Articles by Tara Marin

Spring 2018 Season In Review

May 1, 2018

by TARA MARIN, Senior Writer Swimming and Diving Teams Breaks Records at MAAC Championships Women’s senior Ally Hutzler and men’s freshman Andre Van Huyssteen helped rewrite the record books this year at the 2018 MAAC Championships. Hutzler [...]

“When I Thought I Could Fly”: Cristina Pérez Jiménez on the Power of Quiet

April 26, 2018

On Wednesday, April 18th, Cristina Pérez Jiménez, Ph.D., delivered a lecture at the last Agape Latte of the semester. Jiménez is an assistant professor of English, with a specialty in Hispanic Caribbean and U.S. Latino/a literatures and culture. [...]

Infographic: A Brief History of the Bronx

April 20, 2018

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Sophomore Talks Women’s History Month

March 7, 2018

Editor’s Note: “She Persisted” is a special weekly column for Women’s History Month featuring women who are making history on Manhattan College’s campus. For Anna Rosario, a sophomore commuter student with a major in international studies [...]

NMUN Students Represent the United Kingdom in the Galapagos Islands

January 30, 2018

by TARA MARIN & JESS SOLAN, Senior Writer & Staff Writer Over winter break, a group of students from Manhattan College participated in a special National Model United Nations (NMUN) conference in the Galapagos Islands. They represented [...]

Campus Talks Sexual Assault, Title IX and #MeToo

December 4, 2017

In the last few months, the #MeToo movement has changed the national conversation around sexual assault and harassment, but legislation that mandates how we confront these issues remains uncertain. Here on campus, there are multiple [...]

Selfied by Steph: How One Student Turned a Hobby into a Business

October 24, 2017

Right now, there are over 300 million pictures on Instagram that are tagged with the word “selfie”. Merriam-Webster gave the word an official definition in 2014. A recent AOL survey found that almost half of adults think selfies make them feel [...]

Merging the Classroom with the Community

October 19, 2017

Javier Garcia has been a professor for a little more than two years. The spring of 2017 was his first time teaching COMM 414, Advanced Advertising Strategies, and his first semester teaching for Manhattan College’s communication department. [...]

Review: “On the Shore of the Wide World”

September 21, 2017

Theater and the City is a column of student-written reviews in the ENGL 400 class taught by Deirdre O’Leary Cunningham. Characters of family dramas have been prone to yank on our heartstrings—a box of tissues is a fitting accessory for sitting [...]

Alumni Share Experiences from Hurricane Harvey, MC Continues Relief

September 13, 2017

It’s been almost three weeks since Hurricane Harvey ravaged southeastern Texas. Student groups on campus, as well as alumni off campus, have been working collaboratively on relief efforts. Marissa Piazza, a 2016 graduate of Manhattan College who [...]