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THE QUADRANGLE | The Tech Issue

NOT ES from The Editor

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The Editorial Board

Taylor Brethauer Editor-in-Chief Stephen Zubrycky Managing Editor Jack Melanson News Editor

Gabriella DePinho Joseph Liggio Asst. News Editors

Megan Dreher Features Editor

Lauren Schuster Asst. Features Editor

Rose Brennan Arts & Entertainment Editor Managing Editor

Alexa Schmidt Asst. Arts & Entertainment Editor

John Jackson Sports Editor

C. Garrett Keidel Asst. Sports Editor

RikkiLynn Shields Catherine Goodyear Social Media Editors

Anja Pollozi Photography Editor

Alyssa Velazquez Production Editor

Samantha Walla Asst. Production Editor

August Kissel Michevi Dufflart Web Editors

Mohsin Ahmed Shannon Gleba Copy Editors

Abby Crowell Distribution Manager Nicholas Gilewicz Faculty Advisor About The Quadrangle A tradition since 1924, The Quadrangle is a news organization run by the students of Manhattan College. We strive to cover news around campus and the greater community, publishing weekly in print and daily online. Our goal is always accuracy, relevancy and professionalism.

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Dear Reader, It’s been a while! I hope you’ve been having a successful semester!

As you can see, we’re switching things up this week with our special issue. Once a semester, we pick an over-arching theme for one issue of the paper and all of the articles for that issue will fit under that topic in one way or another. Some of my past favorites included food, gender and faith.

So, why technology? To put it simply, why not?

Technology rules everything around us: we’re constantly on our phones or on our laptops, utilizing some sort of database or website. We’re growing our digital footprint every day as we add to our social media sites and update our feeds.

On a personal level, I see our generation at the cusp of when the Internet “began” for the general public— I distinctly remember playing Club Penguin at elementary school age, then making a Facebook account (probably way too young at middle school age) and all of a sudden I’m applying to “social media internships”. When did this happen? Time flies, but it’s been documented on my accounts as I’m sure it’s been recorded on yours.

But in our Tech Issue, we bring the scope to our campus: who is doing what with technology both outside and inside the classroom? Who owns the superior gadgets? How do we manipulate our digital skills to make a profit? How do our athletes make the most of the technology available our school provides for them?

Sincerely,

Taylor Brethauer

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

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College Looks to Hone Student Technical Skills with New “DAsH” Program From left to right: Maeve Adams, Adam Arenson, Musa Jafar and Adam Koehler will all be teaching courses with the “Digital Arts and Humanities,” or “DAsH” attribute. photos from MANHATTAN COLLEGE / COURTESY.

Taylor Brethauer Editor-in-Chief

According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, two key features employers seek on a candidate’s resume are analytical skills and technical skills. In an attempt to create well-rounded liberal arts students, a new “Digital Arts and Humanities” (DAsH) attribute will be introduced next semester.

Spearheaded by multiple professors and staff members, the DAsH attribute will have five courses available for the upcoming spring 2019 semester. At the head of the planning committee, serving as chair, is Maeve Adams, assistant professor of English.

“Our efforts to develop the digital arts and humanities curriculum on campus came from an attempt to help students develop some skills that employers want [...] as liberal arts majors you are at a distinct advantage because what employers want most is primarily to communicate in language in written language and orally, effectively, persuasively, all of which are skills you’re learning

in your courses,” said Adams.

In that same information from the National Associate of Colleges and Employers, leadership, ability to work in a team, communication skills and problem-solving skills are also features employers look for in a candidate. DAsH will allow analytical and technical skills come to the forefront through multiples skills and tools utilized in an array of courses.

“What if you had the opportunity to build these sorts of projects in your coursework, ahead of time? These are tools and platforms that are free and easy to use, but it’s just a matter of providing context in order to learn those things,” said Adams.

One class in particular is History 100: Slavery in the Bronx, taught by Adam Arenson, associate professor of history. Through the use of government records and ancestry records, Arenson and his class will look into a topic that is not commonly talked about in the Bronx neighborhood.

“We will question what is the legacy of slavery in a space where most people wouldn’t think of there being a legacy of slavery at all. Slavery was

legal in New York state until 1827. When people were freed from slavery they didn’t move very far. There could very well be people living in the Bronx that are descended from those same people,” said Arenson.

He expects the course to be an open-ended learning process, with no specific goal for the end of the semester other than planning out research and data and seeing what comes of their effort.

By the end of the semester, however, students will be able to create clear and precise data visualizations.

In another course, English 392: Writing and Remembering, taught by Adam Koehler, associate professor of English, will use one of the most commonly used tools in today’s society, social media.

“We’ll be using social media and other digital social spaces also specifically talking about the way memory gets mediated by media. It’s an interdisciplinary effort,” said Koehler.

By the end of the semester, students will use the website Omeka, a web-publishing platform to produce their findings based on research of a public event along with compiling digital writing.

Adams will be teaching another English course, English 335: Victorian Media. She plans on digitizing the College’s rare books collection.

Other courses offered include Business 227: Business Statistics taught by Musa Jafar, associate professor of accounting, CIS and law, and Sociology 250: Geographic Information Systems taught by Robin Lovell, assistant professor of sociology.

Also rounding out the DAsH committee are Laurin Paradise, reference and instruction librarian, and Kimberly Woodruff, director of instructional design. As a whole, the committee has planned and picked important skills and tools such as data or text mining, digital archive research, website design, computer programming, and many more for students to learn in the context of liberal arts courses.

The new attribute, similar to global non-western, is not a requirement. As the program continues to come into itself, the plan is to move towards a more robust comprehension.

At its heart, DAsH is intended for the integration of students into a well-rounded employee

for the 21st century.

“As an English major, it’s really scary that everything is digitized and I don’t have any knowledge in those programs.

But I really want to be in the English field when I graduate.

I was always worried about [gaining more digital knowledge] but I didn’t do anything about that yet or take any computer classes, so this is a good opportunity,” said Darby Zelaskowski, a student in attendance at the information session.

In the future, there are also plans for summer research grants earmarked specifically for DAsH students and research projects, no matter what a student’s major is or where their expertise comes from.

Ultimately, Adams makes sure students know they shouldn’t be afraid of their experience levels when registering for these courses, saying, “you don’t have to have any prior knowledge of anything before you walk into these classes. We will all be learning as we teach these classes. [...]

We are learning alongside you. [...] The whole point is how do we help you develop some facility and literacy with these tools.”

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ITS Hopes to Get Students Jamming Gregory Boland Contributing Writer

In O’Malley study rooms exists two rather large red televisions. Jamboards, as they are called, are produced and developed by Google and parent company Alphabet. The Jamboards are integrated with all other g-suite products used by Manhattan College.

Touchscreen enabled and internet capable, the boards support 16 simultaneous touch points. The boards first were available in the summer of 2017 and the two in the library were purchased by the school shortly thereafter.

MC is one of the first schools to use the boards and was invited by Google to present on Jamboard implementation at a NERCOMP higher education conference.

Richard Musal, director of client services and operation, and a Manhattan College graduate, gave a short demo on the Jamboards and what services they provide to the students this past Thursday.

Gregory Quagieni, IT support specialist, described the positioning of the Jamboards.

“We wanted something in the library that students could use … which is why it’s not in classrooms,” he said.

An updated iteration of smart boards, Jamboards allow for students to reach peak collaboration across multiple devices and platforms.

The document type then aired crates called Jams, allowing large groups of students to simultaneously collaborate and

Anita McCarthy gives a demo of the Jamboards features and uses.

GREGORY BOLAND / COURTESY brain storm on the namesake board and through any device that supports Google Drive.

The boards are entirely accessible to students who use the study rooms in O’Malley Library.

Whatever the kind of work students might need to jam with, the board has many integrated features, mimicking a normal white board with the capabilities of a Google Doc while also allowing students to crop images and information directly from the web.

A common concern with the Jamboards is how it compares to smart boards, which after being integrated to many

lower education schools were problematic and required significant upkeep.

Musal said, “I like [Jamboards] a lot, from an IT perspective you’re always looking for products that don’t need a lot of support and maintenance, so that’s kind of like the IT persons dream. Even from a client’s perspective as much as we don’t want to have to sit here and constantly maintaining things I don’t think clients want that either because the more you have to work on something the more likely somethings going to go wrong.”

He continued.

“With this you turn it off you

turn it back on again its wiped out, it’s like a Chromebook almost… a smartboard requires a PC, and along with acquiring a PC are all the things that can go wrong with a Windows computer, so you’re very dependent on that it’s not an all in one. This thing, it has one plug, it’s literally a huge Android tablet with a specific purpose,” Musal said.

Most students are not aware of the capabilities of the Jamboards or how to use them.

“I know a lot of engineers use of it but we don’t even know how to connect it,” said sophomore Tatiana Benitez.

The IT department will be hosting a demo and intro ses-

sion in O’Malley 401 on Nov. 2 from 1:00-2:00 pm and from Nov. 7 at 12:00-1:00 pm, if any students are interested in getting an overview and demo of the Jamboard’s features and capabilities.

