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Volume XCVII, Issue 5
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FEBRUARY 20, 2018
Accident at Kelly Commons Results in DWI Arrest NYPD INVESTIGATION UNDERWAY AFTER SUNDAY ACCIDENT Rose Brennan and Joe Liggio Editor and Asst. Editor
The damage done on the pathway is expected to take up to 4-6 weeks to repair since both sides are custom-made for the campus. Caution tape currently covers both areas of the pathway. TAYLOR BRETHAUER & ROSE BRENNAN / THE QUADRANGLE
Possible Food Poisoning Travels Across Campus Deirdre Ledley Contributor
In a season that is normally plagued with sickness, this winter on the Manhattan College campus seems to be providing extra suspicion. More specifically, food poisoning has been an issue that is sending students to health services or even the hospital. Locke’s Loft is suspected to be partially at fault for this sickness, according to Christine Croland, sophomore civil engineering major. “I had a turkey wrap from Locke’s and it looked completely fine when I first started eating, but after a few bites I started to feel weird,” she said. “I got extremely nauseous and threw up maybe 20 minutes later. For the next three to four hours I barely could stand.”
IN OP-ED:
Assistant editor’s reaction to the Parkland, Fla. shooting on p. 2
Brittany O’Malley, a sophomore communications major, agrees with Croland. “I was curled up for almost five hours after eating a turkey wrap from Locke’s. As soon as I arrived back into my room, I had this wave of nausea that prevented me from doing just about anything.” Laura Mulcahy, nurse practitioner at MC, struggles to blame Gourmet Dining. “It would be hard to point fingers that this is related to a foodborne illness,” she said. “Viruses act very much the same way and a common denominator cannot be found.” Patrick Estanbouli, a senior RA on campus, was able to witness an incident of possible food poisoning first hand this past week. “I was up with a student that actually had to go to the hospital during the night. It could
have been partly the flu, but the doctors did happen to find some kind of bacteria that his body rejected that could result in a type of food poisoning,” he said. The most important advice whether you experienced food poisoning or a virus is to keep your personal space clean, according to Mulcahy. “Washing hands and hand gel is the best protection,” she said. Brian Weinstein, head of Gourmet Dining, commented on the situation. “Gourmet Dining takes all such reports seriously and investigates each vigorously,” he said. Weinstein, like the nurse, also reassured that Gourmet Dining is not the root cause of these issues, but his staff has worked harder lately to make sure that they are still not the issue in the future.
IN FEATURES: Students react to the Winter Olympics on p. 3
IN A&E:
Caffe Buon Gusto opens its doors to the public on p. 5
On the evening of Sunday, Feb. 11 at approximately 11:55 p.m., a car collided with the side railings along the walkway beside Kelly Commons. There were no injuries to pedestrians or the driver. Public Safety Officer Jasel King was one of the first responders to the scene of the incident. King was patrolling and locking up Kelly Commons for the night when she heard a loud noise, followed by an unidentified person yelling, “There’s been an accident!” King requested backup and called her supervisor, Angel Melo, who requested that the officer stationed at the security booth call 911. King then checked to make sure that no one had been injured in the crash. Members of the NYPD’s 50th Precinct soon arrived on scene, arresting and charging the unidentified male driver of the vehicle for driving while intoxicated. The damaged portions of railing are now marked with caution tape. According to Juan Cerezo, director of Public Safety at Manhattan College, this is not the first time an incident such as this one has occurred on the college’s premises. “A number of years back during and after midnight, a car crashed into the College green fence at the corner of [Manhattan College Parkway] and Waldo [Avenue],” he said. “[The] driver left the car and ran off. [The] police [were] notified and conducted [an] investigation,” said Cerezo in an email statement to The Quadrangle. Car accidents are continu-
ing to present issues on and around south campus. On a separate occasion, fencing surrounding the college’s Research and Learning Center parking lot was damaged by an elderly driver during a summer intersession. On January 15th, a NYC Department of Sanitation truck ran into a pillar at the intersection of Broadway and West 240th Street, injuring one passenger. No damage occurred to school property, yet several MC students were in the immediate area of the crash when it occurred. Vice President for Facilities Andrew Ryan believes that the resulting damage from the crash at Kelly Commons could take some time to repair. “As the railings on both sides are custom, and one side is stainless steel, I would anticipate 4-6 weeks for the repairs to be completed,” said Ryan in an email statement. “The College has been in contact with the appropriate contractor to do the repairs.” The college is now awaiting the submission of plans by the contractor before they can approve new fabrication at the site of the damage. Once these plans are finalized, the replacement railings will be constructed. The accident is currently under investigation by the NYPD.
