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Quinnipiac University athletics announced on Dec. 14, 2012, it will officially be moving from the North-east Conference to the Metro Atlan-tic Athletic Conference in 16 of the school’s 21 varsity sports, effective July 1.

“This is a very historic day for Quinnipiac University,” Quinnipiac Director of Athletics and Recreation Jack McDonald said. “It is truly an honor to be extended an invitation from the MAAC Presidents Coun-cil and Commissioner Rich En-sor. Since first working with Rich Ensor to start the MAAC Hockey League in 1998, I have always ad-mired the academic mission of the MAAC membership, as well as the outstanding reputation of its athletic programs.”

Considered one of the more rec-ognized up-and-coming universities in the Northeast, Quinnipiac switch-es conferences after spending 15 years in the NEC, a move that could further the brand of the university.

“The MAAC membership has sought to maintain a brand that stresses excellence in academics and athletics and Quinnipiac University

fully meets that criteria,” MAAC Commissioner Richard J. Ensor, Esq., said.

All sports with the exception of field hockey, women’s rugby, ac-robatics & tumbling and men’s and women’s ice hockey will make the move.

Since the MAAC does not offer field

hockey, Quinnipiac is expected to be an associate NEC member for field hockey, similar to Rider University and Siena College.

Quinnipiac’s men’s and wom-en’s basketball teams are looking forward to the move.

“On behalf of the Quinnipiac men’s basketball program, we are

extremely excited to be joining the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference,” Quinnipiac men’s basketball head coach Tom Moore said. “The league is filled with storied programs that

have a long history of great rivalries and post-sea-

son suc-

cess.”Moore has

transformed the men’s basketball team

into an NEC powerhouse, hav-ing reached the conference semi-finals in four of the five seasons as head coach and making the confer-ence championship game in 2010.

“We will be forever grateful to the Northeast Conference for the op-portunity they provided us,” Moore said. “It is difficult to leave the NEC during such an exciting time of the conference’s growth.”

Quinnipiac women’s basketball head coach Tricia Fabbri said she was looking forward to joining the MAAC, but added that the NEC helped build the program into one of the top mid-majors in the country right now.

“We are grateful to the North-east Conference for many great years of competition – we would not be where we are now without our 14 years of membership with the NEC,” said Fabbri, whose team was selected as the favorite to win the conference before this season.

Monmouth University, which has been in the NEC since 1985, also confirmed its move to the MAAC. Current MAAC mem-ber Loyola University is slated to leave the conference for the Patriot League beginning in the 2013-2014 academic year.

Eleven schools will compete in the MAAC next year, including current members: Canisius College, Fairfield University, Iona College, Manhattan College, Marist College, Niagara University, Rider, Saint Pe-ter’s University and Siena.

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Students who are contagious with the flu will be sent home, ac-cording to a Jan. 11 email to stu-dents from the Interim Director of the Student Health Center Sheila Burke. Students who cannot go home because they live more than 200 miles from Quinnipiac Univer-sity will be isolated in empty apart-ments in the Complex residence hall, Director of Emergency Man-agement John Twining said. In the email, students were told to get the flu shot and to remain at home after winter break if they had the flu.

“Social distancing is really the only way to keep infected people from passing [the flu] onto people who aren’t [sick],” Twining said. “We put together the plan for the isolation infirmary... keeping those people who are infected out of the general population, send[ing] them home where it is comfortable and where they are not going to be in the residence halls.”

When students get the flu, the Health and Wellness Center will provide them with Tamiflu (a medi-cine that treats the flu) and give them a protective mask to wear while they collect their belongings, Burke said. Students will then wait in the isolation area until their par-ents arrive.

The roommates and close friends of sick students will have the chance to take a proactive dose of Tamiflu as well, Burke said.

Professors and parents were also notified of the plan to send contagious students home, Burke said.

This procedure is based on the university’s criteria for dealing with the H1N1 virus in 2009, Twin-ing said. Both plans were set up by the Emergency Management Team, which is made up of various depart-ments at Quinnipiac, including Stu-dent Health Services.

Sophomore Jessica Elby, who received her flu shot for the first time after reading Burke’s email over winter break, was pleased with the plan to send sick students home.

“I think it is kind of good be-cause I know how [the flu] can spread,” Elby said. “If I had the flu,

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I stuffed the last bit of clothing into my suitcase and zipped it shut. My time in Wash-ington, D.C. was over and I was heading back to Quinnipiac.

In December I took a chance and respond-ed to an email about a 10-day seminar through The Washington Center, Inside Washington 2013: The Presidential Inauguration, with Pro-fessor Scott McLean. This three-credit course is typically reserved for upperclassmen, but only available every four years. This was my chance to have the experience of a lifetime, so I applied. To my surprise, I got in.

Each morning, prominent figures spoke about significant issues, the presidency, and President Barack Obama’s failures and success-es. These speakers ranged from Eugene Kang, Special Projects Coordinator and Confidential Assistant to the president, to Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform.

We got a behind-the-scenes look at presi-

dential debates and heard personal stories about the president, as well as advice from our speakers on how to make the most of our time in Washington.

Some of the best advice I heard all week was to “roll with it.”

When the floor was open for those who had questions for Ben LaBolt, senior advisor of the Presidential Inaugural Committee and Obama’s campaign press secretary, I hesitated at first.

It was the first session and there were more than 400 people in the auditorium. But I knew it was one of the once-in-a-lifetime opportuni-ties I came to Washington, D.C. for, so I took the advice I had gotten earlier and I rolled with it. I was glad I did.

Thanks to U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, we had the opportunity to sit in on a session of Congress for one of our site visits and see the House of Representatives in action. Though we were slightly winded and our calves burned, our group navigated a myriad of metro

stops and power-walked several city blocks to beat the rain and make it to the Capitol in time.

We heard quite the spirited address from U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee on a bill for Hurricane Sandy relief during what Professor McLean dubbed as the most exciting session of Congress he’s ever seen.

On our visit to CNN two days later, Quin-nipiac alumus Eric Marrapodi gave us a tour of the studio. I was excited to see a television station on a larger scale and saw that I already knew how to do a lot of the work there after gaining experience with Q30.

As if it wasn’t enough to see how success-ful Marrapodi is and how he has done incred-ible things with the passion he has for his job, we turned a corner and Wolf Blitzer waved at me and John King answered some of our ques-tions about the industry.

