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RA Hiring Process Now to Include Rising Sophomores Rose Brennan A&E Editor

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O’Malley School of Business To Offer Real Estate Development Course Maria Thomas & Anna Woods Asst. News Editor & Staff Writer

The O’Malley School of Business is launching its first real estate development course for the Spring 2020 semester, offering both a graduate and undergraduate option for the course.

The course is listed as a special topics course in Finance. The program was developed upon recommendations from Manhattan College alumni.

Dean Donald Gibson of The O’Malley Business School began working on this idea in August of 2018.

“This initiative began based on conversations with Manhattan College alumni who are professionals working in real estate. They reached out

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to me and urged us to develop programming in the area. I did some further investigation and I became convinced that Real Estate is a potentially very promising area for our students to consider,” said Gibson.

Richard Ross, the visiting instructor for Real Estate and Director of External Graduate Programs, will be teaching the class. He is helping to guide the development of the program and helping in alumni outreach.

“The beginning class will center around real estate development, which includes acquiring properties, doing feasibility analysis, forming a development team, constructing the building and managing that process, and property management and asset management,” said Ross.

The course will center around sustainability and affordable housing - two topics that Ross specializes in.

“I have been exposed to sustainable building for many

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years now. It is an integral part of affordable housing here in New York City,” he said.

Ross says it is important to tie sustainability and affordable housing into the course because it aligns with Manhattan College’s values.

“The Lasallian mission of the college is to have a humane approach to everything we do, and to care about people. Affordable housing is a huge problem throughout the United States, particularly in urban centers like New York, San Francisco, Chicago, where there is great wealth, and then there are the individuals who service those wealthy people who also need a place to live,” Ross said.

In addition to affordable housing, sustainable housing is a prevalent issue given the current concerns about how to prevent or diminish climate change. __________________________ CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

The role of a resident assistant (RA) is one of the most sought-after positions at Manhattan College. In addition to the chance to become a student leader, the position is also compensated through free room and board. Now, the coveted position is opening up to more potential applicants.

The Office of Residence Life recently announced that the RA hiring process for the 2020-2021 academic year would be opened to rising sophomores. Previously, the position was restricted to rising juniors and seniors.

Charles Clency, director of Residence Life, had the idea of opening the position to rising sophomores since he was hired to his position.

“It was always my intent to basically expand [the process] to sophomores. I would have done it last year, but I actually wanted to see what it looked like in terms of [what] are common practices,” he said. “In this case, I will tell you … there’s very few campuses around that I’m aware of that only [allow] RA position to be occupied by juniors and seniors. But, then again, that was a Manhattan College thing, historically, here, and I wanted to see … the success rate before I [went] changing it: what the applicant pool would be like and how competitive it would be.”

There were three main reasons why Clency planned to open the position to rising sophomores. The first of these reasons was to make the RA position more competitive.

“It’s really designed for anybody who has a desire to give back and make it part of their academic experience.

And so we’re looking for people who are enthusiastic about being peer mentors, and … more than anything else, I wholeheartedly believe peer mentors can be anyone who’s served and been in this institution, or any institution, to be honest with you, for a year or more,” Clency said.

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The second item on the agenda was to address the pending residency requirement program, which will go into effect next academic year and will require all students not living within a certain radius of the college to live on campus for their first two years as a student.

“It’s kind of unfair to … tell students that they must live on campus but not give them an opportunity to take on a leadership role in the department as well. So expanding this opportunity for them to apply and compete makes all the sense in the world to me,” Clency said.

Finally, Clency believes that opening the application to rising sophomores will present the best opportunity to hire the finest potential employees the college has to offer.

“We want the best, so some of the opportunities for people to be an RA over the years, having only two shots in order to have that happen has probably served as a disadvantage for some people who’ve never really got the opportunity to become an RA, but having three opportunities in their tenure here ... heightens the probability for them to have the opportunity to get … chosen for the position,” he said.

Opening the application to rising sophomores will undoubtedly make the process more competitive, allowing students who apply to vie for one of 50 potential positions.

Furthermore, Clency anticipates there will be a number of current RAs who will return for another year of employment, making the process even more competitive, especially for rising sophomores.

“We are expecting, and we will continue to expect, to have returner RAs come back to us.

So it’s going to be more competitive at the end of the day, and although you can apply, it doesn’t mean that you’re going to get the job. It just means that they have the opportunity for the position, just like any junior or senior would,” Clency said.

