The Quinnipiac Chronicle, Issue 24, Volume 84

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SGA to hold elections Wednesday

Housing selection process revamped

By TARA O’NEILL and SARAH DOIRON

Junior and current Vice President for Public Relations Carly Hviding is running unopposed for student body vice president.

She said her involvement with SGA has allowed her to listen to the student body’s concerns and experiences.

“I hope that I can unify all members of the community,” Hviding said. “The students are at the center of the Quinnipiac community and I believe that empowering them and advocating for their needs [will] create the greatest experience for current and future students.”

During her speech, Hviding said she will put the needs of the students first. She said

Residential Life is changing this semester’s housing process.

One of the biggest changes is that juniors may be forced to live in a limited number of rooms in the Hill residence halls if those in Crescent and Westview on the York Hill campus are full, according to an email from the Associate Director of Residential Life Melissa Karipidis.

Sophomore Mike Tullo said he and his roommates have already discussed the possibility of living in Hill on main campus.

“My roommates actually talked about this, we are perfectly fine for Hill,” Tullo said. “I would love to stay on main campus and Hill is one of the nicest suites you can get. [The] only downside is we wouldn’t be with most of our class, but we all have cars to get on York if we wanted.”

There are also changes being made for freshmen choosing sophomore housing.

Any current freshmen planning to select a room in Hill or Village on main campus will choose housing on April 13, Karipidis wrote in the email. Once the housing for Hill and Village are full, the housing selection will be over for that day. That being said, if there are students who did not select a room will have to change the size of their group and will participate in another room selection the next day.

The freshmen students who have to participate in a second round of the housing selection will have their new selection in-

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See HOUSING SELECTION Page 4

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Junior Jonny Atkin is running unopposed this year for the Student Government Association’s student body president position.

By STAFF REPORTS

Student Government Association (SGA) will hold elections on Wednesday, April 8, 2015. But before the elections, students running for SGA positions had the opportunity to debate and present their goals.

The event was hosted by SGA in the Carl Hansen Student Center piazza on Monday night. Jonny Atkin, a junior and current student body vice president, is running unopposed for student body president.

“I am a big believer that passion is what drives results and I believe it is my passion and determination to improve Quinnipiac as a whole that will ultimately qualify me,” Atkin said.

Atkin also mentioned his intention to pursue big projects during his senior year, such as pushing for the club sports program, getting a coffee shop on campus, getting the university to host spring weekend rather than May weekend and getting a community space for students over the age of 21.

He also said he wants to improve the overall student body satisfaction during the remainder of his time with SGA. “The success of this organization is really measured by the satisfaction of the student body,” Atkin said. “I hold that level of satisfaction to a very high standard and I can assure everyone here that the resources of SGA will be dedicated to going above and beyond that standard.”

Hamden proposes to raise off-campus permit fees

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“We are looking at this as if it’s a tax, without the city having the authority to create their own taxes.

Therefore it’s illegal.”

– BOB DECOSMO PRESIDENT OF THE CTPOA and landlords working together to improve the business conditions for rental property owners.”

What DeCosmo found was the initial permit fee and renewal fees could be illegal taxes.

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Heather Chometa is a resident, business owner and landlord of Quinnipiac student housing in Hamden.

Chometa and her husband began renting houses to students in 1999 when there were no regulations. Then a few years later, Hamden required the renters to have a permit to be able to rent out to students.

The permits are currently $300 to $500, and the town is now proposing to raise the fees to $1,000. The landlords must renew their permits every year, which costs $150 every time. The town is now proposing to raise them to $300. The inspection fees, which are common in many towns, are $75 that goes to Quinnipiack Valley Health District and an additional $300 to the Hamden Planning and Zoning Commission but the inspection services remain the same.

When Chometa heard that the student housing regulation fees were going to be raised, she reached out to other property

owners who rent to students.

One of Chometa’s letters ended up on Bob DeCosmo’s desk. Bob DeCosmo is the president of the Connecticut Property Owners Alliance (CTPOA). This alliance, according to its website, is “an organization of experienced property managers, realtors

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“We complied [to paying the fees] because we thought it was a legal policy and that the town of Hamden had the right to do this,” Chometa said. “After Bob received my letter he has actually informed us that this is an illegal policy.”

Under the Connecticut Fair Housing Laws, the state does not allow cities to create their own local taxes without providing any service in return to the property owner.

“We’re looking at this as if it’s a tax, without the city having the authority to create their own taxes. Therefore it’s illegal,” said DeCosmo.

Leslie Creane, the town planner of the Planning and Zoning Commission of Hamden isn’t worried about the CTPOA. “We have had the same policies in place for, probably when we first instituted student housing regulations, 13 to 14 years.

They have not been challenged, we have no reason to believe that they are not legal.”

DeCosmo isn’t surprised that the policy is still in effect since no one has challenged

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them before.

“Until someone steps up and pushes back, they can do anything.”

DeCosmo says if the prices go up, students will end up having to pay higher rent since landowners are paying more to rent them out.

CTPOA believes Hamden is not allowed to charge the fee to begin with and hopes to remove the policies altogether.

“We’ve been in contact with attorneys who believe this is a civil rights matter,” DeCosmo said. “To me, it looks like they’re trying to regulate behavior and the property owner is in between it.”

The town supplies a packet for all landowners looking to rent to students. DeCosmo found a couple of things in this packet to be “very disturbing.”

Within the packet is a sheet that includes the property address, the name of the students, their phone numbers and email adSee HOUSING PERMITS Page 4

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STUDENTS SPEAK UP

The university spread out this year’s housing selection process for freshmen and sophomores over multiple days, allowing them to have more time to find more roommates if they do not get their desired housing. Some students said they are not worried about housing, but others are concerned they will not get to live where they want next academic year.

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MANAGING EDITOR Julia Perkins

Rebecca Kim|Freshman

DESIGN EDITOR Hannah Schindler

“[My friends and I] have a pretty solid group and we got really lucky with our [lottery] number so I’m not too stressed out about it.”

ASSOCIATE DESIGN EDITOR Kristen Riello CO-NEWS EDITOR Nicole Hanson CO-NEWS EDITOR Sarah Doiron ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR Tara O’Neill ARTS & LIFE EDITOR Sara Kozlowski ASSOCIATE ARTS & LIFE EDITOR Jeanette Cibelli

Antonio Ramirez|Sophomore “I feel like I don’t really care where I end up living as long as I’m living with my selected roommates. It would suck [to live in Hill as a junior].”

ASSOCIATE ARTS & LIFE EDITOR Kelly Novak SPORTS EDITOR Nick Solari

William Wilson|Sophomore

ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR Alec Turner

“I’m not worried. We had [lottery number] 53 so we’re pretty set. We actually registered yesterday so we’re all set and done.”

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Marisa Reeser|Freshman “I’m stressed out because it’s very hard to get a group together that’s with a triple because it’s an odd number and no one wants to be in a triple room, but luckily I found a girl that was in my hallway that needed two more people.”