Despite our intensive journal assignments and capstone essay, many of us made the time for an Inauguration ball during the week, though it was not quite what we expected, as it was less formal and classy and instead more hipster and underground.

After a lot of leg work we were all fortu-nate enough to get tickets to the Inauguration, but two friends and I were in a section pretty far from the Capitol.

Instead of going and watching the Inau-guration on a Jumbotron, we walked for three hours from Union Station to the CNN booth. As soon as we got to the National Mall and saw the back of Anderson Cooper’s head, we were almost more excited to see him than to see the Inauguration. I knew we made the right choice. We were a part of the Inauguration fes-tivities as well as the media coverage.

To make it even better, we were on TV.Heading into this experience, I knew I had

an interest in politics but wasn’t sure whether it was for me. Now that I am leaving Wash-ington with four business cards, countless con-nections, and valuable experiences both in and out of formal sessions, I am more than ready to dive in and go back.

On a clear, chilly January day, President Barack Obama forecast-ed what the future would hold for the American people. With a clear liberal outlook, Obama seemed hopeful about what he could do in his next four years in office, de-spite an array of foreign and do-mestic issues.

“My fellow Americans, Obama said. “We are made for this moment and we will seize it – so long as we seize it together.”

America currently finds itself recovering from, and facing many problems. Partisanship in con-gress, economic issues, and pov-erty currently burden the minds of millions of Americans. The future remains uncertain, but Obama is poised to act upon these issues.

“We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect,” Obama said. “We must act, know-ing that today’s victories will be only partial, and that it will be up to those who stand here in four years, and forty years, and four hundred years hence to advance the timeless spirit once conferred to us in a spare Philadelphia hall.”

With the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial standing strong a

short distance from the Capitol Building, the nation celebrated the second term of the first Afri-can American president on a day dedicated to the man who may have made it all possible. Only 50 years after Martin Luther led the way to civil equality, Obama now leads the nation into the future.

Although progress has been made for the equal rights of all, more should be done, Obama said. He aims to fight for the equality of women, gays and lesbians and Af-rican Americans.

“We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths – that all of us are created equal – is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our in-dividual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth,” Obama said.

With issues ahead of us, Americans are unsure of what the future holds, so may say even pes-simistic.

A USA Today poll found that

57 percent of Americans feel that America’s power in the world will decline and only 33 percent of Americans foresee economic prosperity.

Mike Jackson, an engineer from New York City, feels that the future looks cloudy.

“There is still a lack of desire on the part of the political leader-ship to move forward irrespective

of what the public is looking for, which is, I think, a more collab-orative approach to solving prob-lems,” Jackson said.

However, New York resident Kim Blake had a much different outlook on America’s future.

Her answer was short and con-cise but based on statistics, not very common. Just two words.

“I’m optimistic,” she said.

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remain in the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Con-ference, a league they have held membership to since 2005. Women’s rugby will remain in the Tri-State Conference, while the acrobatics & tumbling team competes in the National Col-legiate Acrobatics & Tumbling Association.

The NEC will feature 10 teams next year with the losses of Quinnipiac and Monmouth.

“We are now the 25th Division I confer-ence to be impacted by the wave of conference realignment,” NEC Commissioner Noreen Morris said in a statement on the NEC web-

site. “Next year we will be 10 members strong; and all 10 members are fully committed to the league and its vision for success.”

McDonald was appreciative of what the NEC did to build a stronger athletic reputation when the university advanced from a Division II program to a Division I school.

“Quinnipiac will be forever grateful to the Northeast Conference for 14 years of excellent membership, friendship, sportsmanship and great athletic competition,” McDonald said. “Without the invitation to the NEC in 1998, Quinnipiac would not be where it is today in Division I.”

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Quinnipiac President John Lahey (left), Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Commis-sioner Richard J. Ensor, Esq., and Quinnipiac Director of Athletics and Recreation Jack McDonald hold T-shirts to commemorate Quinnipiac’s move to the MAAC.

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A new one-credit physical education course is available for students. Students can take Duckpin Bowling at Johnson Lanes in Ham-den Plaza. Classes are on Thursdays from 11-12:15 or 12:15-1:30. The course fee is $125. Students must find their own transportation. Interested students can sign up for the class on WebAdvisor. –J. Perkins

The Daily Beast ranked Hartford-New Ha-ven number six in its “25 Drunkest Cities 2012, from Milwaukee to Burlington, Ver-mont.” The Daily Beast worked with mar-ket researcher Experian Marketing Services for data based on recent average numbers of alcoholic drinks per month per adult in each metro area, according to its website. Hart-ford-New Haven’s data showed 15.2 average alcoholic drinks were consumed by adults per month, 16. 5 percent of the population classi-fied as binge drinkers, and 3.6 percent of the population classified as heavy drinkers.– K. Rojas

The Carl Hansen Student Center now includes a 24/7 Quick Flicks DVD’s kiosk for DVD rentals. DVD rental prices are $1.29 for one night and $1.49 for any additional night. Blu Ray rental prices are $1.99 for one night and $1.99 for any additional night. The kiosk can be found by the student center tables. –K. Ro-jas

I would want to leave campus and I would be glad to be excused.”

There is a greater risk of catching the flu on a college campus where students are liv-ing together, according to Twining.

“If someone doesn’t realize [he has] the flu, he could be passing it on,” Twining said. “The reason we are doing this is to keep ev-erybody healthy and safe. If you do have the flu, don’t go to class. Don’t try to live it out for five days in the residence hall. Go to the isolation place. Go home.”

The university is trying to make the isola-tion area comfortable and it will be staffed with medical personnel at all hours, Twining said.

According to The New York Times, this year’s flu season is worse than in past years. The Connecticut Department of Health reported on Jan. 17 that there have been 629 cases of the flu in New Haven County throughout the past six weeks.

A high fever, cough, chills and body aches are some of the symptoms of the flu, Burke said.

“The flu is not a regular slow cold coming on,” Burke said. “You are going to know that you have it.”

There are ways to prevent the flu, such as your washing hands.

“Washing hands is the most important thing so that the disease does not spread,” Burke said. “People sometimes don’t real-ize that they are playing with their hands and mouth…that is how you can pass [the flu] onto yourself.”

As recommended in the email to students: resting, drinking fluids and getting the flu shot are essential.

“You still can get the flu if you have the flu shot, but typically they say the case will be more mild,” Burke said.

