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November One Manhattan Updates Nicole Fitzsimmons News Editor

Jaspers Win Annual Battle of the Bronx Manhattan College men’s basketball team beat Fordham 66-60 on Nov. 12.

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The First College-Wide Campus Climate Survey Indicates Feelings of Inequity and Exclusion for Minorities at MC Kyla Guilfoil & Karen Flores Asst. News Editor & Staff Writer The first college-wide campus climate survey was presented by the Office of Mission and the Diversity Council at a town hall meeting wherein feelings of inequity and exclusion were particularly reported by people of color, LGBTQ+ identifying individuals and commuter students.

The town hall took place on Wednesday, Oct. 27 and was based on qualitative and quantitative data compiled by the Diversity Council, under the office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). While the DEI office has conducted campus climate surveys before, this was the first to include all college students and employees, and to be presented in a public forum.

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Alixandria James, junior public health major, and Rani Roy, assistant professor of public health, presented the data that was collected and analyzed from the campus climate survey.

The quantitative data measured demographics, and was given through 43 multiple choice questions on the survey.

From this data, it was reported that the responses were made up of 12 percent undergraduate students, 13 percent graduate students, 55 percent faculty and 53 percent staff/administration. Additionally, James noted there was a higher response rate among people of color.

The survey reported that 71 percent of individuals were satisfied with the college. Within that, there were lower satisfaction rates reported from people of color, women, non-binary or transgender individuals and disabled students.

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itative data, James and Roy presented the questions which made respondents answered, which included inquiries about the college’s sense of community; courses, student-led organizations, departments and/ or offices that improved or diminished experiences regarding inclusivity and diversity; and effects that lead students to either report or not report instances of harassment or discrimination.

Roy explained the different forms of harrassment and discrimination, which includes but is not limited to racial/ethnic profiling, being intimidated/ bullied, being stared at, receiving derogatory remarks, being deliberately ignored, isolated, left out or excluded.

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Manhattan College continues to evaluate the COVID-19 presence on campus and the precautions that should be taken to prevent the spread of the virus approaching the end of this semester.

In an email sent to the Manhattan College community on Nov. 11, OneManhattan stated that there were no active cases of COVID-19 on campus currently. This good news is accompanied by the statistic of 34 recovered cases since the start of the semester. The email includes links to updated information and statistics on COVID-19 in New York City, New York State and the entirety of the United States.

The college is still trying to keep up with precautionary measures to prevent future cases. Regular COVID-19 testing is available on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Smith Auditorium.

Students experiencing any COVID-like symptoms can make appointments during Health Services hours from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and be tested inside the offices located in Horan Hall.

In the upcoming month, the email notes multiple testing dates before and after Thanksgiving break on a more irregular schedule. On Tuesday, Nov. 30, regular testing on Tuesdays and Wednesdays will resume for the remainder of the fall semester and will conclude on the last test date of Monday, Dec. 20, before Christmas.

Testing will then resume on Tuesday, Jan. 4. A complete testing schedule can be found in the college’s calendar linked in the email.

To keep up with updates to the COVID-19 vaccination requirements, the email states that the college is currently not requiring students to receive booster vaccinations. Yet, students can update their vaccination status if they have gotten the booster with proof by clicking the link in the email.

The cold winter months present a challenge to the college during this pandemic era.

Since any illness can make someone more susceptible of COVID, it will be important for the college to prepare for flu

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season. Promising results have been noted by the college in terms of the flu season, as One Manhattan reported the lowest ever amount of flu cases for this time of year. Nonetheless, students are still reminded to wear a mask when indoors per CDC guidelines.

“We have seen fewer flu cases on campus so far this year than before the pandemic.

There is a similar trend happening worldwide, based on data provided by the World Health Organization,” the email stated.

Cases of viruses on campus have been fewer, and hospitalizations remain low in the area, but the email states that COVID-19 cases are rising nationwide. New York City does seem to be approaching a plateau.

The college reminds students to stay safe on campus and follow the necessary steps to ensure there are no outbreaks on campus, especially following the recent slowness of infections and a very successful fully in person semester.

“Report your symptoms on the daily symptom tracker each day you’re on campus. These actions will help us maintain a lower incidence of flu and a lower spread of COVID-19,” the email stated.

In other COVID-19 news, New York City health officials announced that all adults 18 years or older are now eligible ot receive a COVID-19 booster vaccine. This expanded eligibilty was announced on Monday, Nov. 16. Adults must allow for enough time to pass from their primary series. For those who recevied Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, they must wait six months prior to receivng the ir booster. While, those who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, there is only a two month wait period. According to a tweet from the NYC health commissioner, Dr. Dave Chokshi, as of the monring of Nov. 15 “over 630,000 New Yorkers have already received an additional dose.”

The College has yet to announce any updated guidance or requirements reagrding the booster vaccine.

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The Editorial Board Anna Woods Editor-in-Chief

Maria Thomas Managing Editor

Jilleen Barrett Managing Editor Arts & Entertainent Editor

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Kelly Cwik Asst. Arts & Entertainment Editor

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LETTER from The Editor Dear Readers, These past two weeks have been incredibly exciting for us Jaspers.

On November 2nd one of our articles, “Manhattan College Opens Its Doors To Unvaccinated Coach,” was featured in The New York Post. Congratulations to Cari McCarthy and Maddie Mulkigan for all of their hardwork!

On top of that, our men’s basketball team won the annual Battle of the Bronx against Fordham on Friday Nov. 12. The 6th borough did not disappoint as the stands were packed with cheering fans.

Read more about it in “Jaspers Shock Fordham in Battle of the Bronx Classic,” by senior writer Pete Janny.

It is more important than ever that we celebrate our wins and cheer on our fellow Jaspers. This week’s issue is full of stories that do exactly that.

Until next time.

Sincerely,

Anna Woods

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harrassment as very active things, but exclusion itself is considered a form of discrimination and harrassment,” Roy said at the presentation.

James and Roy then presented four hypotheses that were developed through a socio-ecological outcomes model of student perception. Within these, there were two positive and two negative hypotheses, the first being positive contributors of Manhattan College Lasallian mission and commitment to diversity. For this hypothesis, there were negative results overall, but there were a significant number of individuals who reported a student-led organization, department or office that improved their experience.

The second positive hypothesis was that academic initiatives and student interactions improved experiences at MC. The results here were an overall positive response to academic initiatives, but an overall negative response to student interactions. This is largely due to microaggressions that occur within the college.

The first of the negative hypotheses was that spatial and symbolic components of the physical campus negatively affected experiences at the college. Students of color reported that they do not feel that support, equity and inclusion that is shown through images on campus. Further, individuals reported that they do not feel the campus is conducive for those with disabilities. The results also found that discrepancies in spatial and resource accessibility exacerbate the divide between commuter students and resident students.

Finally, a negative hypothesis was rooted in the organization of on-campus extracurricular events and how that affects individuals. The results demonstrated that there was an overall positive effect made by the organization of on-campus events, with groups such as the LWGRC and BSU offering positive experiences for individuals, but there is still a need for more accessible campus events, particularly for commuter students.

Overall, the campus climate survey found that US persons of color, LGBTQ+, non-binary and transgender people, people with disabilities, liberal individuals and cisgender women felt less supported than their counterparts.

