The Quadrangle- Issue 12, Fall 2022

Volume CV, Issue 12

December 6, 2022

The Editorial Board

Kyla Guilfoil Editor-in-Chief

Caroline McCarthy Managing Editor Jilleen Barrett Managing Editor

Lauren Raziano Copy Editor

Nicole Fitzsimmons News Editor

Zoe DeFazio Asst. Arts & Entertainment Editor

LETTER from the EDITOR

Dear Readers,

Angelina Persaud Asst. News Editor Caroline McCarthy Sports Editor

Megan LaCreta Arts & Entertainment Editor

Jilleen Barrett Features Editor

We are so excited to present our fall 2022 special issue: 100 Years in the Bronx. We hope that these stories embody the community, culture and experience that comes with being a part of Manhattan College in our neighborhood.

Angelica Niedermeyer Maddie Mulkigan Asst. Sports Editors

Rebecca Kranich Asst. Social Media Editor

Adrianne Hutto Jocelyn Visnov Production Editors

Jocelyn Visnov Lauren Raziano Web Editors

Kelly Kennedy Social Media Editor

Mars Ross Photography Editor

Karen Flores Asst. Features Editor Mack Olmsted Asst. Production Editor Nicholas Gilewicz Faculty Advisor

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 accu racy, relevancy and professionalism.

The opinions expressed in The Quadrangle are those of the individual writ er and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Editorial Board, the College or the student body.

Join The Quadrangle

The Quadrangle’s staff holds weekly open meetings on Tuesdays at 4 p.m. in Kelly Commons Room 412. All are welcome to come and join the club.

We know that while we feel like this is our space, we also share it with so many incredible businesses, organizations and people. We hope they enjoy sharing the space with us as much as we do.

Being a part of New York City, and particularly the Bronx, the MC community blends together with that of what is around us. However, we also make a unique mark, as stu dents, faculty and staff come to campus from all corners of our country and across the world.

I hope you learn something about this community, our community, from this issue. We’ve had so much fun putting it together for you!

Sincerely,

Kyla Guilfoil

The History of Student Veterans at Manhattan College

Kelly Kennedy Social Media Editor

Manhattan College has been recognized for its dedi cation to honoring and serving student veterans, ranking as a Top 10 Gold-Ranking Military Friendly School. What many don’t know is that Manhattan’s relationship with the military dates back all the way to the Civil War, before Manhattan College even found its home here in the Bronx.

Tiana Sloan, director of the Veterans Success, researched the history of student veterans at MC with a group at the col lege in 2019.

The first ever student veteran to attend Manhattan College served one year as a volunteer for the Union Army during the Civil War in 1864. At this time, Manhattan College was located at the intersection of 131 St and Broadway.

“We found a picture and the army discharge papers of the first student veteran who attended Manhattan College after serving in the Civil War. Obviously, we didn’t have a Vet Center or any of those things yet, but it was just cool that this is part of our history. I think it also shows that Manhattan’s model of Lasallian education has always worked for veterans and we’ve been able to keep building on it,” Sloan said.

During the first and sec

ond World Wars, many Man hattan College students began enlisting in the military, and patriotism grew within the cam pus community.

According to the MC Mil itary Vet History Overview, “Manhattan College did not have many financial resources at the time, so one of the main goals for surviving the war ef fort was to be used in some capacity in the war effort itself. Intramural programs designed to toughen youth for military life suddenly proliferated. The School of Engineering dealt with the majority of the pa ra-military preparations. The Manhattan College Engineers also worked with the Depart ment of Public Works in NYC to plan and test construction of bomb proof shelters.”

In September 1951, during the Korean War, the Air Force ROTC program was inaugurat ed at Manhattan College.

“During the Korean War was when we decided to allow the Air Force ROTC to come on campus. And during that time, we actually let Manhattan Col lege students vote because we had the army training program and then we had Air Force ROTC. And they let the Man hattan College students vote on which branch of service they wanted to keep and because the Air Force was new and cool, and there’s a lot of engineering opportunities in the Air Force, our students voted for the Air

Force,” Sloan said.

Many key MC alumni served in the Vietnam War. One of the most well known and remembered veterans to attend Manhattan College was Tyrone Pannell, class of 1964.

“He was absolutely beloved by everyone who knew him. To this day I run into people who even just went to high school with him, they didn’t even come to Manhattan Col lege with him,” Sloan said. “He was the first African American officer killed in action in Viet nam. And he’s a Jasper so it’s just another part of our histo ry and I’ve been really trying to get the word out more for people to know because many of our alumni from the Vietnam era know of Pannell, but I think more people need to know of his story.”

In 1973, women were final ly allowed to attend Manhattan College, some of these women even participating in the Air Force ROTC.

According to the MC Mil itary Vet History Overview, “As women began enrolling as students, both the Air Force ROTC and student veteran pop ulation saw an increase in their female population.”

After the events of Sept. 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center, most of the Veteran Programs and the patriotism we see on campus today began to pick up. In 2014, the college registered as a chapter of the national or ganization Student Veterans of America, according to the MC Military Vet History Overview.

“9/11 was a turning point for the country because, while we had these conflict errors, we hadn’t been at an official war for so long. So 9/11 real ly changed that. We lost many Manhattan College alumni that day, and then a lot more people were getting called to serve. These are people who volun teered, to give up a moment of their life, or possibly their lives to go serve our country,” Sloan said.

After 9/11, the MC student veteran population rose tre mendously. Many of our stu dent veterans on campus today served during this time period.

Sloan also emphasized the mental health of student veter ans at MC and the explicit dif ference between PTSD versus transition stress in students.

“A lot of people focus on

when they hear about veter ans, they think of PTSD. And while that is a problem, not all veterans suffer from PTSD, and what’s actually less spo ken about and more common is transition stress. All of a sudden, they’re finished their service and they come out into civilian life and they don’t have an identity. They don’t have a schedule, they don’t have a pur pose. And this causes a lot of stress in their lives,” Sloan said.

One program in particular is the Veterans at Ease pro gram, which was started in 2015. This program coincides with the Religion 161 course requirement, and includes a retreat designed especially for student veterans. This program is currently run by professor of religious studies, Rodney Se bastian, Ph.D. Prior to COVID, the retreat would take student veterans to the Bahamas, now the retreat takes place in up state New York.

“We aim to help our stu dent Veterans have a smooth transition. Our goals are very much aligned with the Lasal lian values of balancing care, education and character devel opment,” Sebastian said.

Our student veterans have also continued to give back to our community through this program, participating in events such as panels on men tal health and community ser vice.

“For veterans, a huge part of their lives involve ser vice. That’s how they’ve been trained. You need to give the op portunities to continue that ser

vice in civilian life, and through college,” Sebastian said.

The Veterans Success Cen ter opened in 2017, and has also grown tremendously as they aim to serve those who have served our country. The Veter an Success Center now also of fers professional and academic resources for student veterans.

Robert Rahni, director of transfer and veteran admis sions, spoke about the self-crit icism many student veterans face.

“They can be incredibly crit ical of themselves and it’s kind of ingrained in them. What the vets do typically is they look at what they don’t have, that de gree, that piece of paper hang ing on a wall from a college. They don’t look at what they do have, which is a skill set that less than 1% of the population can say they have through ser vice, and all of these skills can be relatable and transferable in the civilian world,” Rahni said.

MC recognizes the impor tance to not only honor, but pro vide a support system for those who have served our country.

“I think it’s an incredible model that the US gets to have an all volunteer military be cause these people stepped up and sacrificed,” Sloan said. “Even if they didn’t give their lives, they gave up a good chunk of their life and put their life on hold for us people they don’t even know. And so I love being able to give back to them and help them see their poten tial and reach their potential, because they really do go on to do amazing things.”

During World War I, students organized on campus to show support for those serving overseas. On Oct. 1, 1918, the Manhattan student body took the oath to mobilize them into the Student Army Training Corps.

VETERNS SUCCESS CENTR/ COURTESY

The first student veteran to attend MC served in the Civil War.

VETERANS SUCCESS CENTR/ COURTESY

The Cardinal Hayes 1938 Dedication and O’Malley Expansion

Lauren Raziano Copy Editor/ Web Editor

Libraries are an essential part of the Lasallian tradition at Manhattan College. Deep in the archives of the O’Malley li brary, historical records detail the transformation of these ac ademic spaces over the course of Manhattan College’s Bronx history.

In 1924, the first study space dedicated for students was located in Miguel Hall, which is currently the Cam pus Ministry and Social Justice suite. This study space could satisfy the 300 students that were at the College during 1923.

To accommodate the growing number of students reaching after World War II and with the expansion of the GI Bill, there was a need for a larg er academic space for studying and hosting student organiza tions as there were about 1,200 students in the fall of 1938.

The Cardinal Hayes Li brary was built in 1938 and was named after Cardinal Patrick Hayes, a 1888 Manhattan Col lege graduate and later Cardi nal of the Archdiocese of New York. The dedication of the Cardinal Hayes Library was on April 21, 1938, which was the Diamond Jubilee of the Grant ing of the Permanent Charter of Manhattan College.

“Now being erected at a cost of $350,000 at Manhattan College in the city of New York, through the generous gifts of the friends of His Eminence, of the Christian Brothers and of the College as Permanent Memorial of the Golden Jubilee of the Graduation of his Emi nence Patrick Cardinal Hayes D.D. Archbishop of New York from the Manhattan College class of 1888,” the dedication day pamphlet wrote.

There were three read ing room spaces in the Hayes library: the reference room which was the left wing of the main floor as one entered the building, the periodical room which occupied the right wing of the entrance floor and the reserve book room which was on the lower level or basement and included the lounge room.

The lounge room, known as the Alumni room, was a space for dances hosted by the frater nities and weekly tea dances.

Tea dances were a popular social gathering from 1940s to 1960s, inspired by the swing and jazz music movements. Published in a spring 2013 issue of Manhattan Magazine, Amy Surak, director of archives and special collections, wrote about the history of the tea dances at

Manhattan College.

“From the 1940s-1960s, tea dances became fashionable op portunities for Manhattan Men to improve their social skills by engaging with young women from nearby colleges and nurs ing schools. The dance cards of Mounties, the young wom en from the nearby College of Mount St. Vincent and co-eds from Hunter, Marymount and the College of New Rochelle, were filled by the men of the Kelly green,” Surak wrote.

Social events were held in the Alumni room in the base ment of Cardinal Hayes Li brary.

“Sponsored by the numer ous student organizations, tea dances were usually held in the Alumni Room of the Cardinal Hayes Library, under the watch ful eye of faculty and adminis tration, typically the Christian Brothers,” Surak wrote.”Once Thomas Hall opened in 1960, tea dances were by and large relocated there. A nominal fee was charged to the Jasper stale arts, while the ladies were invit ed free of charge.”

Due to the many architec tural changes to the library, some unique spaces have be come nonexistent or inacces sible. There was once a rifle range in the basement of the Cardinal Hayes Library, which provided a space for students and members of the Varsity Ri fle club to have a safe practice shooting range.

“There’s some hidden areas to the library but now a lot of them are inaccessible due to how they configured the new O’Malley library,” Surak said. “But there were lots of hidden areas and one of those was a ri fle range all the way in the base ment because AFROTC needed a place to practice. They would have to practice there and then they would go and drill and hopefully win competitions. So for years, we had a varsity ri fle club and there was no real good place for them to do that, except in this huge area at the bottom of the library.”

There were two libraries that were separate from the Cardinal Hayes Library, the engineering library, which had space for about 245 students and a small cancer research library, which had between 20 and 25 seats.

In a 1967 report from Fran cis R. St. John Library Consul tants Inc., they stated that there was a growing need to supply more spaces and appropriate facilities for students.

“The Cardinal Hayes Li brary building at Manhattan College, although only slightly over thirty years old, is out moded and expensive to oper

ate. There are roughly 3700 un dergraduate, 700 graduate and 300 night students served by this library,” the report wrote. “Toilet facilities too are totally inadequate for the number of students and staff using the building.”

There was a need for mod ern facilities such as lack of space for the growing book col lection and proper spaces for student organizations to meet.

In the conclusion the re port wrote, “The building is not only poorly planned for li brary purposes and expensive to operate but it does not offer modern facilities for a college library serving approximately 4700 students.”

A library expansion pro gram report from 1968 written by Brother Andrew, the librar ian at the time, supported this claim.

“The expansion of the book collection of the Cardinal Hayes Library will require large sums of money and additional floor space on the top floor not avail able to the library at present,” Brother Andrew wrote.

A 1971 report from the Commission on Higher Educa tion of the Middle States Asso ciation of College and Schools wrote that the library was not acting as the center of academ ic life as it should be.

“The inadequacies of the main library prevent the li brary from being the center of academic life on this campus which it should be,” the report wrote.

Acknowledging the repairs needed for the library were necessary, Manhattan College applied for the Higher Educa tion Facilities act of 1963 under Title I., grants for construction for undergraduate facilities.

A 1972 State of New YorkPNRS Letter of Intent written by Lachlan Peck wrote about the possibility of a new library building overall.

“The new library is needed in order to maintain the quality of education at Manhattan Col lege and the College’s accredi tation. The facility is intended to (1) replace an inadequate build ing which if not replaced would result in a serious educational deficiency, and (2) provide an education resources center for use mainly by the college’s un dergraduate students.”

In one of the plans, they in cluded the request of smoking lounge rooms for the library addition.

“Smoking rooms are of two types: smoking lounges where talking is permitted and smoking studies where one may study and smoke without interruption.There should be a lounge on each floor; it is suggested that these be sound

proofed and they not be carpet ed,” the plan wrote.

