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With Quinnipiac being in the small, mid-ma-jor Northeast Conference, it is not very often you will see a player from the NEC leading a major statistical category in the NCAA, especially with the season two-thirds of the way through.

But Felicia Barron is the exception.Barron leads the nation in steals per game

(4.57) and has 96 steals total this season. She is also tied for the most steals in a single game this season when she had 12 against Bryant on Dec. 3, which was the most for a single game in program history.

“It still hasn’t hit me yet,” Barron said. “I’m still trying to believe that. I’m very hum-ble, I just go out and try and play my game everyday. It’s just an amazing experience to get all these steals, so it’s a really good accom-plishment.”

Barron, a redshirt junior, has always con-sidered herself a defensive player. Last season as a sophomore she had a team-high 63 steals. She credits her aggressiveness on the defen-sive side of the ball and being blessed with long arms as the primary reasons for her suc-cess this season.

“I’m a very good on-ball defender. I’m good at anticipating where the ball goes,” Bar-ron said. “And I have long arms. So it helps me get a lot of steals.”

Barron’s time at Quinnipiac has not always been as smooth as this season. Barron did not play a full season until last year as a redshirt sophomore.

During her freshman year Barron only played in eight games before missing the re-mainder of the season with a knee injury.

The following year as a redshirt freshman, she only played in 11 games before having her

season end abruptly with another knee injury.“I’m not used to sitting on the bench,

I’m used to contributing to my team in every game,” Barron said. “This year I’m healthy, my knees are fine, I’m just back to my normal self that I was freshman year.”

This year is her first season playing without braces on her knees, and head coach Tricia Fab-bri said it has been a noticeable difference.

“She said in the summer time soon as she took the knee brace off she was so much fast-er,” Fabbri said. “To be able to be number one in the nation I don’t think that’s something you could ever predict. She came back even faster after those knee injuries.”

Barron’s impact goes beyond just her de-fensive performance. She is also an offensive threat for the Bobcats, averaging 17.6 points

per game, second in the conference.“She gives us a great opportunitiy to be

really opportunistic from defense into offense with really easy scores,” Fabbri said. “And her ability to score and shoot the ball as well as she does. We’re having a good year because she’s having a fantastic year. She’s really hav-ing a ‘Player of the Year’ type season.”

Barron has also been an integral part in shaping the Bobcats’ identity as a defensive-minded team.

In Saturday’s game vs. Wagner, Quinnipi-ac stole the ball on Wagner’s first four posses-sions, two of them by Barron, and scored eight points in the first 1:42.

Barron’s performance and leadership has also helped lead the Bobcats to a recent six-game winning streak and has them in second place in the NEC, just one game behind Sacred Heart.

“You need everybody rolling in the same direction,” Fabbri said. “With her, what she’s able to do on the floor we’re just following her defensive intensity. She’s such a tremendous lift for us and when she’s putting the ball in the bucket, we’re really tough to beat. When you have a player of that caliber able to go out and play so hard on both ends of the ball and be so productive it really makes it easy for ev-erybody to follow and really fire up with her playing ability.”

While Barron is still waiting for it all to sink in that she is the NCAA leader in steals per game, her focus remains on one thing: making the NCAA tournament.

“We have great team chemistry this year,” Barron said. “Our defense is better than years before. That’s how we win our games. We start with defense first and the offense will come to us. If our defense is down pat we’ll win every game by 30.”

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In the first period of Quinnipiac’s season-opening exhibition against Acadia on Oct. 2, Rand Pecknold found Jake Whiting sitting at the end of the bench and told the goalie to go warm up in the tunnel.

“I was just ‘uh, uh okay.’ I wasn’t really thinking at all,” Whit-ing said. “Slide down the bench and everyone’s starting to tap me on the pads, and I just kind of got psyched up for it.”

And with 4:50 left in the first, Whiting, a senior, relieved starter Dan Clarke for his first appearance in a game since high school.

That’s when things got interest-ing. With the faceoff at the opposite end of the ice, Whiting was still ab-sorbing the atmosphere in the arena. Just then, Acadia broke up ice on a breakaway.

“I thought ‘Oh god. We threw Jake into the fire,’” Pecknold said.

But the Acadia skater was tripped by a Bobcat on his way to-

ward Whiting and never got a shot off.

“I was praying it wasn’t going to be a penalty shot,” Whiting said.

Whiting would go on to stop all five shots he faced in the pe-riod. Clarke would go back in net to start the second, but for Whiting, that 4:50 on the ice was more than enough.

“My parents were there, a few of my roommates were there. Boys were going nuts on the bench,” Whiting said. “It was an unbeliev-

able feeling to feel that atmosphere and feel that support.”

Whiting spent his freshman and sophomore years as the team man-ager before joining the Bobcats as the fourth goalie his junior year.

This season, Whiting is back with the team. He wears the number 29 and is the third goalie behind Eric Hartzell and Clarke. But for a kid who thought his playing career was done, it’s a dream come true.

“For two years, hockey was purely the business side of it for me.

And I was okay with that,” Whiting said. “But when I had that first con-versation with Rand junior year, I was just blown away. I can’t be more grateful for the opportunity.”

Prior to this season, Whiting had dressed for just one game. This season, Whiting has dressed for ev-ery home game and has appeared in two games (against Acadia and Canisius). He’s stopped all five shots he has seen in 8:31 of action.

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Quinnipiac guard Felicia Barron, the country’s leader in steals, takes the ball away from Mount St. Mary’s Jessie Kaufman in the first half of Monday’s game. Below is the time lapse of the steal.

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4 ConseCutive home runs the softball team hit vs. saCred

heart in the first inning of game one on sunday, tying the nCaa reCord.

