The Quadrangle, Fall 2022 Issue 8

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Underpaid and Overworked: The Truth About Adjuncts at MC

Zoe DeFazio and Rebecca Kranich Asst. Arts and Entertainment Editor & Asst. Social Media Editor

Men’s Basketball Makes Fiery Entrance

Introducing the Aimeeand Michael Kakos ’58 School of Science

and Mary Haley Assistant News Editor

Staff Writer

The School of Science has received a $15 million donation from Aimee and Michael Ka kos ‘58 and is being formally renamed to the Kakos School of Science to honor the donors.

The gift will be divided into various categories and used to support a wide range of learning and research opportunities for students and faculty. Namely, it aims to enhance the educational opportunities available to stu dents pursuing an undergraduate

STEM degree. The donation will also help to cover certain expens es to update facilities and lab equipment.

According to manhattan. edu, “The gift will provide needsbased academic scholarships for students…scholarships for students to study abroad and the funds to support the research and scientific discovery interests of undergraduate students. It will provide grants to support innova tive academic and research ideas, projects within the School of Sci ence.”

Michael Kakos earned his bachelor of science degree in chemistry from MC in 1958. He was later awarded a fellowship at Niagara University where he earned his master of science de

gree in chemistry as well. Fol lowing this fellowship, he earned a master of science in industrial engineering from the Stevens In stitute of Technology.

Further, according to manhat tan.edu, he earned several foreign and domestic patents in sales and marketing. He spent time trav eling before moving to London, where he settled for over four de cades.

Kakos also founded Resin Express in 1987, which supplied engineering thermoplastic raw materials to major consumers. Eventually in 1997, the Kakos’ sold the company and focused more on their philanthropic ef

As Manhattan College wel comed in new administrative faculty, a long-standing faculty crisis regarding adjunct pro fessors continues to grip the community. Overshadowed by the pandemic, students are left with little information regard ing the truth of the situation.

The college struggles to find faculty willing to work for low pay rates, as low as just under $4,000 per three-credit class. Comparatively, adjuncts at CUNY are paid at least $5,500 per three-credit class.

Before the start of the se mester, Pamela Chasek, chair person of the political science department, discussed with Manhattan College administra tion the difficulties of finding adjuncts with proper creden tials under the current wages.

“I raised this issue with him [Provost Clyde], at the begin ning of the semester because I was having trouble finding adjuncts. I needed last minute ones that I hadn’t planned on, and I was having a lot of trou ble. One of the biggest prob lems was that we don’t pay much and it’s tough to get peo ple if they can earn more else where,” Chasek said.

Jeff Horn, a professor in the history department, expe rienced similar issues during his time as chair, which ended in 2015.

“It was a very difficult thing to find quality adjuncts and cer tainly keep them and we try very hard to limit the number

of courses we offer to limit the number of adjuncts. We spend a lot of time thinking about ‘al right, we can only offer X num ber, let’s use them to our best ability,’” Horn said.

In instances where classes are canceled due to the inability to find professors, students re ceive the short end of the stick. This is a constant issue depart ment chairs juggle, choosing between unqualified professors or class cancellations.

“The question that every department has is: do we offer fewer classes and just not deal with adjuncts? Do you cancel classes because you just can’t find people to teach them? Or do you just teach with what you have?” Chasek said.

Helene Tyler, the chair of the mathematics department, expressed her dedication to consider adjunct faculty in de partmental issues.

“This department works extremely hard to show our adjunct faculty that we respect them as professionals,” Tyler said. “Our adjunct faculty who are teaching these [entry lev el] courses have a voice which is counted just as much as the full time faculty voices in the creation of the common final exam. That doesn’t make up for being paid properly, but it’s the best that we can offer people.”

According to Tyler, 47.5% of all classes in the math de partment are taught by ad junct faculty. During the 20212022 academic year, 37.9% of those classes were taught by adjuncts. Currently, the math department employs over 18 adjuncts to teach a wide range

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The Editorial Board

Kyla Guilfoil Editor-in-Chief

Caroline McCarthy Managing Editor

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Angelina Persaud Asst. News Editor

Zoe DeFazio Asst. Arts & Entertainment Editor

Karen Flores Asst. Features Editor

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Rebecca Kranich Asst. Social Media Editor

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Jocelyn Visnov Production Editors

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Jilleen Barrett Managing Editor

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Jilleen Barrett Features Editor

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Kelly Kennedy Social Media Editor

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LETTER from the EDITOR

Dear Readers,

Welcome to November! I hope you all had an amazing Hallow een and Halloweekend filled with friends, great costumes and fun. We were able to compile some photos of you all looking your best this weekend, so make sure to check out that spread in this issue!

We’ve had a busy week here at Manhattan College, with Man hattan Madness, the news of head basketball coach Steve Masiello’s shocking termination and Open House on campus over the weekend.

We have a packed issue this weekend, so make sure to dive into all the latest coverage from the last week at Manhattan. We will contin ue to stay on these stories, so don’t forget to visit us online at mcquad. org for the latest updates.

Sincerely,

Kyla Guilfoil

Nicholas Gilewicz Faculty Advisor

About The Quadrangle

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Editor-in-Chief Manhattan Caucus: Why Do the Midterm Elections Matter?

Kyla Guilfoil Editor-in-Chief

Midterm elections in the Unit ed States are historically covered less in the press, have lower voter turnout and less general visibility than presidential elections. To put it simply, the data suggests most people don’t really care about the midterms.

This year, however, is not like the rest.

Already, more than 17 mil lion people have cast their votes via early voting or absentee bal lots in the 2022 midterm elec tions, according to data analyzed by the University of Florida’s U.S. Elections Project.

The 2022 midterm elections have been a hot topic for months across the country, and partic ularly in the key swing states of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, Florida, Nevada, North Carolina and Ohio.

The stakes for these state’s elections are linked to pressing issues across the country, namely abortion, inflation, crime and ex tremism.

As of Oct. 28, FiveThirtyE ight has predicted the Republi cans have a four in five chance of taking control of the House of Representatives, while there is a dead heat for the power of the Senate.

Just last month, the Demo crats had a slight edge in the Sen ate, but that gap is now razor thin. Whichever party takes two of the three tightest races on Election

Night will likely take power of the Senate, FiveThirtyEight proj ects.

Changing powers in Con gress will determine the success of President Biden’s agenda. Historically, the president’s party suffers during the midterm elec tions, but Biden is under heavy criticism after his first two years.

As of Oct. 28, 52.9% of Americans disapprove of Biden, just below Donald Trump’s 55.2% disapproval rating in 2018, FiveThirtyEight reports. Com paratively, Barack Obama ran a 44.2% and 48.1% disapproval rating in his two midterm election seasons.

Biden has pledged to codify Roe if Democrats take the Senate and maintain power in the House, as well as crack down on gun laws. There’s also a focus by the Democrats to continue addressing Jan. 6 and limiting the power of the president as Trump faces on going investigations.

Meanwhile, Republicans have pledged to cut down on in flation, reduce crime and address immigration reform. Republicans have also emphasized launching a probe into Biden’s son, Hunt er Biden, business dealings with Ukraine.

Beyond national legislation, the upcoming elections pose criti cal opportunities for state legisla tures.

