Issue 13, Spring 2015 - The Quadrangle

THE Volume 91, Issue 13

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UADRANGLE A Student Publication of Manhattan College Since 1924

April 28, 2015

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The All-American Rejects Rock The 2015 Spring Concert

See Pages 6-7 for Photos and a Recap of the Day’s Events Kevin Fuhrmann/The Quadrangle

Weyland Elected New Student Body President, Inauguration on May 6 Anthony Capote Assistant Editor

If smiling is an indication of celebration, Nicholas Weyland has had a lot to smile about since April 20.

In a narrow victory of only six percentage points, Weyland defeated two personal friends, Brian Nyarko and Blake Pizzola, in the student government elections last week.

“It feels pretty good, I’m not going to lie,” he said. “It’s something I wanted to do and it’s nice to know people cared what I had to say and what I could do with my abilities, and that’s all they ask for.”

Weyland attributed much of his win to his executive vice president, Tiffanie McItosh, who is the first athlete to be elected to student government.

“The other party did not have that aspect,” Weyland said.

He also claimed that voter turnout was

a major factor.

“It’s not really forcing people to vote,” he said, “just showing people what a party should have and what a president should have and that’s what we did.”

The student voter rating this year was excellent, Director of Student Activities John Bennett said, pointing out that 20 percent of students logged onto the online polling system on April 17.

“You have to put it in perspective,” he said. “Over 500 students voted, seniors can’t vote because they’re graduating, so only freshmen, sophomores and juniors can vote…if you look at any other school in voting percentage, that’s a lot more than other schools.”

Weyland is also a rising junior, which give him two possible terms as president, something that has happened three times in the last seven years at MC. “A junior actually is a really good time to be a student-body president,” Bennett said. “Junior year is good because you are still fully focused on Manhattan College.”

Instead of Weyland and company succumbing to the pitfalls of senioritis, Bennett said, they have only to worry about life at MC. “This year was an anomaly because they really are the best we have had in years,” he said. “But usually you are doing interviews and, depending on your major, you have to do student teaching or you have an internship and those sorts of things, but this year’s executive board did not get senioritis.”

Aside from Weyland and McIntosh, only two other members of the Quad Squad party were elected to office.

Ivan Bohoroquez and George Schlinck were elected as commuter representative and vice president for academic affairs, respectively.

Current president, John Tudisco, said he was happy that Weyland was elected.

“I thought they were all great candidates,” he said, “[Weyland] has been preparing himself for this for two years now.”

Tudisco said he could relate to Wey-

land’s work ethic and dedication.

“He is the only person last year that lost in a VP election and still wanted to come back and be in student government,” he said. “In fact, when I was junior class representative, I came at the beginning of the year and was elected by the assembly.”

When Weyland lost his bid last year as vice president of finance, he returned to take on the unfilled position of school of business rep.

“He is very experienced and he seems determined,” Tudisco said.

Weyland emphasized during his campaign that he would get an early start in his presidency, and plans to do exactly that.

“We will have a few meetings in at the end other and there is a few things on the agenda, starting with budgets,” he said.

“There’s no early for an early start, if you want to take it seriously it takes a lot of hard work. Put the plan in action and let your actions speak for your words.”

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Letter to

The Editor

Vol. 91 Issue 13 April 28, 2015

Sean Sonnemann Editor-in-Chief Michelle DePinho Managing Editor/News Editor Anthony Capote Asst. News Editor Kieran Rock Managing Editor/Features Editor Ally Hutzler Asst. Features Editor Lauren Carr Arts & Entertainment Editor Lindsey Burns Asst. Arts & Entertainment Editor Jonathan Reyes Sports Editor Jaclyn Marr Asst. Sports Editor

April 28, 2015

April 22, 2015 To the Editor, The Manhattan College students that have supported our brunches at Piper’s over the years are among the most well-behaved. I can’t say enough good things about those kids. They come in here, and I’m here to check their proof, and they know if they are under-age they are not getting in because we have a scanner that checks their date of birth. When they come in here they are the most well-behaved gentlemen and ladies I have ever met in my life. They are valued customers of this place and they are always welcomed here.

Joe Kawalczyk

Sincerely,

Owner of The P&K Grille (Piper’s)

Daniel Ynfante Asst. Sports Editor Sean McIntyre Social Media Editor Victoria Hernández Kristie Killen Asst. Social Media Editors Kevin Fuhrmann Photography Editor Vanessa Sanchez Asst. Photography Editor Kelly Burns Luke Hartman Natalie Heinitz Production Editors Daniel Molina Distribution Manager Tom Callahan Faculty Adviser A tradition since 1924, The Quadrangle is a news organization run by the students of Manhattan College. We strive to cover news around campus and the greater community, publishing weekly in print and daily online. Our goal is always accuracy, relevancy and professionalism.

The staff of The Quadrangle meets every Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. in room 412 of the Student Commons.

Contact The Quadrangle at thequad@manhattan.edu The opinions expressed in The Quadrangle are those of the individual writer and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Editorial Board, the College or the student body.

John Abbatangelo/The Quadrangle

Correction

The Quadrangle erroneously reported several facts in last week’s news article, “College Awarded NSF Engineering Grant.”

Zahra Shahbazi, Ph.D. and associate professor mechanical engineering, was the principal investigator for the grant. Anirban De, Ph.D. and associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, and Walter Saukin, Ph.D. and associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, were co-principal investigators on the project.

De was not part of the group of faculty first working on the grant in 2013 as stated in the article.

We regret the errors.

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Remembering Jose Robles Andrew Skotnicki, Ph.D. Professor of Religious Studies Guest Writer

Early last week, the Manhattan College community was informed of the passing of Jose Robles, a sophomore. Mr. Robles was the first student from Professor Skotnicki’s E3MC Program (Engaging, Educating, Empowering Means Change) to matriculate at the college full-time .

It is hard to lose a friend, and Jose Robles was a friend to many of us.

He was a last minute addition three years ago to the first Manhattan College class held on Rikers Island with eight of our students and seven other gentlemen from the jail.

He was uncomfortable; our world was one he had never known.

