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Volume XCVI, Issue 14

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Campus Talks Sexual Assault, Title IX and #MeToo

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COLLEGE SENATE APPROVES MINIMUM WAGE RESOLUTION UNANIMOUS VOTE TO RAISE WAGE

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Take Back the Night is a campus organization that has been hosting annual events in the spring semester. AARON MAYORGA / THE QUADRANGLE

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In the last few months, the #MeToo movement has changed the national conversation around sexual assault and harassment, but legislation that mandates how we confront these issues remains uncertain.

Here on campus, there are multiple organizations and people who are promoting awareness about sexual assault and harassment.

Samantha Monfils, a junior sociology major, is the president of Take Back the Night (TBTN), a campus organization that honors those who have survived sexual assault and works to combat sexual violence on and off campus. The club has a yearly event in Smith Auditorium.

Monfils joined TBTN’s committee as a freshman and is passionate about its cause.

“Take Back the Night is so important to me because I simply cannot tolerate the existence of rape culture any longer, and for me this event is a way to raise awareness that we are in fact living in a culture where women walk home at night with keys in between their fingers, where women get asked what they were wearing the night they got assaulted, and where 1

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out of 5 women students on college campuses will experience sexual assault,” she said.

Monfils also feels that the current political climate intensifies TBTN’s mission, as sexual assault is so prevalent in the news, on college campuses, and on social media.

“This year our committee is adjusting to this environment by coming up with more promotional opportunities and more mini events to increase campus consciousness and let people know that this is why we have Take Back the Night in the first place,” she said.

Title IX, a federal law which requires schools that receive federal funds not to discriminate on the basis of sex, and requires schools to address sexual violence among students. Since the law’s passage in 1972, it has been popularized by equal opportunity, most notably within athletics, and has also gained traction in the last two decades as an assurance to victims that their assaulters will not go unpunished.

In 2011, the Obama Administration released the Dear Colleague Letter which highlighted the measures that an institution of higher education must take to protect students.

The letter itself was not a legal obligation, as it was issued without the process of public comment that would allow its

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statements to be legally binding. Yet in investigations and enforcements, the Department of Education treated the letter as if it were law.

In September, Education Secretary Betsy Devos delivered a much anticipated policy speech in which she promised to rollback many Title IX enforcements. Devos acknowledged that sexual misconduct must be confronted, the due process must “incorporate the insights of all parties.” Devos, who has held low profile meetings with men’s rights groups, is essentially rescinding Obama-era policies but has not named what they will be replaced with, only that they will pay attention to the accused, not just the victim.

Monfils, who is well informed of these practices and policies, she explains that this change is driven by the fear of false rape allegations ruining someone’s life, but false allegations are “exceptionally rare” and the people who do make them are “destroying the credibility of true sexual assault victims.”

Monfils also includes that men are actually more likely to experience sexual assault than be accused of it, in a study con-

Just before the College closed for the Thanksgiving holiday, other doors were seemingly being opened for students.

Student Government’s revamping of Government Professor Margaret Groarke’s minimum wage proposal met the Manhattan College Senate on Nov. 21, passing unanimously.

The proposal specifically called for the following, which was stated as the rationale behind the bill.

“The Manhattan College Student Government propose that the minimum wage for all student college employees at least meet that of New York State standards, which shall presently incrementally increase to $15.00 by December 31st, 2018.”

Currently, student employees are making less than New York State standards.

“This is really happening,” said Ryan Quattromani, senior class vice president.

Quattromani also noted that this proposal was the first of the year to pass successfully.

The passed proposal, however, was slightly reformed by Engineering Dean Tim J. Ward in a way that appeared to respect Student Government’s initial draft. “[Student Government’s] proposal in its exact form wasn’t the proposal that passed. Dean Ward had written his own resolution,” said Quattromani. “In more broad terms it still said the same thing, but it was a summary. I was fine voting on it because it seemed like it was

easier for people to comprehend.”

Jimena Gonzalez, Ph.D., assistant professor of economics and finance in the School of Business, commented on the issue while providing insights on minimum wage.

“When there is a minimum wage, the government imposes a wage that it is above the equilibrium [between labor demand and labor supply],” he said.

“When that happens, the labor demanded is less than the labor supplied, which means that there are more workers willing to work at this higher rate than what is demanded, which causes unemployment.”

With that said, the professor continued to share that he feels this would be different at the college employment level.

“Economically, the College matching the city’s minimum wage is not as disruptive because the alternative for students would be to work off campus and they would make above what they got paid before.”

Trying to grasp all possible setbacks and ramifications, Student Body President Micaela Bishop spoke on the issue.

“We understand that there is going to be difficulties, but we’ve asked Dean Satterlee in particular, and the people that he’s working with, to let us know which departments can budget for this in the spring, and who can actually pay their students this increased wage,” said Bishop.

Although this process could become more lengthy than anticipated, Bishop and Quattro-

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Dear Reader,

The Editor

Well, we’ve had a good run, haven’t we?

But all things must come to an end. This will be the last time I share this space with you as Editor-in-Chief of The Quadrangle.

This year has been a successful year for our publication. We broke a lot of major stories this year, including last spring’s flood of on-campus bias reports, the death of a beloved professor in the School of Education and the severing of one of the college’s four official Greek organizations. We also got down and dirty in the topics of health and faith.

All told, The Quadrangle published 485 individual pieces this year – which made up 352 pages of printed content dispersed across 28 issues.

This year has also been a transformative one for The Quad. One year ago, our paper looked totally different – both in print and online. The way you pick up your paper has been updated – as The Quad has unveiled a brand-spanking new fleet of news racks.

All of this is because of our staff of dedicated, talented and fierce young journalists. Their work this year has been nothing short of impeccable, and I owe a major debt of gratitude to them for their contributions to this paper.

This year has presented enormous challenges for the craft of journalism as President Donald J. Trump and other major political figures continued their all-out assault on American institutions of truth – including the free press and American intelligence agencies. As I have already said in this space, our times demand fierce, diligent journalism and a higher level of civic engagement.

Our writers have greeted the challenges of our times with fervor.

This year, we covered Trump’s inauguration and the ensuing protests, his attempts to block Muslims from entering the country and his rescission of DACA (Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals).

But we haven’t done it alone. The Quadrangle is lucky to exist on a campus that supports our craft.

I know that President Trump doesn’t read The Quadrangle – and he probably doesn’t even know that we’re here. But the war for truth must be waged and fought at all levels, and, here at Manhattan College, I’m glad to say that truth is winning.

After this issue, the reins will be passed to my good friend Taylor Brethauer. Taylor has done a wonderful job with the A&E section this year, and I am completely confident in her ability to preside over another successful year for The Quadrangle.

I love this college and I love this paper deeply – and it has been an immense honor to serve as your Editor-in-Chief this year.

Best of luck and God bless.

Sincerely, Stephen D. Zubrycky Editor-in-Chief

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Bloomberg Terminals Become a Centerpiece John Garry Contributor

The Manhattan College finance department, advancing efforts to keep pace with the everchanging finance industry, has continued to integrate Bloomberg Terminals ,purchased in 2015, into its curriculum.

Simply as “the terminal” to the finance professionals who consider it an integral part of their toolkit, Bloomberg’s computers are an industry standard information delivery system.

It delivers data, analysis, and news to traders on Wall Street and around the world, and allows a broker to place trades at the click of a button.

