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Senator Alessandra Biaggi Holds FirstEver Bronx Budget Forum at Manhattan Nicole Rodriguez & Lauren Schuster Asst. Production Editor & Social Media Editor

MC Welcomes State Senator Biaggi (left) listens to the concerns of constituents.

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New Hires Make Positive Campus Changes Shannon Gleba Staff Writer

The 2018-2019 academic year has brought staff and faculty changes to Manhattan College with the hiring of many new professionals to fill vacant roles in a number of different departments on campus.

Anne Mavor - Director of Health Ser vices On Nov. 1, 2018, Manhattan College welcomed Anne Mavor as the Director of Health Services.

After spending many years at a previous university, Mavor has extensive experience in treating college-aged adults, and many other aspects of being a Director, like managing immunization records.

“I am in charge of the supplies and the immunization compliance. We have two jobs, one is immunization compliance. We are the place where everyone has to submit their vaccination records, its the state law. There is a 30 day grace period, so I have to manage that,” said Mavor.

When beginning at MC,

Mavor wanted to work towards the College’s vision of having Health Services work towards becoming more of a wellness center.

“We are trying to make it more of a Wellness Center, right now we spend most of our time seeing sick students. Last year they added a part-time nurse practitioner, so that they would free up the director to do some more outreach, to spend some time on education, other parts of the position that needed to be looked at.”

She continued.

“My vision was to see maybe where we could make this go more towards wellness and kind of partner with counseling. So, my goal was to begin collaborating more and see what we could do.”

As the Director of Health Services, Mavor hopes to educate the student population on ways to maintain good health.

“Part of the Lasallian mission is to walk the journey of the students in their journey, and even though we are student life, we are really here to educate the students, even though we are not faculty,” said Mavor.

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While Health Services does see many sick students, she hopes students will use the advice they are given to make better health decisions in the future.

Mavor said, “One of my goals is when students come in with a variety of different problems, again college-related and age-appropriate illnesses, how can I teach them maybe not to get sick next time or when to use [Health Services]?”

Within the next year Mavor has many ideas, including organizing a team of student volunteers to help communicate with the student population on topics within Health Services.

Likewise, Health Services is hoping to encourage students to get their flu shot to hinder the spread of sickness this time of year.

“Next year, we are looking to do a bigger flu shot campaign, so I am always looking to get a flu vaccine to as many students as possible, said Mavor.

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Members of the Riverdale community filed into Kelly Commons this weekend to have their voices heard at an open budget forum held by state senator Alessandra Biaggi. As the newly elected representative of New York’s 34th district, which covers part of the Bronx and Westchester county, Biaggi discovered that there had never been an open forum about budget concerns in the Bronx section of her district before.

She decided her constituents needed to be heard, and Kelly Commons was the perfect place to do it.

“I love Manhattan College,” Biaggi said. “I mean, Riverdale specifically is a portion of my district where there’s lots and lots and lots of voices that represent the entirety of the Bronx, who live here. And as time goes on, we’ll go of course to different locations but specifically now, I think this was a really fitting location.”

Biaggi is no stranger to Manhattan College. With both of her parents being MC alumni, she has spent a great deal of time on the campus in her life.

“Manhattan College is a place where curiosity is valued, and also a place where innovation and new ways of being are supported, and that is the type of space that I want to hold these dialogues in, because it means that the environment is supportive of the end goal here, which is to transform systems that have historically been broken,” Biaggi said. “You have to be aligned with the place that you’re in, so it’s not just the familial, it’s that too. That piece is like the most important piece.”

Biaggi hopes to usher in a new era of transparency with her constituents about budgets and beyond.

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“The most important thing that an elected official or leader in the community can do is show up and have important, meaningful dialogues about the things that impact their lives, and the budget is one of those topics that is so complex and so challenging and historically, at least in the borough of the Bronx, there hasn’t been meaningful dialogue about it and there hasn’t been transparency around it,” Biaggi said.

All constituents were welcome to attend the hearing to ensure that their budget priorities be heard as the state legislature begins its work on the state budget for 2019. Each person was allowed to express their concerns for 5 minutes and submit written statements to Senator Biaggi. Topics discussed ranged from campaign finance reform, the film tax credit, Medicaid, homelessness, housing, weatherization, youth programs, accessibility, public school funding, criminal justice reform, the environment and small businesses.

One of the constituents in attendance was Margaret Groarke, P.h.D., a professor in MC’s political science department.

“I really think it’s important for elected officials to hear from their constituents, and this is a great opportunity for us to let her know what’s important to us in the budget,” Groarke said.

Groarke came with a list of her own concerns about program funding in the district to express to Biaggi.

“I have a ton of [issues to discuss], but I focused on two,” Groarke said. “Today I focused on, with my hat on as a member of the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, some state funding issues for really important work that our organization does in the Bronx for energy efficiency and for youth programs that we need __________________________ CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

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The Editorial Board Megan Dreher Editor-in-Chief

Gabriella DePinho News Editor

Joseph Liggio Maria Thomas Asst. News Editors

Alexa Schmidt Features Editor Managing Editor

Katherine Heneghan Asst. Features Editor

Rose Brennan Arts & Entertainment Editor Managing Editor

Madalyn Johnson Asst. Arts & Entertainment Editor

C. Garrett Keidel Sports Editor

Pete Janny Asst. Sports Editor

Lauren Schuster Social Media Editor

Brian Asare Photography Editor

Alyssa Velazquez Production Manager Sophia Sakellariou Samantha Walla Production Editors

Nicole Rodriguez Asst. Production Editor

Michevi Dufflart August Kissel Web Editors

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LET T ER from The Editor Hi Readers!

I hope the chaos of midterms is winding down for

you all, and that you’re having an enjoyable semester! I know I’ve been keeping busy this semester, and it’s been quite some time since my last Letter from the Editor, or “Lettitor” as we affectionately call it here at The Quadrangle. I am so proud of the work we have been putting out on the stands each week. Our staff works tirelessly to ensure that the our school is being covered from all angles, and all voices are being heard. We want this to be a paper for the students and by the students, and we are so lucky to have faculty and staff of the college supporting us every step of the way!

But, with that comes some transparency on our end. Last week, we had a misprint in our paper, where the incorrect article was printed under the correct headline, “Neighborhood Relations Committee Holds Fourth Annual Luncheon.” Our assistant features editor, Katie Heneghan, and one of our assistant news editors, Maria Thomas, did a great job covering this event and writing this article, and it deserves to be seen by all of our loyal print readers! Mistakes happen, and unfortunately this was a pretty big one. But, I’m so happy we had the opportunity to publish the article in this week’s issue (which is a whopping 16 pages long, might I add)!

I am so thankful to have an amazing, supportive staff who helps me roll with the punches. We are always striving to better ourselves, as journalists, editors, and voices of the MC community. As I said in my last “Lettitor,” onward and upward!

Sincerely,

Megan Dreher

Editor-in-Chief CORRECT IONS

Under the article titled “Neighborhood Relations Committee,” the incorrect article was printed. The correct article has been reprinted in this issue and appears on pg. 4.

In the article “SGA Talks New Clubs, Parking Passes, Among Other Topics,” Vice President for Academic Affairs Kerry Cavanagh’s last name was misspelled as “Cavanaugh.”

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Knights of Columbus: Contradictory to MC’s Lasallian Mission Rose Brennan A&E Editor

As many of us are likely aware, the Manhattan College chapter of the Knights of Columbus is being reactivated.

It has been well-advertised, especially at weekly Sunday masses, which I attend, as I am a practicing Catholic. I was led to believe that the Knights of Columbus was simply a social group for Catholic men, and I was not opposed to it. In fact, this was originally supposed to be an article about the reactivation of the chapter.

So last Sunday, I picked up a few pamphlets for some preliminary information about the organization before I endeavored to write an article about it.

I read some of them, and I was absolutely disgusted.

In one of the pamphlets distributed to students, possible activities for the Knights were listed. Most of the activities were harmless, and good-natured, but some of them were titled “Life Programs,” and this is where my support for another Catholic organization on campus completely dissipated.

One possible “Life Program” listed for the Knights included volunteering at pregnancy centers. To someone who is unaware of what a pregnancy center is, he or she might infer that it is a center for pregnant women. And in a way, it is. But the true implications of a crisis pregnancy center (CPC) are actually much more horrific than one might think.

The goal of a CPC is to persuade a pregnant woman not to get an abortion by any means necessary. Often, they will masquerade as women’s health clinics, and women seeking abortions might be inclined to believe that they can obtain one at such a center. But once she enters the center, she will learn

that is not at all the case.

According to the American Medical Association’s Journal of Ethics, “[CPCs] strive to give the impression that they are clinical centers, offering legitimate medical services and advice, yet they are exempt from regulatory, licensure, and credentialing oversight.” This means that the people who work at CPCs are not medical professionals, even though the employees will lead patients to believe otherwise. The Journal of Ethics notes that this deception can occur in several ways, including employees wearing white coats and having meetings with patients in exam rooms.

The Journal of Ethics further notes, “Because the religious ideology of these centers’ owners and employees takes priority over the health and well-being of the women seeking care at these centers, women do not receive comprehensive, accurate, evidence-based clinical information about all available options.” Part of the goal of CPCs is providing misinformation regarding pregnancy and abortions in order to persuade a pregnant woman to carry to term. Furthermore, they are actually protected under the First Amendment to spread these falsehoods and lies.

For instance, many CPCs advertise that they “provide medical advice on a variety of issues, including sexually transmitted infections, early pregnancy, and abortion.” However, the extent of their advice regarding abortion is, “Don’t have one.” Furthermore, people who work at CPCs also refuse to give referrals to actual women’s health clinics where abortions are provided.

The horror of CPCs does not end there. One activity that often occurs in a CPC is conducting an ultrasound for the

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pregnant woman. Sometimes, this is done without consent and with the hope that viewing the fetus on a screen and hearing its heart beat might change the woman’s mind regarding her desire to have an abortion.

One might think the Knights of Columbus might want to distance themselves from such a horrible practice, but they actually proudly advertise these coerced ultrasounds as a fun “Life Program” in which Knights can participate.

One of the core principles of Lasallian ethics is “respect for all persons.” The Knights might argue they are supporting the unborn fetus through their efforts, but in my opinion, they must also respect the woman, including her decision to terminate her pregnancy if she decides she is not ready to be a parent. Trying to commandeer such a life-changing decision because it does not bode well with one’s religious beliefs shows blatant disrespect toward the woman and her right to choose. Furthermore, it is not a Knight’s place to do so, as someone who will never have to make such a decision himself due to his inability to conceive.

This ethic of “respect for all persons” extends beyond doctrine and into social justice implications. The American Medical Association also notes that CPCs will primarily target low-income women and women of color. Therefore, not only are CPCs anti-woman and antichoice, they are also engaging in classist and racist power structures by specifically targeting such communities.

Furthermore, the language used to describe women in the aforementioned pamphlet is blatantly disrespectful. In the Life Program simply titled “Ultrasound,” the description refers to women seeking an abortion as “abortion-minded

women,” as if abortion is their only defining characteristic.

The Knights do not care how the women ended up in the situation, nor do they care where they are going from there.

They only care that the women in question want abortions.

And once a woman makes the decision to carry the pregnancy to term, the Knights likely would not care what happens to either her or the child afterward.

Reproductive rights for women in America are already consistently threatened by the government. This strain should not be coming from faith as well. In fact, I might argue that a woman who has had an abortion might need her faith more than ever in the immediate aftermath. Instead, women are often turned away or even excommunicated from the Church. Leaders of the Church have recognized this, and in 2016, Pope Francis himself actually gave priests the permanent ability to forgive the “sin” of abortion if a woman confessed to having one during the sacrament of Reconciliation.

