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Public Safety responds to trending student plights By Leo Brine STA FF WRITER
Robert Kinnard/ Hofstra Chronicle Public Safety officer John Marcantinio speaks to audience members as his colleagues look on. The panel offered Hofstra community members an opportunity to engage in a dialogue with Public Safety officials and express general growing safety concerns.
2018 yearbook falls by the wayside By Andrea Bilton STAFF W R I T E R
Due to its lack of membership, as well as its neglecting to submit a budget or update its GetInvolvedHU page, the formerly robust Nexus club, formerly in charge of yearbook production, has now lost official recognition as a Hofstra-affiliated organization.
“Unfortunately, there is no chance of a yearbook this year,” said Student Government Association (SGA) Sen. Brandon Crofts. “In the past, SGA signs a contract with an outside company before the start of the fall semester. Given that no one was interested in being a part of Nexus’ leadership, SGA decided not to pursue a contract this year.”
Jill Leavey/ Hofstra Chronicle An annual tradition at Hofstra ends with the termination of Nexus Yearbooks.
In regard to the club’s dismantling, Crofts alluded to the idea that as the popularity of the yearbook dwindled, so did the motivation of the club. “SGA has had extra copies of the yearbook for the past few years, even though they were at no cost to the graduating seniors. The yearbook is a student-based initiative; therefore, if students are interested in making a yearbook, then students need to take the lead on the project,” Crofts said. “There are a handful of students involved trying to get the word out, but we are still short and are working on getting the word out,” said senior film studies and production major Wendy Markert, who is one of the students attempting to restart the Nexus club. “Ideally, we would need a team of hardworking students who care about the
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Concerns over insufficient suicide prevention training, uncertain active shooter protocol, inefficient medical assistance and limited LGBTQ+ friendly procedures were some of the many issues raised by students to Public Safety (PS) staff members during the event hosted by the Student Government Association (SGA) titled “Public Safety Hears You.” The event, held on Wednesday, Feb. 29, was organized and moderated by SGA members Carissa Ramirez, a junior public policy and political science major, and Deandra Denton, a sophomore public policy and sociology major. “We want to give everyone a voice,” Denton said. “That’s the whole premise of this event – to give people a voice and have a dialogue.” The event lasted around 90 minutes and covered a range of topics that were prompted by questions asked either in person, via write-in cards or anonymously. One person asked, “How are
PS officers trained to interact with students in the LGBTQ+ community? What actions are being taken to ensure students’ preferred pronouns and gender identities are being respected?” Officer Ed Hagenmiller answered the question by first acknowledging that the subject is new to PS and that for the last two years officers have been receiving in-service training semi-annually. This training goes over changes in “different pronouns and the way we treat different students,” Hagenmiller said. “We are sensitive and we are trying to make everybody feel comfortable and that is backed up by the training that we get.” PS Officer Dave Edouard said that in a medical emergency, the name on the student’s driver’s license is what they are required to go by. “[When] you go to the hospital, that’s what they’re going to call you. They are not Continued on A2
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University vows to amend safety protocol Continued from A1 going to call you by the name that you want them to call you,” Edouard said. Director of PS Karen O’Callaghan said that this is new and that they are working on it but, “It’s going to take a little time.” Transportation to hospitals was another issue brought up on Wednesday. Sophomore bioengineering major Zain Farooqui asked, “What is [Public Safety] doing to help students in need of emergency medical services and transportation to the hospital if necessary?” O’Callaghan said that all officers are certified first responders. She continued, “If someone needs emergent care and needs more than we can do in basic first aid and needs to be treated at a hospital, [they should know that] we are not medical transport. We are not equipped to do medical transport.” O’Callaghan said that if a student needs medical transportation, then they will have to go in an ambulance. “Our duty is to the campus and we can’t keep taking our vehicles off campus for [a] prescription or to go for follow-up visits,” O’Callaghan said. “In most cases students will be responsible for finding transportation in followup visits ... Maybe make sure you guys have an Uber account so you can get somewhere.” The night shuttle was brought up a number of times at the event. Junior women’s studies and journalism major Kat Smith wanted to know why the night shuttle route was structured the way it was. Smith said that they think the shuttle should do more direct pickups and drop-offs. “Why does the night shuttle only come to certain corners and then have you wait at those locations? I was walking home and I was mugged and that wouldn’t have happened if the night shuttle was able to pick me up [from my original location].” O’Callaghan said that the route was created a couple of years ago based on where the majority of off-campus students lived; however, PS would be willing to sit
down and see if there should be a new route that caters to where students now live. Other safety concerns voiced by students adressed on-campus issues. After the recent shooting at Marjory Stoneman Doug-
las High School in Parkland, Florida, many students were concerned over what to do if there is an active shooter on campus. O’Callaghan stated that students are taught at orientation what to do, that they have informational pamphlets and that they are working on a video for the website that goes along with the run, hide, fight philosophy. Freshman journalism major Rob Kinard said, “I’m a freshman and I just recently attended [orientation] and I remember no such discussion. There could ... be something more that you could do for us students when it
comes to telling us what to do if that were to happen.” O’Callaghan told the audience that PS realizes that they need to get it out there again. She then addressed the notion that there was no discussion at orientation
about active shooter safety. “Sometimes it’s missed, sometimes it’s not as extensive as we would like it to be. We will try to put something online because it’s hard to get to all students.” Questions about PS’ role in assisting students who are suffering from mental issues were brought up by some students. “My question was really more [about] students who are mentally ill and potentially volatile. What protocol is in place to ensure that these students are not harmed in their interactions with Psafe, even if they lash out?” “Our goal is to keep everyone
safe,” O’Callaghan said before explaining that PS may have to take action to restrain a student with a mental illness if they pose a threat. “The key is to identify those students who might need help.” An anonymous student wrote, “Last semester, I attempted suicide and it seems like there wasn’t a protocol in place because it was so unorganized. I had an officer next to me looking awkward and telling me life is beautiful and it didn’t help the situation. What are you doing to better train officers for these types of situations?” O’Callaghan explained that PS officers work with the Student Health and Counseling Center to receive their training. She also made it clear that it is not PS’ job to deal with that student’s mental illnesses. “Our officers are really just a conduit to helping that student, keeping that student calm until we can get them to the trained professionals,” O’Callaghan said. “In terms of training, actually, Dr. Guthman from counseling services did an extensive training with the officers this year,” O’Callaghan said. “We do have training in the area of handling students in crises and we work very closely with the counseling center because one of the key things Hofstra has is the ability to have a counselor on call 24/7. If that student who asked that question would prefer to contact me and give more specifics, [then] I would appreciate it so [that] I can work with Dr. Guthman to see how we can improve our training in that area.” Assistant Director of Compliance Lynda O’Malley said, “From a humanistic standpoint, many of our Public Safety officers have expressed that they are parents and I think that they genuinely care about the welfare of students … But there is a tremendous amount of training that goes into what we do, and [we] work collaboratively with residential programs because Residence Life [has] to make sure [as well] that we can help when a student is in crisis: morning, noon or night.”
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Young activists define true intersectionality
By Katie Krahulik
Montes, both journalism majors, the event was a real eye-opener as to how to be a better ally to marginalized intersectional groups. “Their goal is to unify the liberal front by making sure that no minority groups are
excluded from the narrative so that they can better rise above the opposition and make their voices heard,” Stork said. Montes said, “What surprised me the most is how much of a separation there is [between] the black and LGBT community at these marches and within these organizations.” Kristen Misak, a graduate assistant for the Center for Civic Engagement and the co-coordinator for the event, emphasized the importance of a discussion about intersectionality specifically at Hofstra. “While we do have a very diverse student body at Hofstra and we do have students that are really interested in activism. Sometimes they have trouble, I think, blurring the lines between different groups of students,”
Misak said. Another point discussed by the panel was the disconnect between the term “intersectionality” and its users. Senior women’s studies major Tess Griffin explained that negligence of the term actually makes things worse for minorities. “When we say intersectionality is used carelessly by people who aren’t of color and don’t understand what it means, what this actually does is [minimize] the role that racism plays in the struggle of minorities,” she said. This is why the panelists encourage people to get educated and to remain courteous of the movement. Not only is this the right thing to do, explained panelist Maria Zaldivar, but it also allows for more appropriate activism. The junior women’s studies and journalism major said, “It is important to be aware of intersectionality ... and [to check] yourself constantly in order to apply it to your own advocacy.”
into a working paper that is then typed up and debated again. “You’re going in to set a Hofstra’s Model United problem and you have to stay in Nations club joined forces your country’s role,” Miranda with Model U.N. high school Maliszka, a freshman environstudents to discuss important mental resources major, said. global issues and find mock “Your general goal is to write a resolutions to real topics during resolution for your topic.” a three-day conference held Throughout the event, stuin C.V. Starr Hall this past dents revise their original papers weekend. The conference was as they add and omit portions modeled similarly to the way during an amendment process in which all countries can offer their suggestions for alterations. Maliszka served as a member of the dais, the moderators and directors of the discussion. The conference began with an opening ceremony on Friday, March 2. It featured Colum Lynch, Melanie Haid/ Hofstra Chronicle Foreign Policy magazine’s Pictured are delegates from the SOCHUM committee voting on an amendment to the huaward-winning man trafficking working papers.
U.N.-based senior diplomatic reporter. Hofstra’s Model U.N. students ran the event, serving as chairs and dais. “We’re the staff of the whole thing. We have a couple of professors going around, but it’s mostly our doing,” said Joseph Tyrie, a freshman business economics major. “I’m a dais myself, so I’m keeping time and taking notes and things of that nature.” The high school Model U.N. delegates sat on committees including Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee (SOCHUM), which discussed human trafficking and women’s rights in the Middle East; Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN), which went over climate change in terms of economic issues; and crisis committees for World War I and the Syrian war. “They’re so smart,” said Alexa Osner, a freshman public policy and public service major, who was a chair in the SOCHUM committee. “It’s a beginner conference, so though they don’t know the whole scope of what the U.N. could
do, they do have a great grasp of it – I mean, they’re discussing solutions to human trafficking.” Along with problem solving, both Model U.N. groups gained experience about how global politics cooperate and resolve pressing issues. Maliszka said it gave her “a new perspective”, and that the weekend was a learning experience for everyone involved. The conference concluded on Sunday with a closing ceremony, and most Model U.N. members agreed that while the event was long, it was beneficial. Osner was excited to be a chair for the committee, and went on to say that it was great to bring global issues to Hofstra’s campus. “It’s my first year doing this,” she said. “It’s really cool to get that learning curve and observe.” Even though it is essentially “roleplay for the U.N.,” according to Maliszka, it is very important for young people to be aware of what is going on not only outside of their own countries but also how other countries handle different situations.
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Intersectionality, a term widely used but misunderstood by many, was the focus of a student roundtable held on Wednesday, Feb. 28, as part of Hofstra’s Civil Rights Day 2018 celebration. “Intersectionality is the idea that something that you identify with could marginalize and overlap,” Panelist Jacinda Wadhwani, a senior psychology and religion major, said. “I can’t choose between being black and being a woman. I am both at the same time, so therefore my fight or anyone who is fighting for anything that I identify with have to overlap, whether you agree with it or not.” The term was coined by civil rights advocate and leading scholar for critical race theory Kimberlé Crenshaw, whose TED Talk was featured at the start of the event hosted by the Center for Civic Engagement last week.
