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Volume XCVIII, Issue 10
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NEW YORK, OCTOBER 30, 2018
Student Veterans Discuss Religion Before, During and After Service RikkiLynn Shields & C. Garrett Keidel Social Media Editor & Asst. Sports Editor
Happy Halloween! The quad was decorated with pumpkins, spiderwebs and ghosts during Friday’s Safe Halloween event, hosted annually by Kappa Delta Pi education honor society. TAYLOR BRETHAUER / THE QUADRANGLE
Communication Department Hosts Inaugural Women in Production Alumnae Panel Gregory Boland & Madalyn Johnson
Contributor & Staff Writer As the communication department has aged and grown at Manhattan College, so has its network of alumni. On Wednesday, Oct. 24, a panel of ten female alumni of the communication department gathered in the O’Malley Alumni room to describe their experiences in the fast paced and chaotic environment that many communication majors will be entering after graduation. Numerous alumni returned to give communication students at MC an insight of how the industry is and what it expects. The women, which included Stephanie Brooks, Erica Cellucci, Rita Damiron, Becca Falbourn, Tina Fernandez, Dominque Girardi, Gabriella Girgis, Lindsay Gordon, Nereida Millan, and Nia Stevens, all work for major news and entertainment companies located in the heart of New York City. The companies included NBC, CBS, Engel entertainment, Cheddar, and SNL. The panel was very informative and provided MC’s
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students with honest and real advice on what is really cool about working in the industry and how it has its upsets. One downgrade mentioned was the hectic and unpredicted long hours on the job. Becca Falbourn described that it is not all tribulation. “[When asked] why am I doing this when I don’t get paid a lot but I have to wake up at four in the morning when I’m missing Christmas it’s because this, I’m helping viewers, I’m getting a crazy story, out there,” she said Internships and making connections was also something that was emphasized throughout the whole panel. Many of the women explained how significant internships were to getting the jobs they have today, and how it can be a eyeopener for potential jobs students may be seeking for. Tina Fernandez, who works for SNL as cast member Leslie Jones’ assistant, talked about she wished she did more internships during her time at Manhattan college and the importance of getting a connection. “If you have an internship, you kinda can narrow your way to what you want and don’t
want,” she said. “Looking back, I was lucky to get to work for NBC but if you’re not so fortunate, start off somewhere else because you never know where you can meet someone that can get you in there.” Many students attended the panel to get some perspectives of how the industry is and how the process of getting an internship can be difficult. Jess Solan, a sophomore majoring in communications with a concentration in media production attended the panel and was really inspired by the impressive jobs the ten alumni have claimed. “It really enforced what I wanted to do, even more so. I really love seeing everyone here, especially how passionate they are about their jobs. It really seems like a lot of inspiring people have come out of Manhattan College,” Solan said. The women at the panel also discussed how gender and ethnic background has a played a role in the jobs they have landed with and why they have chosen the particular companies they work for. Nereida Millan, who __________________________ CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
On Oct. 23, in Hayden 100, Manhattan College’s Student Veterans Organization held a panel discussing the relationship between religion and the military. This panel, co-hosted by the Religious Studies Department and the Student Veterans Success Center highlighted the prevalence and the impact of both religion and faith in general. This year, Manhattan College has roughly 140 veterans enrolled in their undergraduate program. Of these students, three veterans spoke in regards to their personal experiences and beliefs regarding the impact of religion in the military setting, along with Serina Lewis, a member of the U.S. Navy and a current undergraduate student. Terry Ford served in the U.S. Air Force from 2012 to 2017 and Became familiar with religion at a very young age. Attending Sunday church services with his grandmother, along with Sunday school, was when Ford was first introduced a thing called faith. “While in Sunday school, I never actually committed to religion. I always found the stories to be kind of far fetched,” Ford said. Ford put aside his religious beliefs for the majority of his life. When returning from the military, veterans often have a hard time navigating. “You’re by yourself and you feel very isolated. When you’re isolated, you try to find something you’re familiar with– and I found religion again. Then, I saw my friends, and they were focusing on other religions, but I focused on Christianity,” said Ford. Ford began to notice himself interacting more with his friends, even those of different religious beliefs, but still fo-
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cused on his own faith in Christianity. “Around the time I was in my fourth of fifth week of boot camp, my grandmother lost her battle to breast cancer. I found it interesting that she would lose that battle when I started with the church again. It’s like her mission was complete.” After returning from the military, Ford abandoned religion again. Ford says that it wasn’t until he got to Manhattan College that his interest in religion sparked. “Once I got out, I kind of stopped going to church again. Once I got here, with Dr. Kaplan, we started talking about other religions like Hinduism and Buddhism. That led me to want to learn more about new religions.” Jonathan Hoogerhyde, currently an electrical engineering major in his senior year, was a Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps Artillery. “My journey with religion started at a very young age. I grew up with a Christian family, going to a Christian school, had Christian friends, and church on Sunday every week,” he said. Growing up Christian, Hoogerhyde explained that he was taught in great detail what was right and what is wrong. As Hoogerhyde continued into young adult years, he began to ask himself many questions about why things are the way they are, specifically why is something right and why is something wrong. “One of the things that stuck with me was attention to detail in terms of what is right and what is wrong. Very quickly for me that turned into a more __________________________ CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
IN SPORTS:
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