Although Student Health Services ran out of flu shots after administering 2,250 shots to the Quinnipiac community in October and November, it is equipped with extra food and medicine for students, Burke said.

Burke suggested that students who be-lieve they have the flu should go to the Health and Wellness Center on the Mount Carmel campus, which is open 24 hours each day.

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I spent much of my car ride to Newtown, Conn., three weeks ago listening to music, but once I got near the town, I turned it off. Around a month ago, the town was filled with grief and I wanted to do my best to ob-serve how the town remembered the victims of Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Flags were at half staff. I passed a roadside memorial with 26 an-gels pitched in the ground. I got chills. When I got to the New-town Youth Academy Sports & Fitness Center, the top of the building was lined with 26 rib-bons. I couldn’t help but stare in awe.

Nothing will ever erase the horrors of what happened, but the only thing we can do is try to help them heal.

That’s where sports come in. Sports serve as an escape from the world, and that’s why “Soccer Night in Newtown” was the perfect event; it wasn’t supposed to be a time for grieving, but a time for recreation.

This is a town that needs to heal, and some of the most famous soccer players in the coun-try took the time to give it much-needed com-passion. Landon Donovan, Alexi Lalas, Mia Hamm and dozens of other players came to Soccer Night in Newtown, thanks to the plan-ning of Chris Canetti, the Houston Dynamo president who helped organize the event, but it wasn’t about the professional players there; it was about the town coming together.

Everywhere I looked, players signed jer-seys, soccer balls and photographs. They took pictures with the people. Fans got a chance to see some of their favorite athletes who they

looked up to. One girl wearing a U.S. women’s national team jersey took a pic-ture with Mia Hamm, holding a sign she made that read “Mia your my idol.”

Players talked about how they got into soccer and their college days.

Kids asked the players questions about everything, from why they stuck with soccer to how they liked their steak cooked. The

kids got their face painted, portraits taken and enjoyed a bouncy house.

But the most heartwarming sight of all was watching little kids play a pick-up game of soccer with Lalas, MLS players and other Quinnipiac and Connecticut Football Club Azul players. Without another care in the world, the kids played soccer, calling for the ball and yelling whenever they scored. Their parents were watching from the side, taking pictures and videos with their phones.

It was what the town needed. It was a time for the kids to let free and have fun. It allowed parents to get their minds off what happened and watch their children enjoy themselves. It allowed the players and volunteers to see how a game can mend a broken town.

All sports, not just soccer, have a way of unity. In troubled times, we turn to sports as a distraction, as a getaway. They allow us to put everything aside for a minute. It may be

a game to some, but it is a symbol for many. It’s what we need sometimes. It’s exactly what Newtown got.

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Step outside your comfort zoneIt’s 3:15 a.m. My alarm starts blaring. I

get up. I put on the clothes I carefully laid out only three hours earlier. I grab my bag and start driving to New York City.

This routine happened every Monday and Friday last semester because I was a web intern for Elvis Duran and the Morning Show, a radio show that airs from 6-10 a.m. and is syndicated to 48 cities nationwide.

The night before my interview back in August, I convinced my-self that if I got the internship, I wasn’t going to take it. I’m not the type of girl who can wake up at 3 in the morning and drive for two hours. I’m barely the type of girl who can wake up for a 9 a.m. class.

But something happened during that 15-minute interview. I fell in love with the

idea of working for the show. I was offered the position, and despite my head telling me not to, I accepted it.

I had never driven to the city. I had never been awake earlier than 7 a.m., unless I was going on vacation. I had never worked outside of print design.

But here I was, a web intern for a morning show based out of New York City.

After only a few weeks of my internship, my boss got married and went on her honeymoon,

leaving me to do the majority of the work by myself. I was terri-

fied. On top of all the daily work I had to do, there were unexpected celebrity visits and problems with the website. I was running around the studio trying to get pictures of celebrities for the website at the same time I

had to be tweeting and posting articles. It was madness, but it was amazing.

This was the farthest I’ve ever stepped outside my comfort zone. And I won’t lie; a lot of the semester was a struggle. I was con-stantly sleep deprived; I could barely find a second to breathe, let alone do schoolwork.

But I survived, and I loved it. Not just because of the perks, because trust me, there were a lot. The whole experience was unbe-lievably rewarding and such an accomplish-ment. I went in scared to try working with the web, scared to drive into the city. But I came out with a newfound love of New York City and a willingness and wanting to learn web design, something that will open a plethora of doors in regards to my career path.

Stepping outside of your comfort zone is a necessity. You’re going to miss out on some great opportunities if you don’t.

sga updateBobcats,Welcome back to Quinnipiac! On behalf of all of SGA, we are

more than excited to get back to work and see you all on campus. We hope everyone is well rested and ready to begin another amazing semester at Quinnipiac. SGA also has very exciting news that we would like to share with you all. The Carl Hansen Student Center now holds a DVD and Blu-ray rental kiosk called DVD Now. You can rent your favorite movies starting at $1.29 for a 1 night rental. DVD Now is located near the vending machines and the student center tables near the bookstore. Be sure to check it out and let us know what you think! The Sophomore Class Cabinet will be hold-ing a meet and greet on Wednesday, January 23rd from 1-3pm on the Carl Hansen Patio. Stop by and meet your constituents.

On Wednesday, January 30th, SGA will be hosting State Of The

QUnion at 6:30pm in the Student Center Piazza on the Mount Car-mel campus. This event will allow students to hear and interact with Quinnipiac University administrators including President John La-hey. A few topics that will be discussed at the event include updates on the new medical school, The Great Hunger Museum, tuition, school spirit, and more. We will provide more information about the event on our Twitter at @QUSGA, at Facebook.com/Quinnipi-acSGA, and on our website at QUSGA.com. Make sure you connect with us and stay tuned.

Also, if you have any concerns or questions about anything on the 3 campuses please let us know so we can help. You can email us at Sga@Quinnipiac.Edu. We hope everyone has a great first week back!

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BOTHBaseball*

Men’s basketball*Men’s cross country*

Men’s golfMen’s lacrosse*Men’s soccer*Men’s tennis*

Men’s track & field (indoor & outdoor)*Women’s basketball*

Women’s cross country*Women’s golf*

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Women’s track & field (indoor & outdoor)*Softball*

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FootballWomen’s bowling

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Men’s ice hockey*Women’s ice hockey*

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Athletics recently announced its move from the Northeast Conference to the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. We’ve compiled the differences between the conferences to show you our current and future competition.

