While “The Hookup Samaritan” may not have the same motives as the “Million-aire Matchmaker’s” Patti Stanger or “Tough Love’s” Steve Ward, the person behind Quinni-piac’s own matchmaking service isn’t looking to match students for long-term commitment – the QU Hookup List looks to rid seniors of any hookup hang-ups before graduation.

Last year, the Hookup Samaritan created the website “QU Hookup List,” which invites Quinnipiac seniors to enter their email address-es so they can receive a password to access the site. Then, users can list the names of people they want to hook up with during Senior Week. If the user has a hookup match, both students will receive a notifying email. Those interested can sign up at quhookuplist.com.

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Contactless Q-card extends across campus

Possible hate crime sparks campaign against ‘F’ word

O.A.R. ticket sales not

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If O.A.R. had tried to start its college-born music career at Quinnipiac instead of Ohio State University, its underground popularity may not have been enough to get the band a real record deal.

Pop artists, such as last year’s performer Ke$ha, had Quinnipiac students lining the hallways of the student center for hours the first day of sales for the $20 arena seats and $25 floor seating. For this year’s Wake the Gi-ant concert on Sunday, April 22, O.A.R. tick-ets are $10 apiece for arena seating and $15 for floor seating, said Nick Sczerbinski, head of stage crew for the Student Programming Board concert.

“In the summer, when they were on tour, I heard it was $50 just for lawn seats, and here you can get $15 for floor tickets,” Sczerbinski said.

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One word can hold a lot of hatred. The word “faggot” may be used by some college students who let it slip into their vocabulary, but this deep-rooted insult is no joke to Quin-nipiac’s Interfraternity Council.

IFC members were influenced to work to-ward promoting awareness to end the usage of the “F” word with their campaign “Fraternities Against the ‘F’ Word,” after a possible hate

crime that security is currently investigating. Students showed their support and recog-

nition last Wednesday in the Carl Hansen Stu-dent Center and Café Q by getting their pic-tures taken with posters that read: “Fraternities against the ‘F’ word,” for fraternity members, “Sororities against the ‘F’ word,” for sorority members and “I am an ally,” for non-Greek life members.

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Beyond the blue tarps and chain-link fenc-ing that surrounds construction at Quinnipiac, a more subtle project continues to be in the works.

The university has been transitioning its Q-card readers to Blackboard’s Sony FeliCa card system, which uses a contactless card reader, replacing the previous magnetic strip system.

Quinnipiac first began to transition to the contactless card readers in May 2011. Since then, approximately 70 percent of the univer-sity has transitioned to the Blackboard system, said Sandip Patel, a financial systems special-ist at Quinnipiac.

“We went with contactless because that’s the way the industry is moving. We had the opportunity to start moving in this direction and we took it,” Associate Vice President for Auxiliary Services John Meriano said in a CR80News online article.

The new Q-cards were an interesting change for students, but it was well received.

“What I like best about the contactless ‘tap’ system is that you do not necessarily have to take your card out in order to get in the building,” sophomore Kelly Leavitt said. “I can keep it in my clutch and the card will tap through it, making it so much easier when I have a lot of things to carry or am in a rush.”

While there is no firm completion date, the university is phasing the system on all of the university’s campuses, which includes nearly 5,000 interior doors and 180 exterior doors, Patel said. Currently, all points of sale, includ-ing 55 vending machines and 15 laundry loca-tions, have been converted.

The main reason for phasing in the system over a period is due to the high cost of the technology, Meriano said.

While the final cost of the Blackboard technology is currently unknown, most of the cost was budgeted into an annual maintenance agreement, according to Patel.

“With any system upgrades, there is to be expected a bump or two, but overall, the in-stallation was seamless,” Patel said.

One of those early bumps was that only one reader could be plugged in at a time at each register in the cafeteria, according to the CN80News article.

“This is an issue with the firmware on the NCR registers we use,” Patel said. “Black-board is working on resolving the issue for us. In the meantime, the cashiers have placed the readers in the center so it can be utilized by both sides of the line.”

Even with this minor glitch, students have still noticed significant improvements in the cafeteria lines.

“It definitely takes less time in the cafe because the cashiers don’t have to swipe each

person’s card,” freshman Marissa Maturo said.While it may be hard for students to

imagine life on campus without their Q-cards, it was not until 1987 that Quinnipiac introduced its magnetic strip Q-card, Me-riano said.

Prior to 1987, students carried two docu-ments with them: a paper meal ticket and non-photo identification card. Students could pur-chase one of three meal plans that provided 10, 14 or 19 meals per week, according to David Hall, a member of the Q-card office team in administrative services.

The early version of the debit-like Q-card had a validation sticker on it for meals and was only functional for doing laundry and vending. Students would return their cards at the end of the year so that new stickers could be put on for the following year. Even at this time, stu-dents still had a separate ID card.

Starting in 2000, the university implement-ed its off-campus merchant program which now has over 45 local stores and restaurants that accept the Q-card as a form of payment, according to the CN80News article.

“My Q-card is my lifeline. It is my ID, my money, my meals, my keys; it is every-thing I need in order to function at QU,” Leavitt said.

While the card’s capabilities continue to grow, it is only a matter of time until the uni-versity’s technology is equally up-to-date.

“We are pleased with the program en-hancements and look forward to offering more services in the future,” Patel said. “We look forward to expanding the system and even-tually phasing out the magnetic stripe on the card.”

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The university is phasing the contactless Q-card system on all of the university’s cam-puses, including 5,000 interior doors.

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Last semester it was new SUVs, a few weeks ago it was new shuttles, and soon se-curity guards are expected to be seen traveling by new bicycles.

Purchased last month, each bicycle will be equipped with security and first aid equipment in hopes of either helping or preventing a mis-hap, according to the university.

For the past 12 years, Chief of Security & Safety David Barger said he wanted to keep cam-puses close and safe. Starting with the Mount Carmel campus, Barger hopes to have security patrolling all three campuses on bikes soon.

“It’s been a dream of mine since I got here 12 years ago to get a bike patrol rolling,” Barg-er said.

The new patrol tool will build trust and better relationships between both security per-sonnel and students, Barger said.

“I cannot say whether I think this type of pur-chase is necessary at this time or if it will bring more trust between personnel and students,” sophomore Elisha Dorsey said. “The bikes may add greater mobility and security coverage for our campus therefore guarding students’ safety which is security’s main priority.”

Students have their own perception of how they believe security acts on campus, and pos-

sibly, after the new bicycle approach is intro-duced, there will be different discernment.

“I think getting bikes is an interesting ap-proach to them trying to get more involved in the community but they have the cars so I am confused as to why they need the bikes,” ju-nior Courtney Ferreira said.

As of now, there have been three officers trained by instructor Nelson Arabazua from the International Police Mountain Bike As-sociation: Brian Craco, Tracey McLean and

Kevin Bulluck.“These bikes will enable us to interact

more with students and staff,” McLean said. “They can come up to us any time they want. We’re there for them.”

Arabazua has also trained the Connecticut State Police, the New York Police Department and federal officers in Washington D.C. Quin-nipiac security learned advanced self-defense skills and how to be in better physical shape, using the bikes to their advantage.

After more than 30 years, the Complex will be getting a much-needed facelift.

There are currently no specific construc-tion plans set in place, but the university is in the process of experimenting with vacant apartments to figure out the most effective plan, Keith Woodward, associate vice presi-dent for facilities operations said.

“We want to improve it, it’s been deter-mined that we should improve it, but we’re still trying to work out how we’re going to im-prove it, which is where we are,” said Joseph Rubertone, associate vice president for facili-ties administration.

John Morgan, associate vice president for public relations, issued a statement on behalf of the university.

“No formal plans to renovate any of the residence halls on the Mount Carmel campus

have been finalized,” Morgan said.The Complex, which houses sophomores

and transfer students, was built in 1981, and is modeled after the Olympic Village in Calgary, Canada. It is comprised of three residential halls: Bakke Hall, Founder’s Hall and Sahlin Hall, with 30 six-person apartments. Each apartment has a living room, kitchen, bath-room, linen closet and three double-bedrooms with built-in furniture.

