The Quadrangle

September 8, 2010

Vol. LXXXVI Issue 2

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Student Activities and Residence Life welcomed the class of 2014 with more programs, events and activities in an ef-fort to help students transition into col-lege, get involved and stay at MC.

All of the activities are part of a six week plan to connect first year students to the school in what research proves to

be their most crucial time here. It is an initiative that has taken the form of semi-nars and FYE (First Year Experience) classes at other colleges and universi-ties.

“The first six weeks is when we can tell if the student will stay,” area coor-dinator of Horan and Chrysostom Hall, Meg Donnelly said.

Donnelly started at MC this fall se-mester with a specialty in first year expe-rience. At Colgate University, a previous

institution, she worked with the Dean of First Year Students and the Dean of Sophomore Experience closely to exe-cute programs that include a week in on each floor in each residence hall and FYE seminar, which was taught by a professor and the student’s orientation leader with their orientation group, to create a sense of unity.

Donnelly wants to bring these pro-grams to MC and the extra and quicker plans from Student Activities this year

are just the beginning. The first year students received

passports from Student Activities to en-courage them to attend events. For each event, they receive stamps in different categories, including recreational, spiri-tual and social.

There is also a variety of events for the freshman to choose from in their first six weeks. In the first weekend alone,

Horan Hall and East Hill are now fully wireless, thanks to an initiative by the Campus Improvements Committee of Student Government, JasperNet services and the JET office.

The wireless is still testing, but it is running and if all goes well will be out of testing in a week or so. MC students welcomed the wireless more than anyone ex-pected.

“We were surprised by the number of people who jumped on wireless,” director of JasperNet, Jake Hol-mquist said.

JasperNet Services expected 50 to 100 people to login to the wireless system, but in the first 24 hours, 650 people signed in. The system only allowed for 500, so JasperNet updated configuration on Monday and ex-panded capacity.

The process to install the wireless began in May when the budget was approved and buildings were sur-veyed. The wiring was done at the end of the summer, and the access points were installed in the hallways of Horan and East Hill on the Saturday of Freshman move-in.

The access points pose a problem however, as they are placed in the halls where they are vulnerable to van-dalizing, in hallways where door decorations and flyers get ripped down. Campus Improvements and JasperNet considered this prior to installation.

“The hallways are probably not the best place for them, but that’s what we chose, and that’s what we’re stuck with,” Holmquist said.

JasperNet Services does not want to stop with Horan or East Hill, either. They wanted to make all residence halls wireless, but the Campus Improvements budget did not allow for it. East Hill and Horan were chosen because they could reach the largest number of students and because they only needed to survey one of the buildings, since they are twins.

Holmquist urged students to seek out Student Gov-

ernment and Campus Improvements if they would like wireless everywhere, even Chrysostom and Jasper Hall, where he said that wireless would be more difficult to install, but not impossible.

He also said to email JET if there are any problems with the wireless while it is still in testing, because “the more feedback the better.”

Residents of Horan Hall and East Hill are singing JasperNet’s praises for the wireless they wanted.

Measured by numbers, Holmquist can tell MC stu-dents are happy about the wireless system.

“The sheer number of students that logged onto this shows enthusiasm for wireless,” Holmquist said.

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How Does Your Favorite President Rank?

Recently, Siena College released a survey which ranks US Presidents, from George Wash-ington to Barrack Obama. The survey, entitled American Presidents: Greatest and Worst, is con-ducted every few years. This year’s survey is the fifth release since 1982. 238 presidential scholars were asked to rank presidents on a number of dif-ferent issues.

In terms of overall rank, FDR came out on top for the fifth time in a row. Right behind him are Theodore Roosevelt, Lincoln, Washington and Jefferson. The top four held on to their spots be-tween two and four in all previous surveys. Other highly ranked presidents are President Kennedy who came in at number 11, Clinton at 13, Obama at 15, Reagan at 18 and President George H. W. Bush came in at 22.

For the second time in a row, President John-son came in 43rd. Behind him were Buchannan, Harding, Pierce and George W. Bush. Historically, President Harding has been ranked last. Also at the bottom of the list are William Henry Harrison at 35, Benjamin Harrison at 34, Carter at 32, Nix-on at 30 and Ford at 28. In 2002, when President George W. Bush was first ranked, he came in at 23.

There were many changes since the 2002 sur-vey. President Clinton moved up from 18 to 13. George W. Bush dropped from 23. The survey was completed in Bush’s second year of his first term as president. Also, Reagan dropped two plac-es from 16 and Kennedy climbed three from 14.

Another part of the survey ranked presidents on 20 different qualities which range from per-sonal qualities, like integrity, imagination and in-telligence, to time in office, which includes things

like the president’s relation with Congress, or handling of the economy.

President Harding again came in at the bot-tom. Out of the 20 qualities, his rank never went above 37, which was for handling of the economy and integrity. Other than these two qualities, his ranks for the others were between 38 and 42. FDR on the other hand was ranked between 1 and 16 for all qualities. He was ranked 16 in integrity and 10 in intelligence.

George W. Bush’s ranks were not too high. He was rated last in handling of the economy, and next to last on intelligence. Bush also received poor rating on imagination and communication. Obama on the other hand was 71 on handling of the economy and 8 in intelligence. President Obama was also highly rated on imagination and communication.

Student reactions to the survey were mixed. Dolores Rowen, a senior Psychology major said, “I thought it was very interesting. Each president got what they deserved.”

Anthony Sparacino, a junior and a govern-ment major said, I think whoever conducted this survey has Roosevelt fever. FDR and TR both had significant accomplishments, but ranking them above Washington and Lincoln is disheartening.” If you want to see the full results of the survey, you can go to www.siena.edu/sri/research, click on ‘Archives’ and you can find this survey under July 1, 2010.

