The Quinnipiac Chronicle Issue 24, Volume 82

QUChronicle.com April 10, 2013 Volume 82 Issue 24 Proud recipient of the New England Society of Newspaper Editors' award for 2012 & 2013 College Newspaper of the Year

ARTS & LIFE Thinspiration vs Fitsperation, page 8

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SPORTS Freshman off to hot start, page 16

Bobcats gear up for first Frozen Four game

The men’s ice hockey team will play in its first Frozen Four game tomorrow at 8 p.m.

By JOE ADDONIZIO Sports Editor

All year long the motive in the locker room has been the same.

Since day one, the Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey team has believed they it is good enough to win a national

championship and won’t be happy until it does so.

Even after rattling off 21 games without a loss, a regular season conference title and numerous individual accolades, the goal has not changed.

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“If you win your last game, you’ve won the whole thing,” senior captain Zack Currie said before the start of the season. “There’s no reason for us to lose to anybody this year. We’re good enough to say that.

So unless we win that last game, I

won’t be satisfied.”

Although the team has lost seven games on its way to the Frozen Four, Currie and the team are just two wins away from being satisfied.

On Thursday, the men’s ice hockey team will travel to Pittsburgh, Pa., where it will take on an unfamiliar opponent in St. Cloud State, a school with more than 15,000 students in St. Cloud, Minn., where hockey is king of all sports.

The game will be the second semifinal on Thursday and will be played at 8 p.m. on ESPN 2.

“We’re extremely proud of our players and how hard they’ve competed throughout the season and very excited to move on to the Frozen Four,” Quinnipiac head coach Rand Pecknold said in a teleconference last week. “It’s a great accomplishment. And we’re looking forward to competing against St. Cloud.”

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An inside look at your SGA candidates

By ANDY LANDOLFI Staff Writer

For Evan Milas, (lone candidate vice president for student concerns) Robert Grant (lone candidate VP for programming) and Matt Desilets, (lone candidate SGA president), today will be a day for celebration as they transition into executive board roles for Quinnipiac’s SGA. For four others, it will be a day of anxiety, apprehension and uncertainty.

In a debate held Monday, candidates for VP for public relations, Theo Siggelakis and Julianna Besharat, and candidates for VP for finance, Michael Podias and Danielle

Big, made final statements to undecided voters in hopes of winning a seat on SGA. In the battle for VP for finance, the candidates both put forward the goals they hope to accomplish if elected.

For Big, she plans to make Collegiate Link more efficient and effective and also hold life seminars that would allow students to learn the basics of financing without taking an actual financing class. She also hopes to create a student tuition board that will work with adminismadeline hardy/Chronicle

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Matt Desilets gives a speech as he runs unopposed for SGA president.

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Many bobcats faced an early wakeup call on Saturday, marking Quinnipiac’s fourth annual Big Event.

On Saturday, April 6, more than 1,500 Quinnipiac students, faculty and alumni volunteered in the greater Hamden area at 95 different sites as part of the university’s day of community service. This year’s turnout was a Big Event record, and for the third consecutive year, volunteer numbers have grown.

The Big Event began at Texas A&M University in 1982 when the student government planned a day of community service, allowing students to give back to their community. The Big Event has since blossomed into the largest student-run service day in the nation.

Seventy-five colleges from all over the country are now participants in the day of service, according to the Big Event website.

Students at Quinnipiac performed an array of community service. Some helped clean Sleeping

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Giant State Park across the street from Quinnipiac, while others volunteered at Hamden schools, community centers, children’s centers and many other sites around Connecticut. Other students stayed on the Mount Carmel campus, preparing sandwiches and making pillows for local shelters.

The Big Event, which first came to Quinnipiac in 2010, boasted 680 volunteers in its first go around, but has more than doubled its volunteer numbers in just four years.

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Students give back to neighboring communities at the fourth annual Big Event.

students choose between Pittsburgh and spring concert

By JULIA PERKINS Associate News Editor

Students may be forced to make a decision this Saturday: whether to hop on a bus to Pittsburgh decked out in Quinnipiac ice hockey gear or to crowd into the TD Bank Sports Center to jam out to B.o.B and Wallpaper.

If the men’s ice hockey team beats St. Cloud State in the NCAA Frozen Four semifinals on Thursday night, the Bobcats will play in the championship game on Saturday, the same day as Student Programming Board’s annual Wake the Giant spring concert, featuring B.o.B and Wallpaper.

More than 200 students bought tickets to the hockey game, which sold out Thursday morning within 20 minutes, Executive Director of the TD Bank Sports Center Eric Grgurich said. Students started to line up to buy tickets three hours before they went on sale, he said.

The tickets, which allow students to go to both Thursday and Saturday’s games, were priced at $50 for students and $200 for faculty, staff and adults.

According to Grgurich, the university will provide four to five free buses for students to Pittsburgh where the games will be played.

The bus will leave from the TD Bank Sports Center on Thursday at 5 a.m. and will depart 30 minutes after the semifinal ends.

“It’s an eight-hour bus ride so I didn’t really know what to expect as far as what the student turnout would be,” Grgurich said. “It was pretty great to see that [the students] had so much support for the program. I was thinking that maybe 50 students would go or so, maybe we’d still have one bus, but that four or five buses is amazing.”

Tickets are still available for the spring concert, Assistant Director of Student Center and Campus Life Stephen Pagios said.

More than 600 tickets have been sold and the TD Bank Sports Center can hold 2,500 people.

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Students and faculty enjoyed the first Farmer’s Market of the spring semester last Thursday. Farmers set up shop on Bobcat Way and introduced students to locally grown treats.

Beyond the Bubble

A rundown on news outside the Quinnipiac campus

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Manatee population takes big hit

US has little progress with Iran

China yet to object to US military in Pacific

Florida’s already dwindling manatee population is taking another big hit as hundreds of manatees have begun dying in recent months.

A red algae bloom that occurs annually in Florida’s waters, a bloom that is toxic to manatees, has already killed approximately 250 of them.

The manatee population was only 5,000 when the toxic algae began to kill the manatees. The algae normally dissipates by mid-March, but will continue to cause problems for the manatee population because the remnants can cling to sea grass, the manatee’s main food source.

Talks with Iran to subdue its growing nuclear power program has had little progress in recent days. The United States, along with five other world powers, have hoped to give tighter restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for an easing of economic sanctions that have been put on the country. An Iran spokesperson said the country believes it has a right to enrich uranium for civilian purposes. A United States senior official stated that the Obama Administration hopes to work diplomatically with Iran, but will not hesitate to increase the already strong international sanctions.

The United States is hoping to pressure China to denounce the actions of the North Korean government, based on the recent behavior of North Korea as evidence. As the U.S. has continued to increase its military presence in the Pacific, China has yet to object even though it has previously been against an American military presence near Asia. American officials are hesitant that the indifference shown by China means anything. Chinese officials have said that there are internal debates in the Chinese government on how they should handle the North Koreans. The Chinese support United Nations’ sanctions after North Korea’s most recent nuclear tests.

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Muscle Milk coming to Rec Center vending machines

By AMANDA HOSKINS Staff Writer

The vending machines at the Recreational Center will include Muscle Milk starting this fall, according to the Student Government Association.

SGA made this change as part of its plan to provide students with healthier options in both the vending machines and bookstore, according to Vice President of Student Concerns Evan Milas.

Milas said that this is one of the steps towards the larger picture, which is to eventually have healthier options on campus.

Likewise, Sports Dietitian and Clinical Professor of Athletic Training and Sports Medicine, Dana White, had chocolate milk added into the vending machines near the gymnasiums last semester. However, White recommends chocolate milk over protein drinks such as Muscle Milk for college students.

The balance of carbohydrates to protein in Muscle Milk is not as good as what is found in chocolate milk, according to White. Chocolate milk has a much shorter ingredient list than Muscle Milk and will essentially do the same thing as Muscle Milk when used as a recovery drink.

“I really don’t think that the average college student needs to be drinking Muscle Milk,” White said.

Although some of the athletes on campus

drink protein drinks, they drink a special Muscle Milk especially for college athletes, according to White.

Muscle Milk contains 33 grams of protein per serving. It also contains MCT (medium chain tryglicerides), which contains fewer calories than long chain fatty acids. The body absorbs these MCTs faster which allows for the calories to act as fuel for the muscles.

The problem that exists in Muscle Milk is it actually contains too little carbohydrates. Although there are many carbohydrates that are bad for the body, carbohydrates are important for the body post workout, according to White.

“The taste is decent compared to other protein drinks, but I like a lot of the other protein drinks much better,” freshman Zack Rodriguez said.

Like any other protein drink, Muscle Milk contains a high amount of vitamins and minerals and should be used only as a supplement, according to White. Certain vitamins and minerals are toxic, and people, especially students, must be careful not to consume too much of the protein drinks.

SGA will be sending out surveys in the near future to see what other healthy options students would like to see in the vending machines and bookstore.

“I hope that all the options on campus are going to get improved within the next year,” Milas said.

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Students choose between attending Frozen Four or B.o.B concert choice from cover ship game could cause fewer students to go to the concert.

“I think it’s definitely a chance,” he said.

“I think there are those people that are diehard B.o.B [and] Wallpaper fans that will be going regardless and I think there are those people that are diehard want-to-watch-ahockey-game and they’ll be watching that game regardless.”

The championship hockey game was not on SPB’s mind when the group began planning for the spring concert in early fall.

