Sept. 29, 1989 Issue 3 Loquitur

friday, sept. 29, 1989

cabrini college, radnor, pa 19087

vol. xxxvi, no. 3

Accomplished leader leaves masters program

by Kevin George Dr. Ruth Sower,oneofCabrini'sfaculty responsible for making the college a leader in teacher education, has left her position as the head of the masters of education department.

On Friday, Sept. 22, after 12 years of service, Sower bade farewell to her fellow faculty members and grateful students. The unanimous feeling among her constituents is one of sorrow that she is leaving, but gratitude for having worked with her.

"Without Ruth Sower there would be no mal$ters program,'' said Dr. Joseph Romano, who along with Sower and others brought the first and only post-graduate program to Cabrini back in 1985.

From a modest beginning of 12 students, the masters of education program has grown to 160,a fact many attribute to Sower's dedication to education.

Dr. Mary Ann Biller, vice president of academic affairs, attributed the '' glowing reviews'' the education department has received from independent evaluators in the past '' to Dr. Sower's professional dedication." .. We will certainly miss her contributions, but we do support her in going on to bigger things," Dr. Biller said.

Dr. Sower will be bringing her expertise to the correctional facilities across Pennsylvania where she will serve as adviser to the teachers of special education.

Going into special education won't be new territory for Dr. Sower. Much of her career has focused on special education. Before serving as the graduate program coordinator and on the faculty, she spent many years "in the trenches'' of special education with the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit. ''This will sort of bring me back to my roots,•' So~er said about her ne\\ position with the state department of education. """"'-~~:_ ..ramfascinated with opportunties and chaTienges that are going to be opening in the correctional facilities as far as education goes," Sower said when asked why she was leaving Cabrini.

"Unfortunately, we are incarcerating younger and younger people all the time," she said.

Working with young people won't be new to Sower either. Aside from her work in research and theory of special education, Dr. Sower started a sunday school program at Cabrini's Children School that taught mentally handicapped children in the neighborhood how to behave and worship during religious services.

It was experiences like those that Dr. Sower will remember most from her days on campus. ''The things I enjoyed most were those activities where students and I were mutually involved and learning," she said while sitting in her comfortable home only a few doors away from Cabrini on Upper Gulph Road.

"We all learned a great deal about how children learn," She recalled.

Twice Dr. Sower and a group of students spent time in Arizona teaching children on a Navajo .Indian reservation.

In these trips Dr. Sower said she dido 't lecture and the students didn't study but. "surely, it was the best of learning experiences for all of us.

Those students who didn't go to Arizona, still benefiued from Dr. Sower's "mutual learning" style.

Graduate student, Annette Gallagher, remembers going to Don Guanella, a school for mentally retarded children, on Tuesday nights while she took Dr. Sower's "Exceptional Person" class.

"We got experience working directuly with the kids," Gallagher remebered. ''Even the regular classes were special becuase she would bring :n guest speakers often.

Some of Dr. Sower's own students got a chance to do some guest speaking of their own, Dr. Biller remembers.

On two occasions. a group of Dr. Sower's students addressed a gathering of statewide special education teachers in Harrisburg, Dr. Biller said, which, she added, wa,; the first time teacherswerelecturedby studentson a state level.

If sucess of a teacher's students is an indicator of their accomplishments, then Dr. Sower's ability to educate is

Special interest dorms: what's so special?

by Karen Dumorney

Prior to coming to Cabrini College, dean of students, Robert Bonfiglio thought of creatmg an environment that made students more responsible in where they lived to downplay the role of the administrators. The thought he had in mind was special interest resident housing.

This housing is designed for a diverse group of mature students who share the same common interest in one aspect or another by dedicating their time to community services and on the same token respect the values and properties of one another.

It is a new opportunity, according to Bonfiglio that can be an educational experience in its own right to maximize the learning experience of living in resident halls.

Interested students had to put together a proposal on what they had to do and try to emphasize the programmatic aspect of how they were to live together. In addition to be considered, they could not have violated any policies.

Students, like Jeff Foley, junior, is

rofessors concernedabout npreparedstudents

among one of the students residing in the special interest hall at House 7 which was converted into an all males dorm this fall.

Foley said, '' It 's a good idea, and it shows the potential to be good and become a tradition."

Colin Coakley, senior, another student who resides at House 7 thought that it was not only a good idea but also a place where people were enthusiastic and respected one another.

He said that the upperclassmen were fed up with what was going on on campus and elsewhere and that they felt that something had to be done.

Coakley's only concern is being able to live up to their promise. He feels that much will be expected of them and hope they can live up to their agreement.

Lou Monaco, resident assistant of House 7, thought that it will be a fun-filled experience and at the same time challenging.

He said by living in this house his job will

A recent Carnegie Commission report foWldthat most professors do not find tudents prepared for college. However, this doesn't seem to be the opinion of rofessorsin regardto mostof their students.Faculty acrossthe nation and at Cabrinithi way to strengthen collegeeducationis by empbuizing a broad liberal education.

Are collegestudents underprepared?The Carnegie Study found that ~thirds o aculty members thought colJeges and universities were spendingtoo much time an y teaching students what they should have learned before entering college. Some survey's findings; provided evidence that institutions of higher-education trenghten their undergraduate curricnlums.

