Issue 18, Volume 82

QUChronicle.com February 20, 2013 Volume 82 Issue 18 Proud recipient of the New England Society of Newspaper Editors' award for 2012 College Newspaper of the Year

Arts & Life Find out the spring concert opening act, page 7

opinion Pros/cons of selling tickets, page 5

Sports Trophy time, page 11

HOTTEST TICKET ON ICE Quinnipiac/Yale student tickets sell out within minutes By MATT EISENBERG Managing Editor

Last year, junior Jordan Katz sat at his computer at 9:45 p.m., waiting for the clock to strike 10. Once it did, he made one click and earned one of the most coveted tickets for Quinnipiac students: the Yale game. “I make sure that the ticket is mine,” Katz said. “I had my ticket within 30 seconds.” The Quinnipiac vs. Yale men’s ice hockey game is always one of the most sought-after tickets out of every Quinnipiac sporting event. To the public, the game usually sells out by Thanksgiving or Christmas. This year, it sold out in October, according to Eric Grgurich, executive director of the TD Bank Sports Center. “Everyone wants to know when the date is when our schedule comes out,” Grgurich said. “They start buying tickets right away.” In years past, students would wait in either the student center or in front of the Bank to get a ticket.

But over the past few years, the TD Bank Sports Center staff changed its system to allow students to get their free ticket online. Tickets went on sale Monday at 10 p.m., and by 10:05, the game was completely sold out, according to Group Ticket Sales and Promotions Manager Dave Caprio. “It’s the biggest game we anticipate each year with all the student involvement and interest,” Ticket Manager Matt Calcagni said. “We know it’s the first question on anybody’s mind going into it.” Student tickets to last year’s game sold out almost immediately, and tickets to this year’s game went even faster. The staff awarded 100 fans, who attended the most games, free tickets so they did not have to go through the process of waiting for a ticket online. There have been people waiting outside the arena to try and scalp See tickets Page 14

StubHub!! ticket prices *as of 2 p.m. Tuesday

Cheapest ticket: $79.00 Average ticket cost: $109.54 Most expensive ticket: $154.00

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Student tickets for all Quinnipiac home sporting events are free, while the average ticket price for Friday night’s men’s ice hockey game vs. Yale is more than $100.

Nemo tests Chartwells By CAROLINE MOSES Staff Writer

Following the university’s alert that school and campus would be closed from Feb. 8 until Feb. 12, Chartwells had no choice but to remain open and serve its customers. Knowing that the students had no other alternative for food, Chartwells knew that they must make do with what they had, and what they could provide during the storm. “Prior to the storm, all our vendors were contacted to ensure there would be food deliveries,” Leean Spalding, associate director of dining services for Chartwells said. “In anticipation of the storm, there was extra food ordered on Friday for the weekend.” However, this was not enough to subsidize daily deliveries, and caused several stations to be unable to open every day and serve the numbers they needed to serve. This also caused the staff to quickly alter the opening hours for both Café Q and the Bobcat Den, in hopes of still being able to serve the See CHARTWELLs Page 3

25 students per semester sent on leave of absence By ANDY LANDOLFI Staff Writer

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Quinnipiac University’s School of Law is projected to move to the North Haven campus by the summer of 2014, which will affect many current law students and those who plan to attend in the next few years. In the State of the QUnion address on Jan. 30, President John Lahey detailed the university’s plans to move the law school to the North Haven campus. By the fall 2014 semester, both Lahey and Senior Vice President for Academic & Student Affairs Mark Thompson are confident that the current law school will be vacated

and ready to use for undergraduate classes. “There are a couple of reasons that we decided to make the move,” Thompson said. “We’re developing the North Haven campus to be primarily a graduate campus, and to leave the Law School on Mount Carmel wouldn’t be as effective.” Construction will most likely begin this summer once the medical school construction is completed, according to Thompson. The focus will then shift to renovating an existing building on the North Haven campus, Building 3, for the law school. “The current law school building is as large as three Echlin Centers,”

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Thompson said. “We need that space for so many other undergraduate programs right now, and also for faculty office space. There is no shortage of needs. It’s just figuring out how the space will be utilized.” In addition to creating more space for undergraduate classes, the move may also relieve the parking situation on the Mount Carmel campus. “Parking on the Mount Carmel campus will definitely become easier. There’s no question about that,” Thompson said. “Most of the current law school classes are day classes. There are just under 400 law stuSee LAW SCHOOL Page 3

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Quinnipiac University’s School of Law classes are expected to move to the North Haven campus by 2014. The School of Law’s current Mount Carmel building would be used for undergraduate classes.

Every semester approximately 25 students within the Quinnipiac student body are placed on medical leaves of absence for both physical and mental health-related issues after meeting certain criteria, Director of Emergency Management John Twining said. The leaves are either voluntary or mandatory. According to Associate Vice President for Student Services Carol Boucher, the number of students who return from these medical leaves of absence has been going up. “The ones who understand and accept it and embrace [their health problem], a lot of them come back,” Boucher said. Over the past few years, the school has seen a significant increase in the number of students who have been placed on medical leaves, Boucher said. She also said the number of students who use the school counselors, but are not placed on medical leave, is much higher than one might imagine. She went on to say that the trend is not capable of being taken at just face value. “Now does that mean we have more problems or are we doing a better job? I think probably both,” Boucher said.

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The university runs a program called the Preemptive Assessment Team (PAT), which is dedicated to locating students who may be having mental health-related issues. The program is designed to locate students and then send them to find the proper help. This help may entail counseling at the Student Health Services or an evaluation by the school psychiatrist. “We try not to let anyone get lost in the shuffle,” Boucher said. While identifying students who need to be placed on medical leaves, Boucher has encountered both angry students and parents who disagree with her decisions. In addition to PAT, Boucher and Twining also offer classes for faculty that are designed to help faculty members understand the common symptoms of a mentally ill student. However, the classes are not mandatory and are only given when Boucher and Twining are invited by the faculty. According to the Quinnipiac Emergency Guide, some behaviors thought to be warning signs are changes in hygiene or appearance, excessive or unexplained absences and exhibition of intimidating or disruptive behavior. See MEDICAL LEAVES Page 3

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