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59 dead after deadliest mass shooting in US history

By Katie Krahulik & Jill Leavey NEW S E D I TO R / ASSISTA N T N E WS E D I TO R

As of Monday night, 59 people were confirmed dead in addition to 527 victims injured after the largest mass shooting in modern American history devastated Las Vegas, Nevada.

Stephen Paddock – the lone gunman – opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on Sunday, Oct. 1 shortly after 10 p.m. PT, targeting the audience of a Jason Aldean concert near the resort.

Genesis Ibarra, a junior journalism major at Hofstra, is a resident of Las Vegas. A haunting message from her best friend sent her into pure terror Monday morning.

“My heart started racing as if

I was in the middle of running a mile,” she said. “I was just like sprinting at the thought of who is hurt. Is there somebody I know? Are they dead? Where

are they? What happened? Is anybody trying to help them?”

Within minutes, the massacre flooded social media accounts across the country. “It feels

surreal to have your home become a hashtag on Facebook and Instagram and Twitter.

It’s so weird to think that the place you grew up is now on everybody’s profile picture because that’s their way of dealing with problems nowadays,” Ibarra said. “It’s the thing your parents worry about – to stop you from going to concerts, and then it happens in your hometown, in a place where you’ve gone to a concert.”

Jason Aldean was mid-performance Photo courtesy of Flickr shortly after 10 p.m. PT when Stephen Paddock, 64, reportedly shot concert-goers from his 32nd floor hotel room of witnesses began the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.

to hear gunshots and see the flashes of gunfire. The concert was just one of several shows scheduled for a three-day festival, Route 91 Harvest, which attracted tens of thousands of country fans to the city.

The gunman, Paddock, identified as a 64-year-old resident of Mesquite, Nevada by authorities, is reported to have been in possession of at least 17 guns in his Mandalay Bay hotel room. Nevada does not require gun owners to be licensed or register their firearms. Additionally, there are no limitations on the number of guns an individual can possess.

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College students targeted in financial larceny scams

By Michael Ortiz EDITOR - I N - C H I E F

A string of check cashing scams at Farmingdale State College led to Hofstra’s Department of Public Safety issuing a warning to students and revealing that two Hofstra students were victims of a different financial scam last semester. In two separate cases in February and April which are currently under police investigation, a student received a call that a family member was being held hostage and they needed to send money either through Western Union or another source, according to Director of Public Safety Karen O’Callaghan.

One of the victims sent $500 to the suspect and the other was asked to send $1,200. “They get a call from, it appears the phone number of a relative or brother – a close relative – they seem to have a lot of information about the person and they say ‘we’ve kidnapped your brother, and if you don’t get this money by this time, he’s gonna get hurt,’” O’Callaghan said.

“That’s really scary honestly because you have no idea,” said Alexa

Meachen, a sophomore in the direct entry physician assistant program. “If somebody called me, I think I’d be like ‘no way.’ I would call my mom.”

Public Safety sent an email to students on Friday, Sept. 29 making them aware of three larceny incidents at Farmingdale of a different nature.

“The suspect uses the student victim’s checking account to commit the larceny,” the statement read. “The suspect will offer to take the victim to his/her bank to assist with cashing a check. On occasion, the checks have not cleared and the bank accounts become frozen.”

Two victims from the college reported that they lost $200 and $1,000, while a third gave no money and their account was frozen, according to the statement. O’Callaghan says a similar scam occured at SUNY Old Westbury.

Jack Cimorelli, a sophomore mechanical engineering major, said, “I feel like you’re kind of dumb for doing that. Why are you taking a random ass guy to the bank and cashing a check in your name? That’s the sketchiest thing

I’ve ever heard.”

“Obviously anytime a stranger comes up and asks you anything about finances or to assist them with doing anything you should question why they’re doing that, because in this day in age with all these issues with people stealing identities and things like that, you should be very cautious of that especially of any kind of information related to your checking and banking accounts,” O’Callaghan said.

One of the incidents at Farmingdale occurred at a Chase drive-thru ATM, however O’Callaghan said it was not isolated to any one bank. In addition to warning students of the scam, O’Callaghan also alerted the TD Bank located in the Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, “so that if something like that is suspicious it will trigger something in their head, to be suspicious if a student is being escorted in by somebody else,” she said.

“That’s something you see in movies.

I would have no idea what to do, Meachen said. “What people would do for money.”

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Faculty Research Day

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Christiana Melninkaitis / Hofstra Chronicle Over 60 projects were presented to students by faculty in annual Faculty Research Day.

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Hofstra hosts Nassau County debate

By Taylor Clarke

SPEC IA L TO T H E C H R O N I CL E

Students and members of the community packed the Helene Fortunoff Theater at Monroe Lecture Center on Sunday, Oct. 1, to watch the candidates for Nassau County executive debate. The event was sponsored

by Hofstra’s Department of Political Science and the League of Women Voters.

Lisa Scott, the president of the League of Women Voters of Suffolk County, moderated the debate in which three candidates fielded questions from the community.

The candidates included Cassandra J. Lems of the Green Party, Laura Curran of the Democratic Party and Jack M. Martins of the Republican Party.

Martins served on the New York State Senate from January 2010 until January 2016, representing the Town of North Hempstead and parts of the towns of Hempstead and Oyster Bay. Prior to his work in the Senate, Martins served as mayor of Mineola for eight years.

Contrastingly, Democratic candidate Curran does not consider herself to be a career politician. She began her career as a reporter at the New York Daily News and the New York Post. Previously, Curran served on the Baldwin Board of Education from 2011 to 2014.

For the past four years, she has served as a legislator for District 5, representing the communities of South Hempstead, Baldwin, Freeport, Merrick, Oceanside and Rockville Centre.

While Green Party candidates tend to be excluded from debates, Lems welcomed the

chance to share her ideas and plans for the county.

She is an active volunteer in the Community Emergency Response Team (C.E.R.T.) of Nassau County and previously ran for county legislature in 2015.

The debate began with a two-minute introduction from each candidate and was then guided solely by questions provided by attending guests. As attendees entered the theater, they were handed an index card to write a question.

The questions were then filtered and sorted before being given to the moderator. Each candidate was given three possibilities to rebut a question with a red card.

The first question of the evening addressed important issues in the county. Corruption was the first topic of debate.

“If we want to create a vision of how we grow and how we do true economic development, we have got to be trustworthy,” Curran (D) said. She also expressed the need to get county finances in order. “We have to restore the trust and put safeguards in order right in our government to stop corruption before it starts,” she said.

Martins (R) emphasized a message of unity. “Before we celebrate one side or the

other being more corrupt, we understand that unfortunately – and it’s not something that we should celebrate – both sides have a lot to be ashamed about when it comes to public corruption in Nassau County, and I think we should all understand that as well,” he said.

Lems (G) said, “I think it’s very short sided to focus on the corruption and balancing the budget.”

She said the most important issue is protecting Long Island “from global warming, from intrusion of chemicals and salt water into our aquifers.”

The candidates were asked about their plans to keep young professionals living in Nassau County, a question many attending students could relate to.

Martins (R) said that through his plan of adding a variety of housing and creating an environment that allows well-paying jobs to relocate to Nassau, the youth of the population will remain in the county.

“It comes down to a job, the ability of people to work, raise their family here and pay the high cost of living,” he said.

Curran (D) specifically addressed transit-oriented development and affordable

Taylor Clarke / Hofstra Chronicle Hofstra’s Helene Fortunoff Theater hosted the 2017 Nassau County executive debate on Sunday, Oct. 1.

housing, which she believes will attract a young population to Nassau County. She emphasized her support for restoring the routes of the N.I.C.E buses.

“Under my administration the buses will never be on the chopping block. It’s economic development and it is key to keeping our young people here.”

As the other candidates also mentioned, Lems (G) said affordable housing is key. “We need to reduce property taxes so that young people can afford to purchase housing here on Long Island. We can do that by moving that tax burden to an income tax,” she said.

An important conversation arose among the candidates regarding the violence in Charlottesville. Candidates were asked to identify what they learned from the violence and how they plan to prevent hate crimes throughout the county.

“Some people would say that they’re exercising their First Amendment rights, but I don’t believe that there is a First Amendment right to hate,” Martins (R) said. He noted that as a society, we all share the common desires of opportunity, freedom to express and safety, and in doing so we must denounce all forms of hatred.

Curran (D) said, “Our diversity is our strength. We should celebrate it and we should encourage it.” She also stressed that police play the key role in maintaining and promoting peace within the community.

Lems (G) said education is the answer to preventing violence.

“I think we need to integrate our communities more so that people are exposed to the other cultures,” she said.

Lems explained that interacting with other cultures prevents hate and will ultimately decrease violence. “We need to introduce the cultures to each other and make sure we see each other as humans,” she said.

The election of the new Nassau County executive will take place this coming Election Day, Nov. 7. For more information on where and how to vote, visit: https://www. nassaucountyny.gov.

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Professors share research outside of classroom

By Daniel Nguyen STAFF W R I T E R

Over 60 faculty research projects were featured at Hofstra’s sixth annual Faculty Research Day in the David S. Mack Student Center’s Multipurpose Room on Wednesday, Sept. 27.

Organized by Neil H. Donahue, the vice provost for Un-

to do a different type of poster: a poster about their whole career as a researcher. Not the kind of poster they would bring to their professional conference with their latest research but an overview of who they are and the range of topics that they’ve done research on so students can ask, ‘how did you become what

own biological children with his mistress enslaved. That’s Thomas Jefferson.”

Maria Cipriani, an adjunct assistant professor of English, explored trauma in the Clint Eastwood films “Absolute Power” and “In the Line of Fire.”

She created an interactive poster to showcase her published work.

you are?’”

Donahue began organizing the event in response to the undergraduate research day held at Hofstra and the limits of faculty speech events, which allow little back and forth between student and professor.

Over the course of two and a half hours, faculty members from the English, biology, business and philosophy departments were present to answer

questions and advise students on their own possible fields of study.

Kathleen Wallace, a professor of philosophy, explained her approach to research in the humanities. “Research in philosophy is a lot of reading, a lot of reflecting and seeing how things are logically related to each other. It also requires a lot of imagination,” she said. “It’s about thinking how to step outside the box and come up with another theory to try to explain what I’m trying to explain, so it’s actually a little like science, a little like art but also very scholarly.”

Alan Singer, a professor of teaching, learning and technology and the director of social studies education programs, devoted his poster to explaining the various immoral acts of historical figures who are the subjects of statues erected in New York.

Regarding the statue of Thomas Jefferson outside the Student Center, Singer said, “Jefferson’s father-in-law had a child with an enslaved African woman. When Jefferson got married, the child was given to him and his wife as a wedding present. When Jefferson’s wife dies, he takes the child, age 15, as his mistress. He has six children with her. Her name’s Sally Hemings. He doesn’t free them until he dies. Keeps his

The poster featured QR codes that allowed students to open YouTube clips of the films.

“What I wanted to do was talk about the films,” Cipriani said.

“But if I wasn’t here, I wanted it so people could actually go and watch the pieces of the film that I talk about.”

Layla Paine, a sophomore finance major, said, “I think it’s really interesting to see what the professors are doing in their

in a study on the causes of antiimmigrant sentiment, presented

by Shawn T. Thelen, a professor of marketing and international business.

Sanjana Kumar, a freshman accounting major, said, “Thelen was cool. He’s basically saying people are dependent on their trust in their government in the past for how they felt about immigrants.”

featuring headliner Lil’ Wayne.

The event is expected to draw a large crowd of students, faculty, alumni, staff, family and friends.

In light of the recent event, Director of Public Safety Karen O’Callaghan wants to reassure the community that safety is the university’s priority. “It is a closed event, so we know who’s here. Any security we have is going to be sufficient for that event,” she said. A statement from Public Safety read, “Fall Festival is a ticketed event that is only open to members of the Hofstra community, not the general public. The University’s Department of Public Safety safeguards our campus, and has strong working partnerships

with local law enforcement.”

In the United States, mass shootings are an all too familiar occurrence. After such a tragedy takes place, the public often looks for answers and demands more preventative measures be implemented.