Brought here by his mother from the Dominican Republic when he was a child, and living in a rundown building in a run-down East Flatbush neighborhood, he learned life lessons in a hard manner.

His mother went to prison; he was taken in by elderly relatives and, as he put it, the streets became his parents and his role model.

Like so many of the urban poor, particularly men of color, he came of age and matured in prison.

It took being stabbed eleven times, a series of disciplinary infractions, and extended periods in solitary confinement for him to see that spirituality and education were the essential foundations for a fully human life.

As he told me once, prison doesn’t rehabilitate you; it turns you into an “animal” and an “enemy of the world.”

One changes by not letting prison take away his or her humanity. It

didn’t take his.

He dedicated himself to the Rastafarian faith and, by the time he was released, had become the community’s leader and had earned his GED. As fate or grace would have it, he was arrested for a minor charge in the Spring of 2012 and somehow caught the eye of the personnel in the jail responsible for selecting the candidates for our program.

His shyness and lack of self-confidence were slowly peeled away by the care of the Manhattan College students and his incarcerated brothers in the class.

Even when he received his admission letter at the end of the course, our friends at the jail did not think he would follow through and actually come to Riverdale to study.

He did.

He successfully completed his trial classes and matriculated in the

Fall of 2013. He was in his Sophomore year when he received his first full time job.

He decided to take a leave and save some money so he could have a place of his own.

He was planning to return in the Fall. He was found dead on April 16; no signs of physical violence.

Who knows? He had lived a hard life and although only in his 30’s perhaps his body succumbed to years of stabbings and beatings.

All we can hope and pray is that his final moments were peaceful.

Many people wept when they heard he had died. He was such a gift to us and I am certain that we were a gift to him.

He didn’t travel long on the new road he found late in life but he was heading toward the light and now he is bathed in it eternally.

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April 28, 2015

Gentrification Concerns Arise in Local Neighborhoods

Christian Roodal/The Quadrangle Manhattan College, pictured above, sits on the border between the Riverdale and Kingsbridge communities in The Bronx.

Anthony Capote Assistant Editor

The P&K Grille, affectionately known as Piper’s, is putrid. The wood of the bar and table is rotting, fuming with the smell of the countless beers that have been spilled atop them.

The P&K Grille is perfect.

Piper’s, as Manhattan College students refer to it, is situated just off of Broadway, on 231st Street. It is known for it’s weekend specials—unlimited beer and mimosas for three hours—by locals and college students alike and is run by Joe Kowlaczyk and his wife, Gloria.

“We have owned the bar for three and a half years and I’ve lived in the neighborhood for 20 years,” Kowlaczyk said.

Twenty years ago, he said, the Riverdale-Kingsbridge areas were mostly full of Irish and Italian Americans.

“We had an influx of Spanish people coming in,” he said. “It’s still like that, not like Inwood.”

Inwood is the northernmost neighborhood of Manhattan, teetering the line between Manhattan and The Bronx. Kowlaczyk said he grew up there.

“It has come full circle more or less,” he said. “When I grew up there it mostly was Irish, Italian, Black, some Spanish, and then it went strictly Dominican and now they are gentrifying back to what it used to be.”

Kowlaczyk believes that the RiverdaleKingsbridge neighborhood will soon also see the same demographic shift.

“I’ve seen things going on in Inwood, those people will be moving up here shortly,” he said. “When people realize that it’s a convenient neighborhood…they’ll be moving back in here.”

The rent, Kowlaczyk said, is set to skyrocket from there.

“The landlords are merciless, they don’t care,” Kowlaczyk said. “They price people out of business.”

Gentrification is a process, whereby

developers and management companies by one or two efficiencies in a neighborhood, renovate a building and then raise rent prices that are too high for the current residents, but just affordable enough for the young, urban professionals that can’t afford to live in pricier areas like Manhattan.

Cory Blad, Ph.D., a professor of sociology at Manhattan College, specializing in urban studies, says that the key to gentrification is convenience.

“Places gentrify based largely by their proximity to desirable locations,” he said, “The caveat is that you aren’t really looking to benefit the people that are already there, in fact you are trying to create a situation where people with money move there.”

Kowlaczyk said that his landlord has not attempted to price him out, but cites many former restaurants, including Joe Subpoena’s, The Golden Gate Restaurant and the Blue Room, all of which were once on Johnson Avenue in Riverdale.

Blad said that another aspect of what makes gentrification happen is its previous history as a low-cost area.

While Riverdale has always been a more expensive neighborhood, The Quadrangle has reported on the economic differences between Riverdale and its neighboring Kingsbridge, which certainly fits that criterion for gentrification.

However, gentrification, which is a highly charged topic of debate for many New Yorkers, has never faired well in The Bronx.

“It’s got the nick-name ‘the gentrification-proof borough,” Blad said. “They tried Kingsbridge a while back, to connect it to Marble Hill and create a sort of artery of wealth, but that didn’t work.”

Blad attributes some of The Bronx’s immunity—at least for now—to the attempts of developers to take over to the difficulty involved in commuting to and from the borough.

“Getting from one side of The Bronx to the other in an east-west direction takes a lot of time,” he said, “So it ends up being that people have to drive.”

The young, wealthy professionals that typically are the target consumers of gentrified neighborhoods don’t like driving, which makes The Bronx less desirable.

Even still, rents in Riverdale and Kingsbridge are already beginning to rise, according to Serin Phillip, a local real estate broker for Rapid Realty NYC. “The Bronx is one of the last boroughs for this to happen to, but now that it is happening, and it’s a little safer, people are going to start moving here,” he said. “The same one-bedroom I rented seven years ago for $1,050 I just rented for $1,750.”

Phillip has been the broker for Rapid Realty’s Riverdale location for eight years, which has another location in Pelham Parkway, and said the neighborhood is on the brink of seeing a population and commercial shift.

“It’s definitely more diverse, highincome, high education people who eat sushi, who eat Indian food and want to get a drink every now and again,” he said, “There’s not really that much to do around here right now but I’m already doing some leasing for clubs and bars on Riverdale Avenue.”

The model of gentrification is that it constantly pushes people outward. Professionals can’t afford Midtown so they move downtown, then they made their way into Brooklyn.

