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Kicks Off Basketball Season Sean Sonnemann & Joseph V. Cusmano Web Editor & Senior Writer

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Clyde’s Bid for Congress Sheds Light on Underdog Campaigns Michelle DePinho News/Managing Editor

When Provost William Clyde was shut out of a debate among major party candidates during his recent congressional bid in Connecticut, he did not let that stop him from having his voice heard. Instead, he staged his own debate right next door in a law firm’s parking lot.

“I arranged to have speakers, lights, supporters and all of that come and it came together at the very last minute,” he said of the evening.

Clyde, who recently ran for Congress in Connecticut’s 2nd district on the Green Party ticket against incumbent U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney D-2nd, experienced these and other setbacks that characterize third party campaigns attempting to break through the two party system. The election on Nov. 4 resulted in the Courtney’s reelection by a majority of the vote, while Clyde took only 1 percent of the vote.

Clyde said one of his biggest struggles in the campaign was finding room in a two party system.

“The selection mechanism for choosing the person to fill the job in different places is of different quality for finding the person who’s qualified,” he said.

Oftentimes, the limitless funds that mainstream campaigns can raise brings them to the forefront of that process. The Citizens United Supreme Court decision, which removed limits on corporate funding of political campaigns, allows mainstream candidates to raise enough money to extend and bolster their campaigns.

Julie Leninger Pycior, Ph.D. and professor of history at the college, said that the Citizens United ruling has changed how politics in the U.S. operate.

“We are in a new era in one sense, which is money in politics,” Pycior said.

“I’m sure that England, for example, limits how much you can contribute to a cam-

paign. They want one person one vote, one dollar one vote. You can’t do that here because of court decisions.”

Clyde said that in his large district of 63 towns, that money translates into presence. Being associated with a major party also provides more money and resources, such as volunteers and immediate access to the media.

“If you can’t put another ad up, that assertion in ads go unchallenged,” Clyde said of his opponents’ ads, which leaves voters with “incomplete information.”

Instead, Clyde’s campaign ran radio ads when he could afford them and relied heavily on social media to spread his message.

“I was counting on social media,” Clyde said, although the social platforms did not reach a very wide audience. As of Nov. 9, his campaign’s Facebook page had 178 likes and its Twitter account had 21 followers.

“People who are smart about politics are looking today at how to make use of social media,” Margaret Groarke, Ph.D. and associate professor of government at the college, said. She said the Obama campaign is a good example of effective social media and that it was an innovator in using social media as part of its effort to build something political.

Clyde relied on these alternative media outlets because of his tight budget, which is part of his philosophy and a major component of his platform for campaign reform.

According to his campaign website, no donations to the campaign over $100 would be accepted.

“Campaign costs have become so high that elected officials are continually preoccupied with campaigns and fund-raising, even after they are in office,” Clyde’s website reads. “And this preoccupation often drives them to adopt extreme ideologies that are divisive, which plays out in our government.”

Without the funds to run an expensive

campaign, Clyde tried to drum up his own media.

“I did press releases to try and get visibility,” he said. But “as a third party candidate, I was not taken seriously,” Clyde said.

“Free media wasn’t really offered,” he said. “The problem is that I hadn’t been given the opportunity to be an alternative.”

Although media interest in Clyde was minimal, a few local newspapers and radio shows invited him to be interviewed.

While the media outlets all endorsed other candidates, the Norwich Bulletin wrote that Clyde would have been “more formidable opponent if he were the GOP challenger in this contest. He has clearly demonstrated a better understanding of the issues. His decision to run as a Green, and the selfimposed ban on fundraising, are principled stands in favor of campaign finance reform, but the undoing of his candidacy.

Without the financial resources, his ability to engage in the dialogue is severely hampered. One need not abandon principle to be practical.”

The one event that did stir up some attention was when he staged his own debate with Libertarian candidate Dan Reale next door to the debate both third party candidates had been excluded from.

“I was creatively trying to get as much visibility as I could,” Clyde said.

While Clyde admits his reach and influence were limited during the campaign, he said “basically everyone who we talked to at all was really excited” about what he had to say.

Clyde’s platform included term limits for politicians, serious campaign reforms, finding a moderate approach to handling climate change, committing to national defense, improving health care and providing education free of socioeconomic disparities, according to his website.

Historical patterns of third party candidates and campaigns, however, show that

As it got closer and closer to 9 p.m. on Thursday night, streams of students decked out in kelly green headed towards Draddy Gymnasium from every direction of Manhattan College’s campus. It could only mean one thing: Manhattan Madness had returned.

An enthusiastic pep rally, Manhattan Madness officially begins the season for both the men’s and women’s basketball teams. While based around the formal introductions of the basketball teams’ roster and coaches, the event also includes performances by the school’s pep band, cheerleaders, dance team and a surprise musical guest.

“It’s the number one event for school spirit,” Director of Student Activities John Bennett said. “Attendance wise, it’s the number one event of the semester, and possibly the year.”

Bennett and his office began preparing for the occasion before the semester even began. Not only does it require the coordination of a multiple college departments including athletics, communication and the performing arts, but also 10 outside vendors.

When the doors finally opened, lines of excited students entered the gym as the pep band played a medley of pop hits. Before finding their seats in the stands, each made sure to pick up a free t-shirt emblazoned with “The Sixth Borough,” the name of the student fan section. The event staff also handed out glow sticks to the crowd, many of which were later thrown onto the court by students as the night progressed.

After the lights were dimmed, the emcee immediately began revving up the already buzzing energy in the gymnasium.

“This is not Manhattan ‘Relax.’ This is not Manhattan ‘Take it Easy.’ This is Manhattan Madness,” he said.

Members of the college’s Air Force ROTC chapter served as the color guard for a rendition of the national anthem. An impromptu “U-S-A!” chant followed before the women’s team was introduced.

Each player on the roster had their name and hometown individually called out to the crowd. With a human tunnel made up of cheering Jasper dancers and cheerleaders marking out their path, the athletes danced and strutted their way to center court. Every player had a unique entrance song, many choosing titles and lyrics that reflected their personalities or names.

Freshman basketball player Taylor Williams decided to enter to Montell Jordan’s 1995 hit “This Is How We Do It” for her first Manhattan Madness. “I was a little nervous, but you know, I had to bring it all old school,” she said.

After each member of the women’s team and coaching staff was introduced, head coach John Olenowski addressed the crowd before beginning his sixth season at the helm of the program.

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Continued from page 1 “I thank all of you for coming tonight and supporting the Jaspers. One thing I know for sure, Manhattan College Jaspers fans are second to none,” he said. “Our team is very young, very talented and very hungry to make all of you proud this year.”

When he concluded his brief remarks, the pep band led the crowd in a round of “Let’s Go Jaspers” chants. The emcee made sure to highlight the updated banners hanging in the rafters before continuing on to introduce the men’s team.

The Jaspers return this year after securing the MAAC championship title against rival Iona last season. While they were subsequently eliminated in the first round of the NCAA tournament, they made a splash on the national stage with a close contest against defending champions Louisville.

Like the women’s team, each player on the roster of the men’s team was introduced to the crowd. While new freshmen like Samson Usilo and transfer Jermaine Lawrence experienced their first Manhattan Madness, this was the fourth and final event for senior RaShawn Stores.

“You know, it’s always hard going out for your last one,” he said, “I will always remember the first and last one. I really enjoyed it.” He still remembers his entrance song from his freshman year, “Beat It Up”

by J. Valentine.

Stores walked out into the spotlight this

Crowds of students came out to fill the 6th Borough, the name of the Manhattan College fan section, for the pep rally. time with his younger brother Keyshawn, for the second year in a row. The two were clear favorites of the crowd. “I’m just speechless right now,” the younger Stores said afterwards.

After the assistant and associate coaches of the program were announced, the crowd immediately began chanting for head coach Steve Masiello to make his appearance.

In what has now seemingly become a tradition for Manhattan Madness, he hyped up the crowd by asking several times, “Jasper Nation, where are you?”