Wadhwani discussed the major relationship between intersectionality and activism throughout the event. The women’s movement is a perfect example of how activism failed in the context of intersectionality, according to Ja’Loni Owens, a junior public policy and public service major. “Feminism and the entire movement for women’s liberation has historically excluded women of color, so a lot of women of color have just not been invested in it until its third wave,” they said. Those exclusive foundations continue to impact movements today and can be seen in contemporary initiatives, according to first year history major Rosario Navalta.
They said, “The problem with that movement is that the women’s march used to be a march for race. It was specifically that. White women took that and then excluded women of color and people of color from the narrative.” For students like freshman Odessa Stork and junior Jocelin
“I can’t choose between being black and being a woman. I am both at the same time...”
Hofstra’s Model U.N. opens the floor to high schoolers
By Melanie Haid
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in which the U.N. is run and participants discussed multiple social and environmental problems. Model U.N. is essentially an organization in which participants take the role of a certain country’s delegation and are presented with a relevant global issue that pertains to a specific country or the world. Committees discuss a solution to the dilemma in depth, which goes
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Nexus hopes for comeback Continued from a1 yearbook to bring this club back to life and help it thrive.” “Personally, it really doesn’t bother me that we won’t be getting a yearbook,” said senior business economics major Andie Hochenberger. “I probably would’ve flipped through it once and then stuck it on a shelf somewhere.” Though many students like Hochenberger are indifferent to SGA’s decision, some are disappointed that they will not have the opportunity to own a yearbook to commemorate their graduation year. “While yearbooks may not be popular, I think it’s unfortunate that one is not even being printed. Graduating seniors should have the option to purchase memorabilia to reflect back on their college years in the future if they wish,” said senior community health major Annalisa Piccolo. “I’ve always loved year-
books,” Markert said. “I really like being able to flip through the pages and look back at a collection of pictures of things that went on. I’m sure there are students and parents that looked forward to the yearbook like I did, and they will be disap-
club if they want the possibility of seeing a hardcover Nexus ever again. “I’ve been trying to reach out to the Hofstra student body to garner interest in making a yearbook,” Crofts said. “We would love to connect individuals who want to restart a yearbook club, so that they can reapply for OSLE and SGA recognition. Once this is achieved, they can request money in a budget proposal and continue to function as an active club. Alternatively, other yearbook options can be looked into, while asking our students if a yearbook is something they would still be interested in having.”
“We would love to connect individuals who want to restart a yearbook club.” pointed when they hear that there will be no yearbook this year and possibly in future years without the Nexus club.” Though there is no chance for a “Nexus 2018” to be published this year, Markert mentioned that an online version of the book will potentially be created by the university. As for the next graduating class, students will have to step up to the plate and take on the challenge of leading a
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‘Shark Tank’ contestant gives entrepreneurial advice By Nicole Boucher STAFF W R I T E R
“Shark Tank” contestant Howie Busch, founder of a patented invention called DudeRobe, shared his experience and perspective last week with Hofstra students, faculty and community members about entrepreneurship. Busch was invited to speak in the IdeaHub on Wednesday, Feb. 28, by Professor Claudia Cafarelli as part of the Zarb Executive Speaker Series. Busch, a Roslyn, NY, native, is best known for creating the DudeRobe: a bathrobe styled like a sweatshirt, meant to be more appealing to men than normal robe styles. The product was presented during an episode of ABC’s “Shark Tank” that aired in midJanuary, just about seven months after Busch’s initial DudeRobe Kickstarter launched. Busch says that it was social media that played a big role in spreading the word about his new product even before his episode aired.
“Facebook is the killer app of pinpoint marketing,” Busch said. “Say I want 25-to-35-year-old guys, who make over $75,000 and live in New York. You can really get as specific as you want.” Though the invention and production of DudeRobe played an important role in the presentation, Busch also spoke about a lot of other ideas he has had and jobs he has held since graduating from the University of Michigan. Busch has dabbled in many areas of business. He was once a sports agent, he helped the founder of Under Armour when the company was just starting out and he invented a small hand pillow meant to be used while traveling. “It was really interesting to see someone who had those experiences and then he shared them with us,” said Margarita Volchkova, a junior international business major. “I was like, oh, someone from ‘Shark Tank,’ someone who’s famous ... I [have to] go and see. I was looking him
up and looking at all the products ... I was really interested to meet him.” Not every idea Busch has patented or licensed has been successful or turned out as expected. He says that he is not a handy person, so most of his ideas need to be produced and manufacPhoto Courtesy of Disney ABC Press tured by people with the capabil- Howie Busch presented his product, DudeRobe, on the latest season of ABC’s “Shark Tank.” ity to bring his ideas to life. This “The key was to execute on different companies. means that his ideas sometimes the ideas, strive to make valuable “I’m jealous of you guys, I’ll get changed around before they connections and use mistakes as be honest with you,” Busch said. are put on the market. learning experiences.” “You have so many resources “He told the business students Busch heavily emphasized the available to you. Through the that what he does for a living importance of networking and school, through the internet, was not very difficult,” said Alec connections, especially through things like that. I can’t wait to Marcus, a sophomore entresocial media. He has used Facesee what you guys end up dopreneurship major and the vice book and LinkedIn before to help ing.” president of finance for Hofstra make abstract ideas into concrete Start-Ups. items that he can then pitch to
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Boxing analyst reflects on race and sports
By Andrea Bilton STAFF W R I T E R
Boxing Hall of Fame inductee and analyst Steve Farhood visited Hofstra on Wednesday, Feb. 28, to present a timeline of racial developments throughout the history of the sport. Farhood, accompanied by a detailed visual presentation, discussed the icons that helped shape the diversity of not only boxing, but society in general; expounding upon the lives and careers of memorable athletes like Jack Johnson, Joe Louis and Muhammed Ali. Farhood’s firsthand experience reporting on the accomplishments and journeys of these individuals gave him unique insight on the progression of the sport. “People view boxing in a certain light,” Farhood said. “Especially if you’re not a fan, it’s just two guys beating up each other in a ring. But other sports don’t have the social and political impact that boxing has had over the years, so I wanted [the audience] to understand that these larger-than-life athletes were really influential. They were much more than just fighters. In their own way, they told a large part of the story of race
sdfjs;dlfjk;sldkfj;aldfjk On Feb. 23, a student reported to PS that her vehicle had been damaged. The car was parked in front of Constitution Hall at 11:30 p.m. on Feb. 21, and upon returning on Feb. 22 at 6:30 p.m., a long scratch was noted on the driver’s side. Earlier in the month, the student discovered the letters “f” and “u” scratched on the driver’s side door as well. Police assistance was declined at the time of report. Further investigation is being conducted into this matter. On Feb. 24, at 12:05 a.m., a non-student male gained entry into Weed Hall. The male told the custodian that he was a Hofstra student and wanted to drop something off for his girlfriend who was inside the building. The custodian allowed the
in America in the 20th century.” Farhood, former editor-inchief of The Ring and KO, was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in June of 2017 after serving as the first vice president of the Boxing Writers Association of America. He now works as an on-air analyst for Showtime Championship Boxing and the syndicated Broadway Boxing series. Some of the prominent moments that Farhood described in his lecture included Jack “the Galveston Giant” Johnson’s ascent to being the world’s first black heavyweight champion in 1908, Joe “the Brown Bomber” Louis’s iconic rematch against Hitler favorite Max Schmeling in 1938 and Muhammed Ali’s tremendous comeback after losing the “Fight of the Century” against Joe Frazier in 1971. Through examples like these, Farhood explained how early boxing matches always pitted whites and blacks against each other; a tangible image of the animosity between the two races.
But as black fighters like Johnson, Louis and Ali continuously won titles and proved themselves superior to their white opponents in the ring, it instilled a sense of hope and confidence in the black community that racial inequality could be as easily defeated as Schmel-
100 years before a black man became president and only 25 years after the 13th Amendment abolished slavery, a black man reigned as a world champion in boxing,” Farhood said of George Dixon, the world’s first black boxing champion. “This was a statement about sociology more than about boxing,” said Nadine Kagan, a student in Hofstra’s Personal Enrichment in Retirement (PEIR) program. “Boxing was the stage setting for social change, and I think those who look down upon boxing don’t understand how it tells the story of the change of racism in this country.” While some audience members, like Kagan, connected with Farhood over his message about the social impact of the sport, others relished in the nostalgia elicited by the images of historical and unforgettable boxing matches. “I’ve been following boxing for 60 years,” said Bob Schwartz, a Long Beach resident. “All of the stuff that he was talking about, I saw.
The fights that he mentioned, I saw. And now it feels great to look back and see what a huge impact they really had.” Freshman undeclared-business major Tristan Georing felt similarly to Shwartz, saying, “As a wrestler, I really appreciate that Farhood is showing people that fighting sports are about more than just knocking each other out. It’s about being a strong and powerful athlete in every sense, and I think we can really learn a lot from the great fighters of the past like the guys he talked about in his presentation. It was really impactful for me.” When asked about the importance of reflecting on the history of sports like boxing, Farhood said that our racial history has been imperative to the way our nation has developed culturally and socially. He explained that much of that history is mirrored in sports. “I think boxing and other sports are tools that we can use to begin a discussion about race,” Farhood said. “It’s still a huge issue that needs to be addressed and discussed, and I think this is just a different way of discussing it.”
pervisor, who requested that the student be escorted back into the main dining room to pay for her meal. The supervisor called PS, but before PS arrived, the student had exited the Student Center dining room. Further investigation is being conducted into this matter. On Feb. 28, a student reported that his bicycle had been stolen. The mountain bike was secured with a chain outside of the Axinn Library on Feb. 22 at 2 p.m. Upon returning on Feb. 28 at 1 p.m., the student discovered that the bike was missing. There were no witnesses to the theft. Police assistance was declined at the time of report. On Feb. 28, at 11:47 p.m., a student reported that his Kawasaki motorcycle had been stolen. The motorcycle was
parked in the Colonial Square West parking lot on Feb. 28 at 7:30 p.m. and upon returning at 11:47 p.m., he discovered the motorcycle was gone. A search of the campus was conducted, but the bike wasn’t found. The NCPD was notified and prepared a report. Further investigation is being conducted into this matter.
“They were much more than just fighters. In their own way, they told a large part of the story of race in America in the 20th century.” ing or Frazier. Hofstra students, faculty and members of the surrounding community reflected with Farhood as he described how these boxers broke through barriers of racial discrimination and public opinion while earning some of the highest-regarded accomplishments in the history of the sport. “Think about it. 57 years before a black man played major league baseball, more than
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male to enter the building and he met his girlfriend in room 100A. After a short conversation, a verbal argument broke out between the two individuals and the male threw a lighter, striking the female in the face and causing a laceration. The custodian intervened and told the male to leave. The female student refused medical aid and police assistance at the time of the incident. Shortly after, the custodian observed the male trying to enter Weed Hall once again. The custodian called PS. PS responded and apprehended the male and escorted him to the Hofstra Information Center where he was banned from campus. On Feb. 27, at 10:30 p.m., PS received an anonymous call stating that a guest of a student
had been residing in a room in Enterprise Hall for several weeks. PS responded to the location and upon entering the room, found a student inside. When questioned, he admitted that he had been staying in the room beyond the three day allowance. A check of the sign in sheets indicated that the student had been staying in the room since Feb 8. The male student was escorted out and a referral to OCS was issued to the resident of the room for violation of the guest policy rule. On Feb. 28, at 12:35. p.m., the dining service manager observed a Hofstra student exiting the main dining room and avoiding the cash registers, leaving without paying for her meal. The student was confronted by the dining service su-
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In the Student Center: A month into the semester and all I’ve worn is leggings and like three different sweatshirts.
