Barstool Sports’ Blackout Tour stops at Toad’s Place Thursday, and according to Bar-stool Sports founder Dave Portnoy, holding the event in New Haven was a “no-brainer.”

“Everything we do we want to bring to Toad’s Place. We never give that too much thought. We’ve realized that people don’t care who we bring because everyone knows that the Barstool name has people coming out ready to party,” Portnoy said.

Coincidentally, Portnoy said the idea for the Blackout Tour arose last year while Bar-stool held their White Panda event at Toad’s Place.

Barstool’s website stated that they are showing up with “enough black lights, lasers, strobes, and fog to fill Madison Square Gar-den.”

Dante the Don, a DJ from Chicago, will play a mash up of popular remixes throughout the night. Students can expect to hear Avicii, Tiesto, Afro Jack and more in a high-energy, rave environment where everyone will glow, Portnoy said.

Tickets, priced at $15, went on sale Sept. 20 and sold out online Nov. 9, according to Hollis Martin, the box office manager of

Toad’s Place. Tickets are still available at the door on Thursday for $20. Toad’s maximum capacity is 1,000 and the event is predicted to sell out Martin said.

This tour has seen the fastest ticket sales rate of any Barstool Sports event, and every lo-cation has been sold out, according to Portnoy.

The Blackout Tour is doing two to three shows a week and already visited schools such as Clemson University, the University of Michigan and the University of West Virginia. After Quinnipiac, the tour heads to the Univer-sity of Vermont, the University of Connecticut and Hofstra University.

Freshman Danny Griffith has been look-

ing forward to the blackout party since he first heard about the tour.

“I have friends from Cornell, UMass and Stonehill coming so they can go,” he said. “They’ve all already bought tickets and are skipping their classes on Friday to come.”

Griffith said he is expecting the party to be “straight-up craziness.”

Junior Sam Chromey is also excited to at-tend, stating that it will be a great way to end the week before everyone heads home for Thanksgiving Break.

“I heard it’s supposed to be a wild party. It

Citing an “internal miscommunication,” initial reports of DATTCO shuttle service threatening to sever ties with Quinnipiac be-cause of students receiving numerous citations in New Haven are false, according to Vice President of Public Affairs Lynn Bushnell.

Last week, Vice President and Dean of Stu-dents Manuel Carreiro spoke during an SGA meeting, saying that Quinnipiac was “one bad weekend away” from losing New Haven shut-tle privileges. According to DATTCO Chief

Operations Officer Cliff Gibson, this couldn’t be further from the truth.

“Our contract with Quinnipiac is fully in-tact and stands very well,” Gibson said. “I’ve talked to several of our contacts, we have never stated we are canceling service of any kind.”

As a result of Carreiro’s encouragement during the meeting, SGA members started a campaign titled “Respect Your Ride.” Last Thursday, students hung posters and fliers around the Carl Hansen Student Center and Café Q. Also, SGA President Ben Cloutier

sent out a university-wide email on behalf of SGA reminding students that the shuttles are “a privilege and not a right.”

During the meeting, Carreiro said that 38 Quinnipiac students have been issued cita-tions over public urination. According to New Haven Police Department spokesman David Hartman, that number is incorrect.

“The number of students since Sept. 16 that have been cited is over 100, and between 80 to 90 is from Quinnipiac,” Hartman said.

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MULTIMEDIA: Check out photos from last night’s men’s basketball home-opener.

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Barstool founder says Toad’s is no-brainer for Blackout Tour

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Basketball pair to appear in court

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Save made on Sleeping Giant

Quinnipiac men’s basketball players James Johnson and Ike Azotam will appear in Mer-iden Superior Court this morning at 10 to con-tinue the hearing that was postponed pending a supplemental Hamden Police report at the request of defense attorney Thomas Lynch.

“I called the prosecutor last Thursday and he was still waiting to get the supplemental police report from the Hamden Police,” Lynch said. “We may get there [today] and it will be in the state’s file.”

Hamden Police could not confirm or deny any details pertaining to the police report as the case is ongoing.

Lynch said that they are still in the stages of speaking with the state’s attorney and hope to come to a resolution soon.

“Wednesday is the next court date and sometime in the near future there will be a res-olution of how we will proceed,” Lynch said. “On Wednesday I will be speaking to the pros-ecutor and we will start the process of how we will resolve this case. But, as of right now, I do not know how it will play out.”

Johnson and Azotam were involved in a Sept. 18 on-campus fight, according to Ham-den Police. Both men pleaded not guilty to the charges at their arraignment Sept. 26. Lynch is sticking to his argument that Azotam was mis-identified in the police report and that Johnson was assaulted prior to the conflict.

Both Johnson and Azotam were suspended from the basketball team temporarily by coach Tom Moore, but were both reinstated on Oct. 6. Johnson was issued a one-game suspension for the season opener at Mohegan Sun Arena on Friday for disciplinary reasons.

Both players are expected to play in their team’s home opener against Yale Tuesday night at TD Bank Sports Center.

A 19-year-old Quinnipiac student contact-ed the university’s security officials last Friday and reported that she was lost in Sleeping Gi-ant State Park, according to a Hamden Fire Department report cited in Hamden Patch. The conditions at the time were cold and dark.

A Hamden Police spokesman said in the article that the student was located by state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection officers and helped off the moun-tain, uninjured.

She was transported to Yale-New Haven Hospital for treatment for hypothermia, ac-cording to the report.

SGA begins the “Respect Your Ride” campaign, posting signs and fliers around the student center. SGA President Ben Cloutier sends e-mail to entire students body, remind-ing them the shuttles are a “privilege not a right.”

Manuel Carreiro attends SGA meeting, warning members they were “one bad weekend away” from losing DATTCO service to New Haven, encourages them to begin a campaign

DATTCO says they have no plan to ter-minate or alter Quinnipiac contracts. The University responds by saying it was an ‘internal miscommunication’ that led to Carreiro talking to SGA members.

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Students at the University of West Virginia enjoyed themselves at Barstool’s Blackout Tour.

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The Muslim Students Associa-tion held its first event celebrating Eid Ul-Adha, the Festival of Sac-rifice. The worldwide religious event commemorates Prophet Ibrahim’s service to Allah, while marking the end of Hajj, the an-nual pilgrimage taken by Muslims to Mecca, in Saudi Arabia.

Nearly 50 people filled the Mancheski seminar room on Sat-urday, Nov. 12 to take part in the festivities. The evening started with a reading from the Quran, followed by a presentation ex-plaining the significance of the holiday.

The three-day celebration is held on the 10th day of the Is-lamic month of Dhul Hijjah. Al-lah ordered Ibrahim to sacrifice his only son, Ismail. Right when he was about to do so, Allah pro-vided him with a goat to sacrifice

instead.In honor of Ibrahim’s obedi-

ence, Muslims offer the meat of sheep, goats, and camels to Allah, before distributing it to the needy. It is also tradition to go to the mosque for prayer, share a meal with family and friends, and ex-change gifts.

Under the supervision of the new QU Muslim chaplain, Sham-shad Sheikh, the student asso-ciation was established in Octo-ber through the work of its four founding members.

“There was so much energy and I told them they should take the leadership role and teach other students the message that comes from our religion,” Sheikn said.

“The group got together to bring awareness to campus. Quin-nipiac is known for its diversity, and it was time for the Muslim community to establish an orga-nization,” MSA president Syed Hassan Haider said.

“You’d be surprised at how many Muslim students there are, but they’re actually too shy to come out and say that they are Muslim,” Haider said.

Since its establishment, the

organization already has several undergraduate members and more than 20 graduate students attend-ing its meetings.

“I’m Muslim and I was getting emails about this event, so I was thinking maybe it would remind me of my country,” senior Jemal Durdygulyyeva, an international student from Turkmenistan, said.

Even non-Muslim students came out in support of this event, including sophomore Taylor Lombardi.

