APRIL 25, 2018 | VOLUME 88, ISSUE 25
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Public Safety escorts professor off campus
By JESSICA RUDERMAN Associate News Editor
A Quinnipiac University professor, Tcho Caulker, was seen being escorted across campus today by two public safety officers, according to junior journalism major Nora Scally, following a rumored inappropriate email sent to a female student. Caulker is a part-time faculty member at Quinnipiac who taught Global Community, QU 301, this spring semester. He received his bachelor’s at Sacred Heart University and his PhD from Michigan State University. Public Safety and John Morgan, Associate Vice President for Public Relations, chose not to comment on the matter. Matthew Coughlin, a senior legal studies major at Quinnipiac, took Caulker’s course this spring and was present along with three other students when two department heads announced to the class that Caulker would no longer be present the rest of the semester. “It was just three of us cause everyone else
already left since there was no teacher there and then two of the heads of the department came in and they were just like, ‘The curriculum is going to stay the same, just get your work in for the rest of this semester so nothing else is going to change,’” Coughlin said. “All I’ve heard is rumors about that, I don’t know the girl.”
“I never noticed anything different in the way he acted towards certain students,” – MATTHEW COUGHLIN
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According to Caulker’s RateMyProfessor page, a commonly used reference site for
students to assign ratings to their professors, students have unanimously seemed to enjoy his course. Caulker has be rated at a 4.8 out of 5 overall, a 1.2 in level of difficulty and a 100 percent that students would take the class again. Coughlin made it clear that he thoroughly enjoyed having Caulker as a professor and did not see something like this coming. “I personally really liked him as a professor, I thought he was always easy to talk to and always wanted to make sure you were doing alright,” Coughlin said. “I was very caught off by this. I really liked him I thought he was a good professor.” Although Coughlin never attended office hours or had any personal interaction with the professor, he felt that he treated all students, no matter the gender, universally. “I never noticed anything different in the way he acted towards certain students,” Coughlin said. “It was always pretty across the board.”
SGA budget brings stress, frustration and potential protests By STEPHEN MACLEOD
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The Student Government Association (SGA) has prepared its budget for the 201819 school year and is hoping to appeal for more money that meets the requested budgets of student organizations. The $614,465 proposed budget will fund 76 clubs. The money is in line with the 201718 year, despite the fact that requests by clubs totaled $789,506. Only six clubs were fully funded. Every other club had to have its budget budget maintained or it unable to have its events funded. Last year, SGA was unable to fully fund off-campus travel, conferences, competitions, movie nights and several oncampus events. SGA was only able to fund some off-campus events and conferences after Executive Vice President and Provost Mark Thompson gifted SGA $50,000 in additional funding to attend competitions. SGA President Ryan Hicks hopes to appeal to Provost Mark Thompson for an additional $125,000 to be able to help clubs grow and have a more complete student experience. Hicks said he feels the smaller budget is stunting the growth of student organizations at a time when Quinnipiac is promoting its growth and trying to establish a culture. As VP of Finance in 2017-18 , Hicks has had personal experience with how tight the current budget is. Hicks has advocated for an increased budget both in meetings, on the campaign trail and will likely during his presidency. Several members of SGA have independently voiced their frustration with the process and are calling to peacefully protest.
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SGA President Ryan Hicks discussed his plan to appeal for additional funding to Provost Mark Thompson. “I’m a senior and for the past 4 years the school has been saying there’s a branding issues, there’s a culture issue,” Ian Zeitlin, a former senior class representative, said. “The way I see it, giving students the money to put on the events they want helps build that culture.” Zeitlin has publicly called for protests twice at SGA meetings. The first time he called for protest was at the budget meeting on April 11, stating he shared frustration with the groups and hoped they would consider standing and protesting the budget cuts. The second time, Zeitlin announced that several members of various student organizations will be protesting the budget in front of the library at 3 p.m. on Thursday, April 26. SGA had its budget cut by about $150,000 at the start of the year. The cuts came as a result of a three year budget review which determined that SGA usually only spends $600,000 all year. However, those cuts
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forced SGA to make other significant cuts to their budget for the upcoming year. This year, SGA spent all of its budget as well as brought in $30,000 on its own, which they hope to get back into their budget. The budget cuts have caused a lot of traditional yearly events to either be cut or be unable to be funded. The Quinnipiac Black Students Union were unable to get a formal and received a cut to their annual fashion show. Zeitlin pointed to this club as something that is causing the culture at Quinnipiac to suffer, as these events are standard at other schools with similar organizations. Hicks has said that if he is able to meet with incoming President Judy Olian, this would be something he would hope to talk to her about. He hopes the new administration will look to spend more focus on the student experience to help Quinnipiac establish a proper culture.
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The next forgotten genocide? By HANNAH FEAKES News Editor
The Holocaust was a war on Jewish people that started in 1933 and ended in 1945. The horror of the rise of the Nazis and the concentration camps occurred in Germany, Poland, Romania and Austria among a few other European countries. Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp. By the end, six million Jews were left dead, 1.1 million of them children. These are all facts about the Holocaust that I was taught in Hebrew school and was reminded by my grandmother to never forget. But not everyone goes to Hebrew School and gets quizzed on Holocaust facts by their grandmother and these are the people that are part of the reason the Holocaust is slowly but surely being forgotten. Youngest survivors of the Holocaust are now in their seventies. First hand storytelling will soon vanish, along with memories and knowledge about what really happened during the Holocaust. Factual details that can be looked up online will be all that’s left. Once all the survivors are gone, who will be left to remember the lives lost? Who will tell first hand stories of the horror that Jews endured? Can an event so large and devastating be forgotten? Reena Judd is the rabbi at Quinnipiac University. She hosts services in the Peter C. Herald House every Friday night and teaches a Hebrew class as well. She agrees that once the survivors are gone, there won’t be anyone to teach the history or explain the Holocaust firsthand. “Now the survivors are dying, that’s the main reason that it (the Holocaust) is not talked about,” she said. “They are fragile.” A comprehensive study of Holocaust knowledge and awareness in the United States was released on Thursday April 12. The study was conducted by The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference). Results of the study showed that 11 percent of American adults and 22 percent of American millennials do not know what the Holocaust is or have never heard of it. The study also reported that 31 percent of adults and 41 percent of millenials thought that only 2 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. One of Judd’s parents was a Holocaust survivors. She said she feels a personal connection to the Holocaust and therefore feels responsible to keep the memories alive in any way she can. “Everything I do in my life, in my house, with my husband, in my job is about keeping the history alive, everything,” she said. Not only did the survey show that Americans are forgetting the holocaust, but they are not learning enough about the event to forget it in the first place. See HOLOCAUST Page 3
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