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General Inquiries [email protected] BC’s Notorious Res Hall Closes Its Doors Editor-in-Chief Ryan Schwach By Maya Schubert [email protected] News Editor

Managing Editor After years, the Residence Moises Taveras Hall at [email protected] has finally shut its doors. According to a former RA, Business Manager the building at 1 Kenilworth Ian Ezinga Place stopped operating [email protected] toward the end of July. Though the building Layout Editor continued housing students Camila Dejesus after Brooklyn College’s [email protected] campus closed, numbers dwindled significantly Digital Editor as many students moved Carmen Saffioti back to their parents’ [email protected] homes. Because the fate of the fall semester went Photo Editor unannounced for most Humza Ahmad of the summer, potential [email protected] residents like freshman or transfer students were Residence Hall at Brooklyn College has stopped operating by the end of July./ Residence Hall at Brooklyn Section Editors also not making definitive College on Facebook News: Maya Schubert move-in plans. Chris Omar. Over the 2019 with the building expire. 2020, is sure that RHBC’s [email protected] For many, the residence fall semester, The Vanguard “Brooklyn College is closure is the latent result of Features: Gabriela Flores hall’s quiet shutdown repeatedly reported on unable to provide any generated publicity. [email protected] seems to deny its infamous floods at the dorms. assistance to students “I knew once we released Opinions: Allison Rapp reputation. Known across Joann Johnson, the former interested or residing in the the documentary -- and [email protected] Brooklyn College’s campus bookkeeper at the residence building,” Ron Jackson, Vice the media attention Arts: John Schilling for dirty conditions, floods, hall, said that the owner President of Student Affairs, surrounding it -- they could [email protected] and a hostile environment, didn’t share with her why wrote in an email on May no longer carry on their Sports: Conrad Hoyt RHBC has attracted RHBC is closing, or if the 22nd. “Brooklyn College money-grabbing practice [email protected] unwelcome attention for building would be sold. has no involvement in the of exploiting Brooklyn years. In May 2019, both “I guess [it closed] because management or operation College students,” Omar Columnist the Kingsman and Excelsior of COVID,” Johnson said. of the facility.” said. “While I wish this had Michael Castaneda newspapers reported on “I’m not sure.” The school’s conspicuous happened years ago, I am grimy conditions and All she knew was that it attempt to dissociate itself glad they are finally out of Cartoonists reports of sexual harassment was shutting down. with RHBC came as the business. All in all, I’m glad Mo Muhsin by employees at the dorms. “The residence hall is not result of public complaints no one can be exploited Gabrielle Toro Vivoni The articles followedopening back up,” she said. from students following further by RHBC.” YouTube videos and a short “It’s closed; it’s locked.” the newspaper reports and The owner of RHBC, Sefi Staff Writers film about the residence hall In May, Brooklyn College Omar’s short film. Omar, Zvieli, declined to comment. Michela Arlia released by BC film student let its advertising contract who graduated in Spring Bobbie Bell Stacy Fisch Chaya Gurkov Elijah Hamilton Zahra Khan PRLS Dept. Celebrates 50th B-Day Qichelle Maitland Carlos Daniel Martinez By Ryan Schwach of BC’s Puerto Rican The PRLS Department Latino Studies, we are still Kendra Martinez Editor-in-Chief Alliance. “We’re a very small has continued to fight for standing,” said Vázquez Jose Rohdin department but we’re always those fundamental beliefs Sanabria. Paola Sacerdote Brooklyn College’s Puerto doing things together, throughout their half Now, the work continues. Martin Samoylov Rican and Latin Studies and an online format can’t century of existence. In He and his fellow members Tsering Zangmo Department (PRLS), a replicate everything.” 1974, 44 Brooklyn College are now working to make Natalina Zieman trailblazer when it first Spurred on by calls from students were arrested while campus more anti-racist, began, celebrates its 50th a diverse cloth of Brooklyn demonstrating for more equal, and equitable for the Photographers birthday this month. College Students for more inclusion within their own entire student body. Ajani Stewart In a normal year, the inclusion, the department department, and in more “Many of our students leave Chloe Abosch department would be was formed with the intent recent years, students and with a more defined sense Christianna Cox celebrating in person of standing on three pillars: faculty have fought against of who they are, what they Ehime Ora during their yearly event, awareness, analysis, and the underfunding of the want to do, and why they Emily Vahanyan Encuentro, but will of action. department and of CUNY are doing whatever they Ronny Shama course have to move the “We started from the as a whole. choose to do,” said Vázquez celebration online. institute of Puerto Rican “It feels great to know Sanabria. “Our departments “I’m excited about it! It’s Studies that was created that after 50 years, and the have truly produced a family just hard to be excited alongside the Black Studies constant push from the setting in the most violent of Faculty Advisor when we can’t be together Institute, both key spaces administration to defund spaces, so we celebrate that Anthony Mancini to celebrate,” said Danny that came about from both Africana Studies along with the anniversary.” J. Vázquez Sanabria, a student struggle,” said and Puerto Rican and PRLS major and President Vázquez Sanabria. THE VANGUARD ISSUE 2 - SEPT 16, 2020 / PAGE 3 Hybrid Courses On Hold, To Start Somtime In Fall By Bobbie Bell Staff Writer

As Brooklyn College adapts to remote learning, how and when hybrid courses will begin for the fall semester is still up in the air for the theatre and film departments. There will be thirteen hybrids across all departments in the college, including the physics and earth and environmental sciences department. “We will be attempting to run a small number of hybrid engagements on the campus this fall to help with the performative aspects of actor training,” said Kip Brooklyn College WEB building./ Brooklyn College Twitter/BklynCollege411 Marsh, the chairperson of the theatre department. for modification or The undergraduate will be on campus, Marsh. The department hopes redirection,” Marsh said. film department is only plans for disinfection All theatre courses are to have five hybrid Marsh is uncertain of offering one hybridof equipment, signage currently online, but acting courses: Voice how long the process class for undergraduates posting, and the cleaning Kip sees online learning Production for the Actor should take, but expects this semester, a schedule for the space.” as a unique challenge I and III, Movement for hybrid classes to span cinematography class, Like the theatre that allows students to the Actor I and III, and from early October according to Annette department, Danto says “produce work remotely,” Acting for the Camera. to mid-November for Danto, the chairperson the film department is a necessary skill for Those pursuing a master graduate students in of the undergraduate still combing through actors in today’s climate. in fine arts acting degree these courses. film department. Hybrid final details of their The same can be said will most likely be placed “My first class will be classes for the Barry hybrid classes. Thefor the film department. in these hybrid courses October seventh on R. Feirstein Graduate class will be virtual for Students will receive due to their small class campus with my second School at Brooklyn the most part, but will their sound equipment sizes. This will leaveyear MFA students, and College include 3D include “two hands-on kits, which will allow the classrooms less October eight with my Computer Animation I, lighting workshops.” them to work on projects congested and therefore first year MFA students,” Computer Animation 3, “These workshops, as from their homes. allow social distancing said Judylee Vivier, a Production Workshop per the college’s health “We are most concerned guidelines to be more professor in the theatre 1, and Special Topics in and safety guidelines, will about everyone’s health easily carried out. Before department. Cinema Arts 1 and 2, as only involve five students and safety so we are doing any hybrid course can Anne Lopes, the Provost listed on CUNYfirst. at a time working with our best to come up with move forward, however, and Senior Vice President “Our WEB Film the instructor in a large creative solutions for our the department must for Academic Affairs has Department doesn’t have studio space,” Danto hand-on craft classes submit their plans to the joined the Response and the proper air filtration stated. which rely on equipment Reentry Review Board. Reentry Task Force. system, so we’ve been Everyone must also wear usage,” said Danto. Marsh has had to “submit “It has been both told that it’s unsafe for a mask and maintain According to a reentry plan [to the exciting and challenging students, faculty, and social distancing. CUNYfirst, the Earth Board] that details how to be part of the Task staff to spend time in “At the core, theater and Environmental [they] would like to be Force,” said Lopes. “The the building during the and performing artists Sciences department will able to use the campus for criteria we used for pandemic,” said Danto. are storytellers and have one hybrid course: classes and performance considering requests for Lopes listed a few things communicators, and Field Mapping. The engagements.” a hybrid class was based the Task Force takes engaging with our Physics department will “The Reentry Review on the need for students into consideration when community to tell stories also have a hybrid course Board is very thorough to use equipment or learn reviewing a proposal for and communicate called Modern Physics in its assessment of to use equipment that is a hybrid class, including difficult social dilemmas Laboratories. Neither campus usage plans housed on campus for “requested rooms and is the primary opersuit, departments were and often sends athe delivery of the degree ventilation, number regardless of the form in available for comment. department’s plans back program.” of times each student which it happens,” said THE VANGUARD ISSUE 2 - SEPT 16, 2020 / PAGE 4 Petition to Protect CUNY Student Privacy Circulates

