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Photo Credit: Chloe Abosch 2 / THE VANGUARD NEWS OCTOBER 16, 2019 vANGUARD USG Update: Senators Fill Vacated Seats General Inquiries [email protected] By Ryan Schwach Managing Editor Club Hours 118 Roosevelt Hall T h e Monday: 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Undergraduate Student Tuesday: 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Government senate held its routine meeting Editor-in-Chief Tuesday Oct. 15 during Quiara Vasquez common hours and [email protected] addressed normal Managing Editor business, including Ryan Schwach future events and [email protected] committee reports. Also, the Senate passed Business Manager a resolution expelling Farhad Rahman a member from Senate [email protected] meetings and appointing two new members Layout Editor after seven members Camila Dejesus The Undergraduate Student Government’s Senate meeting. / Ryan Schwach have resigned since the [email protected] election on top of this were unavailable the body briefly before and confirmations the Digital Editor week’s expulsion. for comment before being confirmed. Silver USG Senate discussed Moises Taveras The USG Senate, press time) Although, heard about the seat other internal business [email protected] which was previously Milich sees this as an vacancies USG as trying including a series of the Student Assembly opportunity to increase to fill from Senator workshops for members Section Editors under CLAS, acts as student government Devorah Shifrin, who on how to operate within News: Kevin Limiti the legislative body for participation by bringing currently sits in the rules the body taught by [email protected] the government, and new people into its and ethics committee, other members such as Features: M.A. Rahman does much of what any ranks “I want to bring but at the time “Didn’t workshops on drafting [email protected] legislative body does awareness and activism know much about it legislation, funding Opinions: Edmund Zhen including voting on to student government,” [USG].” He later decided clubs, and planning [email protected] issues and resolutions, he said. to join the senate, with events. Arts: Jack Coleman organizing events, and Before today’s meeting some goals in mind such As far as the events [email protected] Sports: Conrad Hoyt keeping the executive the senate had nominated as implementing more that affect students [email protected] branch in check. “It’s and confirmed seven new food options for students are concerned USG is also a training ground,” members to the Senate dealing with allergies on gearing for the Fall Fest Columnists said Ethan Milich, who and at Tuesday’s meeting campus (Silver himself at the end of the month, Michael Castaneda provides over the senate added two more into the is allergic to gluten and Finals and Chill (Which Ryan Gleason as USG Vice President. fold, bringing the new dairy), as well as working will feature puppy Rendy Jones Last May the total to 22 members, still on the Library’s open therapy), and also the Mo Muhsin student body elected three short of the max hours and making sure it new initiative meant to Allison Rapp 20 students to the USG number of 25, which is always a quiet place for increase outreach where Senate, which went Milich hopes to rectify. students to work. “We students are asked to Staff Writers down to 13 after seven Among the newly should enjoy being here, take pictures with USG Tasha Balkaran Bobbie Bell chose to abdicate their appointed Senators we are here for a long members wearing their Gabriela Flores positions for various is Brandon Silver, a time,” he said. government shirts for a Isley Jean-Pierre unknown reasons. (All sophomore pre-med Apart from the chance to win tickets to a Carolann Lowe of the resigned members student who addressed member expulsions New York Jets game. Milette Millington Rachel Ninomiya Carmen Saffioti Maya Schubert Annah Valenti Natalina Zieman

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The Undergraduate Student Government’s Senate meeting. / Ryan Schwach OCTOBER 16, 2019 NEWS THE VANGUARD / 3 Rez Hall Floods, Students Forced to Move (Again)

By Maya Schubert sewage water. Staff Writer The residence hall’s office was empty because Last weekend, it was the weekend, so it the first three floors was Tuesday by the time of the Residence Hall the Fernandez and his at Brooklyn College roommate spoke with a flooded, displacing a staffer. They requested number of students and to move out of the adding to rising tension building entirely, but among residents. were told that their year- On the morning long contract could not of Saturday, Oct. 5, a be shortened. running toilet caused a A month earlier, in water main break that his second week in flooded the third floor Brooklyn, freshman and leaked down into Valentino Coniglio was the second, first, and in a similar predicament. basement levels of the His toilet overflowed building at 1 Kenilworth after running overnight Place. Residents of and water spread across flooded rooms were his floor, damaging quickly moved to empty belongings on his floor, rooms. including his backpack. The flooding came Coniglio stayed in the only about a week after room, however, and it students on the sixth eventually dried. Several through eighth floors of weeks later, he was told the Residence Hall were to move, along with moved to the lower five the other residents of due to renovations. the sixth, seventh, and Among the students eighth floors. He moved affected by the flooding to a downsized room on was Brooklyn College the second floor, across freshman Jorge the hall from Fernandez’s Fernandez. On Saturday future alternate room. afternoon, Fernandez Both Fernandez and returned to his dorm Coniglio feel the flooding after a night out with and displacement has friends and found his affected their school apartment flooded with year. Fernandez didn’t sewage water. Leaking attend classes the first had begun from the few days after his move, Flooding at Brooklyn College Residence Hall/ Maya Schubert bathroom ceiling, and tackling homework that the water spread across had backlogged over Hall at Brooklyn College Hall @ Brooklyn College” privately owned and the dorm. As Fernandez his hectic weekend. over the past few stands unchanged, and outside the school’s began trying to clean the Thankfully, his professors years. In 2017, student on Brooklyn College’s oversight. The hall bathroom, a leaky piece were understanding. filmmaker Chris Omar website, the residence itself seems to be run by of ceiling plaster fell on One of them suggested began documenting the hall is still labeled young RAs and student his head. he call 311 and find out conditions of the dorm on the campus map. employees. “It was stinky—like what rights he held as a rooms on YouTube. He Advertisements for the “It’s just a bunch of full of pee and water, like resident in the hall. later chronicled a sexual residence hall are all over teenagers,” said one dirty water,” Fernandez “This tag of ‘Residence assault at the building the Boylan cafeteria. resident. said. Hall at Brooklyn College,’ in an award-winning In wake of the flooding Excluding security, An off-duty RA told it just sounds like they’re short documentary, “You and renovations, the only employee who Fernandez he and his trying to say, ‘Hey, this is Found a Home.” Omar frustration runs high is not a student is the roommate, who was a place where students also petitioned Brooklyn among the residents, office book-keeper, who away for the weekend, are welcome. This is a College to break ties most of whom are was not available for could switch rooms place where students will with RHBC. The school Brooklyn College comment. temporarily while the get to meet, spend time, complied in March of students. They’ve The owner of flooding was cleaned, study,’” said Coniglio. “ this year, announcing become accustomed RHBC Management so Fernandez moved I’ve barely had time to do it would retract all to the running pattern Corporation, Yosef Zvieli, his and his roommate’s that. I’ve been so caught advertisements and allow following each disaster at visits his establishment belongings into a smaller up in fixing everything its lease with RHBC to 1 Kenilworth. Students only several times a room on the same that’s been literally falling expire in Spring 2020. have complained to year, according to an floor. He left only his apart around me.” Almost six months later, Brooklyn College more employee. Zvieli was not roommates’ shoes, which A list of scandals has however, the building’s than once about RHBC, available for comment. had been destroyed by stalked the Residence sign reading “Residence but the building is 4 / THE VANGUARD NEWS OCTOBER 16, 2019 Students Denounce Columbus Day at Protest

By Kevin Limiti and Latin Studies major News Editor and representative of the Puerto Rican Alliance. The day after Sanabria helped lead the Columbus Day, a silent march, holding a Puerto procession of students Rican flag. Onlookers paraded through campus watched and took photos holding signs and as the group moved banners that read, “Thx through campus. 4 Killing My Ancestors,” When the protest moved “Decolonize Puerto in front of the library, Rico,” and “No walls, Sanabria began with a no bans on stolen land,” land acknowledgment protesting the holiday for the Lenni Lenape, an meant to celebrate the indigenous people who explorer. originally lived in New Columbus Day has York City before it was been a national holiday settled by Europeans. since 1937, but has “We acknowledge that grown controversial indigenous people Noel Altaha speaking at the Columbus Day Protest. / Chloe Abosch due to the historic continue to live under need to further build cared enough to actually that we did,” Altaha said. effect that European siege, surveillance, our mindfulness of our do something about “We’re still here and we’re colonization, due in part and colonial structural present participation to indigenous people’s day still going to be here in to Columbus, has had on violence on their own it .” even though they let us the future. Our people Indigenous populations occupied land and the Sanabria called out have this event.” have always been here. in America, not to reservations they were Brooklyn College for Noel Altaha, a social The concept of a city is mention the genocidal pushed into. We stand observing Columbus worker, also spoke at not new to our people. actions of Columbus on in support of the return Day and not Indigenous the event, starting off The borders of the south the Indigenous peoples of their lands. This People’s Day. Throughout her speech with an or the north are not made he encountered after acknowledgment is a the protest, a band could introduction in her by us.” making his accidental call to commit and take be heard playing not language that she said Altaha also warned discovery of the lands of on the responsibility far from the library, was thousands of years the students to protect the Western Hemisphere to dismantle the something which he old. themselves at Brooklyn in 1492. ongoing effects of settler noted in his address. “We come on trails that College. “This can be “Our action today at its colonialism,” he said. “Brooklyn College made have already been paved a very violent space most fundamental level Sanabria articulated the this almost impossible before us and when we in the sense that these stands in solidarity with need for connecting to have and they did come into institutions institutions are not the Lenni Lenape and all struggles from the past not allow us to have that are not designed designed for us,” Altaha indigenous people in the to the present. “This voice projections here by us we recognize that said. United States and beyond land acknowledgement but they did allow a the ancestral knowledge “If the policy of genocide whose lands was stolen does not exist in the past whole band to play in is almost being taken were to exist than we to create settler states,” tense,” Sanabria said. the loudest section of from our people. There would forget who we said Daniel Vasquez “Colonialism is a current campus,” Sanabria said. is a lot in the silence that are,” she said. Sanabria, a Puerto Rican ongoing process and we “The school has never has been felt in the walk Afterwards the floor was opened to other students to speak. One student read a riveting poem called the “Wrong Kind of American” in which she said she was a; “still crying about the Orlando Shooting kind of American, the Michelle Anderson where are you kind of American, and, of course the f—k Christopher Columbus kind of American and if that makes me the wrong kind of American, then it’s the wrong kind of American I’m happy to b e .”

