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Volume CXIII, Issue 8
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NEW YORK, MARCH 10, 2026
NBC News Digital Politics Reporter Kyla Guilfoil ‘24 Returns to MU for Q&A Session Maddie Rosado & Joshua Reichard Managing / News Editor & Asst. A&E Editor
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Inside Look of MU’s Sixth Borough Film Festival Maizy Swift Senior Writer
Manhattan University (MU) will host the Sixth Borough Film Festival, a student-organized event showcasing films from 27 countries, beginning April 10 and running through April 12 across multiple campus locations. The festival will open on Friday, April 10, with a horror film screening in Hayden Hall, Room 100. Additional films will be shown on Saturday, April 11, followed by an award ceremony recognizing participating filmmakers. The event will conclude on Sunday, April
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12, with a potential special guest appearance in Kelly Commons from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. The planning for the event began when Robert Cole, MU’s executive director of marketing, spoke with Michael Grabowski, Ph.D., a professor in the Communication, Sound and Media Arts Department at MU, about the possibility of hosting a film festival on campus. The conversation sparked the idea of creating an internship-based initiative that would give students the opportunity to help plan and organize the festival. “We created this experiential learning course, kind of like an internship… where the students are
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basically managing and putting together all the different departments to make this festival happen,” Grabowski said. “I feel like I am the coordinator and sort of a mentor… but it’s really the students that are making this happen.” The program assigns each student a different role in overseeing the planning of the festival, with weekly check-ins to track progress. The Quadrangle spoke with Max Bennett, a senior English major and member of the planning team. Bennett explained that he initially became interested in helping create a similar event after attending a film festival while __________________________ CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
On March 2, Kyla Guilfoil ‘24 returned to Manhattan University (MU) for a Q&A session in Kelly Commons, offering students insight into her journalism career and her transition from undergraduate student to professional reporter. The event, hosted by the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) and presented in collaboration with the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and Lambda Pi Eta (LPH), the national communication association’s honor society, allowed students to interact with the alumna and learn more about the realities of working as a digital politics reporter. Prior to the event, The Quadrangle spoke with Michael Grabowski, Ph.D., a professor in the Communication, Sound and Media Arts Department at MU and a former mentor to Guilfoil. Grabowski shared his anticipation for the event. “This is really an event for the students, so I really am looking forward to Guilfoil speaking… She only graduated two years ago, so you can see how fast her career took off,” Grabowski said. Grabowski continued to emphasize that he takes pride in watching students go on to their professional careers, creating strong examples of
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the opportunities available to current undergraduate students at MU. “I take incredible joy seeing students succeed here and then using that as a model for success in their future careers,” Grabowski said. Grabowski highlighted the student organizations involved in hosting the Q&A session, noting the effort that went into preparing the event. “This event is actually run by PRSSA [which was also presented in collaboration with SAAC and LPH],” Grabowski said. The Quadrangle also spoke with Flynn Myers, a junior English and communication double-major, as well as the event director for PRSSA. Myers further discussed the process of coordinating the event. “We reached out to Guilfoil because we wanted her to come out and talk about her role at NBC News,” Myers said. Myers also shared her perspective on the importance of featuring speakers such as Guilfoil. “I think it’s important for communication majors to see that there’s many different routes that they can go,” Myers said. During the Q&A session, Guilfoil reflected on her early dream of becoming a news reporter, which later shaped the beginning of her undergraduate experience at MU. “My dream was always to be a reporter,” Guilfoil said. “I only really looked at schools in__________________________ New York City because CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
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