When Brooklyn became too expensive, gentrification moved them to Queens and now The Bronx.

However, gentrification doesn’t just move the rich or upper middle class. Gentrification also moves the poor further and further away from their jobs and lifestyle.

Before Williamsburg became a trendy, high-priced neighborhood for college graduates it was a very tough, very dangerous neighborhood that, despite the crime, had housed the same families for many generations.

When developers bought up all the buildings and priced them out, they were displaced in a way that has only worsened as gentrification has spread.

Now, with the construction of three separate strip malls—equipped with BJ’s, Target, Starbucks, Chipotle and Buffalo Wild Wings—Kingsbridge faces that same fate.

“I’ve seen a dramatic change,” Phillip said. “They’re kicking away the small, ‘mom-and-pop’ stores, so they are making it friendlier with big corporate companies to move into the area.”

Laron Duncan, a salesperson at Rapid Realty, said that most private landlords have turned over their properties to management companies.

“The landlords have turned over the day-to-day operations to the management, as far as client screening and things like that,” he said.

Ricardo Dello Buono, Ph.D., is the department chair of Manhattan College’s sociology department, and he said that gentrification is one way that world factors have a tangible impact on social structures.

“Gentrification is a great example of how social structures literally shove people around and move them around geographically,” he said. “Gentrification is basically a process where a historical pattern is disrupted by building economic forces that start to alter an established pattern.”

Dello Buono recalled his search for apartments in New York City when he first came from Chicago to teach at MC. “The kinds of places that we were being pointed to—you know, professional, high-income—were these glitzy, glossy high rises in the middle of what was, otherwise, a very depressed part of Harlem,” he said. “That’s the pattern of gentrification.”

For now, at Piper’s, Kowlaczyk says he is not worried about his restaurant being driven out of business, even in the wake of a new Buffalo Wild Wings opening up a few blocks north of him.

“The people that like to come to a pub like this will still be there, because a place like Buffalo Wild Wings is very corporate,” he said. “There are going to be people to try it out, but when they get a taste, they will come back.”

5 News Seniors Seek Job Help From the Career Center Cara Ledwidge Senior Staff Writer

With only 26 days left until graduation, the Manhattan College Center for Career Development is in a flurry of activity, working to assist graduates-to-be.

Sharon D’Amelia, associate director of the center, has been working with the college for three years trying to help students enter the professional world upon leaving the college. For D’Amelia, the process for students, from preparing “resume/cover letter review (to) mock interviews” should start before they might think.

For the class of 2014, “about 45 percent reported using our office” to help them get their jobs, D’Amelia said. These numbers are only growing.

While the statistic on how many students from the graduating class of 2015 have utilized the center is still being gathered, many students have secured jobs with the center’s resources.

One of these students is Caitlin Kempinski.

In May, Kempinski will be starting as an account executive at LAK Public Relations in Manhattan.

“It is a corporate public relations firm with clients all over the world, but it’s still a really small office so I am able to learn a lot,” Kempinski said. “I currently intern for them so it should be an easy transition.”

Despite having found the internship through a friend who graduated last year, Kempinski sought out the center for extra guidance.

“I always go to Sharon D’Amelia for

resume help,” Kempinksi said. “I always wanted my resume to stand out but not in a crazy way so I would always run things by her before sending it out.”

Kempinski interviewed in January for the internship position.

“At that time they told me that they really wanted someone full time, but based on my previous internship experience they would consider hiring me as an intern and if all went well, offer me a full time position upon graduation,” she said. “They ended up offering me the position by the end of February.”

“I think that [the center] is a valuable resource for students if they use it wisely,” she said. “They offer so many different programs and one-on-one resume help and cover letter writing and career counseling.

I used the tools that I thought would best serve me, one of which being the resume help.”

Patrick Metcalf, another senior, shares a similar success story, this time on a job he landed in the engineering field. This summer he will begin his job as a logistics coordinator for ExxonMobil in Houston, TX. “In this position I will be scheduling when certain petrochemicals will be imported and exported throughout a circuit of plants,” Metcalf said.

Metcalf heard about the job from the emails that the Career Development Center sends out every few days.

“ExxonMobil has been coming to campus since my sophomore year, spring 2013, and that is where I really became interested in the job,” Metcalf said. “The center helped me set up my on-campus interview time and location. Meghan Makarczuk, of

the Career Development Center, also really helped me with some of the questions she thought that they would ask me.”

He then detailed the process he went through in order to get the job. It included meeting with recruiters on campus and attending an on-site interview in Fairfax, VA. “In early October, I went to Fairfax for two days of interviews and meals. For the full day I was there, I had about five onehour interviews,” Metcalf said. “About four weeks later, I received a job offer.” “[The career development center] helped me a lot to prepare for my interviews and allowed me to understand what to expect,” Metcalf said.

While these success stories are certainly different, D’Amelia said that sticking to certain guidelines can help students secure a job.

“Students are encouraged to start their job search preparation early so that when they are ready to apply to positions they are well prepared,” she said.

When a student should start to apply also depends on the industry they’re looking to get a job in. D’Amelia said that large organizations with competitive training programs, banking, consulting and accounting tend to recruit early. She said smaller companies with no training programs and industries such as human resources, broadcast, advertising, public relations, social media, the arts and publishing will recruit later in the year.

The college website maintains that the “Center for Career Development (CCD) assists students in identifying, clarifying and achieving their career goals.” The Center

offers many services to students, including access to a job and internship posting board called Japserlink, career counselors available for students to meet when they need guidance in their career planning, career fairs and on-campus recruitment programs, a mentor program to students interested in making connections, a list of available internships, the Suit Up program, and even mock interview sessions to have students gain more communication skills necessary for finding a job.

Within the mentor program, members are provided with “opportunities for Manhattan College students to gain insight into their intended careers by being paired with professionals,” according to the college website. As a part of the service, “students grow personally and professionally as they learn about specific employment options and job responsibilities.”

The program calls for mentors to share professional knowledge with their mentees so that they might learn from their previously gained knowledge.