Sign at the Columbus Day protest. / Chloe Abosch OCTOBER 16, 2019 NEWS THE VANGUARD / 5 Bio Dept. Plants Trees in Dan Eshel’s Memory

By Quiara Vasquez Editor-in-Chief

On Thursday, Oct. 10, Brooklyn College’s biology department gathered in the library auditorium to memorialize their late chair, Dan Eshel. Eshel taught at BC for 22 years before his death in November of 2015. According to his successor, Peter Lipke, the Department of Biology was so “devastated” by Eshel’s untimely passing that it took nearly four years to properly memorialize The biology department comes together around Eshel’s memorial plaque. /Aricka M. Davis him. But memorialize “I came to know him friend. But rather than Eshel’s longtime friend, had left his mark on the him they did, both with as a low-key colleague, let tragedy define his professor emeritus Ray campus, that mark on a moving ceremony in notable for his complete life, he devoted himself Gavin. Gavin was there the campus was literal as the library auditorium, indifference to self- to science - and to his in 1993 when Eshel first well. After the memorial, and with a permanent promotion,” Lipke beloved wife, Ilana. came to campus, and the crowd congregated monument to Eshel and reminisced during the Eshel came to Brooklyn in his memory, ‘93 was in front of New Ingersoll, his wife: a pair of trees, memorial. College in 1993, and an “exciting year.” It was where Gavin and Ilana planted on the East Despite his modesty, touched the lives of every the year campus-wide Eshel unveiled a plaque Quad. his life story was quite student and colleague e-mail had finally come in Dan Eshel’s honor. Lipke and Eshel met impressive. Born in Israel he met. Over a dozen to BC; and it was the year To its left and right, the in 2006, when Lipke in 1953, Eshel was 20 speakers came to his the biology department campus planted seeds transferred to Brooklyn at the dawn of the 1973 memorial that Thursday received a million-dollar which will eventually after decades teaching at Yom Kippur War. At one to share stories of their grant from the Howard sprout into a pair of trees Hunter. The two had an point he volunteered time with him. Hughes Medical Institute - one salt cedar, and one instant connection - they to walk through a field Deputy chair Theodore to hire a molecular oak. had both been studying of bullets, sustaining Muth recalled coming biologist onto the The choice of trees is a yeast - but soon they gruesome injuries. As he to Brooklyn College in faculty. The department symbolic one, meant to began to connect on a recuperated, he watched August of 2000 to find interviewed five people represent Eshel and his deeper, more personal his fellow soldiers his lab missing basic for the open position, beloved wife. level. die, including his best supplies, when Eshel but Eshel was far and “The book of Genesis intervened. away the favorite. Gavin informs us that the “Dan cleared a bunch interviewed Dan and prophet Abraham of space in his lab and Ilana Eshel over a meal at planted an Eshel tree invited me down, where I a Manhattan restaurant in Beersheba,” Gavin had access to centrifuges - the first of many in a explained. “Eshel” comes and freezers,” said Muth. friendship that would from the Hebrew word “It’s not an exaggeration last two decades. for a tamarisk tree or salt to say that in my first “We listened to Mozart, cedar; the name “Ilana” semester, I spent more gazed at the skyline, derives from the Hebrew time in Dan’s lab than and ate lentils - every for “oak tree.” my own.” Muth found vegan’s favorite!” Gavin “Dan was the deep- himself turning to Eshel remarked. One night, rooted, tolerant all throughout his career over dinner, Gavin tamarisk,” said Gavin, - first when navigating commissioned a life-size “and Ilana the long-living the tenure process, and portrait of himself from and majestic oak.” then to help his Israeli- Ilana. It was an understated born wife acclimate to “I’m still waiting!” he and heartfelt tribute to America. Sometimes, joked. an understated man. Eshel would invite Muth “Dan Eshel died in the But perhaps the most to his apartment complex midst of his usefulness,” heartwarming tribute to in Hoboken, just to Gavin said. “Although he Eshel came when he was spy on his neighbor Eli did not finish the course, still alive. He had just Manning in the gym. he always kept the faith.” delivered his final lecture But the most touching While the ceremony of the semester, in what tribute came from made it clear that Eshel would be the final lecture Dan Eshel’s memorial plaque. /Aricka M. Davis 6 / THE VANGUARD FEATURES OCTOBER 16, 2019 CUNY Profs’ Current Health Plans vs Medicare-for-All By Carolann Lowe Staff Writer

The CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies’ Murphy Institute conducted a panel discussion on Friday to discuss the benefits of Medicare-for-All, and whether the policy would negatively impact union membership. The event was moderated by Basil Smikle Jr., a former adjunct professor at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies who now works as a political Baruch College Professor Barbara Caress (left), Media political commentator Basil Smikle Jr.(above), University of Massachusetts Professor Robert Pollin (right)/ Carolann Lowe commentator on CNN and MSNBC. Also on the worries around the cost very pleased with the coverage.” receive healthcare in panel were Robert Pollin of pharmaceuticals and health care that they His colleague in the America,” said James and Barbara Caress. whether or not people currently receive through English department, Davis, chair of Brooklyn Caress is a practitioner can afford prescription CUNY, but are in favor Tanya Pollard, is College’s chapter of at the Marxe School of drugs. of the enforcement of supportive of Medicare- theProfessional Staff Public and International But some attendees Medicare-For-All, even For-All as it will provide Congress (PSC-CUNY), Affairs at Baruch College. had concerns regarding if it means losing their healthcare. Although the union representing She also has many effect that Medicare- current health insurance. she’s grateful for the CUNY staff and faculty. years of experience as For-All would have on English professor healthcare she receives According to him, labor a healthcare consultant those who receive private Joseph Entin believes through CUNY, she’s unions should be less for clients such as the healthcare through their that Medicare-For-All concerned about those worried about the fact New York City and State jobs. is necessary to ensure unable to acquire that they will no longer Health Departments, One of the attendees that healthcare is more coverage on their own. be the source through the Community Service of the event was CUNY accessible to everyone, “I support Medicare- which people receive Society, Local 1199, and School of Labor Urban despite the many for-All,” Pollard said. healthcare benefits, and the SEIU, to name a few. Studies Professor James healthcare benefits that “I’m grateful for my more mindful of those Pollin is an economics Steele, whose expertise he receives as a CUNY health insurance through who lack a basic necessity professor, and co- is in political analysis employee. CUNY, but seeing the that some cannot afford. director of the Political and civic engagement. “I am very happy with experiences of people Smikle Jr. told the Economy University of Steele was still left with the health care which without health insurance Vanguard of his hopes Massachusetts Amherst. unanswered concerns I have through the city makes me appreciate that that Medicare-for-All can He is also the founder following the panel health care program and coverage for everyone be implemented with the and president of a green discussion. as a result, because it is has to be an urgent concerns of the people in energy company named “I am honestly still subsidized by the city priority.” mind. He describes the PEAR (Pollin Energy thinking about it so heavily, we don’t pay Unions have refrained approach of Medicare- and Retrofits). because I still have many premiums. So we pay a from the endorsement of for-All as a “contentious Pollin and Caress say that questions that have not copay when we go to the a single-payer plan due manner of implementing our current, unregulated been answered such as doctor,” Entin said. “To to the possibility that tremendous healthcare system results the transition cost,” he me, it seems nonsensical organized labor unions consternation over in expenses too high for said, “I still have concerns and outrageous that the will no longer be a vessel transition interest.” In his the average American about employment. And wealthiest country in the to obtaining access to mind, if people pay more to afford, and do not they didn’t get into how world can’t afford to give health coverage. attention to these needs, provide what people they would get Congress everyone health care.” “This really isn’t my Medicare-For-All can need. Pollin described the to pass this...this will be a “I would gladly trade level of expertise but I finally come to fruition. Medicare-for-All plan as long battle.” in my health care for believe that our main “universal access without Some Brooklyn College anything else if it meant concern should be barriers,” diminishing professors seem to be that we could expand the everyone’s ability to THE BROOKLYN COLLEGE vANGUARD is looking for writers, photographers, and illustrators!