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I’m the kind of person who likes getting lost. I seek out opportunities to venture off the beaten path and explore new places and speak with new people. I’m a strong believer that the only way to truly learn is through experience and I’m the kind of person who looks for ex-periences that I can’t recreate.

When I decided to study abroad, I knew I couldn’t see myself spending four months in places like London, Paris or Rome. European cities are beautiful and culture-rich places, don’t get me wrong. But I wanted to do some-thing a little bit quirky, a little bit weird, some-

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Traditional desktop computer sales have continuously dropped since 2006 according to the Consumer Electronics Association. In 2008, laptop sales surpassed desktop for the first time, as well, and continue to rise. The popularity of tablets, smartphones and handheld devices have an impact, as well, and in 2013 desktops may become like that dusty typewriter.-CB

This ancient grain is on the rise, and is a diet-friendly trend destined to boom in 2013. An alternative to rice or pasta, quinoa is gluten-free and high in fiber, protein, and many min-erals including manganese and mag-nesium, which helps reduce stress. Recently it has popped up in maga-zines, celebrity blogs, and menus as a filling and tasty addition to salads, stirfries, and as a stand alone dish.

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thing not a lot of people have done before. I wanted to come back feeling fulfilled.

This semester, I am circumnavigating the globe with a program called Semester at Sea. We start in Ensenada, Mexico, travel across the Pacific Ocean and end in Barcelona, Spain, focusing specifically on broadening students’ global perspective. Students live and take class-es on a cruise ship called the MV Explorer, sail 106 days, visit 12 countries, and 16 ports.

Today we left the first stop on our journey, Hilo, Hawaii. I had the opportunity to attend an authentic luau, where the “kupuna,” or el-ders of the Hilo community shared aspects of

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loud drums, and girls shaking their hips. How-ever, what I experienced was very different. The kupuna taught us the significance of the hula dance and explained that it is a celebra-tion and spiritual connection to the earth.

Life in Hawaii is so much more than re-sorts, beaches and vacations. The stretch of islands has a rich culture that can only be ex-plained by talking with locals and getting a tangible sense of life there.

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Though Beyoncé reportedly lip-synced her performance at President Barack Obama’s Inauguration on Monday morning, her dazzling rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” lived up to her Sasha Fierce alter-ego.

The Grammy Award-winning diva stole the show amid political speeches and patriotic performances by fellow artists Kelly Clarkson and James Taylor.

She approached her platform in front of the Capitol Building appear-ing far more reserved than usual, in an elegantly sheer black dress, which was well chosen for such a significant national event. Though the early strains of the song were not sung with the usual ferocity that drips from the singer’s performances, her honorable restraint made her sound like an elegant Disney princess, and the understatement of her entrance marked her a class act.

As the song went on, some of her usual spark shone through, and she belted out the classic song with a proud smile on her face and a gleam in her eyes. She emphasized notes that are usually rather flat, and let other commonly over-sung phrases stand for themselves, making her rendition stand out from a crowd of performances.

Yes, Beyoncé is a celebrity, and quite often celebrities have good performances. What marked this as a truly laudable event in the singer’s career was that her typically over-the-top act was able to step back and acknowledge the gravity of the event. The Inauguration was not about Be-yoncé, and her demure rendition, while stunning, was not overpowering; it was tasteful and absolutely appropriate for the occasion. –C. Tufts

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I never thought I would say this, but let’s bring Paula and Simon back.

“American Idol” is no longer a singing competition, but it is an ego competition between Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj. The Diva and the “Superbass” superstar have duked it out, whether they’re kidding or se-rious, so much to the point where the attention has been taken off the contestants. Fans are more excited about the Nicki and Mariah banter than they are for the actual show.

Here’s the thing: who does Nicki Minaj think she is? Does she know who she’s talking to? As a relatively new artist, who is she to argue with Mariah Carey, who was making music when she was 5 years old? Mariah is up there with the other greats of R&B and pop and Nicki, as a “newbie,” should realize that refuting everything she has to say may not be the best idea.

And Mariah isn’t a complete victim here: have you seen her pomp-ous facial expressions and superior attitude? Please, Mariah, take your own advice and “ Shake It Off.” However, it’s Nicki thats the instigator here. The high profile mini feuds seemed to drag the show, making each contestant segment a frustration more than entertainment. Mariah and Nicki were featured more than the contestants. Is that even allowed?

Even Paula didn’t make it about her as much. –C. Burroni

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THE YEAR OF BEYONCÉShe performed “The Star-Spangled Banner” at The Presidential Inauguration, she’s the Super Bowl XLVII halftime performer, she just launched a personal blog on Jan. 21 titled “Beyhive,” where fans can read what she’s “reading, doing, loving, wearing, hearing,” and her documentary premieres on HBO Feb. 16. Beyoncé’s killin’ it to say the least.

BOY BAND GALORE SUMMER TOUR Let your inner fangirl rejoice! Beginning May 31, New Kids on the Block, 98 Degrees and Boys II Men will be touring in The Package North American Tour. Dig out those embarrassing T-shirts with the boys’ faces on them, and make sure you get your ticket on Feb. 2.

DUNHAM LEAKS “GIRLS” SIX-YEAR CONTRACT Creator and star of the show, Lena Dunham, told Alec Baldwin on his podcast, “Here’s the Thing” Jan. 21 about her six-year contract with HBO according to The Huffington Post. Looks like fans have nothing to worry about; “Girls” is here to stay for the long run. It’s already snagged two Golden Globes two episodes into Season 2.

COUNTRY STARS PENDING NUPTIALSBrantley Gilbert received the present of a lifetime on his 28th birthday. The country singer proposed to girlfriend, Jana Kramer, formerly Alex on “One Tree Hill” and up-and-coming country star. She promptly accepted on Jan. 20.

BEIBER TWITTER FEVERJustin Beiber has the most followers on Twitter as of Jan. 22 for a total of 33,340,747, surpassing Lady Gaga, the previous title holder. Entertainment Weekly reported Lada Gaga was happy for Beiber, and tweeted at him, “So proud of @justinbieber and all the Beliebers! I’m only happy to see your fans growing in size, you all deserve it! Monsters support you!”

LOHAN REFUSES DWTS DEALLindsey Lohan rejected a $550,000 offer from Dancing With the Stars because she doesn’t want to do reality TV according to TMZ. As her personal and career failures stack up, people can’t help but think of the saying “beggars can’t be choosers.” She’s lucky to have any offers at all.

