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3OH!3 and Jeremih to Headline, with Performance by Skylar Grey Rose Brennan & Megan Dreher

A&E Editor and Editor-inChief In what will be a first for Manhattan College, Springfest will be a two-act show and celebration this semester. On Saturday, April 13, 3OH!3, Jeremih and Skylar Grey will all perform for the college community.

In addition to hosting three artists for Springfest, several activities will be offered for students before the first performance. Owing to an overarching theme of a carnival, the preliminary activities will include rides, beach volleyball, giant cup pong, a psychic, raffles and food. At 1:00 p.m., Grey’s performance will begin, which will be immediately followed by 30H!3. After 3OH!3’s performance, there will be another gap for activities, including karaoke and a prize hunt across campus. At 7:00 p.m., a DJ will

open for the second headliner, Jeremih.

The full day of activities and performances was largely orchestrated by senior Casey Monroe, vice president of social life. She and student body president Jaycie Cooper worked in close collaboration with the Office of Student Engagement to book the artists for the event.

“I was the person who was … searching for the artist, talking to the agents, seeing how much the pricing was and things of that sort,” Monroe said. “Everybody else within our group was obviously helping as well, because I think, at least from my opinion, we’re a very close-knit team, so any time I need to call on somebody else, it’s pretty easy.”

She continued.

“I was a huge part of finding the Springfest artist … and I’m very excited,” Monroe said.

This collaborative process was certainly not a short one.

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Monroe estimated that finding and booking the artists took four to five months from start to finish.

“It was not easy,” Monroe said. “I think a lot of people think that it’s just … ‘hey, I want this artist to come,’ and then boom, that’s the person that’s coming, when in reality, it took like at least four or five months to find somebody that was both a good fit for this school, who was appropriate, who was within our budget and who students would really enjoy.”

Jaycie Cooper echoed the struggles of finding a singular artist, let alone three, that appropriately fit the school in all aspects, particularly from a financial standpoint.

“For Quadchella, we didn’t have an artist, we just had student performers. That saved us in the ballpark of about $45,000, so we were able to transfer that money to Springfest,” Cooper said. “We saved the money where we could, because

Springfest is really that one event of the year that appeals to all students and is likely the most attended event for the student body. Therefore, we feel it should be the biggest, the greatest, and should have the most funding for it.”

There were several reasons behind booking more than one artist for this year’s Springfest. One of the key motivating factors for Monroe was planning an entire day of activities for the student body.

“In the past, it’s been … events, music artist at like 2:00 or 3:00 [p.m.] and it’s over. And we really wanted to continue that party for students [and] have this be an all-day event,” Monroe said.

Cooper added, “There will be two rounds of food, games throughout campus-- karaoke in Smith, activities and vendors in the Quad, field games in Jasper backyard, all trying to give more of that festival feel. We want to have as much as pos-

sible to keep people active on campus.”

But Cooper and Monroe both agreed that they wanted Springfest to have the broadest appeal possible for as many students as possible. Hence, multiple artists across multiple genres were selected so everyone could enjoy something.

“We wanted to reach a number of different personality types, basically. And so with the artists that we’ve chosen, we wanted to expand that that range,” Monroe said. “So we wanted to get artists that were from multiple different styles so that people who like all different kinds of music could be able to enjoy Springfest in its entirety.”

Though Monroe was unable to mention other contending artists for this year’s Springfest, she did note that each of the possibilities were “in the same range, both pricing-wise and music style-wise as [the] current artist is.”

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The Editorial Board Megan Dreher Editor-in-Chief

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Joseph Liggio Maria Thomas Asst. News Editors

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C. Garrett Keidel Sports Editor

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Neighborhood Relations Committee Holds Fourth Annual Luncheon Katie Heneghan & Maria Thomas

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News Editor The Neighborhood Relations Committee held their fourth annual luncheon for Riverdale residents surrounding campus, students and administrators on Feb. 18 in Kelly Commons. The goal of the annual event is to foster a positive relationship with the surrounding residents of the Riverdale community.

Sophomore Marshall Strawbridge serves as the NRC chairperson and planned the event with assistance from Student Body President Jaycie Cooper; John Bennett, director of student engagement and Michael Steele, the assistant director of student engagement. The Neighborhood Relations Committee falls as a subcommittee under the Student Government Assembly.

The NRC, which is in its fourth year servicing both the Riverdale community and the students of Manhattan College, was originally founded

by Ryan Quattromani ’18 in his sophomore year. This year, Strawbridge took over as committee chairperson.

With a new head of the Neighborhood Relations Committee came a new mission: inclusivity.

Strawbridge said, “This year I focused on communicating to the neighbors the ways in which the committee plans on further pursuing its mission. These include better communication regarding events that neighbors can take

part in, connecting project leaders in the neighborhood to MC students who might be interested in volunteering and making MC spaces and facilities available to our community.”

The luncheon, which began at 11 a.m. on President’s Day, a day which many community members had off from work, started with a speech by Cooper.

Cooper wanted the neighbors present to learn that having a college in the neighborhood does not have to be stigmatized.

“Like any healthy relationship, there must be a balance of give and take and because of this, Student Government is working to create opportunities for our neighbors to enjoy the benefits of having a college campus close by,” said Cooper.

In her speech, Cooper shared her belief that the efforts of the NRC are reflective of the core mission of Manhattan College.

Cooper said, “Concern for the poor and social justice, respect for all persons and fostering an inclusive environment are the values our students hope to reflect in the community. Our hope for this luncheon is that we are able to facilitate discussions that focus not only on the improvement of our relationship with one another but more importantly, the improvement of the beautiful community we call home.”

Following Cooper’s opening address was a discussion facilitated by the Vice President of Student Life, Richard Satterlee, Ph.D. By facilitating a discussion between the residents of Riverdale and students and fac-

ulty of the college, Dr. Satterlee opened the floor for discussion of any community tribulations.

In discussing the relationship the school has with the surrounding area, the college is hoping to identify any areas of issue and resolve them with the community members.

Large and small group discussions took place.

Bennett said, “Many smaller conversations took place at each table, which was really the purpose too, to be a nice gathering and discussion.”

The event was attended by approximately 50 students, faculty and community members.

Local residents were notified of the event using social media, word of mouth, and flyers throughout the community.

Students were notified through social media, flyers and MC Announcement emails.

“The turnout was great and the room was packed in terms of student and faculty turnout,” said Steele in an email statement. “When comparing each group, the ratio was just about even which was great”.

For future Neighborhood Relations Committee events, a goal is to increase student turnout. This would help to further the initiatives of the committee, and ultimately, create a more inclusive environment between students and the residents of Riverdale.

“The more students we have, the more potential the luncheon has to further the committee’s mission”, said Strawbridge. “I believe this event will only get bigger and stronger as the years go by based on the results and feedback we received from the attendees each year of its existence.”

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SGA Talks New Clubs, Parking Passes, Among Other Topics Gabriella DePinho News Editor

The Student Government Assembly held their third meeting of the semester in Jasper Lounge on Feb. 20, where they discussed the lift on the new club freeze, updates to the academic integrity policy and attendance at athletic events, among other topics.

New Club Process Restarting President Jaycie Cooper reported the Club Oversight Committee updates for Vice President of Club Affairs, Haley Nightingale, who could not attend the meeting. Cooper announced that starting in Fall 2019, Student Engagement will be lifting the freeze on accepting new clubs and was transparent with the assembly as to what the process would be.

“There are very tight parameters with this because we don’t want this to affect clubs in any negative way. We don’t want clubs to have to take a hit across the board like they did with the club rowing. Our process is that we have a couple of clubs that are inactive with pretty big budgets and so we are going to use a process to replace the clubs that have gone inactive and have been inactive for over a year,” said Cooper.