As of 2016, the Bloomberg Terminal provides vital information to around 325,000 subscribers. Thanks to the efforts of Dr. Amira Annabi, assistant professor of Economics & Finance at Manhattan College, a few of these are the students and faculty of MC. Since 2015, when it began to be gradually introduced into the classroom, The Bloomberg Lab has become an integral part of the finance program.

“Bloomberg Terminals are Crucial in my classes. I teach all my classes in the Bloomberg lab, and I use the platform in almost every lecture,” said Dr. Annabi, who spearheaded the 2015 initiative to train finance students in the platform.

Annabi continued to share that the system has drastically changed her teaching since its rollout, especially in her higher level courses.

“I teach my Derivatives course every spring. Since I started using [the terminals], they’ve become a pillar of my syllabus. I use it in class, but I also have my students use it for activities and in their final project,” she said.

Students also seem to be loving the new platform.

“Over the summer I was looking at the student feedback for my courses. Since I’ve started using the platforms more and more, I’ve seen a trend where the class rating has consistently improved, and students specifically report that they love using Bloomberg Terminals,” she said.

Many students have opted to complete the Bloomberg Market Concepts Course, which is an eight hour online class through which students can earn a Bloomberg Market Concepts Certification. Annabi sees the course as a boon for the resume or LinkedIn page of anyone interested in finance.

“85 percent of my students have earned the Bloomberg certification. The deadline is Dec. 2, and I expect even more students to earn it before then,”

said Annabi.

“Knowledge of Bloomberg and other platforms gives students an early career advantage, because employers now expect skills and a comfort level with these technologies” said Jordan Rapaccioli, dean of Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business. “A new hire who comes in knowing [their] way around a Bloomberg terminal is a new hire whom the company doesn’t have to train in this area.”

To facilitate this training, Dr. Annabi has been working on a student’s manual for the system, the first edition of which was recently released.

“The Bloomberg Manual has been extremely helpful in my classes. I’ve released the first edition, and intend to release the second edition in mid March, which will contain even more details and guides for how to use the Terminals,” said Dr. Annabi about the guide, a labor of love that she hopes will help students truly become comfortable with the platform.

Her work in writing and compiling it has also enhanced her own knowledge of the platform. “Every time I learn about a new Bloomberg function, I incorporate it into my class.”

The success of the Bloomberg Lab may provide a model for the application of similar professional programs at the school. Services similar to Bloomberg Terminal, such as legal databases like Westlaw or LexisNexis, could be quite impactful at the college. Steven Bennett, who teaches business law at the college, says that while he does not prescribe the use of any electronic materials in his course, his students independently use a variety of online research tools to write papers on legal topics.

Nicholas Weyland, former student of Manhattan College, highly agreed with Annabi on that aspect of the manual.

“The whole idea of the manual is to give students more exposure to what Bloomberg offers, it’s another way to help students learn,” said Weyland.

“If you go into the field without Bloomberg knowledge, it could set you back, but if you learn more about Bloomberg earlier and all it has to offer, it could pay dividends in the end.”

She hopes to hear more feedback from students to aid her in improving both the manual and the way in which the system is used. She looks forward to working with her students to help them truly master the Bloomberg Terminal.

As she told The Quadrangle in January, “We do anything we can to not only help those who struggle, but also those who want to do more.”

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“While false allegations do happen, women who are raped are even more frequently accused of making it up or are shamed into silence. Rape victims are constantly blamed and undermined, and accusations of rape are at this point almost necessarily questioned and seen as potentially false. So if we want to talk about ‘men’s rights’, we don’t have to talk about their reputations after being accused of sexual assault because more often than not, their reputations remain intact and unchanged. The best example I can give of this is our president, who has several sexual assault allegations against him, but yet he was still elected president,” Monfils said.

Devos also announced that she will be reducing the budget towards Title IX, which will directly impact TBTN, which exists not only on Manhattan College’s campus, but on campus all over the nation.

“This will gravely impact our Take Back the Night committee as the majority of our budget comes from Manhattan College’s Title IX Office and Vicki Cowan,” Monfils said.

Vicki Cowan, Assistant Vice President for Human Resources and Title IX, also spoke with The Quadrangle about these changes.

“We understand there is concern about the latest statements from the Department of Education regarding sexual assault legislation and Title IX. However, we at Manhattan will do everything in our power to keep our students safe and secure. In addition, we continue to be compliant with New York State law regarding all areas surrounding sexual assault and Title IX. We are continuing to increase our programming each year, regardless of any laws,” Cowan said.

This assurance is crucial, especially at a time when we are realizing the frightening scale of sexual assault. What has elucidated this most is the #MeToo movement, which flooded social media in October and has remained just as powerful since.

In its first week it received over 3 million impressions on Twitter alone. The campaign was created years ago as an effort to support victims of sexual assault and provide them with resources to cope. It has united and amplified the voices of millions of women.

Monfils believes that the #MeToo narrative is critical to both the healing process and in provoking a bigger conversa-

A bulletin board from Take Back the Night.

AARON MAYORGA / THE QUADRANGLE tion about the magnitude and ward about their experiences of sexual assault by a family memseriousness of sexual assault.

“MeToo has also sparked ber or friend when they were a another hashtag trend, #HowI- child, as a student assaulted by WillChange, which is used a peer, a teacher, professor, or mainly by men on social media coach, as a working professionto show solidarity with women al assaulted or harassed by a and survivors of sexual assault colleague or boss, as a member by explaining what they will do of the military — the list goes to address rape culture,” she on and on.

“It’s not enough to just wake said.

Aside from TBTN, the up to the fact that this is a probGreen Dot program exists on lem, but to actually start docampus to prevent violence as ing something about it,” Bunts continues. “GreenDot seeks well.

Ryan Bunts, who is an Area to change the social norms on Coordinator for Horan Hall and campus to reflect two major runs the GreenDot program, points: that sexual assault, datthinks that GreenDot’s pres- ing and domestic violence and ence on campus is important stalking are not tolerated on this campus, and that we all now more than ever.

“These events occurring have a part to play in ensurin our greater society have ing everyone stays safe,” Bunt underscored how pervasive said.

Bunts explains what Greensexual assault and harassment has become in our society. It is Dot is doing to ensure this hapmore important than ever that pens.

“This is done through acwe work together to change the climate on our campus and in tive bystander trainings which general to prevent this from be- are lead by myself, Assistant coming the status quo,” Bunts Dean Tiffany French and Residence Director Ron Jovi said.

Bunts reflects on how shock- Ramirez. These trainings are ing the #MeToo campaign has geared towards helping students recognize barriers which been from his perspective.

“For me personally, it was might prevent them from helpabsolutely heart wrenching to ing someone in harm’s way and log onto social media and see finding ways to overcome those the sheer volume people post- barriers to get a peer help if ing their stories who are close and when they need it. We to me yet I had no idea had also have the GreenDot action gone through these experienc- committee which is a group es. This is reflective of the sta- of students who work towards tistic that many cases of sexual running promotional events assault still do not end up being on campus to help spread the message that this program exreported,” he said. #MeToo has also incited a ists and is available to students, great deal of victims who were faculty and staff,” he said.