Professor Eric Freedman, of the Hofstra Law School, is an expert in constitutional law. In response to future gun restrictions, he said, “One can always hope, but the record so far doesn’t give reason for optimism.There has been a number of very dramatic shootings including Sandy Hook and others in which the instant reaction has been a call for more stringent gun control, but in fact

proposals to do that have been defeated.”

According to Freedman, if Nevada wanted to outlaw the kinds of weapons that were used in this assault, there would be no constitutional problem. The problem, he said, lies with the policy-makers. “[This] is something where people go to feel safe, and have fun and experience life, but they’re doing the opposite now.

They’re fearing for their lives.

They’re fearing for their family and friends, and it’s insane,” Ibarra said.

Student Affairs encourages struggling students to utilize campus resources. The university statement said, “The

Student Health and Counseling Center is always available to support students who would like to seek out support. The Center’s hours are listed below and students should call (516) 463-6745 if they would like to connect with someone who can assist. If someone reaches out via email to StudentAffairs@ Hofstra.edu the leadership within the Division of Student Affairs would coordinate outreach to support any student in need.”

The SHACC is open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday and Wednesday; 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday; and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Friday.

Christiana Melninkaitis / Hofstra Chronicle Students listen to research findings in the Multipurpose Room.

dergraduate Academic Affairs and Internalization, the event allowed students to connect with professors who themselves are still learning and expanding their individual expertise.

“When I first started organizing it, it took a lot of effort to convince people,” Donahue said. “Especially in the humanities. In the humanities, nobody does posters. In the sciences they know what a poster is. But I tried to even get the sciences

spare time when they’re not making course materials. My professor hasn’t really taught us a lot about real estate … but his whole presentation is about that.

So it’s really interesting to see how much he knows [and] … it’s really cool to have a ton of different topics right here.”

Other students found interest

Christiana Melninkaitis / Hofstra Chronicle Hofstra faculty present their reseach to interested students.

Hofstra reaffirms commitment to safety

Continued from A1 we work with the Division of Student Affairs Information Technology to identify students from affected areas. We reach out to these students to offer support and remind them of Hofstra resources,” said Colin Sullivan, director of communication for Student Affairs.

Ibarra, who was contacted by a counselor from the Student Health and Counseling Center (SHACC), felt that the university was doing a good job of supporting impacted students.

This weekend, Hofstra will host its annual Fall Festival

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Media critic equates omission of facts to lying

By Maria Zaldivar STAFF W R I T E R

American writer, media critic, activist and congressional candidate Norman Solomon spoke against militarism and war in the International Scene Lecture “War, Trump and the Media” on Tuesday, Sept. 26.

Solomon is the founder and president of the nonprofit organization Institute for Public Accuracy, which he refers to as a “media watchdog.” The presentation focused on the idea that the United States’ actions follow the concept of “do as we say, not as we do.”

The event was held in collaboration with the

Center for Civic Engagemost of his information and to foreign policy, aid and ment (CCE), Peace Action he urged them to be methe military. The questions Matters and the Institute for dia critics. “The questions modified the conversation Peace Studies. Professor were very relevant. People from historical occurrences Martin Melkonian orgadidn’t just agree with what to the current political nized the event with Dr. he [Solomon] was saying. climate.

Carolyn Eisenberg and Dr. They were asking for more, “I am European, so I Linda Longmire. thought it was “The problem interesting how I see is most “What we don’t understand can he criticized the students aren’t United States. kill; what we don’t understand It often portrays exposed to most of this informaitself as the will kill .” tion because they most powerful use mainstream and there are media outlets, which is wanting to know more and improvements to be done, good – it’s better than noth- opposing his views, so especially in the way they ing – but there are so many that was interesting,” said prioritize their expenses,” other outlets with different Simran Pam, a freshman said Lotje Beek, an experspectives,” Melkonian finance student. change law student. said.

Solomon argued the Solomon highlighted the Students showed interest U.S. should set a positive 2016 presidential election in where Solomon found example when it comes and the media coverage of

it, as well as the information mainstream media publications ignored. “He talked about how Donald Trump’s podium had more air time than Bernie Sanders. To me that shows the inconsistency in the debates and the election process,” said Hafeez Yussuf, a junior global studies and geography student.

Continuing on the topic of the election, Solomon compared Russian involvement to American involvement in local Russian elections, arguing that the omission of facts in the media is equal to lying. He said, “What we don’t understand can kill; what we don’t understand will kill.”

Vigil remembers victims of nuclear weapons

By Alixandra Wilens

Peaceful Alternatives.

This International Day The issue of nuclear for the Total Elimination of weapons has become a Nuclear Weapons was esglobal conversation and on pecially important because Tuesday, Sept. 26, Hofstra the United Nations recently weighed in with Peace Ac- signed the Treaty on the tion Matters’ (PAM) vigil Prohibition of Nuclear for the International Day Weapons, which is the first for the Total Elimination of legal document to prohibit Nuclear Weapons. nuclear weapons. While Several survivors shared this is a major step totheir stories from Aug. 6 ward the final goal of their and Aug. 9, 1945, when the total elimination, none of United States dropped nuthe nuclear states have clear bombs on Hiroshima pledged their allegiance and Nagasaki respectively. to this treaty.

PAM – a chapter of the “We cannot underesnonpartisan group Peace timate the fact that this Action New York State – treaty is built on step by is a student-run program step years of work of govformed in the fall of 2016. ernments and global citi“Students wanted a vehicle zens who have pushed for for continuing dialogue, making nuclear weapons education and advocacy on illegal,” Melkonian said. peace issues and on current Kawazoe Yamaguchi, a foreign policy challenges,” survivor of the 1945 bombsaid Margaret Melkonian, ings, wrote a letter describthe executive director of the ing her experience with Long Island Alliance for nuclear weapons. It was SPEC IA L TO T H E C H R O N I CL E

read aloud by Emilie Beck, a senior global studies and geography major and president of Hofstra’s PAM. Yamaguchi wrote, “I do not remember disasters caused by atomic bombing.

However, my grandmother, aunt and two uncles were killed by the bomb.

Grandfather, who looked for our family members in Uragami and Shiroyama, died by lung cancer, which, I think, was caused by effects of the bomb.”

In the city of Nagasaki, approximately one third of

the population was killed by the atomic bomb. The city’s population dropped from around 240,000 to 74,000.

After Beck’s reading of Kawazoe’s letter, there was a Call to Action, in which students wrote letters to New York Sens. Chuck Schumer (D) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D), encouraging them to support the bill H.R. 699. If passed, this bill would take away the president’s ability to launch a first-use nuclear strike.

Recent threats of nuclear missile launches from President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have given urgency to this bill; North Korea conducted its sixth nuclear test on Sept. 3.

Finally, the group of students moved outside for a moment of silence in respect for all the lives lost

and forever changed as a result of the bombings. In lieu of candles, the group handed out origami lanterns and peace cranes, which had been folded by children from Japan.

Caroline Bowes, a sophomore global studies and sustainability studies major and the PAM treasurer, found the vigil to be an educational and rallying experience. “Having been the only country to ever use nuclear weapons, the dialogue that Americans were having with people from Japan at this vigil was beautiful,” Bowes said.

“Recognizing the damage done to another country by our own nation is the first step.”

Students who wish to get involved in peace advocacy can attend Peace Action Matters meetings Mondays at 7:00 p.m. in Heger Hall, Room 100.

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disappeared, formal Soviet words too much; what’ll persons from the former institutions – which rested happen is they lose their Soviet Union in Russia,” on homoseveticus – would real meaning. If you’re she said. “I was able to crumble. So he [the lead constantly saying someone go into places no one had sociologist] basically was is a Nazi, then a real Nazi reported from, and I don’t predicting the end of the shows up and it doesn’t mean war zones; I mean Soviet Union.” mean anything anymore,” some small town in the The sociologists’ predicsaid David M. Green, a middle of nowhere where a tion proved correct, as the professor of political sciwhole bunch of displaced Soviet Union crumbled in ence. “I think that was persons from Central Asia 1991, but the mindset of her point, it’s dangerous had settled.” “the Soviet The lecture man” did not concluded with dissolve with a question and it.

“I was able to go into places no answer portion The sociolowhere students one had reported from.” gists took the asked about Gesresults of their sen’s life and study to mean opinions on the there would be United States, a return to totalitarianism, to overuse terms and to including U.S.-Russian which has been seen under use terms inappropriately relations. the leadership of Russia’s because they lose their Stevens Martinez, a current president, Putin. power.” junior public policy and Gessen spoke about how In addition to speaking public service major, asked people are saying – incorabout her new book, GesGessen her thoughts Rusrectly – that the U.S. is sen spoke about her experi- sian meddling in elections. in danger of becoming a ences as a journalist in the “She tried to downplay totalitarian regime under post-Soviet climate of the the impact of the Russian President Donald Trump, 1990s. After the fall of the meddling in the U.S. elecand how people need to be Soviet Union, Gessen was tion, by calling it a ‘concareful with the language able to write stories that no spiracy theory.’ Yet various they use. one had reported on before. branches of the U.S. federal “I think she’s right to say “I wrote a lot about government concluded that people should be cautious ethnic relations in Russia Russian agents used soabout throwing around and the plight of displaced cial media to influence the

election by spreading fake news,” Martinez said. “She did, however, say that it is in Russia’s own interest to cast doubt in Western elections, in order to break the institutions that bind Western civilizations together.”

One student began asking Gessen a question about the Ukraine, but she stopped them and declined to answer. “[Gessen] was asked what they thought of the Ukrainian government, and they said, ‘I don’t feel like I can speak on that because I have a Russian passport and I feel that would be inappropriate,’” said Emily Kilheeney, a senior majoring in journalism, political science and gender studies.

“I thought that was so spoton and such an appropriate response for someone in a place of privilege. It was such a good, solid response, so that definitely stuck out to me the most.”

Gessen’s latest book on Russia, “The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia,” is available Tuesday, Oct. 3.

Journalist analyzes Russian totalitarianism

By Sarah Kocher and Marie Haaland C OPY C H I E F S

Russian-American journalist and author Masha Gessen spoke at the Helene Fortunoff Theater in the Monroe Lecture Center on Wednesday, Sept. 27 to share her knowledge on the rise of Russian President Vladimir Putin and her thoughts on current U.S.Russian relations.

Gessen spent much of the lecture discussing her new book, “The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia.”

She spoke about a sociological study conducted in the Soviet Union regarding the hypothesis of homosoveticus – “the Soviet person.” The sociologists hypothesized that this “Soviet person” was shaped through Stalinist terror and would therefore disappear after the terror stopped and the generation of people who lived through it died.

“It’s the project of a revolutionary society to create a new man,” Gessen said.

“And once homoseveticus

Public Safety Briefs Compiled by D’Asha Davis

On Sept. 22, a Hofstra administrator reported to PS that at some time between 7 a.m. on Sept. 5 and 9:30 a.m. on Sept.

22, a laptop was stolen from the closet in her office in James M. Shuart Stadium. A search was conducted and proved negative.

Police assistance was declined and an investigation is being conducted.

On Sept. 23 at 2:23 a.m., a PS officer at the Oak Street security gate observed a silver Toyota drive through the gate without stopping and providing identification. A descrip-

tion of the vehicle was radioed to dispatch and PS stopped the vehicle on North Campus.

The driver was identified as a Hofstra student and was given a referral to OCS. On Sept. 23 at 6:30 p.m., PS responded to an activated fire alarm in Colonial Square. Upon investigation, PS discovered a resident activated the fire alarm by smoking cigarettes inside of their room. The student was issued a referral to OCS. On Sept. 23 at 8:05 p.m., a PS officer smelled the odor of marijuana coming from a room

while on patrol in Cambridge House of Colonial Square. PS keyed into the room and the resident admitted to smoking marijuana in the room upon questioning. No marijuana was recovered and the student was issued a referral to OCS. On Sept. 27, a student reported that at some time between 9 p.m.on Sept. 25 and 6 a.m. on Sept. 27, his bike was stolen from the bike rack at Nassau Hall. A search was conducted and proved negative. Police assistance was declined.

On Sept. 28, a student

reported that his mountain bike was missing between 11 p.m. on Sept. 26 and 11 a.m. on Sept.

28 from the bike rack at Nassau Hall. A search of the area was conducted for the person or persons responsible, which proved negative. Police assistance was declined.