For more info, contact us at [email protected] Or stop by during club hours: 11-4 Mondays/Tuesdays in 118 Roosevelt OCTOBER 16, 2019 FEATURES THE VANGUARD / 7 How to Make It as a Documentary Filmmaker A How-to from Bryan Sarkinen, Cinematographer

By Michael Castaneda Bryan took advantage take lower-paying jobs Columnist of all the media sources with higher profiles. He where he could gain started working for P. It’s hard to break experience. He worked Diddy’s Bad Boy Films into any profession. for the college radio from a connection he One of the more station and basement made while interning niche careers to break video checkout where at The Today Show in into is “documentary he got his hands on all college; ultimately going filmmaker.” So, I thought sorts of video gear. He on tour with Diddy, as his I’d talk to somebody who eventually started a videographer. He had to has already, you know, show for The College prove himself to the tour has done it. This brings Television Network crew. Bryan went in with us to Bryan Sarkinen. called “The Final Cut”. a rendition of a Biggie Bryan’s work has been where he interviewed Smalls jam with his own seen on HBO, Netflix, and celebrities on their press dance interpretation in CNN - and at your local runs (this was broadcast tow. Snoop Dogg, who art theater. Bryan was to hundreds of college was on tour with Diddy, back in New York City campuses). In his was so impressed that he in between Moonshiner downtime, he watched promised to get Bryan shoots (Number 2 in every movie and every laid. He didn’t. the redneck reality cable bit of live music he could Again, it was time shows). see. to step into the abyss One way people dismiss Then one of life’s and do something new. your choice to get into hardships happened, and Bryan entered into the film business is by saying he left college. Without burgeoning — at the time you have to know people a NYU diploma to get — reality TV market. in the film business. I’m him in the door, he had He worked a show called not saying that there is to fend for himself with “Bikini Barbershop New no truth in this, but this just the connections and Jersey” for Mark Cuban’s was not Bryan’s personal friendships made with then HDNET, which was Filmaker Bryan Sarkinen. / Michael Castaneda experience. Bryan arrived four years of college. He just as classy as it sounds. Listening Bryan tell in New York City from did about every type of It only lasted a season, fifteen most important his story, what I can Western Massachusetts film job he could get his but that got his foot in HBO documentaries by summate is that he used as just another nobody hands on - other than the door to that market. Esquire Magazine. His all the resources at his attending New York porn. He shot wedding By keeping a wide documentary “Bronx disposal at all times. University. On his way videos. He filmed his variety of projects open Gothic” directed by He worked hard. He out of Port Authority, share of awful rock and making connections Andrew Rossi featured has sustained countless he got mugged, only to bands from New Jersey along the way, Bryan MacArthur genius injuries on the job. He frustrate his attackers by that came to CBGB’s for worked his way to doing award winner Okwui seems like an amiable being broke. collegemusic.com. Some cinematography for Okpokwasili. and (quite frankly) goofy Bryan double majored of this stuff, he could people like Andrew Rossi, “It’s really the telling guy. in Film and Journalism. have been made a career Erin Carr and other high- of socially conscious Nevertheless, Bryan Unlike most NYU of, some people make profile directors making stories that excites me,” has managed to make it students who tend to the wedding videos for the socially responsible Bryan said. “To be able doing what he wants to, Trust Fund Baby side of rest of their life. documentaries. to educate and inform is and accomplishing it the life, this guy had to work However, instead of Erin Carr’s “At The key to making the world how he wanted to. while going to school. staying with an obvious Heart of Gold” was a better place.” cash cow, he started to just named one of the Brooklyn’s Best Eats: A New Destination for Students By Ryan Schwach Abraham Zindani, who Bensonhurst, the positive feedback from has a menu of signature Managing Editor are two of seven sons of a brothers found this their new customers “We sandwiches and salads Yemeni immigrant, and space up for rent and are getting good vibes,” as well as the normal There’s a new as a family they own ten they “Always wanted a said Adel. Although they sandwich stop staples of place to eat for Brooklyn similar food locations space by the college,” said admit that any new place bagels, eggs, and snacks. College students on the in the city, Brooklyn’s Abraham. After working sometimes takes some Currently, their best corner of Kenilworth and Best Eats is their first in through a tumultuous time to get going, and seller is the Chicken Hillel Place. Brooklyn’s Brooklyn. two-year process trying that they are somewhat Chipotle Sandwich Best Eats, adds to the list “It’s a family to get the place open, hidden from the crowds which is a chicken cutlet of food destinations for thing,” said Abraham, they finally opened their of Flatbush and nestled with fresh mozzarella, students and hopes to the younger of the two doors in time for the fall into somewhat of a avocado, lettuce, tomato, bring its own flavor. brothers, who studied semester. “We’re here for corner on Kenilworth. and chipotle mayo. The new location criminal justice at John the students,” said Adel. “It’s all about patience,” is owned and operated Jay. So far the brothers said Abraham. by brothers Adel and Coming from nearby say they are getting Brooklyn’s Best Eats 8 / THE VANGUARD right-wing provocateur,OPINIONS group would have a JusticeOCTOBER in Palestine 16, most 2019 infamous for walking hard time getting off visible among them. But around campus wearing the ground at a school there’s still a small group a “Make America like Brooklyn College, of conservative students t’s now a familiar Great Again” hat and a where the majority of on campus, mostly sight to anyone who’s sweater reading “Build students are liberals, functioning under the walkedI the East Quad: the Wall.” His antics or even socialists. It’s radar. a student stands behind eventually cost him the no secret that college Some of Cozlov’s a plastic folding table goodwill not only of students tend to lean former colleagues from on the Whitehead the college’s left-leaning to the political left, the Young Republicans Breezeway, peering student body, but with but Brooklyn College are wary of his more out at the trickle of his own club, and BCYR in particular has a “in-your-face” brand of students ambling to put him on probation. tradition of left-wing conservatism. A schism and from class, handing Cozlov says that he activism as old as the has formed between the out buttons and fliers. now regrets his past college itself, from anti- more moderate politics He’s talkative, with a behavior. “I felt like fascist demonstrators in of the BCYR and the close-cropped beard. being edgy or something the 30s to the militant more radical politics His name is Christian on campus,” he told Black and Puerto Rican espoused by Turning Cozlov, and watching Vanguard. He’s now radicals of the 60s to the Point USA, one which him hand out buttons traded in his MAGA hat modern-day socialist mirrors the split between and chat with passersby, for a wardrobe of sedate revival figureheaded“never-Trumpers” and you’d never guess that polos - and he’s traded by Bernie Sanders the president’s vocal a little under a year his membership in the (who himself attended legion of supporters. ago he was the most Young Republicans for Brooklyn College, albeit As the two fledgling controversial student one in Turning Point for under one year). conservative clubs on campus. USA, the far-right There are at least a jockey for members in an As a member of the organization which now dozen clubs catering to overwhelmingly liberal Brooklyn College Young has a Brooklyn College these left-wing students: campus, the biggest Republicans (BCYR), chapter headed by Brooklyn College threat to their longevity Christian Cozlov Cozlov. Socialists, the Student may be themselves. gained a reputation as a Any right-wing Union, and Students for OCTOBER 16, 2019 FEATURES THE VANGUARD / 9

