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Campus riots after men’s ice hockey gamesTwo explosions went off near

the finish line at the Boston Mara-thon on Monday. The New York Times reported that three people died and 176 others were injured.

Quinnipiac freshman Riley Starr ran the Boston Marathon and was near Boston College when the first explosion went off.

“I was at BC when it happened and I honestly can’t believe this would happen in Boston and espe-cially on this day,” Starr said. “To-day is a day for people to run and celebrate. I’m really shaken up, this is supposed to be a great city.”

Each year, the Boston Mara-thon is held on Patriot’s Day. Pa-triot’s Day is a Massachusetts state holiday celebrating the start of the Revolutionary War with the battle of Lexington and Concord. For many, Patriot’s Day is a symbol of American pride and freedom.

Freshman Rebecca Carlone has friends who live in Boston and her brother goes to Northeastern. She was frightened when she heard the news about the explosions.

“Your brain starts going a mil-lion miles per second,” she said. “It sucks that you have to think [of the] worst-case scenario. I have a lot of friends in Boston so my im-

mediate reaction was, ‘Is everyone okay?’ My hands were flying on my phone texting people. I don’t even know what I said to everyone until I looked at my phone and saw that everyone was good.”

Freshman Melissa Barosy’s father works in Boston and has a cousin who was at the marathon, but says that both are safe.

“It took me a while to process it,” she said. “It was very tragic and I am lucky that I didn’t know anyone who got hurt.

President Barack Obama is in-vestigating whether the explosions were foreign or domestic terror-ism.

An estimated 1,500 to 1,800 students took to the Quad Saturday evening to express their disappoint-ment with the men’s hockey team’s loss in the NCAA Frozen Four tour-nament, according to Chief of Public Safety David Barger. Three students and two visitors to the university were arrested and university prop-erty was vandalized, according to a press release from the Hamden Po-lice Department.

Freshman Maxx Goldblatt was charged with Criminal Mischief in the 3rd Degree after knocking down a light pole on the Quad, the Ham-den Police Department press release said. Sophomores Jake Striefler and Connor Powers were also charged with Criminal Mischief in the 3rd Degree after trying to damage light poles.

Steven Alterisio of Totowa, NJ stole money and electronic equip-ment from a Quinnipiac student and “head-butted” his girlfriend. He was charged with Larceny in the 6th De-gree and Disorderly Conduct, the Hamden Police Department press release said.

Zachary Alvey of Caldwell, NJ was charged with Breach of Peace in the 2nd Degree after pushing a public safety officer who was trying to help the intoxicated Alvey into an ambulance, the Hamden Police De-

partment press release said.The five will appear in court on

April 26, the press release from the Hamden Police Department said.

The students may also have to go through the university’s conduct process after investigation from the police and Public Safety, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Seann Kala-gher said.

Students had gathered at the Bobcat on Thursday night to cel-ebrate the hockey team’s win in the semifinals game against St. Cloud State. One student was taken into custody by the Hamden Police De-

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Matthew Desilets sat at his freshman in-duction ceremony and listened to Lou Ven-turelli, the Student Government Association Student Body President at the time, tell the Class of 2014, “the next Student Body Presi-dent is sitting amongst you right now.” From that moment on, Desilets knew that he want-ed to hold that position.

On April 10, that dream became reality, as Desilets, a business management major, was elected as Student Body President for the 2013-2014 academic year.

Desilets was the lone candidate for the position.

“People have asked me why they think that occurred,” Desilets said. “I’m taking it as a vote of confidence, like SGA believes in me to be their president for this next year.”

Desilets has been on SGA for two years now, first as sophomore class president and then as junior class president.

As junior class president, Desilets worked to make SGA more transparent. He was an instrumental part of getting SGA the permis-sion to send emails, like the SGA annual re-port to the student body, which they previ-ously had not been allowed to do.

He and the junior class cabinet also in-vited 30 juniors to a class cabinet meeting to get their input.

“The feedback we got from that was awe-some, so it’s definitely something I’m going to look for each class cabinet to do in the next year,” Desilets said.

Desilets wants to improve communica-tion in SGA to prevent the different cabinets from working on the same issues.

“What we’re trying to do for this next year is trying to figure out a new structure for SGA,” Desilets said. “I think for me it is going to be finding out a way where we

can best internally communicate for SGA, so those overlaps don’t happen. Whether that’s reforming our general board meetings or me taking a step forward and attending all the class cabinet meetings.”

Desilets also hopes to bring back univer-sity hour for the 2014-2015 academic year. University hour would be one hour during the week where no classes would be going on, he said. This would allow organizations to hold meetings or events during the day. Quinni-piac used to have a university hour and this is something that occurs on many college cam-puses, Desilets said.

“That is my major goal, something that I’d like to leave behind for the university to enjoy,” he said.

Although he ran unopposed for Student Body President, Desilets did not relax dur-ing the campaign period. On election day, Desilets walked around campus for six hours speaking to students.

“Running unopposed was a real bless-ing,” he said. “It allowed me to go around and talk to students, introduce myself and start to get immediate feedback on what students wanted.”

Desilets described himself as goofy, friendly and outgoing, something that newly elected Vice President for Programming Rob-ert Grant could attest to.

“Because of his presence on this campus I think he’s going to be able to serve as stu-dent body president very well,” Grant said. “People feel comfortable coming up to him because he is one of those warm, welcoming people who’s always out there saying ‘hi’ and I think that’s the thing that makes all the dif-ference.”

According to Grant, one of Desilets’ strengths is listening to others.

“[Desilets] definitely likes to take into consideration everyone’s ideas, which is very

important especially when you’re in that position in e-board,” Grant said. “He’s defi-nitely committed to doing that and working with our cabinet to make a difference for the student body.”

Newly-elected Vice President for Public Relations Julianna Besharat feels that Desi-lets is hardworking and determined.

“He knows how to lead our cabinet very well,” she said. “He knows where things should go and he’s not going to stop until he gets there.”

Desilet said that he wants students to come to him with concerns or suggestions.

“Students, feel free to reach out to me in any-way, whether it’s stopping by the office or emailing me with any concerns you might have,” he said. “Any ideas you’ve heard from other schools. Cool things that happened there, traditions. That’s definitely something that we want to hear about. Don’t keep it to yourself and let us know what you want us to do because we’re here to serve you.”

Desilets and the rest of the executive board will be sworn into their new posi-tions on April 24.

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A little over a year after the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, Florida police sergeant Ron King was fired on April 12 af-ter bringing shooting targets that resembled Martin to a training session. The cutout tar-gets each depicted a male figure in a hooded sweatshirt with a canned drink in one hand, which is symbolic of how Martin was dressed the night he was shot and killed by a neigh-borhood watch person in his neighborhood. The police sergeant claimed that the targets were meant to be used as “no-shoot training aid” to help officers decide when to fire.

The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has recently endorsed the proposed legislation that would require background checks prior to gun purchases, among other regulations. The group, which was founded in 1972 and has more than 650,000 members and supporters, said that it was “the right thing to do” to support a strong background check system for most gun pur-chases. The new legislation was proposed in response to the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, where 20 children and six staff members were killed by a gunman. While the issue is split among anti-gun and pro-gun groups, the National Rifle Association still strongly opposes it.

A new variation of the bird flu, or the H7N9 virus, has been found in 51 people in China. This virus is typically seen in birds, and was never known to affect humans until recently. Officials are not sure how the pa-tients became infected, but they believe the virus could have come from unsanitary poul-try products. This has prompted many cities to suspend trading poultry until the virus is under control. Although the virus seems to be spreading, officials do not suspect that it is transmitted from human to human. Accord-ing to reports, at least 11 of the 51 people have died so far.

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partment for investigation after an incident with a police officer, Barger said. The student has since been released by Hamden Police.

On Thursday, Hamden Police and Public Safety allowed students to express their school spirit.

“There is nothing wrong with celebrating,” Barger said. “As long as no one was being hurt. As long as no one was creating any great dam-age, clean-up is one thing, but I mean breaking windows or tipping over cars like you see on other college campuses, then we were happy

just to keep it contained and let the students celebrate.”

However, on Saturday, a lamppost was knocked down, a window was broken in the Ar-nold Bernhard Library, a Commons’ bathroom was vandalized and ceiling tiles were punched out in Commons, Barger said. The broken win-dow in the Arnold Bernhard Library is the most expensive of these acts of vandalism, he said.

Public Safety filmed the scene on the Quad and will be investigating who was involved with the vandalism, Barger said.

Public Safety anticipated that students would have some reaction to the game, wheth-er the team won or lost, Barger said. Public

Safety met with the Yale Police Department, the New Haven Police Department and the Hamden Police Department on Friday to cre-ate a plan to deal with any issues that may arose at Quinnipiac or Yale University.

Twenty Hamden Police officers and 38 Public Safety officers were spread out between the Mount Carmel and York Hill campuses, Barger said. An ambulance was also settled at the Health Center on the Mount Carmel Cam-pus.

The New Haven Shuttle service did not run Saturday night for public safety reasons, ac-cording to Associate Vice President for Public Relations John Morgan.

Professor Kevin Basmadjian has been ap-pointed the new Dean of the School of Edu-cation. The appointment took effect on April 1, though Basmadjian has been serving as the Interim Dean of the School of Education since August 2012.

