Tuition Increases by $200 Do Tenured Profs Support $7K? p. 2 PSC Survey Suggests 57% Don’t, p. 3 vANGUARDTHE BROOKLYN COLLEGE Fall 2019, Issue 3 vanguard.blog.brooklyn.edu Wednesday, September 18 2020 VISION BC WEIGHS IN ON DEM PRIMARY IN THIS ISSUE: RIP Ethel Lagarenne Hagquist, BC Alum Creates REVIEW: A “Revolutionary” the Last of the Class of ‘32 Esophageal Cancer Event New Play p. 2 p. 7 p. 11 2 / THE VANGUARD NEWS SEPTEMBER 18, 2019 vANGUARD General Inquiries Ethel Lagarenne Hagquist Obituary [email protected] By Gabriela Flores several universities, Ethel Club Hours Staff Writer graduated cum laude. 118 Roosevelt Hall Brooklyn College’s beloved Monday: 11 a.m.-3 p.m. On Tuesday, September alumna overcame her Tuesday: 11 a.m.-6 p.m. 10, 2019, the BC Family’s challenges optimistically sole living member of and with her captivating Editor-in-Chief the first graduating class lovely smile. From Quiara Vasquez of 1932, Ethel Lagarenne bustling through our elm [email protected] Hagquist passed away at tree-filled campus as a 107 years old. collegiate theater producer Managing Editor Ethel was born into to earning a mere $14 a Ryan Schwach a Christian family in week as a Macy’s employee [email protected] 1912, sharing her faith post-graduation, Ethel as president of Brooklyn embodied a New York go- Business Manager College’s Young Women’s getter. After living in the Farhad Rahman Christian Association. evergreen neighborhood [email protected] As an active student, of Fresh Meadows as an majoring in English and investment firm staffer, Layout Editor Latin, Ethel was involved Ethel resided in Flushing Camila Dejesus in the Publicity Committee House Assisted Living. [email protected] for Sophocles’ tragedy There she continued her Ethel Lagarenne Hagquist’s 1932 yearbook picture. Antigone, the sorority impressive craft of quilting, Digital Editor Alpha Delta Pi and Senior and creating floral and through interwar and many others, we will Moises Taveras Prom Committee. Despite rhombic appliqués. diplomacies to the not forget Ethel. [email protected] her undergraduate years During her lifetime, revolutionizing Civil Rights being at the peak of the Ethel witnessed the many Movement. Legendarily, We send our sincere Section Editors Great Depression and dynamic changes our she experienced one of condolences to the News: Kevin Limiti nationwide nadirs of country has undergone, America’s most defining Lagarenne Hagquist family. [email protected] centuries. For that reason Features: M.A. Rahman [email protected] Opinions: Edmund Zhen [email protected] EVENT LISTING Arts: Jack Coleman [email protected] Wednesday, September 18 Students Partnering and Chabad Club’s Delve & Dine Sports: Conrad Hoyt Reaching Kids (SPARK)’s 12:00 PM- 2:15 PM [email protected] Bitcoin Explained Interest Meeting Student Center Maroon Room 12:30 AM - 1:30 PM 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM (6th floor) Columnists Student Center Bedford Hall of Fame Room Michael Castaneda Lounge (2nd Floor) The Brooklyn Bahaadur’s Audi- Ryan Gleason International Socilists Organi- tions (second date) Rendy Jones zation “Bernie, Socialism, and 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Allison Rapp Alpha Phi Delta Fraternity Meeting our Campus Movements” Student Center Maroney-Leddy 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Lounge (4th floor) Staff Writers 7:00 PM, Student Center Inter- Tasha Balkaran national Room (5th floor) Student Center Maroney-Leddy Bobbie Bell Lounge (4th floor) Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority’s Gabriela Flores Thursday, September 19 “Food for Thought” Isley Jean-Pierre Chabad Club’s Delve & Dine 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Carolann Lowe Student Center Amersfort L.I.N.K.’s Lunch N’ Learn 12:00 PM- 2:15 PM Carmen Saffioti Student Center Maroon Room Lounge (2nd floor) Maya Schubert 12:15 AM - 1:30 PM Hillel (6th floor) Annah Valenti Friday, September 13 The Accounting Society’s Meet Faculty Advisor Haitian American Student As- PwC Anthony Mancini sociation’s General Meeting Islamic Society’s Jummah 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM 12:15 PM - 2:15 PM Meeting Student Center Glenwood Student Center Bedford 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Lounge (2nd Floor) Lounge (2nd floor) Student Center Alumni Lounge (4th floor) Japanese Language & Culture The National Association of Society’s Meeting Black Accountants’ Pre-Con- 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM ference Meeting Student Center International 12:00 PM - 2:30 PM Room (5th floor) Student Center Cosmic Confer- ence Room (5th floor) The Muslims Giving Back’s Bake Sale The Badminton Club’s Meeting 11:30 AM - 2:30 PM and Practice Whitehead Breezeway 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM 211 Roosevelt Extension v SEPTEMBER 18, 2019 NEWS THE VANGUARD / 3 Survey Says: Tenured