Ultimately, financial bur dens accompanied the college in the 70s which prohibited the green light of the expansion needed to fulfill the college’s growth. There were some ren ovations completed in 1978 which provided for additional student study spaces and a pe riodical reading room but it was still not adequate to meet the college’s needs.

Another report from the Commission on Higher Educa tion of the Middle States Asso ciation of College and Schools in 1982 wrote that the college was responsible for updating the library facilities again.

“A feasibility study of an extensive renovation and ex pansion of the Hayes Library is needed in some urgency,” the 1982 report wrote.

Surak wrote that it may have been fortunate that the calls for renovations to the Hayes Library remained un answered for so long because of the drastic transformation libraries underwent due to the digital revolution.

“Perhaps it proved fortu nate that the renovation call re mained unanswered for so long, since no one in the previous decades could have foreseen the direction of computer tech nology and communications that would alter the changing function of the library,” Surak wrote.

There was an Ascend Man hattan $50 million Capital Cam paign publicly announced in spring of 1994, with the goal of transforming Hayes Library into a technological access cen ter for students. In 1999, with most of the $50 million of the capital campaign goal reached, architectural drafts were made that planned to connect the

existing 29,000 square foot li brary with a new 60,000 square foot space.

Additionally, they wanted to join the lower library entrance with the upper campus. In a 2009 Oral History Interview with Robert Mahan, who was the vice president of facilities, he noted that connection was key.

“One of the key goals we wanted to accomplish was to connect the library to campus,” Mahan said. “So, the designers came up with the idea of turn ing the library upside down, and entering the library at the fifth floor level, rather than en tering the library down at the second floor where the prior building had been entered. That involved creating a bridge into the Quadrangle.”

The expansion is named for Mary Alice and Tom O’Malley, a 1963 alumnus and business executive who contributed $7.5 million to the College for the library construction, which at that time was the largest gift in Manhattan College’s history.

The grounds for the O’Mal ley expansion were broken in 2000. The final expansion was completed and dedicated in fall 2002 as part of the Sesqui centennial celebration of the College. The O’Malley Library with the Cardinal Hayes Pavil lion spans 83,000 sq feet with five floors and modern technol ogy spaces.

“Combining the traditional Hayes Library with a modern structure and transforming it into the O’Malley Library benefited the sesquicentennial theme of linking the past with the future. The topic of the ses quicentennial, ‘Lasallian Educa tion,’ reflected the values and enduring accomplishments of the College over its 150 years,” Surak wrote.

The first image of the Cardinal Hayes Library dedica tion ceremony.

MANHATTAN COLLEGE ARCHIVES/ COURTESY

Jaspers Use Their Voices: the Evolution of Activism at MC

Jocelyn Visnov Production Editor/Web Editor

From worldwide conflicts to minor disputes over campus policies, Jaspers have come to gether to express their views and show their support in a va riety of different ways. As the physical campus has changed over the past 100 years, so has the way in which students ex press their opinions on import ant topics and decisions.

Before officially becoming a co-ed institution in 1973, MC was home to only male students seeking a Catholic education. This campus demographic cre ated a more traditionally con servative leaning on campus in the early 60s and 70s.

Despite the politics of one group of students versus anoth er, students and faculty alike expressed their views on the Vietnam war in both education al and social formats.

Amy Surak, director of ar chives and special collections at MC, explained a story from an MC alum about opposing views being expressed on campus.

“One of the alumni told me a story on how literally in the morning they had a guest lec turer here who was giving a lecture on the war, pro war, and why we should be in Vietnam,” she said. “And then in the after noon, you had a small group of protesters who were protesting the fact that this person came to speak.”

Surak explained that while views of worldly conflicts and politics were discussed on cam pus, Jaspers at the time focused their activism mainly on cam pus and community policies. One issue which caused a stir among students included strict rules regarding a campus cur few.

After one student received permission from a Brother to leave campus for the night to attend a ball game upstate, a change of plans led him to re turn to campus long after the 10 p.m. curfew. However, because the student had received per mission to be gone overnight, he was turned away and unable to access his dorm.

“This poor kid got basical ly expelled out of college for

something so minor,” Surak said, “So there was so much ac tivism about this injustice that the students literally protested on campus. But because we were on Broadway at the time, students laid in the streets in protest to block the street and cause a stir. It was such a minor infraction, but to some extent, it was the students sort of flexing their muscles. And so they end ed up being very successful in their protest.”

As the college expanded and relocated to its current lo cation in Riverdale, the needs of the student body expanded as well.

Surak explained that stu dents gained more of a voice on campus with the formation of the student government. Allow ing a few Jaspers to represent the voice of the student body in places such as Senate meetings provided administrators with a more clear understanding of the views of the students.

In the late 90s, one major concern brought to the atten tion of the Senate by student government was the campus policy on sex. While previous

ly an unspoken rule, a Brother at the time created a written rule for students which aligned with the traditionally Catholic belief that “sex should only happen within the confines of marriage.”

The student body brought this concern to the Senate, stat ing that they felt this was a step backwards which did not align with other more progressive campus policies at the time.

Over the course of the past 100 years, student activism has gone beyond protests and pol icies, and grown more in the direction of community service and advocacy.

One way in which activism on campus has expanded in cludes the creation of offices and organizations which aim to better address the needs and concerns of the present student body. This includes a plethora of diverse organiza tions such as the Black Student Union, Jasper Votes, Lasallian Women and Gender Center, Green Club, Jewish Student Union and the Campus Minis try and Social Action (CMSA) suite.

Connor Reidy, the Campus Minister of CMSA, explained his admiration for the ways in which advocacy on campus has expanded even just over the past decade.

“I’ve been really impressed with the consistency in which our school and student body have focused on certain ele ments of activism.” Reidy said. “Like our work as a Fair Trade certified University. If I were to really focus on areas that I think I’ve seen students be con sistently concerned with over the course of my nine years [working at MC], I’ve always seen our students be really concerned about immigration reform and immigration policy. It’s one of the most complicat ed areas of our international and domestic foreign policy and I think students see how it affects our neighbors and com munity right here in New York City.”

With the creation of these specialized organizations in cluding CMSA, students are able to express their views on topics they care most about even beyond campus. In more recent years, CMSA has led L.O.V.E Immersion programs to locations such as the United States/Mexico border, El Paso, Texas, and Philadelphia.

Jacquie Martin, a Coordina tor of Social Action, explained that in addition to larger initia tives around activism and so cial justice, Jaspers have also remained active in promoting social justice throughout cam pus itself.

“I think some of the stuff the Women’s Center has done that has been like student-led projects after the center was created was ensuring that there are gender neutral restrooms on our campus only in the past few years.” She said, “But stu dents advocating to have, like pads and tampons, accessible [and] free in campus bath rooms, that wasn’t a thing up until recently.”

Jaspers have a long history of rallying together on issues which they care about most, and expressing their concerns to address the changing stu dent body. Current students looking to become engaged in activism and social justice are recommended to reach out to various campus clubs or orga nizations for social justice and community service opportuni ties.

Students present research about reproductive rights at a Lasallian Women and Gender Conference in 2019.

100 years of MC Tuition

Brooke DellaRocco Staff Writer

Over the last 100 years Manhattan College, along with colleges around the nation, have seen fluctuating tuition prices.

As MC is a private institu tion in New York City, tuition prices have constantly changed and varied. According to man hattan.edu, the average tuition price for the 2022-2023 school year is $44,100. This, however, is calculated without many oth er expenses such as room and board, transportation, books and supplies. When factored in, it’s predicted to amount to $70,398 to attend MC, with the average actual cost of atten dance, including scholarships and aid, being $40,000 a year.

Comparatively, in 1922, MC’s tuition was only $150, ac cording to the Manhattan Col lege Pamphlet from the 19221923 school year. At the time this was a very large sum com pared to the value of money.

This means that in today’s money standard, attendance at MC would be around $2,661. In 1922, payments for each semester were required in ad vance with additional payments for extra services including room, rent and board, use of laboratory, use of library, type writing fee, graduation fee and certificate fee. There was also a cost to be involved in athletics or “Athletic Association,” as the

pamphlet states.

In the current standard, students are essentially “paid” to participate in athletics through scholarship programs and represent the school.

Another important aspect to note about the college in 1922 is the amount of commut ers and the presence of a large ly commuter-oriented school.

At the time, a larger percent age of students rented rooms. Because of this, the room and board price of 1922-23 seems to be exceptionally high com pared to the basic tuition price.

Room and board at MC was totalled at $500 in 1922, which is $8,870 in today’s cur rency. This is almost four times the price of traditional tuition.

Terry Gaffney, a MC alum, spoke about his experiences at the college during 1969-1974. Gaffney was the first graduate with a degree in urban studies and was both a resident and commuter during his time at MC.

Gaffney told The Quadran gle his freshman year the tui tion price for one semester was $1,165. During his sophomore year, tuition jumped with a 9% increase to a sum of $1,295.

“For a lot of us who were paying for our own tuition it just made it next to impossible. So we actually had a tuition strike,” Gaffney said.

In 1970, at least 600 stu dents took class off for two days to gather in the Quadran gle and strike against the rising

costs. They held up banners reading “No say, no pay,” and “No tuition increase,” in an attempt to have their voices heard. However, the cost still remained the same, and Gaff ney had to leave school after his sophomore year because he needed to work more to suf fice the price. Gaffney pushed through and graduated in 1974.

“The tuition, it was a bur den. I know that quite a few of my friends were either on work study programs, or almost all my friends had jobs at night and on weekends, because many of us were paying our own way,” Gaffney said.

Gaffney also commented on how much MC has changed since he’s been a student; visit ing at least 2 times a month, he sees this first hand.

“The biggest difference is that there were no women. All men. The attitude on campus was a lot looser. There was no policy on cut classes, you could cut classes as much as you wanted to as long as you did the work,” Gaffney said.

Gaffney is currently on the Board of Trustees and looks at aspects surrounding tuition of ten. When asked about the cur rent tuition price and amount of aid given out to students he talked about the Board of Trustees plans.

“The amount of student aid that has been given out over the last eight years has grown to a point where it is not sus tainable. So we are trying hard

to narrow our focus on where the aid goes,” Gaffney said.

With the Christian Broth ers mission being to educate the poor, it becomes difficult to balance giving out as much aid as they possibly can versus maintaining a budget.

When asking current stu dents about their financial situ ations surrounding the college, the vast majority believed that MC was very generous with their tuition prices.

One freshman, who wish es to remain anonymous, ex pressed her gratitude towards the school and shared her tui tion prices with The Quadran gle. She currently pays $23,000 a year to attend and discussed

the numerous grants and schol arships she received to bring this number down.

When applying to colleges, she specifically looked at larger schools such as UMass Amer herst and Tufts University, both with tuition ranging from $30,000-60,000.

Another freshman, Maggie Shediac, discussed the influ ence of the prices on her deci sion to come to MC.

“The money aspect was pretty big. I come from a very money-conscious family,” She diac said.

Given current world events, Shediac expressed her understanding of the ris ing prices of schools. Paying $33,000 a year, she feels as if she has gotten a good deal and values the education she is re ceiving from MC.

“From my point of view, it’s a pretty big deal. A lot of the bigger schools that I applied to, I know they have the money for scholarships and I didn’t get as much from them. Looking at it from that perspective I would say, overall it’s nice,” Shediac says.

That being said, both freshmen believe that the school needs to update a lot of their facilities. The anonymous freshmen source talked about her disapproval of the food and rooms here at MC, and voiced her beliefs that for the amount of money she’s paying the ex pectations were not met.

“I’m very grateful for the amount of money they awarded me, but I also think that espe cially in the food department, that price could be scaled down,” she said.

With so many fluctuations to experience in the future, all eyes will fall to the coming years awaiting the next big event that will change the tui tion prices yet again.

Before The Bronx: How and Why MC Came to Riverdale

Rebecca Kranich Asst. Social Media Editor

As Manhattan College cele brates 100 years in the Bronx, some in the Jasper community may ask: why is MC in River dale and not in the borough it’s named after?

“When I first applied to Manhattan College, to be quite honest, I didn’t realize that it was in the Bronx,” Calissa Mc Neely, senior and student gov ernment president, said.

At one point, it wasn’t. The roots of Manhattan College can be traced back to 1848, when the first Christian Broth ers founded a parish school in the basement of St. Vincent’s Church on Canal Street in low er Manhattan.

Amy Surak, the director of archives and special collections at the college, explains that be cause of the popularity of the school, the Brothers decided to move uptown to the Manhat tanville neighborhood only five years later in 1853.

“From the beginning, their school became popular,” Surak said. “When we moved up to 131st and Broadway, we occu pied the mansion of a former governor of New York. It was

like the suburbs.”

This new location provided the Brothers with the space for more dorms and facilities. The school’s name was changed to Manhattan Academy, and as its student body continued to grow, the curriculum followed.

According to Brother Luke Salm, the academy “offered programs in the sciences and engineering while bolstering the offerings in philosophy, psychology and English litera ture.”

By 1863, Manhattan Acad emy was granted a charter from the State of New York to become a college, and Brother Patrick Murphy became the first president of Manhattan College.

Over the next 60 years, the college’s facilities began deteri orating, yet, the brothers con tinued to educate regardless.

“The property became de crepit after a time. They [the Brothers] didn’t do well with upkeep,” said Surak.

Collections from a memoir written by the class of 1923 — who graduated a full century before the current class of se niors — recount the conditions of the mansion.

“In many areas, we didn’t have electric lights, only gas

lamps. I remember one cold afternoon sitting around a redhot pot-bellied stove studying Christian Philosophy with Brother Jasper,” wrote one stu dent in his entry.

