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My experience at The Quinnipiac Chronicle provided me foundational practical experience as a journalist covering news on my college campus. Throughout my time with the Chronicle, I have grown in the capacity of the roles I took on. I was ultimately promoted to editor-in-chief by the end of my second year, after previously serving as news editor, associate news editor, copy editor and staff writer. 

As editor-in-chief, I am the principal manager of organizational and editorial operations. Each week, I oversee all staff through print publication processes and manage all content. This position has enhanced my understanding of effective leadership and team management.

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Quinnipiac agrees to $2.5 million settlement in COVID tuition refund case

Quinnipiac University preliminarily agreed to a $2.5 million settlement in a lawsuit filed by two students that sought refunds for tuition and other expenses during the school’s shift to online learning in March 2020.

Attorneys for the plaintiffs, current student Zoey Metzner and former student Dominic Gravino, filed a motion for the settlement’s preliminary approval in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut on Dec. 2, according to documents obtained by the Chronicle.

The laws
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Quinnipiac religious leaders reflect on humanitarian trip to Ukraine

When the Rev. Jordan Lenaghan walked into the student center of Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine, last week, he encountered three students who reminded him of the ones he works with at Quinnipiac University.

“I’m not afraid to die,” Lenaghan said each student told him in English while preparing aid supplies for the Ukrainian army.

Lenaghan, executive director of religious life, and the Rev. Joachim Kenney, staff chaplain, spent 10 days beginning March 10 in Ukraine with the Knigh
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Medical students celebrate ‘Match Day’ in person

As the clock struck noon on March 18, nearly four years of medical education were reduced to a single moment for fourth-year medical students nationwide, including 96 from Quinnipiac University’s Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine. It was the moment they would learn where they would be spending at least the next three years for their residency placements. “It’s sort of the culmination of all the hard work over the last 3 1/2 years,” said Allison Bradley, a fourth-year medical student. “All of
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Surging gas prices put financial strain on student travel

President Biden announced March 8, the U.S. would be banning energy and oil imports from Russia. Ball said gas prices may continue to spike if countries across Europe follow suit. According to Eurostat, 27% of the European Union’s crude oil imports came from Russia in 2019.

“When Europe also has to back out of (the Russian) oil market and find alternative supplies, now they’re trying to replace (27%) of what they needed in alternative sources, and that drives up demand for all those alternative
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Hamden apartment complex fire impacts 60 residents, including QU students

After witnessing a fire tear through his apartment complex on Warner Street in Hamden Feb. 14, Quinnipiac University junior Tyler Woodward said the hardest part of the ordeal was yet to come.

The harrowing part came days later, Woodward said, when his insurance company sent him a spreadsheet to log the items he had lost in the blaze. All of his belongings, including a hat collection he had inherited from his grandfather and his roommate’s $5,000 shoe collection, were now reduced to a handful of
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Talent management degree with tracks in sports, entertainment and esports to be offered in fall 2022

Quinnipiac University is launching a new bachelor of science degree in talent management in fall 2022, focusing on tracks in sports, entertainment and esports management.

The program, which is “designed to teach you the business side of sports, esports or entertainment,” according to Quinnipiac’s website, will be the only one of its kind in the country, said Tuvana Rua, the program’s faculty coordinator.

“(Quinnipiac has) something unique going on that nobody pretty much in the country has bec
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Transcending generations: ‘The Challenge’ proves to be reality TV’s crown jewel

Among most of Gen Z, the most common association to MTV’s television channel is copious amounts of “Ridiculousness” or the latest “Catfish” mystery. But to me, MTV’s celebrity goes back to the original days of reality television, in the era of “The Real World,” “Road Rules” and my personal favorite, the worthy heir of both of the aforementioned: “The Challenge.”

Before the days of modern reality TV, with the likes of everything from “Keeping up with the Kardashians” to “The Bachelor,” there was
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Nursing student uses Miss Connecticut Teen USA platform to advocate for mental health, increase representation

For Nikitha Kikanamada, a sophomore nursing major at Quinnipiac University, the beginning of the spring semester is bittersweet, as it’s her last semester as the titleholder of Miss Connecticut Teen USA.

Kikanamada will pass down the title to the winner of Miss Connecticut Teen USA 2022 in April, after holding it since June 2021. She has used her platform as the first Indian-American titleholder to increase representation of her South Asian culture, as well as expanding her mental health advoca
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Quinnipiac fails to check in with victims of shuttle crash, students say

After a Quinnipiac University-affiliated shuttle crashed Dec. 5, with several students onboard, the victims said they are disappointed by the administration’s lack of response.

Jenna Hill, a first-year occupational therapy major, Emma Zykh, a first-year biomedical science major, and two other Quinnipiac students boarded a university-affiliated shuttle at Union Station in New Haven around 7 p.m. on Dec. 5. The bus was headed to Quinnipiac. No one was injured in the accident.

Hill and Zykh said
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Former QU engineering and business professor charged with more than $1 million in wire fraud

Former Quinnipiac University professor and Carlton Highsmith Chair of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Norman Gray is accused of defrauding an investor of more than $1 million, according to federal prosecutors.

Gray, who worked at Quinnipiac until 2018, was arrested Nov. 30 by officers from the Department of Homeland Security and charged with wire fraud, according to an indictment from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. If convicted, Gray could face up to 20 years
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Three students report catalytic converters stolen

Three students were identified as having their vehicle’s catalytic converters stolen on Quinnipiac University’s Mount Carmel and North Haven campuses from Oct. 5-6, according to an email sent Friday by Chief of Public Safety Tony Reyes.