“It is a unique floor plan with the built-ins, and that doesn’t necessarily work as well to-day as it did in 1981,” Rubertone said.

Facilities has been using eight unoccupied apartments in Bakke Hall as testing models to experiment with redesign plans, according to Woodward.

The Complex presents facilities with chal-lenges due to the limited amount of space in each apartment, Rubertone said.

“The university is always looking at op-

tions to try to improve the residential experi-ence,” Rubertone said. “At this point Complex has been the focal point because it is a little more dated and a little less flexible than the rest of the buildings.”

Sophomore Victoria Charbonneau lives in Founder’s, and said that she does not mind where she lives, but suggests making bigger bedrooms.

“The rooms are kind of small and the beds are the worst part,” Charbonneau said. “It was a pain last semester climbing the bookshelves and window to get up to my bed, but this se-mester I have the bottom bunk so I definitely enjoy that much more.”

Since spring break, facilities has already be-gun to make aesthetic changes to the Complex.

Smaller, new trees have replaced the over-grown trees in the courtyard planters because the brick was causing an unsafe situation. There are also added tables and chairs for out-door seating, Woodward said.

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Extended move-out date for seniors

The Computer Information Systems Club is hosting an eBay class on April 28. The class will explain how to buy and sell on eBay from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. in Tator Hall room 130. A $20 fee is required for class par-ticipants. The money will help send students to the Association of Information Technology Professionals’ student competition. To regis-ter for the class, contact Professor of Com-puter Information Systems Wendy Ceccucci. – K. Rojas

The Student Health Services is hosting the Health and Wellness Fair today. The Rec-reation Center will be the center of presenting more than 30 health disciplines. From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., students can receive free T-shirts, frisbees and photo key chains. The fair will also include a drawing for a Kindle and gift cards to local restaurants. – K. Rojas

Kardashian fans are invited to “Kritiqu-ing the Kardashians: Sex + Money= Power?” dinner and discussion. The Women’s Studies Department is hosting this insightful look into the life of the reality TV stars: Kim Kar-dashian, Khloe Kardashian, Kourtney Kar-dashian and their mother Kris Jenner. The dinner and discussion will be Friday, April 13 in Mancheski Executive Seminar Room from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. – K. Rojas

Representatives from the Quinnipiac Mock Trial team were invited to attend the John Marshall Law School Northeast Re-gional Mock Trial Diversity Competition on March 31. The competition was held in Boston at the Suffolk Law School where par-ticipants were able to go against members of other schools in trial rounds. Quinnipiac undergraduate students won scholarships to a plethora of law schools ranging from $2,500 to $8,100. – A. Tusia

Seniors received an email from Residen-tial Life notifying them that they must move out by Wednesday, May 30 by noon. The rest of the student body must leave by the last day of finals. The email stated while any late re-quest may be considered, there is a very high chance that it will be denied due to a very tight timeline. – K. Rojas

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Security guards are expected to be seen traveling by new bicycles in the near future.

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Ryan Scanlon (left), Evangelos Milas, Ben Cloutier, Erik Cote and Lauren Enea are the newly elected executive board of SGA.

Course registration for many of Quinnipiac’s undergraduate students begins this week, and with a slew of new courses on its way, students’ options are open.

One of the School of Communi-cations’ new courses is JRN300: The History of Football.

“[Co-Director of Sports Studies] Lisa Burns and I thought it would be a good idea to give students a firm grounding in how football emerged and became the most popular sport [in America] through the last 100 or so years,” Director of the Gradu-ate Program in Journalism Richard Hanley said.

Hanley will teach the new course in the fall and said he is excited to get started. The course will take stu-dents on a guided journey through America’s new favorite pastime, from the beginning of football in the 19th century all the way up to the present-day National Football League.

Students will explore how the game of football has evolved throughout its history and how the American media shaped the game

into what it is today.“Football has always cared about

its popularity,” Hanley said. “The organizers always cared about the popularity of the game, and as such have cultivated it through the me-dia.”

Using clips from NFL Films, old newspapers and several texts, stu-dents can explore how football and its media coverage have changed throughout the 20th century up to the present day. The course will also require its students to develop their own research, creating their own theories and reaching new conclu-sions about the history of the game.

The course will go beyond the game’s history. Students will ex-plore present-day issues surround-ing the game.

“We’ll also question the viability of football as the science progresses about head injuries, and whether or not Americans would watch a less violent game,” Hanley said.

For the most watched sport in America, it is only natural Quinni-piac’s communications and sports studies students be well-versed in the game’s history and its relation-ship with the American media.

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Students elected Evangelos Milas as vice president of student concerns and Ryan Scanlon as vice president of public relations for the 2012-2013 SGA Elections.

Student Body President Ben Cloutier, Vice President of Program-ming Lauren Enea, and Vice Presi-dent of Finance Erik Cote will retain their positions after running unop-posed.

Candidates and students check the election results posted on the

window of the SGA suite in the Carl Hansen Student Center Wednesday night.

Kaite Lovett held the position of vice president of public rela-tions this year, and Vincent Bond was the vice president of student concerns.

Students voted online April 3-4 for next year’s Student Government Executive Board.

Quinnipiac’s Student Govern-ment Association’s Executive Board election results have been tallied. The results are as follows:

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EXECUTIVEBOARD 2013 2014 2015

CLASS OF CLASS OF CLASS OF

PRESIDENT PRESIDENT PRESIDENT PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT OFPROGRAMMING

VICE PRESIDENT VICE PRESIDENT VICE PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT OFFINANCE

REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES

VICE PRESIDENT OFSTUDENT CONCERNS

VICE PRESIDENT OFPUBLIC RELATIONS

Ben Cloutier – 90.63% Andrea Rogers – 91.6%

Catherine Tobin – 92.3%

Heidi Hitchen – 14.83%Jocelyn Dulanie – 9.41%

Gayle Mould – 8.52%

Elisha Dorsey – 9.9%Danielle Big – 8.91%

Julianna Besharat – 8.48%Theo Siggelakis – 8.15%Emily McDonald – 8.12%Caitlin Gallagher – 7.55%

Kevin Russell – 11.47%Michael Podias – 10.94%Molly Cannon – 10.64%

Haley Straussner – 10.27%Madeline Harding – 9.5%Thomas Albanese – 8.77%

Trevor Larrubia – 8.6%Allyson Wolf – 7.8%

Matthew Desilets – 61.75%

Marissa Harper – 57.64%

Mostafa Elhagger – 92.13%

Joseph Kohle – 90.67%Lauren Enea – 89.93%

Erik Cote – 90.31%

Evangelos Milas – 63.97%

Ryan Scanlon – 58.61%

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O.A.R is around $50.This is the first year SPB has

made tickets available both online and in the student center, Mainstage Chair Jamie Kloss said. The pur-pose was to increase ticket sales and avoid long lines in the student center as there were with Ke$ha last spring.

“SPB has taken the initiative to make them more accessible for stu-dents,” Kloss said.

Students have not taken advantage of this reasonable pricing because many only know a few of the band’s songs while others have never heard of them before, said sophomore Ka-thieya Odiah when asked if she was excited for the spring concert.

“I don’t even know who they are, so excitement is not the word I would use to describe it,” Odiah said.

The last time Quinnipiac had an alternative spring concert was in 2009 when Third Eye Blind performed.

“We were trying to do some-thing different and go back to an alternative show which we haven’t had in two years,” SPB Director of Volunteers Kristin Foley said. “We

were trying to have a different type of show to reach a different type of student.”

Sczerbinski said that the lagging ticket sales may be because women tip the scale of the student body ratio at Quinnipiac and may have less in-terest in an alternative concert.

“I think this being a mainly girls campus helped Ke$ha a lot,” Sc-zerbinski said. “O.A.R. obviously isn’t as top of the charts as Ke$ha is or was when we had her, so I think that had something to do with it. The fact that it is on a Sunday night and not on a Friday or Saturday night which are more of ‘go out nights’ probably added to the problem too.”

SPB is continuing tickets at the Carl Hansen Student Center tables as well as online. With only three weeks left until the concert, SPB is trying to do a promotional push through contests on Twitter and Facebook to win tickets. They will be having a “song of the week” pro-motion to familiarize students to more O.A.R. songs.