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Rose Brennan Arts & Entertainment Editor Managing Editor

Madalyn Johnson Asst. Arts & Entertainment Editor

C. Garrett Keidel Sports Editor

Pete Janny Asst. Sports Editor

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Gourmet Dining Internships Available to MC Students August Kissel Web Editor

Gourmet Dining is an essential piece to the Manhattan College experience. They serve the student body for breakfast, lunch and dinner and even celebrate holidays with us. Gourmet Dining is now expanding their services to include an internship program open to all students who are interested in the world of food service.

“It’s a way for students to get real life experience in the food service and hospitality industry where they can use that experience in whatever their industry of emphasis is … but I feel that being in food service teaches you a lot of life lessons and skills, how to build character, a lot of people say that it’s really important to work and feel at least once in your life because of that. To me, I love it.

I want to give that opportunity to college students to give it a try, and see if they like it,” said Nick Valinotti, Resident District Manager of Gourmet Dining.

The program has three available positions. The first position is a Catering and Event Planning Internship, where the intern will have the opportunity to work directly with catering clients to coordinate the details of their events including but not limited to menu selections, tastings, linen rental, set up and floral design. This student intern should be interested in planning and organizing events, be confident in building relationships and have excel-

lent written and verbal communication skills.

The next position is the Marketing Internship. This role involves research to understand the needs of the target market, planning and brainstorming, promotions and advertising through various platforms, and implementation.

Gourmet Dining is looking for students who are knowledgeable of social media platforms and graphic design programming and encourage prior marketing related experience.

The last available position is Community Wellness Intern, which includes work in areas such as food service operations, nutrient analysis, marketing and promoting of health foods, nutrient education campaigns, menu planning, food safety, planning and implementation of innovation and client relationship skills. The applicant should be enrolled in a nutrition, dietetics or food service related field, along with a GPA above 3.25.

“There’s no real hospitality major here, so anyone is welcome to apply. The Community and Wellness position would be really geared towards science majors that want to become a dietitian or want to go into you know, a PA or other Pre-Med positions like that, having a nutrition background may be beneficial. But outside of that, you know, whoever would like the opportunity is more than welcome to join,” added Valinotti.

“If they have an interest in it, that would be super helpful over just hiring someone just to

hire them so that it could build their resume. It would also help us out too, because it just helps to educate someone who’s also interested, as opposed to not so especially for community and wellness… it’s open to everybody. But you know, the more interest they have in marketing, catering, going into food service, and wellness, then that would be super helpful for us as well,” added Registered Dietitian & Sports Nutritionist Sara De Luca.

The goal of this program is to bridge the gap between Gourmet Dining and the student population on campus.

“I just thought that it would be a really interesting way to enhance the program and make it more of a community, by bridging the gap between the food service in the college and the students. We interact with the students every day upstairs in Locke’s and a lot in Kelly but I thought it’d be nice to have some of the students be part of the team,” said Valinotti.

This program is open to students with junior and senior level credit hour minimums.

The positions are paid $15 an hour and will require about 10 hours a week depending on the position. The job descriptions and applications will be available on Jan. 15 and will close on Feb 1. The application process will be online and there will be interviews on campus to narrow down the selection process.

If you are interested in the position or have any questions, reach out to Nick Valinotti and Sara De Luca.

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one of several students planning to apply to the RA position.

As a commuter student, both the potential to become a student leader and the free room and board are appealing to him.

“When I started my semester, I was searching [for] ways to be able to dorm so I could get the most out of Manhattan College, especially since I was starting to spend a lot of time in extracurricular activities here,” Chavez said in a written statement to The Quadrangle.

“As soon as I found out about the position, I started asking questions to faculty and doing research about the position.”

The idea of becoming more involved in campus life and serving as a student leader are both important to Chavez, and were reasons why he wanted to apply for the RA position.

“I love this college and want to try and be a part of it as much as possible,” Chavez said. “I felt the best way would [be] to dorm here. It is my goal to be in a position where I can help people from all walks of life here.”

While Chavez is excited about beginning the RA application process, the decision to start hiring rising sophomores has not been without criticism.

Timothy Hamling ‘18, an alum-

nus of MC, served as an RA in Horan Hall for one year during his senior year. He questioned some aspects of the new process.

“I’ve definitely heard about other colleges that have sopho-

ten to a sophomore RA? Does a sophomore have enough life experience to understand what juniors and seniors might be going through, and be able to meet those needs?”

Clency said that the idea of

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“Aside from [Chrysostom Hall], all of the dorm halls consist of residents from different grades. Would seniors be willing to listen to a sophomore RA? Does a sophomore have enough life experience to understand what juniors and seniors might be going through, and be able to meet those needs?” said Timothy Hamling.