“It wasn’t even on our radar yet,” Pagios said. “Usually it is something we never have to worry about. We try to do our spring concerts outside season so usually we are not impacted by this, but luckily our team is so good this year that it is a good problem to have.”

Freshman Seth Packman is among the students traveling to Pittsburgh to watch the Bobcats fight for the championship.

“I just really like supporting the hockey team,” he said. “Hockey is my thing...B.o.B is an artist and [attending the game] is a once in a lifetime opportunity.”

Freshman Emily Kelly considered going to the hockey game, but decided not to give up her ticket to the spring concert.

“It is a hard choice,” she said. “[My friends and I] were excited because we got the floor tickets and we think it is going to be a fun show. We’ve been to hockey games before.”

Junior Nico Natale wishes he could go to the hockey game, but chose to go to the concert instead because the game is so far away.

“If [the game] was closer or if it were here for a fact I would be going,” he said. “[Students] probably more want to go to the game, but they probably will be going to the concert.”

Reaching the Frozen Four is a huge accomplishment, Grgurich said, which may be increasing the excitement for the hockey game over the concert.

“I think this game is a little different because of the implications to it,” he said. “It is a once in a blue moon type of event for us.

That might make it a little more prestigious or special ticket to get.”

Pagios understands that choosing between attending the concert and watching the hockey game is difficult for students.

“I think people love both of them,” he said. “If they could they would separate themselves to be able to do both at the same time, but clearly that is not a possibility.”

$tart $mart to teach women to negotiate salaries in workforce

By RACHEL COGUT Staff Writer

A young woman entering the workforce today can expect fewer job offers and fewer promotions and make less money than her male peers graduating alongside her.

While women have made great strides, they still earn 77 cents to the man’s dollar for equal work. The discrepancy grows larger as race is taken into account: for African American women, it is 64 cents and for Hispanic women, it is 56 cents.

Throughout a woman’s career, the gender pay gap amounts to a difference of more than $1 million.

Although some legislators and special interest groups are working to address this issue, learning how one can negotiate their salary with a prospective employer can be just as effective.

The Women’s Studies Program and the Office of Multicultural and Global Education is bringing the national “$tart $mart” program to Quinnipiac’s campus this Saturday to help

women learn to do just that.

The “$tart $mart” Salary Negotiation Workshop is a program designed specifically for female college and graduate students. The workshop teaches young women how to determine what employers are paying for the job she wants when she graduates and how to negotiate to be paid what she is worth doing that job.

The workshop was developed by The WAGE Project, a 501(C)3 non-profit organization dedicated to the goal of ending discrimination against women in the American workplace.

“This is an ongoing problem and it’s some-

The discrepancy grows larger as race is taken into account: for African American women, it is 64 cents and for Hispanic women, it is 56 cents.

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thing that all woman students may potentially be affected by, so I wanted to provide this

service to the greater QU community,” said

Women earn 77 cents to the man’s dollar for equal work.

Professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies Jennifer Sacco, who will help to lead the workshop.

Sacco said she hopes the students participating in the workshop will feel encouraged to ask for the salary they deserve, and will acquire “the competence and skills to make a rational argument about why they need more money” as a result of taking part in the “$tart $mart” program.

Senior Erin Webster has signed up for the workshop on Saturday. She looks forward to learning “some helpful tactics” when approaching future employers to negotiate a salary.

“Women tend to be timid during these negotiations, and I hope to learn about [how] to counteract this in a business setting,” she said.

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The “$tart $mart” workshop could not have come to Quinnipiac on a more appropriate weekend. Yesterday was Equal Pay Day. The date symbolizes how far into 2013 women must work to earn what men earned in 2012.

Female leaders and women’s issues groups across the country hosted discussion panels and events revolving around the theme of the gender wage gap and why it persists in American society.

Sacco believes pay inequity is not commonly discussed on college campuses because the wage gap grows over time and college students tend to have more limited work experience at this point in their lifespan, so concerns about income inequality do not yet pertain to them.

The $tart $mart Salary Negotiation Workshop will take place in Mancheski from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and spaces are still available.

Participants must be in attendance for the whole workshop. If you would like to participate in the workshop, the sign up sheet is on the desk of Kathleen Martin on the third floor of CAS 3.

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Earth Day celebration coming to campus

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The spring 2013 Earth Day Celebration will be held April 18 in Burt Kahn Court, or outside weather permitting, at 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event features a farmer’s market, a raffle, as well as ecofriendly vendors. The event is sponsored by QU Sustainability and all are welcome to attend.

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QU PA Student Society hosts 5k run

The Quinnipiac Physician Assistant Student Society Class of 2014 will be hosting the 15th annual “Run for Your Life” 5k run this Saturday on the North Haven campus. The money raised from the event will go to Physician Assistant Caring for Communities Program and the QU PA Student Society Children’s Literature Project. – A. Landolfi

‘Call of Life’ screening tonight

Students interested in applying to transfer into the Quinnipiac undergraduate nursing major can attend an information session tomorrow.

The sessions will be held in SC 117 from 3 p.m. until 4 p.m. and from 4 p.m. until 5 p.m. For any questions, please contact Professor Lisa O’Connor. – A. Landolfi

President

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Matt Desilets

VP for Programming Robert Grant

VP for Student Concerns Evangelos Milas

Clockwise from top left: Matt Desilets, Robert Grant and Evan Milas are all running unopposed for their positions on the SGA Executive Board.

VP for Public Relations Theo Siggelakis

“I believe in transparency, our students and Quinnipiac University. If we come together through increased transparency and better understanding of this student government, we can accomplish something great.”

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Julianna Bersharat

“There needs to be visability.

The position acts as a communications liaison for the student body, for the organizations across campus. I want people to feel comfortable with SGA. I want people to be able to approach us.”

VP for Finance Danielle Big

The Albert Schweitzer Institute is sponsoring the screening of “Call of Life” tonight in Echlin, Room 101.

The documentary will present how in coming years, if current trends continue, nearly half of all living organisms will become extinct. After the screening of the movie, there will be a Q&A event with Dr. Dennis Richardson and Kristen M. Wolfe. – A. Landolfi

Info session for nursing transfers

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“As the money in the economy and everything else continues to inflate and prices get higher, we need to be aware of that and make sure we allocate enough money (to student organizations).”

vs election from cover trators when planning Quinnipiac’s tuition price for the coming school year, Big said.

Podias ran on a different platform.

Podias plans on creating tutorial videos that will aid student organizations in making special budget appeals. Making the $650,000 that SGA spends more visible to

students is another goal, Podias said.

“However, SGA decides to allocate this fund should be public to students,” Podias said. “Only through public access to SGA knowledge does the student electorate know what they are truly voting for.”

As Siggelakis and Besharat put forward their planned goals if elected VP for public relations, they

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“Only through public access to SGA knowledge does the student electorate know what they are truly voting for.”

showed their differing ideas on how to best reach students.

Siggelakis put forward his idea of using student media, like the QU Chronicle and Quad News, as a way to promote activities and issues occurring on campus. The use of social media, like Facebook and Twitter, will be important in getting information to students, but an emphasis should be placed on getting information out to the stu-

dent body through newspapers, Siggelakis said.

Besharat put more emphasis on social media usage to get in touch with Quinnipiac students.

“We are extremely social human beings,” Besharat said. “We love our phones, Twitter (and) social media.”

To vote in today’s SGA elections, go to “Do You QU.” All students are welcome to vote, including current seniors.

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QU takes Canada: students explore Montreal

By MEGAN MAHER Staff Photographer

This past weekend the Student Programming Board sponsored a trip where more than 30 members of the Quinnipiac University community made the seven-hour ride up to Montreal for a four-day adventure. Everyone was excited because not only did the students get to miss most of Thursday and all of Friday’s classes, the two days included an optional tour and two days of restriction-free leisure time. The only thing students had to do was check-in with a chaperone in the morning and off they could go.

Once the seven-hour bus ride was slept off, many students on the trip piled back onto a bus for a three-hour long tour, which was led by a Montreal native who would talk about everything from the monthly rent rates, to the history of buildings throughout the city. The tour also included stops at all the well-known Montreal hot spots like the NotreDame Basilica, the McGill University ghetto, Chinatown, Old Port, and Mount Royal, which overlooked the entire city.

Once the tour was over, students were able step away from getting bussed everywhere and roam the city to go to all the places talked about on the tour. One of

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Left: A street view of Old Port, the most historical quarter of Montreal City, coveted for its location on the St. Lawrence river. Right: The Bank of Montreal exemplifies the architecture based off of many European and classic influences which is seen and revered throughout the city. the most popular areas, Rue SaintCatherine was lined with shops and connected to an underground city. Students spent most of their time in the 20 miles of tunnel also called the RÉSO, which included

shops, food courts, and entrances to other areas of the city.

Even though it might have been a little tough to wake up the morning, day two of the trip was completely open to further explore the city. Stu-

dents were encouraged to try the metro system, which would connect them to farther places and more shopping and dining areas. Although the trip was a short one, the students were able to experience a different

culture all while learning the history of the historic city of Montreal and having fun at the same time.

Go to quchronicle.com for a full photo gallery of Maher’s Montreal trip.

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QU seminars here to stay

By JULIA PERKINS Associate News Editor

Despite rumors that the university plans to phase out the QU seminar program, the university is committed to keeping QU101, 201 and 301, Coordinator of the QU Seminar Series Professor Jill Shahverdian said.

Instead, the leaders of the QU seminar series are reading student work and listening to student feedback to improve the program, she said.

Since other universities do not have classes like QU101, 201 and 301, students do not understand them, Shahverdian said. This causes rumors that the program is ending to spread.