The story of the Brooklyn because my high school are appalled, and they civil arguments, no As it turns out, the College Young Republicans had no Republicans.” have lots of questions and flame wars,” said Cozlov. Kavanaugh hearings (BCYR) begins in May Guillemain reached out concerns! In some ways “One of the things about would kick off one of the 2018, with Isabelle to the old club’s e-board they have resentment.” philosophy I really like is most contentious periods Guillemain. Guillemain members, where she found Tlatelpa describes his ethics - what’s morally just, in recent campus history. had attended high school a slight hiccup - the club vote for Trump in 2016 as you know? And I started However, it wasn’t Blasey in the Upper East Side, was inactive, and she would “the lesser of two evils,” to see that in relation Ford’s testimony that riled where her conservative need to reactivate it with a borne of suspicion towards to politics. I started to up the campus - rather, it beliefs made her an outlier new e-board. the scandal-ridden understand the difference was a little blog post by a in her liberal-leaning high “So I texted every chat I Democratic nominee between principles and business professor. school. was in, asking ‘hey does Hillary Clinton. After facts.” It’s a distinction “I stuck out like the sorest anyone want to be on the nearly three years of a clearly influenced by the “In the future, having thumb,” she recalled. “I was board?’” said Guillemain. Trump presidency, he now likes of Ben Shapiro (whose committed sexual assault a purple sheep - because At the time, she was in has second thoughts. catchphrase is “facts don’t in high school ought to black sheep are real and the group chats for a trio “I understand why I care about your feelings”). be a prerequisite for all purple sheep aren’t.” of Jewish and pro-Israel voted that way,” Tlatelpa After a year of viewing appointments, judicial and Guillemain’s conservative clubs - Chabad, Hillel, and admitted. “I didn’t and his own research, political.” awakening happened Bulldogs for Israel - and think that much of what Cozlov did a 180. In 2016, So said Brooklyn in 2012, watching Mitt the e-board she scrounged happened afterwards, like he “didn’t even care about College professor Mitchell Romney debate Barack together reflected that. the travel ban or like the politics.” Langbert on his personal Obama for her seventh “A lot of the people that attacks on minority groups, “Obviously I disagree blog on Sept. 27, 2018. grade social studies class. I recruited into YR were would actually happen.” with Trump on things,” he The post went viral almost Before then, she didn’t Jewish because that was added. “I’m not a loyalist. immediately, and within have any concrete political the circles I was in, said While Tlatelpa was I’m not a fan of things he a week, over a hundred views, owing to growing Guillemain. “I wasn’t going cooling on the Donald, says on Twitter. I’m not students were picketing up in a politically mixed to stand in front of my Christian Cozlov was just a big fan of his attacks on on the East Quad, calling household. classes and say, ‘hi, I’m a getting warmed up. Democrats so much, we for Langbert’s immediate “I had been hearing a lot Republican!’” Cozlov was largely should be more bipartisan termination. Members of of political-minded stuff at The first wave of members uninterested in politics to get laws passed instead the college administration, that point because my mom may all have been recruited before 2017. At the time, he of having this war in the including BC President was always a Democrat through Guillemain’s was majoring in philosophy government. I’m not a Michelle Anderson, were and my dad was always connections with Jewish at LaGuardia Community big fan of his spending present at the protest, with a Republican, but they groups, but once the College, and he “identified - there’s currently a one Anderson herself referring didn’t stay in their party group was re-activated, as a Democrat liberal trillion dollar deficit, and to the post as “repugnant to line,” she said. “Particularly a few goyim began to without paying much it’s projected to be more our values as an institution with Obama, they weren’t trickle in. One was then- attention to it.” That’s when next year, although I don’t of higher education.” always fans of him.” junior Alex Tlatelpa, who a family friend turned fully blame Trump for that. And yet, Anderson Guillemain didn’t vote had just transferred to him onto the conservative And I’m very pro-Second refused to accede to for Trump in the 2016 the college from BMCC. YouTube personality Ben Amendment and I think student demands to elections (she was below One day, his friend and Shapiro. Trump hasn’t been very “#FireProfessorLangbert,” the voting age on Election fellow accounting major Cozlov was instantly supportive on that aspect.” citing the First Amendment Day), and her support Abraham Friedman (who hooked. “If I was going to compare and Langbert’s academic for the president was was then-treasurer of the “I started to really get into the current Democratic or freedom. (Protesters lukewarm at best. During BCYR) mentioned a small these videos on YouTube,” Republican nominees, I cynically suggested that the primaries, she threw group on campus that was Cozlov said. “I got more think he’s the best choice,” these lofty ideals were a her support behind Ted meeting and asked Tlatelpa and more passionate about Cozlov concluded. “I smokescreen for a simpler Cruz, primarily for his to come along. political issues the more I support tax cuts. I support fact: the college couldn’t unabashed pro-Israel “It caught my eye,” researched. I started to feel Trump’s decisions with fire Langbert because he foreign policy. Tlatelpa said of BCYR. like a politics nerd all of a Supreme Court justices.” had academic tenure.) “In the past, other “So the next time they had sudden.” Cozlov says he “[doesn’t] Rather than apologize for presidents haven’t really an event I attended and I Cozlov says he watched particularly support” his statements, Langbert done so much, not even appreciated the different videos of both left-wing justice Brett Kavanaugh amended his blog post recognizing they [Israel] viewpoints I had a chance and right-wing figures, - he sees Kavanaugh’s with a disclaimer stating have the right to determine to hear about.” but he soon gravitated appointment “as a way to that he had intended the their own capital,” she said. Tlatelpa isn’t exactly the towards more conservative steer us in the direction of post as a work of “satire,” When Cruz discussed poster boy for the modern viewpoints. He became more second amendment and doubled down on Israel during the debates, GOP. He’s Mexican- an admirer of Jordan rights,” as well as reversing various claims in the she thought “he [Cruz] American, and during his Peterson, the Canadian Roe vs. Wade in favor of a article, including his literally looked weepy,” time at BMCC he would psychology professor decision that would leave characterization of the noting that “his wording frequently participate in famous for attacking post- abortion rights up to the Kavanaugh hearings as and his emphasis really pro-immigration rallies. modernism and political states. He dismisses the a “travesty” initiated by touched my heart.” So it comes as a surprise correctness. He became controversy surrounding “a party of tutu-wearing When she committed to many that he actually a devotee of PragerU, a Kavanaugh’s appointment pansies [and] totalitarian to BC in May of 2018, supported Donald Trump YouTube channel hosting as pure partisan politics. sissies” (read: Democrats). Guillemain was eager during the 2016 primaries, five-minute primers on “They wanted to make None of the members to find like-mindedand ultimately voted for various conservative him out as a gangbanger, of the Young Republicans individuals with the same Trump in the general talking points. And he but where’s the evidence?” interviewed for this piece set of interests: psychology, election. was inspired by Steven Cozlov asked. “My position were willing to sign off Jewish identity… and “At the time, most of Crowder, who became is that there isn’t really any on Langbert’s post, even conservatism. America thought Trump famous for sitting down on substantial evidence with with the caveat that it was “After I got accepted, I being the nominee was a college campuses next to regards to Christine Blasey satirical. Tlatelpa described was on the old Bulldog ‘joke,’ that it wasn’t going to signs reading, e.g. “MALE Ford’s allegations, and the post as “unbelievable;” Connection, pre-Engage, amount to much, so when I PRIVILEGE IS A MYTH - the hearing was basically, Guillemain was similarly and I was going through all told people I was thinking CHANGE MY MIND.” from my point of view, uncomfortable with the the clubs,” Guillemain said. of voting for Trump it was “I thought, how cool, an attempt to smear a post’s content. Cozlov went “It was cool that they had brushed off,” Tlatelpa said. having debates with conservative Supreme a step further. a Young Republicans club, “Nowadays most people students with logic and Court Justice.” CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 10 / THE VANGUARD FEATURES OCTOBER 16, 2019 Children’s First Club Holds First Meeting Student Group Addresses Issues Facing American Children By M.A. Rahman Features Editor