“I’m not Muslim but I’m al-ways happy to learn new things, I’m excited for the whole experi-ence,” Lombardi said.

The room filled with guests of all ages, many of which were dressed in traditional Islamic at-tire. For both men and women, this includes a headdress and hal-war kameez, which is a long tu-nic with matching pants. Women decorated their hands with henna.

A feast of traditional Islamic dishes, including kabobs, naan, hummus, and stuffed grape leaves capped the evening.

“We eat ‘halal’ only, it’s the way the animal is slaughtered, it’s very religious food here,” Sheikh

said.Kristin Helms, a student assis-

tant for the Office of Multicultural and Global Education, said she re-alized how much diversity there is on campus once she started work-ing in the office.

“I don’t think a lot of stu-dents see that because they are graduate students,” Helms said. “Starting MSA is going to help because they can have events to help teach about their religion and culture.”

According to graduate student Abdalelah Machalzer, the por-trayal of Muslims in the media is completely different from reality. With the help of MSA, he hopes to eliminate the stigmas held against his culture.

As the event ended, Haider stood in the back of the room, proudly observing the result of his organization’s efforts.

“Hopefully in the future we’re known in the greater New Haven area, and can have the outside Muslim community come to our events,” Haider said. “But for now we’re trying to let students and faculty members know that we’re here.”

That theme song that everybody knows amped up Saturday night’s crowd of about 100 students in Buckman Theater.

Student Government Association and Stu-dent Programming Board teamed up to create the sophomore-hosted event, “The Price is Right: QU Edition.” It consisted of games in-spired by the daytime show and prizes like gift certificates to Gold Star Chinese and T.G.I. Friday’s.

Questions like “How much diesel gas goes into a Dattco shuttle” and “How much did the Bobcat statue cost” were asked in order for one of the four contestants to play the solo round to win prizes.

“We had to adjust the game a little bit from the TV version because they are usu-ally guessing prices of cars and vacations and we obviously can’t give that away,” said Juli-anne Gardner, a senior and SPB novelties and weeks chair who helped organized the event. “So that’s why we went to the videos and made it more Quinnipiac themed.”

Freshman Joe Kohle, a film, video and interactive media major, had to guess which price belonged to what food item, which gave him an opportunity to hit a golf ball into the hole to win a prize.

“It was a good time,” Kohle said. “The questions were pretty difficult.”

When asked about the atmosphere, Kohle said the lights shining down on stage made it a

bit nerve-wracking.Mr. QU, senior Travis Moran, played the

role of Drew Carey while seniors Neil Brown and Brad DePrima acted as his comedic assis-tants.

“It’s an interesting combination between SGA and SPB because SPB is more of the games aspect,” said Lauren Yaconis, a sopho-more class representative for SGA.

SGA has to hold one event per semester,

according to Yaconis and with this event they decided to “go big or go home.”

“My committee took on replicating all the games,” Gardner said. “We had to do a lot of research on the Price is Right, what would look the easiest and what would look the best.”

Yaconis and Gardner expressed thanks to everyone who contributed to the success of the event, including the Quinnipiac Film Society.

Muslim Student Association celebrates first eventNew Muslim

chaplain supervises

With SGA and SPB, The Price is RightBy Marissa HiMBele

Staff Writer

By staci cannyContributing Writer

LeSLy ALvArez/ChroNiCLe

Joe Kohle putts for a prize as Neil Brown holds a microphone to the cup. Mr. QU, senior Tra-vis Moran, played host along with Brad DePrima for SGA and SPB’s Price is Right event.

Manic for Mondo

Campus briefs

Mondo Subs, a favorite station in the Bob-cat Den for countless Quinnipiac students, is now luring in customers with more than just the smell of their sandwiches toasting. The MondoMania Club Card, a punch card giving buyers a free sandwich after they purchase 10, became available recently. – M.P.

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Former QU prez passes

What’s in a name?

Former president of Quinnipiac and long-time member of the English department, Leonard Kent, passed away Nov. 8 at Mid-State Medical Center in Meriden. He was 80 years old at the time of his death. He served as Quinnipiac faculty 38 years, beginning in 1960 as an English professor.

In 1966, he became Chair of the depart-ment. He was named president of the univer-sity in 1971 and held the position until 1977. Following his presidency, he returned to teaching English full time and retired in 1997.

Following his passing, President John La-hey issued a statement which said, “When I became president, he immediately became one of my closest advisers and confidantes. His friendship was priceless. His wit, wisdom and intellect were extraordinary, and he will be sorely missed by so many members of our community.” – C.B.

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While students in other classes spend their weekends writing papers and studying for tests, Professor Scott McLean’s Presidential Election Campaigns course provides students with hands-on learning experiences in the po-litical field.

For two weekends during the semester and a week in January, the 28 members of the class travel to New Hampshire to learn the ins-and-outs of political campaigning.

“So many students walk around not know-ing what and how Washington is shaping their future and I refuse to remain ignorant about such matters,” senior Jameson Cheri-lus, who volunteers on President Barack Obama’s campaign, said. “I want a say in the type of people we elect to run this country and this course has given me exactly that op-portunity.”

Over the course of the semester, students learn what is involved in campaigning and choose presidential candidates based off of a questionnaire on a program called Select Start, which asks students to fill out personal infor-mation as well as their positions on political issues.

Students also choose their candidates based off of their positions on certain issues, the candidate’s potential to win and the cam-paign they think would be the most fun to work on.

The students then utilize their newly-ac-quired knowledge in New Hampshire when

volunteering for their selected candidates.“New Hampshire is a political Disney

World for people like me,” McLean said. “It’s got amazing characters and lots to do. It’s a lot of fun, and really it’s the only place in the country where a college student can just jump into campaigns and politics.”

Throughout the New Hampshire trips, stu-dents participate in numerous canvassing ac-tivities, such as holding signs, phone banking and going door-to-door, to garner support for their candidates.

“Anybody can have a lecture telling you what things are about, but to truly experience it and witness what goes into a campaign and how someone is elected, no classroom could ever provide that,” said Natalie Deduck, an-

other volunteer on Obama’s campaign team. “Being a part of that too has been very eye-opening.”

McLean hopes to open his students’ eyes to the fact that the election system in the United States is not the only system in the world. The course provides his students with knowledge of the American presidential candidate selec-tion process, as well as a critical point of view of the method and ways to improve it, accord-ing to McLean.

“They really do come out at the end of this process feeling much more patriotic about their country, they feel like they’ve really done something important, that they were part of making history, and it’s a good feeling,” McLean said.

Hartman also said that the NHPD has made multiple attempts to contact Quinnipiac to inform students and said their requests were denied every time.

“We have had little luck with Quinnipiac to talk to students and student groups,” Hart-man said.

When asked why the requests had been de-nied, Bushnell said, “the university is willing to do whatever it can to make sure this type of inappropriate behavior is discontinued im-mediately. We don’t want a small minority of

students ruining this valuable service for the rest of the student body.”

Said Hartman: “Southern Connecticut State University has invited us on campus for years now to talk to students, and we haven’t had that relationship with Quinnipiac, and that’s a shame.”

After witnessing more than six Quinnipiac students shoplift in downtown New Haven this past weekend, Hartman gave Quinnipiac a “polite message.”

“Behave, and you’re all right. However, we will not tolerate this seemingly minor be-havior,” Hartman said.

Live and learn

University: DATTCO threats were a ‘miscommunication’

Blackout Tour coming to Toad’s tomorrow

Lox for Love cut short by

small turnout

Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson discusses book

PoliSci course lets students follow real campaign

By Cassie ComeauStaff Writer

By Jenna DolehStaff Writer

By Taylor TrahanContributing Writer

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Quinnipiac students volunteering for Barack Obama’s campaign in New Hampshire exactly one year before the 2012 election.

seems like Barstool picked large universities, so it’s exciting that they are coming to QU,” she said. “I know people from Sacred Heart and Farfield are also attending so it should be a great time,” she said.