She continued.

“We have the requests that have been submitted over the years, we still have those. Some of these were submitted over two years ago so we’ll have to gauge the interest and see if it’s still there,” said Cooper.

“The COC will go through the submissions and we will vote on them at the next assembly meeting.”

She assured the assembly that clubs will not take another hit and that the student activities fee would not be raised without being discussed and voted on.

Overnight Parking Updates Isabel Quinones, Vice President of Residential Affairs, reported on the changes to overnight parking, which will go into effect on July 1 and which turned out to be a hot topic of discussion.

“Basically, they’re capping overnight parking. This year Public Safety sold 160 spaces and next year they’re only going to be selling 140 so they’re going to be freeing up 20 spots.

They’re going to be sold by academic seniority,” said Quinones.

She continued.

“The second thing is they’re

The Student Government Assembly held their third meeting of the semester in Jasper Lounge on Feb. 20 GABRIELLA DEPINHO/ THE QUADRANGLE going to try and eliminate overnight employee parking because currently there are employees that park overnight and that’s becoming an issue because now we lost 70 spots in [Leo’s parking lot] because of the new construction so we need those spots. Third, they’ll be selling overnight parking to resident students only because they’ve been having the issue of resi-commuters that have moved off campus but live in the area and are still buying passes … If you’re moving off campus that’s something you lose priority to,” said Quinones.

The community parking program requires the college to allot 50 spaces to community members, which cannot be touched in order for the college to get state funding for the garage. Students who live within the community and whose cars are registered to the area’s zip code are welcome to apply for those spots. She also reported that the college is looking into ways to better collect data on how crowded campus lots get and at what times of way so they can better mitigate the problems of campus parking.

Educational Affairs Committee Updates Kerry Cavanagh reported on the EAC updates. She started out with a discussion on the commencement survey, which was sent out to the class of 2020 on Feb. 18, prompting a discussion on the location of next year’s graduation ceremony.

She also reported on updates about the changes that will be made to the Academic Integrity policy.

“The basis of it is that we’ll have a three point system.

Three points being you’re out, you’re expelled. The one point violations include cheating, plagiarism, fabrication or academic misconduct when, in the opinion of the instructor, the student’s actions constitute a

violation of academic integrity that cannot be dismissed as a result of inexperience and yet do not rise to the level of premeditation or collaboration involved in two point. Between one and two point, the big difference is premeditation,” said Cavanagh.

Cavanagh continued.

“Three point violations are the most serious. These consist of instances that involve cheating, plagiarism, fabrication or academic misconduct when the student’s actions represent a blatant disregard or disrespect for the expectations of academic integrity. They involve substantial planning, premeditation and/or collaboration.

They may involve criminal activity and will more than likely involve clear dishonest or malicious intent.”

She confirmed that the discussions of the acuteness of the language are still ongoing, separate point violations do, in fact, add up, students can appeal these charges and that there will be a warning for something that could be accredited to inexperience.

Kaitlyn Von Runnen, a member of the EAC for the past two years, confirmed that this new policy is something the school has been working on for quite some time and that when it is unveiled to the school community, is something that will be upheld. She encouraged assembly members to get involved with the EAC to talk with their constituents and give their feedback on the changes.

Other Committee Updates

The Budget Allocations Committee did not have an allocation to vote on but there is a request the committee is in the process of reviewing and will bring before the assembly at a future meeting.

Anna Rosario, Vice President for Commuter Affairs,

then announced that the Commuter Student Association’s “Bridging the Gap” workshop will be on March 30 from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. She encouraged members to spread the word to their constituents and that the event is for both residents and commuters.

Cooper reported on the Neighborhood Relations Committee Luncheon, which had about 50 attendees. For more coverage of this annual event, go to page 2.

Attendance at Athletics Events Cooper reminded the assembly of the men’s basketball game that would be taking place Friday, Feb. 23 at 7 p.m. with a free T-shirt giveaway, which launched a discussion about the lack of attendance at athletic events.

“Athletics is experiencing a problem that they wanted us to discuss. People come before the game to get the giveaways and leave before halfway through the game. I just wanted to open the floor to discussion if you guys have any ideas of how to maintain attendance throughout the entire game,” said Cooper.

Assembly members came up with a variety of ideas such as making the giveaways further in instead of right by the door, giving them out just right before the game starts, changing advertising tactics giving them out during half time or throughout the game.

“They’re spending a ton of money to try to get us to these games and get excited and it’s for us, it’s not for them or any of their wellbeing but to get our school spirit hot. We need representatives to pave the way to show that you should be there and stay for the game and support the teams,” said Cavanagh.

In discussion about what would make the assembly members stay at the game, discussion arose about bridging

the gap between athletes and other students.

“I’ve talked to a lot of people - faculty - who go to the women’s games and they say they go because they want to support the players as individuals but unfortunately a lot of people don’t feel the same way about the men’s team,” said Von Runnen.

Discussions about ways to familiarize students with athletic teams’ members to encourage attendance sprung up.

“I feel like if you’re getting an understanding of them as a human being and a personal perspective, you’re not just going to be like ‘oh this is just some basketball player’ but do you think that getting students to know the players on a more personal level will make people want to come out to the games more because there are a lot of new players and people don’t know them,” said Vice President of Social Life Casey Monroe.

Suggestions of having an athletic representative at assembly meetings, getting athletes attend to more events on campus, such as coffeehouses, and having players running the team social media accounts so students can get to know them, among other ideas.

Miscellaneous Cavanaugh announced the next Alumni Society meeting will be on April 27 and that students are welcome to attend.

Kaitlyn Von Runnen will be sending out a survey to education majors to get feedback about students’ fieldwork experience to hopefully present it to the faculty for the school to work with. There will also be a survey later in the year for students to give feedback about their overall experience.

The meeting was then adjourned. The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday March 6 at noon.

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Immigration Simulation Takes Over Smith Auditorium Catherine Goodyear Senior Writer

Manhattan College’s Catholic Relief Services Campus Ambassadors hosted an immigration and migration simulation on Tuesday, Feb. 19 in Smith Auditorium. The event called “Would the U.S. Accept You?” provided a brief history of U.S. immigration laws and policies as well as reasons behind why the majority of people migrate to the United States.

The event host and Director of Campus Ministry and Social Action, Lois Harr, wanted students to understand why people are coming to the U.S. and how difficult the process at the border is.

“In some ways it’s the same as ever, like our grandparents or other ancestors, they come for a better life for themselves & their families. In particular, many, many people from the Northern Triangle of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador come to escape gang and gender-based violence and crushing poverty,” said Harr.

“Families are threatened and harmed, even killed, by gangs to force young people to join.

There is little tolerance or acceptance for members of LGBTQ community. So they make their way north, alone, in groups, some children are unaccompanied. If and when they survive the journey, they are often taken into custody.”

At the start of the simulation, participants were given little or no money and role-playing cards with stories about the person they were playing.

These stories were often emotional or difficult for participants to read. After receiving the cards, the participants made their journey to the U.S. border where many were often robbed before they reached it.

Students, who thought they had some understanding of the process of immigration to the United States, found participating in this activity further opened their eyes.

“The most shocking thing to me was the length of the process that immigrants have to go through,” said Shanice Lyle, a student participant. “I believe that the United States current immigration system is lacking in many areas. Individuals get dehumanized and treated unfairly during the immigration process, and it is horrible.

Immigration is an ongoing issue and there can never be too much awareness about the reality of the situation. Students should take away the reality of the situation; how uncomfortable it made them feel so the perspective of those going through it can be better understood and respected.”

