Issue 12, Spring 2016 - The Quadrangle

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In Anticipation of New South Campus, a Look at the Making of the Campus We Know Today Michelle DePinho Senior Writer

It’s 1914 and you’re standing on your newly purchased, densely forested block of 14 acres of land. The walk up the dirt road around your pristine tract reminds you of just how far you are from the rambunctious hustle of city life. You stand on the edge of the property and try to form a picture in your mind of what it will become.

While the exact narrative of this scene has been lost to time, one could imagine that Manhattan College’s Christian Brothers’ first encounter with what would become their new campus was likely similar to that.

When they stared into that forest, it’s unlikely they pictured the campus it is today – bursting at the seams and at the core of a lively neighborhood where the trees can (probably) be counted on two hands.

What’s more is that today’s Manhattan College sits on the brink of a new expansion. As it embarks on its campus master plan, the college is preparing to revitalize facilities and even build a new residence hall, pivoting off the strategy that began with building the Kelly Student Commons just years ago.

Looking to the future is best contextualized by examining the past, particularly, the history of the physical campus that will be experiencing a partial makeover come 2020.

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Dorian Persaud Wins Election for Student Body President Jack Melanson Assistant Editor

The 2016-2017 Student Government elections are now over after weeks of campaigning. Votes were tallied and party lines were crossed as members of Quadline Bling and the Quad Squad both were victorious.

Some members will be returning to their current positions, some have ran for a different position and won, and others will be entering their first term at Manhattan College.

Dorian Persaud and Michael Szczech will become student body president and executive vice president. Nich Weyland and Tiffanie McIntosh currently hold those positions and will be finishing out the rest of the 2016 school year as their final term.

Weyland discussed his loss for a second term as president. “ I guess it hasn’t really sunk in yet,” Weyland said. “I’m grateful for my opportunity, but I feel like I’m letting people down.”

Weyland also spoke of some of the accomplishments that Student Government made this academic year.

“We built a team in student government

and I think we helped build awareness of the presence of student government,” Weyland said. “ We [2015-2016 Student Government] accomplished the things that we set out to do, I’m happy we were able to do it.”

Persaud, who will become president next school year, is among the lot of first timers when it comes to student government. However he currently holds other leadership roles on campus, one of which is his position as an RA for Chrysostom Hall. “ I have confidence in myself as a leader,” Persaud said. “But regardless, I want to work to make nobody feel excluded.”

Szczech, the soon to be executive vice president, has previous experience with Student Government but was removed from his position for reasons that were not disclosed.

Nicole Fella won her campaign for the vice president for academic affairs, a job that is currently held by George Schlinck.

Olivia Siller and Mahamoud Diop are assuming the roles of vice president for residential affairs and vice president for club administration. Currently, Paige Hughes and Ivan Bohorquez hold those positions.

Micaela Bishop will replace Kaitlin Lang as vice president for commuter af-

fairs. Bishop is currently the junior class representative.

The vice President for Social Life has been named Allison Ready. Ready is replacing Nicholas Scanga.

The new Vice President for Communication is Allie Yamashiro, who will be taking over for Natalie Heinitz.

The vice president for finance will remain Matthew Mattera. Mattera is the only current member of the executive board to keep his position for next year.

Senior Class Representatives will be Sean Potter and Madison Swenton, Alannah Boyle will represent the junior class, and Megan Haber will represent the sophomore class alongside Alexander Constantine.

There are also two positions available for Freshman Representative which will be filled after their arrival on campus.

Freshman Representative elections will be held early next fall.

The School of Education Representative will be Kaitlyn von Runnen, Elizabeth Bruchansky will represent the School of Science, LisaMarie Nilaj will represent the School of Engineering, and Timothy Gress will represent the School of Arts along with Kyle Clancy.

What’s in a Name Manhattan College’s moniker, despite its current location in The Bronx, is not the product of some bizarre clerical error or marketing ploy. Rather, the name is accurate to the college’s original location in the Manhattan neighborhood that is now known as Harlem.

The school was established in 1853 by the Christian Brothers, starting as a high school for underprivileged boys, seeking to enhance their learning experience by teaching a blend of practical subjects and the liberal arts. As the school grew, added college courses and expanded its reach, it took the name of Manhattan College in 1861 and was chartered by the New York State Board of Regents in 1863.

The college’s campus was tucked into the northeast corner of 131st Street and Broadway, with property extending up to 133rd Street and flanked by Old Broadway on its easternmost side. Old Broadway, a road that appears to be a meandering kink in Broadway and links 131st street and 133rd street while bypassing 132nd street, is actually “the sole survivor of the original route of the famous Bloomingdale Road,” The New York Times wrote in a piece about the college in 1925. In the 18th Century, the Bloomingdale Road was the premier route into the Upper West Side, so much so that the properties clustered around it were coined the Bloomingdale District. Only after it was repaved, widened, straightened and linked to other main roads was the artery then dubbed Broadway in 1899.

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Ally Hutzler Editor-in-Chief Sean Sonnemann Managing Editor Anthony Capote News Editor Kyleigh Panetta Jack Melanson Asst. News Editors Kieran Rock Features Editor/Managing Editor Tara Marin Asst. Features Editor Lindsey Burns Arts & Entertainment Editor Victoria Hernández Asst. Arts & Entertainment Editor Daniel Ynfante Sports Editor RikkiLynn Shields Asst. Sports Editor

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To the Manhattan College Community, This past year serving as your Student Body President has been more than I ever could have imagined. I got to meet and work with some incredible people and I can’t thank you all enough for trusting in me to make a positive change here at Manhattan College. I’m proud of the team around me for their continual support and hard work in accomplishing our goals.

We set out to bring professionalism, a greater presence, and connectivity to Student Government. I’m happy to say we did it.

I loved hearing from the Students, Faculty, Staff, and Administration and working towards enhancing our Lasallian Mission. After all the new projects and work we did this year I could not be more proud to be a Jasper and to have had this opportunity. I can’t thank the Manhattan College community enough for believing in me and allowing me to serve as your Student Body President.

