Tuition Increases by $200 “Drinking Jack Daniels with Jimi Hendrix” p. 2 The BC Alum Who Rocked Woodstock, p. 6-7 vANGUARDTHE BROOKLYN COLLEGE Fall 2019, Issue 1 vanguard.blog.brooklyn.edu Wednesday, September 4 We publish today, what we hope to be the first of many issues published weekly of HOUSEBREAKINGthe Brooklyn College Vanguard student newspaper.BOUGIE It is in DORKS this publication LOSE we HOMES promise to represent the student voice and body of Brooklyn College.p. 7 We borrow our name from the publication that informed students at the inception of this institution, and hope to be the newspaper that leads the way into the future. We promise to publish the truth and nothing less, and to print all the news pertinent to the students and faculty of Brooklyn College through honest and balanced reporting reflective of our college’s motto: “Nothing without great effort.” -The Vanguard Editorial Staff IN THIS ISSUE: Adjuncts: Still Underpaid, The Ultimate Guide REVIEW: Midsommar: Still Underappreciated to Success in College The Director’s Cut p. 4-5 p. 9 p. 11 2 / THE VANGUARD NEWS SEPTEMBER 4, 2019 vANGUARD CUNY Board of Trustees Approves Tuition Hike General Inquiries [email protected] Students Protest $200 Increase, Call for Renewed Public Funding Club Hours By Ryan Schwach on the Board of Trustees. That February’s event was summer break to inform 118 Roosevelt Hall Managing Editor Khan calls Cuomo’s deal ultimately cancelled due students that they and their Monday: 11 a.m.-3 p.m. the “Irrational Tuition to winter storm issues and parents would once again Tuesday: 11 a.m.-6 p.m. While CUNY students Plan,” as it continuously never rescheduled. be adding a few hundred were enjoying their puts financial pressure New York State’s declining dollars to their college Editor-in-Chief summer, the CUNY on CUNY students who higher education budget tuition payments. Quiara Vasquez Board of Trustees voted already have issues paying and rising tuition are part “Accountability extends [email protected] to increase senior college for their education. of a national trend where to student leadership,” said tuition by $200, adding to “We are set up to be public college budgets are Greene. Managing Editor other increases over the disenfranchised,” said being slashed all across “It’s shameful @CUNY Ryan Schwach past view years. Greene, who helped the United States. Most to raise tuition & for [email protected] “The core issue is organize a protest on the recently, Alaska’s public the State decrease per underfunding,” said day the board voted 9-2 university system faced a student funding by 18% Business Manager Corrinne Greene, student to enact the $200 tuition 41% budgeting slash this since 2008,” tweeted Haris Farhad Rahman activist and delegate-elect increase for four-year summer. Khan. Khan, alongside de [email protected] to the United Student colleges. CUNY underfunding is a Blasio appointee Michael Senate (USS). The rally was small and long and well documented Arvanites, was one of Layout Editor The July increase is part ultimately unsuccessful, issue, not just by politicians only two no votes to the Camila Dejesus of a deal between New with only a few dozen and journalists, but also tuition hike. Khan was [email protected] York State and the CUNY students taking part. by the sorry state of many not available for further board called the “Rational “CUNY students have CUNY campuses. Brooklyn comment before press Digital Editor Tuition Plan” signed into gotten tuition freezes in College is light years away time. Moises Taveras law by Governor Andrew the past, but it requires from an exception to that. It is unknown for certain [email protected] Cuomo in the summer mass mobilizations and With adjunct professors whether there will be any of 2011. The plan was coalitions,” said Greene. continuing their campaign further tuition increases Section Editors intended to move away The major student coalition for higher salaries, among for CUNY students in the News: Kevin Limiti from a system of sudden intended to fight for CUNY many other structural coming years. Specific [email protected] and unpredictable changes and SUNY funding, as issues, it may wind up alternatives to students Features: M.A. Rahman in tuition so that “students well as halting tuition being students who are hit paying the tuition have yet [email protected] and parents will be able to increases, is the New York with the bill. to arise, although Corrinne Opinions: Edmund Zhen reasonably plan for college Public Interest Research “CUNY needs more Greene references the state [email protected] expenses instead of being Group (NYPIRG), which public funding, not endless and city plan that would Arts: Jack Coleman subject to the dramatic hosts annual student tuition increases,” said have helped Amazon.com [email protected] tuition increases and mobilizations to Albany to Professional Staff Congress