If you or anyone you know has used a Jamboard the IT department is looking for your feedback and if students have any input or would like to see more Jamboards at MC, IT’s survey that will be put out soon.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

How Colleges Use Social Media

Haley Burnside and Megan Dreher Senior Writer & Features Editor

The social media landscape has become a dominant player in the college search process, both for students and for administrations. Manhattan College is no exception. The hashtags, likes, shares and retweets have revolutionized the way that the college connects with alumni, current student, prospective students and families.

Manhattan College’s social media presence spans across Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and LinkedIn. In addition to these accounts, the college has a website that is regularly updated with information. These outlets all provide updates on news related to the college and campus.

Christine Lougrahn, the assistant director of web communications at Manhattan College, is one of the many minds behind the college’s online presence.

“As the assistant director of web communication, I do a lot of different things. One of those is managing the college’s social media accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn. I’m also one of the few people who manages manhattan.edu and insidemanhattan.edu,” said Lougrahn.

The web communications team works to showcase the benefits of going to Manhattan College, according to Lougrahn.

“Manhattan College is a brand, so the goal of the social media accounts is to make sure that brand is represented as beautifully and attractively as possible. But it’s important that

we do that through the current students,” said Lougrahn. “My favorite thing about my job is promoting all the cool stuff that students do here on campus, and I think that’s what’s going to drive prospective students to come here.”

Though the web communications team has creative control over the the social media pages, Lougrahn emphasized the importance of working alongside another important department to be sure that the content matches information being shared with prospective students.

“Our office works hand in hand with admissions and we coordinate our efforts through the prospective student base.

We work together to make messaging consistent,” she said.

On the admissions side, social media, and the aid of technological advances as a whole, are just as important.

Dr. William Bisset, the Vice President for Enrollment Management at Manhattan since 2004, notes how influential technology has been in cultivating relationships with prospective students. In his 22 years at Manhattan, he has seen this shift benefit enrollment firsthand.

“The guesswork involved in recruiting students is not completely out, but at Manhattan and a lot of other colleges like us, we can be more targeted in our outreach initiatives because of what’s available to us in the form of technology that wasn’t there even two decades ago,” he said.

A very familiar form of social networking technology to students and admissions alike is the program Naviance. This software allows the high school guidance community to see what types of students are being admitted to different types of colleges across the country.

The program aids students in choosing which colleges fit their academic and social preferences. But, the program also benefits admissions offices in targeting their incoming freshman class.

“There’s another feature to that program that allows colleges like Manhattan to buy names of students that are searching either specifically for you, or for colleges and universities like you in the college search process. Because of the

the admissions office tend to be upwards of 70,000 names each year. These names then translate into “touch points,” which keep Manhattan College present in prospective students’ minds.

“When you started to get mail from the admissions office, or unsolicited emails, it wasn’t by accident,” said Bisset.

The same concept also applies to advertising space purchased on websites or social media platforms, but the effec-

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“Manhattan College is a brand, so the goal of the social media accounts is to make sure that brand is represented as beautifully and attractively as possible” said Lougrahn.

-----------------------technology that’s out there, colleges know who’s searching for you, when they’re searching for you, and even what kind of programs they’re looking for,” said Bisset.

Bisset noted that this information is especially useful when sending admissions counselors out to spread word of Manhattan College.

“It allows us to make informed decisions on where we’re sending our admissions people when it comes to recruiting students from primary markets that are in our own backyard, or secondary markets that are a considerable distance away from Riverdale,” Bisset said.

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tiveness is a bit more difficult to calculate.

“There’s a sense of instantaneous gratification with today’s high school students because there’s so much coming at them. You take advantage of the opportunity to engage when you’re trying to get your name out there as a college or university, but at the same time, it’s hard to measure its success because there’s so much white noise that goes along with the college application process today,” said Bisset.

In order to maintain meaningful contact with prospective students, admissions is constantly working to find the most current and innovative ways to capture the attention of high school juniors and seniors. So-

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cial media as a means of communication is on the rise, but do colleges, like Manhattan look at prospective students’ social media during the admission process?

“The honest answer to that question is not as a general practice,” says Bisset. “When applicants are being evaluated, and a decision can go either way, that’s when people on admissions committees are looking for reasons to either say yes or no. That’s where you go off script a bit as a reader of an application. It’s in those situations where I’ve seen people on admission committees look to Twitter, or Facebook, to either confirm that this is somebody that we want to offer admission to or not. But, I don’t think the general sense of an admissions officer is to dig deeply into what’s out there on social media on any particular applicant.

It’s just important to be careful with what you post.”

Freshman Eunice Nazar confirms the importance social media can play in the college selection process on the side of the students.

“I used social media for the college search process. I specifically looked for their website, Instagram, and Twitter to see what the colleges posted and how people reacted to it,” said the political science major.

Though social media is a helpful tool to connect and inform students, Nazar explains that it can be a danger to prospective students, too.

“Growing up, teachers emphasized how your etiquette online could be potentially important in your future. You have to be careful what you post online, because you never know who will look at it. That’s important to know when you apply to colleges or jobs,” said Nazar.

This Week’s News in #Hashtags Katie Heneghan Staff Writer

Many social media users are able to keep up to date with current events simply by looking at trending hashtags on Twitter, Instagram or other social media platforms. From sports to politics to pop culture, hashtags can give us a clue as to what’s on people’s minds.

Below are the most eyecatching and popular hashtags from this past week.

Sports #RedSox #DoDamage As the Boston Red Sox defeated the New York Yankees and the Houston Astros to claim their kingdom in the American League, hashtag “Do Damage” characterized their

playoff run.

This slogan has been trending on Twitter and Instagram since the playoffs began, creating hype for Boston sports fans.

With that said, this could be tantalizing to some devoted Yankee fans and New Yorkers alike.

“Everyone’s always mocking the Red Sox and Boston sports, and we always come back and win. People get angry and aggressive towards us and we always come out on top in the end,” said Krista Sven, a Boston sports fan.

Politics #Pelosi The minority leader of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, is trending on Twitter after an exchange of

passionate rhetoric regarding President Trump’s plans to build a border wall. This has ignited yet another political debate between Democrats and Republicans both on social media and in Washington. #Canada This is not your typical trending hashtag, however marijuana was legalized for recreational use in Canada on Wednesday, Oct. 17, making them the second country to legalize marijuana in the world.

“Canada should be used as an example of a country that has legalized recreational weed,” said senior Gabriel Ramirez. “We can also see the dangers of how companies can monopolize weed, and how they can add chemicals and fer-

tilizers to alter the weed.”

Lotter y #MegaMillions This past week the Mega Millions Jackpot hit a new record high at $1 billion. This is the highest jackpot in the lottery’s history.

This is catching the eye of students at Manhattan College.

“I’m definitely going to play the lottery now because of the high stakes jackpot, that’s a crazy amount of money,” said freshman Maren Kain.

Pop Culture #SickoMode This week in music, Travis Scott released his music video for his chart topping song “Sicko Mode” featuring Drake. #SickoMode was trending on Twitter shortly after the re-

lease of the video. #CarrollSpinney The voice behind Sesame Street’s Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, Caroll Spinney has announced he will be stepping down from his role as the childhood icon. This is the number one trending hashtag in New York on Twitter as of Wednesday, Oct. 17.

Manhattan College #GoJaspers #ManhattanCollege Although these hashtags are not trending worldwide they are the most popular tags related to Manhattan College. “Go Jaspers” has been used nearly 5,000 times on Instagram while Manhattan College has been hashtagged on over 19,000 different instagram posts.

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MC and Quadrangle Alum Utilizes Technology Working for Government ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT Alexa Schmidt Asst. A&E Editor

Manhattan College alum Tim Hamling graduated in the spring of 2018, and has since relocated to Aberdeen, Maryland to work for the US Army.

He job is to sustain and maintain software systems that are currently being used by soldiers out in the field.

Hamling got the job through a Scholarship for Service program. The scholarship is called the SMART scholarship (Science, Mathematics And Research for Transformation), which is run through the Department of Defense. The government helped cover the college tuition, and in return, a job is offered straight out of college to work for the government.

“Since I only started working a few months ago, I am currently in a recent-grad rotation program in this software division. Each rotation looks at a specific “area” that’s pertinent to software engineering. So, for example, my current rotation focuses on Independent Validation and Verification (IV&V). This means that I help test technology and software systems to make sure that they work correctly and are ready to be delivered to the soldiers,” Hamling explained.

He continued.

“Another rotation in the program focuses on Cyber Security, which has quickly become one of the most important aspects of security and defense. Since technology is so pivotal to nearly everything used by a modern, 21st century soldier, it is important that their systems and applications stay up-to-date in order to protect against cyber-related threats from adversaries,” he said.

Hamling cannot get into specific details about his job, but he can make the connection between his job and everything he learned at MC. “I feel like there isn’t a direct overlap, but rather more of a ‘conceptual’ overlap. Let me explain. At MC, I studied computer science. Most of my classes from freshman to sophomore year focused on teaching me how to code and how to learn a few different basic programming languages.

When I was an upperclassman,

the classes looked more deeply at specific topics, like parallel processing, data mining, operating system design, and neural networks, to name a few. While these topics are certainly more specific, they are still likely not the kinds of things that someone is going to focus specifically on in a job for the rest of their lives,” he said.

He continued.

“The thing that makes technology so amazing is that it is constantly evolving and changing. The kind of technology that existed in 2018 when I graduated was unimaginable in 2014, which was the year that I started attending MC. With technology advancing at such a fast rate, it’s impossible to build a curriculum to teach students about the most up-to-date tech,” Hamling said.