To address this, the Diversity Council proposed programs and groups to advocate for these individuals. One focus was the LGBTQ+ community at MC, with a new task force being established by the DEI of-

fice and led by Rocco Marinaccio, Ph.D., English professor and faculty advisor of Rainbow Jaspers, and Tiffany French, dean of engineering. Additionally, the Diversity Council will make an option on JasperConnect and Gmail available to manhattan.edu emails to add in pronouns.

To better represent commuter students, who now make up at least 50 percent of the college’s student population, the Diversity Council hopes to obtain at least one space that can be dedicated to commuter students on campus. At the town hall, a representative added that a proposal for a Rent-ARoom program is being developed by the Diversity Council, wherein commuter students could rent rooms on campus during storms, busy academic periods or just to spend time with other resident students.

The Council hopes this will allow commuter students to have more accessibility on campus.

According to Sheetal Kale, Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, the DEI office is also looking into giving commuter students more accessible class schedules and pushing for events and extracurriculars on campus to be held earlier in the day to account for commuter students’ transportation needs. The work for commuter students will be under the leadership of the Council’s newly formed retention committee.

To respond to feelings of inequity and exclusion regarding campus symbols and imagery, the Diversity Council is planning a mural that would celebrate the college’s community of color. The mural was first pitched to President O’Donnell by the Black Student Union, and has gained the support of the DEI office to bring it to life. Kale shared that the mural will be designed by Tigay Muhammed, and the DEI office hopes to fundraise in the coming weeks so that the mural could be finished and on campus by the end of this academic year.

To respond to the instances of bias education and response as well as microaggressions, the Diversity Council is planning to jumpstart a new method of communication through the creation of a bias education response form. This form will allow for people to complain either anonymously or non anonymously about the instances of bias and microaggressions they have experienced.

Kale states that oftentimes people feel discouraged by the current process of reporting these events as they do not have the option of anonymity and does require formal investigation. While the previous process will still be available,

the bias education response will allow for there to be an informal way to educate, change the culture and create a social justice approach in regards to bias without the investigations and disciplinary aspects.

Kale explained to The Quadrangle that last year the Diversity Council really had to focus on recommendations and developing their data, as the group was only formed last fall.

This year, however, the implementation of actual programs and initiatives is an important priority for the DEI office.

“This year is all about the implementation,” Kale said.

“So this year on the Diversity Council we have a different structure. So, the way I thought about the ongoing structure of our Diversity Council is to focus on a priority for one year, get recommendations, and then implementation the following year, along with a new group that’s become a priority.

So what I’m trying to do for this year is take all of the working group recommendations and have a plan for implementation, and have a new working group called the Anti-Racist Task Force. And they would be responsible for implementing the ideas put forth by all of the working groups from last year.”

This year, based on the results of the campus climate survey, Kale explained that the

three working groups to gain recommendations are going to be the LGBTQ+ Task Force, a group dedicated to continuous assessment of DEI metrics and a group specifically devoted to the college’s status as a Hispanic serving institution.

Kale said that in order to be able to honestly and transparently talk about equity and inclusion, the ideas had to come from the most impacted and marginalized members of the community. The three groups were formulated to tailor to these marginalized and impacted groups, and have representatives from the student body, staff, faculty and administration.

The LGBTQ+ Task Force will focus on the group’s representation and inclusion and is currently being formed under Marinaccio and French’s leadership. The group focused on continuous assessment of DEI metrics will be regularly reporting and assessing data such as was included in the campus climate survey. Finally, the third of these groups will work to make sure that the college is truly serving its hispanic population, rather than just enrolling hispanic individuals.

Kale told The Quadrangle that providing the community with productive information is a main priority. She shared that the Rent-A-Room proposal, the

mural and the discrimination and harrassment form were three tangible projects that she was excited to be offering the community.

“I hate the thought of being performative, and not actually doing something, so I really wanted tangible measures, and initiatives to talk about,” Kale said in an interview. “I really wanted to focus on tangible stuff, not just more committees, and more recommendations. I know people get tired of hearing about that.”

Kale told The Quadrangle that having a public forum to discuss the results of the campus climate survey was a primary concern.

“This is really something I wanted to do and in the interest of transparency, we wanted to share data and make it clear where our strengths are, but also obviously where we had opportunities for much needed growth and improvement,” Kale said. “We do have problems, however I am feeling positive about our ability to address them, if not solve them. For the first time, we actually have a plan for implementation.”

James added to this sentiment, and told The Quadrangle, “No matter the institution, All colleges have their problems, but what makes a good institution great, is how they work on improving them.”

From left to right pictured above is Rani Roy, Alixandria James, Calissa McNeely, Sheetal Kale and Brother Jack. @MC_LWGRC / COURTESY

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O’Malley School of Business Announces a New Masters in Accounting Jocelyn Visnov & Mack Olmstead

Asst. Production Editor & Staff Writer The O’Malley School of Business recently announced their brand new Master of Science In Accounting (MSA) program, coming to Manhattan College in the fall semester of 2022.

The new MSA program reaches out for a large audience as it opens the door for non-business students, not to mention also allowing students from outside of Manhattan College.

This program has been in development since fall 2020.

The program was developed by the chair, Fengyun Wu, Ph.D., professor of accounting, computer and information sciences and law, with the rest of the accounting department and the dean of the O’Malley School of Business, Don Gibson. The program was developed within four months and then started the approval process which took about a year.

“The main goal is to really help students who are not accounting majors or do not have expertise in accounting. So, this is a program that consists entirely of accounting courses,” Wu said.

It is important to note that the MSA is different from the MBA program, also offered within the O’Malley School of Business. The MBA in Professional Accounting is a 5-year program for business students at MC who are currently majoring in accounting, whereas the MSA is meant for students who have taken business core

classes, but did not major in accounting for their undergraduate degree. The MSA is also open to students who did not complete undergraduate coursework at MC. The MSA will be a 30-credit stand alone one-year program.

The program will be open for any major so long as you have a business background with 36 credits. The core classes part of this curriculum are, ACCT601 Intermediate Financial Accounting, ACCT602 Accounting Information Systems, ACCT603 Federal Income Tax, ACCT604 Advanced Financial Accounting and ACCT605 Auditing and Assurance Services.

Outside of the core curriculum students will also have to take five accounting electives.

After the course students will be given the opportunity to take the test to get a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license, qualifying them to enter the accounting profession after graduation. With the CPA license it is more likely that a student would end up with a high paying position with job security. To make this program more accessible, the program will be online with asynchronous courses and weekly live sessions.

Although this program is not going to begin until the fall of 2022, some students were able to get a small head start in this program by taking ACCT 612 Forensic Accounting. This was a brand new class introduced and is a part of the new initiative Manhattan College is taking. Next semester, Manhattan College is offering ACCT 610 Govt. and Not-for-Profit Acct., which could be used as one of the five electives needed

for the program.

Aileen Farrelly, assistant dean of the O’Malley School of Business, explained that the MSA in accounting is ideal for those who may have gained an interest in accounting late in their coursework. “[Accounting] is so much more exciting than it used to be and you get to get involved in more of your interests, like within different industries,” she said. “Having the certified CPA certification gets you in the door to these places, or on your way at least … All of our accounting majors that do the BS/MBA in professional accounting have jobs when they graduate, every single one of them. We are at 100% placement.”

Sachy Figueroa, a freshman accounting major, went to Manhattan College’s Graduate Expo where she first learned of the MSA program. She thought highly of the program and is excited for its start.