By Paola Sacerdote be atrocious,” the petition and violate their rights to Staff Writer reads. privacy,” the petition says. The petition is supported “Proctorio is a direct and CUNY students are by the University Student abhorrent violation of unhappy with the university’s Senate, and the student privacy at every conceivable decision to permit live, governments at Brooklyn, level...Full and unrestricted online proctoring of exams. John Jay, Baruch, Queens, access to personal data The frustration led to the BMCC, Hunter, York and from students (computers, creation of a petition on CSI. According to CUNY, private physical rooms, change.org called “Do Not students will start seeing and other means of Let CUNY Violate Student their exams being recorded identification/monitoring) Privacy,” in the hopes to by midterm season of this is a despicable overreach remove the proctoring rules fall. by CUNY, and McGraw Students worry new testing programs may infringe on privacy./ Edited by implemented by CUNY. The AI driven programs Hill. It is unacceptable that Humza Ahmad The petition so far has over CUNY is working with, such students must surrender liability, indemnificationvoicing their opinion of 27,500 signatures. as Proctorio, Respondus, their civil rights, especially provisions, hardware CUNY’s decision. Students specifically take and Proctortrack, capture while attending a public compatibility, and cost “Though I do not doubt issues with the programs screen content on the users institution, to complete considerations in question the intentions of CUNY, CUNY is partnering with in computer, and has features their education.” are quite complex and we this system has tremendous order to administer exams like one that tracks eye- Students hope that all are working as purposefully potential for abuse, not to virtually. movement, all to ensure CUNY schools will involve and thoughtfully as possible, mention the fact that this “As the Fall 2020 semester that students can’t cheat. student leaders in the search fully understanding the would disproportionately begins, online classes are However, students fear this for alternatives to online sense of urgency involved,” hurt neuroatypical implementing various could be used to infringe on proctoring and to notify the the CUNY Guidance on students due to the eye- software services tostudents’ privacy and safety. students that they are not Academic Continuity to tracking feature,” a student curb potential academic “CUNY, through its required to accept the terms campuses reads. commented. “I strongly dishonesty. While the partnership with McGraw and conditions of any online Many students who signed urge CUNY to reconsider intentions are in good faith, Hill Publishing, can use proctoring software. the petition have left a their use of this technology.” the implementation will Proctorio to spy on students “The data privacy, student comment on the webpage Stuent Activities Fee In Question By Ian Ezinga services that SAF provide, and more.” Business Manager but a lot of students still do However, the allocated and that is why they are in funding for clubs is a At the end of last semester, place,” said Naheed. relatively minor portion Brooklyn College students Vital services such as the of the entire Student saw a $28.35 “waiver” in health clinic and the food Activities Fees budget. their CUNYfirst accounts pantry are still operating The students at the helm which accounted for a remotely and are continuing of the undergraduate partial refund of the Student to provide important student government Activities Fee (SAF). This resources to students in (USG) campaigned under semester, with club events a city still weathering the a radical platform which and the majority of classes effects of a pandemic. sought to better organize held virtually, it remains So while certain essential the student body and uncertain if students will be services are locked in, there extract concessions from seeing a similar waiver. are some funds in flux, the college’s administration The Food Pantry at Brooklyn College, which is funded by Student “Student Activity Fees particularly the $93,000 to better the conditions for Activity Fees./ Brooklyn College Twitter/BklynCollege411 are about $114 and go to allocated to student clubs students. different groups on campus this semester. With no in- So while the end destination few weeks, where we can be raised in the first place. that serve the students,” person events, which have for much of the money is still allowed to spend the money “We think that once the Iqura Naheed, press director served as the largest cost for to be determined, the USG in organizing and helping student body is sufficiently for the Undergraduate clubs in the past, it remains a president, Ethan Milich, the student body have a organized, it will have the Student Government’s question as to how executive and his cabinet want to eek successful semester.” tools to accomplish their executive cabinet, told the members of clubs will be out an equitable solution for Since the student services demands, including tuition Vanguard. spending their budgets. Brooklyn College students. funded by the SAF will freezes and eventually With roughly 18,000 “They have the opportunity Naheed continued, “The remain open, albeit virtually free tuition altogether,” students enrolled, the to choose how to use their executive office at USG has in most cases, it is not clear concluded Naheed, who set fees generate a substantial money to best support the been working on finding how much cash the cabinet out to make the case that the amount of money well over BC community,” Naheed ways to set up grants or would be able to pull together fight for helping students is a million dollars. said. “The guidelines around charitable funds in hopes for their goals of alleviating only just beginning. All of the groups that receive what they can do is up to to financially support the students’ financial stresses. With the money in a funding through this pool the school. Everyone is student body... At each turn, The uncertainty aboutsort of limbo and the of cash are still operating in learning together what can we have found that we do the outcome of future administration seemingly some capacity, even with the be done online, and clubs not have the power to enact negotiations with the set on a straightforward gates to campus shuttered to are finding creative ways to such measures. We are still college’s administration course of action, much is students. interact with their members hoping for a compromise rests upon the elected still to be learned about how “It is understood that not including virtual meetings, with the administration to student’s commitment to the Student Activities Fees all students may use the online panels, giveaways, be reached within the next changing the fundamental will come back to serving ways that funding is even students. THE VANGUARD ISSUE 2 - SEPT 16, 2020 / PAGE 5 Koppelman Holds Webinar On Small Biz During Pandemic