To date, GreenDot has assaulted by male celebrities to come forward. The list includes trained over 1,000 students and Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spac- staff with the goal of creating ey, Louis CK, Jeffrey Tambor, a campus where everyone has Ed Westwick, Dustin Hoffman, the knowledge and tools to preMatt Lauer, and Roy Moore, vent sexual violence.

“We don’t get paid extra to who is currently running for Alabama’s senate. Yet we know do GreenDot, we do it because that this isn’t just a problem there is a need for it and we with high-profile men. There want to make this campus a are thousands of everyday better and safer place for everywomen who have also come for- one,” Bunts said.

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Students Represent MC out of 310 Schools Worldwide to Participate in the iGEM Jamboree

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MC students and Professor Bryan Wilkins at the iGEM competition in Boston.

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Months of hard work and dedication from some Jaspers in the School of Science and the School of Engineering were presented to the world at the 2017 iGEM Giant Jamboree in Boston, Massachusetts.

The iGEM is an independent, non-profit organization which has held a competition each year since 2003. Participants of the competition work on synthetic biology projects which are then showcased at the Jamboree. This year 310 teams from 44 countries flocked to the Hynes Convention Center on Nov. 9 for the five-day event. Manhattan College was one of those teams.

Bryan Wilkins, Ph.D., and Alexander Santulli, Ph.D., oversaw a group of eight students across five different majors in their work towards making a biological fuel cell. The students were Samuel Corby, Gregory Sanossian, Ashley Abid, Farzana Begum, Amanda Lazkani, Brian Evans, Dawud AbdurRashid and Syeda Rithu.

“We were looking at making a biofuel cell,” said Wilkins.

“Our main goal at the end was just to sort of enhance the ability of the electrons to move into the bioanode, which is the side that accepts the electrons, by using an enzyme. And we used the DNA coding sequence for that enzyme and we expressed it and isolated it and used that as a way to try and create electricity.”

This project was worked on by all the students on the team throughout the summer and most of the Fall 2017 semester.

Then a week prior to the event, the Manhattan iGEM students travelled with Santulli to West Point in a collaborative effort to prepare for the Jamboree.

Both iGEM teams had the opportunity to present their work in front of each other.

However, once time came for the Jamboree, only three students were able to go due to

lack of funds.

“It was Rani Roy’s office who funded me and Amanda and then the Dean of Science funded Brian,” said Begum.

Funding was the biggest worry for the Manhattan College iGEM team as noted by Lazkani in Volume XCVI, Issue 5 of the Quadrangle.

“We still need money for people to get to the conference,” said Lazkani in September. “It’s $700 just to walk through the door for each student.”

Lazkani had led the way on multiple fundraisers like selling grilled cheese and waffles, tshirts, and Chipotle. However, with the $700 walk-in fee to go along with travel, accommodations, and other expenses, the fundraisers weren’t enough.

“So in the end we ended up with not really any external money,” said Dr. Wilkins. “So we tried. We did fundraisers, but it was not enough to get us to where we need to go.”

The three students who did go arrived in Boston on the Friday of the Jamboree and presented their work on the last day of the event.

All 310 schools were broken up into separate sessions consisting of just a few schools each. Teams outside of those sessions could watch the other schools present their work and ask questions afterwards.

“It was definitely interesting and it was nice because it was international so we were able to see groups from all over the world,” said Begum. “We were able to see teams present from China, Australia, [and] a bunch of different countries.”

Manhattan College was paired up in a session with a school from Denmark and a school from Australia. Both schools impressed as the school from Denmark had an extravagant time-coordinated display and the school from Australia had a TED Talk.

The Manhattan team did not do too shabby either. Even with limited funds and a small team, the judges were impressed with what they were ultimately able

to get done.

“The judges were really nice and they were really great people,” said Lazkani. “They gave us a lot of feedback. They said they appreciated our work.

They saw that we had very little funding and low resources, but they saw all of our hard work.”

The Jaspers did not get to the point where they created the biological fuel cell, but rather they got to the point where they could make an enzyme and show that it was functional.

“We didn’t really have a finished product per say,” said Evans. “It’s very ongoing research I would say. But we’re interested in continuing it in the future.”

The Manhattan iGEM members weren’t the only ones interested in continuing the project.

“One of the judges asked if we were coming back next year,” said Begum. “She said that she thought our idea was really good and she would want to see a prototype.”

In the end Manhattan College was one of 88 schools to receive a bronze medal, alongside prestigious universities like Harvard and MIT. “So we were right in the category with some of the best schools in the world and we did just as well as they did,” said Wilkins. “I think we represented ourselves pretty good.”

Now with one year under his belt as an iGEM advisor at Manhattan College, Wilkins looks towards providing the team with the resources they need to do even better next year.

“I’m trying to go through administration and trying to find a steady source of funding,” said Wilkins. “If I can find five more students for next year, my goal is that next year they can physically stay in housing so they can come and do it everyday. Because if they have the chance to work on it every single day of the whole summer, we would’ve gotten to maybe that gold medal. You never know.”

Residence halls play a major role in a student’s college experienWce. Whether a resident or a commuter, some of best memories can be made outside of the classroom and in a dorm room with close friends.

Manhattan College offers a variety of living accommodations including traditional style dorms, suites and apartment style living with meal plans assigned with each building according to the amenities provided but which hall is the best.

Alexis Brown, a junior bio-chemistry major lived in a suite in Horan Hall with the residence unlimited meal plan before moving into her current apartment in Overlook Manor (OV), and switching to the apartment meal plan.

Brown said, “I love OV because I can make my own food and I like feeling like an adult and having my own space which includes a living room. I chose OV instead of an off-campus apartment because I still wanted the security and the resources that Manhattan College has. I prefer the meal plan with the more ACDs because I prefer to cook my own food and ACDs allow me to get groceries or snacks or what I would have spent my money on anyway.”

The residence meal plan includes unlimited meal swipes in Locke’s Loft cafeteria, 50 Dining Dollars or ACDs and 25 Jasper Dollars which can be used off campus at affiliated locations whereas the apartment-style plan offers four meal swipes a week at Locke’s but 640 ACDs and 160 Jasper Dollars.

“The apartment or the OV meal plan is great for students who like to cook a lot because in OV you have your own cooking style apartment, so it is nice for people who like to cook on their own. The commuter plans are great because Gourmet Dining offers a lot of bonuses where commuters or any student can save a lot of money especially if they are spending cash on campus,” said Brian Weinstein, general manager for Gourmet Dining.

All of the meal plans include a 10 percent bonus on purchases of $100 or more. The commuter meal plan 330+3 is $300 but because of the 10 percent bonus, commuter students get $330 dining dollars to use per semester and three Locke’s meal swipes per semester. The same concept is applied to the

550+5 commuter meal plan.

“Freshman and sophomore year, I lived in Horan and now as a junior I am living in OV. I liked Horan because I liked the unlimited meal swipes because I felt like I could go to Locke’s whenever I wanted to get something to eat. I liked how I didn’t have a lot of space to clean because in OV I feel like we have

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The Overlook mealplan provides fewer swipes in Locke’s Loft, but more ACDs.

a lot to upkeep here between the garbage and more living space,” said Gianna Garofalo, a junior allied health major.

The dormitories like Lee Hall, Horan Hall, Jasper Hall and Chrysostom Hall offer a more open environment because a larger portion of the underclassmen reside there.

As freshman and sophomores, students are still finding friends that they feel comfortable with and exploring their options.