With the team facing greater competition from rival MAAC schools following their success last season, Masiello called for continuing support from the fans. “We need you behind us like never before,” he said.

This was also the first time Masiello spoke to the student body following his Kevin Fuhrmann/The Quadrangle highly publicized off-season controverEach player was announced and entered Draddy to the song of their choice. sy. When Masiello tried to secure a head coaching job at the University of South Masiello concluded his remarks by prise performer. However, the rapper best Florida, questions arose about the valid- bringing out 80s hip-hop legend Rob Base know for his single “Just A Friend” was not ity of his academic credentials. While the as the night’s surprise musical guest. Base available to make the event due to schedulcrowd responded to the coach’s message performed his classic “It Takes Two” as ing conflicts, according to Bennett.

Regardless of the ultimate choice of positively on Thursday night, a few jeers the event winded down and the fans exited performer, Student Body President John could clearly be heard as he spoke. the gym.

Sophomore Brett Zingaro was surprised “Great crowd, great crowd,” Base said Tudisco had high praise for the night.

“It was definitely the best Madness in that Masiello did not directly address any of after his performance. “The crowd was the off-season proceedings. “It’s not like he hyped, everybody looked like they had a my four years here. John Canfield and his social life commission did an amazing job was required to give an apology, but I feel good time. I had fun.” like everyone was expecting it, or wanted Originally, Biz Markie, a hip-hop star setting up and running the event. Also, Rob to hear one.”` from the same era, was set to be the sur- Base killed it."

Clyde’s Congressional Campaign Continued from page 1 while third parties almost never win, they can contribute to a larger discussion on the issues.

Pycior said that oftentimes third parties can help elevate issues that voters feel the major parties are ignoring.

“That’s why people sometimes vote for a third party, when they feel the two major parties are ignoring the one issue that matters to them the most,” Pycior said. “So you lose, but sometimes you get the attention of your party. And sometimes they in-

corporate your view.”

“Third parties operate more as a way for most groups to bring an issue into a conversation more than they do to win elections,” Groarke said.

While third parties contribute to the discussion, they are almost never contenders in major elections. Pycior said this might be due to what voters see as a tradeoff.

“If you think about it, if you vote for a third party, you are taking votes away from your second choice and helping the guy you like the least,” she said. “So, in 2000, people who voted for Ralph Nader

were accused of taking votes away from Al Gore.”

“It’s not wasting your vote,” Clyde said of voting for a marginal candidate. “Why don’t you use your vote to say something you feel?”

The difficulty is that fewer voters are heading to the polls at all. Voter turnout decreased for the Nov. 4 midterm elections in all but 12 states in the U.S. according to an article in U.S. News and World Report.

Despite his loss at the polls, Clyde said he thinks the Connecticut -and the U.S.can take steps to improve under the right

leadership.

“We have the potential and the responsibility,” to do so, Clyde said. “It’s important for my kids, it’s important for the nation, it’s important for the world.”

He said he would consider running again and is “having follow up conversations” with former GOP representatives about a future with their party.

“If I thought I could contribute to that conversation that we can and have to do something, I would absolutely consider it,” Clyde said.

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After Ebola reached New York City, college officials took action to prepare the campus for the worst.

College Prepares for Threat of Ebola Jonathan Reyes Asst. Sports Editor

Manhattan College is just one of many places taking precautions and working with the CDC and New York City Department of Health to try to prevent Ebola from reaching its campus.

Administrators are meeting every week, gathering information and monitoring concerns of any new developments.

In the case of a student showing signs or symptoms of the virus, the Department of Health would be contacted by Health Services to assist and quarantine.

As of right now Terence P. Hannigan, Ph.D, ABPP and director of Manhattan’s Counseling Center and Health Services, said the college isn’t concerned about the disease as much as it is about its students.

“We’re keeping an eye on it. We’re

concerned about people being anxious about it,” Hannigan said.

To reassure its students Manhattan’s president, Brennan O’Donnell, has an emergency response team that is ready to respond and has been improved since Hurricane Sandy back in 2012.

“Keep calm, keep informed, keep reading about it, keep asking the right questions about the information that you’re getting, be a critical thinker, keep aware,” O’Donnell said, “and then take care of yourself in the normal ways you take care of your health all the time.”

Ebola came to the U.S. when its first victim was diagnosed on Sept. 30 and died on Oct. 8. More recently, several other Americans have contracted the disease.

New York City resident Dr. Craig Allen Spencer is the first person in the city to contract Ebola after returning from Guinea on a Doctors Without Borders program.

Media coverage in the states has been extensive and has caused hysteria among Americans, said Frankie Chike Edozien, a New York University clinical associate professor of journalism and director of the Ghana-based “Reporting Africa” program.

“It looms much, much larger in the news than it’s probably actually true,” Edozien said.

“Mainly what we’ve seen in the United States is coverage that’s really based on fear and not really science,” he said. “As a matter of principle, for journalists to write about this stuff is a good thing. Now how they write and cover it is a whole different matter.”

“The greater risk to the community, and not just to us to everyone,” O’Donnell said, “is more from the possibility of panic than it is from the point of view of actual health concerns.”

In OV, Plumbing Issues Persist Brendan Rogers Staff Writer

In Overlook Manor, the college’s only apartment-style residence hall, plumbing issues related to the building’s age causes a majority of maintenance problems in units, residents and staff say.

Most residents who said they experienced plumbing issues reported small problems, such as leaks, clogs and problems in bathrooms. In most cases, residents say that Physical Plant staff, who respond to maintenance requests, were able to fix issues on the same day they were reported.

“Small issues in kitchens and bathrooms get fixed quickly,” fourth-year student RJ Meany, who lives on the building’s sixth floor, said.

“My toilet overflowed,” Alex Rousseau, a first-year graduate student and Overlook Manor resident, said. “But they came right away… maintenance was quick.”

AJ Goodman, assistant director of residence life said the prompt responses of Physical Plant staff to maintenance issues is a result of good communication.

“There is definitely a very strong relationship we have between the two offices,” Goodman said. “Physical Plant has been very responsive to… issues.”

Goodman, who himself lives in the building, said that residents’ speedy reporting of problems usually allows them to be resolved quickly and not become serious inconveniences. He said his office receives monthly reports from Physical Plant detailing the number and type of maintenance requests from residents, and said that most problems reported were fixed easily and quickly.

“We’re usually hearing about something [from residents] when it wasn’t fixed rather than when it was,” Goodman said, referring to maintenance problems that residents did not report to Physical Plant. “By the time we get the feedback the problem has usually persisted.”

Goodman says that the internal organization of Physical Plant also contributes to overall fast fixes in the residence hall.

“One thing that’s unique about this campus is that there’s a group in Physical Plant that specifically works on residence halls,” Goodman said. Goodman said that a trained plumber is a member of this group, making it easy for plumbing problems in

Overlook Manor to be addressed quickly.

While most plumbing problems are small and affect only a small area, larger problems occasionally occur which inconvenience residents in a more significant way, Goodman and residents said.

“Last year someone’s sink broke off and the apartment flooded,” Rousseau said.

“It went into all the floors below too.”

Rousseau said that the residents of the apartment with the broken sink were temporarily housed in Horan Hall until their apartment’s sink was fixed and the unit was ready to be inhabited once again.

“In the two years I’ve been here it’s been one apartment where students have had to move out,” Goodman said. “We determined a range of access to the apartment that they were in and worked with them on moving things over [to Horan].”

While plumbing and other problems have affected a number of Overlook Manor residents, students say their experiences in the building are not far from what they expected.

“They know it’s an older building; they know it’s not the Ritz-Carlton,” Meany said. “There are going to be some problems.”

Correction in “New Library Policy Catches MC Students by Surprise”: The Quadrangle reported David Montiel’s name incorrectly. His last name is Montiel, not Wintiel. The Quadrangle misreported Amy Handfield’s title. Handfield is the access services librarian, not the daytime circulation desk manager. The policy surrounding the fine was misreported. The fine is a result of a missing key, not of keeping the study room for too long.