Basmadjian has served as Associate Pro-fessor and Director of the Master of Arts in Teaching Program in the School of Education since 2007, and as Quinnipiac’s first Faculty Leadership Fellow with the Office of Academ-ic Affairs.

He has earned several awards and grants during his tenure at Quinnipiac including the Outstanding Faculty Scholar Award in 2011 and most recently, a Teacher Quality Partnership Grant in collaboration with the Bristol-Myers Squibb Center for Science Teaching and Learning. He has served on numerous Quinnipiac University commit-tees including the Faculty Senate, the In-structional Technology Committee, the Fac-ulty Policies Committee, the Excellence in Education Speakers Series, the Quinnipiac University Athletics Council and the Aca-demic Policy Committee.

Although he acknowledged that serving as Interim Dean will make the transition easier, Basmadjian said he looks forward to strength-ening relationships with external audiences such as alumni and community schools, as he

has had to balance the responsibilities of both MAT Program Director and Interim Dean for the past eight months.

Basmadjian has also played a significant role in the development of the Learning Para-digm, an ongoing transformation in the Uni-versity’s educational structure which promotes each member of the University to accept re-sponsibility for student learning.

Basmadjian plans to expand programs like special education and early childhood educa-tion curriculums. He also wants to launch the School of Education’s new graduate program which is now in its structural design phase.

As the new dean, he wants to strengthen the visibility of Quinnipiac’s School of Educa-tion in the greater community.

“We’re a top program in the state and I want to make sure that that becomes more widely known,” he said.

Quinnipiac is also looking to house a cen-ter or an institute that will most likely focus on teacher advocacy within the School of Educa-tion.

Another goal of Basmadjian’s is to have the School of Education become a more in-tegral part of the undergraduate experience at Quinnipiac University.

“We can bring our expertise around teach-ing and pedagogy and curriculum to support the larger learning paradigm initiative,” he said.

However, Basmadjian anticipates some

challenges as the new Dean of the School of Education.

“Teacher education is a little bit under siege right now, so the challenge will be at-tracting more students to the profession,” he said.

Basmadjian also addressed the tensions between teachers and those who want to re-form the country’s public education system.

“The challenge [is to keep] quality teach-ing central in this current climate of education reform, where we are still focused on creativ-ity and inspiring students in this climate of test scores,” he said.

Basmadjian stressed that teaching is pri-marily about building relationships with stu-dents and motivating students to learn, much more so than it is about test scores.

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On Thursday, April 18, four micro-biologists from the medical school of UNAN-León in Nicaragua will hold a discussion on various dis-eases native to Nicaragua, and the impact of these diseases on public health. The event will take place from 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Carl Hansen Student Center room 120, and is sponsored by The Al-bert Schweitzer Institute of the De-partment for Cultural and Global Engagement and the Department of Biomedical Sciences. For more information, contact erin.sabato@quinnipiac.edu. – S. Riello

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Biochemistry Professor John Haggerty, 62, was outside reading a history book last Wednesday, a warm, sun-filled early spring day. A man, who made a career in study-ing, understanding and most impor-tantly enjoying the natural world, passed away in the welcoming em-brace of the outside world he loved so much.

Haggerty was known by his peers as an avid outdoorsmen. He traveled with his wife, Margie, to foreign countries to do nature ex-cursions. Last year Haggerty and his wife traveled across Iceland on horseback and were planning a trip to Africa this summer.

“He and his wife were inter-ested in all sorts of natural things,” Associate Professor of Chemistry Chairperson Carol Fenn said. “Al-most every year they would plan a trip.”

Haggerty was also very pas-sionate about birds and bird watch-ing. He worked with the Great Gull Island Project for 20 years. The project involves monitoring

and studying Common and Rose-ate Terns that nest on an island that is located at the eastern end of the Long Island Sound.

Haggerty was in the process of getting students involved in the proj-ect because of the benefits it could have on students. It taught environ-mental, biochemical and biological ideas in a more hands-on way.

As a professor, Haggerty will be remembered as being practical by relating whatever he was teach-ing to real life. Being a researcher for many years allowed him to use real life experience and bring what he learned from that research to stu-dents.

“He actually made it very inter-esting because he would relate class to medicine; even things in nature,” senior molecular cell biology major Rachel Dopart said.

Aside from making class more relevant, he was also known as be-ing extremely caring about his stu-dents. He wanted success for every one of his students.

“He and his wife did not have children, but I think that in my per-spective, and I’m just putting these

words out there, that he enjoyed so much his teaching of students that he saw their potential almost like a parent would see it,” Fenn said.

Haggerty was also very involved in admitted student events. When asked what day he would like to work the admissions events, he would be very flexible, offering to work whatever day he was needed, Fenn said.

The day before Professor Hag-gerty passed away, there was a fac-

ulty department meeting, Fenn said. He was just acting in his usual up-beat way, Fenn recalled.

This is why his sudden death is what shocked faculty most.

“You know what’s the hardest is that it was so unexpected and sudden because we were working with him Wednesday, and Thursday he was gone,” Fenn said. “‘We’ve lost a good man,’ that’s what ev-eryone’s been saying. We’ve lost a good man.”

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“A Forum on Immigration” will be held on Sunday, April 21, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. in Mancheski. The forum will give students the chance to put themselves in the shoes of an immigrant and gain insights into the challenges they face today. At-tendees will participate in an open discussion and offer responses as to how they can make a difference in the ongoing debate.– S. Riello

The Earth Day celebration will take place on April 18 at Burt Kahn Court from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. In addition to the Farmers’ Market, there will be eco-friendly vendors, posters, free food, T-shirts and raffle prizes. In-side Burt Kahn Court, the “Animal Embassy” will be bringing animals to the event for students to interact with and learn about the importance of respecting their habitats. There will also be a sustainability themed magician at the event and the annual Bobcat Flea Market. – S. Riello

The deadline for this year’s Writing Across the Curriculum Student Writ-ing Contest is Friday, May 10. Win-ners will be selected from the School of Business, the School of Commu-nications, School of Health Sciences, School of Nursing and the College of Arts and Sciences. Each of the five first-place winners will receive a $150 cash prize and have their work published on the QUWAC website. For more information, students may contact paul.pasquaretta@quinni-piac.edu.–S. Riello

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administration explains how it handles student death

Less than two weeks ago, Quin-nipiac law student Paul Marando passed away suddenly at his home in North Haven. It was an event that students and faculty were not pre-pared for.

It was the kind of unfortunate event, however, that administrators at Student Affairs were prepared for. The university has a specific plan to handle situations when members of the student body pass away.

“Our first response is to the stu-dent’s family and to the students we identify as a kind of circle of sup-port and friendship: roommates, close friends, relationships, signifi-cant others,” Associate Vice Presi-dent for Student Affairs Monique Drucker said.

The university first notifies the family about what happened to their child, and then do whatever they can to help the family.

Sometimes the university will offer to gather the student’s posses-

sions together if the student lived on campus instead of leaving it to the family, Drucker said. The choice, however, is really the family’s, and then the staff at Quinnipiac does ev-erything in their ability to support the family’s decisions.

“We’ve worked with all differ-ent requests from families,” Drucker said. “What I’ve learned from that is let them [have the choice]. Give them the options so we can be sensi-tive to their needs.”

In addition to working with fam-ily members, the staff at Student Affairs also prides themselves with working with those who identified with the student who passed away.

After the news that a student has died, the staff locates roommates and friends who were close with the student and begin working with them.

“We really work swiftly to be on the ground to have a physical pres-ence with the students,” Drucker said.

Drucker, alongside Associate

Vice President for Student Affairs Carol Boucher and counselors from the student health center, make themselves available to work with grieving students for as long as the students need it. Sometimes positive relationships between counselors and students form.

“I still have students who I have worked with in the past that have gone through a tragic event who come in and just say ‘hello,’” Drucker said.

The Student Affairs Office also supports students who have lost friends by backing them when they contact faculty asking for a way of changing scheduled assignments.

“We cannot dictate to a faculty member what to do, but we can send a note that says, ‘please give them every consideration you can.’ Our faculty are fabulous. They’re usually very understanding and supportive,” Drucker said.

The school already has systems in place that keep track of attendance and trends in students’ grades to en-

sure that grieving does not cause a drop in school work throughout the semester.

Quinnipiac also offers a way for students to attend the wake and fu-neral service by offering transporta-tion to the funeral home. In the past, the university has also allowed a small memorial service to be held on campus, Drucker said.

“What we’ve found is that stu-dents typically want to go to the service,” Drucker said.

Although Drucker does not enjoy handling the death of any Quinnipiac student, she acknowl-edges that the school has a very good system in place in helping all who are affected by the loss of a student.

“Unfortunately there will be loss along the way,” Drucker said. “I just feel very fortunate to be at an institution that knows how to embrace that and do the right thing for the families, the students and people who are here and work through that.”

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This past Wednesday we held our an-nual SGA elections on Qu.Collegiatelink.Net. With about 1/3 of the student body who participated in voting, SGA now has a new board for the 2013-2014 academic year. We are excited to announce Matt Desilets as the new Student Body President, Evan Milas as the returning Vice President for Student Con-cerns, Robert Grant as the Vice President for Programming, Danielle Big as the Vice Presi-dent for Finance, and Jules Besharat as the Vice President for Public Relations. With a new executive board comes new ideas and initiatives and we cannot wait to see what these members achieve while in office. If you would like to see the rest of the results

on who won the President, Vice President and Representative positions for each class you can find that information at QUSGA.com.

