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Manhattan College is a
Roman Catholic liberal arts college in the
Lasallian tradition in
New York City. Despite the college's name, it's no longer located in
Manhattan but in the
Riverdale section of
the Bronx, less than a mile north of the northern tip of Manhattan and roughly 10 miles north of
Midtown. Manhattan College offers undergraduate programs in the
arts,
business,
education,
engineering, and
science. Graduate programs are offered for
education and
engineering.
It also houses a public middle school,
Jonas Bronck Academy, on the bottom floor of Hayden Hall, the primary residence of the Biochemistry, Chemistry and Physics departments, named after the noted philanthropist
Charles Hayden.
History
The college was founded as the Academy of the Holy Infancy in 1853 by five French
Lasallian Brothers in a small building on
Canal Street. When the need to expand forced them from
Lower Manhattan, the College moved to 131st Street and Broadway, in the Manhattanville section of
Harlem. Passengers on the uptown
1 line of the
New York City Subway will find that there's a short-section of above-ground track located near the college's original location. The school's name was changed to Manhattan College 1863, and moved to its present location in the Riverdale section of
The Bronx in 1922 as it outgrew its facilities in Manhattanville. This is often the cause of some confusion as the college is located outside of
Manhattan but still within the city limits of
New York City.
Originally exclusive to men, Manhattan College established a cooperative program with the
College of Mount Saint Vincent with which it still shares some facilities and programs after the pair became
coeducational in 1973 and 1974, respectively. As of 2006, however, Manhattan College and the
College of Mount Saint Vincent have decided to separate completely, including academically. This separation is set for the end of the 2007-2008 academic year.
Manhattan Prep
For 118 years, there existed on the Manhattan College campus a boys' secondary school, Manhattan College High School, familiarly known to students, parents, and rivals as
Manhattan Prep. Founded in 1854, the school educated its young men in a Catholic college preparatory curriculum geared toward eventual university matriculation. It was, indeed, a "prep" school in the classic sense: coats and ties were mandatory for class attendance; strict standards of behavior were enforced; and daily newspaper reading was required. The curriculum included 3 years of Latin (with an optional 4th year); foreign language study, including Greek, French, and Spanish; 4 years of laboratory science, and 4 years each of mathematics, English rhetoric and literary forms, and theology.
Throughout its existence, Manhattan Prep was very much the "kid brother" of its host institution. Students shared the college cafeteria, auditorium, and athletic facilities, and its sports teams bore the nickname, "the Jasperites" in homage to the Manhattan College Jaspers. The school newspaper, published monthly, was called
The Prepster.
Manhattan Prep closed its doors in 1972 due to rising costs and a decline in religious vocations.
Academics
Manhattan College offers degrees in five undergraduate schools: Arts, Business, Education, Engineering and Science. The School of Arts is the largest school overall at the college, but the School of Engineering is the college's most well-known program.
Students are required to take college-wide general education requirements (such as math, college writing, religion and foreign language) as well as core requirements in their respective school, which varies by school. For example, the School of Arts maintains a core curriculum called The Roots of Modern Learning which includes courses such as "Classical Origins of Western Culture."
Classes operate on a semester schedule. The first semester begins in late-August and runs to December. The second semester begins in mid- to late-January and runs to May. Some courses may run in summer and January, but most students don't take classes during these times.
The College also offers graduate programs in Education and Engineering. The graduate School of Engineering allows students studying engineering as an undergraduate the opportunity to continue on to get their Master's degree without having to switch colleges, as is the case at colleges with a 3 + 2 Engineering program.
Academic programs that were entirely housed at the College of Mount Saint Vincent (such as Communications) are currently being created on campus.
Manhattan College contains chapters of various honor societies as
Phi Beta Kappa,
Sigma Xi, and
Tau Beta Pi. Manhattan participates in the
Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges and in the New York Cluster of seven colleges and universities supported by the Pew Charitable Trusts for undergraduate science education.
Athletics
The school's men's sports teams are called the
Jaspers; women are known as Lady Jaspers. It is written in the
Baseball Hall of Fame that "During one particularly warm and humid day when Manhattan College was playing a semi-pro baseball team called the Metropolitans, Brother Jasper noticed the Manhattan students were becoming restless and edgy as Manhattan came to bat in the seventh inning of a close game. To relieve the tension, Brother Jasper called time-out and told the students to stand up and stretch for a few minutes until the game resumed." On the college's 150th anniversary in 2003 at a
New York Yankees game, Brother Jasper was credited with the
Seventh-inning stretch.
The College annually played the
New York Giants in the late 1880s and into the 1890s at the Polo Grounds and Manhattan is credited by the Baseball Hall of Fame with the practice of the “
seventh inning stretch" spreading from there into major league baseball.
Luis Castro, a Manhattan College alumni, was the first ever professional baseball player of Hispanic origin.