The Suit Up program makes suits available for rent or for purchase for a lower price for low-income students, both graduate and undergraduate, who are in need of business attire for an upcoming event like a career fair or for an interview.

“Students should take advantage of all resources available to them when applying for jobs,” D’Amelia said.

MC Takes Back Master Plan Update the Night Chris Cirillo

Senior Staff Writer

Victoria Hernández Assistant Editor

Manhattan College’s first annual Take Back the Night march and vigil “honoring those who have survived sexual assault and working to combat sexual violence on and off college campuses,” took place April 21 on the steps of the Smith Auditorium.

Even though a sober topic, the sun was shining and the Quad was filled with students, RAs and faculty members.

In charge of organizing the event were Jessica Risolo, Arbnore Misini and Olivia Blasi as well as their group advisor, Roksana Badruddoja.

After Take Back the Night activist Katie Koestner’s visit and lecture at MC last semester, “we saw a problem that needed to be addressed on campus but it was kind of a taboo,” Blasi said.

This is why a group of students got together to organize Take Back The Night MC, to “not only raise awareness but also provide support to the victims and prevent it,” Blasi said. “We are just hoping to educate, I know we are a small campus, but we can’t ignore it. It [sexual violation] happens.”

Badruddoja, Ph.D. and assistant professor of sociology, welcomed everyone with a powerful statement.

“We must shatter the silence,” she said.

“We must end the violence.”

She discussed her frustration with the vandalizing of Take Back the Night’s event flyers. According to Badruddoja, some of

the flyers were drawn on so that the phrase “no means no” was changed into “no means yes.”

She pointed out the purpose of the event was to “make everyone feel safe, respected, heard” and amongst all, it was “a way to start a conversation” on campus.

Jennifer Edwards, Ph.D. and associate professor of history, is also involved in women and gender studies and spoke at the event.

“I am an angry feminist,” Edwards said. “Twenty million women a year are assaulted in the USA, and 38 percent of the rapists are friends. In college, nine out of 10 rapists are friends, 95 percent are never reported and 98 percent don’t ever get charged.”

She said that oftentimes, it is “hard for victims to pursue justice” because “media condemns them. We should be angry.”

The last speaker was Kimberly Fairchild, Ph.D. and associate professor of psychology, who conducted research on street harassment and catcalling.

Since there was nothing in research literature, she thought it was a good topic to investigate on her own.

“Eighty-five percent of women before 17 years old have suffered from street harassment,” Fairchild said, and the negative effect of it is that “fully intelligent human beings begin to see themselves as a body” and ultimately feel discouraged to enjoy public life. Whistles and stares are part of small daily assaults we need to fight.”

Manhattan College is planning to expand its campus within the next 10 years.

The school plans to upgrade the south campus by renovating Leo or potentially building a new lab building for science, technology, engineering and math south of Leo. The 10-year master plan also includes a quad on the south campus across from Leo. MC, however, would have to first acquire the space used by Karl’s Auto Body.

Andy Ryan, the vice president of facilities, could not speak on the matter, but said he was “reasonably confident” the school could acquire the land.

The full plan is still being worked out, but the south campus will see many changes in the coming years.

“Looking the campus overall, there’s three zones,” Ryan said at the MC Senate meeting on April 21. “[We want to] preserve and contemporize the north campus, create a true south campus and then to strengthen the links between those two campuses.”

The concern for MC was that STEM students were separated in Hayden, RLC and Leo. The upcoming changes would allow them to be all on one campus.

The first option will be to create a new 30,000 square foot STEM building with renovations and modernizations to Leo that would be a grand total of $55 million.

The second option, Ryan called it 1B, would be to spend $35 million more on Leo renovations than the first option instead of a new STEM building.

The final option would be do demolish Leo and build a new one. This would give MC 120,000 square feet of new space. This

option would cost a grand total of $125 million, a price Ryan said may be too hefty for MC. The south campus plans to grow by about 7 percent and allow more opportunities for collaboration for STEM students, Ryan said.

“It was determined that we really needed to make a major investment in STEM across the campus…” Ryan said. “So, the goals are to provide showcase labs and reduce some of that fragmentation. We probably won’t be able to eliminate totally the fragmentation but it would reduce the fragmentation and to make some better adjacencies between those.”

Other additions include a new apartment style housing building for students on the south campus. The location has not been determined yet, but it will house the beds currently contained in Chrysostom Hall, which will be turned into offices for faculty and athletics.

The master plan also includes a theatre and black box in Smith, and renovations to Hayden, De La Salle, Miguel, Memorial, Walsh Plaza, the quad landscaping, the Jasper lounge, Overlook and the Gaelic Park facilities. MC has about $150 million to work with.

The master plan’s growth is parallel to the school’s academic plan, which includes a growth in graduate programs, and in previous years, enrollment. While MC now plans to not increase the rate of undergraduates too much, President Brennan O’Donnell gave a presentation that called for an emphasis on Title IX issues, and a focus on a more diverse student body.

“We have a lot of aspirations,” O’Donnell said at the meeting.

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The All-American Rejects Rock the Spring Concert Michelle DePinho & Sean Sonnemann Editor & Editor-In-Chief

The student antics surrounding Alesso’s evening performance at SpringFest 2013 led to last year’s Jasper Days being a mid-morning country music concert with relatively poor student attendance.

This year, the return of the carnival, barbeque and The All-American Rejects headlining an afternoon concert proved to be a winning formula that appeased students and administrators alike.

“I think bringing back the carnival and barbeque and making the concert later was a great decision,” junior Matt Maino said.

“It made SpringFest an all-day event instead of just a short concert in the morning.”

The day began with games, hamburgers and hot dogs available on the quad. Students came out for attractions that included an inflatable climbing wall, a speed painter and trampolines.

As 2 p.m. approached, students began forming a line outside Draddy Gymnasium before the opening act took the stage. While initially indie rock band Circa Waves was set to perform, R&B singer Bridget Kelly instead warmed up the crowd prior to the Rejects playing their set.

Kelly, an artist signed to Roc Nation who has recorded a song with rapper Kendrick Lamar, performed a few of her own tracks and a cover of summer 2014 hit

“Rude” by Magic!.