However, the class of 1923 would be the last class to use the facilities in Manhattanville. The rapid development of New York City quickly forced the Brothers to move further up town to the Bronx.

“They moved out because they needed space, but the city encroached upon it,” said Surak.

Nearly two centuries after the establishment of the col lege under Brother Patrick Murphy, the institution again has a Brother as president.

Brother Daniel Gardner became the interim president of the college in July 2022 and previously served as assistant director of the Center for Grad uate School Fellowship Advise ment. He told The Quadrangle how Manhattan College hasn’t changed regardless of reloca tion or status.

“I don’t think that it’s changed at all because I have always seen the college as a place that walks alongside stu dents so that they can reach their fullest potential,” Gardner

said.

Within his six years of ser vice to the college and ascent to the position as president, Gardner has helped students in many different capacities, fully embodying the spirit of the col lege as it leads students.

“Whether or not I was out there recruiting students, ad vising them towards the end of their journey with graduate schools, or planning how Man hattan can accompany people on their journeys, it’s all about how we enhance the journey for our students,” said Gardner.

Gardner states that the fu ture of Manhattan College will align with the interconnected

nature of the modern world, but the institution’s values will remain the same.

“I think that we need to be people of the times. Pope Fran cis has constantly encouraged us to ensure that we are not separated from what’s happen ing in society,” said Gardner.

“I don’t think that our values change, ever. Possibly the de livery system of the values changes as society grows and develops, but it’s always been the same sense. It’s about ad justing and adapting them to be meaningful in the modern world.”

Riverdale vs. The Bronx: Why Both Locations Matter for MC

Mary Haley Staff Writer

Manhattan College is cel ebrating its hundredth year of being in the Bronx, and many banners have been seen around campus expressing the college’s Bronx location as op posed to Riverdale, the neigh borhood of the Bronx the col lege’s campus is located in and has been advertised in since the 1970s.

According to manhattan. edu, the college’s address is 4513 Manhattan College Park way, Riverdale, NY. Riverdale is considered to be a neigh borhood within the borough of The Bronx. So how does using “The Bronx” to describe the college’s location differ from using “Riverdale”?

To understand the differ ence between these two “loca tions,” The Quadrangle spoke to three Bronx natives in the MC community about their thoughts on this slow change and where they stand.

Rocco Marinaccio, Ph.D., is a Bronx native from the neigh borhood of Pelham Bay, and he expressed how he thinks the

signage celebrating 100 Years in the Bronx affects people in the college’s community.

“I think there are a lot of people who wish we would sort of celebrate a little more specif ically, our identity as a Bronx institution … and not to sort of hedge our location by referring to Riverdale,” Marinaccio said. “Maybe this is an indication of a little more profound embrace of the Bronx identity moving forward.”

Marinaccio now lives in Riverdale and he spoke on the difference between Riverdale and the rest of the Bronx. He believes it is important to rec ognize Riverdale as part of this borough.

“When people ask me where I live, I say ‘I live in The Bronx,’ and they say ‘Oh, where in The Bronx?’ and I say ‘River dale,’ and they say ‘That’s not really The Bronx. The Bronx doesn’t have neighborhoods like Riverdale,’ and I say ‘The Bronx does and one of them is Riverdale’,” Marinaccio said. “It’s a little disingenuous to sort of say Riverdale is not really The Bronx, because it is … It is diverse in the way that The Bronx is diverse. The Bronx is noisy. I’m a Bronx native and I

feel like I live in The Bronx.”

Lois Harr, adjunct instruc tor of religious studies, told The Quadrangle why she thinks the college’s Bronx location is so important and the reasoning behind using Riverdale in ad vertisements over the broader Bronx representation. She said that in the 1970s, there was low housing stock in the South Bronx because of housefires.

“They might [have want ed] to dissociate themselves from [the fires] in order to attract students from other ar eas,” Harr said.

As another Bronx native, Harr spoke on why social jus tice in the Bronx is so import ant and why this advertisement of the college being in the Bronx is so important to the community. Harr, as an advo cate for social justice in The Bronx, presented this issue to the Manhattan College Cabinet in early 2021.

According to Harr’s power point, the goal for the College’s community engagement is “in tentional engagement with our local … communities with em phasis on our shared commit ment to human dignity and our Lasallian Catholic social justice values.”

“I’ve had students [help at] Concourse House, which is a shelter for women and chil dren, and we also [became part ners] with a community center. Bedford Housing Corporation … they’ve also been a partner,” Harr said. “We’ve done a bunch of different things.”

Not only does the campus and identity of the school in The Bronx affect residential students, but the change from Riverdale to represent The Bronx also affects students who commute from other areas

in the Bronx.

Mahnoor Sultan, a fresh man civil engineering major, is from Morris Park. She says the signs were an important repre sentation of The Bronx to her.

“I think a lot more peo ple from The Bronx will be aware of the opportunity to go here, and to know there is such a good college just close to home,” Sultan said. “It’s im portant to know that you have such a good college in your backyard, that makes it a lot easier.”

Original photo of Manhattan College when it was first founded in Manhattan in 1853. MANHATTAN.EDU/ COURTESY

Manhattan College celebrates 100 years in the Bronx.

Manhattan Promises Potential Jaspers a Unique Experience

Jilleen Barrett Features Editor/ Managing Editor

If you are currently a stu dent at Manhattan College, you’ll probably recognize the phrase “Embrace the Uncom mon.” These words were likely in all the emails you received from the college before you were a student here, as well as on pamphlets and of course, all over the signs that lined Man hattan College Parkway until just a few months ago.

Now, those signs boast the four pillars of the Jasper Prom ise: quality faculty in each of the college’s five undergrad uate schools, access to New York City, internship opportu nities that lead to successful careers and a vibrant campus community. And, of course, the school’s Lasallian values have a place as well.

The “Jasper Promise” and “Embrace the Uncommon” are the leading phrases of the two most recent digital cam paigns. These campaigns help recruit freshman and transfer students, and are updated ev ery few years. They are created through a collaborative effort between the provost, the ad missions department and the marketing & communication department.

Lydia Gray, the assistant vice president of advancement

in the marketing & commu nication department, told The Quadrangle that before these campaigns, there was the “Best of Both Worlds” and the “Promise of Manhattan” campaigns in 2011 and 2013. Although all digital campaigns share the same four pillars, the “Jasper Promise” was loosely based on the promises made to prospective students in 2013.

According to Benjamin Boivin, the director of under graduate admissions, having the word “Jasper” in the cam paign slogan is important in their efforts to make the school look unique. Because of the fact that no other school has a mascot with that name, Boivin says seeing the word automati cally makes people curious, so they want to use it consistently.

“We see it in the Jasper Corps, we see it in the Jasper’s athletics program, we see it in the Lady Jasper’s, our women’s teams,” Boivin said. “So I think that word ‘Jasper’ helps us to identify who we are and again, differentiates us from other brands.”

A lot of other details go into the school’s campaign de cisions — for example, Boivin says the “Jasper Promise” pam phlet has more of the school’s color, green, and pictures of students on campus, while the “Uncommon” campaign had more photos of downtown Manhattan.

“[Prospective Jaspers]

want to see students that are like really in the labs and like, talking in the residence halls … obviously it’s a photoshoot, but they feel a little more authen tic,” Boivin said.

“The Jasper Promise” is also more unique, he feels.

“The difference between ‘The Uncommon’ and ‘The Jas per Promise’ is, ‘uncommon’ you can really put any college name in front of that,” Boivin said. “The Jasper Promise is like, [other colleges] couldn’t use that. That’s just ours.”

In addition to the reasons Boivin gave, campaigns change because prospective audienc es change, too. Gray said the college wants to show each generation of potential Jaspers why the school might be right for them, and that redesigning the way they communicate that message can be helpful.

“What we find happening each time [a new campaign is created] is that the four core

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principles seem to emerge each time, and it’s our chal lenge then to bring them to the prospective audience in a very refreshed manner,” Gray said.

A third party agency does research for the school, look ing into what high school up perclassmen, their parents and their guidance counselors want out of a four year educa tion.

“They’re always looking in the prospective market,” Gray said. “They know what’s out there, they know what our competitors are doing, they know what colleges and uni versities around us are doing.”

Once the research is done and the campaign is devel oped, it mainly has a place online. Provost William Clyde said that although they still use print publications, billboards and emails to advertise the col lege, the internet gives them more of a reach.

“Let’s say you’re doing col

lege searches, and you’re inter ested in engineering,” Clyde said. “Then we go ‘Okay, we’ve got something you might be in terested in’. So it’s more target ed than even normal newspa pers or something like that … Now we can know how many people saw it, how many people clicked on it, how many people followed through and went all the way to our website.”

Boivin has worked with over 100 colleges and univer sities during his career, and graduated from the college with his bachelor’s and mas ter’s degrees. He says he has found that once people know what a Jasper is, the Jasper Promise becomes too enticing to pass up.

“For being such a small school, we have a very big footprint in the world,” he said. “And I think it’s kind of a stick ing point for a lot of people to be called a Jasper.”

“For being such a small school, we have a very big footprint in the world,” he said. “And I think it’s kind of a sticking point for a lot of people to be called a Jasper.”

History of The Green Gladiator: Jasperman!

Mack Olmsted Asst. Production Editor

He has the brawn of Sam son, the intellect of Socrates and the courage of Achilles. He is Jasperman.

Jasperman was a comic strip featured in The Jasper Journal, a student-run newspa per at Manhattan College that ran from 1966-1970. The story and illustration of the Jasper man character came from the

imagination of alumni Jerry Breen.

The Green Gladiator first debuted on Oct. 7, 1966. Be hind the costume, Jasperman’s secret identity is Johnny Jasper. Jasperman’s first episode told the story of his origin. Johnny Jasper was looking for self-dis covery. He drank an elixir that unlocked a voice deep within him that cried out “BIC”, which stood for the brawn of Samson, the intellect of Socrates and the courage of Achilles (however in later installments BIC stood for

the might of Beowulf, wisdom of Ikhnaton and the daring of Caser). The elixir granted Johnny Jasper superpowers and he became the Jasperman.

Jasperman was supposed to represent the Manhattan Col lege community. From fresh man orientation to watching the MC’s football team go up against the Fordham Rams, Jasperman showed different aspects of life at MC.

Breen has a love for draw ing cartoons and admires his time at Manhattan College.

Gee,thiscampussurehaschanged sincethelasttimeIwashere!

The comic strip was done in dependently by himself. His brother Edward Breen went to MC before he did and showed him issues of the Quadrangle before he started school. After Breen joined MC the Jasper Journal was formed. Founding editor Steve Burchik asked Breen to do a comic strip which he was enthusiastic about and eagerly volunteered to join. Breen explains where the inspi ration for the Jasperman comic strip came from.

“In high school, I had done a strip lampooning my favorite teacher, Brother Jerome Mc Connell as “The Flash.” I start ed with what I knew of Manhat tan so far … “Johnny Jasper’’ was already an established name for the average Manhat tan student. I did a variation on ‘Superman’ with ‘Jasperman.’ Like Billy Batson/Captain Marvel, Johnny underwent a magic transformation, while saying the magic word “BIC,” for Bronx Irish Catholic, rather than “Shazam.” Kelly green be rets with white pom poms were popular on campus at the time, for supporters of the Jasper football club, so that completed his outfit.”

that were produced. Burchik looked back on Jasperman and stated in an email his thoughts on the MC community’s impact from the comic strip.

“Jasperman was an early hit for both The Jasper Journal and the college. Many students and faculty members delight ed in the competitive nature of journalism with two student newspapers on campus. Jas perman was a character that many students could relate to and understand. My favorite thought about Jasperman was the fact that he wasn’t perfect and would often save the day, but with a few mishaps along the way.”

In the comic strip there were a few recurring charac ters like his girlfriend, Marvel Mountie. She was meant to represent the College of Mount Saint Vincent. And his arch nemesis, The Ram, who was meant to represent Fordham University.

Jasperman

The Jasper Journal would publish every other week, with The Quadrangle publish ing in alternate weeks. When Jasperman was first starting out a lot of events were going on and off campus at the time. During the Jasperman comic strip, the comic went through a few changes and would later reference worldwide events that were going on outside of MC. According to the summer 1968 edition of the Manhattan College Alumnus magazine, Jasperman references Concern Day involving the Vietnam-War.

J“In a recent edition of The Jasper Journal Breen’s hero took a stand advocating the withdrawal of the US forces from Vietnam, along with en dorsing National Concern Day, a day of recollection held on campus across the country on April 26 [1968], On that day stu dents cut classes in protest of the Vietnam conflict and attend seminars and other organized activities concerned with dis cussing the problems of World Peace.”

Over time the character grew and gained a larger audi ence. Because of the wide im pact Jasperman had at MC, the character went through differ ent storylines in the episodes

Over the course of three and a half years, Jasperman had a total of 40 episodes within the Jasper Journal comic strip and would also occasionally show up in ads for campus ac tivities like covers on the foot ball programs. Jasperman was an icon at MC that Breen creat ed from his imagination. Breen explained his appreciation to wards Jasperman and what the character meant to him.

“My favorite part of doing the strip was seeing people read it and knowing that people en joyed it. For a few years, I was ‘famous’ in a couple of square blocks in the Bronx. But the only “outside” exposure I ever got was an article in the weekly Riverdale Press,” Breen said.

1970 wasn’t entirely the end of the green protector’s career. Breen tried to do a variation of the character as Captain Boomer. The character was now a retired superhero kiddie TV show host. The character would reappear once more in a comic strip where he was the proprietor of “Boomer’s Edge City Diner ‘’ but the comic strips went unpublished.

