The Hofstra Chronicle October 30, 2018

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Department of Health and Human Services threatens trans rights

By Daniel Nguyen O P-ED ED ITO R

Daniel Nguyen / The Hofstra Chronicle A multitude of student clubs united on campus for an emergency meeting to discuss the safety of the transgender community in the wake of the recent memo leak in The New York Times.

Following the recently leaked trans memo, a document obtained by The New York Times detailing the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) efforts to establish a legal definition of sex that would curtail a series of Obama-era decisions that loosened the national conception of gender, a coalition of student clubs on campus held an emergency meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 23.

The event, entitled “How the Trump Administration Will Legislate Transgender Americans

Out of Existence – Digesting the Horrifying Policy Proposal that Would Eliminate Transgender Rights in the United States of America,” packed the Plaza Middle and West Rooms. The event gathered numerous campus clubs in support of transgender rights and featured a presentation on the memo and a discussion on ways people can help support the safety of transgender people in the wake of the leak.

Co-sponsored by Hofstra’s Queer Trans People of Color Coalition (QTPOCC), The Gender Identity Federation (TGIF), The Pride Network, Campus Feminist Collective, Student

Advocates for Safer Sex, Young Democratic Socialists of Hofstra and the Democrats of Hofstra University, the event broke down a collaboratively club-created 16page document on the memo.

Ja’Loni Owens, a senior public policy and journalism student, co-hosted the event as president of QTPOCC.“We need to show up for trans folx right now. There are such devastating consequences of writing a class of people out of existence,” Owens said. “The law will say trans folx cannot Continued On A4

Day of Dialogue: A call for immigration policy reform

By Jocelin Montes SPEC IAL TO T H E C H R O NI CL E

The Center for Civic Engagement hosted a panel of renowned professionals and engaged students to break down the complex and multifaceted issue of immigration and question the ethics behind recent United States policies as part of Hofstra’s annual Day of Dialogue, on Wednesday, Oct. 24, “Do we have the capacity to weigh in, seriously, all the immigration debates and to develop complex solutions that would address multiple conflicting values?” asked Rosanna Perotti, professor of political science, to an audience filled with students, faculty and staff.

“The immigration challenges that face the United States are very complex and will require us to weigh in values that are widely shared and sometimes conflicting,” Perotti added.

Amy Baehr, professor of philosophy at Hofstra; Rev.

Ana Levy-Lyons, senior minister at First Unitarian Church in Brooklyn Heights; Paula Chirinos, a junior public relations major; and Kimberly Chin, deputy director of The Children’s Defense Fund of New York shared insight on the values and steps they believe should be taken by Congress in order to construct stronger immigration policies.

Baehr addressed nine pluralist approaches that could benefit immigration reforms and noted that these are society’s most basic moral ideals. “The values that I discuss are these: human rights, desert, safety, just solutions, economic prosperity, procedural fairness, humanitarianism, global distributive justice and the rectification of our past wrongs,” Baehr said.

On April 6, the current administration declared an end to a practice often know as “catch and release.” On the same day, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported that Attorney General Jeff Sessions

ordered all Southern border security to “adopt immediately a zero-tolerance policy,” meaning that all entry would be referred to as criminal activity.

“The zero-tolerance policy goes against our constitutional beliefs. We believe in due process, in no cruel or unusual punishment,” said Arielle Ruiz, a freshman journalism major.

Shortly after the reports, DHS determined that the policy would only cover “alien adults” entering the United States, “because minor children cannot be held in criminal custody with an adult, alien adults would have to be separated from accompanying minor children ...”

Ruiz added, “People are literally being taken away from their children and these are not children who speak Spanish.

Many of them are indigenous, who speak languages that do not exist on paper.”

“Separating families at the border because you can is immoral. Taking away public benefits from immigrants and American-born citizen children

is immoral,” Chin said. Chin mentioned the work and research that The Children’s Defense Fund contributes to child advocacy.

Levy-Lyons spoke on the story of immigration, its connection to the Hebrew Bible and its relations to current immigration issues. “The Hebrew people become the archetypal strangers throughout this [immigration] story and the rest of the Torah is a reaction, a response to that experience of being immigrants, being oppressed and being strangers in foreign land.”

Levy-Lyons noted the current administration rejects the entire framework of the Biblical story and that it goes against the idea of welcoming, loving and creating a just world for the stranger.

“The current political climate has given me no choice but to come out and share my experience,” said Chirinos, who shared her experience as a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient with the audience.

Chirinos who moved to the United States when she was three years old, said that her journey with DACA began in the sixth grade. As a result, she was granted a social security number, a workers permit, driver’s license and temporary protection.

Like many recipients, Chirinos’ only home, for years, has been the United States. “I am very grateful that students like me were giving some sort of protection by the national government with the DACA program, but currently, I am in a place where I don’t know what will happen to me next year, or the next 10 years,” Chirinos said.

“I think [immigration] has its benefits and is detrimental on different aspects, it’s not the same for everyone, everyone has different experiences with it,” said Jennifer Maldonado, a freshman sociology major.

“But for the most part, immigration has been proven to be economically, socially and culturally beneficial to this country.”

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Fourth annual #DayInThePride celebrates Hofstra

By Laramie Knox SPECIA L TO TH E C H R O N ICLE

Photo Courtesy of Laramie Knox

Hofstra University’s fourth annual #DayInThePride, held on Wednesday, Oct. 24, gave students, faculty and alumni the chance to showcase their daily routines and explain valuable experiences that Hofstra has taught them over the years.

Hundreds of social media posts throughout the day displayed what being a member of the Hofstra Pride entails, from students getting food on campus to upperclassmen posting photos from their internships in New York City.

Alumni of varying years also recognized the incredible opportunities that Hofstra has given them. Alex Dollin who tweeted, “Always grateful to @HofstraU and @wrhuradio for the amazing training and support.” Dollin, who graduated from Hofstra in 2008, currently works as a

morning show producer at News 12 Long Island. He spent the day simultaneously celebrating #DayInThePride and his 10-year work anniversary. #DayInThePride also was a way for current students to see an ordinary day in the eyes of their peers and find out about events on campus that they may not have otherwise known about.

Hofstra’s ROTC program used the hashtag to advertise their ‘Pie A Cadet’ fundraiser on social media. Senior forensics major Jonathan Persaud and other members of the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship used the tag to promote their 0.5K run to raise money for breast cancer awareness.

“There’s a lot of stuff that people can get involved in that they might find interesting or cool,” Persaud said. “Putting it on social media is a great way for clubs to get recognition as well as [for] people to get involved in areas that interest them.”

Members of the Christian Fellowship promoted their 0.5K run to raise money for breast cancer awareness during #DayInThePride.

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Students unite to discuss impact of recent trans memo Continued from A1 exist, and that makes them even more vulnerable.”

Packets of the document were distributed to attendees alongside pages locating safe rooms in the upstairs Intercultural Engagement and Inclusion office.

Riley Lisa, a junior psychology major and treasurer of TGIF, co-hosted the event with Owens.

“I think events such as the one we held tonight are important to have students at Hofstra be politically involved in issues impacting specific minority groups.

Since the memo directly impacts trans people, it was good to see that cis students came to attend the event tonight,” Lisa said.

“In order to fight this memo and protect trans rights, we need to have a lot of people supporting us and be[ing] vocal about how damaging the memo is.”

Lisa began the presentation by establishing ground rules, such

as not speaking when others do, being self-aware and making space for all voices to be heard.

“Be respectful of everyone who has contributed to this presentation and everyone looking to empower themselves,” Lisa said. “Do not speak over anybody else.”

Owens continued the presentation with a deconstruction of the political context for the memo, including coverage of Obama-era decisions on gender and the current effort by the HHS to establish an explicit and uniform definition of gender.

“This memo states that the federal government will adopt an explicit and uniform definition of gender as determined ‘on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable,’” Owens said.

HHS staff contact information, an interactive website called Countable that streamlines political activism, politicians with

pro-transgender rights platforms, scripts for calling the HHS and other resources were provided at the meeting alongside information on a 60-day public comment period during which students and

of the event, emphasized the importance of understanding the political climate, especially before Election Day. “Knowing who your local politicians, who your senators,

“We can all help each other and the world by supporting political movements that seek to build transrights across countries.” other supporters of transgender rights could call in objections to the new gender definition.

The period will begin following regulations released by the Department of Education and HHS this fall.

Brynne Levine, a sophomore public relations major, president of the Democrats of Hofstra University and co-organizer

your reps, your governors are is so, so important,” Levine said.

“Those are the guys who are going to pass important bills and memos, the people who are your direct line to getting things done in government. Stay updated and stay informed and vote.”

Following the presentation, students in attendance discussed specific issues surrounding trans-

rights today. Several students stressed the importance of voting in local and national elections.

“Voting for local judges is important to prevent people with reactionary views in law from entering into and ascending the judicial ranks up to the federal level, where many court cases for trans people regarding discrimination have ended up going,” said Daniel Davidson, a senior political science major. “Kavanaugh didn’t come from nowhere.”

International students asked about how they could help as non-voters. “International students can help by also supporting trans people’s rights in their countries, since this is an issue on a global scale, and effects are carried across borders,” Davidson said. “We can all help each other and the world by supporting political movements that seek to build trans-rights across countries.”

Rochester addresses inequality and economic oppression nation of his effort to explain the financial cost of discrimination against black people in America. His writing is uniquely supported solely by facts and research. “I don’t talk about things that I can’t substantiate with research,” Rochester said.

Rochester writes to combat the startling Photo Courtesy of University of Rochester statistics surrounding the perception of black Shawn Rochester, author, financial coach and poverty. According CEO shared insight with students on Oct. 25. to the Pew Research

By Becca Lo Presti Center for the People and the STAFF W R I T E R Press, in 2012, 63 percent of white Americans believed that, Shawn Rochester, an author, fi- “Blacks not trying hard enough nancial coach and CEO of Good was more to blame for their not Steward LLC, visited Hofstra on getting ahead than any racial Thursday, Oct. 25, to discuss his discrimination.” new book, “The Black Tax: The Rochester, however, supCost of Being Black in Amerplied statistics to contradict the ica.” Rochester was hosted by belief that black poverty is not a the Xi Psi Chapter of Alpha Phi systematic problem. Throughout Alpha and the Hofstra Cultural his research, he calculated that Center. the black community in America Rochester’s book is a culmiis missing 6 million jobs, 1.4

million businesses and $8 trillion in net worth. Beginning with slavery, Rochester went through every economic stage of the black community in America.

Rochester argued that the Homestead Act, Contract-Enforcement, Convict Leasing and Jim Crow laws kept black people economically enslaved to white farmers even after the Emancipation Proclamation. In the 20th century, predominantly white schools received more funding per student than black schools and racist housing practices forced many African Americans to live in ghettos. “Ghettos,” noted Rochester, “means involuntary, by the way.”

Rochester asked the same question at every historical checkpoint: “How do people accumulate wealth under these circumstances?” His proposed solution is Purchase Higher Development (PHD). PHD is built upon the idea that, “when possible, wherever possible, use black talent.” Rochester said, “If you want to show alliance and support, do it with your money.”

