. People began posting pictures of Paris, putting the colors of the French flag on their profile picture, or writing French quotes even if they didn’t speak a lick of the language.

Some have used social media poorly over the past few days. An example is people using Facebook’s “check-in feature” to say they were safe even if they weren’t anywhere near Paris at that time. But there were some people that used it in a positive way with the hashtag, “PorteOuverte,” which was created to help both

French and non-French speakers find shelter during the times of the attack. The hashtag, meaning “open door,” was a great tool to help people find safety during the chaos. Things like this are what social media should be used for, not to gain likes or copy the rest of your friends so you look like you’re paying attention to the world.

While this was an unprecedented attack on the French nation, attacks like these happen often in places around the world. But because Paris has so much more access to the media than countries like Syria, Kenya, or even Lebanon, which people perceived as violent already, much of their coverage is overlooked if it even airs. So in reality our society needs to stop showing support for likes. We need to show support because it is the right thing to do.

We also need to stop being so ignorant to everything else that goes on around the world.

We have become so desensitized to places in the Middle East getting attacked, or just any news about ISIS in general that it takes attacks in a huge metropolitan city to finally wake every one up.

So in the words of Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Joann Sfar, “Terrorism is not the enemy.

Terrorism is a mode of operation. Repeating ‘we are at war’ without finding the courage to name our enemies leads nowhere. Our enemies are those that love death. In various guises, they have always existed. History forgets quickly.”

In the future, use social media wisely so that you are making a difference, instead of just being part of a herd.

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Tuesday nights are my favorite nights.

After the dreadful beginning of the full week to come, everyone deserves a pick-me-up.

Mine is Tuesday night yoga.

Many people claim yoga just isn’t for them. Too many times I’ve heard the excuses of inflexibility, lack of time, minor or imagined physical ailments and intimidation by more experienced yoga-goers. Each of these excuses are just that: excuses.

The Oxford Dictionary defines yoga as, “A Hindu spiritual and ascetic discipline, a part of which, including breath control, simple meditation, and the adoption of specific bodily postures, is widely practiced for health and relaxation.”

Nowhere in that definition does it say that you have to be flexible or in perfect health. The word “simple” alone should tell you that this is no rigorous practice. Any person with an extra hour and minimal patience can do yoga.

Each Tuesday night session begins with with the introduction of a simple pose, named child’s pose. The instructor invites the class to return to said pose if at any point they begin to feel overwhelmed, which, for the record, is hardly ever necessary. The most physically strenuous pose in an average Tuesday night class is usually a plank which lasts approximately seven seconds at a time.

Once you get past the external challenges Another common excuse to pass on this opportunity for relaxation is the stereotypical of yoga, you can begin to benefit from it both image of people who go to yoga. If you were to mentally and physically. Not only is yoga a great way to get exercise, Google the term “yoga class” but it is also an effective you will discover dozens of MADISON FRAITAG way to relax the mind. images of slim, 20-something When the going gets Caucasian women wearing Staff Writer tough, I go get my zen nearly the same outfit and @madisonnrosee13 on. smiling as if their lives This sense of mental depended on it. I cannot stress relaxation serves not enough how unbelievably inaccurate this is. Yoga is for everyone. Every only as an all-around benefit, but it also helps gender, every race, every age and every body you to clear your mind of unnecessary worries and focus on what is truly important at the type can find their place in a yoga class.

Another stereotype about yoga is that it is moment. By sacrificing one hour each week, a “judgement-free zone.” This, on the other you could save yourself from several hours of hand, is very accurate. I personally do not easily avoidable stress.

At the end of each satisfying class, the execute every pose with elegance and grace, but that is fine. Many people are intimidated group participates in the final relaxation. This by the mirrored walls in the yoga studio, but literally consists of laying on the floor with I can assure you that no one will be judging soothing music playing and lavender aroma you. Everyone is focused on his or her own filling the room. While I admit this is very movements and many people choose to close cliche, this is the perfect opportunity to clear his or her eyes to further relaxation, relieving your mind and be completely relieved of any the room of the pressure to be better than stress and anxiety weighing you down.

Once class ends, you are free to seize the anyone else. If this isn’t enough proof that no one will judge you, the lights are off the entire rest of your week with a stable, positive state time as well. If you’re the type of person to of mind. My final recommendation would be judge someone in a dim, peaceful space, then to get a hot cup of chamomile tea, ‘zen’ you can finally relax. You can thank me later. maybe yoga isn’t for you after all.

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Women’s studies isn’t just for women Men should be feminists, too A few weeks ago during registration having. Feminism is GOOD, people. It’s time, I was walking to class and happened essential. Especially at Quinnipiac, where to overhear something extremely upsetting. 60.2% of the student body is female, A male student, talking to a female friend, according to U.S. News & World Report.

There are a lot of said, “I wanted to take misconceptions about women’s studies, but I JEANETTE CIBELLI feminism. Luckily, a simple didn’t because then I’d be Arts & Life Editor online search will lead the only guy.” They both you to Merriam-Webster’s laughed after, seeming to @jeanettecib official definition: “The agree that this would be belief that men and women some horrible, awkward should have equal rights thing.