Breen insinuated that if Jas perman was still around today, “he would be the alter ego of an embittered old cartoonist” inside of political cartoons talking about the upcoming presidential election in 2024.

Art by Jocelyn Visnov Based on original comic by Jerry Breen

Jasper Jams: J-Deli Edition!

JASPER JAMS

Asst. Features editor

One of the main things that I love about NYC are the del is. Not only are they walking distance, but they are a place where you could buy just about anything you want. Jasper Deli bears the same green colors as MC and in a way, has become a staple place on campus. Now, if you have gone to buy some thing there, whether it is to get an iced coffee after a morning class or a hangover helper after a crazy weekend, chances are you have met Hail, the cashier at J-Deli.

When asked what his top artists were, Hail gave me the following list: Kendrick La mar, J Cole, Nas, Bruno Mars and Taylor Swift. He said that choosing specific songs was

a hard task, so I have taken it upon myself to pick some of my favorites from these artists.

Finals are coming up and we all need to destress. So while you are on your way to J-Deli to get your food and coffee during these last few days, put on your headphones and listen to some of the tunes below! (Also, say hey to Hail while you’re there!)

N95 - Kendrick Lamar

The beat on this song is insane. When I first heard this song, I automatically knew it would be one of my favorite songs on the album. If you sit and listen to the lyrics closely, you’ll understand why I believe that Kendrick’s words are im peccable.

LOVE ft Zacari - Kend rick Lamar

This is a nice and calm

song to listen to while you walk home. Zacari has such an an gelic voice and it gives a nos talgic vibe. I think when people think of Kendrick they just as sociate him with rap music but it’s songs like these that I think show the range he has as an artist.

My. Life ft 21 Savage, Morray - J Cole

There are many songs that talk about the struggles of poverty but I think this one goes into how even if you are successful, you still see those who you were once close to continue to struggle with the memories connected to that struggle. It’s a song that gives perspective.

The Pressure - Nas Nas has such a vintage vibe to his music, even now when

rap has become so diverse. It’s a song I listen to when I know I’m stressed and having a nice flow to a song helps keep the pressure in check. Nas is a good rap artist to keep on your playlist especially if you like hip hop and rap music. He’s a clas sic.

It Will Rain - Bruno Mars

Singing to a song like this one with your friend or room mate is so liberating. Bruno Mars’ vocals as he harmonizes and sings are so emotionally intense that you can feel the heart wrenching lyrics as you sing even if you can’t hit the note correctly. Plus if you like Twilight, it’s a bonus that this is on the soundtrack.

Style - Taylor Swift

I wouldn’t say I’m a Swiftie because I don’t know much of

her new music, but play me a song like “Style” that is more than seven years old and I will sing my heart out. The bass beat of this song and the drums are probably my favor ite thing about this track. I love the lyrics because of the ironies of them looking perfect together but not being good for each other.

You Need to Calm Down - Taylor Swift

The name of this song is great. Listen to it when you need to calm down. I like how it’s an anthem of not caring about what people think or say cause it reflects on them not you. I mean the music video itself is amazing. I sing this as loud as I can (even though the song says “you need to calm down, you’re being too loud).

Karen Flores

Van Cortlandt Park: The “Mecca” of the Running World

Jilleen Barrett Features Editor/Managing Editor

Van Cortlandt Park is a “natural showcase featuring the last vestiges of New York City’s native woodlands and wetlands,” according to the Van Cortlandt Park Alliance. It’s already surprising to most that this exists in The Bronx, but even more shocking that its landscape has sparked the beginning of many running ca reers.

This is true for George Febles, who grew up in the Bronx, not far from the park. Febles ran for Xavier High School and continued to run on his own during college. Now, he is the cross country and track & field coach at Fordham Preparatory School, and has been for 34 years. No matter how he has been taking part in the running scene in his life, Febles has consistently ran the trails of Van Cortlandt Park.

“Van Cortlandt Park is, it’s really the national ‘Mecca’ in many ways for cross country,” Febles said.

Febles brings his team to the park about four times a week. He says he sees many other runners utilizing the park in real time and online.

“It’s just the perfect place to go and run distance when you’re trying to avoid the streets and crossing [them],” Febles said. “And nowadays with Strava, you see so many people that see Van Cortlandt, as the place to be.”

Van Cortlandt became known for inspiring running ca reers because it attracts thou sands of high school students every year for the Manhattan Cross Country Invitational, a race created in 1972 by Man hattan College alum Ed Bowes.

Febles competed in the race as a high school student, prompting him to enter his own students in it every year since he began coaching. He plays a role in the race’s history as he initiated the use of Excel to keep track of each runner’s times — before then, it was

recorded by hand and only the top 20 runners received official times. This change influenced the race significantly, Febles explained, especially since it usually attracts about ten thou sand runners each year.

Luciano Fiore was one of those runners in 2014. Racing in the Invitational changed the entire course of his athletic ca reer — after winning the Ree bok’s Varsity “E” race by two seconds, granting him his first interview as an athlete along with a silver Reebok watch, he quit soccer to focus on running. He later attended Siena College and ran there for six years.

“The course was energizing and catered to every aspect of true cross country. […] My fa vorite part [is] a downhill with 600 meters to go alongside the Henry Hudson Parkway lead ing into the final gravel home stretch,” Fiore said of his first time running the course of the Invitational. “Once you cross

the bridge and barrel down the final hill, you reenter the open grass fields and feel the roar of the people watching — it is electrifying.”

Now, Fiore finds himself in Van Cortlandt running profes sionally for Empire Elite Track Club. Even now, with all of his accomplishments under his belt, Fiore maintains that the Van Cortlandt Park running trails are not only difficult, but truly represent the “grit” of New York City.

“Running here is hard, plain and simple,” Fiore said. “Whether it’s a Van Cortlandt Track Club event, a New York Road Runners sponsored cross country series, the Ivy League Cross Country Championships or a kids fun run — the running here is hard.”

The park’s history of host ing successful runners in all of these races and more, Febles believes, is arguably one of the most significant reasons to run

there at all.

“You’re running on the same grounds as the greatest runners of all time [at VCP],” Febles said. “So, as with all things, you try to put things into a historical context. We have the best venue for doing that. We’re not just running in some golf course — we’re run ning in what is called the ‘Mec ca’ of cross country.”

Even Manhattan College’s own runners know this course to be a difficult one, despite having the advantage of prac ticing there every day — some thing their competitors can’t boast about. Liam Farrell, who graduated in 2022, ran there nearly everyday in college un der Coach Kerri Gallagher.

Farrell feels the team thrived in VCP, because it was conveniently located and has non-pavement hills to run on, lowering the chance of inju ry while offering a challenge and preparing them for meets

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there. The park “demands re spect from all those who race it,” he said.

“Training in VCP means a lot to the program because of the history that we have there,” Farrell said. “[I]t has miles of dirt trails to run on, which is incredibly uncommon within the bounds of the city. […] The park also has flat portions and hilly portions, which allowed us to work out a variety of differ ent ways. I think this helped us become stronger and tougher runners.”

Farrell believes it also draws attention to the strengths of the cross country and track & field programs at Manhattan College.

“Seeing so many other schools coming to compete at VCP shows that it’s a respect ed course,” Farrell said. “In my collegiate career, it was by far the most difficult course that I raced on, and I say that despite getting to train on it everyday.”

Liam Farrell (back right) running the Van Cortlandt course for the 2021 Fordham Fiasco.

Former Baseball Star and Coach

Chris Cody Speaks About His Time Since Leaving the Mound

Grace Cardinal Staff Writer

Chris Cody ‘07, the 2017 Manhattan College athletics hall of fame inductee, is revis iting his roots in baseball 15 years after his graduation from the program.

Cody started his journey with baseball at a young age. Former head coach Steve Trimper worked with him as an eighth-grader, recognizing his polished talents.

“I knew Chris when he

was in eighth grade, actually. I used to run baseball camps up at Brewster High School and Chris was an attendee of one of my camps when I first moved there,” Trimper explained. “When he got to high school at Brewster High School, he was one of the better players even though he didn’t throw very hard at all. He just really knew how to pitch. Chris’s MO [mo dus operandi] is he didn’t ever throw the ball at 90 miles an hour like some of these guys do that are successful.”

Trimper went on to ex

plain that with Cody’s pitching power alone, he wasn’t likely to get a Division I look. However, Cody’s ability to command the ball was what impressed him and ultimately landed him a re cruitment.

“He knew how to be almost a professional pitcher as a high schooler. That’s why we ended up recruiting him. We wanted to get him on a team because I knew he’d be able to throw strikes. He certainly did that and beyond, and set every re cord that’s ever been, I believe, at Manhattan College, in his ca

reer,” Trimper said.

Cody, who was named to the MAAC’s 35th Anniversa ry All-Time team, holds pro gram career records for wins (29), complete games (19) and strikeouts (295), according to Manhattan College’s Archives.

While Chris was described as having a quiet and funny personality, his coaches rec ognized a change in demeanor every time he stepped on the mound.

“When he stepped across the white line, he was a fierce competitor, one of the fiercest competitors there will ever be. His personality was complete ly Jekyll and Hyde. He had a quiet demeanor, fun and kind of jokey, and quiet and quirky with his jokes, and then he’d get on the mound, and he was an absolute tiger,” Trimper said.

Cody managed a tough upbringing. With both of his parents passing by the time he graduated college, he had to persevere through challenges that went far beyond baseball.

“I think his upbringing kind of helped him [on the mound]. Playing baseball is nothing compared to losing your mom, and the stressful moments of baseball are miniscule com pared to that,” explained for mer assistant, and later head coach Kevin Leighton.

One of the biggest accom plishments Cody had was in his senior year at Manhattan, serving as the starting pitcher on the mound for the baseball team’s upset win against No. 6 Nebraska in the 2006 NCAA tournament.

“Manhattan was a four seed, and they knocked off the number one seed in a tourna ment which was Nebraska. Chris pitched that game and threw a complete game. He beat a pitcher by the name of Joba Chamberlain who went on to play for the Yankees for about 10 years in the major leagues after that year. I think that really put Manhattan Col lege baseball on a national stage,” former coach Trimper said.

The win against Nebras ka was a pivotal moment in Cody’s career. After that game, he went on to be drafted in the eighth round by the Detroit Ti gers, leading to a 12-year pro

career. Afterwards, he went on to serve as assistant coach of the Jasper’s team for five years under head coach Mike Cole, and currently serves as Manhattan College’s director of players operations.

“I was the pitching coach/ assistant coach for five years under Mike Cole, who was my assistant coach when I was a student athlete, so it was really awesome to come full circle and go back to where it all started,” Cody said. “As a coach for those five years, I learned a ton. I always knew that coaching would be a little different than playing. I under estimated what the difference would be for sure, but I learned a lot about myself, because as a player, you really only have to worry about yourself.”

In addition to his other major accomplishments, Cody was honored with an induction into the Manhattan College Athletics Hall of Fame in 2017.

“I was very, very, very proud of that,” Cody said of the induction. “I remember being a young kid on campus and look ing up in Draddy and seeing all those names up there and just thinking that I didn’t see my self as a standout at all. When I came to Manhattan, I was just thrilled to be a part of that program. Being inducted a few years back was just icing on the cake on top of all the success we had as a member of those teams.”

Cody attributes much of his success to the right cir cumstances, teammates and setting. He believes Manhattan College Athletics taught him to put in the hard work, and how sweet the reward could be when you give something your all.

“It’s a unique place, Man hattan. I think you have to work a little harder to earn what you get,” Cody said. “I think that instills a lot of really good values and trends. When you’re being shaped from a kid when you step on campus to being an adult when you get off campus, I think the athletic de partment does a great job. It’s a great combination of setting you up for success and teach ing you how to go out and get it yourself.”

Chris Cody ‘07, the 2017 Manhattan College athletics hall of fame inductee, is revisiting his roots in baseball 15 years after his graduation from the program.

1973 Men’s Indoor Track and Field Team to be honored in Manhattan College Hall of Fame

Kelly Kennedy Social Media Editor

This November, the 1973 Men’s Indoor Track and Field team was inducted to the 2022 class of Manhattan College Hall of Fame. The 1973 Track and Field team is the only Division I team to win a NCAA National Championship in Manhattan College history.

“50 years ago this Feb ruary, Manhattan College stunned the track world by winning the NCAA team title for Indoor Track and Field,” said Marianne Reilly, Director of Intercollegiate Athletics. “This group of talented Jasper performers deserved the re cent recognition from the Man hattan College Athletic Hall of Fame. We continue to be proud of this outstanding accomplish ment.”

“That year, Mike Keogh won the two-mile run in 8:38, beating David Wottle of Bowl ing Green. Wottle was the Olympic champion in the twomile run at the 1972 Munich Olympics. That season, Clif ford Bruce and Ken McBryde finished third in the 1000m and triple jump, respectively. In 1973, the Jaspers also won the IC4A championship and the metropolitan championships for the third straight season,”

according to GoJaspers.

The Jaspers swept all three track and field championships that year, according to their Hall of Fame presentation spon sored by Jim Keeney. On Feb. 19, 1973, Manhattan won their third consecutive Metropolitan Intercollegiate Track Champi onship. On March 4, they won the 52nd Annual IC4A Indoor Track Championship.

And on March 10 1973, the Jaspers won the 9th Annual NCAA National Indoor Track

Championship and set the new World Record in the final event, the Distance Medley Relay.