Beyond the Bobcats

A rundown on news outside the university.

By Nicole Hanson

Experimental drug may cure Alzheimer’s disease

Social media sites blocked in Turkey

UVA fraternity plans to sue Rolling Stone

Researchers from the Yale School of Medicine have found that an experimental cancer drug may be helpful in curing Alzheimer’s disease. The drug, named AZD05030, was created by pharmaceutical company Astra Zeneca and was used in a National Institutes of Health study. The study tested drugs that failed their intended purposes on other diseases, according to the New Haven Register. Researchers say that AZD05030 prevented damage caused by beta amyloid plaques in mice, thus avoiding further symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. Clinical studies on humans have started due to the successful experiments with mice.

Sites like Twitter and YouTube have been blocked in Turkey as a result of a court order. Not only did the court order block the two social media giants, but it also blocked 164 other sites across the country. Government officials created the order after photos were released of a hostage situation on March 31 in Istanbul, according to CNN. Two gunmen and a prosecutor who were taken hostage were supposedly killed during the siege. Authorities say they ordered the sites to take the photos down, but have simply chosen to block the sites after users refused these informal orders. Newspapers were also stopped from printing photos of the siege.

The Phi Kappa Psi chapter at UVA says it has plans to sue Rolling Stone magazine after it printed a now discredited story about an alleged gang-rape in the fraternity’s house. The Rolling Stone printed the story in November 2014, despite the fact that police said there was no evidence of this attack. After millions have viewed the false article, fraternity members say their house has been vandalized, according to CBS News. Phi Kappa Psi members announced Monday that they will be taking legal action against the magazine, and they are saying the article was reckless and defamatory.

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Committed to Quinnipiac

Monique Drucker promoted to vice president, dean of students

By ADELIA COUSER Staff Writer

Monique Drucker officially assumed her responsibilities as Quinnipiac’s vice president (VP) and dean of students on April 1.

Drucker, who has worked at QU for 19 years and most recently held the position of associate vice president for student affairs, said she is “very excited about the opportunity” to serve the university community in this new role.

“I care about the students and the QU community a great deal,” she said. “I put the students at the center of my work and am committed to advocating for them and being their voice at the institutional level.”

As VP and dean, Drucker will report to Executive Vice President and Provost Mark Thompson and manage a staff of 57 employees.

She will also oversee and take fiscal responsibility for the Division of Student Affairs, which includes campus life, residential life, fraternity and sorority life, student conduct, student health and counseling services, graduate student life, community service and orientation.

The institution has been without leadership in this role for almost two years, according to Drucker. She said that this might present a challenging transition but she is “eager” to work with the Division of Student Affairs’ staff.

“We have a very strong division with staff who are enthusiastic about serving our students in innovative and exceptional ways,” she said.

“I’d like to see us partner with faculty and Academic Affairs in more intentional ways so that we can impact the student experience more seamlessly inside and outside the classroom.”

Drucker plans to enhance students’ experiences and success by evaluating the university’s current programs, practices and policies and promoting increased collaboration across

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Monique Drucker began her new job as vice president, dean of students on April 1. the community.

“I take my responsibility to serve the students and the community very genuinely and seriously,” she said. “I am accessible, and it’s important to me that students know they can come to Student Affairs to have their voice heard.”

Drucker’s promotion has been received well by the Quinnipiac community, and many of her colleagues have offered words of support.

“I am confident that Monique is the right person to lead the student affairs division,” Thompson said in a MyQ announcement. “[She] brings a demonstrated track record of success in enhancing service to students, pro-

moting collaboration and accomplishing meaningful institutional change. I consider the role of the vice president and dean of students to be among the most important, given its breadth of responsibility and impact on student life.”

In an official statement, President John Lahey said: “This appointment reflects Monique’s demonstrated leadership and ability to keep abreast of national trends and best practices that will continue to enhance the student experience and student success at Quinnipiac.”

Drucker is proud of her employment history in education and has worked extensively with students in various areas of campus life and student health services.

Prior to working at Quinnipiac, she worked in the office of student life at the University at Buffalo where her primary responsibilities included orientation, campus-wide events and student union operations.

She was hired at Quinnipiac in January 1996 as the assistant director of the student center and was later promoted to associate director.

Her primary responsibilities included Student Center operations, Senior Week, advisor to SGA and class cabinets, student organizations and leadership development.

During this time, she was also trained through Connecticut Sexual Assault Crisis Services (CONNSACS) to be a certified sexual assault crisis counselor.

In 2002, she moved to the Dean of Students Office as the assistant dean of student affairs, where she focused on student conduct and alcohol and drug education and awareness. She was promoted to associate dean of student affairs in 2005 and began overseeing orientation, student organizations, Greek life and the Office of Community Service.

Most recently in 2011, she was promoted to associate vice president for student affairs, where she supervised student conduct, student health services and counseling services. She was named the institutional Title IX Coordinator for the university and served as institutional representative for legal cases involving student conduct, student policies and procedures.

Outside of Quinnipiac, Drucker is a mother of four adopted children and recently completed her doctorate degree. She received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from State University New York at Fredonia and her master’s degree from the University at Buffalo, where she studied college counseling and administration.

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3 students run for SGA VP for public relations SGA DEBATES from cover she hopes to make all students feel like they can make changes at Quinnipiac, whether or not they get involved on campus.

Hviding also addressed bringing more extracurricular activities to the Quinnipiac campus so students have more ways to spend their free time. She said she thinks little additions like that will help with the first-year retention rate.

Three students, junior Rebecca Carlone and sophomores Joey Mullaney and Anisha Manglani, are running for vice president for public relations. This is the first time in recent memory, according to debate moderator and senior class Vice President Joe Kohle, that more than two people have run for an executive board position.

All three candidates emphasized how they want to improve the university’s relationship with Hamden and work with student media to let students know what SGA is doing.

Carlone, who has been on SGA’s public relations committee for two years, said she wants to spread the word about the good students do.

“You’re already all doing what you need to be doing,” she said. “All that needs to change is who gets to see that side of you and how we get them to see it….How we promote ourselves and connect to our community is what’s going to push us over the edge.”

Mullaney said he wants to improve the way SGA uses social media to let students know what they are doing.

“If students know we are working on

[various initiatives] to try to benefit them maybe they can have more of a say in how they can help us or how we can help them,” he said.

Manglani’s ideas included having organizations host events for Hamden, holding a “Dinner with the Deans” event and creating a texting service for students to voice their concerns to SGA “SGA needs to have a face in every organization,” she said. “We need to have a member of our organization that goes and sits in with the accounting society, or Habitat for Humanity and so on and just show that face, go to their meetings, show them we care and develop that relationship so that when they need something from the Student Government Association they know who to come to.”