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The Vatican Synod:

Nov. 11, 2014

A Journey for Change

Amy Cardoza Staff Writer

This October, the Vatican hosted a synod, or a gathering of clergy and laity, and the media swept up the resulting discussion as a groundbreaking moment for the church. The topic of this synod, which is only an installment in a two-year process, is on the concept of family.

Of course the term “family” is a huge umbrella term that touches on huge issues that the church has held controversial views on for years. These issues include, but are not limited to, divorce, remarriage, and homosexuality.

The media especially focused on comments made about homosexuality and the church and said that this synod was taking a revolutionary step in the direction of acceptance of the LGBT community. The synod that occurred under the leadership of Pope Francis produced a twelve page document that reaffirmed beliefs held about the sanctity of the Family in a positive light, stating that “the church turns respectfully to those who participate in her life in an incomplete and imperfect way, appreciating the positive values they contain rather than their limitations and shortcomings.”

This isn’t the first time Pope Francis has surprised people in a fantastic way. He has consistently made moves towards acceptance and equality by example. In 2013, he went to a juvenile prison and washed the feet of inmates on Holy Thursday, including two women and two Muslims, which previously was unheard of. He has been hailed as humble and approachable and lives his life to exemplify these qualities.

Clearly this synod is a continuation of Pope Francis’ pattern of acceptance and eventual reform.

The real groundbreaking part of the synod didn’t come from the document it produced, but rather from how it was conducted.

“Previously, the bishops had to submit any comments they wanted to make in writing, and the pope (or people from the pope's cabinet, the Curia) selected who was allowed to speak in order to have the

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Pope Francis is helping to foster transparency and openness through the Synod on the Family. gathering look as uniform as possible, without differing opinions. Pope Francis clearly doesn't mind if people disagree or have different viewpoints. He views this as healthy in a multicultural, global church,” religious studies professor, Natalia Imperatori-Lee, Ph.D. said.

This small change has huge impacts on how problems are discussed in the church.

It gets rid of the silence and embarrassment to hold a certain view and gets people talking. When people start talking, a more open atmosphere is created, where problems can actually be resolved. It makes the conversation more personal and real, making it less abstract.

According to Dr. Imperatori Lee, “the synod process has taught us that the whole church teaches and the whole church learns:

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that is, the bishops can learn from the life experiences of the laity as much as the laity can learn from bishops. And sometimes more.”

Pope Francis, in concluding the event, references the synod as a “journey.”

According to Catholic Herald, Pope Francis describes this journey “like every journey there were moments of running fast, as if wanting to conquer time and reach the goal as soon as possible; other moments of fatigue, as if wanting to say ‘enough’; other moments of enthusiasm and ardour. A journey where the stronger feel compelled to help the less strong, where the more experienced are led to serve others, even through confrontations.

This is the Church, One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic and composed of sinners,

needful of God’s mercy. It is the Church that is not afraid to eat and drink with prostitutes and publicans. The Church that has the doors wide open to receive the needy, the penitent, and not only the just or those who believe they are perfect!

The Church that is not ashamed of the fallen brother and pretends not to see him, but on the contrary feels involved and almost obliged to lift him up and to encourage him to take up the journey again.”

Pope Francis is asking us to remember that we are all on this journey together. We have to accept our differences in order to appreciate everyone else’s differences and together we can find happiness and make this journey a pleasant one.

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Midterm Elections Yield Student Apathy Campbell Abbott Staff Writer

With the conclusion of the midterm elections on November 4, only one question seems to be evident regardless of the results. Does anybody care?

While midterms draw a lower turn out compared to presidential elections, youth voters turned out in embarrassingly low numbers for this election and the predictions suggest those numbers will continue to dip.

“I didn't vote because of my lack of knowledge in the changes that would be made by any of the parties running. I only plan to vote in the presidential election,” Michael Morrica, a sophomore communication major, said.

“I didn’t vote because I don’t believe it takes any particular man to solve the many issues that we have in today’s society,” junior education major, Madeline Collete,

said.

According to early estimates, youth voters have made up only 13 percent of the overall vote, which begs the question if that is even enough for millennials to tip the scales to help influence the outcome of any particular election.

Take North Carolina for instance, where key candidates Kay Hagan and long standing Republican State House Speaker Thom Tillis were locked in on a close race. Unfortunalty for Hagan, even though she wound up with 54 percent of the youth vote in her state, she still lost.

Whatever the reason may be for you not to vote, most people cite discontent that votes do not actually count with presidential elections due to the Electoral College circa 2012 or 2000. With this logic, the midterm elections actually do have more weight given the Electoral College process does not have a say in any state or local elections. As such, it is reasonable to suggest that your vote has more weight during midterms rath-

er than presidential elections.

“It’s hard to vote because I feel like a lot of times it doesn’t make a difference but at the same time I want feel like I do make a difference and feel like I kind of have a influence on my own future,” Rob Bacchioni, a graduate assistant, said.

So with the midterm elections over, what is the message that voters have sent to Capitol Hill? With several major upsets of Democratic incumbents in several senate and gubernatorial races, voters want change for Capitol Hill to get our government to be more effective.

This years midterm elections were also ground breaking for a number of reasons. The state of Utah elected Mia Love, the first ever African American women to be elected into congress.

South Carolina elected Tim Scott, the first African American senator to reside in the south since the reconstruction era, Alex Mooney became the first Latino Elected to congress in West Virginia’s his-

tory and Elise Stefanik became the youngest women in history to be elected to New York’s 21 district at 30-years-old .

Manhattan College’s very own administrator, Provost William Clyde, who is originally from Connecticut, ran for Congress from the Green Party. He was on the ballot for Connecticut’s second district with the hopes of achieving education and health care reform with a focusing ideology on improving the environment.

Even though Clyde was defeated, his candidacy has an impact on Manhattan College because he presented the notion that anyone with determination and passion can seek change.

If there has been anything that we have learned over the years, it is that Congress can make it an absolute hell for any president. So to be real proponents for change, maybe students should place more of an emphasis of our voting rights towards Congressional elections rather than the presidential.

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Online Streaming Services Devalue Art Taylor Swift Pulling Music from Spotify is Evidence of a Larger Issue Kieran Rock

Asst. Features Editor Taylor Swift has made headlines over the past weeks, not only because her new album is selling in record breaking volumes, but because she has also taken her entire music catalog off the popular music streaming website Spotify.

Swift’s decision has been widely talked about, and is part of a larger debate happening in the music industry over the compensation artists’ receive for their work.

“I'm not willing to contribute my life's work to an experiment that I don't feel fairly compensates the writers, producers, artists, and creators of this music,” Swift told Yahoo Music in response to critics who said she pulled her music from the service to generate more album sales.

The decision by Swift is part of a greater issue of unfair compensation for artists who allow their music to be streamed on these websites. As Swift suggested in her interview with Yahoo Music, the face of the music industry is changing and the days of buying a CD in the store are seemingly on their way out.

With music becoming more available on digital platforms, both legal and illegal, the question of artist compensation becomes crucial. Josh Welshman, an Audio Engineer at Flux Studios in Manhattan, says the music industry is feeling the effects of the illegal downloads as well as free streaming services.

“Recorded music, as a generator of revenue, is slumping due to illegal downloading, and any mediums where music can stream for free. The budgets for records are dropping rapidly due to the fact that they don't recoup the investment in record sales,” Welshman said.

From a service like iTunes, where the sale of the album is substantially returned to the artists, to a service like Spotify where each time a song is streamed the artist makes a fractional portion of the sale, or to the problem of illegal downloads and music sharing websites—the music industry and more specifically the artists are finding difficulty in the struggle to be compensated for their work.

The Spotify Problem Taylor Swift is not the only one who thinks that Spotify under compensates their artists. Samantha Bowers, a student at Manhattan College as well as a singersongwriter takes issue with Spotify streaming her own work. Bowers has released full length “I get almost full profit from legal downloads off Rhapsody, Amazon and iTunes. Last Spotify pay period, I had almost 6,000 streams on Spotify and made $26.56. Really,” Bowers said.