BARBARA WALTERS HOSPITALIZEDThe long-time broadcast journalist and current host on the daily talk show, The View, missed a step and fell on the stairs at the British ambassador’s residence in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 19. Her colleague at ABC, Jeffrey Schneider, announced over the weekend that she was “alert” and still in the hospital “out of caution” according to Huffington Post.

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THE BALLROOM THIEVESReady to steal the spotlight on the folk mu-

sic scene, The Ballroom Thieves have made their way to Quinnipiac to perform on cam-pus tonight. Based out of Boston, Mass., the musical trio established themselves in January 2012, and since then, the group has been trav-eling the country, making everyone aware of “Thieves.”

“We’ve had a special experience where we’ve met the right people and played the right shows,” said Devin Mauch, 24, percussionist and vocalist. “Our song writing and style has really affected the people we’ve met.”

Mauch explained that the sound of The Ballroom Thieves is instrumentally similar to The Lumineers with the energy of Mumford and Sons. The band consists of Mauch, vocal-ist and guitarist Martin Earley, 25, and cellist/vocalist Rachel Gawell.

Mauch and Earley started playing together more than three years ago at their alma mater, Stonehill College, and then hired Gawell as a session cellist to enhance what they were re-cording.

“She was so cool and so damn good that we couldn’t let her go,” Mauch said, mention-ing that the three have been together for a year and three months now.

With the addition of Gawell, the trio needed a name. The Ballroom Thieves came to Earley’s mind and stuck. Mauch describes

the name as a reflection of the band’s attitude, somewhere “between classy and badass-ery, kind of edgy but still really listenable.”

Still fresh on the scene, the Thieves have begun to pave their way as a unique sound with deep lyrics, although it’s not some-thing you would hear on the radio everyday, Mauch said. Their EP entitled “The Devil & The Deep” consists of five songs, and since its debut, has been performed at more than 30 colleges nationwide and performed with Joe Fletcher and The Apache Relay.

“The Devil & The Deep” CDs will be on sale for $5 at tonight’s show, along with other Ballroom Thieves’ merchandise. “We value our ability to make it so cheap, we just want people to have it,” Mauch said.

The band’s performances are very dynam-ic and interactive, alternating between high-energy songs and relaxing acoustic sets.

“It gets pretty rowdy, and then we’ll slow it down,” Mauch said. “If you come with an open mind, ready to listen and to just have a good time, then you’re all set.”

Mauch describes his bandmate Earley as “amazing with lyrics,” specifically in one of their favorite songs, “Coward’s Son,” in which the lyrics are emotional and thought-provoking. “I like people to analyze our lyrics and come up with their own thoughts but it’s just delving into one man looking in on him-self in a really non-traditional way that people use a lot,” he said.

The Ballroom Thieves look to have a per-sonal experience with an audience; whether they play to a sold-out Boston club or to a tight-knit college crowd, their ‘infectious pas-sion and raw energy’ connects with all, ac-cording to the band’s website.

“That’s what we’re all about,” Mauch said. “We like to feel like we leave knowing the people that we just played for.”

The Ballroom Thieves performance is sponsored by the Student Programming Board at 6 p.m. in The Piazza.

By CHRISTINE BURRONIArts & Life Editor

PHOTO COURTESY OF JESSICA ARNOLD

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a six month span of just me smoking heavily, all day every day,” Lindenberg said. “I was buying ounces every week or two. I was smoking by myself. I was high basically every second. I was high until I went to bed, so basically three quar-ters or more of the day, I was stoned.”

Although Lindenberg received good grades, his behavior at home spiraled out of control. The numbness the drug provided left Lindenberg un-aware of the consequences of his actions, and his family began to tear apart. His younger sister Olivia, 17, remembers her brother’s erratic be-havior during his marijuana abuse.

“From a very young age, I was always trying to figure out whether or not it was part of his per-sonality—that everything needed to be helped for him,” Olivia said. “What he was missing manifested itself as marijuana, but from a young age I knew something was off.”

By the time Lindenberg reached his senior year of high school, his rebellion became an ev-eryday occurrence. He drove high each day and drove drunk a few times. He took his frustration out on Olivia, which deteriorated their relation-ship, and their parents watched as Lindenberg became a different person.

“Andrew ran the household,” Lindenberg’s mother, Dawn, said. “He became incredibly defiant in the house and it affected everybody. I realized, ‘This is not the person he is. This is not the true Andrew.’”

Lindenberg’s father, Lewis, had a more dif-ficult time acknowledging his son’s struggles.

“I was much more in denial,” Lewis said. “I did not take many of the daily things to be any-thing more than a hope and a wish that we were just going to wake up one day and things would change.”

Lindenberg’s parents got a wakeup call the day Lindenberg declared he no longer loved them. Lewis and Dawn realized he needed help beyond what they could offer.

Lindenberg didn’t return to Horace Greeley High School to finish his senior year. Instead, he was sent to Second Nature Entrada on Oct. 23,

2009 with no warning. Lewis remembers the day his son left when two men picked Lindenberg up at dawn.

“Andrew was asleep,” Lewis said. “We went to his room and we said ‘Andrew, wake up. These gentlemen are here to take you away.’ I will never forget, as much as it was necessary, how hard that was to see him be-ing taken into a stranger’s car and having to be escorted away, to be going to a place we were hoping would be good for him, but obviously we did not know.”

Lindenberg complied with his escorts and was brought to Second Nature Entrada, a wil-derness therapy program designed for people of different ages, backgrounds and struggles. Clinically-driven treatment teams use a variety of intervention techniques to help students gain “personal awareness, responsibility, improved communication, healthy relationship skills, and strengthened self-esteem” according to its web-site. Lindenberg said starting over in a new en-vironment helped him see the pain he inflicted upon his family.

“We were literally out in the middle of no-where,” Lindenberg said. “We were surrounded by deserts and mountains. We only had tarps, no lights and no electricity. It was rough, but I got used to it and it made me stronger.”

During Lindenberg’s time in Second Nature Entrada, he was allowed to see his family once. Toward the end of therapy, Lindenberg realized he used marijuana to avoid the feelings and emo-tions he couldn’t deal with, most associated with depression.

“I was always in denial about me being de-pressed because, like, who really knows what that word means and what it really entails,” Lin-denberg said. “I never admitted that I had a prob-lem. I was always in denial and that I could stop [smoking] whenever I wanted.”