In the Wellness Center: I mean, it’s kind of terrible. Not Valentine’s Day, just the underlying capitalism.
In LH Comm: Wine is great until you’re five glasses in and the room starts spinning.
In Breslin Hall: I really hope my FBI agent doesn’t laugh at me when I take fat L’s from drinking.
I’m giving myself agita from this friggin assignment.
I cried twice in class, I love stress.
In Enterprise: Let the record show that I have no idea what I’m doing in terms of laundry. On the Unispan:
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I just woke up on the floor and my Grandma was standing over me, asking if I was okay.
Did I just write this whole ass paper in 20 minutes? Who have I become if not an academic?
Choosing ‘other’: Navigating self-identity through intersectional thinking By Angelica Beneke STAFF WRITER
I used to not be a feminist. I remember when I was in middle school – probably seventh grade – I went through this very weird anti-girl phase. It wasn’t the “I hate the color pink!” phase, but it was a phase when I bought into misogynistic views about girls not being able to see each other as friends but as competition for boys. A majority of the girls in my class hated my guts for unknown reasons, although I have my guesses about why. After all, a good majority of the girls in my class who didn’t like me were either white or really wanted to be friends with the white girls. While I’m not dark, I clearly don’t “look white.” I probably had more respectful conversations with the boys in my class than the girls at that point. My understanding of feminism at the time was that you had to support all girls and all women and their rights, even if they treat you like garbage. This was not an idea I could get behind. Why would I support a gender that treated me so poorly and abused my generally good nature for
their personal gain? So I fiercely rejected it. When the term intersectional feminism made its way into popular culture last year, long after I had finally and fully embraced feminism, I realized that my problem wasn’t feminism itself. After all, why did I go to an all-girls high school after middle school? Turns out my problem was and still is white feminism, feminism that advances the “oppressive whites in power” narrative. The issue is that I’m not just white or just black. I’m not even just biracial. I’m multiracial. My dad is white and my mom is African-American. But that’s not the end of the story. About two years ago, my mom took one of those tests that tell you where you came from. Turns out there’s a lot more to my mom than just African. She’s also Pacific Islander, East Asian and European Jew (an actual category, apparently). And this is just a shortened list. It’s not that I don’t like having these identities. I love being multiracial. But being multiracial has its challenges. I remember for the longest time in elementary and middle school, whenever
we took the standardized tests, I had no idea what to put for the race/ethnicity section. What was I? Black? White? I remember one day asking my dad what to do, only because my mom wasn’t home from work yet. He said, “Just say you’re white.” And that’s what I’ve done on any sort of standardized test, even though I always felt uncomfortable doing so. I did this until my sophomore year of high school, when I somehow convinced myself putting “Other” as my ethnicity wasn’t lying about who I was. This lack of a firm racial identity is inconvenient in so many ways. For example, when people talk about their traditions for the holidays, these traditions tend to reflect a regional or racial quality. My parents didn’t care for having traditions that reflect race. All that was needed was a huge dinner, music blasting from a player and holiday-specific decorations. These non-race specific traditions further contributed to confusion over my racial identity. The world was demanding me to choose which of my “races” to identify as, but I didn’t want to. To identify as one was to betray the others somehow. I find it a little discourag-
ing when people can so easily identify as white, black, Latinx, indigenous or Asian when I can’t even pick a category to identify as. Do I identify as white, even though my mere appearance makes some white people uncomfortable? Will blacks and East Asians accept me if I claim to be one or the other and fight alongside them? I try to reach out to these groups as much as I can and to learn from them, but that’s not what makes one black or Asian or white or native. So I’ve resigned myself to not aligning with any one racial group, as isolating as that is. I just say I’m multiracial now. In a way, I do feel a sense of separation when I see racially-centered movements, but at the same time, it’s freeing to be able to fluidly move through racial divides, standing beside racial groups I identify with as an ally. I can’t say I understand what these marginalized groups go through regularly based on their skin color. I guess, in effect, that’s my privilege. But I can say I’m always willing to listen to them and stand with them. However, intersectional feminism doesn’t just deal with race and gender. It also involves
sexuality and economic status. I won’t speak to my economic status, but in a world obsessed with sexual attraction, just existing as an aromantic asexual (aro ace for short) is exhausting. The constant pressure from friends and family alike to have a boyfriend and to be in a romantic relationship adds to my state of constant tiredness. The fact that society is struggling to accept that some just aren’t interested in sex or in being in romantic relationships is also exhausting. A humorous side note, but I had no idea asexuality or aromanticism was a thing until I got to college. This is good, because I was tired of saying I was a heterosexual who was not interested in sex or romantic relationships. Here’s hoping people will come to accept not just those who identify as one or two races, but those who are more than that and who don’t align with one group. Here’s hoping people will accept that not every young woman in her 20s dreams of getting married and having children, and won’t change her mind when she gets older. Hi, I’m a multiracial intersectional aro ace feminist. Nice to meet you.
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On a health kick: Campus nutritionist helps students maintain a well-balanced diet By Sumayyah Uddin STAFF WRITER
The “Freshman 15.” Convenient vending machines. Cookies, candies and gum right by the register. The line between fact and fiction is often blurred when it comes to eating on your college campus, but it boils down to one simple idea: eat healthy, you’re an adult now. However, it can feel isolating at times; you’re either the girl who is in line for an excellently-balanced fat-free salad, or you’re the guy buying two trays of fries. The thing is that neither of these two choices are necessarily healthy or unhealthy; many students just are not sure how to balance their own nutrition. This doesn’t need to be a problem, especially since Hofstra has its very own on-campus registered dietician and sports nutritionist, Jessica Jaeger, R.D., C.D.N. Just as you see your advisor when you are unsure of your semester schedule, Jaeger is there when you are unsure of how to correctly balance your eating habits. Jaeger completed her undergraduate degree at New York University and is currently attending LIU Post for her master’s degree. She was inspired to become a nutritionist due to an experience she had during her first few years of school. “Around the time I started college, I began working at a local health food store,” Jaeger said. “This was the first time I started to really pay attention to what I was eating and all of the benefits that I could acquire from eating real, wholesome food.” Outside of Hofstra, she is the nutritionist for other Long Island colleges, including Adelphi University. On why she chose to work outside the city, she said, “I grew up on Long Island. [I’ve] found it to be a great location to serve college campuses.” “There are many different focuses for a nutritionist,” Jaeger said. “Some other dietitians may work in hospitals, nursing homes, corporate wellness, private practice and the community
setting. A campus nutritionist position is unique because you are generally working with a very specific age group with specific needs, such as healthy campus dining or eating on-the-go with a busy schedule.” The importance of proper nutrition education in college has only grown as time goes on. In 2012, the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior published a study on student eating habits that revealed that many college students do not eat even one serving of fruits or vegetables in one day. When asked if she thought there was a culture that encouraged eating a certain way on college campuses, Jaeger said, “Busy schedules definitely lead to rushed or convenience eating. I don’t think it’s necessarily being promoted, but it’s definitely something I’ve observed ... I most frequently get questions regarding trending diets and how to eat well in the midst of a busy college schedule.” On Hofstra’s habits in particular, she said, “I don’t think it would be fair to assign a label to the entire university. From what I see, everyone does the best they can.” Jaeger outlined what an appointment with the campus dietitian might look like. “In an initial appointment, I do my best to ask questions to give me a picture of who the student is as a whole. I will ask about anthropometric measurements like height and weight, medical and family history, lifestyle behaviors and a 24-hour recall, which is a very detailed account of what the student will typically eat in a day,” she said. “From there, we create attainable dietary goals together. In follow up appointments, we re-evaluate the last session’s goals and see if we can create either additional goals or a new plan to better achieve the same goals.” On the best piece of advice she could give a student looking to change their diet for the better, Jaeger opts for a custom approach, reminding students that “there is no one-size-fits-all piece of nutrition information,”
Photo courtesy of pexels.com Jessica Jaeger is a registered dietician and sports nutritionist.
and “Ultimately, do your best to incorporate a fruit or vegetable into every meal.” College students who go see the campus dietician have already made a choice to change their lives for the better, beginning with what they put into their bodies. However, that doesn’t mean that everyone knows what questions to ask. “I wish more students would take my nutrition label reading advice, which I have adapted from the book ‘In Defense of Food’ [by Michael Pollan]. The idea is for people to focus less on the numbers like calories and fat, and focus more on ingredients.” Jaeger outlines three easy requirements for students to do this: “One, make sure the ingredient list is short; two, you can pronounce all the ingredients; and three, you’re potentially able to find the ingredients in your – or someone else’s – kitchen. This ensures that the ingredients are real, whole foods.” Students with special diets traditionally have a hard time finding foods that are healthy but also respect their beliefs. The campus dietician is also dedicated to supporting students who choose to follow different dietary needs due to religious, personal or medical reasons.
“We are very cognizant of students with special dietary restrictions,” Jaeger said. “The first step will usually be a meeting with both myself and the head chef here on campus, so we can address any concerns from both a dietary and culinary standpoint. We often then will do a walkthrough, in which we identify all the dining locations across campus where students can feel comfortable eating.” Whether you are a vegan or allergic to specific ingredients, this offers a great resource for finding a diet that best suits your needs. Like any medical professional, a campus nutritionist faces some challenges when it comes to patient health. “The toughest part of my job, and perhaps any dietician’s job, is focusing on diet and lifestyle modifications. I love when students feel comfortable enough to share their concerns with me, but food and eating are so commonly tied into other aspects. If I see a student is beginning to share information that falls outside of my scope of practice, I direct them to the counseling center to make sure that they have access to all the healthcare professionals that can best serve them,” Jaeger said. The job isn’t always tough, though. “The best part of my job
is having students come back for follow-ups and finding out they have accomplished the goals we’ve set together. Even better than that is when students come back and say, ‘I feel so much better!’ If I can get students to come back feeling good and like they are developing a better relationship with food, I’ve done my job,” Jaeger said. As to what her own favorite foods are, she said, “Peanut butter is definitely a staple for me. The mix of healthy fats and protein makes for a great snack to keep me full. As far as go-to meals, I keep it simple and will make things like whole wheat pasta, grilled chicken and lots of veggies topped with olive oil and garlic. When I’m on campus I like making salads with a variety of colorful veggies and a source of lean protein, like tofu or edamame.” While your academic performance is important, your mental and physical well-being are determined in part by how you fuel yourself. It is never too late to change your diet for the better. If you are a student who is interested in meeting with Jaeger to discuss your campus nutrition needs, the best way to reach her is at CampusDiningDietician@ compass-usa.com.
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Man on the Unispan
By Jessica Zagac ki S TA F F W R ITER
How would you feel if Hofstra professors were equipped with guns?