By Gabriela Flores businesses with 500 twice as fast than small organization’s Business the first round of PPP Features Editor employees or less, the businesses generally Program Manager, loans and employment funds soon depleted closed. Furthermore, the survey intended data, Granja found that The pandemic has significantly. So much Black business to understand the the four top banks, presented several so, the second rounds communities were “qualitative concerns of including JPMorgan financial hardshipsof loans called for exasperated with weaker small businesses.” Chase, Bank of America, and uncertainties an additional $310 banking relations. With “Sure enough the top Wells Fargo, and for small businesses, billion. The depletion underperforming banks concern that they had is Citibank, accounted forcing owners to in funding left many who were unequipped their personal financial for a total 36 percent grapple with revenue small businesses, like to handle the surge of security. They live off of small business loans losses and potential mom-and-pop shops, to PPP loan applications, their business, if their before the PPP policy. closure. On Tuesday, receive little to no PPP COVID-19 relief funds business is sinking, they Meanwhile, during Brooklyn College’s funds in the CARES for Black businesses feel like they are sinking the first round of PPP, Koppelman School of Act’s first round of loans. were limited. as well,” said Frias. these banks severely Business invited three For communities of “PPP did leave To further evaluate underperformed and experts to discuss the color, experiencing pre- significant coveragewhether the PPP “hit the disbursed less than 3 Covid-19 response existing conditions such gaps, those coverage target” of appropriately percent of total loans. and recovery for small as exposure to poorly gaps were particularly allocating funds for “Regions with a businesses. Throughout performing banks, PPP acute in places that small businesses in need, larger footprint of the webinar, panelists funding was difficult to had been hard hit by João Granja, Associate underperforming banks analyzed racial inequity, obtain. COVID-19. Many Professor of Accounting are going to receive bank and business “I’m sure many of places in America at the University of disproportionately relationships, and the you were experiencing that were hardest hit Booth School smaller allocations of flaws embedded in the and hearing that the by COVID-19 in the of Business, presented PPP funds,” said Granja. Paycheck Protection conditions for small early stages of the three dimensions of “It was not the case that Program (PPP), a business owners were health crisis, were the issues. The first was areas with higher PPP business loan system pretty grave. And that places that had higher figuring out if funds actually did better after enacted under the they were especially densities of Black- were flowing to areas the program launched, CARES act. grave in communities owned businesses,” said with the most economic but rather pre-existing “Not only did it of color, and immigrant Kramer-Mills. dislocation before conditions are related create a health crisis, communities,” said To support minority the establishment to the allocation of PPP it produced a severe Claire Kramer- small businesses, of PPP. The secondfunds.” economic shock,” said Mills, Assistant Vice organizations like the dimension was The COVID-19 Darline Augustine, President and Director Business Outreach determining whether pandemic has brought Associate Professor of of Community Center (BOC) have appointing banks to on a series of changes to Business Management Development Analysis, provided aid to owners handle and deploy our day-to-day lives, but at Koppelman. Outreach & Education struggling to meet ends PPP loans was actually most of all it has caused During the early Program, Federal meet. Through theirmore convenient for financial instability months of the pandemic, Reserve Bank of New latest survey, BOC small businesses. for small businesses. large PPP loans were York. targeted a demographic And lastly, Granja As the “new normal” granted to not-so- According to a study of small businesses, questioned whether continues, numerous small businesses like Kramer-Mills utilized in finding that major areas PPP accomplished its small businesses will Shake Shack, Potbelly, her research, 41 percent of impact included purpose in promoting need to recover from and Ruth’s Chris Steak of small businesses were revenue loss, workforce employment or their substantial House. Though the loan owned by people of color. reduction, changes developing mechanisms revenue losses and program was initially From February to April, in operation, and to help firms operate. looming shutdown to capped at $350 billion, Black small businesses permanent closures. Using new data on regain some stability. and available to all were shutting down For John Frias, the the distribution of THE VANGUARD ISSUE 2 - SEPT 16, 2020 / PAGE 6 BC Prof Ngoc Cindy Pham Helps Her Students And Community During Pandemic

By Tsering Zangmo Staff Writer

During the COVID-19 pandemic, BC Business Professor Ngoc Cindy Pham has been a supportive force for her local Brooklyn and Vietnamese Asian communities, as well as her students. As a professor, Pham has been able to live her life’s purpose in using teaching as a “power to change the lives of students and inspire them to be the best they can be,” as she puts it. “When I was a kid I wanted to be super fast or super strong,” she said. “I do it everyday as a professor.” Aside from her work in the classroom, Pham Ngoc Cindy Pham./ Wall Street Journal is a philanthropist, presented the Faculty cooking, particularly use. She has written my message will be businesswoman, and of the Year Award, her dumplings, which for the Vietnamese heard more. I want to Marketing Director of which is given to a come from a recipe National Newspaper get involved in more a Fashion faculty member in passed down through about the situation in politics, meet VIPs Week show. She is well recognition of their her Chinese lineage. New York from her across the board,” said known by students outstanding teaching Professor Pham is own perspective. Pham. “I want to bring as an educator who is contributions and of Vietnamese and To stay productive in more gender equality. passionate about every dedicated service Chinese descent. quarantine, she utilizes As a female professor, students’ professional to student success. “[Vietnamese people every moment of time. I had to walk up two well-being. Professor Pham has are] very positive, “Do something to to three times more. Pham has been featured worked tirelessly, and optimistic, caring. We take an opportunity,” I want to see more in the Brooklyn Public her caring actions are very loving people. she said. “Think of it as successful female Library’s Oral Histories have extended beyond We love to share,” she a way to get stronger. students. Men and Stories of COVID-19 helping the students at said. “My father always In life there are so women are equal.” and the Museum of Brooklyn College. says we are from a many unfortunate Through her selfless Chinese in America Pham offers support small country. If you events. Buddhist acts of kindness, Pham project MOCA in all sorts of ways don’t work hard, how philosophy guides me has demonstrated OneWorld COVID-19 to members of her will people look at to do better...” her deep-rooted Special Collection. community and her you in your country? Pham excitedly connection with her As a leader during students, including I ask myself how shared news for the students and ethnic this health crisis, she providing mental and people will perceive future: she has been communities. She has started a GoFundMe emotional support for me as Vietnamese. I nominated to give a proven to be a resilient for Brooklyn College’s friends and students, as have huge pride in my presentation on TED and proactive leader, Class of 2020, which well as donating home- nationality.” Talks. willing to take on any will pay for a delayed made dumplings for Pham has indeed “My dream project challenge, including a graduation celebration those struggling. worked very hard is to give a TED Talk. pandemic. once they are able to Pham proudly said during the COVID-19 It is a scholarly place come back to campus. she has used her time pandemic, putting her for millions of people. She was recently to learn more about educational power to I feel my country and THE VANGUARD ISSUE 2 - SEPT 16, 2020 / PAGE 7 Involvement Fair Moves Online