“We as faculty need to make sure students understand why we as a university think of these courses as so important,” she said. “Like any course, there are some students who don’t have a good experience and some who have a great experience.

If you have a negative experience,

they are thinking, ‘Why don’t they just get rid of it? It’s not really good.’

Not realizing that overall students have a very positive experience.”

Freshman Gawit Guevara is among the students who would prefer that the university eliminated the QU seminar courses.

“We should be able to take other classes that should be able to help us with our majors,” he said. “[QU101] was more like everyday life lessons and pretty much as college students we should know that by now.”

According to Shahverdian, the university is tackling the complaint that the QU seminar courses do not relate to students’ majors.

“One of the things we have been working on this year is trying to do things in class that help make those connections to the other courses you are taking,” Shahverdian said.

The Personal Success Plan is one way to do this, she said. The

Personal Success Plan is an essay that freshmen wrote this academic year in QU101 where it outlined its immediate and long-term goals.

Shahverdian hopes that the Personal Success Plan will be something that students will develop after their freshman year, either within their majors or in QU201 and QU301.

The leaders of the QU seminar series are also addressing students’ concerns that some professors give a lot of work, while others give very little.

“What we’ve been doing is talking about what does it mean to be a 100-level course or a 200-level course or a 300-level course?” she said. “It’s saying [to the professors], ‘We think that in the 100-level course that students should write about 25 pages and here’s why.’

Then professors understand and they know what they are doing fits in with the big picture.”

In QU101, all professors will be

required to assign the same six readings. Other assignments will be given based on the interests of the class, Shahverdian said.

The leaders of the QU seminar series do not want to get rid of the program because they feel it is valuable for students.

“Students are breaking free from merely repeating someone else’s ideas to becoming themselves critical, creative, and independent thinkers,” QU101 Course Leader Professor Aileen Dever said. “You belong to a university that doesn't only send you down one narrow corridor toward a career, but rather provides the opportunity for you to open various doors because you have been well prepared, not only to produce in one area, but to think creatively and take advantage of the many possibilities that life can present.”

Peer Catalyst Mentor Rachael Wolensky has personally grown as a

result of the QU seminar series.

“This program has allowed me as an individual to step out of my comfort zone and become a better person,” she said. “I say all the time that I can't imagine being where I am today without the QU seminar series program … The lessons I have learned in the QU series are more helpful in opening my eyes to the real world problems than many of the classes I currently take.”

Sophomore Brendan Latran feels that learning these lessons should not need to take three classes.

“Up until this point if you haven’t done anything along those lines then you’re probably doing something wrong, then your high school probably did something wrong,” he said. “I just don’t think that three of them should be required or that they should be required at all really. It is mostly about community and we’re already in a community.”

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s the chief operating officer of Face- tions and different personalities. Maybe we book, Sheryl Sandberg is in a tier of don’t all want that corner office that Sandberg American business thinly populated references. by women. She recently published a book Maybe we really do just want to stay at called “Lean In,” in which she encourhome with our children. Maybe we want ages women to lean forward in their our own jewelry-making business or careers rather than underestimating consulting firm on the side. Or maybe themselves. we want it all, we want to get up in As students entering the workthe morning for a job that we love force soon (some of us in a few and come home to our kids every weeks), we need to be aware of evening. the conversation on gender inThe point is to do what you equality in the workforce that love, to do it well, and to not Sandberg has started. And we pass judgment on the choices need to start determining what of our peers. A working mom is MICHELE SNOW our generation can add to this no less of a mom than a stay-atEditor-in-Chief @michenator discussion. home mom.

Sandberg begins her now-famous 2010 For inspiration, look around this campus.

TED Talk with the statement that women are Quinnipiac is lucky to have smart, successtoo often faced with a choice between “pro- ful women who apply themselves. Women fill fessional success and personal fulfillment.” many of the top spots here, but that standard She goes on to say that women shouldn’t be doesn’t exist in adult society. thinking about that choice until it’s time to Sandberg references a study done in 2009 make that choice. in which 57 percent of graduating males “Don’t leave before you leave,” she says. negotiated their first salary. Only 7 percent In other words, don’t pump the brakes in your of female 2009 graduates were negotiating career in early preparation for starting a fam- theirs. No wonder women are still making 76 ily. Keep your foot on the gas pedal and then percent of what men are making. jump out while the car’s still moving.

If a woman wants to commit to her caSandberg’s opinion that women should reer, Sandberg’s approach is great in moderaconstantly be on the advance seems extreme. tion. But life for a woman won’t ever be only There is no right answer for how a woman about a career. should structure her life. Sandberg does adThe Huffington Post recently published mit this, as do most of the women participat- an article called “Why I’d Rather Stand Up ing in this national conversation.

Straight Than Lean In.” It was written by As women, we all have different ambi- Kristin van Ogtrop, the editor of Real Simple

magazine, in response to Sandberg’s recent initiative.

She tells women it’s all right to not be demanding more from their careers with every interaction, every meeting, every day on the job. What’s important in life is enjoying how it unfolds.

There is a balance to be found here. If we want to find professional success, we must give ourselves credit and sell ourselves well.

But personal fulfillment is what makes our lives worth living. The reality is that we will often have to sacrifice one for the other, because we are women.

As a new female generation entering the workforce, we have a unique opportunity.

We are tech-savvy, multi-tasking, healthily narcissistic, constantly engaged in trends and conversations on a national and global level, and we’ve been taught to value differences and diversity since we’ve been old enough to go to school.

We’ve grown up expecting to be included in the conversation, to do our work well and earn a seat at the table. Based on the women that surround me on this campus, I don’t see any of us taking no for an answer as we enter our fields.

For us, it’s not about leaning in or leaning back, advancing in our career or retreating to our homes. It’s about standing up straight, as van Ogtrop suggests.

It’s about confidence in ourselves and our choices.

It’s about empowerment to live your life the way you’d like to live it.

SGA UPDATE Hello Bobcats, As warmer weather and the end of the semester approaches, the SGA Spring Elections are in full gear. This process is vital in ensuring that the campus leaders elected to advocate and voice student concerns know the issues that affect the student body and are passionate about the betterment of the community. There are many candidates vying for limited positions to represent you. Take the time to learn the variety of issues and platforms as the candidates make their rounds through the

residence halls seeking your support. Voting will take place on qu.collegiatelink.net or on DoYouQU today. Every student who votes will be entered into a raffle for a chance to win an iPad and more than $100 in gift cards to the Quinnipiac Bookstore and Amazon. Make sure you follow us on Twitter at @QUSGA and connect with us on Facebook at Facebook. com/QuinnipiacSGA. We will have updates all week on the elections and the results.

SGA was proud to co-sponsor Quinnipiac’s Big Event with CAP helping facilitate

community service to our local community.

Thank you to everyone who participated and helped make this event a big success. SGA has also been hard at work on initiatives including healthier vending options as well as obtaining replacement Q-cards on weekends. Make sure you check out our website www.QUSGA.com for more information.

Live the Legend, Evan Milas Vice President for Student Concerns

CORRECTION In last week’s issue, we published a story on the details of the Arts Department loosening the requirement for UC credit.

Contrary to what we printed, Interactive Digital Design courses and Game Design courses will not count for the UC Fine Arts credit. Below is an abridged, corrected version of this story.

Quinnipiac University has announced that all music, drama and art courses will count for the University Curriculum Fine Arts credit for the next two years beginning in the fall of 2013.

This change means students will be able to take courses such as acting, improv, drawing or painting in addition to the traditional UC courses that are currently offered such as art, music and theatre practice. The only courses that will not count are any Interactive Design or Game Design courses.

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Thinspiration: the new normal

By CHRISTINE BURRONI Associate Arts & Life Editor

Has Pinterest told you to get to the gym today? Has your Facebook newsfeed been flooded with images of inspirational quotes accompanied by a six-packed torso? It appears social media is inspiring the world to be fit, and to work toward our best body. How nice of them!

But these seemingly empowering images, known as “fitspiration,” derives from something completely opposite.

Defined by Urban Dictionary, fitspiration is “a healthier alternative to thinspiration using examples of good fitness as inspiration to attain a fitness goal.” This makes sense until we understand the definition of thinspiration, which is “usually in the form of a picture in which ‘ana’ or anorexic people look to gain inspiration to continue starving themselves...”

This is where the media becomes manipulating. The connotation of thinspiration is deemed negative, known to promote a dangerous level of thin and damage self-esteem. By putting a sports bra on super skinny models, the message is transformed into one of confidence and strength, not starvation.

“I wish that’s what people would see,” said Tami Reilly, associate athletic director for the Fitness Center. “I think when someone sees ‘fitspiration’ the first thing a college girl is going to think of is being thin.”

Reilly, a former women’s fitness club manager, explained that true “fitspiration” combines a healthy diet, an active lifestyle, along with a sound mind and spirit regardless of size and weight.

However, our Tumblrs tell us something else. By promoting glamorous models in the gym with muscular arms, sculpted waistlines, and next to no body fat, it’s difficult to see the difference between thin and fit.

For some young women, there may never be a separation between the two. “Fitspo” and “Thinspo” will forever have the same mes-

sage of “thin is in,” in some minds. But for Kylie Stanger, a sophomore at Quinnipiac, the distinction has become clear through her firsthand fitness experience.

“I used to be that person that wanted to be thin, like so super skinny,” she said.

Stanger would work out everyday twice a day and has lost a significant amount of weight since she started the regiment her freshman year. “I’ve learned that fitspiration is more of being healthy and active, and thinspiration is more of a mindset that you’re trapped in because that’s all you can think about,” she said.