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matt diehlDiehl had six points, including five goals and an assist against NEC preseason favorite and reigning conference champion Mount St. Mary’s this past weekend. Diehl earned his first NEC Player and Rookie of the Week honors. He marked career-highs in both goals and points in 12-8 victory over Mount St. Mary’s. He has now scored at least one goal and tallied two or more points in his last four games, a stretch in which the Bobcats have gone 2-2 as a team.

In a double-header this Sunday against Sacred Heart, Duffy went 4-for-7 and recorded a team-high five RBIs, with two runs scored and two home runs. One of her home runs was part of an NCAA-tying record of four consecutive home runs by a team. Duffy currently leads the team in home runs with five and RBIs with 19.

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Clockwise from top left: Alex Alba drives a three-run home run to left field in the first inning of Sunday’s game vs. Sacred Heart; cleanup hitter Mina Duffy lines a solo home run to left field; designated player Katie Alfiere rounds the bases after hitting her first-career home run in the first inning; freshman Nikki Barba hits a home run right after Alfiere to give the Bobcats their fourth straight home run, which tied an NCAA record.

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Clockwise from top left: Senior Pat MacLellan celebrates after the game; senior Ross McMahon celebrates with teammate Jimmy Cappadoro after a try; senior Johnson Chu tackles an opposing player; junior Marc Villalongue dives for a loose ball; fans who stood behind the intramural field cheer for New Blue before the game; senior Matt Freund is held by his teammates for a lineout.

Playing its first game at Quinnipiac University in more than 10 years, New Blue Rugby, unaffiliated with the university but comprised of all Quinnipiac students, defeated Western Connecticut State University, 48-7, on Saturday.

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For the eighth year in a row, the Quinnipiac women’s cross country team took home the Northeast Con-ference Championship, the longest consecutive conference title run in NEC history.

“Eight straight titles is incred-ible,” Quinnipiac head coach Caro-lyn Martin said. “It’s incredible to put that many championships to-gether in a row.”

Martin became the head coach in 2009 for both the men’s and wom-en’s cross country and track pro-grams, earning her fourth straight NEC Championship as a coach.

The Bobcats finished with a total of 46 points in the outing and were led by senior Becca White. White came in third overall with a time of 17:51.99 on the Bryant University course in Smithfield, R.I., her best time all season. The Bobcats will race in the NCAA Regionals on Friday.

“It is a really exciting feeling, being able to contribute and be a part of a team that has been able to win four NEC titles in the four years I have been here,” White said. “Ev-ery year we have come together as a team at the right time and I am so glad to have been a part of it and hope the tradition continues.”

White finished first overall at the 2010 NEC Championship, but was unable to compete in last season’s championship race due to injury. She placed second for the Bobcats and fourth overall in the NEC Champion-ship as a freshman in 2009, finishing behind teammate Morgan Roche, who placed third overall.

“Becca has had a challenging season,” Martin said. “She knew she had to pull through with at least a third place finish to help the team win. I was very proud of the way she battled for the team.”

Added White: “Individually the race could have gone better, but I was given instructions to break up Sacred Heart’s first and second runner and did what I was supposed to do.”

Quinnipiac fell to Sacred Heart in two events this season, at the Stony Brook Invitational on Sept. 1 and at the New England Champion-ships on Oct. 7.

“The women today had a great race. I couldn’t be happier,” Martin said. “We knew it was going to be close. Sacred Heart’s been a phenom-enal team all season, so we knew to-day we had to bring it on strong.”

Sacred Heart placed second at the event, just eight points behind Quinnipiac. This is the closest a sec-ond place team has come to defeat-ing the Bobcats during their eight straight NEC victories, excluding 2005 when Quinnipiac and Sacred Heart were named co-champions with 51 points.

“Every year Sacred Heart is the team to beat and in the end we were able to do it again,” White said. “Early in the season we raced Sacred Heart but never had our full team run against theirs.”

Jessica Soja, who finished sev-

enth overall, crossing the finish line at 18:19.81, came in second for the Bobcats. Less than six seconds later, Roche placed eighth at 18:25.06.

“Morgan Roche, who was injured early on in the season, came through for us today and really put down the place we needed from her,” Martin said. “All the women ran phenom-enally, I couldn’t be happier.”

Roche was the first Bobcat to cross the finish line at last season’s NEC Championship in Holmdel, N.J., and finished fifth overall.

Brianna Faust finished fourth at 18:29.10, rounding out the last of the All-Conference runners with White, Soja and Roche.

Faust’s time was her best all sea-son, falling just seconds behind a career best at the 2010 NEC Cham-pionship with a time of 18:20.6.

“Our depth really helped us,” Martin said. “Our four, five and six really put down the hammer and got to where they needed to be.”

Amanda Faust finished in 16th, while freshmen Tracy Campbell and Ashley Carle finished 21st and 23rd for the Bobcats, respectively.

“As a team, the race came to-gether just as we had hoped,” White

said. “The conference meet has al-ways really brought the team togeth-er and everyone knew what they had to do, especially the freshmen who were running in their first college conference meet but still ran really well despite potentially feeling pres-sure to win.”

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“We’ve made progress the last three weekends, but we’ve got a long way to go.”

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The Quinnipiac field hockey team clinched a berth in the Northeast Conference tourna-ment with wins in its final two games against Siena and Bryant this past weekend. The Bob-cats won their final two games by a combined

score of 8-0.The Bobcats will take on top-seeded Rider

University in the semifinals on Friday, while No. 2 Saint Francis (Pa.) will take on No. 3 Monmouth in the other semifinal matchup.

Last time Quinnipiac matched up with No. 1 Rider, the Bobcats handed the Broncs their

lone conference loss of the season by a score of 3-2 on Oct. 14. This was the first time Quin-nipiac had beaten Rider since 2006, and also ended Rider’s conference streak of 25 straight wins against NEC foes.