“With several teams tied for first in scoring, it all came down to the last race, the final of the Distance Medley Relay on Saturday. The Manhattan team of John Lovett, Ray John son, Joe Savage and Tony Co lon had qualified for the final on Friday with the fastest time. In the Saturday final, Lovett ran 1:53.2 for the leadoff half mile, Johnson ran 50.4 for the quar

ter, Savage ran a blazing ¾ mile in 2:55.9 and handed the relay baton to Colon in first place. As the relay’s anchor leg, Colon ran the fastest mile of all relay participants in 4:04.3. Manhat tan won by almost 5 seconds and set a new world record of 9:43.8 on an 11-lap banked track,” according to the Man hattan College Athletic Hall of Fame Nomination Application for the 2022 Hall of Fame.

This was a historical win for Manhattan College, as it was the smallest school to com pete in Division 1 NCAA indoor track and field.

15 letters of recommen dation from Track Alumni showed the immense support that the community had for honoring the team. Eight of the letters were from current Man hattan Hall of Fame members, and two from current coaching staff.

Today, Lovett still shows his Jasper pride, as an Assistant Coach for the Track and Field Team.

“When reminiscing about this team, one word always comes to mind and that is FEARLESS. This team con sisted of local talent from New York, New Jersey, and Con necticut. These men arrived at Manhattan College with the sole purpose to be champions. Nothing, nothing was going to get in their way to be number one,” Lovett wrote in a letter to the Hall of Fame committee.

“The year 1973 demonstrated this best with winning the pres tigious IC4A and following up

with the National Champion ship. Also, in 1973 every mem ber of this national team had shattered a Manhattan College school record from the three mile to the 880 including the World record in the distance Medley relay. There was a certain swagger and self confi dence that could not be taught. This team has a great work eth ic and was supported by supe rior coaches Fred Dwyer and Frank (Gags) Galiano.”

Because of their many achievements and comradery, the entire 1973 team was nom inated for the Hall of Fame in duction.

Mike Keogh, class of 1973 and MC Hall of Fame member ‘84, wrote in his nomination email, “I would remiss in not stating that it would be better honored by the “entire team” being inducted in my humble opinion. Those of us who did compete had the support and dedication of all members of the track and field team at that time and that gave, not just my self, but all the guys who com peted the incentive to win.”

The significance of the 1973 Men’s Indoor Track and Field team withstands the test of time, as Manhattan’s first and only NCAA Division 1 Cham pionship. On Saturday Nov. 12 2022, they were awarded for this achievement, and the team became members of the 43rd class of the Manhattan College Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame now consists of 263 members, according to GoJaspers.

The entire 1973 Men’s Indoor Track and Field team. MANHATTAN COLLEGE ARCHIVES/COURTESY

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Who’sDraddy?your

Zoe DeFazio Asst. Arts & Entertainment Editor

Draddy Gymnasium is a staple of Manhattan College’s campus. In it lives “the sixth borough.”

The 2,345-seat multi-pur pose arena sits at the highest point of Manhattan College’s campus next to Walsh Plaza.

Draddy Gymnasium gets its name from Manhattan College alum, Vincent De Paul Draddy. Draddy was captain of Man hattan College’s football team before the termination of the football program in 1942.

According to The New York Times, Draddy was an innova tive individual who gathered much of his wealth from man ufacturing and distributing La coste knitwear and sportswear.

“Draddy’s biggest hit was the Lacoste knit shirt, origi nally for men. In 1950 a friend of his, Billy Talbert, the tennis player, asked Mr. Draddy to look at some shirts designed by Rene Lacoste, the one-time French tennis star. Lacoste had been nicknamed ‘’the croco dile,’’ and his shirts bore an em broidered likeness on the left breast,” The New York Times obituary written in 1990 after Draddy’s death stated.

Amy Surak, director of ar chives and special collections, dived into the history of the construction of Draddy Gym nasium.

“When our current campus was built 100 years ago, we built the Alumni Hall, which was the gym … almost immedi ately, we outgrew it. Obviously,

even the basketball court was not regulated. We had a pool in the basement because we have a swim team and it was great. And then almost immediately, the Olympic size pools were the ones that were then regu lated. And so then our pool was too small. And anyway, so we wanted to have a gym for years and years and years,” Surak said.

Draddy Gymnasium wasn’t constructed until the late 1970s after much turmoil. New York City was facing many financial issues that caused bankruptcy in many industries. The NYC fiscal crisis of the 1970s left many businesses with little to turn to. In the summer of 1977, the city of New York Housing and Development Administra tion’s Department of Buildings

gave the green light to start the process of constructing the large athletic facility.

“Initially Manhattan College did a campaign in 1976 to start really soliciting money to build it [Draddy Gymnasium]. The 70s were a rough time. There were many fiscal issues with the college in particular. But, the Bronx was burning and we were almost practically bank rupt as a city. So things were kind of going to hell. Things got pushed back a little bit. So finally, by 1978, they were able to break ground,” continued Surack.

The construction process was tumultuous. Manhattan College had started to create the foundation of the gymna sium by putting up steel bars to indicate what the structure

would look like. After a few weeks of the steel structures being placed, a large boister ous storm had blown all the steel away. More damage had been done than progress in the making of Draddy Gymna sium.

“It was, it was mortifying, and kind of embarrassing, because for an engineering school, right, but also be cause we’ve taken so long to have this done finally, and it got stalled. And then it finally happens and then boom, falls over,” said Surak.

The building finally opened its doors in 1978 replacing Alumni Hall for most athletic purposes. The gymnasium is equipped with a 200-meter flat track, batting cages, a volley ball court and three full-sized

basketball courts.

Draddy Gymnasium isn’t just for sports, but also for tele vision entertainment.

Draddy Gymnasium has been a host to many external organizations. According to NYCGO and GoJaspers, Drad dy has been the home of The Mayor’s Cup Wheelchair Bas ketball Tournament in 2008, 2010 and 2012. It was also fea tured on The Cosby Show for the episode titled “Back To The Track, Jack” in 1984.

Today, Draddy Gymnasium hosts men’s and women’s bas ketball and is practice grounds for all 19 of Manhattan Col lege’s sports teams.

Draddy Gymnasium is a staple of Manhattan College’s campus. In it lives “the sixth borough.”

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Early JaspersProminence: YoungLacrosse’s Program Contains a Rich History

Andrew Mannion Staff Writer

Building up a lacrosse pro gram in the NCAA is no simple feat, especially at the Division I level. Manhattan lacrosse has used each year of its time going from a team that joined Divi sion I not even a quarter centu ry ago, to the team that is now at the top of the MAAC.

The team started in 1877, when Manhattan participated in the first collegiate game of lacrosse ever. They squared off against the New York Universi ty Violets on Nov. 22, 1877. The Violets had a movement within the school that led to them in cluding more athletic activities.

According to an article writ ten by Lexi Echelman of NYU Alumni Connect,“Lacrosse at New York University was es tablished in 1878, when the relationship between sports and college life as we know it today was a relatively uncom mon phenomenon … Accord ing to Ferris, students at that time were almost exclusively focused on their education, as opposed to social or athlet

ic pursuits. While student life did exist in the form of literary debate societies, none of these satisfied Ferris’ need for ‘mus

cular activities.”

About 119 years later, Man hattan Lacrosse entered Divi sion I in 1996 as a member of the MAAC conference. Man hattan’s first recorded season was in 1997-98, the Jaspers were 1-1 with one loss against Southampton and a win against SUNY Maritime. The following season, they went 3-12 without winning a home game. 23 years later, the Jaspers are at the top of the MAAC after winning the 2022 MAAC Championship.

However, those 22 seasons in between were not easy as the Jaspers have been led by four different head coaches. Tim McIntee coached the Jaspers through the 2012 season, who was then replaced by Steve Manita, who coached the Jas pers from 2013 to 2015.

Drew Keleher then took over until last season, when the Jaspers won the MAAC Cham pionship. This year, John Ord ierna will begin his first season as the head coach of last year’s winners.

“I think turnover is like a rejuvenation,” said Reilly. “I al ways think when there’s a va cancy, there’s an opportunity to grow and change.”

No matter what, Marianne Reilly, athletic director at MC, believes that these changes are key to building a successful program.

“When you look at Man hattan College, we recruit re ally good people to work here. What’s going to happen if they have any success? They’re go ing to get moved,” Reilly said.

Despite the team’s success last season, Odierna believes there is more to gain for the program.

“Manhattan Lacrosse is still a relatively young program in the DI landscape,” Odier na said. “Everyone that has played here at both the club and DI levels has been part of establishing our reputation as a tough, chip on our shoulder type of program. Coming off winning the MAAC Champion ship in 2022, I believe that our program prestige is at an all time high and there is a lot of excitement about Manhattan Lacrosse right now.”

Most importantly, the new head coach acknowledges that a team’s success can’t happen without the right people. Odier na remarks on what makes a program successful over time

and what he and the program can do to make Manhattan Col lege lacrosse even better.

“I believe that a lacrosse program’s success can be mea sured by the type of people that you have and the culture that you create,” Odierna said. “If you can build a program of great people, you’ll likely have success on and off the field. We want to compete for MAAC Championships but also want to have leaders in the commu nity that are built for life when they leave Manhattan College and become representatives for our program in the real world. We can achieve (a better pro gram) over time by continuing to build our program culture around a group of guys that are passionate about making Man hattan a destination to play col lege lacrosse.”

While Manhattan’s lacrosse team’s success story is just beginning, they have made themselves known across the Division I level. Even with an other MAAC Championship under their belt, they believe there is much more to be ac complished.

Jaspers celebrate after winning the 2022 MAAC Championship. JASPERS LACROSSE/COURTESY

Manhattan College Lacrosse head coach, John Odierna.

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How 57 Years Ago, Jaspers Revitalized MC Spirit: Jaspers Club Football

Fitzsimmmons News Editor

Though Manhattan College does not currently have a foot ball program, there’s been an outstanding history of the sport at MC throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The story of football at MC has its ups and downs, and an overwhelming amount of Jasper pride.

According to Amy Surak, the director of archives and special collections, in an earlier edition of Manhattan Magazine,

the football program at MC originally dates back to the late 19th century, when MC’s cam pus was located at 131st street and Broadway. This program ended in the 1904 season “due to its inherent roughness.”

In 1924 at the Riverdale campus, MC’s varsity football program returned to Man hattan College. According to Surak, and by 1932 the team acquired coach John “Chick” Meehan, where crowds of sev enty thousand would come in droves to see Jasper football. The team became successful and high ranking in the East, and even became one of the first teams to compete in Uni versity of Miami’s Orange Bowl.

Yet, because of expenses and the start of World War II, most programs at MC, includ ing football, were put on pause.

It was not until the 1960’s did the sport return, due to the motivation and dedication of the student body.

According to previous re porting on The Quadrangle, a committee of about 100 stu dents collected the funds from their fellow students and facul ty to support the revitalization of football as a club sport.

Students raised the funds necessary to start the club team, revitalizing a new sense of MC pride with presidents Tom Twomey and Paul Fra zier.

“Especially because the stu dent body themselves brought it back, it was a lot of fun. Ev eryone went to the games like a real big celebration,” Surak said.

With a newfound spirit, MC began tailgating games, attend ing the October homecoming games en masse with a potluck and supporting with men’s and women’s cheer squads.

In an unpublished piece of history for MC, Surak quotes Frazier’s congratulations to the student body, “You want ed football, and you went out and got it. You brought in not nine thousand dollars, but

nine thousand and fifty-eight dollars; and you did it in four weeks.”

Further, she writes how at Gaelic Park on October 16, 1965, the first game was played on homecoming day to a large crowd of alumni and students. The Jaspers defeated NYU’s football club 20-14.

Surak explains the orga nization and commitment of these fundraisers to The Quad rangle.

“Every year or so, fresh man, sophomore, junior, se nior, each had a fun drive ad ministrator and it was amazing. The organization was about the revival of the team,” Surak said.

With dedicated coaches Larry Kelly, Bob Baker and Bob Annuziata, the team ex perienced challenges and suc cesses without much of a bud get or a home field advantage.

According to The Quad rangle, the program closed in 1987, “with the last game played at Gaelic Park on a Sun day afternoon in November. The Jaspers fell 51 to 33 in a hard-fought battle against the University of Massachusetts.”

The club team’s presence would create a vibrant history of Jaspers pride and what stu dents are capable of because of motivation.

Nicole

The 1965 season of the program.

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The 1966 roster for club football. MANHATTAN COLLEGE ARCHIVES/ COURTESY

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The Search for a New Residence Life Director

Men’s Basketball Travels to London

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MC Earns Recognition From All in Campus Democracy Challenge

Nicole Fitzsimmons News Editor

Manhattan College has re cently been recognized by All in Campus Democracy Challenge as one of the most engaged college campuses for student voting.

This recognition comes in addition to three other All in Campus Democracy Challenge badges MC received: a presiden tial commitment badge, a bronze badge for the 2018 midterm elec tions and a silver badge for the 2020 presidential election.

In order to get recognition as one of the most engaged college campuses for student voting, one

of the most important parts a cam pus must have is a detailed plan regarding the increase of voter registration and engagement.

“One semester, we asked a lot of professors, ‘Can a student come into your classroom and do a five minute presentation on vot ing and the election?’ and we did a whole lot of that. Every semester we think of particular things that we think are worth doing so that we take deliberate action to meet our goals,” Margaret Groarke, professor of political science and director of community engaged learning, said.

Jacquie Martin, the coordina tor of campus ministry and social action, described that another ini

tiative to increase voter registra tion is to interact with freshmen about it at orientation.

“Over the summer, we had been like ‘Maybe orientation would be a strategic time to target all the freshmen coming in, who are just becoming eligible to vote and are recently eligible’,” Martin said. “And so we were able this year to work with them. So in the little packet everyone gets at ori entation, they have a thing that’s like, ‘Hey, here’s how you vote your vote,’.”