In several states, the elec tion for governor is grabbing the attention of voters. Even in New York, where the governor is most always Democrat, Republican Lee Zeldin is giving interim gov

ernor Kathy Hocul a closer run than expected.

According to Quinnipiac University’s most recent poll in October, Hocul leads Zeldin by a 50-46 margin, much closer than experts anticipated.

Zeldin, who is a congress man from Long Island, has fo cused his campaign on issues of crime and inflation. Hochul, who also has also focused on address ing abortion and immigration, has shifted her campaign to focus on more on crime and inflation.

In Georgia, the race for gov ernor is gaining major attention as incumbent Republican Brian Kemp is currently leading Dem ocrat Stacey Abrams.

Abrams, who lost her cam paign for governor against Kemp in 2018, is currently running be hind in the polls at 45.7% of the vote, according to FiveThirtyE ight.

Kemp’s campaign boasts a record of reopening businesses amid the COVID pandemic, link ing lower unemployment rates and a budget surplus to his deci sion.

Abrams has criticized Kemp’s decision to sign a bill banning after six weeks of preg nancy, with exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother.

With record-high inflation, the historic overturning of Roe v. Wade in June, rising levels of crime and ongoing political ex tremism, the upcoming midterm elections will have a lasting im pact on major issues.

Will you vote?

Underpaid and Overworked: The Truth About Adjuncts at MC

of classes. Tyler emphasized the effort she makes to provide students with instructors for courses.

“One of my colleagues and I spent more than 100 hours each this summer, looking to hire eight new adjuncts so that we wouldn’t have to cancel courses,” Tyler said.

The recently re-appointed interim provost, William Clyde, told The Quadrangle he recog nizes the crucial role adjunct professors play within the insti tution and what Manhattan Col lege does to aid them in their careers.

“Adjuncts provide an im portant service and are part of our community,” Clyde said. “I’m working on trying to get that [salaries] increased. We also engage adjuncts in a lot of other ways. We do an orienta tion for them at the beginning of the term. We provide laptop loaners and we invite them to participate in faculty devel

opment. We have workshops on how to be a better teacher, how to further your career and things like that. So we definite ly try to engage them in a lot of different parts of campus life.”

Chasek explained that the issues caused by the low pay runs deeper than fair treatment for adjunct faculty. Chasek shares her recent experience in the hiring process.

“This has now become an economic issue, not just an eq uity issue, we can’t work [with] paying so low, we can’t get decent people to teach in the classroom,” Chasek said. “The one [candidate] who I really liked, I told him, ‘here’s the sal ary and I recognize it’s low; the provost is looking at it and I’m hoping he will increase it for the spring.’ I said ‘beyond that, I can’t promise anything more. But I can promise nice col leagues and great students.’”

In regards to the wages for adjuncts, the salary slightly increases with higher educa tional credentials; however, for adjuncts looking for a ten

ure-track position, the process includes more than having a Ph.D.

“There’s the three legged stool for tenure, and it con sists of teaching, research and service to the institution. This is a universal thing and every institution determines its own balance among those three to determine their priorities” Ty ler said.

However, Clyde expressed that not all adjuncts want ten ure. Some are professionals in the work force and teach on the side.

“Our adjunct pool is really dynamic and it’s really diverse. We have some adjuncts who [teach]. That’s what they do for a living, they teach with us and they teach other places,” Clyde said.

Clyde emphasized the con cept of shared governance regarding the decision to hire new faculty.

“The administration plays the most significant role in deciding where new lines are going and deciding which po

sitions are going to be there,” Clyde said. “The faculty are the ones that post the position. They do the main interview process and I’m just in the con versation, and then they make a recommendation.”

However, the administra tion holds the power to give the green light to start the hiring process, which has slowed in recent years.

“I have an ad ready to hire someone for Dr. Downie’s line because she’s retiring at the end of this year. I found out last October. I put in a request and the response was ‘Oh, no. We have to let you know,’” Chasek said. “Right before Provost Sch reiner left. He approved four of the eight lines requested in the school of Liberal Arts. I was afraid our lines might be given to another place, but I was told they were frozen, which means they haven’t been taken. So, we still have her line that I need to fill.”

A full year later, Chasek has yet to receive permission to start the hiring process.

Clyde is aware of the state of the frozen lines, stating that this is a result of the pandemic.

“During the COVID-19 pe riod, there was a lot of freezing of lines to see where we ended up,” Clyde said. “There have definitely been a lot of unfreez ing of positions happening both to faculty and other lines. We are making sure that we have the people that we need to teach the classes and do all the other things that we need done at Manhattan College.”

The expectations to resolve ongoing issues puts pressure on the administration. None theless, the college communi ty remains hopeful for future change.

“I think that the fact that there was so much difficulty in hiring adjuncts for this semes ter has brought new impetus to the question, and I am extreme ly confident that the adminis tration will do something. The question is whether it will be adequate,” Horn said.

Introducing the Aimee and Michael Kakos ’58 School of Science

forts to education and their re spective alma maters.

Kevin Courtney, the director of capital campaign at Manhattan College, oversees the donation process and monetary contribu tions alumni make to the college.

Courtney spoke on his collabora tion with the Kakos’ and manag ing the donation.

“Over the course of the years I have been running the cam paign, [the Kakos’] have been involved in the campaign with a number of different projects that they’ve been funding and an en dowed chair of science,” Court ney said. “They really want to encourage students to take advan tage of study abroad opportuni ties…because they’ve [lived] in ternationally for so many years.”

Marcy Peteroy-Kelly, Ph.D., dean of the School of Science, spoke on what this donation rep resents for the School of Science, and the vision she has planned for the Kakos School of Science in five years.

“I am elated to have this sup port as we attempt to grow our school,” Peteroy-Kelly wrote in an email to The Quadrangle. “[In five years], the Kakos School of Science [will be] a vibrant com munity of student and faculty scholars working together to advance cutting-edge research, teaching and learning. Funding from the Kakos’ will help us ob tain our vision.”

Peteroy-Kelly also provided

guidance for students who wish to take advantage of these fund ing opportunities.

“Students should reach out to faculty who work on projects they are interested in to see if they have open research positions for the summer,” Peteroy-Kelly wrote.

Tahiya Azad, a sophomore computer science major in the School of Science, explained how this donation will open up multi ple opportunities for students in the school of science.

“There’s a lot of research projects that students participate in over the summer, and we see that this funding will help them do more research and grow more academically and financially,” Azad said.

Azad also spoke on her per sonal experience with research opportunities.

“Last semester I went to my professor about doing research projects, and they said no, they already had five students and they cannot take more than five…but now I’m thinking, with this fund ing, they can give [more people] a chance to do research with them,” Azad said.

Fiona Galvin, a freshman biology major in the School of Science, spoke about her experi ence as a student and the impact she hopes to see as a result of the donation.

“I feel it’s a good opportunity, especially for clubs because I’m in the biology club, and we’re not really heavily funded. This new

funding, I feel like we can go on more field trips [and have] more community building,” Galvin said.

She also emphasized her de sire to pursue research opportu nities with the Jasper Summer Research Scholars in the future. The funding of student research opportunities is one of the core al locations of the Kakos’ donation.

“I’m very interested in learn ing about new topics because I recently went to the science re search scholars presentation, and I was looking at the presentations, and they’re really very in depth. And I want to be able to have that kind of knowledge,” Galvin said.