“It is going to be a really good show so people should just go for it,” Sczerbinski said.

Have you ever been sketched out while trying to buy from or sell to a stranger you have never met over Craigslist or eBay? Thanks to a Quinnipiac alumnus, there is now an alternative option available.

Three years ago when Craig Tortorella, a Quinnipiac sopho-more at the time, experienced “a series of dangerous events” while trying to purchase furniture from a seller on Craigslist, he came up with the idea for a solution to this common problem.

He created MyCollegeYard-Sale.com, a website specifically designed for college students to buy, sell and trade products.

“From when I was freshman in high school to being a graduate at Quinnipiac, I always had a dream of starting up my own company,” he said of his website, which launched two weeks ago.

Tortorella runs the company out of his hometown of Syosset, N.Y., with his mother, Janet, and

sister, Nicole.“I chose to work with my fam-

ily because I felt the best thing to do in the early stages of any start-up company is to turn to the people you trust the most,” he said.

To avoid scams by users who are not actually college students, access to the website has been restricted to only include those who have an email address from an educational institution. Safety is a number one priority for the team at My College Yard Sale, Tortorella said.

“When I first began to develop the idea, I always heard of people getting scammed on virtual mar-ketplaces,” Tortorella said, “You really never knew what you were buying, or if the person you were buying from could be trusted.”

On My College Yard Sale, one can buy, sell and trade with members of their own college community, which Tortorella reasoned, should put site users a bit more at ease.

The website can also be uti-lized to ease the stress level re-garding fiscal matters for a gen-

eration of college students who continue to face the burden of mounting expenses. Students can buy and sell products on MyCol-legeYardSale.com to purchase and get rid of items at a better price. Furthermore, they can do so with-out having to worry about the dan-gers of the online marketplace, as one must when using sites such as Craigslist and eBay.

Public relations efforts for the website have been limited as it has only just gotten off the ground in re-cent weeks. Tortorella is looking to take advantage of his roots at Quin-nipiac, however, and reach out to the school for help because “that is where the whole idea began.”

If granted permission by the school, Tortorella has ideas for an advertising campaign on cam-

pus this spring, including fliers, a table in Tator Hall and information sessions with students and resi-dent assistants to discuss Internet safety. He hopes to culminate this effort with a community on-cam-pus yard sale on the quad, during which students would be able to bring whatever items they wanted to sell, and would set up their own personal yard sale.

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Craig Tororella created MyCollegeYardSale.com, a website specifically designed for college students to buy, sell and trade products after having bad experiences with Craigslist.

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IFC members were influenced to work toward promoting awareness to end the usage of the “F” word with their campaign “Fraternities Against the ‘F’ Word,” after a possible hate crime that security is currently investigating.

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O.A.R. will be at the TD Bank Sports Center Sunday, April 22.

The event came together quick-ly on campus after gaining hundreds of Facebook supporters.

“There was an issue of people not being open to the idea of oth-ers with different sexual orienta-tions that triggered the idea for this event to promote awareness and acceptance of the entire Quinni-piac community,” said Luigi Tan-credi, vice president of program-ming of IFC.

Other fraternity members said that the event was in response to a possible recent conflict.

“It seemed like there may have been something going on on cam-pus and so in reaction to that, we wanted to put something together relatively quickly so that it was brought to attention,” said Tim O’Rourke, Tau Kappa Epsilon IFC vice president. “I don’t know the details of it so I can’t speak about it.”

Quinnipiac’s Greek life is fight-

ing against the idea of the stereotyp-ical “frat boy” label with this philan-thropic event says Josiah Feigleson, Delta Tau Delta’s director of recruit-ment.

“The event is really good for fighting stereotypes and people who are trying to exclude other people,” Feigleson said. “There is a really negative stereotype with Greek life in that sense and I think that this is really opening up the Greek commu-nities’ eyes as well as the Quinnipiac community.”

Some students said they had heard of the awareness campaign online but were unaware of any re-cent conflict on campus. Conflict or not, the students still recognize the importance of the issue.

“I definitely support this because speech frames the way we think about people, and I don’t think peo-ple always put as much conscious thought into the words they’re say-ing and the effects it can have when they are hurtful words,” senior Lind-sey Raffol said.

The Gay Lesbian and Straight Supporter’s group on campus, as well as the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender community were hap-py to see greater recognition to help end the usage of the “F” word on campus.

“This event meant a lot to GLASS and to LGBT people and allies alike who aren’t in GLASS,” said Ian Jackson, the vice presi-dent of GLASS. “It’s nice when you get to see acceptance and equality being promoted outside of your own community. Allies are a very important part of the LGBT community.”

Pictures were posted on IFC’s Facebook page to remind members of the Quinnipiac community that the “F” word is unacceptable in any context. This event also reminded students how a community response can have a big impact.

“When one of us is affected by something, the whole community finds out about it and we aren’t go-ing to stand for it,” O’Rourke said.

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In case you missed the latest news on how great sustainability is at Quinnipiac, let me fill you in. Our school has made some big changes in the past few years, ranging from giant wind tur-bines to a single-stream recy-cling system. These changes along with some others were enough to improve our College Sustainabil-ity Report Card grade from last year.

But the sustainability grade we improved on is still one that might have you saying “I probably shouldn’t have gone to Dick’s.” Yes, our grade this past year was that bad: We received a D for 2011. This is an embarrassing im-provement from the past two years, when we received a D-. Quinnipiac should be on academic probation (or environmental probation, I should say) as its “green GPA” over the last three years is 0.8.

I remember when I took a tour of Quinnipiac as a senior in high school and they preached how “green” they

were and how they would be even greener in the years to come. I fell in love with Quinnipiac before hearing this but having helped start the environmental club at my high school senior

year, this was the icing on the cake.

Once I became a Bobcat, I realized what

I was told on my tour was baloney. In the café, pa-

per plates and plastic utensils were used instead of real, reusable ones. The York Hill café is no different, as the landfills receive lots of love from Quinnipiac students while the environmental options sit under the counter, remaining unused. In the Ratt, similar standards are applied and at Mondo’s, if you get a sub or a wrap, you most likely will get enough wax paper to wrap up your

new pair of Toms.Quinnipiac had great plans for

York Hill’s sustainability. It was laid out to be a fundamentally green campus and set an example for fu-ture colleges and organizations to follow. While the windmills are great as well as the solar panels til-ing the roof of Crescent, this campus is far from environmentally safe. Sometimes I wonder whose idea it was to put the campus on a blank size hill that is half a mile long. I often ponder how much gas I lose every time I come up to campus and better yet, how “efficient” it is to run all these shuttles up and down the hill 100 times a day. I drive a Saturn Ion and feel like I can see my gas gauge go down as my car struggles to climb the mountain that is York Hill. Fueling a shuttle with 10,000 more pounds and 20 more passen-gers must have been why the IDD minor was dropped.

The hallways in the Crescent

residence hall are lined with lights approximately six feet away from each other, so if you’ve ever taken the 10 minutes it takes to walk from one end to the other, you can only imagine how many lights are on each floor. Quinnipiac was smart enough to put the lights in all of the study rooms on sensors but not the ones in the hallways, which would save thousands of dollars each year. I also toured Northeastern in my col-lege searches and they had “green elevators.” The York Hill residence halls have several elevators as well as two more in the parking garage. They are far from environmentally-friendly, though they are just as slow as the power-saving ones I experi-enced in Boston.

Our rivals down Whitney Av-enue, Yale University received an A this year, a consistent improvement from a A- last year and a B+ the year before. UConn, which has a student body of close to 20,000, received a

B+ this year. Even Fairfield Univer-sity, a comparable school to Quinnip-iac, received a better grade than us as it got a C this year. We as the student body should be more embarrassed for our poor grade than tying Yale this year in the Heroes Hat game.

Although the administration is to blame for much of our grade, we as students aren’t doing much to help. Our grade was so bad that the group Students for Environmental Action with the help of facilities decided to host a contest and bribe us to work toward bettering the environment in the Do it in the Dark Challenge. The challenge started March 23 and only one out of 13 residence halls had reduced its energy. Meanwhile, Eastview has increased its usage by 165.4 percent in less than two weeks and no money has been saved by our attempt at reducing energy. So for yourself, Quinnipiac and the world, try to help the environment out and be more sustainable.

