The Hofstra Chronicle November 13, 2018

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Hundreds sign petition calling for dining reform at Hofstra Photo Courtesy of Change.org

A student who was frustrated by the gluten-free options at Hofstra circulated a petition calling for more options.

By Katie Krahulik M ANA G I N G E D I TO R

After penning a petition on Change.org calling for expanded options for those with dietary restrictions at Hofstra, junior

marketing major Sarah Peres’ plight was met with a wave of support from more than 500 concerned students, parents and community members alike.

The response to her petition shared on Saturday, Oct. 27, ti-

tled “More gluten-free, allergyfree, and dietary restriction food options at Hofstra University” suggested a major shortcoming in the dining halls.

Peres, recently diagnosed with celiac disease, said she hopes

to make a change on campus as she is tired of feeling hungry and frustrated whenever in the dining halls at Hofstra. Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease triggered by the intake of gluten.

“It is almost as if Hofstra would rather us starve than be able to eat a safely prepared gluten-free meal,” Peres said in her petition.

After an experience she had on Saturday, Oct, 20 at Hofstra USA (HofUSA) when she was served a salad with croutons, her anger forced her to make a scene.

“There’s a lot of work that needs to be done. They need to have a second kitchen or at least they need to be more educated.

They need to educate their staff more. If they don’t have a separate kitchen, then they need to clean their utensils and have separate utensils for everything,” Peres said.

Lisa Ospitale, the District Marketing Director of Campus Dining by Compass Group, said that available options are based on sales, sales history and requests from the overall community population.

“There is no set proportion/ percentage for each location and items offered. Menus are determined with student input, industry trends, requests and suggestions and overall sales data,” she said.

“We offer G8 in the Student Center because it is an area that is separate from other areas creating a safe location for those with allergies to eat.”

Ospitale said that significant initiatives go into garnering community input. “Throughout the year we conduct preference surveys asking the Hofstra comContinued On A3

Amendment to ‘Guide to Pride’ tackles defamatory speech

By Robert Kinnaird M ULTI M E D I A E D I TO R

The “Guide to Pride” was updated for the 2018-19 academic year to include new Code of Conduct standards on the topic of defamation.

The school now lists defamation as a breach in the Code of Conduct. The “Guide to Pride” describes the term as “knowingly communicating false information about a member of the University community to a third party, including verbally or through electronic means (online), which exposes the member of the University community to possible hatred, contempt, ridicule, loss of good will, or loss of reputation as a result of this information.”

When 50 students were asked whether they had ever read the “Guide to Pride,” 10 said they had read it at some point during their academic career at Hofstra.

Because of this, most students who were questioned were unaware of the change.

Those who were aware of the change have varied opinions about it.

“I think it’s a response to the Jefferson protest and some of the organizers of the Jefferson protest,” said Lydia Oh, a junior film studies and production major. “It’s a direct attack on them.”

“An educational institution relies on trust as a founding principal, and you undermine that when you say false things

about a student or a professor said, “The conduct or anyone,” said Chris Kozlow, described this year a sophomore political science under the headmajor. “You can’t undermine an ing ‘defamation’ educational institution, especial- has always been ly when everyone else’s educaincluded in the tion is at stake.”

‘Guide to Pride,’ Michelle Boo, a junior psybut most recently chology major, was asked if she in a different feels that the update to the Code section (Freedom of Conduct was a response to From Discriminathe protest. Boo said, “It very tion). The Univermuch is, because it talks about sity clarified the defamation and that’s basiclause and refined cally what they said about the the language Jefferson protest ... It was like describing the defamation, especially towards conduct to reflect certain staff members.” evolving technolThe Office of Student Affairs, when reached for comment Continued On A4 about the update,

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The South Asian Student Association (SASA), in coordination with the Hofstra University Honors College and Hofstra Indian Students Association, hosted a celebration honoring Diwali, the Hindu holiday of lights.

“This is the South Asian Student Association’s biggest event of the year,” said Nina Bangalore, president of SASA and a senior film studies and production major.

Diwali is a celebration of good conquering evil and the transition from darkness to light.

The official holiday was held on Wednesday, Nov. 7, but the oncampus celebration took place two days later on Friday, Nov. 9.

“We were very fortunate to celebrate it so close [to the actual date],” Bangalore said.

SASA began the celebration with a dance by a member of Hofstra’s Bollywood, Giddha and Banghra dance group. After the performance, the night’s organizers were introduced and Diwali was explained to those in attendance.

“This is basically a dance event. We usually do dance events where we have food, dancing and music,” Bangalore said. These are “our main three things that we incorporate to

show the South Asian culture.”

After the opening of the dance floor, a buffet was open to guests. Traditional foods such as butter chicken, naan, paneer makhana, dal, pakoras, ras malai and gulab jamun were served.

The food was catered by Diwan, an Indian restaurant on Long Island.

“It’s good for students to finally connect with their culture in [white] areas like this,” said Simran “Sam” Padam, a senior information systems major. “I think it’s great because it’s run by an association that is run by students from South Asia.”

Chandler Smith, a senior English major, attended the event last year and was excited to return. Smith enjoyed the experience of participating in another culture. “We love it. The food is great, and the dancing looks really fun,” Smith said.

“I think it is good that they made it open to everyone,” said Rachel Ferro, a senior religion major.

Anushriya Mangal, a graduate student, felt a close relation to her home country of India during the event. “It’s nicely close to home ... the dancing and the food and the music,” Mangal said. “Everyone is dressed nice and traditional. I’m glad that I came out.”

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Photo Courtesy of Letisha Dass The South Asian Student Association organized its annual Diwali celebration in the Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center.

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Professor Emeritus remembered as brilliant scholar

By Joe Fay

Holocaust survivor dies after being pushed in subway

EDITOR - I N - C H I E F

Hofstra, as well as the scientific community, suffered a great loss with the passing of Professor Emeritus Kurt Salzinger on Thursday, Nov. 8. Salzinger passed away at age 89 after being hospitalized on Saturday, Oct. 27, due to injuries sustained when he was knocked down on the subway.

Salzinger was shoved to the ground on a subway platform by a fellow commuter at Penn Station and suffered a head injury that caused internal bleeding.

He later developed pneumonia and succumbed to his injuries two weeks after the incident.

Police are still investigating and searching for the commuter who pushed Salzinger.

A professor emeritus of psychology, Salzinger taught

at Hofstra from 1992 until 2001 before becoming a senior scholar-in-residence in 2003.

Outside of campus, he had served as the president of the New York Academy of Sciences and the American Association of Applied and Preventive Psychology while also being on the board of directors for the American Psychological Association.

Salzinger’s research focused on behavioral analysis – particularly in humans, animals and patients suffering from schizophrenia. He also studied the verbal behavior of children and adults. He wrote 14 books and over 120 research articles as well as book chapters.

The Austrian native was born in Vienna in 1929 and escaped in 1938 during the Nazi occupation of the country.

He received his bachelor’s

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(1951), his master’s (1952) and his doctorate (1954) degrees from Columbia University. Prior to his tenure at Hofstra, Salzinger taught at Columbia, Polytechnic University of New York, Rutgers University and CUNY City College.

He was awarded numerous

honors during his life, including receiving the Sustained Superior Performance Award from the National Science Foundation and being named a Presidential Scholar for the Association for Behavior Analysis.

The distinguished academic leaves behind his wife of 38 years, Dr. Deanna Chitayat, their six children and stepchildren along with four grandchildren.

“Dr. Salzinger was a valued member of the Hofstra community; a dedicated mentor and teacher; and an esteemed colleague,” Hofstra University said in a statement.

“He helped build the University’s doctoral program in clinical psychology and continued to work with students even after he retired. We extend our deepest sympathies to his wife, Deanna Chitayat, a respected Hofstra professor, former dean and Hof-

stra presidential medal recipient, and his family.”

Dr. Craig Johnson, current chair of the Psychology Department, spoke to the University about Salzinger. “In my early days at Hofstra, I remember Kurt having a calming, supportive, steady voice in the department,” he said. “He was well-liked by his colleagues and a highly influential and respected scholar.”

The service for Salzinger was held on Sunday, Nov. 11, at Riverside Memorial Chapel in Manhattan.

More than 100 people, including family and former colleagues, gathered to remember the decorated scholar’s life.

Information for this article was obtained from The New York Times and news.hofstra.edu.

Students with dietary restrictions ‘starving’ for options Continued On A1 munity what they are looking for in terms of dining. We work with religious groups like Hillel and Muslim Student Association in order to determine specific dietary needs ... We also work with SGA in order to poll students and what they are looking for ... For example they assisted with determining the new menu at HofUSA.” President of Student Government Association (SGA) Abby Normandin said, “SGA has worked closely with Compass Dining on campus to improve student dining experiences and to amplify student opinions in changes that go into dining on campus. This relationship includes regular meetings between SGA’s Senate and Compass’ leadership team,” Normandin said.

This week, one of SGA’s polling questions for Student Appreciation Week asks students which dining topic they have the most concerns over: affordability, cleanliness, dietary restric-

tions, quality or variety.

“This feedback will help us gauge where to aim initiative efforts moving forward,” Normandin said.

Hofstra also has a staff nutritionist who meets daily with students who have dietary restrictions. She helps create menus and offers additional options to those who need it, according to Ospitale.

She noted, “There are other items throughout the servery that fit into these categories but due to FDA regulations we cannot 100 percent guarantee that there is no cross contamination.”

This was of serious concern to Peres and many others who aired their dismay in the comments section of the petition.

Senior film and TV production major Brittany McGowan also has celiac disease. “The gluten-

free petition not only benefits students with celiac disease and gluten allergies, but also students with other varying allergies, intolerances, autoimmune disorders and any other medical dietary restriction,” McGowan said. “What the school doesn’t understand, I don’t think, is that there currently is no cure for

chology professor, also has celiac disease, as do her two kids.

She said she has never been able to eat at a faculty meeting or event.

“I can no longer eat a meal at Hofstra, and sometimes I’m here for more than 10 hours. If I don’t anticipate ahead of time what food I need throughout the day and pack it myself, I sometimes wind up not being able to eat anything other than some snack food,” Lutz said. “Other universities are doing more to meet student demands. An individual with food restrictions could not dorm at Hofstra, like they could at other universities.”

Parents of prospective students left comments on Peres’ petition saying, “As a former Hofstra alumna and a celiac, I am extremely disappointed that I need to even sign this petition. My daughter has celiac

“I have an official diagnosis.

This isn’t a game or a cry for attention ... This needs to be taken seriously.”

celiac.”

What Hofstra needs, McGowan outlined, is, “A larger gluten-free section ... Separate utensils and equipment at each station ... Ingredients posted on everything ... Education ...