The Kakos’ have a long-held history of philanthropy and sup porting education through various channels, including scholarships and other monetary donations.

According to manhattan.edu, the Kakos’ have funded the Mi chael and Aimee Rusinko Kakos Study Abroad Scholarship and the Endowed Scholarship for Car dinal Hayes High School. They have also initiated the naming of the Kakos’ Center for Scientif ic Computing in Hayden Hall at MC and have a site in Kelly Com mons dedicated to their names.

The Kakos’ top priority for their donation is so that it can be used to give back to the Manhat tan College community and aim for excellence in the school.

Michael Kakos specified these means in his speech from Thursday, Oct. 20, during the dedication ceremony for the re

naming of the School of Science.

“Our philanthropy at Man hattan College continues to target scholarship aid for young, worthy students of modest means, re sources to support and strengthen excellence in teaching and learn ing and research enhanced facili ties to better prepare graduates for the technology-driven workplace of today and tomorrow,” Kakos said.

Kakos also shared the senti ment about the personal connec tion he’s felt to the college and the hope he sees in the future of the college and School of Sci

ence.

“Manhattan College has been the educational love of my life. It is our pleasure to give back to Manhattan College where I received my college education, and I consider it the most valu able thing that I own. The ‘Aimee and Michael Kakos ‘58 School of Science at Manhattan College’ is our legacy. May all of its future students be inspired by the ded icated administration,faculty, and staff which is the hallmark of this great institution,” Kakos wrote in an email to The Quadrangle.

Aimee and Michael Kakos, donors and namesake of the School of Science.

TheLWGRCCelebratesits4thBirthdaywiththeOpening ofthe‘It’sonUs’Chapter

Karen Flores Asst. Features editor

The LWGRC celebrated its fourth birthday along with the launch of Manhattan College’s new It’s On Us chapter on Oct 19.

According to the It’s On Us website, the national cam paign was founded in Septem ber 2014 by the Obama-Biden White House that “has grown into the nation’s largest non profit program dedicated to college sexual assault preven tion and survivor support ac tivating students on hundreds of campuses in our awareness and education programs.”

Evelyn Scaramella, co-di rector of the LWGRC and as sociate professor of Spanish in the department of Modern Lan guages and Literatures, said that being able to celebrate the LWGRC’s 4th birthday along with the launch of the chapter on campus shows the tremen dous growth the center has gone through.

“We wanted to launch It’s On Us during the fourth ‘birth day party,’ so to speak, because we think it’s an incredibly im portant new initiative within the campus,” Scaramella said. “In the grand scheme of things, four years is not a long time, but we’re proud that we’ve grown as much as we have and to be

reaching more students on campus and becoming a more diverse and inclusive space.”

Scaramella believes that having an It’s On Us chapter on campus would allow for more students to interact with each other at the LWGRC while also providing a constant place for survivors of sexual assault to share their stories and provide feedback to ensure they get their needs met.

“We needed another kind of club that is a more regular dayto-day, on the ground organiza tion where students can come to the LWGRC and work in partnership with the LWGRC to meet the particular needs of student survivors so that we can tailor our programming to address those needs,” Scara mella said.

Kate Behrens, a senior En glish and sociology major, is co-director of the It’s On Us chapter. She is also involved in Take Back the Night and is the leader of MeToo Mondays, a student led support group for people who are survivors of sexual violence. She hopes that the new chapter will allow for survivors to feel like they have support and are not alone.

“It’s just something that I’m passionate about, you know, being a survivor myself. I want people to know that they’re not alone. So, I think that’s why I wanted to get involved with

starting a chapter here,” said Behrens.

Behrens also emphasized that the LWGRC is an import ant part of the chapter and is happy to see the success the center has had as a whole.

“They [LWGRC] are our sponsor. We’re allowed to hold meetings and the office. A lot of their interns are also on our board. So they definitely have played a really important part in all of this,” Behrens ex pressed. “I’m pretty happy to see the success of the center. Their success has led them to continue with their work.”

Ciara Dalton, senior psy chology major with a minor in business is co-director with Behrens. Dalton believes that having the LWGRC on campus is a good resource for all stu dents.

“I know that having [the LWGRC] has been a really important resource to every one on campus,” said Dalton. “There are people who have gone in there just to hang out and do homework and have gone in there to get advice and relationships to go to different events and series where they can learn about various passion projects that the interns are working on.”

Dalton has been working on a project with the LWGRC that involves the creation of a survey that allows students to

share their experiences with re porting to Title IX about sexual assault on campus. With this, she hopes to be able to create a committee that can educate people about the Title IX poli cies while also referring them to resource services if needed.

“I’m hoping to create a sur vivor support committee to just be a committee full of faculty or students to help support students after they report that way they have access to people that know about the Title IX policies,” Dalton said. “They can also refer them to resourc es and counseling services that may not be on campus but may be virtual or not through our counseling center through peo ple who specialize in helping people that have been sexually

assaulted, abused or harassed.”

Dalton hopes that with the establishment of this chapter and other programs there will be a chance for both students and survivors to work towards creating change in regard to sexual assault.

“I’m hoping that with this chapter, we can get people to be a part of this advocacy and of this change that so many other colleges are doing,” Dal ton said. “I think it’s important for us to also join the fight and be a part of it. And to also be a safe space for people wheth er you’re a survivor or not, and want to make a difference.”

To get involved with It’s On Us or get information about the chapter, contact their instagram page @itsonus_mcchapter.

ChristieGonzálezToro,theTrailblazingJasperofAlumniHall

Jilleen Barrett Managing Editor/Features Editor

Christie González Toro came to the United States with a plan to obtain a Ph.D. in phys ical education teaching and ad ministration, and then return to her home country of Puerto Rico to be a professor. Luckily for kinesiology majors at Man hattan College, González Toro decided to teach here instead.

“To teach in Puerto Rico at a college level, you need a doctorate degree outside of the country,” González Toro said. “They want professors to bring innovative things from out of the country instead of staying local, in the island.”

Keeping her goal in mind, González Toro completed her master’s degree at the Uni versity of Puerto Rico, mak ing history as the first person to receive that degree in the university’s history. She then moved to the United States and worked as a physical trainer in New Jersey to improve her En glish before applying to doctor ate programs.

While doing so, she went to conferences to make con nections with other people in her field, something she had started doing while she ob

tained her bachelor’s degree a few years beforehand. At one of these conferences, she learned more about the doctoral pro gram at Springfield College, a school she says felt the most welcoming out of all the others she applied to. She says this was important to her because English was her second lan guage.

There, she met Kate Bow en ’14, who was working as the head softball coach at Spring field. Bowen told her about an opportunity to teach at MC after finishing the doctoral pro gram. Skeptical of the possibili ty of working in Times Square, González Toro was pleased to find out that MC was located in Riverdale.

González Toro was espe cially eager to work here once she met with Shawn Ladda, Ph.D. during the final rounds of interviews for the position.

“[Ladda] saw me and with out knowing me, she just gave me a hug,” González Toro said.

The positive feelings be tween the two are still strong five years later.

“Dr. González is a con summate professional,” Ladda wrote in an email to The Quadrangle. “She is an excel lent colleague, dedicated to the department and a valued member across the college.