“I liked the more social spot because especially freshman year everyone wanted to know everyone and become friends with everyone but here (OV) I just go in and out I don’t know anyone near me and no one has really made an effort to introduce themselves, but I guess as juniors and seniors you don’t really need to because you already have your friends,” said Garofalo.

Students who are deciding to move out of a dorm and into the apartments need to consider if the meal plan will be the right choice for them. Scheduling times to cook and pack meals are key to getting the most out of an apartment.

“All of the plans have great offerings. I think in my opinion the best plan is the residence plan which is unlimited. You get the most bang for your buck. You can eat in Locke’s as many times as you want, you can have three breakfasts if you want or four lunches or five dinners, whatever fits your hunger needs. There are just so many options in Locke’s and that’s why in my opinion, the unlimited meal plan is the best,” said Weinstein.

Residence halls are a student’s home away from home but deciding which hall is the best is a personal choice. It is important to weigh out all of your options to decide what amenities can properly accommodate your needs.

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Study Spaces Expand on Campus

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College Braces for Finals Week Rush Daniel Molina Editor

Finding the right place to write that final paper or studying for that final exam might be a hard task due to the excessive demand and the low supply of spaces on campus during the last two weeks of the semester.

For the last couple of years, Student Government has made efforts to expand student options to concentrate during the final exam period.

“With the help of administrators, we were able to find some space in both the library and some other places on campus to study, especially for final exams,” said Micaela Bishop, president of Student Government. “It seems like we’ll have a lot more areas on campus students can study this semester for finals.”

As a result, all parts of the library will be open 24/7 until Dec. 16 and other spaces on campus will also be available for students.

Even with these significant changes, this might not have been the largest improvement to facilitate student’s access to on campus resources.

A group of administrators and student developers created LabSeat, a software that allows students to see, in real time,

the status of computers across campus to determine which ones are in use, which ones are available and which ones are turned off or out of service.

The idea surged from the concern, especially with finals week around the corner, that students might need to know if there are computers available in a certain room with particular characteristics or a specific number of computers to work with as a group.

The idea of this type of web app was around the minds of IT department for a couple years, but the collaborative work of multiple offices around the college was needed to build and implement this application.

Although it only took a month to create, the constant exchange of information was crucial for the optimal development of the app according to Richard Musal, Director of Client Services and Operations of Information Technology Services (ITS).

His team was focused on setting up the software and hardware on the computers to make sure that the information sent to the app was correct.

Then, Cynthia Duggan, Director of Web Applications for ITS and her team were the ones in charge of developing the app and making sure that the information provided by Musal’s

team was easy to access and clear to see.

“We decided to color code it to show the availability; it turns yellow when a room it’s above 65% [of its capacity] and red when it’s full,” said Duggan.

“We understand that students will probably look it for a few seconds before they decide where to go.”

But the map of each classroom is a useful tool when deciding where to go as a group.

“If you’re going to do group work, and you want to make sure there are seats next to each other available, that’s when you would probably go to the LabMaps a little bit more,” said Musal.

The data, divided by buildings and then classrooms, also provides real-time information about the hours that a particular space is being used so students know if a class is going on.

Because it is online, the app provides data that is not only useful for ITS but also for the administrators so they can see popular times when the labs are used, or popular days of the week where a specific area is utilized, and help them make more informed decisions about space usage on campus.

“We would definitely love for people to look at the blog [itsblog.manhattan.edu] and

The Alumni Room on the first floor of O’Malley Library is now available to be used as a study room.

ROSE MILLHEIM / THE QUADRANGLE give us feedback if there are needs that are not being addressed,” said Musal.

On the other hand, Anita McCarthy, training coordinator for ITS, is in charge of helping the user maximize the potential of these applications and supporting him have a smoother transition into using these new technologies.

“If we find out what students’ needs are we would love to meet them to help them solve their problems,” McCarthy said.

The direct link to this web app is go.manhattan.edu/labseat and it can also be found as a link in the MC Glance app for Android and iOS.

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mani are pleased with the path that they foresee.

“The intention of this proposal was to instate this immediately, but we [Student Government] get that it will take time to actually do so,” said Quattromani. “We will work with Dr. Satterlee to look at specific budgets, and he is going to reach out to those in charge of the budgets, giving them a deadline of some sort to vocalize any concerns that they might have.”

Increased wages may differ based on the individual department that any given student is employed.

“Some departments may be operating under-budget,” said Bishop. “They can implement this immediately.”

Specifically, the departments of concern are the fitness tutoring centers.

“The only departments really of concern are the tutoring department and the fitness center, because of how dependant they are on many students,”

Quattromani said.

Bishop elaborated.

“The tutoring center and the fitness center are constantly staying open, so if it’s not in the current budget we’ll have to continue looking into it more to accommodate all students,” said Bishop.

Bishop continued to address the difficulty of this matter, but remained optimistic that positive conclusions will be reached.

“We need to look at everything and implement this wherever we can. This may be more difficult in the tutoring and fitness centers because they require a lot more student employees and a lot more hours worked, but eventually it will be possible everywhere,” she said.

In the departments that will more easily afford this change, students should notice higher pay rates quickly.

“Departments that are able to pay their students 13 dollars an hour based on their current bud-

Continued FROM Page 1 get, will be paying their students 13 dollars an hour. Most of them already want to,” said Bishop.

Quattromani agreed.

“We have employers that want to pay their students 13 dollars an hour now, but can’t,” he said. “When they submit their budget requests they’re denied. So this, to some employers, is exciting because they now can pay their student employees minimum wage.”

Bishop and Quattromani would have preferred an across-the-board hike immediately, but they remain pleased in the change that they feel is soon to occur.

“We can promise this change to students in the fall,” said Quattromani. “It’s important that students know that this increase will not happen right away, but by the fall semester it will be, although we’re hoping for all of the budgeting issues to be solved earlier.”

He continued.

“Our intention is for all stu-

dents to make 13 dollars an hour for the spring semester, but there is a possibility that we cannot fully implement that due to a mid-year budget,” he said.

The pair then spoke of the students, saying that this change is justified and also dependant on their continual activism in regards to the matter.

“Some students don’t even use all of their federal work study money with this current system, yet they’re awarded it,” said Quattromani. “To me it seems kind of criminal to not give it to them. Now, with students having to work less hours towards this, it will be easier for them to exhaust their allowed earnings.”

Bishop continued.

“It’s very exciting stuff,” she said. “I hope that the students will find out about this and will be able to hold administration accountable. I hope that they are aware of these changes and continue to stand up for what is just, being paid minimum wage.”

Bishop then urged students to continue to take charge of their own wages in order for this proposal to be ultimately successful.

“I don’t think it would hurt for students to ask their employers, ‘hey, is there a reason why I’m not making 13 dollars an hour?’,” she said.

Quattromani continued to share that, “they [campus employers] are going to have to have this answer now.”

Bishop added that Student Government is more than willing to assist students during this approaching change.

“We want students to know that if they have any questions, they should come to Student Government and ask us these questions,” she said. “If people are having issues, please come to us.”

Quattromani finished her sentence.

“Our role on campus is to be the active voice of the student body, and that is what we’re trying to be,” he said.