That game, Nicole Lewis recorded a game-high 11 saves, and Quinnipiac was helped with goals from Jess Rusin, Kristin Engelke. Lau-ren Ziminski who also added an assist.

The Bobcats come into the playoffs hot, having won eight of their last 10 games. The only two losses in that span came to the teams in the other semifinal matchup, Saint Francis (Pa.) and Monmouth.

Christa Romano comes into the game on a five-game point streak. Romano scored a goal in the game against Siena and added two more against Bryant.

Lewis recorded her third and fourth shut-outs of the season in the final weekend of the

season. She became the third goalkeeper in Quinnipiac’s history to win 30 games, but ac-cording to her, the final win helped this team achieve their goal.

“It feels great to get back to the NEC tour-nament and have another shot at the confer-ence title, which has been our goal all season,” Lewis said.

Quinnipiac has had a very successful sea-son and head coach Becca Main says the team has pride heading into the playoffs.

“There are three areas that have made us successful this season,” Main said. “First, our goalkeeping and the play of Nicole Lewis, who has been nothing short of amazing this year. Second, our junior class really bonded and was united throughout the season. Lastly, to have a freshman class buy-in so quick and dedicate themselves to their roles completed the whole package.”

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“It is a really exciting feeling, being able to contribute and be a part of a team that has been able to win four NEC titles in the four years I have been here. Every year we have come together as a team at the right time...”

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Senior Becca White finished third in the 2012 Northeast Conference Championships with a season-best time of 17:51.99.

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Goalkeeper Nicole Lewis makes a save in a game vs. Monmouth. Lewis has recorded a shutout in back-to-back games heading into the playoffs.

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Quinnipiac University Presi-dent John Lahey announced a new administrative position on Mon-day, Nov. 26.

Senior Vice President for Aca-demic & Student Affairs Mark Thompson will be promoted to the new position of executive vice president/provost, according to a memo sent by Lahey.

The change was made after Se-nior Vice President for Adminis-tration Richard Ferguson informed Lahey of his plans to retire after the academic year. The new posi-tion merges Thompson and Fergu-son’s current roles.

Thompson believes the merger will benefit students, enhancing Quinnipiac’s academic value.

“Every time you make a change like this it means opportunity,” Thompson said.“It gives a nice op-portunity to integrate things that weren’t integrated before, in ways that better serve students and con-tinue to increase the quality of the educational experience.”

Thompson’s new position makes him responsible for Aca-demic Affairs, Student Affairs, Ath-letics and Recreation, the Depart-ment of Public Safety, Facilities and Information Technology. He plans to use these departments to-gether in order to better serve Quin-nipiac’s students.

“I think the first thing is to think about how to take all the pieces of the puzzle that are out there under the two current positions, and how to effectively take those pieces of

the puzzle and put them together in a way that makes sense,” Thomp-son said.

Although Thompson does not assume his new position until the summer, he hopes to develop plans soon. He said he plans to meet with personnel from Public Safety, In-formation Technology, Facilities and the Arnold Bernhard Library in the near future.

“I certainly have my own ideas about how things might fit to-gether, but I think it’s important to get the perspective of everyone involved,” Thompson said. “By doing that, often times, you come up with a better solution than what you come up with on your own.”

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Student struck by Stop & Shop truck

By KATHERINE ROJAS news editor

A female student was hit by a Stop & Shop Peapod delivery truck on Bobcat Way on Nov. 27 at 8 p.m., according to an email by Chief of Public Safety David Barger.

The student was crossing Bobcat Way near the Student Health Center sidewalk from Bobcat Lawn, ac-cording to Barger’s email.

If you witnessed this accident or have any more information, contact Public Safety Investigator Don Dis-tefano at 203.582.3295 or [email protected] .

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Administrators, faculty and students in the School of Communications offered their defense and reaction to a recent letter to the editor pub-lished anonymously in the Chronicle’s Nov. 14 issue.

The letter wrote about the recent guest speak-er, Bobby Webster, an Academy Award-winning director of photography. The letter to the editor claimed that Webster, after looking at lighting kits, “called the equipment ‘shit,’” but the letter also claimed he said “the lighting kits were good to learn on because students will then appreciate good lighting kits when [they] get to use them.”

After the letter was published, Chair of Film, Video, and Interactive Media William O’Brien visited the FVI class “Senior Colloquy,” reading the letter and a response by Webster. O’Brien also encouraged the anonymous student to meet with him to discuss the content of the letter.

The letter also caused a steer with the admin-istrators of the School of Communications, such as Dean Lee Kamlet and Michael D. Calia, direc-tor of the Ed McMahon Communications Center.

“My problem with the letter is that it reflects an attitude of at least one student, who wrote the letter, that if only they had some better piece of equipment that would make them better filmmak-ers,” Kamlet said. “And any filmmaker will tell you that it’s not about the equipment, it’s about your ability to tell a story.”

Quinnipiac University’s filming equipment

is provided by Lowel Lighting, which is used in professional digital video, digital photography and film based photographic production, accord-ing to the company’s website.

“Our lights, controls, mounts and kits are de-signed and built for rugged dependable use, ease of operation and portability,” the website says.

The equipment is regularly replaced and up-dated when necessary each year, according to Ca-lia. The School of Communications spends tens of thousands of dollars on new equipment each year, Calia said.

“We provide equipment and accessories to help support the courses that are taught in the various majors here at the School of Communica-tions,” Calia said. “The units we offer [students] are quality professional units that are lightweight

and flexible so that they can use it in a number of different situations.”

Students have complained in the past of the heavy and bulky lighting kits offered at Quinnipi-ac, according to Calia. After the students brought their complaints to Calia’s attention, the school responded by getting lighter “go-kits.”