After two and a half months Lindenberg re-turned home and was sent to John Dewey Acad-emy, a boarding prep school in Great Barrington, Mass., to finish high school as a 19-year-old se-nior. The school is exclusively for troubled stu-dents seeking to regain their lives, Lindenberg said.

Lindenberg said he wasn’t happy about the decision at the time, but knows it solidified his recovery. The majority of his transformation took place at prep school, Lindenberg said.

He admits that the transition was difficult, however. For five months he remained in a stu-por, unresponsive to the words and actions of his instructors and peers.

A few months later, his academics began to improve and he made friends, but his true transformation took place during “Closed House,” when John Dewey closed for two

weeks. During this time, students attended constant group therapy and were required to clean the academy. This is when Lindenberg made his breakthrough.

“The John Dewey Academy’s philosophy is ‘In the struggle together.’ Because I saw that ev-eryone was opening up [during group therapy] about what they were going through, the loneli-ness I felt and the fear of what others thought of me began to fade away, and, for the first time in eight months, I truly felt like I was in the struggle together,” he said.

Lindenberg made strides both academically and in personal growth. He gained a sense of self after realizing the cause behind his actions and was helpful to his peers. Lindenberg also made efforts to regain his family’s trust.

“He’s more aware in general,” Olivia said. “We were able to work through a lot of the prob-lems and I was able to tell him how he affected me, and that helped us to grow closer. I think that now he looks back on himself and doesn’t take things out on me, which has helped our relation-ship a lot.”

Lindenberg left John Dewey Academy in February 2011 and enrolled at Quinnipiac in fall 2011. He continues to impress his parents as a member of the Honors Program and getting in-volved with campus organizations, including the fraternity Delta Tau Delta, the Research and Investments Club and the mentorship program.

“A big change to my mindset is that now when I want something, I go after it,” Linden-berg said. “I don’t look at the challenge, sit back and then run away. I look at the challenge, get up on my feet and face it head on.”

Lindenberg’s daily goal is to push himself. Each day he hopes to be a better, more well-rounded person and to grow stronger emotion-ally, he said.

“People say we saved his life,” Lewis said. “People say we saved his life because the path Andrew was headed was going to be a calamity. Some way or another something bad was going to happen. When and how, we didn’t know, but it was going to be bad and we saved his life […] because that’s what parents do.”

On Oct. 29, 2012, Lindenberg created a Face-book post in honor of his third year of sobriety.

“All parents say they’d do whatever they need to do for their children, but my parents proved that and did what was best for me,” Lin-denberg wrote. “They are two of the strongest people I know, and I wouldn’t be who I am today if it weren’t for the strength they found to send me away.”

The post had nearly 200 likes and more than 30 comments from friends and family in support.

He ended the post with, “Today marks my 3 years sober from drugs. Never again.”

ndrew Lindenberg sat under a plas-tic tarp and listened to the tapping of the rain. The sun had set and the handmade fire he created an hour ago was quenched by the never-ending downpour. He sat in darkness; just him, other sufferers and the mountains.

This wasn’t a camping trip gone wrong. Lin-denberg was recovering from his dependence on marijuana, and spent two and half months in the wilderness of St. George, Utah, in the therapy program Second Nature Entrada.

“My drug of choice was weed, marijuana, and I don’t think I was ever physically addicted because you can’t quote, unquote, be physically addicted to that, but I think that I was very depen-dent on that in terms of using it as a crutch in my life as a way to escape from whatever it was that I was doing—basically to leave and escape from my unhappiness,” Lindenberg said.

What started as occasional recreational use during his sophomore year of high school turned into a dependence around April 2009, Linden-berg’s junior year of high school. He recalled feelings of extreme loneliness and wanting to escape everything and everyone. At that time, Lindenberg said he couldn’t pinpoint the cause of his sadness. Now he knows it was a result of depression, a mental illness causing frequent feelings of sadness and loss of interest, according to the Mayo Clinic.

“I feel that many kids don’t know that they’re depressed because they’ve never experienced the emotions before or don’t know what it is,” Lin-denberg said. “That would have been the case for me. I didn’t know, and, therefore, I didn’t put much thought into it.”

According to a 2012 poll by the National In-stitute on Drug Abuse, 17 percent of high school sophomores and nearly 23 percent of seniors used marijuana in the past month, an increase from 14 percent and 18 percent in 2007 respec-tively.

“Junior year [of high school] there was like

By SARA KOZLOWSKIStaff Writer

THIS IS ME

LINDENBERG RECOVERED FROM HIS MARIJUANA USE AT A WILDERNESS PROGRAM IN UTAH

ESCAPING DEPENDENCYNAME: Andrew Lindenberg

HOMETOWN: Chappaqua, N.Y.MAJOR: Finance

YEAR: Sophomore

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Lindenberg spent two and a half months in Second Nature Entrada in St. George, Utah to help him overcome his reliance on marijuana.

Standing on his head. It’s one of the oldest adages in all of sports. It’s used when a hock-ey goalie makes saves that he has no right to make, when a goaltender becomes an impen-etrable wall in front of the net.

It’s also exactly what has helped Quinnipi-ac goaltender Eric Hartzell become nominated as a finalist for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award, an accolade given to the top overall player in college hockey.

The Bobcat senior has catapulted Quinni-piac into the national spotlight with a No. 2 na-tional ranking and a 16-game unbeaten streak (14-0-2), the longest in the nation and longest in program history. With a 17-3-3 overall re-cord, the Bobcats have risen to the No. 1 spot in the PairWise rankings, a system the NCAA uses to determine the tournament bracket.

Former teammates of Hartzell, Brandon Wong and Eric Lampe were the last Bobcats to be nominated for the award in the 2009-10 season. Quinnipiac’s assistant coach, Reid Cashman, was also nominated in 2005 and was the only one of the three to make it to the final 10 stage.

The teams with the most winners are pro-grams synonymous with college hockey suc-cess: Minnesota-Duluth (five winners), Uni-versity of Minnesota (four), Harvard (three), Boston College (two) and Boston University (two). These teams have combined to win 17 NCAA championships.

Quinnipiac has never had a Hobey award winner and has made it to the NCAA tourna-ment just once in 2002.