Quinnipiac hosted Pulitzer Prize winner and former national correspondent for The New York Times Isabel Wilkerson for a pre-sentation of her book, “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Mi-gration” last Monday at Burt Kahn Court.

“The Warmth of Other Suns,” an account of the Great Migration, was selected as one of 2010’s 10 Best Books of the Year by her former employer, The New York Times. She focused on telling the story of 1915 to 1970 in American history when six million African Americans fled the south, by recounting the pasts of three migrants who each represent a different decade and destination.

“My goal in writing this book is to try and make [the Great Migration] come alive,” Wilkerson said. “We are all here on this soil because our ancestors made the choice to make this great sacrifice.”

Wilkerson said she interviewed more than 1,200 people in approximately 12 years to find her three main characters.

“The interviewing process was quite natu-ral,” Wilkerson said. “I wanted to find three delightfully imperfect people like most people would be.”

According to the author, many people who Americans have come to know and love would not have been able to be in the spotlight if it

were not for the Great Migration. She gave examples, such as Michael Jackson, Snoop Dogg, and Diana Ross, whose parents all mi-grated from the South during the period of the Great Migration.

“I want to make everyone aware of the power of individual decision,” Wilkerson said. “These people who migrated freed themselves by their decision to leave. There needs to be more awareness.”

Burt Kahn was packed with students and faculty during Wilkerson’s speech. Those in attendance seemed highly engaged in hearing Wilkerson’s message.

“I never knew much about the great mi-gration before this speech, and I was sur-prised at how much I absorbed in such little time,” sophomore Nathalie Donaldson said. “There were so many things [Isabel Wilker-son] touched on that people take completely for granted, and still don’t realize today what made them possible. I was a lot more affected by what she said than I expected to be, and I fully plan on reading her book.”

During the Great Migration, Wilkerson’s parents journeyed from Georgia and southern Virginia to Washington, D.C., where she was born and raised. “The Warmth of Other Suns” is her first book.

“I hope you all are as inspired as I am by the Great Migration,” Wilkerson said. “It re-ally is such an empowering idea.”

According to Portnoy, Barstool’s main goal is for everyone to have an awesome time.

“We just want everyone to be psyched and have a night that’s different and unusual from what usually happens on campus,” Portnoy said. “We do whatever we can to make sure it’s an event people will have fun at.”

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Six inches of hair is all that is needed to make a tremendous difference in someone’s life and restore his or her confidence.

On Sunday, Nov. 13, Rabbi Reena Judd and Hillel members hosted the second annual Lox for Love event at the Hillel house on New Road. At the event, Quinnipiac students vol-unteered to donate their hair to sick children in need.

Locks of Love is a nonprofit organization that offers hairpieces to children under the age of 21 in the United States and Canada who cannot afford them and are suffering from hair loss due to any diagnosis, including cancer. The organization feels it is important for these children to have hair in order for them to fit in with their peers and maintain their self-esteem and confidence.

“The hair is put in elastic bands and is sent to Locks of Love in West Palm Beach, Fla. From there, it is woven into wigs for people who have lost their hair due to illnesses,” Judd said. “It started as an organization for people with cancer but has now spread to people who need wigs due to any physical situation.”

“I’ve had a couple friends with cancer,” ju-nior Brian Farrell said. “I’ve been growing my hair out for about a year and two months now so I figured when it was long enough, I would cut it and donate it.”

Despite the small turnout, two students grew out their hair for this particular purpose and cut off six inches in order to help children in need.

A bit disappointed that only two people were expected to donate their hair this year compared to the 17 last year, Judd felt that the event lacked advertising.

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The Student Government Association’s “Respect Your Ride” campaign was a positive reaction to DATTCO’s supposed threats to cancel its shuttle contract with the univer-sity. Acts of public indecency in New Haven have finally come to light, and even though the threats turned out to be untrue, they snapped us all back to reality. Students might have be-lieved that our Saturday night slip-ups were sneaking under the radar, but clashes with secu-rity and the New Haven Police Department have finally shown Quinnipiac students in the rare form we always knew we were capable of being.

The notion that the shuttle is a privilege and not a right is valid, and despite the recent miscommunication regarding the shuttle con-tract between DATTCO and the university, how students behave in New Haven and on the buses is still a concern.

For one, this isn’t just an issue of ensur-ing that students have a fun college experience — it’s about safety, too. The shuttle seriously limits drunk driving, and no one wants to see students resorting to driving themselves 25 minutes back from New Haven after a night of heavy drinking. Most students are smart and can find a way there with their groups of friends to take turns as designated drivers. But, there are those times where no one wants to sacrifice their Saturday night for sobriety.

On another note, these acts of public in-decency, including public urination, would be more preventable if students and security

guards working the shuttle lines cooperated more often. The shuttles aren’t exactly timely, and this has a lot to do with the organization of

the process as a whole.This past Saturday the shuttle

stop was chaos, and the number system became more obsolete by the second. Packs of people push-ing and fighting their way to get on a shuttle was not, and never is effective, and it also gives the se-curity guards a reason to be more fed up with the student body. If the shuttle system was more or-

ganized, the process of getting home would be faster, thus eliminating the

need for students to insensibly relieve them-selves by the nearest tree.

Also, I don’t always appreciate the way security guards deal with these situations. Yes, many students are inebriated and unable to act rationally. But there are exceptions to that rule every weekend. Security guards don’t feel obligated to answer questions concerning the shuttle, and speaking from experience, brush many of us off as drunken fools who don’t de-serve to know what number is next or when another shuttle is arriving.

I, and many others, can control myself and lucidly work with superiors to ease an already frustrating process. Many of us will always try and listen to the directions from authorities. But the lack of respect from who is higher up makes this difficult, and participating in inde-cent acts much more tempting.

With that said, students should undoubted-ly be respecting their ride as much as possible.

It is a privilege, and a beneficial one at that. No one wants to see any DATTCO debate re-surface, or the elimination of a shuttle service actually come to fruition. After all, New Ha-ven encompasses the Quinnipiac University nightlife experience.

But it’s also a matter of respecting your-self. I am not always ashamed of my fellow students or myself for what goes on in New Haven. Tickets from the NHPD are not repu-table or ideal, and I don’t view the latest oc-currences as a blemish on the student body as a whole. But, I think it can damage individual integrity.

Learning and understanding personal drinking tolerance may take all four years, but making smart decisions when it comes to being in a territory not our own should come naturally after a while. New Haven is not our personal playground, and the shuttle is not a dump truck.

I know from experience that we all make decisions that we wish we hadn’t, where we drink too much and lose the ability to make reasonable decisions concerning our health, appearance and actions. But my main concern is that we don’t care what our peers think of us, and those we associate with on a daily ba-sis. Think about how those you have to spend another few semesters with are going to view you before you deface a shuttle or property that isn’t yours.

Try to think ahead to the next morning when you wake up and look in the mirror, only to see your face change with regret when you remember that wasn’t a toilet you regurgitated in the night before – and who saw it happen.

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Small schlong no cause for alarm

DEAR LOVELY RITA: My boyfriend’s pack-age is kind of small. I always tell him it’s fine and size doesn’t matter. He’s great in bed, but he’s kind of embarrassed about it. Can you tell me what to say to him so I can make him feel better about it? – Sorely Tender

DEAR SORELY TENDER: I’ll never under-stand guys’ obsessions with their junk. So I can’t really tell you the exact comforting words that he would like to hear because he might not even know it himself. It can be hard as a partner to discuss your boyfriend’s pack-age because he’s so damned sensitive about it. I’ll give you some knowledge so you’ll be bet-ter, ahem, equipped, to deal with the situation next time it, er, comes up.

Let’s start with one part of your question. You think you’re doing your boyfriend a favor by telling him that size doesn’t matter, but in fact you’re perpetuating the problem.