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Inside This Year’s ROI Numbers Victoria Hernández & Daniel Molina Assistant Editor & Editor

With continually rising costs of a college education, return on investment (ROI) is often considered one of the most important parameters by which high school students make decisions about which institution of higher education they would like to attend.

In 2014 and 2015, Manhattan College was ranked among the top 20 private and public institutions in the United States.

According to PayScale’s 2016 annual College Return on Investment Report, Manhattan College is the top Catholic college for earning potential and career readiness upon graduation. PayScale is a company that collects data and specializes in “compensation models that provide better intelligence for companies and employees,” according to their website.

The results of this report are based on the typical income post graduation and the type of employment the graduate gets minus the college attendance cost.

“They [the alumni] take an online survey that asks about their jobs and salary and

they are informed if they are paid appropriately in comparison with other people that have their same skills. That data, work history and educational background are the main factors of the study,” Lydia Frank, senior editorial director at PayScale, said.

According to the Manhattan College website, its 20-year net return on investment is $615,000. Following graduation, Manhattan College students earn a typical median mid-career salary (10+ years experience in their field) of $112,000.

A large number of former students are employed in the civil engineering services industry; in fact, it is the most popular job sector for this population.

“STEM careers like Engineering and Math earn higher salaries than Liberal Art students,” Frank said.

Manhattan College alumni and current students maintain strong and healthy relations. It’s because of these connections that results like the one presented by PayScale are obtained.

“We have been following these results very closely, speaking with people from coast to coast […] and what the report is suggesting is that, it’s really our alumni the ones who earn their success,” Thomas McCarthy, director of the alumni relations office, said.

“Success stories are countless” McCarthy said. “The publication [of this report] helps our alumni be more excited about involving themselves in the school, either financially or simply in some of the events we organize to bring them together.”

McCarthy also believes that it doesn’t matter if the college pairs a sophomore and someone who graduated in 1968 together.

“They will still connect in so many levels because they, most likely, had a very similar college experience based on the Manhattan College ideals,” McCarthy said.

The admissions office, in charge of recruiting the upcoming Jaspers follows this data closely. Being one of the most important aspects in the decision making of a high school student and his or her family, the admissions office also uses these rankings to attract more prospects to the Lasallian institution.

“I think students and parents are becoming more savvy about their college selection process because of the cost of college tuition these days,” Caitlin Read, executive director of Admissions and Enrollment Operations, said.

Also On Campus Jack Melanson Asstistant Editor

Sigma Tau Delta’s Read Aloud This past Wednesday, April 20, Sigma Tau Delta performed their annual read aloud, reading “Northanger Abbey” by Jane Austen aloud in the quad for any passing student to hear. Sigma Tau Delta is Manhattan College’s English Honors society.

Student’s were encouraged to read any length of the book aloud, and Sigma TD was happy with the level of participation.

The entire novel was finished during the day.

The read aloud was to increase interest in reading and build a sense of community around the English department.

A guest lecturer also came to speak on the topics of Jane Austen and social media.

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Raymond Kelly visited campus to sign and hand out copies of his book “Vigilance” this past Wednesday, April 20.

Being on an accepted students day, Kelly greeted current students as well perspective students and their families in the Kelly Student Commons, a building that was named after him in 2014.

Raymond Kelly Graduated from Manhattan College is 1963 and later became the New York City police commissioner.

International Lasallian Leadership and Global Understanding Program The International Lasallian Leadership and Global Understanding Program is seeking student leaders to travel to Mexico this July to work for social justice, improve leadership skills, gain global perspectives, and continue to develop the traits of a true Lasallian.

Forty Lasallian college students will come together July 3 through July 16. Eligible Jasper students are both invited and encouraged to apply.

The trip will specifically take place in Mexico City and Cuernavaca.

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Manhattan College Games to Give Children with Disabilities Chance to Compete Taylor Brethauer Assistant Editor

Students at Manhattan College are no strangers to volunteer work and the annual Manhattan College Games are no exception.

The Games invite children and adults with mental and physical disabilities from around the area to participate in athletic events. Sponsored by the department of kinesiology and with the Alpha Eta Chapter of the Phi Epsilon Kappa honors society, the Games have been held at the school since their founding in 1979.

This year, the event will be held on Saturday, April 30 from 9am to 12:30pm in Draddy Gymnasium where Jeff Cherubini, chair of the kinesiology department and Tedd Keating, advisor for the National Honor Fraternity, expect about 120 participants along with hundreds of student volunteers.

Students who volunteer are typically kinesiology majors or are in the school of science, but any student can join in the event. However, students who are in the adapted physical education classes and adapted exercising sport class are able to have a great hands-on experience with volunteering and eventually planning and leading in the future.

“It’s a lot of fun for both the participants and our students. It’s a great learning experience for them. I think ‘joy’ is a word I would use to describe the day because that is what both groups are feeling,” said Cherubini.

The participants range from children to adults, with a wide range of disabilities, but both Keating and Cherubini agree that the most important part is that they are together and doing activities they had not thought they would be good at. By bowling, jumping on a trampoline or dancing (to name a few activities) there is hope that they continue this even after the Games as a way to get some exercise and have fun

with others.

“You may think of [the Games] as a small thing, but I think it’s a small thing that has a large impact. Some of these people may say ‘oh, I can do this’ and hopefully they’ll continue doing these things a little bit more as a result of this,” Keating said.

Since the first Manhattan College Games in 1979 were started by previous faculty members Dr. J. Carl Bennett and Bill Byron, the groups who attend have grown in number because it is an annual event that these groups from around NYC and Yonkers look forward to coming to. A lot of these places don’t get to do activities like the Games so it’s a special occasion for them and the students and faculty who help work it as well.

Cherubini and Keating both have memories that stand out for them like a hug from a participant or the look of utter joy on someone’s face who is particpating. Something as small as that makes the three-hour event—complete with a parade, entertainment and awards ceremony—so special to the community and school.