Students during the previous election cycle also participated in

Mary Haley and Brooke DellaRocco Staff Writers

The search for a new resi dence life director at Manhat tan College brings ongoing feedback and discussion from faculty and students voicing their hopes for the future direc tors.

After the residence life and the dean of students offices were conjoined during the pan demic, there was a common need for a position specifically made to oversee residence life.

Esmilda Abreu-Hornbostel, dean of students, explained the stakes for this position and what to expect in the coming months.

“[The] Director of Resi dence Life is responsible for the educational leadership, di rection, budget management, supervision and overall oper ation of the student residence life program. [The] role in cludes supervision of profes sional staff, resident assistants and liaisons with facilities and housekeeping staff,” Abreu wrote in an email to the Quad rangle. “[The] role also in cludes serving as CARE Team representative under the Dean of Students, development of residential curriculum within a larger student life curriculum, oversight of the student con duct process in the residence halls, and liaison with residen tial dining.”

The extensive list of respon sibilities will be handed down to the next director after pre vious director, AJ Goodman, stepped down. Goodman has held the roles of both residence life director and associate dean for quite some time, but now steps down to continue solely as associate dean.

The search began in June of 2022 and has acquired around 50 applicants. After receiving initial applications, the search committee narrows down the pool to start conducting inter views. Following these pro cesses, the finalists then visit to spend a full day on campus, tak ing a tour and meeting students and faculty they will work with.

“[It’s] to see ‘Is this the right person for the new vision?’. Horan construction is a reali ty for next semester. We need someone with a brave heart and clear mind and someone who is excited by change and excited by creativity,” Abreu wrote.

The hope from residence life is that the candidate will be stationed and transitioned into Manhattan College by the start of the new spring semester with finalists coming this week to MC.

MC students had a lot to say about what they are look ing for in the coming semesters and how they feel it will impact their lives. Jasper Hall, a fresh man-only dorm, has been

The Manhattan Men’s basketball team travelled to the London Basketball Classic over Thanksgiving break.

Volume CV, Issue 12

December 6, 2022

The Editorial Board

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What a year it has been! This is officially the last publication of The Quadrangle with me as your edi tor-in-chief. It has been an absolute honor and pleasure to serve as editor-in-chief for this paper. I love this pub lication, the people who make it happen each week and the community whom we cover so very much.

I love journalism and hope it continues to be a passion and privilege to work in the news as I continue through college and then venture towards the working world full-time. The things I have learned during my term as editor-in-chief have made me more prepared, more diligent and more passionate about journalism than I could have imagined. And that’s largely because of the people who I get to call my staff.

Nicole, Jilleen, Megan and Cari, thank you for helping me get this paper out each week with its stan dards, its story variety and its character, which has now stood for almost a century. Anna Woods, thank you for taking me under your wing and always making me feel like I am supposed to be here. Your guidance, encouragement and inspiration has been critical to my success thus far. All five of you women have made my life so much fuller and I will miss us all working on this paper together.

To all of our assistant editors, writers, production team and all those who contribute, thank you for let ting me lead. I hope this has been a space where you feel passionate, involved and excited about journalism. And to our MC community, thank you for trusting me with your campus news.

Now, I hand it off to Jocelyn Visnov, an incredible journalist and two and a half year member of our staff, who will bring back our traditions next semester.

Thank you all. Let’s do journalism!

Sincerely,

The Search for a New Residence Life Director

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subject to many complaints due to the current condition of the building.

Patricia Rood, a freshmen elementary education major, spoke with The Quadrangle on what she hopes to see in terms of Jasper Hall.

“When things need to get fixed, [I would] appreciate bet ter communication. There’s been broken things in my dorm and me and my roommate have tried to file multiple [work or ders],” Rood said.

Jayda Grullon, a fresh man communications major dorming in Jasper Hall, talked about her expectations for the change in leadership.

“I would love to see some one who takes initiative and cares for the residents of all halls, not just Lee or the people moving into C-block,” Grullon said. “I think people could tell that Jasper lacks a lot of atten tion, so definitely a person that cares for all residents, not just certain groups.”

Residence life also has its own agenda for the coming

years, mainly focused on bring ing together identical experi ences for commuter students and residential students alike.

“The vision for campus life has changed with the new leadership, and they want to make more interactive spaces. They’re interested in having more of a combination of ex periences for residents and commuters so that it’s a shared experience,” Abreu wrote.

Abreu also mentioned ex amples of this facilitation in cluding a meditation room where commuters and resi dents can relax and spend time together without having to be signed into a dormitory hall.

Another plan for residence life is to provide a much more clear and concise residential curriculum, that focuses more on development rather than other objectives.

“The hope is that with a new director, we have new energy, and we’re bringing in new tal ents into the department that align with the current direction … It’s really about moving for ward into what we hope that the residential life experience can be and should be for our students,” Abreu wrote. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

MC Earns Recognition From All in Campus Democracy Challenge

debate watch parties and ear lier this semester there was a vot er engagement event on the quad rangle.

According to the 2020 Na tional Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement (NSLVE), which all in-campus democracy chal lenges use to calculate student voter engagement, the rate among all participating institutions was 66 percent, with Manhattan Col lege being 59.6 percent. That is an increase of 18.3 percent from the 2016 presidential cycle.

“So we’re a little bit lower than average, but we’re making great strides. We’re getting clos er,” Groarke said.

This report is a good tool for seeing what advancements can be made in engagement.

“That’s another good tool that we can use when we’re like, ;kay, we want to make a plan,

‘Oh, look like business majors, how much are they turning out? Maybe we should really focus on them. Since you know, some oth er school has a much better turn out.’ So it’s good to have that,” Martin said.

The campus committee for voter engagement is excited about this recognition and ways administrators and the student body might react.

“I think when we’re recog nized by some outside group for it, it means that people at the col lege are more likely to support what we do. Yeah, it’s like look, ‘we got recognition for this,’ so it helps you know, build the mo mentum on campus,” Groarke said.

Martin encourages students to engage in the vote because it makes your voice heard and might allow you to engage with your interests better.

That’s [casting your vote] sort of like step one, because in our office, we’re thinking a lot

about getting people involved in social action. And so, you know, the very kind of base level way to do that is by voting for the things that you’re interested in the peo ple you think align with what you’re interested in. And then from there, our offices take peo ple to do advocacy, or you know, bringing elected officials to cam pus. We’ve also taken students to go advocate on the Hill for issues that are important to them,” Mar tin said.

Further, Groarke emphasizes that casting your vote early on might create a lifelong trend.

In upcoming elections, Groarke and Martin are looking towards hiring work study stu dents to engage the campus com munity and more members to par ticipate in the campus committee.

“I feel like it’s important for students to show up, to actual ly exercise their right to vote in order for them to see the change that they want in the world. Con sider that there’s so many things

Manhattan College gets recognized by All in Campus De mocracy Callenge.

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going on,” senior student work er for CMSA, Chelsey Leveque, said. “There’s a lot of conflicts, a lot of disagreements in terms of the opinions and ideas. For stu dents, in order for them to try and elicit change, I think it’s [casting

your vote is] important.” said. “There’s a lot of con flicts, a lot of disagreements in terms of the opinions and ideas. For students, in order for them to try and elicit change, I think it’s [casting your vote is] important.”

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ManhattanWelcomesScanner BacktoO’MalleyLibrary

Isaiah Rosario and Andrew Mannion Staff Writers

It’s time for change once again in O’Malley Library. In 2021, students who came to campus needed to show green passes to enter the library. Cur rently, students are able to walk directly into the library without any stoppage. However, in late 2022 or possibly 2023, students will need to scan their student ID to enter the library.

The scanner is located at the front entrance of O’Malley library and students cannot enter the facility without their student ID cards. There is no official date set for when the scanner will be up and running.

Sophomore Colin Ratner spoke to The Quadrangle about how despite the new changes in the library, the library still gives him a place to learn and improve his academic skills.

“Academically, the library has everything you need,” Ratner said. “I’ve used [the li brary] countless times to help research topics for essays es pecially if I can’t find a certain source or particular type of data, the library has my back. On top of that, the printing service is easy, and if I ever do need help a librarian is a hop and a skip away.”

Director of access services and librarian, Amy Handfield,

explained the initiative on in stalling the new identification scanner in front of the library.

“To my knowledge, Kelly Commons has an ID scanner on both doors now,” Handfield said. “Leo and Higgins have a scanner and so does RLC. From what I’ve been told, the scanner being assembled at the door of the library is part of a campus-wide kind of safe ty initiative … [the addition of the scanner is] a campus-wide movement to secure the build ings.”

Although the school is looking to make the campus safer for faculty, staff and stu dents, some students do not see a need for such an initia tive. Freshman Brendan Byrne spoke about his view on the new ID scanner.

“I don’t think it’s neces sary because if you go to the library now, you don’t have to worry about bringing your ID in. [Once the scanning begins] if you forget it you have to walk back to where you left it which would cause a lot of trouble,” Byrne said. “When you go to the library, you just want one thing on your mind. What I would do differently is just take it out. I would let the library be where you get your stuff done without worrying about any thing else.”

Despite some students dis agreeing with the move to inte grate an ID scanner, Handfield

sees the scanner as a needed added level of security.

“Not all security systems are perfect, we all know that,” Handfield said. “If you look at a lot of colleges and universi ties in the New York City area, I can’t think of one that does not have a security system. It’s either a scan with security guards like Fordham — which is a fortress minus the moat — or CUNYs that have a security guard that actively checks IDs and then also swipes and taps turnstiles to get in all academ ic buildings. The benefit would be an extra step to keep our community safe which I believe is why there is a push to have more buildings on campus that have this swipe, tap level of se curity.”

While there are some feel ings of community amongst Manhattan students on cam pus, some think this action sep arates us from the wider com munity.

“It provides a feeling of only Manhattan College resi dents are allowed in it, which is a good feeling but it also pro vides a less open community which is different,” Byrne said.

However, Handfield feels that this move will benefit the workers at the library by mak ing their job easier when it comes to the people they allow in the library.

“When you work in this de partment, you do have to keep

an eye on who’s coming in and also to make sure you know, the environment is conducive

to studying, so I think it would probably make it easier,” Hand field said.

MikeLawler‘09HeadstoCongress

Megan LaCreta Arts & Entertainment Editor

Manhattan College alumni Mike Lawler ‘09 will represent New York in the House of Rep resentatives.

Lawler attended Manhat tan College and majored in ac counting and finance, graduat ing in 2009. He was elected to the New York State Assembly in 2020, representing parts of Rockland County, before set ting his sights on the House this year.

Running as a Republican in New York’s 17th District, Lawl er faced Democrat Sean Malo ney, who previously represent ed New York’s 18th District in Congress and currently serves as the chair of the Democrat ic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). Victory was an unlikely feat, as Lalw

er was given only a 30 in 100 chance of defeating Maloney by FiveThirtyEight leading up to the election. On election day, the Associated Press called the race in Lawler’s favor, with 50.41 percent of the vote to Ma loney’s 49.59.

NY-17 was previously won by Democrat Mondaire Jones in 2020. New York’s maps then underwent redistricting, allow ing Maloney to run for the seat, and leading Jones to run for (and eventually lose his prima ry for) NY-10, inviting criticism of Maloney from many who felt that Jones had been pushed out of his home district, according to Politico.

Politico reported on Nov. 9 that Republicans picked up three House seats in New York, with Lawler’s being one of them. Lawler’s win was a bright spot in a largely disappointing election for the Republican

party. The “red wave” experts predicted did not come to pass, with Democrats maintaining control of the Senate. Howev er, New York departed from the nationwide trend, as politi cal science professor Jonathan Keller, Ph.D., explained.

“There were mini red waves in [New York and California], even though there was a red ripple nationally,” said Keller.

“In New York, it was really a zag while the rest of the coun try seemed to basically idle or zig … So I think Maloney was a victim of this situation. But it was very unusual for the sitting DCCC chair to lose, that’s an extremely unusual event, it’s been a very long time since that’s happened.”

Lawler managed to over come the odds in the district by offering a more moderate form of Republican politics, ex plained Keller.

The midterm elections showed a wide rejection of for mer President Donald Trump’s brand of brash conservative politics, with Republican can didates who distanced them selves from Trump faring bet ter than those who followed his lead.

“[Lawler] ran a very good campaign from what I can tell,” Keller said. “He resisted this MAGA impulse. To a large ex tent he’s not really a particular fan of Trump as far as I under stand it. He focuses energy on criminal justice, bail reform, and these more local ques tions with a conservative posi tion which was detached from Trump and Trumpism, which is pretty smart from my point of view, because moderate voters in district 17 are not going to be into that.”

NPR reported that Lawler has expressed a desire for bi

partisan cooperation.

“I’m going to just be my self and go talk to every sin gle member of Congress from AOC all the way to obviously [Republican] Leader [Kevin] McCarthy,” Lawler said.

Lawler will join the new class in the House in January 2023 alongside 220 other Re publican lawmakers. New York voters and politics buffs alike will likely have an eye trained on the newest Jasper in Con gress.

The scanner is located at the front entrance of O’Malley li brary and students cannot enter the facility without their student ID cards.

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3+3 Law School Program to be Offered in Partnership with St. John’s

Kelly Kennedy Social media editor

The political science pro gram at Manhattan College has recently partnered with St John’s University School of Law to offer an accelerated law program.

This accelerated program is currently only open to first year political science students and has just become available

to students as of 2021.

Adriane Bilous, Ph.D., the assistant director of the center for graduate school & fellow ship advisement and the advi sor for this program, is excited to announce newer offerings to students.

“We’re really excited to build up our pre-law offerings. We’re excited for students to have access to this law school, which is a very well known, well established law school.