Questions: President Obama just redecorated the Oval Of-

fice. On the carpet there are quotes from famous American presidents, which ones?

As we return to school for the new 2010 fall semester, it is important for us to keep in mind how fortunate we all are to live in a country where we have the opportunity to receive an education, medical attention, and maintain a right to the pursuit of happiness. Unfortunately, not all young people in our own country and around the world are as blessed.

Last spring semester, I had an oppor-tunity to attend the Lasallian Convocation on the Rights of Children, and would like to share some of the knowledge I gained as a way of helping to promote awareness on the rights of the child, and the need for the United States to ratify the C.R.C. (The United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of the Child).

Currently, the United States and Soma-lia are the only two nations that have yet to ratify the C.R.C. This is clearly an injustice that cannot stand. If a nation like the Unit-ed States were to ratify the C.R.C., it would put an extra emphasis and support behind the convention that would greatly help in ef-forts to improve the safety and standard of living for the world’s children. It is for that reason that the responsibility of getting the United States to ratify the C.R.C. falls on us. It is in the spirit of our school’s Lasallian tradition for us to work to raise awareness and support for what is clearly an essential issue.

But before anything can be done, it is important to learn the objectives of hu-man rights education and a subsequent plan of action. It is essential to spread aware-ness, encourage the United States to ratify the C.R.C. and enact long-term advocacy ef-forts. A statement like this sounds daunting, and to be fair, it is. But that does not mean that any one individual cannot make a dif-ference. In fact, it really does come down to every individual to do his or her part. Doing one’s part can be as simple as mentioning

the importance of the issue to a friend and attending teach-ins, or it can be a larger ac-tive role of working to organize events and writing to one’s political representative.

Besides raising awareness and working to educate others, students can work as volunteers around the local school com-munity of the Bronx and their communities at home. Children suffer greatly throughout the world, but even in the world’s wealthiest country, there are many children who live under the poverty line. The child poverty

rate in the United States is actually higher than that of most other economically ad-vanced nations. Fortunately, there are stu-dents here at Manhattan College and in high schools and universities across the country that can change this. When one starts to look at the issues of child poverty in not only a global sense but also in a local sense, the opportunities to help others become ob-vious. There are opportunities to volunteer in schools in the Bronx, local soup kitchens, and at daycare centers.

Although issues as widespread and often times as overwhelming as child poverty and the rights of children seem to be impossible to solve, that does not mean that trying is not worth the time. Many students at Manhattan College are the products of privileged backgrounds, and it is for that reason that we are ob-ligated to work and participate in efforts to correct these injustices. The world’s problems cannot be solved with defeat-ist attitudes and desperation, but instead must be faced with eager willingness to

participate in the solution to these prob-lems. To simply acknowledge a problem and do nothing is in many ways an equal crime to the problem itself. As Kahlil Gibran put it, “A little knowledge that acts is worth infinite-ly more than much knowledge that is idle.” I hope you will be able to become active and put your talents to work for the good of not only the nation’s children but also for the children of the world.

Hello fellow Jaspers! We hope you are enjoying the second week of your fall se-mester and the second issue of the Quad. This semester, MC has been making sev-eral changes such as new meal plans, up-dated ID cards and more weekend activi-ties. We at the Quad have been making some changes too, which include a new layout and quality over quantity philos-ophy. We are also particularly proud of the small “Q” found at the conclusion of each article. Although it’s a small change, we think it’s a perfect way to wrap up a story. It’s kind of like a productions masterpiece, don’t you think? Whether the changes are big or small, we hope that they have been providing you with a great semester and a weekly anticipation of the Quad!

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, and John F. Kennedy.

Looking to join a new club? Don’t miss the activities fair TODAY from 3:30-5:00 on the quad.

Interested in playing flag football, soccer or volleyball? Sign up for intramurals end TODAY. Don’t forget to stop by

Student Activities for a spot!

If you’re interested in playing a game of Pick-Up Frisbee, head over to Gaelic Park tonight from 8:00-11:00. See you

there!

Attention all Fashionistas! Signups for Saturday’s Fashion Show in NYC is taking place in Student Activities. Don’t for-

get to sign up.

On Thursday there will be a Hurricane Katrina lecture and photography exhibit from 4:00-6:00 in the Alumni Room. If

you have any questions, Contact Dr. Marinaccio.

Get your blanket ready. Iron Man 2 will be showing Thurs-day night at 9:15 on the quad.

New Employee Orientation will take place this Friday at 2:30 in the Scala room. If you have any questions, contact

Pat Stone.

Don’t miss the T-Shirt Dance party this Friday at 9:00 hosted by Gamma Alpha Sigma. If you wear your freshman year Orientation tee, get in for free. Wear any other MC shirt, get in for $1.00. If your MC apparel is in the laundry, shirts

will be available for $10.00. See you there!

Career Development is hosting a Senior Career Week In-terview Training Workshop on Saturday from 11:00-12:30 in

the Alumni Room.

-Danielle ValenteManaging Editor

ContributorQ Matthew Ciaramella

LaSallian Tradition and the CRC

For more information on the C.R.C. visit the United Nation’s website. For more information on volunteering in the Bronx visit: http://www.americantowns.com/ny/bronx-make-a-differencehttp://www.voa.org/http://www.charity-charities.org/chari-ties/NY/Bronx.htmlhttp://www.catholiccharitiesny.org

Thank God for the warm weather.

Some people complained about the heat wave but, I’ll take sweating profusely on my way to class over what has grown to be one of my biggest pet peeves: The Other College Sweatshirt. Now The College Sweatshirt is a time honored tradition, so much so we had college sweatshirt day at my high school for seniors, which only stopped being awk-ward when Housatonic Com-munity College started selling apparel.