IN SPORTS:
Baseball and softball seasons underway on p. 7
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the Quadrangle Volume XCVII, Issue 5 FEBRUARY 20, 2018
The Editorial Board
The Wrong Way to React to a Mass Shooting
Taylor Brethauer Editor-in-Chief
Haley Burnside
Stephen Zubrycky Managing Editor
This past Wednesday, I opened Twitter hoping to scroll through some sweet Valentine’s Day messages and Ash Wednesday posts. As I clicked over to the news tab, I read two words that instantly sank like a rock in my stomach. They are words that we have all become painfully familiar with in the past decade. “Mass shooting” is a phrase that stops my world for a second. After seeing these words I always become intensely aware of my surroundings because I know that this will be the moment I refer to as “the place I was when I heard about….” As I scroll through the preliminary and heartbreaking details, I sink into that mindset that always follows this type of news. I thank God that this did not happen at the high school that my younger sisters attend. Then I instantly feel guilty for thinking this way, because surely an older sister somewhere just lost her little sister. I try to imagine how she must feel. I am overwhelmed by the horror, sadness and anger. I try to gather as much information as possible by obsessively clicking through news articles and firsthand accounts. It becomes immensely important to pour over all of the details, no matter how grue-
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some. I feel an obligation to be informed rather than just turn my phone off and ignore the news, living in a tempting blissful ignorance. Following hours of research, I find myself feeling hopeless and heartbroken. I usually feel like this for several days after each incident. I cannot shake feelings of despair, fear, anger, sadness and disgust. I used to become angry with people for politicizing these shootings. It disgusted me to see angry tweets at congressmen and legislators blaming them for the carnage. It also bothered me to see the hashtags urging thoughts and prayers. Because of my cynical mindset, I thought those sentiments were at best useless and at worst offensive. I also criticized those who did not take to social media to express condolences for the victims, yet it seemed strange to see people boasting about all the money they gave to a GoFundMe page for the victims. I was always upset and critical of other people’s reactions. I felt like everyone was mourning the wrong way because I had no idea what I was supposed to do in reaction to another mass shooting. I felt this way as I scrolled through the aftermath of the Pulse nightclub, San Bernardino, the Charleston church, Sutherland Springs, Las Vegas, and now
the Parkland shooting. My opinion has changed. With social media, we are able to see every horrific detail of these recurring tragedies. We were not meant to comprehend suffering on this scale, and if avoiding the news helps you cope with this epidemic of violence, you should do that. If prayers bring you comfort in times like these, you should pray. If reading about young lives lost enrages you into writing a letter to your state representatives asking for action, you should write. If your tears move you to donate your paycheck to a fund for the victims’ families, you should do that. I, myself, find that writing helps me stay sane, so I have drafted ten different versions of this piece to help me organize my thoughts. There is no “right way” to respond to these horrors. Instead of cynically criticizing everyone’s different reactions, we should be united in condemning the violence itself and spreading positivity amidst these dark times. Find your way to cope with tragedy, and show love to those around you. Reflect, respond, and help others heal however you can. Turn your feelings into actions and create the changes you want to see. These are the best ways we can react to this sadness.
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CORRECT IONS In the article “Gary Sanchez Delivers MC’s First Spanish-Speaking Lecture”, it was stated that Sanchez had gone to Alcoholics Anonymous in 2014, when in reality he had played on the double-A minor league team in Trenton, N.J. The online English and Spanish versions were corrected to reflect these changes.
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Professor Discusses Summer Camp Comes to Campus Ethics of Self-Driving Samantha Walla Vehicles Asst. Editor
C. Garrett Keidel Asst. Editor
Autonomous vehicles and autonomous technology are seeing a growing presence on American roads. With this comes major questions involving the ethics of how the vehicles will react in a variety of situations. Should the vehicle take action to protect its occupants at all costs, even if that means putting others at risk? Should the car place importance in the health of others rather than its occupants? Is it even possible for a vehicle to analyze the situation and make a decision? These questions and many others are being studied by a faculty member here at Manhattan College. Heidi Furey, Ph.D., is in her first year here at the college as an assistant professor of philosophy. Before her time at MC, she worked at the University of Massachusetts: Lowell. When it comes to the relationship between philosophy and ethics, she had this to say. “Philosophy pertains to every area of life and ethics are deeply connected,” said Furey. “Ethics is a sub-branch of philosophy that investigates, among other things, what we ‘ought’ to do. This can be distinct from what we do in fact do, or what we want to do. Philosophy itself comes up in pretty much any area that you can study, from language to science...And in any of the areas philosophers study, ethical questions also arise...So anyone doing ethics is doing philosophy. And many people doing philosophy also end up investigating ethical questions at some point.” She works on this project with other assistant professors at the University of Massachusetts: Nicholas Evans and Yuanchang Xie, along with Ryan Jenkins from California Polytechnical University, and Rocco Cassagrande from Gryphon Scientific. Together, they received a $556,650 grant to conduct the three year long project. “I became interested in the ethics of autonomous vehicles a few years ago when I was teaching engineering ethics at the University of Massachusetts: Lowell. At first I was just looking for a good issue to “hook” engineering and computer science students into philosophy—to get them to see that some of the (seemingly) crazy abstract things philosophers care about are actually relevant to real world problems in science and engineering,” said Furey. “Of course, when I was teaching the topic, I got very interested in it myself...The more I started investigating the top-
ic, the more I felt like it was a really important problem. I also became convinced that philosophers should be working with engineers and computer scientists to try to make progress on the issue.” The long-term goal for Furey and her team is to develop ways to encode ethical decision-making into such vehicles. They are using two main approaches to accomplish this goal. The first is understanding what is possible and used now in coding for autonomous vehicles. This is then used to create code that allows the vehicle to react in many ways that lower the overall possible risks when making decisions. Then in the second approach, they take the developed code and put it through a l g o Heidi Furey r i t h m s MANHATTAN COLLEGE/ COURTESY that can simulate traffic conditions, change and risk. Based off of this data, it is then possible to model what the public health benefits are or could be. When it comes to the future of autonomous vehicles and the ethics of the code involved, Furey sees a possibility for growing interest. “There is a lot of interest in this topic right now and people around the country are starting up investigations of the topic,” said Furey. However, I don’t know of any other studies that are doing the exact thing that we are, though hopefully there will be more soon!”