While I personally do not believe a woman needs to be “forgiven” for having an abortion, I still recognize that what Pope Francis did was groundbreaking in terms of Catholic doctrine. But the way that the Church reacted made me feel as if the world was coming to an end. It turns out the Church did not actually want to forgive women who had abortions, and they wanted to continue removing them from the faith as punishment. Deliberately excluding women from participating in their faith also falls under direct violation of the Lasallian principle of “inclusive community.”

As a Lasallian and a Catholic who considers herself to be in good standing with the

Church, I cannot condone the proposed actions of the reestablished Knights of Columbus chapter on campus if affiliation with a CPC is even a remote possibility. And perhaps after learning about the true implications of their activities, maybe you will think twice about supporting them as well.

For more information on the mission of CPCs, I encourage you to read “Why Crisis Pregnancy Centers are Legal but Unethical,” which was published by the American Medical Association’s Journal of Ethics and was my primary source of information in writing this editorial. Unlike the people that work at CPCs, the authors of this article are actual medical professionals (they are obstetrician-gynecologists) and provide medically accurate information, as well as information regarding the true aims of CPCs. Editor’s Note: The opinions expressed in The Quadrangle are those of the individual writers and do not not necessarily reflect the views of the Editorial Board, the College or the student body.

Rose Brennan is a junior English and communication major, and is The Quadrangle’s Arts & Entertainment Editor/Managing Editor. She is a Catholic and a feminist, and she does not believe the two are mutually exclusive.

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Neighborhood Relations Committee Holds Fourth 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 improve-

ment 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 faculty 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 me-

dia, 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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youth programs that we need greater funding for, for the state.”

While there existed some overlap in the concerns that were brought up among constituents, each constituent rep-

resented a different perspective.

Roberta Todd, a representative from Christ Church Outreach Ministries, shared her strong sentiments on ensuring that everyone’s voice in the district be heard and adequately represented.

“I’m so glad that the Sena-

Senator Biaggi addressed those in attendance.

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tor did this because I feel she should hear from all people in the district and she should know that there are not only people that are non-profit, not only people that are business people, and that’s why I was glad to come here and be able to represent a faith group of people,” said Todd.

Biaggi hopes to hold more open forums like this one in the future, as well as to continue to foster a relationship with the Manhattan College community.

“We want as many young people as possible involved in this process and I want to make my office accessible to all of the students at Manhattan College

if they want to be involved because that is the point of this, ultimately,” Biaggi said.

Margaret Groarke, a political science professor at Manhattan College, expresses her budget concerns to Biaggi.

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Health Services’ new space in Horan Hall following a their move at the start of the academic year.

Mavor said, “My favorite part is interacting with the students and my co-workers, I really like it here. I feel like everybody works together, everybody has the same goal, we want the students to be successful.”

Carlos Tonche - Registrar In late May of 2018, Carlos Tonche started as the Registrar, bringing knowledge from over twenty years of experience to Manhattan College’s Registrar’s Office.

As part of the support office, Tonche is able to collaborate with a number different areas of campus to promote the success of students.

“We support the student in their goals to finish or get their educational goals accomplished. It is just as important to support the other folks in the college community who support students.”

The office is most directly involved with class registration and graduation, but their impact is felt in many different aspects of the student experience.

“So, from a direct point of view, from a student’s perspective, we probably see the two biggies are registration, because we have to set that up or if they encounter any issues online and all that, that is one that we do periodically, obviously.

He continued.

“And the other is graduation because we kind of help with that and putting together your diplomas and so forth. So those are the two direct interactions we have, but we help with anything from classroom assignments, the DegreeWorks, transcripts for alumni or people who need it for jobs. It touches on many different areas, but our goal is to be supportive so things don’t go wrong. If things do go wrong, unfortunately they do, [our goal] is to solve them and communicate as best we can so we don’t repeat those mistakes.”

There are many similarities among the process the Registrar’s Office has at MC and other colleges.

Tonche said, “Different flavors, different systems, but the bottom line is that Registrar’s office have more similarities than differences, in terms of maintaining and preserving the academic records. I have a lot of experience in that field.”

Tonche finds in very important to make positive changes to the system, but also to understand that some processes work well the way they are.

“My goal coming here to Manhattan College at the end of May was to respect what’s been done before, because in

order to really be effective it is good to understand what the culture is, because obviously Manhattan College has been around for a long time, Tonche said.

He continued, “Ideally my goal is is to bring my experience to help move it in an even better direction as best we can.”

One way Tonche hopes to better assist students and faculty is through the use of technology.

“The goal is to move forward in ways that make sense, to incorporate technology that is inevitable pretty much everywhere, incorporate it in ways that help, because it is a tool and we have to make sure we use it as best we can to maximize the advantages of the technology,” said Tonche.

One technological change Tonche was able to implement was the way information is passed between professors, deans’ and the Registrar’s Office, using the computer system Banner Workflow.

“A tool within the system called Banner Workflow that is a way of moving things along electronically versus the paper, said Tonche.

Tonche also hopes to stop using an outside vendor to print student diplomas, but rather print them within the office using a system called Diplomas on Demand.

“We will be able to print our own diplomas here, later, if there is an error we can reprint pretty immediately and have it all done with minimal waste and greater flexibility,” said Tonche.

Tonche is very eager to continue working to help students and faculty in their academic careers.

Tonche said, “I have been very happy with Manhattan College. I think folks have been very helpful and welcoming and I look forward to good things working together for the students and the community.”

Jay Ahmed- Director of Fitness and Wellness

After operating without a director for most of the Fall 2018 semester, Manhattan College’s Fitness Center welcomed Jay Ahmed as the Director of Fitness and Wellness on Dec. 3.

In this role, Ahmed is responsible for running the daily operations of the center, including maintaining equipment and the hiring and training of student workers. The fitness center is almost entirely employed by student workers, which is very important to Ahmed in order to provide students with hands-on experience.

“It really is [important], because for me being in this type of industry and setting, I see it as a great opportunity for me to provide mentorship to students,” said Ahmed.

Since beginning at the College, Ahmed was able to

make big strides in promoting the group exercise classes on campus. These classes include yoga, zumba and total body, among others.

Ahmed said, “I was able to start our group exercise program again. I saw that as a great area for me to work on and we already had the resources as far as instructors, so it was really just facilitating the group exercise schedule.”

Since the start of the semester, the classes have seen as many as 30-40 consistent participants.

“Group exercise is a great part of our fitness program. I had a feeling it would do well, and the fact that so many members showed up and are consistently going definitely makes it an area I plan to grow,” said Ahmed.

In the long-run, Ahmed hopes to encourage even more members to come to the Fitness Center and wants to focus on more programming for students. Another example of programming in the Fitness Center is different incentive challenges for prizes, such as the recent burpee challenge.

“A big thing for these these little incentive challenges that we do is to motivate the members to keep coming to the gym and continue what you’re doing. My other goal in that is exposing them to a new piece of equipment or an exercise they haven’t done,” said Ahmed.

Also, another goal of Ahmed is to offer more wellness opportunities to help students and faculty stay healthy.

“I plan to do workshops and the topics can be based on what the interest is, we can maybe take a survey from the members and see what they may be interested in. In the fall, I would like to do something for the freshman class, for some students that might not have had access to a gym previously.

So that would be a great fitness or wellness 101 where I would provide them an orientation on fitness or any other wellness topics,” said Ahmed.

Tara Fay-Reilly: Director of Undergraduate Admissions After working for over 15 years in higher education, Tara Fay-Reilly began her role as the Director of Undergraduate Admissions at Manhattan College on Nov. 1, 2018.

The opportunity for this new position was exciting for Fay-Reilly, especially because of the college’s reputation for social justice and service.

“Growing up in the city and having had family and friends who attended Manhattan College and then have been so successful in their career, I was very excited to be a part of that for future generations to come,” said Fay-Reilly.

In her new position, FayReilly’s main responsibility is to oversee recruitment of first-

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MANHATTAN COLLEGE/ COURTESY year students to meet enrollment goals. This requires her to work with different members of the MC faculty and staff to ensure the admissions process is streamlined and efficient.

In order to complete the files of prospective students and notify students of acceptance to MC, Fay-Reilly must work with the Operations team.

In addition, she collaborates with Athletics, and Catering to hold events like Accepted Students Day. These events are important to promoting the meaningful relationships she believes the Admissions team should have with prospective students.

Since the beginning of her time working in higher education, Fay-Reilly has always loved the ability to connect with a student at the beginning of the application process and to watch them grow throughout their undergraduate experience.

“It’s a wonderful feeling,” said Fay-Reilly.

Since beginning at the college, Fay-Reilly has been sure

to promote team-building among recruiters and the rest of her team, since the job can sometimes feel like a one-man show.

Fay-Reilly said, “I have a great team, and I love working with them. There is a lot of diversity in our team and it is wonderful having all of these minds in one place.”

She also describes her team as, “hardworking, dedicated and good at what they do.”

In the near future, the Admissions Office has been planning some events to welcome prospective students to campus. They are making some changes to the usual event schedule and are offering an Accepted Students Day one Sunday in April to accommodate parents who are working during the events which are typically held on Wednesdays.

Likewise, Admissions will be holding an O’Malley School of Business Preview Day to allow prospective business students to speak with current students, alumni and professors.

Jay Ahmed, Director of Fitness and Wellness.

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Manhattan College Talks Catholic Controversy: Church Sexual Abuse Panel August Kissel Web Editor

On Tuesday, Feb. 26, students and faculty alike gathered in the Alumni room of O’Malley Library. The occasion was a panel discussion titled “Sexual Abuse: A Project for Justice in the Church and Society” including Dr. Natalia ImperatoriLee, Father Tom Franks, and Brother Jack Curran, and moderated by Prof. Heidi Fury. This was the second event of the annual Peace and Justice Week.

Each of the panelists were meant to be a representation of a different level of involvement in the sexual abuse crisis.

Dr. Imperatori-Lee is an intersectional, feminist theologian, who represented the expertise from the perspective of a lay person. Fr. Tom Franks is the only priest who is also an active member of the Manhattan College faculty, and lastly Br. Jack represented the Lasallian connection to the crisis.

The panel was hosted in a question and answer format.

The questions began with general information about what the scandal is. Each of the panelists described each of their point of views of what the scandal is and how it has been perpetuated by the Catholic Church.

Imperatori-Lee began by explaining that a bulk of the crimes took place in the 1940’s-1960’s, but have come to light from 1995 and onward into today. She went on to explain that this is a multifaceted situation.

“The main crime is the sexual abuse of children, minors, anyone under the age of 18 counts as a minor, therefore any priest who had sexual contact with a minor committed a crime,” said Dr. Imperatori-Lee. “In 1995 the National Catholic Reporter started talking about potential sexual abuse cases in the church, a reporter named Jason Barry, who left that beat because it was weighing on him so heavily to report the victims stories so often. He was not only reporting on the sexual abuse of certain children, but also the church’s knowledge and complicity in this and the practice of moving offender priests from diocese to another without informing the bishop of the diocese to which the offender priest was going, thereby enabling more abuse to take place and the abuser priest to have access to more and more victims.”

Fr. Tom chimed in with his perspective from a faith-based perspective.

“This idea of how pervasive the scandal becomes in light of the church as an institution that is supposed to representative of

God, bringing people to God, and helping to build faith. This is a breach of trust that will take a long time for the church to restore,” added Fr. Tom The panel moved forward to discuss why and how this all took place. Again, Dr. Imperatori-Lee exemplified that this is a complex issue and that there is no single cause or solution.