On Sept. 28, a student reported to PS that his bike was missing from the Nassau Hall rack where he had secured it on Sept. 26. A search was conducted and proved negative. Police assistance was declined.

Key PS: Public Safety OCS: Office of Community Standards

Correction: Ava Mandel was not properly credited for compiling the Public Safety Briefs for last week’s Sept. 26 issue.

Thanks Ava!

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Overheard @ Hofstra In the Student Center:

In Nassau/Suffolk:

In the Netherlands:

Sorry, there’s nothing worse than waiting for someone who isn’t pulling out fast enough

I’ll set you up in a flip cup game and I’ll make out with my hot boy for 10 minutes.

In LH Comm:

In Dutch Treats:

Did you just assume my dressing?

In Hofstra USA: She talked about sucking this guys peen for four hours and she knew how much work I had to do!

I wish I could travel back in time and f*ck John F. Kennedy.

In Alliance: Can someone please tell me who the f*ck I have to scream at for my building to get hot water?

I didn’t have any breakfast.

Nah, you gotta do the right thing.

You should have had breakfast.

I’m full about to roll up to StuRab’s house and take a shower.

‘Living in the center of a storm of insanity:’ Narcan training in Nassau County

By Kirstyn Brendlen STAFF WRITER

On a Monday evening at Farmingdale High School Hofstra health professions professor David Hymowitz unzipped a small blue pouch.

“The problem is, men only see one color. So what color is this box? It’s pink. What color do the women say it is? Peach? OK. So, you take this box – we’ll call it peach for today – this has the medicine in it.”

Hymowitz runs one of Nassau County’s free Narcan training sessions. Narcan, an opioid blocker, is used to reverse the effects of a heroin overdose – an epidemic on Long Island and across the country. In 2016, 197 people died of heroin overdose in Nassau County.

Hymowitz estimates there were about 130 people in attendance at the Narcan training session. Many of them are parents – some with their children, many without. They were able to answer Hymowitz’s questions easily; they knew that today’s heroin is 40 percent pure, as opposed to the 10 percent of heroin’s last boom of the ‘70s and ‘80s.

“Heroin is very much a young adult, middle class, white kid substance that they’re abusing,” Hymowitz said. “That doesn’t mean it’s not in other demo-

graphics, it’s just the ones we’re seeing the most, and it seems to be the ones that we’re seeing that are overdosing the most from it.”

That makes Farmingdale High School the perfect venue – Farmingdale is about 85 percent white, according to the 2010 census, with a median household income of over $70,000. The trainers try to conduct trainings where they’re needed, depending on recent overdoses and, sometimes, police reports.

“All of a sudden about a year ago we started seeing an increase in Uniondale. And I started freaking out. Like, Uniondale’s not the same demographics, is it now spreading? What we realized is that it wasn’t Uniondale proper – it was all the off-campus housing from the local colleges,” Hymowitz said. “And there’s like three local colleges. That’s why I’ve done [trainings] at Adelphi, Hofstra … the issue wasn’t that Uniondale was having a problem with heroin, it was students or some of their friends.”

There’s a more recent demographic of attendees as well – heroin users themselves.

“We have people showing up in the audience now that are using opiates because they have something called ‘Designated Narcan.’ So four or five people may get high together using

heroin, and one person says, ‘I won’t use, so if any of you overdose, I have the kit to save you.’

It’s still the same intention … we want to get high, but we don’t want to die.”

Before the session begins, two guest speakers stand in front of the audience: Pat, the mother of a 29-year-old daughter in recovery, and Grace, a recovering addict herself.

“It was like living in the center of a storm of insanity. The drug is so strong, and the cravings are so strong … an addict lives to get high. They get up in the morning and it’s ‘How am I going to get the money? How am I going to get high?’ And they’ll do anything, so they become liars,” Pat said.

Pat and her daughter struggled for five years. “You have to try an outpatient, so you put them in an outpatient, but then there’s other people in outpatient also doing drugs, so they hook up and they find new people, and they make new connections. So then you send them away upstate, and it’s just … you try every which way.”

Pat and her daughter finally found Vivitrol, a monthly shot of an opioid blocker like Narcan that helps to block the cravings for heroin.

The audience had questions

– a woman asked if you can administer Narcan to someone on Vivitrol who’s also used heroin. Michael, an EMT on hand to answer questions, said “you shouldn’t have to.”

Hymowitz then began the training – the first step is recognizing an overdose, which can be difficult. Heroin slows your breathing and heart rate, and can make someone slow to respond – a high can be almost indistinguishable from an overdose.

Narcan is primarily designed to restore normal breathing – it’s stronger than most opioids, and attaches to the opioid receptors in the brain. This stops the effects of heroin, allowing the person, ideally, to be transported to a hospital.

He said once the Narcan has been administered, it’s important not to crowd the person. “They were in pain before they took it, and now that pain is going to come back.” He recommended putting them in recovery position – on the side, one knee pulled up, hand under their head – “and hopefully you’ve already called 911 and they’re already at your door.”

When the small blue kits are handed out, he warned, “I know you’re going to want to play with them, but don’t open them until I tell you to.”

He had everyone go through their bags – one pair of blue gloves, a rescue breathing shield and two of the peach boxes – each containing one 2ml dose of Narcan nasal spray in a small glass bottle. He walks through the steps – pop the yellow cap off the plastic applicator, attach the atomizer and insert the glass tube of Narcan. “This is why you have to go through it before, you don’t want to be panicking while you do this,” Hymowitz said.

Hymowitz and two volunteers sprayed their demo Narcan into the air.

When the training completed, attendees filed past the desk outside to collect two cards – a Certificate of Completion and a prescription verifying they can have the Narcan.One hundred and thirty new people were certified to administer Narcan. They joined about 9,000 people who have been trained since 2011 in an effort to stop overdose related deaths.

“I don’t know if there is anything in place of [Narcan],” Hymowitz said. “I’m sure there’s something else in terms of medication and techniques, but if your heart and breathing is shut down … I’m not sure if there’s any other substance that brings you back the way Naloxone does.”

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B i g wo me n

By Megan Byrd SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE

I was 15, my grandmother’s friend Flo grasped both my shoulders, looked me in the eyes and told me, “I love big women.”

It was so abrupt, intense and effortlessly honest, I was startled.

I was 250 pounds at that moment and I was definitely wearing some poorly fitting jeans and a T-shirt I’d put no thought into and in no way could have felt attractive or comfortable in.

That single phrase, “I love big women,” elevated something in me I hadn’t realized was being neglected. Flo wasn’t sympathizing me, she wasn’t calling me pretty or coddling the existence of my womanly parts. She was just being completely honest; she loves big women. And I am a big woman.

This was one of the first times someone had made a comment of both my gender and my size that wasn’t patronizing. The first time someone made me realize you could simply love others, authentically for who they are.

Flo didn’t look at my huge thighs and stomach and make me want to fold inside myself. She didn’t squeeze the fat of my shoulders and make me wish it wasn’t there. In this brief moment, she made me acknowledge this part of myself I didn’t know could be empowering. She made me realize you could simply love a woman based on the vague definition of her ‘bigness.’

In the past five years, I’ve gone up and down 70 pounds twice and now my stomach is lined with stretch marks and my arms flatten out like pancakes when I lift them.

It reminds me of when my Spanish teacher in high school used to wear sleeveless dresses and explain verbs to us with her arms. “Usted,” we’d all chant back at her, our eyes following the soft pale sacks of meat that hung from the bottom of her risen arms and jiggled in the air like Jell-O. They’d hang the longest when horizontal to the ground. Mrs. Horn would look at us with her arms outstretched, her fatty meat packs swaying back and forth in the air, hanging halfway down to her breasts. And

I couldn’t help it. I had to think to myself, ‘her arms are so fat.’

Thanks to my fluctuating weight and genetics, I have premature Mrs. Horn arms. If I lose weight they thin out and become saggier and if I gain weight they only grow round and plumpish.

When I outstretch them horizontally, a little sack of meat protrudes from the bottom like the fluffy white fat that hangs from a chicken thigh. When I turn my palm to the side the meat will flatten and from my elbow to my

— I find most water experiences fairly uncomfortable.

I’m not myself, in this vain way I become these flabby arms. It’s like Mrs. Horn’s verb lessons. When her arms are out and unconsciously displayed like a zoo exhibit, she becomes this fixation. And when I can’t wear long sleeves or sweaters, I see myself the same way. I become the fat arms.

I don’t work out and I don’t get worked up over this insecurity. I don’t get anxious, depressed

ed women to be.

Sometimes I look at my flabby arms, sometimes I squeeze them and jiggle them, and fold the fat over to make little tan/ white splotchy butts with the skin. And I forget to remember that my arms were ever not fat. I forget that I’m supposed to think they’re ugly.

I’m 21 and I only exercise when I feel like it. Sometimes I walk up the stairs, but not always. Some days I don’t brush my hair. Some months I don’t

or demoralized over it. Because really, I can’t help it. I could do pushups and try to prevent the inevitable, but I don’t want to.

And as I get older and my body changes and my skin ages and gravity makes the fat sink lower, I’ll probably still not love it. But the reality is, it’s a body part; it’s a lump of fat that looks a little different from everyone else’s lumps of fat. It’s a minute detail that prevents me from being something that society has creat-

shave my legs or armpits. Some days I eat salad and a well-balanced dinner and others I eat a pint of Ben and Jerry’s and a bag of Cheetos. My body is shaped pretty well to carry my weight so I can’t complain too much. I know other girls have far more difficulty accepting the natural appearance of their body than I do, and I don’t want to make it sound easy.

I’m growing up in the body positivity movement. Which

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armpit, you can see the entire journey that is the slope of my arm fat.

The only strapless dress I’ve worn was at my senior prom. I don’t even like to wear T-shirts sometimes. I go for clothes with loose sleeves: long sleeve shirts, sweaters. And when I wear a swimsuit I can’t be this concealed version of myself, I have to show my arms from all their ugly angles. I refuse to go on swimming dates with guys

really, for me, doesn’t mean crap.

When I find myself in certain situations, for example a bar, in which I’m around beautiful women who are thinner, more normal looking and more socially adept, I’m going to be uncomfortable. Not because I’m jealous or feel bad about myself, but because no one will understand. No one will understand that I don’t give a crap if I don’t get hit on by shitty guys. That I can’t pull off the same tops other girls with skinnier arms and larger breasts can. That I can’t enter any mundane conversation and liven it up. This just isn’t my thing.

I’m pretty in a modest way, in a way that speaks through grimy library hair, oversized flannels worn out of laziness, quirky T-shirts, funky glasses and a face that has its good days and its bad ones. I’m not into wearing a lot of makeup; I never wear eyeliner or lipstick. On principle, I refuse to spend more than 45 minutes getting ready for anything, ever.

I never curl my hair – I don’t even know how to braid it. When I grow old I want to wear my flat grey hair like a long crown around my head. I want long wrinkles and dark leathery skin to adorn my face. I want my youthful beauty to appear like a shadow rather than something that can be resurrected. Just like now, I don’t want to try and make my face something it isn’t naturally. I have no interest in choreographing the everyday artificial beauty of my physical appearance.

There isn’t any certain way to be a big woman. There is no waist measurement, weight limit or dress size. So many of the women who have inspired me through life were big women. A grandmother, an aunt, an elementary school principal and a little sister. And what I share with all of these women is an unstated agreement to embrace the meat that armors our bodies. To not act like it’s a nuisance or a poison to our appearance. But that it’s just that: meat. Not something to be physically conquered or emotionally overcome, but something that simply exists.

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What does the musician on your shirt mean to you?

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“Nefertiti’ is one of my favorite jazz albums, and my parents had jazz playing in my house at all times.

This [Miles Davis] sweatshirt was my mom’s. My parents really didn’t know any music from the ‘80s or ‘90s except jazz.”

- Eddie Byrne, Freshman

“My dad gave me a copy of ‘Dookie.’ I’ve seen [Green Day] seven times, twice at the Barclays in Brooklyn. I love the albums ‘Insomniac’ and ‘American Idiot.’ I grew up listening to them.”

- Gabrielle Akers-Goodwin, Junior

“It’s the emotion [Kendrick Lamar] puts into his music. My favorite song is ‘Backseat Freestyle,’ from the album, ‘Good Kid, M.A.A.D City.’ I also think ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’ is great. I’m a big fan.”