The job was challenging in the beginning stages, especially because the Army uses a lot of abbreviations and acronyms. Hamling is still learning a lot about all the processes and how the different departments get funding and all the steps required to make a department run smoothly, but he’s picked it up quickly.

“I was not prepared for all the specific types of technology that I was going to encounter at my job. However, all of my tech-related classes at Manhattan College had taught me concepts. I learned how to use my current knowledge to learn new things. While the technology may be new, the underlying themes are related to things I have studied and learned about. This is why I called it a ‘conceptual overlap.’

I was taught concepts at MC, and these were the thing I was able to carry over and use in my job,” Hamling said.

Because of all the computer-heavy work he had to do in college, Hamling is used to sitting at the computer all day. He admitted that work can be slow at times, but the best part of the job is the satisfaction of knowing that, at the end of the day, he’s helping the soldiers that are out overseas defending the nation.

“I definitely plan on staying with the government. The job comes with a lot of good benefits, and it’s great job security.

Plus, it’s really easy to move places and work at a new Army base if I want to change things up,” Hamling said.

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The Tech Debate VOICES ON THE QUAD Alexa Schmidt Asst. A&E Editor

From my experience with people and technology, you’re either an Apple person, or you’re not. PC’s and everything else in between remain the outliers to Apple consumers, and this debate remains prevalent ever since both technologies have been created. There are pros and cons to each, which is what these MC students have a conversation about.

Mac vs PC Alex Nieves vs Christopher Dubois (top picture) Alex Nieves: I think it’s really great when you go into a productive environment like school, and I really like the connectivity my Macbook has with my iPhone; it allows me to be really productive on the go. I like the processing power with it’s SSD, which is basically like a faster hard drive, but I just find paired with Apple’s operating system, it just works really well. It’s intuitive, and I’m also just a big fan of the aesthetic.

I think it’s smooth and a great experience overall.

Christopher Dubois: Well for me, I feel like the Apple system is just way too expensive to invest in if you’re not all the way in. you say that you have the iPhone, the Macbook, you have an Apple watch. You’re totally invested in it. I figure to get the full value out of the Apple products, you have to fully invest. I don’t have an iPhone, so I don’t have a Macbook, I don’t have an iPad, I don’t have the watch. I figured for Windows, it’s just easier to pick and choose what you want. And there’s a lot more options. I fell like the software definitely works on more Windows than they do on Macbooks, because on Macbooks, in a lot of cases, you have to have specific software that works for the Mac. i figure it’s a little harder to maneuver around that. Especially for an engineering student because there’s a lot of specific software that you have to have that only runs on those.

AN: That could be beg determining factors for what you’re actually doing. For my business classes, I’m not going to need the same things you’re using, like the weird programming language that you use.

You use VBA which isn’t compatible with Macs, and I know Mathlab doesn’t work with Macs, which are very widely used. But when you pay a luxury price, you get those extra features, and I find that really valuable, and others don’t.

CB: What we’re coming down to here is that it depends on what’s valuable to you. I don’t really care if I have to

ALEXA SCHMIDT / THE QUADRANGLE use workarounds, I just prefer Windows that much more. But that’s because I’m a person who has experience with technology. If you want something simpler, or easier to use, a Mac just makes more sense. I would say Apple is the way to go. If you want more features that are tailored towards power, Windows would be the better option.

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iPhone X vs Google Pixel

Mattie Milkowski and Aidan Gormley (bottom picture) Mattie Milkowski: I had two iPhones before this, but there was never any storage on the phone, and I was sick of constant updates because it would always make the phone slower.

I just had a very awful problem with it the last year. It was always bad with the iPhone.

Aidan Gormley: Personally, I’ve never had an issue with the storage. I keep my photos on Google photos, which is what your phone is made up of.

MM: My phone is only Google photos. Even when I put all of my photos in Google photos on my old phone, I always had a problem because my parents didn’t want to pay for more storage. And this phone is a lot cheaper than the iPhone X. AG: But the facial unlock feature is crazy.

MM: But the back of my phone is a fingerprint scanner.

AG: The fingerprint scanner on any phone has never worked for me. But the face thing is like magic.

MM: The only thing I miss about the iPhone is iMessages.

That’s it.

AG: Yeah, groups chats and Facetime is super easy. Do you have…

MM: I have Duo. the other person has to have Duo, but it’s just a downloadable app, like Google docs. I have to say for Androids, the phones suck.

They’re just awful phones. My boyfriend has one and it just doesn’t work at all. He never gets calls and his messages barely go through.

AG: I think the iPhone interface is super easy to use, like how it’s set up with the IOS. MM: This phone has a really good battery life, I charged this last night and it’s at 41%.

AG: I’m at 61% and I charged it at six this morning. So twelve hours.

MM: The camera quality is amazing on this phone. I took a picture of my dog and it’s the background on my laptop and it doesn’t look pixelated at all.

AG: I’ve heard they worry more about the software of the camera than the hardware. So my phone has two front-facing cameras, and yours has one, but they have a lot more software behind it for AI to fill in the blanks so it picks up where the camera is lacking.

MM: Yeah, my camera is better. I have a type C charger, so that’s what people charge their Macbooks with.

AG: My laptop charger is her phone charger, so that would be super useful if my phone could charge through my laptop but it can’t.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

MC’s Unsung Heroes: The Workers of ITS

Sophia Sakellariou Staff Writer

Projectors not working, computers glitching, a professor who simply doesn’t know where the power button on the podium is— these are all problems Manhattan College students have encountered at least once in their time here.

Luckily, Manhattan College students are also just a phone call or email away to fix them and they are the workers of MC’s Information Technology Services (ITS).

Alex Nieves, a sophomore Business Analytics Major and Computer Information Systems minor, is one of the Client Services Technicians at ITS.

“My parents introduced me to computers at a young age and I was always fascinated by how computers worked and their capabilities. When we were young we used to learn how to build computers, built one or two of our own, and got into computer programming as early as 5th Grade! I’ve always found technology fascinating as a subject, career, and hobby! Working at ITS allows me to work on those passions,” Nieves said.

“I actually haven’t also been into technology,” said sophomore Business Management major, Anthony Bradley. “I found out about the job through my brothers of DKE and it’s been a great opportunity for learning more about technology and improving my computer skills.”

In terms of a typical day on the job, one such thing does not exist. The ITS team never knows what curveballs will be thrown at them each day.

“There’s always a new issue popping up, but we are able to fix the issue by troubleshooting and asking each other,” said junior Computer Engineering major Frank Vigna.

According to Nieves, the uncertainty of the job is part of the fun. “I think a lot of people believe that ITS employees are masters at technology and know how to handle every situation. While we do have many resources to learn information and we know how to fix most problems, we still receive at least one problem daily that will puzzle us! What’s exciting is that with technology, when you do not know something, you can do so much to learn how to fix the problem!”

Nieves said.

He added, “It’s almost like watching House M.D., where the doctors will see the compli-

cated illness and will do tests, try different medications, and sit together and postulate what the error could be. Another similarity we have to doctors is surgery, actually! When you learn how to fix computer hardware, it feels like a basic surgery. You have to have steady hands, know where different parts go where, be careful not to damage any internals, and need to make sure afterward that all parts are functioning correctly.”

The ITS team is responsible for handling tickets. When a professor or student is having a technological issue they can email or call-in said tickets and a member of the ITS team is sent to handle the situation.

“The ultimate goal of the job is to resolve tickets and run around campus to do so. How busy we are doing that honestly depends on the day,” Bradley said.

The ITS team is a very close-knit bunch. “Everyone gets along in the office and we are always able to get the job done by knowing everyone can rely on everyone in the office,” Vigna said.

“I absolutely love my coworkers! We all are very likeminded, since we all are tech nerds, and we have a great time. When we aren’t handling tickets we tell jokes, we laugh, make plans for the weekend, and much more. When you work at ITS, you quickly become friends with everyone, and since they’re all students, it makes the environment very busy but also very fun,” said Nieves.

The ITS team is always here to help the MC community. Next time you see them running around campus, be sure to say hello and thank them for all that they do. After all, not all heroes wear capes, and these certainly save the day when the technology challenged need a helping hand.

Editor’s Note: Alex Nieves is a contributor for The Quadrangle.

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Technological Advances and Their Effects in Learning Richard Gerling Contributor

As technology has advanced through the years, so have the ways students use it to learn and study while in school. In years prior, students would have to use encyclopedias to research, whereas now students can easily search a topic and have a vast amount of resources to help them learn.

Jimena Gonzalez, Ph.D., shared how technology advancement has changed drastically from when she was going through school. “In high school I guess we had maybe one computer at home…. So when I was growing up when I was little in elementary, sometimes in high school we had the encyclopedias,” said Gonzalez.

“The main difference is that now students can learn anything whether it’s their phones or laptops. We had to go to the computer lab most likely. And in class, in high school at least we didn’t have computers. The college I went to rented laptops for each of us, so we each had one.”

Luisanna Sardu, Ph.D., recalled having to open encyclopedias to research and study.

“It was much longer, and you had to research and read in the encyclopedia books. I still remember the research I did in middle school and high school, you know at least I have some general idea about what I wrote about . Students whenever they write research now, talking about languages about

Italian lit and history, and they remember for the research and poof it’s gone,” said Sardu.