The main cause for the heightened reporting has come down to our transition in human thought in the terms of sexual assault, the rights of a child, and the rise of sexual abuse reports that have risen in the recent years.

“There are things that we see now that are different than the way we saw them in the 1940’s,” said Dr. ImperatoriLee. She elaborated on the following facts. For many years there was a misunderstanding of pedeophilia and a belief that it is like a substance addiction: something that could be cured and managed through rehabilitation and therapy. The understanding of consent has drastically changed with sexuality being understood as a negotiation of power.

In 1990 the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child became effective and certified that children have rights, and that includes the right to say no. Lastly there is clericalism, which is the romanticism and hierarchy of the priest. It gives them superhuman capabilities, like that of being free of sin. This culture of clericalism leads to the enabling of of the church and the priests, nuns and brothers.

She also touched upon the teaching process of sexuality in the church, and how it is a continued culture of secrecy.

“We do not have a healthy, holy, version of sexuality,” said Dr. Imperatori-Lee. The panel continued to answer student questions and address Manhattan College’s own personal responsibility as a Catholic Institution. All students were invited to the panel discussion in an email from the Office of the President, which stated that we, a Catholic Institution, do not condone the actions of the church in regards to this scandal and that we stand in solidarity with the victims who have been affected by this crisis.

“Finally, we pledge our own considerable resources, as higher education institutions, in being of assistance to the Church as it strives to address the sins of the past and restore trust through provisions that “favor accountability and transparency over clericalism and secrecy.” Our prayers are important, yes, but so are our research, learning, and wisdom,”

Panelists Dr. Natalia Imperatori-Lee, Father Tom Franks, and Brother Jack Curran respond to student and faculty questions.

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President Brennan O’Donnell was among those in attendance.

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Students and faculty gathered to listened to the panelists discuss sexual assault in the Catholic Church last Tuesday.

HARRIET CARINO / COURTESY read an email from the Office of the President.

Manhattan College is as much a part of this web as the rest of the Catholic world.

There is accountability to be held at every level, including that of our own clerical tendencies and lack of discussion of sexuality on campus. As the school moves forward the pan-

el reiterated again and again that this is not the end of the college’s dialogue on this scandal, but is only the first step to work for a better future - ideally, a future of honesty, open dialogue and transparency.

“In the Lasallian tradition, the Star of Bethlehem, it is the Star of Faith that leads us to truth. We need to search of that

truth and we need to speak that truth. For me as a Brother, that part of the Lasallian Heritage, as uncomfortable and as unfortunate that this is, we are committed to seeking the truth and speaking that truth and moving forward so that healing can happen,” said Br. Jack.

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Zumba Classes: Always a Party at MC Christine Nappi Staff Writer

Zumba is a style of aerobic exercise focused around dancing to Latin American music, and it’s here at Manhattan College. Zumba classes are held Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30 to 10:30 p.m. and on Wednesdays from 12-1 p.m. in Alumni Hall, room 202. The classes are open to all students, and don’t require any prior experience in dance.

“It’s a unique way of exercise,” Zumba instructor Natalia Alvarez said. “Some people don’t like going to the gym and they don’t consider dance a cardio. I like teaching Zumba because they sometimes underestimate dance as a workout.”

Classes consist of instructors displaying a dance that follows the beat of a song, while students mimic their moves to achieve a workout. The dances focus on working parts of the entire body, and certain ones focus on areas such as abs, legs and arms. The dance moves are designed so that any student can participate, regardless if they have danced before or not. As instructors describe, the Zumba choreography is repetitive so students can easily participate.

“If there’s a complicated move or something that’s very specific, like we want you to work your abs instead of your legs, we’ll show you before,” instructor Christina Raguso said. “But then you catch on

because it’s very repetitive.”

As instructors describe, newcomers to Zumba shouldn’t feel intimidated if they can’t keep up with the dance moves.

Students are encouraged to partake in classes because the goal of Zumba is to give students a place where they can have fun while also working out.

“I wanted to find a way to be able to work out by having fun,” Zumba student Johanna Gavigan said. “Going to the gym can sometimes be kind of dull, Zumba is more fun and you get your workout and you have fun with your friends.”

According to Gavigan, instructors of the class select music specifically for Zumba, and also incorporate popular songs on the radio to create a lively atmosphere for the students.

They also integrate new dance moves to songs along with the original ones that have been used since the class was first introduced in 2014. In addition to teaching, the instructors are there to support students and to inspire them to express and enjoy themselves through dance, song or any way that suits them.

“We have fun with it,” Raguso said. “Instead of squatting you can just sing the songs and no one cares if you’re screaming, it’s just a good time.”

Although the Zumba dances are designed to work out specific areas of your body, instructor Alexis Brown notes that students can be creative with the class and interpret dance moves in their own way.

“No one said you have to do everything exactly the way we

do,” Brown said. “Put your own style into it, if anything I appreciate people that do their own thing.”

While students have fun with the class, another main focus is to exercise one’s body and accomplish a work out. As Raguso describes, as long as students are sweating and keep their body moving, they can achieve that goal. In addition, Alvarez says being surrounded by other people can help achieve this goal because everyone encourages each other to work hard.

“It brings people together,” Alvarez said. “You’re not alone, you get motivation by seeing other people doing it.”

Alvarez also states that students can burn a great deal of calories following the dance moves, and recalls one student burning up to 700 calories in a class. Although students are encouraged to get an adequate workout, they are reminded to dance and participate to the best of their ability.

“We start every class by saying this is not a dance battle,” Brown said. “Do your best, work hard and you’ll be fine.”

Another purpose of Zumba, as Alvarez describes, is to educate and bring attention to the origins of the dance style. Zumba has the ability to open students eyes to another culture.

“Zumba does combine a lot of African beats and Latino beats so there is a cultural message behind Zumba,” Alvarez said.

Instructors and students say Zumba has become a community of its own. Those who

participate are excited to see each other each class, and look forward to having fun with their friends while working out. Instructors also encourage students to come to the classes so they can make new friends and belong to a group that supports each other.

“Besides a fun way to work out with your friends, it’s also a place to meet new people,” instructor Christopher Santiago said.

Despite the misconception that many think Zumba is a “girly” class as Alvarez describes, the class is not specific to any gender and welcomes all students.

“It’s all about the workout [and] it doesn’t have a gender, it’s open to whatever gender identity you identify with. It’s just a fun way to get your cardio on and that’s all you need to see it as,” Alvarez said. “Even the ‘girly’ dances, they’re fun for the guys. I see them having fun so they shouldn’t underestimate the class because its not their style.”

“The Ferryman” is a play

by Jez Butterworth about a family living in 1980 Ireland during the uprising of the provisional Irish Republican party and its attempt to end British rule throughout Ireland. With threats of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and fatal hunger strikes looming in the back of everyone’s minds, the Carney family is simply enjoying another harvest coming around.

The Carneys, who reside in an eclectic farmhouse, are a large family comprising of seven children, one cousin, one sister-in-law, two great aunts (one lovingly named Aunt Maggie Far Away, a senile woman who “comes to” with haunting stories), and one great uncle and the occasional visit from Englishman and groundskeeper Tom Kettle. An unexpected set of visitors with life-changing news create extreme tension that continues to add on up to the last second of the play.

This is not a plot I would want to give away to any reader because to give away key

points of the story would give away the magic of this absolutely marvelous production.

But let me just say that the entire cast whether they’re a Carney or not, is a delight to watch and never once do they falter or provide confusion to such an airtight script.

Let’s instead, talk about the beautiful visuals. A play, after all, is not only a treat to the ear but also the eye.

The set is, in theory, fairly simple: the kitchen of the farmhouse, with doorways leading to different rooms and the outside. But the right side of the stage is flanked by a large staircase that leads to what the audience can imagine is the upstairs.

But why is this set, designed by Rob Howell, so moving? It is where the entirety of story takes place, besides a prologue set against a back alley. When that wall pulls up and reveals Quinn Carney, portrayed by three-time Tony Award-nominee Brian d’Arcy

James, dancing to some classic ‘80s rock and roll, my breath was taken away at the beautiful simplicity and authentic set design.

This momentum was continued by the lighting, designed

by Peter Mumford, that made you really feel like just outside the windows was the morning light on the farm. Even the simple blackouts at the end of the three acts were the kind that made my heart skip a beat and helped me fully understand the exposition of the story that had taken place.

There were many more variables of this show that should definitely be touched upon, like costuming for all of the characters that depicted genuine late 1980s, early 1990s fashion, especially with the children. At one point, Shena Carney, the 14-year old daughter, comes downstairs in leg warmers and a satin parachute jacket.

There were also wonderful appearances made by live

No sign up is necessary to attend Zumba classes, and students can bring along their friends and anyone interested in participating. Instructors have chosen to host the classes at the designated times in order to ensure that students have time in their schedule to work out. Santiago claims that the time of the classes shouldn’t discourage participation.

“When you have so many things to do, it’s just a good time later in the day,” Santiago said. “We’re still awake, you can get a workout in. [It’s] an easy way to work out and a fun way to do cardio.”

Instructors hope that more students begin to attend classes because Zumba gives students a way in which they can effectively workout in an enjoyable manner.

“It’s a lot of fun, you can hang out with your friends while you’re doing it, it’s something to laugh about,” Gavigan said. “You can interact and have fun together.”

Students dance to the beat in one of this week’s Zumba classes.

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“They’re Here”: A Review of Jez Butterworth’s “The Ferryman” Taylor Brethauer Senior Writer

If you know me, you know how much I love theatre. So when I was contacted by a professor who could get tickets for me and a plus one to the new play “The Ferryman,” which I had heard from many colleagues was well worth seeing, I jumped at the opportunity.

“The Ferryman” is playing until July 7.

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animals like bunnies and a real goose (who did not stop honking his entire scene and yes, has his own Instagram account @a_star_is_hatched) that had the audience in stitches.

These seemingly simple things to the casual theater-goer are smartly-picked details to bring this play together in such a successful way.

I’m pretty easy to please in terms of productions because every moment to me is magic. But as the reviews and accolades from the original production in London have shown (Best New Play at the Olivier Awards, which is a big deal), maybe there is a Tony Award in sight for this one as well?

I want to say thank you to Heidi Giovine, who set aside tickets for some MC students.

I highly encourage anyone to go witness this amazing feat of heart-wrenching theatre.

“The Ferryman” is currently playing at the Bernard Jacobs Theatre on W. 45th St in Manhattan now until July 7.

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MC Film Society Hosts Oscar Viewing Party Madalyn Johnson Asst. A&E Editor

This past Sunday, Feb. 24, the Manhattan College Film Society hosted their annual Oscar viewing party in the fourth floor game room of Lee Hall where students watched their favorite stars and participants cast their ballots, anxious to see if their predictions for award recipients were correct.

The party began with students eager to see what extravagant opening the Oscars would surprise viewers with, considering there was no declared Oscar host named for the night. Senior English major Marisa Washington, who is one of the coordinators for the Film Society, shared her opinion for the Oscar’s choice to not incorporate a host this year in the ceremony.

“I’m excited because it’s the first year in decades where we won’t have a host for the show so anything can really happen,” Washington said.

Everyone was thrilled to hear the classic stomps in the opening to one of Queen’s most famous songs “We Will Rock You” in which Adam Lambert played with Queen and shared a moment with lead guitarist Brian May as he played his iconic guitar solo. Lambert and the band finished with “We Are the Champions” and one of the students after the performance comically asked “Why wasn’t ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ played?”, the signature song that was the title of the Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe-winning film that centers around the life of Freddie Mercury.

Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph and Tina Fey were the first presenters of the night that made a lasting impression

on the audience and viewers watching at home. Everyone was excited to see the three kick off announcing the first category winner, “Best Supporting Actress” by addressing the audience saying, “We are not your hosts but we’ll stand here a little too long so the people who get USA Today tomorrow will think that we hosted.”

Rudolph made a brief empowering, political statement that left audience members at the Dolby theater and Film Society members in Lee Hall applauding when clearing up a few rumors. “So just in case you’re confused, there is no host tonight, there won’t be a popular movie category, and Mexico is not paying for the wall.”

The three comedians also poked fun at the Academy Awards contemplation of whether to present awards during the commercial break.

Poehler hilariously advised the audience that awards would not be handed out during commercials but that Oscar winners would take part in advertising, asking for them to say “Hellmann’s mayonnaise, we’re on the side of food,” during their acceptance speeches. Spirits were up and students were confident that the Oscars were going to be just fine host-less.

Regina King’s win for Best Actress in a Supporting role in “If Beale Street Could Talk” didn’t shock many students but it excited many. Sophomore Vincent Zaninovich, a communication major, predicted early on that King would take home the Oscar.

“I thought she was going to win. I didn’t see the movie but from like reviews I’ve heard that’s what it sounded like,” Zaninovich said.

Zaninovich also shared

Members of the Film Society enjoyed popcorn and other snacks while watching the Oscars in Lee Hall’s fourth floor game room.

MADALYN JOHNSON / THE QUADRANGLE who he hoped would win other awards for the night.

“I really want Glenn Close to win and also think BlacKkKlansman was really good so I hope they win something,” he said.

Right before King made her acceptance speech, students were starstruck over Chris Evans’ generous gesture in helping the Oscar award winner up on the stage.

One of the most hyped and discussed wins during the show was Spike Lee’s for Best Adapted Screenplay for his film BlacKkKlansman. Everyone laughed as Lee joyfully leaped into the arms of award presenter Samuel L. Jackson with Captain Marvel star, Brie Larson, standing by cheerfully congratulating the director.

Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga’s performance of “Shallow,” the Grammy and Oscarwinning song played in the crit-

-----------------------“The Film Society tends to do this every year because the Oscars is one of the major award ceremonies for film ever, so we wanted to do it again and the members of the Film Society were interested in having a low screening, get together so we decided to do it,” Washington said.

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ically acclaimed film, A Star Is Born, was one of the most anticipated moments of the night in which students enjoyed hearing Cooper and Gaga’s singing but questioned the intimacy that was taking place on stage.

Students assumed yet were pleased to see Rami Malek accept the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his porAttendees filled out a ballot on who they thought would win in each category and the person trayal of Freddie Mercury in with the most correct guesses was awarded a prize.

Bohemian Rhapsody. Senior MADALYN JOHNSON / THE QUADRANGLE Sophia Tollinche, who double majors in communication and international studies and is one

of the coordinators behind the Film Society, mentioned how she hoped Malek would win and that she was very certain it would happen.

“For Best Actor, I want Rami Malek to win in Bohemian Rhapsody and I’m almost positive that’s going to be the outcome,” she said prior to the award ceremony.

The biggest and most prestigious award of the Oscars, “Best Picture” was awarded to Green Book which surprised many students and left them disappointed as none of them except one student guessed that Green Book would win Best Picture.

After the ballots were collected and reviewed, it was revealed there was a tie between students Regan Alejo and Naomi Kitano who predicted 15 out of the 24 category wins.

Washington talked about the start of the Film Society’s new tradition to host a viewing party for Hollywood’s biggest night.

“The Film Society tends to do this every year because the Oscars is one of the major award ceremonies for film ever, so we wanted to do it again and the members of the Film Society were interested in having a low screening, get together so we decided to do it,” Washington said.

Tollinche discussed how this year’s party differed from last year’s.

“We also did this last year where we did the ballot and we checked who was the winner at the end,” she said. “We didn’t have a prize or anything so we decided since the Film Society grew this year we decided to widen it and open it to have a big prize at the end to whoever wins.”

Overall students had a great time sharing their Oscar predictions and thoughts on 2018’s biggest films as well as watching the 2019 Academy Awards to see how it would all unfold.

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Senior Performing Arts Scholar Dabbles in MC Ensembles and Personal Endeavors Alexa Schmidt Features Editor

Senior Kevin Donald is one of five people in his class that has the Performing Arts scholarship at Manhattan College.

A double major in English and philosophy, Donald plays trumpet in the Jazz Band, the Jazz small group band, and occasionally accompanies Orchestra.

Donald originally got into music through taking piano lessons in second grade. He later picked up the trumpet and guitar, and got involved in more casual commitments in high school. He tried his hand at the Performing Arts scholarship during his college search.

“I actually missed the deadline by a day and I was freaking out, my mom was going to kick my butt,” Donald said.

“So she made me email Andy Bauer, and I had just won an All-Northern Jersey jazz award. So she made me send him the Patch article about it, and he was like, ‘Oh it’s fine, just FaceTime me.’ Little did I know, I was treating it very seriously, and Andy is like the most casual guy ever, and I FaceTimed him from my high school band room, and it took two minutes, and he was like, ‘Oh you’re great. You can definitely do this,’” he said.

He received the scholarship a few weeks later, which influenced his choice to attend MC. “It’s really been helpful to have that extra little bit. And honestly, I mean I would be in Performing Arts anyway, I think most of the scholarship students would do it with or without the scholarship, but it definitely, at least for me, motivated me to be a leader in the community and to take on a role on the e-board in Jazz

Band and stuff like that. It’s just an incentive to get a little more involved when you know there’s some money to it,” Donald said.

-----------------------That’s really been the more creative outlet for me. Performing Arts really offers me a lot in more traditional settings, but Let Me Ask My Mother lets me express who I am a little bit better. It’s a little bit more exactly the genre I want to be doing, and doing the things I’m feeling,” Donald said.

-----------------------In addition to Manhattan’s programs, Donald performs in his band, Let Me Ask My Mother.

“Let Me Ask My Mother is a project I started last year, and we perform a bunch of songs that I’ve been writing for the past six or seven years. It has a cast of rotating people that I per-

Donald performing at An Beal with his band, Let Me Ask My Mother.

KELLY CUTHBERT / COURTESY form with,” Donald said. “I’ve done a few shows in the Bronx and a few shows in the New Jersey basement scene with my friends from Flycatcher, who I occasionally play with, and one of their members, Greg Pease, is in my band,” he said.

“That’s really been the more creative outlet for me. Performing Arts really offers me a lot in more traditional settings, but Let Me Ask My Mother lets me express who I am a little bit better. It’s a little bit more exactly the genre I want to be doing, and doing the things I’m feeling,” Donald said.

When asked about his inspiration for his songs, Donald jokingly answered that it was girls.

“More seriously, a lot of it is intimate relationships, but also friendships. I feel like that’s something people really don’t talk a lot about in their music.

I think it’s an interesting thing to tackle. Like platonic friendship. And thinking intimately about growing up and going through the changes that you go through from sixteen, seventeen, to being twenty-two.

It’s a lot of change,” Donald said.

Along with mandatory practices and performances, Donald is a Resident Assistant and a member of the improv group, Scatterbomb. Juggling all of his activities with limited time can be challenging, but Donald enjoys it all the same.

“I am busy. I don’t really know if I can say that I cope with it so much as that I just kind of thrive in that stress and that frantic nature of running around from rehearsal to a show or something like that.

I just kind of like that. It keeps me busy, it keeps me living,” he said.

Although Donald appreciates the Performing Arts at MC, he thinks there is a lot of room for improvement and growth.

“There’s not a lot of opportunities for people that want to do more DIY stuff, more untraditional music, there’s not a lot of outlets or spaces for people that maybe want to put on a punk show on campus, or off-campus for that matter.

And I think that’s something we should really try to create.

And that’s something I’ve tried to create, putting on shows in my friends apartments, and in places off-campus, but I’d love to see that kind of community grow. And I hope that the radio, WRCM, has a part in that, and I’m trying to foster some of that too,” Donald said.

Poetry Night Holds First Event of Semester Mike Carlson Contributor

On a cold and dark Thursday night a group of students took some time to forget about midterms and express themselves artistically. This was not a chance gathering but was Poetry Night, an event that allows students to share poems openly in a light atmosphere.

Featuring coffee, donuts, cookies and of course art, Poetry Night was put on by the Multicultural Center on Feb. 28 at 6 p.m. Students performed both original and existing poetry in a creative and welcoming space.

Bryan McKeon is a sophomore civil engineering major

and a member of the Multicultural Center events board.

McKeon is a moderator for Poetry Night and is also working on a book featuring a collection of his original poems. McKeon weighed in on why Poetry Night is important to him.

“The ability for college students to escape the everyday stresses of life is probably my favorite part of the event,” McKeon said. “There is nothing better than after two midterms, to come and express your thoughts on life with your fellow Jaspers and relax. The inclusive environment that Poetry Night has, truly allows for people to truly express themselves and relax. The sense of belonging has to be one of the many reasons that I still attend

and run Poetry Night events.”

As the Manhattan College campus was celebrating Peace and Justice Week, students were able to connect with each other through art. Students vocalized their thoughts and feelings in a setting free from judgement. The event also encouraged students to share poetry in any way they feel comfortable. For example, one student performed his original poetry with background music highlighting his performance.

Chantal Flores is a junior civil engineering major who has been attending Poetry Night for a little over a year.

In addition to reading poetry, Chantal also performed a song.

“I come to Poetry night because it is so nice to be around

your peers and listen to them.

They have a talent, whether it be writing poems or reading them beautifully. Some people even sing songs or play instruments. Poetry Night isn’t just about poetry, it’s about connecting with other people,” said Flores.

Leslie Guridy Melo is a friend of The Multicultural Center. She is a regular attendee of Poetry Night. She described her feelings toward Poetry Night and how the event has changed her views on poetry.

“At first I only came because of my friends, I didn’t even really like poetry until I started coming and was like, wow. Not all poems are boring!

It’s really interesting because some poems get really depress-

ing and deep and some poems are hilarious … It’s a cozy, nonstressful space to just hear people chill out,” Guridy Melo said.

Poetry Night encourages students to come together as a group to celebrate self-expression and art. Whether presenting already published poetry or original work, students are able to share the talents that they have openly with others.

Poetry Night is hosted by The Multicultural Center on the second Tuesday and the last Thursday of every month.

Their next event will be held on Tuesday, March 12 and will be a collaborative event with the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

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Third Album Class Composes Original Music Alexa Schmidt Features Editor

This is the third consecutive year that Andy Bauer, director of Performing Arts, has run the album class. It is a three-hour class in which students study a particular album, and perform it from start to finish at the end of the semester.

Previous albums include The Beatles’ Abbey Road and Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. However, there is a catch to this year’s class. The twelve students are making their own album, with original music that they will have composed for a little over five months. This process is completely new, but the students and Bauer are excited to tackle the challenge.

Bauer wanted each person to write two or three songs for the album, or at least sketches and ideas, before the winter break was over.

“Some people did something as simple as humming a melody into their iPhone, and then sent it to me with no chords, no structure, no nothing. Just words and a tune. But other people had songs pretty much all worked out with the chords and the arrangement and everything.

There are varying degrees of finished,” Bauer said.

He continued.

“There are people who have never written a song, or written any kind of composition in their life, and suddenly they realize

that they could do it. That is astonishingly gratifying to me as someone to help them flesh out their ideas and order them into a formal structure and have it sound like really decent music,” he said.

Senior Erin Plitt is taking the class for the second time, and said there is no “normal” class.