This summer, while most Jaspers will be scattered across the world relaxing, taking internships and studying abroad, a new program will be operating on Manhattan College’s campus. This program, currently named Jaspers Kids Summer Camp, will run from June 25 to Aug. 17 on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and serve children ages five to 14. The camp expects to expose 50 to 60 children from the surrounding Riverdale community, as well as the children of faculty members, to a collegiate atmosphere. Despite having the facilities to run a camp like this, the college has always rented space to other institutions during the summer months. Edgar Zavala, the new director of non-credit programs, aims to change this. Announced just last Wednesday, Zavala is part of a new strategic plan to develop non-credit initiatives that will add to that to the college’s current academic and educational offerings. Zavala states that the college is looking to develop leadership and education within the local and college community through this program. “I believe as a parent and as a higher education professional that it really fosters the interest of individuals coming to university and feeling attached and close to it and seeing it’s nothing to be afraid of to go to college,” said Zavala. The closest Manhattan College has come to running a program like this is the Summer Engineering Awareness program. “[The Engineering Program] basically touches the lives of individuals when they’re sixteen, seventeen,” said Zavala. “[Jaspers Kids] will
give us an opportunity to touch the lives of individuals younger than them and have them feel the environment of a university or college, and start working with them and help them figure out if they want to be engineers later or in computers or arts or whatever it is.” Despite being in the early stages of organization, Zavala is certain about his desire to staff with members of the Manhattan College community. Zavala will serve officially as camp operator, but the camp is currently looking for a day camp director and a health camp director before proceeding with other developments. As for the day camp director position, Zavala is open to hiring a student with enough experience. “I’m looking for a leader. I’m looking for a person who’s not afraid of talking, afraid of interacting with people,” said Zavala. “It needs to be a person that not only has the technical credentials but also has the personality to be a leader, to feel comfortable in approaching the people and being that public face to the parents and to anyone else in any other city department.” Zavala is beginning by building an advisory committee to help in choosing activity counselors from the undergraduate schools to work in the program. “We’re not only going to be touching the lives of the campers but also the people that are going to be working in this program, so that we foster the ability to be leaders and to teach others, all these different things together” said Zavala. These activity counselors will be experts in subjects like computers, art, music and reading and will work to develop the activities for campers. In addition to these activity counselors, Zavala will also be looking for senior counselors within the Jasper community
to act as chaperones during the camp day. While it is still too early to talk about pricing and sign-ups, the Manhattan College community is still excited to develop Jaspers Kids Summer Camp. Tim Ward, dean of engineering, is glad to be diversifying the scope of programs offered by Manhattan College. “The School of Engineering has a long history of conducting summer programs for high school students interested in STEM, so the School is looking forward to being part of this new program to bring younger children to campus,” said Ward. “It is the School’s intention to help Director Zavala make this program a beacon for the local community.” This beacon for the community has already begun to bring pride to those involved, even in the developmental stage. “It is my honor to participate as a member of the Advisory Committee of Operations and represent the Student Life Division to support this unique initiative,” said Jessica Aviles, director of events management at MC. “This opportunity will provide the community’s youth access to Manhattan College’s long history of excellence in education. It is a true campuswide initiative that will bring together students, faculty, and administration in an effort to better serve our local community.” Once a day camp director is secured, Zavala and his advisory committee will continue to develop the programs for camp attendees and fill activity counselor positions. Interested Jaspers with strong leadership, creativity and spirit should keep watch for postings regarding Jaspers Kids Summer Camp in the coming months.
Let the Games Begin: Campus Reacts to the Winter Olympics Bridget McEvoy Senior What do you think of the Winter Olympics? I don’t really like the Olympics. I watch them, but I don’t find them entertaining. I don’t like sports, and I think that it’s really cool that people are able to do all this stuff and they train. Like I really admire the athletes, they’re amazing, but it just doesn’t really interest me and it’s capitalist with all the different sponsors. It’s just not really my thing.
VOICES ON THE QUAD Aidan Gormley Freshman What’s your favorite event? The men and women’s halfpipe in snowboarding. Shoutout to Shaun White and Chloe Kim, they both won gold in that. And it was really cool. Chloe Kim was the first woman to pull off 140’s, which is three rotations in a row. And Shaun White got alA full version of Voices on the Quad is on mcquad.org. most a perfect score. Interviews conducted by Alexa Schmidt.
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MC Students Fill Up Free Yoga Class Megan Uy Contributor
On Feb. 8, The Kelly Commons Great Room was filled with Manhattan College students for a free yoga class offered by the Fitness Center. Through the Vinyasa style of yoga, which consists of steady inhale and exhale movements, 37 students filled the room for an hour to relax, stretch their bodies and clear their minds of any stresses. This was the biggest turnout that the college’s yoga program had ever seen. The yoga class concentrated on the consistency of everyone’s breathing while incorporating popular yoga poses like the cobra, downward facing dog, warrior one and two, child’s pose and pigeon. The class was taught by MC’s very own registered dietitian nutritionist, through Gourmet Dining Services, Jennifer Senecal. Senecal started doing yoga when she was in college and began teaching shortly after she moved to New York in 2008. Because of an interest with working with the body and different injuries, Senecal got her certification as a prenatal yoga instructor because, she said, it was “a niche market in the city.”. When asked about her favorite thing about yoga, Senecal said, “The stress relief. We had almost 40 people in this room tonight and just feeling the energy. Everyone is talking and chatting and then centering everybody down just by simply focusing on our breath
is my favorite thing about yoga because you can do that anywhere.” Throughout the class, Senecal was a constant motivator and was letting everyone in the room know to move at their own pace, do what their body can handle and to loosen up because the weekend was only a few days away. Natalia Aviles, a freshman international studies major, loved the class. “It was my first time and I loved it. I love yoga and I’ve done it before. This class was really relaxing,” Aviles said. Bianca Lopez, a freshman international studies major, had nothing but praise as well. “I really liked it. I think it’s really helpful for stress and anxiety,” she said. This was Lopez’s first MC yoga class, and she plans on definitely coming back to the next one. Yoga classes have been offered at MC by the Fitness Center since fall of 2014. Christopher Policastro, director of fitness, wellness and recreation, has worked hard to build the program from the ground up. In 2014, Policastro was working with the school dietician at the time about integrating nutrition with the Fitness Center’s workshops and programs. During this time, he had found out that the dietician was also a certified yoga instructor. Knowing that yoga was a big fitness trend, Policastro hired her to teach a couple of yoga classes. Policastro ran about two classes a semester just to start
off the program and to see how it would set off with the students. It was not heavily attended but that did not stop him from pursuing the program and growing it from then on. When Senecal came along as the new (and current) dietician nutritionist, Policastro had also found out that she was a certified yoga instructor as well. From there, the two teamed together to form a solid yoga program that Manhattan students could access with a steadier schedule. “Last year, Jenny and I worked and put together a little bit more of a comprehensive yoga program. We started offering it a little bit more consistent every month. We did like one or two every month,” Policastro said. Location has been an issue throughout the years as it is difficult to find a reliable, large space that can offer the desired times for the class and fit all the yoga attendees. Policastro has been able to work with the Mini Gym in Alumni Hall as well as the fifth floor of the Kelly Commons, but a space is still not officially set in stone. This location matter has played a huge role in why we do not see a routine schedule of yoga classes. “I really like the class and I think it’s really awesome that they offer it to students. I wish they offered it more every month but I think it is a really nice outlet for stress relief,” said Heyi Cheng, a sophomore economics major. As the class becomes more well-known throughout campus and more students attend,
The Fitness Center’s free class, held in the Kelly Commons Great Room, had its largest turnout on Thursday, Feb. 8. MEGAN UY / THE QUADRANGLE MC students might have more opportunities to attend yoga classes. A perk of these yoga classes is that they are free. Instead of having to pay $30 or more at a studio or gym to take a class, students are just steps away from a professional yoga session. “I purposely tried to limit the roadblocks of students to participate. No fee. No yoga mat. Just show up.” said Policastro. If MC’s yoga classes con-
tinue to grow and have as big of an attendance as they did last Thursday, the program will only get bigger. From the looks of it, it seems like this is just the beginning to even more success for an amazing program that will greatly help students physically, mentally and spiritually. The yoga program will be hosting sunrise and sunset yoga in the college’s upcoming Earth Week beginning April 16.