It’s not horrible. It’s not awkward. It’s and opportunities.”

Did I miss the part that says feminists not embarrassing to be a guy in a women’s are all crazy radicals and lesbians who hate studies class. It’s a missed opportunity.

If you want to take women’s studies, take sex and want to destroy men and families it. And even if you don’t, you should take it only so women can take over the world?

No, didn’t think so. If you thought you’d anyway.

People shy away from the word find these descriptions in the definition, “feminist,” or worse, they avoid it like you might want to check out Merriamit’s some dirty label they’ll be shamed for Webster’s dictionary again. “Stereotype:

an often unfair and untrue belief that many people have about all people or things with a particular characteristic.”

Feminism isn’t about hating men, or even thinking that women are superior to men. It’s about equality. Women are people, just like men, and I would hope we could all agree that we deserve the same level of respect, opportunities and equal pay. Think of it this way, guys–would YOU want to make 78 cents for our $1? Didn’t think so.

I want to note that this is only the ratio for white women. Women of color made even less than that, dropping down to about 54 cents to a white man’s $1 for Latinas, according to New Republic.

Securing gender equality may seem like a daunting task. In many ways, it is. How do we change this systematically unfair aspect of society? I don’t pretend to know the answer to this question. But here’s one

place that might be good to start: Women’s Studies 101.

We need to work together to solve these problems. Two weeks ago, I attended the Social Justice Leadership Conference at Wesleyan University, and one of the most powerful lessons I learned was the idea of “leaning into discomfort.” This means that when something feels unfamiliar and unsettling for whatever reason, whether it is due to a racial, gender, sexual difference or anything else, do not avoid it. That’s the worst thing you can do. It only perpetuates fear, stereotypes and misunderstanding.

If taking a women’s studies class makes you uncomfortable, do it. Register for the class and show up on the first day willing to feel totally stupid. You’ll learn, I promise you, and you’ll be a better person for it.

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SARAH HARRIS

Managing Editor

How do you define a safe space on a college campus?

The only place I could find a credible definition is on Advocates for Youth, where it is defined as a place where anyone can feel relaxed and be fully selfexpressed, without fear of being made to feel uncomfortable, unwelcomed or unsafe on account of biological sex, race/ ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, cultural background, age, or physical or mental ability.

In my opinion, a safe space is defined as a place where you go alone, to be alone, because safe spaces do not exist.

The fact that people demand safe spaces bothers me because they’re only a necessity in a hypersensitive society, which is not something people should strive for.

It’s pure ignorance to the fact that we don’t live in an accepting society, and as nice as that would be, it doesn’t exist.

Let’s say you’re in a safe space, and you have someone who is being fully expressed

as a homosexual, and another person being fully expressed as a homophobic, and they are in the same space; who do you tell to leave? In my opinion, safe spaces are designed to be inclusive, yet at the same time they are inherently exclusive.

The controversy of providing safe spaces erupted two weeks ago at Yale after an email was sent out by Erika Christakis, associate master of Silliman residential college, discussing the University’s action on addressing culture appropriation on Halloween. A master of a residential hall is responsible for the “physical well being and safety of students in the residential college, as well as for fostering and shaping the social, cultural, and educational life and character of the college,” according to Yale’s website.

A recently video surfaced on YouTube of Yale students protesting on their campus. In the video, a female student approached Nicholas Christakis, master of Silliman College. Instead of calmingly expressing her opinion about the email he and his wife wrote to the students, she started screaming in his face—and over what? For the master not creating a so-called “safe space”.

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In the email, Christakis takes an opposing stance to the University, basically telling the students to quit trying to be social justice warriors, and if they see something they don’t like to either look away or to say something. She tells her residents that American universities “were once a safe space not only for maturation but also for a certain regressive, or even transgressive, experience; increasingly, it seems, they have become places of censure and prohibition.”

The most interesting part of her email is her opinion on where the censoring is coming from: “And the censure and prohibition come from above, not from yourselves! Are we all okay with this transfer of power?

Have we lost faith in young people’s capacity-–in your capacity-–to exercise self censure, through social norming, and also in your capacity to ignore or reject things that trouble you?”

Have you, as a student, lost your ability to ignore or reject things that trouble you?

My perspective is that we cannot create a safe space anywhere because everything you do can be offensive to someone else; does this mean we must stop being who we are and stop everything we do because it can be offensive? If people don’t learn how to brush things off or come to the understanding that not everyone will like you or understand you, you will not survive in this society. People are different and will have opposing opinions, and thank goodness

we do. Can you imagine a world where everyone agreed? The “Opinion” section in this newspaper wouldn’t even exist.

The Yale student yells at Christakis’s husband, demanding him to “Be quiet!” as she screams at him for not creating a “safe space”. He and his wife’s email is telling the students to express themselves and to have discussions about the costumes or to turn away. The student misses the point entirely by silencing the professor and by screaming in his face.

These students want to be able to protest on campus, so they express themselves in public, while simultaneously demanding the deans and masters to create safe space where they can hide from the world and be who they are without having social disagreements. Wouldn’t you say that’s a tad contradictory?