By Gabriela Flores number of clubs we Features Editor usually do on campus. Also, the aspect of As most of Brooklyn just comradery that’s College continues associated with having remotely, the Student the involvement fair Activities, Involvement, where it’s on campus and Leadership and students interacting Center (SAIL) hosted with one another its very first Virtual presented sort-of Involvement Fair to give a challenge,” said students and clubs a Hamilton Raymond, chance to interact with Associate Director of one another remotely. SAIL. “But overall, with Though the event’s turn the feedback I received, out was lower than it was phenomenal. in previous years on Students are looking for campus, participating us to set up another one BC organizations and for them.” students managed to Initially, many Poster for SAIL’S “Virtual Involvement Fair.”/ BC Sail Center’s Facebook engage across their organizations expected devices and adapt to the low student turnout the organizations used able to gain prospective opportunity to bridge move online. since accessing the their social media to members. the college’s graduate “In-person you can digitized version of the encourage students to “We really take our and undergraduate interact with students fair required registration join each other’s fair pride in knowing populations, all while and actually know who and more effort. With rooms. who our people are. connecting students you are speaking to. this in mind, many clubs “We do see a better We take the time to through their diverse Online it was a bunch prepared for this year’s turn out that way. actually cultivate groups cultural identity and of screens, that’s who event differently than It’s easier to promote together -- people who interest in media. you’re speaking to,” said they normally would. each other like that, eventually cross into “We had a couple of Sheena Naser, President Some had a PowerPoint and it’s easier to reach the fraternity together,” undergraduate Asian of BC’s American Sign presentation ready out to more students, said Mohammad “Big students coming in Language Club, “but it to go, while others said Maryam Ahmad, Brother Tonic” Tusar. and showing up. And was very engaging, like improvised. For BC’s Secretary of MGB. “Where they are able to then by listening to a lot of people surprised Muslims Giving Back Though studenthave a brotherhood at them, being Asian in a me. They come and they (MGB), preparation attendance was better large, but a brotherhood community interested were very interested in for this year’s fair was than many anticipated, at a minimal level too in Film, TV and Radio, being involved.” “more scripted than in- some aspects of the between each other and at least they know of Before the pandemic person.” When the fair fair’s former in-person each person.” a sense of belonging canceled the fair in- was on-campus, MGB experience could not be For some clubs, they can confirm and person, nearly all BC members could discuss replicated online. The like the Asian and acknowledge,” said clubs would set up their club with each ability to spontaneously Asian American Film Kosaku Horiwaki, Vice their tables to chat with student individually and start small talks or face- Organization (AAAFO), President of AAAFO. students passing by. No share some candy or to-face conversations the fair’s move to online “That’s a strong feeling student registration was flyers from their booth. with students based proved to be more that I felt from them, so needed to attend. But Now online, one on their interests or convenient and useful it’s the feeling beyond this year, participants of the significant features, such as their in connecting them to that of our graduate had to register on components in MGB’s clothing, was no longer the BC undergraduate school community.” Bulldog Connection to fair preparation was available over Zoom. community. As a film The fair indicates access the fair hosted the promotion of Nonetheless, the Phi group that started last the college’s decision on Zoom. 16 clubs their Zoom meeting Sigma Chi Multicultural year in the Barry R. to move forward in joined the fair last room. To better their Fraternity was still able Feirstein Graduate the “new normal.” As Tuesday, September 8, expected turnout, to carry their chapter’s School of Cinema, digitized events like the with each having their MGB board members core principal of a AAAFO’s demographic Virtual Involvement own meeting room collaborated with the lifelong brotherhood was limited to the Fair continue at BC, the and a short description college’s Islamic Society, to those interested in graduate student community will likely box introducing their Muslim Women’s joining. Through thebody. Through theadapt to interacting organization to students Educational Initiative, Virtual Involvement Virtual Involvement virtually for as long as scrolling by. and other club board Fair, the fraternity was Fair, members had the the pandemic remains. “We didn’t get the executives. Together THE VANGUARD ISSUE 2 - SEPT 16, 2020 / PAGE 8 BC Contributes to Modern “Journal of a Plague Year”

By Chaya Gurkov Staff Writer

Back in August, Brooklyn College became the newest member to join A Journal of the Plague Year (JPY), an online submission initiative that aims to provide the community an opportunity to document their experience living alongside the coronavirus. Named for Daniel Defoe’s 1722 novel, “A Journal of the Plague Year,” which chronicles the 1665 Great Plague of , JPY is meant to be a collection of stories to record the time of Coronavirus. When we look back at a time when the great COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 is merely a figment of the past, who’s going to tell the story? Who is going to relay the difficulties of isolation or the palpable fear and tension in the streets? Who’s going to document the endless Zoom meetings and the new routines we had to The “Journal of the Plague Year” website, which is open to submissions./covid-19archive.org pick up? The JPY aims to answer those many others. The best archives during a Pandemic, Mabel and Olive visit the Vanguard that they are questions. are those which are most documents creator Jada screen. looking to expand the In March, history representative,” he said. Benjamin coming to grips While sparse, the stories archive, commenting that professors at Arizona The archive welcomes with the fight for equality within the Brooklyn in the future, “historians State University began any form of a contribution despite the ongoing archive are unique to its will want to hear from the project, and as of now, to its site, whether its pandemic. She writes curator, an advantage everyone that has been it includes submissions personal narratives and underneath a video of BC Associate Librarian impacted by the virus.” from institutions in family stories, interviews, an ongoing protest, “For Miriam Deutch and No story is too small, Australia and the artwork, photos, or the first time in months, Director of Open no submission too Philippines to Canada social media posts. I choose to get up and Educational Resources simple. Every person and New Orleans. The goal is to gather as leave my little street, and (OER) see’s specific to living through this “In a sense, this is much documentation join the people who were Brooklyn students. time has a distinct kind of guerilla history,” of our lives during this fighting for Black Lives.” “Because the Brooklyn perspective that will only Associate History pandemic as a record of Another submission College community is add to the thousands of Professor of ASU Mark how we face and continue comments on how the so diverse, we can give contributions already Tebeau said. “We want to face an unprecedented pandemic has brought a voice to people from made, as Deutch pointed stories from everyone: time in modern light to the educational a wide range of racial, out, “We are all witnesses those who are not as American history. inequities in New York ethnic, socioeconomic, to history.” digitally active, older folks As of print release, five City public schools. gender, religious and who are at the greatest submissions are available While one video, carrying cultural backgrounds risk, communities of on BC’s collection. One a more humorous tone, and create an inclusive color which may be contribution, entitled shows a Zoom meeting archive,” she said. impacted differently than Fighting for Equality in which two dogs named Deutch told the THE VANGUARD ISSUE 2 - SEPT 16, 2020 / PAGE 9 “Alienation Sogai” at the CUNY Asian American Film Festival

By John Schilling Arts Editor

Over the summer, CUNY’s Asian American/ Asian Research Institute (AAARI) hosted the 17th Annual CUNY Asian American Film Festival featuring a variety of short films made by CUNY students. Among the featured filmmakers was Nobuhiro Futaki, a recent graduate of Brooklyn College and the director of Alienation Sogai. Alienation Sogai tells the story of Kenji, a combat student in New York who receives a surprise phone call from his father in Ken as Kenji in Nobuhiro Futaki’s Alienation Sogai./ Nobuhiro Futaki and CUNY AAARI Japan. The film focuses on Kenji’s inability to Alienation Sogai. Despite like the father in the story, with many inspiring the protagonist and his connect with his father as the film being completely but it is kind of tough on filmmakers andown character who is he masks his true feelings fictional, Futaki applied me to express my honest cinematic-looking also a screenwriter in the over the phone call some of his own real life feelings to my father for locations,” Futaki shared. story,” Futaki teased. “It’s and deals with his own situations when writing some reason,” Futaki “Cultural diversity of the a conflict between reality personal struggles. the screenplay. revealed. “I don’t want to city helps me to see my and ideal, and it’s also a The film stars Ken, who “I was an international show my weaknesses to background in the bigger conflict between his ego goes by first name only, student who studied my family, but on the other picture and dig deeper and self in psychology.” as Kenji with Nathaniel something in New York hand, I have been scared into my psychology as Futaki revealed that Velez, George Eliseev, while experiencing many of hearing some bad Japanese while comparing it was the beginning Myu Hayashi, and obstacles including [a] news about my family in it to psychology in other of quarantine when he Sakarou making up the language barrier,” Futaki Japan…[which] happens cultures.” began writing the script supporting cast. It also said. “I also share some of to my protagonist.” Psychology is a major for this next project. The features original music my psychology with the Despite this internal factor for Futaki when Covid-19 pandemic, by Yuriy Lehki, another protagonist.” conflict, Futaki praised it comes to character however, did not affect the alumnus of Brooklyn For Futaki, this includes New York City as an development in production of Alienation College. Kenji’s struggle to connect inspiration for filmmaking filmmaking, and thisSogai. After the film’s screening, with his father, as well as and cultural diversity. is something he wishes “I don’t think Covid-19 Futaki joined the live a fear of both failure and “New York City is he explored more of in affected my production streamed event to speak the unknown. definitely inspiring forAlienation Sogai. a lot since I didn’t have with CUNY AARI about “My actual father is not writing and filming “If I had an opportunity anything to shoot at the to make another version time, Futaki shared. “I of this film, I would focus was writing a short script more on the protagonist’s for my next project, and I psychology,” Futaki am a person who needs to shared. “Maybe employ go to a coffee shop to write a little abstract and something. So the closure experimental expressions of coffee shops has slowed to express his mentality.” down the writing process This is something Futaki to a great degree, and I plans to do in his next haven’t finished with the project: a film about a script yet.” screenwriter. At the end of the film’s “The next film will be screening, Alienation another short narrative Sogai was awarded about a Japanese guy who “Runner-Up” in the wants to be a screenwriter Fiction Film category. in the United States and there is conflict between Nobuhiro Futaki./ CUNY AAARI THE VANGUARD ISSUE 2 - SEPT 16, 2020 / PAGE 10 My Big Fat BC Experience: Joel Zwick Talks to Students