MC Players Perform Reading of “Oleanna” John Jackson Editor
The Manhattan College Players were back in action on Thursday, Feb. 15 in the Black Box as they performed a play reading of David Mamet’s “Oleanna.” The play is broken up into three acts and consists of two characters: a college student named Carol (performed by Gabriella Herrera) and a college professor named John (performed by Peter Martino). The play deals with the topics of sexual harassment and sexual assault which director Matt Peters found very relevant to current events. “I first came across Oleanna a few months ago, just after the Harvey Weinstein scandal had become a national headline,” wrote Peters in a director’s note found in the playbill. “As time went on, and more people in the news had been accused of sexual harassment and sexual assault, I knew Oleanna needed to be performed.”
The play begins with Carol coming to John’s office to address her difficulty in understanding the content of his course, including the content found in his own book. Over the course of her visit, certain words and actions of John’s rub Carol the wrong way and she accuses him of sexual harassment in addition to being sexist and pornographic. These accusations hurt John’s chance at getting tenure which, in turn, hurt his chance of closing on his new house. John angrily grabs hold of Carol at the end of Act II in frustration over these comments. Carol then files attempted-rape charges against John due to this action. In Act III she offers to drop the charges if he complies with the request of her and a group of her peers to remove certain books from the college, including his own. John is outraged by this, refuses and tells her to leave his office. Before she leaves, John’s phone rings and Carol overhears him calling his wife
“baby.” After Carol tells him not to refer to his wife that way, John loses it, physically and verbally abuses Carol and almost hits her over the head with a chair before realizing what he had just done. The play closes out with Carol on the ground repeating the words, “Yes...that’s right.” There was not much deliberation in choosing this play. As Peters mentioned in the playbill, he felt it was both relevant and important to perform at this time. Co-director Sam Corby felt the same way. “It sounded like a great project and something that was poignant and I think it’s important to do poignant pieces in times of uncertainty,” said Corby. The fact that it was a twoperson play gave it a different dynamic from other plays. “The rewards are you get to work closer with the actors and you really get to focus more on character development,” said Peters. Peters also refers to the two-person aspect as one of the challenges especially given
the way “Oleanna” was written. Mamet wrote it in a complicated way so the audience would not necessarily know who is right and who is wrong right off the bat. “The disadvantage I think is the same thing, you’re working with two people...I think with this we had to really work on subtlety and subtext,” said Peters. Peters also mentioned how having only two performers gave the production a different feel in that it felt like there were more than two directors. “Since it’s just two people it was more on them to kind of figure out their characters,” said Peters. “They were guiding us and we were guiding them so it was almost like we were all kind of directors in a way.” For Martino, this was not his first show with the Manhattan College Players and it will not be his last either. “I love to do shows,” said Martino. “I have been a part of quite a few now; student-run and mainstage. I like being part
of this stuff; acting and whatnot.” The fact that “Oleanna” was performed by the MC Players as a play reading made it a lot easier to prepare since all the lines are read off the script. At the same time, however, it does require creativity to make everything flow well. “People can’t really move around that much because they have to be reading off the script,” said Martino. “So you got to try and make it artistic and creative within the confines of having the script.” The MC Players have a few one-act plays that they will perform in the spring semester in additional to their annual spring musical. As for their first performance of 2018, they were happy with the show they ended up putting on. “This play was very interesting to do and I’m very happy that we were given the opportunity to do this,” said Corby.
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Italian Cafe and Restaurant Opens on Manhattan College Parkway Stephen Zubrycky Managing Editor
Caffe Buon Gusto is open for business in Riverdale. Located across the street and down the block from Hayden Hall at 4576 Manhattan College Parkway, the compound bar-restaurant-coffee shop fully opened for business last week. Caffe Buon Gusto had been serving coffee and light pastries for three weeks before the kitchen opened last week, offering a wide variety of tried-and-true Italian favorites. Riverdale is Caffe Buon Gusto’s fourth location, adding to restaurants on the Upper West Side, Lower East Side and Brooklyn Heights. The Menu Caffe Buon Gusto’s broad menu is packed with favorite Italian standbys. Appetizers include traditional dishes like burrata, calamari, and prosciutto with melon, ranging from $8 for a mixed green salad to $22
for a large cheese platter built to share. Entrees include a wide array of specialty pastas, including homemade ravioli and tortellini with choice of sauce ($18.90) and several meat dishes, including pancetta wrapped filet mignon ($33.95) and chicken parmigiana ($20.95). For dessert, cheesecake, flourless chocolate almond cake and tiramisu were on offer. Vegetarian options include personal pizzas (from $9.95) and eggplant. The Ambience Caffe Buon Gusto is separated into two parts: the coffee shop and the restaurant. The coffee shop has a cozy feel, with a dark color palette and comfortable furnishings. The restaurant side of Caffe Buon Gusto has an open floor plan leading from the bar into the dining room. Exposed brick and large windows facing Manhattan College Parkway give it a bright feel that is simultaneously upscale and casual.