That’s just the start.”

Professor Donna Lutz, a psy-

and I was hoping to maybe send her there, but forget it. She’ll starve.”

Another parent said, “My daughter has severe food allergies. It is terrifying that something as simple as a nut could essentially kill her. All of our children deserve to be able to eat safely at their schools. There is already enough pressure for them at college, having a safe meal to eat should not be one of them. Hofstra please hear our appeal so our children (your students) could have a safe, stress-free meal.”

Peres, McGowan and dozens of other students are calling on Hofstra to reconsider available options in the dining halls so as to accommodate all conditions and diets.

“I have an official diagnosis.

This isn’t a game or a cry for attention,” McGowan said. “This is a movement to get healthy food on campus with proper care to cross-contamination for those with medical dietary needs. This needs to be taken seriously. I’m tired of getting sick on a weekly basis because I don’t know what’s in my food.”

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First-generation college students recognized and celebrated

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

A first-generation college student can be defined as a student for whom neither parent has earned a four-year degree in the United States.

On Thursday, Nov. 8, Hofstra University created a platform for these students by celebrating National First-Generation Students Day, hosted by the First Generation Pride Committee.

According to Russ Smith, associate director of Residence Life and the committee chair of the First Generation Pride Committee, the purpose of the event was “to raise awareness on campus for everyone about first-gen students.”

“This event shows that we are present and that we are here,” said Breanna Toney, a sophomore marketing major.

“First Generation Hofstra shines

a light on the students who are alike here.”

The First Generation Pride Committee aims to get students acclimated to college life, since this is the first collegiate experience for both students and their families.

Earlier in the fall, the committee launched the FirstGeneration Student LivingLearning Community (LLC) in the Amsterdam House of the Netherlands.

“We are making changes for our families and being a starter to push for our families. It gives us something to be proud of,” Toney said.

Once a month on Thursday nights, someone from the University visits the house and cooks a homemade meal for the students.

The LLC also hosts a variety of educational programs

on topics such as money management and healthy drinking.

Faculty members share their own experiences and converse with students about how they are adjusting.

“The goal of this is to help students recognize that some of the faculty on campus are first-gen and that faculty members are approachable outside the classroom,” Smith said.

Students who parPhoto Courtesy of Natalie Khait ticipated in Thursday’s First Generation Pride Community works to raise awareness for the students who event received snacks are the first in their families to earn a four-year degree from an American instituand entered giveaways tion. for winter hats and Bluetooth speakers. cation but also the First Gen med and religion major. “It gave More than 100 students Committee gives me a worldly me the tools to continue my life walked away with a first-gen experience that I couldn’t get in and my career.” shirt. the same way my parents get,” “Hofstra gives me an edusaid Amy Sena, a senior pre-

Defamation allegation resurfaces amid conduct update Continued FROM A1 ogy and platforms.”

The Office of Student Affairs also said, “Free speech is a cornerstone of the academic enterprise; and as such is a value we at Hofstra hold as one of our core beliefs. False or defamatory speech is prohibited through not only our code of conduct but also by law as damaging and dangerous.”

When asked about the accessibility of older versions of the guide, the Office of Student Affairs said that the “digital cop[ies have] been removed” and are therefore no longer available for students to download online. According to the Office of Student Affairs, students can get information from last year’s version “if you know anyone who has their ‘Living Factor’ from last academic year.”

Some students feel that it was a response to the Jefferson Has Gotta Go! campaign and allegations made by political science Professor Richard Himelfarb

that Ja’Loni Owens, an organizer of the campaign, was tweeting defamatory information about him.

Last semester, The Chronicle published a story of an accusation against Owens citing defa-

distasteful and blatantly offensive remarks. Faculty are aware, which means so are administrators!”

Himelfarb issued a formal complaint, and Owens was charged with violating the

fessors is just because they’re reporting through deans at the school or faculty and nothing’s getting done,” Owens said. “We feel like the only thing we can do is tweet, ‘Hey this professor is going to be at this event’ or, ‘Hey don’t take this class.’”

When reached for comment, Himelfarb said, “All I know is that there was a judicial proceeding in May. I testified and left and was never informed about it after.

Nobody ever got back to me to tell me what the verdict was or what, if anything, was going to happen.”

Himelfarb confirmed that he was only made aware of the update in the “Guide to Pride” during his interview with The Chronicle.

“The Office of the Student Affairs put me through an opaque process,” he said. When asked if staff are made aware of changes in the “Guide to Pride,” the Of-

“A lot of the reason students are taking to social media or using emails to talk about professors is just because they’re reporting through deans at the school or faculty and nothing’s getting done” mation in the wake of a tweet about Himelfarb. Owens posted, “Hi ya’ll. Just a reminder that Dr. Richard Himelfarb has been heard saying the n-word, stating that the children of immigrants do not deserve rights in the US (re: DACA) and a host of other

Infringement of Rights policy in the Code of Conduct. Himelfarb said that he has never said the racial slur and that Owens was dishonest in their tweet.

“A lot of the reason students are taking to social media or using emails to talk about pro-

fice of Student Affairs did not comment on the matter.

Vague defamation policies are not uncommon for colleges in the area. Stony Brook University, a public school in the State University of New York system, has a Code of Student Responsibility which includes the rule that, “No student shall give false or misleading information that could damage or discredit another.” There is no reference to University officials in the text.

Adelphi University, a private university in Garden City, does not have a defamation policy in its Code of Conduct, but the document states that, “Other forms of behavior considered improper through the application of this Code but not specifically listed herein are also prohibited and subject to the procedures outlined in this Code.”

This update is in the most recent version of the “Guide to Pride” and applies to all Hofstra students for this academic year.

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Public Safety Briefs Compiled by Michael Mertz & Alisha Riggs

On Nov. 2 at 11:30 p.m., while on patrol on the east unispan, a PS officer discovered graffiti written on the wall of the north elevator.

A search was conducted for the student, which proved negative. The custodial staff was notified and removed the graffiti.

On Nov. 5 at 8:25 a.m., it was discovered that two or three students had placed a white sheet over the Thomas Jefferson statue outside the Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center. There was also a Black Lives Matter sign placed at the base. A review of the security footage by

Robert Kinnaird / The Hofstra Chronicle

PS revealed that two or three students were involved. The students were identified and their names were referred to the Dean of Students Office.

The white sheet and sign were removed. There was no further incident and the statue was not damaged.

On Nov. 5, a Hofstra student in the Colonial Square complex reported that on Friday, Nov. 3 at 1 a.m. he had parked his vehicle in the Colonial Square west parking lot. He returned at 7 a.m. and discovered scratch marks from a key on the hood and trunk of his vehicle. There were no witnesses to this incident. NCPD assistance was declined at the time.

On Nov. 5 at 6:50 p.m., PS received an anonymous report that there was an odor of marijuana emanating from a room in Cambridge House.

PS responded and entered the

room, where a strong odor of marijuana was detected.

The resident was questioned and admitted to smoking. No marijuana was recovered. The student was issued a referral to OCS. On Nov. 6 10:51 a.m., a staff member from the Hofstra University Museum of Art reported to PS that a Microsoft Pro computer was missing.

A search was conducted, which proved negative. NCPD assistance was declined at this time. A further investigation will be conducted into this matter.

On Nov. 7 at 11:53 a.m., a Hofstra student reported to PS that she was being harassed by an unidentified male in the Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center cafeteria. PS responded and apprehended the male, who was identified as a non-student. The male was

escorted to the Information Center and was banned from campus for verbal abuse. The student was not injured. She was offered assistance from the counseling center, which she declined. There was no further action taken into this matter.

Key NCPD – Nassau County Police Department OCS – Office of Community Standards PS – Public Safety

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Overheard @ Hofstra In the Student Center:

In Vander Poel:

On the Unispan:

“I’m a slut for cooking videos.”

“Why do people think he’s hot? He looks like a string bean.”

“Can you imagine someone asking me what my career goal is? I wanna be a drug mule.”

In Davison Hall:

In the NewsHub:

In the NewsHub:

“I think my blood is actually buffalo sauce.”

“Taylor Swift gave me hope the Marsha Blackburn seat would flip.

Never trust a snake.”

“RBG will never die.”

In LHSC:

In Suffolk Hall:

In LHSC:

“Never take a philosophy class with your journalism classes, you’ll question your entire career.”

“I don’t watch critically-acclaimed movies, I like ‘Sharkboy and Lavagirl.’”

“[Florida] just voted for someone that doesn’t believe in climate change, so they can go sink below sea level now.”

HAPIA to be here: New Pan-Asian club represents the underrepresented

By Daniel Nguyen OP-ED EDITOR

Hofstra’s Asian-Pacific Islander Alliance, also known as HAPIA, began over the summer as an idea at The Witches Brew, a coffeehouse down Front Street, about a 10-minute drive from Hofstra’s North campus.

Over a pot of dragon moon tea and a cup of golden milk, Manni Doan, the now-president of HAPIA and a junior economics and mathematical business modeling double major, and I talked about the possibility of a Pan-Asian club on campus.

She jumped at the idea, and in the interim months that passed, HAPIA became a reality.

Now approved by the Office of Student Leadership and Engagement with a functioning e-board and pending recognition from the Student Government Association, the club has tentatively begun holding meetings.

In the previous two meetings, Filipino History Month and the implications of Netflix’s hit romantic comedy “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before”

were discussed, the latter discussion based on an article published by Plan A Magazine, an Asian-American outlet for critical discourse and analysis.

Through my first two years at Hofstra, I never walked into a classroom or club space where the majority of students present were Asian and/ or Pacific Islander (API).

Doan discovered the same thing when she came here from Alabama a year and a half ago as a freshman. Both of us had come from predominantly Asian – specifically Vietnamese – communities and missed this experience of cultural familiarity that was markedly absent on Hofstra’s campus.

Even though there are clubs like South Asian Student Association (SASA), that do amazing work promoting diversity and inclusion, there wasn’t a club dedicated to being explicitly

Pan-Asian and dedicated to welcoming and representing the Pan-Asian community on campus.

It was in this absence that HAPIA formed as a space for Asian-Pacific Islanders to do whatever they saw fit.

As a club, HAPIA exists to

topics.

As a space for Asian-Pacific Islanders, HAPIA encourages participation in campus life and represents the voices of a campus community often left unheard, despite the significant presence of this demographic in relation to the rest of the Hofstra student body.

Nearly 10 percent of students enrolled at Hofstra identify as API in Hofstra’s own reported racial demographics.

Asian-American organizations in the past, such as the Asian Student Organization of the ‘80s or the Chinese Student Union of the ‘60s, however, have come and gone – brief blips in the representative history of an increasingly diverse campus.