The simulation mirrored an interrogation process many migrants receive when they arrive at the U.S. border. The officials asked questions from a checklist to see if the participant fit the ideal migrant they were looking for; any information that deviated from the checklist, including a character’s back story, was overlooked.

Harr commented on how this scenario plays out in real life.

“They are entitled by U.S. law to ask for asylum,” Harr said. “They are interrogated by officials who will determine whether they will immediately be deported back to their capital city- which could be hundreds of miles from their hometown. They can be reunified with family and/or resettled in the U.S. if they have a job lined up or a skill we need, or they can placed In detention, very spare facilities with toilets in public view, little in the way of

Students participating in a simulation of migration at the United States border.

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hygiene, or decent food, children separated from parents, and for an indeterminate period of time. They will eventually have hearings and they may stay or end up deported.”

After the simulated interrogation, participants were then split up and placed into either detention, deportation, or sentenced to speak before a judge, many of whom are swayed by the administration to rule based on agendas rather than individual cases. The participants who made it before the judge were often sent to deportation or detention anyway; very few made it into the United States.

At the final step in the simulation, students were asked to sign a letter to Congress asking for humanitarian aid and support for migrants. They also signed posters in an effort to show solidarity with migrants.

While Harr led the event, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) campus ambassadors helped with the preparation and plan-

ning of the event. One of the CRS ambassadors, Mackenna Jacovich, commented on why they chose to do an immigration simulation.

“We coordinate with one another to bring awareness on campus to human trafficking, migration, climate change and world hunger. We chose to do the immigration simulation this semester due to the current political climate. As the current administration pushes to build a wall between the US and Mexico, we believe it is important for people to understand what is causing the migration.

We hope the experience made people understand how intense and grueling the process is to enter into the United States and seek asylum,” said Jacovich.

Another CRS campus ambassador, Samantha Wilson, hopes that the event attendees took away an invaluable lesson on immigration and could look at the issue with a new frame of mind.

“Crossing the border is not as simple as the news and many politicians like to make it sound,” Wilson said. “It is a long and difficult journey made by people who would only face the many risks because they are fleeing the most disastrous situations in their home countries. The dangers of the journey are only made worse when factoring in that only one in five people who cross the border are actually able to settle in the United States, regardless of their situation.”

She continued.

“Many still face deportation, detention, and persecution once they arrive. I would hope that the students and faculty who attended the simulation realize just how confusing, frustrating, and ultimately scary the process of crossing the border is, and walk away with an open mind and open heart,” Wilson said.

Student signs poster to show solidarity with immigrants at the event held by Campus Ministry and Social Action.

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The implications of the separation and reunification of families in the United States was discussed in addition to other topics.

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Students and Faculty Talk Politics at Informal Discussion Circle

Madalyn Johnson Asst. A&E Editor

On Wednesday, Feb. 20, Manhattan College held their first official informal discussion of political events in Miguel 209. Both students and professors were invited to sit down, eat their lunches, and share their thoughts and opinions on the latest political, news stories that have made recent headlines in the media.

The discussion was led by the chair of the political science department, Pamela Chasek, Ph.D. Other professors that teach political science courses at Manhattan College were also in attendance and encouraged students to talk about what political news s tories interested them most.

Junior Mary Nevin, who is a political science major, brought up the first topic which was Trump’s declaration of a national emergency in order to build a border between the U.S. and Mexico. Students were asked first by professors of the political science department about what they thought about Trump’s vital decision and what Congress could possibly do to negotiate a deal with the Trump administration.

Kaylyn Atkins, a junior double majoring in political science and international studies, weighed in on how she is confused about how the wall will be supported financially.

“I didn’t really think he was going to do it after the shutdown,” she said, noting Trump’s advocacy for the wall.

“I know there was a New York Times article that came out a day or two ago saying that the House was going to try to find

funding from somewhere else.

But I was wondering where they are going to get all this funding from.”

Margaret Groarke, Ph.D., associate professor of political science, added to the conversation by explaining how Congress plays a role in Trump’s demand for the border.

“Congress can vote to override it. They would need the President to sign that piece of legislation so their chances of doing it that way are somewhat limited. A lot of states have sued, saying this is inappropriate,” she said.

Chasek added a psychological perspective on the political matter by saying, “Trump thrives on the battle, he thrives on rallies, he thrives on ‘lock her up, lock her up’ you know that sort of stuff. He always needs an enemy. While he had complete control of Congress, it would have been easy, there would have been no enemy he wouldn’t get no, he wouldn’t get that adrenaline rush of calling the Democrats the enemy and national security.”

One student rhetorically asked what does Trump have once he has the wall, mentioning that the President could possibly put the difficulty of building the border into good use for his next presidential campaign.

Professor Jonathan Keller said, “In the end, he’s not going to have the money anytime soon if he wins. In the long run, it’s not like a winning strategy because the other half of the party doesn’t like it, the independents really don’t like it, they’re passionately against it so I don’t get it really.”

The lineup of Democrats who will line up for the 2020

Presidential Election was also discussed among students and teachers in which Chasek asked how everyone felt about Bernie Sanders running again.

A student addressed a concern about Sanders’ age, saying he believes he’s too old to run.

Another student commented on how the younger generation may not be as attracted to Sanders anymore as well as how the excitement of Elizabeth’s Warren decision to run has declined as the number of Democrats running becomes a bigger pool.

Atkins, a New Jersey native, talked about how she feels about New Jersey Senator Cory Booker running, in addition to her thoughts about Kamala Harris and how she would like to be more educated on the Democratic candidates.

“I know a lot about Cory Booker, so when he announced he was running, I was excited because he’s from Jersey,” Atkins said. “I was excited when Kamala Harris announced it but then I was listening to some of her interviews and about the whole prison reform thing and her record of locking up men in color in California, I just wanted to know more about it because I don’t know enough about her so I don’t want to go and say ‘I support her’ without knowing a whole lot about her.”

Views were also shared about Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, possibly running for 2020.

“He can really damage the Democratic party,” Keller said.

“If they choose someone on the far left, it will open up this big space.”

Groarke did not back down when downgrading the current CEO of Starbucks and said,

“When you run as an independent, like since you don’t have to be in the primaries, you don’t have those reality checks when you’re in the primary, you come in fifth with two percent of the vote and you wake up the next morning and you’re like ‘you know what maybe I shouldn’t do this’.’ We have to figure out how we’re going to deal with those moments with Howard Schultz because he needs to go.”

The professors spoke about students in Australia and Europe being very politically active with strikes on climate change, saying even in Britain upper middle and elementary school students organize these types of protests. They took this news as an opportunity to ask students if this type of activity will soon take place in the U.S. and if it’s a global issue college students think about.

One student brought up the climate change lawsuit young advocates lost against the state of Washington and another talked about how younger generations have recently expressed concern about the last polar vortex through social media.

Nevin compared the concern students have about environmental problems at the East coast to those that live in the Midwest.

“I’m from Wisconsin and like all my friends go to the University of Wisconsin-Madison which has like a very strong liberal tradition,” she said. “It’s something that is a huge part of the culture at Madison but I really haven’t heard, it’s totally different from when I go back home and it’s something that they’re constantly talking about and they know all these terms

and that’s just not something I found that’s part of the culture here. One in school I don’t hear it talked about that much but I can definitely see something like that happening in Madison, like a walkout or protest.”

Nevin thought of the idea to welcome all MC faculty and students to have informal political discussions in a non-classroom environment. She hopes it can give more clarity to students and social media users who are interested and engage in conversations about current events.

“A lot of my friends, if they’re like in business or whatever they don’t talk about politics which is fascinating to me just because we’re at such a weird time, and I feel like people our age are, with social media, kind of excited about current events.