“For a lot of us, including myself, it’s my first time composing, so the basic structure tries to be the first hour of class we analyze an existing song for form, see what we can learn from it, to keep our music interesting and well-educated,” Plitt said. “After that we sometimes break up the music. Instrumentalists, vocalists, sometimes the band stays together and we try to brainstorm things, work out kinks in songs, but it really depends on the songs we’re doing,” she said.

Collaboration is a huge part of the class. Bauer described it as a “semesterlong group project.” For Plitt, turning to other students for help is essential in order to develop her ideas. She turns to her classmates for help with lyrics or phrasing, and uses Bauer for compositional work.

“I don’t play any instruments, so just to figure something basic out like chords, I’ll bring my idea of my melody to Andy, and we’ll sit down together and sing through the song, play through the song, figure out what we like, what we don’t like, and where we

-----------------------“For a lot of us, including myself, it’s my first time composing, so the basic structure tries to be the first hour of class we analyze an existing song for form, see what we can learn from it, to keep our music interesting and welleducated,” Plitt said.

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Senior Erin Plitt featured in a promotional video for the class.

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think it can go,” Plitt said. “It really has been for me, an extraordinarily collaborative effort that I think is really really fun to participate in. It’s a feeling that I’ve never had before, and I love it.”

The main theme of the album is change, which Bauer admits is a broad term.

“It just gives us a little bit of a direction in terms of how we want the music to be thematically. We’re not strictly bound to that, nor are we bound to any interpretation of that word,” Bauer said.

“It doesn’t really hold anyone accountable. Any song for it to be interesting needs to be about change in some way. Change in relationship, change in season, change in the times. I feel like if you look at any piece of music, you can figure out and interpretation,” Plitt said.

She continued.

“Also because for many of us in the class, the vast majority of us are seniors. This is our last semester together, our last semester at Manhattan,

Students collaborate in writing both composition and lyrics during their class.

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potentially our last semester at school, so we’re all currently experiencing a really dramatic change in our life, and I think that that’s we were all hoping to find inspiration from. In the natural changes that we’re experiencing, because this is just a time of change for us,” she said.

Senior Anna Occhino is in the class for the first time, and has previous experience with writing songs.

“A lot of my music is basically about personal experiences in my life and I feel like any songwriting is more personal,” she said. “I feel like that’s kind of the best way to do it because if you experience something, and you’re able to write something about it and produce art from it, I think that’s amazing.”

But part of sharing songs with others is getting their reactions. The class has a unique dynamic, and can be challenging at times. It pushes the students to get out of their comfort zones.

Plitt acknowledges that putting out original ideas makes one vulnerable and subject to criticism.

“You’re extraordinarily vulnerable, your defenses are up, and everybody wants to kind of tear everything apart. Because we want to get to the meat of the music, we want to get to the interesting parts of the class.

But at the same time, we’re all very guarded so there’s a lot of struggle, but I think it’s a beautiful struggle to see this tension. Because it means that it matters,” she said.

“You’re sharing a side of yourself that barely anyone has ever heard, and you’re sharing songs that are so personal to you, it’s hard to show people that you’ve been to school with, but don’t really know that side of yourself,” Occhino added.

Currently, there are about twelve songs in total, with vocals and instrumentals. The class will add a medley of songs in addition to the twelve, which will encompass all the little ideas that never became full songs.

“That’s very much modeled after the two previous album classes that we have studied.

So the Sergeant Pepper and Abbey Road albums had a side A, where the songs could stand as individual pieces of music, and then side B that kind of just flows one song into the next,” Plitt said.

Bauer expects the class to continue tweaking the music up until the day before the final dress rehearsal. In addition to meeting with his students during class time, Bauer finds himself meeting with students almost every day to go over the songs, and work one-on-one with them.

“One of the things that I’m really adamant about is that this is not going to be a garage band. This is not going to be just a bunch of people blasting away at their instruments and singing. This is going to be orchestrated, arranged, and nuanced and have different sounds. It’s going to be well thought out,“ Bauer said.

He continued.

“This is by far the most difficult class that I’ve done of the three. Not that the music is exceptionally difficult, but getting the music in place is whole other process. It’s going to be great. I have great confidence.

I can see that the ideas that people are presenting are really good. They’re really strong musical ideas,” he said.

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Freshman Brings Passion for Figure Skating to Manhattan College Brian Asare

Photography Editor Alba Marsela is a Manhattan College freshman majoring in economics. She moved from Albania to the United States to pursue a college degree two years ago, bringing along her amazing and very unique talent of figure skating.

The Quadrangle: Out of all the sports you could choose form, why figure skating?

What sparked your interest in that particular sport?

Alba Marsela: I think it’s funny because in the beginning, I didn’t really consider it as an option for me as a path that I could choose until my parents took me to a figure skating rink one day in Albania when I was very young, just so I could see one of my friends skate, and that is kind of like when it idea sparked and they suggested I gave it a try.

TQ: How old were you when you first started figure skating and what was your experience on the ice like?

AM: I was about six or seven years old and it was a really good experience, to be honest.

When you’re young it’s really easy for you to go out and try new things. So I think it was just the perfect sport, the perfect place and the perfect time for me to have started.

TQ: Were you on any figure skating teams of some sort?

AM: Unfortunately in Al-

bania, figure skating is now really well known but we did try to create teams and but there were two teams that already existed in the ice rink that I would skate on that a part of but I was mostly skating like alone.

TQ: Have you ever participated in any figure skating competitions?

AM: Well, there are not any famous ones, unfortunately, but I did participate in a number of local shows, mostly exclusive to family and friends and any other people that received invites.

TQ: Have you ever consid-

ered being a professional figure skater?

AM: Well if you had asked me this question a couple of years ago, I would have answered with a strong yes but now, with college and everything else going on, I feel like I’ve taken another turn. But figure skating is definitely my one and only passion. So if I do ever get the right opportunity and all the chances to go professional, I will definitely go for it.

TQ: When was the last time you were on an ice skating rink?

AM: It was about two or

three weeks ago. One of my friends here invited me to go ice skating and of course, I said yes. I never miss a chance to go ice skating.

TQ: Lastly, what advice would you give anyone looking into getting into figure skating?

AM: I would say just follow your passion if you really think that you have got the passion for figure skating then go for it.

Don’t let anybody else tell you otherwise. Just follow your passion and let it run free from you because it will take you very far.

------------------------------------------------[RIGHT] Freshman Marsela moved to the United States from Albania two years ago to pursue a degree in economics.

[LEFT] Figure skating is Marsela’s biggest passion and would go professional if the right opportunity came along.

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Meeting Religous Studies Major Tim Gress Jack Melanson Senior Writer

The Religion Department at Manhattan College is chaired

by David Shefferman, Ph.D., while Robert Geraci, Ph.D remains on sabbatical for a final semester.

The program continues to be a journey through the liberal arts that encompasses much more than just the Catholic tradition, despite the College’s Lasallian heritage.

Currently housing four students who have taken religious studies as a major, the department also teaches each student at MC at least three courses before earning a diploma.

One of the four majors is senior Tim Gress.

Religion may not have been Gress’ first choice, but one major just wasn’t enough for the young scholar.

“Studying religion was not something that I had intended on doing before I came to Manhattan College,” said Gress. “I

was already studying philosophy before I decided to add religious studies as my second major.”

This was seemingly a perfect fit as the program promises to combine philosophy, literature, history, sociology and fine arts, according to Manhattan College’s official website.

It was a seminar course that kick-started the additional major for Gress.

“A seminar course on the Bible in American Culture with Dr. Claudia Setzer [stands out] in particular,” he said. “This class made me realize the vast and ever changing role that religion and the Bible plays in everyday American life, whether or not we realize it.”

Once this foundation was built, Gress found a unique niche to erect his interests.

“I was interested in the intersection of philosophy in late-antiquity and how those philosophical teachings were interpreted and received by the early Church Fathers,” Gress said.

Gress is now working alongside Tom Ferguson, Ph.D, of the Religious Studies Department to button-up his honors thesis.

“My focus in the major is how Greek and Roman ethical and moral teachings influenced the doctrines and belief systems of the early Church Fathers. At the moment, I am completing my honors thesis on St. Augustine’s use of attitude toward the Stoic teachings of Cicero and Seneca in his work City of God.” In larger context, studying religion has been eye-opening for Gress. “[The major] has made me aware of the variety of religious expression that takes place both in the United States and around the world,” he said. “I believe that having students in the major take a global nonWestern course was especially helpful in experiencing religious cultures that I otherwise would not have been exposed to.”

According to Gress, MC’s

Lasallian identity aids this very idea.

“As a Lasallian Catholic institution with the goal of providing an inclusive community, I feel as though the Religious Studies Department is committed to teaching about the full range of religious denominations and experiences,” said Gress. “Both in the United States and abroad.”

After graduation, it’s more school for Gress.

“I plan to continue my graduate studies in the field of English literature. However, being a Religious Studies major has helped me to develop into a well-rounded student of the Liberal Arts,” he said. “Literature is full of religious references and allusions - both obvious and not - and being a Religious Studies major has allowed me to make more sense of these important connections.”

With that said, religion is more than just a major.

“I wouldn’t necessarily say that religion has always been an influential part of my life. I

grew up Roman Catholic and, after not going for a long time, now attend mass every Sunday,” he said. “You could say that I am more of a ‘pray to God, but keep rowing toward the shore’ kind of guy.”

Gress admires some specific symbols within his individual religion, too.

“Being a Catholic, the crucifix has always been been an important symbol to me because it represents, among many others, the beliefs of an entire faith,” said Gress. “I have always been drawn to the religious symbols and motifs contained in stained glass windows because of the power that they convey through such an interesting medium.”

Gress’ hobbies still revolve around expanding knowledge.

“I’ve been using my free time to study how early twentieth-century book collectors have influenced how literature is studied in academia, specifically the treatment and reception of the English and American novel.”

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Agape Latte: Natalia Imperatori-Lee Speaks About Uncomfortable Life Fits Alexa Schmidt & Maria Thomas Features Editor & Asst. News Editor

On Wednesday, Feb. 27, students at Manhattan College learned why professor Imperatori-Lee, Ph.D., has trouble fitting into certain “pairs of pants.”

Imperatori-Lee is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at MC, and is a board member of the Catholic Theological Society of America, a member of the American Academy of Religion, and of the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States.

This was Agape Latte’s first event of the semester as a part of the Peace Week events. Imperatori-Lee spoke to a packed room of students, faculty and clergy members about navigating life’s most constricting or uncomfortable situations in her talk entitled, “My Pants Are Too Tight (and Other Uncomfortable Fits).”

For the first half hour of the event, Senior Alex Constantine strummed guitar and sang several relaxing songs, some being original pieces, as audience members chatted, ate Lloyd’s Carrot Cake and swayed to the music.

At 8:00 p.m., Freshman Class President Sydney Collins rattled off trivia questions about Imperatori-Lee, and students who answered questions correctly were gifted t-shirts.

Imperatori-Lee began the talk by explaining the amusing and somewhat ambiguous title.

“So what the talk is really about is a series of uncomfortable fits, right? I feel like all of us have at one point or another… fit uncomfortably or felt uncomfortable in situations. And there’s a lot of different ways in which you can feel uncomfortable in a situation. So I’m going to talk about three kinds of discomfort and what those discomforts have taught me.”

The first type of discomfort Imperatori-Lee referenced was outgrowing a pair of pants. A person can either physically outgrow the pants, making them too tight or loose, or a person can outgrow the style of the pants.

“So in my life, outgrowing who I was and sort of embracing whatever was coming next, even if that was scary, happened when I was in graduate school at the University of Chicago.”