“There was one young woman the entire [impromptu dance session] who had a smile on her face and she was just unbelievably happy just being able to dance. I think she danced the entire time. That expression on someone’s face just makes it all worth it,” said Cherubini.

The day is something that both participants and volunteers will always remember because of the activities, the music and the fun students will share with those who attend the Games. It’s probably why the Games have been so successful year after year, with the number of attendees growing as the years go on.

“You just have to show up and see the faces of the people as they leave. They really enjoy it and for many of them it’s probably a highlight of their year… Even looking at the effect on the students who volunteer, it’s very similar,” said Keating.

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Senior Spotlight Paola Lopez

Catherine Goodyear Staff Writer

Senior year of college can be tough, with school work, internships and graduation, students feel the need to have a plan figured out on what they are going to do with their lives.

Paola Lopez, senior civil engineering major, plans on going back home to California after graduation up until the start date of her full time job, which is in August. She plans on then moving back to New York to start working.

“My major is civil engineering, my position is Engineer 1 or a field engineer, so hopefully I’ll be doing some type of field engineer work or maybe working under a designer. Every new engineer gets something different on a big project so I’ll find out when I start,” Lopez said.

Lopez took all of the necessary steps to secure this job right from the start by talking to career development to get help with putting her resume together. She had to find these resources herself and used what help was available to her.

“I got my job from my internship that I had this past summer at the Tappan Zee Bridge with Granite Construction. I went to the career fair for STEM majors and I went up to all of the booths and gave out my resume and talked to Human Resources and whoever was hiring. They contacted me for a phone interview, then I went in for a real interview and eventually they offered me a full time position. I was asked to come in for an interview last semester in the fall, and they offered me a full time position back at the Tappan Zee,” she said.

Lopez does not want to stop developing her skills. Her goal is to get her professional engineers license, which takes at

least 5 or 6 years, so in the meantime she can stay with this company and gain experience.

“I chose this company because I knew they were based on the east coast and the west coast. I’m in the East coast department right now but if I ever wanted to go back home to California, I can be transferred and they would be pretty willing to help me out with that,” Lopez said.

Her love for engineering was inspired from a high school bridge competition that she participated in during her senior year.

It urged her to make civil engineering her major and to stick with it.

“My internship ended up being at a real bridge and I was excited for that. At first I was wondering if it was right for me but then I got there and I loved it, so I am happy that I got to stay working on bridges and that I can continue this as my full time position. It is my dream starter job,” she said.

Although she is on a great path, there are a few things Lopez regrets not doing earlier in the year.

“I should have started before junior year to get my paper work, cover letter, and resume together. I wish I got an internship my sophomore year going into junior year to gain more experience. If I had more experience under my belt before getting a full time job, it would have been better.” she said. “I only had one summer internship so luckily my job is at the same place my internship was, so I know my way around, but if I was placed somewhere else, I would be especially more nervous because I’ve only worked on a bridge cite instead of a 40 story building.”

Despite not getting started as early as she would like, Lopez is still on a great path to becoming a successful engineer.

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The Straw Poll Results and Their Influence on Campus Kristen Sandmeier Contributor

On Tuesday, April 19, the Government and Politics Club hosted a straw poll outside of Thomas. On the day of the New York presidential primaries, it was strategically timed to promote the primary polls and get students to go vote.

The table saw a lot of activity, especially this election cycle, which has generated a lot of excitement and motivation for people to get involved. The straw poll on campus had quite drastic votes, with Bernie Sanders being the landslide favorite.

Meagan Barnett, senior education major, says, “knowing that we are a very liberal college the results did not surprise me, but I think the fact that all the other candidates were almost tied was very odd.”

Of the 279 votes, Bernie Sanders won 139 of them. Donald Trump and John Ka-

sich tied for second with 37 votes each, followed by Hillary Clinton with 35 and Ted Cruz with 31.

These results were not reflected in the NY state primaries, as Hillary Clinton won with 58%, while Sanders pulled in 42% of the vote, still closer than the campus poll showed. Some believe this speaks to the political atmosphere on campus.

Kaitlyn Greiner, junior government major, emphasized this point when discussing the efforts to restart the Republican Club on campus.

“The campus seems to be much more liberal than I thought it would be but more vocal republicans will create an interesting dialogue on campus,” said Greiner.

She points out that it is important to have both sides of every issue, and unified vocal groups would cultivate more open debate and the sharing of ideas.

Starting a Republican club would also spearhead a Democrat club as well, to allow for representation of both sides. These

dynamics are not as prominent in the Government and Politics Club, as it is neutral and its main mission is simply to spread political awareness, so the missions of each club would be different.

The Republican Club was institutionalized on Campus two years ago, however, due to a problem with leadership and the inability to find an advisor the club was not able to file the necessary paperwork so the club was illegitimized.

Robert Garan, junior finance major, has been a sort of quasi-president of the club for the past two years. He has still fostered unofficial meetings and has been trying to reboot the club, with a closer-tohome mission to found a local republican base.

The goal is to restructure the club with the mission of getting to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a conglomeration of political figures to network with.

Another goal is to create a greater pres-

ence and get more involved by getting to a debate and to see the election process as republicans. The club is looking to help people with political aspirations to reach their goals.

“We’re on to something here. Members are all very passionate about politics and passionate about bringing the club back from the ashes. New name, new group,” said Garan.

Greiner herself is working toward her political aspirations, as she was granted the opportunity to meet Ted and Heidi Cruz and ask them a question on CNN on Wednesday, April 13, and again on Good Morning America on Monday, April 18.

She was one of 30 contestants picked after submitting questions to enter.

“I like Ted Cruz because he is the definition of what a conservative republican should be, a family man. America needs a strong leader like him, though not many people in New York share this opinion,” said Greiner.