But there have been a few things that have caught some traction like gun violence and Me Too and stuff like that, but I would like to have people be more aware and just give people a chance to learn and talk about it,” she said.

Chasek added to Nevin’s comment by explaining why it is important that these discussions happen.

“Another interesting thing of conversation, having a discussion on Me Too, has it gone too far or has it not gone far enough?” she asked. “There’s so much going on and it’s hard to grasp but even people that have spent their whole lives reading this stuff and talking about it, it’s like, ‘Oh my god, what does this all mean’?

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LWGRC Spotlights Martha Joy Rose and Motherhood Exhibit Shannon Gleba & Samantha Walla Staff Writer & Production Editor

Sociology professor Martha Joy Rose has been a major proponent for the sociological study of families and motherhood on Manhattan College’s campus for a number of years, and has been able to educate many students through her organization and conference.

In 2003, Rose came into contact with the study of motherhood at academic conferences while creating large scale festivals around the country called Mamapalooza.

“I was going to some academic conferences, and realized at these conferences that there was actually a bubbling underneath the surface, this field of study on motherhood. I said to some of my colleagues at the time, ‘we really need a place that is going to archive and carry this information that’s happening in this movement, both academically, socially, artistically. How about a museum of motherhood?’” said Rose.

When Rose’s colleagues got on board with her idea for a Museum of Motherhood, they started working towards making the idea a reality.

“We founded a non-profit and did exhibits-we worked with Working Mother Magazine, the village of Seneca Falls, N.Y. where the suffragette movement started. We did an exhibit on their streets called “The Moms of Rock and Roll” and was a big tourist attraction for a summer of 2010. And we opened a space in Manhattan in 2011. So, for 29 months we had 2,500 square feet on the Upper East Side of Manhattan,” said Rose.

According to their website, the Museum of Motherhood’s mission “is to start great conversations, feature thought-

provoking exhibits, and share information and education—we believe a more comprehensive understanding of pregnancy, birth, and the value of caregiving labor will lead to healthier and happier homes, more productive workplaces, and better social policies.”

Today, the Museum of Motherhood (MOM) has transformed and has grown an impressive online presence, as well as created a new educational space.

Rose said, “Now, we have a presence online. We have a Mom Art Annex in the Arts District of St. Petersburg, Fla., where we do residencies, fellowship and internships.”

She continued.

“For example, relevant to Manhattan College, if you are a student or graduate and your area of interest falls within sociology of family or women’s studies, or any of those kinds of things and you’re working on a project, you can pitch a proposal and say ‘I want to come work on my project for two weeks’ and you can come stay there for free and work on your project. So, we do power a lot of those kinds of things.”

In addition to fellowships, the MOM “aims to collect, preserve, and disseminate articles, books, artifacts, images, and research on all aspects of motherhood,” according to their website.

In addition to being the Acting Director of the Museum of Motherhood, Rose also spends a lot of time on campus teaching sociology courses beginning in 2015 with a brief hiatus, as well as working in the Lasallian Women and Gender Resource Center.

“My real passion is sociology of family, with a focus on mothers, fathers and families and looking at it from some of the scholarship that we don’t usually hear about,” said Rose.

She continued.

“We also have a few hours here at the women’s center and

they offered for me to come in for a couple of hours a week, and if there are parents on campus, if there are students on campus who are struggling with say their own family situations, because a lot of us are in a sandwich generation where we are taking care of our parents, or other issues or interests around family, motherhood, fatherhood, I am here to talk to people,” said Rose.

“There’s moms in every department,” said student worker at the Lasallian Women and Gender Resource Center, Reilly Rebhahn. “They deserve notice and access to resources.

Through this MOM conference and project we’re one step closer to granting moms justice…

The center is about healing and justice. By ignoring and stigmatizing what it means to be a mother and by stereotyping what a good mother is, we’re perpetuating more injustices.

Providing a space on campus and allowing mothers access to the resources they need is just another way we can bring justice to campus.”

Student worker at the Lasallian Women and Gender Resource Center, Reilly Rebhahn, said Rose hope that students in her classes are able to learn about how to engage in a family system.

“If we believe fundamentally that education makes us better, which I assume we do because we are all in a college, then why wouldn’t education about the history of family make you a better family member? I want it to be very applicable,” said Rose.

Also returning to MC, with co-sponsorship from the sociology department, this April for a fifth time is the MOM Conference, a conference that has been held each year since 2005, in collaboration with different academic institutions.

The conference will take place at the end of Women’s Week on campus, on April 5 and 6.

The topic of this year’s conference is “Rewriting Trauma & Visibility: Motherwork, Pregnancy, and Birth,” and will feature many great speakers and artworks, and will feature around 40 presenters and well as panels.

“We have international presenters who are all doing research on different areas of family and mother studies. So this year particularly we are dealing with birth, trauma, loss, illness. We’ll have scholars, we’ll have artists, and arts,” said Rose.

All students are welcome to attend the conference, and all are also welcome to read The Journal of Mother Studies, a digital humanities journal that will feature some of the research presented at the conference. Likewise, MOM will be having an exhibit in O’Malley Library during the month of March.

In the end, Rose hopes the conference will open the eyes of those who attend and that they will be able to apply the knowledge to their own lives.

She also hopes to see MC students be as open to the idea of mother’s studies as the college as a whole has been for many years. By inviting MOM to present, collaborating to host the conference, as well as inviting Rose to teach, MC has been an important part of MOM’s past.

Rose said, “In a weird way, when I look back at the history of the museum, and I look back at where we have had invitation to be, to exist, in the oddest way, Manhattan College has been more open in some regard, I want to say that Manhattan College has been incredibly open.”

MOM’s set-up in the LWGRC. MARTHA JOY ROSE / COURTESY

The interior of the Museum of Mom Art Annex in St. Petersburg, F.L. MARTHA JOY ROSE / COURTESY

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Margaret Groarke Leads Slice of Social Justice Lauren Schuster Social Media Editor

As part of Campus Ministry and Social Action’s Slice of Social Justice program, Margaret Groarke, Ph.D. joined students and faculty in Cornerstone to discuss President Trump’s recent declaration of a state of emergency to build a wall on the southern border of the United States.

This led to many different areas of discussion amongst those in attendance, including whether or not lack of funding for the wall constitutes a state of emergency, whether any president should have the right to determine when our country is in a state of emergency, whether there is a need for the wall itself, what President Trump has done so far to attempt to fund it and what types of alternate immigration reforms could be proposed. “[Trump] decided to use his ability to declare a national emergency to use funds that had been appropriated for other purposes to build the wall,” Groarke said to the group.

“Presidents sometimes do this, there are a lot of emergency declarations. There was an emergency declaration over the Zika virus, over Hurricane Katrina. Lots of time it’s natural disasters or [like] 9/11, a terrorist attack.”

While the National Emergency Act has traditionally been used to more quickly bring aid in the situations Groarke mentioned, she also made clear that there are already existing budgets in place in case of events like those.

“We have money set aside in the budget every year in case there are natural disas-

ters,” Groarke said. “So you don’t really need to declare a national emergency for, let’s say, Hurricane Maria, because we’ve created an agency that has a budget that’s supposed to be ready to respond, so then if they need more money, you have a least a couple of days to give them more money. I don’t know if we can invent a national emergency that isn’t already planned for somehow.”

Even if actively threatened by another country, Groarke explained that there are still resources already allotted for a response.

“Militarily, we have a standing army that has a lot of resources, so it’s not like we need to raise a billion dollars for the Pentagon if someone marches across the Canadian border with an army,” Groarke said.

“So maybe we don’t need the president to have the right to do that.”

The discussion also delved into the topic of how paying illegal immigrants less than the U.S. minimum wage hurts both their right to fair pay and unemployed Americans’ right to have a fair chance at a job.