Overall, Manhattan College is home to 19
Division-I athletic teams for men and women, including
basketball,
soccer,
baseball and
softball,
tennis,
lacrosse and
volleyball. Historically
track and field has been the school's strongest sport.
Manhattan College did have a
football program from
1924 until
1942. The college team posted an all-time record of 194 wins, 198 losses, and 22 ties. The final coach for the school's football team was
Herbert M. Kopf. After the
1942 season, the school suspended intercollegiate football competition for
World War II and then didn't reactivate the program after completion of the war. The team was invited to the first ever Orange Bowl, then known as the Miami Palm Festival, a contest they lost 7-0 to the University of Miami.
The team was revived in the 1960's in the form of a club team, and existed until 1987. The final Manhattan College football game was a loss against the University of Massachusetts - Boston.
The school participated in the first intercollegiate lacrosse game in the United States, playing New York University.
Infrastructure
Manhattan College is a relatively compact campus given its student population. The focal point of the campus is the Quad, which sits at the center of the campus four main buildings. Memorial Hall is the main entry onto campus and houses the office of the president as well as much of the other administrative offices on campus. Miguel Hall and
De La Salle Hall are the main academic halls that border each side of the Quad. The fourth side of the Quad is bordered by the chapel building, which houses Smith Auditorium (used for receptions and various speakers and performances) on the first floor and the Chapel of De La Salle and His Brothers on the second floor.
Thomas Hall is the College's student life building. It houses the offices of the Dean of Students, the student government, the radio station, the newspaper, the TV station, the musical ensembles, and others. The colleges three dining halls, Locke's Loft,
Plato's Cave and Dante's Den, are also located in Thomas Hall.
The O'Malley Library is relatively new, six-story structure that was joined with the previous library, the
Cardinal Hayes Pavilion. Built on a hill, the new library was built directly next to and above the old one, essentially combining the two and creating more floors. The Office of Admissions is on the sixth floor of O'Malley.
Hayden Hall is on the east side of campus and houses the sciences as well as
Jonas Bronck Academy.
Separate from the main campus, across 240th street, is the Leo Engineering Building and the Research and Learning Center (RLC). The two are home to all of the engineering departments: electrical, computer, civil, chemical, mechanical, and environmental, along with the math and computer science department. Laboratories and classes for these disciplines take place in both buildings. Both biology and chemistry laboratories are also located in Leo. The Leo cafeteria, located in the basement, provides an alternative to trekking up to the main campus for breakfast and lunch.
The Leo Engineering Building is the future home of the Communications Department's new television studio and journalism lab.
There are currently on-campus dorms at Manhattan. Jasper Hall and
Chrysostom Hall are both traditional-style dorms, while Horan Hall (the newest and, at 11 stories, largest) is a suite-style building. A new dorm is being built next to and in the style of Horan Hall, tentatively called East Hill Tower II, and construction is scheduled to be complete by Fall of 2008. There are plans to turn Chrysostom Hall into offices once the new building is constructed. The college also leases a number of off-campus apartment complexes, making these rooms available to upper classmen.
Draddy Gymnasium is the home of the basketball and volleyball teams, and also features the largest indoor track in New York City. Commencement exercises are held in Draddy.
Gaelic Park, on 240th street, has recently been renovated with an artificial turf and is where soccer, lacrosse, and softball teams play. The college also heavily utilizes adjacent
Van Cortlandt Park for baseball, outdoor track and field, golf, and cross country. Alumni Hall is the home of the college's workout facilities.
While in a semi-suburban area, Manhattan College isn't immune from the New York City parking crunch. Parking lots are scattered across campus and in the surrounding streets, and freshmen are not allowed to bring cars to campus. The college has begun to construction on a parking garage on
Broadway with a bridge connection to campus, which will be completed by 2009.
Transportation
The College is located between two major New York City roads, the
Henry Hudson Parkway and the
Major Deegan Expressway. The
Van Cortlandt Park-242nd Street subway station provides access to Manhattan and the rest of the city via the
1 train. Travel time to midtown on the subway is roughly 30-40 minutes.
Notable alumni
Academia
Arts and Literature
William Edmund Barrett - author of The Left Hand of God and Lilies of the Field
James Patterson - New York Times best-selling and Edgar Award-winning novelist, author of Along Came a Spider and Kiss the Girls
Al Sarrantonio - science fiction, mystery and horror author
Robert Shea - co-author (with Robert Anton Wilson) of The Illuminatus! Trilogy
George A. Sheehan - cardiologist and New York Times bestselling author of Running & Being: The Total Experience
Business
Sam Belnavis - NASCAR owner
Frank M. Folsom - former president of RCA Victor and permanent representative of the Holy See
Michael A. Gaudino - president and CEO of GE Corporate Financial Services
Robert D. Glynn, Jr. - former chairman, president and CEO of Pacific Gas and Electric Company
John J. Kearney - president of the NY State Society of CPAs.