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T-Pain Takes the Stage For Annual Springfest Concert

Lindsey Burns & Ally Hutzler Editors

This past weekend, over 2,500 students piled into Draddy Gymnasium for a daytime concert headlined by T-Pain.

The hip hop and R&B singer-songwriter wore a green Manhattan College jersey while performing some of his top hits, including “Buy U A Drink,” “Bartender” and his newly released remix to Desiigner’s hit single “Panda.”

The concert was scheduled to begin at 1 p.m., and students lined the quad as early as 12 p.m. waiting for the doors to open.

With no opening act, students spilled into Draddy as T-Pain was already performing on stage.

The concert lasted just under an hour.

“When [T-Pain] showed up that day he wanted to move the concert, which is impossible the day of, because no students would know about it,” John Bennett, the director of student activities, said.

The artist had another performance that evening and as a result was pressed for time. The 15 minute meet and greet and interviews that he had agreed to ahead of time were cut dramatically short.

“It was annoying.” Bennett said. “But I don’t think it affected the concert itself at all.”

Feedback was overwhelmingly positive for T-Pain, who was the number one artist students voted for in an online survey last semester.

“I’m really happy that a lot of people came and we got an artist that the majority of the student body liked,” Nicholas Weyland, student body president, said.

“The coolest part about it was that T-Pain was the number one voted for artist by the student body. We got the person that the student body voted for out of 80 or 90 people, which is rare.”

According to Weyland, the concert

was an overall success in terms of student turnout, especially compared to past years.

“I think, just from a student government and student activities perspective, getting more and more people is the goal,” Weyland said. “The goal is getting an artist here that people want. Everyone was having a good time, everyone was jamming out.”

Audience members were generally in agreement with Weyland and were happy with T-Pain and his performance.

“It was great. I loved it,” Benjamin Akyereko said of his first concert ever. “I thought it was amazing that we had this opportunity to come out and have a good time and have everybody be Jaspers together.”

Akyereko is a junior at Manhattan, but just recently transferred from Campbell University in North Carolina. At his previous school they did not offer events like Springfest, where the students can celebrate and have fun.

“Honestly, they didn’t care about the students as much as Manhattan College does,” Akyereko said.

After the concert, there was a carnival and barbecue held on the quad. Games, including an inflatable rock climbing wall, and hamburgers and hot dogs attracted students to stick around campus even after the main event was over.

“I really enjoyed it. There were so many people there, it was a great atmosphere,” sophomore Jose Meza said.

This years’ Springfest managed to appease students, faculty and administration alike. The annual event usually brings with it unruliness, but this year contained very few incidents.

“I’m honestly really proud of how our students behaved at the events,” Bennett said. “Anytime you have close to 3,000 students at one event, things are bound to go wrong, but overall, the students were so well behaved.”

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The Book Nook

April 26, 2016

Title: “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” Author: Mary Ann Shaffer Genre: Historical Fiction Madeleine Shwartz Senior Writer

The art of letter writing has gone by the wayside as electronic communication has advanced in the last few decades. Mary Ann Shaffer writes her historic novel “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” in the form of a trail of letter correspondence and reminds us what the world was like before the “read” message symbol was created.

Shaffer starts her novel in 1945 in London right after World War II. Juliet Ashton, the main character, is a writer who wrote a humorous column during the war under the pseudonym Izzy Bickerstaff. With the war in the past, Ashton is looking to find a more serious topic to base her next novel off of.

As Ashton begins this journey, she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams who lives in Guernsey. An island located between France and Britain, Guernsey, and its residents, was hit hard by WWII. German soldiers took control of the island and destroyed much of the written history and literature. When Adams finds a book with Ashton’s name in it, he writes to her asking for more reading material for his book club, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.

After a few letters back and forth, Ashton hears from several inhabitants of the island Guernsey. One name that is mentioned quite frequently is Elizabeth McKenna, a woman who was taken by the Germans to a concentration camp. Ashton learns of McKenna’s life particularly through the words of Dawsey who is has taken care of

her daughter Kit for the four years since her death.

Once Ashton learns more about her friends through their letters, she decides to travel to Guernsey to meet them in person. The humor, wit, and charm felt by reading their words on a page becomes present in real life. Their stories are heartfelt and help Ashton discover what her next book topic should be.

I chose to re-read Shaffer’s book after first picking it up in high school because I loved the format she wrote it in. Almost no one will opt to write a handwritten note sent through the snail mail system these days as texting and email has created instantaneous communication. However, I believe that the some of the personality and emotion associated with letter writing is lost with these electronic channels.

In “Pride and Prejudice,” Elizabeth and Jane would spend hours a day writing friends about their daily lives and noteworthy interactions. These letters would be the only time that their friends would correspond with each other and through the words on the page, they could feel what the other one was feeling when the words were written.

Today, text messages have little to no emotion or feeling attached to them. Sure, you can use emojis to add emphasis but a person’s tone is completely irrelevant.

Sarcasm can be completely lost or even worse, taken the wrong way entirely through texting. The deep feeling and emotion the Elizabeth Bennet conveyed through her handwritten notes is missing in this form of correspondence.

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“Psycho Barn” Adds Mystery and Horror to The Met

Abi Kloosterman Staff Writer

The rooftop garden at The Met is currently showing a quite different form of art, a haunting multi-story home they like to call “Psycho Barn.”

The exhibition sits atop the otherwise calm and serene rooftop. The “Psycho Barn” is the mixture of a classic barn, red panels and white lining, but in the style of the house from Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film “Psycho.”

While this seems like a stark contrast from the bright, green garden, the large piece of art itself makes itself well known and stands out in the most complementary way. At first thought, the house may seem to possibly obstruct the sprawling view of Manhattan. However, the barn is tucked into a corner that makes it the perfect location for an art piece of this scale.

The rooftop at The Met is possibly one of the best parts of the city. Offering rooftop views of a never-ending city, the rooftop garden is one of the most accessible and wonderful parts of anyone’s visit to the Met. Exhibiting a large replica of a terrifying haunted house has just the right amount

of contrast to the regular scene to make it interesting without being annoying.