“We appear in this country to depend a lot on people who are underpaid because they don’t have any rights, and that also undercuts the pay of American citizens,” Groarke said. “I think we can probably fix that problem more by thinking about those two groups as workers who are being taken advantage of in different ways than as really competitors.”

As the program’s discussion continued, the idea of legal versus illegal immigrants was also brought to the table.

“There are a lot of people who will say ‘well, people should come here legally,’ but at the

Margaret Groarke, P.h.D., led faculty and students in a discussion about the proposed southern border wall as part of CMSA’s Slice of Social Justice program.

LAUREN SCHUSTER / THE QUADRANGLE same time that the current administration is cracking down on illegal immigration, they’re also really going after legal immigration too,” Groarke said.

“They’ve reduced the number of judges who are hearing citizenship cases and asylum cases, so if you’re here and trying to do it the right way, you’re not getting a chance to have your day in court so you can have your case heard.”

These additional restrictions for legal immigration give rise to further questions about why there is such a strong push for limiting the number and type of immigrants allowed into the country.

“So you have to think, is it really about preventing people from just running across the border with drugs and guns or is it about you trying to reduce the population or you’re trying to reduce the population of brown people who live here, or what’s the real goal?” Groarke said.

One of the students in attendance, junior Anna Rosario, decided to come to the event

after her recent experience visiting the southern border for herself.

“Since coming back from my L.O.V.E. trip to El Paso, I’ve been really passionate about immigration issues and what the government has been doing regarding immigration right now,” Rosario said. “And I love Dr. Groarke, I’m a part of the Government and Politics Club, so learning that she was the one leading the discussion I was really enticed to come.”

Rosario felt that the discussion was very beneficial for more people to understand each other’s concerns as well as the facts of such an important national issue.

“We learned a lot from each other, so I think it was a conversation that was long overdue to be had on campus, and I think this semester Campus Ministry and Social Action is doing a really good job at bringing that conversation to the table at MC,” Rosario said.

Another student in attendance, senior Kaiyun Chen, chose to attend the event in

hopes of learning more about immigration from both the faculty and her peers.

“I always think that it’s important to be more informed about these kind of things,” Chen said. “Even if you already know a little bit about it, you always want to know more. There’s always more to know, and to see different perspectives, too, especially from events that have not just professors, not just students but both, it’s very beneficial.”

Chen believes that everyone should aim to be more informed about national issues like the border wall if we want to have a hope of working towards resolutions.

“When you’re more informed, you create a more passionate way to take action, because if we’re not more informed, then these problems will never get discussed and solved because it’s not going to be talked about and it’s going to continue to be a problem forever,” Chen said.

De-mystifying the Library: Laurin Paradise Richard Gerling Staff Writer

Laurin Paradise began working at Manhattan College in 2017 in the O’Malley Library as a Reference and Instruction Librarian. After wanting a career switch, she went to library school at Pratt Institute to gain experience in this field.

“I really liked the aspect of librarianship of helping people solve problems with information, which I was always good at,” said Paradise. “I went into library stuff because I like learning new things…. I also got interested in digital humanities and reference type stuff. Fortunately, that is exactly what Manhattan College was looking for: someone that had experience with working with reference stuff and help with digital humanities type stuff.

And here I am.”

As a part of her job, Paradise holds instruction sessions to help students begin researching and writing their papers.

She contacts the professors in her subject areas at the beginning of the semester and asks if they want her to come in.

Paradise said, “I design a presentation on what they say the assignment is for the students and what kinds of questions the students usually have.

She continued.

“Generally, I work in how to look for resources and how to figure out what kind of resources they are and how to tie it all in with citations. They can contact me or their professor if they’re not really sure if what they found works,” she said.

As a librarian at the college, Paradise is available for students to ask questions when it comes to writing papers. She is the library liaison for the communication department and

helps students when it comes to papers in this field.

Paradise said, “Don’t be scared to call your librarian if you’re having problems with your paper. You’re not bugging us. We’re here to help you.…

Seek help from the library if you are having trouble finding stuff for your paper.”

She continued. “[Students] can definitely make a research appointment with us, and I always like to include too that it’s a good idea to have all of the different associated terms that have to do with your topic…. I know students get really anxious sometimes as they’re just starting researching their paper because they don’t know where to start,” she said She emphasizes that students should not hesitate to seek help from the library.

Paradise said, “Come please. Bug us. Don’t pass in

a paper that you’re not happy with or your professor won’t be happy with when you can sit down and twenty minutes later have some idea how to cite it or some place to start looking….

Seek help from the library if you are having trouble finding stuff for your paper.”

The O’Malley Library has many resources for students to use when it comes to writing papers whether it is for English or any of the other departments.

There are research guides for every major at the college that has advice on which databases fit that major and information on how to do citations for that field as well.

She concluded that librarianship is about helping students figure out how and where to start writing their papers.

Paradise said, “Librarianship isn’t about knowing all the answers, just knowing where to go look for them. We help you

Paradise began working at Manhattan College after studying at Pratt Institute.

MANHATTAN COLLEGE / COURTESY know where to look for the answers, so you guys can find out what they are.”

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“If I Could Tell You Just One Thing…” from

the Perspective of an International Student THE BOOK NOOK

Bruna Lauermann Contributor

When I moved to the United States a couple years ago, I knew I’d have to readapt several things. What I didn’t realize was that my reading habits would be one of them. They say you should read about things that you like when you are learning a new language, so I bought a 448 page Frida Kahlo biography. Of course I never read it and to this day just staring at it makes me tired. I figured pretty quick that I would not be the same reader as in Portuguese.

It was at a rainy afternoon, when I arrived too early to an acting class, that I sorted out the perfect reading style for my re-adaptation in doing that in English: I was waiting for the class and didn’t really have anything to do so I went to one of these gift shops where you can find all sorts of things. I saw “If I Could Tell You Just One Thing...” by Richard Reed and thought it would be a good company for someone who was two hours early for a class.

I went to The Crooked Town, a tiny and traditional restaurant downtown, asked for a delicious cheese and tomatoes’ crepe and started reading. If I could tell you just one thing, it would be: switch your phone off for an old-fashioned date with yourself through a book.

Richard Reed, the writer, is a entrepreneur, philanthropist and radio host. He is also the co-founder of Innocent Drinks,

the Innocent Foundation and JamJar Investments, as well as the founder of Art Everywhere.

In short, he’s pretty well connected. Which is what made it easier to get in touch with all the people he interviewed from Simon Cowell to Bill Gates and Caitlyn Jenner to an Auschwitz survivor, as well as Nelson Mandela’s fellow Freedom Fighters.

However, Reed wanted more than just being close to important personalities. He wanted to absorb their knowledge as well. In his own words at the book’s introduction, “I made a promise to myself: whenever I meet someone remarkable, I’ll ask them for their best piece of advice. It always seemed more worthwhile than asking for a selfie.”

The book isn’t great just due to the fact that he interviewed fascinating individuals and gave us a sneak peek of the life of these important characters. The book is great because we realize they are just like us. That’s what makes the book extremely inspiring. If we can relate with these people’s thoughts, perhaps we are not so different from each other.

If they made their way to the top thinking that way, we are not so hopeless about what we will end up with, as our way of thinking is very much alike.

And even if we think in a completely different way, we could still use their words as a new perspective or an advice.

For me and all my colleagues in the communication

field, the book comes with a plus. “If I Could Tell You Just One Thing…” is about what these extraordinary minds have to say, but it is also about how Reed makes them say it.

In a regular interview we usually have more than one question and very often we don’t get too many meaningful words. Reed however, with a single straight-forward question, manages to get substantial answers. How does he trick people who want to trick him?