Sophomores Christopher Desilets and Travis McMurray are running for vice president for finance. Desilets is currently the president of the sophomore class, while McMurray is the vice president of the sophomore class.

Desilets said he hopes to maintain a good relationship with administration so students can have a greater influence over what changes are made to the Quinnipiac campuses.

“As students, it is our job to keep administration honest and it is up to us to make Quinnipiac better for the classes that come after us,” Desilets said. “As vice president for finance, I will make it my mission to make Quinnipiac a better university one day one step at a time.”

McMurray emphasized his experience with handling organizations’ budgets be-

cause he is the treasurer of the QU Irish Club and the assistant director of finance for his fraternity. He said he wants to build on what current Vice President for Finance Matt Powers has done to make the budget process easier for student organizations.

“My goal is to take this idea of efficiency and turn it inward, making the finance committee, all of the organizations and the VP for finance position more efficient for giving and getting the correct amount of money,” McMurray said.

“The success of this organization is really measured by the satisfaction of the student body.”

– JONATHAN ATKIN SGA STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT CANDIDATE This means encouraging student leaders to do more research when they apply for money, so they understand what they are asking for, he said. He also wants finance committee members to attend events so they know how organizations are using their money.

Desilets also said he wants SGA to be able to provide organizations with the budgets to travel to conferences and competitions around the country.

“We have to be able to send our mock trials and our a cappella groups to Florida and all over the country where they can compete

with other students,” he said. “We have the talent, but we have been handcuffing our student organizations and that is SGA’s fault.”

Juniors Bianca Solano and Lindsey Banks are running for the new position, vice president for student experience.

Banks aims to promote school spirit through the “We are Quinnipiac Campaign” and work on the May weekend, coffee shop, club sports and York Hill pub proposals. She wants to continue with SGA’s Tuesdays Two surveys, while creating an online public forum for the student body to discuss ideas.

“This is most directly student oriented position we have ever had and I think that is really cool,” Banks said. “More than just hearing a student concern, let’s brainstorm it together and let’s go further than just something you want to see done. Let’s have these discussions and talk and work towards solutions all together so that you feel more part of the process.”

Meanwhile, Solano’s goals include bringing new clubs to campus, emphasizing diversity, improving the advising process, creating better job and internship opportunities for students, and listening to students.

“I could not do this job without the help of my fellow peers and working hand-inhand I can understand what each experience to each student means and what I can do to help improve it,” she said. “By working hand-in-hand I can mend on what the students needs to make their experience great and with that I am committed to giving you the experience of a lifetime.”

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QU Ballroom Society to host dance competition The Quinnipiac Ballroom Society will have its annual ‘Dancing with the QU stars’ event on April 10 at 8 p.m. in Burt Kahn. Five faculty members will be paired with students from the Ballroom Society in the dance competition. The event raises money for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and tickets are $5 at the door. VIP table seating costs $20 and can be purchased by contacting junior Amir Boone.

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Hike to yoga dates released for spring 2015 The reflective hike to yoga is continuing again this spring on select Mondays from 4:30-6:30 p.m. These Monday’s will be April 6 with John Goepfrich, April 13 with Julie Giblin, April 20 with Ari Perez and April 27 with an instructor that is yet to be determined. The hike to yoga includes a brief meditation at the base of the Sleeping Giant, which is followed by hiking, yoga and reflective conversation. People who are attending are asked to bring water and a towel or blanket to do yoga on, and should plan for a vigorous hike. Email Associate Athletic Director of Fitness and Wellness Tami Reilly to register. -S. Doiron

Greek life to add two new sororities

The Greek community will be adding two new chapters for women on campus. The sorority Gamma Phi Beta will join in fall 2015, according to the Quinnipiac Panhellenic Council’s Twitter. It has also been announced that a new chapter of the fraternity Delta Delta Delta will be colonized in fall 2017.

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School of Communications to host Media Mashup The fourth annual Media Mashup will take place on April 8 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m in the Rocky Top Student Center on York Hill.

Media Mashup is a networking event for students in the School of Communications and serves as a professional conference. The event will also give students the opportunity to have their cover letters and resumes reviewed by faculty and professionals. Students can also get LinkedIn headshots taken at the event. -S. Doiron

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Student rights, landowners policies questioned HOUSING PERMITS from cover dresses. It is sent to neighbors without the students’ consent, and if the landlords do not hand in this sheet, the city can deny the renting permit to the landlords.

“Would the town employees or the people in the neighborhood who don’t want students living there, would they feel comfortable giving their 20-year-old daughter’s phone number, address and name to just a stranger?” Chometa said.

“And if something happens to a student like a rape or a murder because some person who shouldn’t have this information does have it, who’s responsible for that? It’s a dangerous situation.”

Chometa believes this process should be eliminated and that people should meet their neighbors like anyone else would when someone new moves in which consists of walking over, introducing themselves and exchanging phone numbers if they want to.

The only other group of people who landlords have to register is sex offenders.

“Students shouldn’t be categorized with this group of people,” Chometa said.

DeCosmo finds the policy to be “arbitrary” and “capricious” since landlords across the board who aren’t renting to students don’t have to deal with these permits.

The landlords are able to rent to any other person 18 and over without a permit.

“They make us jump through all these hoops to rent to students as if students are common criminals and people need to be warned that they’re in the neighborhood... it’s really not a fair policy,” Chometa said.

Another difference when renting to students is the parking policies. Students must park in the back of their driveway but anyone

THE CHANGING POLICIES Some of the new proposals for landowners of student housing: • • • •

Change the renewal fee from $150 to $500.

Change the initial fee for a permit to $1,000.

Limit the number of student houses on each block.

Require a special permit approval, allowing neighbors to support or oppose students moving in even if they meet all zoning requirements.

• Have QU put problem houses on list of “unapproved” locations.

• Exempt graduate students from these policies.

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The town of Hamden is proposing to make the above changes for landlords of student housing. else can park on their own lawn.

“We can’t create a policy that’s discriminatory,” DeCosmo said.

Chometa doesn’t live next to students but she does have Quinnipiac men’s lacrosse players living directly above her store.

“They are the most polite, courteous, respectful boys I have ever encountered,” she said. “They are very helpful, they take our garbage out, they offer to shovel the sidewalk, they are always looking to help.”

Chometa has two boys of her own and says the lacrosse players are great role models for her boys.

“I dont have any neighbors complaining about the students to me.”

Chometa is aware of problematic renters but thinks Hamden is lucky.

“In my opinion, you can have much worse neighbors. These kids are not robbing your house, they’re not stealing your cars or murdering and raping your children,” she said. “So they’re a little loud and noisy sometimes. But they aren’t even here the entire year.”

Some Hamden residents are concerned with the behavior of students who live off-campus, especially after 22 students were charged for throwing off-campus

parties last academic year.

At the last Planning and Zoning meeting, Creane proposed the idea of Public Safety patrolling off campus housing even though these houses aren’t under the school’s jurisdiction.

