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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF MANHATTAN COLLEGE | SINCE 1924
Volume C, Issue 3
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NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
Students Take to Public Forum After Policy Revision Gabriella DePinho News Editor
MC Campus Welcomes September
September comes to Manhattan College, bringing many events to kick off the fall semester. EMILY HOLLAR/ THE QUADRANGLE
MC Holds Sexual Harassment Training for Students Workers, GAs, Staff Rose Brennan & Gabriella DePinho
A&E Editor & News Editor In order to be compliant with new New York State and City laws, Manhattan College held a mandatory sexual harassment training for all student employees, graduate assistants and other employees. The fast-approaching deadline for this training is Oct. 9, leading the Human Resources department to hold a single day of training on Wednesday, Sept. 4. Four separate hour-long sessions were held at 9 a.m., 1 p.m., 4 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. The sessions were led by Natasha Bowman, an adjunct for the School of Continuing and Professional Studies and the author of “You Can’t Do That At Work: 100 Legal Mistakes That Managers Make In The Workplace.” Bowman has several years
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of expertise in the field of business, leading her to write her book and to facilitate these sessions at the college. “I’ve been the head of human resources at several organizations and I would notice that people were promoted into leadership positions that had not been properly trained for,” Bowman said. “There were a lot of things that leaders didn’t know about employment law. And they were making mistakes and breaking the law, but just honestly didn’t know,” Bowman said. Bowman’s presentation began with the description of classes that were explicitly protected against discrimination by law. The classes included race, color, gender, religion, physical or mental disability, veteran status, age and genetic information. “No matter what state you live in, you are protected by law from being discriminated against or harassed by your
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protected class,’’ Bowman said. Other states, including New York, have also added sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression as protected classes. The majority of Bowman’s presentation, however, focused on a case study of sorts. Bowman set up a scenario between two employees named Tanya and Bill. Bill was romantically interested in Tanya and asked her out on a date. Tanya politely declined, and Bill then proceeded to leave flowers on her desk. Bill then continued his advances, which gradually became more severe, including liking all of Tanya’s Facebook posts and making inappropriate commentary about women in the break room. Tanya and another male coworker asked Bill to stop, but did not report his behavior to management, and because of __________________________ CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
After a meeting between the Resident Student Association, Student Government representatives and Student Life administration, the access control policy has been revised. But the campus conversation is not over yet. As students geared up to address their concerns at the Student Government Assembly meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 4, resident students received an email from Charles Clency, the director of Residence Life, late Tuesday afternoon, stating new amendments that would be implemented immediately to the policy. The changes that he implemented were first suggested at a meeting he had with SGA leadership the previous week and came after a meeting Clency and the involved parties had earlier in the day. “Other administration was at that meeting as well with the student leadership, which we see as the voice of the students. It was a set meeting, so it was formal and we talked through things that we could do and couldn’t do in some regards. It was actually meant to be a starting point because we are continuing these conversations throughout the semester… but these were things we thought we could change immediately,” said Clency. Students are now allowed to host day guests on weekend nights, which have been identified as Fridays and Saturdays, until 2 a.m. Guests who intend to stay later than 2 a.m. are required to be signed in as an overnight guest and weekday visitation policy will remain the same. “Some of those things folks were talking about, the timelines, the windows, that never changed with the new access policy, we just rolled with what was before but we implemented our new access policy. It was just a matter of not making changes, we didn’t venture into the hours. We just focused on
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the procedure,” said Clency. In addition, overnight guest paper passes are no longer required. Students will still need to fill out a guest request via MyHousing Portal, according to the existing policy, however, guests will be welcomed into the building similarly to day guests with a proper sign in process. “What has changed specifically… that paper is going away. We will no longer be asking students to walk around with it in hand to indicate that they have permission because we will have it online. The process online is going to continue as it has been. The only thing that’s changing is we don’t have to search for students on Fridays to get them those passes,” said Clency. Resident Assistants and Public Safety officers will be sent a list of guests that have the proper permissions to stay overnight. For now, Public Safety officers will have to verify with a physical copy of a list that the student has the proper permission to be there, in addition to the students leaving their IDs at the desk. Sept. 9 is the first night overnight guests are allowed so problems regarding the changes to the overnight guest policy will start to be ironed out as students start to host guests. At the student government meeting, after going through other official business, the Jasper State of Mind executive board left plenty of time for the large group of students to share their concerns and to discuss the policy as a whole. Before students started discussing any concerns, Luke Malpica, the VP of Residential Affairs, shared a third policy change that was not outlined in the e-mail. “On weekends such as Springfest or other related weekends like that, it will revert back to last semester’s policy where anyone is allowed access to the buildings but that’s only for those specific days and __________________________ CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
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