I would hate to go to a university where my way of thinking wasn’t challenged.

Wouldn’t you?

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‘Check your privilege’

Phrase reminds us to take a step back and appreciate what we have

By NISHA GANDHI

Associate Arts & Life Editor

For most, myself included, the countdown to Thanksgiving is in full swing. The thought of being home, in my own bed, eating delicious food and surrounded by my family is what’s getting me through this week. In the midst of all this excitement, it’s easy for us to forget what this holiday is really about.

The phrase “check your privilege” is used in conversation more frequently. It’s extremely applicable to this year in particular because of all the recent tragedies that have occurred around the world.

“Checking your privilege” means taking a step back and seeing how much you really have in comparison to others who may not have the same privileges or luxuries as yourself.

The term originated as a self-deprecating way to encourage many people, especially college students, to acknowledge and appreciate the certain privileges that society gives them simply for whatever social class, nation or ethnic group they were born into.

These privileges can include luxuries such as laptops, smartphones, large homes, nice cars and fancy clothes, but also things we take for granted, such as access to clean water and a voice in politics.

Though ignoring these privileges is not something done intentionally, there needs to be a conscientious effort to keep them in mind.

In today’s society, it’s becoming easier and easier for us to ignore our privileges. It’s rare to find those who aren’t walking around with an iPhone in their hands, keys to luxury cars dangling from their fingers and on their way to work or class.

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Many Quinnipiac students own Patagonia products as well as other luxury items.

As students at Quinnipiac, we hear people ignoring their privileges all the time, whether it’s because they’re complaining about the seemingly endless line at Au Bon Pain or the post office, about the cafe food and even the “long” walks to class. We don’t necessarily stop to think about how lucky we are that we have access to food or education, and it doesn’t even cross our minds that there are people who dream about being on a college campus but will never be able to.

Assistant Professor of Sociology Don Sawyer has his own explanation as to why we forget how privileged we are.

“A lot of times, we don’t necessarily see our

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Disney movies teach us lessons, have impressive animation and bring back great childhood nostalgia. For now all we have is a two-minute trailer provided by the amazing Dory herself, Ellen DeGeneres. The trailer is posted on her YouTube channel, so go check it out. You will experience some of the best moments from the first movie remade, such as when Dory remembers something important, but then forgets it a moment later.

Dory continues to struggle with her memory loss in this movie, and as the title suggests, Nemo and Marlin will go on a quest to find her. The reversed roles provide for an interesting twist and provoke a question we all want answered: Will Dory ever get her memory back?

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privileges,” he said. “Privileges are usually invisible at some times so when people say ‘check your privilege,’ we have to be reminded of those privileges.”

Sawyer also said the term has merit and it’s important to be reminded of the privileges that we have.

However, there are many criticisms of this phrase.

Sophomore Alexia Andrews believes saying this phrase can be considered rude if said to a person who is simply venting about a problem.

“People will always complain, regardless of what we do and when people are complaining, they don’t necessarily stop to think about everything good in their life. If someone’s in the middle of complaining about

something, it’s kind of rude to stop them and tell them to ‘check their privilege,’” Andrews said. “I like the idea of the term but I don’t think it’s executed in the best way possible.”

Freshman Jack Onofrio agrees with Andrews and believes the term itself is ignorant.

“You don’t always know the situation someone’s in,” he said. “They might not be as privileged as you think they are and telling them to ‘check their privilege’ when you don’t necessarily know their background can definitely be seen as being ignorant.”

Sawyer shares Onofrio’s view on this.

“I don’t think that we should assume that everyone has the same level of privilege because everyone doesn’t,” Sawyer said. “We can’t assume that all white people have the same level of privilege, right?”

He also mentioned other characteristics that determine privilege.

“To be a white, male Christian is something different than being a white, gay, male, high school dropout — they’re different levels of privilege….”

Sawyer added.

In spite of his views on the term, Sawyer does stand by the fact that we should be using “check your privilege” as an invitation to step back and really consider everything that we are privileged enough to have.

“It’s easy for us to say we’re privileged when it comes to people in other countries, but it’s hard for us to recognize how privileged we are compared to others in our own country,” Sawyer said. “It’s important for us to take time and reflect on what we do have.”

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Clip-on man buns? What will come next? Man buns slowly rose to the status of “socially acceptable,” but clip-on man buns are just ridiculous. Available through Groupon, these faux hair pieces have been adopted by amateur hipsters everywhere. Although false hair can often boost a balding man’s confidence, a clip-on orb of false hair is just bizarre.

Will these artificial man buns serve merely as a way of establishing an image while a man’s natural bun blossoms or will these imposter buns become a way of diversifying a man’s “look?”

The undeniable result of these buns is clearly that for the low price of $9.99, you can become the laughing stock of your friends. What a bargain.

Senior health science major Lenny Introna says he doesn’t mind man buns and that they even look good on some people. But in regards to fake man buns, Introna does in fact seem to mind.

