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Quinnipiac U's Ballroom Society Raises $2,000+ for North Haven Animal Shelter

The Quinnipiac University Ballroom Society presented its third annual Dancing with the QU Stars on Saturday, April 5 in Burt Kahn Court on the Mount Carmel Campus.

Quinnipiac University staff and student dancers competed for first place in a ballroom dance competition just like the hit television show Dancing with the Stars. Dances performed included the Cha Cha, Rumba, Swing, Foxtrot, Waltz and Salsa.

The event raised $2,060 for Animal Haven, Inc., which shelters adoptable homeless pets and takes pride in matching them with loving, permanent homes. The North Haven shelter runs on private donations and receives no funds from town or government sources.

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First place went to student Aidan Tatar and David Tomczyk, assistant professor of entrepreneurship and strategy. They performed the Swing.

Stanley Rothman, a professor of mathematics and co-advisor for the ballroom society, said a crowd of about 375 people watched the dancers cut the rug.

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 “I am more than proud to have worked with these students. They are hard workers, academically put together and future leaders,” Rothman said.

Quinnipiac is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian institution located 90 minutes north of New York City and two hours from Boston. The university enrolls 6,500 full-time undergraduate and 2,500 graduate students in 58 undergraduate and more than 20 graduate programs of study in its School of Business and Engineering, School of Communications, School of Education, School of Health Sciences, School of Law, Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine, School of Nursing and College of Arts and Sciences. Quinnipiac consistently ranks among the top regional universities in the North in U.S. News & World Report’s America’s Best Colleges issue. The 2014 issue of U.S. News & World Report’s America’s Best Colleges named Quinnipiac as the top up-and-coming school with master’s programs in the Northern Region. Quinnipiac also is recognized in Princeton Review’s “The Best 377 Colleges.” The Chronicle of Higher Education has named Quinnipiac among the “Great Colleges to Work For.” For more information, please visit www.quinnipiac.edu. Connect with Quinnipiac on Facebook at www.facebook.com/quinnipiacuniversity and follow Quinnipiac on Twitter @QuinnipiacU.

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