The movie “Psycho” checks into the most terrifying parts of the mind and is the definition of a psychological thriller.

It mixes murder, darkness, insanity and mystery into one black and white film, whose murder scene remains in the minds of those who have seen the movie.

Hitchcock’s murder scene in “Psycho” features the horrifying scream of a woman and little to no violence, making the movie itself iconic, among other reasons. The brightness and happiness of the rooftop at The Met is a stark contrast to the mental images one might have in their mind about “Psycho Barn.”

Something about the house atop the roof brings out a fascination with the darkness and gore of Hitchcock’s film. Admittedly, many enjoy violent and horrifying films because of the psychological thrill of the mystery of murder and psychotic behavior. Setting this house atop such a lovely part of the city does just this.

What is fascinating about the house is the connotation that comes along with it.

It is not just a home or a barn. Of course, a large replica of a house on top of a large rooftop is interesting in itself, but the con-

notation of psychotic mystery and violence makes it enticing and terrifying to think about.

“Psycho Barn” is a sight to see, with the Manhattan skyline as a backdrop and the

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The large-scale art piece is on exhibition April through October and undoubtedly, will take on a truly eerie form during its last days on view in the fall.

9 Arts & Entertainment In Anticipation of New South Campus, a Look at the Making of the Campus We Know Today Continued from page 1 brick structure facing Broadway at 131st street, and was the only major building on that lot aside from a garage. Today, that building is gone, and the lot is dotted with a gas station where the college building was likely located, small commercial buildings and a massive office structure at its northern end at 133rd Street.

While the space served the college well in its first decades, college administration recognized that additional room was needed to keep up with the pace of the college’s growth.

And to that end, they set their eyes north.

Move on Up Before Manhattan College considered making a new home in The Bronx, college officials were actually interested in moving to Westchester County, just north of the city. One attractive property was waterfront in Irvington-on-Hudson, then a quiet town occupied by a few thousand people spread out over vast hillsides and estates. Today, Irvington’s historic charm and scenic views of the Hudson River, Palisades and Hook Mountain have landed it on a list of best places to live in Westchester County last year, according to “Westchester Magazine.”

The future of the campus in presentday Irvington’s suburban setting was almost a reality when college administrators purchased that property in the late 1890s with the intent of eventually developing it. The 65 acres, however, were subject to several development restrictions that would have made building a campus there unfeasible.

Upon that realization, the college resold the property soon after its purchase.

The next option--the option ultimately selected--was a 14 acre property across from Van Cortland Park in The Bronx, the campus’s location today. Although a fraction of the size of the Irvington land, it suited what the school needed: a quiet destination for learning.

“It is on account of the subway that we were compelled to leave,” said Brother Edward (the President of the college at that time) in a 1905 article in Freeman’s Journal. “You can readily understand how difficult it is when it comes to teaching in a classroom.”

Sold.

The college bought the land for just $80,000 in 1902 while it continued its normal operations in Harlem.

A Few Packs of Lucky Strikes Just as the college today is undergoing detailed studies and analyses to determine the best steps it can take to improve the campus, the college did the same when it acquired the Van Cortland Park property over a century ago. It hired Murphy & Dana, an architecture firm, to scope out the land and perform preliminary investigations.

Interestingly, the Board of Trustees also assembled a group of alumni into an Engineering Committee that would make recommendations on how the land should be developed and how the campus could be built from their own professional expertise. The roots of deep alumni involvement and interest in the future in the college, evident to this day, can be traced back to instances such as this.

Their determinations were that the college should kick off its campus with an administration building, a high school building, a college building and a gymnasium coupled with a sports field.

Then World War I struck, and suspended the growth of the college while throngs of local young men went to fight overseas.

It is for that reason, a memorial program published in 1925 by the college reads, that the college put the move to The Bronx on hold.

They were back on track in 1920, however.

First, the college addressed its most pressing roadblock: financing. Projections from 1914 put the sticker price on the desired construction at $325,000, but as time went on and the specifications for the construction became more defined, that price grew to over $2 million.

Tapping once again into its alumni network, the college launched a vigorous fundraising campaign to close the gap.

With pamphlets emblazoned with “Manhattan: Makers of Men” on the front, they garnered the alumni base to contribute over $2.5 million, news clippings on the campus dedication report. The fundraising started small, with the college asking for only “one dollar a week for the young graduates – a few packs of Lucky Strikes,” the pledge pamphlet read. Included was a promise to devote one building to the alumni in exchange for their gift, the building on the north side of campus fittingly named Alumni Hall.

Now that the money was available, the next challenge arose: what would this campus look like?

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Campus by Design College administration had high standards for the aesthetics for the campus, as “something of artistic merit was sought in keeping with the beautiful background of the Fieldston residential park,” a 1924 news clipping read.

They sought to elicit the best quality plans by holding an architect competition.

Each architect invited to compete sent in their plans for the campus including a high school building, a college building, a gymnasium and an administrative building. The winner, along with winning the contract to design the campus, got a $3,000 signing bonus too.

The submissions were as varied as they were creative, and indicate the many different stylistic directions the campus could have been taken in. One entry featured college buildings with ornate masonry detailing on the façade, evoking a gothic flair.

Another submission located the college buildings around a quadrangle, but left one side of the quadrangle open with stairs that led down to a massive clearing of grass and athletic field space.

In the losing entry that most closely resembled the one the committee selected, the college buildings are laid out in the same fashion they are today, but with a grand staircase up from the northernmost side of the quadrangle that let to yet another quadrangle. This design also featured a chapel to be built in the future that was easily the size of a cathedral.

But the eventual winner was New York architect James O’Connor.

The popular opinion of the community, written in local papers, was that the “Georgian colonial style” of O’Connor’s buildings “were especially designed to suit the landscape.” His plan, featuring distinctive rounded arched walkways (that are now the campus’s trademark) and a clear ability to expand the campus in the future, set his design apart and landed him the gig.