HAPIA hopes to change that.

As more and more Asian and Pacific Islander students come to campus from all parts of the

“Through my first two years at Hofstra, I never walked into a classroom or space where the majority of students present were Asian and/or Pacific Islander.” promote diversity on campus, but it also exists as a haven for cultural expression, whether that be through food, movies or shared experiences from home and/or family. Although meetings have a specific topic, they often trail into other tangents on shared experiences that become foundations for future meeting

world, the need for a mutually supportive, active and sustainable community that doesn’t fade away increases concomitantly. Indeed, from 2004 to 2014, percentages of student bodies self-declaring as Asian and Pacific Islander increased from 4.18 to 8.9 percent and 0 percent to 1 percent, respectively.

While Hofstra remains a predominantly white institution, the percentage of API students enrolling increases every year in a trend that doesn’t seem to be waning anytime soon. HAPIA exists to welcome, sustain and nourish this community.

In the upcoming months, HAPIA plans to hold events like “Dumplings and Dialogue: Crazy Rich Asians” and fundraisers with bubble tea that will help in planning events for the spring semester like Lunar New Years and API Heritage Month.

Until then, HAPIA holds weekly meetings and discusses different topics at each one. Interested members can find the club on Instagram @hapiameal.

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A behind-the-scenes look at Hofstra Votes Live

Ellen Boyle, co-producer of Hofstra Today, printing scripts and rundowns for the talent and crew.

By Alexandra Licata SPORTS EDITOR

The once-empty Lawrence Herbert School of Communication NewsHub was packed with students in every seat on the night of Tuesday, Nov. 6. Some were editing video packages created by classmates earlier in the week, others were tracking the polls for broadcast and still others were beginning to develop story angles for an issue of The Hofstra Chronicle that would take all night to complete. Over 100 people, including students, faculty and staff, filled LHSC that night.

That was the scene of Hofstra Votes Live, the first ever simulcast between Hofstra Today and 88.7 FM WRHU. Never before had students collaborated in such a way – working together to cover the 2018 Midterm Elections.

“For the students here at the school, we are in a multimedia world. [They] are all graduating into a cross-platform world,” said Mark Lukasiewicz, dean of the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication.

“The idea of bringing people who are experts in television and radio and written journalism and digital journalism all together to create a single package, a single simulcast that would go everywhere, really appealed

to me because I think all the students and all of the faculty, frankly, are getting exposed to each other and figuring out ways of working together.”

Preparation began around a month prior to Election Night.

Many meetings with the leaders of each organization were held with a variety of staff and Lukasiewicz. From the Radio, Television and Film Department, Professors Nicole Franklin and Peter Gershon assisted in all aspects of the visual storytelling. Equipment Room Manager Patricia Szenher created the chyrons – graphics that are superimposed onto a television broadcast – and any other additional necessary graphics.

WRHU General Manager Bruce Avery and Professional-in-Residence Pete Silverman worked with students to develop their on-air stories, in addition to ensuring the broadcast ran smoothly.

Journalism, Mass Media and Public Relations Department Chair Cliff Jernigan and Professor Mario Gonzalez joined the team to help student reporters focus on the key issues in the election and create packages to air during Hofstra Today.

“I’ve never done political coverage in this way before; neither has [my Co-Producer] Ellen [Boyle],” said Julia Wachtel, a

sophomore TV production major and co-producer of Hofstra Today. “Hofstra Today is mostly all Hofstra-based news, so this was a very new and scary experience ... I did a lot of the content writing, met for writers’ meetings and helped create a lot of the scripted content.”

Once Election Night arrived, it was time for everyone’s hard work and preparation to be put into action; yet there were still things that couldn’t be foreseen.

In states with close races, like Florida, Texas, Wisconsin and Georgia, students needed to be ready for any outcome and be able to talk about the importance of whichever way the vote

would sway.

“We have a lot of template throws [that say], ‘We’re just getting results from ...’ ‘We now go to ...’,” said senior journalism major and WRHU News Director Kimberly Donahue. “We’ve been watching a lot of other election coverages to see how things on TV go. We’ve just been looking at every possible outcome.”

When the clocks hit 6:30 p.m., it was time for a runthrough of the first hour of the show. This was the time to fix microphones, notice any last-minute technical issues, ensure both control rooms were running properly and help the on-air talent get comfortable before showtime.

Dozens of students sat in the NewsHub, where the sounds of chatter and typing filled the air. Not a single screen displayed anything other than election coverage. The clock ticked down as it grew closer to 7:59 p.m., when it was time for LHSC to put on its largest broadcast yet.

Throughout the night, viewers were able to listen to and watch interviews, anchors, packages and more in the broadcast, but what they didn’t see was the teamwork that happened behind the scenes.

Members of The Hofstra Chronicle kept an eye on state

The staff of The Hofstra Chronicle tracking election results.

and national races, along with a social media team that monitored the results and posted breaking news throughout the night, while members of WRHU watched the local and regional results.

For four hours, coverage switched between WRHU, five on-site reporters, Hofstra Today and the NewsHub. For some, once the four hours were complete their night was over; but for others, the largest portion of work was still to come.

The Hofstra Chronicle staff spent all night in the NewsHub finishing the paper, and after a full night’s work, they put the paper to bed at 9 a.m. on Wednesday morning.

“I was absolutely exhausted, but it was probably one of my favorite experiences that I’ve ever had here at Hofstra,” said Gabriella Varano, a sophomore journalism major. “Creating something together so quickly ... it was great to see the turnaround and the product that we all made together.”

From the beginning of preparation to the night of action, teamwork among organizations allowed for a historic broadcast from the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication, and with that came an experience that prepared all those involved for their careers to come.

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Man on the Unispan

What are your thoughts on unpaid internships that are graduation requirements for some students?

By Audra Ne mi row S PEC IAL TO THE CH R O N I C L E

“I think it’s a good thing, because it gives us the ability to get real experience before being thrown into the workforce. Even though it’s unpaid, I think it’s good for the connections and the knowledge you gain from it.”

– Julia Sylvain, freshman

“I think they’re shitty because a lot of people can’t get into the city. I think it’s unethical in general. It’s unethical for Hofstra to require it for students who are already doing so much.”

“I’m in one right now. It’s tedious, but I guess it’s worth it for the experience.”

– Samantha Salvato, senior

– Rosario Navalta, sophomore Audra Nemirow / The Hofstra Choronicle

Professor Spotlight: Paul Kirpal Gordon brings his life’s journey to the classroom

By Betty Araya STAFF WRITER

Paul Kirpal Gordon, known as KP to his students, defies the maxim that those who can’t do, teach. He is a model of what an educator should be. Gordon has taken his life experiences to the classroom in efforts to shape young minds into fully developed souls. Gordon is a writer and educator, but beyond both of those titles, he is an inspiring human being who serves as a reminder that the few hours we spend in a classroom with our professors do not do them justice.

Gordon’s love for writing started in grade school. He explained it began “when [the teachers] kept kicking me out of the classroom and sent me to the principal’s office.”

Each 200-word essay he was forced to write as a deterrent for future infractions only prepared him for the whirlwind of a career he would build for himself.

He explained life as a story, and said, “It’s so much easier to explain when you go through it and can tell a story about it.”

Like most writers, his characters are people he meets in real life, which teaches a valuable lesson many are missing in this day in age – every human has something to offer.

Gordon teaches Writing Studies and Composition 002 here at Hofstra. The students who take his course have the opportunity to not only grow as writers, but also as people.

He encourages young minds to examine if their beliefs are their own, while stressing that as

young creators, students “only need to share when they’re ready to.”

His students also have the opportunity for an essay to be published on his blog, Taking Giant Steps, which gives students the chance to work closely with the professor.

Gordon’s goal is to help students “take feedback and not focus on who is giving them the feedback.”

Gordon’s passion to help individuals discover their potential extends beyond the classroom. He dedicated time to teach inmates at a local Arizona prison, close to where he was furthering his education at the time. Gordon didn’t see felons.

Instead, he says he felt gratitude because he realized, “This could’ve been me.”

Fortunately, he was introduced to people early on in his life who affirmed his refusal to conform and helped him grow into someone who could remain true to himself while positively contributing to society.

This is the same gift Gordon extended to the inmates. He fought to get them a library and worked closely with them as they built a newspaper and simultaneously raised their spirits.

Gordon’s biggest advice for his students is to unite. “The strength is in the union. I grew up in a generation of people that saw the strength in being united,” he said. He recognizes that there will always be a difference in opinions, but says the antidote for that is “to get underneath the ideology.”

“We think ideologies solve

something in our lives, but let’s instead think about what we have in common.”

Gordon has worked relentlessly to inspire students to “own their education,” but stresses that the classroom is not the only place to learn. In his eyes, the world is our classroom.

While working in the prison, he was initially forced to jump through many hoops to make a difference. He accepted this struggle, saying, “Everything that came up missing, we created.”

He has lived a life of adventure and acquired valuable lessons that he continues to share with those he meets. Because of all that he has done and continues to do, Gordon believes that he has the ability to truly teach.

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November 13, 2018 •A9

Humans of Hofstra

By Qainat Anwar

SPECI A L TO T H E C H RONI CL E

“When I first got into high school, I experienced a lot of bullying. It was a really tough time, which led to major mental health issues. I had a teacher I really liked, and there were students who were plotting to get him fired just because they didn’t like him. There was a review process he was undergoing; the vice principle had come to review him. The kids created a plan [to act] in such a way that the teacher had no control over his class, and they did do that; they succeeded in showing that and asked me to be a part of it. I just didn’t have it in me – I had integrity, I couldn’t go through with a plan like that. After the class ended, I followed the vice principal back to the office. I told her everything that had happened, what they had planned. I gave [her] the messages they were exchanging with me saying that they were going to do this. They found out that I had done this and they ... they tormented me for it. They pushed me down stairs, it was terrible. That lead to a really difficult time for me. I feel like Hofstra was a way to turn over a new leaf, it was a new experience for me. I met some of the best people I’ve ever gotten to know at this university. I met my girlfriend. I met teachers that have supported me in ways that I never thought anyone else could.

[I’ve created] connections I feel like are going to last the rest of my life. Hofstra has really given that to me, and I feel like if I had gone anywhere else, I would never have gotten this experience. It allowed me to escape from things I had experienced in my home town and also the quality of people Hofstra has to offer seems much more mature, they’re just nicer in general. It’s social-based, they value character over material things.”