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A Semester in Review

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Ally Hutzler Editor

As this semester comes to a close, The Quadrangle would like to continue its tradition of reflecting on some of the biggest stories of the fall 2017 term. These past few months the Manhattan College community saw the students come together in response to Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Maria, debated the controversial issue of observing the Columbus Day holiday, and responded to increased media attention on student misconduct, among other things. The Quadrangle also continued its tradition of releasing special issues with the publication of The Faith Issue, which explored the many ways concerns of faith and religion manifest on our campus. Here are some of the stories The Quadrangle has covered this fall.

Campus Comes Together For Hurricane Relief Students and faculty barely returned to the Manhattan College campus before Hurricane Harvey barrelled through Texas. The Category Four storm dumped over 50 inches of rain in some parts of the state. Social media editor Tara Marin first reported on the tragedy early in September, interviewing students who are Texas natives as well as talking to some alumni who found themselves in the middle of the storm.

Marisa Piazza, a member of the class of 2016 who currently lives in Texas, had already raised $6,000 for relief aid just two weeks after the storm passed. At the end of September, student government and student engagement worked together to hold a benefit concert in Jasper Hall’s backyard to raise money for those affected by Harvey. The event, which included free food trucks and live performances by members of the performing arts department, raised $300.

Just after Hurricane Harvey another strong storm made headlines this fall after Hurricane Maria caused major damage and a humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico. The category five storm left the entire island without water, electricity, and means of communication.

Taylor Brethauer, our arts and entertainment editor, wrote an article about how MC students created the #DoItForPR campaign for relief. The group worked with the Bronx borough president Ruben Diaz Jr. at a local drive where donations of food and other essential items were collected to be sent to the island. The group also raised over $1,000 by hosting a grilled cheese night in Horan Hall. ““We Puerto Ricans are very strong people and we will

Sophomore Isabel Quinones poses with the Puerto Rican flag during a joint event for Hurricane Maria relief between Delta Kappa Epsilon and Fuerza Latina. SYDNEY KUKODA / COURTESY. get through this,” Ana Efe, a Puerto Rican student, told The Quadrangle.

MC Community Debates Obser vation of Columbus Day Holiday The deadly events that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia this past summer, where a young woman was killed by white supremacists protesting the removal of a confederate statue, sparked a national debate over monuments across the U.S. This conversation extended to the ethical considerations of the celebration of Columbus Day, and Manhattan College professor Robert Geraci brought a motion before the college senate proposing the college no longer recognize Columbus Day as a campuswide holiday and replace it with Election Day.

“Any historically accurate understanding of Columbus knows he didn’t just maybe do some bad things; he was actively engaged in slavery, as well as rapine and genocidal behavior,” Geraci wrote in an email to The Quadrangle. “Defending him as having done good things (whatever those may be remain conveniently unsaid!) is a lot like saying there are ‘very fine people’ among the Neo-Nazi community.”

The issue was never resolved in the senate as the proposal was tabled twice. As Haley Burnside reported, during their October meeting the senate agreed that a survey should be sent to students to “gauge their thoughts on the Columbus Day proposal” but no such survey has yet to be sent.

MC Gains Unfavorable Media Attention After Halloweekend As our assistant arts and entertainment editor Rose Brennan reported, student misconduct in the area was the highlight of several news articles after several neighbors complained of inappropriate behavior by Jaspers during Halloweekend festivities.

The first of these stories was published on WNBC on Nov. 3 and stated that, “rambunctious party-goers are leaving behind trash, empty beer cans and even trails of vomit around their quiet community.” The story was picked up by the New York Post and The Riverdale Press.

After these articles were published, Vice President for Student Life Richard Satterlee and Dean of Students Michael Cary sent a school-wide email to the

Two students watch a WNBC report on rowdy students at Manhattan College.

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community. “The conduct depicted in these reports reflects serious disregard for our neighbors and the local community,” the email read. “As Lasallians, we know it is our responsibility to act with civility and decorum at all times, both on and offcampus.” Satterlee and Cary also stated that the college was working with outside parties including the NYPD, elected officials and Riverdale residents to address the issues raised in the articles.

This is not the first time the college has been under fire by local residents. In September of 2015 the neighborhood were upset with student noise behavior, prompting the social media account “Sleepless in Riverdale” to be created by one disgruntled neighbor. In response, student government created a sub committee titled the “Student Neighborhood Relations Committee” aimed to improve relations between the college and the Riverdale area.

The Faith Issue On Nov. 7, The Quadrangle released this semester’s special issue titled “The Faith Issue.”

The 14-page edition focused on examining the role faith plays in our community and in college life as a whole. The paper featured profiles with religious studies professors Natalia Imperatori-Lee and Robert Geraci, examined the college’s various religious practices, highlighted MC’s movement towards inclusivity by sitting down with members of the LGBTQ community, and talked to Catholic, Muslim, Jewish, and Hindu students across campus.

In the sports section, editors RikkiLynn Shields and Charles Lippolis explored how sports fandom can be a religion of its own. The edition featured two editorials by Professor Lois Harr and Rabea Ali, the president of the Muslim Student Association.

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Senior English Major Published in Poetry Anthology

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MC Student Angela Benevenia Published in “The Best Emerging Poets of New York” RikkiLynn Shields Editor

Angela Benevenia is a senior English major from Essex County, N.J. She recently had a poem published in an anthology series by a small publishing company, Z Publishing, called The Best Emerging Poets of New York. The poem was written in the Advanced Poetry Workshop class she took with Dominika Wrozynski, Ph.D., last spring.

The Quadrangle: What are you involved in on campus?

AB: I am the president of MC’s comedy team, Scatterbomb, as well as the Editor-inchief of Manhattan Magazine.

I am also the secretary of the English honor society, Sigma Tau Delta, a writing consultant at the Center for Academic Success and a Resident Assistant in Jasper Hall.

TQ: How did you decide to choose the major you did?

AB: I became an English major because I love it. It

seems like a simple answer, but at the end of the day, I knew I would not be happy majoring in anything else. I love reading, I love writing, and I love critically thinking, and being able to discuss these things in the classroom is a dream come true.

TQ: How did you get involved in poetry/creative writing?

AB: I have been writing as long as I could remember. I devoured almost every young adult novel at my local library, and moved on to stealing “grown-up books” from my older siblings. I was swept off my feet by A Wrinkle in Time, Speak, and The Color Purple and decided that I wanted to write more stories to read, and they would be stories I loved since they were my own. My love of poetry came later, in high school, after my first British Literature course when we read “Dover Beach.” I was captivated by the lyrical language and explored more poetry, including a lot of spoken word.

I started performing poems at my school’s Poetry Night and writing a lot of bad Jonas Brothers fan fiction, which all eventually developed into much better work in my college years.

TQ: What made you decide to publish the poem you did?

AB: I sent Z Publishing three or four poems, all of which I believed were my best work from my Advanced Poetry Workshop with Dr. Wrozynski

Angela Benevenia has been captivated by poetry ever since she was younger. photos from ANGELA BENEVENIA / COURTESY last semester. “Some Thoughts While Brushing My Teeth” was the first poem I ever wrote that I felt incredibly proud of, because I had finally written about something that I was finding so hard to write about.

TQ: What is your writing process like?

AB: I don’t think I really have a writing process. I usually just write down little sentences or phrases that I come up with during the day in the notes in my phone, and they’ll eventually make it to the page at some point.

TQ: What are your plans for after graduation?