For Xi Psi Chapter President Wilbert Davis, a junior journalism and political science double major, Rochester’s approach to explaining economic disparity was riveting. “I was in awe by the numbers,” Davis said, who had first seen Rochester’s speak when “The Black Tax” was published.

Xi Psi was the only student group to receive a grant from the Hofstra Cultural Center for the semester. According to Athelene Collins, the executive director of the Cultural Center, Xi Psi was chosen through a series of applications and a board, consisting of faculty, administration and students alike. “We always like to support the student group,” Collins said. “We just thought that it was important.”

One of the many Xi Psi alumni in attendance was Allen Best, from the Hofstra class of 1995.

He expressed pride at the current chapter’s work to bring in speakers like Rochester.

“It’s a great thing to happen,” Best said. “We always threw events that were consciously

aware and informative. We educated the community.”

Other members of the Hofstra community also found Rochester’s speech important and topical.

“Racism is very rampant now,” said Rowel James, a junior early childhood and childhood education and English major. “Not that [racism] went away, but people are more explicit about it.”

Rochester emphasized the importance of knowing about issues such as black economic disparity. “What kind of conversation are you going to have when the uneducated are talking with the uninformed?” he said.

The goal of his book is to increase the discourse on the Black Tax and ultimately bring about change through what he called the two most effective solutions: empathy and understanding.

Rochester is also collecting personal stories about discrimination through economic oppression on his website www. blacktaxed.com.

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Dutch heritage and influence celebrated at symposium

By Alixandra Wilens STAFF W R I T E R

Hofstra University co-celebrated its Dutch ancestry with the University of Amsterdam in a symposium titled, “New Netherland, New Amsterdam: A Celebration of Dutch Heritage and Transatlantic Exchanges.”

The day-long discussion on Wednesday, Oct. 24, presented various events relating to Dutch culture and its influence in American life, including the keynote address by American Russell Shorto, author of “Amsterdam, Old and New: The Flow of Influence.”

The day began by recognizing the 25th anniversary of the Hofstra University and University of Amsterdam Exchange Program through a student experience panel with students from both universities.

The panel was moderated by Vera Kuipers, who had been part of the program in 2001. Kuipers has since gone on to become senior policy officer for the performing arts, film, literature, press and cultural affairs department of the Consulate-General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

“Based on [Shorto’s] amazing book, ‘The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Founding Colony that Shaped Amer-

ica,’ and the vast research done by the New Netherland Institute and Research Center in Albany, New York that together provide a very new understanding of the origins of New York City,” said Neil Donahue, vice provost for Undergraduate Academic Affairs and Internationalization.

In his address, Shorto pointed to numerous inheritances, large and small, that Americans gained from the Dutch, like Santa Claus or “Sinterklaas,” the Dutch word, “cookie,” cole slaw and the Dutch word “baas,” in relation to a master-apprentice relationship evolving into the modern-day English word, “boss.”

Alexander Slovensky, a freshman anthropology and history major, is in a class called The Dutch Through History, which studies another of Shorto’s books, ‘Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City (2013)’. He found information from the book he had read embedded in the discussion, which he enjoyed. “I really liked [Shorto’s address] ... I thought it was really informative,” he said.

Shorto argued that all of these little Dutch influences point to two big influences. These are, “the Dutch approach to free trade and the Dutch approach to tolerance. In New Amsterdam in the 1640s, there were reported to be 18 languages being spoken,

Photo Courtesy of Neil Donahue On Wednesday, Oct. 24, Hofstra co-celebrated its Dutch ancestry with the University of Amsterdam through a symposium honoring Dutch heritage and influence.

and there were maybe only 500 or so people then, so New York was New York even before it was New York.”

Shorto also highlighted the Dutch’s ability to manipulate their land in advantageous ways.

“They began using the land to graze cattle and grow crops, and they got wealthy, and when they did, they realized they could make life better for their children than it had been for them; it kind of flipped a switch in the Dutch mentality that made them different from other Europeans.

It made them innovators,” Shorto said.

Other subjects of the symposium included conversations about domestic life in Holland and ongoing research at the New Netherland Institute.

The symposium was sponsored by the Hofstra Cultural Center, the Office of the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Hofstra University Honors College, the departments of history, fine arts, design and art history, Hofs-

tra Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society and the University of Amsterdam Office of International Student Affairs.

“As a Dutch student, it was interesting to hear more about the connection between New York currently and the Dutch culture,” said Eva Hamann, a graduate business and marketing student.

“I never really realized how deep the Dutch culture is embedded into New York.”

Public Safety Briefs Compiled by Michael Mertz & Alisha Riggs

On Oct. 19, a student reported to PS at some time during the afternoon that their car was damaged in a parking

lot on campus. The student was not certain when the damage occurred. On the same day, another student reported that

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the same thing happened to their vehicle on campus. There were no witnesses present. A further investigation is being conducted.

On Oct. 20 at 6:30 p.m., PS received a report that a bicycle had been stolen sometime between 3:30 and 6:30 p.m.

The bike was locked outside of the Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center. No witnesses were present. A further investigation is being conducted.

On Oct. 20 at 2 p.m., PS received a report that the odor of marijuana was emanating from a room in Stuyvesant Hall. PS conducted a search of the building and the student

was issued a referral to OCS. On Oct. 24, a Hofstra administrator reported to PS that his wallet was stolen from his office in the Physical Education Center. There were no witnesses present and NCPD assistance was declined at the time of report.

A further investigation is being conducted.

On Oct. 24, PS was notified that a student was smoking marijuana in Nassau Hall. PS responded and the student was issued a referral to OCS for drug abuse violation.

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

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Overheard @ Hofstra In Vander Poel:

In Brower Hall:

“You know, this time of year makes me want to sell my soul to be a business major.”

“When you have no boobs they play the xylophone on your ribs.”

In the Student Center: “Damn, she really did a 290.”

In Davison Hall:

In Roosevelt Hall: “If you see someone inhaling Vicks VapoRub they’re probably popping molly afterward, or they’re just sick, but probably the first one.”

“You mean a 180?”

In LHSC:

“I asked [him] if he’d ever fuck a dwarf and he said ‘Yeah, if she was hot.’”

In Calkins:

In C.V. Starr:

“Be right back, I have to go take money from a child.”

“I don’t need Adderall, I have my own natural drug: anxiety.”

“Hold on, I have to access the stupid part of my brain.”

In a comfort zone at the ‘rec’

By Joshua Beltchika SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE

The gym can be pretty awesome.

For some people, going to the gym is often viewed as a time of release. This is especially true of those who go to the gym to play sports. The nature of recreational sports is that they are voluntary acts of fun. On Hofstra’s campus, one particular area of the gym stands out as possibly meaning more than temporary fun and stress relief: the basketball courts.

Immediately to the right, once you pass the entrance desk, are two side-by-side high school-sized basketball courts.

Together, they form one large collegiate-level court. This space has become a home away from home for men of color, especially black men.

These men treat the gym as sacred meeting ground – a safe haven – commonly referring to it as the “rec.” If you were to go to the gym on any random afternoon, you’ll notice that

the majority of the men playing basketball are minorities; most of them are black and Asian, who make up roughly eight percent and 10 percent of the Hofstra population, respectively. In an average room of 25, that would translate to only two black people and two and a half Asian people. The staggering difference between the on-campus representation and the gym means that the latter can be interpreted as a safe place.

“In the gym, there [are] more people that look like me compared to on campus. More African Americans and more Asians. It’s more diverse,” said junior community health major Mayokun Esan about how the gym can be a perceived safe haven.

He went on to describe how he would see people he wouldn’t normally see on campus and they would now have an opportunity to speak because of their shared bond of sports and race.

“You would go to the rec and then you’d see a whole bunch of new faces and people that

you never saw before and then you just start talking to them.

It’s just a really great place.

You have tests and midterms, what-have-you, and you forget all of that and you can just ball with these people,” Esan said.

“You know what to expect when you go there and it’s a place of comfort.”

The rec isn’t an exclusive, secret hideout that people just so happen to know about; it isn’t fight club. Everyone is welcome to join, and everyone is welcome to play. The draw is basketball. The people come for the basketball and realize that there’s a number of people that happen to look like them that came for the exact same thing. There isn’t an absence of a white presence, it just tends to be the minority in terms of raw numbers. Sports, among other things like music, can often be viewed as a universal bonding language.

“Not just stereotypically, but as you can see by the numbers, at the gym African Americans are more likely to play basket-

ball. The safe space generates from this environment, and the side conversations and interactions that stem from it,” said senior sociology major Donovan Harvey.

He noted a common vernacular used and an absence of “code-switching” at the gym.

“People let their guard down a little bit, and you don’t have to worry about representing a group or how you come off.

They talk how they might talk and approach issues how they might otherwise approach issues. This, to me, is what a safe space is supposed to be.”

The safe space has that organic, home-like essence.

People go in and feel that they can be themselves. “There’s no pressure of having to be a representative ... you can just show up and play basketball,” Harvey said.

This same comfort men of color find in the gym, can also be one that – outside of the context of basketball – may slightly ostracize other groups. While basketball may be what brings

people to the courts, the interactions don’t stop there. The resulting conversations can be a source of discomfort or confusion to others.

Harvey mentioned, “If you aren’t from the group, things sounding differently is liable to make you uncomfortable. Conversations may start to sound more urban or more black [additional coded language] and that reality is different for a white man from Long Island.”

There isn’t any harmful intent toward those who are not “rec” regulars, there just happens to be an absence of those other voices that may lead to uneasiness or discomfort due to “locker room” talk, slang or even the random derogatory term.

Without a balancing of voices, a situation like this is unsurprising and is somewhat reflective of the real world that we live in today. If we had true balance, a lack of ignorance and acknowledgement of commonality, we may not even need safe space.

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Club Spotlight: Hofstra Filmmakers Club

Photo courtesy of Aoife Maher-Ryan Students of Hofstra Filmmakers Club attend a meeting in Studio A of the LHSC.

By Aoife Maher-Ryan SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE

Hofstra Filmmakers Club (HFC) is led entirely by women this year, a first for the club.

The current e-board includes President Cassie Passantino, a junior film major; Vice President Nina Bangalore, a senior film major; Treasurer Sabrina Zapata, a senior film major; and Secretary Victoria Mickens, a senior journalism major. “[It] wasn’t intentionally designed to be an all-female

e-board,” Passantino, the club’s second female president, said.

“I nominated both guys and girls for positions; it just fell this way. It didn’t even dawn on me right away that we had an all-female e-board until someone said it.”

Passantino added that they try not to draw attention to the fact. “If we were like, ‘We’re an all-women e-board,’ we [would] end up ostracizing other people,” she said.

The film industry is notorious for being dominated by

men. According to the annual Celluloid Ceiling Report put out

by San Diego State University, which tracks women’s employment in top-grossing films, only 18 percent of women made up all directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors and cinematographers working on the top 250 domestic grossing films.