“I would feel super uncomfortable. You never know the situations that could happen and how each professor would react to anything.” – Bailey Merritt, sophomore
“As a white person, it’s a little more safe for me. But for people of color, specifically black people, it’s not safe at all. In any sense of the word, I would not be comfortable with Hofstra professors being armed.”
“I strongly disagree with it because I think it would make the campus even more dangerous.” – Alysia Fleming, junior
– Anthony Minerva, junior Jessica Zagacki / Hofstra Chronicle
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Disturbing the bubble: Student’s silent demonstration vocalizes racial issues By Emily Barnes ASSISTANT FEATURES EDITOR
On Monday, Feb. 5, 2018, Trayvon Martin would have celebrated his 23rd birthday. Six years ago, 17-year-old Martin was shot and killed by neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman after a 911 call about a “suspicious person” in a gated Sanford, Florida, community led Zimmerman to confront the unarmed teen. Zimmerman was acquitted of murder charges associated with Martin’s death in 2013. “We’re not talking about it the way that we should,” said Ja’Loni Owens, a junior public policy major, who memorialized Martin on Feb. 26, the anniversary of his death, by scattering pieces of paper with the words “Black Lives Matter” around various places on campus. Owens urged that they wanted
people to be aware of the issues still actively hindering black individuals in America, especially for students of color attending a predominately white institution (PWI). The day after Owens placed these papers around campus, one was found with the word “Black” crossed out and “All” written in its place. “We’re not treated the way we should be on this campus,” Owens said. “There should be a social awareness about the outside world; even though the campus kind of provides a bubble for some of us, that doesn’t mean that everything outside that bubble doesn’t still exist.” After the exoneration of the NYPD officer responsible for the July 2014 killing of Eric Garner, a 43-year-old black man who was choked to death on a sidewalk in Staten Island, Owens recalled being told that members of Hofstra’s Black Student Union
were sought after by administrators following silent protests where they drew outlines of bodies on the floor to emulate a crime scene. “They tried to fine the organization, saying it was vandalism … It was Crayola sidewalk chalk,” Owens said, vocalizing their frustration with how administrators handle students’ requests to peacefully protest. “When we go through the proper protocol to organize demonstrations, it’s such an extensive process; it’s so lengthy.” Owens said that it’s especially difficult to organize immediate response protests, as paperwork must be submitted to the university weeks in advance. “That’s not how tragedies happen. We don’t get a heads up that another black person is going to be killed, or that there’s going to be another bombing abroad or a mass shooting,”
Owens said. One place that Owens meticulously placed a piece of paper that day was on a controversial figurine: the Thomas Jefferson statue located at the entrance of the Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center. “Students have been protesting to get that statue taken down for at least 13 years,” Owens said. They expressed the faulty connotation associated with having the third president of the United States, who is openly criticized by the public for owning numerous slaves on his plantation in Virginia – including many women in which he raped – as a welcoming figure. “To try to put that into a love story is really appalling,” Owens said, referring to people who claim Jefferson’s ties to Sally Hemings, an enslaved young woman likely to have birthed six
of his children, were through a consensual relationship. “[This statue] testifies to a greater issue as well. The fact that we have this man who has raped so many woman, who owned people … It’s really disturbing to me, and to a lot of students.” “We’re not immune; there’s racism everywhere,” Owens said about the belief that racism only directly affects those living in the South. “It never went anywhere, it just kind of adapted. Like technology adapts, racism adapts.” Owens hopes to “disturb this bubble” that people who are not of color have “built for themselves” by continuing to engage in these kinds of demonstrations. They believe that by doing so, more students will be enlightened by the dire need to normally discuss issues of race and inequality.
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Humans of Hofstra By Jessica Zagacki STAF F W R I T E R
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Mary Joseph, a junior here at Hofstra. When I asked her to name one thing she is really passionate about, her eyes lit up as she said, “I’m actually currently on the speech and debate team.” Joseph has been on the speech and debate team since her freshman year. Throughout the past couple of years, she has participated in countless tournaments, in which she has won several trophies. Although Joseph is a rhetorical studies major with a minor in chemistry, that was not always the case. “Being on the speech and debate team is what changed my major from biochem to rhetoric,” Joseph said. Joseph came from a high school that had a debate team, but she had never been involved in it before coming to Hofstra. “When I came here, I did poetry writing. And on the speech and debate team there’s actually something called poetry interpretation,” Joseph said. “You can take different poems and cut them together and interpret the poetry to talk about something you’re really passionate about. I started doing that. I got into debate and I started doing well in debate and speech [and I thought] maybe I should stick to it.” While we were speaking, I was curious about what the setup of her tournaments were like. “It’s usually in another state. It starts from the morning like 8 a.m. and it goes all the way until 6 p.m. We’re just going head to head about speeches and debates. I do both, but sometimes people just do speeches or people just do debates,” Joseph said. As a result of all the tournaments Joseph participated in, I knew she must have had numerous interesting experiences and memories. When I asked her if she had any stories that stood out from debate, she smiled and said, “Speech and debate. There’s a lot of great things. It gives me a voice to speak out about social issues and I love that. But at the same time, there’s also a lot of sexism and misogyny involved with it. One of my favorite times was the first time I debated with one of my favorite partners, Rita Cinquemani. We went head to head with a boy and a girl team. I brought up this example of Bill Nye the Science Guy because I love him. [The other team said] Bill Nye the Science Guy is an overpaid, undereducated man so we should just forget about what the other team said. I shot up because I was like ‘I’m about to protect my boy, Bill, right?’ I [said], ‘Did you know that Bill Nye the science guy has a Bachelor of Engineering from the Cornell University?’ they [said] ‘No’. I [said] ‘You’re welcome’ and I sat back down. After the round, their coach went up to us and [said], ‘Hey, they felt really bad about the tournament and they felt really bad about the debate. Can you go apologize?’ We felt bad because they were new so we went to the girl first and she was like, ‘It’s not me’. The dude started crying because he lost to girls. He was frustrated that he lost to two girls.” Toward the end of our conversation, Joseph emphasized that her grandfather, who had recently passed away, is the main reason she got involved with speech and debate in the first place. Although he lived in India and was not able to see any of her tournaments in person, they were extremely close, and he always gave her so much love and support. “He’s really the reason why I had the confidence to go into speech and debate, because if no one in my family had done this before, it sort of holds you back. But to have this figure who loved me so much go into speech and debate – do poetry performances himself – having that guide me really is what kept me going. He was really proud and I hope I can continue making him proud.”
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Arts and Entertainment
69 years of Shakespeare B2 Spoiler alert: “Black Panther” review B3
VOL 83 ISSUE 14 Peter Soucy / Hofstra Chronicle
The Chroncle A&E Shakespeare Festival celebrates 69th year
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and “Love Is Your Master.” This year’s featured full-length play, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona,” is running from March 1-11, and is notably one of the first performances to display Hofstra’s new Globe Stage, designed by Professor David Henderson. Unveiled in 2017, the new Globe Stage incorporates the most up-to-date research and understanding of Shakespeare’s original Courtesy of Hofstra Department of Drama and Dance Globe Theatre into its architecture. Shakespeare wrote a total of 38 plays and 154 sonnets throughout his career. “The Two Gentlemen plays, as well as musicals, By Amanda Romeo of Verona,” last performed at lesser known works and brief STAFF W R I T E R Hofstra in 1978, is a comedy adaptations of longer works. In Each year, Hofstra’s of conflicts that presents a concurrence with the festival, Department of Drama and Dance various symposiums and lectures rather unlikely plot touching presents highly anticipated on themes such as lust, love, are held on campus discussing celebrations of Shakespearean loyalty and atonement. This the works being presented. works in the annual Shakespeare year’s Sunday matinee was a This year, the plays presented Festival. The festival, now in its very well-executed performance are “The Two Gentlemen of 69th year, features performances done by practiced student actors Verona,” “Something Wicked” of the Renaissance master’s and actresses. Lights in the John
Cranford Adams Playhouse remained on and un-dimmed throughout the show to allow for a full view of the new Globe Stage and all the performers on it. While this seemed unusual at first, it added another element of authenticity to the show. Light, lively and likeable from the very beginning, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” opened with a cheery a cappella melody. Musical accompaniment was slight and saved for sound effects and brief scene changes. The Baroque-style costumes were exquisitely assigned to further juxtapose characters; emotional and loyal lovers like Valentine and Julia dressed in orange and pink, while milder, more calculating and poised characters, such as their respective sweethearts Sylvia and Proteus, dressed in blues. Stellar performances came from Lauren Dietzel (Julia) and Michelle Pagano (Speed), both of whom were received very well by the audience. Bryan
Raiton performed the role of a vain and pompous Thurio commendably. Altogether, the entire play was very well cast and the show was both charming and engaging. “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” will run through next weekend. Additionally, the festival continues with a onehour adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” titled “Something Wicked,” running from March 5-10 on the Globe Stage. The musical portion of the festival, titled “Love Is Your Master,” will be a one-time performance done on Saturday, March 10 at 2 p.m., also on the new Globe Stage at the John Cranford Adams Playhouse. This special performance will celebrate various songs, madrigals and instrumental music from the Renaissance and early Baroque eras evoking the power of love. Cover: Tayo Aluko, ‘Just an Ordinary Lawyer’
Satiate the slop-pop appetite with a ‘Diet Cig’
By Allison Foster & Marissa Matozzo STAFF WRITERS
“Let’s start this off with a tender one,” said Alex Luciano, lead singer and guitarist of selfproclaimed slop-pop band Diet Cig, at their concert on Friday, March 1. She then proceeded to strum the opening chords to “Sixteen,” a track centered on turbulent adolescence from Diet Cig’s 2017 release, “Swear I’m Good At This.” Luciano formed the indie outfit with drummer Noah Bowman in 2014 after meeting in New Paltz, New York. “Elsewhere,” the venue that hosted Diet Cig is a 24,000 square foot former warehouse that has since been converted to host shows and a variety of events, opening on Halloween in 2017. Located in Bushwick, Brooklyn, it was the home for Diet Cig’s sold-out stop on their 2018 tour. Complete with disco balls, neon strobe lights reminiscent of the 1980s and a geometric backdrop, Elsewhere’s atmosphere set the mood for a
night of artistic expression. The night began with Scottish indie-pop four-piece The Spook School and Seattle alt-pop quintet Great Grandpa emulating various genres while stimulating the crowd before the main act took the stage. “Brooklyn! It’s great to be here,” Luciano said, about to play tracks from Diet Cig’s wellreceived recent album. Singing into a microphone adorned with flower petals and twirling across a stage lit by a flashy disco ball, front woman Luciano led many fan favorites to much applause. With a set-list comprised of many songs from their latest release, Diet Cig performed punk-esque tunes “Maid of the Mist,” “Barf Day,” “Bite Back” and “Tummy Ache.” From their 2015 EP “Overeasy,” the tracks “Breathless” and “Scene Sick” were included as well. “Raise your hand if you’re over 18,” Luciano said, with her arms outstretched to the crowd halfway through the set and a plethora of arms rose. “Now raise your hand if you’re registered
to vote!” Luciano smiled at the amount of hands that remained in the air. Never one to shy away from her platform, Luciano demonstrated the importance of political consciousness, especially in indie music and artistic communities, often engaging in questioning and answering with crowd members. Dedicating many of Diet Cig’s songs to women of color, marginalized groups and those she deemed oppressed, Luciano kept the audience blissfully enthralled with many inspirational quotes and visibly passionate renditions of the songs they knew so well. “Repeat after me,” Luciano said to the sold-out Brooklyn club, “I won’t water myself down for anyone else!” Her and Bowman shared a mutual smile and began the track, “Link in Bio,” written about selfperception and identity. Luciano commonly prefaces the song with a spoken introduction regarding societal struggles of transgender, non-binary and queer individuals. Wrapping up the set with
their most recognized track, “Harvard,” Diet Cig’s fans sang along and caught Luciano as she crowd surfed her way through the venue. Inviting all previous opening acts onstage, Diet Cig performed their last song of the night, a cover of Semisonic’s
“Closing Time,” as Luciano was carried off the stage by several friends. Encapsulating the essence of her artistry, Luciano’s words echoed through the former warehouse, “No matter who you are,” she said with a smile, “this music is for you.”
