Informing LIU Post for over 60 years Volume 71, Issue 9 www.liupostpioneer.com November 7, 2018 Art Professor & Vietnam Veteran Honored JOSH TOLENTINO JADA BUTLER Art professor & Vietnam veteran The Veteran Students United club hosted a Dan Christoffel veteran art exhibit BY JADA BUTLER recognition for his service in the exhibit on Monday, Nov. 5 Did You Vote in CO-EDITOR-IN-CHIEF military. The honor was given by during common hour. Maria Salazar, art therapy major “He deserved the award the Midterms? Dan Christoffel, an art and president of the Veteran because Dan embodies the ‘esprit professor and Vietnam veteran, Students United (VSU) club de corps.’ He is a loyal and giving Students reflect on the was honored with a certificate of during the club’s veteran art of himself,” Salazar said. continued on page 6 2018 midterm elections BY ANAND VENIGALLA From Bookbags to Broadway FEATURES EDITOR production of “King Kong.” He Broadway makes that possible for began his performances as a him. Midterm elections were yesterday. dancer and puppeteer on Friday, “Something else that I have Were students registered to vote? Does Oct. 5. Burke-Missouri graduated noticed - at school you’re voting matter in the end? with a bachelor’s degree in dance concerned about others. Don’t lie, Emma Anderson, a first-year musi- from the School of Performing it happens to the best of us,” he cal theater student, was registered to Arts. said. “But when you finally land vote and thought her vote mattered. “I Performing on Broadway is that gig it’s all on you. No one want to always vote. Women worked different than his life as a dance is better or lesser than you. You hard to gain their right to vote; I'm going major at LIU Post. “It’s different just gotta show up and be on it to use it,” she said before Election Day. in many ways, but one that really every day for your reputation and “I want to hopefully help to put people in stands out to me is that at school consistency.” power who will be better able to repre- WWW.IBDB.COM you work hard because you want The theatre professors at sent me, [as well as] women and people Rhaamell Burke-Missouri to be in front of this number or Post are proud of Burke- of the LGBT community. Voting does show out in class,” Burke- Missouri’s success post- help.” Missouri said. “On Broadway, graduation. “I am sure Rhaamell Geena Anesta, a first-year special BY SAMANTHA SAMANT you still work hard, harder than used the unique process of inte- education student, was also registered STAFF WRITER you ever thought possible, but grating the Suzuki and to vote and planned to vote in the mid- this time your reasons change. Stanislavski techniques that term elections. “I’m Republican so I’m Rhaamell Burke-Missouri, Now it’s your livelihood, your we teach at LIU to prepare for going to vote for the Republican Party,” 2018 Post graduate, is casted as a art, your life.” One thing Burke- his audition,” theater professor she said. Anesta believes that “everyone dancer and the puppeteer of King Missouri said school taught him David Hugo said. According to should vote.” Kong in the Broadway was to make dance his life and Hugo, this integration of continued on page 11 continued on page 9 The Next Step: Cassidy Nelson Unsung Heroes: Kate Breen Fall Craft: Shaving Cream Leaves Equestrian’s First Home Show Nelson’s time as a member Kate Breen, secretary for the Fall into this colorful, budget- The equestrian team will have of PTC has led her down a English, philosophy & foreign friendly craft. It’s easy to the home-ring advantage for different path completely. language dept. is dedicated to make and perfect for any the first and only time this pg 8 helping students. pg 11 season. pg 10 season on Sunday. pg 15 2 HOUSE ADVERTISEMENT THE PIONEER November 7, 2018 BOARD OF EDITORS 3 Events this Week Jada Butler, Ashley Bowden Wednesday, Nov. 7 Knight of the Dead Co-Editor-in-Chief The Foresnsics club is hosting a medieval murder #22 Push-Up Challenge mystery dinner from 7-10 p.m. at the Tilles Center Angelique D’Alessandro The Veteran Students United club, in collaboration Atrium. Guests will play the game of Clue reimag- Executive Editor with the Center for Healthy Living and the Cohen ined in medieval times. Winner makes it out with a Veteran Network, is hosting a push-up challenge to golden prize. The event is cateres and costumes are