By Michela Arlia Staff Writer

On September 10, Michelle Hecht from the Brooklyn College Foundation along with other professors and faculty within the Theater department hosted a virtual discussion with director Joel Zwick. Famous for many sitcoms and box office hits, Zwick is also a member of the BC family. Having graduated from Brooklyn College in 1962 with a B.A. in Television and Radio and with a Masters in 1968, Zwick is most famous for directing hit television shows such as Mork & Mindy, Laverne Joel Zwick advising Brooklyn College students./ Michela Arlia & Shirley, and K.C. Undercover as well well known directing it,” says Zwick on looking understanding the “fresh faces.” Zwick’s best as the highest grossing style came to be loved by back on his time in BC craft which Zwick says piece of advice following romantic comedy of all all of Hollywood. Zwick, and his career. is “necessary,” always most of his questions was time, My Big Fat Greek saying “never give up on Growing up in Sheepshead evolving, and should “If you don’t like laughing Wedding. He is also the possibilities,” focused Bay, Brooklyn in what never be second guessed. and having fun, don’t benefactor of the annual on a recurring theme he calls “a spectacularly The second pillar direct comedy.” Brooklyn College Theater throughout the address stupid period of time,” is making social Another question posed Department Scholarship -- never lose connections from a low income family, connections. “It is more by Michael Hairston, in Directing that bears his with people you meet, Zwick’s original intentions valuable to have people technical director for name. and take all opportunities in college were to become think you are a success audio and lighting at The original event was presented to you. a doctor and help support than a failure,” says BC read, “What were supposed to take place on “Take opportunities his family. This did not Zwick. This pillar is very the challenges you campus last semester but and run with them,” said work out in his favor, as important to bring people faced learning to direct was cancelled due to the Zwick on giving advice to his grades were never at with you on each new differently between COVID-19 shutdown. a younger generation of a standard high enough project who you know theater, TV, and film?” For this semester, the avid theater makers. for medical school. After and can trust. In response, Zwick’s event was rescheduled To Zwick, connections much shuffling around to The third and final advice was that learning and made into a virtual are the most important different departments to pillar is to understand how to talk to actors was discussion. thing to make in the figure out where he best the political nature of key for any medium, The event began with an entertainment industry, belonged, Zwick found the business. Zwick whether it was television, introduction by Thomas and those connections his place in the Television said that because the film, or theater. According Bullard, professor and are the people you meet & Radio department, entertainment industry to Zwick, keeping actors head of the M.F.A. on a day-to-day basis. taking acting and vocal is no longer a craft, happy and allowing them Directing program Reflecting on his own classes. At this point in “the dollar is gold,” and to feel respected was the on campus, as well as connections that got him his life, Zwick says “How “speed is money,” so it is greatest challenge. a welcoming address to the position he stands does a kid like me who important to understand Concluding the event, by B.A. student, Nia in today, Zwick was able has a little bit of talent the inner workings of the Zwick left his viewers Blizzard, who served as to encourage students make connections?” business. with a piece of advice. the moderator of all the in the forum to make From there, he did Following Zwick’s “Take opportunities,” questions for the event. connections and keep make his connections and address, B.A. student said Zwick. “Don’t turn After serving in the them, even in their early developed his opinion on Nia Blizzard, moderated them down thinking entertainment industry days as Brooklyn College the three pillars to excel a question and answer something better will for over 50 years, Zwick students. in the industry, which he session with him. He come along. Get into the gave an address retelling “There is no reflection graciously shared with his commented saying it was opportunity and work childhood stories and on what your career was viewers. time for him to leave the h ard .” the narrative of how his about until you have done The first pillar is scene and make room for THE VANGUARD ISSUE 2 - SEPT 16, 2020 / PAGE 11 NYC’s Whitney Museum Reopens, But Draws Controversy

By Stacy Fisch stated on the Whitney Staff Writer Museum’s website, “The Museum reserves Summer has almost the right to remove come to an end, and you any person acting in won’t be able to walk in an unacceptable or Prospect Park or ride inappropriate manner.” your bike down Ocean The Whitney Parkway to visit Brighton Museum of American Beach anymore. Art has extended Remember when it was muralist exhibits “Vida cold, and the only free Americana: Mexican place to stretch your legs Muralists Remake was a mall or museum? American Art, 1925- Well, good news came 1945” with Frida Kahlo after Governor Andrew and her husband Diego Cuomo approved the Rivera, through January reopening of museums 31. This exhibition in NYC beginning on conveys the influences Aug. 24. Among these on the Mexican muralists museums was the had on their counterparts Whitney Museum of in the United States and American Art, which builds narratives about opened on Sept. 3 with American history. The a few exhibits extended artists utilize their art to until Jan. 31 due to the comment on economic, Whitney Museum will reopen September 3rd./ Whitney Museum of American Art website quarantine. social, and racial “Great news! All injustices. racism, and violence response to the BLM was canceled. exhibitions that were on American art is a aimed at people of color movement and COVID- “I‘m speechless,” wrote view when we closed significant piece of our in our country.” 19. The exhibitionValentine, in a tweet. have been extended,” history; it expresses The Whitney Team opening was originally “People DREAM of the Whitney Museum revolutions, triumphs, is trying hard to re- planned for this having their work shown tweeted on Aug. 19. social and racial examine any paintings Thursday, Sept. 17, but in the Whitney, and y’all “You’ll have the chance injustices. As of now, that they feel might be it was officially canceled out here trying to grab to visit (or revisit) each America is going through racist or go against BLM. due to this misstep. the s--t on sale? Like of them when we reopen chaos with racism They will also make Outcries reached the tear gas s--t wasn’t on Sept. 3.” scrutinizing people of sure there is enough art Twitter when a BLM tarnished enough? @ However, despite the color. Protests across that expresses positive photographer, Gioncarlo whitneymuseum F---ing positivity of reopening, the country have fought political movements Valentine, received unbearable.” the Whitney Museum for change through with people of color. an email from curator “My sincere hope in quickly drew ire with the Black Lives Matter “We have increased the Farris Wahbeh thanking collecting them was to a new exhibit centered (BLM) movement. racial diversity of our Valentine for his build on a historical around Black Lives Directors of the collection, exhibitions, inspirational artwork record of how artists Matter and COVID-19. museum, Adam D. performances, that was purchased directly engage the But keep in mind Weinberg and Alice educational programs, at a fundraising important issues of their there are new visitor Pratt Brown, expressed audiences, and staff.organization. In time,” Wahbeh wrote in policies. Visitors should their opinion of BLM in But we must go further the email, Wahbeh his apology email to all be prepared for the new a letter. and do more still,” the asked Valentine for artists. “I sincerely want reality. Tickets must be “Devastating racism statement continued. his biographical to extend my apologies purchased in advance and inequity are all too Ironically, however, information to cite the for any pain that the to maintain social prevalent across the this is where things got painting that was to be exhibition has caused.” distancing and avoid United States,” they messy. placed in “Collective So, if you plan on a overcrowding and could wrote in a statement. The museum put Actions.” However, change of scenery and likely sell out fast due to “As a museum of itself in hot water, after Valentine and his peers a visit, this is what to limited capacity. American art, we have purchasing discounted were not having it. They expect. While visiting, there is a sought to make visible BLM artwork for their wanted permission for face covering mandate -- and condemn, through new exhibit unique paintings to be displayed everyone must abide by the voices of the artists from the others called as well as compensation. this rule or be dismissed and art we present, “Collective Actions,” a Instead the exhibition from the museum. As the injustice, systemic THE VANGUARD ISSUE 2 - SEPT 16, 2020 / PAGE 12 Online Schooling’s Other Options

