QUChronicle.com April 24, 2013 Volume 82 Issue 26 Proud recipient of the New England Society of Newspaper Editors' award for 2012 & 2013 College Newspaper of the Year
Sports Women’s rugby preps for semis, page 16
opinion Canceling credits, page 8
Arts & life Fall Out Boy releases new album, page 12
Public Safety prepares for weekend
Walking for a cure
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TD Bank Sports Center hosted Quinnipiac’s sixth-annual Relay for Life last Friday. By Samantha Moore Staff Writer
Quinnipiac University hosted their sixth-annual Relay for Life event this past Friday at the TD Bank Sports Center on the York Hill Campus. Relay for Life is a walk that is held to help raise money for cancer research. The walk is meant to help find a cure, celebrate cancer survivors and mourn loved ones that have been lost to cancer. Quinnipiac University students attend Relay for Life for all differ-
ent reasons, and many are among the vast majority of Americans whose lives have been forever affected by cancer. In 2008 the National Cancer Institute estimated that nearly 12 million people living in the U.S. had a history of cancer, and an average of 1,500 Americans die every day as a result of the disease. Sophomore Katie Winkle was there not just as one of the five event co-chairs, but as a cancer survivor who was diagnosed with leukemia during June of 2006. “Being diagnosed with leukemia
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was such a life changing experience,” Winkle said. “It was an experience for the better.” Winkle, who has participated in Relay for Life for seven years, was also at the event to support campers from Camp Rising Sun. Camp Rising Sun, in Colebrook, Conn., is a free camp for children who are past or current cancer patients. Winkle began attending the camp herself in 2007 and became a counselor in 2011.
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Created to celebrate the founding of Quinnipiac University, May Weekend was once a symbol of pride for students, staff and faculty alike. A day to look back at where the university once was, and look ahead to where the university was headed. The event also marked the end to a long school year. Five years ago, however, May Weekend, the celebration held in late April, was banned after concerns over student safety were raised. “About five years ago we disposed of having May Weekend,” Chief of Public Safety David Barger said. “It had a great deal to do with the behavior of the students and some tragedies that occurred during that time.” The university’s sponsorship may have ended, but the tradition seems to have lived on, Barger said. “I think there’s... an urban legend having to do with May Weekend,” Barger said. “Students who
don’t even remember May Weekend, like the freshmen who arrived here, don’t even know what that ‘May Weekend’ was.” Most of what new students know about May Weekend comes from old Youtube videos and word-of-mouth, Barger said. Public Safety still prepares for the event as if it actually still existed because each year there appears to be a spike in the number of incidents that occur on campus, Barger said. Public Safety doubles the number of Public Safety officers, while also increasing the presence of the Hamden Police Department on campus. The staff at Public Safety is prepared to check bags that look heavier than normal and car trunks. The officers at Public Safety are planning to be both reactive and proactive during and leading up to the coming weekend, Barger said. After the events in Boston, staff at Public Safety is more sensitive to See weekend Page 3
Housing hassles
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The Carl Hansen Student Center Piazza displays Quinnipiac students’ support for the Boston Marathon victims.
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The Mount Carmel campus will still house freshmen and sophomores for the 2013-14 academic year. By amanda hoskins Staff Writer
Across the Mount Carmel Campus, students can hear the overwhelming number of complaints about sophomore housing for the 2013-2014 school year. Similar to past years, on April 1, the lottery numbers for current freshmen students were released. On April 15 and 16, the housing registration opened up for freshmen and the frustration and anxiety began.
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The Hill was the first housing to be filled, followed by the Village, according to residential life. By approximately lottery number 200, the residential housing that were not completely filled were Complex, Perlroth and Troup. Many students did not plan ahead and were paired with groups of seven, hoping that they would be living in Hill or Village. However, the suites are made for groups of
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Village Resident Assistant Travis Meade created a tribute called “Links of Love” to honor the tragedy at last Monday’s Boston Marathon. Meade asked students to write something on slips of paper for Boston. He linked the papers and hung them in the piazza of the Student Center on Monday. On Monday night, Meade read about the terrible situation in Boston, but then he heard about how
people had helped the victims and wanted to do something good for the community, as well. “I decided the night of the bombing to do something at Quinnipiac, just got the idea, pretty much out of the blue,” Meade said in an interview with Q30 TV’s The Morning After Show. “The response is great. Not one person said ‘no.’ They all said, you know, ‘give me more. I want more slips.’” Sophomore Mary DeLage was
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eight, according to Associate Vice President for Student Affairs Cindy Long Porter. When students realized that they needed eight people to form a room, they became stressed and angry, like freshman Nicolette Silviano. “I was extremely upset when I continued to see the room availability in Village decline because I knew See housing Page 7
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