Sophomore computer engineer, Michael Musella, and Sophomore civil engineer, Gianni Ferrara, both have used technology in their college education. Ferrara said, “I would say if you didn’t have the internet your teacher would give you everything. If you had a computer, you could look stuff up and you’re more on your own. I prefer to study alone. I get to learn more and actually understand it, so I can actually learn the material.” Musella added, “Being on my own helps me learn and I am able to figure things out.”

“I can actually learn the material. When teachers give you stuff, I’m straight memorizing stuff and not actually learning it,” said Ferrara. However, both Gonzalez and Sardu believe that students are more able to memorize and retain information compared to using the internet to search for it.

While this is the case, there is a common ground between students and many of the professors at Manhattan College in the fact that Moodle can in fact lead to better learning and studying. Gonzalez puts everything on Moodle. “I take all my notes on Microsoft Office, and I draw my demand and supply graphs. After class I make it into a PDF from that and I upload it to Moodle. My philosophy is that I don’t want students to worry about getting everything down. I want them to be paying attention to

what I’m doing, but then they can always make reference to what I do later. So in my case I put everything on there,” said Gonzalez.

Additionally, Sardu puts all of the course material on Moodle as well, from notes and homework to grades. He said, “I think it’s a very useful tool for students to have everything on Moodle.”

Musella added that he gets a lot of use of out of Moodle. “It definitely makes it a lot easier to get assignments. It keeps everything sorted.”

Gonzalez makes use of technology in her environmental economics class. “I’m using this website Moblab, and it’s basically for experiments. If we’re learning about market, then I open up to the website and I set up a double market and the students participate in class on their cell phones or laptops, and then I can show them how demand and supply look like from their answers,” said Gonzalez. She believes that students can really learn from this exercise. Compared to prior years, Gonzalez performed the same activity with a deck of playing cards and found that the online exercise is much better.

The use of technology has had an effect on the way students learn and study course materials. Developments in technology have created new ways for teachers and students to interact and get more out of learning through better exercises and new ways of getting information.

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A Photo Finish: Student Photographers of the Marketing and Communication Department Gillian Puma Staff Writer

The Marketing and Communication Department plays a very important role in promoting Manhattan College. The department provides services that include branding and marketing, news and media relations, multimedia and website, publications, creative services and special events.

“Marketing and Communication encompases a lot of different things,” Christine Loughran, assistant director of web communications said.

Loughran mentioned that the department is also in charge of the press releases as well as the format of the school’s website.

“We create M, the alumnae magazine as well,” she said.

The department also gives students the opportunity to participate in promoting the school.

“There’s interest, and it depends on the needs of each student worker that we work with in our department. We have all different kinds of majors here which is nice. We’ve had education majors, we’ve had business students, we’ve had communications majors as well. What’s nice about marketing and communications is that it lends itself to a lot of different things and we’ve been extremely lucky to have students from all academic disciplines,” Loughran said, praising the help she’s gotten from the student workers.

Laura Meoli Ferrigon, the senior digital media producer, has had the opportunity to work with these students oneon-one.

“Since I started here in March 2018, I have had the pleasure to work with Harriet Carino, Sara Milano and Anna Maria Calma- our student photographers,” she said. “Not only are they extremely talented with an eye for photography, but I can tell from their openness to feedback and critique that they will no doubt go very far in their careers. As senior digital media producer, I manage the photography and video content for our department.

With so many amazing events and great things happening in the MC community each day, our student photographers are vital to our department being able to share all of this.”

Ferrigon also said how important it is to use professional cameras.

“Today, everyone thinks they’re a photographer just because of the amazing technology we all have in our pocket (a smartphone). This is not the case. An expensive camera or a fancy lens does not make a good photographer. It is what you do with that camera that proves your talent. Even more important than the final image is the impression you leave on a room. A good photographer can blend in and make everyone in the room feel comfortable- and that is vital when trying to capture a real moment in time,” she said.

Anna Calma graduated as a marketing major and a CIS minor in May 2018. She currently attends Manhattan College as an MBA student for general business. Calma uses a Canon Rebel T5 and learned about settings and lighting using this camera.

“My father has always been into it as a hobby, and I grew

A samba dancer at the Latino Heritage Month Opening Dinner.

HARRIET CARINO/COURTESY

Manhattan College’s women’s volleyball team at the Friends for Karen fundraiser.

SARA MILANO/COURTESY up watching him take pictures all the time at ever event. He wanted everything to be documented. So I guess I’ve always been around photography and developed an interest at a young age,” Calma’s person experience with photography was cultivated over time.

“My first experience with photography was in the fourth grade when I entered into a photography competition and actually won. When we first got a digital camera, I would bring it with me everywhere wanting to take pictures of me and my friends or anything important to a sixth grader. My friends and I would have this competition and take a picture each of the same subject and then ask someone to pick their favorite between the two but not tell them who took which.”

Calma said that Springfest is always her favorite event to shoot. She also stated she likes to get shots of students inter-

acting with each other and having fun.

Sara Milano is an art history major with a minor in digital media arts. She shoots with a Nikon D750 with a 24120 millimeter lens.

“I gained an interest in photography when I received my first camera (a digital Polaroid point and shoot) for my eighth birthday. Before that, I had been doing art since I was five years old. Photography became a real passion of mine when I was finally able to start taking classes in high school,” Milano said.

One of her favorite events Milano shot was the Volleyball fundraiser game for Friends of Karen.

“This organization collaborated with the Manhattan College Volleyball team to raise money. One girl on the team, her family was helped by this organization because her younger sister was sick. They also invited another family who

was helped by this organization to come to this event. It was a fun event and really demonstrated the amazing community we have here at Manhattan College,” she said.

Harriet Carino is a communication major with a digital media minor. She currently shoots with a Canon T6.

However, she has stated her desire to have another camera with better quality.

“I’ve always had an interest for photography but never really took it seriously until my freshman year in college,” Carino said. She said her favorite event to take pictures at was the Latino Dinner because of the performance and the food giving off beautiful colors.

These student photographers are very important to the Marketing and Communications Department. Without them, the school wouldn’t be able to tell their stories through the photos these girls have taken.

Senior Anna Occhino performing at Quadchella.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

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AR and VR: An Inside Look Alex Nieves Contributor

Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR and AR) have become two wildly popular terms used today, but they leave several puzzled, as they both are very confusing terms. What’s the difference between the two?

Why are they so popular? How can VR/AR be used today in more ways than just fancy video games? What makes them really different?

VR is a term used to describe a way to put people in a completely virtual space of direct interaction, while AR is where someone can still see the world around him or her, but a program changes how things can appear and work.

For instance, a user can see their hands and desk, but there are some alterations.

The user can press buttons or just pull out a tab. This breakthrough program allows us to do several tasks like displaying notifications, telling the news, showing a planner, turning on lights, etc. This is one of the many uses for AR: we can upgrade the world around us to be more useful or productive.

This technology exists right now and Ar video games can be downloaded on the app store.

All of these AR concepts sound great, but they can seem complicated, expensive or they are difficult to obtain. But people have already been utilizing AR concepts almost every day?

For example, Snapchat has been using AR capabilities for years now with their dynamic filters. A phone’s camera can detect a human face and can augment what is happening and put whatever it wants on someone’s face, like dog ears and nose, or even turn someone’s face into a piece of toast!

The back-facing camera can also be used to have someone’s Bitmoji dance on the floor in front of them.

Virtual Reality (VR), however, is one of the fastest growing tech markets today. There are some issues with VR that AR does not need to endure, such as a required headset with screens on the inside, complicated controls and more computer processing power. These items add up and make VR also, on average, much more expensive than AR. VR headsets can be very light, like Google Cardboard or can be relatively heavy, like the HTC Vive Headset. These headsets use two HD screens that completely visually envelop the user in a virtual world.

Google Cardboard, a simple

VR headset that uses a smartphone as the screen, can cost as little as $6. Purchasing an HTC Vive setup, though, can cost as much as $500. A full PC that is recommended to support high-quality VR experiences from the Oculus Rift website can cost an extra $800-$2000.

What is the difference between all these systems?

Google Cardboard can let a user look around in a virtual world and use one button to perform any pre-programmed function, while the HTC Vive/ Oculus Rift can not only provide a virtual world and let the user look around, but also pick up and handle objects and physically walk/crouch in the virtual world. This allows VR to have many different experiences, from walking the streets of Venice to flying through a scaled-down solar system, touching and playing with the planets themselves.

An interesting concept of VR is the psychological aspects of “full immersion.” When a user’s body is in a completely virtual world with surroundsound, the body can be tricked into thinking it is actually experiencing the virtual world it is in. Newcomers to the VR scene are prone to falling or becoming disorientated in certain experiences. A person may

try and lean on a virtual table but will fall forward. Another person may feel temporarily disoriented when their virtual character moves when their physical body is not.

The discrepancies between the virtual and physical world present a tough problem for developers -- how do we create an immersive experience without disturbing the user? Destin from Smarter Every Day has an amazing VR series, showcasing some ways startup companies are changing the game.

