Dear Readers, Hello, and welcome to Issue 8. Freedom of speech, as it frequently has been for the past few months, has taken center stage in the news and specifically student media yet again this week. From nationwide “No Kings” protests over the weekend, including several here in New York City and the Riverdale area, to a federal lawsuit filed by The Stanford Daily, new … Continue reading LETTER from the EDITOR
My fellow Jaspers, I’m sorry. We may have never met, but we know each other. We’re not too different, you and I. At one point, we were both 17-year-old high school seniors. You remember the day as well as I do. Who can forget that first glimpse of those arches leading onto our quad? Those sprawling stairs leading to our most charming chapel, the scent … Continue reading Letter to the Editor from a Concerned Alumnus
By, Manhattan College’s Black Student Union Continue reading Black Student Union Official Statement of Tyre Nichols
by Jocelyn Visnov, Asst. Production Editor People who choose a plant- based diet are often assumed to be picky eating tree-huggers who want to talk about kale and make things awkward at dinner parties. In reality, this is entirely untrue. There are a variety of reasons as to why people choose to consume a plant- based diet, including concerns for health, ethics or animals. However, … Continue reading Is the Hamburger Worth the Damage?: The Environmental Case for Going Plant-Based.
by Adrianne Hutto, Asst. Production Editor After months of indoor dining being closed in New York City in response to the surge in COVID-19 cases this winter, Governor Cuomo announced that indoor dining will resume on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14th, with 25% capacity. However, the closure and restrictions have decreased the number of available jobs in the city. This general decrease also gives students less … Continue reading NYC Indoor Dining Restrictions Shut the Door for Student Employment
by Lauren Raziano & Adrianne Hutto, Contributors Spending two weeks of your first year in college in an eight by eight isolation room is not what we would call ideal… On my first day I arrived at 3:30 p.m. and learned that dinner would be served at 5 p.m. I was told to order through the google sheet for food and also email dining services … Continue reading Two Sides of the Same Quarantine
“Every 62 minutes, at least one person dies as a direct result of an eating disorder,” (The National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders). That’s about 23 people per day, 161 people per week, and 8,372 people per year. It’s a staggering amount of lives lost over the course of a day, let alone a week or year, for a mental illness that is … Continue reading All Foods Fit
by HALEY BURNSIDE, Asst. Editor This past Wednesday, I opened Twitter hoping to scroll through some sweet Valentine’s Day messages and Ash Wednesday posts. As I clicked over to the news tab, I read two words that instantly sank like a rock in my stomach. They are words that we have all become painfully familiar with in the past decade. “Mass shooting” is a phrase that stops … Continue reading The Wrong Way to React to a Mass Shooting
The following is a staff member’s op/ed piece and does not reflect the views of the The Quadrangle’s Editorial Board, the College or the student body. I went into Manhattan last night. It wasn’t to stir stuff up. And I wasn’t even initially planning to end up at Trump Tower. But I did. For the past eighteen months, Donald J. Trump has been occupying the … Continue reading Our Politics is Broken; But We Aren’t