By Michael Castaneda (OCW), Skillshare, to tell me to read Jane There were supposed knowledge that I have Columnist Udacity, and Udemy. Austin, then I didn’t.” to be mentors and never touched. I found These places are known Brooklyn College isn’t help channels to get myself scouring the News to no one is that as MOOCs, which quite that expensive but you through the rough internet, looking to fill Brooklyn College is stands for “massive you get the point. patches. They offerin the missing pieces. I online for the Fall 2020 open online courses.” Scott H.Young free courses but they tried to read a chapter semester due COVID- MOOCs are a relatively conducted what he also offer nano-degree of a textbook to try to 19. Yeah, so was Spring recent phenomenon. It referred to as “the courses that give you bolster the flimsiest 2020, but we didn’t started when Stanford M.I.T Challenge,” in a certificate statingdefinitions of concepts know that coming into University opened up which he completed the you passed. The nano- presented by Udacity. it. This time we do. some of its most popular entire four year M.I.T. degree courses prices I couldn’t get a hold of Now going totally online computer science Computer Science are on par with CUNY a mentor and no one probably wasn’t the courses online in the curriculum in 12 pricing. ever answered my plea worst idea considering summer 2011. The year months and for none of They try to put up for help on the chat that as of September 2012 was proclaimed the cost. a veneer that this is lines. It felt like the 3rd, there were 51,000+ the year of the MOOC He vlogged the entire a serious course by courses were designed COVID-19 cases by . process on YouTube. making you take a for people who already in 1,020+ colleges, Some of those Stanford Scott was successful and prerequisite test. I knew the material and according to a New York professors would start detailed exactly how to took a math exam that not for a person seeing Times survey. for-profit MOOCsdo it. stretched over material the material for the first If we are going to with venture capital. M.I.T. OCW offers from Calc 2, linear time. In the end, I never be learning remotely Sebastian Thrum started more than computer algebra, and abstract finished it. anyway, we must Udacity and Andrew science, including algebra. I was certain I For the same money, remember that we Ng and Daphne Keller music, theatre, political failed this test, but was I really do appreciate have more options started Coursera. science, and women’s told that I had one of Brooklyn College for the than an online version Many of you are and gender studies. the highest scores of the simplest reasons. They of a brick and mortar probably familiar with Of course, we don’t set people taking the assign a textbook, there institution. There have M.I.T. OCW, if only all have the resources test at the same time. I are physical instructors, been online institutions to supplement our of Scott H. Young to have my doubts on their and departments. There offering courseworkown Brooklyn College rent a big apartment integrity and I think, is a support system and for years now, with lectures. Most colleges for a year in Vancouver, like any business, they other students taking online curriculums have a thing called quit our jobs, and just just wanted to get paid. the class at the time designed for virtual “recitation,” where there focus on video courses They gave a sweet that you can leverage. learners. Compare that is an opportunity to while doing all the intro, stating how safe Actual deadlines such as with Brooklyn College, ask a teaching assistant homework. Some of and forward thinking class schedules and test which seems to be questions and there are us, you know, have lives their approach is. I was dates motivate learning making it up as they go further explanations and responsibilities. excited. I logged on to as well. along. So what should of the lecture material. Computer science the course and there I think in-person we do? It’s not like recitations might not be the greatest were more links that I classes are far superior In his book, Feynman’s don’t exist here at BC, example either, as it is a could count to, which than remote learning, Tips on Physics, Richard but they seem to be far career in which people signified the duration of but if you are going to Feynman writes: “This and few between. Most can get jobs so long the course. The course be paying hard cash, our is a matter of fact, students I have met are as they demonstrate content was presented little college just might the way you start on using YouTube channels that they can do the by short YouTube work. any complicated or to break down course work, unlike working videos and Wiki pages. unfamiliar problem: material and not all as a teacher with the Sometimes the YouTube You first get a rough professors appreciate New York City Board instructor spoke so fast idea; then you go back that. of Education, where that I had to listen to it when you understand If you are using a there is a long list of several times to get the it better and do it more MOOC in some way milestones needed to be content of a less than carefully.” So with that already, why pay for fully incorporated into two minute video. in mind, let’s see how Brooklyn College tuition the system. Once I got into the a few of these online and why take four years Over the summer, I meat of the course, it offerings compare with to complete it? Why not had the opportunity to became impossible. our Harvard of Flatbush. take that a step further take a Udacity course. I would have needed Some of the more and do your semester This one is different a few perquisites to famous online or even your major from OCW because understand what they learning institutions with M.I.T. OCW? As it is designed to help were teaching. So much v are Coursera, M.I.T. John Mulaney put it: “I the student along the of the content was OpenCourseWare paid someone $120,000 process of self learning. predicated on previous THE VANGUARD ISSUE 2 - SEPT 16, 2020 / PAGE 13 Online Schooling As A Lifelong Homeschooler

By Maya Schubert up “on time,” when News Editor there was nowhere to go. I even knew how to While most agree stay in the house all day that online learning without going crazy. is the only way to I wasn’t particularly return to school safely happy about being this semester, few are thrust into the position excited about it. Many I had left years ago, but dread a repeat of last I still tried. I knew there semester: a haze of was worth in it. information in the form I probably first of never-ending zoom discovered that meetings and evasive worth after I entered Blackboard links — college. Over my perhaps overshadowed homeschooling years, I completely by personal faced stereotyping from struggles, physical and adults and kids alike emotional. that quickly left me with At the very least, a suspicion of my own students this fall fear intelligence. a lack of motivation. “How exactly does it It seems to come with work?” an adult would the ability to simply ask, beaming down sit up in bed and grab at me with concern. a technological device “I mean, how do you to receive a college learn?” education. This past “You must be stupid,” March, I found myself a kid once said to me, in a familiar position. after I told her I was Not only had I returned homeschooled. (We home (with campus later became friends, closed, I had no reason and she remains a close to stay in Brooklyn and friend to this day.) Maya Schubert being homeschooled in kindergarden./Maya Schubert returned to my parents’ I liked to think that I upstate house,) I was was smart, but there was schooling from home. only so much evidence four. I always received subjects. I have pursued meetings. I may wander Again. I could scrounge up. a four, but three was the same passions I around my apartment My mother Most of the grading was failing, so what did that had as a homeschooler between classes because homeschooled me from done by my mom, who mean? and succeeded. I have I’m tired of sitting in Kindergarten through said I was smart, but It was only when I found new interests and my room. My computer my junior year of high could be just flattering started college that my explored them. will overheat, I will school. In middle me. Sure, my mother doubts began to recede. I don’t mean to undoubtedly lose Wi-Fi school and high school, made detailed quarterly They were temperedglorify grades. I only a few times. I will, I took English and reports to our school by receiving grades— want to say that I nevertheless, learn. Math classes online. So, district, and I took definitive grades, letters, received everything I There are worlds to be as most of my friends state testing at the end and numbers scrawled needed from my early explored in books and groused about lack of of every year. But the in red ink—from people education. videos, and even in motivation for the rest testing results, which I barely knew. I relished There are so many a professor’s droning of the spring semester, Mom always presented my grades, even the bad parts of campus life that voice behind a computer I found myself— to me proudly, were ones. To this day, I have I will miss this semester, screen. literally—at home. I always strange graphs every graded college and I’m not overjoyed It is possible to learn had known how to use and irregular numbers, paper and project to return to a method from home, from a the chat function, mute not A’s or 100s. When stuffed into a folder of education I thought room, from anywhere. my microphone, and I started online English under my bed. They are I left years ago. I know, All that is really needed navigate Blackboard classes, I was annoyed proof, not of my faultless however, that I can is the desire to learn, for years. I knew to find that I would not intelligence, but of my learn, and that I will which is hopefully why how to budget online be graded a letter, but education’s legitimacy. learn. I may zone out most people are in homework and wake a number from one to I have thrived in some sometimes during zoom college anyway. THE VANGUARD ISSUE 2 - SEPT 16, 2020 / PAGE 14 The Closure of the Residence Hall Is A Win, But Students Still Need Safe Housing

