The Quinnipiac Chronicle

Letter to the Editor: Policies lack openness and trust

Posted on 06. Feb, 2008 by David Hutter.

I am writing this letter to express my support for The Chronicle staffers to conduct interviews and publish articles free from the interference of the administrators.

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Spring brings increased thefts

Posted on 25. Apr, 2007 by David Hutter.

Students have had their textbooks and cell phones stolen with increasingly regularity since late March, said John Twining, chief of security and safety.

An increased number of larcenies is not uncommon during the second half of the semester, he said. Campus Security believes that the thieves are Quinnipiac students.

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Grandaughter speaks about Roosevelt’s legacy

Posted on 10. Apr, 2007 by David Hutter.

Anna Roosevelt declared she does not own the legacy of her grandmother Eleanor Roosevelt, the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945 who championed the rights of marginalized people.

“All American citizens and peoples of the entire world own the legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt,” Anna Roosevelt said last Wednesday to a packed Alumni Hall audience in a lecture sponsored by the Albert Schweitzer Institute.

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Grad student dies in motorcycle crash

Posted on 04. Apr, 2007 by David Hutter.

Quinnipiac graduate student Michael Richardson was killed in a motorcycle accident last Tuesday night, Dean of Students Manuel Carreiro told the university community by e-mail last Wednesday.

Richardson was in the process of completing his master in journalism and was a native of Middletown, N.Y. He graduated from Quinnipiac in May 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in public relations.

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Cafeteria update, WQAQ tower postponed again

Posted on 28. Mar, 2007 by David Hutter.

Plans to begin renovating Caf

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Robert Bruce Memorial Scholarship established

Posted on 07. Mar, 2007 by David Hutter.

The communications honor society Lambda Pi Eta has joined forces with the School of Communications in sponsoring the Robert Bruce Memorial Scholarship.

Members of the honor society are accepting donations on behalf of the scholarship from Monday through Friday, from 12 p.

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Q30 manager in ‘fair condition’ after crash

Posted on 28. Feb, 2007 by David Hutter.

Quinnipiac senior Ben Shapiro was listed in “fair condition” at Yale-New Haven Hospital at press time Monday, hospital media coordinator Mark D’Antonio said.

Shapiro was admitted to the hospital Friday, Feb. 16, around 2 a.m., after his 2004 Mazda skidded of a bridge on Skiff Street in Hamden and careened into the Mill River.

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Chronicle Exclusive: Professor offends law students

Posted on 28. Feb, 2007 by David Hutter.

A Quinnipiac law professor who wrote that law students will become “smug district attorneys wearing ill-fitting power suits” in an e-mail to students belonging to his reading list has sparked anger from at least two law students.

In an e-mail correspondence Feb.

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Glowacki refuses to inspire audience

Posted on 21. Feb, 2007 by David Hutter.

Waving his muscular arms repeatedly above his head, Matt Glowacki begged nearly 100 people not to consider him inspirational Saturday in Alumni Hall.

A 33-year-old native of Janesville, Wis., who was born without legs, Glowacki weaved a bevy of personal anecdotes with an analysis of the television shows “Family Guy” and “South Park” to spark conversation about the myriad ways in which people discriminate against each other.

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Student injured in icy car crash

Posted on 21. Feb, 2007 by David Hutter.

Quinnipiac senior Ben Shapiro was seriously injured around 2 a.m. Friday when his 2004 Mazda careened over a bridge on Skiff Street in Hamden and plummeted into the Mill River, his relatives and friends confirmed Sunday.

At press time Monday, Shapiro was in intensive care at Yale-New Haven Hospital.

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Editor Speaks Out: Feminist deficit is disturbing

Posted on 14. Feb, 2007 by David Hutter.

One of my professors last week asked students to raise their hands if they considered themselves feminists. I proudly raised my hand and looked around the room to see who among my classmates also supported women’s equality. To my astonishment and utter chagrin, none of my 25 or so classmates were raising their hands.

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Burglaries put campus on alert

Posted on 14. Feb, 2007 by David Hutter.

Some cunning thieves scored a touchdown Super Bowl Sunday.

Four dorm rooms were burglarized Feb. 4 during the big game, said a spokesman for Quinnipiac security. The burglars took a computer, a purse, several DVDs and at least one iPod.

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WQAQ tower to be rebuilt by May, back on the air by fall

Posted on 07. Feb, 2007 by David Hutter.

A new transmission tower for WQAQ will be erected in the West Woods parking lot by May, thereby precipitating the student radio station’s return to the airwaves for the start of next semester, Dean of Students Manuel Carreiro said Jan. 31.

The plans are subject to renewal of the radio station’s broadcasting license by the Federal Communications Commission, Carreiro said.

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Quinnipiac buys new property for graduate programs

Posted on 31. Jan, 2007 by David Hutter.

Quinnipiac University bought a 100-acre campus consisting of four buildings from Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in North Haven, representatives of the university and health care insurer announced Jan. 16.

The university plans to use the North Haven property to house a graduate education center, Lynn Bushnell, vice president for public affairs, said through an e-mail message.

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