Luke Hartman and Lauren Carr Editors Starting in fall 2015, Manhattan College’s School of Arts will undergo a big change: its name. The school will be officially renamed as the School of Liberal Arts after deliberation by college administration and faculty. Twenty years ago, when the School of Arts and School of Science split into their respective schools, it left the School of Arts with … Continue reading School of Arts Gets a Name Change
Manhattan College is offering its third-ever study abroad trip to Havana, Cuba this spring break just as the U.S. and Cuba attempt to move toward normal diplomatic relations for the first time in over 50 years. Organizers of the trip say that this trip will be an opportunity to witness Cuba before it is slowly changed by new U.S. economic and political relations. “I think … Continue reading As Cuban-American Relations Begin to Shift, Study Abroad Trip Anticipates a Changing Cuba
Assistant Director of Student Activities, Gabrielle Occhiogrosso, announced last week she would be stepping down from her position at the end of the semester. “It is very bittersweet, but I am leaving Manhattan College to pursue my career in higher education. I recently received my doctorate of education and I have accepted a position at the director level,” Occhiogrosso said. However, Occhiogrosso is not going … Continue reading Occhiogrosso, Staff Say Goodbye
This week The Quadrangle is featuring programs at Manhattan College that are offered exclusively as minors. Read part 1 here. Music By: Claire Leaden, Managing Editor/Features Editor The music minor at Manhattan College started in 2004, within a joint-program with Mount St. Vincent College that offered the first “fine arts” minors at MC: music and art history. The colleges severed their partnership in 2006, but today … Continue reading Minors Only (Part 2 of 2)
JOHN ABBATANGELO & AMY CARDOZA EDITORIAL CARTOONIST & STAFF WRITER The Film Society is a student run group that many people overlook or don’t know about. Every year they congregate and the board of students votes on films within a central theme. The theme changes annually and this year’s theme is memory. The main goal of the society is to try and find films that … Continue reading Cinema at MC: The Film Society on Campus
TARA MARTIN STAFF WRITER From Maryland all the way to the big apple, Dr. Keith Brower has now joined Manhattan College as the new dean of the School of Arts. Brower has nearly thirty years of experience under his belt as both a professor and a former dean. Brower will oversee the fifteen academic departments within the School of Arts at MC. As our campus … Continue reading Dr. Brower Talks about his Past, Plans and Passions
Keith Brower, Ph.D., has been hired as the new dean of the School of Arts. Brower joins Manhattan College after serving as associate dean from 2007 to 2014 at the Fulton School of Liberal Arts at his alma mater Salisbury University. “I come to Manhattan with lots of ideas and experience with many of those ideas, and I know the arrts faculty have lots of … Continue reading Manhattan College Names Keith Brower as New Dean of School of Arts
On the infamous day that the great Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes died, it was only fitting that a lecture on his greatest work, “Don Quixote,” was held. This is what occurred on April 23 in Manhattan College library’s Alumni Room, where Dr. Ana María Laguna, associate professor of Spanish at Rutgers University-Camden, spoke about “Don Quixote” and its reflection on elements pertaining to the … Continue reading Ana María Laguna Gives Lecture on Miguel de Cervantes and Visual Art
BY JOSEPH CUSMANO SENIOR WRITER Manhattan College’s current Dean of the School of Arts, Dr. Richard Emmerson, will serve his last day in administration on June 30 of this year. Emmerson, who started at the college in August of 2009, has served as dean for five years. “I’m retiring from the administrative position but I’ll be teaching two classes a semester,” Emmerson said. With a … Continue reading After Five Years, Dean Emmerson to Step Down From Administration