Stanger admitted to looking at fitspiration type pictures on social media frequently, but using the motivational messages constructively. “To me, to see those quotes like ‘push yourself’ can help you seriously push yourself that extra mile when you’re running on the treadmill,” she said.

At the same time, Stanger can’t help but be

“Thinspiration is more of a mindset that you’re trapped in.”

-KYLIE STANGER envious of the abs on a Nike woman model.

According to DoSomething.org, the nation’s largest nonprofit for young people and social change, only 5 percent of Americans look like the models portrayed in the media, and 91 percent of women are unhappy with their bodies. This only proves how unattainable a Victoria’s Secret Angel’s body really is, but we’re still striving for it.

Flipping through magazine ads and scrolling through social media sites reveal cases where the skinny versus healthy message is obvious. But more recently the line has been blurred. It’s as if the media is disguising their models in gym clothes convincing the public that they’re working hard for their figures.

But in reality, it’s the computer touch-ups that work twice as hard to cover up the negative connotation.

“I don’t know if it’s about being thin or being fit. It’s still telling you that you’re flawed the way you are,” said Erin Sabato, director of programs with the Albert Schweitzer Institute. “It’s still going to tell someone they need to work harder or what they are

is not acceptable by whoever’s standards.”

Sabato also teaches a class about gender roles in the media. She believes that “fitspiration” is creating a new normal among young

“Fitspiration is the regular person struggling and sweating.”

- TAMI REILLY women. Not only do they have to be thin, they have to workout and look hot doing it.

Recently, our self-scrutiny and body expectations have become even more disturbing.

Reminiscent of the infamous “Mean Girls” scene where The Plastics could only see their “bad” features in the mirror, the body ailment to complain about today is the thigh gap, something every girl from their teens to their 20s is trying to achieve.

Starting with a “Good Morning America” segment that featured this new craze two weeks ago, it’s become the new investigation of the internet. Today, typing “thigh gap” into Google brings up a full page of news stories, with interviews of high school girls and the gap they’re trying to acquire between their legs.

“That was something I never thought of

Only 5 percent of Americans look like the models portrayed in the media before,” Stanger said. “I never thought that was a thing, I mean my legs touch but that doesn’t make me think ‘Oh my God, I’m fat,’” she said, accepting the fact that her thighs touch because her muscles from running three times a week prevent her ‘gap.’

“I think we need to get in a better place where we need to be okay with who we are,” Reilly said. “Looking model stick skinny is not the answer to everything.”

In the April edition of Cosmopolitan magazine, an article entitled “Your Thinspiration Can Actually Make You Fat!” showcased an experiment where women kept food logs to monitor their diets. Each log had an image of an averaged-sized woman, a thin woman, or no women at all. The group exposed to the “skinny pics” were more likely to eat unhealthy because the pictures were the opposite of motivation. They were frustrating and discouraged the women from eating healthy.

The “let me show off my six-pack” type pictures can also cause women to set unrealistic, short-term goals for themselves at all costs regardless of their body type or ability.

It’s become common knowledge that advertising is manipulative, and the media proposing unrealistic body images is nothing new. Despite its negative impact on women’s self-esteem, these models continue to be idolized.

“Even though we know that advertising is not realistic it still has an affect on how we feel about ourselves,” Sabato said. “We can know cognitively that this is not true and this is a fantasy, but in the end, ‘I still don’t look like that.’”

Sabato and Reilly both mentioned that seeing a woman 8-10 pounds overweight running, or an average sized person working hard in the gym is more motivational than any fitspo a Pinterest board can offer.

“Fitspiration is the regular person struggling and sweating and choosing to eat a salad with chicken,” Reilly said, explaining that the only way fit can be perceived in the media is with a glamourous airbrushed model holding a weight.

And through Stanger’s journey from her skinny-obsessed to her healthy balanced lifestyle, she’s learned to put these images in perspective. “You have to be realistic,” she said, “When it comes to being fit, you have to be real with yourself.”

Check out QUChronicle.com for an example of a typical fitspiration and thinspiration site.

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Campus cautions when dealing with sexual assaults

By SARA KOZLOWSKI Staff Writer

There were four reports of forcible sex offences in 2010 at Quinnipiac, which dropped to just one report in 2011 according to the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Act. Colleges are required to report cases of sexual misconduct under this law, which is also available to the public.

Sophomore Taylor Trahan said she feels safe on campus and was not surprised by the low number of reports.

“That’s awesome if that was the only [sexual offense], but I feel like there were probably more, just not reported,” Trahan said.

Unfortunately, Trahan was right. Instances of sexual assault and rape are highly underreported. It is estimated that for every 1,000 women attending a college or university, there are 35 incidents of rape each academic year, according to The National Institute of Justice. Nationally, only 36 percent of rapes, 34 percent of attempted rapes, and 26 percent of sexual assaults are reported to the criminal justice system.

Quinnipiac’s Student Handbook defines sexual assault as forcing another person to partake in sexual contact “by force, threat, intimidation or by reliance upon the survivor’s mental or physical helplessness of which the accused was aware or should have been aware.”

Those who’ve been sexually assaulted may not report the incident for a variety of reasons, including shame, self-blame, mistrust of officials, and an uncertainty of who to turn to.

Many sexual assaults and rape cases are committed by a person the victim knows, as well, which makes the decision to tell someone more difficult.

If the victim knows the perpetrator prior to the crime, they may feel reluctant to report these cases because in taking that step, they fear losing relationships, said Dr. Phil-

lip Brewer, the university medical director for Student Health Services. “Especially if drinking alcohol was involved, the student may even feel responsible for what happened.”

Kim Healy, professor of sociology, added that reporting instances of sexual assault or rape is challenging because of the stigma attached.

“Unfortunately, much, if not most of the

For every

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35 incidents

of rape each academic year. burden, is placed upon the woman to make a decision as to how to handle the assault,” Healy said. “Although women have made enormous strides toward equality, the ‘shame’ factor and accompanying stigma deter many women from coming forward and reporting the incident; society continues to run according to this double standard.”

Erica Cianciosi, a freshman, said she would help a friend turn to a university counselor for aid if sexual assault or rape occurred. Despite this, some students seem unsure of where to turn under such circumstances.

“I know that there are a bunch of the emergency blue lights around my dorm [Complex] and Ledges,” sophomore Jake Polikoff said. “I think it’s a great idea to have these for safety.

I just don’t think anyone knows where to head when they are in trouble. Do you head to public safety or to your RA? Do you seek out a security officer? Although there seems to be many places to go, I’m not really sure which would be the best or safest.”

“We want to give people options,” Seann Kalagher, assistant dean of Student Affairs said. “So, if you want to discuss something

with our residential life staff, if you want to go to Health Services, all our staff has been trained regarding to our process and protocol […] there’s not just one place that a person has to go if they want important information like this or even find out more information that someone could help them with.”

Healy said Quinnipiac has always been diligent about responding to situations requiring immediate attention, adding that students, faculty and staff are alerted to any situation that can be perceived as dangerous and clear guidelines and procedures are explained.

As outlined in the Student Handbook, Quinnipiac encourages students to contact the Office of Student Affairs to report any sexual assault or rape, and promises confidentiality, which may reassure uncertain victims to report an incident. On the other hand, the handbook doesn’t state what to do if a student feels unsafe before a suspected sexual assault or rape occurs.

The Department of Public Safety lists procedures for what to do if there is a fire, bomb threat, and several other emergencies in its “Emergency Guide,” which can be accessed online, but it does not mention sexual assault or rape.

This seems unusual since most people

“That’s awesome if that was the only [sexual offense], but I feel like there were probably more, just not reported.”

-TAYLOR TRAHAN would consider acts of sexual assault and rape to be an emergency. After all, both sexual assault and rape would fulfill Public Safety’s definition of emergency as “any unplanned event that can cause death or significant injury

to employees, students, visitors to the campus, or the public.”

The Department of Public Safety did not return requests for comment.

However, the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Act states how the university would handle such situations if confronted by a victimized student.

“Depending upon the nature of the alleged incident, the incident may be investigated and adjudicated through the University’s Title IX Grievance Process. The University also will assist students in contacting local law enforcement, medical and mental health resources as needed.”

The university updated the Student Handbook’s section on sexual misconduct last year to be compliant under the Title IX Discrimination and Harassment Policy, according to Kalagher.

The policy changes were motivated by “guidance based on the Department of Education,” Kalagher said. “We realized that we needed to make sure our policy, our process was compliant with [Title IX]. In doing that, too, we wanted a process that was accessible to our students, something that would be a benefit to our community and I think so far this year it has been.”

In addition to Quinnipiac’s new policy changes, Brewer made several suggestions regarding the improvement of sexual assault and rape prevention on campus.

“People should be encouraged to be Samaritans and to intervene,” Brewer said. “If the aggressor thinks people will intervene, he is much less likely to act. This is why we need to get people engaged and to feel responsible for each other.”

Some parts of campus may be more safe than others depending on the time of day and students should be educated about these hotspots, if there are any, Brewer explained.

GLASS hosts fifth annual drag show

New York City drag queen Sherry Vine lit up the stage on Saturday at GLASS’s fifth annual drag show in Buckman Theater on Saturday.

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Senior Week: what to expect

By MEGAN ALDERMAN-PERSON Staff Writer

With the end of the year quickly approaching, seniors have much to look forward to. But preparing for finals, getting ready to graduate and actually entering the “real world” can be a nerve-wracking experience, as well. There’s one event that may take the edge off: Senior Week.