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It seems like everybody is post-ing artsy pictures of random, every-day things through Instagram, a free photo sharing and editing ap-plication for smartphones. Contrary to popular be-lief, applying filters like “Toaster” or “Inkwell” do not turn the picture of your cat into an award-winning, Na-tional Geographic shot of a Bengal ti-ger.

Sure, the photos look cool after they are freshly Ins-tagrammed, however, these kinds of shots typically do not contain the as-

pects of photography that professional photographers push for, such as aper-ture, composition and subject matter.

Instagram allows its users to apply filters to their pho-tos, making them heavily contrasted, overexposed or just downright “artsy.”

The application also gives you the option

of adding borders or adjusting the contrast levels. However, “In-

stagramming” photos makes them look about

as legitimate as “Piknik-ed” photos.It is beyond frustrating for me to

see photos on Facebook, which has

now acquired Instagram for $1 bil-lion, of black and white pictures of tequila shots, when I know how hard professional photographers work to capture some of the most beau-tiful visual art out there. This new convergence of Facebook and Ins-tagram will probably only increase the number of Instagrammed photos popping up on my newsfeed.

Although it may sound like it, I’m not completely against Insta-gram, I’m just completely against the way people are currently using it. My own collection of Instagram photos contains a variety of shots, portrait and landscape, along with meaningful things that I wanted to

capture in a new way.Instagram has the potential to be

an outlet for users to express them-selves visually while sharing photos that will inspire others. Shooting pho-tos with integrity and with a little more thought might help kickstart the appli-cation’s success as a creative outlet.

Even I have been sucked into this mobile photography craze. I use it mainly because the photos can be shared easily to other social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Tumblr. But ideally, Instagram users would capture pieces of art that express their creativity, not just random objects that might look cool in sepia.

Last week, Chronicle Associate News Editor Katherine Rojas wrote a piece telling us that we can make it after graduation. Quinnipiac has definitely prepared its students, at least the ones I can vouch for, to become a part of the so-called “real world.”

I graduate in a few weeks, and people are always asking me if I am sad to be leaving Quinnipiac. We talk so much about the bubble that is our university, so I have always struggled to see what I would miss about that.

The bubble keeps us from car-ing how Hamden residents per-ceive our neighborhood behavior. It keeps us from taking on real responsibility, outside of completing some academic assignment. It, in

short, allows us to be carefree.It also keeps things in perspective. People on my Nicaragua trip talked at length about

attempting to have their stateside lives mirror the attitudes of some Nicara-guans, to not let the little things get to them. This is fantastic advice for our time at Quinnipiac.

Upon leaving Quinnipiac, how-ever, real stressors set in. I have

student loans to start paying back or risk mounting interest. I have to find a job, an apart-ment, new friends.

The most important thing that the bubble has done for all of us is

create the environment where many attempts are made at making a mostly level playing field. To get a budget from SGA, clubs have to

be recognized for a year, attend a budget semi-nar, have their budget vetted by the finance committee and finally have it voted on by the General Board.

In the real world, you can have a com-pany that allows users to take pseudo-retro photos, employs 13 people, has no real rev-enue stream, and two years later sell it for $1 billion (See: Katie O’Brien’s piece). That’s sickening for some history and English ma-jors.

What I would like to warn people about, both seniors and underclassmen, is the reality of leaving Quinnipiac. I applied to three grad-uate programs. I got in at all three institutions, but was only offered any sort of merit-based financial aid from what I had considered my “reach school.” My “safe school” essentially said it would let me attend, but could not be

bothered to help keep my student debt under the $100,000 mark.

I was reminded of a talk given by history professor Ronald Heiferman to the History Club last year. He told us that in applying to post-graduate programs, he got rejected from three state schools but accepted into three Ivy League ones.

I am only briefly sticking my head outside of our little bubble, and I’m already seeing how unfair things are looking.

While I have enjoyed my time here, we all realize that it is a finite existence. I am not sad to be leaving Quinnipiac, I am fulfilled and energized. I am excited and anticipatory. I am ready; so long as the real world does not in-volve 8 a.m.’s.

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sga update

Happy Wednesday Bobcats!This week was a very event-

ful one on the SGA front as I’m sure you all know. Elections were last week, so we officially have our 2012-13 Student Government Exec-utive Board and General Board. The Executive Board had two new mem-bers added, Evangelos Milas as vice president of student concerns, and Ryan Scanlon as vice president of public relations. Ben Cloutier, Erik Cote and Lauren Enea will continue in their positions of this year on the e-board.

Elections this year were two days instead of one and overall pro-duced great results. Approximately every active user on Colligate Link voted in the election and gave us a number of more than 1,800 voters, which is fantastic in a spring elec-tion. We want to take this time to thank everyone who did vote in the elections, because it truly does make a difference when it comes down to counting ballots. We also wanted to thank this year’s election com-mittee, which helped elections run so smoothly: Andrew McDermott, Thomas Galo, Emily Sarnoff, my-self and Vincent Bond.

This week also concluded the public relations committee’s “Re-spect Your Campus” campaign. The campaign focused on the Creed and each week was built around a line of the Creed. This past week was “We Are the Legend” and was ful-ly devoted to living the legend and voting in elections. The campaign was something my committee and I thought of and I’m so proud to leave Quinnipiac this May knowing that we tried to make the Creed some-thing to be proud of. Hopefully, this idea of respect and the love of the Creed will carry on for years beyond 2012.

Thank you again to everyone who voted last week and congratu-lations to the new Student Govern-ment Association. – Kaite Lovett, Vice President of Public Relations

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ARE YOU DTR? ...whAT DiD YOU Think iT mEAnT?

For fans of MTV’s hit show “Awkward,” the acronym DTR may not be a new thing, but for those not in the loop, DTR, or “defining the relationship,” is making an appear-ance in relationships across college campuses. From hooking up, to dating, to forming serious relation-ships, how does one know when to push toward the next step?

Junior Melissa Mullaney met her boyfriend Brian Bertrand while attending North Quincy High School in Massachusetts, but it wasn’t until her sophomore year at Quinnipiac University and his junior year at the Massachu-setts Maritime Academy that the two became anything more than friends. During Thanksgiving break, they ran into each other, and he asked for her number, but Mul-laney sent the first text. After five dates, Bertrand initiated the first romantic move.

“Although we went on a few dates, we didn’t ever talk about it being official ever,” Mullaney said. “He did it so unromantically by ask-ing me if we should make this thing Facebook official – not my ideal way, but hey, I said yes! I think since winter break last year was coming to an end, we wanted to make sure we were official.”

The end of a school break pushed Mullaney and Bertrand to define their relationship, but that is not the only reason two people may decide to put a label on their romantic interactions.

“[The desire to define a rela-tionship] is part of what it is to be human,” said Keith Kerr, an as-sistant professor of sociology. “I suspect that a desire to define a relationship is a sublimated way to push for commitment. If one is having sexual encounters with an-other with no commitment and asks to ‘define the relationship,’ well, it is defined: a casual sexual rela-tionship. To ask to define, that is likely a way to try to define the re-lationship as committed and hence change the expectations and roles of those involved.”

The push to label a relation-ship often comes from the female half of the pair, according to Kerr. Gender roles cause these differing ideas about commitment, Kerr said. Women are expected to express their desires and feelings more than men.

A study done by the Institute for American Values’ Courtship Re-search Team, which surveyed 1,000 college-aged women nationally over an 18-month period, agrees.

“Because they can hang out or hook up with a guy over a period of time and still not know if they are a couple, women often initiate ‘The Talk’ in which they ask, ‘Are we committed or not?’ When she asks, he decides,” the study says.

The conversation about com-mitment often leads to the discus-sion of what to call one another. Are they just friends, friends with benefits, or are they now boyfriend and girlfriend?

“Our thoughts are largely thoughts of labels that we have cre-ated,” Kerr said. “We understand everything based on the labels and categories we create. This gives the appearance of order, predictability and, most importantly, control for us.”

Mullaney, who has been with her boyfriend for a year and a half, feels that labels help others know that a person is taken and in a com-mitted relationship, therefore not open to dating anyone else.