Justin Simon raise awareness for veteran suicide during common encouraged, but not required. Tickets are $10 at the Assistant News Editor hour in Hillwood Commons. All proceeds will go to door. Veteran and Military Family charities. Anand Venigalla Friday, Nov. 9 Features Editor Town Hall The Student Government Association will have its Medal of Honor Challenge Karis Fuller first Town Hall of the semester during common hour The Veteran Students United club and Greek Arts & Entertainment Editor in the Gold Coast Cinema in Hillwood Commons. Advisory Board will host the “Medal of Honor The topics on the agenda are residence life, dining, Challenge” obstacle course at 12 p.m. on Riggs Lawn. Gillian Pietrowski public safety and facilities services. Interested students can sign up at: Columns Editor tinyurl.com/liupostmoh Thursday, Nov. 8 Alecia Sexton Monday, Nov. 12 Layout Manager Flag Raising Ceremony The Veteran Students United club will hold a flag Open Mic Night Melissa Ponton raising ceremony to celebrate 100 years of women Student Activities Board (SAB) will host an open mic Copyeditor serving in the Marines during common hour at the night in Hillwood Commons during common hour. Hillwood Commons courtyard. Students and faculty Interested performers can DM the SAB Instagram Jack Georgis can attend, and a light lunch will be provided after- account for details. Assistant Online Editor wards. Tuesday, Nov. 13 Ida Ynner Lagerqvist Fashionably Late Halloween Social Photo Editor The Runway club will have a “Fashionably Late” Town Hall Halloween social at 6 p.m. in the Long Island Room The Student Government Association will have its Matthew Sollenne in the lower level of the Winnick Dining Center. second Town Hall during common hour in the Circulation Manager Entry fee is $5 with a costume on and $7 without. Krasnoff Theater in Hillwood Commons. The topics There will be a raffle for a pair of Beats headphones, on the agenda are athletics and student involvement. Carolyn Schurr Levin a costume contest and games. Faculty Adviser Phamily Pheud STAFF WRITERS Phi Sigma Kappa will hold a Family Feud-style game Samantha Samant show at 7 p.m. in Hillwood Commons. There is a $3 Myles Goldman fee to watch the event. If interested in participating, Josie Rerecich teams of four to six people are accepted, and each Alex Espinosa member of a team must pay a $5 player fee. 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All materials in The Pioneer are protected by United States copyright law and may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, displayed, published or broadcast without prior written permission of The Pioneer. 4 LETTER TO THE EDITOR THE PIONEER Regards to Dismissal administration. Fortunately, it is within the NEWSDAY as well as to Channel 12. Nothing in power of the LIU Trustees to replace Dr. Cline, it is exaggerated or unverified. I am constantly of Dr. Kay Sato to reinstate Dr. Sato, and to save the reputation asked the Trustees opinion of the rampant of a once-great university, not to mention the destruction of both campuses and I am at a To the Editors: Trustees’ own reputations as members of the loss. I am also asked what the Board of As a former student of LIU Post, and as a LIU Board. Trustees is doing about such a drastic situation. former lecturer at Hutton House Lectures, I This week I attended two strategy sessions No one can accept that the Trustees are am shocked and dismayed at the sudden with outraged sufferers under the leadership of condoning what's been happening. It's removal of Dr. Kay Sato from the directorship Dr. Cline, focused around the firing of Dr. Sato impossible to know exactly how well informed of Hutton House, a hugely self-destructive from Hutton House Lectures but extending all of the Trustees are, and given the inaction of mistake on the part of the LIU Administration more broadly into a range of topics including the Board, most of the people I hear from and an insult to Hutton House Lectures, to all the No Confidence votes by the main campus prefer to assume that it simply doesn't know the good people who work there, to its loyal faculty, the plummeting enrollment, the utter how bad things are. But if that's the case, that adult student body, and, most egregiously, to lack of transparency, the roughly $28 million in itself is a drastic fault of the Trustees, and so Dr.