AB: Who’s to say, am I right?

But in all seriousness, I am applying to writing fellowships for fiction that are way out of my league, as well as applying to a few teaching programs abroad in Japan and Thailand.

as being able to submit to the magazine. I have met an amazing community of writers that I know I will take with me for the rest of my life, and I owe all of that to being a Jasper.

TQ: How has your time at MC impacted your writing career?

AB: The English department is so special here. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gone into Dr. Koehler or Dr. Wrozynski’s office ready to quit the entire craft I’ve dedicated my life to, and they somehow say magic words that make me fall in love with writing all over again. Being able to take creative writing classes here has been life changing, as well

TQ: What does poetry mean to you?

AB: Writing allows me to say things better than I ever can out loud. I talk a lot, but it’s all empty things most of the time until I put it on the page.

Writing gives me the chance to create worlds that are mine that comment on the real world we live in. I am a rule-follower down to the core, but art gives me a space to break rules and be commended for it. Fiction and poetry allow me to express myself on paper, and words are much more beautiful than we ever give them credit for.

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Ink Advertising Looks to Make its Mark at Manhattan College Taylor Brethauer Editor

Some clubs come and go, but it takes a strong club with an important purpose to create a lasting impact. This is where Ink Advertising comes in. The new club, founded by president Andrea Mendez, has one goal in mind: a Manhattan College group focused on bettering the advertisements of other clubs.

Flyers for events are a staple in any college community.

They don the walls of every residence hall, academic building, offices, etc. While some clubs boast their events in creative manners, typically using the website Canva or even Microsoft Word, the Ink Advertising group is setting out to help clubs create professional-looking advertisements.

“I always looked at the flyers around campus and thought that I could do a better job or that people in my classes had the skills to turn those simple flyers into much more intricate forms of advertising. Then it occurred to me that I could gather up a team to help the other clubs advertise and brand

themselves. It is a win-win situation where clubs and organizations could benefit from our services and we would be able to put the skills we learn in the classroom to work,” said Mendez in an email interview.

Students interested in the club received an initial email welcoming them to the group for an inaugural meeting back in October. The club is not recognized as an official club by Student Engagement as of yet, but they are working towards it. There are five departments a member could work for within the club: Account, Strategy, Creative, Social Media and Production. Each has their own tasks for any club that reaches out to Ink Advertising for help.

“We are currently working with many clubs on campus, from the Society of Women Engineers to the Film Club, doing flyers, posters, logos, and apparel design. We come together more strongly as an advertising agency when dealing with clients outside school, that is nonprofit organizations and small businesses. However, even for the smallest projects we work as an agency. [Our five departments] communicate and work

together to get projects done, just like in a normal ad agency,” said Mendez.

While Mendez credits the club as a way to prepare for future employers and a great resume builder, it’s also the first extracurricular club for the advertising concentration within the communication department.

“It is a way to have a hands on experience for those who are interested in the field. You get valuable experience that could be useful in a real-world job, you get to use the knowledge gained in class, and, the best part, share your ideas to a group that would be interested in making them happen. Apart from that, it is a unique and interesting thing to have on your resume,” said Mendez.

The club welcomes creative students, those who have different ways of thinking, to contribute to the group’s projects. Mendez encourages this, saying, “INK is all about being different and liking it. We want to make our campus fun, interactive, and welcoming. That’s why we believe that there is a place for anyone with an idea on our team.”

Ink’s logo features an octopus.

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ABOVE: Ink designed the posters for the Players’ Fall production of Neil Simon’s “Rumors.”

LEFT: One of Ink’s next undertakings is to remodel this Leo Hall bulletin board for Manhattan College’s electrical engineering department.

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A Short Story That Takes on Big Issues: “The Semplica Girls Diaries” The Book Nook Rose Brennan Asst. Editor

Every society has its symbol of wealth. But in George Saunders’ short story, “The Semplica Girl Diaries”, this symbolic wealth is far more gruesome than a fancy car.

“The Semplica Girl Diaries” takes an epistolary format, as the anonymous narrator chronicles the life of his family in the events leading up to his daughter Lilly’s birthday.

The syntax of the narrator’s diary gives the short story a sense of urgency, as it is composed entirely in sentence fragments. While this choice might seem annoying to some, it actually contributes to the illusion of someone’s stream of consciousness.

Though the story takes place in an alternate universe, the narrator’s family faces some of the same struggles of any other contemporary family: sibling rivalry, jealousy and, most notably, money problems. The family is friends with several, wealthier families, discouraging the narrator and his family’s more meager means.

One day, while the family is driving through the neighborhood, Lilly points a family’s display of “Semplica Girls”, which

are a characteristic symbol of wealth. While Lilly and the narrator see them simply as that, Lilly’s younger sister Eva has a more in-depth perception of the cruel practice.

This cruel practice includes taking girls in undesirable situations from third-world countries and having them hang by their heads in wealthy people’s front yards, essentially degrading them into human lawn decorations.

Eva’s father justifies this violent practice by saying that everyone in society does it. But from the mouth of babes come gems, and Eva rebukes him by sarcastically saying, “So just because everyone is doing it, that makes it right.”

The narrator understands Eva’s concerns, and even notes that her sensitivity toward this issue could be a sign of genius, but after he strikes it rich, he immediately searches for a way to display it. And he sees no better way to do so than to buy a Semplica Girls display for his front lawn as a birthday gift to Lilly.

Lilly is, of course, ecstatic, but Eva is absolutely horrified during the installation of the display on the front lawn. This leads her to take a bold course of action which has unforeseen consequences for the family.

“The Semplica Girl Diaries”

is an apt text to read, especially in the context of today’s political climate. There is a particular emphasis on one’s image, rather than what is inside.

What is posted on someone’s Instagram page is not necessarily what is going on under the surface, just as Semplica Girls are used as a status symbol when, behind closed doors, some families are actually impoverished.

Furthermore, the story serves as a reminder of wealthy countries’ continued exploitation of other, poorer countries.

While Americans do not necessarily abduct girls from developing countries, drill holes in their heads and hang them in front of their houses, they do continually perpetuate abuses toward them.

Between the broken immigration system, racist policies such as “the wall” and “the Muslim ban” and other, horrific practices such as sex trafficking, Americans continue to do so for no other reason other than their popularity, as well as a lack of initiative from the opponents of such policies.

But, as Eva points out in “The Semplica Girl Diaries”, popularity does not necessarily entail morality. While potential popularity is enticing, it should not come at the cost of one’s integrity.

George Saunders’ short story “The Semplica Girl Diaries”, can be found at the library in his book “Tenth of December.”

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Six Places to Get Your Study On Rose Brennan Asst. Editor

Student Government has recently facilitated more study spaces for students during the final two weeks of school.

Much of these new areas are located in O’Malley Library, and have greatly expanded to accommodate more students as final exams draw ever closer.

But for those of us who have had just about enough of library study sessions, or for those of us who are starting to get cabin fever from hours of studying in dorm rooms, there are a number of other spaces on campus which can provide students with a change of pace when it comes to studying or cranking out those final papers.

Here are some of our favorites here at The Quad: Cafe 1853 Atrium (now with extended finals week hours!)

With a little more hustle and bustle than the library, Cafe 1853 has all the comforts

of an indoor study spot, but has some skylights to give you some natural light while you crank out that final paper or cram for that exam. Also, study snacks are available during the week, so there’s an option of taking a coffee or Red Mango break whenever it’s needed.