Junior Alex Leinwand believes that terms such as boyfriend and girlfriend help bring a couple clos-er together.

“I feel that we need to put labels on things such as girlfriend or boy-friend because it makes the people in the relationship feel a sense of connection when in reality there should be a connection regardless of what you make the label,” said Leinwand, who is single and wait-ing for the right girl to come along before he chooses to commit.

The need to define a relation-ship and determine where it is going is being delayed until fur-ther in life, though. According to Kerr, the fact that young adults are remaining in a period of ex-tended adolescence longer than their parents or grandparents did affects the way college-aged stu-dents view relationships. By not needing to enter the workforce or act as adults as early as past gen-erations, students can spend more time focusing on things other than commitment. The fact that the median age at first marriage in-creased to 28.2 for men and 26.1 for women in 2010, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, also de-lays students’ desire to enter into a committed relationship.

“Since people live longer, and

hence hold jobs longer, there has been a need to keep the newer generation out of the adult sphere longer, since there is not enough space for them, especially in the economic sector,” Kerr said. “I would argue that this is linked, to some extent, to changing relation-ship patterns in college. The em-phasis is less and less on commit-ted relationships. We are seeing a change in our psychology on this issue prompted by a change in the structure of our society.”

Kerr, Mullaney and Leinwand all agree that committed relation-ships are hard to come by on col-lege campuses.

“I think hooking up is more popular on college campuses main-ly because many people are scared of the ‘C word:’ commitment,” Leinwand said.

In the Institute for American Values’ study, researchers found that 40 percent of women had ex-perienced a hookup, and 10 percent had done so more than six times. Meanwhile, only 50 percent said they had been asked on six or more dates by men since their freshman year, and a third had been asked on two or fewer dates.

“I do think commitment is hard to come by. These college years don’t last long and everyone just wants to have fun without having to worry about another person,” Mullaney said.

This could possibly be true be-cause of the role that sex plays in a

relationship these days. According to Kerr, it is the main reason two people enter into a relationship.

“Sex plays a huge role in rela-tionships now. Even the term hook-ing up implies some sort of sex,” Mullaney said. “Our society is highly sexualized now and I think most people in college feel like they should be having a lot of sex because they think everyone else is too. Sex is the big elephant present in the room for every relationship. Some people choose to ignore it, while others don’t.”

Men and women have differ-ent views when it comes to sex in any sort of relationship. In a 2009 article from Psychology Today, Mi-chael Bader, D.M.H. writes, “Af-ter sex, women need the reassur-ance that they, themselves, haven’t abandoned themselves to it for its pleasure. Men need to pull away so as to not feel any risk of merging with the woman or having to take care of her.”

Regardless of how sex is viewed, Mullaney says there is al-

ways the possibility of a hookup turning into something more.

“On college campuses I think most people casually hook up which sometimes turns into casu-ally dating,” Mullaney said.

The change in any relation-ship can be credited to Steven Stosny’s Laws of Attachment in a 2011 Psychology Today article, which state vulnerability and a threat to the couple’s bond can act as a push to define a rela-tionship. When some sort of fac-tor forces people to feel limited in their relationships, such as a lack of trust, decrease in love or an avoidance of intimacy, one part of the pair feels some sort of guilt, according to Stosny.

“Attachment guilt is a kind of distance regulator whose function is to motivate more emotional in-vestment in the attachment bond,” Stosny writes. “Get close (invest more interest, trust, compassion, love, protection) and the guilt sub-sides; distance further, and it gets worse.”

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I silently cursed when Maroon 5’s “Moves Like Jagger” came on the radio, but it was nothing against the song. I just really wanted to hear some “Eye of the Ti-ger,” because I was beginning to feel like Rocky Balboa had nothing on me. Hell, I felt like I could even take on Bruce Lee.

It was a Thursday afternoon at Studio B in the Mount Carmel Fitness Center, and as I stared at myself in the mirrored wall during my first Kick & Sculpt class, I was convinced that all of the Billy Blanks Tae Bo videos I had studied in middle school gym class were finally paying off.

The class was led by senior athletic training major Shelby Pierson, who has been a certified instructor at Quinnipiac for the past three years. Despite the fact that it was empowering, my reality probably placed me on par with Po the Panda be-fore he became the Dragon Warrior. When it comes to martial arts, I should probably leave it to the masters.

My lack of coordination did not stop me from having a wonderful time however, and throughout a series of kicks, jabs, up-percuts and stretches, I became more and more aware that not only was I developing some useful self-defense skills, but I was

also getting in a good workout.Making the class especially enjoyable

was the fact that though I could feel my muscles straining with every set, I did not break a sweat.

Ally Daly, a freshman health science major, also attended the class for her first time.

“It was easy to understand and follow. [Shelby] wasn’t afraid to slow it down to our level, but I still feel I got a good work-out. It was easy but effective,” Daly said.

Junior athletic training major Amethyst Shepherd attended Kick & Sculpt for a workout that not only moves the body, but also strengthens it.

“Shelby has a really good understand-ing of the human body, especially as an ath-letic training major. She knows all of the muscles and tendons, and how to stretch and work them, and she uses that in her classes,” Shepherd said.

Pierson herself was a very helpful in-structor, who uses her educational back-ground to build a workout which is only as difficult as you want to make it.

“This class specifically is a great chance to mix cardio and strength training; build-ing muscles but also burning calories, which is ultimately a lot of people’s goal,” Pierson said.

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fitocracy, inc.In this “videogame” app, the only levels you’ll be beating will be with-in your own fitness ability. With this app, you can track your workout progress, learn new exercises and in the end, become addicted to work-ing out, much like that favorite videogame you had growing up. This app also serves as a community and forum to talk and look for inspira-

tion with other “fitocrats.” This app works best for those who never cross “go to gym” off of their daily to-do list or search for detours and excuses to avoid the Fitness Center. This app on your phone, and the sense of immediacy that comes along with it only leaves room for motivation and no excuses to finally reach your health and fitness goals.--C. Burroni

iMapMyRuNNow that the sunny spring weather is here, more and more people are getting off the tread-mill and getting outside.

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Paradise 1.0.1.While we’re stressing in Club ABL, this app will take you out of your cubicle and bring you to a more peaceful place. Imagine yourself on a secret island, in flowery meadows, a calm sea, mountain stream or a Yellowstone hot spring. Each scene has matching music and realistic sounds, adding additional ambiance and ef-fects. It may seem awkward and silly at first, but who wouldn’t want to be somewhere other than the “Lib” during an all-night study session? Take your mind some-where else for a few min-utes and then get back to work. – C. Burroni

“Our latest alumni report has shown the biggest regret for graduates isn’t the major they chose or the extracurriculars they did or didn’t do – it’s the people they didn’t hook up with,” said the Samaritan, the website’s founder.

On July 3, @QUHookUpList tweeted that 79 hookup matches were made during the 2011 Senior Week event, and the Samaritan reports 914 students from the 2011 graduating class used the website.

“You type in your crush’s name. If there’s no match, then nothing happens. If there is, you each get a goofy email. Then, the next time you see each other, you can share a laugh. Then make out,” the Samaritan said.

According to the website, complete anonym-ity will be maintained throughout the sign-up process and hookup lists will remain private.

“We care enough to hook you up with other people, but don’t care enough to do anything with the information. We’re alumni – we don’t even know you,” the Samaritan said.

Senior Ivy Laplante, a Senior Week Com-mittee member, describes the hookup website as “creepy.”

“I believe that students can have a great time hanging out with their classmates and do not have to resort to the hookup list for their

fun,” Laplante said. “I am fully looking for-ward to spending the week with my friends and fellow classmates, celebrating our four years together and the memories we have made, not some forced interaction by an anon-ymous website.”

The Samaritan said it is “understandable” that some students may think the website is “creepy.”

“Anything that involves organizing hook-ups is a little unusual,” the Samaritan said.

While some consider the website to be awk-ward, others understand the hookup list’s allure.

“I get it,” senior Vanessa Baez said. “It’s your last chance to get with your crush. I’m sure a lot of people would make up a list. I know I have one but I don’t know if I’d take it seriously and actually use it.”