By Chris Omar, Corrine multi-million dollar housing advertised on students seeking housing: study and work after this Greene, & Zainab Iqbal corporation by three BC their campus? As Chris’ Reinstatement of a full- pandemic, so let’s support Guest Contributors students in a group chat documentary, “You Found time housing coordinator our students now. that continues to this day. A Home” highlights, even to assist current and Is CUNY about selling The Residence Hall We forced action where when it came to direct prospective BC students poor students out to enrich at Brooklyn College there otherwise would survivor support, the in finding a place to live foreign millionaires at (RHBC) has finally shut have been none, resulting campus administration and people to live with the risk of their health down. Students have in the locked doors at 1 did not act without near campus. and safety? Will CUNY been sounding the alarm Kenilworth Place, and significant pressure, an In the absence of any live up to its ideals of on the conditions of the cessation of the contract indication that student CUNY- affiliated student being the “greatest urban dorms for years. Make no previously held between housing security was not housing in Brooklyn, university in the world,” mistake: we won. CUNY Brooklyn College their concern. we call on CUNY to or will it continue to seek Two of us lived at and the New Brooklyn We’ve now graduated reach out to aggressively to privatize its essential 1 Kenilworth Place Development company. and new student source capital funding services and shut the door ourselves and experienced While this is great leadership is in place. In to develop CUNY-run to those who don’t have the hostile environment, news, now is the time to the middle of a pandemic, student housing in the good fortune to have outrageous cost, mold, reflect, learn, and most how do we make student Brooklyn. We propose, a safe home environment and lack of promised importantly: do better. housing a priority in time as has been raised to the within commuting Residence Assistant It shouldn’t take private for the eventual return of CUNY Chancellor and distance & an ability to support. And one of political pressure, rallies, students to our beautiful CUNY University Student commute to campus with us wrote about it all. years of failed student campus— a place we value Senate in the past, that ease? Together, we collaborated government leadership, now more than ever? How CUNY build a centrally The closure of RHBC and created a short award- FOIL requests, media does the university and located dorm to serve the is a victory in that it winning documentary involvement, and an campus administration students of Medgar Evers stopped the bleeding; the film telling the story of unknown amount of protect the diversity it so College, New York City simple reality is that not a young woman named survivors for CUNY and prominently celebrates? College of Technology, every student is equipped Christine DeLisser, who campus administration How does a college Kingsborough with safe housing or was sexually harassed to do the right thing president with a legacy in Community College, and financial support to not once, but twice for Brooklyn College’s championing survivors Brooklyn College. acquire it in a traditional by an employee at students. This win is part of sexual assault in her Finally, we call for apartment setting, within RHBC and the school’s of the long legacy of the legal career live up to that Financial aid reform commuting distance of administration told her students of this university reputation in her current that considers the needs the borough of Brooklyn. they couldn’t do anything. taking claim to the role? There’s a void now of students utilizing Now, CUNY and campus She encountered endless notion that CUNY, as an that there are no dorms scholarships and lo to administration must step bureaucracy when institution, exists to serve available for students—a pay for housing costs: up and heal this gaping she simply needed an those that it was built void that needs to be filled specifically, disbursement wound. It is vital to the advocate—like so many to educate. Like many right away. It is vital that dates must align with future health of this other students on this before us, we tried to the campus leadership housing payments during valuable institution. campus who run into work “within the system” finally steps up and rights the school year. So leaders, what’s it going hurdles when they just of Brooklyn College’s the wrongs committed We also call for a better to be? Your hands are no need a map with the established bureaucracy, during the era of their representation of womxn longer tied. Let’s take the path forward. In a span reaching out to those exploitative contract with & the full scope of campus lessons learned and turn of two—yes two— years, with titles and salaries RHBC. There are steps diversity in campus them into action in time we exposed rampant that indicate they’d been to be taken to turn this governance. Further, to make sure CUNY really sexual harassment in the hired or elected to serve arguably tragic failure there needs to be a (well) is a welcoming home for building that had gone students. The same answer into something for CUNY functioning Title IX office all— before it’s too late. unanswered for years, a always met us like a brick and Brooklyn College to on the Brooklyn College result of unwillingness wall: “Our hands are tied.” be proud of. campus. We also call on to act and a reality of the The bureaucracy of What if CUNY acquired Student Government and Zainab Iqbal (‘19) is the dangerous public/private Brooklyn College doesn’t RHBC? What if elected the University Student former Editor-in-Chief of partnership dynamic that serve those who make officials pulled together Senate to step up Title the Excelsior newspaper, precluded the building it run, and leadership some money? What if the IX and housing support Chris Omar (’20) is the from important Title IX doesn’t align with position money that is allocated advocacy for their Director & Producer of the accountability. And now, or title. Why did we have for President Anderson’s, constituents. While in documentary “You Found regardless of the reason to FOIL to get a copy of as well as all of the large part a commuter A Home,” and Corrinne provided for the closing, the infamous contract other CUNY presidents’ school, this university is Greene (‘20) is a Public RHBC has shut down for they always referred to housing, was used to (proudly) composed of Education advocate & good. as being their biggest acquire the building? students from across the former Brooklyn College We, the students, held boundary to obtaining Now that would be a huge state, country-- and the club president. the college administration justice? Why was the win for the community, world. Every stakeholder accountable. Some can say student government wouldn’t it? of the campus community it was a David vs Goliath unable to get results for We propose the following can appreciate the need type win against a foreign constituents living in measures to support for housing conducive to THE VANGUARD ISSUE 2 - SEPT 16, 2020 / PAGE 15 New Sun Rising: Legend Stave Nash Nabs Nets HC Job