“I think that’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard,” he said. Introna boldly stated he would “never” wear one of these hair pieces. Introna said if he were to see one of his close friends wearing a clip-on man bun, he would very bluntly tell him to “take that sh*t off.”

While none have yet to be spotted on Quinnipiac grounds, they should be prevented at all cost.

They are a filthy lie and, quite frankly, a young man’s toupee.

If anyone is witnessed donning one of these monstrosities on campus he should be de-bunned on sight and eternally ridiculed for the shame he has bestowed upon the Quinnipiac name. –M. Fraitag

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In the company of books

Hamden bookstore and coffee shop creates a welcoming atmosphere for all readers

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Linda Mooser and her dog, Lily, sit among the shelves full of nonfiction and fairy tales.

By CAROLINE MILLIN

Associate Arts & Life Editor

Rediscover the joy of reading, sip on a fresh cup of coffee and get some work done in a quiet space only eight miles from campus.

Travel down Whitney Avenue and you’ll come

upon a little place called Books and Company, a used book store with a small coffee shop inside. The shop is owned by Linda Mooser, and it has been around for almost 21 years.

The store is open to people of all ages and interests, as well as pets. In fact, Mooser says

her dog, Lily, is the co-owner of the shop.

Books are organized and shelved in little nooks, all reasonably priced at half or more off the list price. There is a small seating area with tables by the front windows, but there are armchairs, couches and other tables throughout the shop where anyone can sit, sip and read.

Move through the store and you will find a wide selection of greeting cards and unique gifts, either from local artists or from developing nations. Mooser estimates that about six or eight artists showcase or sell their work through the store.

After you peruse the bookshelves and other gifts, make your way to the back of the store for refreshments. The in-house coffee shop, Legal Grounds, is owned by local attorneys Teresa Fields and Kirsten Mendillo, who share a building and a partnership with Mooser.

They offer pastries, gelato and fresh coffee made with a French press. [Editor’s note: try the crumb cake, it’s delicious!]

Didn’t find anything you liked at the coffee shop? Try the adjoining cafe, Le Petit Gourmet. It is another woman-owned business that has a good professional relationship with Books and Company.

Mooser expresses that it’s the passions of the owners that connect the three businesses.

“We’re all here for the same purpose,” Mooser said. “To have a business but also to have a place where the community comes together.”

Mooser explains why she runs the used book shop in a time period so dominated by

technology.

“If I can’t be a bookstore, I don’t really want to do it,” said Mooser. “I really want to be able to provide people with the printed word.”

Despite the popularity of e-readers, the market for physical books is still prominent and evident through the store’s success.

Additionally, Mooser adjusted her business with the changing times by incorporating gifts and other wares, but kept to her values by promoting local artisans and those from developing nations.

Mooser takes pride in her work and enjoys being the one to bring reading back into the community. She loves when her customers ask for help finding a book or ask for reading suggestions.

“That’s what I’m here to do, to connect people to books,” Mooser said. “People can always come and get their batteries recharged.”

She is proud of the welcoming atmosphere Books and Company creates, as well as the variety of goods it offers.

In addition to its selection of literature, Books and Company showcases not only the work of its local people, but the sense of community that Hamden shares. There’s more to our area than the main stretch of Whitney Avenue that we know and love, so venture a little farther down the road. Especially as the weather gets colder, the shop provides a warm place to sip a coffee, snack on a pastry, browse unique gifts or discover your next favorite book.

The Quinnipiac Peace Pole

Since its installation in 2003, the monument advocates global unity

By MADISON FRAITAG Staff Writer

Have you ever seen that pole in front of the College of Arts and Sciences on your way to class in the morning?

It’s a simple wooden post with one phrase written in six different languages, planted outside the College of Arts and Sciences complex. This frequently overlooked feature of our campus is called a Peace Pole.

A Peace Pole is “a hand-crafted monument that displays the message and prayer ‘May Peace Prevail on Earth’ on each of its four or six sides, usually in different languages,” according to the official Peace Pole Project website.

Even for those students who are familiar with the concept of Peace Poles, it is not widely known how ours came into existence.

The Peace Pole has stood outside CAS since 2003. Political science professor Scott McLean was present for the “planting” of this pole. He and his service learning students were driving forces behind this project.

During the 2002-2003 school year, Quinnipiac students and professors held a service learning project for the middle school students at the Highville Mustard Seed Charter School in Hamden. These young students participated in a Model United Nations simulation with the help of Quinnipiac students.

The first Model UN simulation at Quinnipiac took place in the Piazza on May 3, 2003. The middle school students arrived on campus to partake in political roleplay, research international issues and conduct a deliberation on these issues. The students then, with the help of professor Crystal Brian in the theater program, put on a play portraying a peaceful environment for the Quinnipiac University community.

“The Pole was meant to symbolize the partnership between Quinnipiac University and the Highville Mustard Seed Charter School in Hamden,” McLean said. “It was meant to symbolize our shared concern with peace and

justice – not only in the international community, but also in the Hamden community.”

Together, the groups worked to establish unity and peace in our campus community through this project.

“During their Model UN simulation, we had a nice ceremony to recognize everyone and a ‘Pole Planting’ ceremony where the kids broke ground in the spot where the Pole is now,” McLean said.