However, professors at Cabrini said that colleges are teaching remedial courses tudents are arriving at college and they are forced to take 101 coW"Ses,which for s repetition of material they learned in high school. Some professors are not sure w ir students learned before coming to their class. but they said that the majority asonably prepared. thus not reducingthe standards of that particular professor.

Dr. Anbur Youngsupervises programssuch as General Studies and Act 101.

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According to Biller, Cabrini is second in the state among private institutions in the numberof students receiving their state teaching certificates.

She'll need all the "efficiency" and "dedication" that her constituents credit her in her new postilion.

As Education Advisor, Dr. Sower will be in charge of 300 teachers in 17 correctional facilities and 9 youth detention centers across the commonwealth.

Were she goes with her newposition no one could possibly know, not even Dr. Sower.

"Teaching is the ultimate learning experience. Each

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Peppermint Patty saves the day kelly ann me gillan features editor Two weeks ago while I was struggling to put together the features section for the first time and also trying to organize the remaining details of Parents Weekend, I got a message; it read, "call your Mom." I hadn't talked to her in over a week. Life had changed so drastically ftom a relaxed summer to a chaotic semester. I didn't have two minutes for myself much less time to call home to just say Hi to Mom and Dad. Maybe that was why I no longer knew which end was up.

It wasn't until late that evening that I was able to call her back and by that point I was on an emotional edge. "How was your day?" she asked. Suddenly I had a flashback. I was in high school and had just walked in the door after school. She asked me that question every day when I got home from school since the first day of kindergarten.

The question would start me going, I would talk non-stop; my mouth running amile-a-minute for more than an hour. I would start with what happened in class, what homework I had to do that night, and then get into the important stuff like the low down from the lunch table, and who was going out with who.

But that particular day wasn't like the ones from high school. I had had one of those days. The computer that creates,the pages for Loquitur seemed to have a mind of its own, an emergency editor's meeting popped up, I almost missed my deadline, I still had to go to a Kappa meeting that night, the fears of a disastrous Parents Weekend were building, and I had yet to start the pile of homework that was accumulating on my desk.

As I began to explain all the horrors of my day, I started to cry. Partially because I needed'to relieve all the pressures that were building up inside me, but also because everything seemed O.K. again; my best friend understood and knew exactly what to say to make me feel better.

They're my parents, and they'll always occasionally act like parents but most of the time I consider them my best friends. I think that for most of us at this time in our 1ives, our relationship with our parents is difficult to define.

Sometimes we act like adults and our parents treat as such and then there are the other times. The times when we screw up, we know it and we let them down. The times when we need support and unconditional love and we revert back to being kids, and the times when we need to listen to the voice of reason and wisdom to put us back on the right track.

What's difficultto understand is when are they acting as parents and when are they acting as friends? When do we want them to act as our parents and when do we want them to act as our friends?

As much as it is a struggle for us to grow up and become adults, I believe it is as difficult or even more difficult for our parents tC' let us grow up; to let us make our own mistakes and learn from them, not because an authority figure told us that if we do this or that we will be making a mistake.

When our parents are able to step back and act more passive in our lives; when we are able to depend more on ourselves and look at our parents as a support, not as an influence, then can they truly be called our friends.

Genuine friends are there for each other no matter what happens. They care deeply

about each other. They are able ¡10 rely on each other for support. They trust and know everything about each other. Sometimes they'retheonlypeople who understand you, know what you 're feeling, can boost your confidence and make you feel secure in going to them for advice.

It's ironic, but these characteristics of a friend are some of the same characteristics of a parent.

Every once in a while I observe a change in the relationship between me and my parents. I notice myself reciprocating. It's no longer just a receiving relationship. I'm giving back by supporting them, taking pride in their achievements, listening and offering them advice and my opinion.

The fact that I still love to go on family vacations says a lot about the friendship that exists between me, my parents and sister. As a family we have always enjoyed going away together.

Dad usually tries to do something to embarrass my sister and me on these trips.

Maybe he thinks since no one knows us anyway, why not? But we are always able to laugh, poke fun at each other and have a good time together, as a family, and as friends.

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Setting the stage: Parents weekend '89 Parents weekend 1989 will be somewhat different than the previous years.

Kicking off the weekend will be the Fall Convocation, scheduled for Friday night, honoring members of the Dean's List and those who have shown outstanding leadership qualities.

Saturday's

schedule holds a variety of

new

events, specifically

designed to involve every member of the family. Among these events are the annual float parade, the women's volleyball and field hockey games, women's tennis match, men's soccer game, family game show, president's reception, monte carlo gambling, various lectures and the culmination of Saturday's events: the parent's weekend dinner dance. .

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On Sunday, a family liturgy and brunch will begin the day. The mass will

They're my parents, and they'll always occasionally act like parents but most of the time I consider them my best friends. I think that for most of us at this time in our lives,our relationship with our parents is difficult to define.

be an important part of the weekend, as the aim is to bring everyone together, give thanks to God for their families and the Cabrini family.

Kappa Sigma Omega and Student Services have made the events more varied this year with the specific goal of allowing parents to spend more time on campus. Parents and their families will get a chance to participate in such things as ballroom dance lessons, the family game show, as well as being entertained by ''Puttin' on the hits,'' the float parade and the faculty lectures.