- Kiran Arjune, Freshman

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TIIA works on behalf of child migrants

By Emily Barnes

ASSISTANT FEATURES EDITOR

“Children chase after life, even if that chase might end up killing them,” Valeria Luiselli writes in her book “Tell Me How It Ends.”

Written in reaction to her time spent as a translator in New York City’s federal immigration court, Luiselli – an award-winning Mexican author, professor and faculty advisor for the Teenage Immigrant Integration Association (TIIA) – offers readers detailed accounts of the atrocities child migrants face as they attempt to get a glimpse of the American dream.

“Dreamers’ situations are paradoxically more fragile than the population that TIIAs usually work with – which is a population fundamentally composed

of very recently arrived undocumented minors that are mostly ineligible for forms of immigration relief, similar to political asylum,” Luiselli said.

Upon its establishment in spring of 2016, TIIA, a play on the word “tía” meaning “aunt” in Spanish, has worked to assuage the stigma surrounding children of migration who enter the United States as refugees to escape situations Luiselli characterizes as involving “brutal systematic violence” in their home countries.

“What a lot of lawyers fear is that the next kids in line to be targeted by Trump, in a similar way that he damaged the DACA, are the kids [on asylum],” Luiselli said.

In her book, Luiselli transcribes the horrific dangers Central American children face

as they attempt to cross into the U.S. via “La Bestia,” a freight train spanning from Guatemala up through Mexico and finally to the U.S. border.

“Some of the stories that we hear will rip your heart out of your chest,” said Brandon Jurewicz, a junior speech-language-hearing sciences major and president of TIIA. “The struggles that these kids have to go through, some of them are younger than us.”

Jurewicz went on to recall a story one particular TIIA student shared with him about their own experience riding “La Bestia.”

“On this train there is rape, violence, murder, theft,” he said.

“It’s extremely scary for an adult, let alone a 15-year-old child.”

Jurewicz explained that the idea for the program came about while taking an advanced

Spanish conversation course with Luiselli – in which immigration exclusively on Long Island was a recurring focus amongst students who quickly became intrigued by Luiselli’s book and her unwavering advocacy.

“We were energized to make a difference within our Hofstra community as well as the community beyond,” Jurewicz said.

After analyzing the resources available to young immigrants on Long Island, TIIA began its work with organizations around Uniondale, where youth are the central concentration. “[Adolescents] are the people that don’t necessarily receive as much resources as they should, and are kind of left on the back burner a lot of times unfortunately,” Jurewicz said. “[The students] are afraid of admitting they’re immigrants and

possibly [undocumented],” said Trey Jackson, a TIIA mentor.

“The only way they’ll feel comfortable to come [to our program] is if you show them you only want the best for them.”

Rotating between game nights and soccer games in addition to the one-on-one sessions intended to form bonds with students and hear the stories of the ones willing to disclose, TIIA acts as a support system for its members.

Luiselli, Jurewicz and Jackson anticipate the TIIA program to garner more interest as more people become aware of the existence of similar programs centralized on the inequities of basic human rights.

“We’re here; we’re ready to work,” Jurewicz said. “We just want to make a name for ourselves [on campus] so we can provide more.”

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The Humans of Hofstra

By Kylie Finnigan

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“Fashion 100 percent has impacted my life, ever since I was really little that’s all I can remember. I remember always being worried about what I was going to wear. Then my parents opened a boutique and obviously that impacted me even more; I’ve helped out there a little bit ever since. I just think fashion’s a really good way to express yourself and for me at least, it makes me look forward to the day and feel better about myself. I switched to a PR major because I think it’s more relatable to a career in fashion. I was talking to somebody who works at Ted Baker and [I was] explaining to her what I want to do in the fashion industry and she told me that I was describing public relations. All of the sudden I was a PR major.”

Claudia Barnard “My friends and family have impacted my life a lot. They impacted my decision to come here.

From a young age, we would take trips into the city and my school would take trips and see plays or concerts and that really made me fall in love with New York City. The first time I came here, I knew I needed to come back and live here, so that has definitely impacted my choices in a lot of things. On campus I’m involved with Alpha Phi Omega, which is the co-ed community service fraternity on campus and that’s really fun. I’m also somewhat involved with the GSA [Gay-Straight Alliance] on campus and yeah, I’m trying to get more involved with both of those.

I’ve done community service all my life from Cub Scouts all the way up to Boy Scouts. I’ve been doing community service for as long as I can remember. Hofstra has definitely made me come out of my shell a little more. I used to be a really bad introvert and now I’m a lot more extroverted and I like to talk to people and meet new people. I feel like Hofstra has really brought me out of my shell in that aspect and helped me become more of the person I want to be.”

Dante Eyer

“Hofstra has led to a lot of character development in who I am. I’ve improved as a person, I’ve expanded my horizons and really grown as a person. I’m in the pep band, I’m a mascot, I’m in the concert band and I’m in Spoon University. I do those things because I love music. I have always been in music, since I was in elementary school. I’ve been playing the same instrument for about 10 years now. I’m in Spoon University because I love taking pictures and writing about food, so I’m a photography director there. Being the mascot is kind of fun because nobody knows who you are and you can just dance around and interact with people you probably never talk to and people are generally nicer to you when you’re in the mascot costume. I am a film major. Fun fact, I actually became a film major because when I was applying for Hofstra I clicked the wrong thing and I didn’t find out I was a film major until I got accepted and it said I was going and I got an email saying you’ve been accepted to the School of Communications. At first I was like, ‘I don’t know what I’m doing, this is terrifying,’ but now I love it.”

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By Amanda Romeo SPEC IAL TO T H E C H R O N ICL E

The John Cranford Adams Playhouse has served as a cultural center to Hofstra University as well as its surrounding community since it was created in 1958. The playhouse is not Hofstra’s only theater, and the venue has often been rented out by numerous local, national and international companies of the arts hosting countless productions, conferences, lectures and school events over the years.

The building was originally designed by Aymar Embury.

Completed in 1958, it was not officially named after Hofstra’s second president, John Cranford Adams, until 1974.

Adams served as president of Hofstra from 1944 to 1964. He was a renowned Shakespeare

scholar and was responsible for initiating the drama department’s annual Shakespeare Festival in 1958 when the playhouse opened.

President Adams built a four-fifths scale model of the Globe Stage in replication of Shakespeare’s original Globe Theater in London. The Adams Playhouse was built with specific instructions to accommodate this set piece and has been subsequently used in many of the Shakespeare Festivals held at Hofstra.

Currently, the prosceniumstyle theater is undergoing full renovation. The planning process to rebuild began in April of 2015 and were finalized by 2016.

Construction began this past summer, mainly focusing on the exterior façade. Renovations are estimated to span over a sevenmonth period which began in

May 2017 and is expected to end sometime in December.

A large chunk of the money for the construction came from a donation made by the Sosnoff Foundation. Co-founders of the philanthropic foundation, Martin and Toni Sosnoff, are dedicated advocates of the arts.

Toni Sosnoff is a Hofstra alumna who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in drama in 1963.

The Sosnoffs dedicated a generous $1.5 million grant to the university under the condition that Hofstra at least match the amount. Hofstra put up an additional $2.8 million toward the plans to rebuild.

Renovations include new carpets, better acoustics, a new lighting system and a full newly renovated lobby. Gone are the large Roman columns in favor of a more modern glass façade.

The front steps were also altered

to be more accommodating for handicapped personnel.

The next show scheduled to appear at the Adams Playhouse is “Hair,” debuting Oct. 27, put on by the Department of Drama and Dance.

Cover: Form Gallery Artwork by Elizabeth Veloz

Peter Soucy / Hofstra Chronicle The new Playhouse facade is inspired by modern architecture.

‘Chance’ performs his inagural NY Show

Courtesy of Ben Kaye Chance has achieved critical acclaim without a full length album.

By Nailah Andre STAFF WRITER

On the train ride there, it was hard not to tell that everyone was headed to the Chance the Rapper concert because they were all wearing the infamous “Chance 3” hats – headwear you never see Chance without.

The excitement was palpable; everyone was trying to guess what songs Chance would perform or who he was going to bring out on stage. Once I got off the train, even though I was blocks away from the venue, the line already seemed to wrap

around the entire town. This concert in particular was special because Chance had never done a show in New York City that wasn’t a festival.

The first musical act we saw was DJ Oreo; he played plenty of popular songs to get the crowd hyped like “Magnolia” by Playboi Carti, “XO Tour Llif3”

by Lil Uzi Vert and the best part was when he gave a shout-out to New York for consistently putting out top-notch hip-hop.

DJ Oreo concluded his set by playing the number one song on the Billboard chart, “Bodak

Yellow” by Bronx native Cardi B. Even though the show was running late, his set put the crowd in a pretty good mood.

DJ Oreo was followed by Francis and the Lights – a solo singer who has collaborated with both Chance and Kanye West. Although a lot of the crowd wasn’t too familiar with Francis’ work, I appreciated his showmanship and enthusiasm. It takes a special kind of artist to kill it on stage in front of a crowd of people who aren’t really there to see you. He sang, ran back and forth on stage, danced and even gave us a pretty awesome keyboard solo.

After Francis and the Lights, we were all just ready to see Chance. The lights went out, followed by the speakers blasting the fan favorite “Mixtape,” then all of a sudden we saw the Chicago rapper run across the stage followed by explosive pyrotechnics.

Chance the Rapper seems like the type of person to light up a room when he walks in. That’s what he did Tuesday night at Forest Hills Stadium. The vibe of the entire venue had changed to pure joy.

Despite running beyond venue

curfew, time restraints did not stop Chance from performing nearly every song from his debut project, “Coloring Book,” an album so famous that it seemed like everyone knew all the words to every song.

One element to Chance’s performance that many rappers lack is a live band. He works with The Social Experiment, a band comprised of musicians like Donnie Trumpet, who always backs Chance the Rapper with phenomenal trumpet playing.

They even performed “Sunday Candy,” the hit song of the collaborative album “Surf,” the album that the Social Experiment and Chance the Rapper cocreated.

One of the more memorable moments of the show was when Chance performed “Juke Jam,” which is one of the slower, R&B-influenced songs on “Coloring Book.” This song is also the most romantic on the album. In it he tells the tale of a romantic rendezvous at the local roller skate rink. The at-capacity stadium shone bright as every single person had taken out their phones and turned their flashlights on. It was amazing to share such an intimate moment

with thousands of strangers.

I’d say the best part of the entire concert experience is Chance the Rapper’s ability to turn a stadium into a row of pews in a Baptist church. Chance raps about a myriad of topics, but one cannot deny the role that faith plays in his music.

“Coloring Book” is not only a phenomenal album, but it was a transitional album for Chance the Rapper. Before he recorded his three-time Grammy award winning project, Chance was pent up in a mansion he was renting in California doing drugs and nothing productive in his life. Then he found out he was going to become a father and it changed his life. He found God and after that, he was never the same again.

These series of events led him to record the album he performed that night and you could feel that transformational energy every time he rapped about his religion.

The crowd could feel it when he told us to raise both hands when he performed his more religious songs. I’m sure there was a member from every religion in the stadium that night and still, the crowd was completely united singing these songs.

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McCartney returns to the Island one more time

Courtesy of New York City Theater At 75, McCartney takes on his first Long Island show in 15 years.

By Wesley Orser S TAFF W R I T E R

Who said rock ‘n’ roll was a young person’s game only?

The 75-year-old music legend and former member of the Beatles, Paul McCartney, showed no signs of slowing down as he wowed audiences with a twonight gig at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Sept. 26 and 27.

The prized songwriter marathoned his way through a three-hour set list, consisting of 40 songs from a decadesspanning catalog.

Just as his encore presentation was seeming to wind down on the first night, McCartney welcomed a surprise guest onto the stage: fellow songwriter and Long Island resident, Billy Joel.

The crowd roared as the two

musicians jammed together on two Beatles classics, “Get Back” and “Birthday.”

With a treasure trove of hits to choose from, plenty of Beatles favorites were played from the early hits (“A Hard Day’s Night,” “All My Loving” and “We Can Work It Out”) to the studio years (“Lady Madonna,” “A Day in the Life” and “Helter Skelter”).