Spotify’s website explains their system of revenue which states: “A Spotify Premium user delivers more than 2 x the amount of revenue to the industry (per year) as the average US music consumer currently does. Spotify’s goal is to convince millions of people around the world to become Premium subscribers and by doing so to re-grow the music industry.”

The issue is that artists simply aren't seeing a return for their music. Spotify says that it is delivering twice the amount of revenue into the music industry, but the majority of that profit is not going back to the artist, as traditional album sales would, as the Spotify service pays their revenue back to online distributors and other branches of

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record labels, while keeping thirty percent of the revenue themselves.

For Bowers, who uses an online distribution company to get her music onto Spotify, the money she receives is not close to what she receives for services like iTunes or Amazon.

“I looked back a few pay days and did the math. On average I make 0.00448 cents per stream. So basically 5 thousandths of a cent,” Bowers said.

Beyond the Money Besides the monetary issues for artists that surround online streaming sites like Spotify, issues of undervaluing their work come in other forms. Swift told Yahoo Music, “I just don't agree with perpetuating the perception that music has no value and should be free.”

“I try to stay really open-minded about things, because I do think it's important to be a part of progress. But I think it's really still up for debate whether this is actual progress, or whether this is taking the word "music" out of the music industry,” Swift said.

A larger issue at work is that music becoming digital has lead to music being openly distributed on the internet, illegally and of no benefit to the artist. Not only is there a lack of monetary compensation for the illegal distribution of their work, it places music as an unvalued commodity, as Swift suggested. Often the illegal sharing of the music results in a decrease in its quality, various forms of tampering with the tracks themselves change it from the artists’ original intention and creation.

In terms of illegal downloads, the digital form music is often stolen in can make

it seem like a victimless crime, however it is actually the equivalent of walking into the store and stealing the album itself.

“Music is also art. You wouldn't walk into a museum, take a painting off the wall and walk out with it, no one would let you get away with that. So why can people take music in that manner? It is equally regarded as stealing in my eyes,” Welshman said.

Bowers too has felt the sting of this.

“Ive found some of my stuff on LimeWire and what not, and when I listen to it, I’m not proud of it. It sounds clouded and fuzzy, and often, entire instrument tracks are missing.”

“If I pay a bassist to come in and record over a track and we make something together that we are proud of, and people steal it offline, not only are we both not being paid for our work, his instrument can’t even be heard in the mix,” Bowers said, “It’s not fair to the artist or the listener.”

MC Paying the Price?

For Manhattan College students, the urge might be there to download music illegally rather than paying for it. If accounts like Bower’s aren't enough to deter this urge, an email sent to the Manhattan College community from Michael Carey, Dean of Students, might be. In this email Carey included references to Supreme Court cases in which college students were fined for illegally sharing music.

These type of fines may be unavoidable for students who use illegal music sharing platforms, as Carey’s statement shows. “If presented with a lawful subpoena, the College may be required to disclose the names of those alleged to be violating U.S. Copy-

right law using College systems,” Carey’s notice read.

Whats Next?

Spotify released a statement in reaction to Swift pulling her music from their service. The statement noted that of Spotify’s 40 million users, 16 million played Swift’s music in the 30 days leading up to her decision. Spotify closed the statement with a reference to Swift’s songs, “PS – Taylor, we were both young when we first saw you, but now there’s more than 40 million of us who want you to stay, stay, stay.

It’s a love story, baby, just say, Yes.” Swift does not seem to be taking the matter as lightly, “I didn't like the perception that it was putting forth. And so I decided to change the way I was doing things,” she said in her Yahoo Music interview.

Welshman sees Swifts move as a bold gesture in defense of the workers in the music industry. “Taylor Swift taking her music off Spotify, to me, is a motion to take a stand for us who put so much time and effort into making records,” Welshman said.

Bowers is taking the matter seriously as well, “In the future, I wish I could say I didn’t have to rely on steaming sites and could just use iTunes, but I know that in reality people just don’t want to buy music anymore,” she said.

“Spotify is a great resource to generate attention and get your name and music noticed, but unfortunately online streaming is killing the music business,” Bowers said.

“Artists just aren’t being paid.”

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The Faces Behind the Music in “The Shadow Box” Lauren Carr A&E Editor

When Samantha Bowers was approached by theater director Martin Marchitto to create original music for this fall’s play, “The Shadow Box,” she was quick to say yes. It is an opportunity that any songwriter would immediately jump on. After all, the actors are the ones who truly bring a play to life but it is the music that ties it all together. Bowers, along with George Schlinck, spent one month creating an original score for the drama that centers around three different families who are going through hospice care in this heart wrenching play.

Bowers and Schlinck spent time with the material and realized that the three families in the play all had different themes even though they were all tied to one idea. After creating three different themes the writing process between the two became organic.

“The very first thing that happened was Sammy sending me a voice memo on her phone of her idea for one of the themes. I immediately came up with another idea a half hour later, Schlinck said.

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Dorm Decor Leah Cordova Staff Writer

Dorm rooms. When we first hear the word we automatically think of a shared space. A charming, cozy, crammed, perhaps old, space. Now that we are all settled into our homes away from home, it is the perfect time to peek into our campus's Lasallian abodes. Whether you live in a traditional or suite building, being a "dormer" will always spark creativity.

Through the arrangements of fire-safe twinkle lights, movie posters, and eyecatching tapestries, many college students can add amateur interior designer to their list of achievements.

Horan resident, sophomore Rachel Salcedo, found that best way to make her room re-pin worthy is to literally pin her favorite NYC experiences, like an “All the Way” poster (signed by Bryan Cranston) on her walls.

"I put stuff up that I want to remember because they were good times,” Salcedo said.

Sophomore Jenn Ballingall keeps her Lee Hall dorm trendy with calming tones of blue and gray and completes the aesthetic with Andy Warholisms.

Sophomore Caroline Chu , adds an artsy dynamic and dreamy ambience to her and Jessica Risolo's dorm with folded paper creatures hovering above their beds.

Counting sheep? More like counting cranes.

While the space in Chrystostom my be limiting, residents Matt Ketchum and Liz Anderson, both share a liking for tapestries that bring color and a familiar “sense of home” into their rooms.

Many students on campus add different color tapestries to their rooms. Not only does it add a pop of color to a space, but they really pull a room together and make it a more warm and inviting place.

Tapestries are also never limited to a cool flower or sun design. Sophomore Will Lamparelli has a 3D effect with the howling wolf that looks upon his Jasper dorm.

Although the traditional poster never fails to foster small talk amongst students, a surprising number of the rooms on campus featured quirky decor like handmade crafts and vibrant tapestries, indicating a twist in preferences for the mood and space of a dorm. Every dorm will have distinct character; drab or chic, it’s all up to the resident.

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Students chose to decorate their rooms with many different posters, tapestries and even paper cranes to make it feel more like home.

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More Pep in Their Step

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Devin Keast Staff Writer

After a brief meeting, a little warm-up and fifteen pizzas, Manhattan College's thirty-nine-member pep band hurried out of their Thomas Hall rehearsal space and into the dark and drizzly night in pursuit of an electric Draddy Gymnasium. They were among the first to arrive at the venue, before it would be filled to capacity with citizens of Jasper Nation for this year's Manhattan Madness, christening the 201415 basketball season.

Pizza dinners in a modest rehearsal space encapsulate an image that these particular musicians prefer to carry. Yet, there is something about a pep band effortlessly transitioning from Cascada's "Every time We Touch" to BeyoncĂŠ's "Crazy in Love" that ought to be taken seriously. And when thirty wind-instrumentalists and nine percussionists, hardly allowing themselves any time to even drain a spit valve, roll through a fourteen-song set list with no sheet music, one gets the feeling that these students are out to do things their way.

They are a pep band that other pep bands disregarded, that is, until they found an identity and earned a respect unlike any they had ever known. Trombonist Nora Borsare was finishing her freshman year with the band when, according to her, everything changed.

"The 'Harlem Shake' put us on the map," Borsare said, referring to the 2013 internet meme, which, during the height of its popularity, saw thousands of videos uploaded daily. But, the MC pep band's was among the more popular of those videos.