Despite Hartzell’s success this season, his-tory is not in his favor. Since the award was founded in 1981, only two netminders have tak-en home the trophy: Robb Stauber in 1988 and Ryan Miller in 2001. Miller has since become an Olympic medalist and is currently the start-ing goaltender of the NHL’s Buffalo Sabres.

Hartzell however is producing the stats to give him a chance to become the third goal-tender to win the award. Hartzell ranks first in the nation in wins with 17 and second in goals-against at 1.4779 per game. The man between the pipes also has the 10th best save percent-age at .933 as well as four shutouts on the year, one behind the nation’s leader.

Professional scouts have taken notice of Hartzell at this point. For the weekend series against Nebraska-Omaha there were report-edly close to 40 NHL representatives on hand to watch.

With the No. 2 team in the country, Hartzell isn’t the only one that scouts have taken notice of. Kellen Jones is one of the elite forwards of the ECAC Hockey and is draft property of the Edmonton Oilers, while the same applies for Jordan Samuels-Thomas of the Winnipeg Jets and Matthew Peca of the Tampa Bay Lightning.

The Bobcats have the transcendent talent on their roster required to compete, plus they have a wealth of leadership and experience in their senior class as 11 of the 28 roster spots belong to seniors, including Jeremy Langlois, the NCAA’s active career-leading goal scorer.

To begin the season, the Bobcats looked worthy of their top-25 ranking as they collected a road victory against No. 15 Maine. But it was not an early season sign of a fast start. Three weeks after their win over Maine, Colgate drubbed them 5-1 on Oct. 27. They lost again on Nov. 6 to an American International team that shouldn’t have been able to compete and dropped to 3-3-1 on the young season. It looked as if inconsistency would haunt them yet again.

“We took some losses in the beginning of the year and that was sort of an eye-opener that we need to come out and play our best every night,” Samuels-Thomas said after a game earlier in the season.

But then they started winning.It all began with an overtime win against

Colgate on Nov. 9. They carried momentum

with them to a win the next day when they were matched up against No. 4 Cornell at home in front of a sold-out crowd. Against the No. 4 team, Hartzell rebuffed 22 of 23 shots. The month culminated in Hartzell’s second shutout in 10 days in a 4-0 win against No. 7/8 Union. The win gave the Bobcats three wins against top-16 teams in the month of Novem-ber and four on the year.

The Bobcats entered December riding a seven-game unbeaten streak and with a No. 16 ranking in the USCHO.com as well as the US-AToday Poll. They went through the middle of December without a blemish, setting them up for a heavyweight weekend series against No.12/13 Nebraska-Omaha to improve to 13-3-2 on the season and pushing their progra re-

cord unbeaten streak to 11 games.“Everyone on our team believes we are the

best team in college hockey,” Hartzell said af-ter the weekend sweep. “We just have to con-tinue playing that way.”

The seniors on this Bobcat team have prov-en over the course of the season that they have learned from the failures they experienced as freshmen. After wrapping up December on a high note, Quinnipiac carried its momentum and focus into January, toppling No. 8 Dart-mouth and No. 16 Union.

Quinnipiac has won eight games this sea-son against opponents who were at the time ranked No. 16 or higher in the national polls. Its last loss came more than two months ago on Tuesday, Nov. 6, against American.

While the men’s ice hock-ey team has been dominating the headlines, the women’s ice hockey team is quietly having a good season as well.

The Bobcats are currently tied for fourth place in ECAC Hockey with an overall re-cord of 14-9-2 (8-5-1 ECAC) and are fresh off a weekend sweep against Robert Morris.

Kelly Babstock leads the team in points for her third consecutive season and is tied

for fifth in the nation with 43 points off of 21 goals and 22 assists. Earlier this season, she became the first player in program history to hit the 100-point mark for her career.

Nicole Kosta has also stepped up for the Bobcats in her sophomore season, compiling 33 points off of 10 goals and 23 assists. Senior captain Regan Boulton, Brit-tany Lyons and Erica Uden Johansson round out the top five scorers with 22, 17 and 17 points, respectively.

Together, these five play-ers have helped power their team to the 11th best offense in the nation, scoring 3.04 goals per game. They also have the fifth best power play unit in the country convert-ing on 24.27 percent of their chances. Lyons has provided-seven power-play goals, good for third in the country.

The women’s ice hockey team has eight games remain-ing in the regular season be-fore the ECAC Hockey tour-nament begins on March 1.

WHOK continues second half pushWith the program’s Divi-

sion I all-time scoring leader James Johnson graduating last year, the Quinnipiac men’s basketball team has yet to find a scoring replace-ment.

For the past two sea-sons, Johnson led the team in scoring, averaging 16.3 points per game combined during his junior and senior seasons. This year, the Bob-cats’ leading scorer is junior

forward Ike Azotam, who is averaging 14.1 points per game.

While Johnson was al-ways the go-to option when the team needed a bucket down the stretch, no one has stepped up for the squad this season.

The team has had a vari-ety of scoring leaders in its games this year, with Azo-tam, Dave Johnson, Zaid Hearst and Garvey Young having all led the Bobcats in scoring this season at least

twice.But no one player has

provided the consistency J. Johnson brought to the court.

Through the team’s first 18 games, it has compiled a 6-12 record, including a 2-4 conference record in its last season in the North-east Conference. The team has yet to win back-to-back games. Last season, it won two straight games after its third game of the season and was 9-9 through its first 18 games.

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Junior transfer Jordan Samuels-Thomas has provided an additional spark for the Bob-cats contributing additional offense during the team’s 16-game unbeaten streak.

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“Maybe some people are waking up to it but I think we have been a pretty good hockey team for a long time.”

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poll and first in the PairWise rank-ings, the Bobcats are preparing for an ECAC Hockey title run and an opportunity to play in the NCAA Tournmanent. But on a team with 11 seniors, it is two freshman team-mates, Travis St. Denis and Michael Garteig, that already have champi-onship experience.

Teammates on the 2011-12 Pent-icton Vees of the British Columbia Hockey League, St. Denis and Gar-teig led their junior league squad to the Royal Bank Cup for the second time in the franchise’s history. The Royal Bank Cup is presented to the top Canadian Junior A team of the Canadian Junior Hockey League, which consists of 10 smaller divi-sions that make up the league, in-cluding the BCHL.

“We had a special team last year,” St. Denis said. “Even af-ter training camp we knew we had something special.”

During the first round of the BCHL playoffs, Penticton defeated the Chilliwack Chiefs in six games, a series that St. Denis described as a “struggle.” From that point on, the Vees took eight of their next nine games, defeating the Merritt Cen-tennials and the Powell River Kings en route to winning the Fred Page Cup of the BCHL.