Imperatori-Lee recounted how she was used to being the smartest kid in the classroom, and when she got to University of Chicago, that changed drastically. “I felt every day that I went to class that I had read the wrong thing. I had not read

the wrong thing. I just had completely misunderstood it. That’s how lost I was.”

She continued.

“I don’t regret it. It also really opened my mind, like it was super uncomfortable and I was very unhappy, but it really opened my mind to how big religious studies is and how not that smart I was. And that’s a really, you know, all academics walk around with an I’m not smart enough. And that’s a really important thing. You know,you have to sort of live into your authority,” she said.

Furthermore, ImperatoriLee outgrew a long-term relationship with a man who had already bought her an engage-

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Can I stop inhibiting myself from filling out whatever the role is that I’m called to be in, in the moment, knowing that I’m not going to say everything perfectly,” questioned Imperatori-Lee.

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ment ring. “With time at the UC, I was exposed to different kinds of people, different kinds of learning and different kinds of things. And I started to feel a little bit constrained -- not by being in a relationship, but it was more like, I remember one time he told me how to brush my teeth. I’ve thought back on that a lot and I thought, like, was it just that that’s something they covered in med school that day?”

She continued.

“And so I decided to go a little pantsless for awhile …

But to just sort of embrace whatever I didn’t know. Right?

I didn’t know what was coming next. I didn’t know. Like maybe I would never meet anybody.

Maybe that was what was going to happen. I knew that outfit was the wrong outfit. And if I stayed in that outfit, I didn’t know what was gonna happen, but I know it was going to be really bad for me,” ImperatoriLee said.

Imperatori-Lee moved on to her second kind of uncomfortable fit: the dig or the chafe.

She explained that this is a sign that something is wrong and you have the choice on what to about it.

“You can dump the pants,

right? Obviously many people would, or if they’re really nice pants, if you’ve invested a lot in the pants, or maybe you’re emotionally invested in them.

You can try to have them altered, right? So that you can continue to have the pants, but they at least won’t hurt you anymore. This is sort of the relationship that I have with the church,” she said.

Imperatori-Lee explained that the church can be harmful to women, to people of color, to gender nonconforming people, to gay, lesbian people and other marginalized communities.

Sometimes it is harmful with malice, and sometimes without.

This allowed her to realize her identity and how that can affect other parts of her life. Growing up in Miami in a Cuban family, Imperatori-Lee was “part of the majority.” She never understood herself to be part of a minority.

“Everyone that I knew, spoke Spanish and looked like me. So this idea that I was somehow marginalized did not occur to me until college and really well into college and graduate school,” she said.

She recalled one instance when she attended a talk at the Catholic Theological Society of America. She was a grad student, and was introduced to someone as a “young Latino scholar.” She recounts how the man “glossed over completely, and walked away.”

“How can one word just totally like turn off your interest completely? But it was like I became invisible and it happened to me and it happened to Michael, my husband has also who’s Puerto Rican. It was like we became immediately irrelevant. Right. And there’s nothing that we could have had to say or ideas or anything. No common ground, nothing, no investment there at all,” Imperatori-Lee said.

That experience changed her perspective on life, and led her to the conviction that things don’t change from the outside.

Imperatori-Lee explained that she has an investment in the church, and acknowledges the “super flawed, huge mess disaster that is the Roman Catholic church”.

Although she realizes all the flaws, she compares it to her favorite pantsuit.

“It’s the one that I wore the most. It makes up my mental furniture. It’s how I understand the world. I could try and understand the world a different way, but it wouldn’t feel right.

Like just like you could leave your family. Right. But at the same time, they’re part of you and you’re a part of them and you cannot extricate yourself from that web of relationships without losing an integral part

The first Agape Latte of the semester took place in Jasper Lounge Feb. 27.

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of who you are,” she said.

Imperatori-Lee moved on to the last uncomfortable fit, which is the breaking-in fit. She explained it as the pair of pants that may be too tight, causing you to walk weirdly, but you still want to keep the pants. But it’s that little voice questioning everything you do.

“I am trying actively and in fact for length, this is one of my practices to shut up the voice inside me that is beating myself up all of the time. Talk to yourself like you would to a friend, your best girlfriend. Can I stop inhibiting myself from filling out whatever the role is that I’m called to be in, in the moment, knowing that I’m not going to say everything perfectly,” she questioned.

“And I have learned that, ‘hey, nobody’s paying that much attention.’ Nobody cares that much. Nobody’s hanging on my every word ... a thousand mistakes opens up space for the next generation of people to not make those mistakes.

So just kind of live in the pants ... and inhabit the space that you create for yourself without kind of apology for it,” Imperatori-Lee said.

As a woman, she feels like we’re taught and socialized to make sure everyone feels okay.

To make sure everyone is happy and making sure everyone is comfortable before we “throw a grenade and make everybody feel super uncomfortable.”

But Imperatori-Lee explained that instead of getting lost in what everyone else is feeling, just live as if those quiet voices don’t exist and aren’t telling you to throw those pants away.

At the end of her lecture, Imperatori-Lee answered student’s questions about he dissertation, the importance of

religion classes, systematic oppression and how to deal with hopeless institutions.

Meggie Osorio, a sophomore art history and English major, was one of many students who helped organize the event through the Campus Ministry and Social Action organization. “I help to kind of talk to the speakers in a preliminary meeting to help gage what the talk is going to be about and what students would want to hear,” Osorio said.

A group of students who often come to Agape Latte meet with whoever is chosen to speak, and give them an overview of what people have done in the past, and then show examples from favorite talks that they’ve been to, so they can get an idea of what students like to hear. Then they can pull from their own story and personal experience and work it into what the students would like.

“I really love the title that she chose. I thought it was really catchy and cool. She has an interesting perspective on being a woman and dealing with feminism and religion and her relationships,” Osorio said.

Imperatori-Lee finished Agape Latte with a piece of advice.

“The only way I could get to decipher during which are the good pants and which of the bad pants for me is because I have really good friends. You need a community, right? Whether the community comes from your church or it comes from your dorm … So get a community. Right. And encourage your community. Let your community light you up, but also light them up as much as you can.

That has really been something that has saved my life and it has improved my wardrobe.”

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Matt Gresia: Socking Cancer In The Mouth One Sale At A Time Gabriella DePinho News Editor

Senior finance major Matt Gresia always had an interest in starting his own business, but in April 2016, the inspiration and motivation finally hit.

Gresia was inspired to start Canswer Sock Co., a clothing line that supports cancer research, because April 2016 was, “a time in my [his] life that was seemingly plagued by loved ones who were suffering with the effects of cancer or had passed because of the disease.”

Striving to give people a high quality product they could feel good about investing in, Gresia started Canswer Sock Co. The company started with socks because Gresia wanted to “differentiate [himself] more,” but has expanded to hats, Tshirts, long sleeved shirts and popsockets, among other products. Gresia’s company donates 10 percent of all profits annually to cancer research.

“I just had this idea to combine these two passions: one for donating and trying to help with finding an answer to cancer [and the other for starting a business]. I was like ‘oh, I can combine these and make this a thing,’” said Gresia.

Starting the company was more work than Gresia originally anticipated, but a process he really enjoyed.

Gresia said, “It was fun. It was difficult, especially feeling like you have no idea where to start. I feel like that was the hardest thing for me, figuring out … like I had this idea but okay, where do I start? How do you actually start a business? A lot of hours online, a lot of consulting with my dad, I figured it out.”

Gresia was able to get the company up and running in about five months, but then he faced another challenge: spreading the word. Gresia knew that he needed to get his brand out there to as many people as possible or else his venture would fail; selling to only family and friends would not cut it.

“I was super interested in how people and companies are able to generate money online … My first step was social media and just reaching out to people and seeing who would be down to be part of it. I guess I got lucky with reaching out to people. I would make lists of people - I would run across somebody, say it was on YouTube, and … I’d like what they were doing, I’d be down to work with them. Then I would write down their email address.

I made lists of people to reach out to and reach out to sometimes hundreds of people a day.

A few got back but the ones that did get back helped me a lot,” said Gresia.

Through a series of connections, from a photographer to a manager to a DJ (Clock) who was a friend and longtime co-worker of now deceased, rapper Mac Miller, Gresia’s socks made it on stage and in social media posts on Miller’s feet. The socks even went on tour.

“That was definitely my craziest experience so far,” said Gresia.

He continued. “[Clock and I] met up for a photoshoot and we ended up not taking many photos. We ended up hitting it off, actually, and at the end we decided to make some socks together.

They took them on tour, which was the craziest thing, being a

Matt Gresia’s socks as pictured on his Instagram.

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young kid that just started, like a few months after I started …

They took my socks on tour to like 26 countries. They allotted a certain amount of socks per show and it was crazy just getting a call every night saying they sold out,” said Gresia.

“Clock and Mac were close so he gave him some pairs of socks and Mac posted him wearing them on Instagram a few times which was surreal,” said Gresia.

After their tour, Gresia’s socks took off. Now that they’d travelled to 26 countries, anything and any place was possible.

Gresia, “When you have a brick and mortar store, your audience is the people that live around your store but online, well the whole world is online, so they [his socks] can go pretty much everywhere.”

According to Gresia, there’s no secret formula to running his company.

“People that are interested

in doing business are always looking for secrets but the secret is don’t take shortcuts. If you really go hard at it, this is something anybody can do,” said Gresia. “My plan is - well I have a website that is linked to my Instagram account - to make content that is good and use it to push whatever is out now.”

Before starting Canswer, Gresia only had to worry about classes but now he also has to manage his business in his off hours.

“It’s definitely more difficult than just going to class but if you’re passionate about something you’re going to make the time for it. This is just something I wanted to do so I added it to my daily schedule,” said Gresia.

While Gresia continues to run his company as part of his daily schedule, the clock is counting down on graduation.

As for his future plans, Gresia isn’t sure what will happen but

Graphic of Matt Gresia as shown on his Instagram.

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he plans to continue with his brand for now.

“If I can expand and do this as much as I can and pushing as much as I can until graduation and then seeing where I’m at … It’s really difficult. I felt like when I was a freshman I thought I’d know what I’m doing as a senior but I don’t,” said Gresia.

On top of what Gresia donates annually, Gresia has also worked on special projects where all of the profits go to different causes. For example, Gresia is working on one of those projects right now.

“Just recently, I did these t-shirts with this girl named Alexandria … she’s nine years old and she’s hiking the Appalachian trail from Maine to Georgia, with her dad, in March to raise $3.1 million for St. Jude’s.

When I saw that I knew I had to hop on it, so we ended up making t-shirts that she drew and we’re selling them and giving everything towards her goal,” said Gresia.

Before he started, Gresia had no clue where this company would go and if it would even take off, but for now, he’s taking it one day at a time.

“I initially started not thinking of this as something that could go on for a long time. I think that like everything on the internet, nothing lasts forever, which is sad but it’s true and things tend to trend so I think that this could last for a long time, but at the same time, I’m aware that I have to make the most out of it while it’s hot. I initially started because I wanted to learn more than I was in class. I didn’t think of it as a long term thing,” said Gresia.

His socks can be found at canswersockco.com and the company can be followed on Instagram at Instagram.com/ canswer.

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Just a Regular Guy: Meet Sean Jeffcoat Jack Melanson Senior Writer

When Sean Jeffcoat’s resume came across the Manhattan College admission desk, it’s likely that a few heads were turned.

Now a Jasper, Jeffcoat first spent time in the NFL as an Arizona Cardinal and in the military as a member of the United States Air National Guard.

His story starts at Jack Britt High School in his hometown of Fayetteville, North Carolina.

“When I got to high school I didn’t want to play football, but my oldest brother basically said ‘stop being a little punk and play’,” Jeffcoat said. “Once he said that I started playing, but my family is a basketball family so I’ve always wanted to play basketball.”