He also had plenty to share from both his Wings era and solo career, including “Jet,” “Maybe I’m Amazed” and “Band on the Run.” Although McCartney played most songs with his iconic Hofner bass in hand, he brought out the acoustic guitar for stirring renditions of his softer tunes including “Blackbird,” “Eleanor Rigby” and “Yesterday.”

He also settled in front of the piano for his closing songs beginning with “Let It Be,” set the stage literally on fire during the James Bond theme “Live and Let Die” and encouraged the

crowd to join in on the singalong anthem “Hey Jude.”

McCartney has not forgotten the start of his career and his shared success with his former bandmates, paying homage to the late John Lennon and George Harrison with two moving tributes.

Halfway through the show, McCartney played the tender “Here Today,” written for Lennon a year after his death. Later on, he performed one of Harrison’s most celebrated compositions, “Something.” McCartney opened his rendition by playing the ukulele, one of Harrison’s favorite instruments.

McCartney seemed to enjoy telling stories to the crowd just as much as playing the music itself, including telling the audience how the inspiration for writing “Blackbird” was to offer hope to those suffering in the South in the midst of the civil rights movement. He also explained how impressed he was when Jimi

Hendrix learned how to play “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” for a live audience in 1967, only three days after it had been released.

Despite the many classics to choose from, McCartney enjoyed sneaking some deep tracks and recent material into the set list as well. These included going as far back to his pre-Beatles days by performing the Quarry men’s “In Spite of All the Danger” and going as recent as “FourFiveSeconds,” his collaboration with Kanye West and Rihanna.

McCartney has been playing his work at countless concerts for decades on end. Unlike so many of his peers that have come and gone, however, the novelty has never worn off. The crowd’s enthusiasm is a testament to the timelessness of his greatest work, and the closest any fan can come today to a true Beatles experience.

Lily King discusses upbringing, inspiring her work president and editorial director for Grove Atlantic Inc. Schmitz has been working closely with King as her editor since the debut of King’s first published novel “The Pleasing Hour,” a story about a girl named Rosie who fled to France as an au pair from America to escape trauma. King has currently published a total of four highly acclaimed novels: “The Pleasing Hour,” Courtesy of Lily King “The English Teacher,” King has won the the Barnes & Noble Discover “Father of the Rain” and Award for her novel “The Pleasing Hour.”

“Euphoria.”

King has been

By Jessica Zagacki nominated and has won several SPEC IAL TO T H E C H R O N ICL E noteworthy awards for her Renowned author Lily King work; she received the Barnes kicked off Hofstra’s “14th & Noble Discover Award for Annual Great Writers, Great her first novel “The Pleasing Readings” series in the Guthart Hour,” which was also a New Cultural Center Theater with a York Times Notable Book discussion of her many critically and an alternate for the PEN/ acclaimed novels.

Hemingway Award.

This special event featured a Her second novel “The discussion between Lily King English Teacher” was a Chicago and Elisabeth Schmitz, the vice

Tribune Best Book of the Year, a Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year, and the winner of the Maine Book Award for Fiction.

Her third novel “Father of the Rain” was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Lastly, her fourth and most recent novel “Euphoria” won the New England Book Award for Fiction, a Kirkus Award for Fiction and was a finalist in the National Book Critics Circle Awards.

During the event, the dialogue between the two consisted of Schmitz talking briefly about each one of King’s four highly successful novels, followed by King reading an excerpt from each as well as Schmitz asking King personal questions related to life as an author. The event closed with questions from the audience followed by a meet and greet with King, who was signing copies of her novels.

Throughout the entire event, King was very open, raw and vulnerable as she discussed her upbringing with her alcoholic father, her mother who wasn’t around much and the end of

her parent’s marriage. She also discussed how her father played a huge role in inspiring the idea for her third novel “Father of the Rain.”

“It’s so strange when your life takes you into your fiction,” King said. She then talked about her experiences with her own children and how it reminded her of parts of her first novel after she had written it.

King also gave a plethora of wise advice to both aspiring and accomplished writers alike. She mentioned how as a writer, you can combine two underdeveloped ideas together for a novel, which is exactly what she did with “The Pleasing Hour.”

“Every single novel has its own problems and puzzles and one isn’t going to help the other,” King said.

She mentioned how with each novel it’s back to square one – doing research and developing the story because each story is different. King creatively thinks of research as the “undergarments” of the

book because it’s important to do the research, but you don’t want any of it to show through.

Research should be added in a way that keeps the story going and flowing without seeming too factual or like you need to know every detail.

There was certainly a large amount of research that went into writing her newest novel, “Euphoria,” which is based on a love triangle involving American anthropologist Margaret Mead.

King spent hours filling pages full of research so that she could embody Mead’s life and personality to the best of her ability in her character for “Euphoria.”

“Great Writers, Great Readings” with King and Schmitz was a treat for writers and readers alike. King certainly captures the essence of a writer who is truly passionate about the profession. She has allowed her open mind, creativity and genuine passion for storytelling to be a driving force in her success as an author.

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‘Discovery’ reinvents familiar ground

Courtesy of CBS Sonequa Martin-Green, of “The Walking Dead” fame, takes the lead role.

By Jacob Huller SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE

The first episode of “Star Trek: Discovery,” the sixth television series to bear the Star Trek name, premiered on CBS on Sept. 24th. The new series marks Star Trek’s long-awaited return to the airwaves ever since “Star Trek: Enterprise” was canceled in 2005, and comes after months of build-up and controversy amongst the “Trekkies” fanbase.

Discovery’s lead, Michael Burnham (Sonequa MartinGreen), is the first person of color Star Trek lead since Avery Brooks’ Commander/Captain Sisko of “Star Trek: Deep Space

Nine” and the first female lead since Kate Mulgrew’s Captain Janeway of “Star Trek: Voyager.”

She is also the first Star Trek lead to not have a command at the start of the series, instead being a first officer under Captain Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) of the USS Shenzhou.

The show begins with the Klingons. T’Kuvma – a selfproclaimed second coming of the Klingon messiah, Kahless – is seeking to unite the Klingon Empire and launch war against the United Federation of Planets, seeing their unity as a threat to their culture. This theme was explored before in the sixth Star

Trek film, “The Undiscovered Country,” so it fits well here.

Meanwhile, on the Federation side of the story, we have Burnham, who is a human raised

by Vulcans after her family was killed in a Klingon attack. What’s most notable about this backstory is that the Vulcan that raised her is Sarek, the father of Spock from The Original Series, played here by James Frain. This may seem like fan-service at first (one almost wonders when the inevitable “Childhood with Spock” flashback will occur), but it does inform Burnham’s actions in the first episode.

Burnham, after seven years under Georgiou, is said to be ready for her own command. But demons from her past begin to haunt her when she encounters and kills a Klingon in self-defense while investigating an unknown structure. She asserts that the best course of action with Klingons is to fire first, as they would see it as a sign of respect.

Taking actions into her own hands, Burnham nerve-pinches Georgiou, assumes command, and is about to fire when she is found out and apprehended.

Her actions mirror Spock’s in The Original Series quite nicely, which is smart considering they likely had similar upbringings.

We see Spock’s behavior in “Balance of Terror,” where he agrees that firing first on the Romulans would be respected as a show of strength, and where in “The Menagerie,” Spock risks the death penalty to help out his old captain.

It may seem odd that Spock never mentioned his adopted human sister once, but he never mentioned his father or his halfbrother Sybok until he absolutely had to, so it isn’t exactly implausible.

Also influencing Burnham’s actions are her backstory. The Klingon attack when she was a child left her with severe PTSD regarding the subject, and her subsequent prejudice against Klingons arguably starts a war. By the end of “Battle at the Binary Stars,” she ends up sentenced to life imprisonment for her actions. Of course, she’ll eventually get out of this and end up serving aboard the USS Discovery, but has to deal with the guilt of being the cause of

a potentially long and bloody conflict, as well as the death of her mentor.

Burnham’s arc promises to be an interesting one to say the least, and her actress portrays her well in terms of emotion as well as occasional wit. The main cast also includes Saru (Doug Jones), a Kelpien science officer; Ash Tyler (Shazad Latif), a former prisoner of war who finds common ground with Burnham; Sylvia Tilly (Mary Wiseman), a cadet who bunks with Burnham on the Discovery; Gabriel Lorca (Jason Isaacs), Captain of the Discovery; and Paul Stamets (Anthony Rapp), an “astromycologist” and the first openly gay character in Star Trek’s prime timeline.

Judging firmly on the first two episodes, I deem Discovery to be good. It shows promise, and at least deserves a chance from Star Trek fans and newcomers alike.

Then again, I’m that one Trekkie who unironically likes “Star Trek: Insurrection” and “Nemesis,” and thinks seasons one and two of Enterprise are genuinely good, so who am I to judge?

‘PRETTYMUCH’ revives boyband pop music

By Casey Clark

SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE

We all know One Direction took over the music industry with the help of Simon Cowell, and now he is back endorsing a new boyband – PRETTYMUCH. Cowell discovered these five amazing talents from across the United States and Canada.

Brandon Arreaga from Texas, Edwin Honoret from New York, Zion Kuwonu from Canada, Nick Mara from New Jersey and Austin Porter from North Carolina compose the group taking the music scene by storm.

From dancing on America’s Best Dance Crew to posting covers on YouTube, the individual members had been working tirelessly to get their talents noticed prior to the band’s formation.

Since the beginning of 2016, the boys have been living together in a house in Los Angeles writing, creating and producing music together – as well as choreographing dances in tandem with their songs.

PRETTYMUCH made rounds with their signature style to major media outlets across the United States, including Fox News, MTV, AwesomenessTV and more, helping them to grow their fan base and make a name for themselves.

The boy band had their first debut television performance during the Teen Choice Awards in 2017 where they performed their hit single “Would You Mind” for thousands of fans across the globe.

“Would You Mind” was written

by Savan Kotecha, the writer who has worked on projects for other well-known pop artists including Ariana Grande, One Direction and The Weeknd.

The hit single describes the ups and downs of a relationship and the possibility of it becoming more than just a chance encounter. “Would You Mind” is very reminiscent of 90s pop music and clearly draws inspiration from the likes of the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC. “Would You Mind” was re-

leased to critical acclaim in July memorable moments from their A few weeks ago, pop duo Jack followed by a music video that has trip. Last month, PRETTYMUCH & Jack announced that PRETaccumulated nearly 500,000 views had the opportunity to go to the TYMUCH, in addition to Olivia on YouTube. Earning the accoiHeartRadio Musical Festival in O’Brien, will be opening for them lade of iTunes Artist of the Week, Las Vegas where they were able on some of their show dates on PRETTYMUCH acquired even to watch other performances and their upcoming tour from the end more exposure. meet established musical groups, of October to the beginning of Collaborating with Awesomeincluding Little Mix. December. nessTV, a media-based YouTube channel that works with leading content creators to produce creative videos about musicians’ careers, trends and fashion has propelled their career forward. The group recently released two videos with the channel in which they explained how they formed the band and what it is like working together as a group of talented musicians.

The band also made a video about their adventures when they traveled Courtesy of Syco to London together and documented the most “Would You Mind” has accumulated over 7,000,000 Spotify listens since release.

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By Bernie Sanders UNITED S TAT E S S E N ATO R F OR VER M O N T

Two years ago, when I first introduced the College for All Act, the political establishment said that it couldn’t be done, and that it was a “pie in the sky” idea.

But a nationwide, grassroots movement led by millions of you and your families refused to take “no” for an answer. Loudly and clearly, you said that in the wealthiest country on earth it is unacceptable for young people to go $30,000 $40,000, $50,000 in debt just to get a college education, or for hundreds of thousands of bright young people not to go to college because they cannot afford it.

Today, the idea doesn’t seem so crazy. Recent polls show that an overwhelming majority of Americans agree that four year colleges and universities should

By Professor Jeff Morosoff ASSOC I AT E P R O F E S S OR OF PUB LI C R E L AT I O N S

When former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer made a self-mocking cameo appearance at the Emmy Awards last Sunday, I, like much of the audience, was surprised and delighted. I thought, “It’s so cool that Spicer’s able to laugh at himself, and we can laugh with him!”

Then I began reading reactions on social media and commentary from journalists on both sides of the political aisle.

