QUChronicle.com February 27, 2013 Volume 82 Issue 19 Proud recipient of the New England Society of Newspaper Editors' award for 2012 College Newspaper of the Year
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Putting a price on education
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Professor of Law Jennifer Gerarda Brown will be the new dean of the School of Law in July.
New law school dean named By RACHEL COGUT
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Quinnipiac tuition has risen significantly since the 2008-09 academic year. According to the university’s website, tuition will cost $39,330 next year.
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Professor of Law Jennifer Gerarda Brown was announced the new dean of Quinnipiac University’s School of Law by President John Lahey last week, effective July 1, 2013. Brown joined Quinnipiac University’s School of Law faculty in 1994, and is currently the Carmen Tortora Professor of Law. Brown has served as the Director of the Quinnipiac Center on See Dean Page 3
By DANIEL GROSSO Associate News Editor
Returning Quinnipiac students and incoming freshmen will have to reach a little deeper into their pockets next fall if they intend to pay for their education. Quinnipiac’s Board of Trustees decided to raise tuition by $1,330 for the upcoming academic year. The hike brings tuition, which was $38,000 this year, to $39,330. Factoring the cost of room and board, students can expect to pay at least
$53,380 to attend Quinnipiac, according to the university’s website. The new, higher prices have some students scrambling to pay the bills. “I pay for my own schooling for the most part. My parents helped me the first year or so and after that I was on my own,” junior Teresa Santos said. “I rely on loans to stay here. This just means that I will be paying off my loans for longer than I planned.” Despite the increased tuition prices, Quinnipiac still ranks behind
Connecticut College, Trinity College, Wesleyan University and Yale University in total cost per year of undergraduate study in the state. “The process of setting tuition, room and board for the next fiscal year begins in the fall when the Cabinet officers and deans submit anticipated budgetary needs that are consistent with anticipated enrollment and necessary to meet their institutional goals,” Vice President for Public Affairs Lynn Bushnell said in a statement. “Every effort is made to keep our increases to a minimum.” Junior Jake Campbell understands the rationale behind the tuition pricing, but hopes that he can see more tangible evidence of his investment. “A tuition hike is something that is inevitable at a school like ours and that’s a shame,” Campbell, who pays for his own schooling, said. “It means that students are going to have to find a way to come up with [more money] out of their own pocket. And for what? I probably won’t even see where my money is going.” Both Campbell and Santos recognize their education is an investment that does not have a dollar value. However, Santos feels Quinnipiac’s tuition prices are a bit steep. “To me you can’t put a value on
education, but once I realized that Quinnipiac raises the tuition every year I was ready to transfer because it’s so expensive,” Santos said. “Quinnipiac is a great school and the education is wonderful, but at the end of the day we are just paying for the name.” Students who pay their way or rely on loans do not need to immediately panic, as the university says it does not raise tuition without also offering more financial aid. “The senior vice president for finance and the vice president for admissions and financial aid develop a recommendation for tuition, room and board,” Bushnell said. “The recommended rates, along with an appropriate level of financial aid, are then discussed at several cabinet meetings.” While more financial aid is given to compensate for increases in tuition, some students are looking for an end to tuition hikes. Campbell believes that the school does not need to raise tuition each academic year because there are other expenditures that can be cut from the university’s budget. “I think the university could afford to lower tuition considerably,” Campbell said. “If Tom Brady can take a pay cut, why can’t President Lahey?”
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Although the university banned smoking cigarettes on the North Haven Campus last summer, there are no plans to implement a similar rule on the Mount Carmel and York Hill campuses, according to Associate Vice President for Public Relations John Morgan. On the Mount Carmel and York Hill campuses, smoking is permitted outdoors, but not inside the buildings and residence halls, Chief of Public Safety David Barger said. In 2003, Connecticut’s Clean Indoor Air Act outlawed smoking in the workplace, restaurants, food stores, state buildings and the dorm rooms of public and private universities. Smoking in the residence halls is
also a violation of the student housing contract, Barger said. Since smoking is detrimental to one’s health and the North Haven focuses on the Health Sciences, the university banned smoking on the North Haven campus last summer. “They wanted to have that whole aura of being a healthy environment,” Barger said. “How do you have a healthy environment with someone smoking with all that we know?” Barger said that since North Haven is relatively new and not a residential campus, implementing this rule was fairly easy. “It hasn’t come with a great deal of enforcement,” he said. “Everyone has seemed to comply down there with the no smoking.” On the Mount Carmel Campus however, some students are both-
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ered by the amount of smoking. “It is annoying when you see people smoking when you are trying to get to class and see people outside Tator [Hall] blowing smoke in your face,” junior Cynthia Francois said. According to Barger, students have never pushed for the Mount Carmel and York Hill campuses to become tobacco-free. “I don’t think [banning smoking] has ever been brought up,” he said. “If there were a movement of some type, perhaps it would be looked at with a little bit more discerning eye.” Freshman Christian Spader believes that students have the right to smoke cigarettes on campus. “We are all adults and if you have an addiction what are you supposed to do, leave campus?” he said. On the other hand, sophomore Maylin Salazar said that she would support a smoking ban on campus. “If it is for the public health it is good,” she said. “[Smoking] is gross See smoking Page 3
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