This Model UN event continued annually for the following three years.

Although the Quinnipiac Peace Pole arrived in 2003, the original idea was established long before that.

“The Peace Poles idea originates in Japan, as a response to the atomic bomb[s] dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945,” McLean said.

Over time, 180 countries acquired Peace Poles. They serve as reminders to work each day toward world peace. There are now tens of thousands of Poles spread across every continent in the world.

Peace Poles often state the prayer “May Peace Prevail on Earth” in the language of its country, as well as several others. The Quinnipiac Peace Pole proudly proclaims this message in English, Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic, Hausa and Japanese.

This website displays images of Peace Poles in the United States as well as countries such as Pakistan, Italy, Ukraine, Poland, Japan, New Guinea, Egypt, Afghanistan, Yemen, Barbados, Nepal and the Philippines. At the time of each planting or soon after, a Pole Planting ceremony is held, similar to the one recounted by McLean on our own campus.

Courtney Hart, a freshman in the physician’s assistant program, says she had never noticed our Peace Pole on her regular walk to and from the CAS complex. Some elements of a peaceful university community are being accepting of differences, trying to be more understanding and creating an open and peaceful environment, Hart said.

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The Quinnipiac Peace Pole, pictured with its prayer in Spanish, English and Arabic.

“I think coexisting and everyone has different beliefs and ideas but everyone should be able to respect that and make everyone feel comfortable where they are,” she said.

The official Peace Pole Project elaborates on

the planting of a pole saying, “When you plant a Peace Pole in your community, you are linking with people all over the world who have planted Peace Poles in the same spirit of peace.”

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Music for Meals rocks for a cause

Design Editor

WQAQ hosted its annual Music For Meals concert on Friday, Nov. 13. Attendees could either donate two cans or pay $5, which is a pretty good deal considering eight cans for four people came to around $5. Cans were donated to the Hamden Food Bank. The artists that played were Caleb Cordes, Strange Kids, Pinegrove and Donovan Wolfington.

The show was at The Space, a unique venue that frequently hosts a mix of local acts and more popular bands. The crowd was on the smaller side; interestingly not many Quinnipiac students showed up to the student-run event. A lot of locals came out and supported the diverse group of bands.

Caleb Cordes from a band called Sinai Vessel played a very honest acoustic set. He shared extremely personal stories between songs about his grandfather who had passed away and expressed multiple times how thankful he was for the crowd listening to him. Cordes was very humble and had raw, yet soothing vocals that kicked off the night in a strong way.

Strange Kids from Watertown took the stage next. The all-male quartet had a fun rock sound and edgy personalities. Strange Kids played in WQAQ’s Spring Fest earlier this year and gave an equally impressive performance. The band had advanced guitar skills and overall sounded musically very well done, despite having a new drummer.

Pinegrove, a trio from Montclair, New Jersey, was the second billed band and played the most likable and interesting set.

Pinegrove played at The Heirloom Arts Theater in Danbury on Oct. 26 and stole the show. The high hopes for their return to

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Montclair. New Jersey’s trio Pinegrove played at WQAQ’s Music For Meals on Friday, Nov. 13.

Connecticut was met with a memorable and well done set. Vocalist Evan Hall’s subtle quirkiness shone through the indie rock sound. Pinegrove played a mix of faster songs, mid tempo tracks and even had their hit ballad “&” in the mix. The crowd was very responsive to the band’s catchy sound and those who were familiar with the band sang along passionately to every word.

The headliner Donovan Wolfington, from New Orleans, Louisiana, had a completely different sound than the rest of the bands. The

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Donovan Wolfington released “How to Treat the Ones You Love” back in August 2015 on Topshelf Records and played a few tracks from the album.

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November 18, 2015

The best of Tator Hall

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Through the eyes of an amateur art lover

The art in Tator Hall provides the only color in an otherwise bleak, institutional hallway. Some pieces are insanely technical; others are odd, beautiful and eccentric. This stretch of bulletin boards and display tables offers a pleasant pop of cultural appreciation to your walks to class.

Art may not always take priority when considering the academic

programs at a school, but it is an essential element of human nature. Humans began creating images and telling stories through them long before written word (and therefore, textbooks) came about. We can’t ignore art and its importance, so the Chronicle is here to commend some of the finest pieces that can now be viewed in the gallery that is Tator Hall. ­—Jeanette Cibelli

Seriously beautiful, this piece makes me feel like I’m gazing into the soul of an ocean.

This may be a dramatic metaphor, but I can’t help how I feel. I love the way the pieces of paper are neatly cut for the actual eye and then get messier for the surroundings -- it helps bring attention right to the center instead of anywhere else.

I’m all about this “Into The Woods” theme that is going on here.

Including actual sticks adds realistic depth to the piece, which I definitely respect. The painting of the trees receding deeper into the forest reminds me of hiking Sleeping Giant which is always a great memory.

Whether it was intentional or not, this piece is destined for to be an ad for “Alice in Wonderland.” The circular text in the face of the pocket watch is the perfect amount of dizzying, and the multitude of purples in the background complement the gold casing. The Roman numerals are a classy touch, and I wish I could make ripped paper look this good.