At their first open meeting, members of the Brooklyn College Children’s First Club gathered to discuss how to improve public awareness of the myriad issues children in early child development are affected by. ”In a nutshell the club stands for the promotion of advocacy for children and youth, learning how to be an effective leader, but also teaching them how to advocate for themselves,” Zekiiyah Joyner, the club’s Vice-President and a Children and Youth Studies major stated upon introducing herself to a throng of curious peers. Members of the e-board for the Children’s First Club were The Brooklyn College “Children’s First” club meeting. / M.A. Rahman also astonished as considerably something that may personally children. prompted a few personal club had garnered such student more students than anticipated impact you or on a larger Speaking frankly, Joyner accounts from students of interest this semester. showed up to the meeting. scale,“ Joyner raised to one mentioned part of her drive ongoing and past battles As the meeting concluded, ”We’re really looking forward inquistive student. to raise greater awareness of persons dear to them had with members agreed that a school to helping children globally Attendees suggested several domestic violence was based the affliction. supplies drive needed to and locally. Last semester types of calamities that club on the activities she observed Members were informed of be established on-campus we did a bake sale [just] for members as a whole could organized by another club an infant mortality and a cure for students to help curtail children that needed dental organize around and propose with an altruistic aim: the for lupus walks events taking the growing need for basic relief,” said Dayana Veliyeva, some manner of resolution BC “Women of Color” club, place in the city during the school supplies for children a junior, Computer Science to those affected by them and which garnered substantial on- weekend. from certain less fortunate major and President of CF. provide some comfort, such as campus interest from students Organizers then asked who households. Those in attendance were raising funds for the victims of with their events. if any of newly joined members As of early October, a drop- asked to share their ideas Hurricane Dorian. ”It’s so true because you might be able to attend either off point was devised where on how to raise student Another recurrently raised never know, but children can events, to which multiple students can drop off typical awareness of the plight of basic issue was the scourge of grow into criminals because responded gleefully and surplus school supplies like child development needs. In domestic violence. of that [violence].” one student affirmatively to joining said folders, notebooks, rulers, and particular, they were asked to ”Children are of course in attendance concurred and events. pencils at the club’s room in share matters that they would impacted by violence,” Joyner nodded in agreement with “They [organizers] have really room 1304 James Hall. want to directly take part in stated plainly, acknowledging Joyner’s statement. revitalized the club, it’s been a “Part of it is to develop your or already felt invested in such the ever-concerning problem; Students then discussed the few years since there has been leadership skills, part of it as demonstrations against looking to bridge the vice to prospects of holding an autism this many students at once is to get involved in student lingering issues children face the club’s pursuit, Joyner said walk, facilitating a discussion here” Elise Goldberg, Program activities, part of it is to meet like education funding. she plans to invite a child on the symptoms of ADHD, Coordinator for Children and other students and make ”We’re curious as to what psychologist showcase how participating in a breast cancer Youth Studies and advisor to lifelong friendships,” Goldberg events you would want to see, domestic violence affects awareness walk which then the club, said ecstatic that the said. The Elephant in the Room: Conservatism on Campus “I think if you rape somebody, you Guillemain says that no one on free speech to have other speech Eventually, she reached out to Zack Russia. That scared the shit out of should get the death penalty,” he the E-board supported the event, silenced, I don’t think that’s a free Nomer, a BCYR member who she me. I voted for Trump because I said. “I see the point on why that was nor did they want to get involved, exchange of ideas.” knew from the Hillel. didn’t think he’d go to war to Russia.” not a good point to make. But I also both because they disagreed with (“Silenced” in this case was literal - “Zack said ‘I want to make [BCYR] “Little did I know!” Nomer don’t think he should be fired for it.” Langbert and because they were Cozlov got into a minor scuffle with super moderate,’ which is what I laughed. Still, he felt like the Young swamped with schoolwork. a protester who attempted to unplug wanted,” Guillemain said. As his words would imply, Nomer Republicans should support Even outside the E-board, most of Langbert’s microphone.) Nomer is a centrist, but that’s where may have voted for Trump, but Langbert, on account of his the BCYR were not on board. Guillemain was also dissatisfied - the similarities between him and as time passed he began to drift conservative politics. “The idea that a man has to sexuallly not just with how the event went, but Guillemain end. Where Guillemain further and further away from the “We’re the Young Republicans,” assault someone to consider a man that she even allowed it to happen in is tactful and unerringly polite, GOP. By 2018, Nomer says, he was he explained. “We wanted to talk is bonkers,” said Zack Nomer, who the first place. Nomer is loose-lipped and chummy, still registered as a Republican and about how campuses tend to be left- was a member of BCYR up until “No one else had spoken up, so I with no qualms about using colorful held certain conservative values, but leaning with respect to professors. this semester. “Even if we came out figured, ‘I won’t veto this, everyone language. considered himself anti-Trump. So And we wanted [Langbert] to as defending the First Amendment, is happy about this,’” she said. “No Consider his evaluation of the when Guillemain gave him control explain his idea that campuses if we invited him as a speaker, it’d one wanted to be the one to veto it, 2016 Republican primary field: “You of BCYR at the beginning of the aren’t preparing students for life, sound like an endorsement.” He so that happened, and I’m not so have Trump, who’s an idiot, you spring 2019 semester, Nomer saw a but indoctrinating them with left- claims that Cozlov “went behind proud of it.” have Ted Cruz, who’s the Zodiac chance to push the club towards a leaning views.” (Cozlov was referring the E-board’s back and just made an Killer, and you have Jeb Bush who’s more centrist perspective. to a study Langbert authored a event.” “I think that’s part of why I left the like watching a piece of dry toast Almost immediately after getting few months prior to the protests The event, titled “Effete Millennials club,” Guillemain said. “I’d rather talk.” Ultimately, while he had a the position, Nomer used his power titled “Homogenous: The Political in Illiberal Universities,” was a just be a member and let people soft spot for Rand Paul, Nomer put as president to make a sweeping set Affiliations of Elite Liberal Arts riveting success - for the progressive who have more passion do what his support behind John Kasich, of reforms meant to, as he put it, College Faculty,” which claims that students who loudly boycotted it. I want to do. I’m a people pleaser “because he was the most centrist “eliminate all radicalism from the Democrats outnumber Republicans Langbert’s prepared talking points to a certain extent, and I wanted a on e .” c lu b.” on college faculty at a ratio of ten were drowned out by loud dance club where I didn’t have to please as When the “idiot” got the The first of these reforms was a to one.) So Cozlov reached out to music and cries of “sexist, racist, many opinions.” nomination, Nomer found himself reading list. Langbert, and set up an event in the anti-gay, Michelle Langbert go She then texted everyone she in a familiar dilemma. “I made everybody read the Student Center with Langbert as away.” knew, looking for a replacement “I think I’ve maybe met one or two Constitution, which I figured the keynote speaker, hosted by the “I’m not happy with how it turned as president, ideally one that people who legitimately like Hillary was a pretty good starting point,” Young Republicans. out,” Cozlov reminisced. “You’re shared her more moderate brand Clinton,” Nomer said. “Everyone said Nomer. Also on that list: the Not involved with the creation of invading my event with signs, with of conservatism. This would have in my family is military, and there Declaration of Independence, “The this event were the three members yelling. I’m a supporter of free ruled out Cozlov, had he any interest was one speech she gave about a Wealth of Nations,” and, perhaps of the Young Republicans’ E-board. speech. When you use your own in taking her position. potential military solution with surprisingly, “The Communist OCTOBER 16, 2019 FEATURES THE VANGUARD / 11 Ethiopian History On Display in Library Robert L. Hess Collection Offers Students Research Treasure Trove By Carmen Saffioti during the Italian invasion. Staff Writer The Hess collection contains manuscripts and The history of the Horn other materials which offer of Africa has come to insight into these events. Brooklyn College in a new The exhibit focuses on exhibit on display in the Ethiopia’s role in world library. Ethiopia and the history as well as the West: Highlights from the relationship between Robert L. Hess Collection, Europe and the Horn of features manuscripts and Africa. The history that artifacts which are located is explored in the exhibit in front of the archives includes the betrayal of section. Former president Ethiopia by the League of Brooklyn College, and a of Nations and the noted specialist in Somalia colonization of Ethiopia and Ethiopia studies, by Italy from 1935 to Robert L. Hess’ book and 1941. During this time, artifact collection were the League of Nations was donated to the Brooklyn established after World College Archives by his War 1 in order to prevent A piece from the Robert L. Hess Collection, now in the library! / Carmen Saffioti widow, Frances Hess. another world war. Italy, The Hess family also which was invading library hasn’t been proven Abyssinian Empire, Italian unmistakable. In a booklet gifted the archives of Ethiopia, was ruled itself useful. However, as colonialism, or the modern entitled Why was the Lion Brooklyn College with against by the League. the Hess exhibit shows, the history of Ethiopia they of Judah Defeated? by Ras an annual endowment, The League voted to place archives offers an incredible can still enjoy the display Bitwäddäd, who was a which was used to economic sanctions on selection in primary and learn a great deal of noble and companion of purchase manuscripts and the nation, however, they sources available for history from it. One of Emperor Haile Selassie, photographic collections never followed through. students to use for research. the photo collections on a beloved African leader that fit the themes of the Italy simply quit the In the exhibit alone, there display is from an Italian who spoke out against Hess Collection. league and continued to are journals and diaries officer who married an colonialism during World The period of East colonize Ethiopia mostly from Italian officers from Ethiopian woman during War II, Bitwäddäd records African history which without any international the occupation, preserved his stay in the country. The the “plight of the royal this collection works interference. manuscripts from photo collection features family, and a detailed list from, dates to the early Professor Colleen Bradley Ethiopia in Amharic and pictures that he took and of notable exiles,”as noted 20th century– a turbulent Sanders hopes that one of Ge’ez (Native Ethiopian drawings by his wife. in the exhibit. This history time for the region. Italy the results of the exhibit languages), 17th century While many of the texts cannot be understated or had colonized Ethiopia, is “to get people more “studies” on Ethiopia in are very informative and ignored, so if you have exiled the Emperor and interested in using the German, along with many factual– there is a deep a spare moment while his royal family, and began [Hess] collection, and others from all over the underlying human element passing through the to take resources from to know what we [the world. to all of them. The suffering library– spend it exploring Ethiopians and Somalians. archives] have.” Certainly, Even for students endured by the people of this new addition to the An estimated 16,000 for the average student, who are not currently Ethiopia and Somalia as library’s displays. Ethiopians were killed the archives section in the doing research on the a result of colonialism is The Elephant in the Room: Conservatism on Campus Manifesto.” “Carlos and I met at the Club banter,’” he said. “This is a false claim Nomer conducted his own activity at BCYR. Turning Point is (“My process is, if you’re going Fair. He was tabling for the Young just like the other false claims I have informal investigation, doubting more his speed. to debate something, you should Progressives [of America],” Cozlov received by a small clique of haters Cozlov’s claims that his interactions “They’re a well-known organization understand the other side,” Nomer said, referring to the left-wing with political agendas against me.” with Calzadilla-Palacio were just that’s well-funded, with a lot of explained. “When I was learning activist group Calzadilla-Palacio (Calzadilla-Palacio did not specify “friendly banter.” speakers,” Cozlov explained. “I about anti-Semitism in high school, founded while at LIU Brooklyn. who these “haters” are; this is “It’s friendly banter in the same requested their activism kits online I sat down and read Mein Kampf.”) “That’s how I met him. He knew I possibly a reference to the allegation way that Trump debating Hillary and brought them to campus.” Nomer also instituted a dress was part of the Young Republicans. that he made racist comments Clinton, saying he would throw her The kits contain brightly-colored code: Trump paraphernalia wasn’t We started to have our banter against his Muslim opponent in in jail, was friendly banter,” Nomer flyers with high production values, necessarily banned, but Nomer whenever we crossed by each other.” last semester’s campus elections, said. He checked in with Sau-Fong marrying conservative slogans discouraged wearing it around “I remember one time he said… an allegation Calzadilla-Palacio Au, the director of the Women’s and iconography with millennial- campus, because “as a club we’re he knew that I’d wear a Build A Wall denies.) Center, to see whether Cozlov had friendly language and pop not endorsing any particular sweater, so he would say something “I was harassed multiple times been harassing students there. Au culture references: a poster with Republican.” While the rule didn’t like ‘we’re gonna take down your by [Cozlov],” Calzadilla-Palacio told Vanguard the same thing she “SOCIALISM SUCKS” in the red mention Christian Cozlov by name, wall.’” claimed. “There’s even video footage told Nomer, that she was unaware of neon font of the “Stranger Things” Nomer admitted that the dress code “There was this one time we had that prompted a no contact order any harassment. logo, for instance, or a 21st century was in part a response to some of a spat. We passed by each other and for the semester. He is the only While Nomer looked into the update of the Gadsden flag reading Cozlov’s affinity for tops bearing he looked really angry and I asked, person to blame for being removed claims, he removed Cozlov from “DON’T TREAD, BRUH.” slogans like “Build the Wall.” hey man, what’s wrong?” Cozlov from the Young Republicans for his BCYR’s group chats. It was then that “It’s free!” he beamed. “They’re “Christian had a shirt that said, continued. “Usually we’d say hey, inappropriate behavior of harassing Cozlov started petitioning for his so well-equipped with resources, ‘Socialism Is For F’, then a picture not a friendly hey but a sarcastic multiple people.” Turning Point chapter. because they really want to educate of a fig, and then a G.S,” Nomer hey. An ‘I can’t stand you’ hey? But Cozlov insists that no such video “I told Christian, ‘we can’t have people on conservative views.” said. (Figs, needless to say, stood in this time he didn’t respond, so I got evidence exists, and that while this behavior in the club,’ and he Obviously, left-wing students on for a different word). “And he was concerned. We usually have some he was issued a no contact order, turned around and started his own campus do not have such a sunny wearing it to the Hillel. I said, ‘dude, kind of interaction, even if it’s not it was a temporary one which thing,” Nomer said, referencing opinion of Turning Point. In his you cannot wear that shit when you the best kind.” expired when he was exonerated Cozlov’s Turning Point chapter. “So statement provided to Vanguard, rep BCYR. You’re doing it just to “Eventually we got into an of Calzadilla-Palacio’s harassment I removed him from the club.” Calzadilla-Palacio denounced TP provoke people.’” argument, and he accused me of charges. as a “racist and anti-immigrant Nomer and Cozlov’s relationship harassing him.” Michelle Vargas, the officer Cozlov claims that he quit BCYR extremist organization that pushes was further strained when Cozlov Calzadilla-Palacio disputes this in charge of the investigation, rather than being removed from dangerously hateful sentiments was accused of harassment by the version of events. declined to confirm or deny either it, due to political disagreements against minorities on campuses.” then-figurehead of BC’s progressive “I was never friends with Christian, student’s story, citing confidentiality between himself and Nomer, as well alliance, Carlos Calzadilla-Palacio. and never engaged in any ‘friendly concerns. as dissatisfaction with the lack of CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 12 / THE VANGUARD ARTS OCTOBER 16, 2019 Shattered Identity in Tiger West’s “Mirror” By Jack Coleman throughout the twenty-six the political, and at times the Arts Editor minute run time. West walks absurd. Some of the words out onto the raised steps of the spoken are repeated and I entered the Leonard and lobby, clad in denim overalls manipulated until they take Claire Tow Theater at around and a loose short sleeve denim the form of a synthesizer more 1:30 on Thursday, October 10. shirt. Covering her face is a than a human voice. Much As I made my way to the box white paper-mâché mask with of the voice manipulation office, I received a text from feathers attached and roughly included in Mirror’s score Aricka (one of the Vanguard’s cut holes, as if by a child, for is reminiscent of Laurie wonderful photographers) her eyes and mouth. Here and Anderson’s work, where the informing me that the there, x’s of red tape adhered human voice is altered by performance was, in fact, in more feathers on her arms. reverberation or replayed over the lobby. My expectations of As she took a seat in the plush until it begins to take new what I was about it see where chair and a series of eerie shape as well. already, partly, shattered. sounds begin to emulate from “The priority focus is that Tiger West’s Mirror, the speaker, I could confirm those windows, looking out took as its stage the first that this was, for sure, not onto the stream of students few marble steps of the what I was expecting. coming in and out right there, lobby’s staircase, in front of The goal was to “Disrupt the just got my gears turning. How the large glass north facing status quo, the quotidian those windows are a sort of wall. Organized by the assumption of what we screen and mirror, and I just Brooklyn College Composers’ assume when we walk into really took off with the idea of Collective, Mirror was the a space, that we know what’s that. Screens, screens, screens, first part of a two part series happening, and then to be met there are screens everywhere!” of concerts. The performance with this kind of stream of says West. offered to its viewers, not all consciousness thing going on,” Partly, what makes Mirror of which sat in the audience, a says the artist. so enticing, is that there are Tiger West, live in preformance. / Aricka M. Davis chillingly intimate confluence Originally, the piece was parts of simple piano and of sounds and visuals. West to include speakers in the guitar chords which are played come about? Why were my in the power of an artistic constructed a mise-en-scène bathroom of the building in over and around the more expectations of a performance community to outlast the of sorts, effectively bending order to further disrupt the experimental elements. This from the Brooklyn College time spent at school. Di Russo and opening up the meaning normative presumptions of makes for a contrast which Composers’ Collective wants the Collective to act as of liminal spaces—lobbies location, of where we find is what West strives for both smashed so poetically? The more than just an organization don’t typically host this kind ourselves. Being limited by sonically, visually, and in the answer lies, of course, with which puts on concerts, but of thing. time and other factors, the content of the piece. As we Tiger West, but also with the also as a network within and Mirror looks deeply into the performance was, in some see the “creature” move about president of the Collective, beyond school. Like Mirror, many filters that people often ways, confined to the lobby on stage, it invokes that our Marcello Di Russo. this talk of a community is peer into or see themselves with only two speakers, (the subject is lost and trying to find Di Russo, who moved to really all about reimagining the through. These spacesother one situated behind the itself among these differing New York from Italy in 2015, spaces that we find ourselves (think, for example, the audience). This all this wasn’t sounds, objects, and the faces has held office within the in. What could be just a club many Instagram filters and known to those watching, of the crowd and beyond. Composers’ Collective since for those who compose music also the platform itself) are whether seated or peering in The screens are not just what last year. He has driven the club already encompasses so many what West strives to get our from outside the glass wall– we have on our phones, but to its most ambitious projects. other disciplines. minds to question. The scéne the piece breathed enough all around us as well, Mirror Some of which include Di Russo is adamant about his encompassed a few terracotta new life into the site, no need heightens a sense of spatial organizing the recording of belief that the connections we flower pots, a plastic grocery for more speakers. But as and sonic awareness. Seen an album with the Xanthoria make in school can and should bag of soil, tall bundles of many people stopped on the most notably when the String Quartet, a performance last outside of it–we shouldn’t grass, twigs and other organic walkway and stared in awe “creature” halts the ballerina- at Bushwick’s H0l0, City think of our time in school matter; a dark purple plush (some smiling, some looking esque movements and Winery in Manhattan, and (or a lobby) as existing in a armchair turned away from genuinely confused), West’s eventually takes a seat and now this two part concert vacuum. So, the next time you the audience; and in the center piece still clearly met some of looks head on into the crowd, series. see a masked figure prancing of it all, a bluetooth speaker its initial goals. confronting us and making us “I believe in a mixed genre- in a lobby, in the courtyard, resting on a table waiting to From the ambient field confront it as well. Then, the future. We’re moving towards or in a classroom, check it out; be activated. In full view of recordings emerges a clear “creature” begins to remove a world where boundaries see what’s going on, ask a few passers-bys on their way to voice, “I come from silence/ articles of clothing and buries are falling, changing” says questions. and from class, the seated my lover comes from a long them with soil in the flower Di Russo when asked about The Composers’ Collective will audience waited for the action line of birds.” The lyrics, like pots, finally, we recognize the the Collective’s interest in have another performance, to start. this one, were recorded on the space as perhaps not ours; that including an interdisciplinary the second and last of the West, an artist and artist’s phone last summer as we are looking intimately into approach to performance. The series, on Thursday, October composition major here at she walked through the woods someone, or something, else’s Collective has already worked 17 in the Leonard and Claire Brooklyn, calls the subject of which surround her home interior which beforehand with the Sonic Arts Students, Tow Theater. This act is set to Mirror a “creature,” which, upstate. She calls these spoken was simply a lobby. A space the Pasta (music performing showcase works by Andrew albeit played by her, is not far bits “sound journals,” and they we think we know well is thus club) and the NYFTSA (film Porter, Connor Whelan, and off from the impression that range from conjuring a sense changed. club) to name a few. others. her body language exudes of the startlingly intimate, So how did this all even He also believes strongly The Elephant in the Room: Conservatism on Campus “I’ve met people who just hate organization a lot,” Guillemain needs to adopt,” Guillemain said. “I the baker didn’t want to bake them But like many former members of Turning Point!” Cozlov exclaimed. said. “I actually met [Turning Point just don’t want to scar their image a cake because of their religious BCYR, Nomer has left the club to “At least two to three times a week, founder] Charlie Kirk at a gala last on campus. I would like for them to beliefs. I’m of the belief that sexual pursue other ventures. In his case, I meet people who genuinely hate y e ar.” have a good image, with or without orientation is a protected status it’s his fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Pi. Turning Point, who genuinely hate While she acknowledges Cozlov him.” under federal law, so I think that’s BCYR’s former treasurer Abraham the ideas. I’ve had someone say my has cleaned up his act since last For Zach Nomer, Turning Point like saying ‘I won’t make you a cake Friedman left the club to assume table’s fascist, I’ve had someone say semester, she’s still waiting to see doesn’t have a good image to scar. because you’re black.’” control of the Accounting Society. ‘eff off.’ I’ve met all sorts of people. whether the responsibilities of “While I support free speech, I Nomer’s dislike of Turning Point (Friedman declined our request But overall it’s mostly just people running a Turning Point chapter don’t support some of the values of is part of a wider disillusionment for an interview, saying that he who disagree and want to have a will rein him in. the TPUSA official stance,” Nomer with Republican ideology. He now wishes to keep his presidency in conversation.” “I know that Christian’s views may said. “They’ve had issues in the past counts himself among the ranks of the Accounting Society politically Other conservative students on or may not line up with Turning with saying racist shit. They support the self-proclaimed “Yang Gang” - neutral.) And Guillemain herself campus are generally supportive of Point’s mission, but I trust that he’ll ‘traditional marriage,’ whatever the the 3% of Democratic voters putting is an active participant in many the group. be able to listen to the authority fuck that means. They also wouldn’t their support behind entrepreneur campus clubs, including serving “I like Turning Point as a national and learn that their view is what he shut up about the gay couple where Andrew Yang. as editor-in-chief of the student OCTOBER 16, 2019 ARTS THE VANGUARD / 13 “Pass Over”: The Reality of Police Brutality in America By Bobbie Bell & Milette Millington Staff Writers

