Covering Nemo

Last Year, Blizzard Nemo found its way to the Northeast corridor, dumping two to three feet of snow in some areas.  None were hit harder than the Hamden area as the town received a documented 40 inches of snow.

This was the same for Quinnipiac’s campus, as the clock tower and its off-campus houses on New Road were covered by the white stuff.

Quinnipiac’s Arnold Bernhard Library Covered with Snow (Courtesy Q30 Television)

Quinnipiac Students’ Cars Buried under multiple feet of snow on New Road (Courtesy Q30 Television)

During the middle of the storm, through the raging winds and blowing snow, there stood a single person.  As the rest of Bobcat Nation was warm and cozy in their residence halls, one lone bobcat confronted the storm head on.

Camera in hand, Q30 Television’s Elijah Westbrook battled through the storm on Bobcat Way.  Westbrook was documenting the snowfall and trying to grab reactions from other QU students.  Elijah’s News Package is included below.

Now it’s roughly nine months removed from Nemo, and The Weather Channel decided that they wanted to look back on the storm.

Noted weather personality and major storm chaser Jim Cantore came to Quinnipiac’s campus to interview Elijah Westbrook and current Q30 General Manager Jon Alba about the student coverage of the storm.

Alba was stuck in his home in New Jersey for an extended time after he returned home to play in a show with his band, Seventh Son.

The two were featured during the 9 a.m. hour on The Weather Channel.  It was also fitting that Quinnipiac experienced a light snowfall that morning … the first snowfall of the current winter season.

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Back at The Bank

Both sides of the TD Bank Sports Center were in action on Friday night. The Women’s Basketball and Men’s Ice Hockey teams played a double header, which in a sense, welcomed in the new Winter sports season. Joe Schiavone of the QU Spirit Group chimed in on what it means for the winter seasons to get going.

“I’m excited that [the winter sports] are back because of the new scoreboards because they will add a new element to the games up [at the Bank].”

Though the night was about the teams and the games, the media got its first taste of life at the Bank in Fall 2013.

Friday marked the first day of the Fall semester in which two games were played in the dual-arena. Jordan Siegler, Quinnipiac junior, spent Friday night as a cameraman. Siegler also contributes to the student media coverage throughout the year.

“Covering games at the Bank it so useful,” Siegler stated, “The coverage we can participate in at an arena like this is the most real world experience at the school in my opinion.”

Student and professionals alike comprised the media on Friday. Professional media included, but was not limited to, WQUN and the schools new scoreboard cameramen.

On Friday, the media ended the night by covering the Quinnipiac Men’s Ice Hockey victory over Brown.

The next events at the TD Bank Sports Center are scheduled for Saturday as Quinnipiac heads into its highly anticipated matchup with Yale.

It took And In Local News… Writer, John Small, roughly 60 minutes to complete this