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more RAs on staff,” Hamling said in an e-mail statement to The Quadrangle. “But I’m not sure how well it’d work at MC. Aside from [Chrysostom Hall], all of the dorm halls consist of residents from different grades.

Would seniors be willing to lis-

a sophomore RA in an upperclassman dorm like Overlook Manor could be possible. However, he had a different way of viewing the situation than Hamling.

“It makes sense that you would get someone who’s a ju-

nior or senior, but that’s not absolutely guaranteed,” he said.

“Again, what we find in my research and practices is that upperclassmen typically are less demanding. They know the campus. So do we necessarily have to have a junior or senior to serve them? I don’t think so.

I do know those who we hired in those communities might have some preferences to have a junior or senior in a place like [Overlook Manor]. I don’t control that. I let my staff kind of choose who their staff is going to be.”

Hamling also had concerns about the time-consuming nature of the RA position, and whether sophomores would be able to handle it in addition to their course workload.

“Though senior year classes certainly are more time-consuming than sophomore year classes, I think that a senior has much better time management and planning skills than a sophomore would,” Hamling said. “The RA position is basically 24-hours, and personally I can’t imagine taking on that responsibility as a sophomore.

However … everyone’s different, so I’m sure there might be a few sophomores that could excel at the position, and those are the kinds of people that would hopefully be hired.”

In addition to the widen-

ing of the applicant pool, the RA hiring process also began much earlier than usual in the academic year. According to Clency, this was done with the potential rising sophomore applicants in mind, as they likely have less campus references than upperclassmen, and can ask people at home for the references required for the application.

“We kind of expanded … to give people ample enough time to really consider going to the information sessions, asking questions of our current RAs about the position so they are as well-informed as possible before applying,” Clency said.

“But also, with those rising sophomores, it allows them to go home to wherever they’re from and ask a previous employer back home, maybe the pastor of their church, someone who knows them on a working level … that can speak to their character and that can serve as a reference.”

The RA application will be open until Friday, Jan. 24 at 4 p.m.

Further information on the impending residency requirement policy will be covered in the next issue of The Quadrangle, which will be released on Tuesday, Dec. 3.

Real Estate Development Program to be Offered by O’Malley School of Business __________________________ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “Sustainability is an issue on everyone’s minds throughout the country, because of global warming and the impact we see of not caring about the environment. So students are as excited about sustainability as we in the administration are, and it’s a part of the whole Environmental Social Governmental (ESG) issues that are taking place in investment and in real estate,” he said.

Ross and Dean Gibson are continuing to work with alumni to strengthen the program.

“Following the outreach from alumni, we formed an “affinity group” of real estate alumni professionals, currently with about 80 people on the list.

We have held two meetings with this group, gathering ad-

vice from them for structuring the program and generating interest in providing student internships. What you find out is that our alumni are very passionate about real estate. They would really like to see this as a strong program at Manhattan College. Currently, we are doing preliminary work to consider a Real Estate Minor at the undergraduate level, and Certificate or Master’s degree at the graduate level,” said Gibson.

Dean Gibson sees the program as interdisciplinary and useful for students across all majors and schools.

“We regard Real Estate as a very useful program for students across campus. In addition to business students, as mentioned, engineering students will likely be interested in a field they can apply their

skills. Students interested in urban planning, communications, and affordable housing and social justice will also find a home here. We are seeking to provide an interdisciplinary Real Estate minor that will be available across campus,” said Gibson.

Ross anticipates the same challenges that anyone would experience when starting a new program at a college: “Will there be enough interest in the student population? Will the class meet the student’s expectations? Will we teach everything they’re looking to learn?

Those are some of the beginning challenges.”

Peter Martino, a senior finance major, will be taking the class next semester.

“Well, I actually found it while searching the course catalog for a finance elective,

but many professors have been plugging it lately. I also met the professor for the course at the Fall Business Dinner,” said Martino.

Martino is excited about the course because he sees it as an opportunity to try something new.

“I’m just really looking forward to learning about an industry that I don’t know much about. I have no experience with real estate or how it works so I’m really excited to learn about all that,” said Martino.

Martino sees the program as a great way for the college to expand the opportunities available to students.

“I honestly think it only has benefits. For as great of a school as MC is, it still doesn’t have quite the same kind of name recognition as other larger schools, which makes it

more difficult for an MC student to get hired at one of the big firms. Educating students about the real estate industry is great because it provides students with information about another potential avenue for their careers that is easier to break into with the potential for a great deal of success,” said Martino.

The program is especially relevant to Manhattan College because of its location.

“The New York real estate market is extremely vibrant and multi-faceted, and there are a variety of potential jobs, including real estate finance, development, construction management, building management, etc.,” said Gibson.