Dr. González-Toro’s teaching, research, and service is accom plished and she greatly impacts her students. She serves as a super role model, especially to our growing HIspanic student population. I love working with Dr. Christie González-Toro!”

As of this year, GonzálezToro now has multiple con nections within the Springfield and Jasper communities. One of her students, Zach Olivan ’22, followed in her footsteps by attending the Massachu setts-based university to re ceive his master’s in athletic counseling. Olivan wrote in an email to The Quadrangle that González-Toro significantly in fluenced him as both his pro fessor and as the advisor of Phi Epsilon Kappa, the kinesiology honor society.

“At one point, my atten dance at Springfield College was a simple conversation we had outside of [GonzálezToro’s] office in Alumni Hall; now it has manifested into my reality,” Olivan wrote. “With the support and guidance from Dr. Gonzalez-Toro, along with many others in the kinesiol ogy department, I am fortu nate enough to experience an education at the school I’ve dreamed of attending for the last two years.”

González-Toro was signifi

cantly influenced by someone to pursue her own dreams: her grandmother, Maria Cristina Camilo, who was the first fe male announcer and actress in the history of Dominican radio and television. She told The Quadrangle her grandmother’s courage to apply for a job that no woman had ever done be fore is what motivates her.

She spoke about this in spiration in speeches at a cel ebration for Hispanic Heritage Month as well as the fall honors convocation, where she con gratulated this year’s class of inductees into Epsilon Sigma Pi on their accomplishments. In the latter speech, she empha sized how important it is for ev eryone to express gratitude to those who helped them achieve that goal.

“Regardless of the jour ney that you had to endure to be here today, we all have so many things in life to be grate ful for,” González-Toro said. “Therefore, the message that I will deliver is about a simple but powerful word: gratitude. In Spanish: gratitud. It even sounds similar in both languag es. Gratitude is a powerful hu man emotion that is defined as having a thankful appreciation for what we have.”

Her message has certainly affected students like Olivan,

who expressed the gratitude he carries for González-Toro even after leaving her classroom.

“Dr. Gonzalez-Toro, wheth er she realized it or not, said five words to me after class one day,” Olivan wrote. “She said to me, ‘Keep going. Keep being you.’ I have carried these words with me every day and they continue to influence how I live my daily life.”

Students celebrate the LWGRC’s 4th birthday and the launch of the Its On Us chapter. EVELYN SCSRAMELLA/COURTESY

Christie González-Toro, PhD. was chosen to speak at this year’s fall honors convocation.

CUPPEK PHOTO LLC/ COURTESY

PresentsWAGSBrownBag:AliJames‘23 ResearchontheDangersof Microaggressions

Mary Haley Staff Writer

Alixandria James, a senior at Manhattan College, brought to light important issues at her research presentation, named “The Impact of Racial Battle Fatigue on Individuals of Color at Predominantly White Insti tutions and its Contributions to Health Disparities in Stress-Re lated Disease.” The Women and Gender Studies (WAGS) Brown Bag event was held in the Alumni Room of O’Malley Library on Wednesday, Oct. 26.

Nefertiti Takla, Ph.D, start ed off the event by introducing James and highlighting some of her accomplishments such as being the first Manhattan College student to earn a Tru man Scholarship, and working as an outreach intern for a New York City hospital. James also works as an intern at the Lasallian Women and Gender Research Center (LWGRC) on campus, where she developed her research over this past summer.

“Ali is passionate about mit igating racial disparities and promoting equity,” Takla said.

James started her presen tation by explaining how stress affects all people, and that our health can pay due to height ened levels of stress. Discrim ination among different ethnic and racial groups can be sus ceptible to more stress than others, which is a “key factor in chronic stress related health disparities,” James said.

James defined microag gressions as, “a subtle, uncon

scious or intentional comment that is typically made to a person of color.” She focused her research on the effects of microaggressions at predomi nantly white institutions of col lege campuses.

“Ethnic minority students are more likely to attend pre dominantly white institutions as opposed to historically Black colleges solely because of the accessibility,” James said. “Only about three percent of colleges in America are historically Black institutions … because of this … ethnic minorities are more likely to be the recipient of discrimination, which leads to a negative campus climate.”

James then transitioned into “racial battle fatigue,” which she described as the “physical, mental and emotional stress of coping with a constant stream of microaggressions and overt racism for people of color.” She also explained that being a part of many different mi norities can make the effect of racial battle fatigue even more severe, and can eventually lead to the deterioration of an indi vidual’s physical and mental health. When people of color are met with microaggressions constantly without confronting them, racial battle fatigue can occur, which is especially seen within predominantly white in stitutions.

In addition to this research, James created multiple graphs with this data, one of them be ing named “The Gendered-Ra cial/Ethnic Minoritization Model,” a study created to “dis play how intersectional com ponents of one’s identity may

combine, contributing to great er racial battle fatigue severity.” James showed this model in her presentation.

James created another mod el showing the survey results of Manhattan College students and faculty this past summer, called the “Racial Battle Fatigue Survey,” which was composed of around forty questions about psychological, physiological and behavioral responses to ra cial battle fatigue. Additionally, James asked the community about their experiences with microaggressions and how fre quent they happen.

With this research, James showed two graphs and their correlations. The first graph showed a weak correlation be tween microaggressions and racial battle fatigue in white in dividuals, while the other graph explained prevalence of micro aggressions. In Black individ uals, there was a significantly higher correlation between the frequency of microaggression and racial battle fatigue score. James explained that these two results are supported by litera ture, meaning that this is a real and prevalent problem in the Manhattan College community,

but one that can be fixed.

James made known the resources the college already has in place to improve equity, mainly being the Bias Educa tion and Response System.

“The Bias Education and Response System is for stu dents and faculty administra tors… [It] basically takes a look at extensive bias and tries to approach them with an edu cational as opposed to a puni tive solution,” James said. “Any student … has the opportunity to fill out a form, so if you wit ness an incident of bias … this is an anonymous way to go ahead and report that.”

Evelyn Scaramella, Ph.D., director of the LWGRC, spoke with The Quadrangle on why talking about these matters are so important, and what it will hopefully bring to the College.

“We need measurable data around how our students and people of color on campus are affected by microaggressions and institutional racism. I think [the presentation] is only posi tive in the sense that it identi fies what people’s experiences are and offers interventions towards what we can do as a campus community to better

support people of color.”

Heather Parker, a fresh man business major, attended the presentation and spoke on why this issue is important to recognize and what she hopes the College will do with this in formation.

“The statistics were not what I was expecting and it is good to be informed on it. I hope the school can take this information and make it a com fortable space for [people of color].” Parker said.

James, a public health ma jor and management minor, hopes to expand her research by opening up the survey again and eventually go to graduate school to study this matter even more deeply.

“I think I want to look at a lot more predominantly white institutions,” she said. “A lot of students of color are going into [predominantly white in stitutions] because they are [more] accessible. So with that, and because there are serious health implications, the need for looking at this, it’s not just about wellbeing and sense of belonging. It’s really about peo ple’s health.”

Ali James, a senior at Manhattan College, brought to light important issues at her research presentation.

Students and faculty gathered in the alumni room of O’Malley Library to listen to Ali James present her summer research.

ThroughtheJasperLens

Adrianne Hutto Production Editor

Manhattan College Jaspers went all out this Halloween. Students from freshman was no absence of spirit this Halloween at MC.