The e-board agrees that women need to make inroads in the industry. “We want to make it a normal thing,” Passantino said. “It’s not a completely obscure concept to have four women in charge of a film club. We’re a group of girls, all different years, all different backgrounds from all over the place; it’s a very well-rounded team.”

HFC has a 12-person e-board made up of the four SGA-recognized positions that are voted on each year, as well as eight other positions that are passed down at the end of the spring semester including pre-production, production, post-production positions, fun police and festival coordinators.

Most of the club is made up

of film majors, but that’s not a requirement to join.

“We’re trying to make it more diverse in an attempt to make a more comfortable environment for people to come in and feel like they’re welcome and [that they’re] capable of doing things in the club and outside of the club,” Zapata said. “[The members] don’t have to be just directors or screenwriters, if you want to act you can come, if you watch Netflix you can come, if you appreciate film in any way you can come,” Mickens said.

This semester, HFC is focused on maintaining membership retention and looking to freshmen for new blood. The board members hand out name tags at every Thursday meeting to encourage people to get to know one another and make friends.

“Freshman are always so ambitious, where they want to get involved right off the bat,” Passantino said. “Especially when you come into a major like film, we’re making connections, making friends, getting on shoots and helping people out.”

“I joined a couple weeks ago. I enjoy the different activities we get to do including the 10-minute screenplays, getting into groups and making two-minute short films. Also, having people who share the same interests and have different ideas, we can collaborate together on productions,” said Matthew Mayer, a freshman film major Furthermore, the club has expanded its opportunities outside of the film department. HFC has been tasked with filming the Hofstra fashion show and has a partnership with the basketball team to create all new video board content.

“The [Lawrence Herbert] School of Communication is a community in itself, but we really want to bring together the Hofstra community as well,” Bangalore said.

Passantino is optimistic about the club’s future. “We had a rough year last year,” she said.

“We started out with no real members, no updated constitution and no budget, so we’re starting from the ground up right now and rebuilding.”

The anthropology club discusses appropriating cultures on Halloween

By Betty Araya STAFF WRITER

When is a Native American costume just a Halloween costume? When is dressing up as Moana simply pretending to be a Disney character? Where is the fine line between celebrating an American holiday and appropriating a culture? In the current political climate, there seems to be an ethical dilemma about wearing the traditional attire of indigenous people.

“There's a big deal made over the clothing. We took over their land, and this is something else we are disrespecting,” said Kathryn Dee, a senior anthropology major. Dee’s stepfather is Native American, and being exposed to the culture helped her understand how sacred it truly is.

So, is it only the oppressed

that can be appropriated? If a Native American chose to wear Patagonia shorts and Sigma Alpha Epsilon hoodie, would they be appropriating fraternity culture? These are some of the questions that were brought up in the Hofstra anthropology club’s yearly discussion about appropriating costumes. The members were in agreement that although progress has been made, we are not at a place where the sins of our ancestors are yet forgiven.

“Intent has a lot to do with it,” said Eiryn Sheades, a junior anthropology major and president of the anthropology club.

Alexander Slovensky, a freshman history and anthro-

pology major, said, “We are in a new generation now. We need to move forward.” To this Dee raised the point that, “America is still a baby,” and that although this nation is seen as a superpower, it is still one of the newest civilizations and we still have a

Thomas Jefferson gets a statue and the “Trail of Tears” is a three-page unit in elementary school history class. Although these people might have done great things, such as help build a democracy that gives us the ability to discuss these issues freely, Dee feels the dialogue still needs to change. We need to get to a place where we recognize that the things done to colonized nations were wrong and the ends do not justify the means.

We live in a generation where social justice is no longer the battle of those being afflicted, but a human issue that inspires everyone to fight. Halloween was once a harmless holiday we celebrated,

“We took over their land, and this is something else we are disrespecting.” long way to go. Dressing up as a “sexy Indian girl” can strike a nerve when Christopher Columbus still has a day dedicated to him, Henry Ford is glorified,

but as young adults in a diverse and seemingly inclusive university, we should be mindful of whose culture we might be disrespecting.

Sheades feels educating ourselves about the meaning behind these costumes and deciding to dress up as someone for who they are, instead of to “look cool” can make a huge difference. These small changes in behavior go a long way in healing the hearts of peoples who have never been granted validation.

Dee’s final words were “Get creative!” Halloween might be one day of the year, but we can’t forget that some of the cultures we risk disrespecting have been fighting for hundreds of years to reclaim the traditions their nation-state stripped them of.

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Man on the Unispan What are you going to dress up as for Halloween?

By Emily Rivera

S P E C I AL TO THE C HR ONIC L E

“I’m being sexy Waluigi, and my roommate is being sexy Wario.”

– Frank Larkin, sophomore

“I have rehearsal on Halloween, but my friends are doing the Mystery Gang, so I’m being Fred.”

– Camryn Graves, junior

“I’m being a crash test dummy, [like] A$AP Rocky’s album.”

– Alif Purnama, senior

“Frozone, without his super suit.”

– Christopher Bounds, senior

“I don’t think we are going to be Spiderman. That’s money.”

– Alex Rufer, senior

“But we were going to be Spiderman and point at each other (like the meme).”

– Shannon Prevatt, senior Emily Rivera / The Hofstra Choronicle

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Humans of Hofstra

By Betty Araya STAF F W R I T E R

“Everyone knows everyone. You get pregnant, get married and never leave,” said junior global studies major Lauren Reyes of her home town.

Reyes’ ambitions were bigger than what her small town had to offer. So she left her home in Texas and made her way to New York, running away from the all-too-common fate of her hometown, in pursuit of paving her own way.

A semester into Hofstra, Reyes embarked on a study abroad journey throughout Europe. In her time there, she visited France, Germany, Switzerland, Croatia and the Czech Republic. Reyes explained how she could feel impressions of her hometown leave her with every country she visited. “Being exposed to so many different cultures helped me recognize how big the world is. I saw how many people and opportunities are waiting for me,” she said.

This longing for an absorption of culture inspired Reyes to begin studying French. She now spends her free time watching French movies with English subtitles in an effort to perfect the craft. Along with English, and now French, Reyes is fluent in Spanish as well; both of her parents are from El Salvador. “My grandmother mainly raised me, so my soul will always be Latina,” Reyes said in regard to how immersed she was in her culture during her upbringing. She has carried these values with her into her present life.

Growing up, her grandmother always prepared traditional El Salvador cuisine. Reyes said her favorites are chilaquiles, pupusas and their version of a chicken sandwich. Reyes described the cuisine as “a way to connect with people. In America no one wants to share food, but in so many other places it’s so different.”

As a global studies major, Reyes has always had a desire to learn about the world around her.

Her curiosity to know more about the world is what prompted her to move away on her own. After spending the semester at Hofstra last fall, she felt she was prepared to embark on her jourBetty Araya / The Hofstra Chronicle ney through Europe, which she said was the longest time she had ever been away from her mom. Reyes mentioned that although being alone was difficult at times, it taught her a lot about independence.

“Being away from everyone I know forced me to find myself,” she said, adding that not having people who knew her previously allowed her to be whoever she wanted.

Upon making her trek back to Houston, she returned to Europe again for the summer, visiting all the same places she had been previously, as well as Spain. This time she went with her family, detailing the experience as a “time of bonding for all of us.”

Growing up, she lived with her mom, whereas her half-sister lived with her father. Reyes said the trip gave the whole family the opportunity “to build a lifelong memory together.” Seeing the world is one way Reyes feels people can grow, and she feels the trip helped her family grow together as a unit.

For Reyes, traveling yields a novel outlook on cultures that supplements her learning and understanding about the world – an outlook that is only made possible by making the conscious decision to leave home.

Lauren Reyes

INTO THE WOODS

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By Megan Spreen STAFF W R I T E R

Friday, Oct. 26, marked the opening of this fall’s production of “Into the Woods.” For those unfamiliar with the story, “Into the Woods” centers around a baker and his wife who have been cursed by the witch next door so that they can’t have children. The solution? Find “the cow as white as milk, the cape as red as blood, the hair as yellow as corn and the slipper as pure as gold” in three midnights. The classic fairy tales “Jack and the Beanstalk,” “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Rapunzel” and “Cinderella” are woven in, and everyone gets their happy ending – or so they think.

The second act deals with what happens after happily ever after – how everything can be unwoven just as easily as it was originally stitched together and how appearances aren’t always as they seem.

The set of the show was a

sight to behold, with towering (Christopher Ho) had an endearstride in “A Very Nice Prince” trees, cartoon-ish tilted houses ing few minutes of childlike and “On the Steps of the Palace.” and towers sailing on and off wonder in “Giants in the Sky,” She had just the right amount stage, plus dim lighting speckwith soaring high notes that had of awkwardness and humor. “A led with sunlight, much like the the audience cheering. “Agony,” Very Nice Prince” and its reprise view in the woods. the comedic, over-the-top duet later in Act I saw the unpredictOther non-human aspects of between Cinderella’s Prince able and very funny pairing of the show, namely the various (Scott Matthews) and Rapunzel’s Cinderella and the baker’s wife animals that come into play Prince (Brandon Dubuisson) had (Maya Deschenes). with the character’s antics, The baker (Michael are operated by puppeDeRosa) and baker’s wife teers Laura Browne, Ellie (Maya Deschenes) make Creedon, Kaitlyn Escobar the perfect leading couple. and Katelyn Quinones with They have an adorable personality that turn the chemistry, best showcased puppets from props into in the duet “It Takes Two,” three-dimensional charwhen the baker finally Courtesy of Genesis Ibarra acters with minds of their realizes that he needs his own – which causes some wife’s help to break the Courtesty of Irini Tsounakas problems for the other curse and get their child.

“Jack and the Beanstalk” and “Cinderella” are characters.

However, no love story is worked into one narrative.

The wolf (Scott Matperfect, and their relationthews) was delightfully creepy in the audience in stitches, though ship is put to the ultimate test not his David Bowie-esque suit, and they could have easily gotten once, but twice, and DeRosa and his counterpart Little Red Riding away with more intense physical Deschenes make the story truly Hood (Michelle Pagano) stole acting to match the drama of the engaging in its ups and downs. the spotlight with her boisterous lyrics.

The witch (Anna Rudegeair), confidence in every scene she Cinderella (Lauren Dietzel) however, was truly the star of the was in – confidence that only seemed a bit hesitant in the beshow. “The Last Midnight” in grew in the second act. Jack ginning of the show, but hit her the second act, where she scolds

the rest of the characters for losing sight of the big picture, gave Rudegeair a chance to show off her astonishing vocals. The dramatic number had the audience cheering, while adding just enough spookiness to get everyone in the Halloween spirit.

The second act darkens after the happily ever afters to make sure that each character truly learned their lesson, even though the truth can be harsh. While more thought-provoking and dramatic than the first half, the second act retains the comedy and lightheartedness of the first.

Minus a few difficulties easily explained by the it being opening weekend, “Into the Woods” was a joy to watch. If “nice is different than good,” then “Into the Woods” is wholeheartedly a good show and one absolutely worth seeing.