My Mom started playing golf this past summer for recreation and hopes to be able to play with my Dad some day. What ends up happening? Daughters 1 and 2 are coaxed into learning how to play and Dad volunteers to be golf instructor.

Only a father with the patience of a saint or one who's good friends with his daughters, could take three women who are just starting to play out on a golf course with him and have an enjoyable time.

I'm glad that my parents want to still do things with me. I'm glad that I still want to do things with my parents. The reason is because we're very good friends, and that makes life a little easier.

Seventy-two hours after that horrendous day when I went to my mailbox I was surprised to find a bright yellow envelope. The handwriting on the front gave it away; it was from Mom. On the front of the card Peppermint Patty was sitting in a classroom; the message inside read '' Sometimes life feels like one pop quiz after another, doesn't it?" At the bottom she had written "hang in there!"

Not only was that my mom writing to cheer me up, il was my best friend.

The emphasis this weekend is to meet other families and get in touch with your own, as well as to have fun and enjoy each other.

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n1ons Shopper's guide U.S.S.R.: The Glasnost galleria

by Dr. Joseph J. Romano American tourists like to shop. They invade the shops of their favorite vacation spots like an attacking anny. All inhibitions are lost as they elbow and push their fellow travelers in a frenzy of buying that rivals the floor of the stock exchange in a bull market.

One need only observe a duty-free airport shop to confirm the inordinate and exorbitant buying power of the American abroad.

Tired, but happy faces reflect successful plundering, as weary annloads of trophies are lugged aboard the airplane and safely stored in the straining overhead compartments. Once on the plane for home, the victorious American warrior must only face the reality of passing through customs and settling an over-extended credit card. It was a victory, however, that was well worth the battle. Bragging rights over neighbors at home will be settled once and for all, as our world travelers have stored up a long winter's worth of stories about the'' great buys'' that were pulled off.

Such is the lore of the American traveler/ shopper. I've witnessed it many times. In traveling to the U.S.S.R. this past summer, however, I encountered challenges to even the most durable of American souvenir hunters.

First of all, there is not much to buy in the Soviet Union. There are serious shortages of consumer goods, even in Moscow, which traditionally has the best of whatever the

immense country has to offer. The regular state-owned department stores are models of inefficiency. Most of the dull and dingy shelves are empty. If you are lucky enough to find a purchasable item, then the procedure is mind-boggling. You must first wait in line to select the item; then proceed with a purchase ticket to the cashier's line where the sale is "rung up" on an ABACUS. Finally, you troop back to the original counter where a new line has formed, and pick up

ling, or any other "hard" foreign currency.

The hard currency shops are found in the tourist hotels and are fairly well stocked with the traditional Russian souvenirs: fur hats, caviar and decorative lacquered boxes.

The Soviet Union is learning the tourism business well and have inflated the prices of these items beyond their value. Soviet citizens are not allowed to shop in the Berioska shops, which ironically contain more consumer goods than all other stores.

Such is the lore of the American traveler/shopper. I've witnessed it many times. 1n traveling to the U.S.S.R. this past summer, however, I encountered challenges to even the most durable of American souvenir hunters. your item.

The lines in most stores were so long that I was discouraged from buying much. I ended up buying items at counters devoid of local Muscovites. I bought two books by VJ. Lenin, and a wall poster of a dour Karl Marx! No lines. No waiting!

Of course we were not expected to shop at the local stores. The Soviet government, in an attempt to attract as inuch foreign currency as possible (the ruble has very little value) runs a string of shops for tourists only. These BERIOSKA shops will not accept Soviet rubles. All purchases must be made in U.S. dollars or British Pounds Ster-

Because of the scarcity of goods and limited value of the ruble, there is a thriving black market in the Soviet Union. Items which are never found in stores appear on street comers, subway entrances and hotel lobbies. Blackmarketeers have a practiced skill of recognizing tourists in their conspicuous western clothes and expensive cameras. They approach with stealth and offer a glance of their precious merchandise wrapped in plain brown paper: authentic Soviet anny watches-$20, K.G.B. t-shirts$5; tins of caviar- make an offer. The prize buy d the trip was a blackmarket copy of Paul McCartney's 1985 album-BACK IN

Oh, to be youhg again!

Ip' Carlo Iacono

back into the cocoon of lemonade stands, playing tag, and Saturday wiffle-ball games.

As a college student, I now find a cleansing pleasure in watching Bugs Bunny cartoons. I bought "Otter-Pops" on a whim the other day. I'm contemplating bringing up my Batman Alann Clock, official 1975

There was an era when I was an innocent youth, that time moved slow, life's decisions were simple, Saturday wiffle-ball games were what I Iived for, and Larry Bow a (shortstop for the Philadelphia Phillies) was the closest thing to a Greek hero.

The questions my nineteen-year-old mind now has·were easily solved by the ten-yearWe can't wait until age 14 old one. Occupation: I was going to play to go to the dance, age 16 shortstop for the Philadelphia Phillies. Residence: I was going to by a great big house to drive the car, age 18 to with lots of land for myself, and an identical graduate, age 21 to deal for my parents (sister Linda would have consume liquor, age 22 to to rely on her husband to purchase a house).