“I think that’s a very good opportunity and I think a lot of students, once they are familiar with that program, will want to become a part of it,” Figueroa said.

The leadership of the business program at Manhattan is excited to see the opportunities yielded for students with the start of the MSA. Gibson is proud of this new program and wanted to explain what it could do for a student’s future.

“This is a degree for those students who got their business degree but didn’t choose to major in accounting, they can still have this profession and prepare themselves for the CPA,” Gibson said. “So, this de-

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Wu shares similar sentiments towards the program.

“I really think that this is an important program for the growth of our own accounting program itself, it also really meets the demand for our own non accounting business ma-

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jors and so it is an important program for us,” she said. “It builds upon the strength of our existing accounting program.

We have a very strong faculty.

This program will build upon the strengths we already have at the O’ Malley School of Business, and I hope we can have a strong start for this MSA program.”

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WAGS Student Brown Bag: Caroline King Sheds Light on Forgotten Feminist Heroes Kyla Guilfoil

Asst. News Editor Manhattan College junior Caroline King presented her research regarding Black women and their role in early Marxist feminism during last week’s Women and Gender Studies (WAGS) Student Brown Bag event. King, a double major in history and international studies with a WAGS minor, titled her presentation “Where Credit is Due: How Black Women Changed the Course of Marxist Feminism.”

Nefertiti Takla, Ph.D., professor of history and coordinator of the WAGS minor, introduced King at the event, “[King] is passionate about amplifying the voices of the unheard and underrepresented women, to make feminism more inclusive.”

King’s work came from a research paper that she had completed in Takla’s global feminism course last spring.

King explained that Takla had assigned a semester-long research paper that could be anything, as long as it was a global issue that also involved feminism. King had taken im-

mediate interest in the topic of Marxist feminism, and her research evolved to show her who the real key players in the Marxist feminism movement were.

In her presentation, King explained that Marxist feminism had its roots in Russia and Germany during the 1920s, and was revived in the 1970s in the US during the Wages for Housework Movement. The white women of the 1970s are often credited with the radicalization of Marxist feminism, but King argues that it was Black women in the 1940s that did so first.

In the global feminism course, King learned about 1970s US feminists Kate Millet, who introduced the term “patriarchy,” and Silvia Federici, who argued that if housework was paid as other work is, it would no longer be the norm for the female gender to be responsible for all housework.

However, Black women had already posed radical Marxist feminist ideas in the 1940s, decades before the second wave feminism of the 1970s.

King took special attention to profile Claudia Jones: a femi-

nist, activist, communist, Marxist and Black nationalist, who was originally from Trinidad and Tobago. Jones published “An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman” in 1949, which King argued as the blueprint for the foundations of Marxist feminism.

The work highlighted the unique plight of Black women, which could be addressed through Marxism and Communism. Jones established the theory of “super-exploitation,” which was an early form of intersectionality that tied together three forms of oppression: worker, woman worker, Black woman worker.

King explained that Jones articulated that Black women’s oppression did not come from capitalism alone, but rather from multiple lenses of their identities. According to King, Jones specifically highlighted domestic Black women workers who were not protected by labor unions or minimum wage laws and were subject to rights violations and assault. Black women returned home from taking care of a white family to begin taking care of their own in “unwaged housework.”

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King also shared with the audience that this was her first real attempt at a developed research paper. King attributed Takla for providing consistent guidance through the process. @MC_LWGRC / COURTESY

ment by profiling Frances Beal, who King called a Black feminist and political activist that was “ revolutionary in nature and expressed the importance of dismantling systems of oppression rather than upholding them.”

Beal pointed out that Black women never had the luxury of being stay at home mothers, and instead always had to go out and work as well as perform unwaged housework in their own homes because of the racial and class oppression of Black men. Beal called this idea “Double Jeopardy,” which King compared to Jones’ “super-exploitation.” “[Jones and Beal’s] experience of race, class and gender exploitation as Black women led them to the understanding that capitalism is not the only societal oppressor,” King said during her presentation.

King explained that her presentation was intended to give credit to the Black women whose feminism is not recognized in the same way that white feminism is.

“A lot of times my research focused on crediting earlier Black women, because we often look at white, liberal feminism, and how white women are often given all this credit in feminism,” King told The Quadrangle. “Sometimes white women forget or neglect the intersectionality or inclusion of other marginalized women. They fail to remember that a lot of these women are not just oppressed by gender, but also through their skin color, through their class and through a lot of other marginalizing factors that often white women neglect and forget about.”

During the event’s question period, Ashley Cross, Ph.D., professor of English, asked King to reflect on her position as a white woman presenting about Black women who had historically been excluded from the conversation by white women.

“I am a white woman presenting about Black women, so it’s an interesting line to walk on,” King said. “How do I honor these women, without appropriation? I think that one way we can do this is by incorporating more of these Black women’s work into the classroom first. So, maybe when we talk about Marxist feminism, we talk about Claudia Jones before Silvia Federici, since in chronological, historical order, her work came first. I think that definitely takes a lot of reflection to kind of overcome our identity and implicit biases as historians.”

King continued to explain that when she first was introduced to Marxist feminism in Dr. Takla’s course, she was

very impressed by Federici’s work. However, she realized that she needed to give more credit to the women that had already begun making claims about Marxist feminism before Federici. “[I] realize[d] she doesn’t deserve all of this credit, you know, women came before her, who were experiencing things she never could have possibly imagined,” King said. “So, I think really reflecting on those implicit biases is the only way that we can really overcome these discrepancies and inequalities in liberal feminism.”

Jonathan Keller, Ph.D., professor of political science, asked King whether she thought it was truly encapsulating to call what Jones and Beal did as Marxism. King agreed that these women dissected Marxism and feminism to become something that they had not been before.

“Women like Claudia Jones take this idea of deconstructing capitalism as a way of ending sexism and gender oppression, but she’s adding in her own experience of racial oppression as well,” King said. “So, I guess we kind of have to recontexualize, or reorganize, how we see Marxism feminism through that lens...“Maybe it deserves a new name because they really take Marxism past where it originally began.”

King also shared with the audience that this was her first real attempt at a developed research paper. King attributed Takla for providing consistent guidance through the process.

Through her research and ability to question the traditional understanding of radicalized Marxist feminism, King used the WAGS Brown Bag event as a way to give Black women the recognition that she believes they deserve. This practice is something that King hopes to expand upon after her time at MC. “I’d love to go to law school, and eventually I’d love to work as a judge. I’d love to work for the American Civil Liberties Union, and just kind of working to level the playing field for people, advocate for women’s rights, for Black women’s rights, etc.,” King told the Quadrangle.

“Caroline is a sharp, inquisitive and insightful student who is deeply committed to social and racial justice,” Takla told The Quadrangle. “For this reason, it was a pleasure to work with her in my Global Feminisms course last semester.

The significance of Caroline’s work lies in its potential to bring the theoretical contributions of Black Marxist feminists to the center of historical narratives about Marxist feminism in general.”

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Early Bird Café Rises in North Riverdale RIVERDALE RISES Jilleen Barrett A&E Editor

Heather Kim and Katie Mayer needed a pick-me-up place to diversify food and drink options in North Riverdale. So, they took matters into their own hands and created the Early Bird Cafe.

