The best things about Quinnipiac are the challenging academics and the "always something to do" social life. If i could change one thing, it would be the housing program. The housing lottery leaves sophomores with nothing but off-campus housing even though the school claims they are guaranteed through junior year. Also, the food is pretty awful. The school is just right or maybe a little bit too small. People generally know QU from the Quinnipiac polls or they reply saying "oh that's a great school." I don't think they really know how great it is though. They are unaware of the academic success on campus and the big plans to become ivy league and build a new campus. I spend most of my time on campus in and around the residence halls. Occasionally, in the classrooms, student center, cafe, and library. We do not technically have a college town. Hamden is pretty junky, but it gets the job done because it has the necessary shopping outlets for food and clothes, such as shaws, stop&shop, gap and old navy. Quinnipiac's administration is somewhat stubborn. Being a former Student Government Association member, they do small things to work with students to cover up the fact that they do little actually for the students. If the students want change, it doesn't really matter. The biggest recent controversy on campus was when a racial slur was written on the door (on a white-board) of an african american person's residence. This is awful, but the campus went into a frenzy. The administration sent out a ton of e-mails defending themselves by suggesting that IT WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. Students began to label all QU students as racist and indifferent. The person who did that was extremely wrong, but we need to keep in mind that this could and I am sure, has occurred on ANY campus. A diversity ad-hoc committee was formed to brainstorm ways to slay the indifference of students. "Livestrong' type bracelets were made that said, "Quinnipiac United, silence is hate." There is a significant amount of school pride with hockey games, but that is pretty much it. Something unusual about campus is that Quinnipiac is unusually stern about drinking. You will get written up if you are found with or around alcohol and May Weekend was taken away (however, due to unfortunate incidents that probably gave the administration no choice). One experience I will always remember is Relay For Life. It was the first Relay done on campus. Many of the students involved walked ALL NIGHT. It was a huge event and I believe we raised over $100,000. The most frequent complaints that I get is that QU has all of the same "type" of student. There are more girls than guys on campus (that needs to change please) and most of the girls enjoy dolling up, getting drunk and going to clubs. They usually own Vera Bradley bags and a lot of the people are good looking. It is true.