Transportation: something red and fast. start a career, age 20And I was going to live happily ever after someth ing to meet our with Lana Smith because of her ponytail, cute smile, the way she said "hi," and she spouse, age 30-something was the only girl I could see eye to eye with to bear our children. my little four-foot frame.

The shortstop thing never worked out What is left to yearn after because I couldn't hit a high school curve 40? ball. I can't afford a college dorm room let alone hillside homes for my parents and me.

The car I drive is kind of fast, but the frosty model, to my dorm room to start my day in turquoise paint just doesn't cut it. I became unique style. friends with Lana Smith, but it ended at that.

The burdens of career moves, personal She dates losers. relationships, and new found financial diffiWe yearn all of our childhood to become culties (realities) push the squashed child out decision-making adults, yet when we reach of our psyche. That is the reason executives that age, we try our hardest to become young play miniature golf at the · office, middlechildren again. aged women try to fit into small bikinis, the Isn't it ironic how we yearn to get older in Who and Rolling Stones go on tour, and order to have something "important" to college students act; like myself, immature, contemplate. We can't wait until age 14 to go irresponsible fiends on occasion. to the dance, age 16 to drive the car, age 18 to We are scared to grow up, but we must. So graduate, age 21 to consume liquor, age 22 take maturing in stride, but don't quell the to start a career, age 20-something to meet ,childhood urge. I must be going, Bugs our spouse, age 30-something to bear our Bunny starts at 3 p.m. It's a good one too children. What is left to yearn after 40? Not the one in which he makes Yosemite Sam much, except maybe hair loss. That's when look like a fool. we buy the red sports car - when we can't To tell you the truth, didn't he do that in all push the clutch down. of them?

But, when we become young adults, our first inclination towards reality is to climb

THE U.S.S.R. (CHOBA B C.C.C.P.)- yours for five dollars! The winning item in the most macabre category was a soviet anny uniform alleged to have been worn in the Afghanistan war. It was replete with a fake looking bullet hole and dried blood.

Far and away, the most common black market pitch was rubles for dollars. While the "official" government exchange rate called for $1.40 to purchase one ruble (they had to be kidding!); anybody, and I mean anybody, would gladly shower you with ten rubles and up for one U.S. dollar. Cab drivers, bus drivers, young boys, old men, waitresses, chamber maids, everybody played the desperate "Change rubles for dollars?'' game. It got to be annoying.

If I were writing a shopper's guide to the U.S.S.R. I would offer the following guidelines: 1. Change no more than $20 for rubles; there is very little to buy with Soviet money.

2. Bring plenty of U.S. cash if you really want those souvenirs in the hard currency shops (they accept Visa, but tack on an extra charge).

3. You need not try to find the black market, it will find you;....and while your national guide will scare you about the illegality of these lucrative transactions, don't be surprised when, before the trip ends, that same guide sneaks behind you and whispers, "Change rubles for dollars?"

Juniors,--~=!

Career

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Oriented

•• Students • Cabrini College lS hosting our own

Career

Fair

October 24 • in the Grace Hall Atrium • This is your opp9rtunity to get

ahead

of the game, and make early contacts.

See Donna Seckar ·for details.

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Student concerned over racial issues, decline in minority enrollment To the editor: There are two issues that I want to address: 1. the racial incident 2. the declining enrollment of nonwhite students

¡ First, I want to express my deepest sympathy to the victims involved.

I find these behaviors to be intolerable, inexcusable and unjustifiable.

But bickering about it isn't going to make matters better. Weneedtorectifythisplague by using tactics that we know will make a difference.

First, we need to realize that racism has been instilled in the the minds of these narrow-minded individuals since birth. Note, that it starts within the home.

To say the least, they are partially responsible for their action. However, their parents are mostly to blame.

Don't get me wrong, I blame them entirely when it comes to knowing the distinctions between right and wrong.

Naturally, who can't relate when it comes to parents? We all think that they have all of the right answers. But we need to think realistically. They are not God: Only he is omnipotent, meaning all powerful and all knowing.

He is the only one who gave us the power of free will. With this free will, he gave us a choice to do right or wrong.

At this stage in our lives, we should know the difference. We cannot allow our parents to make choices for us if we know that they are immoral.

We cannot allow our parents to corrupt our minds in teaching us immoral values.

Nonetheless, if you believe in practicing their immoralities, maybe you don't belong here.

Obviously when you applied here, you knew what was in store for you. If you can't adapt to living and/or being with people other than your kind, you can pack your things and vacate the premises. Because we don't need you here let alone want you here.

Secondly, I am disappointed with the declining enrollment of the non-white students. I believe that not enough effort was put into the recruiting process.

I think that part of the problem might have been caused by the racial incidents last year.

But the major reason is because the school doesn't have anything to offer these nonwhite students.

To say the least, I am even more devastated with the board. Because we as the BSA members tried to make a difference. We put a lot of time and effort in trying to make something out of our school. Where did it get us? Racial incidents are still occuring, rules and regulations are not enforced to the fullest and non-white enrollment are still declining. Can someone please tell me where the hell the progress is?!

Instead of making matters better it seems as if things are getting worse.

Unless we make a serious effort to combat these problems they will continue to expand and history will continue to repeat itself.

It's up to you folks to make a difference.