Chometa doesn’t think Public Safety should be interacting with her tenants.

“I don’t think the school’s security department has any business at all on my property telling my tenants what they can and cannot do,” she said. “My tenants pay for their rent, they have the right to live in that house, and if they’re doing something illegal, the Hamden Police department should deal with it.”

Creane is aware of issues amongst the town and the commission is working on improving them.

“I know there are issues with student housing in the town, there have been issues for years,” she said. “We are trying to come up with the most productive and certainly legal and beneficial way of dealing with students living in neighborhoods.”

Quinnipiac is doing their part to create better relations with Hamden as well. SGA has incor-

porated the Good Neighbor Campaign which began in 2013.

Carly Hviding, the Vice President for Public Relations hopes to foster healthy relationships with open communication between the town and the university.

“As adults in the community, it is important for students to understand how to be good neighbors and to respect the town we live in,” she said.

Regardless of the policy changes, DeCosmo doesn’t think raising the fees higher will fix the underlying problem.

“You’re not going to solve this by raising fees and making people do paperwork,” he said. “You’re gonna solve this by literally going after those targeted problems, that are probably isolated and dealing with them with the laws that apply to everybody.”

Chometa doesn’t understand why more residents don’t embrace Quinnipiac Students. “Students are spending money in our local businesses, they are working in many of the establishments, they do their internships here and many of them, after they graduate, get jobs in Connecticut and make Hamden their home and community.”

Freshman room selection to take place April 13, 14 HOUSING SELECTION from cover formation by 5 p.m. on April 13.

If students need additional roommates, there will be a roommate social from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in SB 109 on April 13.

The selection process that will take place on April 14 will be for rooms of eight students. Again, if students are unable to get a room, there will need to change their group of roommates from eight to six people. There will be another roommate social on April 14 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in SC 119.

If students cannot make it to one of the roommate socials, there will be a book for students to utilize in the Office of Residential Life on main campus with a list of groups looking for individuals or individuals looking to join a group.

Students have also been utilizing the Quinnipiac Facebook groups to find people who are looking for roommates. Mike Tullo is a current sophomore that posted in the Quinnipiac class of 2017 Face-

book group in an attempt to fill his roommate group.

“Sorry for [the] last minute, but me and two other guys are looking for [three] other people to live with on York,” Tullo wrote in a post to the group.

He said he chose to post in the group instead of attending a roommate social.

“I would rather just [post] on

“I would love to stay on main campus and Hill is one of the nicest suites you can get. [The] only downside is we wouldn’t be with most of our class.”

– MIKE TULLO SOPHOMORE Facebook just because it’s easier and I feel the roommate social could be very awkward for some people,” Tullo said.

Karipidis also mentioned in the

email that selection numbers for housing are not transferrable to other students.

Any students who are not part of a group of roommates and do not find a group throughout the housing selection process will not be allowed to choose specific housing. These students will be placed in available spaces once the housing process has been completed.

Students who are currently studying abroad have received an alternate link to access their housing information, according to Karipidis’ email. But students who will be studying abroad during the fall 2015 semester will not be able to leave an empty bed for them to return to for the spring 2016 semester.

Those students studying abroad will be contacted toward the end of the fall 2015 semester to confirm whether or not they will return to campus for housing during the spring 2016 semester. If those student choose to return, they will be assigned at that time.

Current sophomore Toni San-

tillo will be studying abroad in Ireland during the fall 2015 semester.

She said one downside to studying abroad will be not being able to choose who she will room with during the spring 2016 semester.

“It just sucks that I won’t be rooming with [my friends] next year during the spring because I’ll be abroad in the fall,” Santillo said.

In order to make the housing process as smooth as possible, students should “create a back-up plan” in case your first choice of housing is not available at your selection time, Karipidis suggested in her email.

Once housing has been submitted, changes cannot be made until the completion of the room selection process. This means that once a room is selected and the individuals are placed into specific bedrooms and assigned to specific beds, they cannot go back into the system and change things.

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The importance of a balanced education Ms. Doiron, two weeks ago you vented your frustrations with Quinnipiac’s core curriculum that requires non-science majors to take a science class with a laboratory component. You very clearly stated that while you have nothing against science or scientists you have taken up arms against the mandatory laboratory section. I wish to offer you a counterpoint as to why these classes are beneficial to all students regardless of major.

The purpose of the laboratory section is to familiarize students with the process that fundamentally makes science what it is. Science is the process of questioning and discovery through experimentation. It is important that students understand this or they miss the entire point of what science is all about and how it works. It is through this questioning and discovery that gives the diagrams you said you would prefer to use as a replacement to lab validity. Without the hands on component laboratory offers stu-

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cation that they can get. College is a time to learn the skills needed to perform in a career of our choosing, but should not be an excuse to be ignorant of the other academic studies.

No one is asking you to be the next greatest expert on the heart or to know “various numbers, statistics and a bunch of confusing scientific jargon.” But if you are told by your editor-in-chief in your future career in journalism to write a report on a new heart treatment that involves a basic understand of heart anatomy you might think yourself lucky that you know the difference between the right and left ventricle.

As for your complaints about how “these entry-level classes…are painful. They are full of information that is complicated and very hard to understand.” No one should ever take a class at a university level and expect it to be a breeze. Just like with everything in life; some things you just have to work harder on. -Spencer Hess, ‘15

Stick with your friends

A good way to stay safe in New Haven When you’re in the city late at night, the last thing you would want to happen is to be left alone.

One of my biggest fears as a young female is walking in the city by myself–during any time of the day, month or year.

When I hear that people are walking around New Haven after a long SARAH DOIRON night of clubbing by themCo-News Editor selves, I am completely @sarahdoiron31 appalled.

A few weeks ago I was on the shuttle, coming back from New Haven with my friends We noticed a girl sitting by herself falling asleep. We tried to wake her up and asked her if she was okay and where she needed to go. She said she was fine, then threw up on herself and fell back asleep. She was highly intoxicated.

In the end, my friends and I ended up walking her back to her room on campus to make sure she was okay. We asked her where her friends were and she said they left her alone in Toad’s and she wanted to get back to campus.

I am amazed that in her state of intoxication she was able to walk from Toad’s, across the New Haven Green and get onto a shuttle

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Why is this important? Well without this understanding, the country ends up with leaders who make decisions that impact us directly on subjects they have little to no credible knowledge about. For instance, congressman Larry Bucshon (R-Indiana) during a House Committee on Science, Space and Technology meeting in September 2014, expressed that he did not believe scientific literature on climate change because scientist’s careers depend on those reports saying the climate is changing. If congressman Bucshon actually understood the scientific method he would understand that all scientific reports leave exposure for criticism and disapproval by the scientific community at large. Bearing in mind that this is a sitting congressman on a committee whose job is to pass laws based on an understanding of science and its guiding principles.