In response, Reyes said the university will increase its patrolling on campus to mitigate future incidents.

A catalytic converter is a device attached to a vehicle’s exhaust system. Thieves target these devices since they are made out of highly valuable metals,
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‘Big Brother’ is finally embracing diversity

It only took 21 years and 23 seasons for the American version of “Big Brother” to finally crown its first Black winner.

Not only did this winner make history, the whole cast did. Early on this season, the six Black cast members aligned and vowed to remain loyal to each other in an alliance. The successful move was an effort to ensure the season’s winner would finally be a Black person.

Xavier Prather, a 27-year-old attorney from Milwaukee, walked away with the $750,000 grand prize on Sep. 29,
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SGA multicultural and identity senator resigns, citing ‘perverse power dynamic’

Following a Student Government Association (SGA) election season that yielded an all-white male executive board (e-board), the multicultural and identity (M&I) senator for the 2021-22 school year has resigned, in part due to inequitable conditions.

Gabriella Colello, a senior political science major, was the sole candidate for two M&I positions in the spring election. The M&I senator represents students of minority races, ethnicities, sexual orientations, gender identities and religion. Accordi
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Quinnipiac mandates COVID-19 vaccine for 2021-22 academic year

Quinnipiac University will require all students, faculty and staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19 for the 2021-22 academic year, according to President Judy Olian’s May 26 email.

“By having universal vaccination with limited exemptions across the Quinnipiac community, we will be able to return to virtually all facets of life on campus,” Olian wrote in the email. “Teaching, learning, research and student life will be able to occur in person, on campus and with few restrictions.”

Students mus
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SGA’s all-white male executive board is disappointing but not surprising: Lack of representation goes deeper than SGA

On April 13, Quinnipiac University’s student body elected an all-white male executive board to lead its student government for the 2021-22 school year.

Out of the 11 candidates for five Student Government Association (SGA) executive board positions, all were white and six were female.

Maybe it’s because I’m a minority student who comes from a place that’s predominantly white like Quinnipiac. Or maybe it’s because I don’t see why any students of color would want to represent this university whe
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Unpacking roommate relationships: First-year students explore their roommate options for next year

For incoming first-year students, living with a roommate is among the most nerve-racking yet exciting aspects of the college transition. But when the outcome of freshman year roommate relationships are not positive, students are thrown back to square one.

Last week, members of Quinnipiac University’s class of 2024 made their room selections and roommate requests for the 2021-22 school year.

Krithi Goud, a first-year biology major, had to find a new roommate for the upcoming year since her curr
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Chewing on American Dental Standards

By setting up an April Fools’ Day prank that he closed his iconic teeth gap, Michael Strahan drew attention to the westernized beauty standard of straight white teeth.

“I did it. #GoodbyeGap,” Strahan tweeted on March 30.

The television personality and former professional athlete included a video of the dental work he underwent. The video has more than four million views to date.

Two days later, Strahan revealed the prank, but not before many of his followers shared their opinions on his tran
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Asian Student Alliance outlines initiative for change at Quinnipiac

Quinnipiac University’s Asian Student Alliance (ASA) published an initiative for institutional and cultural change at Quinnipiac following continued targeting of Asian American communities and the recent mass shooting of Asian women in Atlanta, Georgia.

The initiative calls for changing disciplinary action for students who carry out racist actions, an increase in the support resources available to international students and an expansion in the number of Asian faculty, administrators and public
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Views on future of virtual learning at Quinnipiac divided

After a year of virtual learning, a post-pandemic normal in academia remains unclear.

While there are plenty of challenges to learning at a distance, there are also many benefits that students have grown accustomed to. In 2020, Wiley Education Services found that 78% of online students who have experienced in-person instruction felt as if their online participation was the same or better than learning in person.

“Sometimes I just genuinely am comfortable in my bed or on the couch or want to ea
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Quinnipiac plans to return to entirely on-campus instruction for the fall 2021 semester

Quinnipiac University announced plans for the fall 2021 semester on March 18, including full on-ground instruction, updated distancing measures and plans to encourage COVID-19 vaccinations.

“With the expectation that public health guidelines will shift with the increasing rate of vaccination, we anticipate there will be a return to a much more ‘normal’ semester this coming fall,” Provost Debra Liebowitz said in the announcement.

The plan includes a default on-campus, in-person instruction, and
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Parking fee dissent continues with in-person protest

Quinnipiac University students protested the new parking fee policy for commuter and off-campus students on Wednesday, March 10.

A group of students gathered on the Arnold Bernhard Library steps to protest the $90 per semester fee, which is set to be implemented in the fall 2021 semester. The demonstration comes after growing dissent of the Feb. 25 decision, including a petition to revoke the fee that has amassed more than 1,100 signatures to date.

“We think that (the fee is) very unfair, espe
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Quinnipiac student allegedly assaults roommate — student suspended pending the outcome of investigation

A Quinnipiac University student allegedly assaulted his roommate in the Mountainview residence hall resulting in a large laceration after an argument over a light early on Feb. 26, Hamden Police said Friday.

The injured student was taken to Yale New Haven Hospital to be treated for the slash on his neck. He was released from the hospital Friday, according to an email to the Quinnipiac community from Interim Chief of Public Safety Don DiStefano.

The student said his roommate allegedly assaulted
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