THINK ABOUT IT!

Making the ¡right choice

by Deborah Ryder

I have " bat-phobia." I shudder when I feel like I'm flying blind. I am a person who prefers definite goals. Although I may wander up and down the beach in the summer innocuously following the edge of the waves, salvaging an occasional shell ¡ from the retreating foam, behind my relaxed facade my mind is focused toward a specific destination.

Choosing a college major evoked in me "bat-phobia."

Whether you are a new freshman, a Sincerely, sophomore, or even a junior, at some time Karen Dumorney, junior you will decide on a major. For many people the "major dilemma" is a major dilemma.

"What is the right choice?" I agonized painfully.

For anyone, declaring a major invariably means giving up another possible choice.

Probably, the hardest part of applying to and being accepted into Cabrini's communication department, for me, was relinquishing other options. It meant I was no longer going to be a psychologist or a teacher or a To the editor: BIG DEAL! chiropractor.

If it's attention you 're looking for- well, It wasn't as if I was being rushed. From Due to the registrar taking their time in you've got ours. the time I entered college as a freshman, giving the 1990 yearbook editors the senior If it's aggravation you want to cause - umil I completed my sophomore year, class list and the ever so inconsiderate, well, you've got us (along with the rest of the sixteen years had lapsed. In my graduating immature person(s) who decided to rip down yearbook staff - not to mention the seniors) class, I tied for first place for having taken the longest, most circumvented route to the sign-up sheet for our senior portraits, good and aggravated. obtaining an associate's degree. many seniors do not know that senior And it was a degree in general studies.

If it's extra work you want someone to do Granted, some people know from the portraits are to be taken TIDS MONDAY - well, we (along with the help of Denise word "go" what they are going to be when (OCTOBER 2) TUESDAY (OCTOBER Civa) had to run around and do a heck of alot they"growup."Butformostofus, it is a 3) and WEDNESDAY (OCTOBER 4). of extra work this week trying to clarify the guesswork game where we zigzag back and (Yes, that's FOUR days away.) mix-up. (Like we don't have enough work to forth searching for the trail. Perhaps we are all trailblazers mapping out our own The sign-up sheet was located on the do already.) destinies as we go. bulletin board outside the bookstore - just Thank you ever so much for having a I took classes in business management, like it has been every year at this time - but tremendous effect on our lives this week. trigonometry, sociology, and education. I an individual(s) decided that it shouldn't be We are so sick and tired of paying the price studied photography and drawing. I loved there anymore and took it upon themselves for another person's act of disrespect. If them all. If I were a trailblazer, I must have to take it down. The sign-up sheet is now this is any indication of what the senior year lost my compass, because I was becoming more and more confused. located in Student Services outside of Rita's holds for us, then God help us all!

Listening to my advisers, I took tests, office.

Our apologies to the seniors who have worked as a tutor and signed up for more Well, we would like to take this opportu- been inconvenienced by this inconsiderate classes. Friends jokingly referred to me as a perennial student. nity to congratulate the human being who and disrespectful act.

By the last semester of my sophomore caused the entire senior class a tremendous year, I felt like a human ping-pong ball as amount of aggravation, confusion and inconI desperately bounced back and forth from Sincerely, majoring in education to mathematics to venience. That's quite an accomplishment psychology.

The effect was dizzying. for one person.

College applications piled higher as my We are so aggravated. We cannot underLee Mirenda and Paula Phillips desk became buried deeper and deeper. By stand the reason why any person would find 1990 Yearbook Senior Section Editor postponing the selection of a school I could avoid the selection of a major. Choosing a it funny, or cool, or great, or whatever, to and Editor-in-Chief school was synonymous with identifying a take something like a yearbook portrait signmajor of study. I felt that I couldn't do one up list down. WHAT IS THE POINT?

Seniors think lesson in respect needs to be learned by others

without the other.

Near tears, I wanted to admit defeat and give up.

But through all the courses I took I had acquired a degree of tenacity, a stick-to-it stubbornness that refused to quit. "I'd rather fly blind then give up," I declared to myself. I preferred a fuzzy, gray-area existence to none at all.

Spring was aching to burst forth from the frozen winter ground and I was finally filling out applications when my answer came to me from an unlikely source ...the gross room.

Frustrated by calculus derivatives and rectilinear motion, and interested in being chiropractors, a friend and I visited a local school. We were given the grand tour by a student guide.

"And this is the gross room," she said directing us toward the disection lab. The door was unlocked with jingling keys. We were smiling and nonchalant as though waiting to get something out of the janitor's closet.

The first thing I saw was a pair of rigid feet sticking out from underneath a plastic . covering. The formaldehyde-thick air burned acrid in my nostrils. "What am I doing here?'' I asked turning away from the stainless-steel tables with their draped, lifeless forms.

Usually, I make self-discoveries gradually, but at that moment I was being overwhelmed by a varity of new thoughts and awarenesses. The conversation continued around me, as our guide identified tendons, nerves and vertebraes. I felt horrified, yet intrigued.

I visualized a pristine, white sandy beach scattered with seashells with these stiff, unyielding human forms lying beside them.

The image collapsed. Instead, I imagined them as the people they once were, breathing and alive with soft , supple skin. They had once walked about, laughed and cried.

