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Volume CI, Issue 3
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NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 4, 2020
Veteran’s Center Reopens After November Flood Gabriella DePinho Editor-in-Chief
Trouble Outside Local Bar
Last call did not mark the end of shots for Fenwick’s bar early Saturday morning when a shooting left one wounded just outside its doors. GABRIELLA DEPINHO/ THE QUADRANGLE
Shooting Outside Fenwick’s Leaves One Injured Gabriella DePinho Editor-in-Chief
Students received an MC Jasper 911 alert informing the student body of a shooting near campus at 6:04 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 1. A second alert followed, at 6:25 a.m. informing students that the shooting occurred on West 238 Street in front of Fenwick’s Bar and Grill. Fenwick’s is located across the street from campus dorm, Overlook Manor, and is located
between student-frequented Goodfella’s Pizza and Jasper’s Deli. The bar is notably a popular location for Manhattan College students on weekend evenings, but the third and final alert, which came in at 7:54 a.m., notified students that there were no MC students involved in the incident which was over and being handled by the NYPD. According to a report produced by Channel 12 News on Saturday and online first story by The Riverdale Press, shots were fired shortly after 5 a.m.
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Both reports also state that the police confirmed the nineteen year old victim was shot in the stomach and taken to St. Barnabas Medical Center. New York Crime Stoppers (@NYPDTips) tweeted security footage of two young men who are considered suspects in the case and are still at large. Those with information about the case are asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers hotline at (800) 577-8477or submit tips via NYPDCrimeStoppers. com or through the Twitter account.
Manhattan College’s veteran population celebrated Veteran’s Day in a variety of ways. Some marched in New York City’s parade, some were at the veteran’s gallery held in the Flatiron Building, and others were saving furniture from two inches of standing water. On Nov. 11, a cold water intake pipe leading to Thomas Hall’s second floor men’s bathroom burst and flooded the Veteran’s Success Center. The center finally reopened on Jan. 22. “Thankfully, the half of us that were up here were in the room. It was kind of the end of the day, maybe four or five o’clock, and all of a sudden water started coming in through the bottom of the floor,” said Tiana Sloan, the director of the veterans success program. “We were pretty calm when it first started because there were 14 of us in here. Then everything on the floor starts soaking wet and we started taking everything out of here as fast as we could,” said Michael Grigware, a student veteran majoring in mechanical engineering. While some moved furniture into Café 1853, a few took the time to reach out to Public Safety and Physical Plant. They were able to shut off water to the building, but only after the entire center had flooded and water pooled out into the hallway and started creeping towards Café 1853. The students in the room did not even realize the room was flooding at first. “At first we thought it was the TV because it was kind of like a static noise. But then it kept going when the TV was off. Then we saw a puddle start creeping out and then we opened up that [wall] and we just see the pipe burst,” said Grigware. While the students were
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able to salvage what was in the center, the veteran population still found themselves without a home base on campus. “So from that point on, we had to close the room because there had been a few inches of water in there. And we were kind of temporarily just having to move into temporary rooms around campus. So every single day, we were moving from room to room around campus, which worked well until about finals which then you can’t get rooms,” said Sloan. “The Kelly Commons was the first choice because that is more centrally located. I would say about a third of our student veterans, take classes or even probably up to 40 percent of our student veterans take classes on the south campus. So I generally as much as I could get space in the Kelly Commons that was it,” she said. The center serves as both a social and a study space for the veterans. In its primary location, the center has laptops that the veterans have access to whenever they need them. Moving around made keeping the laptops secure very difficult so access to them was difficult to coordinate. Additionally, with the frequent space changes, the veterans often did not know where they could go. “[It was] very inconvenient, lots of last second changes. We ordered coffee to it on a regular basis and cookies to it but sometimes there were scheduling conflicts with the exams and the room we were supposed to be in we would be in there studying have to get evicted for an exam, or stuff would have to change last second for other people,” said Jamie Foley, the president of the Student Veterans Organization. Finally, at the beginning of the winter intersession, the Veterans Success Center was given a fixed temporary loca__________________________ CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
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