"Now, we get respect from other bands in the MAAC. Siena loves us. Fairfield loves us. We were just a rinky-dink band. Now, we are the underdogs."

Of course, like so many phenomenons, the "Harlem Shake" eventually ran its course, and after the noise died, Manhattan's pep band had to find ways in which they could continue to be heard.

"To keep up with what songs are new and popular, we constantly watch the Billboard charts, we constantly watch music videos for dances that we might want to learn, and we even watch other college bands,� Borsare said.

Tubist and president of the student-run club, Mike Capozzi, agreed. "We started dancing, we started singing, we had to break some rules."

And the innovativeness has paid off in more ways than one. In addition to earning respect and recognition from their fellow MAAC rivals, the Jasper pep band has also been receiving attention from prospective students. This year, in fact, the band nearly doubled in size.

Trumpeter Christopher Urban-Klein, a freshman, was experiencing his first Manhattan Madness, and everything about it met his expectations of being part of a college pep band.

"Growing-up, watching ESPN broadcasts of college games, I would say to myself, 'I want to do that,'" Urban-Klein said, acknowledging the unavoidable presence of a good pep band. "You can hear them during the broadcast.�

Perhaps that is what is truly special about Manhattan's pep band - their presence is unavoidable, while their enthusiasm is contagious. Rinky-dink roots or a Thomas Hall rehearsal space, as a band, these musicians have come a long way, and they will continue to be among the first to arrive.

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The pep band practiced some new material before the start of Manhattan Madness.

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A Night in the Life:

6:05 P.M.

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Anthony Capote Staff Writer

At exactly 6:05 p.m. last Sunday, I stumbled into the Chapel of De La Salle and his Brothers, rushed past the members of the music ministry towards the open sacristy door.

There stood Father George Hill, donning his usual fleece sweater vest over the iconic attire of any Roman Catholic priest.

“Anthony, there you are,” he said with

a smile as he began showing me around the quaint office that exists next to the altar of the chapel. There are drawers and closets full of robes and dressings that are not only used for the liturgical celebrant, but for the altar as well.

I wasn’t in the chapel five minutes before the man I came to interview started putting me to work.

“Half the reason I asked you to come at six was to help us out,” said Fr. Hill, who has acted as Manhattan College’s chaplain for the last seven years.

Hill, a licensed mental health counselor in the state of New York, spent the previous 15 years providing therapy out of an office at St. Bernard’s church in Greenwich Village. During the same time, he also spent seven years as a chaplain for HIV/AIDS victims at the Bethany house.

“Whenever you come to a new place, you bring all of that stuff with you,” he said as he dressed the altar in a white cloth.

I had come for a special mass, Nov. 2 is the Feast of All Souls. Father George dressed himself and the entire church in

white in preparation for the holy day.

He walked me around the chapel, showing me all the different books which contain the different readings and prayers of the mass. Mass was to be bilingual and Lois Harr, MC director of campus ministry and social action, had come to deliver the homily instead of Hill.

The native of Worcester, MA, which still serves as his home diocese, is known around campus for his weekly meditations on the first floor of Horan Hall.

“I used to work at an abbey near

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Geneseo, New York and they don’t talk there, so I learned a lot about meditation,” Hill said to me as he explained how he likes to mix prayer, psychology and some hypnosis into his meditation sessions.

It wasn’t long before Lois arrived and my interview with Hill took a backseat to watching two of the most influential people in all of campus ministry work together to iron out the kinks of a bilingual mass.

In addition to all of the usual books, readings and prayers, Harr brought the Spanish translations with her along with her own

speech.

Andy Bauer, the director of music, interrupted their discussion to clear the music set list with the celebrant and guest speaker.

After making sure the church was ready, Hill made his way to the front entrance, where he began to put on his white robes for the evening. As students began to file in, he somehow found the time to try to greet each of them, assuring his congregation that he knows and loves them.

“I have always believed in a ministry

of presence, I am almost never in my office because I like to make myself visible to the students if they ever need anything,” Hill said, who likes to spend hours situated in the same section of Locke’s Loft, where anyone can find him.

“Usually I sit and talk with the athletes,” Hill said, who runs a second meditation meeting exclusively for the men’s baseball team at MC. The liturgy went smoothly, and Father Hill concluded the mass by asking students to write the name of a person who had

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passed away in their lifetime on a sheet of paper and bring it to the altar.

The students lined up and suddenly the congregation seemed to double in size.

Almost 200 Jaspers dropped the names of their deceased loved ones into a basket and took turns lighting candles that were set up on the high altar, in front of the portrait of De La Salle and his brothers.

Indeed, Hill’s “ministry of presence” was apparent that night, as almost everyday of his tenure here at Manhattan College.

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The Freshman Files Registration Ally Hutzler Staff Writer

Just as the stress of midterms is starting to dwindle down, there is another issue at hand that is causing our blood pressure to spike above and beyond normal levels: registration.

In case you didn’t get the memo, registration for the spring 2015 semester for us freshmen starts tomorrow morning, Nov. 12.

“I am going to wake up early and register at exactly 7 a.m., I need to beat everyone else if I want to get the classes I am interested in,” freshman communication major Eduardo Rivera said.

With freshmen being the last to register, fighting for the remaining seats in a class is like fighting for your life in “The Hunger Games.” Okay, maybe not that dramatic, but still intense.

But before we can duel to the death for that philosophy class, we have to understand what we are doing. And, despite the overflow of packets and presentations, we still have nightmares about scheduling an 8 a.m. class. Most of all, we are flustered.

“Confused,” freshman Shari Uyehara said when asked how she felt about registration. “I can’t even think of another word, I am that confused.”

Rivera agrees that he was very lost in the beginning of the process, but meetings with his advisors really helped.

“I have two advisors and a quick session with each of them cleared up a lot of issues and answered a lot of my questions,” Rivera added.

But how many advisor meetings and department lectures do we need to attend before we have too much information?

“It’s kind of strange, how many advisors we have. One tells me to do this and another tells me to do that, talk about confusing,” freshman Amanda Critelli said.

Critelli, a communication major and a member of the volleyball team, already registered a week ago with other athletes.

So let’s face it, picking classes in high school was pretty anti-climatic. The biggest decisions we faced were choosing which AP classes to take and what period to schedule lunch. Needless to say, it was boring.

College classes, so far, are proving themselves to be an entirely different breed in terms of curriculum. Sure, we have core classes we have to get over with, which Rivera isn’t a fan of.

“I hate having to take three science classes for the school of arts,” he said.

But we also get to pick from a broad range of really unique and interesting classes.

“I am really excited to take some of the courses I picked for next semester. I signed up for a religion course called ‘Jesus.’ I mean, how cool is that?” Critelli said.

The greater choice is liberating, but also a little nerve-wracking. There are so many options and so little time to decide.

The good news is that you can choose and schedule classes based on your preferences, something high school couldn’t offer.

Registration for freshman goes active online at 7 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12. Good luck, and may the odds be ever in your favor.

Nov. 11, 2014

LIVE on the Air: Sean Sonnemann Web Editor

1972 - Julio Vazquez and Jacob Sanok emerge bleary-eyed from Manhattan College’s radio station facilities.

For the past 83 hours and 15 minutes, the two student disc jockeys have remained awake playing music, conducting interviews and providing commentary to those tuning in around campus.

The pair abandoned sleep in order to break the school record for most consecutive hours on the air. Their stunt was pulled not only for bragging rights, but also to attract more listeners to station WRCM. Turn the dial to the year 2014. Studios A and B sit empty on the fifth floor of Thomas Hall. The blue “On-Air” lights above the locked doors to the studios have gone dark. The only record now seemingly being broken by WRCM? Most consecutive hours of silence.

Kerry Walsh 1993/Courtesy of Bob Stei

“The Station That Rocked One Whole Block” WRCM was arguably at its peak during a period that began in the ’70s and lasted up until the mid ’90s. The 1979 Manhattanite yearbook described WRCM as “a symbol of the competence and creativity of Manhattan students.”