In measuring the possibilities of those silent forms, I was also estimating the value of my existence. I eagerly returned to my ''major dilemma.'' While I did not choose to be a chiropractor, I did find it a lot easier to complete my college applications.

"Bat-phobia" or not, life moves too quickly to spend all of our time anticipating the future or worrying about how to make only the right choices. I'm not really flying in the dark, but relying on my inner radar to navigate.

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by William A. Fulton Michelle Holmes, a senior biology major from Williamstown, N.J., has been chosen as the recipient of the Pennsylvania State Student Employee Award for the previous school year.

The award, sponsored by The Northeastern Association of Student Employment Administrators, recognizes students who are nominated by their individual schools as the outstanding student employee for that particular year. ''Each department at Cabrini was asked to nominate a student.employee for the award,'' Arlene Ditbrenner, director of financial aid said. '' After the nominations were received a committee from the college was formed to determine who would represent Cabrini for the state award.''

Holmes, who works in the admissions office, was nominated by fellow admissions office employees Lisa Bogan and Sister Antonina Avitabile, M.S.C. ''The recommendations of Lisa Bogan and Sister Toni played a significant part in Michelle's winning both the Cabrini and state award," Dittbrenner said.

Sister Avitabile, who now works in the registrar's office, explained her reasons why she nominated Holmes.

"There's so much I can say about Michelle," she said.

"No matter how menial a task we would give her, from

putting labels on out-going mail to even more important tasks such as giving a campus tour when needed, Michelle would always do it with th~ same enthusiasm and smile that she always had."

Avitabile said that Holmes didn't know that she and Bogan had nominated her for the award.

"When she found out she was so surprised," Avitabile said.

Holmes agreed that the news of the award came as a surprise. ''I received a letter in the mail over the summer which said I had won the state award,'' she said.

"This happened at a good time for me. It gave me a lift of confidence going into senior year."

Confidence is one of a variety of attributes Holmes has developed while working in the admissions office. ''I'm able to meet a lot of new people working in admissions and I have also learned so much about the school itself,'' Holmes said.

"Ifeel I've grown as a person from dealing with so many different types of people.''

Since working in admissions, Holmes has seen other changes in her as well.

"When I was a freshman I didn't work at all, so I wasn't very good at budgeting my time,'' she said.

"But, when I started to work in admissions during my sophomore year, I had less time for myself, so I had to learn to be a lot easier.

Monaco took this job because he knew the people there had something to contribute budget my time a lot better.''

Learning these skills serves to the campus community. ''The thing is is that I don't have to deal with vandalism or most students well. any other nonsense," he said.

According to Monaco, they have a lot of programs they want to "We try to give those stuput together. Among them is a special project through which they will be helping put dents who are involved in a child in Africa through school. According to Monaco, '' Whether it be big or small, we work study meaningful jobs,'' can make an impact on the community."

In addition to House 7 being a special interest house, Counsel Hall was also converted Dittbrenner said.

"This was the first year into an all women's special interest residence. Among the residents is Kate Mullen, junior, who lives in Counsel. She thinks that it's a real good opportunity and believes that Cabrini was involved in the everyone there is doing their best in making it happen.

Sharlene Sephton, sophomore, who also resides there worries of being thought of as a sorority. She adds that they don't want to be exclusive and don't want to put on airs.

She also exclaims that they are not limiting their functions; it's an open community affair where they can reach out to everybody.

Unlike these students who live in these special interest halls, some students simply think that the dorms should have remained the way they were.

Carol Risse, senior, said that she doesn't like the idea of House 7 converting into a male hall b~cause she and four other students were being thrown out of their house.

She also said that through rules and regulations were enforced more, whereas last year they had a lot of fun and because of this change that they had to suffer.

Because of this, she decided to get an apartment off campus, where she will no longer have to abide by anymore rules.

Although she agreed with Bonfiglio' s decision to create special interest houses, she thought that realistically it's not going to be a house of just studying. " There will be parties, she thought, but ''they will be overlooked just because they 're special.''

Mike Feeley, senior, was one of the students who had to be placed in another dorm due to the high increasing vandalism problem caused by many of the men who resided in the dorm last year. ''I think that living in Counsel last year, was my wildest year ever at Cabrini,'' he said.

However, Feeley said, '' When you make a mistake, you get a slap on the wrist, but when you do something right such as a 3.78 average while living in Counsel and high involvement in sports and clubs, where is the pat on the back?"

In addition, he said that when living in Counsel, there was a sense ofuniqueness and spirit that will never be forgotten. And even though they have separated, they still have a part of Counsel instilled in them wherever they went.

E.J. Hartman, senior, was another student hurt by the dean's decision due to the high vandalism problem that nearly destroyed House 4. As a result, he is now living in Xavier Hall and admitted having no part in that ordeal.

He went on to say how tough it is getting adjusted to the new rules, whereas last year, they were very lax.

Despite the mixed feelings shared among the campus community, everyone who had a part in the making are very happy with what has been done.

However, since this creation came into effect, there have been many concerns. Some of them major and others minor.

Among the most serious ones are threats to vandalize House 7, concerns about these students not measuring up to their promises, stereotyping and possibly insufficient housing for next year once the program gets underway.

