New York to New Haven: Meet Manhattan College’s Soon to Be Yalie

By Caroline McCarthy, Sports Editor Isabel Frazza, a Christian raised, camel-tattoo sporting senior at Manhattan College, is set to attend Yale University Divinity School to pursue a masters degree in religion with a concentration in women, gender and sexuality studies in the Fall of 2022. When asked how these seemingly contradictory subjects relate to one another, as some interpret the Bible to be a little … Continue reading New York to New Haven: Meet Manhattan College’s Soon to Be Yalie

Alixandria James Chosen as Recipient for Newman Civic Fellowship

By Karen Flores, Asst. Features Editor Manhattan College’s Alixandria James has been selected as one of the recipients of the Newman Civic Fellowship for the year 2022-2023.  The Newman Civic Fellowship aims to recognize and support students who are not only engaged in collaborative action with others on and off campus but that are also committed to solving public problems and bringing changes to their … Continue reading Alixandria James Chosen as Recipient for Newman Civic Fellowship

Recent MC Grad on Decision to Graduate Early

Graduating in the spring is usually standard for the majority of college students, but Kayla Smith finished her final semester this past fall. The nuclear medicine technology graduate finished her degree with a pre-medicine concentration in three and a half years. Smith originally started off as an allied health major and after her switch she needed to take roughly 16-18 credits per semester along with … Continue reading Recent MC Grad on Decision to Graduate Early

Where Old Books Find New Life

Sophomore Repairs and Restores Archaic Works for MC Library Tim Gress, a work study student at Manhattan College’s O’Malley library, stands in the empty computer room on the first floor. The room, with six enormous windows and tons of empty bookshelves around its perimeter, is the space that is being dedicated to a massive collection of rare books, a project that fell into Gress’s lap … Continue reading Where Old Books Find New Life

Matthew Coyne Goes Commercial: Men’s Wear and Beyond

Once again, Matthew Coyne has managed to do more in one semester than many students have accomplished up to this point in their lives as juniors in college. As an art history and English double major with a minor in Spanish, not only is Coyne’s class schedule packed, but so is the other half of his life as a designer of men’s and women’s fashion. … Continue reading Matthew Coyne Goes Commercial: Men’s Wear and Beyond

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Meet MC’s Very Own Fulbright Scholar: Hanadi Abdullah

BY: NATALIE HEINITZ All I have to say is, thank goodness Hanadi Abdullah chose to teach and study literature over pharmacy. Abdullah, a 25-year-old young woman from Baghdad, Iraq, is a natural born teacher with a passion for English literature. Even more, she is a Fulbright Scholar. The Fulbright Scholarship program is one of the most prestigious scholarship exchange programs in the world. It selects … Continue reading Meet MC’s Very Own Fulbright Scholar: Hanadi Abdullah