“It’s actually my first concert,” Matt Schroeder, a freshman said. “It’s been great so far.”

As the lights came on between the two sets, the crowd began buzzing with anticipation for the pop-punk headliner—a group that was at the peak of their popularity during most of the attendants’ middle school days.

Still, members of the band interviewed

by The Quadrangle prior to the concert did not know what to expect from the crowd— a common occurrence with college audiences.

“Because it’s a college show, there’s a lot of potential for kids who don’t normally listen to us to come out. So it can be interesting,” guitarist Mike Kennerty said.

“It’s just different every time. You never know what you’re gonna get.”

Yet, when the band took the stage and got the whole crowd singing along to “Dirty Little Secret” from the start it became apparent that the MC students’ familiarity with the Rejects’ music would not be an issue.

Throughout the band’s high-energy performance, lead singer Tyson Ritter bounded back and forth across the stage, showed off his vocal range and shared some irreverent commentary with the crowd inbetween songs.

This included humorously pointing out specific students for their behavior or appearance. Ritter dedicated one slow ballad “I For You” to all the “beautiful girls” in the audience.

Freshman Julianna Widlund was perched atop her boyfriend’s shoulders and caught the particular attention of Ritter, who joked that she should be with him instead.

“SpringFest summed up was the best day of my year, and The All-American Rejects really made me feel so awesome,” Widlund said.

At one point during the band’s show, they also broke out into an impromptu performance of “Happy Birthday” in honor of Ritter’s recent thirty-first birthday. This concluded with a cake being brought on stage for him to blow out the candles.

While Ritter joked onstage that he likes to replace his age of 31 with “dirty fun,” other members of the band acknowledged before the show that they are indeed getting older and have adjusted their schedules accordingly.

“We’re not spring chickens any more,” Ritter admitted. “We’re just taking it easy. We killed it pretty hard for like a decade, touring and recording.”

While the group has been playing at several college shows in the last few weeks, their work has been mostly limited to the weekends.

“I do like being home during the week,” drummer Chris Gaylor said, “It’s kind of awesome.”

The group has no plans to release a new album anytime soon, but said they might be recording something in the near future.

Regardless, the crowd enjoyed hearing the band’s older hits and packed in front of

the stage complete with intricate lighting.

After the band’s roughly hour-long set finished, students chanted for an encore, particularly the hit song “Gives You Hell,” which the Rejects had not yet played.

The band obliged, with Ritter returning to the stage wearing a Sixth Borough t-shirt and a small video camera of his own to capture the moment.

When the recognizable opening notes were played, the crowd cheered and sang along for one final time.

After that final track, students emptied out of Draddy just as the morning carnival was finished being packed up from the quad.

The crowd also included some nonManhattan College students here as guests with tickets bought the week prior.

Maya Alper, a sophomore at Barnard College, had attended Columbia University’s spring concert a few weekends ago but enjoyed MC’s more.

“I had a lot of fun, totally a blast from the past with The All-American Rejects.

It was great to see everyone singing along here today,” Alper said.

“We had Big Sean play at Columbia which was alright, but with all the controversy surrounding the event this year—tied up with the sexual assault policy debate and limiting the capacity of the concert to half the student body—it didn’t quite live up to all the hype.”

While the Rejects may not currently have any chart-topping hits, it didn’t stop students from enjoying the concert and the rest of the day’s events.

Kevin Fuhrmann/The Quadrangle

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The Book Nook Title: “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead” Author: Sheryl Sandberg Genre: Non-Fiction

Madeleine Schwartz Staff Writer

“The blunt truth is that men still run the world.” This is how Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer at Facebook, addresses the idea of gender equality in her book “Lean In.” Her so-called feminist manifesto discusses the hot-button topic of society’s gender gap and the at-times taboo word “feminism.”

The title of her book “Lean In” can be described with this quote from a speech Sandberg gave to other women about their careers: “We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.”

For women to be successful in the workforce, Sandberg says that they must know what they want and be able to see themselves achieving it. Women must believe that they are competent in what they do and “lean in” by giving 100 percent of their effort.

There is no question, at least in my mind, that Sandberg writes directly to women. She writes to inspire, encourage and teach women how to be leaders in their work. However, unlike many other authors and politicians, Sandberg is not afraid to compare men and women against each other.

Sandberg states that in 2013, when “Lean In” was published, there were 21

women as Fortune 500 CEO’s. Sandberg goes even further to say that in 2010, women only made 77 cents for every dollar men made. Although these numbers have improved tremendously from where society started from, they are nowhere near equality.

What many people find fascinating about Sandberg is that she is not only bold enough to point out these differences but she points them out to women. Sandberg highlights these facts when talking to women specifically because to make a change, she believes that women must be the ones to do it.

Although stating these facts can be at times critical of women, Sandberg gives her readers advice on how to succeed in their jobs. A point that she makes over and over again is to become a student of your craft. To be great at what you do, you need to know the ins and outs of it. The phrase “you never stop learning” is certainly true in her mind.

Another piece of advice Sandberg gives is to learn that no one has it all. That’s right, everyone has moments where they feel as if they are on the brink of pure insanity; it is not just you. This myth of being able to have it all, whatever that may be, has misled people into thinking that perfection is possible. Sandberg simply states that you don’t have to be perfect, you just need to give all that you have.

As a female college student, I think that “Lean In” can be extremely useful as I begin my career and discover what I

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Madeleine Schwartz/The Quadrangle want to do with my life. However, I think that this book could be even more useful when I’m thirty or forty. My recommendation is for college students to read “Lean In” and keep it on their shelves. Once you

are settled into a career and have a family of your own, Sandberg’s words will mean something entirely different. After five or 10 years of being in the “real world” it could even give you a very much needed piece of wisdom.

Guide to Finding an Internship:

Large Corporations

Sean McIntyre Editor

This is a part of a special series of articles focusing on offering advice on obtaining internships from a MC senior’s perspective.

As summer approaches, students are hunting for their next internship. With a city filled with eager college students, any piece of advice can be valuable. Three seniors, myself included, have worked within corporate environments. We want to offer some tips on how to land a job at major corporations like the American Red Cross, MSNBC and Hearst Magazines.