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Senior Receives National Italian American Foundation on Campus Fellowship Christine Nappi Staff Writer

The Italian culture has always played a prominent role in senior, Mary Pizzimenti’s life. From being raised in an Italian household to learning to speak the language at a young age, the Italian culture is who she is. Now, Pizzimenti has the opportunity to spread and further encourage Italian culture at Manhattan College for being the recipient of the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) on Campus Fellowship.

Pizzimenti was granted this fellowship in October, and had the chance to attend NIAF’s 44th annual gala on Nov. 2 to commemorate her achievement. The NIAF on Campus Fellowship awards ItalianAmerican college students the opportunity to fund initiatives at their schools that will enhance Italian heritage on campus. Applicants of the fellowship must identify as Italian-American and be active in Italian programs at their respective campuses. For being one of the most competitive years the program has seen, Pizzimenti is one of 15 college students nationwide to receive this fellowship.

“NIAF offered me a certain amount of money to encourage more Italian programs going on at school and more events for the Italian club, and to have more money being allocated so that people could come to Italian events happening on campus,” Pizzimenti said.

With the fellowship, Pizzimenit hopes to enhance the Italian culture represented at

MC and plans to garner student interest in Italian based events.

Although she finds the culture to be underrepresented on campus, this fellowship gives her the opportunity to change that.

Starting this spring semester, Pizzimenti plans to use her fellowship to encourage events based around Italian fashion and art. She finds fashion to be an interesting topic to integrate with Italian culture because many fashion idols are from Milan. In addition, she finds that the school’s proximity to The Metropolitan Museum of Art is full of opportunities to explore Italian art and opera performances.

“I think students would be more interested in events going on if they saw these events going on,” Pizzimenti said. “If we can encourage more events happening at school, which is what I’m really hoping for, and with the proper marketing and advertising I think a lot of people will show up” In addition to events, Pizzimenti also hopes the Italian language program will expand in the hopes of augmenting the culture’s representation at MC. “I don’t feel that it’s represented very much on campus and in part is the lack of an Italian major,” Pizzimenti said. “I don’t know how many students would apply, but I feel like we’d get more than we think. There’s only a couple kids in the Italian minor and I think that’s really unfortunate.”

Pizzimenti is passionate about increasing Italian culture on campus due to her personal background and relationship with Italian. She describes the

Senior Mary Pizzimenti attends the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) Gala for being awarded the NIAF on Campus Fellowship to enhance Italian culture at MC. MARY PIZZIMENTI/COURTESY culture to be a part of who she is.

“My father is from Calabria in Italy and when he came here to America, he never wanted to forget that Italian side to him,” Pizzimenti said. “My brother and I kept the Italian culture going. We learned about the culture, just really dove into it and it’s my life I can’t imagine

anything different and I love it.”

With Italian consistently playing a role in her life, Pizzimenti will be able to spread her love of the culture to students at MC with her fellowship. Although Italian has always been a part of her life, the fellowship award enabled her to learn more about her culture. She encourages more students to

apply in the hopes of continuing the enhancement of Italian culture on campus.

“I encourage more people to apply,” Pizzimenti said. “I got to go to this gala and conference and I really learned about my roots and more about Italy in general, it was really interesting and fun.”

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DACA Vigil Held in Memorial Hall VOICES ON THE QUAD On Tuesday Nov. 12, students around the country gathered to stand in solidarity to defend DACA. DACA stands for deferred action for childhood arrivals and is currently a pressing issue and debate in politics at the moment. At Manhattan College, students and staff participated in a vigil held in Memorial Hall offering prayers and kind words in support of DACA. Students signed letters to be sent to their local legislators in support of DACA recipients.

Interviews compiled by Maria Thomas and Katie Heneghan, Asst. News Editor & Asst. Features Editor

Annabelle Favalle (Sophomore, Left) Alana Pons (Sophomore, Right)

The Quadrangle: Why should students sign a letter to their administrators in support of DACA? What does defending DACA mean to you?

Alana Pons: I signed the letter because I think it’s important that we all stand in solidarity with the DACA recipients that even go to our school. Also as a Lasallian school, I think it’s also important that we recognize human dignity as one of the key values of our lives and what we bring into the world after we graduate.

Annabelle Favalle: After going on my LOVE trip to the border in El Paso, TX I realized the importance of being educated on these types of issues. I signed the letter because this is an issue that shouldn’t be ignored.

President O’Donnell

The Quadrangle: How does something like defending DACA fit in with Manhattan College’s Lasallian values?