Last Friday was the first performance of “Pass Over,” a play written by Antoinette Nwandu and directed by Cristina Duarte. The play does an exceptional job showcasing and highlighting issues within our society such as race and police brutality, and how racism can prevent individuals from fulfilling their dreams and “passing over to the promised land.” “Pass Over” is inspired in part by the 2012 murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. It’s also based on the Samuel Beckett play “Waiting for Godot.” In “Pass Over,” two black men, Moses and Kitch, are stuck on a street corner. They are hoping to “pass over into the promised land,” leave their neighborhood, and fulfill their ideas of what it means to attain the American Dream. But white society has The cast and crew of “Pass Over.” Director Cristina Duarte stands centered. /Bobbie Bell other plans for them. themes. Whether or not Moses and In the play, these internal throughout the play. Others designers,” said Duarte. “We “This production alludes to Kitch reach this “promised and external fears are an in the audience shared put a lot into the pot and the control of black bodies, land” is an adventure and obstacle for the men hoping feelings of compassion, fear, made a really tasty stew that specifically black men in journey taken by these two to escape their block. One and laughter with each other. we are happy to share and regards to police brutality in individuals that no one will obstacle is the “white man,” There was a steady balance hope the audience enjoys as America, and the play was want to miss. represented by the characters of humor in the play without w e l l .” written by a black woman “People should expect to Mister and Ossifer, who taking away from the severity Duarte dedicates the too,” said Fenner. He went on be compelled,” said Duarte. instill feelings of fear and of the message. production to her students. to say, “I feel blessed. I hope “[‘Pass Over’] will make worthlessness into Moses and “I am more concerned She says that we all have that it doesn’t become about people think about what is Kitch. Mister and Ossifer are about the message,” Fenner a transitional period of me or the acting, but the going on today and how we both played by Tyler Adams, said. “Fortunately, we know wanting to fulfill our dreams, message.” contribute to some of the who also is a senior pursuing the playwright personally yet feeling the weight of our Duarte agrees. The play has themes expressed in the play his BFA in Acting. and I felt like it was a fears. She enjoys directing a special resonance for her as [such as] oppression, fear, “It was an intense play,” responsibility for us to tell plays with “strong characters an immigrant. violence, and race issues.” Adams said. “I couldn’t do it this story.” He wants people that push against those social “I came as an immigrant Moses and Kitch are without Charles and Kwesi to also think about the stories norms,” that hold us back. from Portugal and was played by Kwesi Baird and right beside me.” of “the mothers, uncles, and “Pass Over” will be shown raised i n Newark,” she said. Charles Fenner III. They’re It is unbelievable how well best friends, who have to live until Thursday, Oct. 17 in Coming to America at the both seniors pursuing their Baird, Fenner, and Adams are without the person that they the Performing Arts Center’s age of seven, she had her own Bachelors of Fine Arts (BFAs) able to speak volumes about love” unfortunately as a result Buchwald Theater. The visual ideas of “wanting to reach the in Acting. Both Baird and a massive issue with only a of the violence in the world. and sound effects heighten promised land” and “passing Fenner auditioned based few characters. Audience “The message is so powerful, the scenes, and the set design over to [her] dreams.” on their enthusiasm for the members Dailee Morrone and I can’t wait to share my automatically makes the “It speaks to what is material. and Naomi Ricketts agreed character’s story,” adds Baird. audience intrigued before the happening in the news. “When I read the play, my that “Pass Over” has an “I’m really excited to share the play even starts. Without a It discusses internal and heart would skip a beat,” immense impact on all stage with Charles and Tyler, doubt, Duarte is correct when external fears we all face. It Baird remembers. “I was those watching. Morrone and I couldn’t ask for a better she says the audience is in for is not only important for the gunning for it.” described their acting as cast like this with them.” a “treat.” Brooklyn College community Fenner was excited to act “incredible,” and Ricketts “It was a wonderful, to see, but for the community in a play with such important mentioned how well they collaborative, and inspired at large,” says Duarte. showcased “brotherhood” process with the actors and The Elephant in the Room: Conservatism on Campus publication Night Call. After Nomer left the club, He stresses that his objective for Tlatelpa explains. “Republicans have ourselves not so much as activists With all the departures from its Guillemain appointed Tlatelpa as the BCYR is not to promote Republican always had a strong stance on the for a conservative culture or for ranks, it’s easy to forget that BCYR Young Republicans’ president for the ideology, but rather, to promote rule of law, but they also understood conservative ideas, but as a learning are still a force on campus, especially fall semester. He acknowledges that tolerance and understanding across what immigrants provided to group, where we can share our with Turning Point now jostling for after the past year of controversies, political lines. Tlatelpa is soft- America, and offered solutions own ideas, our own take,” Tlatelpa space on campus. But Alex Tlatelpa it can be difficult to get students to spoken and a little self-conscious and were open to working with explained. “When you speak to a lot doesn’t see it that way. accept BCYR’s presence on campus. - a far cry from the brashness of a Democrats on immigration reform.” of people, they have a sense that me “I can appreciate that another “The Langbert thing makes Ben Shapiro or Steven Crowder. He’s Listening to Tlatelpa talk, it’s hard and you having a conversation about conservative club is on campus reaching out [to other clubs] hard,” more a fan of the late John McCain. not to view his even temperament politics is about someone winning. and offering that kind of option,” Tlatelpa admitted. “I understand (“He was everything a Republican and emphasis on understanding It’s something that’s on the top of my Tlatelpa said. “I think there’s a very why it might be difficult for other should be,” Tlatelpa opined.) as a throwback to a Republican mind when I think about the Young big distinction between both of clubs and other students to feel “Before Trump, and probably party that no longer exists. But that Republicans.” us, Turning Point being a lot more comfortable with a conservative up until George Bush, we still had doesn’t bother him. “Hopefully, I can get a chance to at activist, a lot more centered around club on campus given that track ‘compassionate conservatism,’ and “Where I initially wanted to least get my foot in the door with the awareness.” record.” that’s where most of my beliefs align,” start was [...] trying to re-establish rest of the school.” 14 / THE VANGUARD ARTS/OPINIONS OCTOBER 16, 2019 BC Campus Gets Featured Heavily in “Gemini Man”