How does he get them to open up to him? How important is it to know about one’s personality prior to approaching them?

Those are some of the questions that bugged my mind while and after reading. Interviews such as the one Reed did with “The Handmaid’s Tale” writer Margaret Atwood are good illustrations of how interviewing smart characters can be hard and fun at the same time. Reed’s writing style teleport us to the same room or feel like we’re in the same phone call. It’s a game, he knows how to play it.

“If I Could Tell You Just One Thing…” was an exceptional book for me because I couldn’t read for a long time without getting tired then, so its three-page story format really helps. It’s easy to stop reading and just come back later for more. It could be a good in-between read for classes’ homework as it doesn’t require too much commitment. It can also be a source of inspiration to keep going since they’re all

“If I Could Tell You Just One Thing...” allows the readers to gain a glimpse into the lives of fascinating individuals.

BRUNA LAUERMANN / THE QUADRANGLE success stories, without hiding the tough side. Ahead of every story, drawings by Samuel Kerr gives us a face behind the words we are about to read.

And if you’re really into quotes there are pages where Reed highlights a handful of them.

I was right when I said that I would not be the same kind of reader here as I was in Brazil. But when I said it, back then, it was because I thought I wouldn’t be able to read meaningful stories with the same depth. Now I realize that it ain’t about how many pages a book has, or how important I believe the theme is. My reading style is being able to relate to the story and take something good out of it.

“If I Could Tell You Just One Thing...” by Richard Reed is an easy, exceptional, and inspirational read.

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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, “remarkable is something or someone worthy of attention.” “If I Could Tell You Just One Thing…” taught me that books are always a way to meet the most remarkable person one can ever meet in a lifetime: theirselves.

In that afternoon I encounter myself in the Reed’s words. I remembered that I love to hear people’s stories. After eating my crepe I stopped reading and look to the others in my surrounding: the owner, waitress and some customers, all them had amazing things to tell me.

In the end, anyone could be a remarkable person, as long as someone has the time and ten-

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“The book isn’t great just due to the fact that he interviewed fascinating individuals and gave us a sneak peek of the life of these important characters.

The book is great because we realize they are just like us.”

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Sanctus Artem Celebrates “Pure Art” on Campus

Samantha Walla Production Editor

Creators and appreciators of art find a place to create with other artists in the Manhattan College community on a weekly basis at Sanctus Artem, Manhattan College’s art club. Sanctus Artem is Latin for “pure arts,” which speaks to the diverse scope of the club.

During the 2019 spring semester, the club is not only increasing its presence on campus, but continuing to diversify its programs to encompass art of all mediums.

“Sanctus Artem is not just an art club for art. We indulge in all sorts of art,” said senior English major David Valentin.

“What’s so important to us is to get everyone involved with art because, to me, art is an expression of the lens one sees reality through, and everyone’s got their own different color lenses. By joining together all these different perspective, we all collectively make something that’s greater than the sum of our parts.”

Valentin has served various position on Santus Artem’s executive board before assuming the role of co-president alongside junior Ryan Askin.

In addition to his role in planning events with the rest of the board, Valentin’s favored form of art is writing, speaking to the club’s support of arts of all forms.

Co-president Askin agreed, elaborating on how the club offers a place for him to have his pieces critiqued.

“Sanctus Artem is a place to express yourself and feel safe in doing so. On a more personal

level, it allows me to be able to connect to other students who do art, whether that be visual, performing, or literary, and hear their creative feedback or criticism on the pieces I create.” said the secondary education and English major. “Surrounding yourself with other artists is also just more fun as well when creating art because it allows you to see how other people use different modes.”

This semester, the group holds a different type of workshop including abstract painting, photography and writing.

The group hopes to incorporate additional modes of art such as culinary. By expanding the breadth of art supported and promoted by students, they are given an opportunity to create conversation and grow their skills.

The already expansive community cultivated by Sanctus Artem is not limited to its participants. Sanctus Artem is a collaborative club, meaning that they are constantly searching to partner with other student organizations, such as Coffee House.

The most recent workshop was a collaborative effort in which attendees created feminist art for the Lasallian Women and Gender Resource Center, held Tuesday, Feb. 19.

Sanctus Artem also promotes Jasper’s artwork on their Instagram page, @sanctusartem, which accepts DMs that are reviewed by sophomore Mariajose Blas-Perez.

Blas-Perez uses the workshops of Sanctus Artem as relief from the course load of her finance major.

“Art to me is my outlet to disconnect from the world.

Sanctus Artem has helped me continue my art since in a way it delegates a specific time for me to sketch and disconnect from everything, which keeps me from become overwhelmed,” she said.

She continued.

“I believe Sanctus Artem is important to the campus because it allows other artist to connect especially since unlike high school we don’t have a specific time like art class to connect with other fellow artists,” Blas-Perez said.

Valentin also cited creating a space for artists to come together, especially in a school with robust engineering and business programs, as a key component of the club.

“Sanctus wants to help people carve out an hour just to sit down and do art and work on something they could be proud of. In a college atmosphere it’s often incredibly easy to be overstimulated and overwhelmed by everything going on around college students, and so we want to create a safe space where students can just relax,” he said.

Sanctus Artem’s leaders also hinted at an upcoming event that will be revealed on their Instagram in the coming weeks.

Above all, Santus Artem welcomes students of all levels of experience to join.

“You do not have to be “good” at art, as many students say when they hear about our club.” said Valentin. “Many of our members join us every Tuesday for our events who are not artist or writing, but they just want to take in all that good energy and just relax.”

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Students experiment with different mediums at Sanctus Artem’s weekly workshops. @SANCTUSARTEM INSTAGRAM / COURTESY

Artists used paint and cardboard to interpret different works of art. @SANCTUSARTEM INSTAGRAM / COURTESY

Major Author Reading Series Begins Semester with Álvaro Enrigue Nicole Rodriguez

Asst. Production Editor Álvaro Enrigue, a Mexican novelist, short story writer, and essayist, kicked off this semester’s Major Author Reading Series, otherwise known as MARS. The Manhattan College English Department’s own Adam Koehler, Ph.D., and Dominika Wrozynski, Ph.D. host the Major Author Reading Series each year in order to engage and expose students to contemporary literature. A variety of different authors and poets visit campus to showcase their original work, answer questions from their audience,

and sell their work through the college’s bookstore.

Students and faculty filled the seats of Hayden 100 the evening of Thursday, Feb. 21 to listen to a reading of Enrigue’s most recent work “Ahora Me Rindo y Eso Es Todo,” or “Now I Surrender and That’s All.” The night began with a warm welcome and introduction given by Antonio Cordoba, Ph.D., an associate professor from the college’s modern language department. Cordoba informed the audience of Enrigue’s successes which include receiving the Heralde Prize and Elena Poniatowska International Novel Award, some of the most prestigious awards for Spanish literary fiction, for his

novel “Sudden Death.”

Enrigue proceeded to read a translated excerpt of his latest work. “Ahora Me Rindo y Eso Es Todo” was titled after the words uttered by Apache tribe leader Geronimo at the time of his surrender. In his novel, he tells the story of a country that has been erased and does not exist today, the Apacheria.

While Enrigue primarily narrates the Apache wars, he touches upon themes such as the irrelevance of the concept of borders, seemingly tying in history to current events under a fictional setting.

When asked about his writing process and what sparks his use of history in his fiction writing, Enrigue said that

he much preferred writing about subjects that are not well known to him.