President Brendan O’Donnell: We are always interested in doing what we can to speak up for those who can’t speak up for themselves. Giving the benefit of the doubt to those that are powerless, over those who have power, respectfully and with an open mind, and recognizing that there are circumstances where the law has to be enforced, but in this particular case it seems to me that we need to do a better job figuring out how you handle human being who, through no fault of their own, are in a precarious situation.

TQ: Did you sign a letter to your legislator?

BOD: As president I have signed a number of letters.

There have been a number of efforts to get college and university presidents across the country to sign on to letters in support of DACA recipients and the continuance of the DACA program, so for example, the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, which has about 200 members, I think almost all of them signed the letter.

Samuel Almaras

The Quadrangle: Why do you think it is important for Manhattan College to defend DACA? Samuel Almaras: DACA is a pretty heavy topic now, immigration is the craziest topic now. It is very prevalent, it is very recent, and it is something that is being fought at the moment. Not only that, but the location that we”re in -- being in New York City, it is one of the most immigrant heavy areas, so it is very important for our school, based on the diversity, our demographic, and where we are.

TQ: Did you sign the letter to your legislator?

SA: Yes, I did it because I believe that we can push for a lot of things, but the only people that really can actually do these things are our legislators and the people that represent us, so if we bombard them with letters, maybe they’ll actually be inspired to do something with their lives.

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Sanctus Artem Holds Art Show in Hayden Hall Brian Asare

Photography Editor On Saturday, Nov. 16, the Sanctus Artem family organized an art show which was filled with many different perspectives of what various artists consider as their art form with which they could express themselves in.

The first floor of Hayden was transformed into an art gallery showcasing various types of art ranging from paintings, drawings, poems, photographs to using objects and props to portray some form of deep artistic vision, this year’s art exhibition had it all.

The art show took place together with a coffee house this year as well. This allowed people with more of a performance type of artistic talent to express themselves in the way they saw fit to get their art across to viewers and there was also coffee and donuts for all who visited.

Most of the participants submitted some form of art to their art they consider as their best art which was then look through and picked by a panel of people within the Sanctus Artem which consisted of copresidents Mariajose Blas-Perez, a junior finance major with a

Spanish minor, and Ryan Askin a senior secondary education and English major.

“Sanctus Artem has been around for the past three to four years, so this is its fourth year. It was originally started to inspire art around campus for all people who do art so it’s not just like visual art, it’s literary and performance art as well,” Askin said.

Askin briefly touched on the theme of the 2019 art show, which was “Revitalize.”

“Our theme is revitalizing so this year has focused more on environmentalism and changing the way things were into something new. So like upcycling and recycling,” he said.

Blas-Perez was enthusiastic about the numerous and wide-ranging submissions Sanctus Artem received this year.

“I think this year we have had more student involvement and we definitely had a wider variety of art ,which is something I like striving for. A lot of people will think about art just being paintings drawings but we have digital art, we have videos, we have sketches, we are including coffee houses here, so we have performances. So it’s really a wide range of art,” Blas-Perez said.

Fatoumata Saho, a junior marketing major with a man-

agement minor ,submitted some of her art and this year’s art exhibition and loved it completely.

“The pictures and the drawings show there are so many talented people, and I did not expect that. I expected drawing and everything, but I did not expect this much great drawings and great minds, great pictures,” she said.

Overall, this year’s event was a very successful one which did an excellent job in involving a majority of the creative minds that exist within the Manhattan College community.

For the students that did not hear about this year’s event or felt like their art was not good enough, Blas-Perez had a few words of wisdom.

“Submit any piece or all [your] pieces, because a lot of time it will be like people will come up to us and say, ‘I have these five pieces and I don’t know which one to pick.’ Just bring it in and we will pick it out for you and some instances we will even put all the pieces up or if they are even shy about putting it up we offer smaller sizes.

If it is like a digital drawing we could have it be smaller so it does not get that much attention if you don’t want that attention. We encourage it because it’s all about supporting each other,” she said.

Select pieces of student artwork from the 2019 Sanctus Artem show.

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LWGRC Spotlights Student Artwork The Lasallian Women and Gender Resource Center (LWGRC) has been siding with students since the day it arrived on campus. The center is home to many student-run initiatives and is an active partner of several student clubs on campus.

However, the advocacy of the LWGRC takes more than one form. In addition to student-run initiatives, the Center is also home to many pieces of student artwork. Whether made at an art workshop or individually donated to the center, the pieces both decorate the center and communicate its mission.

Below, two students who have their art displayed in the Center discuss their motivations in creating their pieces, as well as what they hope students will take away from the pieces after viewing them.