Marissa Matozzo / Hofstra Chronicle The two members of the pop duo, Alex Luciano and Noah Bowman, met at a house show where Bowman’s previous band were playing.
March 6, 2018•B3 A&E Swayze and company take on drag culture
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By Joseph Coffey-Slattery A RTS & EN T E RTA I N M E N T A SSISTAN T E D I TO R
Gay life has undergone a tumultuous relationship with the silver screen. At the hands of religious groups and the Hays Production Code enforcement of 1934, openly homosexual characters have often been excluded from the narrative. As such they existed for a long time in subtext, as with the portrayal of Joel Cairo in 1941’s “The Maltese Falcon.” Even when the code eventually dissolved to our modern rating system, homosexuals continued to be treated as tragic figures. In this ongoing series, I will attempt to analyze the merits, or lack thereof, of various homosexual portrayals in film. Drag life seems to perpetually live in the comedy genre. This is no doubt a result of elements such as throwing “shade” and “reading” others, which often causes laughter and gasps
depending on how audacious the woman, and features its heroes white men. While the queens rhetoric. Beeban Kidron’s 1995 as prominent gay characters, the are able to adjust the behavior outing “To Wong Foo, Thanks way in which heterosexuality of many (in a series of glorious for Everything! Julie Newmar” is addressed becomes rather scenes), the more violent is a drag film happily within the interesting. While in drag, the characters are simply expelled realm of comedy, all the while queens are routinely preyed on from the society. making commentary on the ills of by men who physically abuse Despite the thoughtful the patriarchy. In the film, Patrick their wives and degrade women. exploration of gender roles, Swayze, Wesley Snipes and The only redeemable male the film did manage to fail John Leguizamo play three drag figures are a young white high rather largely on one front. The queens driving to a competition schooler and an older black narrative implied that queens are in Los Angeles. Along the way man who owns a restaurant. It never out of drag, with the leads they get marooned in the rural is interesting, then, to see the perpetually in their feminine Midwest, and the road trip halts antagonists of the queens and attire, reminiscent of “Some while we explore the oft-cited women as exclusively older Like it Hot.” It became difficult lack of sophistication to wrap my mind that seemingly around whether or comes with these not such a portrayal rustic areas. The compromised the queens, played with film’s progressive startling realism, nature. Recognizing set about “saving” my status as the town: providing a cisgender it with stylish flair, heterosexual male, manners and banning I decided to ask several abusive male someone who figures. actually does drag. Courtesy of Universal Pictures Given that the film “Considering the ‘To Wong Foo’ was No. 1 at the box office for two weeks after was directed by a time, where [drag]
wasn’t fully accepted, they did a pretty good job in portraying the culture. Shady, sassy and brutally honest,” said Daniel Maldonado, a senior design major who has been doing drag for two years. “There are some things that were dramatized, like being in drag 24/7, but I think that was strictly movie related.” Maldonado went on to say that other friends of his, both homosexuals and queens, felt the film was very enjoyable and could be forgiven for its misconception of parameters. Perhaps if there were more films with a drag-centric focus, “To Wong Foo” would be judged more harshly. Yet as it stands, the narrative is largely a success. Explorations of gender, parental approval, relationships and personal identity find the film at its best. Toss in a few cameos, in the form of Quentin Crisp and Robin Williams, and you have an overall worthy and thoughtful showcase of gay life.
its premiere.
A superhero movie redefined by empowerment
of these characters, both men and women. T’Challa is a powerful and inspiring individual, often relying on his support system for help and guidance. This support Courtesy of Marvel Studios system is comprised of ‘Black Panther’ continually dominates the his sister Shuri (Letitia box office, reaching $900 million worldwide. Wright), whose technologiBy Laurel O’Keefe cal inventions transcend M ANAGI N G E D I TO R Tony Stark’s with ease; the members of the Dora Milaje, On a high-tech jet speeding Wakanda’s special forces unit over an African forest, Okoye (Danai Gurira) issues a warning. (comprised of bad-ass women); Nakia (Lupita Nyong’o), the “Don’t freeze,” she says to King king’s ex-girlfriend and an T’Challa (Chadwick Boseundercover agent for the nation; man) of the African nation of and other leaders, including his Wakanda. “I never freeze,” the mother Ramonda (Angela Basleader replies calmly, playfully offended by the notion. T’Challa sett). We first witnessed T’Challa places the mask of Black Panther as Black Panther in Marvel’s over his face and drops from the “Captain America: Civil War.” jet, falling toward his mission The film “Black Panther” picks with confidence. up almost immediately where his This calm and collected king, storyline in “Civil War” left off: with a dynamic personality, is T’Challa has returned to Wakanthe superhero many have been da in order to claim the throne as waiting for. “Black Panther” is king and protect his country as not only revolutionary, being the Black Panther. the first Marvel movie to have a In order to become king, dominantly black cast, but it also T’Challa first attends a cerincludes strong a representation
emony in which he accepts a physical challenge from anyone who dares to desire the throne. T’Challa fights with the absence of the Black Panther strength, and wins the fight in front of the entire country, showing humility when giving his challenger mercy. From here, T’Challa’s emotional and physical journey grows more complex as he discovers his style of leadership. T’Challa faces his country’s traditions and history, travelling to Korea at one point with a select team to capture Klaw (Andrew Serkis), a white terrorist who stole vibranium (a technologically advanced metal) from Wakanda, killing many citizens in his escape. It is on this mission that Black Panther first proves his strength, smarts and pure excellence. Many action scenes in the film were brilliant, not only because of the riveting fight sequences, backed by an incredible soundtrack, but also because audiences were able to see black women celebrated for scientific achievements and easily navigating difficult fights. The movie
features a number of strong black women both physically and emotionally. They define their strength on their own terms: rooted in themselves, not in anger or pain. Another thing that sets “Black Panther” apart from other movies is the culture of Wakanda. Unlike other Marvel offerings, “Black Panther” is set in a place that is unknown to the audience. To build Wakanda, the movie draws on African culture and influence in music, clothing, values and ceremony. More importantly, it celebrates African culture in a vibrant way. Black culture and excellence are not watered down, instead they are beautifully complex. Refreshingly, conversations of racial tension are not ignored in this film. In fact, the movie allows for dialogues to occur away from the screen. Racism and racial issues are delved into in many different ways, with slavery, discrimination and problems associated with identity. For example, the antagonist of the film, Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan), is an African-American
that grew up on the streets in California after his father dies. Through the film, Killmonger struggles to connect to his African roots while also identifying as an American. The film touches upon many different issues that Africans and African-Americans face today, while still connecting to the overall storyline. In this way, “Black Panther” not only highlights black excellence, but it doesn’t shy away from discussing black struggles as well. The narrative embraces diversity and African culture, while carrying out a message of strength, determination and most importantly, humanity. Not only is the film diverse and detailed, but the character of Black Panther is easily the most complex Marvel superhero to date, both emotionally and historically. The representation in this film is the most in-depth and positive I’ve seen from a Marvel movie. One can only hope that Marvel and other creators will continue this type of representation outside of “Black Panther.”
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Tapping into the sixth sense with Tyler Henry
By Casey Clark STAFF WRITER
Have you ever wondered what happens to our loved ones when they cross over to the other side? You have probably heard of Theresa Caputo, more commonly known as the “Long Island Medium,” but Tyler Henry is another medium on the rise who is helping to give closure to individuals who are struggling with the loss of a loved one. Henry has publicly shared his story of how he knew he had to say goodbye to his grandmother moments before she died. Henry claims he had a strong intuitive feeling that he had to check on her, and this was one of the moments that helped him realize that he had a gift. Henry is most known for his television show on E! called “Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry,” where he reads celebrities and provides them with messages from their loved ones. Henry does not know who he will be reading prior to the session, and says that every reading is unique in that sense. On the way to a reading, Henry explains that messages
from loved ones usually start to pop up before he even knows who he is reading, adding to the element of surprise. Henry says that he works as a clairvoyant, meaning he sees pictures and symbols in his head and pieces them together to create coherent messages to relay to the client.
Henry is able to channel out the outside world and his personal bias by scribbling on a piece of paper, which he uses to provide his full attention to the clients and the messages being communicated. Henry demonstrates extreme care and comfort to his clients as he understands the sensitivity
around losing a loved one and the grief and guilt that can follow that experience for many people. Henry has read Hollywood stars including Bella Thorne, Tiffany Haddish, Tori Spelling and Jodie Sweetin. Henry can also provide clients with information on their sus-
Courtesy of E! Online Henry’s reality show ‘Hollywood Medium’ entered its third season on E!, premiering on Wednesdays.
ceptibility to different medical conditions and offer advice to navigate their romantic relationships if they desire. His television show will be back for its third season, which premiered on Feb. 28. Henry is also in the process of writing his next book after the success of his memoir, titled “Between Two Worlds: Lessons from the Other Side.” His book takes the reader on a journey through his life as a medium and answers the most commonly asked questions people have about his gift to connect with people on the other side. Henry is scheduled to make live appearances across the country within the next few months. At the live shows, audiences can expect to hear insider information about how Henry is able to communicate with the departed and even get a reading from Henry himself if they are seated close to the front. One of the shows is going to be near Hofstra, at the NYCB Theatre in Westbury on June 6. To find out where you can buy tickets, you can check out Henry on Twitter at @tyhenrymedium.
A not so ‘Shiny,’ nor ‘So Bright’ reunion
Courtesy of Manuel Nauta The Smashing Pumpkins temporarily broke up in 2000 due to internal fighting and have since had a tumultuous history together.
By Amanda Romeo STAFF WRITER
On Feb. 15, the Smashing Pumpkins announced an official reunion tour, set to begin this July in Arizona. Traveling across
the U.S. and parts of Canada, the band will play a total of 36 shows in 36 different cities – ending in September in Idaho and hitting New York City at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 1.