Seemingly the right choice, the young athlete invested in football - a sport that would later invest in him as well.

“Around sophomore year or junior year of high school is when I realized I had a chance to play college football. My first scholarship offer was from East Carolina [University] at the end of my junior year,” Jeffcoat said. “Once I started getting [more] offers and schools were looking at me, then I was like ‘okay, I really can play college football, I’m good enough to at least play Division I AA’, and sure enough I went to Elon [University].”

It was at Jack Britt where he garnered a nickname that sprung his life into action.

“I had the nickname ‘superman’ in high school, I kinda took that heart,” he said.

“There was one guy in high school who called me it, but I ran with it, so I try do whatever I can and be good at whatever I’m doing.”

Putting his days as a free safety in the rear view, Jeffcoat stuck to playing wide receiver for the Elon Phoenix.

“I was going to accept [another] offer and then I realized I wasn’t trying to play defense. I [wasn’t] trying to get run over, I’d rather score touchdowns,” he said. “I ended up falling in love with Elon.”

Well, wide receiver and photographer, that is.

“Growing up I was always into art. My dad and a few of my uncles are pretty big into drawing pictures and painting so it came naturally to me. I actually started my degree with business at Elon, but quickly realized that I wanted to [study art],” Jeffcoat said. “I never thought I could be a photographer, but I fell in love with it.”

More than anything, Elon became a brotherhood.

“All of the practices and just hanging out over the years were the best memories with

those guys,” Jeffcoat said.

“There was times where we had snowball fights. Those snowball fights were better than everything else. It was like, ‘oh snap, these are my brothers.’ It got a little rough, I’m not going to lie, but it was fun.”

The fun couldn’t last forever though.

“The last game of the season we played Western Carolina and I knew for a fact it was my last game with the group of guys that I came in with …The very end of the game everyone got together and we started tearing up,” Jeffcoat said. “We knew that was it. We spent four years of our lives there - building something pretty good we were leaving a legacy in a sense. Even if people don’t really remember it years down the road, at least we will.”

Sure enough, what started as a ceiling for Jeffcoat turned out to be just a stepping stone.

“Even [during my time at Elon] I didn’t think I was going to play past college. I wanted to but I didn’t think I was going to,” Jeffcoat said. “It wasn’t until about three or four games into my senior season at Elon that I got a phone call from

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one of my coaches. He said ‘Hey Jeffcoat, such and such [NFL] team is here, they want to speak to you.’”

He continued.

“I had literally just woke up and didn’t think anything about it. Then I got to the office, one of the coaches from the Cardinals was there, all he did was say ‘Hey, how’s it going, good game’ That’s all he could say.

That was about it, from then on I was like ‘Oh snap, I could probably play in the NFL. It was pretty cool.”

All of a sudden it was offi-

cial. Sean Jeffcoat was going to be an Arizona Cardinal.

“I express excitement differently than most people.

Most people get an exciting phone call and start running around, I don’t express it as much,” Jeffcoat said. “I was actually eating dinner and I got a call from my agent saying ‘hey, how would you like to play for Arizona and they give you such and such signing bonus’ - instantly I started smiling. I couldn’t stop smiling for the rest of the week.”

Then, in August of 2011, Jeffcoat’s dream of playing in the NFL became a reality.

“It felt like I belonged in a sense. It felt like I was supposed to be there. Everything was working the way that it should work. It was cool because I had just watched Larry Fitzgerald play in the Super Bowl and then all of a sudden I’m in the same locker room as him - I’m asking him for advice - and even if I wasn’t asking him for advice he would come up and give it to us,” he said. “So being on the field and watching him play in person - with the same uniform on - that was the best thing in the world… That was like an all-time high.”

One 12 yard reception was all it took to shake the NFL jitters.

“I ran the route, actually caught it, and I got hit out of bounds. I actually think that was probably the point in time where I knew for a fact that I was going to be playing in the NFL,” Jeffcoat said. “The route that I ran was real simple and the guy that tried to tackle me didn’t, that was it. From then I just had that mentality, I knew I could play I just had to get better.”

At Elon it was photography, but the NFL taught something a little different.

“We were in practice and the offense was getting their butt whooped by the defense.

Out of nowhere - Darnell Dockett, this big, grown man - literally just comes over and was talking to me about leadership.

I said ‘Darnel, why in the heck are you talking to me about leadership’, I was thinking ‘I just got here, I’m just trying to learn the plays,’” Jeffcoat said. “ [Dockett] just saw leadership in everybody, it wasn’t just me, I just happened to be there.

Since he was talking to me I tried to take it to heart and I tried to show my leadership.”

Unfortunately, just four preseason games later, the dream was over for the promising young receiver out of Elon.

“Honestly it was a freak accident in my opinion, we were playing [the Denver Broncos].

I got put out there on the punt team, which shocked me because I was waiting to get out there later in the game. There was two guys on me, and I kid

Before becoming a Jasper, serving in the military or playing as a Cardinal, Jeffcoat played football at Elon University while studying photography.

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you not, I went to swipe one of their hands down, on the inside release, and my shoulder just popped out of place,” he said. “It popped out, stayed out, I didn’t know what to do. I couldn’t do anything.”

The injury took more than just a shoulder down, however.

“I knew for a fact that once that happened and I went into the locker room to get an x-ray …That was pretty much it. At least for a little while,” he said.

“It crushed me at the time. I didn’t know what to do, it was bad.”

Recovering and getting back on the gridiron would be no easy feat either.

“I talked to my agent about [coming back] and basically I came to the conclusion that it’d be pretty tough for me to get back. Throughout practice you have practice film, throughout the game you have game film, and for me, coming from such a small school like Elon, and just now getting my name out there, it’d be pretty hard for me to convince a team that I was good enough to play,” he said.

“I still think I probably should have stayed in Arizona to try to get on the practice team again, but at the same time I feel like it still worked out. I’m still here.”

Hanging up the cleats was difficult, but the then 22 yearold had a lot to live for.

“No [there’s no chance of me playing again], heck no. I

wish, but I turned thirty this year. Thirty in NFL is pretty ancient, in a sense. I’ve been playing football since I was young, but playing for all of those years takes a toll on your body,” Jeffcoat said. “I wish I could still play, I feel like I could still play, in reality I probably can’t still play. But there’s no future there anymore.”

Despite such a detrimental injury, Jeffcoat owes everything to the sport.

“It’s just a game, but if you’ve been playing since you were a kid and you make it all the way to the professional level, even if it was just one day or 15 years, you owe a lot to football because you learn a lot from it,” he said. “I still think of it as a positive.”

Staying in Arizona was hard without football and homesickness set in. It was time for a big change.

“I started realizing I wasn’t going to play again so I went back to North Carolina. Right when I got home it was a struggle to try to find a job, so I thought the Air Force wasn’t a bad idea,” said Jeffcoat.

The ensuing years only brought more discipline as Jeffcoat turned the page to the military.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 14 for the military wasn’t hard at all. It was the discipline that was the hardest, especially when I first joined,” he said. “The attention to detail and being able to sit down, take instructions, and apply those instructions to whatever you were doing, that was the toughest part.”

No more yelling things like “hot-route” or “Omaha.”

Military language meant something much more.

“The [military] lingo was hard to learn, when I was playing football we used to make up words, now I had to actually learn the military language full of real words so that we could help real people,” Jeffcoat said.

Like football, his fondest memories of the military involve the people he was surrounded by.

“I’m a peoples person, football made me a peoples person. I got deployed to Qatar, so after meeting the nationals out there, I came to appreciate what we have here in the [United States],” Jeffcoat said. “It humbled me a lot, even though I feel like I’m a pretty humble person, that slapped me in the face. It continued to help me grow.”

During his six-year span in the Air National Guard, the militant receiver was predominately stationed in Montana.

“Montana is beautiful country, the scenery was amazing,” Jeffcoat said.

Now part of the inactiveready reserves, Jeffcoat is spending his time at Manhattan College as he earns a second bachelor’s degree in business management.

The College’s Veterans Success Center played a large role

in making Jeffcoat a Jasper. “[The Center] is pretty dope, I’m not going to lie. I wasn’t expecting it to be this involved … Or even Dr. Kaplan to be as involved, and he loves interacting with us,” Jeffcoat said. “Working with the people in that program makes you a lot more comfortable than just going to any other school and being that one vet, that one old person in class. You’re struggling to try to find friends or just anyone to relate to. It’s been pretty cool.”

As an artist, Jeffcoat was most excited to explore New York from behind the lens.

“I wanted to get into street photography. Obviously there’s nothing but skyscrapers here so it was a perfect spot,” he said. “This is a great city to take pictures. Whether its Brooklyn, Manhattan, Bronx, Yonkers …

That was the main reason I

came here.”

Jeffcoat will return to his alma mater, Elon University, for law school upon graduating from Manhattan.

“I want to focus on either corporate law or real estate law.

At least that’s what I’m saying now,” he said.

A unique resume, but one that he is proud of.

“Growing up my mom and dad told me to be as diverse as possible, that way you can interact with whoever and you can get ahead in life. I’ve applied that pretty directly to whatever I was doing,” Jeffcoat said. “Taking every piece from everything I’ve done, it kind of molded me to become who I am today. I don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow, so why not learn something from another aspect of this world.”

For Jeffcoat, it’s all for Fayetteville, North Carolina.

“Coming from where I come from, there’s not a lot of people that get a chance to do things. I’m the first person in my family to go to law school, I’ll be the first person in my family with three degrees, so doing stuff like that, even being in New York, it gives me motivation to do a lot of things when I get the opportunity to do it.”

Jeffcoat also notes that he is afraid of heights, would love to speak spanish, learn to play an instrument and would like to meet a celebrity like Jay-Z. “I’m just a regular guy,” he said.

Monmouth Uses Late Run To Mar Manhattan’s Senior Night MBB: MU 62, MAN 54 Pete Janny

Asst. Sports Editor Manhattan fans flooded Draddy to see the men’s basketball team (9-20, 7-10 MAAC) play their home finale versus the Monmouth Hawks (11-20, 10-8) on senior night.

Prior to tip-off, the program paid tribute to the careers of seniors Thomas Capuano, Ibrahim Diallo, Matt Maloney, and Samson Usillo for all they have meant to Manhattan basketball during their time in Riverdale.

The players were greeted by head coach Steve Masiello and their respective family members for a ceremony at midcourt.

Coming off back to back losses to Iona and Fairfield, the home team knew they needed to spark some kind of momentum with the MAAC tournament less than a week away. The team that awaited the Jaspers on Friday night had experienced a strain of adversity comparable to the cascade of hardships that Manhattan had endured for much of its season. Losers of four straight, the sixth place Hawks were hunting for a win just as badly as the Jaspers. With little separating the two teams late in the game, Monmouth spearheaded a game-ending 10-2 run to escape Draddy with a 62-54 win.

Monmouth created separation early on when they launched an 8-0 run to jump out to a 10-2 lead by the 15:50 mark of the first half. Although down

early, Manhattan stayed within striking distance of Monmouth for the entirety of the first stanza. Facing a 16-8 deficit, freshman Tykei Greene nailed a three to cut the Monmouth lead to five with 12:40 left in the half. A little over a minute later Greene executed again from behind the arc to trim Manhattan’s deficit to four.

Greene’s first half heroics were not done yet.

After a two and a half minute scoreless stretch from both sides, Greene added his third trifecta of the half to get his team to within one at 20-19.

The Hawks, however, remained aplomb despite Manhattan’s sustained pressure.