“We are two women from the neighborhood, and Katie’s lived here her whole life and I moved here several years ago,” Kim said. “And you know, we became friends and one thing that we always said and that we’ve always heard from our group and other people that there should be a coffee shop in the neighborhood. A place that people can go get great food, get coffee … it’s kind of like a cheap thrill, it makes you feel good, it comforts you and it’s, you know, two bucks. So, you know, but we also wanted to be good coffee and a comfortable seat.”

In addition to coffee, their menu lists smoothies, bowls, avocado toast, tea and baked goods. They have an assortment of baked goods, which are outsourced from several bakeries in the tri-state area.

“You’ve got to get in early to get the baked goods,” they said. “The baked goods fly out of here.”

They get gluten free, dairy free and kosher products from ByTheWay Bakery and rave about the bundt cakes from Dutch Baby. Mayer says the donuts from Donut Plant barely last two hours and the scones from Balthazar Bakery, despite being sugar reduced, are well-enjoyed as well.

The business partners’ favorite thing to eat in their cafe, however, are the acai bowls.

They have several types of bowls, including acai, green and chia, and all come with fruit and granola toppings. Kim and Mayer love to have them with nut butters.

“You can’t get [acai bowls] in the neighborhood, but I actually think that ours is superior to even places where they do make them all the time,” Kim said. “You know it’s just like the right mixture of the acai and granola and strawberries, blueberries and toasted coconut, it’s not over done. It’s just the right amount.

“We wanted some name, a word that signifies a coffee shop without calling it, coffee,

or a cafe or a coffee shop,” Kim said. “So we thought, ‘Early Bird’ was kind of like, you immediately think, ‘Oh that’s a coffee shop,’ without it saying coffee.”

Kim and Mayer are looking to hire, and encourage college students to apply to work in their restaurant.

“You can have an early morning shift, you know, be here for a few hours, and then start class at whatever time,” Kim said. “We have a few students here.”

They also added that they do special events and want to see more students come.

“We also do special events, we had a Gun Hill Brewing Company pop-up here. So it was so much fun and basically we took over the sidewalk, and in the shop and it was just like a really interesting vibe,” Kim said. “So I’m on the lookout for [another] special event, because we definitely want to, you know, for the students to come by and enjoy, you know, everything we have to offer.”

Early Bird Cafe can be found on TikTok, Instagram and Facebook @earlybirdbx.

said. “It’s something that is so deeply normalized, and I think truly that is because we’re not talking about eating disorders in the way that they are affecting people.”

Gulfoil stressed the point that eating disorders can present themselves in many different ways that may not align with cultural conceptions of what an eating disorder looks like. An athlete in high school, and now a member of the Manhattan College swim team, Guilfoil’s frequent exercise did not seem out of the ordinary, and did not alert others that she might have been struggling with an eating disorder.

“I think the real truth is that we have to acknowledge what’s going on underneath people’s skin,” Guilfoil said. “The whole point is loving yourself, but I think there’s still with that conversation an emphasis on the exterior.”

Guilfoil’s research has been focused on learning more about the internal processes that lead to eating disorders. One aspect that she focused greatly on was the idea of control. Guilfoil was brought up in a home environment when she felt she lacked

control during her high school years, and she developed an eating disorder as a way to assert control over one aspect of her life.

“It wasn’t insecurity about my body, and while I thought it was that for many years, through my recovery, through my research, I’ve been able to discover that really what I craved was a sense of control,” said Guilfoil. “I wanted to reclaim my life in a way that only I had any say in it.”

Guilfoil pointed to food insecurity, PTSD and discrimination as examples of experiences that could lead to the development of an eating disorder as a way to gain a sense of control.

She emphasized the importance of taking an intersectional approach to eating disorders and understanding the variety of factors that can contribute to one.

Hayden Greene, director of the Multicultural Center, led the audience discussion following Guilfoil’s talk. He explained why intersectionality is integral to the conversation surrounding eating disorders.

“When you start talking about intersectionality, you

In addition to coffee, their menu lists smoothies, bowls, avocado toast, tea and baked goods.

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Tiny Talk: Kyla Guilfoil Takes On Eating Disorder Misconceptions Megan LaCreta

Asst. Features Editor

On Wednesday Nov. 3, the Multicultural Center hosted Manhattan student Kyla Guilfoil as part of the Tiny Talks program. The sophomore political science and communication major and intern at the Lasallian Women and Gender Resource Center presented a talk focused on the misconceptions and stigma that surround eating disorders today.

Guilfoil is aiming to bring awareness to the issue through her talk, and through creating a handbook with the LWGRC to address eating disorders and nutrition. Guilfoil’s research for the handbook, as well as her personal experience with eating disorders, provided the basis for her presentation.

“What I wanted to do is look more into why this is affecting so many people, because I couldn’t tell you the amount of women that I’ve encountered on this campus alone that struggle with some type of body dysmorphia, body image issues, disordered eating or eating disorders,” Guilfoil

start looking at the fact that a lot of women are the ones who tend to be more publicly dealing with it,” Greene said.

“Then you have the intersectionality of certain cultural aspects of it, where food is very much a prominent part of how people communicate with their family, and having a difficult relationship with food is not a place where they can have a conversation with the people who should be the biggest supporters of them. So there’s that mix of it as well. But when you then add on … men not being able to admit to themselves that they have a problem with the way that they’re eating, and then add cultural issues on top of that as well. It makes it doubly hard to talk about it.”

Guilfoil is working to ensure the LWGRC eating disorder and nutrition handbook is available for students. She is currently collecting anonymous submissions from students on experiences regarding eating disorders, body image issues, exercise or nutrition.

Fellow LWGRC intern and sophomore psychology major Emilia O’Neill attended the Tiny Talk, and took away from

it the importance of having an open dialogue surrounding the subject. “[Eating disorders are] still very taboo ... and I think we need to kind of get around that as a society because it’s something that affects a huge portion of people,” O’Neill said.

“It’s triggered by so many different things. And so I think if there was more of a healthy universal conversation surrounding it, then it could benefit those struggling with eating disorders, and those who are struggling with other things that may turn to unhealthy habits surrounding eating.”

Greene concurred, emphasizing the importance of having conversations like Guilfoil’s that tackle taboo topics.

“I think that the more we talk to each other, the more we find that we have similarities that will bring us closer together,” Greene said. “And where there are places where we are dissimilar, there is so much to learn from one another, but we can’t get there unless we talk to each other.”

Editor’s Note: Guilfoil is the assistant news editor for The Quadrangle.

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

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MC’s Irish Dance Team Steps Up Its Game Post-COVID Zoe DeFazio & Mars Ross

Staff Writer & Contributor Manhattan College’s Irish dance team is back in action after the past school year of COVID precautions.

This year the team is better than ever with new members and multiple classes. Kasey Van Doran, senior and the president of the team, spoke about her excitement towards this new beginning for them.

“I’m happy we are finally bringing it back. We started the team my sophomore year and then because of COVID, we couldn’t really get it off the ground,” Van Doran said.

Van Doran continued to talk about how MC has a lot of students with dance backgrounds and how the Irish dance team is a great place for previous dancers to meet at MC. Van Doran said, “We have a lot of dancers that actually go to this school, so it’s nice to

get everyone connected again and to incorporate dance with the school. We have dancers who danced competitively and still do. Everyone is getting involved and it’s really nice to see everyone.”

The team was started a few years back and has yet to see some progress due to the abrupt halt of the academic year back in 2020. Now that classes have resumed in person and campus is active the Irish dance team hopes to start anew.