I see some sort of small spacecraft, maybe like a Raptor on “Battlestar Galactica.” The artist totally nails the “galaxy” design, looking way more legit than most galaxy print leggings.

The swirls of blue, black and pink look incredible, and glitter obviously makes it sparkle. Well done. NASA should be taking notes on spacecraft design from you.

Through a haphazard mix of colors and patterns, this bird really comes to life. It looks like it’s about to soar off the newspaper background - great contrast for the brightly hued bird. This collage makes me feel like I could quite literally fly through the clouds with this avian beauty.

At first, I glanced over this piece, put off by the skewed proportions in comparison to the more realistic paintings surrounding it. But then I looked back at the bright shapes of contrasting color and dredged up an art word from a class I took: Fauvism! (An artistic style known for its “spontaneous, often subjective response to nature… expressed in bold, undisguised brushstrokes and high-keyed, vibrant colors,” according to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s website.) This piece combines the use of bright colors and geometric shapes to create something quite beautiful. The dishes may be distorted, but I dig the surreal effect.

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The women’s team hosts Hartford on Thursday at 11 a.m., while the men’s team hosts Holy Cross Sunday at 1 p.m.

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RUNDOWN

MEN’S ICE HOCKEY QU 4, Harvard 1 – Friday Tim Clifton: 2 goals Sam Anas: 1 goal Tommy Schutt: 1 goal QU 6, Dartmouth 2 – Saturday Tim Clifton: 1 goal, 1 assist K.J. Tiefenwerth: 1 goal, 1 assist Michael Garteig: 22 saves WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY QU 1, Princeton 1 – Friday Meghan Turner: 1 goal Sydney Rossman: 19 saves QU 4, Princeton 2 – Saturday Cydney Rossman: 2 goals Nicole Brown: 1 goal, 1 assist MEN’S BASKETBALL Sacred Heart 76, QU 64 – Friday Daniel Harris: 13 points Chaise Daniels: 6 points, 7 rebounds WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Army 67, QU 57 – Sunday Sarah Shewan: 18 points Brittany Martin: 16 points WOMEN’S RUGBY QU 84, West Chester 7 – Saturday Ilona Maher: 3 tries WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL Iona 3, QU 1 – Saturday Emma Ogden: 35 assists, 15 digs Manhattan 3, QU 0 – Sunday Elizabeth Kloos: 5 blocks, 5 kills MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY 28th Place (NCAA Northeast Regional) WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY 18th Place (NCAA Northeast Regional)

GAMES TO WATCH MEN’S ICE HOCKEY QU vs Clarkson – Friday, 7 p.m.

QU vs St. Lawrence – Saturday, 7 p.m.

WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY QU at Princeton – Friday, 7 p.m.

QU at St. Lawrence – Saturday, 3 p.m.

MEN’S BASKETBALL QU at Vermont – Wednesday, 7 p.m.

QU vs Holy Cross – Sunday, 1 p.m.

QU vs North Carolina Central – Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL QU vs Hartford – Thursday, 11 a.m.

QU vs Holy Cross – Saturday, 2 p.m.

WOMEN’S RUGBY QU vs Norwich (NCVWRA Semifinals @ Providence RI)– Friday, 12 p.m.

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November 18, 2015

Braves club hockey tops UConn

Offensive explosion gives Braves 10-5 victory over Huskies

By BILL RUOCCO Contributing Writer

In a game that seemed like it was nothing but Braves’ goals, the Braves Hockey Club topped UConn 10-5 Sunday night at the Northford Ice Pavilion.

A late burst in the third period from the Huskies would not prove strong enough, as good special teams play from the Braves countered several late penalties.

“It’s been a little up and down, tonight it was working well,” said Braves head coach Richard Conte about the power play and penalty kill. “That’s been something we’ve been working on all season, trying to get the guys to be more aggressive on that penalty kill.”

The Braves struck first after numerous chances halfway into the opening period, when senior forward Colin Fay lifted a hard wrist shot over the right shoulder of the Uconn netminder. It did not take Fay’s line long to score again, as one of his wingers, Bryan Lynch, powered a shot off the goalie and into the net about a minute later.

Fay’s line created chances throughout the contest, and the line ended up with four total points.

“We’re getting a lot of the pucks to the net, which is key,” senior forward Evan Jackson said.

“It starts from good defense, but we’re definitely pressing down low so it worked out for us.”

The next goal came on the man advantage for the Braves, with a slapshot from the point for defensemen Stephen Neal, making the score 3-0 in favor of the Braves with about five minutes left in the first.

About four minutes following

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the power play goal, Braves forward Cam Curley would notch his first of two goals on the evening, taking it by himself over the blue line and ripping the puck top left from the slot.

Pressure and shots on net by the Braves from the beginning of the second period proved to be too much for UConn about 5 minutes in when forward Jake Healey sped into the zone and dropped a pass back to a trailing Alex Posillico for a one-timer.

Following the game’s theme, good passing and positioning by the Braves led to a tap in goal from captain Sean Simons to give the

Braves a 6-0 lead.