During that time period, the radio operated as a carrier current station. A once popular format for college radio, carrier current stations do not require a formal license from the Federal Communications Commission. Instead, phone and power lines boost the strength of locally transmitted AM radio waves.

Listeners could pick up the often fuzzy signal by tuning to 850 on their own AM dial. Over the years, new transmitters and thorough renovations of the station temporarily improved the range of the broadcast.

Yet frequently, it did not reach far beyond the physical limits of the college’s campus and was spotty even in some of the dorms.

Still, the strength or quality of the signal did not hold back the students who wanted to get their voices and choice of music spread throughout campus. Bob Stei, now a professional DJ who has worked at over 20 radio stations throughout his career, got his start at WRCM—or as it was affectionately known in his day, “The Station that Rocked One Whole Block.”

“It didn’t really matter if it was only a few people listening,” Stei said. “It was a group of people that were interested in radio and having fun for a few hours and playing their music.”

A graduate of the class of 1993, Stei would have two notebooks open on his desk as he sat in class. One was for the material being taught by his professor, the other for jotting down ideas and jokes in preparation for his Sunday night shows. “I still have dreams of being there and being on the air,” he said.

Stei, like other students over the years, used his time at WRCM to break into a career in the radio industry. Additional members of the station’s staff spent hours tweaking electrical and audio equipment, hands-on practice for future technical and engineering positions.

Yet for many of the Manhattan College students who worked on the station, it was purely a labor of love. Not practice for a future profession, but simply an opportunity to be heard.

During Stei’s time with WRCM in the early ’90s, a crew of 30 or so students mainly stuck to playing music over the airwaves during their daily broadcast. Back

Charles Keene 1982/Courtesy of Manhattan College Archives in 1980, a staff 70 members distributed news reports and public service announcements, in addition to providing students with a way to hear all of the top hits. Using a state of the art “mobile sports system,” the station was even able to broadcast live the 1982 Battle of the Bronx, the annual Manhattan-Fordham basketball game hosted at Draddy Gymnasium.

Throughout the 1980s, The Quadrangle routinely published a schedule notifying the times that specific DJs would be spinning on the air. Readers of the paper could also find advertisements for song requests in the weeks leading up to Valentine’s Day. Jaspers looking to dedicate a song to that special someone could cut out the printed request form and drop it off in the station’s mailbox.

Aside from their work up in the studios on the fifth floor of Thomas Hall, WRCM sponsored several events in Plato’s Cave, now Café 1853. Live performances by bands, lip sync competitions and coffeehouses showcasing student musicians all brought the radio station a physical presence to accompany their work over the airwaves. In Plato��������������������������� ’�������������������������� s and other school cafeterias, students ate with the sounds and tunes of WRCM flavoring their meals.

How exactly then, did such a vibrant part of the Manhattan College community go silent?

The Day the Music Died?

Legend has it that several intrepid students once found a way to expand the range of the radio station’s signal beyond the boundaries of campus. They were said to be so successful that they somehow were able to bounce WRCM’s broadcast off the George Washington Bridge.

However, their feat caught the attention

of the FCC. Not only was the signal outside of the appropriate zone for the station, but it also interfered with the broadcast of a commercial radio station. WRCM was then subsequently banned from having an FM or AM license for an extended period of time, while the college was also allegedly fined $100,000.

While no precise date comes with the story, many have been told that the incident happened in the 1990s. Stei, however, was WRCM’s program director during his senior year in 1993. According to him, the story of the FCC ban was a tale that even predated his time at the station.

A piece written by a WRCM disc jockey in the April 27, 1999 issue of The Quadrangle claims the 20 year license ban was set to be rescinded in 2001. He urged the college�������������������������������� ’������������������������������� s administration to begin fundraising efforts in order to expand WRCM to a fully-fledged station once the ban was lifted.

However, another guest piece published in The Quadrangle on Sept. 5, 2000 cites the ban�������������������������������� ’������������������������������� s expiration in 2002. Conflictingly, that DJ claims the ban only prohibited WRCM from operating on the FM band. Either way, that would place the date of the incident at some point around 1981 or 1982.

A look through the archives of The Quadrangle during the early ’80s yields no mention of a ban or any incident involving the FCC. On the contrary, the station appeared to be at its strongest. An article from 1981 details the completion of a new studio, led by the efforts of then general manager Charles Keene.

Keene could not be reached for comment.

A longtime member of the Manhattan College community, Brother Robert Berger graduated from MC in 1973 and later

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Janine Katanic 1991/Courtesy of Bob Stei

Jerry Bocker 1979/Courtesy of Manhattan College Archives Twins Michael and Marco Posillico 1983/Courtesy of Manhattan College Archives

Bob Stei 1991/Courtesy of Bob Stei Student DJs 1979/Courtesy of Manhattan College Archives returned to the college to teach. “That’s the first time I’m hearing that story,” Berger said when asked about the details of the supposed ban.

“We never applied for a license so that we could be heard off-campus,” Berger said.

Another article in The Quadrangle about WRCM’s growth in 1987 supports this fact. Station leaders at the time cited high financial costs as the reason for not switching from carrier current format to a regular AM or FM broadcast, rather than any sort of ban restricting their efforts.

Additionally, the FCC database for active and expired licenses provides only one entry for Manhattan College, a now active Land Mobile Radio License used for internal radio communication.

An interesting story and urban legend, the evidence (or lack thereof) points to it being just that. If it was not a fine or ban that pulled the plug on WRCM, what did kill the Manhattan College radio star?

“A Relic of the Past” During the late 1990s, WRCM seemingly began its period of decline. A Nov. 10, 1998 front-page headline in The Quadrangle asked “WRCM – Where are you?”

During renovations of the fifth floor of Thomas Hall throughout the summer of ’������������������������������������������� 98, critical wires for the station��������� ’�������� s transmission were damaged, silencing the radio in Dante’s Den, Locke’s Loft and Plato’s Cave. While the transmission was still available in the Jasper and Chrysostom residence halls and through MC-TV, Thomas

Hall served then as the hub of student life.

Although students and administration successfully worked to restore the transmission lines over winter break of that following academic year, the station could not fully bounce back. A Quadrangle article in the spring of 1999 acknowledged that the station “was in shambles.”

Over the next few years, WRCM saw momentary periods of revival, with intermittent student interest and much-needed equipment updates. At one point in 2002, students at the station even enlisted the help of professional DJ GI, affiliated at the time with Yonkers-based rap group Sporty Thievz.

After years of petitioning the college’s administration, WRCM eventually shifted online during the mid 2000s. At first, the station was available only internally through the college’s intranet, JasperNet, where it remained as recent as 2009. Finally, the station was then allowed to have a stream accessible to anyone on the Internet, a popular option for college radio stations in the 21st century.

A search online for WRCM radio brings up the links to their streaming service and website. Next to the play button now reads the epitaph, “No streams available.”

Current senior physics major Andrew Baumgartner became involved with WRCM his freshman year at the college, hosting a show with his roommates. He then worked his way up the position of business manager and eventually became an engineer for the station, responsible for the physical equipment and hardware.

During the 2012-2013 academic year,

the station was having difficulties with its streaming service, crippling the station for an entire semester. The seniors in charge of the station at the time then began the process of transitioning to a new streaming platform. “They graduated and didn�������� ’������� t really finish the job,” Baumgartner said. “Now we really don’t have a complete service.”

Fellow senior Caroline Heimerl tried to get involved with WRCM when she transferred to MC, but it was already too late.

Her frequent attempts to join the station and help get it restarted over the course of several semesters proved unsuccessful. “I feel like a lot of people had already given up,” Heimerl said.

Mark Pottinger, chair of the college’s visual and performing arts department, is the current advisor to WRCM. While he has assisted several groups of students over the years with station-related paperwork and problems, he claims the impetus must ultimately come from them.

“The problem with these clubs is that you have a couple students that are just amazingly sacrificing themselves and their time to make it happen,” Pottinger said.