Students in order to be better leaders in our world need the most well–rounded edu-

by herself. When we found her on the shuttle, she was not in her right state of mind.

In my mind she is extremely lucky–at that time of night especially, anything could have happened.

One thing my friend kept telling the girl is that you should not go into New Haven with friends who will ditch you.

It is also important to remember to not be the one who ditches a friend in the city. You should always know where your friends are especially when you go out together in a group.

During freshman year especially, students make new friends and go out into the city on a Saturday night. There is nothing wrong with wanting to go out and have a good time. But never leave the people you go out with because bad things can happen late at night in the middle of a city.

I would never go into New Haven at night with friends I knew would lose me within a crowd. It’s just not safe.

My friends and I stayed together the entire night. We made sure that even in large crowds we were holding onto each other and making

sure we were all accounted for.

It is important that when you go into the city–intoxicated or not–you should be with friends who you know have your back.

What could have happened to that girl if we had not found her? If she had not made it onto the shuttle? That is something I don’t want to know the answer to and something I am glad I don’t know the answer to.

It is important to always be aware of your surroundings as well. You know you are in a dangerous city, late at night, as a young college student. You need to be aware that people aren’t all super nice and want to help you–they could try to take advantage of you.

Whenever I speak to the Chief of Public Safety David Barger about keeping yourself safe in New Haven, he always tells me it is important to use the “buddy system,” something we are all familiar with from our years in grade school.

We are taught from when we are young to make sure we don’t go anywhere by ourselves, which may not always be the case now as young adults. But when you go into the city, it is important to utilize the buddy system. And as I already said, it is important to have friends who you know will have your back if you get lost in the crowd or can’t find the shuttle.

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Labels don’t matter

ADVICE FROM ANDY

You don’t have to be ‘Facebook official’ With our generation has come new ways in unnecessary drama. of communication: Facebook, Twitter, InstaSure, it’s exciting for the first few days gram. And with these social media sites have to see how happy all of your friends are come a new set of expectations. for you. But when 1,000 Facebook friends As a public relations major, I do love so- know who you’re dating, it’s hard to keep cial media. It’s a great way to brand yourself the relationship between two people. An while showing you’re technologically savvy article on xojane.com put it best … dating and can think outside of someone can be difficult the box. However, I hate enough. the way it has changed our Even though I haven’t NICOLE HANSON “millennial” generation. put my most recent relaCo-News Editor Thanks to social metionship status on Face@nicole_hanson11 dia, I can’t say anything book, I still deal with a about my relationship lot of meddling in my datwithout being asked if it’s ing life. I’ve been seeing “Facebook official.” Does someone for the past couanyone else realize how ple months, and I don’t stupid that sounds? think there’s been a day during that time According to Science of Relationships, where I haven’t been asked if we’ve DTRed couples who are “Facebook official” say or “defined the relationship.” I’m perfectly they are more satisfied in their relationship. happy, with or without a label.

Though the article doesn’t exactly explain Although I appreciate my friends’ conhow these couples are happier, it does men- cern or enthusiasm (I’m not really sure at this tion the idea of showing friends and family a point) about my relationship, people need positive portrayal of said relationship. to realize that relationships of any kind are Think about it–we only post things on a private matter. I’ll probably still share the Facebook that reflect good experiences. For funny things he texted me with my roomexample, photos from formals, a status about mates, of course. But going out of your way a new internship or a link to your latest ar- to see whether or not we are “Facebook ofticle. If you’re in a fight with your significant ficial” just isn’t cool. A new relationship of other, (hopefully) you’re not posting it for the any kind is exciting, but at the end of the day, world to see. And when times are tough, it’s it’s just between two people. easy to go back to your timeline and see what So, the next time you go to ask your appears to be a happy relationship. friend if she and her significant other have I mean, I do get the appeal of sharing a DTRed, think about how you would feel if new, exciting relationship with your friends. someone were meddling in your relationship.

And I’m not saying I’ll never put that I’m Two people can be very happy without a la“in a relationship” on Facebook. But just as bel on their relationship–maybe even happier easily as it can spread joy, it can also bring than those who are “Facebook official.”

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A need to fix corruption If you’re historically savvy—or if you took ruled unethical in one system—should be ruled MSS 220—you know what the payola scandal unethical in the other.

Now before you grab your torches and is. If not, here’s a quick synopsis: In the 1950s and early 1960s, shortly after the notorious come to burn down my house, let me say this: I know laws exist barring politicians from receivtelevision game show scandals, the U.S. goving blatant “quid pro quo” bribes, and yes, ernment began crackpoliticians are prosecuted when suspected ing down on payola in of bribery (just take Mr. Bob Menendez the music industry. In from my great home state of New Jersey, simple terms, payola for example). The cases, however, occur occurs when a mufar too infrequently for the amount of sic company offers monetary persuasion occurring within money or other gifts in the upper levels of American politics. exchange for airtime—a More specifically, the campaign company pays a disc jockfinance system offers an apparent ey, and, in exchange for the payavenue for personal and corporate inment, the disc jockey ensures airterests to interfere with national policy. time for the music company’s artist.

After the landmark Supreme Court case, The government’s decision to Citizen’s United v. Federal Election enact stiffer regulations—and proseCommittee, the Supreme Court offered cute those who partook in payola— ANDY LANDOLFI personhood to corporate entities—corappears morally self-explanatory: Staff Writer porations were now people who deA free market necessitates fair play @AndyLandolfi served to have their voices heard, and, by all parties and putting an end to in politics, nothing speaks louder than payola, at least in the music industry, aided the creation of a (and this is debatable) money. To suggest corporate donations do not direct, guide or coerce political agendas is fallafree market.

Now what’s good for one, should be good for cious, and suggesting anything different underall—if a crackdown against corruption occurs in values the American system of government.

If government officials—like the ones who the music industry, a crackdown on corruption should continue throughout the capitalist system. wore the guise of ethical enlightenment during the payola scandals in the 50s—treat acts of History tells a different story.

During the payola scandal, government of- monetary persuasion outside of the political sysficials appeared to view bribery as intolerable tem as infringements on American law, then acts and unjust; statutory law must punish those who of monetary persuasion, or a system that allows cheat the system. With a limited understanding it, within the political system should also be disof the American political system, however, an mantled or reformed.

What is good for one is good for all—if one average citizen can deduce the inherent irony lingering within the situation; what’s good for wants equity elsewhere, they must first find eqthe music industry should also be good for the uity within the system they reside. Do not repair political system. Monetary inducement—if what you have failed to fix.

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Most people face some kind of adversity in their lifetime, but senior Alex Mazzone has been living with a unique circumstance that makes him unlike your everday Quinnipiac student.

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In high school, no one would have ever guessed anything was wrong.

Quinnipiac senior Alex Mazzone was just like everyone else with no real noticeable difficulties. He did well in all his classes and, right on track, graduated David Prouty High School of Spencer, Massachusetts in 2013.