“Nothing can make senior week better than spending the last few days as a college senior with the people you got to know through the past four years,” senior physical therapy major Avani Patel said.

While many of the details of the week still remain a secret, they are gradually being uncovered. Senior Week will take place on Thursday May 16 and end on Saturday night, May 18, with a variety of events planned for each day.

The theme of the three-day event is “I Love the 90s: Three Days of Throwbacks” representing the decade seniors grew up in.

Seniors will stay on campus, but specific dorms haven’t been announced. The Senior Week Committee said it could be Mountainview, The Suites or Ledges.

Get your butt kicked at bootcamp

By SARAH HARRIS Staff Writer

Senior Week schedule

On Thursday there’ll be a kickoff block party with a deejay, food and giveaways on Bobcat Way. That night, seniors will be shuttled to a New Haven nightclub, where there’ll be more food, special drink prices, two deejays and dueling piano players. On Friday, a band, food, beer trucks and more giveaways will come to campus, and that night a trip to the casino, Mohegan Sun, is organized. Saturday includes a trip to a venue with pools, ice cream trucks, lounges and sporting activities, and ends with a semi-formal banquet that night.

Seniors will also be transported to and from all off-campus events, have pizza delivered to their room each night, and receive a Senior Week T-shirt. The cost of the $315 ticket covers all expenses except for alcohol at the off-campus events.

This year, many seniors were concerned about the expense of the tickets.

“I felt that I could have done something else with my friends that was just as fun but much more cost effective,” said senior accounting major, Michael Mills, who will not be going to Senior Week.

However, since Senior Week may be one

Trip to a venue with pools, ice cream trucks, lounges and sporting activities

Semi-formal banquet

of the last times seniors see those they’re graduating with, it’s an event many don’t want to miss.

“I think that with everything the ticket covers, the price makes sense and it is worth it,” said senior Spanish major, Dalila Acosta.

Senior Week ticket sales ended on April 1.

Because specific details haven’t been released about each event yet, all seniors must attend an info session to find out more information. Info sessions are scheduled for April 10, 14, 15, and 17.

This past Thursday I headed to the gym on Mount Carmel campus and went upstairs to Studio B. The exercise class was called “Bootcamp,” but “You’re going to feel this the next day” is what it should’ve been called. The instructor asked me if I was new because she needed to explain how the class was structured. We would do a warmup for 15 minutes and then “go hard” for 45 minutes.

I nodded my head thinking it’d be easy because I go to the gym twice a week (I know what you’re thinking), and assumed I’d be able to keep up with everyone.

There were about 10 girls in the class and one boy. We all began by running around the room

to get our blood pumping. Then we did some high knees, butt kicks and leg swings. After, the instructor broke us up into four groups and assigned each to a different station. Each consisted of workouts that targeted different parts of our bodies. This was fun because we weren’t doing the same thing over and over again.

The next part really cracked me up: we had to do pushups. We did them for 20 seconds and then rested for 10. Repeat. FOR SIX ENTIRE MINUTES. Are you aware of how many pushups that is? Sounds easy. It wasn’t.

After going to the rest of the stations, we held planks for 20 seconds, rested for 10, for

five minutes total. The instructor gave us three different ways to do each exercise: beginner, intermediate and advanced. Toward the last few minutes I found myself lying on my stomach for most of them.

“The hardest part of the class was doing the pushups over and over again but I think the class is good for girls and now I don’t have to go to the gym today,” freshman Jack Brady said.

We finished with some stretching, and although it was only one hour, I began to feel it right away. Four days later, I still felt it. Just a warning.

“I Love the ‘90s: Three Days of Throwbacks”

T h u r s d a y, M a y 1 6 New Haven nightclub with more food, special drink prices, two DJ’s and dueling piano players.

Kickoff block party with food and giveaways on Dorm Road.

Fr i d a y, M a y 1 7 Band, food, beer trucks and more giveaways on campus

Trip to Mohegan Sun

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Freshman Major: Communications “Tory Burch is my fashion inspiration!

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Denim Vest: Urban Outfitters Shoes: Sperry

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Freshman Major: Psychology and Gerontology

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Stars are out and about showing off their baby bumps. Not only is Kim Kardashian and Kate Middleton strutting around, but Penelope Cruz is on the move sporting an oversized stomach.

Ginger Spice takes back tweet

Spice Girl, Gerri Halliwell, tweeted in tribute to Margaret Thatcher, the U.K.’s Prime Minister who passed away on April 8. According to the Huffington Post she tweeted, “Thinking of our 1st Lady of girl power, Margaret Thatcher, a green grocer’s daughter who taught me anything is possible...x.” Halliwell deleted the tweet after receiving negative feedback.

T-Swift sticks to her word

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Babies on the brain

Although he has a beautiful woman standing by his side, there have been rumors regarding Simon’s sexuality since his Idol days. According to an E! Online he “could care less,” claiming that the question itself is antiquated.

“My style is very much like Scott Disick.

He’s the man, so I’m going for that!”

Jeans: Guess Shirt: Macy’s Boots: Macy’s Jacket: Northface

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Freshman Major: Business Management

“I don’t really have a specific style or style inspiration.

I basically buy everything at Forever 21 so whatever I can find there I wear!”

CULTURE SHOCK

Rutgers men’s basketball coach abuses players

The country-pop star kept her promise to a 19-year-old cancer survivor, Kevin McGuire, by going on a date with him recently. McGuire asked her to be his senior prom date in 2012 via Facebook, and when she couldn’t make it, Swift asked him to be her date to the Academy of Country Music Awards last year. That fell through, as well, and finally the two were able to unite April 8.

Plot details of ‘Captain America’ sequel

Marvel recently released information about its next installment, “Captain America: Winter Soldier,” based on the comic book series of the same name.

Steve Rogers, played by Chris Evans, will adjust to the modern world while partnering with Black Widow, played by Scarlett Johansson. Samuel L. Jackson is back as Nick Fury, and Robert Redford will play his boss at S.H.I.E.L.D. Plan to meet Roger’s love interest, too, Agent 13 played by Emily VanCamp.

Director of ‘Beautiful Ruins’ film adaption announced TWITTER

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A typical scroll through your Twitter feed would show tweets from the popular @QUCrushes and @QpacProbs, but there’s a new Quinnipiac parody account in town. With tweets like “Wait.. Where’s my QCard?!” or cracks about the quad turning into a tanning station during spring time, @QU_Sayings, or #ShitQUKidsSay, is hilariously addicting and shamefully accurate.

The inappropriate, profanity-laden comments are quickly circulating around campus, getting more than 80 retweets on its “What’s class?” tweet after the week-long cancellation during Winter Storm Nemo. Whether it’s encouraging QU students to underage drink, or joking about QU’s affluent students with tweets like, “My daddy sent the helicopter for me to go home in for Easter,” @QU_Sayings reflects the thoughts of many Bobcats.

Who’s behind this genius account, we’ll never know. Much like “Life of a Bobkitten,” and “QuinnipiacProblems,” and more recently “QUCrushes and “QU Compliments,” the “anon” Twitter accounts plan on staying exactly that: anonymous.

Poking fun at President Lahey, BobcatNet and our ever-famous “slobcats” and their sloppy behavior (um hello, random thong on the Quad pathway? EW!), #ShitQUKidsSay will have you retweeting, favoriting and laughing your a$$ off at what it post. Better watch out slobcats, you might be mentioned in the next tweet. –C. Moses

Phil Crosby once said, “Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.” Well, Rutgers men’s basketball coach Mike Rice definitely isn’t the right person for the job. ESPN released video footage of Rice kicking, grabbing and shoving players during various practices. The video showed him screaming profanities and gay slurs at the players, and even included him forcefully throwing a basketball at one of the player’s heads.

Gilvydas Biruta, a former Rutgers student and player on the men’s basketball team under Rice, transferred because of the coach’s extremely inappropriate behavior. “He would throw his cap at me and he would call me many names. The adjectives were creative. They were mean words,” said Biruta in an interview with the New York Times.

Rice, who was recently fired, will be receiving a $100,000 bonus for the completion of the season as head coach. Although it can be argued that his actions should result in no bonus whatsoever, he is guaranteed the money under the terms of his contract.

Rice was originally suspended and fined as opposed to being fired.

Rutgers Athletic Director Tim Pernetti said he didn’t fire the head coach because he desperately wanted to protect the image of Rutgers. Well, Pernetti’s attempt has clearly failed because Rice’s actions have most definitely hurt the university’s image. –C. Sullivan

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A dash of Solt

Freshman jolts into leadoff spot By ian mccracken Staff Writer

“To be honest, I wasn’t that good in junior high; I wasn’t very good at hitting, at all.”

My, how things have changed.

With a batting average of .351, freshman softball player Courtney Solt has started off her collegiate career hot. With a team-leading 39 hits, a bright career has emerged at the top of the Quinnipiac softball team’s lineup.

As the story usually goes, she began playing as a child at the age of 7. Her father was the catalyst in her development.

Along with lessons, she vividly remembered the Derek Jeter Hurricane her father bought her. The contraption, when hit, would spin around a certain number of times depending on how well you hit it. As the machine stopped, it would spin back around at the same speed. Solt credits the Hurricane with helping her with hitting ability and timing.

Softball became an important part of Solt’s childhood, and in middle school she was beginning to take it seriously.

“I was in junior high when I started taking it seriously,” Solt said. “I always had this big thing in my head saying I really want to play Division I softball.”