By Martin Samoylov of the Carribbean), and serve as a classroom Staff Writer stars an A-list cast. representing NYU. Smith plays Henry, Despite this, there Brooklyn College a former government doesn’t seem to be a has been in many movies assassin, as well as his unique connection and TV shows before, younger clone who is sent between Bruckheimer but never quite like this. to kill him. Also in the and the school. “Gemini Man” is a big- film are Clive Owen as the “The only special budget international head of the government relationship between blockbuster starring organization “GEMINI,” Jerry Bruckheimer Films Will Smith and featuring as well as Mary Elizabeth and CUNY or Brooklyn Brooklyn College’s Winstead (10 Cloverfield College of which I’m campus in all its glory. The Lane) and Benedict aware is that the locations Will Smith at Brooklyn College. / Will Smith’s YouTube Channel film’s final sequence plays Wong (Doctor Strange) were perfect for the out between Ingersoll as Henry’s allies. required scenes of both fooled for a second - it’s Politician” and CBS’s and Boylan Halls, with Lee shot the movie in Gemini Man and The Brooklyn College. But “God Friended Me” also a camera capturing Will 3D and 120-frames-per- Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” people on the West Coast shoot scenes on and Smith standing on a second (fps), compared said Michael Singer, Vice might be,” he said. around campus. cracked campus concrete to the usual 24fps, President for Marketing In the case of Gemini Money from renting the tile before eventually using some of the most & Publicity at Jerry Man, the audience goes campus to production panning toward the expensive and modern Bruckheimer Films. way beyond the West goes to the Brooklyn Bedford Avenue gate. digital equipment Indeed, Brooklyn Coast but extends all College Auxiliary Also in the shot are a available for movie College’s almost 90-year- around the globe. Enterprises Corporation food truck, MTA bus shoots. “The technology old and wide-open Web and television (BCAEC), the school’s (likely a B11 given the on this movie is crazy,” campus serves as a shows tend to shoot nonprofit, which has model) and the West said Smith in his campus convenient pick for any in New York more previously funded award Quad Center, which is in video. The scene is location scout who has often than Hollywood ceremonies and other the middle of the movie’s around 3 minutes and 27 to find a decent-looking productions. In 2018, less campus events. final frame before the seconds long. Given the place for a screenplay’s than 1,300 New York City “Gemini Man” is now scene fades to credits. release in 120fps, there “INT. COLLEGE film permits were issued playing in over 3,500 The scene was shot are close to 25 thousand CAMPUS - DAY” for movies, compared domestic theaters. back in April of this year, frames of Brooklyn slugline. to over 5,000 for shows. The film received a B+ with Smith posting a College in the movie. “They love the look Brooklyn College is CinemaScore rating selfie-style video from While being the of Brooklyn College: no exception, with from opening weekend campus on his YouTube final few minutes in it’s an old-style look; it plenty of shows taking audiences. While channel introducing a movie of this scale could be any Ivy League advantage of the campus. critics gave it mixed- Gemini Man’s first trailer is a first for Brooklyn college,” Kevin Carmine, According to its website, to-negative reviews, on April 23rd. Although College, another Jerry who used to coordinate the school played host to they almost universally many productions have Bruckheimer film,productions for the episodes of “Daredevil,” praised it for its visuals shot on campus before, 2010’s “The Sorcerer’s school, told the Daily “Jack Ryan,” “Mr. Robot,” and technology. And Gemini Man comes Apprentice” also used News in 2008. “We’re “Elementary” and “The Brooklyn College with estimated budget Brooklyn College as [fictional] HudsonAmericans” as well as certainly played some of over $150 million, is a shooting location. University on ‘Law and multiple commercials role in the former. directed by Ang Lee (Life Though in thatOrder.’ We’ve been Yale for, among others, of Pi), produced by Jerry production, the school and Harvard. People in Google and Apple. Just Bruckheimer (Pirates appeared to mainly Brooklyn wouldn’t be this year, Netflix’s “The Brooklyn’s Hidden Gem: Boylan’s 5th Floor By Edmund Zhen er, harsh weather could vice is, ditch the cafeteria in the hallways that only to the tables. However, Opinions Editor be so unforgiving and or the library, there is a house janitorial rooms there are a set of outlets you either end up freez- hidden gem unknown to and bathrooms. close enough where you Once common hours ing from the New York many. Despite the fact that so could sit there on the hit, it becomes nearly im- winter or melting from The 5th floor of Boylan many students have class floor looking like a bum possible to find a place to the scorching heatwaves. Hall. In Boylan, the tables or be gutsy and move the study or eat alone. This At this point, you're real- Hidden at the end of are usually empty. Sur- whole table there. Take it especially goes for the ly desperate to get a seat each corridor, perfectly rounding the perimeter from me, if you want to cafeteria where a swarm and just eat your lunch in vacant seats and medi- are paintings done by enjoy your lunch with a of people rushes into peace, so you go for the um-size square tables are students and a red couch little peace and tranquil- Boylan’s basement to student center to only be discreetly hiding from in pristine condition ity, you might want to grab seats. Then there are annoyed by the sounds the spotlight. Because of Unfortunately, if your trek up to the 5th floor of some people who enjoy of people yelling and bil- its location on the fifth electronics ever happen Boylan Hall. eating outside, so they liard balls clanking. floor, no one ever feels to be low on battery, flock to the green patio So indeed, finding a place like taking a hike up you're going to be in a tables outside the West to be alone on campus there. It's also very quiet slight predicament as Quad Building. Howev- can be difficult. My ad- because they are located there are no outlets next OCTOBER 16, 2019 OPINIONS THE VANGUARD / 15 On the Record: Paul and Linda McCartney, “Ram”