Corporations can be intimidating due to their size and their prestigious name.

Tens of thousands of students apply for these coveted internships. The goal is to stand out and to show that you are a valuable asset.

When I applied to Hearst Magazines in the Public Relations Department, I applied through the Hearst Career Portal. I submitted my resume and customized cover letter explaining why I would be of great value to the team. Senior Nereida Millan shared a similar experience.

“I found my internship on the NBCU Careers website. I had to do a bit of clicking around,” Millan said.

Millan interviewed for the MSNBC Media Relations Intern position. She monitored media coverage of MSNBC shows, then clipped articles and blog posts that covered their talent and/or content and

created “round-ups.” She also prepared transcripts of shows to be published on the MSNBC blog and answered/directed inquiries from media reporters and the general public.

“The interview process was interesting,” Millan said. “First, I got an email that I was being considered and that I needed to complete a video interview using an app I had to download on my phone. The video interview was essentially recording myself answering questions and it lasted about 30 minutes. About a week later NBC sent me another email to set up a formal one on one interview at 30 Rock. Another week later I received the offer.”

Unlike Millan and myself, Senior Christina Bahnatka found her position at the American Red Cross as a Community Relations Intern at Manhattan College.

“Numerous positions were posted and emailed to me by Career Development,” Bahnatka said.

As a Community Relations Intern Bahnatka worked under the Communications Department, specifically with the New York elected officials. She tracked daily disasters that the Red Cross responded to, wrote memos of support for proposed legislation, and composed bi-weekly newsletters.

“My interview process consisted of one phone interview before meeting my supervisor face-to-face. Actually, my first in-person-interview was cancelled due to an emergency the Red Cross provided assistance for,” Bahnatka said.

During my time at Hearst Magazines I

found myself contributing numerous times during meetings like how to pitch magazine features to press. One project I contributed to was how to pitch Halloween festivities from Woman’s Day to daily newspapers.

“Team meetings, especially in my department are crucial for the Red Cross,” Bahnatka said. “I have been able to work with other members to compose social media posts for new campaigns and draft ideas to help spread support for the organization.”

Working in a large corporation comes with many perks, including working with many influential people. By working in Hearst Magazines I was able to network with Directors, Managers, and Executives in the PR Department. Working at press events for magazines allowed me to meet members of the press.

“A lot of events have been hosted involving the entire New York chapter employees and the interns, so networking has not been an issue,” Bahnatka said. “I am also fortunate enough to interact and meet with many government organizations, and elected officials during my year at the Red Cross.”

Millan focused her networking within the walls of MSNBC after she interned for several weeks and researched whom she wanted to meet.

“I set up a meeting with my supervisor and showed her the list I compiled,” Millan said. “We talked about what I was looking for in a career and she provided me with relevant contacts. With that, I’ve set up informational interviews with about 4-5

different people ranging from producers to production assistants.”

At the end of an internship, a student learns important facts that transition into the next one. I learned the importance of organizing my workload, communicating clearly with fellow interns and managers and improving my writing skills.

Millan learned the importance of prioritization, multitasking and networking.

Bahnatka also learned the importance of time management, triple-checking your work, and your presentation of yourself to others.

Overall, after interning at Hearst Magazines, my biggest piece of advice when applying to internships is to know yourself and your skills. Be confident in your interview and be prepared to talk about your passion for the company and industry.

“My biggest advice is to apply to an internship you feel passionate about. I am a firm believer that if you enjoy the work you do, the better it is,” Bahnatka said. “I also would tell someone not to get discouraged in the process of applying for internships.

The application process is time consuming and tedious, but it is all worth it in the end.”

“Don’t throw all your eggs in one basket. I know, so cheesy but it’s imperative that you apply to as many as possible,” said Millan. “It’s key to understand that while you’re applying you need to consider your social media, LinkedIn, and any other things along those lines as your brand.”

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Cara Ledwidge Senior Staff Writer

Tara Marin Staff Writer

If you went back in time to when Kevin Fitzgerald was a freshman and told him that he would be working at Rockefeller Center by the time he was a senior, he wouldn’t have believed you. Why? He was an engineer at the time.

Now a senior broadcasting major, he commutes to 30 Rock twice a week where he has an internship at “Late Night with Seth Meyers.” After applying online and getting a call, Fitzgerald is having the kind of experience that many broadcasting majors would give an arm for. He affirms that working at NBC is as awesome as we think it is.

“It’s a lot of hands-on work and exposure to what I plan on doing in the future.

It’s much more than the basic intern stuff you would imagine, like running coffee.

I actually get to do things like assist the house band with working in the studio,” he said.

The NBC workplace is obviously an upbeat, fast-paced atmosphere, so it’s easy to assume that the people who work there would be intimidating and demanding.

Fitzgerald explains that they’re very much the opposite.

“They’re the greatest people, so cool and down to earth. Most of them are younger too, even though you think they would be older. For instance, my supervisor is a recent grad,” he said.

The fact that he is surrounded by such understanding people alleviates the stress level that comes with working for a popular television show.

“It’s not like if I do something wrong or mess up, then I’m fired. It’s a hardworking place, but it’s very laid back.”

On taking the giant leap from engineering to broadcasting, Fitzgerald confesses he simply had a realization that he didn’t like math and science as much as he thought he did. He decided he wanted to do something different everyday and live a life that didn’t feel repetitive.

“I want a job where I don’t know what’s gonna happen all the time. If I was an engineer, I’d probably be working on one giant project for a long period of time, and I wouldn’t like that,” he said.

Another interesting part of Fitzgerald’s story is that this isn’t even his first experience working with a television show. The spring semester of his junior year he was

an intern at ABC’s “Good Morning America,” which led him to recognizing something else about himself.

“I thought I wanted to do news production, but then I realized that I wanted to do entertainment. News is more serious, and I worked in a very quiet office all day. It was an amazing experience and the people were awesome there too, but I wanted something more fast-paced.”

Acting on this realization, Fitzgerald then went on to intern at “The Tonight Show” starring Jimmy Fallon during the fall semester of this year. On top of all of this, he has been a member of the swim team, a resident assistant and a member of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee. He explains that he gradually got into internships and figured out how to manage his time effectively.