Playing in high school proved ineffective

for the heights Solt was aspiring for. After her sophomore season at Boyertown High School, she quit playing and joined a club team. There, her skills and potential would be noticed.

“When I joined my club team that is when I really got serious,” Solt said. “That was like ‘you have to go Division I in order to play for this team.’”

As a member of Pennsylvania’s Tuff N’ Tuffer Gold club team, she accepted the challenge and hit an unbelievable average of .550 while collecting 42 runs, 18 RBIs, 14 doubles, nine triples and 36 stolen bases in the summer of 2011.

Quinnipiac head coach Germaine Fairchild first saw her on offense when she began scouting Solt. Later, she would notice her versatility as a fielder.

“The very first impression I had was seeing her run to first base,” Fairchild said. “So, my first impression was her speed. After, I saw she was a player whose coach had put her all over the field. That tells you that you have a well prepared kid for this level.”

Evidently, Solt was prepared for the transition to college play. Leading her team in hits and runs scored and earning top spots in other statistical categories, Solt still identifies a key difference in the game.

“It’s faster,” Solt said. “We [the club team] went to Go Nationals in Oklahoma City and we played against girls that are going for Texas A&M and Alabama. I learned if I could play with those girls I could probably play here.”

Both players and coaches pay close attention to strikeouts, but for different reasons.

Fairchild sees her three strikeouts as highly impressive considering the transition.

Solt views the situation differently.

“I have a really high standard for myself,” Solt said. “I expect not to strike out at all. So having three strikeouts is really disappointing. I don’t strike out at all. That’s a big no-no.”

The stats reveal Solt has solidified her spot on the roster, as Fairchild told her star prospect she would have to do.

“I kept telling her throughout the fall that she was the best leadoff batter that we had,” Fairchild said. “But given the older players on her team, it was her job to come out and prove that.”

That, she has most certainly proved. Statistics, however, are not her main concern.

“I want to be a leader,” Solt said. “I don’t want to be part of the shadow. I’d rather be the one that’s leading, not just in stats, but leading the team and helping as best I can.”

Women’s tennis thrives without the spotlight

Allen vaults into program record books

Tennis from back cover

aLLEN from back cover Then on Sunday, Allen made history in Quinnipiac’s 13-7 win over Wagner.

After scoring midway through the second half, Allen tied the Quinnipiac all-time scoring record of 175 points. Later in the game, Allen moved into sole possession of first place, picking up an assist with four minutes left. The career total of 176 points propels her over Katie Latonick class of 2010.

Heading into the end of their season, both Allen and Caro know that they must continue to grow as a team in order to reach their ultimate goal.

“We need to focus on showing up for the entire game,” Allen said.

“If we start playing for all 60 minutes, and have faith and confidence in one another, we’ll be okay.”

Caro said that the team needs to play the style it wishes to for the team to make it far in the conference playoffs.

For Allen individually, perhaps the biggest way she can do that is by continuing to be the selfless and effective player she has always been.

“When she arrived here, she was known as a goal-scorer,” Caro said.

“After she started playing, she was labeled as the feeder. Now I don’t know what they call her because she can do either with equal ability.”

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Freshman Courtney Solt leads the softball team in hits (39) and stolen bases (7), and ranks second on the team in batting average (.351).

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Senior co-captain Sarah Viebrock serves during Sunday’s match vs.

Temple.

Quitko added. “Some years you have incredible talent that doesn’t like each other. Some years you have incredible talent that does like itself, but those are usually the rare ones, and this year I think we have a team that loves to be around each other.”

The start to the season hasn’t been phenomenal at 7-7, but it’s better than last year’s record at this time, and they finished last season two points shy of winning back-toback NEC titles.

“We started off much stronger this season than we did last season and we have a lot of the same starters, so I think we started off stronger than I expected,” Viebrock said.

The one team that stands in their way for that last NEC crown is Fairleigh Dickinson University.

The team that defeated them in the NEC championship game a year ago. They have their sights set on another match-up with them in the NEC tournament and have been more successful against them this year than they were last.

“We lost to FDU, 4-3, on Saturday (Mar. 30) but last year we lost 7-0 in season and then lost in a tight 4-2 match in the NEC finals,” Cantor said. “But we all proved in the NEC’s that everyone wanted to win. I’ve never seen these girls fight as hard as they did last year.”

The team’s annual preseason trip to Florida also gave the girls

the confidence to believe they can alter the way recent history has unfolded between the two schools.

“Florida helped prove to the team that we could easily beat FDU,” Cantor said. “We just couldn’t clinch it last Saturday.”

“In tennis you never know who is going to win regardless of what the score in the match is,” Viebrock said on what was needed to reach

“If they can win the conference, I’ll be ready to call them top five in my 22 years. Definitely, maybe even more.”

— Mike Quitko tennis head coach

the team’s goal of an NEC Championship. “It can go either way, so the biggest thing we try to talk about with everybody is fighting, not giving up and leaving it on the court.

And so far these girls have done that every single match.”

They have four regular season games remaining before the NEC tournament, which begins on April 19.

Until then, expect more of the same from the Quinnipiac women’s tennis team. The players are going to keep battling. They’re used to it at this point.

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Women’s rugby reaches new, national heights By joe addonizio Sports Editor

In the past six months, athletics has brought Quinnipiac’s name to the national spotlight.

From Nov. 9, 2012 to Feb. 15, 2013, the men’s ice hockey team went 21 games in a row without being beaten, soaring to the top of the national rankings, causing a stampede of media attention to the top of York Hill. Even after the loss on Feb. 15 to St. Lawrence, the team hasn’t had a chance to hide in the shadow of the Sleeping Giant and will have its biggest test this weekend at the Frozen Four.

The women’s basketball team then commanded the attention as the hottest team in Connecticut after rallying off 22 consecutive wins in route to its first ever trip to the NCAA women's basketball tournament in College Park, Md. Now, in April, a team that isn’t made up of players who were recruited from around the world and offered full-rides to play their sport is playing under a bigger spotlight.

These players were star athletes in high school and wanted to play at the Division I level but came to Quinnipiac with no team to play on.

In the spring of 2010, 60 females were asked if they would like to be part of a Quinnipiac women’s rugby team, a team that would be tied to

and funded by the school.

Two years later, those 60 girls are down to a select group of 13 seniors and juniors who stuck with the team.

They were brought together by head coach Becky Carlson who then recruited an additional 10 sophomores and freshmen once the program was official.

They have made a big push for the sport of women’s rugby as they are just one of three NCAA Division I programs in the country.

On Saturday, April 13, the team will play its biggest game to date as it travels to Annapolis, Md. in the National Round of 16 in the 2013 Emirates Airlines USA Rugby Women’s Collegiate playoffs to face Lee University at 11 a.m.

“I think this has really hit home for them and our seniors because we started out as a program with simply walk ons,” Carlson said. “We started out with 60 kids and we have 12 kids that stuck it out and these are the core of our kids. We have new kids who came in but this is a big deal for them.”

The Bobcats were entered into the national tournament after an unbeaten campaign in the fall in which they went 11-0 and also won the TriState tournament championship.

One of the key additions to the group of upperclassmen walkons is freshman Natalie Kosko. Kosko

led the team with 17 tries in the fall as she seemed to effortlessly run through defenders in every game.

Kosko uses an arsenal of moves you’d see in the NFL to barrel her way down the field from jukes to spin moves and even stiff arms.

“It gets me really amped up,” Kosko said. “You know, stiff-arm is my favorite and that’s what I love to do. If I see a girl coming at me with her face right there, you know, that’s how it happens.”

This winter, Kosko competed with the USA women’s rugby national team where she continued to improve her game.

“I think just by looking at Natalie, you can tell she is an Olympic athlete,” Carlson said. “She has contributed a lot to the program.”

Kosko helped the team advance to the next round as she scored three tries against Temple on Saturday, April 6, in a 44-0 win.

Although the women’s rugby team doesn’t draw the sellout crowds that the men’s ice hockey team has seen this season, the game on Saturday was well attended and included members of the women’s ice hockey team as well as the women’s basketball teams.

“It feels definitely awesome to have, you know, all your teammates, your fans, supporting you, your friends being able to come and your

Sweet sound of success:

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Following this weekend, one team will have traveled more than 1,600 miles in a span of three weeks. It’s not the women’s basketball team or even the men’s ice hockey team.

Rather, it’s the Quinnipiac pep band, who has carried the Bobcat spirit out of the TD Bank Sports Center and across the Northeast.

Senior and president of the pep band Miranda Davis, said it has been a rewarding experience, especially being able to see the hockey team play as she grew up watching the

sport with her dad.

She, with the help of fellow senior Matt Porell, helped not only represent her school with the brass instruments, but the U.S. as well.

In College Park, Md., Atlantic City, N.J. and Providence, R.I., the team was asked to perform the national anthem rather than the opponents’ bands.

“It’s really something, to play the national anthem for a crowd that is going to be on national TV,” said Porell, who plays the euphonium for the band. “I think the Maryland game was the coolest, especially because we were in Maryland, playing

whole school watching you,” Kosko added.

Senior captain Colleen Doherty was a three-sport athlete in high school but never played rugby until she began training with the team her sophomore year. Doherty is ecstatic with the decision she made to try out the sport two years ago.

“It is so surreal,” Doherty said.

“It is an amazing decision and I’m so glad that the school decided to

add this program. I think that as a program, we have represented Quinnipiac really well and we just want to keep moving forward and keep doing awesome as a team.”