By Allison Rapp Campbeltown, on the Columnist Kintyre Peninsula, some three hours west. A I miss the big city. I find lovely little harbor town myself remembering complete with cafes, the smallest of details pubs, and famous scotch that remind me of whiskey distilleries. New York: pizza joints Perhaps it was bliss that open at all hours of Paul McCartney was after the night; the voice of when he bought a farm the subway intercom of his own in 1966, just telling passengers “this outside Campbeltown. is a Manhattan-bound The last few years of the 2 train;” the racket of Beatles were musically the Flatbush Junction. fruitful, but personally I imagine my local tumultuous, and he bodega guys, wondering yearned for a break from about my sudden it all. In Kintyre, he could disappearance. be away from the flashing But I live in Glasgow, cameras of the paparazzi the fastest-growing and the invasive city in Scotland, with a questions of journalists population that exceeds and fans. In 1969, he that of the capital city married American of Edinburgh. How is it Linda Eastman, and the Beatles album. Some quite literally about the served its regulars that I can be missing big pair eventually brought of the instrumentation peninsula of Kintyre without even having to city life when I have it their four children to on tracks like “Uncle where the McCartney’s ask their orders, the ladies all right here? It’s funny: experience life on the Albert / Admiral Halsey” farm was located. On at the pub next door told no matter how big, bold, farm. and “Monkberry Moon the cover of the single me they come every and fast-paced a city may Enter, the Ram album. Delight” is experimental, is Davaar Island, a huge Saturday afternoon at seem, nothing ever holds Released in May of 1971 pushing the boundaries of rolling hill visible from half past three on the dot, a candle to New York. It on the Beatles’ own traditional songwriting. Campbeltown. The island and the bartender, whose must be something in Apple Records, it’s the Other tracks like “3 Legs,” hosts secret caves with opinion of Trump is not the air. only album attributed which features a classic paintings, only accessible suitable for printing, I’ve opted to spend to both Paul and Linda. 12-bar blues structure, at low tide when a sandy showed me the local several of my weekends The Beatles had just are almost reminiscent causeway appears. “Oh weekly newspaper, The out of the hustle and broken up, Wings had of early Beatle days, back mist rolling in from the Campbeltown Courier. bustle by taking day trips not yet been created, when the band spent a sea, my desire is always The front page story? A to small, coastal towns and in between sat one considerable amount to be here,’’ Paul sings. prominent local dairy around Scotland. As one of the most well-known of time learning from It may have been Linda farmer facing business would expect, the train rock’n’roll couples in the people like Buddy Holly who left the most impact woes -- the cheese supply and bus system here is world. and Muddy Waters. But on Scotland, though. was in dire straits. stellar. There are multiple To be clear and fair, there’s a clear sense of A statue of her sits in “Heart of the country trips to multiple places Ram is not an album independence on Ram. an immaculately-kept where the holy people offered per day, and their about life in the Scottish “Too many people garden at a museum in the grow,” Paul sings on the punctuality is almost countryside -- that reaching for a piece of center of Campbeltown. Ram album. I’m not alarming. (Are we sure would be far too simple cake, too many people She spent years not only sure the residents of we’re ready to leave on a concept for someone pulled and pushed as an inspiration to the Campbeltown would time? Are we positive like Paul McCartney. around,’’ Paul sings on community, but also as consider themselves there’s no train traffic up But it does allude to the opening track. The a generous benefactress, as such, but it’s no ahead? It’s too good to the idea of being set Beatles were no longer. under the condition of wonder Paul and be true.) Along the way, apart from his former Bands which burn that strict anonymity. The Linda were drawn to sheep, cows, horses, and musical endeavors, brightly often don’t stand locals remember her the land. Glasgow has rolling hills stretch for both emotionally and a chance in the long run. fondly. much to offer, but the miles. It’s the epitome of physically. Though not released There’s nothing quite countrysides and harbor countryside bliss. There’s quite a bit of until 1978 on London or routine about Ram, towns might be where the This past weekend material on the record Town, one of Wings’ but there is about true Scottish experiences I boarded a bus at that wouldn’t sound greatest hits was “Mull Campbeltown. The cafe are. the crack of dawn to out of place on a late of Kintyre”, written where I sipped coffee It’s funny: no matter how big, bold, and fast-paced a city may seem, nothing ever holds a candle to New York. 16 / THE VANGUARD SPORTS OCTOBER 16, 2019 Men’s Soccer Drops to 2-11 vs Baruch By Conrad Hoyt Sports Editor

Brooklyn College men’s soccer team lost 2-1 to Baruch College on Saturday, Oct. 5, after scoring first and dominating much of the game. The Bulldogs fought extremely hard and did not seem overly discouraged by the loss. Miguel De Anda started at left back for the Bulldogs and had himself a very strong performance. “We need to improve on our physicality; we need to be stronger and more dedicated to the game to Alex Sosa (right) controls the ball. / Damion Reid be able to win. We have an awesome team, and coaching staff probably middle of the net. shoot more we’ll have example, on Wednesday, I believe if we all play wanted to get new faces Although the Bulldogs the advantage,” De Anda Oct. 9, beating City well we have enough to out there on the field, and had struck first, players noted. College 2-1. be champions,” De Anda change other star players’ on the field and bench The team has struggled In their next game, John said after the game. positions to see what loudly exclaimed to their as of late with putting Jay defeated the Bulldogs Both teams had chances would work. The team teammates, “It’s 0-0!” the ball on net, scoring 2-1 on Saturday, Oct. early on, but the game looked strong, fresh, and to maintain their calm, only 14 goals on 74 shots 12, bringing the team to was at a stalemate going invigorated. “We were focus, and restrain from while their opponents an overall 2-11 on the into the half. playing more like a team, getting comfortable with have scored 31 times on season. The Bulldogs had good we kept possession of the the lead. total of 111 shots on goal. Going forward, the interplay between game, and that helped us Unfortunately, less The Bulldogs have a Bulldogs have three players, such as give-and- a lot,” said De Anda. than five minutes later, “shots on goal” ratio games to go and the go’s between midfielders Bulldogs central Baruch scored on a of 0.497, meaning that playoffs are far out of and overlaps by fullbacks midfielder, Alex Sosa, breakaway and then when they shoot the ball, reach, but momentum over their wingers. These also played well, showing scored one more time it is a quality shot nearly is a real thing, even plays kept the defense his crafty ability in tight before the final whistle. half-the-time. going into next season. guessing and allowed the spaces. In the 38th The final score was 2-1, There are still games This team has to team to get out of tight minute, he was fouled the Bulldogs suffering left this season for the stay motivated and spaces. inside the box, awarding another crushing defeat. Bulldogs to secure determined to grabbing The lineup was also very a penalty. Sosa calmly “We have a few bad some more wins. They some positive results in clearly different from stepped up to the spot habits of not shooting managed to pick up order to feel confident when the season began. and powerfully slotted on goal of the opposite their second win of the going into next fall. After many losses, the the ball right down the team, and I believe if we season just days later, for

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