This past spring, Calia and other administra-tors met with Quinnipiac Film Society members and seniors to discuss any concerns with the equipment. The students were interested in using DSLR cameras. Next, the School of Communi-cations bought 14 DSLR cameras this semester, according to Calia.

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Clockwise from top left: Sungjoon Carlson makes a bicycle kick in a D1 soccer semifinal; Frankie DiSomma throws the ball downfield in the coed football championship game; Christopher D’Acunto celebrates a goal by taking off his shirt in the men’s D1 soccer final; the Jaffa Cakes pose with their new intramural championship T-shirts after the women’s soccer final; Kyle Bu-onocore breaks a tackle in the men’s D2 football final; DJ Lenihan catches a ball while Tom Gilligan covers him in the men’s D1 football final; Ryan Sheehy heads the ball in the men’s D1 soccer final.

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Women’s ice hockey’s Kelly Babstock, a junior forward from Mississau-ga, Ontario is the Chronicle’s woman athlete of the year. Babstock has 24 goals in the 2012 calendar year and 28 assists from January 2012 to December. Eighteen of those 24 goals have come from the start of the 2012-2013 season. 2012 was not the only standout season for Babstock, as she currently sits in the Quinnipiac all-time record books with the most goals in a single-season with 30, points in a single season with 59, as well as 29 season assists during the 2010-11. Babstock is the only Quinnipiac athlete to earn The Chronicle’s Athlete of the Week honors four times during the course of 2012, leading both the men’s and women’s sides for the year.

Men’s soccer captain Philip Suprise, a senior forward from Milwaukee, Wis. recorded nine goals and two assists. Suprise has been The Chronicle’s men’s athlete of the week twice dur-ing 2012. Suprise led the way with 20 points on the season. He kicked off his senior season with a hat trick to propel the Bob-

cats over Lafayette, 3-1. Despite being ranked eighth in the NEC Preseason Coaches Poll, Suprise helped lead the team to its first Northeast Conference regular season championship in program

history. Suprise’s impressive performance has earned him a spot in the InfoSports: Pro Soccer Combine in January 2013.

Eric Da Costa is in his eighth season as the head coach of the men’s soccer team. Da Costa led the Bobcats to their first ever Northeast Conference regular-season title. Da Costa’s guid-ance helped the Bobcats get to an 8-1-1 conference record and a 10-5-3 overall record.

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“It’s more than impressive that only in our fifteenth year in Division I, that we’re the No. 1 team in the country.”

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Quinnipiac President John La-hey remembers the early days of Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey. He remembers the times when the team would play games in Hamden High School. He remembers when prac-tices would be at 1 or 2 a.m. just be-cause those were the only available times. He remembers the Northford Ice Pavilion, where the Bobcats played at before the university built the High Point Solutions Arena at TD Bank Sports Center.

Now, he knows the national at-tention this team has received.

“I came to Quinnipiac with some big dreams and plans for the univer-sity, including moving us to Division I athletics,” Lahey said. “I can tell you, I did not have in those plans, written down, that we would be the No. 1 ranked team in the country in any sport, let alone ice hockey, one of the major three or four sports in the country.”

Head coach Rand Pecknold has led the Bobcats on an unprecedented run of 21 consecutive games without a loss, dating back to Nov. 9. The run has propelled Quinnipiac from being unranked in the USCHO.com poll to the top of that and the PairWise rankings, which help determine the NCAA bracket in March.

“It’s more than impressive that only in our 15th year in Division I, that we’re the No. 1 team in the country,” Pecknold said.

But Pecknold knows that being on top of the polls now isn’t going to get them where they want to be: in the Frozen Four come April.

“For us as players and coaches,

we’re going to enjoy it for about 15 minutes,” Pecknold said. “We’ve got to get back to business.”

Quinnipiac is 18-0-3 in its past 21 games and leads the ECAC Hockey conference by 11 points over second-place Yale, who the Bobcats beat 6-2 in early Febru-ary. Totaling 30 points in confer-ence play, Quinnipiac has already clinched a first-round bye in the conference playoffs and can finish no lower than second. Pecknold said one of the team’s goals is to win the Cleary Cup, the conference’s regular season title.

“We’ve done a nice job at put-ting a lot of points on the board, but we’re not at that goal yet,” said Pecknold, who is in his 19th season as head coach. “We don’t want to let up. We don’t want to have any-thing delay our progress toward that goal.”

Being the top-ranked team is un-chartered territory for the Bobcats. Three years ago, the team started the year 12-1 and was ranked No. 4 in the country. But immediately after, the team went 1-11-2 over its next 14 games.

But that’s not on Pecknold’s mind at all. He knows this is a dif-ferent team with a lot more depth from top to bottom. This year’s team ranks second in the country in goals allowed and is 9-0-0 against ranked teams this season.

“It’s a great day for the pro-gram and Quinnipiac,” senior for-ward Kevin Bui said. “We’re all very humble guys in that room, and there’s a lot of work left to do. Right now, our main focus is locking up first place.”

In the past 21 games, the Bobcats have averaged 3.4 goals per game while allowing 1.4 goals per game. Since Quinnipiac joined Division I in 1998-99, the longest unbeaten streak in NCAA men’s ice hockey was 22 games by the University of Minnesota in 2006-07.

This weekend, Quinnipiac hosts

St. Lawrence, a squad boasting the top scorer in the nation, Greg Car-ey, who has recorded 20 goals and 42 points. The Saints also feature forward Kyle Flanagan, who is cur-rently sixth in the country in points with 38.

“This only amplifies the target on our backs,” Pecknold said.

The Bobcats tied Brown 1-1 the night before beating then-No. 8 Yale on the road. Although Minnesota was idle, it still garnered the top spot in the polls on Feb. 4, while Quinni-piac sat in No. 2 for the third straight week.