Brick by Brick Construction began on James O’Connor’s campus plan in 1922 with the laying of the cornerstone of Alumni Hall by Cardinal Hayes, class of 1888 and namesake of a present-day Bronx Catholic high school for boys. The well-document-

ed event showed strong attendance and was momentous for the college, as it finally was beginning the work it had set out to do nearly 20 years prior.

This event set into motion a relatively speedy two to three year construction period, during which the following present-day buildings were completed: Memorial Hall, De La Salle Hall, Miguel Hall and Alumni Hall. While the buildings still stand, their uses have morphed over time to fit the needs of the college. The upper levels of Miguel Hall and De La Salle Hall were first intended to be dormitories for the few hundred resident students the college expected at the time. Now, they are offices that serve faculty and administrators. In two years from now, they may even serve a different purpose, as the campus master plan is relocating some student services offices to Thomas Hall and vacating space in Miguel Hall once again.

The main construction of the high school and college buildings was steel framing (beams, columns and girders) with concrete floor slabs and stone foundations, the building erection application permit read. Construction images from campus document nearly all stages of construction, from clearing the land to finishing the masonry.

Once completed, a dedication ceremony on May 15, 1924 officially marked the completion of the construction and the beginning of the college’s legacy in the Bronx. It eventually sold the Harlem property in early 1925 for $350,000 before making the move up north.

“This is one of the happiest moments of my life...In my student days I often dreamed of buildings like those, but I never expected to see them,” Hayes told newspapers at the ceremony.

Past Meets Present Upon completion of the campus, the college could accommodate 2400 students and 200 residents. Today, the student body is nearly double that size and residents comprise the majority of the students here.

The decision of the college to move to the Bronx certainly changed its trajectory as an institution, and demonstrates the impact of a space on a community. As the college delves into its next chapter – one of both growth and physical change – it can take a nod from where it all began.

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April 26, 2016

Duffy: ‘Simplistic,’ ‘Elementary,’ ‘Boring’ Formula of Pitching, Defense and Staying Healthy is Plan to Win MAAC Ethan McDowell Contributor

“The Pennant Will Rise” was the phrase etched onto t-shirts and hoodies for the 2015 National League pennant-winning New York Mets. For the marathon season ahead, Jim Duffy, Manhattan Jaspers baseball head coach, said “Pitching, Defense and Staying Healthy” is what’s going to earn his team’s way to success in ’16.

Thirty-five games in, the Jaspers find themselves sitting as the eighth seed in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference with 12 wins and 24 losses. Their longest winning streak of three straight games came between March 22 and March 26, not enough to counter losing five straight in three separate parts of the schedule: (1) Feb. 28 – March 8, (2) March 13 – March 19, (3) April 2 – April 9.

“Wins and losses, it may not look it, but I

really like our team. I like the way we competed, for the most part,” Duffy said.

“The goal for me was for us to be battle tested. I didn’t want a team that we would have an easy time with or teams that we could just put up some wins and not be challenged with. The only thing is you have to make sure you keep your head up when your numbers aren’t there. You have think of the bigger picture, and [that’s] being at the top of the MAAC.” “We’ve had a tough schedule,” Tom Cosgrove, Jaspers left-handed starting pitcher, said. “Now it’s time to just not accept losing a series and saying ‘Oh, there’s a bunch of positive things that came out of this loss.’ But now we have to start putting it together and getting wins.”

Looking at what remains of the season, there’s 15 games left to play, 12 of which are conference games. Finishing off the season with 10 more wins is entirely possible with this group of players, and would place them right in the middle of the seed-

ing.

This season has also had its glimpses of what the Jaspers could be. The first is Fabian Peña emerging right away as a more than worthy successor to Christian Santisteban with his earning of four MAAC rookie of the week honors and offensive prowess.

Second, their only series win of the season, which came against the Lehigh Mountain Hawks, showcased what both the pitching and hitting of the Jaspers are capable of when in tandem.

The Jaspers showed off their pitching at Lehigh, winning the series opener 2-0, and then displayed their offense, winning the second game 10-2. And despite the 6-4 loss in the finale, it was close enough where they could’ve pulled ahead.

Manhattan’s potential was also displayed during Duffy’s 100th win as a head coach. Against the Canisius Golden Griffs on April 10, Duffy reached a career milestone on none other than MAAC Preseason

Player of the Year Santisteban’s walk-off single.

Duffy has started to build a foundation of players who aren’t just developing into very good baseball players, they’re wellrounded men away from the diamond.

“This year is the first year with all of Duffy’s recruits, so we’re starting to see the mesh of everyone; everyone is familyoriented,” Mike Pfenninger, Jaspers thirdbaseman, said. “The leadership of a Santisteban, who has been so successful, and he guides a kid like Peña. He has been like a father to us. He’s been really carrying us, [Mike] Scarinci too. [Mike’s] the only player left that has a championship ring. So having him around is big. We’re very lucky that he stayed for a fifth year.

“The chemistry just took off from day one in the fall, and we’ve been riding that.

Even though we haven’t had too much success, so far, we’ve stuck together, which has been huge.”

Mike Pfenninger takes a swing during a game.

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Women’s Soccer Preps for Another Strong Season

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Jaclyn Marr Senior Writer

It’s the end of April and while some people at Manhattan College are mainly focused on softball or lacrosse, Manhattan’s women’s soccer team is focused on its upcoming fall season.

After its 2015 campaign, which resulted in multiple broken records, the team wants to go even further in 2016.

“Win the MAACs,” both Nicole Aylmer and Jenny Bitzer answered at the same time when asked about their overall goal for the upcoming season.

Last fall, the Jaspers made it to the MAAC Championship for the first time in school history. They had a season of broken records and high-ranked players, both in the league and nationally. They notched 11 victories and a school record 21 points in conference play.