It’s a simple equation, really, you pick your college, you buy its sweatshirt. You wear said sweat-shirt because emblazoned on the front of the garment is the name of the school, which, I’m told, you’re supposed to be proud of.

This has simple process has been perverted over time into buying the sweatshirt of any col-lege you’ve visited, or buying the sweatshirt of a college that sent you a brochure, despite a com-plete lack of interest on your part or even buying the sweatshirt of a college you watched play water polo at 3:00 a.m on ESPNU.

That’s well and good if you want to spend $40 every time you walk into a school’s book-store. I’m sure they could use the money for the endowment.

I guess I’m just old fashioned, but I’m a firm believer that once you put your letter of intent in the mail you forsake all other college sweatshirts. Picking a col-lege is like marriage except you can drop out or transfer without losing half your stuff.

Nowadays we’ve got all these young whippersnappers walking around in their Other College Sweatshirts. Colombia, Harvard, Yale, NYU and yes, even Fordham. Nothing bothers me more than the kid who walks out of O’Malley Library with a Fordham sweatshirt on. I could almost deal with The Other College Sweatshirt until I saw the Fordham ones. Fine, you want to broadcast to the col-lege community at large that you were delusional enough to think that an Ivy League school would take a middle to upper middle class white kid from the suburbs or that you were (are?) willing to spend the equiva-lent of Ghana’s GDP to live downtown and insist you go to “Tisch.” But 30 years ago if you wore a Fordham sweatshirt around here you would get the crap beaten out of you.

Now, The Other College Sweatshirt is bad when the wearer is willing to broadcast their lofty diploma-envy across Riverdale, but it’s even worse when the wearer could just as easily transfer to that college. St. John’s? Sacred Heart? Iona?

You want to go to St. John’s? Transfer to St. John’s. You’re ac-complishing nothing by continu-ing to wear your Sacred Heart sweatshirt except telling every-one you’re either too lazy, too stupid, or both to fill out a trans-fer application.

There are exceptions. Fine, you studied abroad. And I’ll let the Notre Dame football stuff go, too. There’s no way you can convince me Fordham is your favorite Patriot League Football Championship Subdivision team.

I don’t care if your boyfriend goes to NYU. I don’t care if your great uncle six times removed is on the board of trustees at Columbia. You go to Manhattan.

Matt Coyne is the Editor-in-Chief of the Quad, though he prefers if you simply refer to him as “The Chief.” You can tell him how bad he is at journalism via email (mcoyne01.student@manhattan.edu) or Twitter (@matt_coyne).

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FRESHMAN from front pageStudent Activities offered trips to Jersey Boys, Coney Island and Cy-clones baseball, Six Flags, the US Open and the NY Renaissance Fair, as well as events on campus, such as a movie on the Quad, pick up soccer game at Gaelic park and Karaoke and make your own DVD program.

Student Activities planned new events along with old favorites for consistency, so that a student could know an event was going on, like a movie on the Quad or a Saturday in the City, without reading a flyer, because this is what the upperclassmen wanted.

“This comes out of upperclassmen feedback that they disperse after orientation,” John Bennett of Student Activities said. He said this is the first step in a direction to fix that.

Events planned by Student Activities are paired with programs run by the RAs. RAs with freshman floors must have two events in the first six weeks of school.

Meg Donnelly says that this is just the beginning, and MC is hope-fully going to start a huge process to build a foundation for first year students. This will improve the retention rate and make students more welcome than any other class.

“We want students to stay here, we want our students right away to feel like this is a place they’ll call home,” Donnelly said.

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No, this is not an ad-vertisement or some bait and switch method. Ul-trinsic.com is the real deal. However, it is not available to all schools across the nation just yet. So, what is it, you ask? It is a company that allows students to upload their course schedule and wager on what grade they will re-ceive.

Ultrinsic.com offers incen-tives if students get the grade they want. Incentives include course incentives, multicourse incentives, semester incentives and a 4.0 GPA incentive for freshman. The 4.0 GPA incentive triples your wager, $2,000 of cash incentives is $20, $1000 of cash incentives is $10, and $500 of cash incentives is $5.

In case a course does not go according to plan, the website also offers grade insurance for any course, and in return students re-ceive cash for their bad grade.

CEO Steven Wolf explains to

the Huffington Post how the website works, “A student regis-ters, uploads his or her schedule and gives Ultrinsic access to of-ficial school records. The New York-based site then calculates odds based on the student’s col-lege history and any information it can dig up on the difficulty of each class, the topic and other factors. The student decides how much to wager up to a cap that starts at $25 and increases with use.”

Thirty-six schools, including Boston College, Pennsylvania State University and Harvard University are already signed into the system; however, some people believe it to be online gambling. Wolf claims that each student has100 percent control over it, and therefore it cannot be considered gambling.

The higher the grade, the bet-ter the payout in the end. The cash reward gives students the incen-tive to work hard and get that A.

Incoming freshman and edu-cation major, Anthony Lawlis, said, “Sure, I think that the website is a good thing. The website is espe-cially good for students who need incentives to do their work and get good grades.”

When asked if he would par-ticipate, Lawlis said, “I don’t think so. The reason for that is because I work hard all the time. I don’t need an incentive to make me work and get good grades.”

Not every student has the same level of motivation to do school-work, but is it worth the hassle?

MC junior and marketing ma-jor John Macchia, said, “I probably

wouldn’t waste my time with it.”Interest at MC might not be

high, however; word has spread and sparked interest to other colleges around the country. No longer just available to New York University and University of Penn-sylvania, this website is one unlike any other and might be something to keep an eye on.