Phil Pappas is another Senior Week Com-mittee member who says students shouldn’t fixate on finding a hookup.

“[Senior Week] is the last three days of your college career, leave the drama at home, come prepared to party, and whatever hap-pens, happens,” Pappas said.

No matter the motive for creating a person-al hookup list, the Samaritan says the names written on the website will stay on the website.

“Your list will never be shared, sold or made public,” the Samaritan said. “We’re not Facebook.”

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Daily routine

THIS IS ME

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Tyler Smith pushes 245 pounds using his pectoral muscles. His workouts are only half the battle to achieving his goal of becoming a professional bodybuilder. The other half lies in his diet.

- Usually 5 or 6 meals per day both in the offseason and surrounding contest time- Between 4,000 and 5,000 calories per day in the offseason- About 3,400 calories per day currently at nine weeks out. 1 p.m. Wake up- Make 3 eggs and egg whites, 1/2 cup salsa, 1.5 cups uncooked whole oats with stevia3 p.m. Head to campus4 p.m. Go to class5 p.m. Go to the cafe and get a salad (romaine, kidney beans, tuna and/or grilled chicken, oil and vinegar)6:30 p.m. Go to class8 p.m. Go back to York Hill- Immediately eat pre-workout meal (usually grilled chicken and 1.5 cups of oats or brown rice)- 30 minutes later I drink 1 scoop of pre-workout supplement (Gaspari Nutrition SuperPump MAX)- Drive to LA Fitness while listening to electronic dance music or dubstep (Knife Party, Skrillex, Nero, Calvin Harris, Swedish House Mafia, etc.)9 p.m. Enter the gym- Drink 1 scoop of Gaspari Nutrition Sizeon- Get “HYOOOOOGE”- 40-60 minutes train one or two muscle groups- 25-30 minutes of moderate intensity cardio on StepMill- Immediately after cardio I drink 2 scoops of MuscleTech Nitrotech protein powder11 p.m. Go back to York Hill- Eat 1-2 chicken breasts within half hour of drinking the shake.- 30 minutes later I eat my post training carbs (brown rice, oats, sweet potato, etc)12 a.m. Start homework2 a.m. Eat one last meal (could be a shake or a meal; low fat either way)4 a.m. Go to sleep

Here is what Tyler Smith’s typical day looks like nine weeks before showtime.

10%body fat

215pounds

5’9” Tyler Smith was the fat kid in grade

school. Other kids teased him, and the result-ing depression lasted until his sophomore year at Quinnipiac. It got so bad he would drink a bottle of Jameson, while sick with mono, to try and make himself feel better. But now, alcohol-free and following an intense diet, he wants to be a professional bodybuilder.

Inspired by Anthony Monetti’s appearance on MTV’s True Life: I Want a Perfect Body, Smith changed his diet and started exercising at 12 years old. Nearly 10 years later, both ac-tivities have evolved to extreme levels, like eating 5,000 calories a day and leg pressing 1,000 pounds.

Smith’s roommate, Cory Maffucci, is vid-eo documenting his journey for him so he can do for someone else what Monetti did for him.

“I want to give back, and this (pointing to his favorite bodybuilding magazine) is my way of doing it,” the Lake George, N.Y. native said. “I want to help possibly inspire someone else like he inspired me.”

The 21-year-old junior weighs a lean 215 pounds at 5-foot-9 with 10 percent body fat. His skin is paper-thin, just what the judges are looking for. After finishing fourth in his first bodybuilding tournament last spring, he moti-vated himself to train for a year to try and earn a sponsorship June 2 at the National Physique Committee’s Atlantic regional contest. He ex-pects this event to conclude the documen-tary.

“I treat prepping for this show as if I’m prepping for war,” Smith said. “I want to step on that stage and I don’t want to make it iffy who wins. I want to be the clear, defi-nite winner, no questions about it. I want to be the biggest, most ripped, shredded person up there. I want to blow everyone out of the water.”

Shamelessly, he will strut on stage in reveal-ing trunks and pose for the crowd. It’s all about how much your veins pop (striation), he said. “[The judg-

es] want to see every single striation in your ass that they possibly can. Striated glutes.”

His mother, Denise, and training partner, MJ Lamie, can attest to his self-motivation.

“That’s the thing that I first noticed about him,” Lamie said, referring to his self-motiva-tion. “Tyler was the first person to ever keep up with me in a workout in my whole entire life, consistently, day in and day out.”

While not forgetting to mention that Ty-ler finished in the top 100 of a marathon after he took up running track in high school, his mother said, “When he sets his mind to ac-complishing a goal, he is like no one I’ve ever known in accomplishing it.”

After he chose Quinnipiac over other top business schools such as Bryant and Bentley to study accounting, maintaining his scholar-ship proved to be a difficult task in his first se-mester. He joined New Blue Rugby and later caught mono. Instead of getting the appropri-ate treatment, he turned to alcohol instead.

“That was my way of dealing it; I had a lot of stress, lot of anxiety about my grades be-cause I had a scholarship to maintain,” Smith said. “Eventually it just got to be too much, I couldn’t deal with it, I was having a mental breakdown.”

In the middle of October on a rainy day, he made a phone call that he considers a turning point in his life. “Mom, come get me. I need to get out of here. I can’t do this anymore,” he said on the phone.

During the long ride home, he thought he might never return to Quinnipiac.

After seeing a therapist over winter break, he came back to Hamden in the spring, taking the same courses as he did in the fall, without depression but still with an urge to drink. He completed the courses but lost his scholarship by a fraction of a point.

In the fall of his sophomore year he started hating school and was very close to dropping out so he could pursue a career in bodybuild-ing, but his mom talked him out of it.

Then things started getting better for him. His professors and textbooks motivated him to follow his passion, especially Tim Deenihan, a part-time faculty member and professional actor/artist.

“He inspired me to follow my passion, but he also taught me a lot,” Smith said after tak-ing Deenihan’s QU201 course last fall. “He got me to think in a bigger way, and really pay attention to what’s going around me in soci-ety.”

Deenihan said his class challenges a lot of established notions about American society.

“[Tyler] was an engaging, excited member of the class,” he said.

Smith’s grades have increased significant-ly and led him to participate in Quinnipiac’s five-year MBA program.

“This school, as much as I hated it in the beginning, it really shaped me and trans-formed me,” said Smith, who is an ACE-certified trainer. “It helped bring out this

passion that I found, and I may not have found this had I not been

here, and had these professors and these people who mentored me.

He said he already has tak-en steps to finding out how to give back to Quinnipiac when he becomes an alumnus and,

hopefully, a professional body-builder.

“I want to find ways to make a career and a very successful life out of [bodybuilding] for myself,”

Smith said. “I want to be the next ambassador of body-building. I want to be the next Jay Cutler.”

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Is that a blowfish? No, it’s Amanda Bynes, who was just busted for a DUI last Friday in Los Angeles. In the mugshot, Bynes sports purple hair, which looks disastrous. She looks like an Easter egg.

Bynes, 26, reportedly got into a minor accident with a police officer. No word yet from the actress.

If only Bynes’ former Nickelodeon “All That” character from the seg-ment “Ask Ashley” could react to this news now. There would be a lot of yelling and overacting going on. Her other famous character from “The Amanda Show,” Judge Trudy, would not bring out the dancing lobsters fter this one.

In recent years, Bynes has appeared in films such as “Hairspray” and “Easy A.” While the actress hasn’t worked since 2010, she has primarily stayed out of the spotlight saving room for eternal hot mess Lindsay Lohan to hog the coverage.

There is no tolerance for that sort of behavior, assuming Bynes drove while under the influence of alcohol. The possibility of hitting and poten-tially killing someone due to this careless behavior is selfish, dangerous and destructive.

There have been many actors along the way who have recovered after something like this. Bynes can too, but she needs a reality check. She is not Emma Stone or Amanda Seyfried or any other semi-beloved actress of her age range right now.

If Bynes ever wants success again, she needs to get herself together im-mediately. –M. Busekroos

If you look up sexual chemistry in the dictionary, you will find a snapshot of rapper Drake and pop star Rihanna from the music video for Drake’s single “Take Care.”