One company called Haptx has successfully made Virtual Reality Haptic Gloves. Destin best describes them as “ that will not only be able to allow users to feel objects that you touch but can also use breakthrough technology to allow users to physically pick up virtual objects. When a user pick up a rock, his or her fingers will feel the surface of the object and will feel the resistance of the surface, so the user’s fingers can contort around the virtual object.

So what do MC students and faculty have to say about AR and VR? “AR is pretty much the next big thing, because you’re adding stuff that wasn’t there before. It’s amazing, especially for work productivity.” said Luis

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Salazar, the graduate assistant for the networking group at MC’s Information Technology Services. “If you want to build live 3D models of buildings, you can create virtual walkthroughs. VR has more practical uses, though. If you want to simulate flying a plane, the full simulation is great!”

He continued.

“Though the tech now is sometimes wonky, it’s amazing for the future of video games! It sucks that the tech is expensive now, so I think some people won’t see the use for this just yet, but wait,” Salazar said.

Senior computer engineering major Christopher Dubois, however, had a different take on the matter. He owns two VR devices, including the PlayStation VR and the Oculus Rift, but does not use either too often.

“I feel like the technology is cool, it’s fun, but it feels weird to have some headset strapped to your head; you can’t see reality, really. I’m not super comfortable using it yet, I guess, but the technology has come a long way since its start,” Dubois said.

He continued.

“The next generation of VR will definitely be the definitive version of it, especially when they fix a lot of the aesthetic problems with it,” he said.

THIS WEEK IN PHOTOS

Photos Compiled by Brian Asare and Taylor Brethauer.

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Students Utilize Photography in Class Brian Asare Staff Writer

Manhattan College has a photography class that is equipped with state of the art technology which helps individuals convert their creative thoughts into a reality. These tech devices consist of cameras, camera accessories such as light meters and flashlights, Macbooks and many more.

The art of taking pictures and processing was quite complicated a few years ago than what it seems today. It involved taking the picture with the right amount of light, ideal focal length to give a nice soft background blur and to make sure whatever is being taking of is within the right focal range.

All these things could be achieved manually but it also required a crazy amount of skill, as well as speed, to get the right shot. But because of the introduction of newer and advanced technologies, these are issues of the past.

Faster and smarter devices used for capturing pictures have been developed by many manufacturers that strive to make the photographers work much easier. These devices are equipped which lots of devices that automate the tasks that were once man manual to allow

the photographer focus mainly on getting the perfect shot rather than adjusting setting.

The Digital Photography program at MC focuses on the creation of original digital prints through the usage of sophisticated software and hardware. Instruction in software and professional-grade printers that facilitate the creation of digital prints are also included in the program.

Most students who are enrolled in this class do not only commend the professor for his great work in teaching but also are grateful to have the technology to do want they want Emely Batista, a student in the digital photography class, said, “We are learning much about Photoshop, and the professor has been really helpful with that. But the printers are one of the most important things in this class, apart from the cameras. I get to present my work from a bigger picture, and fully express the real meaning of my photography through the prints. The fact that the school gives us the flexibility to print outside of class has also been a major contribution, and me in particular, I’m very thankful for that.”

She continued.

“With cameras you can capture anything in any single moment in life. For me, taking

photographs is actually something that takes time, and by this I mean taking the right picture. It is all combine with moods and emotions, and what do you feel should be best to show the viewer in that moment. When I am photographing I forget about everything else and I only focus in where I am right there. It has impacted my life in the most positive way, and it has contributed in me a strong passion towards it.”

Ahgia Marisa Washington is also enrolled in the digital photography class.

“We use a Nikon D3200 and it’s usual, even though it’s not super fancy. Many people use Canons and the pictures look incredible, but I believe that you can make any photo look great. However, there are many “devices” apart from the camera that I’ve found that allows me to express myself because that’s all that we work with and photoshop,” Washington said.

She continued.

“I learned from the class and the various forms of photography is that nothing has to be too serious and that you can make a bad picture look good.

With the right settings, lighting, and subject, anything can look great.”

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Digital Media Art Program Prepares Students for 21st Century Jobs Rose Brennan A&E Editor

Manhattan College is eager to prepare its students for a 21st century job market.

One of the college’s minor programs, digital media art, is helping students and professors do just that.

The digital media art minor entails several different aspects, including mastery of Adobe Creative Suite and a series of electives such as digital drawing, digital painting and digital photography.

One of the students in the digital media art program is senior communication major Amanda Alfredson. Alfredson was particularly interested in the digital media art program due to her advertising concentration, though her interests had fluctuated throughout her time at MC. “I came to the school as an education major, and then I switched to marketing, and then I switched to [communication] because I really wanted to do advertising, and I was really interested in the creative aspect of it,” she said.

In the classes Alfredson has taken thus far, she has par-

ticularly enjoyed photo editing and designing logos.

“I liked creating the logo a lot. I did it for my internship and my internship’s a small company and … the company was for senior care, and for some reason, her acronym was ‘SMASH,’ so it was very aggressive. I really struggled with doing that, but it was a lot of fun,” she said.

Senior communication major Angelica Delgado chose to double minor in digital media art and Chinese. Delgado had always been somewhat interested in creating art, and learned about the digital media art minor in her junior year.

“I’ve always been the type of person who loves drawing in the side of my notebooks or drawing cartoons and all that,” she said. “I was always interested in learning how to draw with the computer … and I’m also a broadcasting [concentrator] so I love video editing and audio editing and all of that. And I heard about the minor, and I was like, ‘this is what I always wanted to learn, plus what I’m learning right now,’ so it’s a win-win situation.”

Delgado has especially enjoyed using digital programs to edit and improve drawings she

has done. “[I like] learning how you can draw something by hand and make it computerized and [perfect] it in some way through the computer,” Delgado said. “Like I said, I always wanted to see how my drawings would look a little bit better, not only drawing them by hand, and with the digital [media art] minor, I learned how to use PhotoShop and Illustrator, which is my favorite out of all the Adobe software programs, and it’s just so wonderful to have the opportunity to learn how to create content through the computer and perfect your art.”

The digital media art minor has provided several students with valuable, marketable skills for a 21st century job market. Stephanie Zmuda ‘18 is an alumna of the program and now works as a professional art director.

“The classes that I took helped me build a portfolio and land the job that I have now right out of college, which is fantastic!” Zmuda said. “I am so happy that I get to do what I love every day.”

Along with her digital media art minor, Zmuda majored in communication with a con-

centration in public relations when she was a student at MC. She especially remembers her digital painting class, which she classifies as her favorite.

“I enjoyed the three hour working periods; it was so relaxing and exactly what I needed,” she said. “I enjoyed learning how to use Corel Painter, which is a program outside of the Adobe Creative Suite, which in turn has made me a more rounded artist,” During her time at MC, Zmuda launched “Selfied by Steph,” a platform for her to share digital paintings she created herself. Most of the paintings are recreations of photographs which are submitted to her Instagram account.

“I launched Selfied by Steph after drawing my friends for fun and wanting a platform to share it on,” she said. “Overall, I think that my quality of work has improved from the digital art classes that I took at Manhattan College.”

As Alfredson and Delgado are seniors, they will be entering the job market soon. Both students believe the skills that they learned in the digital media art minor will assist in the process of finding jobs.

“I definitely want to go into

“Mona Lisa’s Smize” SELFIED BY STEPH / COURTESY … advertising, so pretty much anything I’m going to be learning can easily be used towards what I want to do,” Alfredson said.

Delgado, however, is concentrating in broadcasting, but also believes that she can apply the skills she has learned in her field.

“I learned how to use Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro. Here they show us how to use Avid, so now I know three softwares I can use in the future. I had the opportunity to learn all of them. And with graphic design and PhotoShop and all of that, I’m sure that the opportunity will come where I can use it career-wise, and I look forward to that,” she said.

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Kate Sexton and Elyse Holmes: Two Rowers Who Are Keeping Up With The Times JASPERS TALK Nicole Rodriguez & Maria Thomas Staff Writers

Modern developments in the technology world have revolutionized sports, and women’s rowing at Manhattan College is no exception. The Quadrangle spoke to Junior Kate Sexton and Freshman Elyse Holmes to determine just how much influence technology has had on rowing.

The Quadrangle: When did you start rowing?

Elyse Holmes: I started rowing my freshman year of high school.

Kate Sexton: I’ve only been rowing for three years. I was a walk-on my freshman year of college.

TQ: Are there any apps you use on your phone that help you manage your fitness or nutrition?

KS: I use my Garmin app on my Garmin watch. On the Garmin app, you can track all the meters and courses you row. It gives you a map. With that, it also gives your heart rate and how many calories you burn.

TQ: When did you start using the Garmin watch?

KS: I got it for Christmas last winter because my coach was talking about how top schools use heart rate monitors. I really wanted to start tracking my fitness more, my heart rate, and just gather all that data together to analyze after a workout.

TQ: Break down for me what the app does for you.

KS: On the watch there’s a bunch of different sports or exercises you can choose. I’ll choose the rowing gidget and hit start when I start rowing. It will track your 500-meter pace, your stroke rate, how many meters you rowed and your calories. Once you finish your workout, you press stop. It will upload onto the app where you can track your course on the map. It tracks your location and lays out the course you rowed.

It’s for daily life and fitness. It’ll track your steps and heart rate all day as well as your sleep if you wear it at night. It’ll lay this

all out on the app. Everyday you can follow that information and all the workouts you did. It just puts it out nicely. It’ll track your active calories that you burn and your resting calories.