After earning the second seed and a first-round bye, Manhattan played fourthseeded Rider in the MAAC Semifinals. A 3-1 victory brought the Jaspers to their firstever MAAC Championship. However, they fell 5-2 to sixth-seeded Siena in the final game.

Despite the loss, it was a season for the record books. Head coach Brendan Lawler was voted the Lids Team Sports MAAC Coach of the Year. Kristen Skonieczny was named Goalkeeper of the Year. Bitzer earned Defensive Player of the Year. Erica Modena and Nicole Copping earned spots on the All-MAAC First Team and Copping also got All-Rookie honors.

With all of that success, the team is looking at last season to push even further this coming season. Getting that close and just missing the title is the team’s drive now and will be throughout the season to get back to the championships.

“I think it’s definitely a big motivator knowing we made it that far we can make it there again,” Aylmer said. “We just need to stay focused and not take anything lightly.”

The team had about two weeks of rest after its season ended before it picked it back up with light training and workouts.

After winter break, full workouts started five days a week through April.

“We do a lot of lower body workouts,” Aylmer said, “with soccer you need that lower body strength. We do core stability and then once we’re outside we do cardio and body weight exercises.”

One thing that will benefit the team next season is the addition of seven incoming freshmen. The Jaspers are losing six core seniors in Skonieczny, Emily Ude, Tiffanie McIntosh, Colleen Kavanagh, Taylor Salkowsky and Sam Washuk. But Brendan Lawler believes the incoming freshmen will bring the same quality and depth that the seniors did.

“We are extremely excited about next season,” Lawler said to GoJaspers.com.

“Coming off one of the best years in program history where we relied a great deal on our seniors, we knew we needed a class that would add the same quality and depth right away that they brought us.”

The incoming freshmen include three defenders, two forwards and two goalkeepers, which Bitzer said is a luxury for the Jaspers to now have two more backup goalies instead of just one.

“Where our past classes helped us make the climb toward the top of the conference,” Lawler said, “we will now be relying on this group and all of our returners to help us stay there and go one step further.”

Angela Quadrini

strengthening and running a lot. I wanted to build muscle figuring I’d be rowing.

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those teams, we’re getting better so we’ll be able to compete to that level soon.

Sam Washuk is one of the six seniors that the Jaspers will be without next season.

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Jaspers Talk: Amy Sniffen

Staff Writer

In 2014, sophomore Amy Sniffen joined the rowing team as a fun extracurricular activity.

The Manhattan College rowing team has been around for over 80 years, making it the oldest sport on campus. Today, Sniffen is a coxswain for the team, but the program has changed in a major way. Women’s rowing has transitioned from a club to now a Division 1 team at Manhattan.

The women now face teams from the MAAC such as Iona, Fordham, Marist and Fairfield.

The Quadrangle: What made you want to join the rowing team back when it wasn’t a D1 sport at Manhattan?

TQ: Why did you want to be a coxswain?

AS: After doing research about it, I came across the position and knew I fit the physical description. The coxswains are usually around 5-foot and only weigh about 100 pounds. Seeing as I fit the description, I knew I wouldn’t get much time as a rower but figured I’d be able to contribute a lot as a coxswain. I wanted an active role on the team so I knew it was the best position for me.

TQ: What’s your favorite memory so

AS: Going to the Aberdeen Dad Vail Regatta, the largest collegiate regatta in the US. It means a lot for our team to go there and compete since Manhattan College was one of eight founding members. We travel to Philadelphia and it’s a fun team bonding experience. Last year, everyone on the team got closer after that trip.

TQ: What’s it like seeing well known teams like Harvard and the Ivy Leagues competing at Dad Vail?

AS: It can be a little discouraging, but we’re working on getting our team to that level. Even if we can’t stack up against

TQ: What goals do you have for the rest of the season?

AS: My goal is to keep my rowers focused and motivated so we have the best chance of doing well.

TQ: What’s the best piece of advice from Coach Jim? AS: Before we start racing, Coach Jim always says, ‘We’re just here to have a good row.’ He wants us to take the races seriously and compete to the best of our ability, but he also wants us to have fun and enjoy the competition and atmosphere.

Amy Sniffen: All my life I’ve been a member of a team and always really enjoyed that. Coming to college, being on the rowing team gave me the opportunity to be in a community again. When I started, since the team wasn’t D1, it wasn’t a huge commitment and it was more about having fun and meeting new people.

TQ: How did you find out Manhattan had a rowing team?

AS: I found out about it on the Facebook page for incoming students. A girl posted something about it and said to contact her if you were interested in it, so I did. We messaged back and forth and then I decided I wanted to give it a try.

TQ: How did you prepare to join the rowing team having no prior experience?

AS: I just started working on upper body

Amy Sniffen (far right) is one of the rowing teams coxswains.

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April 26, 2016

Coach of a Lifetime

Steve Masiello is not always the fiery, passionate coach people see on the court.

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Jon Reyes Senior Writer

Many Manhattan Jaspers fans think they know Steve Masiello, their head men’s basketball coach. But they don’t.

They only see the side of him that’s very intense; driven, and passionate for his program, players and winning games.

But there’s another side of him that not many people have the privilege to see and experience. The one that Kevin Willard, Seton Hall Pirates head men’s basketball coach, calls “a very loyal friend.” The two spent time together when they were both assistants for the Louisville Cardinals from 2005, when Masiello arrived, to 2007, when Willard went on to coach the Iona Gaels for three years.

“I don’t think a lot of people get to know Stevie. It’s Stevie Mas; it’s not Steve Masiello,” Willard says. “Stevie’s very laidback, easygoing, has great sense of humor and has a great wit about him. I’ve been lucky to get to know both sides of him.”

Masiello’s personality didn’t derive from coaching, at least not all of it. It came from someplace much more personal, someone close to him. A person he definitively labeled his “best friend.”

His dad: Stephen Masiello Sr. ‘Mr. Mas’ Masiello’s dad would wake up everyday at 6:00 a.m., travel to his 120,000 square foot warehouse that he owned in the South Bronx and work for 12 hours.