This summer was littered with hundreds of news stories covering everything from the oil spill to Supreme Court nomina-tions. However, it was nearly impossible to watch a news program or catch up online without seeing something about the down-ward spiral of actress/singer/walking disaster Lindsay Lohan. And while reading about her escapades felt second nature by July, it was somewhat shocking to learn that the drug that was really ruining Lohan was one famil-iar to college students across the country: Adderall.

British Pharmaceutical giant, Shire Phar-maceuticals Group, first introduced Adderall in 1996. The drug, which is classified as an amphetamine, is typically prescribed to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). For those suffering from ADHD, the schedule two controlled substance can help with focus, control actions and help the person keep quiet and still in appro-priate situations. In recent years, however, the drug has been used across college cam-puses across America to help students gain a competitive edge. Sometimes referred to as “Addy” or “smart pills,” Adderall is the most popular study drug on college campuses, according to scientists. It’s appeal? The drug boosts cognitive function and makes it easy for a student to study for hours on end with-out getting tired. It is widely reported to increase alertness, increase libido, increase

concentration, and in general, improve mood while decreasing user fatigue.

Adderall is easy to get and said to be sold anywhere across a campus, from dormi-tories to the libraries. A single pill can cost anywhere from 3-10 dollars.

The main source of the drug is students who have a prescription and don’t use all the pills given to them. MC junior Mary Jones has been on Adderall for her ADD since high school. Although she is prescribed 60 pills a

month, the student only uses “about 40, be-cause I forget and sometimes I don’t want to take them because I sometimes don’t sleep well.”

“I’ll usually just give the rest to my friends if they want them. I would never charge anyone because they’re just extra,” and then with a laugh, “plus, I’m not trying to be a drug dealer.”

While the idea of giving out Adderall could be compared to passing a Tylenol

to some students, the federal government doesn’t laugh when it comes to the buying/selling of the drug. In fact, buying or sell-ing Adderall without a prescription is con-sidered a felony in the US, and recently, the government has limited to number of pre-scription allowed per year for the drug.

Jane Marsh is a junior at Rowan Univer-sity in Glassboro, NJ and, admittedly, uses Adderall on occasion.

“I first used it during my freshman year finals,” Marsh said, “I just figured it would be easier than staying up all night studying.” She goes on to say that the drug kicked in about 15 minutes after she took it and lasted well into the night. “It was nice because I wasn’t shaky and on edge like I would have been if I was running on coffee.” I did feel kind of guilty, though, because it’s an easy way out,” she continued, “but I did end up using it again during my next exams.”

Although Adderall may seem like a won-der drug for the modern day college stu-dent, some of the side effects prove other-wise. According to the official website, such side effects can include nervousness, rest-lessness, insomnia, uncontrollable shaking, headaches, changes in sex drive, dry mouth, stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and in more severe cases, chest pain, sei-zures, hallucinations or manic behavior. And since it is an amphetamine, Adderall can be addictive.

Some of the names in this article have been changed for privacy reasons.

Aside from the breathtaking sunsets, wide open skies, authentic food and miles upon miles of great hiking ground, New Mexico was also the summer destination for the Lasallian Outreach Volunteer Expe-rience (L.O.V.E.) program. After months of hard work planning events for fundraisers and getting to know each other, it finally came time for the group to embark upon a service trip that allowed cleansing for the mind, body and spirit.

The group landed in Albuquerque where they were graciously greeted with a festive platter of traditional burritos. After being acquainted with their program direc-tors they proceeded to drive into sassy Santa Fe where they stayed on the first floor of a Presbyterian church.

The group wasted no time getting straight to work. They began work on the Santo Domingo Reservation building, a water irrigation system made solely out of rocks. Continuing on in the week with much nomadic movement, the gang worked for Agua Fraid Community Farm doing agricul-tural work and also helped make a compost field, where they ended up camping out.

“I almost had a panic attack because I kept hearing coyotes and peacocks,” sopho-more Devon Berniache said.

Later in the week, the group set out on a

road trip to El Santuario de Chimayo Church which is commonly known as the “Lourdes of North America”. It has been said that the Virgin Mary has appeared there and that there is sacred dirt that heals all. After a day at the church, the students continued on to Taos and stayed in Arroyo Saco right outside the Abominable Snow Mansion Hostel. Ar-royo Saco is reminiscent of the 1960s de-cade displaying a rather hippie lifestyle. The village is right on the base of a mountain with people literally living out of Vans. This mellow village contained old coffee shops with artistic shows every night, which even included outdoor indie movies playing on a wide screen. Taos is famous for their fried dough, so, of course, it was imperative for the group to taste some. Aside from munch-ing on sugary treats, the students helped build a greenhouse for one of the farms.

Next stop was the Rivers and Birds Foundation where they built planters out of garbage cans filled with water to reduce the amount of times needed to refill them. They then drove two hours North through the mountains where they worked on building a space for a Native American Sundance that will take place this fall. Later that night, the group went back to the hostel where they cooked dinner and gathered around a cozy bonfire to reflect not only upon their trip, but also upon how the experience changed each one of them individually.

“It was an amazingly enriching expe-rience being together,” assistant director

of residence life, Jorie Kontos, said. “The group was very unique.”

“It was a real epiphany moment,” Kon-tos continued. “The Native Americans have such a pure love for the land. In their cul-ture there is a reason for everything; words leave lasting impressions. Everyone is so respectful and kind and in touch with the land.” She described her first impressions of the hostel as being “foreign” and that she felt “out of her element,” but she was able to adjust quickly and find a level of magnifi-cent peace.

On the final day the crew left Taos to go back to the Albuquerque. Before they said their final goodbyes to New Mexico, they

stopped by one last reservation to see a corn dance. Although they did not end up getting to see the actual dance, the students were awed by the traditional tribal outfits that were worn by the dancers.