The greatest myth you can tell a Napoleon type is that size doesn’t matter. Because ladies and gentlemen, in this writer’s opinion, size DOES matter, but only if you make it so. Some of you may already have come to this realization that size matters, therefore I’m preaching to the choir. For some men, that fact may dash a few lingering post-adolescent dreams, but it’s true.

It’s good that you don’t tell him that he’s the biggest you’ve ever seen or whatnot, be-cause you both know it’s not true. Therefore, sensitivity is crucial. Tell your boyfriend it’s okay if he’s a member of the small penis club (welcomed by long-time members Enrique Iglesias and Nick Lachey). While their pack-ages may not be as impressive on sight, guys with small johnsons can still bury the bone just as well as any other guy. If Mother Nature wasn’t particularly generous, tell him to make up for it in enthusiasm and technique, and size won’t make a difference. – Lovely Rita

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As an avid football fan and one of the few Pennsylvania natives at Quinnipiac, I was asked many times over for my thoughts on the firing of Penn State Head Football Coach Joe Paterno and the entire situation that unfolded.

Well, my thoughts are that JoePa, President Graham Spanier, Athletic Di-rector Tim Curley, Senior vice president Gary Schultz and Assistant Coach Mike McQueary, all needed to be fired.

Paterno is a legend and an es-sential piece of Americana. There is a statue of him outside of Penn State’s football stadium. He was uni-versally revered for his ability to run a National Championship caliber program the “right way.” This is not Ohio State or Miami. This is Penn State.

As a result of that standing, this entire or-deal is even more shocking. My friend and high school classmate Ken Pollock who plays line-backer for Penn State posted on Facebook “I have lost all faith in humanity.”

I have no desire to address the actions of Jerry Sandusky. It is absolutely horrific and we all agree on that. The riots in Happy Valley were not about Sandusky, obviously. The riots were about an entire generation of kids feeling completely heartbroken that their most visible and revered leader had to exit like that.

A Facebook status that was circulating

around the profiles of my Penn State friends about the riots said, in part, “We aren’t stupid or naive. We know Joe Paterno has culpabil-

ity. We know he could have made different choices–he admitted that. We don’t think he is God or always perfect or saintly. But he is the greatest college football coach ever, and he is PSU family, and we don’t want his exit to be like this.”

Joe Paterno did nothing illegal. He followed university proce-dure and told who he needed to tell. An investigation was held, but the Pennsylvania State Police

were not notified. That is where the fault of the university lies. That is

the reason why Curley and Schultz have been indicted.

President Graham Spanier stepped down, not because he did anything illegal, but be-cause having knowledge of this wrongdoing and doing nothing about it is morally reprehen-sible. The same goes for Paterno.

I wish JoePa could have finished the sea-son and retired like he promised he would. He means so much more to Pennsylvania than simply being a football coach.

It is because he holds such an elevated standing to multiple generations that so much more is expected of him. Joe Paterno made a very large mistake and he is rightly paying for it with his legacy.

CorreCtionsThe article titled “Parking limitations to start Monday” on the front page of last Wednesday’s issue cited a junior living on York Hill as Sunny Mariyani. In fact, his name is Sunny Nariyani.

I’m the first to admit my weakness as an indecisive person. And that it’s big part of why I’m a double major. I’ve been an avid reader and book collector since I was young, so majoring in English was an obvious choice. During sophomore year, I developed a strong inter-est in public relations when I took PRR101 with Professor Kurt Wise. (Anyone who has taken Wise in the past knows it is hard to come out of his class without such an interest in the field.) Alas, I could not choose be-tween the two: an old love and a new interest. So I combined them. And I’ve been extremely happy with the harmony ever since.

Now, it seems I am faced with a finally making a decision between the two. As the Chronicle has reported in the past, gradua-tion for the 2012 class will be on the Quad, but it will be split. Last week, the details were revealed. On May 20, 2012, the Col-lege of Arts and Sciences and the School of Business will graduate in a morning cer-emony and the School of Communications, School of Health Sciences, and School of Nursing will graduate in an afternoon cer-emony.

I, in my indecisiveness, have an issue on my hands. Graduation is not necessar-ily an experience I currently look forward to, because it means leaving the Quinnipiac community I have found comfort in for the past four years. Now, knowing it is a split ceremony, I look forward to it even less.

How exactly are double majors with de-grees from colleges that are now graduat-ing separately supposed to choose which

ceremony to participate in? Favorite classes? Favorite professors? Best friends? Time of day that is most convenient for parents to attend? Dare I say, flip a coin?

I didn’t want to choose be-tween English and public rela-

tions as a sophomore, and I cer-tainly don’t now. I don’t want to choose between sharing the graduating experience with ei-

ther the relationships I have de-veloped with students and pro-

fessors in the College of Arts and Sciences or every single one of my roommates who study in the Communications School and Health Sciences schools.

I realize it is because of the people I’ve met and relationships I’ve developed that I will look back on these years so fondly. The Quinnipiac community was taught to us on the first day of QU101, and rapidly, that concept became a reality to us as a class, not separate schools. I understand the class size has grown so large that one ceremony would undoubtedly be long. But when it comes down to it, the ceremony is being presented as just that, split.

While I do understand the reasoning be-hind holding two ceremonies, I believe one united ceremony, with a class and friends who have spent the last four years together, is ultimately the best way for us to leave our community.

Jeremy StullOpinion editor

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In an age where the BlackBerry is known as the “CrackBerry,” An-droid users are “Droiddicts,” and iPhone lovers are deemed “iPhonat-ics,” it’s no wonder Generation Y members are known for their tech-savvy abilities.

Cellphones equipped with fea-tures such as web browsers, email and apps are labeled as smartphones. While these devices may be “smart,” their never-ending blinks, beeps and vibrations can add to college stu-dents’ stress levels.

Dr. Alfred Bradshaw, also known as “the stress doctor,” is a part-time sociology professor at QU and a professional time and stress man-agement consultant.

According to Bradshaw, factors such as relationships, grades, study-ing and worldwide current events are major causes of stress among college students.

“College students are certainly not exempt [from stress],” Brad-shaw said.

He agrees that technological

advancements such as smartphones can also act as stressors.

“We always feel like we have to be on all the time and our technol-ogy keeps getting better and bet-ter and keeps us more connected,” Bradshaw said. “There’s no down-time.”

A July 2011 survey was con-ducted by the Pew Research Cen-ter to measure smartphone owner-ship. The results concluded that 83 percent of U.S. adults own a cellphone, and 42 percent have a smartphone.

“Android phones are especially common among young adults and African-Americans, while iPhones and BlackBerry devices are most prevalent among college graduates and the financially well-off,” the Pew Center report said.

For many college students, cell-phones aren’t just luxury pieces of technology – they are necessary ap-pendages.

A 2011 Psychology Today article called this smartphone attachment the “Ari Gold Syndrome,” refer-ring to the mobile maniac character

played by Jeremy Piven on “Entou-rage.”

In 2009, MTV and the Associat-ed Press conducted a survey of more than 2,000 college students across the country. According to the survey results, 85 percent of students expe-rienced stress on a daily basis. Like-wise, 60 percent of students experi-enced stress to the point where they

couldn’t complete homework assignments.

Stress can manifest itself in both short- and long-term effects on the

body, according to Brad-shaw. Stress effects include

everything from insomnia and trouble concentrating to in-

creased illness susceptibil-ity. Stress can also interfere with the body’s sex hor-mones, specifically affect-ing women’s ovulation and men’s sperm motility.

Senior Jessica Attard describes her relation-ship with her Android Samsung Galaxy S as

“love-hate.” On average, Attard said she receives an

estimated 50 emails and text messages every day.

“At times I love getting emails to my phone because if they are important or pertaining to something I really need in that moment it’s helpful,” Attard said. “But at the same time I can get re-ally frustrated.”