“When we first started the Irish dance team it was only for those who were competitors,” Van Doran said. “This year we are doing two classes a week.

So we have one day for the dancers who are accustomed to this, so they can learn harder choreography, and then we have one class for those who have never danced before.

That’s been really fun.”

The faculty advisor of the club, Aileen Farrelly is also excited about the addition of more classes to welcome members of different skill levels and

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to teach students how to dance.

As advisor, Farrelly assists student leaders like Van Doran to reserve practice rooms, schedule performances and work on class structure. This is not an easy job considering many of the dancers still compete in regional and national competitions.

Farrelly used to compete in these competitions herself so she knows what it’s like to be a busy student.

“I placed 2nd in the Regional Championships, 4th in the North American National Championships and qualified and competed in the Irish Dancing World Championships every year until I was 19 years old,” Farrelly said. “Since then, I became a certified Irish dance teacher and operated a small Irish dance school for a number of years in Yonkers, NY.” Naturally, Farrelly became the advisor of the team due her extensive experience, but it was actually her daughters that brought the team into fruition.

Ellen and Clare Farrelly realized there were many Irish dancers on campus and wanted

to start a team to bring everyone together to practice and perform at events. Although nothing is set in stone, the team might be making an appearance once again.

“No performances are booked to date, however, in the past, we have performed at basketball games and the St. Patrick’s Day events around campus. Right now, some of our student dancers are getting ready for the regional Irish Dance Championships [during] Thanksgiving weekend and we plan on booking performances over the Christmas break.”

Caroline King, another member of the Irish dance team, is a junior at Manhattan College double majoring in history and international studies.

King stopped competing because of the pandemic, but the Irish dance team has given her an opportunity to showcase her skills once again.

“I’m super excited to dance again because I stopped during COVID when competitions stopped happening,” King said.

“It’s so fun performing, so do-

ing pub nights where we dance or perform at school will be a lot of fun, especially if people are excited.”

The team has members at different levels and welcomes new dancers to the team. King spoke about helping new members learn their routines and how the diversity of experience levels within the team makes it more fun.

“The Irish dance team consists of dancers who previously competed or are still actively competing in Irish dance. But this year we also have some new members who wanted to learn how to dance for the first time, which is really cool,” King said.

Anyone who wants to learn Irish dance has a place on the team and a routine they can perform in. With choreography made by student members, the team adapts to the dancers and what they want to learn.

“We are going to be doing some choreographed routines in hard shoes with the experienced dancers and some fun light show routines with the newer dancers,” King said.

pear in venues where audience members have to buy tickets — like at the 92nd Street Y,” said Wrozynski.

In the prologue of Power Hungry, which Cope read aloud, she notes how she partly wrote this book for “well-meaning white or middle-class folks” who lacked knowledge, but also for the network of people who shared their stories with her.

“And for this audience, I do hope to do their stories justice.

My goal is to help share their message more broadly, honor their work and ideas in ways that haven’t reached a larger audience, and also add a layer of understanding that connects these two narratives as complementary and building on each other in a way that has not been told widely before,” said Cope.

One member of the audience, MC music professor Mark Pottinger, Ph.D., appreciated Cope’s goal of bringing light to these women’s stories, as well as her attempt to reframe the false misconceptions

that were circulated in the media regarding the Black Panther Party.

“This is not the Black Panther Party that was maligned in the news of the time as gun-wielding vigilantes terrorizing neighborhoods, but a group of concerned individuals who saw that the children of their community were going to school hungry. The fact that the government wanted to shut that down rather than see the problem that the Panther Party was solving reveals the power of food and its ability to subvert poverty, degradation, and oppression,” said Pottinger.

During the Q&A section of the event, Pottinger asked an insightful question regarding race, related to the fact that Suzanne Cope is a white author telling the stories of two Black women, as mentioned in the prologue.

“As the Black Panther Party was a group that fought against the ‘white framing’ of Black lives in America, in my question, I was curious to know how

the author navigated the racial space of the topic. The author admitted that it was not easy to gain the trust from her interviewees for the book as they all wanted to know why a white woman from Brooklyn would be interested in their story,” Pottinger said.

In her answer, Cope addressed her own race, as well as the possible biases she might have had in writing this book. She also reiterated that in writing this book, she was largely attempting to amplify the voices and stories of Cleo and Aylene, rather than amplify her own voice.

“Suzanne’s interactions with student and faculty questions were excellent. She was open and honest about the research struggles and triumphs she experienced while writing Power Hungry,” said Wrozynski.

There will be another MARS event on Friday, Nov. 19, where author Mark Doty will be reading.

MARS Welcomes Nonfiction Author Suzanne Cope

Maria Thomas & Anna Woods Managing Editor & Editor-in-Chief

Manhattan College students and faculty welcomed author Suzanne Cope, Ph.D. on Wednesday, Nov. 3 as a part of the Major Author Reading Series (MARS). The event was hosted at 8 p.m. in Hayden 100, where Cope read excerpts from her upcoming book, entitled Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement.

This work of historical nonfiction documents the stories of two women, Aylene Quin and Cleo Silvers, who individually used food to further ignite missions of civil rights and social justice. The book’s synopsis notes that, “these two women’s tales, separated by a handful of years, tell the same story: how food was used by women as a potent and necessary ideologi-

cal tool in both the rural south and urban north to create lasting social and political change.”

Cope was once an English professor at MC, but now teaches at NYU. She and English professor Dominika Wrozynski, Ph.D., who plays a large role in organizing MARS events, both began teaching at MC in 2013.

“I wanted Cope to have a platform to share this newest book, as well as her long and fascinating research process, with Manhattan College students and faculty,” said Wrozynski.

MARS events have been going on at Manhattan College since 2011, featuring writers from a variety of genres, which is valuable for Jaspers of all majors and disciplines.

“MARS events expose students to professional writers and give them access to these writers that they might not normally have. Students can hear a reading, ask questions, and interact with high profile writers who might normally ap-

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Jasper Jams (Taylor’s Version) JASPER JAMS

Caroline McCarthy, Megan LaCreta, Jocelyn Visnov

Sports Editor, Asst. Features Editor, Asst. Production Editor Blondie’s quick-witted hints and sly reveals have all led to the re-release of her fourth studio album, Red (Taylor’s Version), this Friday, Nov. 12.

As any true Swiftie knows, Taylor Swift’s legal battle with her former record label Big Machine Records left her with the rights to her written music and lyrics, but without the rights to her 2012 recordings.

Swift decided to re-record her first six studio records with the addition of never-before-heard “vault” tracks so that fans could continue listening to her music without supporting Big Machine. As Swift wrote in her Instagram post promoting the album, “Red is about to be mine again, but it’s always been ours.”

I’m not crying. You are.

State Of Grace (TV) The “worthwhile fight” Taylor refers to in State Of Grace is actually no longer about anti-bathing Jake Gyllenhaal and is now her battle to own her music. Red (Taylor’s Version) takes on the pop-sound Swift fought for in the original album but was denied by Big Machine. State of Grace (TV) is a pop-hit that sets the tone for a new era of Red. Red (TV) Hearing the familiar first few notes of Red for the first time again is an experience we didn’t know we needed. One of the more popular songs at the album’s original release, there aren’t many discernible changes to Taylor’s Version, but we can all be grateful for the chance to listen to this pop hit ethically, and maybe see it climb the charts once again.