Much like the men’s ice hockey team, the women’s rugby team has a legitimate shot at the national championship. If it makes it to the semifinals, the team will fly out to Stanford, CA., and play in the biggest stage in just the second year of the program.

The Bobcat Brass get one last chance to perform in the Steel City

The Quinnipiac pep band poses for a picture prior to the ECAC Hockey semifinals in Atlantic City, N.J., on March 22.

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Freshman Natalie Kosko uses her favorite move, the stiff arm, on a Temple defender in Saturday’s 44-0 victory over the Owls.

Maryland and we got to play it.”

Although the pep band doesn’t get much recognition from students, it isn’t letting that downplay how special this year has been. Before the band played in Maryland, Porell had his name announced over the arena speakers as he led the band in playing the national anthem.

“It was actually a really big shock because I don’t do anything behind the scenes during the games,” Porell said. “I just call the songs out and count everything off.”

Davis has also had her name announced in some of the recent postseason games for the men’s ice

hockey team.

“It’s heartwarming too because all the work we put in behind the scenes, with athletics and stuff like that, not being able to get the recognition from other people, so when they say it over the loudspeaker, it’s like I’m finally getting the recognition from something,” Davis said.

Despite Eric Hartzell and co. creating the majority of the headlines for the school, Porell and Davis agreed the women’s basketball Northeast Conference tournament championship has been the highlight of the year for them so far.

“Watching the fans storm the court was one of the best things I’ve ever seen,” Porell said.

“I was jealous we couldn’t get on the court with them,” Davis added.

Porell was at TD Bank Sports Center on March 10, 2010, as a freshman when the men’s basketball team lost in the final seconds in the NEC tournament championship game, which, prior to this season, was the closest either basketball team had been to making it to the big dance.

“That just stunk because we lost by two points,” Porell said with a look of disappointment.

The women’s basketball team, however, erased the bad taste of that game and allowed the pep band to play on an even bigger stage as well.

“Playing in that arena in Maryland was just a different experience, there were four levels [of] seats and then getting texts from people saying, ‘I saw you on national TV.’ I blog for admitted students stuff and I keep on writing things for them saying this was the greatest weekend of

sports history I’ve ever been to and I’ve said that for, like, three straight weekends,” Porell said.

To be able to perform on such large stages, the band must be committed which is a difficult task for full-time students.

The group is made up of 30 students and only has time to practice at the arena once per week for an hour.

“Every weekend we had to put in every Friday, every Saturday at least, and then some weekends, Sundays too,” said Davis, a flute player.

“So that’s three days we are giving up. We normally have at least 12 people there, if not more. So there’s some weekends when we have the full group and other weekends when maybe midterms are about to happen and we get a little lower on our numbers but it was always at least 12 so we were able to play every song. We never once had to cancel because we didn’t have enough people who were interested.”

The dedication has gotten them one more opportunity, this one coming on what possibly will be the biggest audience of their lives in front of more than 18,000 fans in a sold out crowd at the Frozen Four.

“Frozen Four, that’s like the big shots and we’re playing the national anthem,” Porell said. “We have a lot of alumni coming back wanting to play with us, which is always fun. All four schools are bringing their bands so that will be interesting. It’s always nice to see what other schools do especially, you know, other schools that don’t have football programs or don’t march because that is the main thing with us.”

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The Rundown MEN’S LACROSSE QU 12, Mount St. Mary’s 8 – Saturday Brendan Wilbur: 3 goals Matt Diehl: 2 goals WOMEN’S LACROSSE QU 20, LIU Brooklyn 11 – Friday Sarah Allen: 4 goals Kyra Ochwat: 4 goals BASEBALL QU 4, Sacred Heart 1 – Friday Chris Migani: 2 hits, 2 RBI Sacred Heart 10, Quinnipiac 0 – Saturday Brian Ruditys: 1 hit Sacred Heart 4, Quinnipiac 0 – Saturday Scott Donaghue: 3 hits Sacred Heart 19, Quinnipiac 1 – Sunday Vincent Guglietti: 2 hits, 1 RBI SOFTBALL Stony Brook 5, QU 4 – Thursday Katie Alfiere: 1 hit, 2 RBI Stony Brook 6, QU 0 – Thursday Nikki Barba: 1 hit LIU Brooklyn 4, QU 2 – Saturday Lauren Salgado: 1 hit LIU Brooklyn 9, QU 7 – Saturday Jordan Paolucci: 2 hits, 3 RBI QU 13, Mount St. Mary’s 5 – Sunday Alex Alba: 2 hits, 4 RBI QU 7, Mount St. Mary’s 4 – Sunday Alba: 2 hits, 1 RBI WOMEN’S RUGBY QU 44, Temple 0 – Saturday ACROBATICS & TUMBLING QU 279.805, Fairmount St. 275.87 – Saturday

games to watch MEN’S ICE HOCKEY QU (29-7-5, 17-2-3) vs. St. Cloud State (25-15-1, 18-9-1) Thursday, 8 p.m.

MEN’S LACROSSE QU (4-5, 1-1) at Sacred Heart (28, 2-0) – Saturday, 7 p.m.

BASEBALL QU (10-15, 5-7) at Bryant (18-9-1, 8-0-0) – Friday, 3 p.m.

QU (10-15, 5-7) at Bryant (18-9-1, 8-0-0) – Saturday, 1 p.m., 3 p.m.

QU (10-15, 5-7) at Bryant (18-9-1, 8-0-0) – Sunday, 1 p.m.

SOFTBALL QU (9-23, 3-3) at Wagner (8-25, 2-8) – Saturday, 1 p.m., 3 p.m.

QU (9-23, 3-3) at Sacred Heart (17-14, 3-5) – Sunday, noon, 2 p.m.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE QU (5-7, 3-2) at Monmouth (7-6, 5-0) – Friday, 3 p.m.

QU (5-7, 3-2) at Mount St. Mary’s (4-9, 3-2) – Sunday, noon

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Win puts women’s lacrosse in tie for third By gene demaio Staff Writer

When the Bobcats took the field for their first game in April, there was a very different feeling in the air. The temperature was rising and the sky was blue as spring had finally arrived at the Mount Carmel campus.

With the change in the seasons, the women’s lacrosse team went through a transformation of its own as it had its most dominant performance of the year with a 20-11 victory over LIU Brooklyn for its first home win of the season.

The month of March was not kind to Quinnipiac. It had a record of 3-6 and played seven of its nine games on the road. With the brutally long winter finally behind them, the Bobcats entered their conference season motivated to start their season anew. They came out of the gate on fire. Lianne Toomey put Quinnipiac on the board first when she scored an unassisted goal just over two minutes into the game. Aileen Carey followed seconds later with a goal of her own to make it a 2-0 game. By the time LIU Brooklyn scored its first goal Quinnipiac already had six.

“We haven’t always gotten off to a good start some games we’ve done it very well and other games we haven’t,” Quinnipiac head coach Danie Caro said. “Today we tried to put the focus on the process of ball quickly moving the people quickly playing at speed and it paid off for us

today.”

As the half wore on, the Bobcats cooled down. LIU Brooklyn cut the Quinnipiac lead to four, but the Bobcats responded when Sarah Allen took over. Allen scored her third goal of the half at the 1:30 mark and then assisted a goal by Toomey, who closed the half the same way she started with just 30 seconds to play. After the break, Quinnipiac regained its fire and got off to another hot start. The Bobcats scored five straight goals in the first 10 minutes to extend their lead to 11 and bury the Blackbirds for good. When the game ended, Quinnipiac had earned its first home win of the season.

Quinnipiac’s all-time assist leader, Allen, had a tremendous day with a very balanced eight points. She added five assists to her school record to go along with four goals.

“Sarah’s always been an important player not only in putting up points in terms of being able to score and assisting on other players scoring, but she really sets the tone for our offense,” Caro said. “She’s the quote unquote quarterback for our offense and she does a really good job setting the tempo and getting everybody settled and getting everybody on the same page so we can attack as a unit.”

Meanwhile, Kyra Ochwat had a career day with six points on four goals and two assists. Toomey and Phoebe LaPlante also had big days with five points each.

With this win the Bobcats are

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Chelsea Guerrera reaches after a draw control in Friday’s women’s lacrosse game vs. LIU Brooklyn. once again .500 in conference play.

It also advances their record against the Blackbirds to 11-0 all time.

“They can go as far as they want. They have the talent to beat any team that they play,” Caro said.

“Whether they show up on game day is always a question mark for us but this should be a good confidence builder moving on.”

Quinnipiac will take on Wagner on Sunday.

Quinnipiac looks for first national championship Frozen Four from cover the winner of No. 1-seeded UMassLowell and No. 4-seeded Yale, who play at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday. The championship game will be played on Saturday at 7 p.m., and will also be on ESPN 2.

Although the Bobcats could face ECAC foe Yale for a fourth time this season in the national championship game, as always, the Bobcats aren’t looking past the next opponent and all focus is on the Huskies.

“I'll tell you what: I'll be happy to play either one on Saturday,” Pecknold said. “But we'll have our hands full with St. Cloud. You could have picked any three teams in the country, we'd be happy to be there.”

St. Cloud State senior forward and Hobey Hat Trick finalist Drew LeBlanc will be the toughest challenge on Thursday for the Bobcats.

LeBlanc has 13 goals and 37 assists for 50 points on the year for the Huskies which puts him in seventh place in the nation in scoring.

LeBlanc is a fifth-year senior who decided to come back for another year rather than make the jump to the NHL which his coach, Bob Motzko, said that he had received offers as early as his junior season.