“It’s my impression that what is left for a writer to write is to produce critical, political thinking of the reality that is indirect. We have one advantage which is that our novels do not get fact checked. That you do not need to offer scientific proof as the sociologists do, that you do not need mathematical proof as the journalists do. You do not need an archive to prove that what you are saying is true, but you are thinking of the same phenomena as the historians and journalists,” said Enrigue.

Freshman Agnieska Barzola attended the MARS reading

and spoke highly of her experience.

“I originally just attended the MARS reading for my Spanish class and did not expect to get much out of it besides the cultural event I needed, but I ended up really enjoying it. I found the content of the novel really interesting. We were just talking about indigenous communities being forced to assimilate as a result of colonization, so being able to draw that connection was worthwhile,” said Barzola.

Upcoming installments of the Major Author Reading Series include novelist Laura Sims on March 12 at 6:30 p.m. and poet Erika Meitner on April 10 at 6:30 p.m.

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Jasper Dancers Place First and Second in Regional Competition Gabriella DePinho News Editor

On a Sunday without a basketball game to be at, the Jasper Dancers headed to Westfield State University to compete in the Universal Dance Association’s New England Dance Championship. The dancers placed first in division one hiphop and second in division one jazz, despite this competition being the first time the team ever competed with a jazz routine.

Coach Kaitlyn Marquette signed the team up for the Feb. 17th competition back in October and spent the ensuing months preparing the team.

“It falls under the varsity umbrella so there’s UDA, NDA, a few other competitions and we didn’t have a basketball game that day so I thought ‘awesome, let’s take advantage, let’s go to this competition,’” said Marquette.

The team’s preparation for the competition was fairly similar to their preparation for the national championship. They learned the dances in November and December and spent the time leading up to the competition cleaning them up and running the routines over and over again.

This was the team’s first time competing in a regional competition like this one.

Marquette said, “The atmosphere at the competition was intense. There were… 20 plus other college teams there.

We’ve gone to local competitions in the past but they’ve been at high schools and there’s maybe only two or three

other colleges there so this was a really big deal for us to actually be competing against what we’re going to be competing against at nationals.”

Sophomore chemical engineering major and dance team e-board member, Meghan Walker, found the team’s energy to be what carried them through the competition’s intensity.

“I just think the entire day, we just had such great energy.

We had to wake up really early and get ready but everybody was in such a good mindset,”

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said Walker. “Even the entire way to the competition, which was a long drive, we were all up and having fun and getting energized and I think that’s what carried us throughout the day because right before we went to the mat, we talked and we said ‘we know what we need to do and we’re here and we’re ready and let’s just do it.’”

The Jasper Dancers pose with their first and second place trophies.

MANHATTAN COLLEGE DANCE TEAM / COURTESY

Marquette echoed Walker’s sentiment of the team’s drive the day of the competition.

“The girls stayed focused, they didn’t let the other teams distract them,” said Marquette. “They just went out there and did what they had to do.”

Junior civil engineering major Alyssa Pollastro also realized that the other teams could have intimidated them but that the team was able to block them out.

“We didn’t let the intimidation of the other teams get to us. We just knew what we needed to do going into and didn’t let the other teams affect us,” said Pollastro.

Both the coach and the

team knew they trained hard but found the team placing so highly in jazz to be a complete surprise.

Marquette said, “[Placing for jazz] was a surprise, in the sense that we’ve never done a jazz dance at competition before so I didn’t know where we were going to fall. I knew they looked great after they came off of the floor but because we’ve never done a jazz dance, I had no expectations whatsoever. ”We didn’t know where we were going to place. We have the technique, we have the capabilities of performing and doing great but we didn’t know a month and a half before nationals just how it was going to work out for us and it ended up being in our favor,” said Pollas-

tro.

Placing in both categories was ultimately rewarding for the team.

“We were up against teams that we’re going to be up against at nationals, so to know that you’re on or past their level is such a rewarding feeling,” said Marquette.

“We all just went out there and gave it our all and this is all we could have hoped for,” said Pollastro.

For now, the team is relishing in their accomplishment, practicing hard and looking forward to giving their all at nationals.

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Remembering the 1948 NAIB Tournament

Pete Janny

Asst. Sports Editor Every February we hold a heightened sense of appreciation for all the influential contributions of African Americans to society. This month long meditation on the invaluable impact of African Americans past and present is formally known as “Black History Month.” We exhibit tremendous gratitude for the efforts of these men and women for their unrelenting commitment to fostering a more just and humane society. At Manhattan College, this fight for racial justice was manifested by those who laid the foundation for this college’s long-lived prosperity. Looking back, it’s safe to say that Manhattan’s intolerance for hatred and discrimination was never more evident than during the lead up to the 1948 NAIB Men’s Division 1 Basketball Tournament.

There’s very little debate as for whether or not the 19471948 Manhattan College Men’s basketball team was one of the program’s all-time great teams.

The Kelly Green and White won 21 out of their 26 non-tournament games in a season that saw the Jaspers eclipse a number of program records. Furthermore, the team’s 20 regular season wins represented a program best just ahead of the previous high of 18 set by the 1948 squad. Despite this wealth of success, the 1948 team will

be most remembered for something far more important than any basketball game.

On February 27th, 1948, Manhattan College received a telegram from organizers of the NAIB tournament offering an invitation to the school’s basketball team to compete in the organization’s annual tournament held in Kansas City, Missouri. Grateful for the invitation, Manhattan hastily accepted the honor to attend. The biggest attraction of the tournament and the presumptive reason for Manhattan’s quick response was the pathway it provided the victor to qualify for the Olympic trials. There was only one complication: African Americans were barred from participation in the tournament. Little did anyone that the aftermath of Manhattan’s initial agreement would ignite an unforeseen stalemate between the school and the organizers of the tournament.

Upon careful perusal of the tournament’s guidelines, Manhattan became aware of the tournament’s controversial prohibition of African American participation. Instinctively, the school decided they needed to reconsider whether or not they should carry on with their initial intentions to participate in the tournament. According to Manhattan President Brother Thomas, the school had no knowledge of this rule before agreeing to attend the tourna-

ment.

“The presentation to the Administration for approval did not include any mention of this rule,” said Brother Thomas in a letter to the rest of Manhattan’s administration explaining the situation.

Brother Thomas’s main objective of consulting the entire administration was to solicit their thoughts on whether or not Manhattan would be violating school norms by taking part in the tournament.

“I would like to discuss and hear the opinion of C.C. members as whether Manhattan College would be inconsistent regarding our policy of toleration and respect for the rights of minority groups - racially colored people - by accepting an invitation to this tournament,” said Brother Thomas.

Upon careful consideration from the school’s administration, Manhattan decided to withdraw its name from the field of participants.

In a letter penned to the secretary-treasure of the tournament, Manhattan President Brother Thomas confirmed the team’s withdrawal saying, “I regret very much that considered opinion of the Manhattan College Administration had to rule that we will not participate in your tournament, due to the “rule” providing that “Colored players are not eligible” - unless you see fit to eliminating this ruling.”

Following Manhattan’s publicized decision to withdraw, one Quadrangle article read, “When the story first broke, to the average student it smelled suspiciously of another economy measure on the part of the administration.” It continued, “But as further developments appeared and the facts of the case became known, student sympathy swung unanimously in favor of the school authorities, as they stood firm on their stand of refusing to allow the basketball team to take part in a racially-prejudiced tournament.”

Manhattan’s decision had a significant bearing on the way other schools perceived this discriminatory policy.

According to that same Quadrangle article, “Manhattan, which had already gained a moral victory, suddenly found itself supported by staunch supporter Siena College and Long Island University, who also refused Kansas City bids.”

It continued, “Then the United States Committee struck the vital blow: the NAIB tournament was threatened with disqualification from the Olympic trials if the tournament committee did not rescind the Negro ban.”