“Then they graduate, or they are in an internship, or their life basically happens and it complicates the club and then there is no one to pick up the slack. And that has happened often with the radio station.”

Perhaps an additional problem for the success of the station is the lack of support from an academic program that directly aligns with it. Pottinger, however, doesn’t necessarily see that as a drawback.

“It seems like the students want it to remain outside the academic world, for it

to be a place where can they sort of let go of their studies and engage a world where it’s just them and the music, talking to the people listening,” he said.

If the radio station was ever to be absorbed under one of the college’s academic departments, the communication department seems a fitting choice. Chair of the department Thom Gencarelli said he would be open to doing so, but so far hasn’t been approached. “We were never asked to get involved,” he said.

“It is kind of interesting why we have let this thing fall by the wayside,” Gencarelli said. “We had a station, why don’t we have it anymore? I think that is an important question for the college.”

Brother Robert Berger has seen the station periodically rise and fall in his many years at the college. “It alternates between student initiative and student apathy.”

However, this most recent loss of the radio may be something more than a routine lack of student involvement.

The music industry is still trying to find its identity and business model in the everchanging digital landscape. When customizable music streaming services like Spotify and Pandora have become widespread, it has been challenging for classical format radio stations to compete.

“It’s the year 2014, people have their own taste in music and they plug up their ears, and they’re not interested in someone else choosing what they are going to listen to,” Berger said.

“It’s almost like it’s a relic of the past.”

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Nov. 11, 2014

Women’s Basketball to Start Season Friday

Kevin Fuhrmann/The Quadrangle The women’s team was projected to finish seventh in the MAAC preseason poll.

Jaclyn Marr

Asst. Sports Editor The 2014-2015 season is approaching for the Manhattan College women’s basketball team. After a tough loss in the exhibition game against Adelphi on Nov. 7, the team will start its season at home on Nov. 14 when they host Fairleigh Dickinson.

Preparations for the Season

As Manhattan prepares for the season, one thing that is important to them is their young players. They have nine underclassmen, including five freshmen. They increased the depth of the team and have been looking strong early on.

“The team is working very hard,” head coach Olenowski said. “We have a lot of young players that are learning the college game. I’m happy with their work ethic at this point, and we’re excited to kick off the season.”

“Going into the season, we’re looking to get a lot of people playing,” junior Jacqui Thompson said. “We have a ton of players who can contribute so I think getting people in and out is what we’re looking to do.”

Another aspect of the game that has been helpful to the team is communication.

Key things such as getting the younger players used to the game and players stepping up as leaders have improved the team and helped them get ready for the season.

“We have great team chemistry,” Shayna Ericksen said, “which is good especially because we are a young team.

Look for Improvements The team is ready for the new season and knows what they need and want to improve on from last year. After winning their first game of the season last year, they went on to a tough eight-game losing streak before winning back-to-back games again.

“We need to get off to a better start than we did last season,” Olenowski said.

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Taylor Williams is one of the five freshmen making an impact on the team.

“We need to be more consistent on the defensive end and improve on depth from last year, which I think is going to be one of our strengths.”

Things such as defense, rebounds and team communication are what they are working on to develop better. Ericksen emphasized rebounding and that the team had some flaws with them last year.

“Our transition game could be a lot better this year,” Jaqui Thompson said.

“We’re very athletic. We have a lot of young and athletic players, so looking to get the ball out and push it up the floor will definitely be better than it was last year.”

Key Aspects “We have a good comfort level and it’s a big advantage for us,” Coach Olenowski said of the team’s eight-game home stand.

Important things that will help the

team this season are their home games and young players. Fifteen out of their 29 games are at Draddy Gymnasium. This includes the home stand for about a month in December.

“That’s going to be big for us,” Thompson said. “We’re a young team so playing on the court that we do everyday will really help us out a lot.”

The five freshmen have been making a strong impression on the team early on. Three of them started in the exhibition game. Nyasha Irizarry and freshman redshirt Kayla Grimme helped with a 15 and 10-point contribution respectively.

“Hopefully they’re just going to get better and better,” Olenowski said, “and that will help our program continue to get better.

It’s nice knowing we will have them for the next four years.”

“I think its good,” Ericksen said. “We’ve got a lot of time to play together. People will get experience. We have a deep team so we can play multiple players.”

Overall Season Goals Like every team before a new season, the Jaspers are setting goals within the MAAC conference and general goals of winning games and proving themselves to other teams.

“Our goal is to finish in the top four of the conference,” Olenowski said. “We’ve been able to do this in 3 of 5 years, so that is our initial goal. That takes us into the conference tournament and, at that point, we want to be prepared to win that MAAC conference.”

Both Ericksen and Thompson agreed that proving other teams wrong is an important thing to the team this season. The team has great of talent and they are ready to win.

“A lot of teams aren’t expecting us to be anything special,” Thompson said. “I think we are something special so my goal is to upset a ton of teams that aren’t expecting much from us.”

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Women’s Basketball Team Loses Late in Preseason Exhibition Anthony Capote Staff Writer

Point guard Jacqui Thompson will look to take over the role Allison Skrec played last season. Photo by Kevin Fuhrmann.

The Jaspers suffered a brutal loss in the final seconds of Friday night’s exhibition against the Adelphi Panthers, a Division II team.

After building an early lead in the first and much of the second half, the Jaspers struggled late and lost 75-72.

The Jaspers came right out of the gate playing strong defense and found frequent success scoring down low. The team was able to place a seven-point lead between them and the Panthers before opposing guard Lauren Nuss scored nine consecutive, unanswered points to bring her team back into the game.

“I think we just got out-hustled on certain plays, and I think we’ve got to go back to the drawing board and come together as a team,” Jaqui Thompson, Manhattan’s junior guard, said.

At the start of the game, it was hard to imagine the Panthers keeping up with the Japsers, who were firing off of all cylinders. In the second half, though, the team began making sloppy mistakes.

A missed rotation here, a bad box-out there, and Adelphi had come back to tie the game with six minutes left in the contest.

“I think we came out with a lot of energy early, and that started to die down later in the game,” Thompson said, who scored 11 points on Friday night.

Overall, the Jaspers had a high-performing night on the offensive end of the

Kevin Fuhrmann/The Quadrangle

Point guard Jacqui Thompson will look to take over the role Allison Skrec played last season. floor with four players scoring in double digits, and junior Shayna Ericksen leading all scorers with 18 points.

“I think my teammates helped me get open,” Ericksen, who shot 80 percent from the field on 10 shots, said. “It’s just about being focused and confident when you shoot.”

The Jaspers have to attribute its loss to the poor defense late in the game, which allowed far too many open looks to Nuss

– who scored 12 points on four three-point field goals – and to scorers in the paint.

“Toward the end we lost a little bit of our communication,” Ericksen said, who also blamed defensive lapses for the loss.

“It’s definitely an eye-opener and a lesson learned.”

Going into the regular season, the team certainly has some points they know they to work on. However, this game was not a total loss.

The Jaspers showed that they have a lot of scoring ability, especially in its young talents, like freshman guard Nyasha Irizarry, who also scored in double digits against the Panthers and made a tying three in the final minute.

“We can learn a lot from [this game], watch film, watch our offense, watch our defense and make sure we communicate on defense,” Ericksen said.

Inside the Numbers: MBB Season Outlook Daniel Ynfante Staff Writer

Note: “Inside the Numbers” will be a column dedicated to highlighting interesting stats and numbers from the 2014-2015 Manhattan College men’s basketball team.

You do not have to be a math major to like numbers. In fact, all you have to be is a sports fan.

In an age where fantasy sports, saber metrics and day-to-day stats are prevalent in the sports world, there is no denying that numbers in relation to sports are unavoidable.

With that in mind, here are a few numbers relevant to the Manhattan College men’s basketball team.

TWO: When the season kicks off on Nov. 15, the Jaspers will begin their quest for their second back-to-back NCAA Tournament bid in school history. The Jaspers reached the NCAA Tournament in consecutive seasons in 2003 and 2004 and after making it in 2014, they will be looking to get there again in 2015.