SGA would like to thank everyone who came out to support the candidates during the debates last Monday. We had an amaz-ing turnout with students being present at the event and would like to give a special thank you to The Quad News for live streaming the event. For the candidates who lost their respective races, we want you to still be in-volved in our organization as non voting members. Please contact incoming Student Body President Matt Desilets for more infor-mation.

Vice President for Finance Erik Cote and his committee have been hard at work this past weekend obtaining budget requests for

every chartered organization on campus. We will be granting budgets at our next general board meeting to those organizations. With that being said, if you are interested in start-ing a club or organization on campus please contact Erin Twomey for more information. If you have a concern and would like to have your voice heard let us know by sending in your concern through our website at QUS-GA.com or visiting the SGA offices on the second floor of the Carl Hansen Student Cen-ter. We hope everyone has a great week and enjoys the weather!

Live The Legend,Ryan Scanlon, Vice President for Public Re-lations

Even though our boys lost, this was an amazing season with

spirit at an all time high. Thank you Quinnipiac hockey.

@braun_sauceSteven Braun

Win or lose: it’s just a game

Congrats Eric Hartzell! It’s nice to end to weekend on a high

note. The Penguins are lucky to have you #quinnipiac

@cali_grown22Erica Rocco

I never tweeted about it but Quinnipiac hockey truly had an amazing season. This team has created memories for me that I’ll

never forget.@arianastover Ariana Stover

The Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey team should be very proud of its season. The Bobcats went further than anyone could have imagined, and while they did not win the national championship, they took massive steps to improve their program’s future. They put themselves on the map.

After this hockey season, hopefully people will know how to pronounce the school’s name. (It’s KWIN-uh-pee-ack for those who don’t already know.) Hopefully it’s because of ei-ther the hockey team, the polling institute or the up-and-com-ing business and medical school programs. Not because of the way hundreds of students reacted toward a game.

The student body chose to celebrate victory by tee-peeing the Bobcat statue on the Mount Carmel Cam-pus, one student even throwing a smoke bomb. It chose to release its frustration by cracking a window in the li-brary, damaging a lamp post, throwing toilet paper across campus and getting in altercations with other students and police officers.

The players, coaches, staff and the entire athletics department deserve better from their fans.

It’s one thing if a few students decided to go out of their way to destroy the campus, but this was a mob of hundreds of people. Do-ing what they did is no way to release anger or celebrate because of a sporting event, no matter how large. Their reaction led to police arrested some students for their actions and unruly behavior.

Sure, this isn’t as big a campus as schools like Penn State or UMass Amherst, which recently had their own respective incidents on their campuses. But for a university as small as Quinnipiac is, and for a hockey game, the fans were disrespectful toward Yale and

our university as a whole.No, I’m not trying to say we should be happy for Yale, but

give credit where credit is due. The Bulldogs fought all odds to even reach the Frozen Four, let alone win the national cham-pionship. They beat three No. 1 seeds on their way to the na-

tional title, including second-ranked Minnesota in overtime in the regionals.

Yale beating the Bobcats is no reason to curse out the university. Sure, be upset, but don’t destroy your own campus. Embrace the “War for Whitney Ave,” but

don’t take it personally when players on another school beat players who go to your school.

Public Safety stopped running the shuttles to New Haven for Saturday night, which was the right decision, by far. Sending drunk students to New Haven, one of the most dangerous cities in the country, as animated as they were would have been an awful deci-sion. More students could have been seriously, possibly fatally, hurt if they had confronted the wrong crowd. Separating the Quinnipiac and Yale students was the best option for both universities. Let Yale celebrate its win and let Quinnipiac react to the loss.

Matt EisEnbErgSenior Managing Editor

@matteisenberg42

On Dec. 14, 2012, my outlook on life was changed as a result of the events at Sandy Hook Elementary. As a daycare teacher and a future elementary school teacher, the day hit me hard. Like many others, my coworkers and I tried to sort through the how, the why and the answers to the question none of us wanted to consider: what if it had been us? This Sunday, it will have been only four months since the incident. Last Thursday, “Glee,” a popular Fox television show, aired an episode titled “Shoot-ing Star.” The episode centered on a school shooting, featuring intense moments and the realistic terror of such an event. Although this episode was seemingly an attempt to tackle the real questions facing those who are part of today’s educational system, the only “real” moments of the hour were the possibility of a school shooting, the powerful fear portrayed and the memories the episode brought back to my mind. The event was a vehicle for a glee club lesson on the importance of sharing true feelings. While I understand the lesson, choos-ing this particular vehicle seemed in poor taste. While some may have forgotten, I have not let go of the sadness and horror I felt that day. I am not sure I will ever forget about the 26 names and faces that now serve as inspiration

for me to give my whole heart to my students, everyday, now and in the future. I am not the only one. Parents, teachers and students across the country undoubtedly have not moved on. However, my sadness and memories cannot compare to those of Sandy Hook residents, families and friends of those who were lost, and students who survived the day. This epi-sode forced viewers to relive the emotions and events at Sandy Hook, which were traumatiz-ing, to say the least. All those involved have enough to remind them of their grief everyday without turning on their television to a popular show that was originally meant to be uplift-ing and celebratory of difference. It is hard to say when the time will come when it will not be “too soon” to air such an episode, but four months is certainly not enough time to allow viewers to view the episode and think about anything other than the emotional effects.

I am also disappointed by which student was made responsible for the shooting. Becky, played by Lauren Potter, was the character who brought the weapon to school and acci-dentally fired. The issue with this is that Becky has Down syndrome. I have worked extensive-ly with children with Down syndrome, and as anyone with experience with Down syndrome knows, these children are some of the kindest and most loving people you will ever meet. While a student like Becky could, in theory,

be responsible for a school shooting, I am sad-dened to see many online postings now linking Down syndrome with the type of mental in-stability characteristic of school shooters, and perpetuating an untrue stereotype of children who did not earn it. Down syndrome is the presence of an extra chromosome resulting in facial deformities and developmental disabili-ties, not mental instability.

The individuals who commit school shoot-ings have a rage built up over much time, and do not have the capability to deal with their issues, causing them to make irrational deci-sions to harm others. Down syndrome does not equal violence. Becky’s character is also associated with a sunny disposition, making the decision one with no precursor, which is unlike any school shooting in history. “Glee” also chose to gloss over the fact that children who bring a gun to school need help and sup-port. Becky’s decision did not have repercus-sions, and the teacher who knew the true situ-ation left telling other teachers to simply “look after” her. With the choice made to air this epi-sode, the only thing “Glee” can do now to truly illuminate the problem of school shootings is to incorporate the aftershock in subsequent episodes. If the characters simply resume to normal as if nothing happened, the show dis-honors the families of Sandy Hook who live with the effects of Dec. 14, 2012, every day.

letter to the editor

Too soon for school shooting theme on ‘Glee’

KaiTlyn RoGalSKiSophomore

English and Elementary Education Major

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I love competition. I love that it pushes peo-ple to be the best versions of themselves, I love rooting for a winner, I love learning from losing, and I absolutely love rivalry. One of the main reasons I came to Yale was because of its long-standing and prestigious rivalry — but I quickly learned, as all Yalies do, that that stodgy 100-year old rivalry is good and fun, but there’s noth-ing quite like a Toad’s brawl with Quinnipiac.

Hockey is the kind of sport that takes com-petition and stretches it to its limits, especially for viewers. It is not only fast-paced and grace-ful, but it is also an incredibly dynamic and at-tention-grabbing sport. From the face-off to the breakaway, one-on-one compeititon is facilitated by being surrounded by the constant pressure of

the team tailing shortly behind. At any moment a goal can be scored, a penalty can be called, a fight can break out.

Simply put, this year’s NCAA D1 hockey finals could not have been more tailored to my tastes if it had tried. I watched half the game at Box 63 and the other half at a friend's viewing party. As a lifelong fan of hockey and a dedicated Yale hockey enthusiast, I found myself, much to my delight, explaining the rules of the game and each penalty to my surrounding Yalies. At every turn; however, I found myself commenting at what a well-played game it was, that Quinnipiac was, especially in the first two periods, outplay-ing us.

Even when they took out their goalie with seven minutes to go in the third period (I under-stand that you were only going to do it for the

remainder of the double-penalty to have an es-sential power play, especially because your pow-er play is incredibly strong, but still, this is the finals, and nobody would do that in the NHL), I was apprehensive. I was constantly reminding my friends of the game in February where Quin-nipiac beat us 6-2 when we were leading 2-0 go-ing into the third period. I reminded them how in our semi-finals game against UMass Lowell, they scored two goals within 17 seconds of each other.

Even though Yale led 4-0, I watched the game until the very last second, anxiety ridden that we would lose our lead any second. Need-less to say, it was an incredibly played game. Yale celebrated by stuffing Toads to capacity, bringing campus and New Haven police out in full force and putting Adam to work until 6 a.m.

at Gourmet Heaven.Although the announcer on ESPN2 said

“Toad’s will be rockin’ tonight” (a phrase which my father delightfully recounted to me as I was nursing a hangover the next morning), it made the victory that much more meaningful, know-ing that Yale was playing for something more than just a cup. Because the rivalry between Yale and Quinnipiac is so palpable on campus every weekend, it drew every Yale student to watch the game, which is impressive among a campus that attends every Yale-Harvard football tailgate yet rarely watches the actual game.