I think Manhattan College is small but mighty, and so having these types of relationships are really something that’s exciting for students,” Bilous said.

This program offers stu dents a more accelerated path to a law degree, and gives stu dents a streamlined path to a reputable law school.

Trent Anderson, the asso ciate dean for enrollment and external relations at St. John’s University, explained the logis

tics of the program and how it will accelerate the law curricu lum.

“St. John’s Law and Man hattan College are proud to partner on a 3+3 program that allows Manhattan College students to receive both their bachelors and law degrees in just six years (rather than sev en), by completing their fourth undergraduate year as a first year law student. This saves students both time and mon ey and accelerates the start of their legal careers,” Anderson wrote.

According to manhattan. edu, “The 3+3 Program enables political science majors in the School of Liberal Arts at Man hattan College to become firstyear law students at St. John’s after completing three-quarters of the total number of credit hours required by Manhattan College and a minimum of 6 semesters for the award of a bachelor’s degree. Following the successful completion of the first year of law school, Manhattan College will award the student the B.A. degree, granting credit for the final year of the bachelor’s degree based on successful completion of the first year of the J.D. After satis factorily completing the full de gree requirements for the Juris Doctor program at St. John’s, the student shall be awarded a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from St. John’s University.”

Bilous further explained the structure of the program to The Quadrangle.

“We’d get their GPA results from the first semester, and when they apply in March, they also have to apply to St. John’s law school. For these students, their fourth year, which would usually be a Manhattan Col lege, would be their first year of law school at St. John’s,” Bilous said.

The program is currently only available to first year stu dents who have declared a po

litical science major and have maintained a 3.5 GPA from their first semester. The dead line for students to apply is March 15.

If a student joins this pro gram and doesn’t get through their first year of law school at St. John’s, they must come back to MC to complete their bachelors’ degree.

“The kicker with this, and why I hope that we develop this program more as we move forward, is that if you don’t get through that first year, none of those credits at St. John’s count and you have to come back and finish here,” said Bilous.

Since the program is rela tively new and only available to first year political science students, no students are cur rently enrolled.

“Hopefully, maybe this spring, we’ll have our first stu dent. I think it’s really hard, as a first year student, to actually know that you want to go on to a specific law school so early in your career. It’s a good school, and I hope to meet one or two students who know right off the bat that that’s where they want to go, which is why I hope as we deepen this relationship that we can start to bring in sophomores,” said Bilous.

The start of this program brings new opportunities for students at Manhattan, and as it expands will offer students a more cost-efficient path to a law degree.

Pamela Chasek, Ph.D., chair of the political science de partment, explained the finan cial benefit of enrolling in the program.

“It’s a less expensive path to a law degree. A number of our graduates go to St. John’s anyway. So, it’s a sort of a per fect New York City partner ship,” Chasek said.

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TurnStyle’sWorldTurned UpsideDown

Brooke DellaRocco Staff Writer

On the fifth floor of Thomas Hall there is a tiny room, filled to the brim with clothing, ex ploding with different patterns displayed across the walls. This is TurnStyle. TurnStyle is the non-profit campus thrift store, here at Manhattan College, which allows students to give back to the community while indulging in a bit of retail ther apy. This year they were sup posed to be back, but instead were at a grueling standstill all semester. The problem seems to emerge from a funding is sue inside student engagement that ties back to financial aid, assistant vice president of stu dent life John Bennett told The Quadrangle.

Opened in September of 2021, the program gained its footing in the community with the help of its founder, Liola Moody ‘22. The funding for the project mostly came from the student engagement Office at Manhattan College, where they used money out of their Feder al Work Study Budget from the office of financial aid to allow students to be hired and get paid for their time working in the shop.

The Student Government Association (SGA) also par ticipated with helping out the store, covering day-to-day business costs like hangers, or lights. It was an exciting time for people who enjoyed work ing in retail and customer ser vice as well as shoppers and donors.

When senior Becky Mc Cann stepped up to run the thrift shop this year, she found

out about the funding issues, which were rooted from the original standing amount of money that was provided to the store from student engage ment, originating from finan cial aid.

Unfortunately, the amount was not substantial enough to sustain the store for seven days a week, open to close. This puts the students in a difficult situ ation as the store has to cease to provide work study for many, and only use volunteers in or der to continue their mission with the resources they have. McCann had to think about reducing the hours of busi ness, possibly to just 2-3 days because in addition to the fund ing issues, they do not have enough volunteers.

Senior Colette Barron, a volunteer, is sad to see Mc Cann miss her opportunity to lead the program for the first semester.

“I just think it’s really un called for and I think that she was going to do amazing things and I just wanted to see her do that,” Barron said.

Bennett commented on the issue, and how student engage ment wishes to see the leaders work around it.

“We’re definitely willing to and want to support and fund them again and have money set aside for them, just not for the ‘every hour, multiple student workers per hour, five days a week’. We don’t have funding for that. So really, it’s up to the student leadership and how they want to use the funding that we have,” Bennett said.

Denise Scalzo, executive di rector of financial aid, declined to comment specifically on the funding issues.

This is the second time

Turnstyle has been put on pause. In the spring semester of last year, TurnStyle was put on hold due to a separate is sue with funding. It seems that TurnStyle and student engage ment have run into frequent is sues with their endeavors, with student engagement giving as much help as they can muster.

“The good news is that Stu dent Government is in support of the program, and is current ly exploring the various ways that they can provide additional support to the managers run ning the store this year, which includes funding support,” Sharon Ortega, the assistant di rector of student engagement, wrote in an email to The Quad rangle.

With student engagement and the SGA’s help, the pres sure still falls onto McCann’s shoulders to find a solution and decide how she wants to go about using the funding they do have. Her plan was to keep Liola Moody’s vision going and continue to contribute to the community atmosphere until they started to run into issues in September of 2022.

“From talking to Liola and regaining ownership, I just as sumed I would come in, talk to student engagement, get everything set up again, open the store and do the same thing we did last semester,” McCann said.

The future of TurnStyle is currently up in the air right now with employees and volunteers deciding whether to continue with the thrift shop or find an other opportunity for Federal Work Study elsewhere. Grace Martin, who was supposed to be a federal work study em ployee at Turnstyle, is hoping for the best possible outcome.

“I’m disappointed that a lot of this stuff was not figured out behind the scenes, not Becky’s fault, but in terms of the fund ing. I believe we’ll make a comeback and I think so many people like it, I can’t see it go ing anywhere for good,” Martin said.

Student Engagement also has continued faith in this thrift store, commenting on how the most difficult part of running any business is that first year.

“We want to see them be successful. They’ve already had a very successful first year so there’s no reason why they shouldn’t be successful and be up and running for a year or two. So it’s something we want to see happen,” Bennett said.

With TurnStyle still wait ing to open, small businesses have lost a large sum of their income. Maeve Kirk, who cre ates handmade rings, says the current challenges surround

ing the business have really opened her eyes to how much she enjoyed being featured with TurnStyle and wants the reign of Thomas Hall’s tiny thrift store to continue.

TurnStyle also served as another way for Manhattan Col lege to engage with the Bronx community. All the clothes that are not sold are donated to lo cal charities, donation centers and people in need.

“It’s up to the students. It’s 2:13pm right now, they could open at 2:15pm today if they wanted. So it’s really up to them meeting with Sharon and deciding on what they want their semester to look like,” Bennett said at the beginning of the fall semester. As of early December, Turnstyle has yet to reopen for business.

Interior of TurnStyle Thrift Store.

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The interior of TurnStyle Thrift Store.

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JasperPowerliftersREPresent astrongcommunityattheMC PowerliftingCompetition

Karen Flores Asst. Features Editor

A white board hangs in the MC fitness center with the names of previous Jaspers who showcased their strength and set records within the pow erlifting community. On Dec. 1, current Jaspers put their strengths to the test and set out to put their names on the board during this semester’s power lifting competition.

Jay Ahmed, director of the fitness center, reflected about his first time experiencing the powerlifting competition when he began working in MC during the fall of 2018.

“I first started here in fall 2018,” Ahmed said. “The com petition was just the lift and it was mostly just the close knit powerlifting community com peting. There wasn’t much outreach amongst the gener al population. There were no medals or awards. I think they just got gift cards or something like that. So when I officially became director, I wanted to make the event more exciting by adding showmanship and awards.”

The competition had previ ously been done once a year. Ahmed then began to host it every semester. This semes ter the competition was back in full force after being put on hold due to the pandemic and Ahmed was delighted at the turnout of competitors.

“We were able to do it for about two years and then the

pandemic happened. Some people can’t participate in a certain semester, so we started and ended up expanding to two semesters,” said Ahmed. “I was pleasantly surprised the signup roster filled up after the first day of recruitment for the men’s. At this time, we have three fe males and there will only be 20 males due to time constraints. It’s grown to a large number of interests, which I’m really hap py about.”

The competition consisted of three lifts in the following order: squat, bench and dead lift. The competitors were giv en three attempts for each lift. Their rankings were based on the Schwatz Malone formula, which allows for strength to be determined pound for pound.

“We used the Schwatz Malone formula. What we do is we take your body weight and we add a coefficient that corresponds to said weight. Then we multiply that with the highest weight lifted. That’s how they get their points and how we will rank first, second and third place. So technically, it’s pretty much you’re compet ing against yourself,” explained Ahmed. “If somebody’s the ex act same body weight as you, that’s when things can get real ly close, but overall it’s just you and how much you can lift from your bodyweight.”

Nicholas Cruz, a former stu dent of Ahmed’s, was the judge at the event. He is a powerlifter himself as well as a strength coach at Columbia University. This is Cruz’s third time being

the judge at the powerlifting competition at MC. He enjoys seeing the support and ex citement that comes from the competitors as they test their strength.

“It’s my third time doing it here. The community is awe some. They’re very supportive. Everyone wants each other to succeed. There’s a competi tive aspect to it, but everyone’s still supported the whole way,” Cruz said.

Adriane Torres, a junior computer information systems major with a minor in econom ics, was one out of the three women competing in the com petition. She said that despite there being a small number of women, she hopes that she and her peers can inspire others to join in on these competitions.

“It can be intimidating to start getting into weights es pecially for women who aren’t used to seeing women compete in strength competitions. But even though there’s only three girls here competing, hopefully it can spark an interest in an other girl that’s like, ‘oh, I can do it next because these four girls can do it’,” Torres said.

Steve Matthew, a sopho more computer engineering major, was one of the men partaking in the competition. Matthew believes that the pow erlifting community at Manhat tan is incredibly supportive and welcoming of each other.

“There’s no hate within this community. Everybody sees each other grow and if some one needs help or tips, they are

always there and willing to help you become better and stron ger. It’s great,” Matthew said.

Aleena Jacob, sophomore electrical engineering major, had seen the poster of the pow erlifting competition previously and decided she would go to support Matthew, who is her friend. She was happy to see everyone compete and enjoyed her time there.

“So I saw the flier and was interested and my friend [Steve Matthew] is in the competition, so I’m supporting him. I think it’s [powerlifting] a great way to get active and it’s also a good

community. The competition is great to watch and I’m enjoying it,” said Jacob.

Ahmed hopes that this com petition will spark interest on campus and encourages people to join for the competition next semester.

“We’re really thrilled by the response from the campus community, for the participa tion and just for the interest,” Ahmed said. “So if anyone wants to participate, they’re more welcome to sign up for the spring semester. Everyone is welcome!”

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Aleena Jacob, Musab Yildirim and competitor Steve Matthew at the powerlifing competition.

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CandyClub:Chemical EngineeringwithaTwist

Jocelyn Visnov Web Editor/Production Editor

Corn syrup and materi al science may sound like an unlikely combination at first. However, with experiments led by Connor Bilchak, Ph.D. ’14, students learn how to make their own sweet creations us ing principles of material sci ences as part of the all new Candy Club.

Bilchak, a Manhattan Col lege alum and current visiting assistant professor of chemical engineering, first found inspi ration for Candy Club while preparing experiments for a material science lab.

“I was actually trying to design actual experiments for students to do as part of going through a material science lab,” he said, “And we were going to be looking at how Jolly Ranch ers actually behave when you change their temperature.”

It was then that Bilchak re alized how experiments such

as this one would showcase how principles of material sci ence are found in everyday life.

“At some point, I kind of said that like ‘This isn’t some thing that just materials en gineers care about,’ anyone who’s ever gone trick or treat ing has experienced something with candy,” he said. “So this was something that I could re ally use to just showcase what chemical engineering and what materials engineering can do when we apply it to something more fun.”

Bilchak explained that part of his motivation for Candy Club is to encourage students of all interests and majors to explore concepts in material sciences in a low-stress envi ronment.

“Look, you’ve learned a lot this semester and you’ve worked hard,” he said. “Come and do something that just kind of lets you vent, do something fun, and you know, lets you get to explore some science and engineering but just kind of

like let all that stress out for a bit.“

As the club continues, Bil chak hopes to host “open cook ing hours” which allow stu dents to pick from a variety of recipes and create the candies of their choosing. In the future, the club hopes to tackle mak ing milk shakes and chocolate from raw cacao beans as part of their club activities.

Still in its early stages, the Candy Club has met only a handful of times. The club cur rently plans to meet again on Tuesday, Dec. 6 to make can dy canes in celebration of the holiday season. Bilchak also mentioned that over half of the students who signed up for Tuesday’s candy cane making event are liberal arts majors, rather than science majors.

Candy Club events require students to sign up prior to the event. This allows Bilchak and graduate students to prepare materials for the experiment ahead of time.

Gianna Villani, a chemical

engineering graduate assistant, explained that when Bilchak expressed interest in creating the club, she was on board from the start.