Caffe Buon Gusto is separated into two parts: the coffee shop and the restaurant (pictured). STEPHEN ZUBRYCKY / THE QUADRANGLE
For Lunch: Homemade Spinach Ravioli with Pesto For lunch, I had the spinach ravioli with pesto ($18.90). Though the prices are high, the portions are more than ample. The ravioli were well cooked, with an al dente texture and a firm filling of spinach and ricotta. The pesto sauce was light and slightly creamy, contrasting well in the heft of the pasta and the dense filling. For Dessert: Flourless Chocolate Almond Cake For dessert, I had the chocolate almond cake. Decadent and rich, the cake packed a powerful punch of cocoa flavor with hints of almond sneaking through in each bite. This dessert is quite a mouthful and is perfect for sharing. When to Go Caffe Buon Gusto is open for coffee and pastries from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. The kitchen opens for lunch at noon and closes at 10 p.m. Even though Jasper Dollars are not yet accepted, the restaurant offers a 10 percent discount to Manhattan College students. The Lowdown Caffe Buon Gusto has an upscale, but relaxed environment that is perfect for reading a book, writing a paper or just grabbing a cup of coffee on the go. Its location is ideal for making quick stops between campus and the subway. The restaurant offers a wide variety of tasty Italian-American standards. However, despite the 10 percent student discount, a full meal at Caffe Buon Gusto comes with a hefty price tag. To learn more, visit cbgnyc.com
Caffe Buon Gusto’s Riverdale location is the cafe’s fourth, adding to one Brooklyn and two Manhattan locations. STEPHEN ZUBRYCKY / THE QUADRANGLE
Sophomore Business Major Showcases Parisian Style ON-CAMPUS FASHION FINDS Lauren Schuster Asst. Editor
Lisette Vincent is a sophomore from Mahwah, N.J. She is double majoring in finance and business analytics. She sat down and shared her style with us. The Quadrangle: How would you describe your style? Lisette Vincent: I think I have two different kinds of styles. I think I have a school style and then an out-of-school style. My school style is more laid-back, like I’ll just put on jeans and a sweater and boots if it’s the winter and then jean shorts, a shirt and sneakers if it’s the summer, but [for my] out-of-school style I think I definitely try to [...] wear my nicer clothing outside of school. I’ll put on heels and I’ll put on nic-
er pants and stuff like that. So, I think I have more of a laid-back style in school and a more formal style outside of school. TQ: How have you noticed your style change as you grew older? LV: I definitely dress better than I did. I just try to dress more mature definitely. I think I’ve found what I liked [over time], not just kind of copying what I saw in school. [Now] I’ll see something on Instagram or on Pinterest and be like, “ooh I like that, I’m going to try to do something like that,” so I think that’s how I found my style. TQ: Would you wear what you wore in high school now? LV: No, just because I think I grew as a person, and so I think that kind of also changed my style. So yeah, I wouldn’t wear what I wore in high school. TQ: What are your favorite
places to shop? LV: Urban Outfitters is definitely my number one, Forever 21 is always a steal and H&M. I also like this store called Sabo Skirt, it’s an Australian company, it’s online, I highly recommend it. Those are mostly my favorites. TQ: Tell us where your outfit is from! LV: The entire outfit is from Forever 21. TQ: If you were given $1,000 to spend in one place where would you spend it and why? LV: Probably Urban Outfitters, only because their items are really expensive, so that money would come in handy. TQ: How do you plan your outfits? LV: For school, I kind of just throw on whatever is comfortable, but outside of school I
definitely get a lot of my inspiration from some things I see on Instagram or on Pinterest. I [also] like a lot of old movies and I like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. So pieces I see, not complete outfits, but pieces I see that I love, I’ll buy and try to make it my own. TQ: Do you have a favorite piece of clothing? LV: It always changes, but right now I just ordered shoes. They’re really cute, they’re these red heels. They’re very spring and summer-like and they’re a bright red velvet. They’re such a staple and I think I’m going to love them this year. ____________________________
Vincent regularly models her outfits on Instagram. LISETTE VINCENT / COURTESY
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Swimming and Diving Seniors Close Out MC Careers John Jackson Editor
The Manhattan College Swimming and Diving team bid farewell to six seniors on Jan. 27 at the team’s Senior Day dual meet against Iona. The six seniors were Alexandra Hutzler, Audrey Corcoran, Eileen Blood, Brandon Shields, Mitchell Rifkind and Tyler McCloskey. Each one was presented individually with a plaque to commemorate their athletic careers at Manhattan. The day ended in a loss to the Gaels by a score of 197-61 on the men’s side and 182-77 on the women’s side. However, the day meant a lot more to the seniors than simply the overall final results. “Speaking on my behalf with the last home meet, it was rather surreal,” said Shields. “My swimming career has been rather a long one and to have it finally being wrapped up and moving onto the real world is kind of surreal.” It was also a special day for Rifkind whose family was able to make it to a meet of his for one of the first times in his athletic career. Not only was his family’s presence different than usual, but so was being the one who was honored. “You know you always kind of sit on the sidelines and watch the seniors go by every year and you’re always really proud
of them and stuff so it’s really a weird feeling being on the other side of things and being the one being recognized,” said Rifkind. While Senior Day was the last home meet for the Jaspers, that did not mark the end to their regular season. Four days later on Jan. 31, they participated in their regular-season finale against Fairfield in Connecticut. Like Senior Day, both the men’s and women’s sides of the team fell to their opponent (the men by 208-78 and the women by 234-45). Also like Senior Day, the focus of the seniors was less on the loss and more on the meet being their final regular season meet of their college careers. “That one was definitely when it really kicked in,” said Rifkind. One of the events Rifkind swam in during the Fairfield meet was the 200 IM which was one he had specialized in more so during high school. While swimming this event and others, it hit him that he would never again swim in these events in the same way as he had throughout college. Shields also felt that the Fairfield meet was a tougher pill to swallow in comparison to Senior Day. “Fairfield kind of hit home a little more,” said Shields. “Like having the final dual meet ever, knowing I’m not going to
The Manhattan College Swimming and Diving team honored six seniors at their last meet of the season. GOJASPERS / COURTESY race to that capacity again was kind of sad.” The fact that the team swam against Fairfield of all teams to close out their final season was ironic to Blood as it reminded her of the first meet
-----------------------------“You know you always kind of sit on the sidelines and watch the seniors go by every year and you’re always really proud of them and stuff so it’s really a weird feeling being on the other side of things and being the one being recognized,” said Rifkind. _____________
she participated in during her freshman year. “That was my very first meet my freshman year; that’s where we had it,” said Blood. “So I started and ended in the same exact place so that was funny how it worked out. And I swam the same exact events that I swam as a freshman and I ended them as a senior.” The experience the seniors had with the team helped them improve as swimmers, but it also taught them valuable life lessons as well. For Rifkind, spending time with the team made him better in terms of time management. “Biggest lesson learned had to be time management,” said Rifkind. “That’s one of the things I’m definitely most thankful for because I was terrible at managing my time and scheduling things like that coming into college.”
