A Look at MC’s Love Your Melon Team

by MEGAN DREHER, Staff Writer & AUGUST KISSEL, Staff Writer With the weather getting colder, it’s important to stay bundled up while walking around campus. One way to do so is by sporting Love Your Melon apparel, a brand that has become close to many Manhattan College students’ hearts and supports a good cause. Love Your Melon is a nonprofit organization that has supported childhood cancer by … Continue reading A Look at MC’s Love Your Melon Team

Manhattan Caucus: Nov. 1

Manhattan Caucus is a column in the news section, which will run weekly until Election Day, offering students a voice in the ongoing presidential elections. F.B.I. Director James B. Comey, in a letter to Congress released Friday afternoon, detailed that emails potentially linked to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s private email server were found on the laptop of former Congressman Anthony Weiner of New York, whose … Continue reading Manhattan Caucus: Nov. 1

Bio Club Takes the Quad

by MEGHAN SACKMAN, Staff Writer The Biology Club took over the Quad on Oct. 28 with tables informing student on a range of diseases and ailments, in an attempt to better inform students on the nature of pathogens.            Manhattan College biology students set up five different tables, each with its own poster describing a specific disease. These diseases were selected by … Continue reading Bio Club Takes the Quad

Students Establish a Chapter of Operation Smile on Campus

After a year of hard work, three Manhattan College students established a chapter of Operation Smile on the MC campus. Operation Smile is a nonprofit international medical charity that is dedicated to bringing surgeries to countries where kids don’t have access to safe medical care. Through donations, they bring medical staff, doctors, surgeons, and everyone else needed to the country and perform surgeries that save … Continue reading Students Establish a Chapter of Operation Smile on Campus

Increased Crime in City Parks Places Van Cortlandt Under Scrutiny

by JOSEPH LIGGIO, Staff Writer Data published by the NYPD indicated a rise in crime rates throughout numerous public parks in the Bronx over the past few weeks. Crotona and Claremont Park, both south of the Fordham section of the borough, currently top the list as having the highest number of reported crimes for the first half of 2016. Van Cortlandt Park is currently on pace … Continue reading Increased Crime in City Parks Places Van Cortlandt Under Scrutiny