TQ: How do you use the ergometer for rowing?

KS: We use the ergometer whenever we’re not in the water; predominantly in the winter season. We do pieces on those. It simulates a rowing trip. There’s a screen and for whatever piece you’re doing it’ll countdown how many meters you have left, your average slips per 500 meters, your stroke rating, how many watts you’re pulling for each stroke, and how many calories you’re burning for each stroke.

There’s also a setting where you can set a display and it will show your power curve.

It’s laying out the most powerful part of your stroke. Ideally, you want a perfect curve and it’ll show you when you are not hitting that. It’s an interactive graph for each stroke which I really like to use to see how I’m applying power.

TQ: What do you think are the benefits and challenges of using the ergometer?

EH: It’s hard work, but that’s just the nature of the sport. Because you’re not directly connected to water when using the ergometer and you don’t have an oar, it cuts out the technique that you get when you’re in the water. You can’t be super exact with your movements. It’s very straightforward. The benefits are definitely all the data you get per stroke. You get direct feedback every stroke. You get to adjust your power and see how hard you’re pulling.

KS: The challenges and the benefits go hand in hand. It’s just straight fitness with your incrimations, your numbers, laid out right in front of your face to see. You can tell and everyone else can tell when you take an off stroke. You can see when you’re not trying your hardest which can be very frustrating. Some days you just feel like you don’t want to pull and no matter how hard you pull, you’re not getting better. That’s also the good thing about it because it shows you that you

Junior Kate Sexton (LEFT) and freshman Elysa Holmes (RIGHT) are members of the women’s rowing team.

GOJASPERS & MANHATTAN ROWING / COURTESY need to work harder and apply more power. That’s the beauty of the sport. In the winter you can’t be on the water because it’s too cold, so the ergometer is the next best thing.

TQ: Do you see any possible technological advances that can occur in the future of rowing? Is there anything that you would like to happen in terms of technology and rowing?

EH: Every boat has speakers in it and sometimes the quality of sound that it produces isn’t necessarily the best. If a company came out with higher quality speakers to make it more clear to understand what the coxswain is saying, that would be really helpful.

KS: I’d love to see more advancement in making indoor training and indoor rowing machines as close to mimicking a stroke on the water as possible. There have been great advancements in that field, but I think they can always do more

to make it feel like you’re rowing in the water when you’re not. I hope there’s more advancements in the future.

TQ: Do you think you would still participate in rowing if we did not have the technology that we have today?

EH: Hands down absolutely. I fell in love with the sport since day one. There’s really nothing that can keep me away from it. Technology-wise it’s nice to have that available.

When I think back to vintage rowing days, they would use a megaphone to yell. They had wooden oars and wooden boats. It would be harder, but I obviously would still do it.

KS: Growing up I was a soccer player and there’s no technology in that. You just have a ball and cleats. I’m used to not having technology in my space with athletics. I think the same would apply. I really enjoy when they do silent strokes.

It’s literally just you, the wa-

ter, and your oar. You have to really use your ears and listen to who’s following. You really have to hear that you’re rowing together. That’s just oars and water. There’s no technology in that.

TQ: Are there any other advances in rowing technology that you consider important?

EH: A really big thing in rowing is a device that the coxswain uses to amplify their voice called the coxbox. It’s really key in the boat. Otherwise, your rowers can’t hear you. It comes with a microphone and speakers. What that does is give us rate and splits in the boat. With different models, it can track your course where you’re steering with GPS. It can also track how many strokes you’ve taken in a piece, record your voice and time things.

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THE QUADRANGLE | The Tech Issue

A Technological Peak Into The John “Doc” Johnson Training Center C. Garrett Keidel Asst. Sports Editor

Technology in sports medicine is always growing as doctors and scientists continue to find ways to help athletes recover better and in healthier ways. In the Manhattan College Sports Medicine department, techniques like electric stimulation therapy and the Graston technique are used to help keep athletes in the best possible environments for recovery.

At the basis of every sports medicine department are the staff members that work in order to treat athletes who are currently injured, or help with preventative treatments as well. The college’s sports medicine is committed to giving athletes the best and most advanced treatments available in the John “Doc” Johnson Training Center.

“Manhattan College employs six certified athletic trainers who work tirelessly to assist student-athletes,” reads the description of the training center on the Go Jaspers website. “While Manhattan’s athletic trainers are essential in the treatment of injuries, even greater value comes from their ability to prevent injuries and ensure that Jasper studentathletes are competing in a

safe and healthy environment...

Manhattan’s sports medicine staff is aided by a wide range of equipment for the prevention of injuries and the rehabilitation and conditioning of studentathletes.”

Student-athletes at Manhattan have a wide variety of resources and treatments available to them through the training center. The college has made a large commitment to athlete health and safety.

“We have a plethora of tools available to us,” said Associate Athletic Director of Sports Medicine and Athletic Performance, Doug Straley. “We have the availability of whirlpools, electric stimulation units, class 4 hot laser, compression units, ice, heat, Graston Technique tools, instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization, treadmills and stair climbers. With what we have we’re pretty self-sufficient.”

One of the most recent technological additions to the sports medicine arsenal is a game-ready Med4 Elite plus unit. This new machine allows for a more comprehensive and flexible treatment option for student-athletes at Manhattan College.

“It is a cold and heat compression unit that can alternate back and forth between the two,” said Straley. “In past years if anyone wanted to do any sort of contrast with heat and cold,

Doug Straley (center) working on a student-athlete in the John “Doc” Johnson Training Center GO JASPERS / COURTESY they would have to get into the baths and do it. But now we have the ability to put someone in zip up boots from their toes up to their hips and put them on this unit for 20 minutes. It can alternate between 110 degrees and 41 degrees back and forth about every 20 seconds.”

Electric Stimulation Therapy and the Graston technique are methods also used by the sports medicine staff at Manhattan. Electric Stimulation Therapy can be used to help with pain moderation in patients as well as having some benefits in patients who are postoperative, preventing strength loss.

“The Graston Technique is what we call instrument-assisted manual therapy,” said Simon Jiries, a graduate assistant in the sports medicine depart-

ment. “The way that works is the tools have bevels in them, and they help with getting leverage. They begin to cause what’s called micro damage to the area. Basically what that does it help get blood flow to the area and that’s what allows for injuries to heal.”

Technology in sports medicine continues to grow every day. The college continues to search for new ways to help athletes get what they need, and educate those in the training center on how to use updated techniques and technologies as they are introduced.

“I see it on a yearly basis when we go to our convention,” said Straley. “We go to our trade show and see all the updated pieces of equipment they’re selling. I think engineering, science and technology is taking a

huge step in sports medicine.

I’ve seen a lot of that change in the last 25 years since I began in this profession. The human body heals differently from person to person, and the process of healing can be different as well. The use of the advanced technologies in the training center aren’t necessarily an attempt at healing faster, but rather an attempt to place the body in the best environment to have the greatest effect on the healing process as a whole,” he said.

He continued.

“One thing that the college has always done for us is that if there is a new form of a modality that we can use, they’ve always been very helpful and aggressive in getting us the funds to keep us on the cutting edge,” said Straley.

The Technology of the Fitness Center

Catherine Goodyear Social Media Editor

Technology improves our lives on a daily basis and changed the way we look at fitness and health. The Fitness Center in the Kelly Commons has been continuously improving and updating their equipment, including adding technologically advanced and digital machines to assist the way students train.

Francesca Iorio, a 2018 accounting graduate and current MBA graduate assistant in the fitness center helps overlook the introduction and transition of new machines and equipment.

“Two new forms of technologies that were added to the Fitness Center this summer were the two new stairmasters and two new rowing machines,” said Iorio. “With the stairmaster machines, the students can isolate their legs while doing a form of cardio. These machines are used very often and have different levels that students can adjust for their comfort on the machine. With the new rowing machines, this is another new source of cardio equipment for the system. This machine does not isolate any body part, as you will use your entire body to activate this machine.”

Students can also take advantage of treadmills and ellipticals with monitors to help them decide what type of workout is best for them like muscle building or weight loss workouts. These interactive screens allow you to customize your workouts or let you choose a pre-customized workout while keeping track of your progress through your Manhattan College account.

“Our cardio equipment system is constantly updated and students have the abilities to watch live TV, Netflix, Hulu, and others,” said Iorio. “Students can also choose specific workouts on the basis of what type of workout and how they would like to isolate a certain portion of their body. Other technologies that have been involved in the system since we have opened the center, is that each cardio machine tracks your time, distance, speed, incline, and heart rate while on the equipment.”

The Fitness Center is also equipped with a digital scanner for your Manhattan College ID along with student workers who ensure the center’s rules and guidelines are being followed for user’s safety. Madison Jennings, a fitness/desk attendant in the Fitness Center, is graduating in 2019 with a degree in Exercise Science.

“Having the technological

advances that we do makes it easier for people to track their progress exactly,” said Jennings. “If you know how much weight you are trying to lose, or a certain heart rate that you’re trying to reach, there are certain calculations you can make to know how to plan out your workouts. Being able to access this technology instantly has allowed people to hone in on their workouts and get more exact results that their looking for.”