Senior Adam Hoffman is writ-ing his psychology thesis on vari-ables that affect students’ aca-demic motivation. Hoffman said smartphones cause stress among some students because they act as distractions.

“[Smartphones] are mediators of stress,” Hoffman said. “I think tech-nology inhibits people from dealing with their problems and their stress because they can keep going back to Facebook or their email or whatever, and kind of avoid what they need to solve and the problems they need to think about.”

Freshman Natalie Randazzo receives more than 100 emails and text messages every day on her RIM BlackBerry Tour. Like Hoff-man, she agrees that her smart-phone interferes with her daily re-sponsibilities.

“My smartphone does add to my stress level at college because in-stead of doing my work, I'm always on my phone,” Randazzo said.

Bradshaw says this need to be technologically connected is a result of the human desire for socializa-tion.

“I think it’s because we’re such social animals that we always want to be in touch with people,” Bradshaw said. “We always want people communicating with us. We want to feel connected and feel like we’re part of what’s going on out there.”

Junior Jessica Kraus served

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as Phi Sigma Sigma philanthropy chair, and in her position received an estimated 50 emails per day on her Apple iPhone 4.

“[Smartphones] make you stressed because people always find a different way to get in touch with you,” Kraus said. “But at the same time it does keep you organized.”

Many smartphones give us-ers the ability to see when a mes-sage is read, or when someone is responding. Kraus describes this smartphone messaging feature as “creepy.”

“You feel stressed to respond and answer, and when you don’t people will find a way to get you,” Kraus said.

In terms of college life, stress is common and sometimes unavoid-able. However, there are several ways to fight and relieve stress.

According to Bradshaw, students can reduce stress by getting enough sleep, eating balanced meals, exer-cising regularly and improving their time management skills.

For those who succumb to tech stress, Bradshaw recommends fo-cusing on one task at a time.

“Students buy into the idea that they can multitask and at the same time be texting or available for phone calls,” Bradshaw said. “And that’s a case of people fooling them-selves because there’s not an advan-tage to thinking that you can multi-task.”

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WQAQ’s “Music for Meals” event collected nearly 200 cans and raised $225. More than 100 students attended the concert at The Space. Clockwise from top-left: Sean Posila from High Pop, Stephen Chen sax player from Great Caesar, John Michael lead singer for Great Caesar, Laura Stevenson from Laura Stevenson and the Cans, Mike Farrel and bass player from Great Caesar, and Alex Billig, the accordion player from Laura Stevenson and the Cans.

MUSIC FOR MEALS

Q30’s new social media-inspired television show “#THAT” aired for the first time Nov. 8. The 30-minute show is filled with segments that re-volve around hashtagging and the Twitter world.

Junior Mary-Caitlin Harding and sophomore Cara Gilmartin are the brains behind the show’s creation. Harding and Gilmartin said they use hashtags in everyday conversation, so they created a television show based on tweets and hashtags per-taining to campus.

The show’s creators also fill the role of co hosts, as well as ex-

ecutive and associate producer.“The concept of the show is to

just inform the viewers of funny and interesting tweets we’ve been gath-ering via Twitter,” Gilmartin said. “We talk about celebrities and also QU students and faculty.”

One of the weekly segments titled #allthesingleladies will high-light tweets about the difficulties of being a single girl, which are typi-cally quite comical.

One tweet read, “To confirm my singleness, I’m spending the night cuddling with my phone while watching ‘Aladdin.’ #singlegirl-problems.”

The show will also feature a

weekly interview with one of QU’s most eligible bachelors, and he of-fers his advice to women.

“I think it has great potential,” said junior Emily Casey, who held the role as floor director for the pi-lot. “The two creators have tons of ideas to add to the show and I think it’s going to be hard to keep it under a half hour.”

“#THAT’s” uses the Twitter handle @HashTagThatQU and lets students stay updated on episode an-nouncements and provides students with the opportunity to have their tweets read aloud on air.

“Our goal is to help our viewers better understand what Twitter has

to offer, and really use Twitter as a source of entertainment,” Harding said.

Tune in to watch “#THAT” ev-ery Tuesday at 8 p.m. on channel 30.

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After four years of waiting, mem-bers of Show Me Your TD’s are final-ly able to call themselves Quinnipiac intramural Division I flag football champions after defeating the Cleve-land Teamers 37-0 on Sunday.

Show Me Your TD’s have played in the flag football league since the start of their freshman year. Almost every year they have come close but were never able to win the champi-onship game until now.

“It was awesome,” captain and quarterback Frankie DiSomma said. “Most of us have been together for

four years and we could never get to the finals and we finally did this year and we played great the whole way out.”

From the start of the game the seniors came out aggressive, scoring four touchdowns in the first half and scoring once on a two-point con-version, giving them a comfortable 26-0 cushion going into the second half of the game.

Their explosive offense did not stop here as another touchdown was immediately recorded to start off the half, making the score 32-0.

Due to the intramural flag foot-ball mercy rule, which states that if

a team is up 35 points the game will end, the anxious seniors quickly got the ball back on offense and made their way down the field.

Dan Mascaro was the hero, se-curing the victory after scoring the final touchdown of the game.

“It really felt great to end the game the way it was ended,” Masca-ro said. “Its been a big four years to-gether and it feels really great to win it with this special group of guys.”

Mascaro described this season as being not as competitive as the prior three, but it’s still fun to be a part of the team.

“It was great to mercy them and

as a team I think our defense was re-ally good, especially Steve Strait at safety and Frankie DiSomma,” Mas-caro said.

The defense has been key to their success this season, according to Mas-caro. The defense helped lead the team to a perfect undefeated season.

The senior boys immediately be-gan jumping on Mascaro and cele-brating their title as champions after polishing off their final flag football season at Quinnipiac.

“It’s good to graduate knowing we finally won flag football,” Di-Somma said.

CHAMPIONSHIP WEEKEND

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Show Me Your TD’s shows off four years of hard work in Sunday’s championship game against the Cleveland Teamers.

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Clockwise from top: two students fight for possession of the ball; Michael Martineau tries to pull away from a player from the opposing team; Niko Venancio, Michael Nanna, Brian Patri, Gavin Faust, Chris Scherer of Double D’s, the winning men’s D2 dodgeball team, pose.

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SGA defeats Fly High, 20-0

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Dean’s List defeats Big Ball Boys 5-3

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Keith Palmer doesn’t like to talk about what happened to his dad on Sept. 11, 2001 with anyone except family and close friends. Keith was only 11 years old and the rest of that week is now one big blur in his mind. One thing he does recall, though, was his mom sit-ting him and his two sisters down in his house and hearing her say that his dad wasn’t coming back.

His dad, Orio, single-handedly fixed an el-evator in the South Tower of the World Trade Center on 9/11 and rode it up 40 floors. Then, wearing about 50 pounds of bunker gear, he ran up 38 flights of stairs to find hundreds of people in dire need of help at the impact zone, where the second plane had hit the South Tower.

Orio, 45, was the battalion chief of Engine Company 3 and Ladder 12 in Chelsea of the New York City Fire Department and the only firefighter to make it up to the impact zone of the South Tower.

“Anyone who was wounded or dying – to know somebody was able to get up there, they knew there had to be a way out. For people who were there at the point of impact to have seen him, I can only imagine, it must have been some elation or euphoria that’s probably indescribable. Just to see him, and to realize there’s some hope here thanks to this guy who just made it up here,” Orio’s brother Stephen said in “9/11: Phone Calls from the Towers,” a 2009 documentary.

Seven minutes after Orio’s last radio trans-mission calling for help, the tower collapsed, killing nearly 1,000 civilians and firefighters, according to the documentary.

“He left a story behind,” Orio’s wife and Keith’s mother Debbie said in the documen-tary. “My kids will have it, their kids will have it, and I just feel that it’s to honor his memory and the person that he was.”