Drake and Rihanna previously collaborated on Rihanna’s last album “Loud” with the hit “What’s My Name?” The two hit it out of the park once again in this song about acceptance and reconciling one’s past.

The music video is bare with the two essentials: Drake and Rihanna. The two act through the lyrics impeccably and it is believable both have experienced this lost love in the past. Drake and Rihanna are an irresist-ible force to be reckoned with together; they are electric.

Symbols of a beta fish, blue jay and bull appear throughout the vid-eo. Perhaps the fish symbolizes Rihanna, with Drake as the blue jay and Chris Brown as the bull. But that is just one theory in discovering the meaning behind the video.

Drake carries the the song, especially during his second verse: “It’s my birthday, I’ll get high if I want to / Can’t deny that I want

you, but I’ll lie if I have to / Cause you don’t say you love me / To your friends when they ask you / Even though we both know that you do.”

The two have now recorded and released two great collaborations. It is only a matter of time before the two release a full-length album together showcasing their chemistry.

“Take Care” is undoubtedly one of the best singles released this year so far. –M. Busekroos

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Just when I thought I had done it all during my four years at Quinnipiac, I’m realizing that I still have a graduation bucket list to fulfill. I feel like my time here has been more than well-spent, ex-periencing midnight football on the quad and the Big Event, just to name a few memories. But, as the last few weeks of my college career approach me, I can’t help but feel as if I’m forgetting to do things, things I may regret not doing. A few years back, I may have longed to fulfill goals that now seem completely unattainable, such as finally cracking the hard exteriors of our beloved Saturday night security guards. But, now the list is much simpler, and I encourage all of you seniors to join me.

Perhaps the easiest item on the list to complete, given the right amount of willpower, is watching the sunrise from the Adirondack chairs at York Hill. Be-fore you make a mockery of this cheesy endeavor, I think it’s actually something that would be worth staying awake for. In my head, I envision beginning with an extravagant night out and topping it off with a sunrise worthy of a season fi-nale for a CW show. In all seriousness, I’d probably pass out in one of the chairs before the birds started chirping, and I doubt my friends would be able to stay awake either. But it’s not impossible, and it’s certainly worth a shot.

Every day, literally every day, I drive down New Road and pass the small lake behind CAS. I always admire it. Appar-ently, you can go fishing there. Plus, it just looks really cool when the sun hits the water the right way. But, lo and be-hold, I’ve never stepped foot in its pa-rameters. How much would it take for someone to walk over there with me so we can sit on our butts in the dirt while skipping rocks?

Aside from reacquainting myself with nature, which seems to be a recur-ring theme here, I want to celebrate the onset of upcoming adulthood with someone who’s given me the tools to get there. I want to grab drinks with one of the many professors who have bestowed their knowledge onto me throughout the years. Such plans, or attempts at making them, have already been discussed with fellow classmates because, honestly, one drink can’t hurt. I think one decent cock-tail with a professor I’ve had multiple times and who I’ve enjoyed learning from is a doable request.

What’s on your bucket list, seniors? I’m going to keep adding things onto mine in hopes that I have the time and motivation to actually go through with them. Tweet me the number one goal you hope to accomplish before graduation on Twitter, @rosen_tosen.

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Kyra on FireFreshman among leaders among experienced roster

Quinnipiac head coach Danie Caro invited two prospective student-athletes to last season’s Northeast Conference Championship Game. One of them was Kyra Ochwat.

“I hope that having to watch from the sidelines made Kyra and (freshman goalie) Sam (Tilts) re-ally want to make sure that they were a part of something similar to that once they got here,” Caro said. “Hopefully it made them a little bit more hungry.”

The way Ochwat has played this season, it’s certainly worked.

Ochwat, a freshman attacker, has paced the Bobcats with 25 goals, which ranks second on the team, and has tallied 31 points on the year. On a team when four of the five point leaders are upperclassmen, Ochwat has stood out.

“The upperclassmen on attack, they really help step my game up an extra level by pushing me,” said Ochwat, who has started all 11 games for the Bobcats. “I want to be just as good as them, so I definitely look up to them.”

Quinnipiac (7-4, 6-0 NEC) ranks first in the conference heading into one of the team’s biggest regular season games vs. Sacred Heart, a team that has beaten Quinnipiac in the conference finals three of the past four seasons.

“It doesn’t matter what any-body’s record is going into the game, it’s a battle,” Caro said. “They’re al-ways close games, they’re always

heated and intense battles.”Caro doesn’t need to remind Och-

wat about the importance of winning. Ochwat won two state champion-ships when she played on Farming-dale (N.Y.) High School’s team.

“It was awesome. It was just an incredible experience,” Ochwat said. “Especially on Long Island, it’s so hard to get out of there, and it’s hard to put words to it. It’s just incredible.”

Ochwat was a fan when she saw the Bobcats beat Mount St. Mary’s 15-3 last April to win their first NEC title.

“It’s an honor to be part of this program, especially coming off of the NEC Championship last year,” Ochwat said. “[Last season’s title game] was incredible. There were wide-open cutters everywhere and so many opportunities on the of-fensive end and the defense played great and held them to some ri-diculous amount. It’s unheard of in women’s lacrosse.”

Caro said she remembers intro-ducing junior Sarah Allen, the na-tion’s current leader in assists, to Ochwat after the game.

“I said, ‘You better make friends with her because she’s going to get you a lot more assists next year,’” Caro said. “And it’s worked out pretty well for both of you guys.”

Ochwat has won three NEC Rookie of the Week awards this season and leads all freshmen in the league in scoring. She credits the up-perclassmen for helping her adjust to the Division I level.

“They help with the pace of the game,” Ochwat said. “With the feeds, especially, that’s a big help. They’re really good at clearing space and just creating lanes.”

But Ochwat isn’t concerned with individual accolades. Caro said one of her best qualities is her humility and willingness to improve.

“She came in as a good play-er, but she didn’t act like she was one of the best players. She stayed humble,” Caro said. “She kept working hard, she’s been very good at asking for help to figure out the things that she’s not good at … I think her willingness to change her game and adapt to what we need from her has really been the key to our success.”

The team has a two-game lead in first in the conference and has its sights on home-field advantage and a repeat as conference champions. Ochwat is already a high school champion and has seen the Bobcats win once. She said she’d love to win it herself.

“Having everyone come here to host the tournament and do it all over again, I would love to be a part of that,” Ochwat said.

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Quinnipiac freshman Kyra Ochwat ranks second on the team with 25 goals and ranks fourth with 31 points. The Bobcats are currently in first place in the Northeast Conference.

“She kept working hard, she’s been very good at asking for help to figure out the things that she’s not good at. ”

— Danie Caroquinnipiac women’s lacrosse head

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Elkins: ‘I couldn’t say no’from captain to coach

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Quinnipiac senior captain Jordan Elkins will graduate in May and coach for the Dallas Stars Elite Hockey Club.

Seeley says that Elkins was not set on what she was going to do or where she wanted to move after graduation.

“I think this is a great way to start a career,” he said. “I’m just thrilled for her.”

One important part of coaching competitive hockey is the differ-ences Elkins will experience after playing college hockey.

“You deal with a lot more par-ents, and there is obviously a fair-ness element that doesn’t exist in the college game so it’s a lot different coaching teenage kids than teenag-

ers in college,” Seeley said.The Dallas Stars Elite Hockey

Club gives both male and female players a chance to play a competi-tive travel schedule with the opportu-nity to play in front of college scouts.

“Having someone like Jordan there is a step where she can tell them exactly what it’s like to be in college and what they have to do both from a hockey standpoint, aca-demic standpoint, and preparation standpoint. She will be invaluable with that,” Seeley said. “Jordan has a way of attracting attention, and de-servedly so.”

Elkins played on Wasilla’s boys’ hockey team all four years of high school and played a little of a differ-ent style.

“Through working hard, situa-tions have opened up and Quinnipi-ac was one of those situations,” said Elkins, who was also an assistant captain for her high school hockey team as a senior.

Elkins will fly down to Texas the first week of June for tryouts. Howev-er, she will not move down to Texas until later in the summer. The season starts toward the end of the summer with tournament play beginning.

“I see it going well,” Elkins said. “I feel I have a lot to learn but I also have a lot to give. I have a lot the program can take and benefit from. I’m pretty excited.”