Leon Jaggan “I lived in Florida until I was 3 and then I moved back home to Antigua, in the Caribbean. I stayed there until I was 18. Growing up, I really didn’t know what it was like here, but I had seen shows and movies. Back home, it’s completely different; after grade six we have five more grades, but we call them forms. I graduated at 16 and then I did a pre-college program for the last two years so I could come up here. In my last year of pre-college program, my advisor helped me look up some education programs and Hofstra had the best one, and it offered me a great scholarship. It was everything – I always wanted to go to New York, my aunt lives close by, so I still have family here and I love the snow – it really had it all. When people tell me they graduated with, like, 500 people and they didn’t know anyone, it’s difficult for me to relate to – I graduated with 50 people.

So, you know everyone, and you know everything about everyone. There was no major culture clash when I got here, but it was definitely different. There [were a] lot of things that people would say in conversations and they would assume I knew the lingo, but I didn’t. Especially with history, I didn’t know any American history. I would walk around on campus with my roommate and I didn’t know any of the statues and she would say, ‘How do you not know who Benjamin Franklin is?’ There was a lot I didn’t know and still don’t know. Antigua is so small, so it’s easier to know everyone. I think we’re a lot more social and understanding, and it feels like everyone is part of this one community. Coming to Hofstra was a really different experience for me. At first, I really missed home. It took me a hot second to find a group of people I could connect with because [there are] just so many people here. Even now, when I walk around, I find it so weird that all these people can see you but never notice you; but back home it was like, as soon as you see someone, you either know them or you know of them. Home is much friendlier – the people are more inviting, more comforting – it felt like a huge family.”

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The Chronicle A&E ‘Overlord’ actor talks J.J. Abrams and new film

B2•November 13, 2018

By Victoria Bell

ARTS & E N T E RTA I N M E NT ASSISTA N T E D I TO R

The new Paramount Pictures dramatic thriller “Overlord” recounts D-Day from the side of the American soldiers, but with a sci-fi twist. The soldiers soon realize that their initial mission to dismantle a radio transmitter is no longer the main objective. Having discovered alarming experimentation occurring in a Nazi-occupied town, the American soldiers now make it their priority to combat the living dead.

Wyatt Russell, the film’s leading actor, took time to chat with The Hofstra Chronicle and other college journalists regarding the new film.

Russell made clear that this movie is not at all meant to be political. He described it as being a “popcorn movie,” meant to be enjoyed by viewers and help relieve the chaos of life.

The goal of “Overlord” is not

to reinvent this sci-fi style, but things he both likes and dislikes rather give an original spin to within his role. He dislikes this part of American history.

Ford’s stubbornness the most.

Russell even acknowledged that The actor spoke about how in the classic film “Saving Private life it is sometimes necessary Ryan” is the best World War II to have your mind changed and movie and that it changed an en- that eventually Ford does go tire generation’s vision of how they perceived the war. Russell himself has always been interested in World War II. He clarified that the only historical aspect of this movie is that it takes place during D-Day. According to Russell, “If you can’t take it, don’t watch.”

Courtesy of Paramout Pictures Knowing that this movie Despite rave reviews, the film struggled was being produced by J.J. to make over $10.1 million in its opening weekend at the box office.

Abrams was a true selling point for Russell. Abrams has been involved in creating through a change of heart in the some of the world’s most iconic film. A characteristic that he sci-fi movies to date, such as likes in Ford is his leadership.

“Star Wars” and “Star Trek.” By Playing Ford was very fun for working with this legend, RusRussell, and he hopes to always sell feels that he has “moved up learn from any character he a league” in his acting career. plays.

When discussing his character, Although Russell enjoyed called Ford, Russell found many his character, playing this lead

role came with its own set of challenges. To prepare, the actor attended a boot camp, which lasted about five days. He described the camp as being more mentally taxing than anything else. Throughout boot camp, he was able to get into the mindset of what it felt like to be an American soldier during World War II. For Russell, the boot camp training made the moviemaking process more fun as he was able to make stronger connections with his fellow cast members. Not only was this role very taxing on the mind, but it was also physically demanding. To make matters worse, Russell was faced with a case of mono while filming, which made this already difficult role even more challenging.

Russell seemed very carefree with his responses to the questions. He laughed at a few of the questions being asked and was very nonchalant with his answers. When asked if he felt this

movie would have any impact on his acting career, he brushed it off and simply responded that he really doesn’t care about those types of things and just likes to be a part of movies. His tone made it seem as if being in movies was just a hobby. Russell spoke about his love for science fiction films; however, what he enjoys more than anything about being in movies is working with amazing actors and directors.

Overall, Russell’s main hope is that people enjoy the movie.

He feels that moviegoing has greatly changed due to the easy accessibility of online movie streaming services like Netflix.

While nowadays most people enjoy movies from the comfort of their homes, Russell hopes audience members can sit back, relax and enjoy this movie in a theater with friends.

“Overlord” is rated R and out in theaters nationwide.

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Overlord

Let him entertain you: The life of Freddie Mercury

of all time, Queen. The biopic is a wide-eyed and glorious look into the singer’s extraordinary life.

The movie takes the viewer Courtesy of 20th Century Fox through The film crossed the $100 million mark domestically in its Queen’s second weekend of release. initial formaBy Megan Spreen tion and rise to fame – all the S TAFF WR I T E R way through the Live Aid benefit The name Farrokh Bulsara concert in 1985, studded with does not perk up any ears, but almost every one of the band’s Freddie Mercury? That one hits. does. Bulsara changed his name One of the most anxiously to Freddie Mercury at the start awaited parts of the film was the of his musical career, giving question of how it would deal an energy to his name – a little with Mercury’s sexuality and extra something that reflects the AIDS diagnosis. Early trailers spark of the man himself. Rami led to accusations on Twitter of Malek brings this spark to life straight-washing Mercury (porwonderfully to the big screen in traying him as a heterosexual “Bohemian Rhapsody.” man and ignoring his bisexual “Bohemian Rhapsody,” which identity), but the film itself did premiered Nov. 2, is the longbetter justice. awaited biopic of Mercury It was not perfect, though. In (played by Malek), lead singer one scene, backed by the song of one of the most famous bands “Love of my Life,” Mercury

attempts to come out to his wife, Mary Austin (Lucy Boynton) as bisexual, but she insists that Mercury is not bisexual but is actually gay. The word “bisexual” is never mentioned again, though that is likely how he would have defined himself if he ever talked about it publicly.

Austin and Mercury’s relationship is the only deeply explored, loving relationship in “Bohemian Rhapsody.” In the movie, his only explored relationship with a man was with Paul Prenter (Allen Leech), the villain of the story. Their relationship was toxic and ultimately detrimental to Mercury’s health, not to mention the major impact it had on Mercury’s career and relationship with the rest of Queen.

“Bohemian Rhapsody” shows the beginning of Mercury’s final relationship with Jim Hutton (Aaron McCusker), but it is not addressed or explored as deeply as Mercury’s attachment to Austin.

While the film could have certainly done better with portraying Mercury’s sexuality, it is worth noting that Mercury himself never wanted that to be the

focus. He refused to discuss his sexuality to the media during his lifetime, and even his bandmates knew little about it.

Possibly the only person who could have given a more in-depth account of Mercury’s personal life was Hutton, his partner at the end of his life, who passed away in 2010.

Even if the makers of “Bohemian Rhapsody” wanted to do better justice to Mercury’s personal life, the problem remains that there were very few people available to point them in the right direction. “Bohemian Rhapsody” refuses to be an AIDS movie, just as Mercury refused to be an AIDS poster boy.

It is a celebration of his life and work, not about his death.

The Live Aid concert is, without a doubt, the climax of the film. While the film cut out songs “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” and “We Will Rock You,” which had already appeared in the movie, it kept “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Radio Ga Ga,” “Hammer to Fall” and “We Are The Champions.” The concert, which in the movie took place just after Mercury officially re-

ceives his AIDS diagnosis, is as empowering as it is heartbreaking. There is a palpable sense that Mercury knows that this is one of the last truly important things he will do in his life, and he appears to be truly taking in and appreciating every second of it. At the same time, the worldwide audience has so much love and engagement with Queen, showing just how impactful they have been. Crowds in a bar raise their hands and clap along with “Radio Ga Ga” just as enthusiastically as the 72,000 people in Wembley Stadium as calls flood into the Live Aid call center.

“Bohemian Rhapsody” set out to do justice to the legend of Freddie Mercury and it does just that. Audiences can stompstomp-clap their way through the music of one of the most iconic bands of all time, not to mention coo over Mercury’s nearcountless cats, who make several appearances in the movie. Most of all, audiences can expect to leave the theater teary-eyed, but with the overwhelming feeling of having been part of something truly spectacular, just as Queen intended.

November 13, 2018•B3 A&E Mariah’s latest release should inspire ‘Caution’

The Chronicle

By Joseph Coffey-Slattery ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

The iconic pop-star Mariah Carey has arguably fallen off in recent years, marred by a string of underwhelming albums and a particularly disastrous New Year’s Eve performance.

The public loves a diva. Even better, it loves someone who cranks out hits and receives the pinnacle award given to female stardom: being deemed a “gay icon.” This is arguably the highest honor in entertainment and can result in unyielding career longevity.

Consider the staying power of Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Beyoncé and Lady GaGa. While they do not stick around solely due to their status as said icons, it certainly helps them retain an avid and energetic fanbase.

Of the many pop stars out of the 1990s we still talk about, one name is noticeably absent: Mariah Carey. To be sure, every

holiday season “All I Want For Christmas Is You” gets paraded in front of the masses, and on any given episode of “Wild ’n Out,” Nick Cannon is sure to get Carey’s name tossed his way.

But it is curious we talk about her so little, given that she delivered bops like “Emotions” and “Someday,” just to name a few.

It seems that her best chance of starting a conversation is when she delivers a rowdy New Year’s Eve performance, which is hardly a trait artists want on their resume.

Luckily – or perhaps unluckily – her new album, “Caution,” is slated to release this Friday, Nov. 16, finally giving audiences some new music.

It is with caution that we should approach it.

The 10-track album has seen four of its songs released as singles: “GTFO,” “With You,” “A No No” and “The Distance.”

Condensed, the songs are rather disheartening. It becomes somewhat apparent that Carey’s sig-

nature awe-inspiring vocals have largely fell victim to age and over-use, and the artist struggles to make it out of one octave.

Given that Carey’s trademark was an uncanny ability to run up and down a scale, it is odd to hear so little of that talent remaining.

Naturally, the artist cannot be blamed for the trials of time, but the obvious use of auto-tune does not serve the songstress as well as it has Britney over the past decade.

So far, the highlight track seems to be “A No No,” which owes much of its strength to some catchy production. It straddles the line between trap and Ariana Grande, and is precisely the mixed bag you would expect from that description.