Last weekend, Minnesota split a weekend series with St. Cloud State. Afterward, there was almost no doubt Quinnipiac would move up to No. 1 this week. Forty-one of the 50 voters in the USCHO.com poll thought Quinnipiac was the best team in the nation.

The Bobcats have the best win-ning percentage (.8214) in the coun-try and also the best RPI (.5885), which have helped them claim the top spot in the PairWise Rankings since Jan. 19.

“We’re No. 1 in PairWise, which is more important than the coaches’ poll,” assistant captain Cory Hib-beler said. “Being No. 2, it kind of gave us something to go for. We still have to prove ourselves night in and night out.”

Pecknold said he tries to get his players not to look at the polls and all the media attention. He knows that being No. 1 right now isn’t good enough; he wants to be No. 1 at the end of the year.

“For them, maybe it’s just an-other hockey win in a great season that they’re enjoying,” Lahey said, “but for the university, to be ranked No. 1 in the nation in a major sport like hockey is an enormous benefit for the university.”

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Last year, junior Jordan Katz sat at his computer at 9:45 p.m., wait-ing 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, accord-ing to Eric Grgurich, executive di-rector of the TD Bank Sports Center.

“Everyone wants to know when the date is when our schedule comes out,” Grgurich said. “They start buy-ing 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 antici-pate each year with all the student involvement and interest,” Ticket Manager Matt Calcagni said. “We know it’s the first question on any-body’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

Following the university’s alert that school and campus would be closed from Feb. 8 until Feb. 12, Chartwells had no choice but to re-main 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 or-dered 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

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 Twin-ing said. The leaves are either volun-tary 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 in-crease in the number of students who have been placed on medical leaves, Boucher said. She also said the num-ber 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.

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 pro-gram 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 fac-ulty 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 behav-iors thought to be warning signs are changes in hygiene or appearance, excessive or unexplained absences and exhibition of intimidating or dis-ruptive behavior.

Quinnipiac University’s School of Law is projected to move to the North Haven campus by the summer of 2014, which will affect many cur-rent law students and those who plan to attend in the next few years.

In the State of the QUnion ad-dress on Jan. 30, President John La-hey 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 develop-ing the North Haven campus to be primarily a graduate campus, and to leave the Law School on Mount Car-mel wouldn’t be as effective.”

Construction will most likely begin this summer once the medical school construction is completed, ac-cording 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,”

Thompson said. “We need that space for so many other undergraduate pro-grams 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 eas-ier. There’s no question about that,” Thompson said. “Most of the current law school classes are day classes. There are just under 400 law stu-

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Although the university banned smoking cigarettes on the North Ha-ven Campus last summer, there are no plans to implement a similar rule on the Mount Carmel and York Hill campuses, according to Associate Vice President for Public Relations John Morgan.

On the Mount Carmel and York Hill campuses, smoking is p e r m i t t e d outdoors, but not inside the buildings and residence halls, Chief of Public Safety David Barger said.

In 2003, Con-necticut’s Clean Indoor Air Act outlawed smoking in the workplace, restaurants, food stores, state buildings and the dorm rooms of public and private universities.

Smoking in the residence halls is

also a violation of the student hous-ing contract, Barger said.

Since smoking is detrimental to one’s health and the North Haven focuses on the Health Sciences, the university banned smoking on the North Haven campus last summer.

“They wanted to have that whole aura of being a healthy environ-

ment,” Barger said. “How do you have a healthy

environment with someone smoking

with all that we know?”

Barger said that since North Haven is rela-tively new and

not a residential campus, imple-

menting this rule was fairly easy.

“It hasn’t come with a great deal of enforcement,” he said. “Everyone has seemed to comply down there with the no smoking.”

On the Mount Carmel Campus however, some students are both-

ered by the amount of smoking.“It is annoying when you see

people smoking when you are trying to get to class and see people outside Tator [Hall] blowing smoke in your face,” junior Cynthia Francois said.

According to Barger, students have never pushed for the Mount Carmel and York Hill campuses to become tobacco-free.

“I don’t think [banning smoking] has ever been brought up,” he said. “If there were a movement of some type, perhaps it would be looked at with a little bit more discerning eye.”

Freshman Christian Spader be-lieves that students have the right to smoke cigarettes on campus.

“We are all adults and if you have an addiction what are you sup-posed to do, leave campus?” he said.

On the other hand, sophomore Maylin Salazar said that she would support a smoking ban on campus.

“If it is for the public health it is good,” she said. “[Smoking] is gross

Returning Quinnipiac students and incoming freshmen will have to reach a little deeper into their pock-ets next fall if they intend to pay for their education.

Quinnipiac’s Board of Trustees decided to raise tuition by $1,330 for the upcoming academic year. The hike brings tuition, which was $38,000 this year, to $39,330. Fac-toring the cost of room and board, students can expect to pay at least

$53,380 to attend Quinnipiac, ac-cording to the university’s website.

The new, higher prices have some students scrambling to pay the bills.

“I pay for my own schooling for the most part. My parents helped me the first year or so and after that I was on my own,” junior Teresa San-tos said. “I rely on loans to stay here. This just means that I will be pay-ing off my loans for longer than I planned.”

Despite the increased tuition prices, Quinnipiac still ranks behind

Connecticut College, Trinity Col-lege, Wesleyan University and Yale University in total cost per year of undergraduate study in the state.

“The process of setting tuition, room and board for the next fis-cal year begins in the fall when the Cabinet officers and deans submit anticipated budgetary needs that are consistent with anticipated enroll-ment and necessary to meet their in-stitutional goals,” Vice President for Public Affairs Lynn Bushnell said in a statement. “Every effort is made to keep our increases to a minimum.”