open offices on Long Island Sports: Conrad Hoyt uncertainty of the past,” lobby state officials. (PSC) President Barbera City, a plan that fell through [email protected] as per an article on the “This is the most Bowen in a statement after intense opposition, as Governor’s website from important time for following the BoT’s an example of funding that Columnists August 2011. The plan activists and students decision. should be reallocated to Michael Castaneda was initially meant to last want to make their voices Despite the rationale higher education. Ryan Gleason only five years, but tuition heard in 30 years,” said Jon for the “Rational Tuition “Our schools should be Rendy Jones increases have increased Gaffney, one of NYPIRG’s Plan” being to standardize quality, and they should be Allison Rapp every fiscal year since then. BC organizers, to the tuition increases, the funded,” said Greene. Greene seconds a now-defunct Kingsman tuition increase still came Staff Writers sentiment from Haris Khan, newspaper in February of as a surprise to many. With Tasha Balkaran the only student who sits this year. only an e-mail sent mid- Bobbie Bell Isley Jean-Pierre Carolann Lowe Carmen Saffioti Maya Schubert Faculty Advisor Anthony Mancini Students protest outside the Board of Trustees meeting. Rafael Espinal (center) addresses protesters. / Ian Boyd SEPTEMBER 4, 2019 NEWS THE VANGUARD / 3 In Hiring Blitz, CUNY Chancellor Appoints Interim Prezzes at York, Lehman, LaGuardia By Quiara Vasquez VP for Student Affairs interim president from more white and more male. president of CCNY after Editor-in-Chief has been named interim Queensborough College Prior to these six his predecessor resigned president of York; CCNY President Diane Call. On appointments, seven in a finance scandal; a year This summer, CUNY’s professor emeritus Daniel May 1, 2019, shortly after of CUNY’s eighteen later, he became CCNY’s new chancellor Felix Lemons will serve as being appointed chancellor, presidents at undergraduate president. Community V. Matos Rodriguez interim president of Matos Rodriguez institutions were women, representatives savaged appointed three new Lehman; and LaGuardia’s appointed former and nine were people of CUNY for putting interim presidents at York, former provost Paul Brooklyn College provost color. One year later, those Boudreau, a white man, in Lehman, and LaGuardia. Arcario will be promoted William Tramontano as numbers have gone down: charge of a college located These appointments are to President, replacing his successor as interim from seven women to six, in the historically African- just the latest in a series departing President Gail president of Queens and from nine people of American neighborhood of recent faculty shake- O. Mellow. College. color to six. of Harlem. ups initiated by the new These three appointments Matos Rodriguez, It should be noted these are Whether or not these chancellor; however, they are not the only who was born in Puerto just interim appointments, presidential searches will also raise questions about presidential appointments Rico, is CUNY’s first and there will be a search result in a more diverse CUNY’s commitment to of the past academic year. chancellor of color, and to fill these positions; presidential roster remains faculty diversity at the On September 1, 2018, his administration has that being said, there is yet to be seen. highest levels. interim president Karrin made diversifying CUNY’s precedent for at least one Mahlet Tsegaye, CUNY’s CUNY Central announced E. Wilks replaced BMCC faculty a priority. But this of these appointees getting Director of Executive the appointments on July President Antonio Perez; past year of presidential the full-time position. In Search, did not respond 15. Berenecea Johnson on the same day, Timothy appointments has made 2017, Vincent Boudreau to Vanguard’s request for Eanes, John Jay’s former Lynch took the post of CUNY’s presidential roster was named interim comment by press time. This past year of presidential appointments has made CUNY’s presidential roster more white and more male. From left to right: Daniel Lemons, Berenecea Johnson Eanes, and Paul Arcario. The three were appointed interim president over the summer. / CUNY.edu Water Problems in Ingersoll Hall By Kevin Limiti students that the water was News Editor safe and would be clean and colorless within a few The water supply on the minutes of it running. east side of Ingersoll Hall Brooklyn College students was shut down for a short were advised in the same time on Thursday, Aug. e-mail to notify the college 29 because of a broken by phone extension water line that flooded x5885 if any problems, the courtyard between such as no water service Ingersoll Hall and Ingersoll or continually low water Extension, according to the pressure, occurred. They Office of Facilities Planning also warned that there and Operations.