Strangers were hugging in the streets, beer was thrown everywhere, and the celebration was due, in totality, because we weren’t just fighting for our first NCAA hockey national title — we were fighting for Toads.

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Burt Kahn Court was filled with cheers and amazement last Friday night for the second an-nual Dancing with the QU Stars.

Students and members of the Quinnipiac community were able to see a different side of their professors as they were partnered up with members of Quinnipiac’s Ballroom Soci-ety to raise money for Camp Sunshine, where co-president Danielle Martin works at during the summer.

According to their website, Camp Sun-

shine provides “respite, support, joy and hope to children with life-threatening illnesses and their immediate families through various stag-es of a child’s illness.”

At last year’s Dancing with the QU Stars, the event raised enough money to send a fam-ily there that summer. This year, the event raised enough money to send a family to Camp Sunshine this summer as well.

The panel consisted of Residence Hall Di-rector Mike Guthrie, Angela Romano, Mick Malek and fifth-year student John Midy.

The team that stole the show and left the

victors of the event were Professor of History Kathy Cook and Ethan Pandolfi who danced to the tango.

Cook was fired up in a bedazzled red dress that matched Ethan’s fuel of the tango. The couple were strong and poise, sharp and ag-gressive.

The couple that won Audience Favorite was Instructional Technologist Gary Pandolfi and Kuwabo Mubyana. One of the panelist, John Midy. described their performance as “fluid as the ocean.” Mubyana was elegant and graceful, like walking on water.

The Best Dressed winners were Associate Professor of Psychology William Jellison and Jaclyn Plante who danced to the swing. The couple were peppy, entertaining and friendly with their fast flips that Romano called “flip-pin’ fantastic.”

Director of Marketing Communications for Admissions Louise Howe and student Sean McCarty were next and impressed the audience dancing rumba. They had attitude and flare with intimate and sensual moves that helped them win the Best Technique award.

For Most Chemistry, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences Thomas Martin and Danielle amazed the crowd with the cha-cha. Thomas had a cowboy hat which fit with their charm.

Junior Joann Cazorla flared blue fire from her sparkly dress with Associate Professor of Political Science Sean Duffy dancing to salsa, winning Best Moves.

Other pairs included Assistant Profes-

sor in the School of Nursing Robin Guisti and Alex Diaz won Most Creative; Professor of Biology Joseph Woods and Aidan Tatar won Most Adorable and Adjunct Professor in the School of Business Tara Rothman and Nick Barrios won Best Rhythm.

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Dancing with the QU stars

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Adjunct Professor in the School of Business Tara Rothman and Nick Barrios won Best Rhythm.

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The lights dimmed and graphic screens flashed at 8.30 on Saturday night at SPB’s an-nual Wake the Giant Spring concert. Anticipa-tion was clear as rapper and songwriter Bobby Ray Simmons, better known as B.oB. took the stage.

Only an hour earlier though, the crowd was our Bobcats dropped some puck over in Pittsburgh, leaving students torn between the two events. Despite it being a smaller-than-expected crowd, the noise levels showed no indication of this.

B.o.B put on an energetic performance at the TD Bank Sports Center for this year’s an-nual Wake the Giant Spring concert hosted by the Student Programming Board.

It was an upbeat show, spitting his verses

and interacting with the crowd while per-forming fan favorites such as “Beast Mode”, “Nothin’ On You” and “Magic.”

“B.o.B was amazing, I definitely want to see him in concert again,” raved freshman Ma-rissa Faretta. “We got to watch an hour of the game, and still managed to come to the concert so it was great!”

The show started with wallpaper., a popu-lar American band fronted by Ricky Reed, who were voted on as the concert’s opener, and the crowd of no more than twenty people rocked out to his high-energy set.

Reed even took the time to interact with the audience, asking who “pre-gamed” before the concert, and even asking the score of the game. He thanked the audience for voting for him to perform over the other options.

“I love the concert, even though not a lot of

people are here,” said freshman Corrina Drost. “Wallpaper. was pretty good, so I had fun!”

While students felt they were missing out on the Frozen Four final game, some students were more innovative in their attempts to do both. “The concert is awesome, but the game is also so exciting,” said freshman Ray Brum-leve, who live-streamed the Quinnipiac/Yale game on his smartphone. “I’m really happy I can view both at the same time. It’s practically the best of both worlds.”

After about an hour break between the two, with a bigger crowd than wallpaper. had, B.o.B made his entrance. To the approximately 100 students in attendance, they had the opportuni-ty to have a somewhat “private” showing with the award-winning rapper.

“The concert was much better than I ex-pected,” said freshman Jessica Hernandez, a

longtime fan of B.o.B. “It was really unfortu-nate that it was at the same time as the hockey game, but I thought it was a lot of fun!”

The rapper interacted with the crowd, throwing water into the audience, and even jumping into the audience to crowd surf sev-eral times throughout the performance.

“It was sick, I thought it was awesome! I love B.o.B, I think he’s a great artist,” added junior Mike Woolfson. “It was very worth missing the game!”

After his hour-long set, B.o.B finished with his hit “So Good”, jumping into the crowd, prompting the audience to cheer for an encore.

“Don’t drink and drive,” he advised. “Smoke and fly!”

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The TD Bank Sports Center was booming with B.o.B and Wallpaper. on Saturday night.

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zombie ApocalypsePi Beta Phi put on a “Thriller” of a show at Friday’s lip sync event during Greek Week. In its eight-minute routine, the sorority told the scary story of how a group of girls from a town called “Quinnapaloo” went on a trip that suddenly went awry. Instead of heading to the river, the girls ended up in “Disturbia.” Thanks to its first-place finish in lip sync, Pi Beta Phi finished in first place in Greek Week.

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from everything,” Gallatin said. “For those hours of the day I didn’t think about it at all. Those kids were just like having so much fun ... and that’s what I feel like being around kids is. They’re so innocent and so lovable that it literally made ev-erything go away.

“They have no worries, so I don’t have to have any worries either. If I could help any of these kids at all, I would love to do that.”

His roommate, sophomore Jeremy Patino, says Kyle always knows what to do when it comes to comforting and supporting people.

“If there’s somebody that I’ll run to, he’s definitely the first person I’ll go to,” Patino said. “He’s not one to react in stupid ways to adversity. He’s just intelligent enough to take a step back and process things.”

Even though it is still challenging, and he has a friend whose mother, Anne Marie Murphy, was one of the slain teachers, being away at col-lege and somewhat removed from the situation despite his close community connections has al-lowed Kyle to step back and see how he can help.

Cynthia saw an opportunity to help in an email from the women’s group she is a part of, Women in Newtown. It called for volunteers to help sort through the remaining letters and art-work sent to the town, left over from the “Snow-flakes for Sandy Hook” volunteer initiative.

It started as a small initiative, but went viral. Eight trucks later, volunteers found themselves at Pitney Bowes, the company that opened its doors for the sorting.

Cynthia signed them up for a three-hour shift during spring break, at the tail-end of the sorting.

“Kyle was a good sport, as always,” she said. “[Volunteering] is just something you do. He and his brother have been doing it since they were little.”

Patino had invited Kyle to go meet up with friends in New Jersey that day. Instead of skip-ping out on the three hours, Kyle stuck with his commitment and went with his mom.

“This whole thing brought out some of Kyle’s better qualities,” Patino said. “He’s very dedi-cated and committed to helping people–the kid doesn’t have a bad bone in his body.”

They read through letter after letter and went through each drawing, while others cataloged each address with the goal to eventually com-pile an online database to thank everyone online. Special poems and letters were scanned to be put online so everyone can see them.

“If we could scan every single one we would, but there’s no way you could possibly do that,” Kyle said. “I just went through and tried to pick the ones that were the most special and that made me want to cry the most. Because they were pret-ty hard to read.”

The letters poured in from all around the world. He read letters from older people, families with young children, kids and their classrooms, even letters in other languages and from other countries like Uganda and Australia. They will all be kept.

“Obviously it was gonna make you super sad, so I was trying not to cry,” Kyle said. “But on top of that I was also trying not to cry because it was so amazing that millions of people around

the world got together to help. It was truly amaz-ing to read those letters and I am so thankful to everyone around the world who sent them.”

Kyle couldn’t help but put himself in the shoes of the senders. He read one letter from a principal, who wrote about how the example set by the strength of the teachers has helped his community come together.

“It was really the letters from other teachers across the world that really got to me,” Gallatin said. “They were just talking about how they can’t even imagine the pain of seeing their stu-dents taken away from them. Those are probably the most painful to read.”

The volunteers sat and read to themselves, occasionally sharing an especially touching let-ter, amazing story or funny drawing.

“One little girl didn’t even write about New-town, but instead wrote ‘Merry Christmas’ and then made a bad pun about pizza – and I laughed so hard in the midst of everything,” Gallatin said. “The little cheer up jokes, little kid writing, the spelling ... it was just hilarious.”

But Kyle admits having difficulty fully em-bracing the reality of the “Hope for Sandy Hook” campaign.