The “Shiny and Oh So Bright Tour” is going to be the first to feature Billy Corgan, James Iha and Jimmy Chamberlin together since 2000. Of the reunion, Corgan said in a statement announc-
ing the tour, “It’s magic to me that we’re able to coalesce once more around the incredible Jimmy Chamberlin, to celebrate those songs we’ve made together.” The tour will feature three out of its four founding members. Missing will be bassist D’arcy Wretzky, who has recently been feuding with front man Billy Corgan because he allegedly hired another bassist for the
reunion tour. The band has had a series of bassists since Wretzky left in 1999. Joining the reunion tour this summer as the third guitarist will be Jeff Schroeder, who joined the
Smashing Pumpkins in 2007. A video promotion for the tour was released with the tour dates, featuring the song “Today” and starring Ali Laenger and Lysandra Roberts – recognizable as the cover stars from the 1993 album “Siamese Dream.” According to the video, the tour will celebrate songs from the band’s first five albums: “Gish,” “Siamese Dream,” “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness,” “Adore” and “Machina/ The Machines of God.” According to Forbes and The Pulse of Radio, tickets are not selling quite as well as expected. While tickets moved quickly in larger cities, sales were low in smaller cities. A decent amount of tickets are still available at the Madison Square Garden show. There has been speculation that the low sales are because of the public spat between Corgan and Wretzky. However, tickets are not inexpensive, starting at $75 with some priced as high as $550.
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An open letter to President Stuart Rabinowitz
Dear Stuart Rabinowitz,
It is long past time we acknowledged that, in spite of Hofstra’s already exorbitant price tag, you are actively dedicated to cheating your students and capitalizing on their basic needs. Hofstra University has consistently skimped on providing necessary student services whenever and wherever it can in order to turn a profit. Firstly, we have observed that our university’s mental health care has long failed to meet basic standards of affordability, access and quality. To use a common example: Several of our members quickly ran through their three free therapy sessions at the Saltzman Center and others who could afford to pay for additional sessions were cut off from needed services after the maximum number of appointments – 10.
How many other students do you think have suffered as a result of this policy? Moreover, how many students have found their mental health needs insufficiently met by graduate student therapists who are underpaid and overworked? We are far from being the only students to complain about the 10-appointment limit. Perhaps if you hired more professional therapists, you wouldn’t have to limit the number of appointments a student can have. Perhaps if you fairly compensated graduate students for their work and provided them with more reasonable conditions, the strain placed on graduate workers and undergraduate patients would decrease. Perhaps if you hired more professional LGBTQ+ therapists and therapists of color, students from said groups would feel more comfortable seeking out
the mental health care that is their right. Perhaps if Hofstra made an earnest effort to safeguard the health of its students, its students would be healthier
“If we stand together, we can hold our administration accountable to us, the students, and make Hofstra a more empathetic place to learn and grow. ” and happier. Perhaps. Secondly, news of dramatic increases to on-campus housing prices is quickly circulating.
With recent price hikes in both safety deposits and housing fees, you are not only chasing students off campus, but are also encouraging local landlords to raise their prices for student tenants. Many such students are willing to pay increased off-campus rent simply to avoid the obscene prices of on-campus living spaces, many of which have gone without necessary renovations. To address a third and final issue, we are deeply disappointed by the wages you pay your student employees. You charge your students so much for their education that they’ll be in debt for years to come, and choose to endanger their futures further by refusing to pay the state minimum wage so they can more comfortably afford this overpriced school. Like all workers, student work-
ers deserve to receive the fruits of their labor. We, the members of the Hofstra Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA), demand that the mental health services on campus improve. Most universities of this size offer free mental health care to their students, and properly staff their facilities. Hofstra’s negligence towards this matter is a disgrace. We encourage fellow students who are frustrated with Hofstra’s financial predation to join us in refusing to accept these unjust policies. If we stand together, we can hold our administration accountable to us, the students, and make Hofstra a more empathetic place to learn and grow. In solidarity, Hofstra YDSA
Hofstra’s favorite founding father is trash
By Ja’Loni Owens STAFF W R I T E R
White people really love LinManuel Miranda’s “Hamilton: An American Musical.” I mean, really love it. I’m convinced that the Schuyler Sisters are white people’s Destiny’s Child. More than Miranda’s musical, white people love the founding fathers, especially Thomas Jefferson. So much so that on any given day I will hear, “Thomas Jefferson’s coming home!” totally off-key. So much so that Hofstra University has refused to remove the statue of Jefferson from its campus. I guess I understand why college students are infatuated with a portrayal of Jefferson engaging in rap battles with Alexander Hamilton, but I struggle to understand Hofstra University’s commitment to that statue despite petitions and demonstrations calling for its removal. In 2004, the Independent People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM)
organized a demonstration Why? most famous of these girls is calling for the removal of the Because Jefferson was Sally Hemings. Jefferson statue, donated by a slave-holding, white Historians believe that David S. Mack, located in front supremacist, serial rapist and Jefferson first raped Hemings of the Sondra and David S. eugenicist. during his tenure as minister Mack Student Center. After the death of John to France. Hemings was only At the time of their Wales, Jefferson’s father-in-law, 14 or 15 at the time Jefferson demonstration, InPDUM had in 1773, Jefferson inherited forced her into concubinage and only just been recognized impregnated her with the as a legitimate organization. first of five children. In an interview with The While Hemings could Hofstra Chronicle, the have petitioned for “ I struggle to president of InPDUM said, freedom in France, her understand Hofstra “This was one of the first pregnancy and economic University’s commitment status would have made it issues that we wanted to address when we were impossible. Understanding to that statue getting InPDUM together.” this, Jefferson used this despite petitions and Another student told information as well as a The Chronicle, “The statue demonstrations calling promise to free Hemings’ is blatant disrespect to children as they came of for its removal.” African-Americans at the age to coerce Hemings into university.” returning to Monticello in For over 13 years, 1789. students of color have A 1998 DNA study pleaded with Hofstra found a match between University to commit to 11,000 acres of estate and the Jefferson male line and progress, to reject white approximately 125 slaves. a descendant of Hemings’ supremacy, to invest in students When Jefferson died in 1826, youngest son, confirming the of color the way they have he owned more than 600 slaves. terror the Hemings family always invested in white Jefferson also raped and endured. students and to remove that terrorized enslaved girls and Jefferson was also a proud statue. women for most of his life. The eugenicist, citing that black
people were genetically inferior in a number of his writings and speeches. Jefferson believed that Africans should be submitted to scientific analysis, including the “anatomical knife,” to confirm their inferiority. In justification of slavery Jefferson explained, “It is not their condition, but nature ... which has produced the distinction” between the slave and the slave master. Go to Axinn Library or Hammer Lab and look it up. Go to a History Club meeting. Go to the History Department. None of this is a secret. Remnants of slavery are proudly displayed across the country, above and below the Mason-Dixon line. If you do not see it, you either posses the privilege not to or are too much of a white-supremacyapologizing-coward to face the truth. Given that students have been calling for the statue’s removal since at least 2004, I must assume Hofstra University is closer to the latter.
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Students have the right to protest
By Angelica Beneke STAFF WR I T E R
Several superintendents and administrators recently expressed disapproval about the upcoming National Walkout on Wednesday, March 14, including a superintendent of a Texas school district. Needville Independent School District Superintendent (IDS) Curtis Rhodes, in a now-deleted Facebook post, said any type of protest or demonstration during school hours will result in a three-day school suspension and all the associated consequences. There will be discipline “no matter if it is one, fifty, or five hundred students involved.” Quite frankly, I think this threat, veiled as a concern for the learning environment, is absolutely ridiculous and shows a lack of awareness of what students can legally do during school hours. If Rhodes hasn’t already, he
and everyone else who says that students should shut up, sit down and learn because that’s all they can do need to read or re-read Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969), a case I learned about in my high school United States history class. At the center of this case were a brother and sister, John and Mary Beth Tinker. They were two of five public school students who had been suspended for wearing black armbands to school to silently protest the Vietnam War. Mary Beth Tinker’s math teacher, as well as the principal, thought these armbands were a huge distraction to learning, even though her other teachers and fellow students didn’t seem to care. The Supreme Court ruled in the siblings’ favor, saying students don’t lose their rights once they walk in the school building. Other cases such as Bethel
School District v. Fraser (1986) and Frederick v. Morse (2007), infamously known as the “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” case, defined what constitutes distractions to learning. Walking out for 17 minutes in memory of the 17 victims of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, and to raise awareness for lack of a strict gun policy is not one of these distractions. The threat of suspension that the Needville ISD superintendent mentioned is, in fact, unconstitutional. I understand wanting to maintain a sense of order, especially after a school mass shooting. However, this protest isn’t even an entire school day. It’s just 17 minutes. That’s not a class period. It’s not even an entire lunch period. Additionally, aren’t people always complaining that schools aren’t teaching what’s important? With this protest, students are learning, through
actual experience, what it’s like to be civically engaged and to act when they want something changed. This is something to be encouraged, not dismissed as child’s play and distractions from learning. Plus, the notion of students not being allowed to protest during school hours makes little sense. These mass shootings at these schools didn’t occur before or after class. They happened during school hours. Why should protests against the political forces perpetuating these mass shootings be any different? We should be letting students exercise their constitutional rights by experience and not by tests, even if it’s beyond the realm of our comfortabilities. After all, we can only teach them theory just for the sake of passing tests for so long.
Donald Trump’s propaganda machine By Robert Kinnaird SPEC IA L TO T H E C H R O NI CL E
It’s impossible to go a week without hearing about one of Donald Trump’s Twitter rants, him spewing hatred in public or, at the very least, deeply insensitive comments on the news. Yet one of his main methods of communication often goes ignored; the e-mails he sends his supporters contain deeply unsettling content that usually does not surface. These e-mails are the propaganda only his supporters see, and they brainwash these Americans with fake news. One of my friends was signed up to Trump’s mailing list as a stupid joke among his buddies. Instead of unsubscribing, he decided to keep receiving the e-mails, as it gave him a look into the psyche of Trump’s supporters that you cannot get anywhere else. The e-mails contain countless messages of American Nationalism, slander against the Democratic Party and con-
demnation of “liberal” news sources. However, to someone who doesn’t buy into Trump’s narrative, there is also a clear and present sense of desperation in the e-mails. When the e-mails speak of collusion (which they do frequently), they mention them in quotes like this one directly from his e-mail: “Now is our chance to show the biased media how STRONGLY Americans support our America First movement, even while they try to keep pushing the phony ‘collusion’ narrative.” In the same e-mail, Trump says “The liberals are embarrassing themselves, pretending that Russian bots lost Hillary the election, when in reality it was YOU, the patriotic men and women of this nation.” He even made the subject of the e-mail “NO COLLUSION.” To me, it feels as if Trump is on the ropes, and he’s grasping desperately at his supporters, hoping that these e-mails will keep them on his side, and keep them denying the truth: that Russia really did have
something to do with his victory, that the media isn’t just spewing lies about him and that he truly is a monster of a man. Everything in these e-mails is pushing his denial of any wrongdoing further and further down the throats of his followers. The e-mails are littered with declarations of witch-hunts against his people, biased media and “cowards writ[ing] fake books.” Trump wants his supporters to completely buy into his narrative that anything that against Trump is anti-American and dishonest. It would be laughable if it weren’t so effective. Die-hard Trump supporters are just as committed as ever to his lies and his propaganda. They read these e-mails from him and immediately write off anything against him as liberal propaganda. They believe they are victims to “BRUTAL fake news” and “rabid Democrats” and that they are the true “America
First patriots.” Trump’s propaganda machine is so shockingly effective that his fans have become impossible to reason with. Conservatives believe him when he says that “There is NOTHING they can do to stop us from our mission to SAVE America” in bold lettering. Trump’s supporters truly believe that “building the wall” and the financially damning tax plan will help them to “save” America from some unknown liberal threat – but it won’t, because there is no threat. There is no unknown cultural Marxist enemy, no conspiracy against workingclass white America. The only real threat is Trump and his divisiveness. Trump will be remembered as a horrendous president, and some day, hopefully soon, his supporters will realize that this propaganda blinded them from the truth.