Kelly Commons (now with extended finals week hours!)

The ambience of Kelly Commons is a bit louder than the library, allowing conversation and collaboration to happen without getting shushed.

There’s plenty of study space available on the third and fourth floors, not to mention the more open areas of the first and second floors. Also, just like Cafe 1853, there are snacks on hand during the week. And when Locke’s coffee just isn’t cutting it anymore, Starbucks has got your back.

Miguel and De La Salle Halls The setting of a classroom can provide an atmosphere of structure and focus to those of

us that need it. Miguel and De La Salle Halls remain open during reading days, so they can also provide a change of scenery from the library. These classrooms also come with the some of resources of a library study room with far more space for those larger study sessions.

Between the academic vibe and the collaborative space it provides, Miguel and De La Salle Halls have it all.

Residence Hall Study Rooms Some of us need absolute silence and isolation to study, and the study rooms in residence halls are perfect for just that.

Equipped only with a desk and, if you’re lucky, a window or two, the residence hall study rooms provide a silent area with absolutely no distractions for those of us who have reached crunch time.

Residence Hall Common Areas For those of us who want a change of pace within the comfort of our own dorm, the common area provides an open

Students studying in a new space on the fifth floor of O’Malley Library. JOHN MORRISON / THE QUADRANGLE. area for more collaboration and variety. Most of the common areas also have stovetops or ovens for late-night study snacks, couches for quick cat naps between study sessions and televisions for those much-needed study breaks.

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campus in general. So clear your head by going on an expediting. The city is home to coffee shops and common areas galore, both near (Mon Amour Coffee & Wine on W 238th St. comes to mind) and far, so hop on the 1 train and find your new favorite study spot. The possibilities are endless here in New York!

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A Look Back: Fall Seme

RikkiLynn Shields Asst. Editor

The 2017 fall season is coming to an end, and the Manhattan College Jaspers have made it one to remember, yet again.

For starters, the men’s basketball team, while their season still continues, made a tremendous comeback from the previous season. In the beginning of the season, Head Coach Steve Masiello announced that Michael Alvarado has been elevated to Assistant Coach while RaShawn Stores will now serve as a special assistant, installing strong staff changes right off the bat.

Throughout the season so far, Manhattan played a variety of great games. The Jasper’s beat St. Francis Brooklyn at home on Nov. 15, in a close game of 80-79, and continued the home winning streak by taking the W against Harvard with a score of 73-69 on Nov. 18, 2017.

Three-time MAAC Defensive Player of the Year, Rhamel Brown, was also signed with the Halifax Hurricanes of the National Basketball League of Canada for the upcoming season.

While we have plenty of Manhattan College alumni in the Manhattan College Basket-

Students support their fellow Jaspers at the men’s basketball game against Harvard.

PATRICK FACCAS/ COURTESY ball Hall of Fame, a variety of these MC alumni were also inducted into the NYC Basketball Hall of Fame, including Steve Lappas and Larry Lembo.

While in Ireland at the Belfast Classic Championship game, Manhattan succeeded against Holy Cross on Dec. 1 with a fantastic final score of 7054. However, the next day, Mike Morsell of Towson University hit a jumper with 1.7 seconds

remaining to lift Towson to a 56-55 win over Manhattan. So far, Manhattan is 3-5 overall.

For the women’s basketball, the Jaspers opened the 2017-18 season with their first official practice on Oct. 2. Since then, the women may have taken two close loses to Stony Brook and Sacred Heart University while away, however, they made a comeback while home against St. Francis Brooklyn, finishing

LEFT: Former Jasper basketball player Larry Lembo. Lembo was inducted into the Manhattan College athletic hall of fame.

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BELOW: Junior Jaspers cross country athlete Lisa Fajardo at the Fordham Fiasco in September. Fajardo took the title in the women’s race.

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with a win of 57-54 on Nov. 18.

On Nov. 25, the women faced Coppin State, and earned the victory with a score of 7456. Along the way, senior center Kayla Grimme was able to score so many points that she hit her 1,000th point on Wednesday, Nov. 15. The women are currently 2-4 overall.

Stepping off the basketball court and onto the Van Cortlandt Park backhills, the Manhattan College Cross Country team had an outstanding season. From the get-go, the men were picked third and the women were picked fifth in the MAAC Preseason Poll. The Manhattan men’s cross country team specifically was also slated 14th in the USTFCCCA Division I Northeast Region poll, which is its highest preseason ranking in program’s history.

They began the season with their season opener on Sept. 8 at Van Cortlandt Park.

Senior John Dove won the five mile Fordham Fiasco with a time of 26:16.55, to pace a dominating team effort as the Jaspers claimed the team title at Van Cortlandt Park with ease. While this was Dove’s first Cross Country win, he also ran exactly four minutes faster in this exact race than he did four years ago– how fitting! For the women, junior Lisa Fajardo won the 5K Fordham Fiasco by over 17 seconds with a time of 18:24.09, to leading Manhattan to the team title.

With a strong start to the season, the teams only got better. The men took second at MET Championships, while the women claimed first for the first time since 1986. At the MAAC Championships, men took second, and women took fourth.

The women’s team was led by a third-place finish from Lisa Fajardo, who finished fourth overall, up one spot from last

year. For the men, junior Amir Khaghani was Manhattan’s top finisher, coming in ninth and posting a time of 25:48.

Junior Lisa Fajardo also posted a time of 17:58.9 at the 2017 ECAC Cross Country Championships at Van Cort-

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Junior Lisa Fajardo won the women’s 5 K race at the Fordham Fiasco by over 17 seconds, leading the team to a team title at the event. landt Park on Saturday, Nov. 18, while simultaneously setting a Manhattan College record for the 5,000-meter course.The record-breaking time placed Fajardo third out of 209 runners, and helped the women’s cross country team take home an 11th-place finish out of 25 teams for the final race of the season. Fajardo was also the first woman in Manhattan history to break 18 minutes for the course.

As for the men’s cross country team, they finished fifth among 25 teams in the IC4A Championships, also held Saturday in Van Cortlandt Park. Junior Amir Khaghani crossed the line first for the Jaspers with a time of 25:54.3 in the 5-mile race, finishing 22nd out of a field of 203 runners.

Stepping onto Gaelic Park, the men’s and women’s soccer team finished strong this season as well. As for the men’s

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The Jaspers’ women’s soccer team advanced to the MAAC championships at Disney Wide World of Sports in Orlando, Florida.

The Jaspers’ women’s soccer playing Rider at Gaelic Park. The team ended its season against Monmouth in the MAAC Champsionship in Florida. KELLY GROGAN / THE QUADRANGLE team, their first game against Navy on August 25th left them with a win at home scoring 1-0.

The next win for the men came just a few days later on August 31st, finishing 1-0 over Sacred Heart.

While the men had some losses, from Sept. 27-Oct. 7, the men took home four consecutive wins– 1-0 against Iona, 5-0 against Marist, 2-0 against St. Peter’s, and 1-0 against Monmouth.

Hosting its first-ever postseason game in program history, the fourth-seeded men’s team fell to fifth-ranked Quinnipiac 1-0 in the first round of the 2017 MAAC Tournament at Gaelic Park on Nov. 5. The men finished the season overall with a record of 9-8-1.