Retired CBS News anchor Dan Rather wrote, “It is not funny that the American people were lied to. It is not funny that the press was attacked for doing its job. It is not funny that the norms of our democracy have been trampled.” Frank Bruni authored an angry column for

Senator Bernie Sanders: College for all

be tuition free.

The good news is that legislators across the country are now introducing their own “college for all” bills at both state and municipal levels. This year, the City College of San Francisco began offering tuition-free college, and enrollments for residents are up by 51 percent compared to the prior year. In New York, this year tens of thousands will go to the state’s public colleges and universities without paying tuition. Similar programs have popped up in Tennessee, a conservative state, and in Oregon, as well as the cities of Detroit, Chicago and many others.

We are making enormous progress on this issue, but much more has to be done. I am calling on you for your help. Please join me for a livestream event on October 10th at 7 pm ET to

kick off a campus movement to fight to make public colleges and universities tuition free.

Many of you and your families are struggling to meet the high costs of tuition, expensive books, housing, and extra fees.

You’ve had to choose majors that are “marketable,” instead of ones that you are passionate about. Some of you have had to attend less expensive schools over the summer to save on tuition, or cram credits in already busy semesters. Far too many of you are forced to work long hours in between classes instead of paying attention to your academic work.

It’s no secret that student debt in America has reached crisis proportions, with more than 40 million Americans owing over $1.3 trillion. All across this country, young people are struggling with outrageous debt

for decades, which impacts their ability to get married, have kids or buy a home. People should not be punished for getting the education they need.

Other nations around the world understand the benefits of having an educated workforce that isn’t burdened with enormous student debt. In Germany, Ireland, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway and many other countries public colleges and universities are free. In Germany, public colleges are free not only for Germans, but also for international students.

Education is essential for both personal and national well-being. We live in a highly competitive, global economy, and if our economy is to be strong, we need the best-educated workforce in the world. The only way to achieve that goal is to make sure that every young person in

Expert Analysis: The ethics of alternative facts

The New York Times titled “The Shameful Embrace of Sean Spicer at the Emmys,” and Donald Trump supporter Mark Dice, a YouTuber and self-described “media analyst exposing fake news,” labeled the former White House spokesman a “traitor” who “sold out.”

White House spokesperson is one of the most significant and impactful public relations jobs in the world. Spicer, who held the position for six months before resigning, has made several public appearances recently, notably on Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show. Following a clip of Spicer telling the press that he would never knowingly say something that was not factual, Kimmel asked him how was he able to say that the size of the crowd at the inauguration was bigger than it was, which Spicer notably did in his very first press conference. Spicer responded, “Your job as press

secretary is to represent the president’s voice and to make sure you’re articulating what he believes … whether or not you agree or not isn’t your job.

Your job is to give him advice.

Ultimately, he is the president (and) he decides. That’s what you signed up to do.”

Spicer went on to explain, “Sometimes we can disagree with the facts.” Kimmel asked, “Can we, though, disagree with the facts?” Spicer rationalized, “It’s my job to speak on (Trump’s) behalf. So if you’re not speaking in the way that he wants, obviously he wanted to make sure he corrected that.”

Interestingly, all this occurred during September, the month in which the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) focuses its programs and publications on the six core values highlighted in its Code of Ethics. In public relations classrooms across the U.S.,

professors and instructors reinforce the importance of truth, trust and transparency in the PR profession. Here are the PRSA code’s six core values: Advocacy – We serve the public interest by acting as responsible advocates for those we represent. We provide a voice in the marketplace of ideas, facts, and viewpoints to aid informed public debate.

Honesty – We adhere to the highest standards of accuracy and truth in advancing the interests of those we represent and in communicating with the public.

Expertise – We acquire and responsibly use specialized knowledge and experience. We advance the profession through continued professional development, research and education.

We build mutual understanding, credibility and relationships among a wide array of institutions and audiences.

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this country can get the education that he or she desires, regardless of his or her family’s income, and without going into major debt.

When an idea catches fire, when people see the justice of that idea, it can move very, very quickly. In my view, there will be a day when every qualified American will be able to get the college education they need tuition-free. But that day won’t come until the American people demand it.

That’s why I am calling on you to participate in a College for All rally on October 10th at 7 pm ET. I encourage you to organize an event on your campus, get together with your friends, and tune into our livestream at Facebook.com/SenatorSanders.

Independence – We provide objective counsel to those we represent. We are accountable for our actions.

Loyalty – We are faithful to those we represent, while honoring our obligation to serve the public interest.

Fairness – We deal fairly with clients, employers, competitors, peers, vendors, the media and the general public. We respect all opinions and support the right of free expression.

In retrospect, Sean Spicer’s legacy is that he failed PRSA’s ethics test. His performance as press secretary hurt the reputation of the public relations profession, which is often faced with such challenges when practitioners avoid the truth and “spin” the facts. Maybe when he apologizes for disparaging the press and feeding America and the world “alternative truths,” only then might it be okay to laugh with him.

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By Sarah Kocher

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Kurdish independence is inevitable

C OPY C H I E F

Dreams of a Kurdish state have been teased and let down time and time again since the downfall of the Ottoman Empire after World War I. Comprising the fourth-largest ethnic group in the Middle East, the Kurds have struggled to achieve their dream of uniting under an autonomous and internationally recognized state. They were just one of many ethnic groups forced to live in new countries with arbitrary borders created

by Western powers post-WWI. In efforts of becoming a state, the Kurds formed various groups to fight for recognition within the countries they were forced to reside in – Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey. These factions fought within themselves and with these states in the long battle for independence.

Although the Kurds did not have a state, the Iraqi govern-

ment amended its constitution to read “the Iraqi people is made up of two nationalities: the Arab nationality and the Kurdish nationality,” in attempts to ease tensions in March 1970. This however, was not the end-all-be-all. Fighting continued for decades and in 2005, northern Iraq became home to Kurdistan – an autonomous region within the country.

Since 2005, Kurdistan formed its own government, its own economy and the peshmerga, Kurdish fighters, have evolved into a quasi-military that has fought alongside the Iraqi Army in the fight against ISIS in recent years. The rise of ISIS has caused Kurdistan and Iraq to join forces in defending their borders, although the latter still considers Kurdistan merely an Iraqi state.

The Kurdish people, however, made a monumental move Monday, Sept. 25, and voted for independence from Iraq.

The overwhelming “yes” vote was not a vote on pure independence – meaning it was a “yes” to initiate negotiations with Baghdad and start the final chapter in Kurdistan’s journey to independence.

Monday’s vote sent shockwaves through the region and the world; Iraq has threatened military action against the region, but aside from mere threats, Baghdad has its hands tied since it recognized Kurdistan as an autonomous region in 2005.

Prior to Monday’s victory, the United States pressured Kurdistan to call off the vote – fearing a rise in ethnic violence in the area. To this I say, too late. The United States has no room to talk due to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, where after the expulsion of Iraqi security forces, the country was left in a power vacuum. Ethnic militias filled this vacuum because the Iraqi people had no one left to

defend them.

Fast forward to present day and the United States is still in Iraq, however now we are fighting the Islamic State. In this fight, we have allied ourselves with both the Iraqi Army and the peshmerga.

After Monday’s vote for independence, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders made a highly uneducated statement: “We hope for a unified Iraq to annihilate ISIS, and certainly a unified Iraq to push back on Iran.”

A “unified Iraq?” Is that a joke? Iraq has never been an ethnically united country, even pre-2003. Granted that before 2003, ethnicity was not as hardlined as it was post-invasion, but there was never one Iraqi people, never one nationality.

As mentioned above, the U.S. has been fighting ISIS alongside both Iraqi and Kurdish forces, providing them with weapons and training. What part of that

hotter topic after President Donald Trump tweeted that players who do not stand for the national anthem should be fired. His comments sparked each team in the NFL to decide how to react to these comments. One of these teams, the Pittsburgh Steelers, decided to remain out of politics and in the locker room during the national anthem. Only one player, Alejandro Villenueva, a former Army Ranger, stood outside the tunnel to the locker room during the anthem.

I scanned the comment sections on Instagram to see how fans reacted to the Steelers’ decision to remain in the locker room and Villenueva’s decision to stand outside. I saw feelings along the lines of the team being

a huge disgrace and fans saying they would never support the team anymore. Those same fans praised Villenueva and his actions, eventually leading to his jersey sales skyrocketing within the next week.

But even Villenueva came back the next day and spoke to the press, saying he regrets standing without his team and how he agrees that anyone has the right to protest or do whatever they want during the national anthem. He was the face of patriotism, of protecting what is sacred to many fans and he just agreed with the players they loathe.

The argument needs to change. Right now, the argument is about First Amendment

rights and if players should have the right to kneel or remain in the locker room. I believe we shouldn’t even be talking about this. We should be talking about the reason that Kaepernick kneeled in the first place: racial injustice against AfricanAmericans and other minorities in America. From the start of his protest, the talk has been around whether he should be fined or fired. Every time he kneels, fans erupt – calling him all sorts of expletives for disgracing their country, which is not his intention or any athlete’s intention.

Every time an athlete kneels for the national anthem, the conversation should be about why they do it, not the fact that they do it. Take the time to listen to

strategy tells an administration that Iraq is a united country?

One country tends to not have two different armies.

The Trump administration’s incompetency in Middle Eastern affairs is frightening. Fighting a war with two separate entities is completely acceptable and is, in fact, a powerful strategy. What is not acceptable is being utterly blind to internal Middle Eastern affairs and not recognizing that at the end of the day, Kurdistan and Iraq are separate countries.

I would say the Trump administration must open its eyes to these affairs in order to effectively defeat ISIS and attempt to bring peace to the Middle East. However, when a president is as utterly incompetent about internal affairs, how can I have hope he will educate himself on foreign affairs?

Intercept the conversation on taking a knee

By Robert English

SPEC IA L TO T H E C H R O NI CL E

Last August, Colin Kaepernick took a knee for the first time during the national anthem in a protest of wrongdoings against African-Americans and other racial minorities in the United States. He received immediate backlash from fans all over the place, claiming he doesn’t respect America or is disgracing those who served in the military, even though that’s not what he was protesting.

Nonetheless, the fans continued to boycott Kaepernick.

A year later, this controversy of athletes and sports teams using the national anthem as a platform for protest is an even

why players do this and then we can talk about the real issues.

Let’s talk about why there is racial inequality in the U.S. Let’s talk about why it is more likely for minorities to be physically harmed or harassed, especially by the police. Let’s talk about the hardships that minorities endure due to the sole fact that they are minorities.

This isn’t a conversation on First Amendment rights, or at least it shouldn’t be the conversation currently being talked about across America. This is a conversation on racial injustice.

Don’t complain about someone disrespecting your country if you yourself don’t respect everyone in this country.

Poll of the Week: 73%

Would you #takeaknee?

(136 Responses) 4%

Yes, athletes can protest

No, it’s unconstitutional

23% No, but respect rights to

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T h e Pa r t y L i n e Republicans support Puerto Rico becoming a 51st state

By Adam Brownstein C ONTR I B U TO R

The destruction caused to Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria is one of tragedy and sadness. The tragedy and view by many Americans that the aid and recovery efforts being provided to Puerto Rico by the United States is happening at a relatively slow rate, has triggered the re-emergence of the everlasting debate on whether or not Puerto Rico should become the 51st state of these United States.

(Note: Out of respect for the victims of Hurricane Maria, this article will stray away from Democrat vs. Republican politics and strictly just talk about the Republican view on the topic and facts associated with possible statehood.)

In what may come as a shock

By Alex Hayes C ONTR I B U TO R

Within Puerto Rico, an existential debate has taken place for decades. On the one hand, votes have been held within the territory on whether the island should become a U.S. state since 1967, and a statehood movement existed even earlier.

On the other, independence movements have existed within Puerto Rico for centuries, since its establishment as a Spanish colony; with the colony’s transfer from Spain to the United States after the Spanish-American War, the independence movement simply changed its target. Both sides of the debate make valid arguments, and I certainly don’t have the authority to advocate for either side.

However, the indecision in this debate has left Puerto Rico in an entirely untenable position.