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Jess Willa Wheaton is a San Francisco native who transitioned to New York City, a move that greatly affected her artwork.

By Genesis Ibarra STAFF WRITER

Jess Willa Wheaton, an accomplished New York City-based artist, visited Hofstra University to encourage students to continue

on their own paths to becoming the artists they want to be.

The California native explained how her transition from San Francisco to New York City changed her work.

“The main transformation hap-

pened in just the amount of culture here. I was able to educate myself way more rapidly just by being here than trying to study art in a more abstract way in a place that had less art,” Wheaton said.

She mentioned that art made in a spatially inaccurate way actually impacted her own 2-D collage work, because it taught her that there are no right ways to do her specific line of work.

“There really is no wrong, but there were definitely stages where certain things were understood about how the world can be made to look more convincing in a 2-D way,” she said.

Just like other art impacted Wheaton, there are characteristics of Wheaton’s art that students can learn from. Senior Joe Colangelo also enjoys experimenting with newfound objects to create unique works.

“Jess’ appropriation of images is very interesting in that she takes images and bends them out of context to fit her pieces.

I feel that use of material might be interesting,” Colangelo said.

“The work definitely inspires me to collage, and I feel like paintings based on collage could create some work with a very fresh feel.”

Students mentioned how some aspects of Wheaton’s cubism and pop art stood out to them. “I was really blown away by the mastery

of her cutting; the collages were so immaculate and well put together,” said senior Juliana Beck.

“When you care about what you do and keep working, eventually things will fall into place. Seeing that she’s an example of [working hard] helped me out,” Beck said.

Another way Wheaton connected to the audience was by going around the students’ studios and visiting the advanced painters to give them advice. For one student, a few words on how to use yarn with paint changed their perspective. For another, it was Wheaton’s words of encouragement that really stood out.

Senior Victoria Jenkins also recognized Wheaton’s influence.

“Jess encouraged me to follow my instinct, but consider more the relationships between artist, audience, materials and self,” Jenkins said.

The presentation challenged students to use old objects, change their perspective of them and transform them into new art.

October 30, 2018•B3 A&E The spell you’re happy to be under: ‘Hocus Pocus’

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Courtesy of Disney The film is directed by Kenny Ortega, who Disney Channel fans recognize for his work directing all three of the High School Musical films.

By Joseph Coffey-Slattery ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

It was 1993. Bill Clinton had just been sworn in as president of the United States, Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” was charting and a little film called

“Hocus Pocus” would soon make an unassuming arrival in theaters.

The film followed the Sanderson Sisters, a trio of witches in 1600s Salem, Massachusetts, who were hanged for witchcraft (and possibly bad jokes).

But alas, the sisters Winnifred (Bette Midler), Sarah (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Mary (Kathy Najimy) cast a spell in their final moments that would allow them to come back, though only if a virgin felt so inclined as to light a “black flame candle.” Their return comes on Halloween night in 1993, when a non-believer in magic and tomfoolery Max Dennison (Omri Katz) lights the candle in effort to impress his crush.

What follows is a rather enjoyable 96-minute feature with a charming narrative and some PG humor (the term “virgin” is said a total of nine times). The film was ultimately met with poor reviews when it was released in July of that year and grossed $39.5 million at the box office on a $28 million budget.

That might’ve been the end of it, if not for cult film status. In the 25 years since its release, “Hocus Pocus” continues to gain a staggering number of followers, and Disney recently aired a commemorative special on Freeform. But what is it about this film that keeps people coming back?

A large part of the film’s endur-

ing popularity is the fact that it is a relatively wholesome affair. Sure, there’s a “Shrek”-esque joke every now and again, but the movie can be viewed by anyone without causing an adverse reaction.

“Hocus Pocus” is to Halloween as “Elf” is to Christmas: a fun, albeit predictable, narrative with enough jokes to keep adults entertained.

But unlike Christmas, whose themes are inherently heartwarming and spiritual, Halloween is something of a rogue holiday, focused on all things concerning death. So, for a film to come about that subverts this whole batch of melancholy and makes things fun is no small feat. The whole family can’t watch “Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” but a campy movie on witches is another matter entirely.

Every October, talk of a sequel gets batted around in Disney boardrooms and Midler makes the talk show rounds saying she’d love to star again. But do we really need another? “Hocus Pocus” bears much of its reverence due to the nostalgic tones of its setting.

The clothing, the cultural references (“I’m Madonna!”) and the plucky resilience of the protago-

nists made for a fun, singular story that would be hard to duplicate.

Just take the Halloween party in the town hall for instance: it actually seems like a party. People are dancing and chatting away, and no one can be seen sitting in corners staring at the ruddy glow of their iPhones.

A modern sequel would no doubt have a phone filming the Sanderson Sisters’ antics, which is decidedly less magical.

The film “Hocus Pocus” is best described by the Sanderson Sisters’ performance of “I Put A Spell On You” (a bop if ever there ever was one). The lyrics are written by the same musician who wrote “My Heart Will Go On” from “Titanic” (come again?) but has a bubbly energy that, while silly, is just decidedly fun. And that’s the movie, really.

It’s the type of flick Disney doesn’t make anymore: an original story with its own world and set of characters. It’s just the right amount of spooky and humor and is likely to be a classic going well into the future.

Big Bird puppeteer retires after 50 years

By Jacob Huller STAFF W R I T E R

Caroll Spinney, whether you recognize his name or not, has touched our childhoods in ways we probably can’t even measure. Since the late 1960s, the puppeteer has given life to the characters Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on the famed children’s television series “Sesame Street.” Now, almost two months away from his 85th birthday, Spinney announced that he’s finally hanging up his orange Big Bird legs and his metal trash can and retiring from “Sesame Street” after sticking with it for nearly 50 years.

Spinney, interested in puppets since a young age, was thrust into “Muppeteering” stardom when he happened to meet Jim Henson at a puppeteering festival in Salt Lake City and was invited to go to New York be a part of the Muppets. From there, Spinney was on the Street since day one, playing Big Bird

in the debut of “Sesame Street” his theatrical debut with “Folpeteers;” but it won’t remain that in 1969. Originally, the character low That Bird” at the pinnacle of way for long. His age has been was more of a country-yokel, the character’s popularity. And catching up with him, making village idiot type, but Spinney while Spinney’s characters have it harder and harder for him to suggested that Big Bird be like since been surpassed by Muppets endure the physical demands a little kid, turning him into the like Elmo and Abby Cadabby, of the job, which involve long eight-foot tall, sixperiods of standing and year-old yellow bird holding up the head of we all know and love. the puppet.

Shortly thereafter, For the past few Oscar the Grouch was years, he’s only been introduced as the fuzzy doing the voice of Big green monster living Bird and Oscar while in Sesame Street’s another performer syncs trash can. Oscar, also to his dialogue. For Big performed by SpinBird, that performer is ney, represented the Matt Vogel, understudy polar opposite of Big for the character since Bird. Together, the two 1996. Vogel, who has Courtesy of Getty Images Courtesy of Zelig Recordings of them depicted the since taken up the manEveyone’s favorite enormous yellow bird debuted on value of people with tles of Kermit the Frog television in 1969. different perspectives. and Count Von Count, During his time on “Sesame they are still very much part of has been gradually taking over Street,” Spinney got to meet the the image and heart of “Sesame the role of Big Bird and will likes of Michael Jackson, Danny Street.” soon be his sole puppeteer. In DeVito and Billy Crystal, and With Jim Henson, Frank Oz, the case of Oscar, Eric Jacobson he even got to go China twice – Jerry Nelson and the rest of the has been the alternate performer once with Bob Hope in 1979 and cast either replaced or dearly de- for the green grouch since 2015, again in 1982 for “Big Bird in parted, Spinney remains the last having previously taken over China.” In 1985, Big Bird made of the original Sesame “Mupmost of Oz’s characters – Bert,

Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Grover and others.

For his decades of work on “Sesame Street,” Spinney has received a Grammy, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a Living Legend Award from the Library of Congress and six Emmy awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006. In 2014, Spinney was the subject of the documentary “I Am Big Bird,” covering his humble beginnings in Massachusetts, his life in the Air Force, his pre-“Sesame Street” roles and his life since. The documentary received high praise from critics, endearing its viewers to the man they’d only known as a grouch and a bird.

The 84-year-old “Muppeteer” has since recorded his final lines for Big Bird and Oscar for the 50th season of “Sesame Street,” which began production in September 2018 and will premiere on HBO sometime next year.

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relatively unobtrusive from its façade – boasting a banner that depicts all six members of the band and a handwritten sign reading “The Velvet Underground Experience.”

Inside is a world of interactive art and photographic history detailing how truly enigmatic the band was, featuring music listening stations, Courtesy of Netflix Courtesy of Allison Foster / Hofstra Chronicle artist spotlights (including a whole The Velvet Underground is an alternative rock band that formed in New York and chalroom on the band’s lenged the conventional barriers of music. just beyond it.

Inside lies a haven crown jewel, Nico)

By Allison Foster of history, a showcase of how and a tent that projected video ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT beloved New York City-based footage of the creation of Andy ASSISTANT EDITOR alt-rock band The Velvet UnderWarhol’s iconic banana pop art, a The lyrics of The Velvet Unground came to fruition – a band symbol that would forever reprederground’s “I’ll Be Your Mirror” that represents what it means to sent The Velvet Underground. play softly in the lobby of The question the boundaries of music Previously shown in Paris, the Velvet Underground Experience and break them. exhibit emphasizes the relationwhile a rosy pink light is cast The exhibit, which is held in a ship between Lou Reed (primary through the windows, a barrier to three-story building three blocks vocalist) and Warhol, who gave the rainy fall afternoon that exists from Washington Square Park, is the band their start in New York’s

underground scene – one that was unapologetically sexually liberated. These themes follow the Velvet Underground through much of their music, and Warhol’s artistic influence is often synonymous with the band’s image. The yellow banana, featured on their immediately recognizable “peel slowly and see” cover, has been adapted by brands from Forever 21 to Neiman Marcus.

Frankly, the exhibit focuses little on the band’s musical craft.

Based around the dynamic of the members, it shows how their art interacted with the world around them – or didn’t. Upon the release of the Velvet’s now-critically acclaimed self-titled album, the band was met with poor sales and little attention from critics and fans alike.

Today, dozens of artists can attribute influence to the band’s innovative sound. The second floor of the exhibit features a sprawling wall filled with hundreds of pictures and flyers of such artists, including LCD Soundsystem, David Byrne, Cat Power and Courtney Barnett.

Quite literally underground, the lowest floor of the exhibit is home to a stage where singer-songwriter Adrian Jean performs on Thursdays, a smaller artist influenced by the band. On Oct. 11, the founding and only surviving member of The Velvet Underground, John Cale, attended the exhibit and Jean’s performance, calling the experience “energetic and frivolous and enjoyable” in an interview with The New York Times. “It was undisciplined art,” he said.