Keith hasn’t forgotten him.His mom gave him a pendant necklace a

few years ago and he hasn’t taken it off since. He also keeps a 5-by-7 framed portrait of his dad wearing his firefighting gear near his bed at all times, even when he goes home for just a weekend.

He rarely mentions his dad to anyone be-sides his family and close friends.

“I don’t want to put other people in un-comfortable situations,” he said. “I don’t want other people to be like, ‘Oh, I’m sorry.’ Then it just feels awkward.” But after seeing his dad featured in “9/11: Phone Calls from the Tow-ers,” Keith found a way to talk about his dad with his friends – through Facebook – 10 years and a day after the tragedy.

His post read, “documentary from the his-tory channel…go to 16:30. thats my dad,” with a link to the video attached. When he checked his Facebook the next day, he saw that more than 90 people had liked the status.

“I got a bunch of private messages on Facebook and text messages of people say-

ing, ‘Keith, I always knew about your dad but I didn’t know that he was truly a hero and that you should be proud to be his son.’ That makes you really appreciate how other people don’t forget,” Keith said.

Keith’s sister, Dana, speaks of her dad more openly than her younger brother. “Since his entire life wasn’t 9/11 – I’m able to talk about that too – remembering him in a happy way is also easy to do,” she said.

Dana is two years older than Keith and completed the MAT program for elementary education at Quinnipiac in 2009.

“Even though he’s younger than me, I look up to him,” she said. “I know he is very, very protective and always looking out for Alyssa (his younger sister) especially at school. My dad would be very proud of him and the man that he’s become.”

Alyssa, a sophomore at Quinnipiac, said she looks up to Keith, too.

“It wasn’t a good thing that happened, but it definitely made us a lot closer,” she said. “We have a lot of respect for each other.”

Keith was attending the Wheeler Avenue Elementary School in Valley Stream, N.Y., that Tuesday when he first heard there had been an attack on the World Trade Center. As usual, his neighbor picked him up from school later that day.

“I remember her saying, ‘Your parents are OK, they’re fine, we’re just going to take you home and we’ll find out later,’” Palmer said. “Then basically the rest of the time after that is one big blur.”

He found out recently from his mom that he and his two sisters, Alyssa and Dana, con-tinued to attend school that week.

“She didn’t keep us home because she didn’t know what else she would do with us,” Keith said. “It was so hectic.

“We had all of our family at our house, all

of our friends coming by, people making din-ner for us and our family so mom didn’t have to do anything. For the next few days, we were watching the news, waiting for phone calls.”

The next thing Keith remembered after hearing his mom explain what had happened was pulling up to the memorial service in a limo. He said more than a thousand people came to the church; the street was lined with townsfolk, his dad’s friends from FDNY, and his little league baseball team – which his dad coached. But he said he was overwhelmed and didn’t fully grasp what was going on.

“I was looking out the window of the limo and was like, ‘Hey look there are these people we know’ and obviously my mom was just not in that state of mind,” he said.

The ensuing ceremony seemingly was the toughest part for Keith to bear. His uncle Jim McCaffrey, who has been with the FDNY for 25 years and currently serves as a lieutenant, gave a speech.

“I remember him going over to the big por-trait that we had of him and he saluted. That … wasn’t good for me,” Keith said. “Then after the church I remember being handed my dad’s helmet from one of the fireman.”

Keith still has the helmet stored at home.And while studying abroad in Florence,

Italy, during the last spring semester, he didn’t forget about his dad – especially on the morn-ing of May 2.

“When I was there, we got Osama [Bin Laden],” he said jubilantly. “It took 10 years, but it was the closest thing we got to closure.”

His family remembers Orio on the holi-days, but having a day when the whole nation honors his dad and the nearly 3,000 people who died is when it is most meaningful to Keith. He usually goes home to Point Look-out in Long Island, for a “really nice cer-emony” to gather with his family and close friends.

For the 10th anniversary of 9/11 two months ago, Quinnipiac hosted its annual can-dlelit vigil on the Quad. That morning, Alex Forman, Keith’s former roommate at Quinni-piac and close friend, read Keith’s dad’s name from the steps of Arnold Bernhard Library.

“I choked up, I definitely took a pause,” Forman said. “Knowing Keith and knowing his family and just how strong they are, the whole situation, it destroys me every single time I think about it, but I’m glad to be his best friend.”

Keith says people have asked how he, his sisters and mom made it through the whole situation seemingly unscathed. He credits the support of his extended family and friends, but most notably his mom.

“She is the strongest person I know,” he said. “She was our rock throughout the whole thing.”

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The Duggars, TLC’s reality family, recently announced they will welcome child No. 20 to their family army this April.

At this rate, Jim Bob and Michelle will soon run out of baby names beginning with the letter J.

In an ideal world, people wouldn’t be judged for their lifestyles. But this is reality, and one can’t help but wonder if the Duggars continue to reproduce for the sake of making a buck.

Pregnancy should come from love, not fame.Perhaps they’ve taken lessons from other public breeding machines

such as the “Octomom” Nadya Suleman, or the Browns from TLC’s “Sister Wives.”

Someone needs to tell Michelle that having a gaggle of children doesn’t make her a fit mother. In this economy, families are struggling to provide for three children, let alone 20.

Then again, the Duggars need to keep their TLC reality show in or-der to feed and clothe their enormous family. If exploiting the kids on national television helps to pay the bills, all the obnoxious publicity may be worth it.

Looking back in TLC history, things didn’t work out so great for “John & Kate Plus 8.” You know there is a problem when the Gosselins are more psychologically stable than the Duggars. – S.C.

ABC’s new drama “Once Upon a Time” is a dark and twisted take on fairy tales. It has already earned its rightful spot as one of the best new shows of the fall television season.

The series centers on Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Prince Charming (Josh Dallas), whose happily ever after does not sit well with the Evil Queen (Lana Parrilla).

The Evil Queen curses all of the fairy tale characters to a place with no happily ever afters. They find themselves expelled from their magi-cal world and in relocated to the fictional town of Storybrooke, Maine, with different lives and no past memories.

Emma Swan (Jennifer Morrison) is Snow White’s daughter, who was saved just before the curse took a effect. With no recollection of her past, Swan returns to Storybrooke and tries to lift the curse with the help of the son she gave away when she was 18, Henry (Jared Gilmore). Henry is the adopted son of the mayor of Storybrooke, Regina Mills, aka the Evil Queen.

The series plays similarly to “Lost” with a combination of mod-ern scenesnd flashbacks. Parrilla sizzles as Regina Mills/Evil Queen. Likewise, Robert Carlyle is sensational and Emmy-worthy as Rumpel-stiltskin/Mr. Gold.

“Once Upon a Time” airs Sundays at 8 p.m. on ABC. – M.B.

Thanksgiving break always comes at the perfect time, when students get to reflect on the semester’s past events and mentally prepare for three weeks of fight-ing with our over-caffeinated peers for a cubby in the library. Likewise, it’s fun to rub our full week of freedom in the faces of our friends who go to other colleges – this is our Columbus Day revenge, and we intend on fully using it to our advantage. Thanksgiving break is much more than go-ing into shock from too much tryptophan in the turkey, and it involves rest, relaxation and making fun of Kristen Stewart.

Whether you are going to see “Breaking Dawn” or not, you are going to encounter Twi-moms and naïve, werewolf-obsessed adolescents in your travels to any theater, mall or shopping center. The end of an era is just beginning, and you’ll even find me paying an exorbitant amount of money to see Kristen Stewart perfect the one agoniz-ing look she has. I’m not going to argue about the poor quality of the script and the acting in the film, but every Thanksgiving requires the tradition of seeing a movie in-spired by a book’s series.