Lens:Halloweekend

freshman to seniors were dressed head to toe in costume. With cowboys, celebrities and superheros, there

Photos Courtesy of: Adrianne Hutto

Jasper Jams: My Vibe Right Now

JASPER JAMS

Zoe DeFazio Asst. Arts and Entertainment Editor

Personally, I love fall. It’s my favorite month. I enjoy the leaves changing and the mod erate temperature. But as much as fall can be beautiful, at some point the vibe just gets weird. It’s getting too cold, but not as cold as winter, and the last leaf hasn’t yet fallen. It’s too cold at night for no blankets but too hot to get the super thick blan ket from the closet. This play list is all about being stuck and finding your groove as we navi gate the more complex months of fall.

Shirt - SZA

A Highly anticipated song that SZA has teased for an incredibly long amount of time. The song finally came out, and let me tell you, it is a game-changer. Not only does

this song make you want to put on leather clothes and dance, but the music video is absolute ly superb. SZA is by far one of my favorite artists and she nev er disappoints me and I know she will not disappoint you.

Cola - Camelphat & El derbrook

I heard the sped-up version on TikTok and I was like, “I could really like, listen to this while I take a shower,” and that’s what I do now. This song is ultimately the best song to wash your hair to. It’s fun and it’s poppy. You can’t help but feel the rhythm. It’s got good vibes and it has a nice overall tone to it.

Them Changes - Thun dercat

I remember a kid in high school told me to listen to Thun dercat and I thought he was ly ing about the name so I never paid attention, but I recently found out that Thundercat is a real artist. I know I am kind of late to board the Thundercat

train, but I heard this song on TikTok like many of the songs I find nowadays. This song is on my cleaning playlist so you can catch me jamming to this song while I mop my floor.

Didn’t Cha knowErykah Badu

This song has probably been in my life for as long as I can remember. This song gives me earth vibes. Most of Erykah Badu’s songs make me want to appreciate the grass. This song overall makes me want to roll around in the dirt and feel like Adam and Eve, just navigating the world with no guide.

Honey - Raveena

This song makes me think of my boyfriend. Our anniver sary was October 29 and the song has just been so beautiful, it has such a nice meaning to it and it’s all about romance and being in love. That’s what I’m about right now, because I just celebrated one year of being in a relationship and I am incred ibly happy.

Glory Box - Portishead

This song is something dif ferent. I heard this song two years ago and thought it was a remake of Alessia Cara’s song “Here,” but it turns out that Alessia Cara sampled it. Lis ten to this song while you’re doing your makeup, especially a sultry makeup look such as smokey eyes. I promise you you’ll feel like you’re in a book.

on since the Disney Channel days, but when she started breaking into the music scene I definitely thought there was going to be a bit of a pop vibe with her. But she’s definitely made it clear that she does not want to be a pop girl. I like her music and I definitely love this song. I love walking around campus while listening to this song with my headphones and pretending that I’m in a movie about being a businesswoman ready to crush the patriarchy.

Nails, Gals, & Details: Female Nail Artists Take Over The Bronx

Grace Cardinal Staff Writer

All around the Bronx area, female student nail artists are setting up businesses to ex plore their passions while get ting their degrees. With nail art trending on Instagram and Pinterest boards, there doesn’t seem to be a better time to set up shop in the industry.

Nail art has had a resur gence in popularity during the last ten years, however has always been an integral part of feminine culture and “girlworld” throughout history. There remains a rich culture surrounding nails, as a way for people to express themselves and their femininity, explained Bronx-based nail artist Shanya Soto, who goes by @infamous nails_ on Instagram.

“Wearing nails and nail designs has been a trend for years. I always remember my aunts and my mom wearing acrylic enhancements in the early 90s and I was always so fascinated with them. I think as time moves forward the nail industry, designs, and nail technicians continue to evolve, trends go in and out of style and we continue finding ways to ad vance them and make them our own,” said Soto, who is com pleting her master’s degree in early childhood education at

Grand Canyon University.

The history around nails is a deep one. African and Asian culture especially have long histories with nails, and used them in ancient times to rep resent wealth and social class. Manhattan College sophomore and nail artist Michaela Scully, who goes by @nb4snails on Instagram, explained her own research into the history.

“Long nails definitely stem from African culture. I did re search on the Chinese culture behind nails, and how red nails used to be a symbol of profani ty,” Scully said. “Red nails were saved for higher classes, oth erwise they would be seen as something out of the ordinary. It was not socially accepted to have these elegant colorful nails.”

Today, nails serve as a cre ative outlet for many, regard less of social standing.

“I feel like as a woman, es pecially getting your nails done, it’s so unique and creative. For my client, I’m able to encap sulate what they want,” Scul ly said. “It’s a way to express yourself and show who you are to the world, and say you don’t care about what anyone else thinks.”

The thought of doing your own nails can be daunting to many, however is a very attain able skill with patience. Muna Rahman, @nailedbymuna on in

stagram, is a Bronx based artist attending Hunter College. She shared her own experience get ting into nail art.

“I watched so many You Tube videos, reached out to whoever I could, and I kept practicing and practicing,” Rah man said. “When I first started, I thought I was amazing, but more than a year and half into doing nails, my work has defi nitely gotten better. I am still not there yet nor will I be any time soon! Practice makes im provement and I hope to per fect my craft even more and learn new skills whenever I can.”

Running a business while

still in school can be a daunting task, but balance is the key to preventing burnout and finding success.

“It is definitely hard man aging my social life and classes along with my business. Over time, I learned that I have to make sure that I separate the days I do nails from the days I have classes,” said Rahman. “I also leave Sundays free for my self just to take a break because we all need a self care day!”

Many of these artists start ed at a young age, however emphasized that it is never too late to start experimenting with doing nails.

“Practice makes perfect, so find your craft and make it your

specialty,” said Soto.

The experience has proved to be a rewarding one for the artists.

“The point of doing nails for me isn’t even about get ting paid, it’s about creating art that both me and my client are pleased by. I love making them feel more confident about themselves,” said Rahman.

Scully emphasized that her biggest lesson learned was pa tience with the craft.

“I cannot tell you the amount of times that I’ve messed up a set and totally did not want to do anything ever again,” Scul ly said. “Take your time with things, it’s okay to mess up. You just have to try again.”

A nail set by Shanya Soto, @infamousnail.

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Santus Artem Hosts Autumnal Art Events

Lauren Raziano Copy Editor/ Web Editor

With pumpkin painting for Halloween and illustra tion-making for Inkotber, Man hattan College’s Sanctus Artem club is in the fall spirit.

Santus Artem, translated to “pure arts” in Latin, is Manhat tan College’s art club run by President Sabrina Beharry and vice president Craig Chambers. Santus Artem currently hosts their club events on Tuesdays in DLS 209 at 4:30, and encour ages new members to come to their events.

Beharry wrote about how the club has found a new ex istence recently, especially fol lowing the COVID-19 pandem ic.

“When I first joined as a freshman the club was very small and a tight knit group but Craig and I were consis tent members that kept com ing back for events,” Beharry wrote in an email to The Quad rangle. “The president at the time was very dedicated to the club and that love was conta

gious to me as well. I missed the club’s presence on campus during Covid my sophomore year, so Craig and I, as well as Heather Sandler, our senior advisor, helped to bring it back our junior year.”