That summer, he prepared himself for his new college life, but then something happened.

His parents announced in August that they wanted a divorce, right before he was supposed to attend Quinnipiac in the fall.

He has never been the same since.

For his entire life, Mazzone has lived with dysarthria, a motor speech disorder that hinders the movement of muscles used for speech production, according to the American SpeechLanguage-Hearing Association.

“It got worse after my parents divorced,” Mazzone said. “It was definitely stress-related.”

The lips, tongue, vocal folds and diaphragm don’t work the way they should whenever Mazzone or anyone else affected with dysarthria tries to speak. As a result, it can be difficult to understand what patients are saying and, in other more severe cases, some people may be completely unable to speak.

Mazzone says he was born with his umbilical cord wrapped around his neck, which likely led to damage in his brain that resulted in the formation of his speech impediment. Some speech impediments like stuttering may be caused by genetics, according to Livestrong, but Mazzone says he is the only one in his family with speech problems.

He says he’s always had dysarthria, but it has fluctuated throughout his life. In grade school, his speech problems were fairly minor. In high school, it was nearly non-existent. But his college years have been dramatically different.

“Grade school I didn’t know I had anything,” Mazzone said. “This is the worst it’s been—at college.”

In fact, Mazzone’s impediment is so severe that sometimes people can’t figure out what he’s trying to say. Sometimes people pretend they understand what he’s saying when they don’t, which only frustrates him even more. He can also tell that some people he’s interacted with think he has a mental disability.

“Sometimes I get talked down to like a child,” Mazzone said. “They assume I’m mentally disabled just ‘cause I can’t talk. That’s what I’m most afraid of because I’m not.”

Mazzone’s fianceé, Lauren Bleau, is a freshman at Northeastern University. The two started dating before Mazzone’s freshman year at Quinnipiac so she knows what he was like before and after his dysarthria worsened.

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Alex Mazzone is one of 7.5 million people in the U.S. who have speech problems.

But as the day goes on, it gets much worse. make snap judgments without appreciating what Already by 10 a.m., his voice clarity drops a brilliant and kind person he is,” Bleau said.

There are 7.5 million people in the United down to six. By 4 p.m. it’s as low as a four and States who report having trouble using their his voice continues to decline even further into voices, according to the National Institute on the evening, he says.

“It’s very weird,” Mazzone said. “[The Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.

Around 8 to 9 percent of young children have a doctor] assumes it’s fatigue. You don’t talk at speech sound disorder and by the time children night so your jaw is resting. The doctor doesn’t reach the first grade, the prevalence rate drops really know what’s going on.”

He tries to schedule all of his classes for the down to only 5 percent. morning, he says, because that’s when his voice is the clearest to understand.

During his classes, he’s expected to participate and conduct oral presentations. Most professors tell him to do the best he can. None of these things bother him, but he says he knows he makes some people uncomfortable when he speaks in class.

“I can do [presentations] and I have the skills to do it,” Mazzone said. “I don’t feel awkward, but I don’t want the class to feel awkward. I can sense the awkwardness.”

This sense of awkwardness bothered him - LAUREN BLEAU initially, but now Mazzone says he’s gotten used ALEX’S FIANCEĒ to reactions from his peers.

“You learn to deal with it,” he said. “You get People with dysarthria can have a variety of different things happen to their voices. Their used to what you have to get used to.”

This kind of attitude when confronting speech can become slurred or mumbled. The way patients speak varies from person to person, difficulty doesn’t surprise his fianceé.

“Alex has never let dysarthria stand in his but they often have limited tongue, lip and jaw movement, or abnormal rhythms when speaking. way,” Bleau said. “He sets goals according to The quality of the voice is often inconsistent, his passions, and he’s awesome at achieving according to American Speech-Language- them. Alex is an ambitious individual who just happens to have a speech impediment; it doesn’t Hearing Association.

But for Mazzone, it doesn’t end there. It’s not define who he is.”

In grade school, Mazzone went to speech just that his voice is uneven, but the quality of his voice also depends on the time of day. This is not therapy, but then stopped when he got to high school because his voice improved. He’s never a common trait of the disorder, he says.

“I’m good in the morning, [it gets] worse as returned to speech therapy, but admits he probably should. it goes on,” he said.

“They just say practice, but I can’t go to the From a scale of one to 10, 10 being the best, Mazzone says his voice is about a nine when he doctor or take medicine,” he said.

Practices include stretching his neck, first wakes up. He says early in the morning, his voice is almost exactly how it sounded in high focusing on speaking slowly and moving the tongue left to right and up and down, which he school, with barely any impediment at all.

“Alex has never let dysarthria stand in his way. He sets goals according to his passions, and he’s awesome at achieving them.

Alex is an ambitious individual who just happens to have a speech impediment; it doesn’t define who he is.”

says is hard for him to do.

Speaking with dysarthria can be exhausting and, after a longer conversation, the person’s voice can become even more difficult to understand, according to the American SpeechLanguage-Hearing Association. This is often aggravating for people with this speech disorder, so they sometimes resort to gesturing or pointing to explain something. “[In high school] he was a quietly confident person who was kind to everyone,” Bleau said.

“I think this still describes him well. Rather than becoming more reserved, I think he grows in confidence as he continues to learn the best ways to manage dysarthria.”

Mazzone tries to avoid situations where he might need to talk with others, particularly with people he doesn’t know. “[I] talk slow, but if they really can’t [understand], I write it down,” Mazzone said.

“Communication comes easier with people I’m closer with.”

But he doesn’t avoid all communication with strangers. He explained a time where he was in Florida with Bleau. She hates flying on planes, but he was able to speak clearly to the flight attendant so they could fly together.

“If I really need to talk, it just happens,” Mazzone said.

He says in similar times of emergency or important situations, like a job interview, he is able to speak clearly.

“I did really well on my job interview ‘cause I knew I had to do it.”

Mazzone later found out he got the job. In addition, he will be graduating in May with a bachelor’s in health science studies. He wants to go to graduate school to study research in the Boston area.

He originally wanted to go to graduate school to become a physician’s assistant, but says he changed those plans because of his inability to communicate clearly.

“Alex’s determination impresses me the most,” Bleau said. “Instead of being discouraged, he always has a positive attitude.”

Mazzone’s dysarthria continues to be an hurdle in his life. But since his disorder has been so erratic, Bleau believes it is possible for his voice to improve within the next few years.

“As we learn more about Alex’s specific symptoms, I think we can continue to try new treatments that could make it easier for him to talk,” Bleau said. “But even if his condition worsens, he will still be the same person that I love and respect. Alex doesn’t let this obstacle undermine his spirit.”

“You can’t avoid talking, so talk.

You’re going to get judged but don’t let it bother you. Those people aren’t worth talking to.”

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For others with dysarthria or similar speech impediments Mazzone simply says to be yourself.