Seeing as it’s “No Shave November,” I’m expecting a lot of scruff from men at home. It’s already all over campus, but I’m excited to see some handle-bar ‘staches away from the Quinnipiac community. Since this is strictly a charity for men, I’m implementing a new event for women called “No Lose Weight November.” If men can let their straggly beards run free without question, I could use the excuse of eating as many carbohydrates and leftover turkey sandwiches as I please for a good cause. I’m just trying to level the playing field here – all of you guys can stare proud-ly at the mustaches you couldn’t grow in middle school. While my jeans might not fit for a week, at least I’ll have succeeded in taste-testing six varieties of pie in one sitting.

Lastly, I’m anticipating awkward run-ins with former high school classmates at every major bar strip in town on Thanks-giving Eve. Seeing as Thanksgiving is a holiday in and of itself, it will be interest-ing to revert back to old times with old friends while away from every one I’ve left in Connecticut for the time being. Thanks-giving Eve forces small talk and cringe-worthy reminiscing, but thankfully there’s alcohol to cushion the blow of such memo-ries. Thus, for the first portion of the week, rest up. Black Friday shortly follows after an intense night of partying and a packed schedule of family time. If you don’t have the strength to gift shop at the end of the week, really, what do you have?

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While American sports fans are in ecstasy with the recent Major League Baseball play-offs, as well as the ongoing NFL and NHL sea-sons, the rest of the world is recovering from their own excitement.

For 45 days fans were glued to their televi-sions and bar stools to watch the Rugby World Cup.

Here in Ireland, and the majority of Eu-rope, rugby is everywhere. Billboards, sides of buses, commercials and of course the pubs.

Every few days faces turned green, white and orange in the country of the fourth ranked club in the world and that meant one thing.

Game day.In America, the enthusiasm for the sport

doesn’t exist for the average sports fan.That flavor of team spirit is common for

football fans, bitter baseball rivalries, and the annual battle between Quinnipiac and Yale for the Heroes Hat.

Rugby however, seems to be left out with few followers in the country and even less players.

Quinnipiac women’s rugby head coach Becky Carlson believes there is a lack of inter-est in the sport.

“USA Rugby spearheads the national teams and is charged with most of the initia-tives in the country at all levels,” Carlson said. “The leadership is always European and their system is different than ours in terms of sports in general.”

Carlson is familiar with USA Rugby, hav-ing worked there as an Emerging Sports pro-gram manager.

She just completed her first season at Quinnipiac finishing with a respectable 3-6-1 record in the program’s inaugural season in Division I.

This year, Carlson and the Bobcats joined Eastern Illinois University as the only schools associated with NCAA rugby with its wom-en’s teams, setting the steps to build NCAA recognized rugby programs.

But for club teams like New Blue Rugby and the rest of the U.S., rugby is not an NCAA recognized sport.

Instead, as Carlson says, USA Rugby orga-nizes the competition for all age groups. Carl-son believes the reason behind little NCAA support for the sport is because the NCAA sponsors men’s football.

Ryan Tilley, an American student from Washington College and current study abroad student at University College Cork in Cork, Ireland, was assigned by the UCC rugby club as the teams’ liaison.

Tilley, apart from playing recruiter, has

played the sport for 13 years and plays center (centre in Ireland) for his club at school as well as with the UCC club.

“I don't think America will ever get as in-terested in rugby as the rest of the world is,” Tilley said. “I feel that USA rugby is trying to make rugby seem like it’s football, which it isn't, and they will never be able to take over football in America.”

What goes unnoticed by many is that the game of American football we play today de-rived from the rules and style of play found in rugby. American football to Europe, is like rugby is in the U.S.

“(Europe’s) emphasis is on sports like rugby, which is built into their culture the way American football is in to ours,” Carlson said.

Tilley’s teammate, Brian Kingston from Dublin, Ireland, plays out-half for UCC and said that Europeans find American football slow compared to rugby.

“The Rugby World Cup was important for many Irish people,” Kingston said. “We love supporting our country in any sport, but the Super Bowl isn't big over here. Although, we all know when it's on and there are some people that watch it for the spectacle that it is, we find American football too long and too ‘stop-start.’”

While the event was not as popular across the rest of the world, last year’s Super Bowl XLV was the most watched program ever in the U.S. with approximately 111 mil-lion viewers, according to Huffington Post.

Another member of UCC’s club is Mike McCarthy, from Tralee, Ireland, who plays hooker or forward for UCC.

“The Rugby World Cup is as big as it gets for rugby in Europe,” McCarthy said. “The

Super Bowl is growing in interest year in, year out, but at a much slower rate than rugby in the U.S.”

Tilley has strong support for the game on both fronts and says his American schools’ club team, which lacks NCAA or USA Rugby recognition, is still a very serious team with coaches, long training sessions and dedication.

The UCC squad, which is funded by the university, is provided with 15 coaches and a

private gym as well as team doctors and train-ers.

“Playing in Ireland is a lot more competi-tive than playing in the States,” Tilley said. “Rugby is gaining a lot more popularity in America but we are still years behind Ireland.”

McCarthy thinks it isn't the lack of asso-ciation to the NCAA but a different factor that hinders the sports popularity.

“From my understanding, American sports media doesn’t give rugby enough coverage. Sports networks in the states have a preoccu-pation with national sports like the NFL and

MLB.,” McCarthy said. “I think America is a growing rugby country. They have all the raw materials and have shown in the past that they can excel in international sports, like soccer for example.”

With Quinnipiac joining Eastern Illinois this past fall, the two schools have begun to set the foundation of growth for the sport of rugby in the U.S.

On Sept. 18, the two teams played each other for the first ever meeting between two Division I teams.

It was an emotional setting as the game was representative of the rising interest of rugby in the U.S.

“It was breaking me up a little bit when I was listening to the National Anthem because I remember being a player and my very last game that I played for Eastern,” Carlson said about that game.

“[Assistant] coach [Michelle] Reed (who also played at EIU) and I are listening to the national anthem and we’re both coaching the program that’s coaching the first NCAA game. It was pretty surreal.”

While Carlson’s Bobcats played the Pan-thers three times, the American team was un-able to advance past group play in the 2011 Rugby World Cup. The U.S. went 1-3 in this year’s Rugby World Cup, which is a step up from their 0-4 record in 2007. While it is only a one-win differential, the 1-3 record in this years tournament is a strong improvement, and a good sign for the teams’ future.

“I think if they promoted the sport to be a game of finesse, it might be able to take off,” Tilley said. “But as long as they keep promot-ing rugby as a sport similar to football, I don’t think it will grow as much as it should.”

“I think America is a growing rugby country. They have all the raw materials and have shown in the past that they can excel in international sports, like soccer for example.”

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The Quinnipiac women’s rugby team has helped the sport of rugby grow in the U.S. by becoming the second Division I program to be recognized by the NCAA.

Joe Addonizio is currently in Ireland and ex-amines the cultrual differences between rugby

in Europe and the U.S.

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If there were two words Quinnipiac women’s head coach Dave Clarke would use to describe his team this year, it would be frustrating and dis-appointed.

“Frustrating and disappointed so in the reality for me....the roster that we had, the players that we had so, we underachieved,” Clarke said.

After going 7-7-4 the previous season, the women’s soccer team had high expectations. The Bobcats were picked to finish fifth overall in the preseason Northeast Conference poll for the 2011-12 season. The team was going to be led by seniors Furtuna Velaj and goalkeeper Jill Kelley.

“I think the body for Furtuna is good and I think it’s strange to say, but I think Furtuna has under-achieved,” Clarke said. “Yes she’s been a great player, but I’ve tried to make her become a good team player.”

Velaj finished her senior season with six goals, two assists, and 14 points in 16 games. Since freshman year, Velaj’s numbers have gone down every year. She led the NEC with 15 goals, 31 points and six game-winning goals her fresh-man year.

“The intent was to make her better prepared for professional or national team levels,” Clarke said. “What I should’ve done was left her being selfish and the true maverick that we would re-spond and act to her. I took something out of her game.”

This season, the Bobcats finished the season with a 5-10-1 record and missed the playoffs. Af-ter tying their opener against Canisus, the team went on to lose four straight games.