“I’m really excited about this year for Manhattan basketball,” head coach Steve Masiello said in a conference call following the 2014 MAAC Preseason Show.

“We have a chance to obviously defend the MAAC Championship and go to the NCAA. We want to keep that momentum going and try to build on that.”

However, it will not be easy for the Jaspers, who will have to adjust to life without arguably the greatest senior class in the school’s history in Michael Alvarado, George Beamon and Rhamel Brown.

THREE: Three is the both the ranking the Jaspers were given in the MAAC preseason coaches’ poll and the number of seniors on this season’s team.

The conference’s 11 head coaches voted on their top 11 teams for the MAAC preseason rankings and Manhattan came in third with a total of 97 points. In front of the Jaspers were the Siena Saints in second place with 107 points and the Iona Gaels in first place with 112 points.

Emmy Andujar, Donovan Kates and RaShawn Stores highlight the 2015 senior class for the Jaspers. The starting lineups have yet to be set, and Masiello is known for juggling lineups, but all signs point that Stores and Andujar will start for Manhattan and Kates will come off the bench.

However, whether as starters or bench players, Andujar, Kates and Stores will undoubtedly be counted on as upperclassmen to be leaders on the team.

They were Masiello’s first recruits when he joined Manhattan in 2011 and for that, Masiello will always be grateful.

“This senior class is a different class,” Masiello said about Andujar, Kates and Stores during the conference call. “It’s kind of the class that’s responsible for coming in and getting this program to where it is today.”

FIVE: Five is the number of newcomers on the team. The Jaspers will count on four freshman in Samson Akilo, Calvin Crawford, Samson Usilo and Zane Waterman. Also new to the team, is Jermaine Lawrence, who is a sophomore transfer from the Cincinnati Bearcats.

The five new additions might dwindle to four however, as Samson Usilo picked up a serious quad injury that might sideline him for the rest of the season.

In Crawford and Waterman, Manhattan gets two players who can play either forward position and can stretch the floor.

During the exhibition game against LIU Post on Nov. 8, Waterman showed glimpses of his shooting ability, connecting on

two three pointers from the top of the key.

In Akilo and Lawrence, Manhattan gets added depth to its front line that will no longer feature Rhamel Brown.

But Lawrence might mean more to the Jaspers than just added depth. Against LIU Post, the 6-foot-10 forward drained 3 of his 4 three-point attempts and finished the night with 15 points in only 18 minutes.

Lawrence was a five star recruit when he joined Cincinnati last season. However, injuries plagued him throughout his freshman year and Lawrence played in only 26 games posting 2.8 points and 2.9 rebounds per game.

Now, with a new beginning ahead of him, and coming to a team in which he will not be counted on to be a star, Lawrence might just surprise some people and prove his five star recruit tag.

SIX: Six is the number of consecutive road games Manhattan will start its season with. The Jaspers will face Florida State, Massachusetts, Binghamton, Navy or Northeastern, George Mason and Fairfield before finally playing their first home game on Dec. 7.

Five of the first six games are against non-conference opponents.

The first two games of the season will be a huge test for Manhattan. Against Florida State, the Jaspers will have to confront a team that made it to the 2014 NIT Semifinals. In Massachusetts, the Jaspers will see a team that reached the second round of the 2014 NCAA Tournament.

NINE: Nine Jaspers return to the team from last season. Andujar, Kates and Stores are joined by Carlton Allen, Trevor Glassman, Ashton Pankey, Shane Richards, Rich Williams and Tyler Wilson as returning members.

Team depth will be a key strength for the Jaspers this season, who will need the

team as a whole to make up for the scoring prowess of Alvarado, Beamon and Brown.

The trio scored a combined 48 percent of the team’s total points last season and Manhattan will have to look for several players to replace those scoring numbers.

One of those guys Manhattan can count on is Pankey. Against LIU Post, Pankey had 17 points and nine rebounds. With the loss of Brown, Pankey is poised for a big season. He will get more looks in the post and will be counted on as a rim protector.

23: With 142 career three pointers made, Shane Richards is 23 threes away from tying Manhattan’s all-time record of 165 held by Devon Austin.

It is likely that Richards, who has averages 2.2 threes made per game in his career, will break the record by the end of December. At his current pace, when it is all said and done for Richards’ career at Manhattan College, he will have shattered the three-point record.

178: Emmy Andujar is 178 points away from 1,000 points in his collegiate career. The senior posted a career high in total points last season with 285 so it is safe to say that barring injury, he will surpass the 1,000-career point mark by sometime in the midway point of the season.

Andujar will see the ball in his hands a bit more this season, as Masiello has hinted that Andujar will play a point-forward role for the team. Against LIU Post, Andujar started at point guard. He registered 12 points and nine rebounds, but had six turnovers. He will have to limit his turnovers if he will play point guard for the Jaspers.

“I’m just trying to be more aggressive,” Andujar said about his role on the team this season. “Obviously, I had six turnovers, so that’s something I’ve got to fix.”

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It’s Ashton Pankey’s Time

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Ashton Pankey throws one down against LIU Post.

Chris Cirillo Sports Editor

It was the second half of the NCAA Tournament and the Jaspers were trailing by three points to the defending NCAA champions, the Louisville Cardinals.

With Rhamel Brown getting a breather, Ashton Pankey was sole offensive player in the paint, guarded by Montrezl Harrell, a 2014-2015 Associated Press Preseason All-American.

Pankey fought with all 236 pounds of Harrell in the paint, and wrestled his way to gain a good position, allowing Tyler Wilson to throw an entry pass for an easy two point layup to bring the Jaspers within one.

In the biggest game of his young career, Pankey at times looked like the best player on the court. He finished with a season-high 16 points to go along with just five rebounds. Although the Jaspers lost, Pankey flashed moments of brilliance and

showed signs of what was to come.

Last season was Pankey’s first time on the court since the 2012-2013 season when he played for Maryland. Pankey was forced to sit out for a season after he transferred to Manhattan due to NCAA transfer regulations, and it may have slowed him down a bit last season.

He started his first five games averaging just 5.4 points and 4.2 rebounds per game, while also fouling out two out of those five games. He ended the season averaging 7.1 points per game and 4.3 rebounds per game.

While the stats may have not popped off of the stat sheet, they never had to.

With guys like George Beamon, Mike Alvarado, Shane Richards and Emmy Andujar, Pankey never had to carry the offensive load.

This season, however, is different.

Beamon and Alvarado are gone, and more importantly, big man Rhamel Brown is also gone. The senior class was respon-

sible for 50 percent of the team’s scoring last season, and Brown’s departure frees up space in the paint.

With the addition of forward Jermaine Lawrence, a 6-foot-10-inch big man who can spread the floor with his ability to shoot from the outside, it leaves the paint open for Pankey.

In the scrimmage against Division II opponent LIU Post, Pankey continued from where he left off last season, scoring 17 points and snagging nine rebounds in just 23 minutes.

“I want to dominate,” Pankey said after the win against LIU Post. “I want to take over the league, and I want to come in to every game as the best player on the court.

That’s my mindset every game. As long as I continue to do that, good things will happen.”

Pankey was picked to the All-MAAC Third Team in the preseason poll by the MAAC head coaches, and he isn’t happy about it.

Head coach Steve Masiello talked about

the added trust he has in Pankey this season, something he didn’t have last season.

With just under eight minutes remaining in the scrimmage against LIU Post, Pankey had four fouls, but Masiello decided to let him play.

“He told me ‘coach, I’m good, I got it,’” Masiello said. “A year ago, I would have never done that. But I think that says so much about him and where he’s gone.

We have that relationship now where the trust is there, where it might not have been there a year ago. So, I rely on him. If he tells me he’s got him, I trust him. He’s earned that right.”

Pankey recorded at least four fouls in 52 percent of games last season, so he spent a good amount of time on the bench because of foul trouble, limiting his oncourt production.

With Masiello’s added trust in Pankey, it is just another reason he is due for a breakout season.

“We lost a lot of pieces, and it’s my time to step up,” Pankey said.