Interviews compiled by Rose Brennan, A&E Editor

“Work Title” Medium Painted by Keishla Monahan, Class of 2021 “Since the piece was going to LWGRC I wanted to center it around their message of women’s empowerment … What I hope people take from this piece is a sense of unity as well as positivity.”

“Eternity,” 2018 Wtaercolor on watercolor paper Painted by Ahjane Butler, Class of 2021 “I was really interested in the female form but I wanted to make the piece less realistic (because of my skill. I also really love the idea of unifying the body and nature … I want the viewer to feel a connection to their own self and self-love. I would at least want them to feel inspired to trust [and] embrace their flaws and accept their true selves in whatever way makes them most happy.”

“Natural Women” to Perform Carole King’s “Tapestry” in Spring Semester Album Class Alexa Schmidt Features Editor

Andy Bauer, the director of Performing Arts, is running the fourth consecutive album class in the spring semester.

The album class focuses and studies a particular album throughout the semester, and their final exam includes performing for the student body at the end of the semester. The album of choice is Carole King’s “Tapestry.”

Bauer had specific reasons in mind for choosing this particular album, taking into account that the music of Carole King has become much more prominent in recent years because of the show “Beautiful” on Broadway.

“Another factor that came into play is that the first two classes we did were “Abbey Road” and “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” which were really very maleoriented in terms of the vocals. And so I have all these very talented girls here and

they seem to signal that an album like “Tapestry,” would be something that they would really like to do. And I just sort of leaned in the direction of doing tapestry last year but we did the original album class last year. So, it just kind of naturally fell into place,” Bauer said.

Junior Alliso Powers is taking the class for the first time, and will be playing guitar and providing background vocals.

Powers joined the class because she knew her friends were taking the class, and wanted to expand her horizons as an instrumentalist and vocalist.

“I don’t really know much about Carole King, but I’m really excited that Andy chose an album that was written and recorded by a female artists.

I know in the past Andy has picked Beatles albums and as iconic the Beatles are, I’m really excited that we’re going to do an album that’s by a woman.

As for the album specifically, I know a few songs on Tapestry and I’m really excited to learn more about Carol’s vision when the class begins,” Powers said.

Senior Audrey Sabatino has never taken the class before, but hopes to bring her vocal talents to the class. In addition to being a Performing Arts scholar, Sabatino is a music minor.

“First off, I think the whole concept of the album class is so cool and unique. I’ve never heard of a class like this before at other schools. I’ve gone to all of the other album class performances and always knew I wanted to take part in one before I graduated,” Sabatino said.

In addition to weekly class, the participants have rehearsals and other meetings outside of the required time.

“This class will require a lot of work outside of when the class meets, but I’m ready and excited for it. Learning new music has actually always been a way in which I relieve stress.

That isn’t to say the class won’t be stressful, but rather that I’m excited to take on the challenge,” Sabatino said.

Bauer noted that the album class is starting to “take root as an established class here at the college and it’s kind of some-

thing that’s now expected to happen.” This coming semester will have fifteen performers, which will be the largest class Bauer will have taught.

Although smaller classes are ideal, Bauer is excited to work with the students on analyzing “Tapestry.”

“The whole concept of analyzing a piece, and then applying the knowledge that you gain from your analysis to a performance is really a unique thing. I mean there’s a lot of classes where you analyze stuff and you sit in the classroom and you talk about it, but then when you actually do the music that you’re talking about, I think that’s really cool and really amazing. And I think there couldn’t be a better understanding on the part of the students doing it any other way. So that’s that’s really what the innovative factor is, you know, classes that we actually perform the music that we study,” Bauer said.

He continued.

“And it also brings in a lot of people who would not necessarily play music together because they have a common goal, the love for the particular

album we’re doing or maybe they just have to take a class to satisfy the requirements. So we always have an interesting chemistry that sort of comes out of the out of the class, and a lot of great memories in the class,” he said.

Powers and Sabatino look forward to building relationships and discovering more about themselves and others.

“I’m really excited to learn more about myself as an artist and Carole as an artist. And I’m also really excited to get to know others in the class I don’t know too well and even the friends that I do have in the class I’m excited to learn more about their musical ability and their musicianship,” Powers said.

“The coming semester is my last one at Manhattan College, which is of course bittersweet. But from the class itself, I’m really looking forward to seeing how this class helps me grow as a musician, as corny as it sounds. Also, I can’t wait to work with such an incredibly talented group of people,” Sabatino added.