“All of the good things that you hear about these types of trips are true,” Berna-iche said. “They are life-changing and an amazing experience. I wish I could relive it,”

New Mexico allowed the group to con-nect and truly appreciate the purity of the land and its native people. It appears time and time again that these service trips con-tinue to make all who attend truly fall head over heels in LOVE.

Adderal: Not All it’s Cracked Up to BeSenior WriterQ Kelly Shine

L.O.V.E. New Mexico Helping Others While Finding Peace Within

Assistant EditorQ Jeanette Settembre

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Making YOUR voice heard because Democracy Matters!

Have you ever felt that your voice is ignored by your elected representatives? That you can’t really affect the issues you care about? Well, now you can make your voice heard. Manhattan College is organiz-ing a chapter of the national non-partisan student organization Democracy Matters. With elections just around the corner, the club's timing is perfect because it is not associated with any political party but it addresses issues related to campaigning.

Adonal Foyle, a veteran NBA center who recently retired from a 13 year career with the Orlando Magic and the Golden State Warriors, founded Democracy Matters in 2001 to give students a real voice in our political system.

This fall Manhattan College’s DM will work on voter registration as well as important issues in the upcoming elections such as the BP oil spill, the problem of climate change, the slow economic recovery, the availability and cost of student loans, and more. These critical issues will be linked to the problem of money in politics – the influence of corporations’ and special interests’ huge donations to political campaigns. During the 2010 elections, candidates are expected to spend more than ever before –(Con-gressional candidates have already raised more than $1.2 BILLION for their campaigns) and most of that money doesn’t come from ordinary citizens but from wealthy donors.

Democracy Matters at Manhattan College will focus on student activism for change. One important change would be to enable ordinary people to run for office, not just wealthy candidates. A new system of “Fair Elections” would reduce the impact of lobbyists and interest groups and allow us to elect representa-tives who listen to and are accountable to us – not to their big funders. Democracy Matters is working for a government that is truly of, by and for the people—all of us!

We will be holding discussions, organizing poster campaigns, tabling, and training everyone about how to make a difference and become an active leader on the issues you care about.

There is no better time than now to check Democracy Matters out and get involved! Contact Caleb Merrill at cmerrill.student@manhattan.edu or at (518) 429-1758

KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR SPECIAL EVENTS ON CAMPUS THIS SEMESTER, BROUGHT TO YOU BY DE-MOCRACY MATTERS AND CO-SPONSORED BY THE GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT AND THE GOVERN-MENT AND POLITICS CLUB! LOOK FOR THEM AT THE STUDENT ACTIVITIES FAIR.

“I really need your help to make our voices heard. Come to a meeting and tell us what you want to change and together we’ll figure out how to make a real difference. If we, the nation’s youth, don’t do something, who will?” said Caleb Merrill, Chair of the unofficial Democracy Matters club at Manhattan College.

Features Editor: Carly Hertica | quadfeatures@gmail.com

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Career Athlete Workshop

9/13 @ 8pm 9/14 @ 5pm

Life After Graduation- Budgeting for Real Life Workshop9/15 @ 7:00 pm

Career Fashion Show

“Finding a Job or Internship Using Social Media Workshop”Presented by: Columbia University Center for Career Education

9/16 from 5-6 pm

Interview Training Sessions9/11, 9/13 and 9/17

Raffle – Brand new IPOD!Enter to win at each event!!!

Stop by the Center for Career Development for Event Schedule and to Sign Up!Miguel Hall – 5th Floor

Leo Engineering- Room 258Call 718-862-7224 or E-mail careerdevelopment@manhattan.edu for more

information!

Their yearly calendar may be well known across campus, but that might be the extent of what people know about the Jasper Dancers, until this year, that is.

The ten returning teammates are ready to step it up and show off some new performances to the campus com-munity. Returning a week early, the girls spent their last days of summer at-tending different dance workshops and working out.

“We wanted to be able to build on our skills and bond as a team before getting into the year with all of our school work,” junior and current vice-president, Megan Papandrea, said.

The extra classes were diverse, with some being taught by their choreogra-pher, Erika Fire, and the rest being held downtown at Broadway Dance Center. The girls also took Pilates classes to in-crease their strength.

“The week allowed us to become a lot closer and get to know each other better, which will show through in our performances,” junior and current president Jenn Rudowsky, said. This in-cludes two new performances that the girls will showcase this year.

Once school starts, the girls will continue practicing four times a week with their choreographer, in order to reach some common goals for the se-mester.

“The team as a whole hopes to be-come stronger and be able to do more. For example, [the team would like] for everyone to be able to do more tricks, to get everyone to the same level,” Pa-pandrea said.

In addition to dancing at the basket-ball games, the dancers can be found at almost every event on campus. Every member is expected to take part in the Relay for Life, the Breast Cancer Walk, Family Weekend, Manhattan Madness and Spring Fest. The club also hosts the Mr. & Mrs. Manhattan College Pageant in the spring.

Any students wishing to join the dancers are welcome to attend try-outs (which are held each semester) on Fri., Sept. 10, at 3:30 p.m. in the mini gym in Alumni Hall.

“We’re a really close group of girls that share a common interest and we want to show that passion to the school,” Rudowsky said.

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The Manhattan College Pipes & Drums will be holding an open recruitment meeting Thursday evening, September 9 at 7:30 p.m.

in the Singer’s Room, 5th Floor, Thomas Hall.

 

Open recruitment only occurs every two years, so join now!

No previous musical skill is required and there is no expense incurred by participating students.

Those interested must attend this first meeting – no exceptions.

For more information, visit the Band’s table at the Activities Fair on the Quad on September 8, 2010 or e-mail mcpipesanddrums@manhattan.edu.

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On September 11, 2001, MC twenty Jaspers perished as a result of the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history.

Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.

The Quadrangle expresses their deep gratitude to Mr. Thomas Mc-Carthy, Assistant Director for the Office of Alumni Relations, and the staff of the office for their help in this remembrance of our fallen Jaspers.

Compiled by Joseph H. Smith, Ray Mechmann & Chuck Daly

Kevin FrawleyClass of 1990 B.S. - Marketing Euro Brothers, Inc.34

Joseph CoppoClass of 1975B.S. - MarketingCantor Fitzgerald 47

Robert BaierwalterB.S. - Chemical EngineeringF.M. Global44

Michael T. CarrollClass of 1984B.S.FDNY39

Richard GabrielClass of 1971B.B.AStrain Consulting54

Michael J. DuffyClass of 1993B.S. - FinanceKeefe, Bruyette & Woods29

Salvatore GittoClass of 1978B.S. - Civil EngineeringMarsh and McLennan Cos. Inc.44

Timothy O’SullivanClass of 1964B.S.Cultural Institution of Retirement Systems68

Dennis MoroneyClass of 1984B.SCantor Fitzgerald39

Richard MorganClass of 1959B.S. - Civil Engineering Consolidated Edison63

Michael J. LyonsClass of 1993B.S. - MechanicalEngineeringFDNY32

Brian P. MageeClass of 1973B.S.Compaq52

James QuinnClass of 1999B.S. - MarketingCantor Fitzgerald23

Robert McCarthyClass of 1990B.S. – FinanceCantor Fitzgerald33

Lt. Robert ReganClass of 1975B.S. - Civil EngineeringFDNY48

Antonio A. RochaClass of 1990B.S. - FinanceCantor Fitzgerald 34

John GallagherClass of 1991B.S. - FinanceCantor Fitzgerald31

Lt. Joseph LeaveyClass of 1977B.S. - Civil EngineeringFDNY45

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Joseph HollandClass of 1991B.S. - FinanceCarr Futures31

Never forget the 2,977 people who were killed nine years ago, including the 20 graduates of Manhattan College.

John Cheever has been referred to by a number of cheerful complimentary titles, including “the Ovid of Os-sining,” “the American Chekhov” and “the greatest chroni-cler of American suburban life.” While these are all worthy comments of praise, the greatest accolade that Cheever has ever received was made manifest earlier this year with the release of Blake Bailey’s “Cheever: A Life”. Although Cheever died in 1982, Bailey’s magisterial work is the first full-length scholarly biography of the subject.

Richard Lacayo of “Time” declared of “Cheever: A Life”, “It is a portrait of the man drawn judiciously, but compel-ling and in harrowing detail.”

Cheever was capable of rising to the greatest heights of his professions and sinking to the lowest depths of despair a man can know.

Bailey chronicles all of Cheever’s successes and fail-ures, but in a well-written and organized manner. He pres-ents the reader with Cheever in his manifold forms from Cheever the family man to Cheever the writer to Cheever the university professor.

There is not a single aspect of Cheever’s 70 years of life which Bailey does not thoroughly document with a mixture of wit, sympathy and most importantly, objectiv-ity. Bailey begins his analyses of the subject’s New Eng-land ancestry, a topic, unlike many others, save for drink, books and sex, which he could wax rhapsodically in a state verging on rapture for a seemingly interminable expanse of time.

“The Economist” called “Cheever: A Life”, “Elegant, an insightful, clear-eyed life of the man.”

Bailey continues with Cheever’s miserable childhood. The disastrous effects of the Stock Mar-ket Crash of 1929 on his father’s shoe manufac-turing firm, Cheever and Whittredge, caused his fa-ther to seek solace in alco-hol, much as his two sons would in the face of ad-versity. During the Great Depression, his mother opened a gift shop and tearoom to support the family. This emasculating experi-ence would haunt Cheever years later when he could not support his own family as a struggling, young writer. Bailey also chronicles Cheever’s expulsion from Thayer Academy, his teenaged trip to Nazi Germany and his, in retrospective, escape to Greenwich Village.

Bailey does a fine job analyzing Cheever’s early writing career of short stories with “The New Yorker” and his nov-

els published by Harper. The book devotes considerable space to Cheever’s numerous male and female relation-ships, both sexual and platonic, but most importantly his courtship and marriage of Mary Winternitz. Also studied is

Cheever’s influential time spent in Italy in the 1950s and his ac-quisition of a large farm house in Ossining, NY. For a while, he resided at Yadoo, an artist’s col-ony in Saratoga Springs, NY, and lectured at Boston University and the Iowa Writers’ Work-shop. Cheever’s battle with alcohol and his sexual identity is thor-oughly chronicled.

The reader should not be intimidated by the book’s 770 pages. Bailey writes in a fluid, clear and engaging style which greatly enhances the readers’ journey through the text. The book is illustrated with numerous black and white photographs which total more than 30 pages. Many of these photographs, Bailey claims, have never been released to the public before. In these photographs, which greatly lend to the reader’s un-derstanding of a complex and multi-faceted subject, one

truly begins to understand the manifold natures and posi-tions Cheever assumed in his 70 years of life.

Bailey’s use of sources is quite admirable. He draws ex-tensively on previously unpublished and unknown primary sources. A selection of Cheever’s letters and journals were published several years ago, as well as an explosive mem-oir, “Home Before Dark”, and family history, “Treetops”, his daughter Susan wrote some time ago. While these provide an intimate picture of Cheever’s life, Bailey’s use of inter-views with Cheever’s three middle aged children and the elderly widow Mary Cheever, allows the reader to imagine that he is having a before dinner martini with the legend himself as you both read the evening newspaper before a fire crackling in the hearth and as you see the sun slowly decline in the bay window over the western Palisades of the Hudson River.