Junior Jake Campbell under-stands the rationale behind the tu-ition pricing, but hopes that he can see more tangible evidence of his investment.

“A tuition hike is something that is inevitable at a school like ours and that’s a shame,” Campbell, who pays for his own schooling, said. “It means that students are going to have to find a way to come up with [more money] out of their own pocket. And for what? I probably won’t even see where my money is going.”

Both Campbell and Santos rec-ognize their education is an invest-ment that does not have a dollar value. However, Santos feels Quin-nipiac’s tuition prices are a bit steep.

“To me you can’t put a value on

education, but once I realized that Quinnipiac raises the tuition every year I was ready to transfer because it’s so expensive,” Santos said. “Quinnipiac is a great school and the education is wonderful, but at the end of the day we are just paying for the name.”

Students who pay their way or rely on loans do not need to imme-diately panic, as the university says it does not raise tuition without also offering more financial aid.

“The senior vice president for fi-nance and the vice president for ad-missions and financial aid develop a recommendation for tuition, room and board,” Bushnell said. “The recommended rates, along with an appropriate level of financial aid, are then discussed at several cabinet meetings.”

While more financial aid is given to compensate for increases in tu-ition, some students are looking for an end to tuition hikes.

Campbell believes that the school does not need to raise tuition each academic year because there are other expenditures that can be cut from the university’s budget.

“I think the university could afford to lower tuition considerably,” Camp-bell said. “If Tom Brady can take a pay cut, why can’t President Lahey?”

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Professor of Law Jennifer Ge-rarda Brown was announced the new dean of Quinnipiac Univer-sity’s School of Law by President John Lahey last week, effective July 1, 2013.

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The Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey team has faced adversity all year long.

Trying to maintain a 21-game unbeaten streak and dealing with the target of being the nation’s No. 1 team for five weeks are just ex-amples of the pressure that the Bobcats have faced.

Sunday night, in the third and final game of the ECAC quarterfinals against Cornell at the High Point Solutions Arena, Quinnipiac faced even more adversity. Down 2-1 with a minute remaining, the Bobcats pulled goalie Eric Hartzell.

Looking for a goal, senior forward Clay Harvey found the puck amid a scrum of bod-ies in front of the Cornell net and blasted

it past goalie Andy Iles to tie the game at 2 with only 1:04 remaining. After a scoreless first overtime, Kevin Bui then won it for the Bobcats 14:08 into the second overtime pe-riod, putting it through the five-hole of Iles. With the 3-2 win, Quinnipiac moves on to the ECAC semifinals this weekend in Atlantic City.

“That was a great college hockey game,” Quinnipiac head coach Rand Pecknold said. “I’m extremely excited. It was some good dra-ma, and our guys battled back well.”

For Bui, it was his second goal of the sea-son.

“I was just trying to get up ice as quick as I possibly could,” Bui said. “I found a way to get it past Iles, and the next thing I know a bunch of bodies are on top of me celebrating.”

For Cornell, the story of the night was Iles. The junior goalie made 60 saves.

“Iles was the best player on the ice, just like Friday night,” Pecknold said. “I give him a lot of credit.”

On the other side of the ice, Hartzell made 29 saves of his own.

Quinnipiac will play Brown next Friday, in hopes of advancing to the ECAC champion-ship game on Saturday.

“We played three really tough games in three days,” Pecknold said. “We’ve got to get some rest, then get ready for next weekend.”

Braden Birch netted the first goal of the night only 48 seconds in. He skated past two Quinnipiac defenders, then went top shelf on Hartzell, ending the Bobcats’ streak of scoring the game’s first goal at seven.

Quinnipiac then tied the game with 10:16 left in the second period as junior defenseman Zach Tolkinen drilled a shot from the point past Iles.

The Big Red regained the lead only 64 seconds later when Cornell forward Brian Fer-lin sniped a shot past Hartzell. It was Ferlin’s third goal of the series.

Harvey netted the goal to tie the game, and Bui to win it.

The Bobcats outshot the Big Red, 15-8, in the first overtime, then 14-1 in the second.

Loren Barron, Jordan Samuels-Thomas and Jeremy Langlois all had an assist on the night.

Ten posts were hit on the night, five by each team. Quinnipiac found iron twice in the two overtime periods, Cornell once.

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Quinnipiac celebrates while Cornell players collapse in disbelief after Kevin Bui scored the game-winning goal in the second overtime in Sunday’s Game 3.

Atlantic City, N.J., has always been home to the nightlife, the casinos, the beaches…

Since 2011, however, it has been home to the ECAC men’s ice hockey championship. The Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey team travels to Atlantic City for the first time Friday when it takes on Brown in the ECAC semifinals at Boardwalk Hall at 4 p.m.

The Bobcats and Bears tied both meet-ings this year. Connor Jones scored the lone Bobcat goal, while Eric Hartzell stopped 30 of 31 shots in a 1-1 tie on Feb. 1 at Meehan Au-ditorium. Across the sheet, Brown goaltender

Anthony Borelli made 38 saves on 39 shots.This is Borelli’s first season as the start-

ing goaltender, and the stats prove it could not be any more spectacular. Through 26 games played, the junior has recorded a .942 save percentage and a 1.87 goals against average, good for first and third in the ECAC, respec-tively. Borelli’s save percentage also ranks third in the nation.

In their second contest of the year, the Bobcats and Bears played to a 3-3 final in Hamden. Jordan Samuels-Thomas scored twice, while Russell Goodman added a tally of his own. Quinnipiac held a 3-1 lead until 17:44 of the third period, when Brown slashed

the lead to 3-2. Twenty-four seconds later, the Bears tied the game at 3, forcing a scoreless overtime.

