2016 October 10-November 21
Advance writer Kristin Dalton produced a three-part series on sexual assault reporting and response policies on college campuses on Staten Island. The first story, headlined “8 Reported Rapes at Wagner College: Police Not Notified. Here’s Why,” implied that Wagner College had deliberately concealed from the police rape allegations reported to the college over the past 2 years (which were actually reported online in our Public Safety Campus Security Report, as required by law, under the “Clery Statistics” tab). The reporter also assumed that all colleges should report all sexual assault allegations to the police — something that sexual assault victim advocates say should not be required, because victims should have the right to report or not report their assaults to law enforcement authorities. The Advance reinforced the story’s assumption with an Oct. 27 editorial, “College Sexual Violence Must be Dealt With by Police.” Also read the memo we sent to the campus community in response to the first story here.
Read the Campus Security Report Read Kristin Dalton's series Read the silive editorial Read the memo sent to the community Oct 27 AdvanceAdvance arts writer Victoria Priola previewed the annual open studio event hosted by Wagner College art professor Bill Murphy.
Read Victoria Priola's story Nov 9 BloombergStephen Miller, obituary writer for Bloomberg News, wrote about the passing of Wagner College alumnus and benefactor Mike Nicolais.
Read the Bloomberg story about Mike Nicolais Nov 11 AdvanceIn a Veterans Day piece, Wagner College journalism professor and alumna Claire Regan wrote a historical view of the college’s Veterans Village postwar housing community.
Read the story on Wagner's Veterans Village Nov 17 New York TimesReporter Penelope Green wrote about how an array of New Yorkers were coping with their post-election trauma. One of the people she included was Wagner College student Cody Tarantini. “She wore a cardboard sign around her neck that read, ‘If you need a hug, just ask,’ ” Green wrote.
Read Penelope Green's New York Times story CAREY INSTITUTE FOR GOVERNMENT REFORM Oct 25 The HillIn this prescient op-ed essay, published two weeks before Election Day, Joshua Spivak wrote about the possibility of a Trump Electoral College victory despite a loss in the popular vote. Spivak is a senior fellow with Wagner College’s Hugh L. Carey Institute for Government Reform.
Read Joshua Spivak's essay on The Hill Oct 28 CNBCIn another prophetic pre-election op-ed, Joshua Spivak wrote about “How Trump’s Risky Spending Plan Might Pay Off.”
Read the CNBC essay Nov 15 Los Angeles TimesIn his op-ed for the L.A. Times, Joshua Spivak writes that, because Donald Trump’s campaign had “not focused on nitty-gritty policy details,” Congress might be expected to take a bigger role in forming new policy for the nation.
Read the Los Angeles Times Essay Nov 16 CNBCIn this historical essay, Joshua Spivak says that past experience might give today's GOP reason for concern about the 2018 midterm elections.
Read the historical essay PORT RICHMOND PARTNERSHIP Oct 10 NY1 NoticiasOn Oct. 10, NY1 Noticias reporter Jaime Zea reported on the Mexican community in the Staten Island community of Port Richmond. Included in the story were Wagner College modern languages professor Margarita Sanchez and Gonzalo Mercado, executive director of Port Richmond’s La Colmena worker’s center and longtime collaborator in the college’s Port Richmond Partnership.
Watch the story on the Mexican community in Port Richmond Oct 29 NY1 NoticiasFor the third year in a row, Wagner College hosted a reunion between American immigrants from Puebla, Mexico living in Port Richmond, Staten Island with members of their families from back home. Some of these families had not seen one another for 20 years. The reunion was organized by the Transnational Project, an organization loosely affiliated with Wagner College’s Port Richmond Partnership. Jonathan Inoa reported the story for NY1 Noticias.
Watch the story on the reunion Nov 21 AdvanceEducation reporter Diane Lore wrote about a new college readiness program being started at a Staten Island middle school in collaboration with Port Richmond High School and Wagner College.
Read Diane Lore's story about the collaboration HOLOCAUST EDUCATION & PROGRAMMING CENTER Oct 18 Staten Island AdvanceColumnist Carol Ann Benanti previewed a film screening co-sponsored by Wagner College’s Holocaust Education & Programming Center. The documentary film told the story of Italians who rescued and protected Jews from the Fascist and Nazi regimes during World War II.
Read the story on the documentary WAGNER COLLEGE THEATRE Nov 10 Broadway WorldThe online theater news publication previewed the Wagner College Theatre’s production of “Anything Goes.”
Read the story on Anything Goes