This overwhelming amount of support for Manhattan’s bold action ultimately forced the NAIB Tournament to lift the ban on African American participation. Upon receiving a second invitation from tourna-

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ment officials, the school happily accepted the offer. After wins over Arkansas State and Southern Illinois, Manhattan lost in the quarterfinals to Hamline University by a score of 60-51.

Although they may have lost, the Quadrangle pointed out the significance of the team’s presence in the tournament saying, “before the team had taken the floor in tournament play, a great victory had been won.”

The most meaningful part of Manhattan’s decision to protest the tournament was the fact that the team itself featured no African American players.

Despite the ban having nothing to do with the school’s team, Manhattan’s honorable actions symbolized the school’s genuine appreciation for the human dignity of every person, regardless of a person’s race.

“For many years Manhattan has been promoting the idea of Interracial Justice, and has practiced it,” said Brother Thomas in the first letter he sent to tournament officials.

“Especially in the matter of colored students we have made an effort not to discriminate because of race or color.”

With Black History Month winding down, we especially remember the heroes of Manhattan College whose intervention in the 1948 NAIB tournament reminded the entire nation of the equality and sacredness of

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all human races.

Junius Kellogg, Manhattan’s Athletic Hero C. Garrett Keidel Sports Editor

As Black History Month comes to a close, here at the Quadrangle we wanted to celebrate one of the greatest athletic stories to ever come out of Manhattan College. A story of athletic integrity, standing up for the right in having fairness in the game of basketball, and standing up to one of the greatest point-shaving scandals in college basketball history.

Back before Manhattan College’s basketball team played in Draddy Gymnasium, the Jaspers played all of their games at New York City’s famous Madison Square Garden. College athletics played on such a high level location caused for there to be a lot of eyes watching the game and high attendances.

Because of the amount of attention the games received, people began betting and gambling on the scores of the highly publicised matches. It became common for players

from New York City colleges to be approached by people in the betting circles with bribes to throw games, shave points and fix results. One such player that was approached was Manhattan College center, Junius Kellogg.

Born on March 16, 1927, Kellogg grew up in a poorer household in Virginia. After being drafted into the army post-high school, Kellogg came to Manhattan College to play basketball, becoming the first African American to play on an athletic team at the college.

During the early years of his basketball career here, he was approached by a former teammate at his dorm room, and was offered $1,000 in order to poorly perform at an upcoming game against DePaul at Madison Square Garden.

As reported in an article by the New York Associated Press at the time, “the man who approached Kellogg with the offer was Hank Poppe, a former player at Manhattan then working with the gamblers.”

After Kellogg was approached with the offer, he took it and made it known to his head coach, Ken Norton.

Kellogg and Norton then took this information to the local Defense Attorney’s office and exposed the gambling ring that had been plaguing New York City’s college basketball world.

Kellogg’s incredible story doesn’t end there. He eventually graduated from Manhattan College in 1953, and went on to become a part of the traveling basketball stunt group, the Harlem Globetrotters.

While travelling to a game in 1954, he was involved in an automobile accident where the car he was in flipped several times, causing a spinal cord injury and leaving Kellogg paralyzed. His resiliency continued to show through his extensive work of physical therapy.

A local report at the time confirmed, “an auto accident in 1954 left him a quadriplegic.

However, extensive therapy helped Kellogg recover the use of his hands and arms.”

Kellogg showed intense physical perseverance both on the court and in physical therapy (left).

MC ARCHIVES / COURTESY After this, Kellogg later went on to coach wheelchair basketball and become involved in his community, becoming the first deputy commissioner for the New York City Community Development Agency. He later died in 1998.

His place at the college will forever be cemented in history as the man who single handedly exposed the greatest college sports scandal in New York City. His role as the first Afri-

can American athlete should be celebrated for what he was able to accomplish on and off the court. Junius Kellogg, and his name, will have hero status for years to come.

A report by the Daily News summed it up by saying, “This role model rolls on. Kellogg wouldn't take the thousand bucks in 1951, and he won't take a seat now.”

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THE QUADRANGLE

Manhattan Drops Decision to Iona

Although the Manhattan men’s basketball team lost against their MAAC rival Iona, the turn out by the Sixth Borough was loud and proud throughout the course of the game. GOJASPERS / COURTESY

Pete Janny

Asst. Sports Editor The Manhattan men’s basketball team (9-18, 7-8 MAAC) looked to defend home court when the Iona Gaels (12-15, 10-6 MAAC) arrived in Riverdale for a Friday night showdown between two of the MAAC’s fiercest rivals. On the wrong side of the last seven meetings between both programs, Manhattan knew they needed to be laser sharp to thwart Iona’s five game winning streak. The Jaspers entered this critical tilt feeling good about themselves after having won five of their last six games, including two in

a row. Both schools were represented very well for this lone match-up between the rivals this season. Playing in front of a hostile crowd, the Gaels used a 16-2 second half run to sink the Jaspers 66-52.

Manhattan freshman Samir Stewart opened the scoring with a three pointer fifteen seconds into the game to put his team up 3-0. After Iona answered a minute later with a triple of their own, Manhattan freshman Tykei Greene continued his hot play of late by pouring in five quick points off a layup and a three to put the Jaspers up 8-6 at the 17:33 mark. The next nine minutes

Warren Williams going for a shot during the Iona game that took place in a packed Draddy Gymnasium.

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featured three lead changes until a Rickey McGill steal and coast to coast finish gave Iona their largest lead of the half at 20-15 with 8:15 remaining in the first half. Manhattan’s response came in the form of a 6-0 run that culminated with an empathic block by freshman Warren Williams that led to a Greene layup on the other end.

Greene wreaked havoc again with 12 seconds left when he knocked down a triple to give the Jaspers their biggest lead of the half at 28-23. Unfortunately for Manhattan, the basketball gods helped bank in Asante Gist’s last second three point attempt to cut Manhattan’s lead

to two at the half. Head coach Steve Masiello was pleased with his team’s gritty first half of play.

“Our defense was good,” said Masiello on his team’s first half performance. “We held them to 32 percent in the first half.”

The second half was characterized by Manhattan’s frustrating demise. After trading baskets at the outset of the half, the Gaels launched a 7-0 run that was highlighted by an eye-catching fast break slam by E.J. Crawford. A Greene trifecta and a Warren lay in leveled things up at 35 apiece at the 13:34 mark.

Tykei Greene was the game leader for the Iona game with a total of 16 points.

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The ensuing seven minutes was the determinant of the final outcome.

The Gaels unleashed a scoring rampage in the form of a 16-2 run that severely wounded Manhattan’s chances at victory.

Crawford’s layup at the 6:28 mark climbed the Iona lead to 53-37, which proved to be insurmountable.

“I thought we were pressing a little to score,” said Masiello of his team’s cold stretch in the second half.

Crawford paced Iona in scoring with 16, while McGill and Perez both added 13. Manhattan was led by Greene’s career-high 16 points and Ebube Ebube’s double-double performance of 12 points and 10 rebounds.

Junior forward Tyler Reynolds was kept out of the lineup after sustaining an undisclosed injury a day earlier.

“We didn’t have Tyler tonight that hurt us a bit,” said Masiello. “He’s day-to-day.”

Masiello admitted that maybe the moment was a little too big at times for his young team.

“Sometimes young guys get one dimensional but that’s part of their growth,” said Masiello.

You can’t let a couple missed shots affect you.”

The passion and energy supplied by the Manhattan faithful didn’t fail to catch Masiello’s eye.

“Great turnout by the Sixth Borough,” said Masiello.

With three games remaining in the regular season, Masiello had no intentions of talking about the bigger picture of things.

“We just got to worry about the next game,” said Masiello.