“I don’t have any hopes or expectations,” Gallatin said. “It would be lovely to say that I re-ally hope the world can turn around from this ... but I still think we have a long way to go. I’m not a very optimistic person when it comes to the world outlook. I’m not sure if I trust people all that much, but hopefully what it did was it sped up the path for the world to someday change into something better.”

He has already seen glimpses of hope in the outpouring of support the town has received, through the smallest and biggest of gestures.

Kyle left a Panera one day and noticed a blanketing of cards in the parking lot–one on his dashboard read, “Hugs from Boston.” A woman from Iowa set up camp in the middle of town and handed out free pies. Someone from Australia called a local coffee shop and paid for Newtown residents’ coffee for the day.

“Yeah, the world has given us a lot,” Kyle said.

Before Dec. 14, few people knew about the small community of Sandy Hook.

“This was a little school on a country lane, it couldn’t have been more out of the way,” Cynthia said. “It kind of shakes up your perspective of the world a little bit.”

She deliberately moved to Newtown when she was pregnant with Kyle, because of its good school system and reputation as a nice commu-nity.

“This is home for them,” she said. “It’s where they grew up. For my kids, this was a safe place. And to see something like this happen is so out of whack with reality.

“I used to have this funny joke at the dinner table, ‘Don’t do anything stupid, guys, because the police will be all over you. They have nothing else to do in this town.’”

This perception that the Gallatins had of Newtown was entirely at odds with the violence that suddenly defined it in the media. Kyle re-members seeing the shooter when he was in high school, and has avoided watching the media cov-erage of the shooter and the shootings because it is too unsettling and surreal, like reliving a night-mare.

“Everyone’s just looking back on it and look-ing back on that kid and like if you saw that kid you would never…” he said, his words trailing off. “I remember learning about Columbine and things like that in Sociology and you can’t feasi-bly apply that to your real life until it happens.”

Even though it shook up his perspective, Kyle is focused on making a difference.

“I don’t want to be a victim,” Gallatin said. “I want to be strong for the people who actually deserve to be sad. And I don’t feel like I deserve to be sad as much.”

It’s why he wears his Angels of Sandy Hook wristbands and his own homemade bracelets that read: “Remember SHS” and “I Love Newtown.”

“I feel like [wearing the bracelets] grounds me on a daily basis,” Kyle said. “It really is a solid reminder, and I don’t want to forget, in the slightest, those kids at all.”

Kyle’s resilience and commitment to provide support and give true and lasting value to the lives of those taken in the Newtown tragedy are un-wavering.

“He’s been really great about it,” Cynthia said. “I think he’s been sort of a champion.”

As Kyle Gallatin headed home from Quin-nipiac University for winter break, he sat next to his mom, listening as his hometown became the center of the world’s attention.

He woke up that morning to a text message from his dad, saying there had been a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary. Not two hours later, Kyle was on his way home to Newtown, Conn., straight to the scene of the tragedy, where 20 stu-dents and six teachers were murdered.

They drove back in silence, listening to the developing story on the radio, trying to compre-hend it as the body count rose and the develop-ments worsened. At first, the thought of such evil lurking in the streets of this tight-knit community was unimaginable for Kyle. But the closer they got to town, the more the reality of the tragedy sank in.

The winter break vibe he had that morning had vanished. As they drove through Newtown, he felt the life sucked from the town. The once quaint, small town was suddenly filled to the brim with spectators and media trying to get in.

News trucks littered Treadwell Day Camp at the center of town, where Kyle, a sophomore bi-ology major, volunteered for a year in high school and is now employed as a day counselor for the summer. As he heard the details of the shooting, he immediately thought of the kids from camp.

“I’m surprised that no one I immediately knew from one of my groups was hurt or any-thing like that,” Gallatin said. “But we know that a lot of these kids lost friends.”

Treadwell Day Camp is right around the cor-ner from Sandy Hook Elementary. Most of the kids at his camp go there. The tragedy has caused him to reflect on the inevitable changes of a job he describes as getting paid to have fun, as he an-ticipates working with children whose innocence was lost and carefree lives were turned upside down in a matter of minutes.

Kyle’s mom, Cynthia Gallatin, has confi-dence in his ability to work with the children de-spite the potentially difficult circumstances, deal-ing with fragile and raw emotions and feelings.

“He’s good with kids, he’s kind of quiet and I think he’ll just listen,” she said. “He used to come home after work and tell me that he had this little girl who would just talk and talk and talk to him about her boyfriend, and everything that she was doing. He just thought it was hysterical.”

It is that very humor and openness that Kyle commits himself to keeping alive in the hearts of the kids he works with.

“Kyle will get them engaged and playing games, which is kind of what the kids need,” Cynthia said. “They need to not be reminded of this every day because there are too many re-minders.”

When the Newtown Youth Academy opened its doors for kids the week after the tragedy, Kyle took a “roll-up-my-sleeves” approach and was there for 3-4 hours a day that week. He took from his experience as a counselor, and played with the kids from Sandy Hook.

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Paramore has finally returned after four years with a packed 17-track, self-titled album released through Fueled By Ramen. Rea-leased on April 9, the album quickly proves that this early 2000s punk rock group has changed in more ways than one. After losing two founding band members, the remaining trio, lead singer Hayley Wil-liams, guitarist Taylor York and bassist Jeremy Davis, took their loss and used it as fuel to make their best album to date.

Since the release “Paramore” has been the number one CD on iTunes, beating out Justin Timberlake’s “20/20 Experience.” The anxi-ety filled wait was definitely worth it for fans. Even before the release, Paramore reached out to their antsy fans long awaiting their re-vamped

sound by streaming a different side of their album in four consecutive nights on their website beginning April 1 and going until April 4. They coined the term and started a worldwide Twitter trend with “4sides4n-ights”. The video was quite literal in that sense, showing the viewer the album being played on a record player.

With 17 tracks, plus two bonus tracks found on their website, some would say the band took the words “full-length” to a new level. With a lot to tell their fans, the group has grown musically with finding new ways to genre-blend and using more instruments and synth them in previous albums. The album is broken up with three interludes, played with a ukulele, light drum beats and clapping. Williams’ voice sounds as if she is singing into an old telephone, giving a quirky-retro vibe. It’s hard to resist clapping and singing along to the rest of the album.

Found towards the beginning of the album is “Part II,” which is a sequel to their song “Let the Flames Begin,” from 2007’s Riot! “What a shame, what a shame we all remain such fragile broken things” Wil-liams sings in the opening verse, talking directly to the first verse of the preceding song. Following with the same “Oh Glory,” Williams brings back her past with a new refreshing and hopeful outlook.

Though the content is similar to the old Paramore we all know and love, their new sound is heard throughout the album. The incor-poration of a synth, more pop driven beats and York’s guitar ripping guitar cuts re-define Paramore. “Ain’t It Fun,” incorporates more of an R&B sound, including a gospel choir in the verses with an em-powering message of finding independence. “Hate to See Your Heart Break,” is a heartfelt ballad that gives the listener more of a country vibe. William’s powerful vocals, especially in “Now,” “Daydreaming” and closing track “Be Alone,” carry over the entire message of the album- Paramore is back and better than ever. The concluding track “Future” has a slower melody, almost as if to say “it’s not over just yet- there’s more to come.”

We all have at one time or another complained about how the school spirit at our school is particularly weak. We whine about how the turnout at events is poor, or how Bobcat pride pails in comparison to most of the big name schools. This past week, and the passionate festivities sur-rounding the performance of the men’s hockey team, was a turning point for QU, and proved that our school spirit does, in fact, exist.

From Quinnipiac’s three campuses, to the city of Hamden and all across the country, Quinnipiac fans of all ages, races and creeds geared up to support the men’s ice hockey team in their historic quest to attain the first NCAA championship in the school’s history. The Frozen Four was all anyone was talking about for the greater part of the week, #Fro-zenFour and #BeatYale were trending on Twitter for two days, and the school bookstore was selling QU gear at an alarming rate.

Students gathered en masse after the Frozen Four win over St. Cloud State, and though the team fell a bit short of their ultimate goal, losing against Yale in the final, they did achieve something that has arguably never been at this school. Sports fans and non-sports fans rallied behind their team, the Quinnipiac Bobcats, because it was more than just the game.

Though the fan reaction after the loss was questionable, it showed far more enthusiasm and dedication than QU has experienced before, and the sense of camaraderie is clear. Now that we know what our athletic teams are capable of with their hard work and our support, I think school spirit is here to stay.–H. Alegbeleye

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Justin Bieber may be overplayed in the world of media criticism, but with his latest remarks about this famous Holocaust victim he deserves nothing short of a good verbal lashing. The Biebs visited Anne Frank’s house last Friday in Amsterdam while on his Europe concert tour.

“Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber,” wrote Bieber in the Anne Frank House guestbook according to the tourist site’s Facebook page. “Anne was a great girl,” apparently Bieber knew Anne Frank person-ally.

At first, Bieber’s visit made him seem mature and interested in the historical site, but when he made that comment in the guestbook, it came off as if he didn’t like how all the attention was on Anne Frank.

This latest remark from the 19-year-old pop-star is only one in a series of missteps that implies that the fame is getting to his head. Out of all the things he could have said, he decided to say that he hopes she would have been a belieber. Apparently just signing his name in the guestbook wasn’t enough for him.