If you have found refuge in Nico’s melodies, solace in the droning viola of “Heroin” or comfort in the juvenility of “After Hours,” The Velvet Underground Experience will remind you why and how a band can elicit such a personal reaction from its audience. Behind the album covers lies a deep history rooted in the East Village, Andy Warhol’s Factory and avant-garde expressionism.

If you’re interested in learning about the rich history of a band that changed music for generations to come, the exhibit is running every day until Dec. 10 and tickets are $25.

gain notoriety and are dissected, film professional. Each session there has to be passion, appreciaanalyzed and studied for their use consisted of a handful of screention and a higher level of thinking: of realism, music, cinematography ings of clips and short films, rules “All artists are permanently and and dark storytelling in film procompiled from Harlan’s own subconsciously engaged and never grams throughout the country. experience and other directors he’s stop.”

Since his retirement from the worked with and the occasional “It is exciting for you to talk to fast-paced career of film producbehind the scenes tidbit from me, but I really love talking to you ing, Harlan now young people,” Harlan spends his time travsaid. eling to different film Harlan’s demeanor schools, museums can be described as a and events around loveable grandpa who the world talking also happens to be about Kubrick and his an art curator, music work. Harlan came lover and, just like the to Hofstra this past stereotype, a very wise weekend to teach a old man. Even as facmaster class consistulty gushed over him, ing of four different he was humble and two-hour sessions on had an air of respectCourtesy of FrightFest ability, treating every the basics of filmmaking and getting person he met with the Jan Harlan worked as executive producer on many of Stanley your start. In these same positive attitude.

Kubrick’s most notable projects. master classes, he Harlan even sat in the discussed writing and what makes working with Kubrick on various rows of Breslin 216 to chat with a good story, using music to your films. students after each session to hear full advantage, understanding your Harlan’s lessons on filmmaktheir ideas and give them more inner fantasy and the short film as ing were heavily integrated with specific advice for what they want a calling card: essentially, how to classical music from Bach and to do in life. make a good first impression.

Sondheim and art from painters The theme that truly carried Current students, as well as like Pablo Picasso and Claude throughout the sessions was the faculty and alumni, gathered to Monet. His philosophy is that film necessity of passion and interest in hear the words of an established is an art, and to make good art making the film. You cannot make

a great film if you do not love the idea of it. “No artist, no art. No love, no quality,” Harlan said.

The final session, the highly anticipated short film crash course, was a screening of a selection of short films that are calling cards for different positions in the industry, from director to make-up artist.

Harlan’s favorite movie is “Children of Paradise,” and he recommended that everyone watch it. His advice for aspiring filmmakers was to fall in love with art because once you do, the ownership is transferred to you.

Lastly, Harlan – half joking, half seriously – said that every writer should know Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Mary Shelley and Thomas Hardy.

Harlan knows that filmmaking is not easy – like all art, it is all subjective – but he did want to leave everyone who attended with one piece of advice. Multiple times throughout the weekend, Harlan reiterated, “It doesn’t need to be realistic, but to be real is essential.”

Veteran film producer discusses work with Kubrick

By Natalie Evans STAFF WRITER

Jan Harlan is a German film producer who has been working in the film industry since the 1960s.

Born into a cultured family that appreciated art, music and film, he took after his uncle and pursued a career in the film industry as a producer. Harlan has had a hand in producing many films in his lifetime, including “The Shining,” “A Clockwork Orange” and “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

Harlan worked very closely with the legendary late director Stanley Kubrick. Harlan was not only Kubrick’s executive producer on his most notable projects, but his brother-in-law as well. Kubrick married Harlan’s sister Christiane in 1958, and they stayed together until Kubrick passed away in 1999.

Kubrick, who also directed films including “Full Metal Jacket,” “Dr. Strangelove,” “Lolita” and “Eyes Wide Shut,” is revered as one of the greatest cinematic minds in the film industry, a title not easily earned. After he passed away from a heart attack at 70, Kubrick’s films continue to

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Fake news: We’ve always been nationalists

By Robert Kinnaird

Last Tuesday, Oct. 23, President Donald Trump called himself a nationalist on stage to a cheering audience in Houston, Texas. Despite the positive reception at the rally, people around the country responded with concern. So, what exactly is nationalism in America?

Trump didn’t define what he meant by nationalism. Instead he said, “You know, they have a word – it’s sort of became old-fashioned – it’s called a nationalist. And I say, really, we’re not supposed to use that word. You know what I am?

I’m a nationalist, okay? I’m a nationalist. Nationalist. Nothing wrong. Use that word. Use that word.”

The truth is that America has been a nationalist country for a long, long time. Our country has a habit of making itself the world police. We destabilize governments that go too far left through coups, we place embargos on socialist countries and we blindly support an apartheid state in the Middle East that is actively committing genocide on Palestinian people

while breaking international law to do it. Most of us don’t care.

Most Americans are willing to turn a blind eye to American imperialism and war crimes because, “America doesn’t do that. America is the good guy.”

But we’re not.

dichotomies, where immigrants are invaders, allies are competition and everyone else is an enemy waiting to happen.

It consists of worshipping the power structures and the enforcers of the country’s laws, like the Blue Lives Matter

“Nationalism consists of rewriting your own country’s history to erase the blemishes ...”

Failing to acknowledge our faults and the atrocities our own country has committed is textbook nationalism.

Nationalism consists of rewriting your own country’s history to erase the blemishes, like the genocide of Native Americans.

It consists of creating a culture that attacks anyone who speaks out against any aspects of the country, like the backlash Colin Kaepernick has faced since addressing the issue of police violence against African Americans. It consists of creating us versus them

movement and the blind support of our troops.

This is not just a Republican thing, either. Even far left U.S. politicians like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are hesitant to speak out against certain issues because of the backlash of “patriots” that don’t want to think about what we do wrong.

Just look at her response on the issue of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Our politicians are either nationalistic or fear that they stand no chance of winning an election if they don’t play along with our nationalist culture.

Democrats play it safe when it comes to self-criticizing.

They’re happy to say, “We can do better,” but when Sen. John McCain, who literally committed a war crime by bombing a civilian establishment, died earlier this year, they talked about him as a hero and a saint. No one wants to talk about the fact that his time in Vietnam was spent breaking international law or his regressive politics.

We’d rather talk about the fact that one time he told a white woman to stop calling Obama a Muslim.

This is because we are a nationalist country. We have freedom of speech to speak out against our government, but the populace is conditioned not to use it out of fear. We fear the backlash. We fear the idea that if we don’t fall in line and worship America like the rest of the country, we’ll be outcast, ignored and unemployable.

For a politician to openly criticize America would be career suicide; yet how can we improve our nation if we can’t talk about what we’ve done

wrong?

America refuses to selfcriticize, and the citizens who do speak out are shamed into silence by the right wing of our populous and are barely supported by the majority of our left wing. We take pride in things that should embarrass us and bury war criminals with honor. We put Oliver North, who committed high treason in order to destabilize a socialist country in Latin America, on our major broadcast news channels – not as a criminal, but as a correspondent.

This is the country we live in. War crimes and genocide are excusable if our leaders, our ancestors or our allies commit them and anyone who says otherwise isn’t patriotic enough to be accepted by the majority of our population.

The only thing shocking about Trump’s declaration that he is a nationalist is that he’s the first president that’s willing to admit it.

Robert Kinnaird is a member of the Hofstra Democrats.

Transgender people are the canary in the coal mine

By Serena Payne

Donald Trump’s administration’s continued attacks on every marginalized group under the sun is a given at this point. I am never shocked by the things this administration does; upset, angry, hurt or afraid maybe, but never shocked. What has come from this administration recently, mainly the memo leaked by The New York Times early in the week, which proposes to “define sex as either male or female, unchangeable and determined by the genitals that a person is born with,” offers the American public a grim look into what the future of this country may hold. While the entire proposal in the memo is upsetting to me, a transgender woman, there is a sentence included in the memo that seems like a canary in this coal mine – a sentence that should be truly upsetting to anyone, whether you are transgender,

intersex, just an ally or even none of the above. That is the part of the memo that proposes that only originally issued birth certificates would constitute definitive proof of a person’s sex, correctible only by “reliable genetic testing.” This idea of “reliable genetic testing” to “prove” a person’s sex and gender should be raising red flags for everyone who reads it for a list of reasons.

First, sex and gender are not the same thing.

The proposed definition of sex based on the “unchanging” genitals that one is born with is almost laughable, if not for the simple scientific fact that genitals are not “unchanging.”

No matter how you feel about the transgender or intersex communities, the fact of the matter is that genitals can be changed. There are surgeries to

do just that, which have been around since at least the 1930s.

Second, sex is not as simple as many have been taught to believe it is. The idea that everyone is born either 100 percent “male” or “female” according to genitals, all the way down to genes, is simply

genetic testing to prove and/or identify someone as belonging to certain groups has never, and will never be, a good sign of things to come.

I have heard many people trying to comfort the trans community by suggesting that this simply is a scare tactic to rile up members of the Republican party before the midterm elections.

You know what? I think that those people are partially right. However, that does not make the situation any better. This administration is using the trans community to rile up conservatives for a reason: because they can.

Because the trans community and the intersex community are some of the least protected people in the country, and thus make for the easiest targets in this administration.

“... it’s up to the public to decide whether the canary lives or dies.” not scientifically accurate.

The intersex community has endured a harsh and dangerous history due to the line of thinking that sex is some twobox binary system. Still to this day, many can face invasive and painful surgeries at birth without consent.

But quite possibly the scariest part of the memo is the following: State mandated

Every statement and proposal that comes from the Trump administration is written off as a scare tactic, and they are, but they are also often put into effect.

The Trump administration has been slowly chipping away at the rights of transgender citizens since their time in office began, but this memo is not just another piece of that transphobia. This is an attempt to completely erase a marginalized group from existence in the United States.

The transgender community is just the canary in the United States coal mine, and it’s up to the public to decide whether the canary lives or dies.

Serena Payne is a member of the Dean of Students’ Advisory Board.

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By Adam Brownstein If you look at the Hofstra Votes program with the mindset that the program was supposed to get people to register to vote and further help students “become involved, well-informed citizens,” a direct quote from President Stuart Rabinowitz’s write-up on the Hofstra Votes official website, then I’d argue that the University only did half of its established goal.

Yes, the University did provide the resources to try to get students to register to vote, but the University completely neglected to thoroughly give students the opportunity to hear differing political opinions to make students “well-informed.”

It would be inappropriate for me to say that the University didn’t present any conservative speakers, since it did bring in right-leaning speakers like Jonah Goldberg and Michael

Hofstra Votes, but for whom?

Stumo.

However, the University did not provide students with any clear opportunities to hear from a non-traditional Democratic politician running for office this election. After all, Mr. Goldberg and Mr. Stumo may lean conservative, but they are not candidates who will appear on a ballot this November.

Hofstra brought in Democratic Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy Sini, held a town hall for New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D) and hosted a debate for the New York Democratic Gubernatorial Primary between incumbent Andrew Cuomo and Cynthia Nixon.