Blood learned the lesson of giving her all to everything she does. “I think I learned over the four years that you got to give it a hundred percent, everything that you do and you can’t give a little there and a little over there,” said Blood. “You have to kind of give it your all at all times.” The six seniors had gone through the good times and the bad together. Their ups and downs were part of the reason they consider themselves as more than just teammates or friends. For Shields, the seniors on the swimming and diving team are family. “I know that they’re brothers and sisters that I plan on keeping in contact with as long as possible,” said Shields. Editor’s Note: Alexandra Hutzler is a senior writer for The Quadrangle.
Running Through the Line, Track and Field Looking Strong C. Garrett Keidel Asst. Editor
On Thursday, Feb. 1, the Men’s and Women’s Track and Field teams started two days of competition at the Metropolitan Championships. At the end of competition, the Men’s team finished in second place while the Women’s team placed fifth overall. Highlights from the Women’s competition included Lisa Fajardo continuing her recordbreaking season by setting another school record, this time in the 5,000m race. Freshman Fiona Ruettimann also had success by placing second in the Pentathlon and the High Jump. Fajardo’s record time in the 5,000m is the second individual indoor track record she has broken this season. Previously, she had broken the 3,000m record at the Boston University
Terrier Invitational. “I never went under 17 minutes,” said Fajardo. “The closest I had gotten to it was the school record I had for outdoors which was 17:03 and that was towards the end of outdoors, so my body was peaking. That was me running all out. For the Met Championships, which I ran 16:42 at,
-----------------------------Lisa Fajardo broke the school record in the 5,000m race with a time of 16:42, her third this season. _____________
it was just like going with the flow then picking up at the end. I ran it comfortably uncomfortable so it was crazy to look up at the board and see the time
and know the effort that went into it.” Coach Kerri Gallagher is the Distance and Mid Distance Track Coach at Manhattan College. She has known of and watched Fajardo even before her time at the College. She provided her take on Fajardo’s success. “For her I think a lot of it has been a change in mindset, a change in perspective in enjoying racing and enjoying training,” said Gallagher. “I think she has gotten a lot stronger so obviously there is a physical aspect. She just a better runner than she was the past two years just because she’s older, more mature and stronger as she has trained over the years.” She continued. “But the difference between this year and what I saw last year is she is running a little more free, with a little more excitement and enthusiasm. This
summer I think she made the decision that she was going to do some great things and she put the work in.” On the Men’s team, many found success at the Metropolitan Championships. Brenton Foster, who broke the school record for the high jump earlier this season, continued his success as he placed first in the event at a height of 2.09 meters. Manhattan swept the shot put by taking the top four spots in competition. Freshman Anu Awonusi placed first by throwing the second-longest shot put distance in the MAAC conference at 16.80 meters. Ryan Addlesberger, Ire Bozovicar and Eric Waugh placed placed second, third and fourth respectively. The Men’s team didn’t stop there on their way to a second place finish. Freshman Tim Youtkus won the seven-event heptathlon at the Met Champi-
onships and senior Love Litzell won the weight throw competition. Coach Dan Mecca is the Head Track and Field Coach at the College and reflected on the events that unfolded at the Met Championships for the Men’s team. “We’ve battled back and forth with Rutgers for the last 25 years,” said Mecca. “I think that every championship has come down to either us or Rutgers except maybe two in that time. In a ways it’s great to see so many kids step up and see some of the things we work on. In another way it’s very frustrating to see where we could have won it. But now let’s use this as a learning experience. Let’s use this as a tool to prepare for the MAACs, for the ICs, to go on and to reach success at meets from that point on.”
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Softball Looking to Pick Up Where They Left Off
Brandon Thrope Contributor
Coming off the best regular season finish in program history, the Manhattan College softball team is ready to pick up where they left off last season. The season starts on Feb. 23 with a doubleheader in the Madeira Beach (Fla.) Invitational Tournament against Eastern Michigan and Arkansas. Their first home game will be a doubleheader against Hartford on March 6. However, coach Pardalis isn’t looking that far yet. “Our goal is to win the first game and then win the second game and then go from there,” said Pardalis. The Jaspers will open up conference play on April 7 with a doubleheader against Fairfield at home. “We are working hard right now in the offseason,” said captain Briana Matazinsky. “And we are looking forward to start playing. Three of our athletes are on the preseason all-MAAC
team.” Matazinsky is one of the players in that group, in addition to Lauren Pitney and Shannon Puthe. Pitney led the team in hitting with a .324 batting average and team-high seven home runs and 37 RBI. Puthe was second with a .295 average to go along with 27 stolen bases. Matazinsky finished with a .268 average, a 15-7 pitching record and a sparkling 2.09 ERA. Last season, the team set a season-high 34 wins giving Matazinsky a good reason to have high goals for the team this season. The reason why the program was so successful in 2017 was due to the variety of returning veterans (such as Matazinsky, Pitney and Puthe) as well as some incoming rookies. In regards to rookies, none other made as big of an impact than Nicole Williams, who won the MAAC Rookie of the Year last season. She went 12-8 with a 2.04 ERA and recorded 122 strikeouts in 109 2/3 innings.