After securing the BCHL cham-pionship, Penticton then competed against the Brooks Bandits, cham-pions of the Alberta Junior Hockey League, for the Doyle Cup, a se-ries that Penticton won in just five games. The win punched the Vees ticket for the national championship held in Humboldt, Saskatchewan. After bypassing initial round-robin play and the semifinals, the Vees were slated to square off against the Woodstock Slammers in the national championship.

Yet, the beginning of best-of-sev-en set didn’t exactly go as planned.

“We lost our first two games,” St.

Denis said. “Our coach put us into perspective. I think the guys kind of thought it [the national champion-ship] was just going to get handed to us. After we lost those first two games, guys really picked it up.”

Penticton took the series in sev-en games, winning its second Royal Bank Cup and setting a North Amer-ican record of 42 straight wins in the process.

“It’s something you look back on now and it gives you shivers,” Garteig said. “We got a lot of attention from TV. It was pretty special. There’s the BCHL record, the sports record, and then the national sports record. It was a confidence we had, and it led right to a national championship.”

Through his season with Pentic-

ton, St. Denis tallied 37 goals and 52 assists in just 54 games played. Mean-while, Garteig went 41-4-0 with a 1.93 goals-against average and a .927 save percentage in 2011-2012 as the starting goaltender. Furthermore, Gar-teig was also honored with the 2012 BCHL Goaltending Award, an acco-lade given to the goaltender with the lowest goals against average.

In transitioning to collegiate play, St. Denis was immediately plugged in as a second liner, playing along-side junior Jordan Samuels-Thomas and senior Jeremy Langlois, while Garteig assumed the role of back-up behind Eric Hartzell.

“They (Samuels-Thomas and Langlois) really helped me transi-tion, and easily,” St. Denis said. “The

coaches did as well. Staying out after practice helped me. Most of all, defi-nitely my linemates [helped].”

Prior to Tuesday evening’s con-test against former Heroes Hat op-ponent the University of Connecti-cut, Quinnipiac is riding a 16-game unbeaten streak, while playing to a record of 11-0-1 in conference play. The Jan. 21 USCHO.com poll placed Quinnipiac at No. 2 in the nation, while the Bobcats rank first in the PairWise poll.

As of Jan. 21, St. Denis leads all freshman Bobcats with nine points and is tied for fifth on the team with five goals.

Garteig, however, has seen lim-ited action between the pipes due to Hartzell’s Hobey Baker candi-

date season. In 97:50 minutes play, Garteig has recorded a 2.45 goals-against average, while stopping 26 of 30 shots.

From a recruiting standpoint, both athletes heavily appealed to Quinnipiac due to their junior hock-ey success.

“Several things stuck out about Garteig and St. Denis. First, they have a ton of talent. They both were dominant in the BCHL,” Quinnipiac head coach Rand Pecknold said. “Second, they’re highly competi-tive players who flat out compete. Third, they have great character, and they’re great in the locker room.”

Garteig has seen the team’s en-ergy from the bench and believes the chemistry has been solid.

“Coming here and winning as well, [there are] not too many lows,” Garteig said. “When you’re win-ning, it’s usually fun, and that’s what it seems like on the bench right now. The guys gel really well off the ice and on the ice. You win games, you have fun, and you’re not bickering at each other.”

As Quinnipiac continues to rattle off victories, St. Denis feels his game-play has improved due to the knowl-edge of his coaches and has ambitions for the stretch run of the season.

“Everyday I come to the rink with a fresh mind, ready to learn new things,” St. Denis said. “[The] coach-ing staff does a good job during prac-tice teaching everyone new things. My main focus right now is to just stay in the lineup, contribute anyway I can for the team, whether it’s block-ing shots, scoring goals, taking hits.”

Garteig on the other hand hopes to see time during the final games of the season and to improve his skills this summer.

“I got to make sure I get better this year, focus on my practices, support Hartzell and push him as much as I can,” Garteig said. “For next year, it’s my goal to take the ball and roll with it. I just got to fo-cus on getting better this year and setting myself up for next.”

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Freshmen Michael Garteig (left) and Travis St. Denis led the Penticton Vees to the Canadian Junior A cham-pionship in 2012, along with setting the North American winning streak record with 42.

Freshmen add championship experience to seasoned squadBy Bryan Lipiner associate Sports editor

Behind the play of senior guard Felicia Barron, the Quinnipiac women’s basketball team continued its ex-cellent play over winter break by going 8-2 in 10 games and maintaining first place atop the Northeast Confer-ence.

Barron, who is averaging a team-best 16.2 points and 3.9 steals per game, has led the Bobcats this year to a 15-2 record (6-0 NEC). She has also contributed 2.8 rebounds and 2.8 assists per-game while averaging close to 28 minutes a contest.

Quinnipiac defeated St. John’s, Northeastern and Rob-ert Morris, among others, over the break. Yet, on Dec. 16, Quinnipiac had its seven-game winning streak snapped in a 67-61 loss at Hartford. The only other loss for the Bob-cats this season was on Dec. 29, when they fell to Georgia Tech at the Florida International Tournament.

Dating back to Dec. 30, Quinnipiac, led by head coach Tricia Fabbri, has built a seven-game win streak.

The Bobcats are the only remaining team in the NEC without a loss to a conference opponent.

In the most recent Division I mid-major poll on Col-legeInsider.com, Quinnipiac has soared to No. 12 over-all, receiving 389 points and moving up from its previ-ous spot at No. 15.

Barron hasn’t been the only one making major con-tributions to the team’s success. Junior forward Brittany McQuain has added 11.5 points (45.1 percent from the field) and a team-leading 8.1 rebounds per game. Sopho-more Jasmine Martin has also chimed in with 13.4 points per game for the Bobcats.

Furthermore, Quinnipiac has remained undefeated at home this year, going a perfect 6-0 at the TD Bank Sports Center. As a team, the Bobcats are scoring 70.2 points per game and only allowing 60.6.

Monday evening, Quinnipiac downed St. Francis (Pa.) 85-69, as Barron dropped 28 points. The Bobcats look to continue their success at home against Fairleigh Dickinson on Saturday.

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Jasmine Martin has stepped up her role from a bench player last year to the second leading scorer on the team. She has helped the Bobcats to a 15-2 start.