Puerto Rico’s status as a U.S. territory leaves it acting in some respects as an independent country and in others like a U.S. state. There are some advantages to this position: for

to those reading, the Republican Party does support the notion of Puerto Rico becoming a state. The 2016 Republican Party Platform on this topic stated: “We support the right of the United States citizens of Puerto Rico to be admitted to the Union as a fully sovereign state. We further recognize the historic significance of the 2012 local referendum in which a 54% majority voted to end Puerto Rico’s current status as a U.S. territory, and 61% chose statehood over options for sovereign nationhood. We support the federally sponsored political status referendum authorized and funded by an Act of Congress in 2014 to ascertain the aspirations of the people of Puerto Rico. If the 2012 local vote for statehood is ratified, Congress should approve an

enabling act with terms for Puerto Rico’s future admission as the Fifty-First State of the Union.”

Currently, people from the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, which has been in U.S. control since 1898 and a commonwealth since 1952, can have their own governor, pay into Social Security, have access to Medicare and Medicaid, have U.S. citizenship upon birth, vote in presidential primary elections and enlist into the United States military.

Upon the approval of statehood, Puerto Rico will: have the right to vote in presidential elections, be required to pay federal income tax, have representation in Congress, possibly provide a way to help increase the amount of job opportunities for the

people living in Puerto Rico, decrease the island’s poverty level and lift trade policies on the island, which will allow the usage of open trade.

The last option is big because Puerto Rico is currently billions of dollars in debt, and experts on the topic say this benefit from statehood would be the best way for the island to overcome this crippling factor.

In both 2012 and 2017 a majority of Puerto Rican voters who participated in non-binding voting for statehood voted for the option of having Puerto Rico become a state.

However, this vote, as indicated by the usage of the term non-binding, does not have final say on the matter. As stated within Article 4, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution, the power is left to Congress to give

a territory the title of statehood, and as evident by the number of stars on the American Flag, this hasn’t occurred.

As of publication, a bill titled H.R. 260, which seeks to give Puerto Rico statehood by the year 2025, is currently going through the committee stages of the bill process. The last development of this bill occurred in February of this year when the House decided to refer the bill to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.

Adam Brownstein is the vice president of the Hofstra Republicans

Relief or abandonment?

The question of Puerto Rican statehood example, Puerto Ricans do not have to pay federal income tax and can field their own Olympic team. But there are many more drawbacks. Puerto Ricans do not get to vote for president, and their representatives in Congress cannot vote on bills; despite this, federal laws apply in Puerto Rico and the island depends on numerous federal agencies – meaning Puerto Ricans are deprived of truly democratic governance. Most importantly today, this means Puerto Ricans depend on disaster relief from agencies like the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) that are in no way accountable to the Puerto Rican people.

When FEMA failed to help the people of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, there were consequences. Representatives and senators from Louisiana were able to push for relief funding and reforms at FEMA. President Bush’s

approval ratings fell. The next year, Democrats were able to take over the Congress thanks to what the public perceived as poor handling of the hurricane.

But now that FEMA is failing to help the people of Puerto Rico, there will be no consequences.

Puerto Rico’s congressional

representation cannot push for relief or restructuring.

President Trump needn’t worry about his approval ratings in a territory that cannot vote for president. Given that there are no political consequences for failing to provide disaster relief to Puerto Rico, it should come as no surprise that

cleanup efforts are underway in Texas and Florida while Puerto Rico is left helpless.

But even without the effects of natural disasters, Puerto Rico is placed in a perennially perilous position by its status as notquite-a-country and not-quitea-state. In terms of economics, Puerto Rico gets the worst aspects of both statehood and independence. Like a state, Puerto Rico is unable to default on its debts, cannot set its own economic policies to alleviate problems and cannot turn to international institutions like the World Bank of IMF for help. But, like an independent country, Puerto Rico receives no assistance from the U.S. government to deal with its economic problems. When a state is close to defaulting on its loans, it can receive an essentially noquestions-asked cash injection from the federal government to keep it afloat. But now that Puerto Rico is close to defaulting, it has no options. It cannot declare bankruptcy and has no

one to turn to for help.

The eventual status of Puerto Rico, whether it be statehood or independence, is a question for the Puerto Rican people. After over a century of exploitation by the United States, the Puerto Rican people have fully earned the right to statehood, if they want it, as well as self-determination, if they want it. But for now, the island’s limbo status is completely unacceptable.

The federal government must end the second-class citizenship it gives to Puerto Ricans and to the residents of all territories. If the island is going to be forced to rely on the federal government, that government must be made accountable to the Puerto Rican people. And if the U.S. is going to limit Puerto Rico’s economic self-determination, it must give the island the same assistance it gives to U.S. states.

Alex Hayes is the PR chair of the Hofstra Democrats

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Men’s soccer finding glimpses of success amid struggles

By Alexandra Licata STAFF W R I T E R

Currently midway through the season, Hofstra men’s soccer has played to a 1-3-6 record and is struggling to put the ball in the net, but head coach Richard Nuttall is hoping they have finally found the offensive spark the Pride has been looking for.

Six draws this season is the most for Hofstra since the 1988 team, when the program played to six stalemates for a 3-9-6 record.

Overall performance has been mixed from the Pride, according to Nuttall.

“We’ve had some excellent performances without getting the results. We’ve had some average performances and gotten a couple of great ties after it,” Nuttall said.

However for Nuttall, the worst performance of the season so far came in the first half of a conference game against Northeastern University on Sept. 27 at home.

Nuttall was pleased to see the team play a much better game in the second half.

The Pride was down 1-0 before freshman Matthew Vowinkel one-touched in a cross from senior Danny Elliott with just under 15 minutes to play. The Pride outshot the Huskies 18-8 after halftime in the overtime match.

Nuttall hopes that strong of-

fensive presence in the second half will be used as a major turning point for the team.

“We’ve still got time to turn the season around. We’ve got a good spirit in the club,” Nuttall said.

“We’ve got a set of lads who are probably becoming more appreciative of what they’ve got to do and understanding the game.

So I think we’ve got a good base to move forward on.”

The lack of scoring has been an all-around issue for the Pride, who haven’t been able to put the ball in the net as much as they would like.

The team has scored only five goals this season, two from Elliott, two from Vowinkel and one from last season’s CAA Rookie of the Year Luke Brown.

Brown led the team in goals scored last season with eight, but he hasn’t been able to be as offensively dominant so far this season.

Having been such an unexpected prominent force last season as a rookie, teams are now more aware of what he is capable of and therefore are tougher on their defense of him.

“He’s got to adapt his game and I think he’s struggling to adapt his game at the moment, but he’s such a good player that he will eventually come out of this sort of mini-slump and he’ll score goals for this program because he learned how; because

he’s smart,” Nuttall said.

“He’s got a great soccer IQ and he’s got great technical skills.”

Hofstra’s schedule hasn’t been easy with games against strong, nationally-ranked opposing programs early in the season, especially for the nine new faces on the team as they still adapt to the game of Division I soccer.

Nuttall hopes that playing in these challenging games will give them the opportunity to grow and develop into stronger players for the future of the program.

Two players this season, goalkeeper Alex Ashton and junior transfer Marcus Lindqvist, have been the Pride’s most consistent performers, according to Nuttall.

While Ashton has received a great deal of praise from his coach in postgame interviews, Lindqvist’s name hasn’t been heard too often, but his coach recognizes what he’s doing for this team. “[Lindqvist is] rock steady, does his job and defends well one-on-one. Lindq’s played well coming forward,” Nuttall said.

“Great left foot. Little bit understated … Another one I want to have more presence.”

Ashton is playing in his third season with the Pride, but didn’t see time his freshman year due to an injury. He has made 37

Cam Keough / Hofstra Chronicle Hofstra has played to six ties this season, the most in a single season since the 1988 team went 3-9-6.

Cam Keough / Hofstra Chronicle Hofstra head coach Richard Nuttall is currently coaching his 29th season.

saves this season and played every minute of every game for the team.

“He’s growing game by game,” Nuttall said.

“I still want to see a lot more presence from him in the games; more commanding of his area and commanding of the six yard box. But from a growth point of view, he’s really coming along and I think it helps that Leo [Arkhanhelskyi] and Tom [Germano] are great guys to train with – the other two goalies. And I think they’re pushing each other in practice, so I think they deserve some credit too.”

Nuttall believes that it is a mental game for his team at this point, as the Pride currently sits at 0-0-4 in CAA play with four conference games to go.

He is looking for his team to play with a quicker tempo, more toughness and more mental alertness.

One word Nuttall continued to mention in speaking about ways to improve going forward was courage.

“When things are not going well, this is about being deter-

mined and understanding your own capabilities and believing in your own capabilities,” Nuttall said.

“And you’ve got to have courage and I think we’ll get there.

We’re hard working.”

As the Pride’s schedule moves forward, they will travel to face Dartmouth College in New Hampshire tonight.

After this match the Pride will return home to begin their final stretch of CAA games, which begins with the University of Delaware Blue Hens on Oct. 7 at 7:30 p.m. at the Hofstra Soccer Stadium.

Nuttall has high expectations for his team going forward, but is overall looking for them to evolve and come together, playing strong games not only defensively, but offensively as well.

“I want to see all of the above that we mentioned before and that we showed in the second half [against Northeastern],” Nuttall said. “Courage, energy, conviction, tackling, desire, strength of will, endeavor, energy, enthusiasm – all that.”

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The Hofstra volleyball team picked up its third conference win on Sunday afternoon when they traveled to the University of Delaware and took care of the Blue Hens quite handedly in the four-set affair.

Hofstra won three of the four sets by scores of 25-12, 25-15 and 25-15, while dropping the second set 19-25.

The disparity on the scoreboard can be attributed to the discrepancy in attack percentages between the two teams, as Hofstra hit .292 compared to Delaware’s mere .074.

The Pride displayed a solid offensive showing, with Michela Rucli’s 12 kills and four blocks

leading the way.

Ivania Ortiz complimented Rucli’s 12 kills with 12 herself, while Laura Masciullo picked up eight in the win.

The catalyst in this potent attack was Luisa Sydlik, who posted 39 assists to bring her CAA-leading season total to 737.

Although usually a vocal leader of the team, Nanishka Perez led the team in another way – setting a career high in the game by totaling five service aces.

Perez’s total was four more than Delaware had as a team, as Maria Bellinger got the Blue Hens’ sole ace in the second set.

For the Blue Hens, Bellinger led the way with a game-high 15 kills, while tallying six digs in the losing effort.

Bellinger turned out to be the only spark in the game for Delaware, as the Blue Hens compiled 25 errors throughout the four sets compared to Hof-

stra’s 16, putting themselves at a clear disadvantage as the sets closed out.

The win brings Hofstra to 11-7 overall and 3-1 in CAA play as the Pride get set to make their way back home for a fourgame home stretch.

Arriving first at the Mack Physical Education Center will be the Elon University Phoenix, who sit behind the Pride with a 2-2 conference record.

After a few days of rest, the Pride players will meet the Phoenix and look to extend their current win streak to four games as they take the court on Friday, Oct. 6 at 7 p.m.

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Cam Keough / Hofstra Chronicle Michela Rucli was tied for the team lead in kills on Sunday, with 12.

Field hockey trounces Towson Tigers on Sunday

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“Think Pink Day” brought over 200 fans to the Hofstra Field Hockey Stadium – fans who went home with a free hat and a winning smile after the Pride pounced on the Towson University Tigers for a 4-0 win in Sunday’s match.

Cam Keough / Hofstra Chronicle Frankie O’Brien tallied her fourth goal of the year in Sunday’s victory.

Both teams went into the game looking to pick up their first win of conference play.

The Pride came out of the stables with steam and fired their first shot of the game oneminute in.

In yet another game, the Pride’s persistent pressure led to an abundance of early opportunities.

“Overall, it was just great work ethic on the defensive side and I think that really led to a lot of leads and a lot of transitions that gave us several opportunities in the circle,” said Hofstra head coach Kathy De Angelis after the game.

Madison Sauve found Anne van den Boomen in front of the net for the first goal of the game – and the first goal of her young collegiate career – as she put the ball up and over the Tigers’ goaltender.

“It was a phenomenal goal. I mean really a world class goal and that’s just an indication of what she’s got,” De Angelis said.