Quick Hits
Jordan Peele became the first African-American to win an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
The first violation of a Polish law that outlaws attributing blame to the country for the Holocaust has taken place.
President Donald Trump joked about the U.S. having a “president for life” like China.
Many major retailers are raising the minimum age for purchases of guns and ammunition from 18 to 21.
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White Women’s Herstory Month
By Ja’Loni Owens STAFF WR I T E R
For some, the 1st of March is just the first day of “Women’s Herstory Month.” For black women, the 1st of March marks the day we’re expected to shed our brown skin and “choose gender.” The 1st of March marks the date we’re supposed to smile as blackness disappears from bulletin boards, as librarians move the texts by James Baldwin and Maya Angelou to the back, as we recover from being told “choose race” for 28 days only to be told “choose gender” for 31. Why is it that black women constantly must prove that we are our whole selves? Why is it that black women constantly must prove that we are willing to die for our freedom, when we have been doing exactly that since the first Africans were forced onto slave ships? Why is it that black women constantly must prove to white women that we are as much women as we are black? Why is it that black women constantly must pass these misogynoiristic litmus tests to access spaces we have more than earned access to? Why is it that black women constantly must “earn” things at all? Why is it that we hate black women so much? Why is it that the more popular the term intersectionality becomes with white women, the less popular it is to check them on this blatant misogynoir? I believe that this can be attributed to the intellectual colonization of race scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw’s work, especially the work that led her to coin the term intersectionality. Intersectionality is a theory of oppression. Intersectionality is a theory built off of the raceclass-gender framework of Crenshaw’s predecessors. Intersectionality is not and has never been for white women, and it disturbs just how
comfortable white women are with infiltrating black feminist circles and sucking them dry. The co-option of intersectionality is an act of violence. The co-option of intersectionality kills black women. White women’s persistence in carving out pieces of Crenshaw’s work that induldge their refusal to reflect on what their whiteness makes them immune to. This only makes sitting idly by while black bodies are subjugated more comfortable. The colonization of intersectionality by white feminists means that we still lack the lenses necessary to view black women as entire, multidimensional beings and to view the inherently violent, destructive nature of whiteness and all that it infiltrates. The colonization of intersectionality means that we are all right back where we started, checking for ourselves because we know that the feminist movement will never, ever check for us. So when you talk about “Women’s Herstory Month,” understand that though you may not preface it with the word white, black women know that white is implied. You cannot buzzword your way out of accountability. You cannot post or tweet your way out of accountability. You cannot “we are all women” your way out of accountability. Understand that you do not have to. You do not have to smile in the faces of black women or keep up with all the buzz words. As Audre Lorde said, “For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” We never forgot for one second that our liberation will not come through you.
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Three wrestlers place in EIWA Championships
By Chris Detwiler S TA F F W R I T E R
“Officials, you may now begin your bouts!” As those words were broadcasted over the loudspeakers at the David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex, the crowd erupted. The 2018 Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) Tournament was underway. This year’s tournament, running March 3-4, was the 114th running of the event, but the first time Hofstra had hosted the competition.
The Pride had three wrestlers place at the event. Junior Ryan Burkert placed eighth at 149 pounds, sophomore Sage Heller placed eighth at 174 pounds and senior Michael Hughes placed second at 285 pounds. “I felt like we left a lot of points out on the table. We made progress ... but I don’t like progress. I like winning. But in order to win, you have to make progress,” said Dennis Papadatos, Hofstra’s head coach.
Photo courtesy of Hofstra Athletics Michael Hughes wil go to the NCAA Tournament after a 31-2 season.
Hofstra had a wrestler in the EIWA finals for only the second time since the 2013-14 season, when the Pride joined the conference. Hughes came into the tournament as the top-seeded wrestler at heavyweight, but fell 2-1 to freshman Jordan Wood from Lehigh University in the finals. Wood was ranked No. 12 in the nation by InterMat Wrestling coming into the tournament, while Hughes was ranked No. 10. There were no takedowns recorded in that finals matchup, with both wrestlers keeping their opponent’s offense to a minimum. The large Lehigh crowd cheered as Hughes was hit with a stalling warning halfway through the match after Wood led him out of bounds. Both wrestlers recorded escapes, and at the end of regulation, the score was tied at one. No points were scored in the one-minute sudden victory round. Wood won the coin flip and decided to start the ride-out round on bottom. Hughes stayed on top for about half of the period, but Wood was ultimately able to get out and earn an escape
point. In the next round, Wood rode Hughes for the entire 30 seconds to earn the EIWA Championship at 285 pounds. Wood was one of five Lehigh wrestlers to stand on the podium at the end of the weekend. “Just as much as I lost, he earned that one,” Hughes said. “I could have wrestled a little better, but he wrestled a great match.” “At the end of the day, we had our chances,” Papadatos said. “[Hughes] needs to be more confident. He was nervous about making a mistake.” With his second-place finish, Hughes qualifies for the 2018 NCAA Tournament that takes place from March 15-17 in Cleveland, Ohio. “In the end, I would have loved to be a conference champion, but the main goal of this tournament was to get out to nationals and I did that, so now it’s just trying to focus on that,” Hughes said. “I hope that [Hughes] goes out there and lays it all on the line,” Papadatos said in anticipation of the national tournament. Burkert and Heller
also made it to the second day of the tournament after both losing their first matches. Both wrestlers went 0-2 on Sunday. “They competed. Everyone went out swinging trying to get their victory,” Papadatos said. “That’s step one. You cannot progress until you do step one, which is competing.” Lehigh finished the weekend leading all teams with 164.5 team points. Cornell University finished in second place with 146 points, followed by Princeton University and Drexel University with 93 and 86.5 points respectively. This was the first time since 2007 that Cornell did not win the tournament. Hofstra finished the weekend as No. 13 in the conference with 37 team points. Senior Ryan Preisch of Lehigh earned the Outstanding Wrestler award after pinning the second-seeded wrestler, Cornell freshman Max Dean, in the finals at 184 pounds. The NCAA Tournament will take place at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland on March 15-17. Hughes will be representing Hofstra at the national level.
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Power bats surge Hofstra to sweep over Norfolk State By PJ Potter S P O RT S E D I TO R
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Behind the bats of Vito Friscia, Vinnie Costello and Rob Weissheier, Hofstra baseball swept Norfolk State University on Sunday in Virginia 8-6, extending the team’s win streak to five games. Friscia belted the eventual game-winning home run in the top of the sixth inning, a tworun jack down the left field line to give the Pride the lead 7-6. Costello hit a solo shot earlier in the inning, the first roundtrippers for each player this season. Weissheier set the pace in the opening frame with a
two-RBI single. He finished the game 3-4 with three runs batted in, two doubles and a run scored. Through 17 at-bats, Weissheier has four doubles and seven total hits (.412). Weissheier also found a way to contribute with his feet in the fourth inning. Picking up his first career stolen base, he stole home on a throw to second, making it 3-0 Hofstra. Devon Jeffreys later scored in the same inning on an error by Norfolk State’s Aaron Robinson. The Spartans squeaked onto the scoreboard in the home half of the fourth on a RBI base hit by Ismael Herrera. Norfolk State managed to cross another run following an error from Teddy Cillis in left field. The home squad then took the lead in the fifth on a threerun home run off the bat of Alsander Womack, giving
Norfolk State a 5-4 lead. Justin Burrell added another run on a sacrifice fly in the same frame. Zach Altieri earned the win for Hofstra out of the bullpen, his first collegiate victory. Altieri tossed three outs, allowing one run with one strikeout. Seamus Brazill was given the start, spanning four innings with five runs (three earned) and one punch-out. Michael James and Chris Weiss threw the final four innings. Weiss mowed down eight batters in three innings, bringing his strikeout total to 12 this season in just 7.2 innings. Trey Hanchey fell to 0-3 for Norfolk State in a 5.2-inning effort. Hanchey fanned six batters and surrendered seven runs (five earned). Joey Santos footed the rubber for the remainder of the game, striking out five. For the game, Friscia batted
3-5, jumping is batting average to .400 through 25 at-bats. Costello and Mikey Riesner added two hits apiece. The Pride (5-2) returns to
action March 10 and 11 for the UMBC Tournament in Maryland to battle University of Maryland Baltimore County and Mount St. Mary’s (MD).
Photo courtesy of Hofstra Athletics Rob Weissheier went 3-4 with three RBI and two doubles on Sunday.
Fields and Whelan tally career highs in loss By Alexandra Licata
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Photo courtesy of Hofstra Athletics Communications Katie Whelan led Hofstra on Saturday afternoon with five goals.
Despite a career-high 16 saves from keeper Maddie Fields and a season-best five goals from freshman Katie Whelan, Hofstra women’s lacrosse fell 17-10 to No. 2 University of Maryland on the road Saturday afternoon. The Pride now sit at .500 on the season with a 2-2 record, while the Terrapins improve to 4-1. Maryland continues to dominate the all-time series, ticking on another win for a 7-0 record against Hofstra. Whelan opened scoring for the Pride less than 90 seconds into the first half off a free position shot. With 17:58 to go in the first half, Hofstra held a 3-2 lead behind Alyssa Parrella and Whelan, but Maryland would spoil that with a five-goal rebound. Alexa Mattera would tack on another goal for the Pride, but four more goals from the Terps made it 11-4 going into halftime. Hofstra came out strong in
the start of the second half, scoring two of the first three goals and five of the first seven to begin bridging the gap. The Pride cut the deficit to four as the game sat at 13-9 with 18:09 left. Whelan and Parrella led the team during the run with three and two goals respectively. Parrella has tallied at least three goals and four points in the first four games this season, and tallied a hat trick and an assist on the day. With their eyes set on a comeback, the Pride had their momentum halted by Maryland and ultimately the team was forced to call a timeout to stop the damage. The Terps came out of the huddle to score three goals of their own behind Jen Giles and Megan Whittle and stake a 16-9 lead that proved insurmountable for Hofstra.
Each team would score one more goal each in the last six minutes, but Maryland had sealed the win after breaking the Pride’s run earlier in the second half. Whittle led Maryland with seven points on five goals and two assists. Giles had three goals and three ground balls for Maryland. Whelan had only scored two goals this season before contributing five goals on the afternoon. She also added five draw controls. Fields’ previous career-high came against Columbia University last April when she made 15 saves. Fields and Drew Shapiro each picked up a pair of ground balls. The Pride returns to action on Tuesday to continue a three-game road trip that lands them at Quinnipiac University for a 3 p.m. game.
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Softball wraps up invitational with loss to FGCU By Kevin Carroll S P O RT S E D I TO R
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Photo coutresy of Hofstra Athletics Sophie Dandola pitched 5.1 innings of scoreless relief on Sunday.