A minute after Greene’s dagger, the Hawks answered with back to back layups courtesy of Louis Pillari and Diago Quinn. The Jaspers would get as close as to within two three more times before Monmouth ignited a 6-0 run to close out the half with a 37-29 lead.

The obvious explanation for Manhattan’s eight point deficit at the half was the way they shot the ball. The Jaspers shot the ball at a 34.5 percent clip overall while only converting on 21.4 percent of their three point attempts. Conversely, Monmouth was able to translate their 56 percent shooting clip into a solid cushion at the break.

Backed by a boisterous crowd, Manhattan returned from the half time break cool, calm and collected.

Manhattan’s loud entrance

into the second half hastily morphed their 37-29 hole into a 39-36 deficit by the 16:42 mark.

Thanks to timely buckets from Monmouth’s dangerous backcourt mates Deion Hammond and Ray Salnave, the Hawks yet again rejected Manhattan’s comeback bid by opening up a 46-38 lead by the 14:30 mark.

In need of an energizer, up stepped freshman Elijah Buchanan.

After hitting one of two from the charity stripe at the 14:18 mark, Buchanan wreaked havoc two minutes later when he turned a steal into a basket.

Samir Stewart then followed up Buchanan’s impressive play with a layup of his own to push the Jaspers to within three with 11:08 left in regulation.

The clutch gene of Manhattan’s freshmen was fully activated on this night.

Following in Greene and Buchanan’s footsteps, Stewart joined the clutch party when he drilled a three pointer to bring his flank to within one at 47-46 with 9:24 left to play. Less than a minute later, Manhattan was delightfully rewarded for their industrious comeback efforts when a Tyler Reynolds layup gave them their first lead of the night at the 8:52 mark.

Manhattan’s successful comeback attempt set the stage for an exciting finish.

Unfortunately for Manhattan fans, a three minute stretch of evenly played basketball eventually gave way to a forceful 10-2 run from Monmouth that would seal the victory for

The seniors on the Manhattan men’s basketball team.

GOJASPERS / COURTESY the Hawks. Monmouth drained six free throw attempts in the final four minutes of action to put the game to bed.

Hammond and Salnave starred for Monmouth by dropping 17 and 18 points, respectively. Salnave’s all-around impact was indicated by his final stat line with the sophomore redshirt falling a rebound and an assist shy of notching a triple double. Masiello cited the dominance of Salnave as the main reason why Monmouth left Draddy victorious.

“Ray was the difference tonight,” said Masiello. “I thought he dominated the game off the ball.”

As for Manhattan, freshman phenom Warren Williams led the Jaspers in scoring with 15 points to go along with eight rebounds. Friday night’s doubledigit output from Williams represented a team-leading 13th game in double figures this season for the native of Jamaica.

“He’s a guy that’s going to keep getting better every time he takes the court,” said Masiello of Williams. “He’s a great kid and fun to coach.”

Speaking on the impending MAAC tournament, Masiello gave his unvarnished take on the state of the MAAC. “I think this year more than ever it’s match-up driven,” said Masiello.”Certain match-ups are really good for us and others are a lot tougher.”

The Jaspers will certainly be keeping their eye on the results of other MAAC teams to see if the final days of the regular season bring about any changes to the current seedings. The MAAC tournament is set to take place from March 7-11 at the Times Union Center in Albany, New York.

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Catching Up with Manhattan Baseball Pete Janny

Asst. Sports Editor With campus fully engrossed with basketball and lacrosse action, Manhattan baseball has started their nonconference slate of games in the comfortable temperatures of the south. The Jaspers entered the 2019 season looking to build off of a productive 2018 campaign that saw the team amass a 25-28 overall ledger and a 13-11 MAAC record.

Despite the many positive takeaways from a season ago, the team’s notable absence from the MAAC tournament has them motivated to re-establish themselves as a serious threat in the conference. In head coach Mike Cole’s second year at the helm, the program has brought in 16 new faces to help compensate for the departure of many valuable contributors, the most notable among them being MLB draft picks Fabian Pena and Joe Jacques.

Manhattan’s first order of business was a trip to DeLand, Florida to take part in the RyCass Classic. The team opened up against Southland Conference powerhouse Sam Houston State (5-3) on February 15th. Manhattan hung around with the Bearkats for a good chunk of the game before eventually losing by a score of 127. Despite conceding a grand slam and a three-run home run early on, Manhattan’s offense refused to go away quietly. After falling behind 9-2 after the Bearkats tacked on five in the top of the fourth, the Jaspers retaliated with five runs of their own.

In the end, Manhattan’s pitching futility proved too difficult to overcome.

While the Bearkats would go on to gradually extend their lead to 12-9, the Manhattan bats fell silent only mustering one hit over the final five frames. Manhattan’s top hitter from last season, senior Richie Barrella, picked up right where he left off going 2 for 4 with two RBIs in the loss. Replicating his .309 batting average from last season won’t be easy, however, but Cole expects big things from Barrella.

“We’re expecting Richie to have a good year,” said Cole.

“He’s an all conference type player.”

The Jaspers returned to the diamond the next day for a clash with the Virginia Tech Hokies (7-1) of the reputed Atlantic Coast Conference. Unfortunately for Manhattan, Day 2 of the Rycass Classic proved to be a lot more burdensome.

Losing by a score of 15-3, the Jaspers had no answer for the 20-hit Virginia Tech attack

that was led by Carson Taylor’s 5-for-6 day and Luke Horanski’s 3-for-5 showing. Both sluggers drove in a combined eight of the Virginia Tech’s 15 runs. On the other hand, Manhattan’s six-hit attack was led by freshman Nick Cimillo who went 2-for-4 with a run and an RBI. Inserted into the three hole in his first season with the club, Cimillo has the look of a future star.

“Nick has been our best hitter since day one this fall,” said Cole of his budding phenom. “You can tell by his numbers that he hasn’t been overmatched hitting in the three spot.”

Manhattan’s final day of play in DeLand was their most successful one. A date with the well-regarded Stetson Hatters (2-6) marked the team’s third straight tilt against programs with a decorated history.

Left-handed pitcher and graduate student John Cain had a Manhattan debut for the ages. Cain, a 6’10 mountain of man, collected eight strikeouts in seven innings of one run ball en route to a 5-2 Manhattan win. Sophomore Santiago Riera opened the scoring in the top of the second when he blasted his first career home run to put Manhattan up 1-0. Three innings later, Manhattan broke a 1-1 tie by bringing across three unearned runs.

The big blow came in the form of a two-run shot to left field off the bat of Barrella to give Manhattan a 4-1 advantage. Cain grew more invincible as the game went on as he retired the final eight batters he faced before he exited with a 5-1 lead at the conclusion of the seventh inning. Ace reliever T.J. Stuart then came on to close out the win for Manhattan by virtue of five strikeouts over the final two frames.

Manhattan returned to acton the following weekend for a three game set at Appalachian State University (2-6). With their first win in the books, the Jaspers arrived in Boone, North Carolina looking to do damage.

Game one on Saturday, February 23rd went to the Mountaineers by a score of 5-2.

Appalachian State dampened Manhattan’s morale by bringing across five unanswered runs to open up with a 5-0 lead.

The Manhattan bats were quiet as the team only managed to produced three base runners in the first six innings. Manhattan’s only real offensive activity came in the seventh inning when junior Alex Cerda ripped a two-run single that brought home Matt Padre and Dominic Palma. Manhattan was eventually closed out in the ninth when Appalachia State’s Kaleb

The Jaspers entered the 2019 season looking to build off of a productive 2018 campaign.

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Bowman threw a clean frame.

Games two and three were played as part of a double header on Sunday, February 24th.

Looking to avenge their game one loss, Manhattan laid an egg in game two with Appalachian State cruising to a 14-5 win. The fourth inning was where things went terribly awry for Manhattan. The Mountaineers teed off for nine runs in the bottom half of the fourth to bury the Jaspers into a 9-1 hole. Cerda and Cimillo were the lone bright spots for Manhattan as they went 2-for-4 with three RBIs and 3-for-5 with a run scored, respectively.

Owners of a 1-4 record, Manhattan needed a pick-meup. Luckily for Manhattan, Cain was slated to make his second appearance on the young season for the series finale.

Once again, the lanky lefty delivered a big performance for his team.

The imposing hurler surrendered just one run and amassed eight strikeouts over 6.2 innings of work to lead his team past the Mountaineers by a score of 5-4. The Jaspers offense got off to a quick start in the first frame when graduate student Shawn Blake doubled with one out before Cimillo drove him home with an RBI single. Manhattan’s lead swelled to 2-0 when Barrella’s sacrifice fly plated sophomore Jake Knop.

The Jaspers tacked on two more in the third with the main highlight being a Cimillo solo shot that represented his first collegiate home run. Reminiscent of his first start, Cain seemed to get tougher to hit as the game progressed. He managed to shut down the Appalachian State attack in order in the fourth, fifth, and sixth innings.

Cain did end up running into trouble in the seventh though.

Upon loading up the bases

in the seventh, Cole took the ball from Cain to let Stuart try to navigate out of danger. After getting out of the seventh inning unscathed, Stuart ran into trouble in the ninth. Fortunately for Manhattan, Stuart’s three runs allowed in the ninth were immaterial as he managed to close out the win anyways. The treasured reliever retired four via strikeout while capturing the save over 2.1 innings of work.

Manhattan was fueled by the efforts of Cimillo and Blake in the doubleheader. Cimillo went 5-for-9 with a home run, two runs and two RBIs in both games while Blake went 4-for-8 with a double, three runs and two walks.

Cain’s spectacular performances versus Stetson and Appalachian State earned him back-to-back MAAC pitcher of the week honors. After four seasons at Lafayette, Cain’s acclimation to Riverdale has gone as smoothly as possible. Cole spoke glowingly about the impact his left-handed pitcher has had thus far.

“His fastball is anywhere from 90 to 93 miles per hour,” said Cole of Cain. “And through his first two starts he has commanded the strike zone well for us.”

Cole values the breadth of experience possessed by graduate students which is why he jumped on the opportunity to bring Cain and Blake to Riverdale.

“The reason we try to get fifth year guys is because they understand what playing at this level is all about,” said Cole.

Cole has been pleasantly surprised by the supplemental leadership skills that Blake has brought with him. Cole knew what Blake was capable of doing on the field, but is just as fond of his willingness to help the younger players.

“Shawn has been great for us,” said Cole of Blake, a gradu-

ate student from Elon. “The biggest thing about Shawn has been his leadership coming in and he has taken the younger guys under his wings.”

Cole’s freshmen class consists of 13 individuals who have all hit the ground running fresh off of playing high school ball.

“The freshman have acclimated well,” said Cole. “I think the recruiting class we brought in was ready to pay at this level.”

Cole makes it a priority each year to schedule as many formidable opponents as possible to enhance the program’s status both internally and externally. His scheduling decisions for the 2019 season seemingly reflects the high level of confidence that he has in his players. Outside of Sam Houston State, Virginia Tech, and Stetson, Manhattan’s non-conference schedule includes road games against George Washington, Stony Brook, Fordham, George Mason and Army, with a four-game road trip to the University of Michigan looking like the best test of them all.

“Our goal each year is to schedule tough teams because it helps from a recruiting standpoint and it gets us prepared for conference play,” said Cole.

Until spring weather arrives in New York City, Manhattan will patiently maneuver their non-conference schedule despite the nuisance of having to travel so frequently.

“Being a division one school in the Northeast our guys know what they are in for,” said Cole regarding the inconvenience of their schedule. “We’re not the only team in the Northeast playing on the road every weekend.”

The Jaspers will play their first home game on March 12th at 3 PM when they host New Jersey Institute of Technology at Dutchess Stadium in Wappinger Falls, New York.