The song seems to echo the troupes of the young “thank u, next” artist but simultaneously misunderstands just what makes Grande’s songs infectious.

What is worse, an outro to the track features someone articu-

lating, “I think that was it,” in reference to the song being good. Carey can be heard saying, “Yeah,” with a knowing chuckle, something that seems to suggest even she might not know what is required anymore.

It is doubtful that this album will do anything remarkable on

the charts, and it will probably come and go without a second thought.

A Mariah Carey comeback continues to seem more and more unlikely, with the star seemingly fated to be behind the camera instead of in the recording booth.

A travesty? You bet.

A good bit of explanation is needed. Bates’ character, Miriam Mead, was established as Langdon’s caregiver, introducing him to the Church of Satan and welcoming his acceptance into the School for Warlocks. She and several of the warlocks conspired shortly thereafter to make him the next Supreme, the leader of witches and warlocks alike, only for his path to power to be cut short upon the discovery of his true identity.

Mead and the conspirators around Langdon are thereby burned to death by the witches, fueling his inner angst and despair. Langdon is eventually led to a duo of computer programmers, Mutt (Billy Eichner) and Jeff (Evan Peters), who perfectly recreate Mead with a robotic double.

During Mead’s arm-gun attack on the witches, some members of the coven escape, including headmistress and current Supreme Cordelia Goode (Sarah Paulson) and instructor Myrtle Snow (Frances Conroy). This angers Langdon, as they were his real targets, and steers him off the path toward Armageddon and instead toward revenge. This, in turn, angers Jeff, who was banking on

Langdon’s destiny to “burn this mass slaughter of the warlocks created by the Cooperative for rich sucker down.” Taking control of

by Langdon (who is so extra members to ride out the end of the the robotic Mead, he and Mutt he apparently has to leave their world, Jeff and Mutt’s secretary direct Langdon’s attention toward corpses in a pentagram formation). Wilhemina Venable (also played the mysterious group “the CoopCordelia, believing Mallory to be

by Paulson) is chosen to lead an erative” (formerly called the Ilthe next Supreme, suggests that Outpost of her choice and the luminati and, humorously enough, she commit suicide, as her power witches plan to watch the world changed for “branding reasons”), would then be transferred comburn “in order to save it,” as is who control the world and coincipletely to the younger. said in the promo for the finale, dentally pledged all their souls to The pieces are then put in place titled “Apocalypse Then.” the devil, Langdon’s father. for where the characters were at The finale to “American Horror Back on the witches’ side of beginning of the season (set in Story: Apocalypse” is set to air things, the survivors attempt a the future, after the apocalypse); Wednesday, Nov. 14, at 10 p.m., risky plan involving time travel, Langdon’s plan for Armageddon ending the eighth season with testing it by going back in time to is right on track, the Outposts are what is sure to be a bang.

October Revolutionera Russia, where Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov was apparently a witch (big surprise, right?) and attempted to save her family with a protection spell before being assassinated by the Bolsheviks.

She failed, but young witch Mallory (Billie Lourd) goes back to try to save her.

Courtesy of FX This, too, fails, and the witches plunge into further despair, The hugely popular show now finds itself in its eighth season, with a 77 percent Rotten Tomatoes score overall. heightened by the

Courtesy of Epic Records The upcoming album boasts features from Ty Dolla $ign, Slick Rick, Gunna and Blood Orange.

Penultimate episode sets stage for ‘Apocalypse’

By Jacob Huller STAFF WRITER

“American Horror Story,” currently in its eighth season titled “Apocalypse,” aired yet another spine-chilling installment last week, upping the series’ unique brand of horror, which so far this season has featured witches, nuclear wastelands, robots, magic and even the Antichrist.

The episode, titled “Fire and Reign,” continues the season’s flashbacks set before the postapocalyptic three episodes. Like the ones before it, it focuses on Michael Langdon (Cody Fern).

Langdon continues on his quest to fulfill his destiny as the Antichrist and bring about said end of the world. A coven of witches face him, desperately attempting to find a way to defeat him before he wipes them all out. An almost crushing blow is dealt to the coven when Langdon, teaming up with voodooist Dinah Stevens (Adina Porter), breaks through their defenses and murders almost all of them. While this may seem gruesome, it quickly becomes darkly awesome when the dispenser of the killing is literally Kathy Bates with a gun for an arm.

The Chronicle A&E “The Facebook Dilemma:” Data, compromised

B4•November 13, 2018

By Benjamin Abrams STAFF WRITER

Mark “Zuck” Zuckerberg is no fan favorite of consumers these days and hasn’t been for quite some time. From a movie depicting him as a less-than-admirable young hotshot (courtesy of the acting work of Jesse Eisenberg), to the Cambridge Analytica scandal and his testimony in front of Congress, Zuckerberg has had to answer a lot of tough questions he didn’t seem ready for.

Public trust in Facebook doesn’t seem to be on the rise, and now a new documentary from FRONTLINE PBS might just wither that trust even more.

Directed by James Jacoby, who also acts as the film’s primary reporter, “The Facebook Dilemma” is a blisteringly critical review of the social networking site’s history, business strategies and moral failures.

Among the film’s key strengths is its polar opposite mood from the marketing campaigns of its subject. While Facebook always marketed its early years as a funloving, innovative, world-connecting, friendly forum, FRONTLINE takes that notion and smashes it to pieces. Facebook has seemingly

always been, in fact, a reckless, immature, fraternal organization.

The problem began when they got bigger and started making a lot more money.

The film opens with those aforementioned beginnings. It shows a baby-faced Zuckerberg being interviewed by a largely unknown YouTuber named Derek Franzese, back when Facebook had only around 20-something employees and a DIY office space, complete with semi-provocative graffiti across the walls.

The company is shown celebrating surpassing 3 million users with a keg of Heineken. In this scene, one of the employees does a low-energy keg stand before returning to his desk. A montage then follows, featuring photos of Zuckerberg and his team at tiny kitchen tables, working on programming for the site, beer and snacks aplenty on hand.

Then came Facebook’s explosive growth. Zuckerberg went from talking to YouTubers and small college classrooms to tech conferences and network television. It’s a rapid shift, and you immediately see the red flags with Facebook’s motto: “Move fast and break things.”

One of the most striking things about the film is the extensive amount of interviews with current and former Facebook employees, many of whom seem to be grappling with their original, wideeyed interpretation of Facebook’s core mission: “to make the world more open and connected.” That message seemed to have inspired all of them to join in, and how

could it not? Facebook’s promise of a world filled with new possibilities through software seemed so optimistic.

Then, with cold collectivity, Jacoby tells the viewer of everything that started going wrong.

The algorithms, privacy policies, content policies, hacking, hate speech and Russians. Throughout the film, Zuckerberg and his core

team seem almost incapable of understanding the monster of a platform they have created, and it’s just now starting to truly spiral out of control.

There is no solution suggested by the film, as there shouldn’t be.

If you’ve ever been concerned about the debate around online privacy, “The Facebook Dilemma” will get you to speak up.

Courtesy of CBS The two-part documentary about Facebook aired on PBS in October.

Murder and mayhem in new McManus novel

By Elisa Grimaldi

SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE

When five students are thrown into detention together, one would assume that the individuals would leave with a greater appreciation for one another – end of story, right? Unlike any other classic teen fiction book or movie, this detention session results in a death.

In Karen M. McManus’s debut novel, “One of Us is Lying,” five students walk into detention, but only four walk out alive.

Amidst this strange tragedy, the Bayview High community looks at the surviving students as the prime suspects: Bronwyn, the studious, Yale-bound brainiac; Addy, the popular beauty queen; Cooper, the all-star baseball jock; and Nate, the drug-dealing delinquent.

What makes things even more interesting is that Simon, the one who didn’t make it out alive, runs the school’s popular gossip app and has dirt on all four suspects.

Dirt that was going to be published the very next day.

So, who didn’t want their secret getting out?

Naturally, the suspects are brought together by their circumstances and realize that they need each other in order to survive the discrimination and media frenzy that has swarmed their town while trying to solve the murder mystery for themselves.

Each character must face the guilt that eats away at them from their secrets while dealing with their dysfunctional families.

The trials these four students must go through show them who their real friends are and that secrets never really remain secrets for long.

Because of the high school stereotypes that run rampant throughout this story, it would’ve been easy for this story to become trite very quickly.

However, McManus succeeds in taking a cliché high school tale and turning it on its head.

This story doesn’t feel as repetitive as one might assume, even though it follows the same themes as many other teen narratives.

McManus gives this high school story an Agatha Christie-style twist and leaves the reader itching to find out whodunnit.

One can admit that at a certain point, it may be easy to connect the dots, but as secrets are revealed and characters become more and more complex, this story definitely keeps the reader hooked.

This debut novel, suitably marketed as “Pretty Little Liars” meets “The Breakfast Club” by EW.com, will change the way people perceive the teen mystery genre.

It will leave the reader guessing until the very end, while also satisfying the itch for a good oldfashioned high school story.

Courtesy of Delacorte Press

The Karen M. McManus title is a New York Times bestseller.

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We’re broke, but she’s willing to say it

By Robert Kinnaird

Last Friday, Nov. 9, Fox News relentlessly dug into newly-elected representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over comments she made to The New York Times about struggling to find an apartment in Washington, D.C. She said that she has “three months without salary before [she’s] a member of Congress” and that she wasn’t sure how she would afford an apartment in the meantime. The hosts of this show read her quotes through smirks and chuckles as “Selfdeclared socialist says she can’t afford DC rent” was displayed on a banner across the bottom of the screen.

They, once again, questioned her validity as a democratic socialist because of the expensive suits she wore in a photoshoot (suits that do not belong to her and were borrowed for the photoshoot), and said that the price of those

suits that, once again, are not hers, could pay for a couple months rent.

The icing on the cake is Fox News criticizing her leftist validity once more by bringing up that she also lived in Westchester County, New York, for parts of her “formative years,” because it is “a little ritzier than the Bronx.”

Fox goes from making fun of Ocasio-Cortez for not having enough money to be one of the Democratic elites to making fun of her for having a little too much to really be a socialist.

Honestly, this makes her the ideal millennial politician. This is why young people love her.

Every young leftist has heard a million times before that they can’t be against capitalism if they have an iPhone or they can’t be a socialist if they’re buying avocado toast. Yet these same iPhone-having, Starbucks-drinking millennials are working for bottom-of-

the-barrel wages, struggling to pay rent and still shoveling out from under their student loans.

They’re your Uber drivers, your interns, your cubicle jockeys and, like Ocasio-Cortez, your bartenders. They’re frustrated.