Sports

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THE QUADRANGLE

Men’s Basketball Opens Season With Two Home Wins MBB: MANHATTAN 85, DELAWARE STATE 74 MBB: MANHATTAN 57, ALBANY 51 Pete Janny & Nicole Fitzsimmons

Sports Editor & Staff Writer

For the first time since losing to Canisius in the quarterfinals of the MAAC Tournament last March, the Manhattan College men’s basketball team returned to the hardwood last Tuesday night at Draddy Gymnasium for a meeting with the Delaware State Hornets. The team then played their second game of the season on Saturday night when they hosted the University of Albany Great Danes for a good early-season test.

On Tuesday night, Manhattan played like an entirely different team compared to what they showcased last year. Up against Delaware State of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, the Jaspers fed off the energy of an electric Draddy crowd on their way to posting a 85-74 victory in a game in which they never trailed.

Before you could even blink, the Jaspers held an impressive 13-0 lead in this game thanks to some early offensive success. The scoring started when senior Pauly Paulicapp threw down an alley-oop feed from sophomore Elijah Buchanan sixteen seconds in.

Paulicapp, who played in just 10 games last season due to injury, set the tone for the night with that slam. The scoring continued with Buchanan nailing his first shot at the 19:02 mark for two of his 12 points on the half. Then, sophomore point guard Samir Stewart got in on the fun by nailing a threepointer to make the score 7-0.

The final six points of the scoring run came from three made free throws from sophomore Tykei Greene and a three-point play from Buchanan on a drive to the hoop following a Manhattan steal.

“I thought we did a good job of playing sound basketball and were just selfless,” head coach Steve Masiello said regarding his team’s hot start.

Just like the Manhattan fans, Masiello is also excited about Buchanan’s potential.

“He’s one of the more gifted scorers we have on our team and for him offense comes so easily,” Masiello said about Buchanan’s abilities.

Now down by 13, Delaware State needed to find ways to ex-

ecute.

The Hornets proceeded to get their first basket of the night at the 16:49 mark when sophomore John Stansbury completed an old-fashioned three-point play off a drive to the hoop. The Hornets then scored again 35 seconds later off a mid-range shot by Ameer Bennett to cut Manhattan’s lead to eight at 135. Buchanan then quelled the visitors’ brief scoring run with a mid-range make at 15:55 that pushed Manhattan’s lead back to double-digits.

The next few minutes proved just how critical Manhattan’s fast start was as Delaware State progressively fought their way back into the game. After a sluggish five-minute stretch from Manhattan, a made free throw by Delaware State’s Pinky Wiley brought his team to within five at 19-14 with 10:51 remaining in the half.

In need of a spark, Manhattan sophomore Christian Hinckson stepped up for his team.

After contributing a vicious block on the defensive end, Hinckson came down the court to bury a straightaway threepointer at 9:08 that pushed the Jaspers’ lead to eight at 26-18.

After averaging a modest 3.6 points-per-game last season, Hinckson seems to have added a three-point stroke to his skillset in the offseason after posing no threat from downtown last season.

Delaware State would cut into the Manhattan lead again, this time getting within four at 26-22 when Lance Singh connected on a jump shot at the 8:03 mark. Fortunately, Ethan Lasko stepped up for Manhattan by nailing his first of three three-pointers to give Manhattan breathing room at 29-22.

The ensuing couple of minutes were characterized by Delaware State getting to the line with regularity, making five free throws on six attempts to help get the deficit back to four at 33-29 with 4:13 left.

With their lead starting to shrink, the Jaspers received big boosts from Hinckson and Buchanan over the final three and a half minutes of the half.

After Hinckson hit two free throws to make the score 35-29, Buchanan supplied his second three-point play of the half on a drive in which he absorbed contact and found a way to finish.

30 seconds later, Buchanan was on the move again, responding to a Delaware State three with another driving layup that put

Manhattan up 40-32. The final minute of the half featured a made free throw by freshman center Adam Cisse and another three from Hinckson that gave Manhattan a 44-35 lead at the half.

After exchanging buckets over the opening few possessions of the second half, a layup by Pinky at the 18:05 mark brought the visitors to within five at 48-43. However, just like the previous comeback attempts by Delaware State, Manhattan managed to stave this one off thanks to another timely shot. It was Stewart doing the honors this time for Manhattan with a corner three-pointer that increased his team’s lead to eight at 51-43.

Looking to bury the Hornets, Manhattan unleashed Ethan Lasko and his underdog mentality.

Up 52-45, Lasko rewarded Masiello for the trust placed in him by nailing back-to-back three-pointers that give Manhattan their largest lead of the game since being up 13-0. For a player that saw limited action last season, it was special to see the former walk-on at Indiana University prove his worth to the team by hitting both those shots. Lasko finished with a career-high nine points on 3-for-3 shooting from deep.