Masiello remembered his dad telling him quite often, “I do what I have to do, so you’ll never have to do what I have to do.”

He added that his dad would call him on his days off, say going back to high school for example, around 8:30 a.m. He had been working for two-and-a-half hours already.

He’d tell him, “Get up. Let’s go. Start your day. What are you doing? Get to work.”

“He’s a big cause for everything in my life,” Masiello says about his dad. “I would have to say my mother, Kit, is a big part of my motivation. My father he taught me how to do things. My dad was a guy that had an answer or a solution for almost any problem I ever went to him with. He had a phe-

nomenal way of seeing what was ahead, if you went down a certain road good or bad.

The best way I could describe my father is he connected every dot before you actually connected the dots, he already had them connected for you.”

Then came the day no one wants to experience. On Dec. 16, 2008, at the age of 56, Masiello’s father died of natural causes. Masiello said he remembered that morning he was on his way to work and when he checked his email his dad had already sent him a message at around 6:18 a.m. His dad wanted to let Masiello know how proud he was of him and how much he meant to him, including their relationship.

“Stevie’s dad was everything to Stevie,” Willard says. “It was a really tough time losing Mr. Mas, for a lot of people.

Mr. Mas was very important in people’s lives. Stevie was very connected to basketball through Mr. Mas. It rocked him for a while, losing his father, it took a couple years for him to kind of recover from that.”

“Every professional person you can think of would go to his warehouse to talk to him to get advice,” Masiello says.

“It was almost like an urban legend. The thing that was so amazing to me was that when he passed how many people I found myself consoling for what he meant to so many other people. Here I am I’m like, ‘Wait. It’s my father. You’re supposed to be consoling me.’ And here I am consoling people that it’s going to be okay.

“He was my best friend. We spoke like five times a day. We didn’t do much without each other. He was a special, special man.”

Coach of ‘Jasper Nation’ After the shocking news on April 15, 2016 that Chris Beard, newly hired as the head men’s basketball coach of the UNLV Rebels decided to leave UNLV for the Texas Tech Raiders less than a month after being appointed to the position, the Raiders shifted their focus on securing the only other finalist for the again vacant spot: Marvin Menzies, then-New Mexico Aggies coach.

When Menzie’s name resurfaced, he hadn’t even been given the reigns to the Rebels just yet, and he said Masiello, who

he worked alongside with as fellow assistants with the Cardinals from 2005 to 2007, called him right away and told him, “Okay, let’s talk about what you think we need.

Let’s bounce some stuff off each other.”

“He’s like a little brother to me,” Menzies says. “When times are tough going throughout the season, we talk several times and we’ll bounce things off each other, as great sounding boards for each other.

It’s a blessing to have him in that role “He’s a guy that if you’re in his family and you’re a part of his extended circle pf people that he supports then he’s all in.

And you could rely on him for whatever you needed, he’s just solid like that. Some of those characteristics would pop up in different ways throughout the years that we worked together, I saw them over and over again. He still does that to this day.”

Masiello’s loyalty as a friend is what has brought him success as a coach and why he’s able to connect with his players so well. Willard said he saw that in ‘15 when the Jaspers won their secondstraight Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) title. He said Masiello has evolved as a coach, which has allowed his players to evolve at the same time. Willard continued on to say that Masiello’s maturity as a coach has led to some adjustments in doing things differently.

“His players see the real softer side of Stevie,” Willard says. “It compliments him because his players respect the fact that he’s intense and wants what’s best for them, but at the same time he’s fun to hangout with and is relaxed. That’s why guys like to play for him so much.”

“One of the things that’s very appealing for players to Steve was that he’s so passionate about the game, and they have this common bond,” Menzies says. “But he’s very straight-ahead, direct with the guys; he always tells them the truth. He always would say, ‘I might not always be right but I’m always going to tell you the things that come from the right place of motivation.’

The thing that they like about him is that he’s so real with them.”

One of Masiello’s former players who still has fond memories of his time as a Jasper but more so of the relationship he continues to keep with Masiello is Trevor Glassman.

When Glassman transferred originally

from the Missouri Tigers to the Jaspers, he was shooting around in the gym when, with no introduction, Masiello said to him, “You have to stop flicking your guide hand, and keep it still when you shoot.” Glassman says he knew right then and there that this was someone who was going to pay attention to details, it didn’t matter if it had to do with coaching or building a personal relationship with his players.

“He reminded me more of a fatherfigure than a coach,” Glassman, who was a part of the Jaspers’ back-to-back MAAC championship teams and is a current Tigers guard, says. “He walked around like he was a boss, honestly, he carried himself well.

He’s a great guy to have in your life, that’s something outside of basketball that’s even more of an accolade to him. I truly value every moment I had at Manhattan but him and I have had some pretty good moments too. I’ve brought it with me wherever I’ve gone. I’m fortunate to have been coached by him.”

Glassman is just one example of past or present players Masiello has impacted on the court and off. When Masiello was asked about what that means to him, he said it’s beginning to be the favorite part of his job and something that’s affecting him in his own life.

“The thing I’m starting to get the most joy in is when I get a phone call from an Emmy Andujar, who’s in Spain,” Masiello says, “and talking to me about his new contract he’s going to sign next year. Or going through the agent process with Shane Richards, and seeing the demand that he’s in. You’re starting to see, four or five years in, the effects of that we’re having on these guys in becoming men, we’re changing their lives. That’s powerful stuff.

“To think that we’re putting guys in situations for guys’ hard work, sacrifice and their investment in themselves is starting to pay returns, and I’m not just saying that financially I’m saying that in multiple ways.

And they’re achieving things they’ve never even dreamed about in their life. That’s really, really powerful for me. I’d put that up there with winning the MAAC championship, maybe even more. The fact that the feeling I get when I hear the things that are going on with a George Beamon or a Rhamel or an Emmy, it’s life-changing.”