The fitness/desk attendants know a wide variety of knowledge about the equipment in the gym and are there to assist students in workouts when needed. They are also expected to refill sweat towels in the locker rooms and at the front of the gym, clean and put back equipment, empty the dirty towel bins into the laundry at the end of the night and re-rack the weights. Christina Brancato, a senior communication major, is also a fitness/ desk attendant in the center.

“The new technology allows users to select different workouts tailored to their fitness goals,” Brancato said.

“For example: weight loss, fat burn, and ‘get fit’ are just a few of the many cardio workout options. In terms of heart rate, a ‘target heart rate’ is based on an individual’s age, weight and level of fitness. There are dif-

ferent targeted heart rates for different levels of activity. For example, the target heart rate for fat burning zone is different from the maximum cardio zone. This information is useful for defining fitness goals, and working toward a given heart rate in order to maximize fitness goals.”

Brancato utilizes the fitness center herself, specifically the timer and calorie counter, which are some of the more common tools students tend to use to individualize their workouts.

“What works for me in terms of workouts, heart rates, and diet differs from the next person, which is why fitness technology is useful and important resource for those interested,” said Brancato. “Being able to track one’s fitness through tailored personalized information gives insight to a variety of fitness factors that can be crucial for maximizing fitness goals. For me personally, I like to know how long I’ve worked out, how far I’ve gone and how many calories I’ve burned based on my age, height and weight. This information is crucial in reaching my personal fitness goals. Without it, I would be blind to how far and how hard I have pushed my body in achieving my goals.”

Senior Cindy Pham, an Exercise Science Pre-Physical

Therapy major, is also a fitness/desk attendant who also teaches a group exercise class.

Her class involves intensity training for students who are intimidated to go to the gym and would prefer group instructions or who are looking for a fun class to change up the way they work out.

“Our advantage is that we will be able to train smarter than our grandparents who may have trained harder,” said Pham. “With added technology, it just makes it more convenient than going outside for a run during bad weather. If it’s raining outside, it may be safer and more comfortable to go to the gym and work out with the technology that mimics a run outside. Also, it works out different aspects of health and not just cardiovascular endurance compared to a run outside. Adding the technology can change the direction of intensity, which then changes the system that is being targeted such as anaerobic conditioning or HIIT.” Jennings defined fitness technology as any use of technology to make working out easier, more accessible and more fun. Using added technology can help keep people who get easily distracted more focused. If you can see on a screen exactly where your workout is going, you will be more motivated to work harder.

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Student Government Assembly Discusses Minimum Wage, the Mold Situation and Gourmet Dining at Fourth Meeting Taylor Brethauer Editor-in-Chief

Student Government had multiple announcements and points of discussion, including important updates for several committees, at this week’s assembly meeting held on Wednesday, Oct. 17 at noon in Kelly 4B. Minimum Wage Discussion Vice President of Residential Affairs Isabel Quinones spoke briefly about the Resident Student Association (RSA) dorm hall visits that have been happening across campus within the previous weeks. She said they have been successful in generating new ideas and creating a list of concerns from students.

She then proceeded to talking about the recent College Senate meeting and an important topic of discussion at the recent meeting on the minimum wage resolution accepted last year.

“Students are having the issue with the minimum wage going up. Some students are having their hours cut or their financial aid is running out so they aren’t allowed to work next semester,” said Quinones.

It’s a case by case problem, she mentioned, especially due to the separate federal work study aid some students have received or the general oncampus employment.

Senior Liam Moran, who is the Speaker of the Senate, and was also a part of the committee who drafted and originally presented the resolution last year, made a few comments during the assembly about this recent problem.

“We were focusing on fair working wages on campus because we were already going bare minimum at federal level [due to state laws for private colleges...]. That was an injustice on campus and it was essentially important to our Lasallian values so we addressed it through the guides of ‘let’s get a working wage.’ It was presented that such budgets would run out faster and we could only go so far that the minimum wages go up but not the budgets going up, that would be an administrative and board of trustees discussion.

We should probably look into that,” said Moran.

He mentioned that this need came from multiple student testimonies, including one made by a friend.

“Her money at that wage

The Assembly discussed mold problems in the residence halls, like the Horan Hall ceiling pictured here. JOSEPH LIGGIO / THE QUADRANGLE.

Members of last year’s student government executive board at a kNOw More event last fall. KAIYUN CHEN / THE QUADRANGLE. couldn’t even cover the interest on her student loans,” said Moran.

With the arising issues of budgets running out and students losing the opportunity for employment, Quinones said students are planning to group together to discuss further.

Kerry Cavanagh, vice president of academic affairs, encouraged class vice presidents and school representatives to bring this information up to their constituents.

If any students are facing similar issues, they are encouraged to reach out to Student Government to allow their voices to be heard.

Resident Hall Updates As recently reported on in The Quadrangle, multiple rooms in Horan Hall have been affected by mold, causing students to be temporarily relocated. This issue was also brought up during the Senate meeting.

“Dr. Satterlee talked about how there aren’t just cases in Horan but also Lee and some in

OV [Overlook Manor] so it is going a little more widespread.

They are doing some tests on it and they’re having an outside contractor coming in to talk about it. It is now not just facilities looking into this but they have people that are qualified for this,” said Quinones.

She continued.

“This is all for the health and safety of the students and they’re being very proactive about all of this. They’re saying [the mold] probably stemmed from the hot and humid summer we just had.”

She mentioned Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, N.Y., who also had a similar problem which caused an entire dorm to shutdown, relocating multiple students to a nearby hotel.

Andrew Ryan, vice president of facilities, spoke about the testing in the dorms.

“Andrew Ryan talked about the testing they’re doing on the air quality in all of the rooms that were affected and they’re doing spot testing of all the buildings. He said the main cat-

egories are prior water leakage, typical bathroom stuff and then the air conditioner units,” said Quinones.

The topic of the wasps nest, which was once located outside of Overlook Manor at the beginning of the semester, was then brought up.

The nest is now located on the walk from Overlook to the main campus.

“I talked to AJ [Goodman] about it. It’s not on school property so we can’t do anything about it. So they contacted 311 [...] they did all that they can do. So now it’s a New York City problem,” said Quinones.

Food Ser vice Committee Announcements Heading up the FSC is Fatoumata Saho, who was elected at the first assembly meeting of the semester.

The previous FSC meeting brought about many new ideas such as events and specific times and dates for when Locke’s Loft will let commuter students in for free. The next

day for this will be on Oct. 31 and there will also be a costume contest.

The committee also discussed a cooking contest to be held in Cafe 1853 during the month of November, but more details will be discussed at the next meeting.

FSC’s next meeting is planned for Oct. 26, with time and place to be announced.

“Our next meeting we will discussing more event ideas and brainstorm our mission statement,” said Saho. She also encouraged more people to join the committee.

The assembly also spoke about the Boxed Meal form, which Gourmet Dining plans to do more publicizing about in the coming weeks.

Boxed Meal can be found on the MC Glance app by searching “Locke’s Boxed Meal Request.” Students are able to request a boxed lunch with four hours notice Monday through Thursday and a 24 hours notice on weekends.

A set menu is provided, allowing students to choose one meal option including breakfast, rotisserie, pizza, wok, veggie, salad or sandwich.

Once a student orders, they are blocked from Locke’s for the meal period. They can pick up their boxed meal at the back entrance of Locke’s at the register.

This form, along with an app planned for the future that shows students what’s on the menu in the dining hall, is in the works via Gourmet Dining.

Saho plans to announce more information as she receives it through Nick Valinotti, the new resident district manager of Gourmet Dining.

Miscellaneous Many events are planned for the coming weeks, including another “kNOw more” campaign centered on domestic violence awareness. The campaign and tabling event was started by last year’s vice president of academic affairs, Kaitlyn Von Runnen.

The Cooper administration also plans to “bridge the gap”, as they campaigned about last spring, between athletics and students. They will be advertising and co-sponsoring sporting events throughout the year.

More announcements about this partnership will be made at future meetings.

The minutes were accepted soon after and the meeting was adjourned.

The next assembly meeting will be on Wednesday, Oct. 31 at noon in Kelly 4B.

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Women and Gender Resource Center Ribbon-Cutting

Taylor Brethauer & Samantha Walla Editor in Chief & Production Editor

The Women and Gender Resource Center opened its doors with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 12 p.m. in Kelly Commons 3C on Friday, Oct. 19. The entirety of Friday consisted of events hosted and sponsored by the new center.

The events of the day included a Keynote delivered by Kerry Brodie of Emma’s Torch and Student Sessions.

The student sessions were hosted by the Women Inspiring Successful Enterprise program (W.I.S.E.) of the Office of Career Pathways, along with a presentation on “The White Feminist Fantasy: WoC, Resistance, and the Academy.”

The latter was presented by students Nafisa Ibrahim, Gabriella Ramirez, Katherine Rojas, Evaniz Orellana and Roksana Badruddoja, associate professor of sociology and co-coordinator of the Center.

These were followed by the opening remarks which preceded the ribbon-cutting. “[This is] a student-centered initiative ... fueled by student need, student interests

and student desires to have access to these kinds of resources and this kind of support and this kind of forum,” said President Brennan O’Donnell to the packed crowd in Kelly 5B. “At its best, deep in the charism of Lasallian values is a restless spirit of innovation … how can we do what we do better?” said O’Donnell.