According to John Doyle, director of resident life, as soon as he educates the whole community on the purpose of these facilities, there will be less tension among the campus community.

Doyle believes that once that is done students will see it for what it's worth. Then everyone will want to be a part of the program.

As he smiled, he added, ''We are educating people for life through the special interest halls and that's what college is all about."

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relatively new state-wide award program, so it's impressive that Michelle was chosen over a11those students throughout the state who were considered for this award."

While Holmes is honored with the awards she has received, the whole experience means something more to her. ''The fact that Sister Toni and Lisa nominated me reallly made the award special," she said. "It's also nice to know that the school appreciates the work of the students.''

'Tm so glad someone like Michelle gets recognized for winning this award,'' Avitabile said.

•'There are few people around like Michelle who are not only hard workers, but who are just pleasant to work with as wen. The only thing more I could say about her is that

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Sigma Omega, is not worried by the change.

"It should cause no probResidents and commuters may lems," McGillan said. "It's be surprised to find out that the Seiler's who is doing the catercafeteria will once again undergo ing, not Roland.'' a leadership change.

Haile is looking forward to After only one full year as the being back at Cabrini. He cafeteria director of food servremembers Cabrini as '' a very ices, Roland Young left his posicommunity-oriented school tion at Cabrini on Sept. 28. Young where the students are easy to did not leave for a new position in get along with.'' the Seiler's organization. Instead Haile's experience in the he has decided to pursue other industry not only includes being career options. director of food services and He said that something came production manager, but he has up and it was a matter of personal also traveled for Seiler's. happiness to move on.

Haile's agenda includes According to Maurene Burns, continuing to resolve personnel Seiler's district manager, burnproblems and maintaining the out is common in the food indusimage of Seiler's, while also try. making the students happy with When asked about the presthe service. sure of a food services manager, He said that there will be Young replied, "It is a crazy gradual changes for the dining industry. Things change so much services, but he plans on acting and it is hard to find happiness. on the students' suggestions.

Often you don't see the light at Former cafeteria director Roland Young oversees returning director Bill Haile as they discuss the He said that he '' deals with probthe end of the tunnel. It truly is a changes which have occured since 1985. (Photo by Frank Emmerich) lems on a one-on-one basis.'' burnout job."

Haile said he plans on being in the cafeteOne reason why Young has decided to but one filled with a lot of pressures. few months has also taken steps forward."

The food committee was not informed of ria at dinner time at least once a week to sit leave the food industry is so he will have Before coming to Cabrini, Young worked for Trinity College in Washington, D.C., for Young's decision at its semi-monthly and talk to students about the services. He the time to continue his education. At two years.

At Trinity he lived in a small meeting on Sept. 14, because, according to wants to create an atmosphere where adults present, he is enrolled at Saint Joseph• s apartment during the week, and commuted Bums, the college has a contractual relation- can compliment, praise and complain in an University where he is studying for his home for weekends.

His first year at Cabrini ship with Seiler' sand the college had not yet orderly and efficient manner. He said he MBA. was plagued with personal problems. been informed of Young's decision. Sister welcomes the openness of the food commitWhile the director of food services here, Young said that the resolution of personEileen Currie, president, and Robert Bon- tee, and sees it as an instrument to better the Young was working 60 to 70 hours per week. figlio, dean of students, were informed of communication between the students and nel problems has increased the quality of He said that he was not able to manage his the food services offered at the cafeteria. the decision on Sept.

15. personal time and his education working him. ''The quality of the food and the ambiSeiler's has decided to replace Young that many hours.

However, cafeteria workers are upset over'---'""' Young said that _hissix-year career at ence of the dining area has definitely in- with a former director of Cabrini's food the change.

Seiler' s was a valuable learning expetjence, creased," he said. "Thesnackbarinthe past services, Bill Haile.

"He (Roland) did an excellent job," Haile managed the cafeteria from 1983- Marion Linke said. "The board program 85. At present, Haile works as Seiler's pro- improved I 00 percent and the catering duction manager at St. Joseph's University. service improved I 000 percent.''

Haile was scheduled to start his training "I'm disappointed," Ruth Miller said. at his new position late last week, and he "I enjoyed working for him." will officially start on Sept. 29.

Although Frances Skinner said she hated Although Haile officially takes on the to see Young go, she knows Haile. In fact he responsibility of Parents Weekend, Young hired her to work at Cabrini. has agreed to assist him in providing the "Bill is par excellence, wonderful in special dining services. finances, has personality plus, and always Kelly McGillan, president of Kappa follows through,'' Skinner said.

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Sarah Greiss:a differenttype Woodcrestresident l>YMelissa Landsmann If asked to describe the typical freshmen, most people would characterize a new college student as a recent high school graduate; probably 18-years-old, worried about fitting in, away from home for the first time and apprehensive about courses.

Sarah Greiss, 45, does not fit the description of the typical new student. This Woodcrest resident is a widow of three years, motheroftwo grown children, and the author of "Embrace," a booklet of poetry on sale in King of Prussia stores. When she is not attending classes or writing poetry, she is working evenings at VanGuard Investment Group.

Many people were surprised to hear that Greiss wanted to live on campus. Her reasons for wanting to live on campus are practical. ''It is easier to study if you can go right from class back to your room to review, and you don't lose so much time traveling," Greiss said.