With about nine minutes left in the period, the Huskies finally got on the board on a breakaway, lowering the deficit to five.

After the UConn goal, Peter Beckwermert scored two straight goals for the Braves, making it 8-1 by the end of the second period.

Beckwermert ended up with four points in the contest.

The Huskies found their scoring touch in the final period as they would tally three straight scores to cut the Quinnipiac lead in half at 8-4.

“We just had to keep our heads,” Jackson said. “We had to

stay out the box, but in the end it worked out for us.”

Cam Curley ended UConn’s scoring onslaught after he scored the Braves first goal of the third period, bringing the advantage back up to five.

The Huskies scored again with about three and a half minutes left, but it was too little too late for the Huskies. Evan Jackson scored with 10 seconds remaining to seal the deal for the Braves at 10-5.

With the win, the Braves improved their record to 3-10 on the season and will head to Babson this Saturday for their final matchup of the semester.

Women’s ice hockey ties Princeton

By JORDAN NOVACK Associate Sports Editor

Despite holding a lead that would stand for most of the game, No. 8 Quinnipiac women’s ice hockey tied No. 10 Princeton 1-1 at the High Power Solutions Arena Friday evening.

With the score tied 0-0 during the first period, the Bobcats were looking for the play that would put them in control versus Princeton.

That play would come in the form of a Meghan Turner goal.

Turner’s fourth goal of the season came after she slotted the puck past Tiger’s goaltender, Kimberley Newell, for the 1-0 lead.

With the goal, Turner has now scored in consecutive games.

“I think that getting in front of the net, screening, and being gritty are some of my strengths,” Turner said. “In the past I think I may have been a little more complacent, but now I’m trying harder to bear down and put them into the net” The Tigers would not go down without a fight, though, as the Tiger’s Karlie Lund would slot her own shot past Sydney Rossman and bring the score even with 7:20 remaining in the third period.

The score remained tied at 1-1

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Emma Woods screens Princeton goalie Kimberley Newell on a shot.

at the end of regulation, becoming the second of the Bobcats last three games to reach overtime.

In overtime, the momentum swung in Princeton’s favor early, but Rossman made a few big saves for the Bobcats during the extra period.

The Bobcats would have three shots of their own in overtime, but none found the back of the net and the game ended in a draw.

After the game, captain Cydney Roesler discussed the team’s need to improve holding onto a lead.

“It was tough tonight because we had the lead and we lost it in

the third,” Roesler said. “We have to be better at keeping a lead and being able to hold them off. We know it is something we need to improve on, and it is something we will definitely be working on.”

Even though the game ended in a tie, the Bobcats outshot the Tigers 30-21 in the contest.

Bobcats head coach Cassandra Turner spoke of the team’s struggles to finish chances.

“We need to score,” Turner said. “We had some good scoring chances, but we need to bury those. We need to take those chances more seriously, and find a

way to put them in the net.”

“We have that ability on this team, I think each individual just need to feel a little bit better to be able to put those shots into the goal.”

Another area in which the Bobcats struggled was on the power play. Quinnipiac was unsuccessful on all four of their chances and only mustered nine shots.

“I thought there were some good things with our power play, but it takes time to build chemistry up when you make a few changes,” Turner said. “We still really like the changes that we’ve made, and I think that watching the video and getting them more comfortable playing with one another will help fix the issues.”

With that tie, the Bobcats were now 6-1-3 on the season, and 2-12 in ECAC conference play. These two teams met again Saturday night, as the series shifted to New Jersey. The Bobcats would correct their mistakes, and beat the Tigers 4-2, behind a pair of goals from Roesler.

The win and draw would not affect the Bobcats place in the polls, as they remained in the 8th spot in the USCHO.com polls that were released this week.

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Championship Sunday

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Friday’s 76-64 loss to Sacred Heart was men’s basketball’s second opening game loss during Tom Moore’s head coaching tenure.

Taylar Cianfarano scored her teamleading ninth goal in women’s ice hockey’s 4-2 win over.

Princeton on Sunday.

The women’s basketball team missed its first 17 field goal attempts in Sunday’s 67-57 lost to Army.

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK

Clockwise from top left: A player from Joga Bonita advances the ball during the men’s soccer intramural championship game Sunday, members of Rick and The Boys pose after winning the men’s volleyball intramural championship, a player from Beer-celona (yellow) tries to get past a defender, members of All About that Ace pose after their win.

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During the weekend series vs Princeton, Roesler had an assist on the only goal the Bobcat’s scored in the 1-1 draw on Friday and two goals in the 4-2 victory on Saturday.

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“I think our team is developing their personality and getting into a place where they are incredibly supportive of each other.”

— CASSANDRA TURNER WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY

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Superfans Jesse Bickford and Mike Canty have a deep-rooted passion for Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey

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Jesse Bickford (left) and Mike Canty (right) take in the Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey game against Dartmouth from their usual seats.

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Contributing Writer

Every year, the ice hockey season creates passion and excitement that not only brings students together, but also local residents. Quinnipiac fans are like no other, displaying an unwavering pride that ultimately unites fans and the community as a whole.