“I think he had the feeling that he had unfinished business and he wanted to come back and do it the

right way,” Motzko said.

LeBlanc isn’t the only one who Quinnipiac will have to watch carefully on the offensive end. Junior Nic Dowd has 39 points on the year and freshman Jonny Brodzinski has 33 points thanks to a team-high 22 goals.

St. Cloud has six different players with at least 31 points. The Bobcats highest scorers are Matthew Peca and Jeremy Langlois who both have 30.

“I just think from a standpoint of what Hartzell does for us, my leading scorer is 99th in the country in scoring, and yet we’re ranked No. 1 in the country.”

— Rand Pecknold Men’s ice hockey Head coach

As one may figure, St. Cloud has a high-powered offense that averages 3.41 goals per game, which is second to No. 2 Minnesota, which lost to Yale in the first round. In addition, the team has scored four or more goals in 20 of 29 games this season, something the Bobcats did just 13 times.

The Bobcats counter this number, however, with the nation's top defense, surrendering just 1.63 goals per game.

“Yeah, it's clear we're the No.

1 defensive team in the country,” Pecknold added. “It's a team game.

Hartzy [Eric Hartzell] is our stud, but we certainly play well in front of him.”

Also helping to support that low goals allowed number is the No. 1 power play, stopping 90.6 percent of team's chances this season.

Another important factor to watch this weekend is senior leadership. Although this is the first Frozen Four for Quinnipiac, it has 11 seniors on its roster, which is as many as the other three schools combined. In addition, the remaining three schools have only combined to reach one Frozen Four, coming from Yale in 1952, making the experience a new one to all.

On this biggest stage, the Bobcats will play in front of the biggest crowd in their life. The Console Energy Center, which is home to the Pittsburgh Penguins, holds more than 18,000 fans, which is more than five times as many as the High Point Solutions Arena at TD Bank Sports Center. The seniors will need to bring their composure and set tempo in front of Hartzell.

“It certainly will be the biggest crowd, I'm sure,” Currie said.

“But I guess the challenge in that is just making sure we stay grounded and that we don't let ourselves get caught up in it. We've done a really good job all year as a team focusing on what we can control and taking

every game in stride.”

Although it’s not the focus of the team, Quinnipiac has another opportunity for history this weekend as Hartzell is one of three Hat Trick finalists for the Hobey Baker Award, which is essentially the Heisman award of college hockey.

If Hartzell wins, he will be the first Bobcat to do so and only the third goalie to ever win the award, following in the footsteps of Ryan Miller of the Buffalo Sabres.

“I think Eric Hartzell is the best player in college hockey,” Pecknold said. “Dominant all year. Certainly there's a lot of great players. Drew LeBlanc at St. Cloud, [Austin] Czarnik at Miami, and on and on.

But I just think from a standpoint of what Hartzell does for us, my leading scorer is 99th in the country in scoring, and yet we're ranked No. 1 in the country.”

Though the season has been a long one, with the first game dating back to more than six months ago on Oct. 6, 2012, Pecknold said that the players haven’t become any less competitive.

“To me, probably the main reason we've been good this year is our practice habits,” Pecknold said.

“Like the kids just come, it's a war every day in practice. They compete. They battle. And I just — I expect us to be good when we get there. And I don't really need to do anything different.”

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Clockwise from top left: Junior Jordan Paolucci watches a pitch go by in game 1 of Saturday’s doubleheader vs. LIU Brooklyn; senior Chris Migani lines a base hit in Friday’s baseball game vs. Sacred Heart; sophomore Nikki Barba lays down a bunt in game 1 of Saturday’s doubleheader.

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Wilbur paced the men’s lacrosse team to its first win after losing five consecutive games, Saturday in a 12-8 win over Mount St. Mary’s. Wilbur scored a hat trick for his second of the season with three goals on three shots.

Allen recorded a career-high nine points in the Bobcats’ 20-11 beatdown of Northeast Conference opponent LIU Brooklyn on Friday. The Connecticut native was not done on Sunday, as she tallied four points on a goal and three assists to become the program’s all-time leader in career points. Allen scored midway through the second half to match Katie Latonick’s mark of 175 career points, and then nabbed an assist with four minutes left to break the record.

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Allen assists her way into history

By Nick Solari Staff Writer

When Sarah Allen first arrived at Quinnipiac she was known as both a great passer and a great scorer. Netting a combined 116 goals and dishing out 85 assists and in her junior and senior seasons at Glastonbury High School, Allen was the all-around talent that women’s lacrosse head coach Danie Caro wanted.

Caro knew, however, that Allen would have to adjust her game in order to fit into the overall team system.

“Recruiting Sarah out of high school, she had a really good shot and was a very good goal scorer,” Caro said. “When she got here we had to tell her she was forcing it a bit. Sarah, of course, took our advice and became an elite passer.”

Elite would be one way to describe it, record setting would be another.

In her junior campaign with the Bobcats last season, she had 64 assists in only 15 games. At 4.27 assists-per-game she led the nation and set the NCAA Division I record. The prior record was 4.17 assists-per-game, which was set by Brown University's Lauren Becker in 1986.

“I try not to think about records, honestly,” Allen said. “I just think about winning in the heat of the moment, and doing what I can to best help my team. Last year, that was more setting other people up.”

This year is an entirely different story.

In only 12 games so far, Allen has developed the scoring touch that Caro knew she was capable of. While her excellent level of passing remains a constant, 30 assists so far, she has added 15 goals for Quinnipiac.

“We’re very pleased with her effort to change her game,” Caro said. “She really puts in the effort.”

“Our offense has changed a lot this year, it’s more diverse,” Allen said. “I can pass because we have good cutters, but there is more room for me to score as well.”

Allen has also taken on another special responsibility within the team this year. Due to her success and hard work she has become a leader and a mentor for the younger players to look up to.

“She leads by example,” Caro said. “She has a great work

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Sarah Allen shattered the women’s lacrosse program record Sunday, scoring her 176th career point in Sunday’s league win over Wagner. ethic, she pushes herself, and she knows that she needs to work hard.”

Perhaps opportunity to score more has to do with the fact that Allen has been forced to become a centerpiece of Quinnipiac’s offense. Because of her experience, she is able to get her teammates settled and run the system that was designed.

“There are not many offensive possessions where the ball isn’t in Sarah’s stick at some point,” Caro said. “For her to be able to get everyone on the same page and quarterback our offense is huge.”

She may not be setting a new assist mark this season, but the senior attacker knows that her ability to adapt to the team’s necessities is key. Still, she remains unselfish when talking about how she has made the recent transformation into

more of a goal-scorer.

“My teammates make that possible,” she said. “We all support one another, and that makes it easy to play as a unit.”

“If you ask Sarah, she’ll tell you she doesn’t care about the stats,” Caro said. “She cares about the team success. She does what the team needs from her, and that says a lot about her as a person.”

Quinnipiac has started off the season at 5-7 overall and 3-2 in the Northeast Conference. It has recently gotten back to its winning ways, however, with a 20-11 victory over conference foe LIU Brooklyn. Allen finished with a career-record nine points in the victory, with four goals and five assists.

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Co-captains leave their mark on the court

Cantor: ‘I’ve never seen such a talented team in all four years’ By dan dolph Staff Writer

No publicity. No locker rooms.

No respect.

But what they do have are championships.

In terms of hardware, the Quinnipiac women’s tennis team has the second most of any team on campus, having captured six NEC titles since 2004. The most recent of those came in 2011 when it advanced to play UCLA in the NCAA tournament.

It’s quite the track record, but there is no glamour to it. The locker rooms are actually the bleachers next to the tennis courts on the Mount Carmel campus. If the team wants to hit in the winter, it moves a pick-up basketball game in the recreation center.

But, it’s tennis. And the players understand the realities of it.

“We’re not overlooked, we’re just not looked at,” said Rachel Cantor, a co-captain, when asked if she thought the team is awarded the respect it deserves. “The tennis program here has the most champion-

ships. We get that we’re not a huge spectator sport and we don’t bring in revenue, which could be the reason we aren’t treated like other teams, but we don’t let it affect us.

We work with what we have and we do a good job of it.”

The other co-captain, Sarah Viebrock, knows the team doesn’t draw attention but doesn’t let it weigh her down.

“Tennis isn’t a big spectator sport, so you can’t really expect to have huge fans,” said Viebrock.

“We don’t have a locker room. We never have. We’re the only team on campus that doesn’t. So that type of stuff is annoying but it’s not something that’s ruined my experience here.”

Quinnipiac tennis may not have the greatest amenities but that hasn’t slowed them down. They continue to go about their way, silently winning.

This year’s women’s team is focused on bringing head coach Mike Quitko one last NEC title before Quinnipiac moves conferences and heads to the MAAC next year.

“I’m not leaving here this year without getting ‘Q’ one last NEC championship,” Cantor said. “I’ve never seen such a talented team in all four years. We have talent and we have the team chemistry to win it. We all get along so well. It’s kind of like a family in that we can all depend on each other. All we can ask is that the girls leave it all on the court.”

Quitko isn’t ready to anoint them NEC champs just yet but he does believe that they have the necessary blend of chemistry, talent and leadership to get there.

“If they can win the conference, I’ll be ready to call them top five in my 22 years,” said Quitko on how the talent on this team stacks up against the others in his coaching career. “Definitely, maybe even more.”

That’s high praise from a coach who has had six women’s teams play in the NCAA tournament.

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Rachel Cantor, senior and co-captain of the women’s tennis team, returns a volley in Sunday’s match vs. Temple.