Though representatives for the Anne Frank house claim to appreci-ate Bieber’s visit, social media went crazy over the comment. Though many hardcore Beliebers stand behind his words, others online were calling Bieber “a little idiot” and “way too into himself,” according to Huffington Post. The facebook post about Beiber’s visit had more than 2,800 comments, most coming from people who criticized him for not having respect for the historical figure. –S. Harris

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No Justice for JusticeSeveral semi-racy pictures were recently posted online of Nick-elodeon star Victoria Justice. The actress tweeted at the web-site that posted the pictures, “@oceanup I would never post a picture of myself like that. I’m not taking this lightly & I will find out who stole my private property.” Hopefully, Victoria will soon get her justice.

DeGeneres and De Rossi Don’t Want kidsEllen DeGeneres and partner Portia De Rossi recently said in an interview that they do not wish to have children. De Rossi simply stated “You have to re-ally want to have kids, and nei-ther of us did.” They say that they are both very content being married to their best friend, and being a family-of-two suitsthem just fine.

Aubrey Plaza Pulls a kanyeAt Sunday night’s MTV Movie Awards, Aubrey Plaza made an unexpected appearance at center stage. The “Parks and Recre-ation” star stormed the stage, in-terrupting Will Ferrell’s accep-tance speech for the Comedic Genius prize. The awkward sit-uation consisted of Plaza, drink in hand, quietly attempting to snipe the award from Ferrell’s hands, before sitting back in her seat laughing. The stunt was a promotional ploy for Plaza’s new movie “The To Do List”, but it fell flat for audiences, and the show’s management failed to see the humor in it, who asked the actress to leave the facilities.

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lip sync. This year, the challenges incorporat-ed the Greek Week theme of Dr. Seuss.

Greek Week also has a philanthropic as-pect. On Wednesday, Greek life held a day of service for Special Olympics of Connecti-cut. The organizations also raised more than $2,700 for Special Olympics of Connecticut through Penny Wars.

For Kappa Alpha Theta member Chelsey Gibson, the purpose of Greek Week is to bring the fraternities and sororities together.

“I think it is just reinforcing our connec-tion as PanHellenic sisters and not just as sisters, [but] as Greek as a whole, including all the brothers,” she said. “Even though it is friendly competition, we’re all at the same event. We’re all cheering each other on.”

Greek members came to cheer each other on at God and Goddess Thursday night, where a member from each fraternity and soror-ity competed to become Greek God or Greek Goddess. The representatives had to dress up as a character from Dr. Seuss, create a toga that symbolized Greek unity, perform a talent and answer a randomly picked question.

Senior Nicholas Frias of Pi Kappa Phi was crowned Greek God, while senior Janelle van Luling of Alpha Delta Pi won Greek Goddess.

“I never come into this thinking I’m going to win,” Frias said. “I just kind of go out and give it my best and if the crowd likes it that’s awesome. It feels great to have the honor to be Greek God this year. I’m happy to do my fraternity proud and I hope I make the whole interfraternal and PanHellenic council proud as well.”

Frias believes it was the talent portion of the competition that won him Greek God. Frias began by doing a comedic routine, but then got the crowd laughing harder when he broke out into a dance to Tina Turner’s “Rol-lin’ on the River.”

“Usually I do stand-up comedy for this

type of stuff so that’s why I started with one joke,” he said. “I really wanted to throw them off. I figured what better way than to do a re-ally high energy high level dance and I thought Tina Turner was perfect… I really think that got the crowd into it.”

Rather than dancing, Van Luling wrote a song about how she loves Greek life to the tune of “Cups” from the film “Pitch Perfect.” During her talent portion, Van Luling included her sorority sisters, who passed cups to each other while Van Luling sang.

“I knew that I needed to be creative and original,” Van Luling said. “I’m a senior so I just wanted to write a song about my experi-ence and how I’ve made a lot of friends in a lot of the Greek organizations. I didn’t want it to be just about me or just about A-D-Pi. I just wanted to make it about Greek life here and to commemorate my years in Greek life.”

Greek Week culminated Friday evening with the lip sync event where members of each fraternity and sorority danced and lip synced to several songs each. Delta Tau Delta came in second place, Kappa Alpha Theta took third place and Alpha Delta Pi came in fourth. Pi Beta Phi won first place.

Pi Beta Phi lip synced to various songs including T.I. and Justin Timberlake’s “Dead and Gone” and Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.”

Sophomore Leah Furrey’s favorite part of participating in the event was dancing to “Thriller.”

“[During ‘Thriller’] we all come together and we show how strong we are as a chapter,” Furrey said. “Not a lot of people know about that and believe in that so I love how we pull that off and everyone was just mind blown when we got out of it.”

This performance pumped up the crowd and contributed to Pi Beta Phi’s first place win, which freshman Rachael Cox was excited about.

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Alpha Delta Pi’s Janelle van Luling and Pi Kappa Phi’s Nick Frias won Greek God and Goddess, respectively, on Thursday night in TD Bank Sports Center.

ters up there, putting their all into something that was just fabulous to see, especially since

we are a new chapter,” she said. “It is only our second year. It was crazy to win already.”

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The Quinnipiac women’s rugby team is headed to the 2013 Emirates Airline USA Rugby Women’s Col-legiate Semifinals where it will play Winona State in Stanford, Calif., on Friday, May 3. The game will be hosted at Steuber Rugby Stadium at Stanford.

Quinnipiac defeated Lee in the round of 16 on Saturday by a final score of 25-20, then proceeded to down Appalachian State, 22-10.

With the two wins, Quinnipiac is now a perfect 14-0 on the sea-son. The winner of the Quinnipiac vs. Winona State game will take on the winner of the other quarterfinal game, Buffalo vs. Washington State, on May 4.

Freshman Natalie Kosko and sophomore Elisa Cuellar led the Bobcats offensive attack in Satur-day’s victory. They both had two tries for a total of 20 points.

The Bobcats got a balanced ef-fort on Sunday, as four players crossed the goal line once. Elena Or-lando, Raechel Stimson, Kosko and Cuellar each had one try.

Kosko was one of three players on the team selected to the Tri-State All-Conference Team. The other two members were Megan Hannemann and Stimson. Kosko competed with the USA women’s rugby national team this past winter.

Quinnipiac has now defeated its opponents by the combined score of 684-72 this season. The Bob-cats are only one of three Division I women’s rugby programs in the country.

In just the second year of the program, the team has reached un-precedented heights. Last year, the team finished 3-6-1, but this year, the Bobcats dominated the Tri-State Conference. Now, they are aiming to do the same in the national tourna-ment.

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Former Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey goaltender and 2012-13 All-American Eric Hartzell has signed a one-year, entry-level deal with the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins. The contract runs through the end of the 2012-13 season, and will pay the netminder $925,000.

Hartzell started 42 of 43 games for Quinnipiac this season, posting a 1.57 goals against average and a .933 save percentage, finishing as a top-three finalist for the Hobey Bak-er Memorial Award. Hartzell’s goals against average was third NCAA-wide. The senior also led the country in wins with 30.

“We are so proud of Eric and

everything he has accomplished at Quinnipiac University,” Quinnipiac head coach Rand Pecknold said. “His signing with the Pittsburgh Penguins is a dream come true. We wish him all the best as he moves on to the NHL.”

League-wise, Hartzell was cred-ited with ECAC Hockey Player and Goalie of the Year, as well as being named to the All-ECAC Hockey First Team.

In four seasons with the Bobcats, the goaltender averaged a 1.96 goals against average, as well as a .924 save percentage, which are both

program records. Hartzell tacked on 58 wins during his Hamden career, second in program history.

At numerous times this season, Pecknold said he believed Hartzell was the best player in college hock-ey. Hartzell recorded 10 shutouts in his career, five of them coming this season.

Saturday, Hartzell and Quinnipi-ac fell in the national championship to Yale by a final score of 4-0. In the semifinal game against St. Cloud State, Hartzell turned away 33 of 34 shots en route to a 4-1 victory.

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Quinnipiac goaltender Eric Hartzell signed with the Pittsburgh Pen-guins after helping lead the Bobcats to their first National Champion-ship game in program history.

In the world of college sports, walk-on athletes are fairly com-mon. What isn’t common, however, is a walk-on who becomes a pivotal player, a captain and a leader.

And that is exactly what Bren-dan Wilbur has done for the Quin-nipiac men’s lacrosse team.

After finishing with 20 points last year, the Quinnipiac men’s lacrosse forward already has 23 points with two games remaining. This past Saturday against Sacred Heart, Wilbur had two goals and two assists. This wasn’t always the case for the senior, however.

“I think it’s an interesting sto-ry,” Quinnipiac head coach Eric Fekete said. “Freshman year, Bren-dan didn’t touch the field much at all. The beginning of his sopho-more year was much of the same.”

Then came the mid-season con-ference game against Northeast Conference opponent Bryant Uni-versity.

“We were being shut down pret-ty well, so I looked at my coaching staff and said, ‘Let’s get the fastest lineup out there, get Wilbur in,’” Fekete said. “He had two goals that day, and ever since he has been a big part of our team.”

Since that game during his sophomore year, Wilbur has gotten the playing time that has allowed him to ascend a the leadership role, mentoring the younger talent on Quinnipiac.

“I think it just comes with work-ing hard,” Wilbur said. “Each year

you have the opportunity to build on the last. You see the points in-crease every year, and it shows that the hard work ultimately pays off.”