By Conrad Hoyt (though most agree Curry Because superstars run Sports Editor has already eclipsed Nash). the NBA, and in many However it was a year senses, they always have. After short search for a later when Nash oversaw Marks needed a coach replacement, Steve Nash perhaps the biggest change that, the moment he steps was announced as Head in his future. Kevin Durant into the building everyday, Coach of the Brooklyn Nets decided to join the Golden commands the respect on Sept. 3. State Warriors, and for the of his star duo, especially Nash, an eighteen-year next three years, a bond concerning the enigmatic NBA veteran, eight-time between Nash and Durant nature of Irving and to a All-Star, two-time recipient was formed. lesser extent, Durant. of the NBA’s Most Valuable This, clearly, had an On sharpshooter (I’m Player award and Hall of impact on the Nets’ decision sensing a trend here) J.J. Famer, is known for his to hire Nash as the team’s Reddick’s “The Old Man keen basketball mind, silky- next head coach. With a and the Three” podcast last smooth jump shot, and healthy Kevin Durant and week, Durant commented leadership qualities. Kyrie Irving next season, on the Nash hire. After retiring from the presumably partnered “Every time I’m in the gym league in 2015, Nash largely with rising youngster Caris with him, I was always like a Steve Nash playing in 2013. / Simple Wikipedia took a back seat from the Levert and good friend sponge,” said Durant. high for this group next relationship with Durant limelight. In addition to of the aforementioned “I’m looking forward season. and overall basketball infrequently commentating duo DeAndre Jordan, to this man. I always feel When Nash was hired, a acumen made him the on soccer matches (both expectations will be high for like I’m a student of the side story of the move was right move for the Nets, domestic and abroad), the team hailing from the game. Somebody who has people noting that this hire the hiring still opened up a he took on a part-time most populous New York experienced so much and was an example of white conversation about equality consulting position with the borough next season. played in different eras, I’m privilege. “What black in the league and more savvy Golden State Warriors. So why then, did Sean looking forward to him retired NBA star would get Black men (and women) As most of us sports Marks, a man who has teaching me some more a four-year deal right off the deserving a fair shot. junkies know, 2015 was shown his ability to be things about it as well.” bat with no experience?” Whatever the case, New the Warriors first title this among the best GM’s in Sean Marks made a high pundits pondered. York and the world alike millennium, and Warriors basketball in the culture he profile pick with the Nash The NBA, a league made will be giddy in anticipation star Steph Curry has been set in Brooklyn and rebuild hire to a four-year deal. It’s up of roughly 80% Black to see how Nash, Durant compared to Nash in his he oversaw, hire Steve Nash, not the mecca of New York, players, has only five Black and co. will do. ball-handling ability, shot, a man of no NBA coaching but Brooklyn isn’t Indiana. head coaches. So even and leadership intangibles experience? Expectations will be sky if one argues that Nash’s Who The Knicks Can Take With The 8th Pick

By Elijah Hamilton time at Auburn, Averaging two years at Iowa, is 6’5” Staff Writer 12.6 to go along with 4.4 and, at times, has drawn rebounds and two ast. comparisons to Lonzo After an abysmal He is a versatile wing Ball due to his length and shortened season, the where some of the main defensive capability. New York Knicks are again strength is exceptionally He is a solid playmaker drafting in the lottery, high I.Q, nack to get the averaging 6.5 assists, and hoping to find another rim, and explosiveness a pest on defense with 2.5 cornerstone player to turn driving into the paint. He steals a game. Like Okoro, their fortune around. is a player who can defend Haliburton is still a work And though the wings and even some in progress as he needs Knicks have dropped to small-ball power forward. to improve at shooting the number eight pick, Though he has many from 3-point territory. Isaac Okoro, American Basketball player for the Auburn Tigers. / Getty Images failing to get in the top upsides, Okoro struggles Snagging Haliburton three, there’s still plenty with shooting from 3, at number would be of valuable prospects in averaging 28 percent from beneficial for R.J Barrett a glimpse of greatness all-star and is someone this year’s draft that the deep. as it will allow him to play while playing for the team who can come in and Knicks can fit alongside One of the many off the ball. in Istanbul. Unlike his become a franchise player R.J Barrett and Mitchell significant needs on this Another option for the brother Lonzo Ball, The for the Knicks day one. Robinson. Knicks roster that can Knicks is trading up into 6’8” point guard’s biggest Though the NBA Draft One of the players on be filled in this draft is the top 3. The Knicks strength is his shooting has moved up from the many mock draft boards the guard position. One have enough assets and ability during his time start date from Oct. 16 to for the Knicks is Auburn player who can fill that moveable contracts to he was able to shoot off as late as Nov. 18, it’s still forward, Issac Okoro. need is Iowa State Point make a trade to get up to to dribble, while also something many hoops The 6’6” freshman was Guard, Tyrese Haliburton. LeMelo Ball. Melo, who being really good from fans look forward to. outstanding during his Halliburton, who played played overseas, showed downtown. Ball is an THE VANGUARD ISSUE 2 - SEPT 16, 2020 / PAGE 16 NFL Week 1: Bills Win, Jets & Giants Can’t Get Off Ground By Jose Rohdin been defense, and the Bills Staff Writer defense has been one of the best in the league. With New York Football is players like Tre’Davious back. With the coronavirus White and Micah Hyde in canceling the preseason, we the secondary, it is hard for had not seen New York NFL any team to complete passes. football since January 4th, With Tom Brady leaving 2020, when the Bills lost to the New England Patriots, the Texans in overtime in this seems to have made the the wildcard game. division a little more open. With no preseason, the This could be the perfect first few weeks of football opportunity for the Bills to have the potential to be get their first division title rocky, but there is hope since 1995. among fans that some of the The Jets had hope in New York teams will have the offseason, similar to decent seasons. the Bills, to fill the power The Buffalo Bills are a team vacuum, but that dream that could make a huge quickly faded. jump this season, having The Jets started week one already made the playoffs against the Bills and pretty as a wildcard team last year. much looked hopeless in Josh Allen is not the most the first half. Their defense (Left to right) Josh Allen, Sam Darnold, Daniel Jones./ Photo edited by Humza Ahmad accurate thrower of the ball could not do anything, and at times, but has shown an Sam Darnold struggled ability to throw deep passes, having a 19.3 QBR. Jamison only proven playmaker of numbers with 106 yards and managed 3 touchdown and he is most deadly with Crowder seemed to be the this defense. catching Jones’ 2 touchdown passes, and Benny Snell Jr. his legs. only offensive weapon the All in all, it does not look passes. However, the gained 113 yards rushing. He showed that week one Jets had, which isn’t a good like the Jets will have a very offensive line once again With free-agent signings against the Jets, rushing for thing. fruitful season. seems to be the achilles heel such as Blake Martinez, 57 yards and a touchdown. Le’Veon Bell picked up an However, the other MetLife of the team. Jones was always Logan Ryan, and James However, even with injury that looks like he Stadium team, the New York under pressure, leading to Bradberry, Giants fans had John Brown and Devin might be out a few weeks, Giants, seemed to be on a inaccurate passes and one hoped the defense would Singletary, the offense still which now puts timelord, different path, with first- interception (the one to play better, and they did, needed top tier weapons. Frank Gore, as the lead time head coach Joe Judge T.J. Watt was Jones’ fault). but only because last year’s The Bills traded for Stefon back, which makes things and a young roster. But they However, the biggest issue defense was horrible. Diggs, who made a big worse on offense. still found themselves 0-1 was not getting running The Giants still have week one impact. Diggs had The defense looked after a week one loss to the lanes for Barkley, who had the right man in charge 8 receptions for 86 yards terrible, and you can tell Pittsburgh Steelers. a horrible night of 15 rushes with Judge, but Offensive and opened up the field for that trading away Jamal The offense, led by and only 6 yards. Coordinator Jason Garrett’s Brown to have a big game Adams was a mistake. He the second year starting But the defense was able play calling on offense was with 6 receptions, 70 yards, pretty much was the defense quarterback Daniel Jones, to hold its own throughout not exciting. On the other and a touchdown in the Bills last season, and with him is filled with talent. Saquon the game. Surprisingly, hand, the Giants are a young defeat of the Jets 27-17. not there, the Jets’ defensive Barkley, Sterling Shepard, the defensive line was able team building for the future Sean McDermott is also a issues were compounded. and Darius Slayton had to get a lot of pressure on and don’t expect to see many coach who has improved the Along with that, C.J. Mosley great games receiving the Ben Roethlisberger, having wins, just progress, and only team every year he’s been in choosing to sit out (which ball, catching 6 passes each. 3 sacks and 21 pressures. go up. charge. His focal point has makes perfect sense) is the Slayton put up the best But Roethlisberger still

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