“I think what Williams showed last season was that she can compete any day on the mound,” said Pitney. The softball team wants to perform better in the MAAC tournament, as they lost two of three games before being eliminated last year. Puthe reiterated the need for her and the other hitters to continue to perform, and to lead the team by example both on and off the field. Five incoming freshman have joined the team ahead of the 2018 season. The five are: outfielder Emma Kindblom, who batted .613 during her senior year in high school; shortstop Gabriella Fredette, who scored 38 runs in 2016; catcher Daniela Chiorazzi, who was selected to the MSG Varsity first team in 2015; infielder Victoria Alonso, who was named a Journal News first-team All-Star; and infielder/outfielder Adriana Gambino, who participated in softball, shot put and volleyball in high school, winning many elite awards in softball
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The women’s softball season will begin on Feb. 23 with a doubleheader against Michigan and Arkansas. GOJASPERS / COURTESY and the MVP award in volleyball. Pardalis expressed his thoughts on the team. “We expect to stand up and win the MAAC,” said Pardlis. “I think it will be very difficult for [another conference team]
to take more than two games from us.” He then read from a list about a dozen players on his roster, and eventually stopped and said, “well, they’re all great.”
Manhattan College Baseball is Underway for 2018 Victoria Hernandez Senior Writer
Manhattan College Jaspers started the baseball season this past weekend. For infielder Matt Forlow, it feels like a fresh new start because the team has an entirely new coaching staff. “This year is just different from all the years prior,” Forlow said. “Everything is new for us, the style of coaching, style of play, different philosophies when it comes to hitting and defense. It’s exciting.” The change has certainly brought life to the program, but the main goal remains the same. “To win the MAAC cham-
pionship, the conference,” outfielder Paul Genners said. “But my daily goal is to perform my best so I can help everybody else do their job.” For pitcher Matthew Simonetti, having the Jasper community in the games will help them reach their goal. “We used to play at Van Cortlandt Park (VCP), and just having your family around, your friends coming to the games and support you makes you try harder,” Simonetti said. “You really want to show off your hard work. It brings more energy out of you.” Increasing the student’s attendance to the baseball games would be a big motivator.
“You’re focusing and involved in game but you’re definitely seeing who’s in the stands; having people you associate with on a daily basis watch you perform what you’ve been working on for years is a big motivator” Forlow said. “It would be a huge plus if we could get that done.” When the games were hosted at VCP, a bigger crowd from Manhattan College attended the games. “It definitely helps, it affects our kids, they play a little bit harder,” head coach Mike Cole said. “Our goal is to bring the students, we’ve talk about bus trips. Students would enjoy baseball games, it’s just diffi-
Manhattan College’s men’s baseball team will face differences in coaching and playing styles for their 2018 season. GOJASPERS / COURTESY
cult to get there.” But a new coach and not playing at VCP anymore aren’t the only differences this season. “We used to be up at 5 a.m. everyday at Draddy before,” Genners said. “But now we practice in the afternoon outside in Gaelic and we do offense inside at 6-8 p.m. in Draddy. Twice a day the practice is a little bit more focused and efficient than it has been in past years.” A typical practice for the team includes 15 minutes of stretch, 15 minutes of a throwing program, position play for 30 minutes, team defense for 30 minutes and finally, 45 minutes of offense. “All the coaches that we’ve had in the past have brought a new set of eyes, new drills we haven’t done before,” Genners said. “A lot of our players have really benefited from that.” Cole, who was named head coach back in August, brings the best out of everyone. “He has a really good understanding of what it takes to be successful at MC in this conference,” Forlow said. “He has coached here before, he has won before.” But when no one is watching is when you really have to get the work done. “If you walk by Draddy, you would see us in the cages, a lot of those times is not with our
coaches, it’s just guys getting extra work in,” said Genners. “We do a lot of reading in theories and fundamentals from professional players and coaches, looking at new drills in social media, we work constantly. We’re really excited and prepared” Cole wasn’t surprised with the talent and level of maturity of the team. “In the first couple of weeks, we went one-on-one, to see the talent that we had and get to know the guys, understand their personality and how they like to be coached,” Cole said. “We’ve been preparing since Sept. 1.” The first four weekends will be the most challenging for the team. “I want our guys to be challenged,” said Cole. “The MAAC this year is as good as it’s ever been. But we’re gonna be able to compete for a MAAC championship.” His strategy is what he calls “old-school.” “We’re gonna be competing on every pitch,” said Cole. “I want our guys to play hard.” Cole is clear in the team’s potential. “I’ve coached in this conference for 10 years, we put [the players] in a situation to be successful,” said Cole. “Now is their time to go out and do what they’re capable of doing.”
