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Volume XCIX, Issue 7
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NEW YORK, MARCH 5, 2019
Senator Alessandra Biaggi Holds FirstEver Bronx Budget Forum at Manhattan Nicole Rodriguez & Lauren Schuster Asst. Production Editor & Social Media Editor
MC Welcomes State Senator Biaggi (left) listens to the concerns of constituents. LAUREN SCHUSTER/ THE QUADRANGLE
New Hires Make Positive Campus Changes Shannon Gleba Staff Writer
The 2018-2019 academic year has brought staff and faculty changes to Manhattan College with the hiring of many new professionals to fill vacant roles in a number of different departments on campus. Anne Mavor - Director of Health Ser vices On Nov. 1, 2018, Manhattan College welcomed Anne Mavor as the Director of Health Services. After spending many years at a previous university, Mavor has extensive experience in treating college-aged adults, and many other aspects of being a Director, like managing immunization records. “I am in charge of the supplies and the immunization compliance. We have two jobs, one is immunization compliance. We are the place where everyone has to submit their vaccination records, its the state law. There is a 30 day grace period, so I have to manage that,” said Mavor. When beginning at MC,
Mavor wanted to work towards the College’s vision of having Health Services work towards becoming more of a wellness center. “We are trying to make it more of a Wellness Center, right now we spend most of our time seeing sick students. Last year they added a part-time nurse practitioner, so that they would free up the director to do some more outreach, to spend some time on education, other parts of the position that needed to be looked at.” She continued. “My vision was to see maybe where we could make this go more towards wellness and kind of partner with counseling. So, my goal was to begin collaborating more and see what we could do.” As the Director of Health Services, Mavor hopes to educate the student population on ways to maintain good health. “Part of the Lasallian mission is to walk the journey of the students in their journey, and even though we are student life, we are really here to educate the students, even though we are not faculty,” said Mavor.
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While Health Services does see many sick students, she hopes students will use the advice they are given to make better health decisions in the future. Mavor said, “One of my goals is when students come in with a variety of different problems, again college-related and age-appropriate illnesses, how can I teach them maybe not to get sick next time or when to use [Health Services]?” Within the next year Mavor has many ideas, including organizing a team of student volunteers to help communicate with the student population on topics within Health Services. Likewise, Health Services is hoping to encourage students to get their flu shot to hinder the spread of sickness this time of year. “Next year, we are looking to do a bigger flu shot campaign, so I am always looking to get a flu vaccine to as many students as possible, said Mavor. Mavor is very happy with her new position and with __________________________ CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
Members of the Riverdale community filed into Kelly Commons this weekend to have their voices heard at an open budget forum held by state senator Alessandra Biaggi. As the newly elected representative of New York’s 34th district, which covers part of the Bronx and Westchester county, Biaggi discovered that there had never been an open forum about budget concerns in the Bronx section of her district before. She decided her constituents needed to be heard, and Kelly Commons was the perfect place to do it. “I love Manhattan College,” Biaggi said. “I mean, Riverdale specifically is a portion of my district where there’s lots and lots and lots of voices that represent the entirety of the Bronx, who live here. And as time goes on, we’ll go of course to different locations but specifically now, I think this was a really fitting location.” Biaggi is no stranger to Manhattan College. With both of her parents being MC alumni, she has spent a great deal of time on the campus in her life. “Manhattan College is a place where curiosity is valued, and also a place where innovation and new ways of being are supported, and that is the type of space that I want to hold these dialogues in, because it means that the environment is supportive of the end goal here, which is to transform systems that have historically been broken,” Biaggi said. “You have to be aligned with the place that you’re in, so it’s not just the familial, it’s that too. That piece is like the most important piece.” Biaggi hopes to usher in a new era of transparency with her constituents about budgets and beyond.
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“The most important thing that an elected official or leader in the community can do is show up and have important, meaningful dialogues about the things that impact their lives, and the budget is one of those topics that is so complex and so challenging and historically, at least in the borough of the Bronx, there hasn’t been meaningful dialogue about it and there hasn’t been transparency around it,” Biaggi said. All constituents were welcome to attend the hearing to ensure that their budget priorities be heard as the state legislature begins its work on the state budget for 2019. Each person was allowed to express their concerns for 5 minutes and submit written statements to Senator Biaggi. Topics discussed ranged from campaign finance reform, the film tax credit, Medicaid, homelessness, housing, weatherization, youth programs, accessibility, public school funding, criminal justice reform, the environment and small businesses. One of the constituents in attendance was Margaret Groarke, P.h.D., a professor in MC’s political science department. “I really think it’s important for elected officials to hear from their constituents, and this is a great opportunity for us to let her know what’s important to us in the budget,” Groarke said. Groarke came with a list of her own concerns about program funding in the district to express to Biaggi. “I have a ton of [issues to discuss], but I focused on two,” Groarke said. “Today I focused on, with my hat on as a member of the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, some state funding issues for really important work that our organization does in the Bronx for energy efficiency and for youth programs that we need __________________________ CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
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