James Wolcott of Vanity Fair pronounced the book to be, “A biography of monumental heft that certifies Cheev-er’s enduring relevance.”

The book is a literary feast for the soul and the mind. It is perfect for all seasons, whether it is read in a hammock on a hot summer afternoon or after dinner in front of the fireplace on a cold winter night. It is a premiere example of what a biography should encompass. Doubtlessly, it will become the standard work about Cheever for many years, one which future generations of scholars will need to refer-ence when writing about the subject if they are to have any credibility.

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Upcoming Events On (And Off) Campus9/9- Movie on the quad: “Iron Man 2”9/10- T-shirt Dance Party with DJ Envy. (Wear a MC orientation T-shirt any year

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MANHATTAN COLLEGE MENTOR PROGRAM

If you're a Sophomore or Junior in the School of Arts or Business and would to like to gain first hand experience about your intended career with a Manhattan College alum, then the MENTOR PROGRAM is for you. Please get an application in the Career Development Office, 5th floor of Miguel Hall by Friday, September 24, 2010. If you any have questions, contact Br. Charles Barbush, Mentor Program Coordinator at charles.barbush@manhattan.edu

Left: The CEO of SWAG Web Design, junior Bill Mauro. “I’m the boss,” Mauro said. Below: A screenshot of MC alumnus Sasha-lee Pallagi’s webpage.

When someone says the word “swag,” the last thing that comes to mind is web design. But junior Bill Mauro is chang-ing the way people think about web design, young entrepre-neurs and swag.

A little over a year ago, M a u r o needed a way to make a little extra money during his time at MC. “I was inspired by the show ‘Shark Tank’ on ABC,” Mauro said. “Shark Tank” is a reality TV show in which business ty-coons listen to propositions from emerging entrepreneurs and decide whether or not they want to invest in them.

“I am very creative and de-cided to use my creative talents to make some money,” he said. “I went to the Internet. It’s the future.”

With no web design experi-ence, Mauro started up SWAG Web Design. SWAG stands for

“Service, Wisdom, Art, Genius.”He began teaching himself

how to use Adobe CS5 through tutorials and YouTube videos. He eventually acquired enough skills to design his first web

page.Mauro’s

first cli-ent was MC alumna Sashalee Pal-

lagi, a model and actress. “If it wasn’t for her, I wouldn’t be do-ing this now,” he said. “She gave me a shot.”

While he’s willing to work with just about anyone who’s starting out and needs a web page, Mauro has his favorites. “I’m kind of hitting entertain-ment more. I’m working on web pages for a rapper and a music producer.” Mauro also likes to work with people who are just starting out and hopes that if their businesses flourish as a result of his webpage, his brand will expand along with it.

“I only use people who I

think will make it,” Mauro said.Another idea Mauro is cur-

rently working on is memorial websites for people who have lost loved ones. In the same vein as Facebook memorial groups, Mauro’s web pages would be a place for mourners to upload pictures and videos and leave comments and memories. He is currently looking for investors to get this idea moving.

A king of social networking, Mauro is extremely resource-ful when it comes to spreading the word about SWAG. “I use Facebook, Twitter, basically any social networking site that’s free,” he said. He is also a mem-ber of Meetup.com, a site that alerts Mauro to entrepreneurial events around the city.

He goes to these meetings as often as he can to network and perpetuate SWAG Web Design. Mauro hands out business cards and has gotten a lot of positive response about SWAG. “I’m so young and people respond to how driven I am,” he said. His

main goal is to network and make new business connec-tions.

Mauro is also trying to help get the Entrepreneur Club at MC off the ground. He wants to try and connect the club to the Career Fair and assist in getting new businesses to come. Mauro also wants to start bringing MC alumni and other small business owners to campus for seminars about starting a business.

After he graduates, Mauro is absolutely certain he will con-tinue to expand SWAG. “I never wanted to work for others,” he said. “I always want to be in business for myself.”

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goalie Christopher Lands compliment an es-tablished nucleus led by senior captain Josh Renner and junior vice captain Christopher Holihan.

They were ready to contribute right away.

Hundreds of excited Jasper faithful packed a humid Gaelic Park to support their team, which faced several tense moments to start the match. Farleigh-Dickinson attackers applied pressure early, sending across sev-eral shots on goal. Christopher Lands’ poise and athleticism was tested immediately and he responded with two spectacular saves in the first ten minutes of play.

After MC defense suppressed Farleigh-Dickinson’s aggressive attacks in the box, the Jaspers fired the game’s opening salvo. In the 12th minute, freshman midfielder Daniel Festa connected with fellow rookie Eric Montinard on a perfectly executed cor-ner kick to the middle of the box that was headed just inside the left post.

“It was very encouraging to see us scrap and manufacture a goal like that,” Coach Hammond said. “Showing that kind of tech-nical ability is a huge positive.”

The Knights, however, would respond quickly.

MC got its first taste of Farleigh’s ex-plosive one-two punch in the 27th minute when Dominic Reinold found the spectacu-lar Malijani, who ran past Lands’ diving try and knocked in the game-tying goal from 25 yards out.

Lands and the Jasper defense would keep the score knotted at one through half-time, but moments into the second half, freshman forward Jonathan Gonzalez scored on a long ball deflected by Lands for

the would-be game-winner. The Jaspers followed with several se-

rious scoring attempts that fell just short, while Christopher Lands’ marvelous perfor-mance gave them a chance to tie it. Lands would record twelve impressive saves on the night.

“Lands was magnificent tonight,” his coach said. “He had so many terrific saves, and showed a lot of composure for a fresh-man.”

The Knights secured the duel with a dagger in the 88th minute, when the phe-nomenal Reinold broke away from midfield for 20 yards before kicking in an open shot to make it a 3-1 final.