Joseph P. Kearney - former president and CEO of US Generating
Richard A. Kessel - president and CEO of Environmental Power Corp.
Eugene R. McGrath - former chairman and CEO of Con Edison
John D. McMahon - president and CEO of Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc.
Thomas J. Moran - president and CEO of Mutual of America Life Insurance Company
John L. Paluszek - president of Ketchum Inc.
Frederic Salerno - corporate director of Viacom and former vice chairman of Verizon
Nicholas Tommasino - chairman and CEO of Deloitte & Touche LLP
Joseph M. Tucci - chairman, president and CEO of the EMC Corporation
Paul A. Yarossi - President of HNTB Companies and Vice Chairman of HNTB Corporation
Entertainment
Frank Campanella - TV and motion picture actor, Captain Video
Joseph Campanella - TV, stage, and motion picture actor, Mannix
Alexandra Chando - actress, Maddie on As The World Turns
Dennis Day - TV and radio personality, The Jack Benny Show
Barnard Hughes - Emmy and Tony Award winning actor, Hugh Leonard's Da
Melvin Lasky - MTV Superstar "Rockstars Have Kidnapped My Son" March 2003
Mike Mazurki - former professional wrestler and character actor
Hugo Montenegro - TV and movie soundtrack composer, I Dream of Jeannie and The Outcasts
Journalism
Don Dunphy - Boxing announcer, Radio Hall of Fame inductee
Jerry Girard - former sportscaster, WPIX
Ed Murawinski - cartoonist for the New York Daily News
Jim Ryan - news anchor for WNBC-TV, WNYW and WCBS-TV
Law, Government and Public Policy
Phil Amicone - Mayor of Yonkers, New York
John J. Boylan - former member of U.S. House of Representatives for New York's 15th congressional district
Anthony V. Cardona - Presiding Justice, Appellate Division, Third Judicial Department, New York Supreme Court
John J. Delaney - former member of U.S. House of Representatives for New York's 7th congressional district
Thomas R. Donahue - former Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO
John M. Fahey - President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Geographic Society
John J. Fitzgerald - former member of U.S. House of Representatives for New York's 7th congressional district
John S. Martin-Former United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, US Attorney of same district
Rudy Giuliani - 2008 U.S. Presidential Candidate and former Mayor of New York City
Raymond W. Kelly - Commissioner of the New York City Police Department
Arthur Lichte - Lieutenant General and Assistant Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
Joseph Maguire - Vice Admiral of the United States Navy
James A. Rispoli - Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management
Angelo D. Roncallo - former member of U.S. House of Representatives for New York's 3rd congressional district
Jose M. Serrano - New York State Senator representing the South Bronx, East Harlem, Yorkville and Roosevelt Island
Thomas Francis Smith - former member of U.S. House of Representatives for New York
Andrew Lawrence Somers - former member of U.S. House of Representatives for New York's 6th congressional district and New York's 10th congressional district
Paul J. Tobin - president and CEO of the United Spinal Association
Bernadette A. Toomey - President and Chief Executive Officer, American Lung Association
James J. Walsh - former member of U.S. House of Representatives for New York
-radio personality
Math and Science
Kevin Campbell (scientist)- Director of Senator Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Center
James W. Cooley - mathematician, co-author of the FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) algorithm used in digital processing
Gary J. Foley - Director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency National Exposure Research Laboratory
Religion
Austin Dowling - second Archbishop and fourth bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis
George Cardinal Mundelein - eighth bishop and third archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago
Sports
Luis Castro - second Latin-American to play Major League baseball.
Neil Cohalan - first professional basketball coach of the New York Knicks
Luis Flores - former NBA point guard, now plays in Greece
Buddy Hassett - former Major League baseball player
Andy Karl - former Major League baseball player
Junius Kellogg - former basketball player who blew the whistle on point-shaving scheme; former Harlem Globetrotter
Larry Lembo - basketball star in 1964 who was drafted by the New York Knicks; NCAA basketball referee
Ed O'Connor - Led nation in field goal percentage in 1955, first Jasper drafted in NBA
Mike Parisi - Pitcher for Memphis Redbirds, St.Louis Cardinals
Xavier Rescigno- former Major League Baseball player
Lindy Remigino - Olympic gold medalist in 100-meter dash and 4x100 relay, Helsinki 1952
Brewery Jack Taylor - former Major League Baseball player
Dick Tuckey - former professional American football running-back
Tom Waddell - former Major League Baseball pitcher
Pat Kirwan(football) - Receivers Coach and Personnel Assistant for the New York Jets under Pete carroll. Currently Senior Football Analyst for the National Football League website.Further Information
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