Santus Artem has been able to get members more involved since COVID. Beharry wrote that junior member and social media coordinator, Mario Min gone, is a passionate member in making the club more active.

“Our club Social Media Coordinator has been with the club since Day 1 at the club fair and it is clear he shares the same love for the club that we do. I am so glad to have seen our club grow and when I see the same familiar faces at each meeting, it makes me feel like we have continued the same tradition of the club we initially joined,” Beharry wrote.

Chambers expressed that he feels grateful for the commu nity that is Santus Artem.

“This club means a lot to me and it’s always been my goal to just make a relaxed environ ment to destress from school. Sometimes it’s not even about

the art we make, we just want people to have a nice time with friends.” Chambers wrote in an email to the Quadrangle.

Sanctus Artem hosted a fundraiser pumpkin event on Tuesday, Oct. 25 open to all members with the goal of rais ing money for their upcoming art show.

“The pumpkin painting was a smashing success. Plenty of people came by for the fund raising event and had a great time,” Chambers wrote.

Beharry also wrote about the pumpkin painting event.

“Pumpkin painting on Tues day was very fun. Our usual club members attended and were happy to help support the club for the upcoming art show,” Beharry wrote.

Victoria Pascale, a member of Sanctus Artem, had a great time with the pumpkin painting event.

“I really enjoyed the pump kin painting,” Pascale wrote

in an email to The Quadran gle. “It’s a great way to relieve stress when you’ve had a long day of studying and school work. I was planning on paint ing a purple and black pump kin, but I ended up mixing the purple and black which made a grayish blue color all over the pumpkin.”

Sanctus Artem also partic ipated in Inktober, an internet art trend which gives artists daily prompts to put their skills to use.

“Inktober is a creative draw ing challenge in which artists create an ink drawing, typically from pen, based on a prompt provided by that day of the month. Prompts range from ab stract ideas, like ‘uh-oh, scrape, tempting, and bluff’ to concrete ideas like, ‘fairy, gargoyle, bat, and flame.’ The drawing is all up to the artist’s interpretation of the prompt,” Beharry wrote.

The drawings from the Inktober event were posted on

Looking into the future, Santus Artem will be hosting their first art show ever this se mester and plans to display the work next week.

“The show is meant to have a museum-esque and art gal lery vibe where students can learn about the artist as well as the mediums they use,” Be harry wrote. “It is essentially an opportunity for artists to display the culmination of their work or any piece of artwork that they are simply proud of and would like to share. People can expect an ambient atmo sphere of relaxation and appre ciation of art.”

Sanctus Artem’s art show is on Nov. 4 at 5 pm, with location to be announced. Follow them on Instagram, @sanctusartem, for further details about the art show and to keep up to date with all their events.

their Instagram, @sanctusar tem.

Sanctus Artem hosted a pumpkin painting event on Tuesday, Oct. 25th. SABRINA BEHARRY/COURTESY

An example of one of the student’s painted pumpkins.

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Ties vs. Extra Minutes: Manhattan College Women’s Soccer on NCAA’s Elimination of Overtime

Angelica Niedermeyer Asst. Sports Editor

In the 2021 season, Man hattan College Women’s soc cer team had a 7-7-1 record, scoring 1.13 goals per game and taking 0.396 shots on goal per game. The team did not make it to the playoffs due to their three losses in overtime which ranked them ninth in the MAAC when only eight teams

qualified.

“In previous years, we were actually upset that there was overtime,” said Ianah Mackey, junior center back. “A lot of the time we would have a tie and then we would end up getting scored on, so then we would lose the game.”

In April 2022, The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel eliminated overtime in men’s and women’s soccer for both the regular season and the

postseason. The new rules are now in effect this season.

“If a game is tied after the regulation 90 minutes, it will end in a tie,” according to the NCAA website. “Previously, teams played two 10-minute overtime periods in a sud den-victory (golden goal) for mat, and if neither team scored, the game ended in a tie.”

This season, the team is currently ranked 10th out of 11th in the MAAC rank stand ings. The Jaspers have a record of 3-7-4 of three wins, seven loses, and four ties with a 0.62 record of goals per game and a 0.500 record of shots on goal.

“Honestly, I was happy about the news because being a senior the past three years we just did not have good luck when we would go into over time,” said Kaitlyn Cooke, se nior center back. “Overtime takes a lot out of you and could be an extra 30 minutes which is really tasking on your legs. So, I saw it as a good thing for our team.”

On the other hand, Cooke explains further that because a tie equals one point and a win is three points, sometimes it was worth the risk of overtime.

“A tie is nice because it is that one extra point instead of losing, but sometimes we do

need that extra time if we need to have a win, like three points instead of one,” Cooke said. “So, it is important if we need a couple extra minutes to score.”

Compared to last season, the team thinks the new rule could have helped them get to the playoffs, instead of losing in overtime.

“It’s like 50/50, sometimes it’s good and then sometimes it’s not,” said Reina Callahan, junior right back. “Last year, we lost a lot in overtime and getting rid of that could have had our games end in a tie.”

Even though some of the team thinks that last year the ties could have helped, there are also players who want over time this season to score more points.

“As of now, we have had a lot of ties, so maybe if we did have that overtime we would have that 50 percent chance of winning,” said Mackey. “These games that could have been beneficial, we could have won and it would have been easier for us to have a spot in the play offs.”

The team shares that their opinion on overtime depends on the team they are going against and how the game is going. This season, the games resulting in ties were against Si

ena, Mount Saint Mary’s, Stony Brook and Canisius.

“I just think it depends on where we are in the season and what we need out of each game,” said Cooke. “Say it is the last couple of games of the season and you need wins and at the end of a game you are tied. You want that extra time to try to score so you can get those three points, but other times all you need is a tie.”

With the lack of overtime, the dynamic of how the team plays in their games has also changed.

“When we go out there, we know we have to do what we need to do in those 90 minutes or it will strictly be a tie or a loss,” said Mackey.

Without the overtime allow ance, the Jaspers have to make the very most of their games.

“We have to fight to the very last minute because we know we are not getting that extra time to score,” said Cooke.

The new NCAA rule of the elimination of overtime has a varied effect on Manhattan College women’s soccer team. However, depending on the competition and chances of winning, ending in a tie earns more points for the team than losing in overtime.

Dee Dee Davis Earns Women’s Basketball Team Player of the Year

Lauren Raziano Copy Editor/Web Editor

Head Coach Heather Vulin announced to a packed Drad dy Gymnasium that Dee Dee Davis was recently selected as Preseason Player of the Year on Thursday night. The crowd erupted in the sixth borough’s popular “Dee Dee Davis” chant. She was also named one of three unanimous First Team All-MAAC selections.

“This announcement is al most everything I have ever worked for. I say almost be cause the real deal will only be sealed if I can pull this off in March. I know with my team mates by my side, that goal is possible,” Davis wrote to the Quadrangle in an email.

From being a standout play er from Harry S. Truman High School in the Bronx, and then named a MAAC All-Rookie Team honoree during her first year on the Jaspers, Davis has continued to be a key player for the women’s basketball team.

Davis’ 2021-22 season sta tistics include her as the sec ond-leading scorer in the con

ference, scoring 18 points per game. Her other 2021-2022 sta tistics included 4.5 rebounds and 3.2 assists per contest.