“Don’t hide it, just talk,” Mazzone said. “You can’t avoid talking, so talk. You’re going to get judged but don’t let it bother you. Those people aren’t worth talking to.”

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‘You did nothing wrong’

Women in Support of Humanity held an event called Take Back the Night. Students listened to the stories of others and were encouraged to share their own sexual assault or rape experiences as well.

By JENNA MANDOZZI Staff Writer

One in four women are raped in college.

Sixty percent of rapes are not reported.

Ninety-seven percent of rapists are never incarcerated.

These are the chilling statistics that Quinnipiac University students were introduced to on Tuesday, March 31 at Women in Support of Humanity’s event Take Back the Night.

The club, known around campus as WISH, held the event to raise awareness about sexual assault and its many victims. Students filled the Mount Carmel Auditorium to hear speakers discuss their personal experiences, the importance of taking a stand and fighting back against sexual assault.

Representatives from Jane Doe No More, a nonprofit organization that works to bring discussion about sexual assault to the forefront of campuses and communities, shared their stories with Quinnipiac students.

Donna Palomba, the founder of Jane Doe No

More, shared her own harrowing account of assault that took place in 1993 when she was raped by a masked intruder in her own home.

“I hope that [Jane Doe No More] gives courage to other women that if you are a victim of rape, you did nothing wrong,” Palomba said in a clip from her Dateline interview that has since been seen by hundreds of thousands of people.

That is the essence of the goal of the organization. The Jane Doe No More’s mission statement can be found on their website and reads, “Jane Doe No More is improving the way society responds to survivors of sexual assault through education, awareness, advocacy and support.”

The idea of support was echoed by Tina, another Jane Doe No More representative.

“If you are a victim, keep telling people until they believe you. You are worth it,” she said.

Support for victims is especially critical on a college campus where oftentimes peers are the first to hear about the assault of a

RAVE Campaign ads get creative

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Quinnipiac’s Student Government Association (SGA) has a major influence on campus life.

Therefore, elections are crucial in addressing the needs of the student body. In the past, campaigns have been bland and have not highlighted the different personalities vying for our votes. But now, many of the candidates are turning to humor in order to win votes.

This semester, many candidates are incorporating elements from pop culture into their campaigns. For example, Cassidy Fitzgerald (running as a representative for the junior class) wrote “Swipe Right on the Ballot” on one of her posters, using the popularity of Tinder to get her point across. Lindsey Banks (running for vice president for student experience) has the word “Flawless” in italics on her poster with Beyoncé and Jay-Z standing under her framed face.

Liam Kenney (running for class president of the class of 2018) used a Bob-the-Builder reference and applied it to his name. “Kenney Fix It? Yes He Can!” Ali Munshi (running as a representative for the sophomore class) had a similar idea by having an Aladdin themed poster. The name reference is subtle since Aladdin’s other name in the movie is Prince Ali. Another eye-catching poster features Jesse Burns and Ryan Lynch (running as president and VP for the class of 2018) wearing ties and standing in a ball pit. The image indicates that they can be serious but know when to relax.

All of these unique campaigns illustrate that humor can be very effective and it will be hard to find a favorite. ̶ A. Kasam

classmate as opposed to professors or the public safety department. When hearing about sexual assault, many students are quick to form opinions. Students are encouraged to “put preconceived notions of sexual assault aside,” according to Palomba.

After several emotional hours of personal testimonies and discussion about assault, all students present were invited outside to have a candlelight vigil and a moment of silence to respect and honor those who have been affected by rape and sexual assault.

This gave students a chance to reflect on all the deep feelings they had felt that night and process what they had heard.

When dealing with sensitive topics, many people find it helpful to have people who are familiar with the subject matter facilitating discussion, such as the Jane Doe No More representatives. Many students spoke out at the event as well as after about how hearing the stories of individuals who had experienced assault firsthand.

The takeaway message for students was

that this is something that could happen to everyone and everyone is responsible for putting an end to rape and sexual assault.

“I was very naïve about what could happen to someone like me on any given day,” junior Gianna Costantino said. “After attending this event, I feel I know more about these issues that face young women not only in my community but at Quinnipiac specifically.”

Donna Palomba stressed that students should stay in groups and use the buddy system when out at night and that if any individual sees something weird going on, it is OK to intervene. Most importantly, if you are a victim, it is not your fault.

“Most men don’t rape. But those who do don’t realize there is anything wrong with it,” she said.

Together, WISH and Jane Doe No More helped students become more aware of these dangers and gave Quinnipiac University a reason to Take Back the Night together in a supportive and cooperative environment.

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Stop the ‘man bun’

EVA RINALDI/FLICKR CREATIVE COMMONS

A guy recently came up to me at the bar and wanted to dance with me. He was instantly denied for two reasons: 1) I’m in a relationship and 2) he was wearing his hair in a man bun.

This may sound shallow, but the man bun is not an attractive look so why are some men all of a sudden trying to look as terrible as possible? I asked some of my friends what they thought and most of them agreed that man buns and men with long shoulder-length hair in general is a no-go.

I think the biggest issue here is that it looks feminine and it reminds me of Tarzan with his dirty, greasy hair. I know Russell Brand doesn’t have a man bun, but it also makes me think of him. And honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if either of them started sporting the style.

Not only is this a stupid look but it also has an asinine name. Why can’t people just say “oh, he was wearing his hair in a bun.” Why does it have to be “oh, he was lookin’ fly with his man bun.” No. Knock it off.

What is so interesting about hair buns anyway? There’s nothing special about them. In fact, if a girl’s hair is in a bun it’s often because she hasn’t showered yet. Sorry, secret’s out.

So why would guys want to mimic that?

Plus guys could be doing much more creative hairstyles anyway like the fishtail or the French braid. These wouldn’t look attractive either, but at least they show some level of patience and skill. ̶ S. Kozlowski

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ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

Matthew Batten

Batten led the team with five hits this weekend, as the baseball team split a two-game series with Monmouth. In the first game on Saturday, the shortstop went 3-for-5 at the plate with an RBI and two runs. Batten got the lone RBI for the Bobcats in Saturday’s 6-1 loss while going 2-for-3. The sophomore is hitting .266 with nine RBIs and 12 runs on the season, while in conference play he is hitting .313. In the last three games, he is batting .538.

Kyra Ochwat Ochwat became Quinnipiac women’s lacrosse’s all-time scoring leader on Wednesday with her three-goal performance in Quinnipiac’s 11-10 loss to Monmouth. She then followed that with a six-goal game, adding an assist in the 13-11 win over Manhattan. This season, the senior is second in the conference in goals, with 30, and tied for third in points, with 42. Ochwat now has 202 points in her four-year career, with 147 goals and 55 assists.

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“[Ochwat] has had a great career here. She’ll arguably go down as one of the best offensive players we’ve ever had to wear the Quinnipiac colors.”