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A three-run second inning proved to be fatal as the Hofstra softball team was tripped up by Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) 3-2 to wrap up the Unconquered Invitational at Florida State University on Sunday afternoon. When these two teams clashed earlier in the tournament, it was the Pride coming out on top, handing the FGCU Eagles their very first loss of the season. This time around, the fortunes were reversed, with Hofstra falling just a run short
and ending the weekend with a 2-3 record. The difference-maker came for FGCU after Hofstra had briefly taken a 1-0 lead in the first inning, when Kristin Hallam scored off of an RBI single from Sarah Edwards. When the Eagles came to bat in the top half of the second inning, they responded with fireworks. Brittany McGuire put FGCU on the board with a solo shot, tying the game at one. A pair of doubles plated the Eagles two more runs, and Hofstra pitcher Sarah Cornell was yanked in favor of freshman Sophie Dandola. By the time the Pride got to bat in the home half of the second inning, it was 3-1 Eagles. Hofstra was held in check until the sixth inning, when Devyn Losco came into the game as a pinch-hitter and
laced a triple into left field. Michaela Transue laid down a bunt single to drive Losco home, but the Pride couldn’t push the tying run across, leaving two runners on base. In the seventh inning, Hofstra went down in order to end the game. Cornell took the loss, dropping her record to 5-4 on the season. Dandola pitched 5.1 scoreless innings of relief, only allowing one hit and striking out four. Florida Gulf Coast pitched by committee, with Morgan White earning the win in relief. After the five-game tournament, Hofstra’s record now stands at 10-7. Hofstra will take a week off before welcoming Fordham University to Bill Edwards Stadium in the Pride’s home opener on March 13 at 3 p.m.
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CAA Preview: Hofstra faces long odds in quest for title By Kevin Carroll S P O RT S E D I TO R
Everybody loves an underdog. In sports, and in March especially, people always seem to gravitate towards those scrappy longshot teams who defy impossible odds and pull off remarkable feats. Starting on Wednesday evening in Philadelphia, the Hofstra women’s basketball team will look to write their own underdog story by shocking the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) and earning the program’s first-ever spot in the NCAA Tournament. However, it may not be the most plausible of scenarios for the Pride. The team enters the CAA tourney having lost 10 of their last 11 games, most recently falling 58-54 on the road at Northeastern University on Sunday afternoon. Factor in the fact that the Pride are without Ashunae Durant, who was the team’s leading scorer and rebounder as well as a preseason AllCAA first teamer, and things are looking pretty bleak for
Hofstra heading into the tournament. But anyone who considers themselves a basketball fan will tell you that, in March, everybody’s slates get wiped clean. Hofstra has to look to the future, and not dwell on the past, to have any chance of success in the CAA tourney. It’s all about taking it one game at a time and the seventh-seeded Pride opened up tournament action on Wednesday against the 10thseeded College of Charleston. Charleston is the only team that Hofstra managed to sweep in the regular season, and there’s no reason to think Hofstra shouldn’t topple the Cougars for a third time. Of course, both of those wins came with Durant in the starting lineup, so it’s hard to really gauge what those two wins would have looked like without her on the floor. The Pride will have to contain Tanisha Brown, who scored in the double-digits both times these two teams clashed this year. In both of these two teams’ prior meetings, Olivia Askin
Cam Keough / Hofstra Chronicle Olivia Askin leads Hofstra this season with 66 three-pointers made.
had the hot hand for the Pride. She averaged 16.5 points per game, and was a perfect 11-11 from beyond the arc against the Cougars. That kind of production will be crucial in this first-round matchup, and in a potential quarterfinal matchup with James Madison University (JMU). Askin has cooled off down the stretch this year, but the Pride are going to need her to find the stroke from deep again in order to survive. Three-point shooting is one of the biggest factors in a tournament setting like this, and Hofstra’s going to need Askin, along with Aleana Leon and Boogie Brozoski, to knock down the deep ball on a consistent basis to keep up with the CAA’s elite. A win over Charleston would get Hofstra into the quarterfinals, with secondseeded James Madison waiting for them. The Dukes will be fresher than the Pride, and swept the two regular season matchups. This may very well be where the Pride’s season comes to an end, as the Dukes look to have too much firepower for Hofstra to hang with. There have been some stellar offensive performances out of individual players on this team, but the Pride are going to have to put it all together to have a chance against the Dukes. Against a team like JMU, Hofstra will have to lean more on their offense. Defensively, Hofstra has been primarily solid all season, and the Dukes’ offense isn’t as loaded as it’s been in years past. But if the chips all fall the right way and Hofstra finds itself in the semifinals, the script will be flipped. Hofstra would be taking on either Elon or William & Mary. Both of those teams possess some of the best offenses in the CAA, with Elon first and William & Mary third in total offense. The Phoenix, in particular, average almost seven more points per game than any other team in the conference. Elon is also the defending champ, and
Cam Keough / Hofstra Chronicle Boogie Brozoski has been Hofstra’s leading scorer in CAA competi-
come into Philadelphia riding a 10-game winning streak. The Pride will have to play their best defense of the season no matter who they face here. Losing Durant in the post has led to a dip in rebounding, but Marianne Kalin and Mikiyah Croskey have been good on the defensive end this season. It’s tough to imagine a Hofstra team that only runs about six or seven players deep, playing a third game in three days, to make much noise here. When you factor in Drexel University waiting on the other side of the bracket, Hofstra would potentially have to take down the top three seeds in the CAA in order to win the whole thing. It’s a tall order for any team, let alone a short-handed team like the Pride. Hofstra lost sharpshooter Ana Hernandez Gil in the preseason, and Durant midway through CAA play. Leon’s been playing banged up all season long; this team knows a thing or two about taking bumps.
Bumps build character, and this team has character in spades. It just may not be enough to will this team to a title. Way back in early November, Hofstra was picked seventh in the CAA preseason polls. This ranking didn’t sit well with the Pride, feeling like they deserved to be closer to the top. Entering the CAA tournament on Wednesday, the Pride are slotted right where the media picked them to be, at the No. 7 seed. With that in mind, Hofstra’s got one last shot to prove they belong, and with only one way to do it: flipping the CAA on its head, and busting the bracket. It won’t be easy, and the odds are astronomically against the Pride. But with a little luck, and a little bit of that madness that seems to float in the air each and every March, Hofstra has a chance to shock the world, and to write the ultimate underdog story.
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Talley’s record-tying night sends Hofstra home early By Jordan Sawyer STAFF W R I T E R
The Hofstra men’s basketball team’s season came to an end in a 93-88 loss to the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) at the quarterfinals of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) tournament Sunday night in Charleston. “It’s the time of the year where more things could go wrong than right,” said Hofstra head coach Joe Mihalich. “This is a great group of guys that overachieved ... right now we’re just heartbroken.” The Pride finished the season with a 19-12 record, improving from last season’s 15-17 mark. Jordon Talley carried the Seahawks to victory behind a CAA Tournament recordtying 37 points on 12-for-23 shooting. Hofstra was on the losing end of the other 37-point performance as well, when Marcus Thornton sent the Pride packing in the 2015 CAA
semifinals. Justin Wright-Foreman dropped 29 points in the last game of his junior season to lead the Pride in scoring. The CAA Player of the Year hit seven three-pointers and compiled a highlight reel of circus shots. Both teams were physical right out of the gate when Hofstra was able to get UNCW’s star Devontae Cacok into trouble early on with two fouls in the first two minutes. Hofstra began the game on a 4-0 run but quickly fell behind 12-4 in the early minutes of the first half. With the nation’s leading rebounder on the bench, the Pride poured in shots from beyond the arch to jump out to a 34-24 lead. Hofstra led by 12 with two minutes remaining in the first half, but Talley kept the Seahawks within striking distance behind a pair of threepointers. Talley hit a three-pointer at the buzzer to head into the
locker room with a game-high 19 points as the Pride held a 48-40 lead. The Seahawks scored quickly on their first two possessions of the second half to make it a four-point game but the sharp shooting of Wright-Foreman kept Hofstra ahead. Ty Taylor and Talley relentlessly drilled shots from deep with a hand in their face as the Seahawks regained the lead with 11:52 left in the regulation. Wright-Foreman hit backto-back threes, connecting on a four-point play on the latter, to give the Pride a 74-73 lead with 5:40 remaining. Rokas Gustys scored his final career points on a tip-in that gave Hofstra their last lead of the season at 79-77. Hofstra had the ball with 22 seconds remaining in a 91-88 game and the opportunity to tie the game, but Desure Buie’s three pointer came up short. Buie finished with 20 points to go along with Wright-
Cam Keough / Hofstra Chronicle Justin Wright-Foreman scored a team-high 29 points in Sunday’s loss.
Foreman’s 29 and Jalen Ray’s 16 bench points, but they were overmatched by the play of Talley and Cacok (17 points, nine rebounds).
UNCW fell to Northeastern University in the semifinals of the CAA Tournament on Monday night.
Hofstra wraps up regular season with road loss
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In the Pride’s last game before the CAA tournament, the women’s basketball team fell to the Northeastern University Huskies 58-54 Saturday in Boston. The season finale was Hofstra’s second loss to Northeastern in three games, losing by
Cam Keough / Hofstra Chronicle Aleana Leon averaged 10 points on the season for the Pride.
five in the first game and four in the second. With star player Jess Genco returning from an ankle injury, Northeastern was packed with ammunition that Hofstra had not seen this season. Genco’s impact was visible from the start: early on she was picking her spots offensively and dishing to open teammates that converted on open looks. She finished with a team-high 17 points and six assists. Gabby Giacone was one of the beneficiaries for the Huskies, finishing the game with 16 points on 6-13 shooting. Giacone also had a big day on the glass, grabbing 10 rebounds alongside Loren Lassiter who grabbed 12. “We got crushed on the boards. We were gambling on some aspects, playing off of Lassiter at times, and therefore it was hard to recover back. That was the gameplan so Giacone couldn’t have a field day,” said Hofstra head coach Krista Kilburn-Steveskey.
Hofstra’s focus on Giacone allowed Lassiter to thrive on the glass, as missed shots coming her way resulted in easy second chance shots and drawn fouls. Northeastern outrebounded the Pride on offensive boards 18-6, giving them second chance opportunities that ended up greatly hurting Hofstra. Offensively, the Pride had trouble mustering up anything. Although Boogie Brozoski scored a game-high 19 points, not much production came from elsewhere. Olivia Askin went 1-8 from beyond the arc, with E’Lexus Davis only going 1-6 from the field. Despite coming back from a 14-point deficit in the third quarter, the five-point margin Hofstra got did not shrink due to the inability to convert on opportunities offensively. “We went dry. We had some absolutely wide-open looks. On the other end we went for a while holding them. It was a five-point margin for a long
time,” Kilburn-Steveskey said. Despite the inefficiencies, Aleana Leon managed to get on the board with 11 points while both Marianne Kalin and Mikiyah Croskey finished with eight points and combined for nine rebounds. “I thought we played hard, but as I explained to them, the margin of error is small. And we had undisciplined times by different people,” KilburnSteveskey said. The Pride will face off against the College of Charleston to kick off the tournament. The opening round will be on March 7 at 4:30 p.m.
Back Cover: Men’s basketball gets knocked out early in the CAA Tournament.
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March 6, 2018
The One That Got Away Men’s basketball knocked out of CAA quarterfinals by No. 6 UNCW on Sunday
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