They’re frustrated that they’re working full-time jobs and more, yet splitting rent with four roommates in a threebedroom flat. They’re frustrated that their degrees in history and journalism and film still end with them working unpaid internships for “experience and exposure” or at a checkout counter working for minimum wage. They’re frustrated that life requires more money to get by than ever before and fewer and fewer skill sets are actually rewarded with livable wages.

They’re frustrated that every meal, every shirt, every cup of coffee they buy is a reason that these complaints aren’t valid.

Ocasio-Cortez gives young, broke Americans a voice. She

makes sure that the House of Representatives will represent the working-class millennial; because unlike the old and moneyed Democrats who have been in politics for years, she’s one of us. She knows what we go through on a daily basis.

She knows what it’s like to eat ramen or Kraft mac and cheese for dinner three nights in a row, because I’d be willing to bet she did that less than six months ago. She’s the first politician a lot of us can look to and think, “Maybe things will get better.”

Ocasio-Cortez embodies the hard-working millennial who’s sick of being painted as the lazy kid looking for handouts.

She shows us that politics are not all about those who have deciding what those who don’t can access. She shows us that Congress can still give us a representative who represents us.

My struggles are not equal to Ocasio-Cortez’s. I’m a straight,

white, cis-gendered male who comes from a wealthy enough family that finances are not my primary worry in day-to-day life while I navigate college.

But those days are coming for me when I graduate in two years’ time, and they’re already here for friends and family I see every day. The successful among us aren’t there because of hard work and grit, they’re there because of luck and privilege. But not her.

Ocasio-Cortez shows us we can earn a better world through grassroots organizing, through grinding the soles of our shoes to nothing while we canvas city blocks. We can earn a better world not through going along with a system that wants to exploit us, but by demanding it changes to accommodate us.

tornado? A 1 in 130,000 chance of dying in an earthquake? A 1 in 161,831 chance of dying from being struck by lightning?

A 1 in 66,324 chance of dying in a cataclysmic storm?

Meanwhile, you have a 1 in 11,125 chance of dying in a mass shooting.

We all know what to do or have been forewarned about things like earthquakes, tornadoes, lightning and storms.

We know where to go, how to act, how to be prepared. There are emergency warnings that are broadcast nationwide on television and our phones, endless reporting and even actual weather channels describing events, and not to mention countless films about natural disasters – it’s something everyone talks about. They’re something that everyone is warned about and everyone expects. But you’re more likely to die in a mass shooting.

Gun control, for some reason, still remains a controversial

topic in the United States. What people refuse to acknowledge is that it’s become an epidemic.

Because people can’t feel safe going to concerts (Las Vegas); can’t feel safe going to movies (Denver); can’t feel safe going to work (YouTube, California, Capital Gazette, etc.); can’t feel safe going to schools (Parkland, Virginia Tech, Columbine, etc.); can’t feel safe going to bars (Pulse, Thousand Oaks); and can’t even feel safe going to religious services (Pittsburgh, Sutherland Springs). Yes, I understand people argue that the Second Amendment, which states, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed,” is untouchable and indispensable, but last time I checked, the country that boasts the largest army in the world no longer has any need to form a “well regulated militia.” In addition, have we forgotten what “amend” even means? Change.

Our reality is that we face a new mass shooting almost every single day of the calendar year. This is our new norm.

Great Britain had a school shooting in 1996. After that, they outlawed handguns. There hasn’t been a school shooting there in 20 years. That’s longer than I’ve been alive. That’s longer than any high school student has been alive.

Mass shootings have become so commonplace in our society that they barely last a full 24-hour news cycle. People see it, they report it, they send thoughts and prayers and then it’s on to the next. That’s not normal. One of the people murdered at the Thousand Oaks Shooting was someone who had survived last year’s Las Vegas Massacre. His name is Brendan Kelly. He survived one tragedy just to die in another.

These tragedies keep occurring day after day and nothing’s happening. Nothing is happening because people care more about a law written

over 200 years ago than the thousands of innocent lives lost each year. Excluding suicides, at least 15,549 people died gunrelated deaths in 2017. As well as this, there were over 31,157 gun-related injuries in that same year.

That’s 15,549 people that could still be alive. People who had futures and families and loved ones and plans and lives. Thanks to an outdated amendment, they’re gone.

Maybe one of these victims would have been able to motivate or galvanize this country to make a real change.

At this point, it’s hard to imagine who or what can be the catalyst for this change. Maybe it’s me. Maybe it’s you. All I know is that we need change, and we need it now.

Robert Kinnaird is a member of the Hofstra Democrats.

When will Americans prioritize gun control?

By Brynne Levine

As of Saturday, Nov. 10, there have been 307 mass shootings in 2018. To put that into perspective, it is the 314th day of the year. So, essentially, nearly each day of the year could have a corresponding mass shooting. The most recent of these tragic events occurred late Wednesday night, when a 28-year-old Caucasian man entered a local line-dancing bar in Thousand Oaks, California, and murdered 12 people with a Glock .45 Caliber handgun.

This shooting comes two and a half weeks after the Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting, in which 11 worshippers were murdered by a 54-year-old Caucasian male using an AR-15 assault rifle.

Mass shootings have become so common in this country that you’re now more likely to die in a mass shooting than a natural disaster. Yes, seriously.

Did you know that you have a 1 in 60,000 chance of dying in a

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The Tree of Life, a seed to be replanted

By Samantha Storms

When news of the Squirrel Hill synagogue shooting swept the nation, the despair that overtook me was two-fold. Twin blows. A slash to the heart.

When word finally reached me, my grief was for the destruction of two homes – two sources of love and pain that have shaped me into the person I was, the person I am and the person I hope to be.

When Robert Bowers chose to enter the Tree of Life congregation – that holy space surrounded by the lushest of trees that welcomed all members of the lively Pittsburgh community with open arms – his intent was to dismantle the very foundation of faith and love that that has for so long gushed from every street corner and front porch across Allegheny County.

When Robert Bowers set foot in that synagogue with the intent to pull the trigger – with the intent to do harm to a group of God-fearing faithful people

– I grieved for the home that Pittsburgh was to me, the city that blossomed before me each time my car emerged from the Fort Pitt Tunnel, the twinkling lights a gentle reminder of the city’s bustling history and its capacity for giving.

It was Pittsburgh that brought into being my father, the strongest man I have ever known. It was Pittsburgh that welcomed my immigrated mother into its fold without even a second thought. This city, despite all its problems, were all my brother and I had ever known for 18 years of our lives.

Growing up in the less-thansavory streets of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, just 12 short miles from Pittsburgh proper, the Storms children were no strangers to the type of hostility that could fester within the surrounding communities, due to the dangerous thoughts of extremists. We grew accustomed to hearing about the grown-up that was shot behind the corner score.

The violence seemed so natural that we did not cry when the friends of our friends started to lose themselves to the streets.

Yet, despite these problems that took the lives of young girls and boys before their 18th birthday, it was Pittsburgh that gave me the strength, the drive and the unwavering determination to escape and pursue that which those unmerciful streets could never offer me. I owe every sliver of success and happiness to my family, my teachers and the few friends I ever made – all persistent reminders of the city of my youth that remain burned into my mind forever.

When Robert Bowers decided to unleash his assault on the Tree of Life congregation, his bullets pierced an entire city.

The deaths of those 11 will haunt me on every trip back home, a constant reminder that the city that has been the source of so much happiness and sorrow alike for me continues to face darkened days.

But my anguish isn’t pacified

by the seven-hour drive back to New York. My pain isn’t left behind, tucked neatly beneath my mattress to await the next opportunity to invade my thoughts.

One of the deepest, most profound connections I have ever felt came from a member of that faith, firm in its resolve to survive. I have felt a love unconditional – a love that has revealed to me every sorrow and every joy that this world has to offer.

Growing up in a Catholic home, I had not even an inkling of what this Jewish boy with his brown curls and set ways would come to mean to me. I would come to recognize traces of his faith in my own, and I felt a bond to his people in ways completely unfathomable to that little girl playing ball with kids down the block in narrow alleys bathed in the purple light of the south-western Pennsylvania sun.

The Jewish community was far from the terrorizing,

condemned people that Bowers would have the world believe them to be. From that prosecuted faith was born the realest love I have ever known. I grieve for an entire people and its ancestors, each attack brought onto them a constant reminder of the horrors of their past only pacified by hopes of the future.

Thus is the extent of my pain. My voice will never truly be capable of expressing the anguish that exudes from the heavy hearts of the friends and family slayed in that Squirrel Hill synagogue, nor will it ever be able to speak for a people and faith in whose home I am merely a guest.

But I can speak for my own sorrow. It is with a bleeding heart that I return home to the broken city that raised me with the love of my life at my arm.

Only together might we be able to pick up the pieces.

is still very purple. With the two years ago, more people Day. She has 2.3 percent of the recent death of Sen. John Mcdecided to be “edgy” and vote vote in this razor-thin race.

Cain and the retirement of Sen. for Angela Green of the Green Voting for Green to begin Jeff Flake, both Republicans, Party. On Thursday, Nov. 1, a with was irresponsible, but what all bets were off for the 2018 week before the election, Green is even more irresponsible is midterms. dropped out of the race and being so incredibly negligent Now, for the first time in endorsed Sinema. to wait so long to drop out of Arizona history, we will have a What people outside of Arithe race. It was too late to take female senator. zona do not realize, however, her name off the ballot, and Republican Rep. Maris that many citizens opt in to a Green’s statement when she quit tha McSally and included, “I knew Democratic Rep. I wasn’t going to Kyrsten Sinema win.” were entrenched in Third party “Voting third party because you a head-to-head race candidates have for months. With 99 had success in the despise the candidate on the percent of precincts past; see Ralph right but are not a huge fan of reporting, the race Nader and Ross remained too close Democratic candidate is careless.” Perot. However, to call. On Monday, that was the past, Nov. 12, the race when our politics was called in favor were not as diviof Sinema. Sinema defeated permanent early voting by mail sive as they are now. The right McSally by 38, 197 votes, just system where we get our ballots wants to take away a woman’s under 2 percent. nearly a month before the elecright to choose, wants to take This race was so close tion. Despite no longer running, away health care and allow inbecause of – you guessed it Green’s name remained on both surance companies to bankrupt – a third party candidate. As the early-voting ballots and the families and actively neglects if no one learned their lesson ballots at the polls on Election and denies scientific facts – see

the recent U.N. report on climate change.

McSally’s policies align with these; she voted to replace the Affordable Care Act and allow insurance companies to drastically hike rates for people with preexisting conditions and then blatantly lied about it.

Other policy positions include being staunchly pro-life and being an immigration hardliner.