Coach Hammond, however, was still impressed by many individual performanc-es, particularly by his first-year players. “The freshmen were tremendous tonight. They had to play a full 90 minutes, something they’re not used to, and they never gave up.”

Also of note, prior to the end of the first half, senior captain Joshua Renner was shaken up after contact with several Knights players close to the near-post. After limping for several minutes, Renner stayed in the game and helped stifle many Farleigh scor-ing opportunities.

“He’s been such a great leader for the past four years,” said Hammond. “He’s been injured all summer, and it just goes to show you how badly Josh wants to win.”

With leadership from core veterans like Renner and with Hammond’s first recruiting class paying immediate dividends, it is ap-parent that a new era in MC men’s soccer is beginning to dawn.

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The MC men’s soccer team dropped their home opener to Farleigh Dickinson, 3-1, under the lights Wednesday, but first-year head coach Ashley Hammond’s squad already showed signs of turning the page on a disappointing 2009 campaign.

The Jaspers, who started seven fresh-men, faced a Farleigh Dickinson team (9-9-1 overall in 2009) that has won five NEC Tour-nament Titles in the past decade under Seth

Roland, in his 15th season as Knights head coach. The Knights boast one of the most sensational scoring duos in the NEC, com-prised of senior forward Samson Malijani, who ranked second in the nation in goals (.9) and points per game (2.05) as a junior two seasons ago before sitting out 2009 with an injury, and the 2009 NEC Rookie of the Year, Dominic Reinfold.

MC, meanwhile, welcomes a se-ries of highly-touted recruits to reinvigorate the program. Freshman such as midfielders Sam Howard, Canadian Daniel Festa, backs Eric Montinard and Stefano Carlacci, and

According to the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) annual preseason poll, the MC volleyball team was chosen to finish ninth. Championships will be held Novem-ber 18-20 at the ESPN Worldwide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida. Head coach Mark Jones, returning players and new players are all looking forward to a competitive season.

Coach Jones commented on his expec-tations for the year. “Skill wise, we become fundamentally sound and that every time we step on the court, we compete. As a team our common goals are to work hard, get bet-ter everyday and learn from our mistakes,” Jones said.

Jones has prepared The Lady Jaspers for a fresh start towards victory by not only instilling hard work ethics, but he has also brought forth three new players. Two 6’1’’ junior transfers- Lakell Havens and Brit-tany DeGagne and one 5’6’’ freshman- Nikki Chamberlin have joined the squad.

The Lady Jaspers started their competi-tive season on Saturday Aug. 28th at UC San-ta Barbara. Havens, a middle blocker, joins the MC volleyball team after her victories at Salt Lake Community College. In 2009, she earned a place on the Region 18 All Tourna-ment Team and she was ranked fifth in the

nation percentage of .278. DeGagne, an outside hitter, joins The

Lady Jaspers after not only leading Garden City Community College as a captain, but also leading with the most overall points. Chamberlin from San Diego, California helped her high school win Avocado League championships and advance to the finals of the CIF state tournament in 2009. “I ex-pect her to compete for a starting position,” Jones said.

Along with Jones, returning players ex-pressed their high expectations for this sea-son. “I’m looking forward to a great season! We have great new players and a lot of good energy. The game at UC Santa Barbara was a good opportunity to play a good team. We hung together in spite of difficult competi-tion,” senior Diane Strutner said.

Unlike Strutner, senior Jaci Rahey sat out of the first competition due to an injury, but she is looking forward to competing in the next game. “We had a rough season last year, but I’m so excited about this season. In our first game, the girls pushed together and played great! Hopefully, this weekend I will be able to play in the game,” Rahey said.

With a roster of thirteen girls, The Lady Jaspers will continue their season Friday, Sept. 3 against St. Johns College.

“I’m looking forward to a really good season,” Jones said.

While Tiger Woods has put golf on the map in more ways than one, several student-athletes at MC have put the Jaspers on the map with their talents on the green. The

2010 Golf season seems prom-ising for the Jaspers who are returning an array of talent. They are also smartest team collectively on campus. As a team, they posted a 2009-10 cumulative GPA of 3.22.

Golf is a game of pa-tience on and off the course. The overall performance of the team is gradually increas-ing. The golf team is losing a leader in Nick LaBanca but several key teammates who mentored under him are ready to step up. One leader, Thomas Romano’11, will look to pass knowledge as an up-perclassman to the younger men of the team. When asked about his senior leader status, he replied, “ I am not looking to critique anyone negatively. I am not perfect, no one is. I plan on offering knowledge I have garnered over my years as a Jasper to improve the team”.

The Jaspers will try their best to im-prove on their 8th place finish in the MAAC. Louis “Sweet Lou” Perry ’11 will be offering

support to teammates even after off-season knee surgery. Time and rehabilitation will tell if Sweet Lou will be able to cut it on the greens this fall.

On the young front, the Jaspers are developing several student-athletes to con-tribute immediately. Look out for Mike McGorty’13 to improve after his rookie sea-son, “the most important thing you can due to improve your game is to constantly play but at the same time realize, Rome wasn’t built in a day,” McGorty said.

The team will welcome incoming fresh-man His recruiting class consists of Chris Ca-labro (Pleasantville, N.Y./Westlake H.S.) and Paul Toohey ( Yonkers, N.Y./Fordham Prep). As freshman they will have the tough task of adapting to college, but their teammates and coach are excellent mentors and guiders.

“I am very excited to have Chris and Paul join our team for this upcoming sea-son,” Olsewski said. “We are all looking forward to competing at the collegiate level and both possess the drive to play well and help our team against both conference and non-conference opponents.”

Keep track of all things Jasper athletics on www.GOJaspers.com. And remem-ber to support the Golf team and all other teams by cheering them on at games!

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