This past weekend, in what was one of the more eventful playoff series in program history, Quinnipiac defeated Cornell in three games, the series-clinching goal coming in double over-time off the stick of Kevin Bui. Game 2 was also extraordinary, as the Bobcats defeated the Big Red, 10-0, scoring in double-digits for the first time since Nov. 11, 2000, vs. Fairfield.

As for Brown, the Bears upset the favored Rensselaer in three games last weekend, even though the Engineers outscored Brown, 9-8, in the series. In the first round of ECAC Tour-

nament play, the Bears swept Clarkson in two games, downing the Golden Knights 3-0 and 4-3.

On the offensive side of the puck, Matt Lo-rito leads Brown with 20 goals and 35 points. Dennis Robertson tops the squad in the assist column, as the junior defenseman has notched 16 on the year.

In 2011-12, Quinnipiac defeated Brown in three games in the first round of the ECAC Tournament. In 2010-11, the Bobcats also de-feated the Bears in the first round, this time coming via a two-game sweep.

The Bobcats are currently first in the Pair-Wise rankings, trailed by Minnesota.

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On any given day, Bobcat Net hosts Internet access to 22,409 de-vices. With so many people con-nected to the network, when the Internet access malfunctions, many will notice.

On Oct. 8 at 4:11 p.m., a com-bination of a technical error and a human error caused Bobcat Net to crash, according to Information Se-curity Officer Brian Kelly.

Kelly said the error occurred while changes to the firewall were being made in order to support Quinnipiac’s new website.

“It is as simple as making a typo,” Kelly said. “We made a mis-take, hit save and boom.”

An additional error occurred when a loop appeared in the net-work. A loop is when the network recognizes a single device as being in two different places at once. This causes confusion within the net-work.

By 6 p.m. that Monday, nearly 70 percent of the network was down.

“We knew what we did, and we knew how to fix it,” Kelly said. “It just takes time.”

To fix the network Kelly and his team of six others were required to manually reconnect small portions of the network piece by piece un-til the entire network was running again.

The first portion of the network to be fixed belonged to the Quin-nipiac University Polling Institute. When connection was lost, the Pub-lic Broadcasting Service (PBS) was in the process of filming a segment of 150 pollsters calling people about the presidential election. Without In-ternet connection it would have been

As of Monday, students and fac-ulty are able to purchase food at the Bobcat Den in a new way. Chartwells, in conjunction with Tapingo, have cre-ated an iPhone and Android app that allows you to order on the go. The app is free and is available on Apple’s App

Store and Android’s Play Store. The free service is also available on the web by visiting tapingo.com.

“What our product is doing is it’s helping students get what they need to get without having to worry about waiting in line and also about waiting in line to pay for their item,” Director of Campus Marketing for

Tapingo Mickey Katz said.Once the app or website is open,

a prompt will open asking for the student’s name, location, phone number, and Q-card number. When the form is completed, it will pro-vide the student with locations that accept payment via Tapingo.

By clicking on the Bobcat Den,

students can view the menu and make an order. Orders take 15 min-utes to be completed at most. When an order is sent via Tapingo, the staff in the Bobcat Den receives it.

“There is a printer in the back of the kitchen and when you’re order is placed, [the printer] buzzes three times and then the kitchen staff un-

derstands your order was placed. They will prepare your food. They will wrap it up for you…If it’s hot, they keep it hot, if it’s cool they keep it cool,” Katz said.

When students arrive at the Bob-cat Den, there is a designated area to

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With preliminary accreditation granted for the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University, Dr. Bruce Koeppen, Dean of the School of Medicine, announced: “[w]e’re open for business.”

“What we are building here on the North Ha-ven campus will be absolute state-of-the-art,” Ko-eppen said.

Faculty and facilities at the School of Medi-cine will foster an inter-professional education for all health science disciplines, in which students from the health science and nursing schools can collaborate with medical students to gain real-life experience working as health care teams, Koep-pen said.

Junior health science major Domingo Perez plans to apply to the School of Medicine in his senior year and benefit from this interdisciplinary program.

“That would be really beneficial,” Perez said. “It’s kind of like a full-circle system, more of a hospital simulation, which is basically as close as you can get to in-field training without being in the field.”

Students will have the opportunity to work in four collaborative classrooms in the new build-ing, according to Koeppen. Each classroom was designed to accommodate four groups of eight students, who can share resources electronically. Students will have access to learning materials in an entirely paperless curriculum, including elec-tronically administered exams.

“It’s probably the nicest teaching space I’ve ever seen in any medical school,” Koeppen said.

Prospective students can preview the proto-type of one of the classroom’s tables, located in the Fred Tarka Conference Room in the Arnold Bernhard Library.

For junior health science major Becky Paugh, the addition of the School of Medicine at Quinni-

piac comes at a pivotal time in her college career, as she will soon be making decisions regarding graduate school.

Paugh is planning to apply to graduate school at Quinnipiac, but she is also considering apply-ing to schools in California, where she can benefit from in-state residency tuition if she lives with her brother.

The news of the School of Medicine’s inter-disciplinary interactions and real-life hospital environment, however, has Paugh reassessing a move to California for graduate school.

“I think that’s kind of rare,” she said. “That makes me excited to go here.”

The School of Medicine is planning to offer a dual program for future freshmen interested in studying medicine, in which students who apply to Quinnipiac would simultaneously apply and be interviewed for the School of Medicine, accord-

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Over the past week, numerous alumni have contacted New Blue Rugby’s Jimmy Cappadoro, one of the team’s 20 seniors. They’ve ex-pressed how proud they are to see where the team is going.

It’s not just the undefeated re-cord. It’s actually where the team is playing: home.

New Blue hasn’t had an official home site for its home games. Over the past few years, the team has played its “home” games in East Ha-ven, West Haven, Cheshire and even Hartford. But now, the team, com-prised of all Quinnipiac students, will have the opportunity to show the campus what it does.