Profs, Adjuncts Split Over Adjunct Pay By Quiara Vasquez are sharply divided over Editor-in-Chief the issue of adjunct pay. When asked whether it For years, CUNY was “very important” for educators have been PSC-CUNY to address “an pushing for adjunct pay increase in per-course pay to be doubled to $7,000 for adjuncts to $7,000,” per course, but new data an overwhelming 88% of suggests that a majority of adjuncts said yes. Only tenured and tenure-track 43% of full-timers said yes. professors don’t think the $7K movement is “very “I was troubled to see those important.” initial percentages myself,” Davis said. “As a full-time That’s just one of many faculty member it’s very findings from a survey of clear, the urgency for major over 8,000 members of salary equity increase for CUNY’s faculty union, the adjuncts. It’s discouraging Professional Staff Congress to see that gap.” (PSC-CUNY). Conducted in spring 2017, shortly after Although Davis the ratification of CUNY’s admitted,that although most recent contract, the results are troubling, a survey was released to the lot of progress has been public last month. Clocking made since spring 2017. in at 47 pages, it contains “A lot of work has been data on everything from done since the survey was satisfaction with individual conducted to educate full- campus administrations to timers in professional staff how much CUNY faculty and teaching faculty of spends on housing. the need for adjunct wage increases,” he said. “My hot take on what this survey means is that Davis also noted that it’s a lot of really rich despite the gap, 43% isn’t information that the union nothing. can use in the bargaining PSC chapter director James Davis in 2016. / Sabrin Othman process,”said James Davis, “It’s encouraging that Brooklyn College’s PSC nearly 50% of full-time chapter chair. “Rather faculty who have no self- lower gains for full-time take a math genius to see than speculate about the interest are still vocal in employees. Only 9% of that’s a very regressive way “I don’t really know when last contract, it’s a much their support,” he said. adjuncts were opposed. In of applying wage increases, people read that, whether more systematic way of sharp contrast, only 25% because the largest dollar they have some objection measuring people’s actual A similar gap appears when of full-timers approved of amount will go to the to the specific dollar responses and their actual asked how salary increases these equity raises, while people who make the most amount or to the very idea aspirations for the next should be distributed. 51% disapproved. money with a flat, across- of a percentage increase for contract.” According to the data, the-board increase.” different job titles,” Davis 61% of adjuncts surveyed “Some people seem to have said. The most surprising - or favored “equity raises” an objection to anything Still, he argued that a “no” unsurprising - finding of which would result in except exactly the same on the equity raise question the report was that full-time higher gains for underpaid percentage for anyone,” didn’t necessarily mean a professors and adjuncts part-time employees and Davis noted. “But it doesn’t lack of adjunct support. 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 4 / THE VANGUARD FEATURES SEPTEMBER 18, 2019 BC On The 2020 Democratic Candidates By Gabriela Flores & Kevin Limiti Staff Writer & News Editor The Democratic Primary debates are over, but the discussion continues on the Brooklyn College campus and elsewhere. Currently, former Vice President Joe Biden is the leader in most polls. According to the Morning Consult, Biden leads at 32%, followed by Bernie Sanders at 20%, Elizabeth Warren at 18%, and Kamala Harris at 6%. Every other candidate is polling at 5% or below, and hasn’t made any significant gains since the debate. The Vanguard spoke to some students about their concerns, issues, and preferred Democratic candidates for the 2020 presidential campaign. Terrance Austin, a student Paulina Vaynshteyn, care was considered to be of $1,000 could lead to a 28% to 34%. However, he is who migrated to the a Philosophy major, the most crucial issue of “dependency” that will currently polling at 3%. United States legally, was admitted that she believed likely primary voters with be significantly affected In a poll conducted unsure of which candidate Sanders was “crazy,” but 25% saying it was their top during an economic crisis. by FiveThirtyEight, to support because he is also the candidate that priority. Economic issues Yang is concerned that respondents graded wanted to hear more about she would ideally prefer. came in second at 22%. artificial intelligencecandidates on a scale of immigration. He believes “My ideal is Bernie, but Safyyah Kazim didn’t will soon cause massive 1 to 4, with 4 being the that immigration policies realistically I’m rooting for watch the debate but knew changes to the workforce best.