Dee-Dee is also a part of Man hattan College’s 1,000 point club after scoring her 1,000 point last season that helped the Jaspers score against Cani sius in the Quarterfinals of the MAAC Championship.

“Dee Dee being picked pre season POY is an incredible honor because our league has so many tremendous players.

Dee Dee’s work ethic and com mitment to her game is elite,” said head coach Heather Vulin. “Most people only get to see the 30+ games, but our staff and team get all the practices, and when Dee Dee is fourth quarter Dee Dee we are never surprised. We just know she is built differently and thrives off the pressure. I’m truly proud of her for the recognition but our focus is always on team goals and we are very blessed to have Dee Dee and Brazil leading the way for us.”

Manhattan women’s bas ketball co-captain, Brazil Har vey-Carr, was slotted in on the preseason second-team after

previously earning third-team honors last year.

Harvey-Carr earned 12.2 points per game and an aver age 6.9 boards per game for the 2021-2022 season. This will be Harvey-Carr’s second season with the Jaspers.

In the press release head coach Heather Vulin said she was happy Davis and Har vey-Carr were recognized by the MAAC for their talent.

“I think Dee Dee and Bra zil are two of the most dynam ic and exciting guards in the MAAC. I’m very happy they were recognized for their tal ent, but knowing both of them the only accolade they want is to hold the MAAC trophy in March,” said Vulin. “Their talent and leadership to our program is extremely valu able. Both players were voted captains by their teammates because not only are they re spected but their teammates believe in their leadership and commitment to our program. I’m expecting a special year from both players.”

Overall, the Jasper team was selected to finish second in the preseason poll with a final

In the press release head coach Heather Vulin said she was happy Davis and Harvey-Carr were recognized by the MAAC for their talent.

point total of 112, with Quinnip iac earning the top spot.

The first women’s basket ball game is Nov. 7 at Draddy Gymnasium against Wagner.

Editor’s Note: Caroline Mc Carthy contributed to reporting.

“When we go out there, we know we have to do what we need to do in those 90 minutes or it will strictly be a tie or a loss,” said Mackey.

Masiello Terminated Days Before Madness, Two Weeks Before Start of Season

Caroline McCarthy Sports Editor/Managing Editor

Head basketball coach Ste phen Masiello was fired from the Jaspers just 13 days before the start of their season, as an nounced on Tuesday, Oct. 25.

This would have been Ma siello’s 12th season at Manhat tan College, but just days be fore Manhattan Madness, the school’s pep rally for men’s and women’s basketball, Masiello went silently.

“We thank Coach Masiello for his service and wish him well. As we look to building successful teams for the future -- and with recruiting season beginning soon and Coach Ma siello’s contract ending in April 2023 -- we determined that it was the right time to begin re building from the top down,” Athletic Director Marianne Reilly said in a press release Tuesday afternoon.

Associate head coach RaShawn Stores will be the in terim head coach as the Jaspers enter the start of their season.

The Athletic Department has declined any further com

ment on this matter.

Who didn’t go silently, though, is recently-named MAAC Preseason Player of the Year Jose Perez, Masiello’s key player in the 2021-2022 season.

Perez took to his Twitter and Instagram accounts, first posting “Please respect my space right now and this diffi cult time I’m going through,” on his Instagram story just be fore 2 p.m.

Around the same time, Pe rez tweeted a similar statement with an added sentiment, “... honestly speaking it would [be] very difficult for me to put on a Jasper’s uniform again if coach ain’t on the sidelines. Love you coach!”

By 3:36, reports of Perez entering the transfer portal had been circling the news. Perez re-posted a tweet regarding the move and captioned the photo “Enough said. Please respect my decision to weight [weigh] my options.”

According to Adam Zagoria, contributor to the New York Times Sports section, Oregon, Memphis, Kansas State, Mis sissippi State, Rhode Island, San Diego, Alabama and Wake

Forest have all expressed their interest in Perez, who averaged 18.6 points per game last sea son.

Perez announced he will be attending West Virginia Uni versity at 5p.m. on Sunday eve ning.

According to the NCAA website, “College athletes in all sports will continue to be immediately eligible the first time they transfer, provided they notify their schools in writing during designated noti fication-of-transfer windows (as determined by their sport.)”

The transfer window for Winter sports ends 60 days after the championship game. However, the legislation allows student-athletes to transfer for the upcoming season after the window closes without reper cussions if there is a change in head coaching staff.

Masiello is no stranger to scandals at the college. In 2014, Masiello was discovered to have lied about his degree from University of Kentucky. He was offered a 5-year contract at the University of South Florida that was rescinded upon fact-check ing Masiello’s credentials.

Earlier this year, the Quad rangle reported on an allega tion that Masiello had been abusing the use of his school credit card by buying his team pre-game meals at Jake’s Steak house before home games.

More recently, former cap tain Matthew Glassman ac cused Masiello of wrongfully taking away his scholarship to play on the team for his grad uate year after Glassman had

signed his renewal contract. He referred to himself as be ing “another Division I athlete who has been backstabbed” in an Instagram post on July 14th.

With the loss of Perez and Masiello, Manhattan’s #2 rank ing on the preseason poll will likely be re-evaluated.

This is a continuing story that The Quadrangle intends to continue reporting.

Eight Individuals Inducted into the Manhattan College Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2022

Maddie Mulkigian Asst. Sports Editor

The Manhattan College Athletic Department recently announced the eight Jasper alumni who will be entering the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame as the Class of 2022 on Nov. 12. The Class of 2022 honorees in cludes Jeanine Hanratty, John Kennelly, Malin Marmbrandt, Dan Mecca, Jaci Rahey, Tiffa ny Schettig, Steve Trimper and Conrad Weiden.

Each of these inductees has achieved success in their college athletic careers at Man hattan College and has con tinued to attain success after leaving Manhattan. All eight individuals cover an array of sports and a wide timeline of when they each achieved their success as a Manhattan Col lege Jasper.

John Kennelly, a Manhat tan graduate from the tennis team in 1978, was a team cap tain from his sophomore year through his senior year. Ken nelly made an immediate im pact in leading the team to win the conference as a freshman, but he was also a two-time most outstanding performer in the conference.

“I loved competing. I loved the camaraderie. I loved play ing for the school and repre senting the school. Therefore,

I loved being a Jasper,” Ken nelly said.

While Kennelly took the academic skills he learned and the accounting degree he earned at Manhattan to eventu ally become a personal financial designation specialist, he still finds the time to pick up the racket and play tennis with his past Jasper teammates.

“I’m still in touch with a number of people from my days at Manhattan — classmates and teammates. Most recently, I partnered with a teammate of mine, Gerard Smith, who is also in the Manhattan College Athletic Hall of Fame, and we won a national tennis platform tournament in February,” Ken nelly said. “A few of my tennis teammates even got together a few years ago for our 40th anni versary and played some dou bles together.”

Kennelly’s masterful skills on the tennis court and his drive to succeed in his career have gotten him to this point and he will forever represent Manhattan College through his induction into this year’s Hall of Fame class.

Another academic and ath letic star, Jaci Rahey, is getting inducted for both softball and volleyball.