“This is something every team has been working toward since the beginning,” says Cappadoro, who has been with the team since his sophomore year.

Playing in the New England Wide Collegiate Rugby Conference, New Blue beat Hartford, Babson, WPI, West Connecticut, Central Connecticut State and Springfield College en route to a perfect record and a top seed in the playoffs. Now the team will not only play Western Connecticut State College in the semifinals, but it will host Western Connecticut State Saturday at noon behind the baseball field.

“We’ve been working for this since day one,” says Pat MacLellan, one of New Blue’s three captains. “It’s a dream come true, to tell you the truth: stepping on Quinnipiac Field and getting to play in front of our home fans for once, just repre-senting the university for once as well. We haven’t had a chance to do that.”

New Blue Rugby is independent from the school. It became unaf-filiated in 2001 after the university would not recognize club sports. The team stayed together and would try to play its games on campus, but school administration said that secu-rity would escort it off campus if it tried to play games on campus.

But if everything goes smoothly, it could pave the way for men’s rug-by and other club sports on campus.

“Club sports is a major priority for the students and for the univer-sity,” Quinnipiac Director of Athlet-ics and Recreation Jack McDonald said. “We want it to go well so we don’t have anybody saying this is not the right thing to do. Men’s rugby is something that we’d like to see come into Quinnipiac as a club sport, along with many other men’s and women’s club sports. It’s a big test not only for men’s rugby, but for all sports.”

According to McDonald, the university needs to ensure that sev-eral different factors are met in order to implement club sports, including safety, class organization, coaching staffs and safe travels.

“We’re getting close. We’re not quite there yet,” McDonald said. “We thought we would give this home game a try and see how every-body handles themselves.”

New Blue doesn’t have a coach. The team’s trainers are Quinnipiac physical therapy students. The play-ers provide all of the team’s funding. They use their dues to pay for ref-erees and the fields. This year, they were able to buy new uniforms for the first time in four years.

“You basically put together 30 kids every year that takes rugby balls and plays a sport,” says Jimmy

Whelan, one of last year’s captains who has acted as a coach this sea-son. “This team has come from basi-cally nothing because each year is a brand new year. It’s a new group of kids with nothing, no support. That’s just huge.”

Despite all the difficulties, the team has flourished. It is 6-0 for the first time in several years. Now, New Blue will get its golden opportunity to represent the university–and in the playoffs, no less.

“Quinnipiac is our home and we’re still representing Quinnipiac and all Quinnipiac students,” Ma-cLellan said. “It’s going to be unbe-lievable.”

There’s something about this team that’s different from past ones. Perhaps it’s the resiliency: New Blue scored two trys and two extra points in the final 10 minutes of its 17-13 win vs. Babson on Sept. 29.

Maybe it’s the team’s confi-dence: despite getting blown out to Springfield the past three years, New Blue beat Springfield College, 14-7, under the lights last Friday night.

“It’s really special to be the team that does it, 6-0, No. 1 seed,” Cap-padoro said.

Whelan said he has been more of a support person than a leader for this year’s team, giving all the credit to the senior class. The se-niors have factored into much of the team’s success both on and off the field. MacLellan and the other two captains, Johnson Chu and Joe

D’Apice, have had to fill the void of not having a coach by leading prac-tices and teaching younger players the game.

“Being the only team in our league, year after year, with no coach to coordinate places the odds against us,” Cappadoro said. “These captains take on so much responsi-bility beyond getting kids to show up to practice and teaching kids like myself who had never picked up a rugby ball before. It is a collabora-tive effort to train and make our-selves prepared for our season.”

Even without a coach, the team struggles to find a place to call “home.” The team works with town officials to rent fields for games, and often times, the play-ers are the ones responsible for preparing the field. In one game last October, the players planted macgyvered PVC pipes into the ground and used duct tape to make the pipes stick together for the goal posts. They even had to spray paint the field to set boundaries.

In order to set up the home game, Cappadoro said several players met with school administration and the athletics department to discuss the field dimensions and set up. In addi-tion, the way the team handled itself was brought up during the meetings, but Cappadoro said that the culture will not be a problem.

“They were great,” Cappadoro said. “It was a joint effort.”

For some, the worst part is not

having a complete crowd attend games. Because the team doesn’t have a set location for home games, there is no set fan base. But that can come to a change this weekend.

“The biggest advantage come Saturday is the large fan base the team will have, which we have lacked because we play so far away from campus,” said Whelan, who graduated in 2012. “They will be the

16th player come Saturday.”With no football team on cam-

pus, this is the first time that there will be a Saturday afternoon men’s contact sport. Though there will be no bleachers for seats (there will be ropes for safety areas for fans), some players predict hundreds of people in attendance. As of Tuesday at 11:15 a.m., the game’s Facebook event has 396 people attending.

“We’ve done it without Quinnip-iac,” Whelan said. “Now being able to play on their field, this program is going to go sky high.”

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Ross McMahon (left), Pat MacLellan (center) and Jimmy Cappadoro (right) celebrate after defeating Spring-field College 14-7 on Friday Oct. 19. Undefeated New Blue will host a playoff game on Saturday, Oct. 27, behind the baseball field.

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New Blue senior Jackson Vescuso is hit by a Springfield College defender in Friday’s 14-7 win.

Undefeated New Blue ready for first game at QUone golden opportunityBy MATT EISENBERG

Managing Editor

“Men’s rugby is something that we’d like to see come into Quinnipiac as a club sport, along with many other men’s and women’s club sports. It’s a big test not only for men’s rugby, but for all sports.”

— JACK McDONALDDIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS AND RECREATION

Saturday Oct. 27 at 12 p.m. on the Quinnipiac athletic fields