Treacherous (TV) Oh, “Treacherous.” The anthem for everyone who knows pursuing someone is a terrible idea, but does it anyway. The harmonies on the chorus in the re-recording add a whole new layer to the song, and somehow make it even more heartbreaking than before. It’s comforting to know that the lyrics are being sung by an older, wiser Taylor who seems to have found a relationship that doesn’t need to be treacherous to be exciting.

I Knew You Were Trouble (TV) Back in 2013, Taylor confirmed that this song was written about ex-boyfriend Harry Styles. Despite staying cordial after their breakup, “And I heard you moved on from whispers on the street, a new notch in your belt is all I’ll ever be,” is quite the insult to Styles. Did you really know that he was

trouble, Taylor? Did you?

All Too Well (TV) Why are the Gyllenhaals holding her scarf hostage?

Give it back. This whole album could’ve been avoided if he a.) gave the scarf back and b.) showed up to her birthday party.

22 (TV) Now age 31, Taylor reminisces on when she was feeling “happy, free, confused, and lonely” when she was, in fact, 22. For those who have been following Taylor since the original 2012 release, listening to this song 9 years later finds new meaning in the lyrics.

We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (TV) The music video for this song was originally released in August of 2012. The quirky video made a bit of a stir, questioning some of Taylors filming choices. While the re-release of this song does not include the same antics, it is still among some of Taylor’s most iconic post-breakup anthems.

Stay Stay Stay (TV) Almost a decade later, the final giggle and the quote “that’s so fun” that concludes “Stay Stay Stay” had a sense of maturity and contentment in Swift’s voice. Though she lacks her original country twang in the first verse, Taylor made the song feel new again, especially knowing how at ease she is with her current relationship as opposed to the emotional chaos surrounding her when she wrote the original record.

The Last Time (feat. Gar y Lightbody) (TV) “The Last Time” is a criminally underrated duet between Taylor and Gary Lightbody of the band Snow Patrol. The song was always one of the more lyrically mature tracks on the album, but hearing it re-recorded with Taylor’s more developed vocals really makes the ballad something special. Fans of Taylor’s recent collaborations with Bon Iver and The National will appreciate this throwback.

Holy Ground (TV) Nothing much changed from the original version of “Holy Ground”… at least until the bridge hits. The change in Taylor’s tone since first recording Red is evident, displaying a richness and clarity not as present in the original. What has not changed, however, is the energy and addictive beat. I know I don’t want to dance if I’m not dancing to “Holy Ground.”

Sad Beautiful Tragic (TV) Still sad, still beautiful, still tragic.

The Lucky One (TV) Knowing how fame has affected Taylor in the years since Red first came out, especially in her experience with eating disorders and with her feud with Kanye West resulting in her being publicly “canceled” for a period of time, “The Lucky

One” has so much more meaning. Her more private personal life, and her choice to write more music based on fiction in her albums “Folklore” and “Evermore” make a lot of sense in retrospect.

Ever ything Has Changed (feat. Ed Sheeran) (TV) While everything in your life may have changed since the original release of this song, Taylor and Ed’s smooth harmonies remain the same. The only major change in this song in the re-release is the addition of a chorus of people doing background vocals in the singing of “Everything Has Changed” towards the end of the song.

Starlight (TV) “Oh my, what a marvelous tune,” indeed. This song includes both acoustic and electric guitar with a bit more of a pop-rock flare than the original release. Not her most popular song, but a good one nonetheless.

Begin Again (TV) This version of “Begin Again” is toned down from the original, giving it a new bittersweet quality and an added complexity. It’s hard to move on, and 31-year-old Taylor, who is beginning again herself by re-recording her music, knows it. This new perspective changes the meaning of the song, and while I’m sad to see the old meaning go, I’m happy to begin again with Taylor’s Version.

The Moment I Knew (TV) Have we said we hate Jake Gyllenhaal yet? Yes? Well, we can say it again. No matter how many years have passed since the original release, this track still hits just as hard. fRonan (TV) “Ronan” is a charity single, which Taylor created by putting together quotes from a blog post by Maya Thompson, a woman who lost her young son to cancer and is credited as a songwriter for the song.

This is one of those songs that are so filled with emotion that it’s almost hard to listen to, but it’s so wonderfully written you have no choice but to simply sniffle your way through it.

Better Man (TV) (From the Vault) This song gives off a similar message to Ariana Grande’s “Thank u, next.” Another song clearly written about an ex-boyfriend, Taylor acknowledges that while she misses her past relationship, she knows she’s better off without him. If you’ve dealt with heartbreak recently, feel free to play this song on full blast alone in your room. We won’t judge.

Nothing New (feat. Phoebe Bridgers) (TV) (From the Vault) The long-awaited collaboration between these two iconic songwriters did not disappoint.

Bridgers is a star, and her voice pairs beautifully with Taylor’s.

What makes “Nothing New” even better is how Taylor’s first collaboration heavily featuring a woman unpacks the unique experience faced by female artists of aging out of interest from the public (or maybe aging out of interest from predatory men… looking at you Jake Gyllenhaal).

Babe (TV) (From the Vault) “Whaaat a shame!” that Taylor originally gave this song to Sugarland. It was meant for her. The new background vocals echoing “what about our promises, promises” turn this country masterpiece to a country-pop sensation.

Message In A Bottle (TV) (From the Vault) “Message In A Bottle” is guaranteed to be a pop hit. The beat is infectious and reminiscent of “1989,” the album that followed Red and went on to become the most awarded pop album of all time. Until Taylor gets around to releasing more re-recordings, we’ll have “Message In A Bottle” to fill the “1989” shaped hole in our hearts.

I Bet You Think About Me (feat. Chris Stapleton) (TV) (From the Vault) Keeping this track locked in the vault was a crime against anyone trying to get through a heartbreak over the past decade. Taylor’s harmonies with Stapleton, backed by a folksy harmonica, are the basis to this country break up anthem for everyone who knows their ex couldn’t possibly be over them.

I bet we’ll be thinking about this one for a long time.

Forever Winter (TV) (From the Vault) Wow. Many of the lyrics of

this song are just as cold as the title would suggest. It tells the story of a messy heartbreak happening in real time. Taylor does an excellent job of explaining exactly how she was feeling in that moment.

Run (feat. Ed Sheeran) (TV) (From the Vault) They don’t make duos like Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran often. The singer-songwriters’ voices and songwriting styles mesh beautifully, and Run is the culmination of that perfect partnership. Also, did anyone else catch the motif of the locket in “Run” paralleling the same locket motif in Sheeran’s 2014 hit, “Photograph”?

The Ver y First Night (TV) (From the Vault) The new pop-country crossover we didn’t know we needed. In my opinion, Taylor’s 31-year-old voice seems a bit too mature for this song. But, when you’re screaming the lyrics in the car you can barely hear it anyway!

All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (TV) (From the Vault) “All Too Well” has been the reigning heartbreak anthem for over a decade. It encompassed everything from unrequited love to leaving a part of yourself (or your scarf) behind as a relationship ends. And in case you didn’t think it could get more sad, Taylor chose not to release the full length version… until now. With new lyrics including “Any time now he’s gonna say it’s love. You never called it what it was,” “All Too Well” (10 Minute Version) is even more heart wrenching than before.