Hofstra could’ve represented the Republican side by hosting local conservative politicians and campaign representatives or by inviting the Republican nominees such as Marc Molinaro, gubernatorial

candidate; Ameer Benno, New York’s 4th District House of Representatives candidate; and/or Chele Farley, Senate candidate, to talk on campus in some regard.

The lack of political appeal is not just limited to having a conservative opinion given on campus. As far as I can tell, (and I could be wrong about this) there did not seem to be a speaker who came to campus representing a prominent Libertarian or Democratic Socialist politician/political movement this academic school year. Hofstra did host Larry Sharpe, the Libertarian candidate for governor, this past April, but that was prior to the creation of Hofstra Votes.

Having Sharpe, a Libertarian politician, or a Libertarian campaign staffer, along with a Democratic Socialist politician or campaign staffer, would further provide Hofstra students

with a wide array of political views and stances.

Students might not agree with what they have to say, but it would educate those willing to listen, which is what a place of higher learning should set out to do.

If the University wants to try to save money and continue this program on a yearly basis, a simple solution that requires not bringing in any speakers is providing students with the resources to make educated voting decisions. By simply sending out an email with a list of campaign sites for people who are on the ballot in the 4th District, the school could effectively inform students voting with their Hofstra address about the candidates in this area.

Another solution would be informing students about nonpartisan resources that provide information about political

candidates. (A good website for this is Ballotpedia, which is a non-profit, non-partisan website that provides information on the candidates running in various political races at the federal, state and local levels nationwide.)

What I do concede to Hofstra is this program getting students registered to vote is a good start, but there is still a lot of room for improvement. I hope the University reads this and considers some of what I’ve said to better the program in the future.

Regardless of political affiliation, remember to vote on Nov. 6, but try to do so with an informed decision.

Adam Brownstein is the president of the Hofstra Republicans.

Media matters: Someone has to take responsibility

By Anonymous

Most vital to a functioning democracy is a free press. You cannot call yourself a patriot without supporting freedom of speech and freedom of press.

As an emerging journalist, I have been consistently disgusted by Trump’s rhetoric toward the press before he rose to, and has since disgraced, the highest office in the land.

He and his GOP counterparts have embarked on a vicious war against the heart of our democracy.

Consistent attacks on “the failing New York Times” and of course, the “fake news media” of CNN, have stirred the country into a frenzy.

Due to these poisonous words, I was not surprised to learn of the pipe bomb that sent to CNN’s New York Bureau on Oct. 24.

When the president of the United States spews hate and violence, it was only a matter of

time until someone would act on those words.

CNN was not the only target of these bombs sent through the mail. Notable Democrats and open critics of Trump, including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Maxine Waters and Eric Holder, received suspicious packages.

Trump and his mob of supporters attacked all of these targets, and thankfully not victims.

The suspect, Cesar Sayoc, arrested on Friday, Oct. 26, is an avid and obsessed Trump supporter. Sayoc’s van was also confiscated on Friday, which does not seem abnormal until you see the van.

Stickers bearing phrases including “CNN Sucks,” “Dishonest Media” and other

far-right and pro-Trump idioms litter the van windows. Another sticker includes a photo of Clinton in crosshairs.

So when in the span of 24 hours, Trump states “the safety of the American people

America,” but these are empty words.

You do not have the right to say anything regarding unity when you are the reason the country is in a state of turmoil.

A cornerstone of Trump’s election campaign and his current political rallies, is “Lock her up.” The Trump campaign, and now administration, has continually preached violence.

Conservatives have a track record of egging on their base until they snap and turn violent. Bill O’Reilly repeatedly targeted Dr. George Tiller, calling him “Tiller the Baby Killer,” because he provided abortions.

After four years and 29 episodes of attacks, a madman

“When the president of the United States spews hate and violence, it was only a matter of time until someone would act on those words.” is my highest priority,” then turns around and blames the media for these attacks, every American should be repulsed.

On Friday, Oct. 26, Trump addressed Sayoc’s arrest and condemned the attacks, saying, “We must never allow political violence to take root in

shot Dr. Tiller in the head after church.

O’Reilly might as well have handed Dr. Tiller’s assassin the gun himself, and Trump might as well have put the postage on these packages.

Textbook tools used by fascists are creating division and attacking the truth. This is what is happening right now in America. If you are not aware of this, wake up.

There is a saying, “Those who don’t know their history are doomed to repeat it.” Well, history is being repeated.

Fascism is here, and if people do not educate themselves and take a stance, it will swallow this country whole.

This writer requested anonymity out of concern for their safety.

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What’s the deal with protest at Hofstra?

By James Factora

There is cause for concern in the most recent edition of Hofstra’s “Guide to Pride,” namely the sub-section on the Campus Demonstration Policy under Section II: Institutional Policies. It details the “protocol” that must be followed in order to stage a demonstration on campus, including submitting a campus demonstration proposal form at least seven days prior to any demonstration; not blocking entrances, exits and general movement to, from and within campus; not creating a disruptive amount of noise; not preventing the conduct of a University event; not employing force violence; or otherwise “[acting] in a manner that disrupts the regular and essential operations of the University.”

In other words, this subsection seeks to suppress any meaningful measure of student protest. This is a stark contrast from item 12A of the Faculty Policy Series, which formerly referred to “Freedom of Expression” as recently as 2015 and has since been removed from the Rights and Responsibilities page on Hofstra’s website.

The very first item under this section reaffirms the University’s commitment to “the speedy, resolute and honest consideration of any and all reasonable demands or requests, and to the resolution of any grievance, that may be presented

by any campus constituency.”

The current “Guide to Pride” presents no such guarantee.

Ironically, this year has also brought increased efforts to assure students (and more importantly, prospective students) of the “accepting” and “safe” climate on campus, such as the No Hate @ Hofstra initiative, complete with a social media hashtag and a shiny new mural in the Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center.

Yet, despite the “woke” brand Hofstra has built for itself, the University also pays student workers a pittance of a wage; lines the pockets of Ed Rollins, a.k.a. the co-chair of the Great America PAC; refuses to provide its students with adequate access to mental or physical medical care; and refuses to take down the extremely prominent statue of a renowned white supremacist, eugenicist and slave-owner, despite vehement student protest and national media coverage.

Of course, the recent revision to the “Guide to Pride” only works to ensure that both prospective and current students, as well as potential donors, will not find out about these potential PR disasters. But student protest runs deep within Hofstra’s history.

According to “Student Unrest: National Turmoil at Hofstra’s Doorstep” by Steve Wagner, “Activist students on Hofstra’s campus wrote demands for

the expansion of student rights, conducted meetings with faculty members and the Administration, held sit-ins, organized protests, coordinated boycotts and even took over buildings on campus.” It would seem almost as though the current measures against protest were patterned off this passage in particular, which is ironic given the measures that Hofstra and many other universities around the nation took in light of widespread student protest in the spring of 1970.

In response to several national tragedies that spring, students around the country went on strike, refusing to attend normal classes. In response, Hofstra allowed any student to “substitute for the remainder of the semester alternative activities related to their concern over the present political and social travail.” According to Wagner, “Students were allowed to receive a letter grade to be determined by their coursework prior to May 6, 1970, or select a pass-fail option for any class including those in their major.”

Yet, despite the fact that we are now undoubtedly in a national crisis for a number of reasons, Hofstra has chosen to move backwards rather than forwards regarding the matter of student protest.

This week alone, President Donald Trump unapologetically referred to himself as a “nationalist” at a rally in

Texas. Pipe bombs were sent to several prominent Democrats and Democratic supporters, as well as the offices of CNN. The Justice Department released a brief to the Supreme Court that stated that federal laws against sex discrimination in the workplace does not extend to transgender people. Eleven Jewish people were killed or injured in a shooting targeting a Pittsburgh synagogue.

I’ve had to revise this article twice now to account for the most recent horrors. I’m sure that right before this goes to print I’ll have to revise it again.

This is not even to mention every other horrifying event in U.S. politics that’s taken place over the past month, the past year, the past two years and what will inevitably play out in the years to come.

In light of ever-strengthening fascism and suppression of civil rights on a national and global scale, this reactionary new policy is an issue that must be addressed, especially if Hofstra – and indeed, university campuses as a whole – insists on presenting itself as a champion of enlightenment, free speech and “diversity and inclusion.”

James Factora is the PR/ social media coordinator of the Queer Trans People of Color Coalition.

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Quick Hits

Fourteen pipe bombs were sent to prominent Democrats around the country, prompting the arrest and initial trial of suspect Cesar Sayoc.

French art collective “Obvious” sold an AIgenerated painting for $432,000 at Christie’s.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus won the Mark Twain Prize last Saturday, Oct. 27, considered the top prize in U.S. comedy.

11 people were killed in a Pittsburgh synagogue shooting on Saturday. The suspect, Robert Bowers, went on an anti-Semitic social media rampage beforehand.

Brazil elected far right candidate Jair Bolsonaro on Saturday. A notable populist, Bolsonaro is known for his divisive speech and praise of Brazil’s past military dictatorship.

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Dominating front line carries volleyball to victory

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Hofstra women’s volleyball team traveled to Williamsburg, Virginia on Friday, Oct. 26, at 7 p.m. to take on Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) rival William & Mary. The Pride made quick work of the Tribe, rolling past the squad in three sets (25-18, 25-22, 25-13).

Hofstra faced their biggest challenge of the match in the second set.

The Pride were able to show some grit after quickly falling behind 3-0. Junior Laura Masciullo battled back with a couple of kills in a 5-0 run to go up 5-3.

Later in the set, the Pride went on another 5-0 run featuring kills by four key pieces to the Hofstra front line in Masciullo, Nanishka Perez, Doris Bogoje and Aisha Skinner.

The quick spurt by the Pride

resulted in a timeout by William & Mary head coach Tim Doyle.

The resilience of the Tribe showed when they went on a 5-0 run of their own behind two kills by William & Mary freshman Claire Farrell and a couple of costly errors by Hofstra, pulling themselves within two points late in the set.

However, after William & Mary’s Julia Brown got the Tribe within one at 23-22, a kill

by Bogoje and a service ace by junior Luisa Sydlik resulted in an emphatic finish to the set by the Hofstra Pride.

Aside from the set winning kill, Sydlik recorded 35 assists in the match, which moves the German setter into fifth place all-time on the Hofstra assists leaderboard.

The play of the game was made by Hofstra libero Maddie Appleton, who earned the start for Emily Mansur’s squad and made her impact felt.

The play came in the third set off of a block by the William & Mary front line.

Appleton’s desperate dive toward the ground with her right hand saved the ball and floated

it across the court, just over the net into an area free from William & Mary defenders.

Appleton recorded both the dig and the kill on the play. She finished the game with 13 digs, an ace and three assists.

The Pride exhibited dominance throughout the match from their front line.

Masciullo notched 14 kills, Bogoje had 10 on a stellar .714 hit percentage and Skinner, Perez and Michela Rucli each chipped in with seven, six and four kills respectively.