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April 8, 2015

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— DANIE CARO WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Dual threat

Softball senior Hannah Lindsley makes positive impact both at the plate and on the mound

By MAX MOLSKI Staff Writer

On Aug. 26, 2013, Quinnipiac hired Jill Karwoski as the softball team’s interim head coach. Six months later, Karwoski was promoted to head coach, and was tasked with trying to turn the program around.

Through her first-year evaluations, Karwoski found a hidden gem already on the Bobcats’ roster. Hannah Lindsley, one of Quinnipiac’s starting pitchers, wasn’t only a pitcher.

She could hit at a high level, as well.

“Over the past year and a half, I have gotten to know Hannah [Lindsley] personally, as well as athletically, and where she fits into making that impact on our team,” Karwoski said. “It has been an evolving process.”

Lindsley only started one game and had eight plate appearances during her entire freshman season in 2011-12. Despite the miniscule numbers, she says she learned from the team’s upperclassmen her rookie year.

Her sophomore season was a different story. By the end of her second year, she tallied career highs in appearances (27), starts (22), wins (7), complete games (9), and innings (121.1). Lindsley says she made the most of her opportunity to earn her spot as a regular starter on the Bobcats’ pitching staff in her sophomore year.

“I finally got my chance to pitch,” Lindsley said. “I proved myself, and I earned my spot.”

Yet, Lindsley finished her sophomore season with even fewer at-bats than her freshman year. She says then-coach Germaine Fairchild decided to keep his pitchers away from the batter’s box.

“It was the old coach’s philosophy that pitchers shouldn’t really hit,” Lindsley explained.

Karwoski says she was open-minded in creating the team’s lineup and rotation when she first became head coach of the program.

“My goal was not to come in here and already have a set lineup in my head,” Karwoski said. “It was to see what we were working with and utilize their strengths to our benefit.”

Lindsley started 18 games on the mound, compiled 116 at-bats, and hit for a .241 batting average in her junior year. She became the first Bobcats pitcher to throw a no-hitter since the team became a Division I program in a 2-0 victory over Manhattan, and even blasted two

PHOTO COURTESY OF QUINNIPIAC ATHLETICS

Hannah Lindsley throws a pitch during a 2014 game against Niagara. home runs in one game.

After making the switch from a pitcher to an all-around player, one might expect Lindsley to slip in either of the categories. However, both she and Karwoski believe that the combination of pitching and batting complement her skill set.

“I think it gives me a chance to help myself out in the game,” Lindsley said. “It gives me a chance to score and hit RBI’s and help myself out by getting run support.”

“When she is hitting well, I am sure her confidence is that much stronger on the mound,” Karwowski said. “When she is pitching well,

she also has that confidence at the plate where she knows, offensively, she can put up a few runs to help herself on the mound.”

Lindsley began playing softball in Little League when she was 6 years old. She went on to play varsity softball, basketball, volleyball and soccer at Narragansett High School in Rhode Island. She was named to the Rhode Island All-Star team in basketball and won the state championship in soccer during her senior year.

Although her parents encouraged her to play an assortment of sports, Lindsley stuck with the sport she had the most passion

for: softball.

“My parents pushed me to play sports and to try a variety,” Lindsley said. “I really liked softball the most.”

Lindsley says that picking a school during recruitment was an easy choice. Quinnipiac was her top choice from the time she came to campus.

“I really liked the school, the programs they offered, and the size,” Lindsley said.

The senior has already put up her best single-season batting statistics with half of the season to go. Lindsley is hitting a career-high .300 batting average and has also set personal bests in RBI’s and runs scored. The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference also named her conference player of the week after batting .467, hitting three home runs and knocking in eight RBI’s.

The three home runs came in consecutive at-bats in a 13-7 loss to Saint Francis at Charlotte’s First Pitch Classic. Lindsley now has five home runs on the season after hitting two all of last year. “[Her power] has been a pleasant surprise, that’s for sure,” Karwoski said.

Lindsley is one of four seniors on this year’s team. However, as one of the team’s top sluggers and aces, she says she is different from her fellow leaders on and off the diamond.

“I am more of a leader by example,” Lindsley said. “I am not very loud like our other seniors are, but I try to lead by example and try to do the right things on and off the field.”

Lindsley’s impact on the team has gone beyond the field and into her teammate’s refrigerators. Lindsley is a nutrition major and is on the e-board of QU Eats, the university’s nutrition club. She says she has helped her teammates get into a regular eating regimen.

“I encourage my teammates to eat healthier, eat before we lift, and eat between practices,” Lindsley said.

She is looking to complete her bachelor’s in nutrition before moving onto graduate school to pursue her master’s degree. Before then, Lindsley says she is on a mission to finish her softball career at Quinnipiac strongly.

“I think I am really trying to leave it all on the field my senior year. I am going for the wins and a successful season, so I am really putting it all out there,” Lindsley said.

Monmouth defeats women’s lacrosse in double OT

By NICK SOLARI Sports Editor

If you told Quinnipiac women’s lacrosse attack Kyra Ochwat during her freshman season that she’d become the program’s leading scorer one day, she would have laughed at you in disbelief.

Four years later, that’s exactly what she did.

Ochwat had a team-high three goals to put her at 195 career points, surpassing Sarah Allen for the most in Bobcats history. Still, it wasn’t enough to propel Quinnipiac to its second win of the season, as it fell to Monmouth 11-10 in double overtime at the QU Lacrosse Turf Field on Wednesday.

“Honestly, [becoming the program’s leading scorer] would have felt much better with a win,” Ochwat said.

Quinnipiac led by as many as four goals in the first half of play, but allowed Monmouth to trim the lead to 6-5 at halftime. Ultimately, the Hawks would go on to take a 10-9 lead with 5:26 left before Ochwat broke the program record to send the game into overtime. The senior spun a defender and put one into the back of the net to tie it 10-10. “[Ochwat] has had a great career here,” Quinnipiac head coach Danie Caro said. “She’ll arguably go down as one of the best offensive players we’ve ever had to wear the Quinnipiac colors.

She had a great game today; she’s been a good leader for us ever since she was a freshman. We expect nothing less from her.”

Quinnipiac would regain possession and have a chance to end the game in regulation, but Aileen Carey was unable to get a shot off.

“At that point we were trying to have a good

final possession and take the last shot and win it in regulation,” Caro said. “I’ll give our attack a lot of credit, they held the ball for a long time and created a good scoring opportunity.”

Caro said after the game that she thought Monmouth had committed a foul on the play.

“There was a foul at the end that we thought didn’t get called, but we can’t do anything about that…”

Monmouth’s Olivia Higson scored a freepossession goal in double overtime to win it for the Hawks.

“I can’t be unhappy,” Caro said. “We played a great game, we just got a little unlucky at the end.”

Kelly Babstock had two goals and three assists in the loss, while Kathleen DeVito chipped in with two goals and one assist.

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Kathleen DeVito surveys the field in the loss.