Manhattan cruised the rest of the way with their lead ballooning to as high as 18 when junior Nehemiah Mack dribbled the length of the court and converted his layup despite being fouled. His ensuing freethrow made the score 70-53.

The closest Delaware State would get again was nine after a layup by Stansbury with 33 seconds left. When it was all said and done, the scoreline read 85-74 in favor of Manhattan.

Paulicap, Stewart, Hinckson, Greene, and Buchanan were the five players to score in double digits for Manhattan. Greene led the way with 15 points. Buchanan was second in scoring with 12 points, while Paulicap, Stewart, and Hinckson all chipped in 10 apiece.

The Jaspers ended the night 8-for-33 from three, but were 29-for-37 from the line.

Saturday night’s performance was impressive too as Manhattan pulled out a scrappy 57-51 win over Albany to improve to 2-0 on the season for the second time in the last three seasons. Contrary to the Delaware State game, this contest posed a greater challenge for Manhattan against an Alba-

ny program that is competitive every year.

The opening minutes of the game were a struggle for both teams with neither able to get into an offensive rhythm. Without the contributions of senior forward Romani Hansen, Albany would’ve likely dug themselves in an early hole.

Romani fueled the Albany offense in the opening stages, scoring his team’s first seven points to help them jump out to an early 7-4 lead by the 15:45 mark. After a time-out, things got worse for Manhattan with Albany pouring in eight more unanswered points to go up 15-4. Whereas Albany already had three three-pointers by the next time-out at 11:34, Manhattan was 0-for-6 from three to open the game. Instead of lettings things get ugly, Manhattan was able to respond with five straight points by virtue of two made free throws from Hinckson and a three by Stewart from the left side to make the score 15-9.

As the first half progressed, Manhattan remained right on Albany’s tail.

In a rut from beyond the arc, Manhattan senior Tyler Reynolds finally got one to go from three at the 4:21 mark of the first half that cut his team’s deficit to four at 22-18. Manhattan’s resilience was on display yet again two minutes later when a Tykei Greene three moved Manhattan to within three at 26-23. Unfortunately, Manhattan would take their foot of the gas over the final two minutes of the half with Albany mustering five unanswered to make the score 31-23 at halftime.

In need of some halftime adjustments, Manhattan probably took notice of their 3-for-13 shooting from deep in the first half because the team only took seven in the second half.

Panic started to set in just seventeen seconds into the half when Albany sharpshooter Cameron Healy drilled a three to make the lead as high as eleven for the second time.

Luckily, Manhattan would retaliate with a furious 10-0 run that injected some life into Draddy Gymnasium.

During this run, Manhattan did all of their damage from inside. Paulicap started it off with a strong finish down low at 19:21 before adding one from the line at 17:21 after a two-minute scoreless stretch from both teams. 30 seconds later, Buchanan re-emerged

with a fancy finish off a coastto-coast drive to the hoop that cut the deficit to six at 34-28.

Buchanan’s heroics continued when the sophomore proceeded to knock down a step-back jumper and then added one from the line to make it a one possession game. The run culminated with what was arguably the best highlight of the night when Paulicap started the fast break and fed Greene for a pretty reverse layup at 14:01 that brought Manhattan to within one at 34-33.

With strong crowd support behind them, Manhattan’s exciting play would continue thanks in large part to Stewart.

After falling down six again at 41-35, Manhattan responded with a 6-0 run in which freshman Adam Cisse tipped back a miss for his first career basket followed by two three-pointers from Stewart that tied the score at 41. Manhattan then used this newfound momentum to take their first lead of the game at 46-43 when Greene buried his second three of the night at the 6:10 mark.

After relinquishing this lead, Manhattan soon regained it thanks to the inspired play of Greene.

First, a missed layup by Buchanan led to an easy putback for Greene at 3:11 before Greene swiped the lead back with a free throw at 2:32 to make the score 50-49. Two more lead changes would follow with Antonio Rizzuto putting the Great Danes back up by one before a Paulicap layup with 1:22 remaining made the score 52-41 in favor of Manhattan. In need of one final blow, Manhattan turned to Greene again who delivered an oldfashioned three-point play with 47 seconds left that helped seal the Manhattan win.

Greene led the way with 17 points and nine rebounds followed by 14 points from Stewart on 3-of-7 shooting from deep. Paulicap chipped in eight points and nine rebounds, while Buchanan added nine points and eight rebounds.

“I’m really proud of our guys,” Masiello said following the win over Albany. “I thought they were extremely resilient tonight coming back from two double-digit deficits by showing a lot of character.”

Manhattan is now set to embark on a six-game road trip with the team not returning to Draddy until a meeting with Western Michigan on Saturday, December 14th at 7 PM.