Hofstra improves to 18-7 (8-3 CAA) to maintain their No. 2 standing in the Colonial Athletic Conference.

William & Mary drops to 5-15 (1-10 CAA) and is currently No. 9 in the CAA standings.

William & Mary will face CAA-leading James Madison University on Friday, Nov. 2, at 7 p.m.

Up next, the Pride took on Elon University on Sunday, Oct. 28 at 12 p.m. before going back home to face Charleston University on Thursday, Nov. 1.

Photo courtesy of Hofstra Athletics Maddie Appleton ended the day with 13 kills and an assist in the win.

Larsson’s goal not enough in key loss to Drexel

By Jesse Lindell

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Hofstra field hockey traveled to Buckley Field in Philadelphia on Friday night to take on the Drexel University Dragons with something big at stake: a playoff spot in the Colonial Athletic Associsation (CAA) tournament.

Hoping to take advantage of their opportunity, Hofstra instead fell 5-1 to Drexel

in a game controlled by the Dragons.

The Dragons scored four of their five goals in the first half.

Megan Wiest scored the first two, while Avery Powell and Chandler McFeeley followed with goals of their own to make it 4-0.

With two minutes remaining in the first half, Hofstra freshman Cami Larsson scored her team-leading seventh goal to get the Pride on the board.

The Pride looked to carry that positive finish into the second half, but those hopes were quickly diminished as Amy Ferguson scored off of a Hofstra turnover in the sixth minute to put the Dragons up

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5-1.

The Pride were outshot 15-8.

The loss dropped the team to 5-12 overall and 2-3 in CAA play. Drexel improved to 9-8 overall and 2-3 in conference play.

Hofstra goalie Betty Bosma recorded 58 minutes in net and made three saves before being replaced by sophomore Cecelia DeSimone. DeSimone did not allow a goal or make a save.

The loss to Drexel puts Hofstra in a must-win situation at Delaware on Sunday for the fourth and final spot in next week’s CAA Tournament.

The Pride stand at a threeway tie at 2-3 with Drexel and James Madison University for the spot after JMU’s 3-1 victory over Towson.

In order for Hofstra to secure the fourth spot, the Northeastern University Huskies must beat Drexel on

Sunday and Hofstra must beat Delaware. Delaware is 5-0 in CAA play this season.

Hofstra will wrap up its regular season schedule on

Sunday, Oct. 28 when the Pride travel to Fred P. Rullo Stadium to play No. 16 University of Delaware.

Photo courtesy of Hofstra Athletics Cami Larsson scored the lone goal for the Pride in the loss.

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Bryan scores to lead women’s soccer past Delaware

By Matt Novella STAFF W R I T E R

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Hofstra women’s soccer’s pursuit of a repeat as Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) champs will continue after the third-seeded Pride took down the sixth-seeded Delaware Fightin’ Blue Hens 1-0 during the CAA Quarterfinals in Brookline, Massachusetts, on Friday, Oct. 26. Hofstra’s tremendous season will continue into the CAA Semifinals, as the Pride now have 13 wins on the season.

The game was a 1-0 shutout win for Hofstra. The lone goal was scored by Hofstra’s

sophomore star, Sabrina Bryan.

This was her 10th of the season.

The goal came in the 33rd minute of the game, leaving Delaware without an answer for the rest of the game.

The Fightin’ Blue Hens had a very tough time getting anything going offensively. Not only did they not put any goals on the board, but they only had two shots on goal in the entire game.

On the other hand, Hofstra had nine in total, making their case as the far better team by the game’s end.

The nine shots on goal for Hofstra portrayed a nice effort from all around. Bryan had three shots on goal, Jordan Littleboy and Lucy Porter each had two and Jenn Buoncore and Lucy Shepherd each put up one.

In goal, the Pride continued to utilize their two-goalie system with Ashley Wilson and Jenna Borresen. The system, which has been efficient all year, also

proved successful in the Friday matchup. Borresen finished with two saves against the Fightin’ Blue Hens while Wilson’s clean sheet was achieved without a single save, as Hofstra’s superb defense and ball control kept the Delaware offense from firing a single shot on goal.

Bryan’s goal stood to be the only goal on the board when the final whistle blew, marking her fourth straight game with the feat. On the defensive side, the shutout was Hofstra’s seventh of the season.

This quarterfinal victory for the Pride marches them on to the semifinals where they are set to take on the second-seeded Northeastern Huskies.

The semifinal game will be at home for the Huskies on Sunday, Oct. 28, as the Pride look to advance to the CAA finals for the second straight season.

Photo courtesy of Hofstra Athletics Sabrina Bryan (center) scored the lone goal in the CAA quarterfinal win.

Men’s soccer secures No. 3 seed for CAA Tournament

By Zevan Shuster STAFF W R I T E R

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On Saturday night, Oct. 27, the Hofstra men’s soccer team – needing a win to secure a third seed while keeping hopes of a second seed and a bye in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) tournament alive – delivered, defeating Charleston 2-0 in a game that wasn’t as close as the final score indicates.

“There were tough conditions, but I thought we had a great first half ... [We] played with lots of energy, had two good goals

and were in good control of the game,” said head coach Richard Nuttall.

“I’m a little bit disappointed in the second half that we didn’t really put the game away and press our abilities on to them, but it was a great workman-like performance. I’m really pleased.

It gave us a small chance to be second, but at the very least, it cements us in third place in the conference, and that’s what we wanted to do at the beginning of the day, so I’m very happy about that.”

On this cold, rainy and windy night, the Pride were able to send their seniors off right in the final home game of their collegiate careers.

After both teams spent the first five to 10 minutes of the game getting used to the conditions, Hofstra got on the

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board at 21:57 when Luke Brown put home a rifle of a cross into the bottom right corner for his 11th point of the season.

Not 10 minutes later, the Pride would add on, this time with Storm Strongin executing two fabulous moves before putting home a short side goal 29 minutes into the game. This proved to be all that would be needed. “[The slippery surface] takes a bit of getting used to. I thought the first goal was well made and quite well crafted. [I] don’t think any keeper would’ve stopped it,” Nuttall said. “[Brown] completely thumped the ball in, and I’m proud of that. The second one was a little bit of magic in the box with a left footed shot that got it in.”

The game’s conditions made it difficult on both sides to connect passes, maintain pressure and create quality scoring chances.

Even so, Hofstra’s defense was everywhere, eliminating any hope that Charleston had at trying to get back into the game.

In particular, Sean Nealis and

George O’Malley did a great job staying poised and in control in the back end while leading the defensive charge.

“I give credit to the whole team as a unit; from [Matthew] Vowinkel up front all the way back,” Nuttall said.

“Sean Nealis and George O’Malley were a rock again.

They’ve been unbelievable. In my opinion, Sean’s the best real defender in the conference. He just wins everything. He’s just an absolute stud there. We work hard, and that’s our identity. We spoke before the game, about our identity, which is good ol’ hard work, work as a team and then when we win the ball, try and keep it and score.”

Hofstra now has 10 shut outs this season.

Senior keeper Leo Arkhanhelskyi was also solid in goal for the Pride, recording three saves in his second consecutive shutout of the season. One save came in the second half on a point-blank shot from Jake Nicholson.

It was Charleston’s best chance to score, but the opportunity was thwarted by

Arkhanhelskyi’s great save.

As a result of Arkhanhelyski’s efforts in net over his last three starts, he was named CAA Player of the Week on Oct. 29.

Having secured a minimum of third seed in wake of the CAA tournament, Hofstra’s postseason status isn’t in question.

What’s at stake rather, is a possible second seed, which could reward them with a bye in the tournaments first round.

“Sometimes you want to keep a rhythm. Injury wise, we’re okay at the moment. It wouldn’t be a bad thing, playing another game,” Nuttall said.

“But then you’ve [got] to win that game, and every team in this conference can beat you.

And we’ve got a chance to play another game on our beautiful home soccer field.”

Hofstra will finish out their regular season schedule Tuesday, Oct. 30, on the road against Columbia University and await their standing as they prepare for the CAA championship.

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Hofstra sweeps Elon to keep pace in CAA standings

By Emily Provost STAFF WRITER

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The Pride volleyball team followed up last week’s win with a blowout against Elon at the Schar Center on Sunday, Oct. 28, defeating Elon 3-0 to bring their record to 19-7 with their third consecutive victory.

The win brings them to the No. 2 spot as they hold a 9-3 record in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA).

The Pride fought ferociously each set, fighting neck-to-neck with Elon the entire game.

Junior Laura Masciullo came out strong and tallied a matchhigh of 12 kills, while freshman Aisha Skinner brought the heat with another 11 kills and 19 digs.

This game was the thirdstraight win for Hofstra.

Set one started off as a challenge to the Pride as Elon scored first.

Hofstra, however, fought harder, taking the lead and running with it, winning the stanza 25-20.

Set two left the fans on the edge of their seats as Hofstra and Elon battled on the court.

Elon caught up to Hofstra’s 13-9 lead and continued to score back to back until Masciullo and Doris Bogoje scored to give Hofstra the win, 25-23.

Coming back stronger than before, the Pride finished Elon off in the third set, scoring 2517.

Aside from the contributions from Masciullo and Skinner, senior Nanishka Perez nearly had a double-double, notching 10 kills and nine digs, while Luisa Sydlik finished with 40 assists and six digs for the Pride.

Hofstra finished the game

with a high .429 hitting percentage in the final set and an overall percentage of .288. The Pride dominated in serving as well, finishing with six service aces in the game while holding Elon to none.

Masciullo’s match-high 12 kills brought her to the eighth spot on Hofstra’s all-time kill list with 1,187.

This game brought Hofstra’s all-time record against Elon to 9-1 while also marking their third three-match win streak this season.

Big players for Elon were Leah Daniel with 11 kills and Kam Terry with nine kills.

Terry also had 15 digs and three blocks.

The Pride are back at home versus Charleston on Thursday, Nov. 1, at 7 p.m. in the David S. Mack Physical Education Center.

Cam Keough / The Hofstra Chronicle Aisha Skinner recorded 11 kills and 19 digs in the win

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Hofstra begins seventh straight postseason run

By Alexandra Licata SPORTS EDITOR

Hofstra men’s soccer is returning to the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Tournament for its seventh consecutive season after clinching the third seed in Saturday’s 2-0 win against the College of Charleston. They will face the sixth seed, which will be decided on Tuesday, Oct. 30, after Northeastern University faces No. 10 UNC-Wilmington.

Hofstra’s defense has been a key to their success this season.

While keeper Alex Ashton is currently injured, senior Leo Arkhanhelskyi has stepped into his shoes nicely.

In three games, Arkhanhelskyi has eight saves and has only allowed one goal. He has also recorded two-consecutive shutouts as the Pride head into their final game of the season in a non-conference matchup against Columbia University.

Hofstra’s defensive line has also been a key factor. Led by Sean Nealis, the Pride has only allowed 75 shots on goal out of the 204 shots opponents have taken this season.