O’Donnell then invited up the other co-coordinator of the Center, Jordan Pascoe, associate professor of philosophy, to provide more opening remarks.

Pascoe spoke about the journey the Center took from its very beginnings two years ago to that day’s grand opening. Students had questions about how to help out underrepresented groups on campus, along with providing specific resources to those groups.

“Together these students brought their questions to the administration ... it has brought us here today,” said Jordan Pascoe.

She also spoke about where the Lasallian values come into play within the Center, seeing the values as both a tool for feminism and how badly the values need feminism.

“Intersectional feminism led by women of color is really an instantiation of Lasallian val-

Formerly a study room, Kelly Commons room 3.06 is where the newly created resource center is based.

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(Picture left to right) Samantha Monfils, Roksana Badruddoja, Jordan Pascoe, Jo-Ann Mulooly and Reilly Rebhahn are some of the women involved in the creation of this resource center.

TAYLOR BRETHAUER/THE QUADRANGLE ues,” said Pascoe.

She then welcomed up Badruddoja to the podium, who spoke about her area of study that focuses on gender-based violence and marginalized groups and how the Center will benefit multiple groups across campus and provide services and resources to many students.

“The Lasallian Women and Gender Resource Center is committed to being a service to those being the most marginalized,” said Badruddoja.

After the remarks, the crowd was invited down to witness the official ribbon cutting in Kelly 3C. Lining the entirety of the third floor hallway, students, faculty and staff cheered and applauded as Badruddoja and Pascoe, assisted by student workers Samantha Monfils and Reilly Rebhahn, cut the ribbon.

Students sat in the space, which was once a student study room within the building, commenting on the interior design, provided by a student committee, multiple books available for reading and the LGBTQ flags wrapped around the column in the room.

Ultimately, the space has a warm and welcome feeling, which was exactly what the staff of the Center was going for when transforming the study room into something beautiful.

Following the ribbon cutting were two panels lead by students and faculty to extend the conversation about the value of having a Women and Gender Center on campus.

Melissa Samanoglu and Lilybeth Delgado, both W.I.S.E. interns, opened the discussion with a presentation on imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome often felt by women, who feel that their accomplishments are due to luck and that they will be exposed as a “fraud.” As Pascoe explained, its the struggle to be

accepted on someone else’s terms.

“It’s not you, it’s the system,” said Pascoe. “Imposter syndrome is a problem in the system. If you’re feeling that you don’t belong, it’s not because you don’t belong, it’s because the system is designed that way.”

By bringing topics like these to the forefront of discussions, the Center can be a place for those marginalized groups to feel comfortable in a way that they are unable to in their daily lives.

“I think it’s important because when you hear about something that other people are feeling and you realize that you’re not alone,” said Samanoglu, a junior psychology major.

“When you don’t hear other people’s opinions you think that you’re the only one who feels this way but when there’s a whole talk about it then you’re clearly not alone, I feel like it lessens the evil of it.”

The second panel expanded on the question: “Why Women at Manhattan College?” with a focus on the importance of building a women’s center on campus.

“We are the Lasallian Women and Gender Center. A big part of what that means is that our project to work on gender and on deconstructing gender as a force of power, discipline and oppression,” said Pascoe.

“The work of gender and the burden of gender is disproportionately placed on the shoulders of women as well as queer, LGBTQ, really anyone who’s not male… As long as gender continues to be women’s problem, and queer students’ problem, and trans students’ problem, we are the Lasallian Women and Gender Center.”

Natalia Imperatori-Lee, a religious studies professor, highlighted the role of the Lasallian

tradition in the Center’s work.

“What was revolutionary about La Salle’s educational philosophy is that his whole point was to educate those who were the most vulnerable and the most overlooked,” said Imperatori-Lee. “It only makes sense then that populations that are the most vulnerable and the most overlooked be highlighted in a Lasallian setting.

She continued.

“The Women and Gender Resource Center is a response just like La Salle’s response to seeing boys who were not of the bourgeois class uneducated and suffering in the street.

His response was not ‘let me educate the upper class so that they will be nicer to the poor children.’ His response was ‘I will teach in the vernacular and reach these children where they are so that they can change the world, not so that change can trickle down from the people in power.”

Pascoe also noted that at the beginning of the Center’s development, a reading group was formed in which women faculty and students studied La Salle’s foundational texts. From this reading panel arose the focus that de La Salle put on the body, which lead to a physical space being important in the development of the Center. “[The Center will be] a place where we can come as bodies and be comfortable and together in solidarity and by association, and to think about what it means to inhabit our bodies: our gender, our race, as sites of possibility, promise, and healing,” said Pascoe.

The Lasallian Women and Gender Resource Center is staffed Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Friday 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Kelly Commons 3C.

OCTOBER 23, 2018

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Students Host First Ever “Jasperburg” to Raise Money for Hurricane Relief A QUADRANGLE PHOTO STORY

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“I think this event was really successful. [All of the food] was donated so whatever we made was for our profit,” said vice president of commuter affairs, Anna Rosario. All proceeds went towards the University of North Carolina Wilmington in Wilmington, N.C., which was damaged by the recent hurricanes in their area at the start of the semester.

“I feel like it was a good way the community to come together [...] to raise money for this university that was in need.”

Student Government raised over $900 by the end of the week.

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Photos Compiled by Taylor Brethauer.

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Players’ Annual Murder Mystery Returns with “A Family Reunion to Die For” Lauren Schuster Asst. Features Editor

Mimes, murders and squirrel hunting sisters were only a few of the wacky elements of this year’s Player’s murder mystery show, “A Family Reunion to Die For” by Matt and Mike Steele.

The show centers around Freddie Franklin, played by junior Peter Martino, and his wife Christine, played by senior Michelle Lapreay. As the couple attends Christine’s family reunion, it turns out to be anything but what they expected.

By the end of the show, three of Christine’s family members are dead and Freddie manages to successfully play detective to reveal the killerwith a little help from beyond the grave, that is.

“My favorite thing about my character is how big of an idiot he is,” Martino said. “It’s a lot of fun to play someone who’s just a man-child.”

Martino’s character is largely driven by his wife, and in many instances, she dictates his actions and disciplines him like a mother would a child.

“My favorite part about my character is that she’s really here to take control, but behind her husband a bit, controlling

him from behind, and I think that’s really funny,” Lapreay said.

Christine’s aunt Gretchen, played by Clare Farrelly, is the first murder victim of the evening, who then returns from the dead, stopping the action of the play to guide oblivious Freddie to the right clues without him even realizing it.

“I like playing the old lady because it’s funny, and I like making people laugh,” Farrelly said. “And I love that I get to stop the whole show and make a speech.”

Unlike the Players’ mainstage productions, the annual murder mystery is always student directed. This year, the show was directed by senior Matt Peters and junior Paul Fucao, with sophomore Gabriella DePinho assistant directing.

“I would say [a student directed show] is different in that the cast has a close relationship with the directors, first of all, because we’re peers,” Fucao said. “And I want to say that we’re more open to ideas from the cast. For example in this show … we derail from the script in numerous situations.

We are going all out with the jokes [and] concepts.”

This close relationship between cast members and directors is also something that the

The Manhattan College Players put on an exclusive one night only show of Murder Mystery titled “A Family Reuinion to Die For.” The show featured unique characters who were tasked to solve the mystery of who the murderer was.

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cast values, as it creates a more relaxed rehearsal environment and allows them to add their own touches to the show.

“I like that it’s more casual,” Lapreay said. “It feels like there’s a mutual respect of the students who are directing and the students who are acting, and it’s really cool to see that a big production like this can fill up Smith Auditorium and it was a senior, a junior and a sophomore who directed it.”

As student directors, Peters and Fucao were also tasked with choosing the show over the summer. After browsing through show after show with none of them sparking his interest, Peters noticed an element of this script that instantly had him sold.

“This is a true story, I was looking, and I found a lot of crappy [scripts] and then I saw one that said ‘this has mimes in it,’ and I said ‘this is going to be funny, we’re doing that.’ I had no idea what it was about, nothing, I only picked it because it has mimes in it,” Peters said.

Fucao, who ended up playing one of the mimes in addition to directing, was sold as well. For Peters and Fucao, the show is less about delivering every line of the script as it’s written, and more about seeing what their cast can bring to each scene.

“From the casting process to the read through to tech week, it’s just a road of discovering the limits of your actors and finding that there really is

The students performing made sure to have fun while putting on the show for the community.

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no limit because everybody is so creative, and it’s a really nice feeling,” Fucao said.

Peters agreed, crediting the cast’s dedication and creativity for making the show more than he could have imagined it to be at the start.

“I will say that this is arguably the best cast that I’ve worked with and I’ve directed because we started rehearsals late, we started most nights this week at 9:30 [and] we didn’t get out until 12:30, and they came in and they stayed.

And I knew they were tired, but they just did it, and they had high energy and it was

great,” Peters said.

Ultimately, Peters and Fucao simply enjoy seeing their cast put their all into the final performance that they’ve worked so hard to reach.

“For me, the most fun part about this show is stepping back and watching them know what to do,” Peters said. “The most fun is when they are on stage and trying to just make each other laugh, because that’s what the show is all about.”

Editor’s note: Gabriella DePinho is an assistant news editor for The Quadrangle.