They then went on to win the next three of

their five games, only to lose the next four of their final six games. Quinnipiac finished the sea-son with a win against Bryant 2-0 on seniors day.

“Personally, I’ve been here for five years so this was definitely an under-achieving season,” graduate student Kyla Miles said.

“It was a little bit of a disappointment for sure,” Kelley said. “As a team, we didn’t mesh as well as how we predicted that we would. There were certain people that didn’t fill into the phi-losophy.”

This was coach Clarke’s 13th season as the Bobcats’ head coach. He said that out of all the teams he has coached, this team was the most disappointing.

“In the past, I’ve had losing seasons but I’ve had losing seasons for a reason,” Clarke said. “Not a knock on those players but they weren’t good enough ... this is the first time where the record doesn’t match the ability of the players.”

With graduation, seniors like Velaj and Miles will not be returning to the team. Kelley had an injury in the 2009 season and red-shirted, so she will be coming back. While most of these seniors were the reason for high expectations, coach Clarke thinks the team will be better next year.

“We’ve lost four players but we’ve got seven players coming in already,” Clarke said. “Yes we’re losing seniors, but there’s a lot of talent and experience coming in.”

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MEN’S ICE HOCKEYSt. Lawrence 1, QU 0 – SaturdayEric Hartzell: 22 savesMEN’S BASKETBALLFairfield 72, QU 60 – FridayIke Azotam: 17 points, 10 reboundsWOMEN’S BasketballJames Madison 81, QU 73 – FridayJasmine Martin: 20 pointsCamryn Warner: 11 rebounds

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Furtuna Velaj looks at the referee for a penalty call. Velaj finished with 14 points on the season while the Bobcats ended the season with a 5-10-1 record.

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96 ConseCutive games played by james johnson,

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freshman jasmine martin in her Collegiate debut.

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iCe hoCkey goaltender viCtoria vigilanti, fourth in the eCaC.

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Eric HartzellHartzell recorded 32 saves on 34 shots on goal over two games this weekend. His 10 saves on Friday helped lead the Bobcats to a 1-1 tie against Clarkson. Hartzell also won the honor of Best Goalie Mask in the first ever College Hockey contest.

Babstock contributed to all three goals the Bobcats scored Saturday in their 3-2 win over St. Lawrence. Babstock scored the first goal of the game and recorded two assists.

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Clockwise from top left: Felicia Barron goes up for a layup against James Madison in Friday’s 81-73 loss. Sophomore Camryn Warner tries to put a shot over a James Madison de-fender in Friday’s game. Sophomore forward Ike Azotam moves to the basket for a layup in Friday’s 72-60 loss against Fairfield.

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With three weeks left in the reg-ular season it may not seem reason-able to focus on anything besides your 4-5 fantasy football team trying to fight off mediocrity.

However, I’ve always been more about shedding light on the

athletes in Hamden that go out and own it in the stat column.

A few players from last year’s list have graduated, but I really feel like this is the strongest list of ten fantasy players the Chronicle has ever put together.

I know, I know … we lost Justin Rutty who was “Mr. Quinnipiac” in

my eyes. However, the top spot on my list

now provides an opportunity to give credit to a new Quinnipiac athlete that just goes out there and puts up numbers every single game.

So let’s honor Rutty as last year’s top pick and move on to this season’s top fantasy rankings.

Bobcats men’s basketball coach Tom Moore looked out at the media Friday night at the Mohegan Sun Arena with concentrated emotion. Even after a 72-60 loss at the hands of Fairfield in the Connecticut 6 Classic, Moore prefaced the entire press conference with one statement.

“I really like my team, I love my team,” Moore said. “They’re really fun to coach.”

After a slow start in the game, one in which the team trailed by 15 with 16:14 left in the second half, Quinnipiac stormed back to tie the game at 57 with a little over five minutes remaining in the contest.

However, a 15-1 run by the Stags over the next several possessions sent the Bobcats back to Hamden with an 0-1 record, and many fans questioning what is in store for a squad that finished 22-10 with last year’s team.

Adding to the chaos was the fact that the Bobcats played the game without last season’s leading scorer and First Team All-Northeast Conference senior guard James Johnson. Johnson had been suspended Friday evening for disciplinary reasons.

Moore said following the game that the team was searching for a “playmaker” like Johnson during the loss.

The Bobcats also played without junior guard Garvey Young, who has yet to step on the court for Quinnipiac due to sitting out last season after transferring from the University of Vermont.

Earlier in practice this year, Young injured himself diving for a ball. Still, Moore said there is optimism for seeing the Washington, D.C-native on the court soon.

“[Young]’s coming quick,” Moore said. “He’s rehabbing like crazy right now. I think it will be soon, but I couldn’t tell you how soon it would be.”

It is perhaps Young’s actions that spoke loudest for what his team’s focus is on heading into the following week.

On Saturday afternoon, Young walked around the concourse of the High Point So-lutions Arena during the men’s hockey game against St. Lawrence sporting a yellow “Beat Yale” T-shirt, their next opponent.

The gesture is a testament to the no-look-ing-back attitude that Quinnipiac fans can ex-pect of this young Bobcats team, who show-cased their youth by playing seven freshmen against the Stags on Friday.

Notably, first-year guards Nate Gause and Zaid Hearst contributed diligently, dropping 12 and seven points, respectively, and both playing more than 30 minutes.

“Nate is one of the young guys who just grew up tonight. I thought him and Zaid han-dled themselves very good,” Moore said fol-lowing the game.

With the return of James Johnson and eventually Young, a plethora of youth, along-side the presence of returning stars like sopho-more Ike Azotam and junior Dave Johnson, the Bobcats very well may have a lot in store for the 2011-2012 season.

To further the positive outlook, Moore said he’s been very impressed by the inten-sity and consistency his team has shown so far.

“I keep saying to my staff after every prac-tice that we had another one where we prac-ticed well,” the fifth-year coach said.

Following the Yale game, Quinnipiac stays at home to take on Navy Saturday, and then travel to the nation’s capitol to face American next week.

While the stretch may be tough before conference play, it is clear in Moore’s mind that there is a lot to look forward to with this team.

“So far, this team is so new to me, and I’m so new to them,” he said. “So far, I love this team.”

With that being said, perhaps the Bobcat Den will soon love them too.

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Moore preaches optimistism, patience

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Tom Moore checks the scoreboard and cheers on his team in Friday’s 72-60 loss to Fairfield.

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Could this forward have done anything else as a freshman? She led the team in points (59), goals (30), and assists (29), all of which are new program records I assume she’ll break this year. She probably took home more awards by New Year’s than I have in my entire life.

Usually I’d say “pump the brakes Kelly, you’re making us all look bad.” But I can’t help but love the fact that she is crushing it out on the ice. As long as she’s at Quinnip-iac she’ll be the number one fantasy pick … no matter what the sport.

We all know by now that John-son had himself an eventful offsea-son. But it’s time to let bygones be bygones and just realize that every student makes mistakes and move on.

I’m not sure I talked about any-one as much as James Johnson last year, so it’s a bit of an upset that he only reaches the number two spot in this year’s rankings.

I’m not going to be disappointed when he goes out there and proves me wrong though, and gets us to our first ever NCAA tournament.

Vigilanti was number two on my list last season, and in all honesty is probably the safest bet for fantasy owners.

She was one of the best goalten-ders in the country last season, let alone the ECAC.

Nine shutouts and 841 saves as a sophomore? Sign me up. I’m not sure the goaltender can get much better, but if she does, watch out.

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Langlois has started the season on fire with 10 goals and six assists in 13 games for the Bobcats.

The forward seems to be the main scoring option for the Bobcats, and for a team that is second in the ECAC in goals per game, that’s say-ing a lot.

Playing with Scott Zurevinski and Matthew Peca on the first line will mean Langlois will get plenty of scoring opportunities, no ques-tion.