Voting third party because you despise the candidate on the right but are not a huge fan of Democratic candidate is careless. The issues at stake are going to have a drastic effect on people’s lives; so please, do not be selfish by voting third party.

Samantha Storms is a Pittsburgh native.

The AZ Senate and the risks of third party voting

By Sarah Kocher

Coming off of the blue wave that took the House of Representatives this week, another, much smaller, blue wave just crested in Arizona.

A longtime conservative state, Arizona started to turn a light purple in the 2016 election; Trump ultimately won the state, but by a mere 3.5 percent. As a born and raised Arizonan, it has been one hell of a ride watching my home turn into a battleground state.

A huge eye-opener in 2016 was just how severe of a threat to the future of our country voting third party is. Plainly and simply put – voting third party in the United States does not work.

Our electoral system is not multi-party. It frustrates me to no end when my fellow millennials and students try to be edgy and vote third party Two years later, Arizona

Sarah Kocher is a senior majoring in journalism and political science with minors in Middle Eastern and Central Asian studies.

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Hernandez Gil stages comeback in junior season

By Eliza Kravitz SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE

For many basketball players, an ankle injury may mean the end of a career; but for junior Ana Hernandez Gil, it is merely an obstacle to achieving her goals.

Hernandez Gil finished her freshman year in the spring of 2017 with 145 points and an average of 10.7 minutes in 27 games played. She also ranked top three in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) in threepoint percentage at one point during the season. Hernandez Gil was eager to start training for her sophomore year, but her offseason was cut short when she broke her ankle during practice.

“I was going for a layup, and they were hitting us with pads to go hard,” Hernandez Gil said.

“They hit me and I lost control of my body, so I came down on my ankle and it just broke. I knew it was broken right away. I heard it.”

Hernandez Gil lost her

sophomore season because the healing process was longer than expected. After getting surgery to fix her ankle, Hernandez Gil started practicing again.

Her early recovery halted after finding out she needed a second surgery to remove the scar tissue build-up in her ankle.

“Obviously, it is hard,” Hernandez Gil said. “I have been sitting out for one year watching practice all the time, and [I’m] just like, ‘Oh my gosh, I wish I was playing.’”

Hernandez Gil decided to embrace her time on the sidelines as an opportunity to learn and grow as a player.

She watched her teammates in games and practices and studied their plays – learning from their mistakes.

Hernandez Gil is no stranger to injuries and has experienced missing a season before. The Canary Island native missed a season when she was 16 years old after tearing her ACL in her first European Championship with Spain. She stayed positive heading into recovery for her

ankle this time because she knew what it would take to rehabilitate it so she could play again.

Her first time practicing after the second surgery was in April.

She was happy to be back on the court and was doing everything she could to be ready for her junior season.

“I started little by little,” Hernandez Gil said. “They would not let me run all the time, and I had to stop myself.

Being at Hofstra for the summer helped me a lot too.”

Hernandez Gil is optimistic about the upcoming season and wants to contribute to her team in any way that she can to help the Pride win the CAA Championship.

“Now that I get to play, I am just enjoying it,” Hernandez Gil said. “I am trying to get back to the same level that I was at, and if not, then at least I know I am trying my best.”

Overcoming her injury is just a stepping stone to her goals.

Even though Hernandez Gil dreams of one day owning her

own business, she wants to play basketball for as long as she can.

After her senior year, she plans to go home to Spain in hopes of playing professionally in Europe. She also dreams of one day representing her country in the Olympics.

Hernandez Gil has accomplished a great deal in her time playing basketball and continues to strive for bigger

goals. However, she does not focus on her achievements but rather on enjoying the game she fell in love with when she was 7 years old.

“What my parents always say is you don’t know what you have accomplished until you are 30 years old and you no longer play basketball,” Hernandez Gil said. “Right now I just play basketball because it is fun.”

Cam Keough / The Hofstra Chronicle Ana Hernandez Gil recorded three points against Columbia on Friday.

Cuzic’s career night not enough in nail-biter

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The Hofstra women’s basketball team came up short in Friday night’s matchup, falling 65-63 to Columbia University.

Senior Sica Cuzic led the team with 18 points and 14 rebounds on the night, both of which were career highs.

The Pride trailed by as many as 10 points in the second half.

However, that was all forgotten with five minutes left in the game when senior Boogie Brozoski nailed a three-pointer and then dropped a behind-theback assist to sophomore Jaylen Hines to give Hofstra their first lead since the first quarter, 5352.

For the final five minutes, the

two teams were neck-and-neck.

Junior Ana Hernandez Gil banked in a three-pointer to bring Hofstra within two points with 24 seconds remaining, sending the home crowd into a frenzy. After one free throw from Columbia, Hernandez Gil was unable to connect on what would have been the game-tying three with just six seconds left on the clock. Columbia hit their next two free throws to seal the win.

Until late in the game, the Pride’s offense struggled mightily. Following a first half in which they shot 36 percent, Hofstra was held to eight total points in the third quarter, making just three of their 20 attempted shots. The quarter also included a 0-for-7 mark from the three-point line.

Inconsistent calls made by referees left both benches visibly frustrated and disrupted the rhythm of the game. Over the course of the game, 49 fouls were called between the two

teams.

“It does affect the flow. We can’t control it,” said Hofstra head coach Krista KilburnSteveskey.

“You’ve got all these fans out here [and] we’re not scoring any points and they’re calling every foul ... it’s just not fun.”

The Pride led for the majority of the first quarter until Columbia found their groove offensively and turned Hofstra’s lead into a nine-point deficit by the midpoint of the second quarter. Then Cuzic took control over the rest of the half, scoring eight of Hofstra’s final 12 points to cut the Columbia lead to 3632 at halftime.

Despite their earlier struggles, Kilburn-Steveskey was proud of how her team responded down the stretch to almost pull off the win.

“They executed down that little stretch right there and got a great look,” she said. “You feel good about that ... you always feel good when you get a shot

off.”

Hofstra’s top scoring threat, Brozoski, struggled to find her shot before making big plays during crunch time. After scoring the Pride’s first six points of the game, Brozoski did not hit another field goal until that three-pointer with 5:55 to go in the fourth quarter. She finished the game with 11 points on 4-of-15 shooting.

Nevertheless, Brozoski was on the floor for all but seven minutes of the game and found other important ways to help her team.

“I [picked] it up defensively.

Just because my shot isn’t falling doesn’t mean that we can’t win the game,” she said.

“I rely on my other teammates when it comes to that. This is just a learning experience.”

One of those teammates that Hofstra relied on was Cuzic.

She stepped up with 18 points to keep her team in the game while the offense struggled and also anchored the team on defense

with 14 rebounds.

“We have a lot of people who can do a lot of [different] things,” Cuzic said.

“I feel like I’m one who can also help and do [those] things ... so I was just doing my job.”

Hernandez Gil, who is still trying to find her groove after missing the 2017-18 season due to injury, played just seven minutes in the loss. The junior guard hit only one of the seven three-pointers she put up – one of which kept the Pride within striking distance late in the game.

Hines and junior guard Petja Krupenko each notched nine points to help balance Hofstra’s offensive attack. Krupenko also distributed a career-high five assists to lead the team.

With the loss, Hofstra falls to 1-1 on the season while Columbia is now 1-0. The Pride takes on Stony Brook University next in the “Battle of Long Island” at Stony Brook on Tuesday, Nov. 13, at 7 p.m.

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Men’s basketball dominates in season opener

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Three starters scored doubledigit points for the Hofstra men’s basketball team in their season-opening 79-61 win over Mount St. Mary’s on Friday night. The Pride was led by senior Justin Wright-Foreman, who recorded 20 points and seven rebounds, while junior Eli Pemberton and senior Desure Buie chipped in with 18 points each.

Hofstra (1-0) got off to a slow start as Mount St. Mary’s (0-2) scored the first 12 points of the game. It took the Pride almost eight minutes to score their first field goal.

The Pride quickly found themselves down 16-1, with their lone point coming from a free throw by freshman Dan Dwyer. The team came roaring back, eventually completing their largest comeback since the 2015-16 season.

“Obviously a rough start. I

don’t know if we’ve ever had a rougher start,” said Hofstra head coach Joe Mihalich. “Anyway, we kept our poise. I’m really proud of our guys for keeping their composure.”

Buie was the hero of the first half as he used a few spin moves that riled up the crowd and a game-tying three-pointer with 54 seconds remaining to complete the Pride’s comeback.

He finished the night with five assists to complement his 18 points. “[Buie] is our glue guy. He’s the one that keeps us together,” Mihalich said. “He made some big shots and ended up with more points than I thought he’d get coming into the game.”

Sophomore Jalen Ray shut the door on the first half with a big three-pointer to give the Pride the lead for good. The shot came with only 17 seconds on the clock in the first half.

After scoring their first bucket, Hofstra went on a 28-12 run in the final 11 minutes of the first half.

“We just believed in ourselves the whole way through,” Wright-Foreman said. “All we did when we came to the bench was tell each other that we have to stay positive and optimistic

through the whole thing.”

“It was just a team effort,” Pemberton said. “The team started playing defense better and we bought in.”

Hofstra dominated the second half by shooting 53 percent from the field and 56 percent from beyond the arc. Pemberton scored 15 in the second half alone with Buie and WrightForeman scoring 13 and 12 respectively.

The Pride used multiple runs in the second half, including a 10-0 run halfway through, to pull away from the Mountaineers.

Dwyer and graduate transfer Jacquil Taylor both made their Hofstra debuts in the season opener, combining for nine points and 16 rebounds. Taylor led the team with 10 boards.

Dwyer recorded two key blocks in the first half.

“Both of them can shoot the mid-range. They work extremely hard, they get boards and they know their roles,” Pemberton said. “They’re really both good teammates.”

“I thought [Dwyer] came in and gave us a little bit of juice,” Mihalich said. “[Their stats were] a lot like the guy who just graduated last year, and that

was the goal.”

“They fit right in. We didn’t miss a beat,” Wright-Foreman said.

Friday night was also the “Pack the Mack” event put on

by Hofstra Athletics. The event drew in a sold-out crowd of 4,645 fans, far above the 1,832 average from home games last season.

“It was just so exciting to be here in front of a packed house like that,” Mihalich said. “It’s

something you dream about.

We’re so happy and thankful that our fans came out.”

“We go against these crowds that were the same way we were tonight,” Wright-Foreman said.

“But to have it at Hofstra was amazing.”

“We love our fans, we love when they come and watch us,” Pemberton said. “It fires us up.”

Hofstra has a busy week ahead, with three games in the span of six days.

Photo Courtesy of Hofstra Athletics Justin Wright-Foreman led the team with 20 points in Friday’s win.