For best friend, roommate, and fellow senior teammate Jay Binkowski, it’s easy to see how Wilbur has claimed such a large role within the team. He leads by example.

“He comes to work every day and always puts in 100 percent,” Binkowski said. “It doesn’t matter if he’s hurt or not, he always pushes through it. That sets a good exam-ple for everyone else.”

Wilbur’s growth has impacted his teammates as well. Though he sets a good example for the young-er players now, his peers have had a large impact on his development over the years to help achieve his status.

“If I make a mistake, they get on me and tell me ‘you can’t do that,’” Wilbur said. “Everything I’ve done personally really comes from the guys pushing me, and that’s how I’ve gotten to this point.”

Wilbur also gives the coaching staff a large portion of the credit for what he has been able to accom-plish during his Bobcat tenure.

“The coaches really hold a high standard for us,” Wilbur said. “They just want what’s best for us and best for the team, and they know how to make us better.”

Wilbur’s work ethic and relent-lessness make him a player coaches anywhere covet.

“Brendan has the intangibles you look for in every player,”

Fekete said. “He’s very competi-tive, his will to win is very strong, and that’s what makes winners.”

Listed at just 5-foot-8, as well as only one of two 160-pound play-ers, Wilbur has never let his size stop him in such a physical sport.

“He’s undersized, but his will to compete and play outmatches that every time,” Fekete said.

One of the largest signs of suc-cess Wilbur and his teammates have left thus far at Quinnipiac is the No. 20 overall ranking in the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse As-sociation Poll. Back on March 4, the squad became the first to do so in program history.

“The thing about Quinnipiac is that we are a small school, but you can see the growth lately,” Wilbur said. “The athletics department is really trying to get us on the map. To get recognized in a ranking like that is very motivating.”

With only two regular season games left for Wilbur and the fel-low seniors on the team, the goal still remains as it was day one.

“We’re all here for the bigger purpose of winning a conference championship and making it to the NCAA tournament,” Binkowski said. “A lot of that drives turns over onto the field, and Brendan is a big part of that.”

“We know what we have to do, and what stands in front of us,” Wilbur explained. “We just need to refocus and approach it one game at a time. We’re just working towards our ultimate goal of winning an NEC championship.

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Quinnipiac head coach Rand Pecknold knew his rival had changed. Even after three wins against them this season, Yale was a dif-ferent team heading to the national champi-onship game.

The team and its goalie got hot at the right time, which is key to a deep playoff run.

On top of being hot, it has been said that beating a team four times is extremely hard to do.

And so, just like the Notre Dame wom-en’s basketball team, the Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey team fell to its rival in the national championship by a score of 4-0.

“We’re devastated,” Pecknold said. “I’m proud of my guys. We weren’t perfect through two periods, but we played well enough.”

Quinnipiac goalie Eric Hartzell, who al-lowed three goals on the night, which was as many as he had allowed against Yale in the previous three games, agreed that it is very hard to beat a team four times in one season.

“It’s not like we didn’t play our hardest,” Hartzell said. “We worked hard and played hard. They were the better team tonight, but that’s the game of hockey.”

The first time the Bobcats met the Bull-dogs this season, they were without starting goaltender Jeff Malcolm, who was injured following a collision in a game on Feb. 1 against Princeton.

The second game as well, the Bulldogs fell to the Bobcats without their senior start-ing goaltender.

In the most recent meeting, both teams said that it wasn’t the game they wished to be playing in, that being the ECAC tourna-ment consolation game. Although Malcolm returned on Feb. 23 against Princeton, the Bobcats won 3-0.

Malcolm however wasn’t ready for the Bobcat beatdown to end his college career. Instead, Malcolm had one of the best games of his life turning in a shutout in the nation-

al championship game to give the Bulldogs their first title.

“That’s the best I’ve ever seen him play,” Pecknold said on Malcolm’s performance. “He’s been kind of streaky in his career; he gets on runs.”

The Yale goalie stopped all 36 shots he faced, including two breakaways by Jordan Samuels-Thomas and Matthew Peca early in the second period.

“He’s been our rock all season,” Yale for-ward Kenny Agostino said. “Our team has had its ebbs and flows all year but no ques-tion he has been consistent all season. He went down with an injury for a little bit but he’s bounced back bigger than ever and was unbelievable tonight.”

With the win, Yale became the first team to ever defeat three No. 1 seeds on the way to winning the title. The Bulldogs knocked off second-ranked Minnesota 3-2 in over-time. They then faced North Dakota and beat them 4-1, with three goals coming in the third period. Yale then faced No. 3 over-all seed UMass Lowell in the semifinals and topped the River Hawks, 3-2, in over-time. Then came the national championship against No. 1 overall seed Quinnipiac Satur-day, in which the Bulldogs put up four goals against the nation’s best offense.

Although Hartzell allowed three goals on the night, the Bobcats were shutout for just the third time all season. Prior to being shut-out by Brown, 4-0, in the ECAC quarterfi-nals, Quinnipiac had gone 34 games in a row in which it scored at least one goal.

“He’s been our best player all season,” Peca said. “He’s probably the biggest reason we’re here. He didn’t play bad but that’s just the way hockey goes. In a game like that we have to bail him out and we didn’t.”

The Bobcats will graduate 11 seniors in May including four defenseman, Langlois and Hartzell. However they will bring back a key core of players including Peca, Samuels-Thomas, Connor and Kellen Jones and defen-seman Danny Federico.

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The Quinnipiac softball team headed into Saturday’s conference doubleheader at Wagner riding a three-game win streak, its longest of the season.

The Bobcats proceeded to win four in a row this past weekend, extending their streak to seven games. In doing so, they improved their record this season to 14-23, 7-3 in Northeast Conference play.

Saturday was full of dramatic late-inning rallies for Quinnipiac, who won the first game 6-4 and the second 6-5.

Sophomore Hannah Lindsley pitched a complete game against the Seahawks on Saturday for Quinnipiac’s first win of the week-end. She went all seven innings, gave up two earned runs and struck out two. With the victory, her re-cord improved to 4-8 on the year.

After trailing 4-0 through the first five innings, Jordan Paolucci got the Bobcats on the board with a three-run home run to cut the defi-cit to one. Then, in the top of the sixth inning, Kortney Kesses hom-ered to knot the game at 4.

Alex Alba and Nikki Barba each drove in a run later that in-ning to give the Bobcats a two-run lead which they held onto for the win.

Game 2 was much of the same for Quinnipiac, who had to again

rely on some late-inning heroics to pull out a victory.

Leadoff hitter Courtney Solt grounded to the shortstop who made an error in the top of the sixth inning, scoring two runs to give the Bobcats a 6-4 lead. They would hold on by only giving up a single run in the bottom half of the sixth, and blanking Wagner in the seventh.

Freshman pitcher Sydney Robey got the win, going all seven innings. She gave up eight hits, five earned runs and struck out two to improve her record to 6-4.

In Game 1 Sunday against Sa-cred Heart, Quinnipiac pushed the winning streak to six games. Led by Nicole Gubellini and Sydney Robey’s combined shutout, the Bobcats won 6-0. Together the two only gave up four hits and struck out seven.

Abby Johnson led the way by going two for three with three RBIs and a home run.

The Bobcats won the second game on Sunday with yet another late game push.

After Solt doubled in the game-tying run in the top half of the sev-enth inning, she was driven in by a Lauren Salgado single to give Quinnipiac the one run lead.

Robey pitched in her third game of the weekend, going all seven in-nings. She gave up only three runs on six hits, striking out three.

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Sydney Robey tossed 11.1 innings Saturday and Sunday, giving up five earned runs and 11 hits.

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Men’s lacrosse wins in 3otJust days after being routed

18-8 by Ivy League foe Harvard, the Quinnipiac men’s lacrosse team won 13-12 in a thrilling triple-over-time matchup over Northeast Con-ference rival Sacred Heart. Sopho-more and Bobcat leading scorer Michael Sagl netted the game win-ner in triple overtime.

After two overtimes, with the score still deadlocked at 12, Sagl ri-fled a shot past Sacred Heart goalie Jon Flood 2:12 into the third over-time.

“I’m fine where we are right now,” Quinnipiac head coach Eric Fekete said confidently describing the team. “Our goal all along has been to be one of the top four teams in the NEC and then string two games together in the playoffs.”

The Bobcats (5-6, 2-1 NEC) move into a tie for second with

Sacred Heart, but own the head-to-head tiebreaker with the win. Quin-nipiac remains one game behind conference-leading Bryant, who is 3-0 in NEC play. The top four teams make the NEC playoffs, with the winner of the postseason tour-nament earning an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

Sagl, Brendan Wilbur and Matt Diehl each recorded three or more points. Sagl scored a hat trick while Wilbur finished with four points on two goals and two assists. Diehl tallied two goals and an assists for three points.

The Pioneers (2-9, 2-1 NEC) were led by Cody Marquis who tal-lied a game-high seven points with a career-high five goals and added two helpers. Matt King and Matt Gannon each had five points on the night.

Trailing 11-9 going into the fourth quarter, Quinnipiac needed

to come back from a deficit twice in the final frame. Wilbur scored his second of the game on the man-advantage to cut the deficit to one. Kostaras tied the game at 11 with his 15th goal of the season.