“Deciding to go to Man hattan was the best decision I ever made,” Rahey said. “Aca demically, athletically, socially,

I knew it was the right fit off the bat. I really enjoyed that it was so close to Manhattan and I think it opened up a lot of career opportunities for me in terms of interning. I think that’s something that Manhat tan offers that other schools can’t.”

Rahey not only balanced playing two Division I sports, she also jump-started her ca reer with collegiate internships at ESPN and the New York Mets.

“The internships that were brought to me at Manhattan College opened a lot of doors for me professionally after I graduated,” Rahey said. “I was able to secure a big radio net work job one week after I grad uated and then I continued my career at ESPN for almost ten years after that. If I was at a different school, I think that I would have had a different ca reer trajectory.”

While Rahey’s career is impressive in itself, she is also second all-time in MAAC histo ry in home runs and RBIs and dominated on the volleyball court with over 300 kills per season.

Another inductee with an impressive resume from their time at Manhattan is Tiffany Schettig, who graduated from Manhattan in 2003. As the holder of second all-time for three-pointers in program his

tory, fourteenth in assists, and thirteenth in points, there is not an aspect of the game that she did not excel in.

“I came to Manhattan to expand my horizons. My time as a Lady Jasper is still one of the best moments of my life,” Schettig said. “My teammates are still some of my closest friends to this day. The things we were able to accomplish in my four years were unbeliev able and when I look back I have no regrets.”

In her senior year, Schet tig led the Jaspers to win the MAAC Championship against Siena and then traveled to New Mexico to compete in the NCAA tournament.

One of two coaches who are being inducted into this year’s class, Dan Mecca was the first coach to lead the combined men’s and women’s cross coun try and track and field team in 1993.

“The philosophy was al ways the same. The goal was quality product. You wanted a winning program with kids who did well in school, had a high team GPA, and a high graduation rate.

Not only did Mecca en force a relentless work ethic and strong academic perfor mance, but he also led Man hattan’s team into earning 61 MAAC titles in his 33 years as a head coach. While Mecca is

a cross-country and track and field legend at Manhattan, he continues to coach at the Unit ed States Military Academy at West Point.

“The best thing I can tell you is that I got to live the American dream,” Mecca said. “People paid me to do what I wanted to do.”

Honoree Kennelly perfectly captured the feeling of being inducted into Manhattan’s Ath letic Hall of Fame: “I’m very proud to be inducted and join the other members. I’m thank ful to the committee for accept ing me and I will continue to represent the school and make everyone proud in every way, shape, or form going forward.”

Joining these four success ful and impressive individuals on Nov. 12 will be Jeanine Han ratty who graduated in 1995 from the volleyball program, Malin Marmbrandt (Otterling) who graduated in 2010 from the women’s track and field program, Steve Trimper who was the head baseball coach from 1999 to 2005, and Conrad Weiden who graduated in 1980 from the men’s swimming pro gram. Along with these eight individuals, the ceremony will honor the 1973 NCAA indoor track and field national champi onship team as well as the 1992 men’s basketball team.

Perez and Masiello embrace after defeating first seed Iona in the final seconds last season.

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Manhattan Madness Kicks Off Another Basketball Season

Jilleen Barrett Managing Editor/Features Editor

With the basketball season rapidly approaching, Jasper Nation gathered in Draddy Gymnasium for Manhattan Madness, a yearly event meant to hype up the men’s and wom en’s teams before they both have their first games of the season, both of which will be on Nov. 7.

Student Engagement be gins planning Manhattan Madness several months in ad vance, according to the office’s director John Bennett. He also detailed how the Student Gov ernment Association contrib utes to the event both financial ly and socially.

“The lion’s share of the bud

geting goes to ensuring that every student gets a t-shirt,” Bennett said. “So we purchased a thousand t-shirts for tonight. But there are other expenses as well from the DJ and emcee company … the overwhelming majority is really for t-shirts.”

Though Bennett was not aware of the exact number of students who attended, he said about two thousand t-shirts were taken by the end of the night.

The money for the t-shirts comes from the vice president of social life’s budget. John O’Connor, one of the social life committee members, spoke with The Quadrangle before Madness and said that leader ship from across the college’s clubs would compete in a round of musical chairs before

Madness officially began.

“We figured by giving clubs and teams that aren’t necessarily under athletics the opportunity to partake in differ ent things at Madness, it kind of fosters that sense of commu nity that we try to represent in the college,” O’Connor said.

When O’Connor, who is also a member of the dance team, received his Madness t-shirt, he was shocked to find out that a design he created was featured. AshLeigh Add arich, a member of the cheer team, also had her design on it.

O’Connor received a vote on the design for the shirt as part of the social life commit tee and emphasized that it was important to him to collaborate with other people from the school. This is why he asked for the opinions of Grace Dil lon, a graphic design major, and Christina Katsamouri, a women’s basketball player. He said he wanted input from Katsamouri specifically be cause the event is to celebrate the men’s and women’s basket ball teams.

“I think having someone from the dance team and the cheer team win the contest was really cool, especially since we work so closely, we have every shirt from every game … a big process [was] getting other people’s opinions on what we wanted,” O’Connor said. “I was saying to my friends, I’ll wear it in ten years at our reunion.”

The VP of social life also has the opportunity to plan more fun aspects of the rally. Bennett credits Rosalia Cefalu, who currently holds the posi tion, with arranging a musical chairs game.

“My pep rallies in high school always had musical chairs, but it was just sports captains, which was great, but I was thinking of how I could get more of the student body involved,” Cefalu wrote in a message to The Quadrangle. “Club leaders do a ton for the community and I thought they

were the perfect people to get involved and be a part of the event.”

Casey Shellberg, a mem ber of Manhattan’s cheer team, took part in the game before she performed in the cheer team’s routines that night.

“I thought it was a great idea by Student Government and loved to see other club leaders get involved at a Mad ness event,” Schellberg said. “It was a fun and competitive game and I loved how into it the crowd got!”

Like O’Connor pointed out, the purpose of Manhattan Mad ness is to kick off the basket ball season and get the whole community excited about the season and the possibility of going to the MAACs this year.

After former head coach Ste ven Masiello was terminated abruptly before the season be gan, students wondered how Madness and the men’s season would proceed.

RaShawn Stores, the in terim head coach of the team, stepped into his new position two days before Madness. Stores addressed the crowd with one request: to support his team.

“It’s not about me,” he said

during his speech. “It’s about these young men. Tonight, Jas per Nation, we’re gonna need you, and every day of this year, we’re gonna need you.”

“I’m really happy for RaShawn and the women’s team and the men’s team,” Marianne Reilly, the director of the athletic department, told The Quadrangle right af ter Madness ended. “I mean, it has been a wonderful turnout tonight.”

Bennett told The Quad rangle that because of COVID, some of the student body has never experienced Madness at its fullest. Schellberg noted this as well, and as a senior, she said she hopes more freshmen get involved and attend the an nual event.

“I always hear some fresh men being like, ‘I don’t really want to go’ and I’m like, ‘You should go, it’s like the biggest event of the semester!’,” Schell berg said. “I love being part of the hype team for the bas ketball teams, and I really just enjoy all the energy that comes from Madness.”

Editor’s Note: Kyla Guilfoil contributed to reporting.

Photos Courtesy of: Lauren Driscoll & Makayla Dorvil