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Women’s soccer moves on after rout of No. 22 Boston College

By Mike Senatore STAFF WRITER

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On Friday, Nov. 9, the Hofstra women’s soccer team pulled off a huge win over the No. 22 Boston College Eagles on the road. With the 4-1 win, the Pride advance to the second round of the NCAA Division I Championship.

The visiting Pride’s offense shone in the contest, with sophomore Sabrina Bryan racking up two goals and fellow sophomores Lucy Porter and Lucy Shepherd adding one each.

Porter’s goal was the lone score of the first half. It came off an assist from senior Jenn Buoncore, who brought her record up to 14 assists for this season.

The 1-0 tally remained until 70 minutes into the contest,

when Bryan put in her first goal of the day off an assist from Porter to give Hofstra a twopoint lead.

The Pride’s lead soon became seemingly insurmountable, as just five minutes after her first goal, Bryan would double down and score one more time to put the Pride up by three goals with 15 minutes remaining.

Boston College quickly answered, however, with a goal of their own not even two minutes after Bryan’s second.

Yet, the Eagles’ comeback efforts were squashed by a header from Shepherd off a free kick from Jordan Littleboy, all but punching Hofstra’s ticket to the second round of the tournament.

Hofstra put on a clinic defensively, masterfully handling Boston College’s aggressive and ceaseless offense. While the Pride took only six shots for the duration of the game, the Eagles took an astounding 28.

Because of the Pride’s stout

defense, however, only eight of these were shots on goal. Senior goalkeeper Ashley Wilson had her hands full with five saves in her 67 minutes on the field, and in the remaining 23 minutes senior goalkeeper Jenna Borresen added two saves of her own.

“I was really proud of the way we countered and the way we played with some impetus and we put them under pressure,” Hofstra head coach Simon Riddiough said after the match.

“We played a really good game.”

The first-round victory marks the first NCAA tournament win for the Pride in eight years and their first win over Boston College in program history.

Hofstra’s four goals were the most scored by any opponent against the Eagles in any game this season.

After the contest, Hofstra’s record stands at 16-5-1, with the win adding a seventh game to the Pride’s ongoing win streak.

This decisive match adds on to

the Pride’s colossal momentum heading into their secondround contest. They will take on the University of Wisconsin

Badgers, who defeated Memphis 3-0 in their own NCAA opening game. That contest will take place on Friday, Nov. 16.

Photo courtesy of Hofstra Athletics The win marked Hofstra’s first in the NCAA Tournament since 2010.

Men’s soccer suffers heartbreaking loss in penalty kicks

By Matt Novella STAFF WRITER

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In a match decided by penalty kicks, the Hofstra men’s soccer team fell short of a Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Championship as they were defeated by James Madison University (JMU) Dukes on Sunday, Nov. 11, with a final score of 2-1.

Penalty kicks led to goal after goal for James Madison. The Dukes kept finding the back of the net – where they converted on all of their shots – and Hofstra wasn’t able to answer

back.

“Tough way to go out on the penalty kicks,” said Hofstra head coach Richard Nuttall.

“But that’s just soccer as we know it.”

Early on in the game, JMU came out firing after taking an early 1-0 lead, thanks to Manuel Ferriol’s ninth-minute goal.

The Dukes probably believed that they had secured the win, until the Pride finally answered back late in the second half.

Hofstra’s Matthew Vowinkel scored his eighth goal of the season off of Luke Brown’s dime. This tied the game at one in the 80th minute.

“It was a great whipped in ball from [Brown],” Nuttall said. “[Vowinkel] finished it... I thought we were going to go out and win it then.”

With the game tied at one,

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neither team scored in the rest of regulation, sending the match to overtime.

Hofstra did not record any shots on goal during the two extra periods, but senior goalie frecorded two saves to keep the score tied after two overtime periods. Ashton ended the night with six saves. “[Ashton has] done a great job,” Nuttall said. “He had a very, very good game, as did a lot of the guys.”

The penalty kicks featured a lot of scoring. Out of the eight penalty kicks attempted, six found the back of the net. The two that didn’t go in were both Hofstra’s shots. That helped JMU clinch the CAA title.

It was a great defensive effort by both teams as JMU’s defense only allowed Hofstra to have three shots on goal, and Hofstra’s defense only gave up seven shots on goal to JMU. Each team only gave up one goal through regulation and extra time.

The Pride end their season with a strong 10-6-5 record.

Hofstra was unable to secure

the title against James Madison University, who finished 12-4-3.

Cam Keough / The Hofstra Chronicle Alex Ashton made six saves in the Pride’s penalty kick loss to JMU.

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Volleyball earns No. 1 seed in sweep of Northeastern

By Nolan Foxx STAFF WRITER

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The Pride volleyball team swept Northeastern University on Senior Day to close out their regular season in astounding fashion, winning the sets 25-19, 26-24 and 25-20.

With the victory, Hofstra closed their regular season on a seven-game win streak and earned the No. 1 seed in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Conference Tournament for the first time since 2006.

“It is absolutely a great thing.

We have worked as a team so hard to make this a successful year, so it is a great thing to be there as the one seed,” said Hofstra head coach Emily Mansur. “We have a lot of work

ahead of us as we head to the championship next week.”

The Pride found themselves down 24-19 in the second set when Mansur used a timeout to regroup. After the timeout, junior Ana Martinovic entered the gamed to serve, and the Pride went on a seven-point run to take the second set 26-24.

“I think a big thing was bringing in Martinovic to serve,” Mansur said. “She had a big run for us and made them uncomfortable. It really helped us get the win.”

The first and third sets were easier wins for the Pride, as their relatively higher attacking efficiency allowed both sets to be won by at least five points.

Nanishka Perez and Michela Rucli each had 11 kills for Hofstra, while Athena Ardila led Northeastern with 12.

Hofstra’s Luisa Sydlik once again played her role as the key distributor, dealing out a clear game-high 41 assists in the three

sole sets.

As usual for senior days, Hofstra’s four seniors, – Doris Bogoje, Perez, Caylie Denham and Rucli – each played their final home game for the Pride.

“It’s a really, really special class. We have had wonderful seniors go through our program,” Mansur said. “This class was our first full recruiting class (as a staff) and it is beautiful to see them finish in such a great way.”

The senior group, who came to Hofstra the year after Mansur won her first and only CAA Championship with the Pride, have been heavy contributors since 2015, and with the tournament just days away, hope to end their Hofstra tenure by giving their coach her second trophy in five years.

The Pride will begin their run towards the conference championship Saturday, Nov. 17, and they will look to use the momentum they have built all

season to carry them.

“Every match this year has prepared us. We know every team is going to be a little bit better and we need to get there,” Mansur said. “Everybody is going to be the same at the

CAA.” The Pride will travel to Charleston, South Carolina for the CAA tournament which begins with Towson and Northeastern facing off in the quarterfinals on Friday.

Photo Courtesy of Hofstra Athletics Michela Rucli recorded 11 kills and 11.5 points in Sunday’s win.

Men’s basketball comes up short in loss to Marshall

By DJ Lopes S TA F F W R I T E R

Fina l Marshall

76

Hofstra

72

It may have only been the second game of the season for both teams, but the Hofstra men’s basketball team and Marshall University played a tight, intense game befitting of late March. It came down to the wire, but the Thundering Herd, led by their senior duo of Jon Elmore and C.J. Burks, pulled out a 76-72 win against the Pride. The Pride was led by senior Justin Wright-Foreman, who was in mid-season form, tallying 34 points in the loss.

This loss propels the Thundering Herd to 2-0 on the season, but drops Hofstra to 1-1 in the early going.

“We were the toughest team on the floor, in a very difficult place to play,” said head coach Joe Mihalich of

his team’s performance in a hostile environment in the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington, West Virginia.

One of the biggest issues Hofstra dealt with that night was their turnovers. Marshall was able to start the second half on a 12-0 run resulting from multiple Hofstra turnovers on consecutive plays. Marshall capitalized on many of these mistakes, which helped sway the momentum over to their side for much of the second half.

The Pride ended the game with 20 turnovers – six more than Marshall totaled.

The Thundering Herd was also able to find holes in Hofstra’s defensive strategy as the game stretched into the second half.

In the first half, Mihalich used a 2-2-1 press, forcing Marshall to fight harder to get quality looks. In the half court, they utilized a matchup zone to mitigate Marshall’s three-point attack. This worked for the most part, as Marshall coach Dan D’Antoni – brother of Houston

Rockets coach Mike D’Antoni – struggled to find good shots for his players. The Thundering Herd finished the game only shooting 29.2 percent from three.

However, in the second half, Marshall was able to find a hole in Hofstra’s zone, which led to multiple key scoring runs.

These runs were led by Burks and Elmore, Marshall’s lethal senior backcourt. The two combined for 53 of the team’s 76 points, including 28 of their 34 in the second half.

Elmore showed great ability to get to the line, hitting 8-9 free throws to make up for a tough day from the three-point line.

Burks was electric, scoring 16 of his 23 in the half. He attacked Hofstra’s zone with incredible efficiency, often catching the ball at the free throw line and using the space to drive and shoot floaters – his signature shot.

“Gotta give them credit, they made some tough shots and answered every run we made”, Mihalich said.

Even in the loss, WrightForeman was not to be outdone.

He scored 34 points, including 25 in the first half. His outburst vaulted him to No. 12 on Hofstra’s all-time scoring list, with 1,433 points. Much like Elmore, Wright-Foreman was able to get past his rough day from the three-point line by driving to the hoop and drawing fouls. He shot 90 percent from the free throw line, only missing one in 10 attempts.

Eli Pemberton continued to build off of a strong first game, scoring 18 points and tallying his third career double-double.

He played an incredibly efficient game, shooting 8-11 from the field and 2-2 from three.

Graduate transfer Dan Dwyer added a solid contribution,

grabbing eight rebounds and scoring two points off the bench.

Although fellow transfer Jacquil Taylor struggled in the game, the two players have combined this season to fill the hole left by the graduation of Rokas Gustys.

The result wasn’t ideal for Hofstra, but with plenty of bright spots in their game, the Pride have a solid foundation to build on as they slowly work toward conference play.

“I’m proud of these guys,” Mihalich said. “I think if we can correct some things, we can be a pretty good team.”

After the tough loss to Marshall on the road, the Pride look to bounce back on Wednesday, Nov. 14, at home against the North Carolina A&T Aggies.

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The Hofstra Chronicle

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November 13, 2018

Sweep Victory Hofstra volleyball defeated Northeastern University to earn the No. 1 seed in the CAA Tournament Cam Keough / The Hofstra Chronicle