“I was his graduate assis tant and I’ve always loved to research but also I’ve always loved doing something culi nary,” she said. “So everything that I loved was put into one club, but I was interested in it from the second he said it.”

Monsunmola Olowu, a fel low graduate assistant for the chemical engineering depart ment, explained that students

of all majors are welcome to join in on the Candy Club fun.

“If you’re interested, if you’re willing to learn, if you’re willing to have fun, you should definitely come try it,” she said, “ It’s a lot of fun and like I know with a lot of these you can try to make it at home too.”

Keep an eye out for post ers around Kelly Commons and Higgins Engineering and Science building for more in formation on upcoming events with Candy Club.

Bilchak, a Manhattan College alum and current visiting assis tant professor of chemical engineering.

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Candy Club events require students to sign up prior to the event. This allows Bilchak and graduate students to prepare materials for the experiment ahead of time.

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Cabaret Tells Us What We Missed on Glee

Kyla Guilfoil Editor-in-Chief

The Manhattan College Players’ “Cabaret” is returning this semester with the larg est cast in recent years and a theme which incorporates pop culture alongside its traditional theater focus.

John O’Connor and Rich ard Divirgilio, both seniors, are leading the production as co-di rectors this semester. Their choice of theme: And here’s what you missed on Glee.

The theme, an homage to the hit television series “Glee,” incorporates both pop music and show tunes, the directors said.

Every song in this semes ter’s Cabaret has been per formed on the show, O’Connor said. Divirgilio told The Quad rangle that after presenting two ideas to the Players board, “Glee” was chosen since it was “more accessible to people our age and allows for flexibility with song choices.”

The show will feature 30 cast members, more than O’Connor can remember par ticipating in his four years on

campus.

“We think that that’s what brought in a bigger crowd this year,” O’Connor said. “It’s for those who don’t necessarily love show tunes or are uncom fortable with it, they have the option to sing like pop music as well.”

O’Connor said traditional theater music will still be show cased, but complemented with more modern pop songs, all as featured on “Glee.” O’Connor mentioned “Cell Block Tango,” a song from the Broadway mu sical, “Chicago,” as well as “Ru mor Has It” and “Someone Like You” by Adele.

O’Connor and Divirgilio have both participated in Caba ret over the last few years. Last spring, the pair co-assistant di rected Cabaret, and knew they wanted to work together as co-directs this fall. In this pro duction, O’Connor is the lead choreographer and Divirgilio has taken the lead on the music side of things.

O’Connor also has an as sistant choreographer for the production, freshman Brooke Dellarocco.

“Brooke and I are on the dance team together and one of

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our bonding points from when we met in the beginning of our season was both doing theater [in high school],” O’Connor told The Quadrangle. “Brooke was just talking about being in Players, being involved in the performing arts and I was like, we have essentially a great op portunity.”

O’Connor said this role will help Dellarocco if she wishes to be a head director herself in the future.

Divirgilio told The Quadrangle that the production is on its way to a great opening night.

“Rehearsals have run very smoothly as many of the songs we have planned for the show are well-known; many of the cast members came in already knowing their music,” Divirgil io told The Quadrangle.

Julia Melchiorre, a senior adolescent education and histo ry double major, is performing

in “Cabaret” this semester for the third time.

Melchiorre, who will be both singing and dancing in the production, said her home region of Southern California is home to competitive show choirs. She even performed on a stage which was used in “Glee”, Melchiorre told The Quadrangle.

Melchiorre said that host ing the performance on cam pus, at the Black Box Theater, will make the performance even more special.

“I am most excited about getting to see the audience’s reactions when we perform the songs,” Melchiorre said. “Since the Cabaret is in the Black Box, the performers have a closer connection to the audience and it is super fun to get them in volved. I’m looking forward to that energy.”

O’Connor said there will be solos, duets and trios in

the show featuring a variety of songs. The performers range from members of Players to Jasper Dancers to members of the college’s orchestra. Some will sing, others will dance and many will do both.

“I am most excited for cast members to get the opportuni ty to perform songs that they truly love in front of a live audi ence,” Divirgilio said. “As a di rector, it has been such a gift to see how excited they are about it.”

The Players will perform Cabaret on Dec. 8, 9 and 10 in Black Box Theater. For more information, visit @playersmc on Instagram.

Editor’s note: Brooke Della rocco, who is mentioned in this article, is a staff writer for The Quadrangle.

Directors John O’ Conner and Richard Divirgillio from last December’s Cabaret prefor mance.

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“We think that that’s what brought in a bigger crowd this year,” O’Connor said.

A Quadrangle Review: Player’s Enemy of the People is One For the People

Adrianne Hutto Production Editor

The Manhattan College fall play this year was “Enemy of the People” by Ibsen, a play which took on an extremely prevalent theme with heavy hefty dialogue for the actors. The set was that of an 1800s town, the period in which the piece was written, with features which drew the audience in and costumes that added to the realism of the story.

Matthew Herlihy, a senior at MC, played Doctor Thom as Stockman, the lead of the play who discovers the public baths, which the prosperity of the town is dependent on, are contaminated and making people sick. When he refuses to be silent on the matter, he is declared the “enemy of the people.”

Prior to “Enemy of the Peo ple,” Herlihy has been a part of last semester’s production “Play On!” as Henry. He was one of the backup nominees for the Irene Ryan Award after his performance in the spring.

While Herlihy auditioned as the lead, he was not going in expecting to get the role.

“It was an amazing surprise to be able to get the lead part,” Herlihy said. “I at first went in auditioning as a lead, because I was given the advice to try out for the lead, to just give it a shot, and get any of the other parts. I was extremely surprised when I got called back for the lead and even more surprised when I got the part.”

Herlihy explained that his favorite part of being in the show was the opening night.

“We had so much nerves before then, we weren’t really sure if we were going to be able to do it,” Herlihy said. “That relief that we all felt after was absolutely the best part of the whole play.”

Olivia Bailey is a freshman at MC and played the second lead and the brother of Dr. Thomas Stockman, Mayor Pe ter Stockman. A part which Bailey played with extreme pre cision and skill, not limited by her age or gender [the charac ter male and her being female]. Being so young, Bailey enjoyed being able to establish herself in her role.

“As a freshman, it was an extremely rewarding experi ence to be surrounded by such talented actors,” Bailey said.

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While the dialogue was dif ficult for this particular play, Bailey explained it as a neces sary evil in making the play as good as it was. “It was difficult navigating the way of speaking for its specific era, but it really helps to show who the charac ters are and how they present themselves based on the lan guage used,” Bailey said.

Bailey explained that her favorite part of each show is al ways the last.

“Last shows are always the best in my opinion because it’s when you let a good thing go,” Bailey said. “I just leave it all on the stage and have fun with it.”

Another important char acter in the play was Hovstad, played by Richard [RJ] Giannic chi, a senior at MC. Giannic

chi’s character is the editor of the local liberal newspaper in the town, which originally sides with Dr. Stockman but ul timately folds when comforted by the mayor.

While it was thrilling to re ceive such a large role, Giannic chi was not expecting it and explained that it was somewhat nerve-wracking.

“It felt good to do but it’s like, you know, it’s kind of like looking at it from the top of the mountain to the base of it,” Giannicchi said. “It was a very perilous climb, but I’m glad I did it.”

Giannicchi liked acting in “Enemy of the People” because of the relevancy of the story despite being written over 100 years ago.

“I just like how the feeling of this show and the story is still very much relevant today,” Giannicchi said. “This expert knows that there is this killer virus going around and no one seems to really care.”

As for students who desire to get involved with theater at MC, Herlihy encourages you to go for it, and leave your dignity at the door when you do.

“You can’t take yourself too seriously and you can’t be afraid of people laughing at you, be cause you will just regret it lat er,” Herlihy said. “Don’t let oth ers hold you back and commit yourself 100% to it and you will do great, the audience can tell when you are being authentic.”

Herlihy and Bailey face off in a confrontational scene be tween two estranged brothers.

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Jasper Alum Courtney Warley Shoots for her Goals in Portugal

Carter Silane Contributor

Courtney Warley, a key player to the Manhattan Col lege women’s basketball team, finished her final season in 2021-2022. Warley ended her career with over 1,000 points and rebounds as well as being ranked as fourth in the history of the Manhattan College wom en’s basketball program.

“As coaches, we dream about players like Courtney Warley,” said Alexandra Bas setti, former assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the Manhattan College Wom en’s basketball team. “She was extremely coachable. […] She was an incredible ambassador for our program and college.”

During her last season playing at MC, Warley turned to her coaches for guidance in continuing her career in profes sional basketball.

“Originally when I first got to Manhattan, I didn’t want to play professionally after,” said Warley. “My last couple years there, they were just so enjoy able on and off the court, I kind of realized I re-fell in love with the game again and I kind of re alized I don’t want to give it up right now.”

Since Warley left Man hattan College, she has taken her basketball skills to Lisbon, Portugal where she is now con tinuing her professional career playing as the center for S.L. Benfica.

“I didn’t really know what to expect coming into this, I was definitely a little nervous,” said Warley. “But I walked onto a very established team al

ready, which helped.”

Callan Stores, assistant coach of the Manhattan Col lege women’s basketball team, played a key role in helping Warley pursue her passion in basketball outside of college, as Stores also played professional ly for S.L. Benfica.

“When I told the coaches that I wanted to play next year, she loved her experience here on and off the court, so she was like let me see if I can talk to this team for you,” Warley said. “She was the link between me and here.”

“I was very supportive in her efforts to play overseas,” Bassetti said. “But Coach Callan and Coach Vulin were instrumental in connecting her with teams, players and agents.”

Playing for a new team for the first time in five years, all the way across the world has been a bit of an adjustment for Warley. However, being able to connect with friends and family from home has made it an easi er transition for her.

“My family and the team still at Manhattan, I am texting at least one of them every sin gle day,” Warley said. “So back

home has helped a lot.”

The language barrier does not seem to be having an effect on Warley as her coach and teammates speak English well. However, the pace of basketball has been a shock for her com pared to what she is used to at home and at Manhattan Col lege.

“The European basketball style of play is really different than the U.S. style of play, just in general,” Warley said. “A dif ferent type of basketball, a dif ferent style, so that was a little challenging to get used to … but it’s been good.”

That being said, Warley has been very keen on the time that she has spent in Portugal with her new team.

“Team-wise, we are doing very well,” Warley said. “The girls are amazing and the coach is a great coach as well. Collec tively we are doing very well.

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We just passed our phase in the Euro Cup to move onto the next phase, which is nice.”

Playing for S.L. Benfica is only the first step in Warley’s professional career. This Jasper alum has a hopeful profession al basketball career in store for her whether she continues to play overseas or eventually re turn to the U.S.

“I definitely want to con tinue playing basketball for the next couple years,” War ley said. “I don’t think I want to come back to the U.S., as much as I do love basketball I also love what it brings me and right now it is bringing me see ing the world, seeing different cultures and seeing different people and I really like that as pect of what I am doing right now.”

My last couple years there, they were just so enjoyable on and off the court, I kind of realized I re-fell in love with the game again and I kind of realized I don’t want to give it up right now,” said Warley.

Jaspers Defeat Stags in a Tense MAAC Opener

Mary Haley Staff Writer

The Jaspers hosted the Fairfield Stags on Friday, Dec. 1 for an intense start to MAAC conference play, ending with a close win for the Jaspers.

The Jaspers’ initial press de fense wasn’t successful against the Stags, but they started catching up at the end of the first half resulting in a score of 56-53.

RaShawn Stores, the team’s Interim Head Coach, made an opening statement at the post-

game press conference on the team’s rough start and on what to expect for the rest of confer ence play.

“It was a great way espe cially to open up [the season], trying to set the tone and just to continue to show that we grow one day at a time, one game at

a time,” Stores said. “We just came back from London. [It was] a long trip, I think that’s what kind of contributed to the flat start.”

The second half started with a three point lead from Fairfeild and progressed to a

tie at 34 with a three-point shot by fifth-year point guard Nick Brennen.

Quickly after Brennen’s bucket, Ant Nelson, a fifth-year point guard, gave the Jaspers a two-point lead. At 36-34, the Jas pers proved that they are a fair match for Fairfield’s powerful offense and reliable defense. Nelson expressed what he felt the team could work on for the rest of the season when asked by The Quadrangle at the postgame press conference.

“Definitely rebounding, I feel like we have given teams a lot of second chance points,” Nelson said. “We have been do ing a better job of taking care of the ball. […] We are chopping out turnovers now each game.”

Brennen and Nelson held the majority of the stats for the game, with Nelson leading the team to a 46-41 lead with an other steal, bettering the team in the second half. While the win wasn’t pretty, the Jaspers pulled off a 56-53 win in their first MAAC game of the sea son.

When asked how the team was able to conquer in the sec ond half after the slow start in the first, Stores shared that it was a team effort that got them there.

“We continue to face adver sity. Since the beginning when it all started it was adversity and a challenging time,” Stores said. “I think these guys con tinue to trust each other day in and day out, more and more as we keep going into the season.”

Ending the press confer ence, Nelson was asked why he has stayed at Manhattan de spite former head coach Steve Masiello being dismissed, and after some star players subse quently leaving.

“I trust, and with Coach Stores has planned for us, his message, his mission, [that] this team is going to be spe cial,” Nelson said. “We’re going to shock a lot of people.”

The Jaspers proved Nel son’s point in their first game with a comeback win after a slow start to their first confer ence game. With the 2022-2023 basketball season just begin ning, the Jaspers are prepared to prove their skill and talent to the rest of the conference.

Players leap in excitement after a tense game ends with a win for the Jaspers. GOJASPERS/COURTESY