Michael Grabowski, Ph.D. and associate professor of communications, says that Fitzgerald’s unprecedented success has been no surprise.

“From his first class, I knew Kevin Fitzgerald would be successful working in television. He showed perseverance in my production courses, and that’s a skill that pays off in this field. No one will ever force you to make content or go the extra mile, but those who do so on their own succeed.

Kevin always took pride in his work, and he demonstrated professionalism that paid off,” Grabowski said.

Gail Small, another professor in the communication department, agrees that he has what it takes.

“He is an expert in late night television, as it is the topic for his senior seminar paper. He is fun, outgoing and a pleasure to have in class,” Small said.

Looking toward the future, Fitzgerald has been applying for jobs, but says his dream is to become an NBC Page, which is a program that serves as a training ground for people who want to pursue careers in entertainment.

This appears to be only the beginning of what will be a phenomenal career path for Kevin Fitzgerald, and his accomplishments so far should serve as inspiration and motivation for students of all majors.

Late night television is a source of the priceless comedy and hilarious satire that Americans know and love. So next time you’re watching “Late Night with Seth Meyers” before bed, remember that Fitzgerald is somewhere behind the scenes helping it all come together.

Alexa Revans is preparing to graduate on May 17, a day not too far around the corner. Revans has had quite the semester.

From putting together Manhattan Magazine, to studying for tests, to writing papers and most of all, working, Revans has learned to balance all aspects of her life.

Since September, Revans has worked with the New Museum “two days a week, as well as special events (such as) exhibition press previews, educational programs, parties, photo shoots, etc.”

A typical day for Revans looks like this, “I wake up, leave OV, take the death stairs, hop on the 1, transfer to the express at 96, transfer at 42 to the downtown N or R, get out at Prince Street and walk to the Bowery. I take the elevator up to the 6th floor of the museum and turn on my computer. My day consists of email answering, recording press about the museum, writing tweets and Tumblr posts and taking pictures for the Instagram account.”

After she is done detailing the museum’s social media accounts, she says, “I usually have one to two photo shoots a day where I bring press photographers/videographers around the museum.”

Instead of wanting to come home, Revans says, “When the day ends, I usually try to hang around the Lower East Side because well, it’s not The Bronx. I eventually go to sleep and all that,” but only after she’s had a chance to decompress after a long day at work.

Revans found her job last spring, saying, “It was a mail-in application. I got an email for an interview, interviewed with my current supervisors and was asked to be their fall intern.”

Luckily for Revans, “After interning in the fall they asked me to come back as their department fellow, a role that will be continuing until the end of the summer.”

On a daily basis, Revans says, “New Museum has a quick turnover rate for exhibitions. Shows switch in and out about every three to four months. It’s usually an extremely hectic day, but so, so exciting.”

Revans recalls one of her favorite moments with the museum, “For the Triennial I was able to actually introduce myself to a lot of the art critics and journalists I had been pitching stories to, as well as some of the 51 artists showcased in the exhibition.

I got to work the door at the Standard Hotel in Chelsea for the preview’s after party, which will probably go down as one of the most surreal moments of my life.”

She says it went a little something like this, “Yes, I’m 5’3”, no you are not on the list, and again, you cannot come in.”

At the end of the night, she says, laughing, “What was even better, was enjoying a nice cup of water at the Standard’s rooftop bar before my ride back up to The Bronx.”

With all of the exciting times she has had at New Museum, Revans still admits, “I think anyone who has ever had an internship or started a new job has had to face the hardship of asserting his or her presence and authority as an employee.

One of my responsibilities is to supervise photo shoots, which requires bringing a photographer/videographer around the

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museum to record the exhibition. I usually really enjoy this because I get to creatively direct the shoots (choose parts of the museum that are more interesting for B-roll/ still shots). However, sometimes I’ll get a photographer that thinks I’m equivalent to a piece of bad art, stationary and perhaps even an object they’d like to knock over. This clearly makes my job difficult because I constantly have to re-establish authority over the shoot and the photographer, which ultimately makes for bad shots and an overall crappy day at work.”

Not all college students have the opportunity to work with students their age as well as their employer, but for Revans, “Everyone is pretty young and the work culture of NewMu is definitely innovative and “New” like young people.”

Revans admits she’s been thinking about balance lately. “I really enjoy my fellowship at the museum and all that I do at MC, so I make sure that both school and work are a priority.”

When asked about the next couple months, Revans says, “I would love to spend forever at the New Museum, and I’m totally open to making one of the galleries my permanent living space. However, my future at NewMu is semi-ambiguous at the moment. I plan to carry out my fellowship for the rest of July and see where it takes me.”

Revans has learned more on the job than she has in the classroom, saying, “Working at the New Museum has shed light on a couple of areas for me. First, PR, my major, does not have to revolve around selling a product. Sure, I promote the museum so the public can essentially buy tickets, but it is to learn about international contemporary art. It gives me great satisfaction to promote an institution that is true to its mission of cultivating new ideas and new art.”

She goes on to say, “Second, I’ve also been able to experience a democratic work culture, one that doesn’t make me want to secretly spill hot coffee all over my boss. In fact, my supervisors are my ever-encouraging mentors who I hope to stay friends with for a long time to come.”

“Honestly, if I haven’t taken over the world by the time I’m 32, I’m not really sure,” Revans says after being asked about where she’ll be in ten years.

Despite her time at MC, Revans says she’s ready to leave, adding, “MC, it has been real.”

But don’t think she won’t miss it. “I will miss Katy Tkach, Miss Vickie’s Jalapeno Chips for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, monopoly money purchasing power, the Japanese Cherry Blossom Tree on the Mini Quad, Hayden basement roaches, Manhattan Magazine, living in the BX, the stop light at the end of Waldo before the death stairs, all of the stairs, the glacial pace of the 1 train, and most importantly, my teenage angst that went out of style roughly two years ago.”

But, after all that, the one thing she won’t miss is “Marlboro Reds at $13.66 a pack.”