As for the women, the team started off strong with a win over NJIT on Aug. 18, scoring 1-0. Similar to the men, from Sept. 23 to Oct. 4, the women had four consecutive wins as well– 2-1 against Siena, 4-0 against Iona, 4-2 against Marist, and 3-1 against St. Peter’s.

The top-seeded Monmouth ended the women’s postseason run with a 5-1 win in Championship of the 2017 MAAC Women’s Soccer Championship at Disney’s Wide World of Sports.

The women finished the season overall with a record of 10-7-3.

Now let’s take to the water with the Manhattan College women’s rowing team. The women’s rowing team began their season when College Director of Intercollegiate Athlet-

ics Marianne Reilly named Alex Canale the Head Coach of the Women’s Rowing Team. The women finished the fall season at the aptly named Frostbite Regatta. The women took to the water in three races. The Lightweight 4+, consisting of sophomore Kate Sexton, classmate Shannon Forty, junior Lisa Dominguez, freshman Anayda Arroyo, and sophomore cox Maura Mead, raced the course to a gold medal finish ahead of Jefferson University in a time of 8:53.2.

The Varsity 4+ had three weeks of successful finishes with a wire-to-wire battle with Loyola and Lafayette, before ultimately falling. The Varsity 4+’s time of 8:18.17 was not just the third in the flight, but also

The women’s rowing team competed in the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston.

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the third overall time of the day, leading them to wins against Binghamton, Stony Brook, Jefferson, TCNJ and the Loyola and Lafayette B and C boats.

The Varsity 8+ closed the day with the A boat defeating Binghamton, and while their season has come to a close, the women will take a break from racing and continue to train indoors for the winter months.

For the men’s golf team, the men began their 2017-2018 season at the Ryan Lee Memorial Tournament on September 11th, at the Hopmeadow Country Club in Simsbury, Connecticut, placing eighth in the 13-team field. The men also placed third at the Monmouth Invitational, carding a collective 299 in the one-round event.

Senior Johnny Schob carded a team-best 72 (+2) to place third in the second annual Father George Hill Collegiate Invitational at the Huntington Crescent Club on Sept. 25. The team finished 10th in the Bucknell Invitational, carding a two-day total of 600.

The women’s volleyball team ended the season with a record of 2-29, winning 3-0 against Saint Peter’s on Oct. 14, and 3-1 against Saint Peter’s again, on Nov. 1. Regardless, the Manhattan Volleyball Team led all MAAC school with nine selections on the All-Academic Team. To be eligible for the MAAC All-Academic Team, a student-athlete must complete two semesters at their institution and hold a cumulative grade point average of 3.20 on a 4.0. This included senior Mary Donnelly, senior Zoe Lindsey,

junior Kenza Hall, junior Sandra Lozanova, junior Alyssa Rehrer, junior Monika Simikic, junior Samantha Wagner , sophomore Taylor Hasley, and sophomore Ginamarie Napoli.

And jumping into the pool for our final recap, the men’s and women’s swimming and diving team finished the season strong. The swimming and diving program started its 20172018 season on Friday, Oct. 6 with a two-day meet against St. Francis Brooklyn and LIU Brooklyn. This meet was also the first meet for head coach Molly Belk.

With the help of impressive performances from senior Tyler McCloskey as well as multiple freshmen, the Manhattan men’s swimming and diving team defeated St. Francis Brooklyn 182-120 in the Brooklyn Invite. On the women’s side, Manhattan fell to St. Francis Brooklyn and LIU Brooklyn.

The Manhattan Women’s Swimming and Diving split the meet against Pace and Saint Peter’s, defeating Saint Peter’s while falling to Pace. On the men’s side, the Jaspers were beaten by both Pace and Saint Peter’s. Despite solid performances from men’s senior Brandon Shields and women’s sophomore Kali Nembach, the Manhattan swim team fell to Monmouth and Siena on Saturday, Nov. 18 in MAAC play.

Amongst all of the wins and losses that came along with the 2017 season, all team’s showed their strengths, even in times when you would think the weaknesses would triumph.

With the fall season coming to an end, winter is about to begin, and the spring is fast approaching.

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Meet Maggie Tebbetts JASPERS TALK Rose Brennan Asst. Editor

Maggie Tebbetts is a senior member of Manhattan College’s women’s rowing team.

Originally from North Haven, Connecticut, she came to MC to study environmental science. As a four-year member of the team, Tebbetts saw rowing evolve from simply a club sport to a Division I force to be reckoned with.

The Quadrangle: How did you get into rowing?

Maggie Tebbetts: So I didn’t do it in high school. I did different sports in high school, but I wanted to keep doing something in college. And my freshman year, it was a club sport here, so I was like, “Oh that’s not too intense, let me just try it.” The people seemed nice, so I joined my freshman year, and I ended up being pretty good.

And then my sophomore year, it changed to Division One. So, that’s kind of how I was forced to stay with it.

TQ: What has been your experience on the Manhattan College rowing team?

MT: It’s been great. I always tell people it’s been the best decision I made at this college. All of my best friends are on the team. My roommates are on the team. It just changed me as a person. And I’m now a morning person, so I guess that’s good.

TQ: Can you describe a typical day when your sport is in season?

MT: So my alarm goes off at 4:15 in the morning. I’ll leave my room at, like, 4:35ish to get to Draddy at 4:45 and then we drive vans to a lake in New Jersey for practice. We get there around, like 5:15. And then we go on the water, and we’ll get off around 6:45, we’ll leave our practice area at 7:00 [and] go back to school. We’re back by 8:00 a.m., but on days that we have lift, we go straight to lift at 8:00 a.m. That’s done at 9:00, and then...that’s basically your practice for the day. And then you’re supposed to do, like, a different cardio workout in the afternoon, on your own time.

TQ: I know you said that [rowing] started off as a club sport, and then it became a Division I sport, so how did you manage to balance your schoolwork with, now, being a Division I athlete?

MT: To be honest, when it transferred, like when it first shifted, our old coach, he didn’t really do a good job of helping that shift happen. But it did definitely change the amount of time we had practice. So, for me, it’s better for me to have, like, a schedule set. So it actually helped me with my schoolwork, and my grades improved, just because I had more to do.

TQ: In your time here, how have you observed your team grow?

MT: That’s a good question, especially since me and my co-captain, we are the only two that are on the team that watched the shift happen and experienced it. So even from my freshman into my sophomore year, it changed. We got a lot of walk-ons, who are now juniors, who are still on the team. And then the next year, so when I was a junior, which was last year, it [was] our biggest class, the sophomores.

And we had five recruits, which was a big deal, because it kind of put us at the level of the other sports at this school. And we kind of started to be seen more and that was really good.

But then, this year, we had a coaching staff change, and it totally changed the program, in a good way. I think we really climbed the ranks, and everyone, just as a team, is more of a team. We have a lot of freshmen that tried out. We have two that were recruited. And then, it’s just gonna get better as the years go on.

TQ: What are your hopes for the team going forward?

MT: I hope that they can win the MAAC Championship.

I think they can. I think within five years, we’ll get there, if not sooner. And I hope to come back as an alumni and see what they’ve accomplished and how far it’s come, and just know that I was a part of that building block.

Maggie Tebbetts is a senior on the women’s rowing team majoring in environmental science.

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