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Women’s Rowing Making Strides as Fall Season Comes to a Close Adrianne Hutto

Asst. Production Editor The women’s rowing team is making strides this spring as sports teams begin to see a return to normalcy. With the MAAC on the horizon and a fresh group of walk-ons, the women’s rowing team is having an exciting season. Manhattan earned a personal best at The Head of the Charles race, securing the 12th spot and automatic qualification for next year’s event. Despite their 5 am wake-up call for making practices, the team is enthusiastic about what’s to come. This week The Quadrangle spoke with some of the players to get a look into their season so far.

Last year, COVID restrictions were at a peak, which affected many teams’ ability to hold normal practices and participate in events. With players going in and out of quarantine, most sports teams had an unstable season.

Lauren Hughes, a senior at Manhattan College and captain for the rowing team, explained that while the team was able to practice and attend regattas, there has still been a noticeable shift from last year to this year.

“Last year we practiced in pods based on the boat you were in,” said Hughes. “So that was a little more tricky if someone got sent to quarantine, but this semester obviously it’s so much easier.”

With many rowers in their first regular season, it was hard for them to get a feel for a real Division 1 season.

“For me, I rowed freshman year and in high school so I’m kind of used to the tempo of being in season and going to

races. But I think for sure it was a bigger adjustment for the novices and the freshman from last year,” said Hughes.

“I think people were super excited to get back into it and really be competing this year.

I think people were way more motivated, it was definitely a big adjustment just time management-wise.”

The players explained that a lot of rowers are typically walkons. Without access to a body of water or high school rowing team, many rowers were not exposed to the sport until they got to college. Because of this, the Jasper rowing team is always accepting walk-on players.

Maeve McNally-Cullum is a junior, port-side rower. McNally-Cullum explains detrimental walk-ons for the team, as she was one herself.

“Rowing is a big walk-on sport, I was a walk-on. The only way to learn [rowing] is to get thrown in and do it,” said McNally-Cullum. “It’s hard to learn but once you get it it’s all about repetition and the only way to get better is to practice.

You get what you put in.”

Younger athletes are already making strides on the team, having their first semi-regular season showing promising results.

“They [novice players] won their first novice race, which was super exciting. I know they were all super hyped up to get their first metal. We’re all super impressed and happy to have them on the team,” said Hughes.

The Head of the Charles is a famous large-scale international rowing regatta held in Boston each fall. With rowers coming from all over the world and a just over four thousand

Manhattan College women’s rowing team participated in the 2021 Tunnels to Towers 5K in September. @MANHATTANROWING/ COURTESY meter course scattered with winding turns and a total of seven bridges to steer through, this event is an important part of any collegiate rower’s career. With heightened COVID restrictions last year, the Head of the Charles wasn’t held as it regularly is. This year, MC rowing was able to attend the event.

Elyse Holmes, a senior communications student and captain of the team, competed in the Four, which is a boat having four rowers and a coxan.

The competition was an opportunity for the team to bond with each other and their coach. But it also allowed for serious im-

The women’s rowing team placed 12 out of 32 at the Head of the Charles. @MANHATTANROWING/ COURTESY

provement.

“We went down that course and ultimately felt proud of what we put out. It was a little scary at times, because that course is known for crashes,” said Holmes.

The team placed 12 out of 32, meaning they automatically qualify for next year’s event.

Over the past four years, MC’s women’s rowing team has been working hard to increase their speed and build their program’s numbers. The season has already been successful for rowing, competing against Ivy League and top-ranked teams early on in their fall season.

“We’ve recently stepped up the caliber of teams we’ve been competing against,” said Hughes. Like this weekend we raced against Syracuse and Cornell, some big programs, so I’m really looking forward to seeing them a few more times on the racecourse and trying to give them a run for their money.”

With increasing speed and success at The Head of the Charles under their belt, the team is getting noticed by other schools.

“I think over the course of the four years, myself and the other seniors and everybody who has been a part of that did a really good job creating a strong foundation,” said Holmes. “Now producing a lot of speed in the program, and other programs are taking notice.”

The teams’ main goal right now is to increase speed and productivity.

“We’ve really been hitting it hard in the weight room, making sure we’re putting some extra time in whether it be going for a run, bike ride, extra time on the urg outside of practice, just to try and give us the best possibilities,” said Hughes.

With extra time in the weight room and working on their strength outside of practices, this goal is coming to fruition.

“We made it to the grand final for the first time in history to the second varsity 8. That’s the first eight that have achieved that grand final. We’re looking to beat that again, not only in the 2V, by re-doing that, but also beating our times in the 1V, I believe the 1V went 7:09 in their 2000 meter pace. We’re getting amped up,” Holmes said.

The team has one more regatta left for their fall season and six awaiting them in the Spring. Women’s rowing has their sights set on achieving more goals and breaking their own records.

“Last year we had an eight make it into the grand final.

We’re really gearing up for an intense indoor season so I think we could do really well. It’s just all about having our head in the game,” said McNally-Cullum.

“With Marist having placed in the top 20 at the NCAAs, I think it made our conference a lot more competitive. I think we can do really well if we put our head and mind into it and just really row our boats.”

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Jasper Basketball Comes Back to Draddy With Successful Double Header Isaiah Rosario Staff Writer

Jasper basketball is back!

Men and women’s basketball made their season debut on Tuesday, Nov. 9, at Manhattan College’s home court. Men’s basketball returned to Draddy Gymnasium after a seven-13 2020-21 season. The Jaspers are looking for a fresh start after their under .500 season last year with their home opener versus the Manhattanville Valiants. The Jaspers started the game hot with a 14-six run less than five minutes into the game. The defense for the Jaspers came out running, allowing only 12 points 10 minutes into the first half.

Manhattanville went scoreless for about five minutes from the 11th minute in the first half to the sixth minute and allowed Manhattan to extend their lead to 25 points. The Jaspers dominated the first half with a score of 54-19 at the buzzer. The Jaspers shot the ball 63.6 percent whereas Manhattan held Manhattanville to shooting at 29.6 percent because of the stellar defense of the Jaspers. Leading scorers for the Jaspers Anthony Nelson and Sambo Diallo both had eight points at the end of the half.

Josh Roberts opened up the second half with an emphatic put-back dunk to put the Jaspers up 34 points. As the quarter continued, the Jaspers extended their lead over Manhattanville with ball movement, and defense from every player that stepped on the court.

Manhattan’s largest lead of the game was 59 points. This game was absolute domination from

the Jaspers from the minute the game took place. The final score of the game was 99-42.

Two hours later the women’s team took the court for their long-awaited return to Draddy after an 11-nine 20202021 season. The Jaspers played St. Francis Brooklyn in their home opener. The women seemed the have the same mentality as the men by showcasing their defense by only allowing 1 point four minutes into the game. The Jaspers were up 10-one when both teams fell into a dry spell until forward Fruzsina Horvath of St. Francis broke the scoreless run with a baseline jump shot, making the score three-10.

The Jaspers came out shooting in the second quarter. Brazil Harvey-Carr started outside the key and drove in to hit an elbow jump shot to put the Jaspers ahead at 15-six. As the 2nd quarter went on there was a feeling in the gymnasium where the defense was declining because of how the Jaspers and the Terriers were trading buckets back and forth to make the score 30-19 at the half.

The atmosphere was electric at Draddy by this point in the same. Everyone in the gym was able to tell that this game quite possibly could go down to the wire. The goal of the Manhattan College crowd was to make sure that the Sixth Borough was loud and present.