Being captain at Quinnipiac has helped Elkins see what others can’t.

“It helps you see that every per-son might need to be motivated a little differently in order for a whole team to come and accomplish a

goal,” she said. “I couldn’t say no because it is helping other girls ac-complish something, one day some-one helped me accomplish.”

For Elkins, she didn’t have a fig-ure to look up to when she was play-ing competitive hockey growing up in Wasilla.

“If just me being there and be-ing positive about things and I can do anything to help someone say I love this sport and if she can do it I can do it,” Elkins said. “If I can make one girl feel that and hope-fully more then it’s worth the time commitment.”

At 14, they start checking in boys’ hockey and in her hometown of Wasilla there weren’t enough girls to play girls’ ice hockey, so El-kins played with the boys until she came to Quinnipiac.

“I had a lot of parents tell me to stop playing hockey in general, that I couldn’t do it that I was going to get hurt,” Elkins said. Even Elkins’s coach notified her parents that she should be playing somewhere else.

Elkins has continually proved her doubters wrong.

“I think bringing that determi-nation showed me that’s what no does,” Elkins said. “If you have a purpose and feel that you can make a difference nothing can stop you. You just have to make a decision and stick to it and believe that what you’re doing does have a purpose.”

Said Seeley: “I’m sure she can take it anywhere she wants to. That’s my feeling about Jordan: she will be successful in anything she wants to do.”

6 straight wins for the women’s lacrosse team.

79score shot by amanda nagel of women’s golf

at brown invitational, good for a single round program record

15strikeouts for pitcher heather schwartzburg

in her past three games pitched.

9different players who scored for men’s lacrosse in

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.275the baseball team’s

slugging percentage, which ranks last in the conference.

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Dylan WebsterWebster scored a team-high four goals Saturday afternoon against Wagner in the Bobcats’ 15-5 win. He brought his season total to a team-leading 19, which is good for a tie for fifth in the Northeast Conference. Webster also won 14 of 17 faceoffs on the day. He ranks second in the NEC in faceoff percentage.

Schwartzburg pitched 15 1/3 innings for the Bobcats in their past three games, giving up just four earned runs while striking out 15, bring-ing her ERA on the season down to 1.40, first in the league. She owns an 11-3 record and ranks fourth in the Northeast Conference with 119 strikeouts.

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Clockwise from top left: junior Rachel Cantor prepares to serve in Saturday’s meet vs. Hartford; senior James Kwei returns a volley in Saturday’s meet vs. Hartford; freshman Eric Ambrosio returns a serve in Saturday’s meet vs. Hartford.

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Women’s ice hockey captain to become coach

big shoes to fillFreshman goaltender tries to live up to Benzing’s legacy

From having catches with his father and older brother, to being the goalie of a national-ly-ranked high school team, Dylan Torey has shown the leadership and courage to take on anything set in front of him, especially as the starting freshman goalie for the Quinnipiac men’s lacrosse team.

“We recruited Dylan to be the starter here since we knew Kevin (Benzing) was graduat-ing,” head coach Eric Fekete said. “In the fall, Dylan just earned the job. Even though he was slated to do it, he earned it and he was the top guy every week. It’s a hard job to do as a freshman.”

Torey played both hockey and lacrosse at Darien High School (Conn.). His lacrosse team was ranked third-best in the country when he was a senior last year. During his years with his high school team, Torey won two state championships and one Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference championship.

After he committed to Quinnipiac Uni-versity during his junior year, Torey set his eyes on bringing his school its first undefeated FCIAC championship since 2008.

Torey said that the recruiting process took a toll on him during his junior year, but has no regrets looking back.

“The recruiting process is almost always hectic, but as I went through the journey, I have to say Quinnipiac University made my choice easy,” Torey said.

The team started the season with 23 new faces and six straight losses. But Torey didn’t push the panic button at that point. Since then, the team has won three games in a row head-ing into Tuesday’s matchup vs. Harvard and is in a three-way tie for first place in the North-east Conference.

“Since winning three straight games, includ-ing a great win over Mount St. Mary’s, I can see that the team is heading in the right direction,” Torey said. “A month ago, I don’t think I would of believed that we would be in a three-way tie for first place in the NEC at this time.”

To put more pressure on Torey entering this season, he is the successor of former goalie Kev-in Benzing. Benzing ended his career with the Bobcats with 500 career saves and led the team to the Northeast Conference championship last season, when it lost to Mount St. Mary’s.

“He’s the backbone of the operation. Hav-

ing Kevin graduate last year, who started four years here, it’s big shoes to fill,” Fekete said. “He’s filling the shoes of probably the best goalie that’s ever played here and in the con-ference and country in Benzing. But being a freshman goalie in Division I lacrosse is a hard job because you don’t have the experi-ence from learning from someone that starts in front of you for a year or feeling it for a year through the sidelines.”

Torey even requested to Fekete to wear Benzing’s number 13 before the season started.

“I had the pressure of filling the very big

shoes of my predecessor Kevin Benzing,” Torey said. “Thirteen was my lucky number in high school and I wanted it to be my lucky number in college. If it worked for Kevin, I hoped it worked for me.”

All of Torey’s teammates have supported him as he faces an immense amount of pres-sure this season.

“I think everyone supported it,” Fekete said. “I can’t say our poor start was a result of Dylan not playing well. We started nine fresh-men who are all in the same boat as him, but Dylan’s transition is a little more transparent.”

Entering the last stretch of the regular sea-son, Torey continues to pursue his level of play heading down the stretch and enjoys the pressure that comes with it.

“I understand that you have to play at a higher tempo, emotional state and stay focused all four quarters. It’s always better when you play a team a second time. You have a better un-derstanding of your opponents. You can capital-ize on the mistakes you made the first time and try to best them the second time,” Torey said. “The last three games of our regular season are all [against] top teams and will be a test.”

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Quinnipiac freshman Dylan Torey has started the team’s first nine games of the season and has logged more than 520 minutes.

By Giovanni MioStaff Writer

By Ben DiaSStaff Writer

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After growing up and playing in boys’ ice hockey leagues in Wasilla, Alaska, Jordan Elkins moved across the country to Hamden to play Divi-sion I women’s ice hockey for Quin-nipiac. She is ready to begin a new stage of her life: coaching hockey.

Elkins, the captain for Quinni-piac’s women’s ice hockey team last season, is ready to move to Dallas and take part in a new career of coaching for the Dallas Stars Elite Hockey Club. She was recently named the head coach of the Dallas Stars Elite

Hockey Club’s U-14 team and U-12 Tournament team, and the assistant coach for the U-19 team.

Over winter break, she visited her family in Texas. On the plane back from Texas, she witnessed some young hockey girls sitting next to her. She said she asked them about what team and tournament they were involved in.

After talking with one of the par-ents about visiting colleges while they were playing in the area, she of-fered to give them a tour of the High Point Solutions Arena at TD Bank Sports Center and even let them

watch one of the Bobcats’ practices.Elkins did not know that the

president of the Dallas Stars Elite Hockey Club was in the group. About a week later the team called to express interest in her.

“I had told them I was inter-ested and had family in Texas,” El-kins said. “I wanted to maybe move there. I always wanted to live in Tex-as but I didn’t know hockey would pull me there.”

Elkins waited until after the season ended to make her decision, especially taking her time since she would be moving halfway across the

country for a second time.“I couldn’t say no,” Elkins said.

“I can only hope to help these girls improve from not only day-to-day but have fun while doing it. We all play because we love it and I don’t want that to ever get lost with some-one as I have seen it get lost with some of my teammates.”

Over her four-year career, Elkins compiled 36 points with nine goals and 27 assists. But, it is not the stats the matter, but the leadership posi-tion that Elkins will be bringing to Texas.

Quinnipiac head coach Rick See-

ley said he believes Elkins has the attitude and demeanor that makes her really stand out.

“Like anyone who meets Jordan, she is very infectious,” Seeley said. “Clearly (she) would seem able for any job like that. It was her being her-self, and good things coming of it.”

From a coaching standpoint, El-kins has been very easy to relate to.

“She understands better than most … what coaches are going through from the other side,” Seeley said.