Of those 75 shots, Ashton and Arkhanhelskyi have allowed only 15 goals, combining for a .800 save percentage and .84 goals against average. In conference play, Hofstra goalies have allowed only .73 goals per game, while opponents have allowed 1.22 goals per game.

Hofstra has gotten goals from ten players this season.

The Pride’s offense is led by sophomore Matthew Vowinkel and junior Luke Brown, who have six and five goals respectively.

Oscar Ramsay and George O’Malley also have two goals each. Not only does the Pride have strength in scoring, but Marcus Lindqvist, Sean Nealis and Storm Strongin have all contributed with assists.

Lindqvist has four, while Nealis and Strongin each have three from the Pride’s mid and back line.

As for their opponents, James Madison University currently leads the conference with a 6-2 record (11-4-2 overall), but is coming off a loss to the Elon

Phoenix that thwarted a sixgame winning streak.

If UNCW wins or ties against Northeastern on Tuesday, oct.

30, the Dukes will lose their No. 1 spot that guarantees them a first round bye into the semifinals.

The Dukes are led by three players. Redshirt sophomore Carson Jeffris has six goals, while Aaron Ward-Baptiste and Manuel Ferriol have five each.

Ward-Baptiste and Ferriol also have four assists each.

In goal, TJ Bush holds down JMU’s defense with 44 saves on the year and a .51 goals against average. He owns a .830 save percentage to lead the conference.

In the Pride’s one game against the Dukes, Hofstra fell 2-0. If the teams were to meet again, Hofstra needs to focus on getting more shots on goal.

They only had two in that game, compared to JMU’s six.

JMU’s competition for first place lies in nationally ranked UNCW. The Seahawks are led by Phillip Goodrum and Emil Elveroth, who have 12 and 11 goals, respectively. Elveroth has also been a key player in UNCW’s wins with five gamewinning goals this season. He and Goodrum lead the CAA in goals and points, as well.

The power duo has been difficult for any goalie to overcome and a large part of why UNCW stands undefeated in conference play at 5-0-2 (123-2 overall).

Seahawks goalkeeper Ryan Cretens has made 50 saves and owns a .806 save percentage.

The Pride tied 0-0 with UNCW to open CAA play this season, in which both teams nearly evened on the pitch.

Hofstra had 12 and UNCW has 11, while Ashton made four saves for the Pride and Cretens made six for the Seahawks.

Fourth place Delaware will face William & Mary if the Huskies tie or lose to UNCW. However, if the Huskies win, they will be Delaware’s opponent.

The Fightin’ Blue Hens offense is spearheaded by Timo Hummrich, who has four goals on the season.

Robert Campbell and Fede Prieto each have two goals, as well. Todd Morton has a .603 save percentage in goal for Delaware and a 1.75 goals against average.

The team has one more game to end the season with positive momentum when they face the University of Pennsylvania on Tuesday night in a nonconference game.

While Delaware lost 1-0 to William & Mary, they defeated Northeastern 2-1 to finish their conference play this season.

Ryder Bell and Antonio Bustamante lead William & Mary in goals. Bell has five goals, while Bustamante has four goals.

The Tribe has split time in net between Sam Onyeador and Connor Andrews. The two have combined for a 2.05 goals against average and .629 save percentage.

If the Huskies win, they will secure the fifth seed and move in front of the College of William & Mary in CAA standings.

However, if the Huskies tie, they will then be tied with William & Mary in terms of points, but still be No. 6 due to record.

If the Huskies lose, they will remain in a three-way tie with Drexel University and Elon

University, but will take the tiebreaker game against Drexel due to both teams having better records in head-to-head play over Elon.

With a Huskies tie, the Pride will face them in the CAA Quarterfinals. With a Huskies loss, they will play the winner of the Drexel and Northeastern tiebreaker.

However, with a Northeastern win, Delaware will instead face the Huskies. Ryan Massoud heads the Huskies offense with five goals and 11 points, while Moustapha Samb, Martin Nygaard and Dan Munch have also contributed with 16 points combined.

Northeastern has played three goalies over the course of its season. Chandler Cree has the most time in net with a .85 goals against average and 27 saves.

His .818 save percentage leads all three Huskies goalkeepers.

Noah Abrams also has seven games under his belt this season, posting a .750 save percentage and 21 saves.

Adam Gostomelsky started in goal for the first time against Delaware on Saturday, Oct. 27, and allowed two goals in a 2-1 loss.

Drexel stands as the last team with one last chance to make it

into the tournament, but their fate relies on Northeastern.

Mathias Ebbesen leads the Drexel Dragons with eight goals and 19 points.

Kwesi Allen has four goals, while Chris Donovan, Griffin Mallas and Laolu Daranijo each have three goals.

Drexel also has strong defense in goal with redshirt freshman Stephen Kopsachilis.

Kopsachilis has a .821 save percentage and 69 saves this season. He’s allowed an average of one goal per game in 14 starts.

Who Hofstra will face as a CAA Quarterfinals opponent has yet to decided, but if the Pride can continue their strong defense and offense, they have a shot to make it to the semifinals, and eventually the championship.

Facing teams like JMU and UNCW will be challenging, but Hofstra will be returning to the CAA Tournament pitch with hopes to prove their strengths after falling to William & Mary in the CAA Quarterfinals last year.

The Pride will take on the No. 6 seed on Saturday, Nov. 3 at Hofstra Soccer Stadium as they begin their journey back to a title.

Cam Keough / The Hofstra Chronicle Men’s soccer looks to strong offense and tight defense as they head into the CAA Tournament on Saturday.

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Freshman duo shining on volleyball court

By Nolan Foxx STAFF WRITER

The Hofstra volleyball team is having a terrific season so far, enjoying success that can be attributed to a good mix of veteran leadership and young talent. Among this young talent are two freshmen, Aisha Skinner and Maddie Appleton, each making a thunderous impact for the Pride since stepping on the court on day one.

Appleton and Skinner come from total opposite corners of the world. Appleton grew up in a small town in Michigan, while Skinner was raised in Germany.

However, they both found their way to Hofstra and the team is grateful for it.

“I spontaneously decided in March that I wanted to come to the U.S. Then Emily [Mansur] contacted me and made me a great offer that I couldn’t deny,” Skinner said.

While Skinner’s desire to come to the U.S. from Germany is what brought her to Hofstra, it was Appleton’s desire to eventually play overseas that brought her to the Long Island campus as well.

“I think a big part was actually the international students on the team. We only have four Americans on the team and then the rest are

[from] all over the place,” Appleton said. “It’s a huge draw to me because I want to play overseas after college. Playing with the different cultures and the different personalities is something I was looking for.”

Despite their different backgrounds and aspirations, the impact that these two freshmen have had is similar, as they continue to rack up greater stats and awards throughout the season.

The freshmen have combined for six Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Rookie of the Week Awards, with Skinner being awarded four and Appleton two. Skinner is second on the team in kills and digs, while Appleton leads the team in digs and stands second in assists.

Even though both girls have had terrific individual performances throughout the season, neither sees an individual moment as being the greatest of the season. Instead, a similar moment comes to mind when asked what stands out so far in their seasons.

“Last Sunday, the JMU game.

We beat them in four and they were undefeated before that,” Appleton said. “That was so exciting. We all came together as a team and wanted it so bad.”

Skinner agreed, saying, “The

game on Sunday against JMU. We were the underdog against them so no one really expected us to win.”

The success achieved by the freshmen did not come easy.

Both players have had to work to adjust to the college game.

“It’s an adaptation I have to make. It is different than in Germany but I think it is pretty cool. I can’t complain,” Skinner said.

Appleton was blunt about her first year in college. “It is tough.

I am not going to lie. You get pushed to your max physically and mentally everyday. You really have to come here and work. Mixing school and social life and volleyball, it’s tough, but it’s worth it for me.”

Ultimately though, Appleton believes that the tough adjustments have made her a better player. “I looked at my old film and how I am now to how I was then is so much better. It is nice to see the improvement on video because you don’t always see it on the floor.”

With less than one month remaining in the regular season, the Pride will be looking to use their momentum to propel them through to the conference championship. For Appleton and Skinner, that’s the goal for the remainder of the season,

along with a slightly bigger one, which would likely only come if they accomplished the first.

“Something we want to achieve and something we really think we can do this year is win the conference,” Appleton said. “Making it to the NCAA tournament would be the greatest thing ever. I am so excited and I really think we can do it.”

Skinner agreed. “I think a big goal for the season is getting first place in the conference

Borresen felt the pressure early but responded well, stopping both of Northeastern’s two early shots.

Then in the ninth minute, the Pride got their chance and beat Northeastern keeper Nathalie Nidetch off a great header

by Lucy Porter, set up by a magnificent cross from Jenn Buoncore to make the score 1-0.

The exchange of shots continued through the first half.

In the 26th minute, Northeastern grew close to scoring as Katarina Nilsson almost sent the ball past Borresen, but once again the Pride’s star goalie stepped in the way and prevented a Northeastern equalizer.

Entering the second half, Hofstra still led 1-0, eyeing one more clean defensive half to get

to the CAA finals.

The Pride and Huskies each made goalie subs out of halftime, with Ashley Wilson entering the game for the Pride and Megan Adams entering for the Huskies.

Borresen finished the first half with five saves for five shots on goal.

The Huskies immediately attacked the Pride defense in the second half with two shots in the opening three minutes – both blocked out of harm’s way.

In response, in the 62nd minute, Hofstra midfielder Bella Richards made a run at the goal and fired her shot, but was stopped by Adams.

As the game went on, the Huskies kept pressuring the Pride with shot after shot.

Particularly from the 84th

minute onward, Northeastern unloaded a barrage of shots on Wilson with three shots in three minutes.

Wilson was a brick wall, however, and stopped all three shots with ease, preventing a Northeastern equalizer.

Soon after the barrage of shots, the final whistle blew and the Pride had their ticket punched to the CAA championship against James Madison University.

and then going on to the NCAA tournament and doing a great job there.”

While their quest to a conference title and an NCAA tournament appearance is what drives these two players, their impressive stats are what is driving each player’s case for CAA Rookie of the Year.

Regardless of who wins the battle, with these two playing at such a high level, the future sure looks bright on the volleyball court for the Pride.

Cam Keough / The Hofstra Chronicle Skinner and Appleton have combined for six CAA Rookie of the Week awards

Women’s soccer headed to title game after 1-0 shutout

By Max Sacco STAFF W R I T E R

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On a sunny Sunday afternoon, the Hofstra women’s soccer team advanced to the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Tournament final after a 1-0 win over rival Northeastern University in Boston.

The team is now seeking to win back-to-back CAA titles for the first time in school history.

Right as the first whistle blew, each team came out exchanging shots.

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The Pride look to win another CAA championship, while JMU hopes to win its first title since the 2015-16 season.

Earlier this year, JMU was able to beat the Pride 1-0, ending the Pride’s three-game win streak.

The final is set for Saturday, Nov. 3, at 1 p.m. in Harrisonburg, Virginia with the Pride looking to avenge an early season loss and capture another CAA title.

Next Week:

Our previews for men’s and women’s basketball ahead of opening night