The leading scorers for the Terriers were Fruzsina Horvath with seven points, and for the Jaspers, Dee Dee Davis with nine points. Though in the lead, the Jaspers had 19 turnovers compared to the 9 from St. Francis. The defense was prevalent for the Jaspers as they held the Terriers to 26.7%

shooting.

The Jaspers began the second half with a quick drive from Emily LaPointe. Back-to-back three’s from the Terriers’ Alyssa Fisher made it a six-point game with just under seven minutes left. Isabella Posset of the Terriers made it a threepoint game but Emily LaPointe came back with a layup to add a little bit more insurance for the Jaspers.

Forward, Brazil Harvey-Carr spoke about what the mentality was like on the floor when the Terriers were going on the run and cut the lead to five.

“To stay motivated, we had to stay locked in with the five we had out there, to get the game going. We had to trust each other and remain locked in throughout the whole game,” said Harvey-Carr.

Thanks to great offense from the Jaspers they were able to extend their lead to eight heading into the fourth quarter.

Throughout the fourth quarter, the Terriers and the Jaspers were trading buckets.

The last 10 minutes of the game were offensive-heavy. The scoring split in the fourth quarter was 28 even. But, the Jaspers pulled out a tough one to get their win of the season with a score of 74-66.

Fast-forwarding to Saturday’s game against Army, Guard Dee Dee Davis talked about what is needed to pull out a win versus a difficult Army squad.

“Stopping the ball, this team that we’re playing on Saturday, they do a phenomenal job in transition,” said Davis. “The point guard gets an outlet and she’s just looking to go … in order to beat this team, we need

Senior transfer Josh Roberts starts the second half strong for the Jaspers.

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Josh Roberts wins the first tip-off of the day for the men’s team.

ISAIAH ROSARIO / COURTESY to stop the ball transition. We need to box out and we need to just play our offense flow into our continuities really smoothly and not try to force anything.”

Coach Vulin also spoke about what could be improved upon before Saturday’s matchup with Army.

“We tend to be very good in the half-court,” said Vulin. “ It was our transition defense that we have to do a little bit better job of and the team that we played shot a lot of threes. I felt like we gave up a few o-boards [offensive rebounds] that we shouldn’t have so that that’ll be a point of emphasis for us to get better at,” said Vulin.

Expectations are through the roof within both the locker room and the coach’s office. According to Vulin, the team has ambitious goals to win the regular-season title, tournament title and advance in the NCAA to win at least a first-round game.

“We have a very talented group, we’ve got great length, we also have some great experience with Courtney, Dee Dee and Emily, all three picked for preseason All-MAAC. So I think those are realistic goals and until they show me different in practice I firmly believe we can attain those. So I’m very excited about this group,” Vulin said.

Lead scorer for the Jaspers, Dee Dee Davis told The Quadrangle she believes this team has what it takes to make

it to March Madness, mostly because of the element of surprise that comes with an unseen roster.

“The best part about this team this year is we have names on this roster that the rest of the league or no one else for that matter has seen, but we know we can do. So it’s going to be really special. It’s gonna be really surprising. And we’re a really talented group that we’re just gonna rely on our instinctiveness to get it done,” Davis said.

Manhattan College is now allowing fans back in Draddy Gymnasium. Some of the precautions taken place are that all guests at indoor competitions must show proof of at least one dose of vaccination with a photo ID when they enter the athletic venue. Fans are also required to show a Manhattan College Green Pass through the college’s visitor Daily Symptom Tracker and wear a mask while in Draddy.

“In my opinion, I feel like the fans were electric … I fed off the energy not only from the Jasper Nation but from my teammates that tagged along on the bench,” said Harvey-Carr. ”It’s not only for the ones that are out there competing, but it’s also all about the coaching staff, the players that are competing and our managers that all together we’re all one family and that I fed on the energy last night.”

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NOVEMBER 16, 2021

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Jaspers Shock Fordham in Battle of the Bronx Classic Pete Janny Senior Writer

It’s been nearly two years since Fordham and Manhattan last met. Since then, a lot has changed for both Bronx Division I programs who have seen a plethora of players transfer in since their last meeting.

But on this night it was the Jaspers who extended their winning streak against Fordham coming away with a thrilling 66-60 win over their crosstown rivals.

It took until the final minute for Manhattan to fully overcome their inauspicious start to the game. The Jaspers trailed the whole way until Manhattan guard Samir Stewart hit the goahead three point shot with 34 seconds left to seal the win and send the Manhattan faithful at Draddy Gym into a state of ecstasy.

Manhattan’s offense sputtered right from the opening tip in this game. Senior guard Jose Perez couldn’t buy a shot, going two-of-nine in the first half.

But that didn’t stop the Jaspers from giving Perez his shots, and it was apparent he was affecting the game in other ways, like setting up Josh Roberts on an alley oop that got the crowd on their feet.

But it was in the second half where Perez truly introduced himself to his new school. The Marquette transfer delivered an impressive three-point play with over five minutes left by dribbling the length of the court and finishing through contact despite being fouled.

That sequence cut the Fordham lead to two and helped lead the Jaspers on a 10-two run to close out the game. Additionally, Perez swatted away a Fordham layup on the Rams last possession and immediately turned around to embrace the Manhattan student section known as the “Sixth Borough.”

“My teammates trust me on and off the court,” Perez said after the game. “We just trust each other.”

Midway through the first half Elijah Buchanan emerged as a playmaker for the Jaspers.

His success came from attacking the hoop at will and finding a groove from the midrange.

The senior guard was instrumental in helping Manhattan overcome a 10-point deficit midway through the second half. Buchanan completed his packed highlight reel with a smooth midrange jumper

that cut the Fordham lead to 51-49 with seven minutes left.

Buchanan’s lengthy 6’5 frame screams of potential and this could be the year the Bronx native puts it all together.

“Every time this game [Battle of the Bronx] comes up I don’t want to let my team down,” said Buchanan, who was named Battle of the Bronx Player of the Game after also winning the award in 2019 at Rose Hill.

Coming into the game, the last two matchups between both teams were tightly contested. Manhattan had their hearts broken in 2018 when Nick Honor hit a walk-off buzzer beater on a running floater in the lane. The Jaspers would get their retribution a year later when Tyler Reynolds hit a goahead three in overtime with a couple seconds left to seal the 54-53 overtime win. But since then, moments like that have seemed to elude the Jaspers who have finished with records of 13-18 and 7-13 in the two seasons since.

But when Stewart’s three went in from the right corner, it was the loudest Draddy Gym has been since the days of winning back to back MAAC Championships in 2014 and 2015. Something felt different for the first time in a long time as the Jaspers extended their lead to 59-54 in the all-time series between the schools. It was also the first meeting with new Fordham Head Coach Kyle Neptune in the mix.

“They got the best of us in the first half but at halftime we went back to the drawing board and came back,” Stewart said.

Masiello’s face lit up when talking about the potential of this year’s Manhattan team after suffering through six straight losing seasons. The beleaguered coach has been vocal over the last year about his newfound appreciation for life and basketball after coaching through a pandemic season.

When speaking to reporters after the game, Masiello struck a similar selfless tone.

“I thought our kids showed great grit,” Masiello said after the game.”We played for the front of our jersey and not what was on the back of it.”

This may be the season Masiello has waited for since hoisting up the trophy in Albany back in March of 2015. And for a team with 10 seniors, Masiello and his players will take on this redemption campaign together.

Number 15, Jose Perez caught in a moment of extacy.

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The team celebrates victory against Fordham.

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