And if you go to the games, two people you may have seen around the rink are Jesse Bickford and Mike Canty, two of the Bobcats’ biggest fans.

Bickford, a resident of Wallingford, and Canty, a resident of Meriden, have been attending men’s ice

hockey home games for the past 10 seasons.

Growing up, ice hockey was always a passion for both Bickford and Canty. They’ve been fans of the sport for as long as they can remember. The hard hitting and pulsating showdown have the two on the edge of their seats at all times, regardless of the score.

“We love coming to the games,” Bickford said. “It was my dad’s idea to get us season tickets years ago.

The games are always exciting to come watch.”

Bickford enjoys being a fan be-

cause you get to meet different types of people of different ages from the local communities.

“It’s a good time for kids and young players to come watch hockey,” Bickford said. “Residents in the area have really done an amazing job of supporting the Bobcats, as they truly are an intangible aspect of attending the games.”

Canty added that he enjoys coming to the games, and that he and Bickford very rarely miss a night of hockey in Hamden.

“We’ve been coming for a lot of years always have a lot of fun,”

Canty said.

Just as hockey players are notorious for unusual superstitions, Bickford and Canty have developed their own ritual. They watch every home ice hockey game from their trademark seats, located along the zamboni doors. Every time Quinnipiac plays at the TD Bank Sports Center, you’ll find them wearing Boston Bruins jerseys that have been autographed from current and graduated Bobcat players.

Over the past years, Bickford and Canty have seen the full growth and transformation of what Quinnipiac

ice hockey has become, as the Bobcats are now a powerhouse in college hockey. Quinnipiac has won two ECAC regular season championships in the past four years, along with a Frozen Four appearance in 2013.

Not only have they seen the university grow in size, but they witnessed the renovation of the TD Bank Sports Center, which opened in 2007. The building of the Sports Center, moved the Bobcats from the Northford Ice Pavilion to an arena the Quinnipiac fans could call their own.

When at the games, Bickford and Canty always try to be the most passionate fans, encouraging others to get excited and cheer.

Bickford and Canty have made attending the Bobcats’ games a top priority. They even travel to other schools to see Quinnipiac as much as possible.

“We have a great time everytime we go,” Canty said.

The two even traveled to Yale last year, and they plan on going to the Battle of Whitney Avenue again this year.

“We don’t like Yale very much when it comes to hockey,” Canty added. “If the Bobcats don’t win, we’ll be really upset.”

Bickford and Canty both have high expectation for Quinnipiac every single year, and this year is no different. Quinnipiac is 10-0-0 on the season, and currently ranks No. 1 in the PairWise rankings, and No. 3 in the latest USCHO.com poll.

And if you plan on coming to Quinnipiac’s game next Friday, Nov. 20, against Clarkson, you are guaranteed to see Bickford and Canty in the stands - sitting in their usual spot cheering on their beloved Bobcats.

Men’s ice hockey bests Dartmouth 6-2

By SAM DaCOSTA Staff Writer

After a physical game that saw plenty of penalty minutes, Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey defeated Dartmouth by a final score of 6-2 at the High Point Solutions Arena on Saturday evening.

“I think the physicality for the most part favors us,” Bobcats Captain Soren Jonzzon said. “We aren’t a huge team but we’re pretty aggressive and we like to play an in-your-face game where we take away time and space.”

Along with the physicality came a lot of penalties. Quinnipiac registered four penalty minutes while Dartmouth registered 15.

“I don’t know if we were that disciplined… but I think we stayed out of the box enough,” Quinnipiac head coach Rand Pecknold said. “It was a chippy game, Dartmouth was playing hard and we were playing hard

and things escalated a little bit but I thought the officials did a pretty good job kind of getting it under control.”

Despite all the opportunities, the Bobcats’ power play started 0-3 and struggled to generate scoring chances until Dartmouth’s Brett Patterson received a five-minute major penalty and a game misconduct for hitting from behind.

From there, Quinnipiac’s power play started to come together. The Bobcats capitalized on the five-minute power play giving themselves a 4-2 lead after stringing together several passes through the offensive zone to find Tim Clifton wide open for a tap-in goal with 28 seconds remaining in the second period. K.J. Tiefenwerth and Andrew Taverner registered assists on the play.

Sam Anas scored on a hard, onetimed slap shot from the left faceoff

circle before Patterson’s penalty expired 31 seconds into the third period, giving the Bobcats a 5-2 lead. The goal, assisted by Devon Toews and Travis St. Denis would be the 51st career goal for Anas.

“We were really getting outworked on our power play and that’s uncharacteristic of us,” Anas said. “We still have to work hard and win battles and win races on pucks and good things will come our way when we do that.”

“We don’t run around and kill people,” Pecknold said, “but we want to make sure we finish our checks and get a bump so that players can’t get back into the play. I think we’re a better team when we’re physical.”

The Bobcats are back in action Tuesday, when they travel to take on the UConn Huskies. Puck drop is set for 7 p.m.

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Members of the men’s ice hockey team celebrate after scoring a goal.