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Lady Jaspers Make Strides Towards Equality Gabriella DePinho & Shannon Gleba Editors
With nine women’s NCAA Division I sports teams on campus, female student-athletes play an important role at Manhattan College. The college’s female athletes work hard to be successful in both the realms of academics and athletics, and are backed by a strong athletic department staff. Women continue to take the world of athletics by storm, and MC is working further to promote equity for both the male and female athletic teams. Marianne Reilly ‘82, the Director of Intercollegiate Athletics, and Associate Athletic Directors Whitney Swab and Kathryn Mirance, are all familiar with the work that still needs to be done in order to achieve equality and are doing their part to help. Reilly is no stranger to college athletics and has a strong reputation as a student-athlete, coach and sports administrator. Reilly broke barriers as a basketball player at Manhattan College, being the first female player at MC to score 1,000 points during her college career, and also the first woman inducted into the College’s Athletic Hall of Fame. She went on to work as both a coach and administrator at the college-level, in addition to being an educator. In her second year as the first female Director of Intercollegiate Athletics at Manhattan, Reilly is part of a small group of 39 female Athletic Directors at the Division I level. In addition to her efforts for the Athletic Department as a whole, Reilly has been passionate about projects that work towards equality for all genders in athletics. She has worked with Swab and Mirance on a number of projects and events this year in conjunction with female athletic teams and the Women’s Sports Foundation. The first of these events occurred in Draddy Gymnasium after the women’s basketball game on Jan. 28 in celebration of Girls and Women in Sports Day. MC invited Girl Scouts, youth teams and anyone in the community who wanted to attend to participate in an event to learn about different sports and to enjoy the day with the Lady Jaspers. All nine female sports programs helped organize the event with the athletics department, and the day was a huge success. “Each team took a station and they were able to make it their own and do what they really wanted to do,” said Swab. For example, the women’s volleyball team set up a station where the young children were able to measure the ver-
All nine of Manhattan College’s female sports programs held an event in celebration of Girls and Women in Sports Day for young people in the community on Jan. 28. GOJASPERS / COURTESY tical height of their jump, the women’s rowing team had their indoor rowing machines for the children to try and the swimming and diving team set up a relay race with their equipment. “We really let the studentathletes take ownership of what they wanted to do and how they wanted to interact,” said Swab. The feedback of the event from the athletes was very positive; athletes had a good time, were reminded of the empowerment they felt through sports and of their hopes for the future generations of girls in sports. Senior athlete Maggie Tebbetts was there working the station the rowing team set up. The team took out two of its practice machines and had them set up side-by-side and offered the young kids at the event the opportunity to “race” each other. “It was really cool to see all the kids racing each other and ask about the sport and ask about the other sports and playing games,” said Tebbetts. “I just think it’s really important that a young age, that young girls and boys see that people our age are still involved in sports.” The swimming team set up a relay race for kids to participate in, similar to a relay race they organized during the Relay For Life event last year. Senior Eileen Blood was there the day of the event and helped facilitate the race and felt the event was both fun and important. “It was so much fun,” said Blood. “It was cool seeing all the teams get together in the gym. I think [events like this] are always important to have to raise awareness for women and all the inequalities.” Tebbetts shared her hopes that young girls would get involved in sports as she found
sports to be empowering throughout her life. “As a female in athletics, all of [being involved in sports] is empowering because there’s a stigma - not as much anymore that sports are for men so playing sports as a women was empowering,” said Tebbets. She continued, “I hope that young girls try [sports] out and don’t get discouraged by the media because sports are really great.” Blood shared a similar sentiment, hoping that young girls would find encouragement through the achievements of female college athletes like herself. “I would love for us to be role models, that they see us in college and that we can still do it and that we’re taken seriously and I think for young girls that could be something to aspire to,” said Blood. The athletic administrators also believe the event was a success and hope to continue to offer meaningful programs for young athletes. Reilly said, “Little boys and little girls will come to any event that we have, but if we start targeting the youth, I think that is where our future lays, so certainly we want to expose them to inside the gates at Manhattan College.” Feb. 7 was the 32nd annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day, and the athletic department helped to celebrate and draw awareness. Maddie Arndt, a member of the women’s Track and Field team and President of the StudentAthlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), had the idea to organize a video centered around Title IX. After presenting the idea to Reilly, they were able to get other female athletes involved in order to promote fairness in sports and awareness. Title IX
is a federal law passed in 1972 which states: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.” The video showed female athletes reciting the law and was posted to the athletic department social media pages and shared by many of the women’s sports programs. The fairness in play under this federal law allows female athletes the same rights as their male counterparts and is the basis for many efforts towards equity. This equality for women in sports is of the utmost importance to Kathryn Mirance, Associate Athletic Director and Senior Woman Administrator. As a former student-athlete, Mirance said, “It wasn’t until afterwards on the administrative side that I saw how much went in to all aspects of being a student athlete that I didn’t have the respect or understanding for earlier. I think there has definitely been a huge upswing in equity and I think a lot of women’s teams are getting more screen-time or spotlight-time than they have in the past. And that is huge and tremendous and that goes to our studentathletes being active in the community but also with the evolution of female administrators in college athletics, there are a lot more than there ever has been.” This increase in female administrators is apparent at MC, as three of the six senior athletic administrators are women. While the annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day may have passed, the Jaspers are continuing to raise awareness throughout the remainder
of February. MC was chosen by the Women’s Sports Foundation to host a “Candid Conversation” with two champion female athletes on Feb. 26 at 6:00 p.m. Angela Hucles, a gold medal soccer Olympian, and Holly Lindvall, Vice President of Human Resources for the New York Mets, will present a workshop in Smith Auditorium to all who wish to attend. The presentation and interactive workshop will be centered on how the lessons learned as an athlete will be beneficial when joining the workplace. The idea of using skills learned in athletics to succeed after college align very well with Mirance’s goal at Manhattan College. She said, “Having gotten the opportunity to be the Senior Administrator last May, I really want to improve our programming for our studentathletes and make sure that we are giving them the tools, the resources and the experiences that they need to be successful when they leave [MC].” The recent events and efforts of the student-athletes and administrators at MC are helping to pave the way for more success of girls and women in sports. When asked the best advice she could give for young girls hoping to become more involved in sports, Reilly said, “I think the kids today are so over-programmed. I think it is good that they try many sports, don’t specialize as a little kid in one sport. It’s wonderful, but sometimes when you’re a volleyball player, you might be a really good rower. Or if you’re a rower, you could be a really good volleyball player. So, try all those things out when you’re young.”