Matt Gannon scored his only goal of the game on the man-advan-tage to give the Pioneers, a 12-11 lead, but Sagl found the back of the cage again. Diehl fed a pass to Sagl, who charged through the slot and rifled a shot past Hood to knot the game at 12 with 5:36 left in regula-tion. The Bobcats had two chances in the final minute, but a shot by Wilbur was denied by Flood and Sagl’s shot was just wide.

Both offenses had few chances in the two overtime periods before Sagl netted the game-winner just two minutes into the third over-time. King had two chances to seal the win for Sacred Heart in the first overtime, but had a shot saved and

a shot rang off the post. Wilbur had a shot saved by Flood in the final 30 seconds of the first overtime. The Pioneers had a chance to win the game with an extra-man oppor-tunity in the final 31 seconds, as Quinnipiac was penalized 30 sec-onds for offsides, but a shot on the doorstep by Mike Mawdsly went wide.

Quinnipiac won the ensuing fa-ceoff to start the third overtime. Pat Corcoran had a shot blocked, lead-ing Flood to scoop up the ground-ball and start the Pioneers clear. Sa-cred Heart turned the ball over and Sagl scored as he dodged to the net and deposited the game-winner.

Quinnipiac resumes Northeast Conference play on Saturday with its final home game of the regular season. The Bobcats host Wagner College Saturday at noon on Se-nior day at the QU Lacrosse Turf Field.

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entire season.Students reciprocated his ef-

forts chanting, “Hobey Baker,” af-ter every dive and glove-save as he guarded the 24-square foot open-ing, consistently keeping his team in the game.

Although Hartzell didn’t win the player of the year award, he is the first player on the team that won the most games this season to sign an NHL contract as the Pittsburgh Penguins signed the top goalie in the nation the day after

his season ended.It’s times like these you be-

come grateful for witnessing future NHL player Matthew Peca dangle the Union defense playing the role of a magician with his stick as his wand, scoring a natural hat trick in 3 minutes and 12 seconds to ad-vance his team to the Frozen Four.

To think the 11 seniors on the team had come this far after hav-ing a historic collapse in the sec-ond half of their freshman season helps you grasp the beauty sports bring with various types of ups and downs over a season or career.

The seniors, with the help of Pecknold and the rest of the team, made it to the national champion-ship game within the first 10 years of the school playing in Division I. They brought a program that used to play its games in a youth hockey rink to a professional and astonish-ing arena and paved a legacy for the 17 other teammates, incoming freshman and teams of the future.

Before this season, Quinnipiac had only been to one NCAA tour-nament coming in 2002 and nev-er won a game but look how far they’ve come.

Perhaps the most underestimat-ed core of the team was the way that Pecknold and his players re-mained calm, poised and humbled the entire season even after the toughest loss of their lives. Cap-tain Zack Currie faced the media after the loss to Yale and still had the pride and dignity that he led the team with the entire season

Be proud, thankful and grate-ful for the the 28 men and their coaching staff for an unimaginable season in which they shocked the world and brought a new status of what it means to be a Bobcat.

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In a season of firsts and shat-tered records, the Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey team made it to the Frozen Four and national championship game. Here, it was able to experience a well deserved weekend in the national spotlight of the Steel City and culminated a season students will never forget.

After the win over St. Cloud State in the semifinal, Quinnipiac had put itself on the biggest stage in college hockey and needed just one win to be crowned champions of its sport.

Following the final whistle of the 4-1 victory, the speakers at the CONSOL Energy Center blasted out:

“It’s times like these you learn to live again

It’s times like these you give and give again

It’s times like these you learn to love again

It’s times like these time and time again.”

This of course, is the chorus of “Times Like These,” a song written by Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters. At the time, the team most likely didn’t notice what song was play-ing as their adrenaline had their hearts pumping at 150 percent.

But after falling short in the final 21 minutes of the national championship game to Yale, the song is indicative of Quinnipiac’s season.

It’s times like these that you look back and begin to appreciate just how far the men on the 2012-

13 roster brought everything that is Quinnipiac.

Rewind to the night of Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. Quinnipiac had lost to American International, a team that finished 12-17-6, and was faced with a 3-3-1 record of their own. Most fans probably wouldn’t have thought the team would play for the national championship on April 13.

The mantra of the team, how-ever, never changed from the time they first began practicing. They knew they were good enough to beat anybody and they would be playing for the title more than six months later.

They then proved this to the world as they climbed the national rankings through November and December and continued to pro-

duce sellout crowds. Everyone wanted to see this Quinnipiac team play no matter the opponent.

With the wins came the me-dia attention, as head coach Rand Pecknold and his team were ham-mered with daily interviews. The attendance and interview requests got to an unimaginable amount when the team was ranked No. 1 in the USCHO.com and USA Today

polls for the first time ever on Feb. 11, with a record of 21-3-4. At this time, the Bobcats had rallied off 18 games in a row without a loss, which was eventually brought to a program record and longest streak by any team this season when it hit 21 on Feb. 9.

It’s times like these you re-member the players who weren’t stars but stepped up in times of de-spair and became legends.

Take Kevin Bui for example. A fifth-year senior who will turn 26 next week was cut from the team during his sophomore season after Pecknold lost one of his scholar-ships due to Title IX. Bui wasn’t able to play but because of that, he still had a year of eligibility left which allowed him to play on this team and be a part of the magical run. The fourth-line forward had a few moments in the spotlight, but none more important than his dou-ble-overtime goal against Cornell in game 3 of the ECAC quarter-finals which sent his squad to At-lantic City and capped off the most historic day in the six-year history of the TD Bank Sports Center..

It’s times like these you re-member yourself dressed in Bob-cat gold hailing the 6-foot-4 inch All-American between the pipes.

The season senior Eric Hartzell put together was magnificent. His play in net this season not only broke records but brought happi-ness, cheer and a sense of security to his defense as well as fans the

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yale shocks Quinnipiac on national stage

Championship run yields unforgettable memories

The Quinnipiac men’s ice hock-ey team was supposed to have a sto-rybook ending.

A 21-game unbeaten streak, the No. 1 PairWise rating, and a trip to Pittsburgh for the Frozen Four were highlights of the 2012-13 season.

Battling a squad in the 2013 NCAA National Championship that Quinnipiac outscored 13-3 on the season, the Bobcats were unable to nail down the final victory. In front of a crowd of 18,184 at the CON-SOL Energy Center, Yale blanked Quinnipiac on Saturday, 4-0, win-ning the national title for the first time in its history.

“We’re devastated,” Quinnipiac head coach Rand Pecknold said, vis-ibly upset. “It was a great year, and this wasn’t the way it was supposed

to end. I’m proud of my guys, I re-ally couldn’t ask for a better group.”

The win cements Yale’s spot in the record books, as the Bulldogs are the first team since 1966 to win the national championship while finish-ing with less than 23 overall victo-ries.

Yale goaltender Jeff Malcolm, who started against Quinnipiac only once this year, stopped all 36 shots, a season-high for his third shutout of the season.

“Malcolm was the best player on the ice,” Pecknold said. “He won that game for them.”

“He had a great game,” captain Zack Currie said. “He showed up in his big moment, and he played extremely well when he needed to, made the saves he needed to.”

There was no score until 19:56 of the second period, when Yale lit

the lamp going into the second inter-mission. Before tonight, a national championship game had not gone scoreless for that long since 1968.

With time ticking off the clock in the second period, Eric Hartzell attempted to clear the puck from the Quinnipiac defensive zone. Gus Young collected and set up at the left point, before putting a soft wrist shot on Hartzell. Clinton Bourbo-nais then stood in traffic at the left dot, deflecting Young’s shot across the crease for the one-goal lead after 40 minutes.

“It was just a fluky goal. That’s what happens when you get pucks to the net, weird bounces happen,” Hartzell said. “I didn’t really see the shot.”

Yale continued to add to its lead early in the third, seizing control of the game. Charles Orzetti skated up

the far side wing, firing a shot on Hartzell. Orzetti corralled his own rebound, snapping another shot through Hartzell’s legs for 2-0 ad-vantage.

Midway through the third, Yale captain Andrew Miller took notice of an unaware Quinnipiac defense. Using speed, Miller caught the de-fense out of position, skating onto a breakaway. Miller then wristed a shot again through the five-hole, padding Yale’s lead.

With 7:19 remaining in regu-lation, Quinnipiac decided to pull Hartzell for the extra attacker. Jes-se Root followed with the dagger, grabbing the empty-netter just 21 seconds later.

“It’s very tough. I think if this was a best-of-seven series it might be different,” Hartzell said on beat-ing a team four times in one season.

“College hockey is one and you’re done and they were the better team tonight.”

Malcolm came up with two stops on Quinnipiac breakaways early in the second. Matthew Peca crossed over Gus Young in the of-fensive zone, only to be stuffed by Malcolm’s left pad. Later, Malcolm stoned Samuels-Thomas with his right shoulder when the junior was in alone.

“I think we could have got more pucks to the net. He had a great game,” Peca said on Malcolm’s play. “That’s just the way it goes. They got bounces for their goals and we didn’t.”

“I think we were the best team in college hockey, and unfortunately we didn’t prove it tonight,” Pec-knold said. “You’ve got to give Yale credit for that.”

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Jordan Samuels-Thomas celebrates after scoring just 1:49 into regulation against St. Cloud State in the national semifinals.

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