Two minutes later, Sauve add-

ed to the lead with a goal of her own. The speedy Sauve sneakily slithered through the defenders as she met a pass from Philine de Wolf in the crease and put it past Woodall for her eighth goal of the season.

The Pride took their first penalty corner of the game with a little over 13 minutes left to play in the first half.

Suave sent the corner to Frankie O’Brien who settled it in front of the net for a swinging Sauve to strike the ball into the goal, giving Hofstra a 3-0 lead.

Sauve added onto her already impressive outing, adding another goal to her lone score and assist.

“She’s got great execution in that circle and she’s getting a lot of leads. She’s a team player and she leads by example; I think it’s really, really pushing the young players around her,” De Angelis said.

Hofstra headed into halftime with a three-goal lead and a 12 to two advantage in shots.

The Pride found themselves with another handful of opportu-

nities in the second half. A pass from Sauve strayed from the outstretched stick of a sliding Hannah Zemaitis who was open in front of the net as the ball trickled out of bounds.

Minutes later, Alyssa Kohler put one off the post, inches away from padding onto the lead.

The last corner of the game for the Pride led to another insurance goal with 12 minutes left on the clock.

O’Brien added to her stats with the fourth goal of the game – and the fourth goal of her freshman campaign.

Hofstra’s first shutout of the season came while facing zero shots on goal from the Tigers, with the Pride showing great improvement in the freshman-filled backline.

“It was really nice to see the pure tenacity to fight and have pure discipline on defense,” De Angelis said.

The Pride will continue conference play on Friday, Oct. 6, at Northeastern University at 6 p.m.

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Late JMU goal sends Pride to fourth straight tie

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Hofstra men’s soccer continued a familiar trend Saturday night at Sentara Park tying with James Madison University (JMU) 1-1 for their fourth consecutive draw.

It looked like the Pride had a chance to grab their first win since Aug. 25, when freshman Matthew Vowinkel broke a scoreless tie with just under 20 minutes left to play.

JMU countered nine minutes later when Manuel Ferriol secured a pass from Yannick Franz and sent it past the outstretched arms of Pride goalie Alex Ashton.

Vowinkel’s goal was his sec-

ond on the season and he’s now scored in back-to-back games on head-ins.

With the Pride struggling on offense, Vowinkel may end up providing them the spark they need.

Both teams were sloppy on offense all-game long and combined for only 12 shots in the entire contest.

Poor passing could be attributed to the anemic offensive output as neither team was able to string together positive possessions without defenders being decidedly out of position.

This was the second consecutive game where Hofstra clearly outplayed and outshot their opponent for most of the game; they simply failed to capitalize on countless opportunities of set-plays.

It seems as if it is only a matter of time before the Pride explodes for a big-time offensive performance, but they have

been unable to put a complete performance together thus far in the season.

The Pride has now tied in six of their last seven games. They now share the national lead for ties this season with fellow Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) rival Elon University.

They have not won a game in CAA play, yet remain undefeated with a peculiar 0-0-4 conference record.

Despite not yet having won a game in conference play, Hofstra is somehow tied for fourth place in conference. This is due to the nature of the European points system that counts wins as three points and draws as one point.

Hofstra (1-3-6) will take a quick break from conference play when they travel to Dartmouth College for a match Tuesday, Oct. 3, at 7 p.m. in New Hampshire.

Cam Keough / Hofstra Chronicle Freshman Matt Vowinkel scored the lone goal for Hofstra on Saturday.

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Young stars to propel field hockey into future

By John Napolitano STAFF W R I T E R

Preparation is paramount. As former Indy 500 champion Bobby Unser once said, “Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.” For the Hofstra field hockey team, preparation for a tough schedule of in-conference play could result in the opportunity to return to the top-four and the CAA tournament.

With a 6-7 overall record and an even 1-1 in-conference record, the 2017 campaign has proven to be a stalemate between advancement and adversity for the Hofstra Pride.

“To get 11 new guys in there, and they’re gelling with the returners, that’s taken us some time, but I think right now we’re as prepared as we need to be,” said Hofstra head coach Kathy De Angelis.

That gelling process certainly did not take long for freshmen Philine de Wolf and Frankie O’Brien. Through 13 games, the fearsome first-years have combined for 26 points and the first- and third-most minutes on the field. Ever the aggressor, de Wolf has converted six goals this season. O’Brien has

four goals of her own while bolstering the backfield with her impressive defensive presence.

An exemplary executioner to whom freshmen like de Wolf and O’Brien can look up is Madison Sauve.

“She’s really been very prolific around the net, but she also is such a team player, and she has set up a lot of opportunities for other players around her,” De Angelis said.

With nine goals and four assists, Sauve leads the Pride in nearly every offensive category.

She has tallied 22 points through 13 games, which is unsurprising for the Pride’s shot-on-goal percentage leader (.727). With six games still to go this season, the junior forward has already surpassed her combined freshman and sophomore point total of 21.

“She’s really having a great year, and her execution in the circle as far as scoring goes has been just wonderful,” De Angelis said.

With a 6-3 record at Hofstra Field Hockey Stadium, the Pride is certainly comfortable on its home turf, but 2017 has proven to be rocky on the road. In four

road game decisions, Hofstra has not secured a single win and has been outscored 13-1.

Most recently, the Pride let up five unanswered goals in its first CAA matchup against the Tribe of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

“I think, particularly with a young team, the confidence is always going to ally when you’re home in New York. We have to continue to challenge ourselves to be able to play on the road, and you can only do that through experience,” De Angelis said.

With 13 home games on the 19-game slate, it has been difficult for the Pride to adjust to competition on the road, but this adjustment is fundamental to the immediate success of this team.

“We’ve got to keep developing and keep using each game as an opportunity to get better.

We’re trying not to focus on the wins or losses, and we’re really just trying to focus on preparing for a game and playing 70 minutes. I think if we do that, we can put ourselves in contention for the top four,” De Angelis said.

Cam Keough / Hofstra Chronicle Hofstra got to .500 in CAA play with a 4-0 win over Towson on Sunday.

Since joining the CAA in 2002, Hofstra has had seven top-four finishes. Most recently, Hofstra finished as the third seed in 2015 with a 4-2 in-conference record, only to lose to the defending champion Delaware

Fightin’ Blue Hens 8-1 in the semi-finals. If the Hofstra Pride aims to return to the CAA tournament, it will find success at the intersection of opportunity and preparation.

Victory over Tribe gives Pride fifth straight win

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The Hofstra women’s soccer team continued their impressive streak with a 3-1 road victory against the College of William & Mary Tribe on Sunday, Oct. 1.

The Pride – who have gone undefeated in their last seven contests – leaned on their greatest strength on Sunday: their defense.

The Pride’s goalie tandem team of Ashley Wilson and Jenna Borresen has been a force ever since Pride head coach Simon Riddiough started to split their playing time by allowing

each of them to suit up for one half of the game. The duo has allowed just two goals in total during the team’s unbeaten streak.

But per usual, the goalkeepers did not have to do a whole lot of work to keep the Tribe off the board. Hofstra’s defense allowed just three shots on target out of 13 total attempts.

The Pride offense also came alive in Sunday’s game. It was Hofstra’s first three-goal game since the squad put up four against Eastern Washington University in their home opener and just the second time this season they have scored three goals.

The opening goal came from Lucy Porter in the fourth minute – the first of her Hofstra career.

The freshman has been seeing more playing time lately and the game against the Tribe was her

second-straight start since being named to the starting lineup on Thursday.

Thirty minutes later, Kristin Desmond found the back of the net on an assist from Jenn Buoncore for her team-leading eighth goal of the season.

Buoncore later added her own goal, her fourth this year, on an assist from Bella Richards.

The victory against the Tribe is a huge one for Hofstra.

William & Mary was picked second in the conference preseason polls, but was 0-2-1 in conference play coming into the contest.

The Pride are now 4-0 in conference play this season and stand as the only undefeated team in the Colonial Athletic Association.

Hofstra will look to continue their hot streak when they visit Towson University on Thursday.

Cam Keough / Hofstra Chronicle Lucy Porter scored her first collegiate goal in Sunday afternoon’s win.

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Ortiz hopes to fill shoes as freshman phenom

By Felipe Fontes STAFF WR I T E R

The transition from playing high school volleyball to starting for a Division I volleyball program just a few months later is one that most would believe to be too great to handle.

What about ranking in the conference’s top 10 in points, while leading the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) in service aces just soon after?

Some would say it couldn’t be done, not in this short amount of time at least.

But Ivania Ortiz, who moved from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Long Island is no stranger to big transitions.

As her contributions to this thriving Hofstra volleyball team would suggest, she is handling these large transitions just fine – positioning herself as one of the premier outside hitters in the conference after just a couple of months.

“There have been a lot of changes because this is my first time being outside of Puerto Rico full-time. It’s hard, but I’m doing well, so I’m happy,” Ortiz said.

Despite the myriad of changes, there is no doubt that her experience playing on a big stage with the Puerto Rico Under-18 and Under-20 national teams has helped ease her transition.

“The volleyball program here takes a lot of time, and the national team did as well, so that

helped me get used to all the things we do before and after games,” Ortiz said.

As preparation is a huge key to a player’s success, it is safe say that this experience Ortiz carried over from the national team has been crucial to her earning playing time.

“Here with our program, there is no difference between a freshman and a senior. Whoever is better on that day is going to play,” said Hofstra head volleyball coach Emily Mansur.

Ortiz has not only played, but has compiled 198 kills, placing her among the elite in the conference, and second on the team right behind sophomore superstar Laura Masciullo.

Ortiz’s 12 assists are thirdhighest on the team, while her 159 digs on the defensive end is the team’s second highest total, displaying the well-rounded

Cam Keough / Hofstra Chronicle In her freshman season, Ortiz has played in all 18 of Hofstra’s matches so far, starting in 16 of them.

to be hearing a lot about. I think she’s going to be a big player for the program for sure.”

Nobody is happier right now

“Ivania Ortiz is someone that we all are going to be hearing a lot about. I think she’s going to be a big player for the program for sure.” game that has put her on the scene.

If anyone saw this coming, it was Mansur.

Prior to the season beginning, Mansur said, “Ivania Ortiz is someone that we all are going

than the head coach herself, whose knack for finding talent outside of the country has provided the team with an outstanding freshman for the second straight year.

Just a year ago, it was Mas-

Cam Keough / Hofstra Chronicle Ivania Ortiz is second on the team in total kills with 198, only trailing Laura Masciullo’s 225 kills on the year.

ciullo who was turning heads as a dominant freshman in the conference.

She finished the year third in the CAA in points and kills, and seventh in service aces, earning CAA Rookie of the Year honors by the end of the season.

Ortiz has come in and filled that lofty freshman phenom role that Masciullo held, piling up the statistics while displaying the same drive that inspires her teammates to fight every play.

Now, with two programchanging players coming through the program in consecutive years, a one-two punch is created that can be extremely formidable over the next three years.

“We’ve have had a lot of good outside hitters coming through our program, but I think this is the best duo,” Mansur said.

“This is really going to give us a lot of chances to win good matches having these two outside hitters playing together.”

Of course Masciullo, only one year removed from the same process that Ortiz is in right now, has a lot to pass down to the freshman standout.

“In practices if I’m not doing well or I get frustrated, she comes to me and tries to help me keep going. She always tries to give me advice on how to handle everything. I would say she has done a really good job,” Ortiz said on Masciullo and her advice.

Pair these two players with

captain Michela Rucli, along with top-flight setter Luisa Sydlik, and it will be tough to stop this Pride team as the players continue to develop amongst each other for the rest of the season.

“I see a lot of growing going forward. The wins and losses, I don’t know. I hope it’s a lot of wins and that we get the CAA championship. That’s our goal, but definitely as a team I would say we will grow a lot,” Ortiz said.

Growing is inevitable for a young team that is coalescing and gaining momentum as conference play begins to heat up.

The Pride has won nine of its past 13 games and they look to keep it rolling in a tough CAA conference in which only three teams have losing records.

It will be all hands on deck, with Ortiz being a key piece in the quest to a title.

Although Mansur may have been the first to see it coming, it did not take the rest of us very long to find out that the freshman from Puerto Rico is the real deal.

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Smash-ciullo Laura Masciullo collected 23 kills in two CAA victories this weekend

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