Revans concludes by saying, “Modern Girl” by Sleater-Kinney, would be the anthem she would choose to surmise her time at Manhattan College.

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Jasper Chat: Prospective Students

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Leah Cordova Staff Writer

Manhattan College’s series of Accepted Students Days recently came to an end. From MC Read Aloud to the Jazz Band jamming at the Quad steps, school spirit was on display for students who may see themselves walking throughout campus someday. The spirit on these Wednesdays coupled with students and their families gazing at the campus probably reminded us of how we felt during our own college searching. And while these events may mark an end to our semester, a new beginning is also creeping up. For high school seniors, this is it. They've taken SATs and ACTs, they've asked enough questions about financial aid, internships, dorms and weekend gallivanting. I approached some prospective Jaspers with a different simple question: "What was your favorite MC spot today?"

Bridget Ryan - School of Business Kiera O'Connor - School of Education & Health "The Quad!"

Daniel Hey School of Business "I really liked the sense of community that I got from Lee Hall, I'm going to keep The Arches in mind."

Gabriella Ramirez School of Arts "It was nice, I'm definitely coming next year. And...The Quad!"

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Women’s Lacrosse Finishes Season with a Win on Senior Day Jaclyn Marr Assistant Editor

On Manhattan’s final game of 2015, it honored seniors Domenica O’Brey, Carly Cappello, Donna Jo DiNorcia, Kaleigh Howe, Christina Fiorinelli and Caitlin Hynes with a 9-8 victory over Marist.

“We struggled a lot this season,” DiNorcia said. “So to pull it all together defensively and offensively was a big thing, especially for the seniors.”

Goalie Fiorinelli had a team-best 60 ground balls and DiNorcia returned from injury scoring a hat trick.

“Coming off of an injury, I didn’t even expect to be on the field that long,” DiNorcia said. “Putting in the first goal was enough for me. It was just a great way to go out.”

Although Manhattan (1-7 MAAC, 4-13) did not have a winning record this season, co-captain Megan Yarusso -- who led the team in goals and points with 34 and 45 respectively -- said that winning on senior day was the team’s best achievement this season.

“Ending on a high note showed us and the coaches that we are good,” Yarusso said. “It showed that we could hang with or even beat good teams. Finally coming together as a whole was the cherry on top this season.”

Both DiNorcia and Yarusso said that the last few years on the team have been a growing experience and a learning process.

After some coaching changes, they said they have found who can help the team reach their goals.

“In previous years, we were getting blown out by mediocre teams,” Yarusso said. “This year, we were losing to really good teams by one or two goals.”

“Our coaches now are really going to take the program in the right direction,” DiNorcia said. “I believe that the seniors helped pave the way for that. We’ve come a long way.”

As DiNorcia finishes her time at Manhattan, she said she hopes to see the team improve to a winning record in the future.

She also said that there are different people who can work together and have a connection, which will help the team be successful.

“This whole year was a learning process,” Yarusso said. “Getting that connection should start in the fall. With the incoming class, we should start building that relationship with everyone on the team.”

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‘Til Baseball Do Us Part:

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“The Battery”

Tyler Krolikowski/Courtesy Mount Saint Vincent pitcher Tyler Krolikowski about to throw a pitch to his catcher Steven Giustino.

Jonathan Reyes Editor

Baseball can’t be played without a pitcher or catcher.

Without his catcher, a pitcher has no one to throw to and create a pace of game with. And for a catcher without his pitcher, he has no one to give pitch signs to and to keep in check throughout a game.

“For those two positions to really be in sync, it’s what makes the team go,” Manhattan pitching coach Justin Echevarria said. “So that’s why it’s called the battery.

Without those two guys, there really is no season. … You’re only as good as they are.”

Before coming to Manhattan as a volunteer assistant, Echevarria was a catcher at Seton Hall. He remembered in his final year, while at the Big East conference tournament, there was a freshman starter on the mound. And his team was beating Albany

5-2, but there were two baserunners aboard threatening to score.

As the situation progressed, he noticed his pitcher looked fatigued on the mound because the baseball was beginning to elevate with each throw. He immediately ran out toward him to see how he was feeling.

“Listen, you’re pitching a heck of a game,” Echevarria recalled telling him.

“All we need is one more out. Get us out of this.”

After he finished talking, Echevarria looked him in the eyes. When he returned behind home plate, his pitcher threw a strike on the next pitch and then on the following one caused the batter to pop-out to end the inning.

“I always relay to our guys, the pitching-catching relationship is like being in an actual relationship,” Echevarria said. “It’s built on trust and...communication.”

“As weird as that sounds,” Manhattan catcher Chris Reynolds said, “it is.”

Mount Saint Vincent’s Tyler Krolikowski both pitches and hits as a first-baseman.

He has been caught by his catcher Steven Giustino since summer leagues before college and in their three years at MSV. Krolikowski throws bullpens to Giustino every week, in the winter and back home in the offseason.

“You see the confidence in the pitcher,” Krolikowski said of how a hitter can perceive a pitcher. “The pitcher knows how to get you out as the catcher knows how to get you out. They’re just in sync. The pitcher is firing them at you not even thinking about it.”

When a catcher has a good understanding of what a pitcher is trying to do, it takes stress off the pitcher. All he has to do is go out and execute his pitching. A catcher can see how a batter’s feet are set and his swing mechanics for particular pitches, Manhattan pitcher Mike Scarinci said.

“You’re going into the game, and it’s

just one less thing to worry about,” Scarinci said.

Echevarria recalled that whenever he caught a freshman pitcher he would lead him to trust in him and his work ethic behind the plate.

“It’s a lot different than high school in the sense that...when you messed up nobody really told you, ‘Listen, be better. You can’t do that,’” Manhattan pitcher Tom Cosgrove said of how his catchers are helping him adjust as a freshman. “If I do something wrong, Mikey [Miranda] or Reynolds are the first ones to come out and tell me, ‘Fix it up.’ They just let me know and tell me straight up, and I listen because I know they know what they’re talking about.”

“When that happens it really is a beautiful thing to watch,” Echevarria said. “Guys are lockstep. There’s flow, rhythm to the game [and] game calling.”