Since Greiss has always enjoyed having teenagers in her house, there are other benefits to living on campus.

"Being around young people again would be good for me," she said. "The freshman's presence acts as a stimulus instead of a deterrent to my learning experience."

When asked how she feels about Cabrini students, Greiss said, "The students are cordial and although I have not had much time to fa1k to them, I find them all to be polite."

One of the things that attracted Greiss to Cabrini was the curriculum and the knowledgeable professors.

"Their attitude towards education was what I thought it should be and something that other colleges seem to have forgotten," she said.

Greiss thought that Cabrini's professors

were well informed of the changes that are going on in the business world and was impressed that the course of study allows the. students to be marketable in the workplace.

A human resource management major, Greiss feels that the field is going to become much more important in industry in the coming years. Greiss already has had experience in the business field as she has been working in the sales division of a company in the King of Prussia area. ''The only way to truly learn what you are being taught is to experience it for yourself in the business world," Greiss said.

Greiss describes herself as "proyouth."

"Today's generation is more independent and less conscious about what their peers think. They are concerned about such issues as the environment."

She views today's youth as being more sure of themselves than they were in previous generations. She also thinks that they're more committed to the system in order to obtain a solution that is viable for all parties involved.

"Young people today are more aware of current events and are, consequently, more willing to question," Greiss said. "They don't just listen to the news and accept it, they ponder what they are hearing. They are not merely allowing their gut emotions to lead them, they are more analytical and objective.''

Although Greiss feels that students are more serious than they once were, she still views them as being open to having fun.

A working mother at a time when most mothers stayed in the home, Greiss describes her relationship with her son and daughter as close. She was never an uptight mother and would rather spend quality time with her

children than make sure she had the "perfect" home. As a result, her children are supportive of her in her decision to return to

college.

Greiss said she does not have much need for worrying about what other people think about her or her lifestyle.

"When you are busy doing what you do well, you do not have time to criticize others nor do you want to because you are having so much fun," Greiss said.

"It's surprising that a 45-year-old can come back to college as a full-time resident, but if she can do it, then good for her,'' said Karen Kerchusky, freshman.

Kim Keck and Maria Toth, both freshmen, who live across the hallway from Greiss have not met her.

Nostaligicexhibitin library will lead to fond memories

by Kristen Mainero A stroll down memory lane is what some case. Among these are Dr. Joseph Romano, alumni will be doing when they return for Dr. Jolyon Girard, Dr. Jerry Zurek and Dr. Parents Weekend. To aid them in this jaunt Carter Craigie. Roccas admitted that while will be an exhibit in the library entitled she would have liked to put everyone in, "You're Following in Good Footsteps." therejustwasn'tenoughroom in the display.

This exhibit showcases alumni who have The display made use of old yearbooks returned here to teach and also shows from the library archives. Included in the professors who have been at Cabrini for showcase are senior pictures of the alumni awhile. Along with the exhibit is a short quiz who have returned and candid shots of the for all who are interested in trying to guess professors thatspanJhe 60's and early 70's. who is who from the vintage photographs.

Cabrini has a wonderful sense of family Linda Roccas, readers' services assistant, that is unique and appealing and that is why along with some help from Mother Ursula graduates come back, according to Janet Infante, founding president of college, is Dalberto, directorof the library. " Knowing responsible for putting together the exhibit. that the teachers in the exhibit have been One of the reasons the exhibit was done was teaching at Cabrini for a number of years to show the professors that their commit- displays the love and dedication they have ment to Cabrini has been appreciated. It also for the school, which sets a good example for gives students a sense of history. the students attending," Jackie Albrecht, Sr. Eileen Currie. MSC, is among the four sophomore. said. graduates who have returned here to Cabn.!!¡ n!!.i-~Th=e~e::c-x.hibit, which was i_pstalledin.J.nidto work. It was random selecting that die- September, will be up until the middle of tated which of the professors would be in the October. It is located on the second floor in library.

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"I have only seen her pass by," Keck said. '' Sarah has not been at any of the dorm functions," said Randi Schweriner, Woodcrest manager.

"I'd like to see her participate more," Kerchusky said. "I really wish she would."

"Sarah can take advantage of all that this year has to offer," said Pam Stempleski, Woodcrest resident assistant. "She is a great potential resource person in Woodcrest. She has such a diverse background as a person with a job, family and many life experiences.

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Rooyman planted seeds that will blossom forever

by Carlo Iacono From the flats of India to the rolling acres of Cabrini, the Rev. Rudy Rooymans planted a seed of love and caring that remains in full bloom today.

Father Rudy's official position was head resident chaplain at Cabrini from 1968 to his untimely death in 1975, but he wasn't restricted to just that title. ''My office is where my school bag is,'' Rooymans would exclaim. And from that office Rooymans would be a "walking ambassador of Cabrini,., according to Sister Bernadette Anello, directorof campus ministry.

"He was the closest human I've ever met who had saintlike qualities,·' said Dr. Carter Craigie. professor of English. Though saintlike, Father Rudy attained camarade-

In the pre-campus ministry days at Cabrini, Father Rudy would bring the church to the people. But he was very informal in his presentation. A definite Vatican II man, Father Rudy would wear a turtle neck most of the day instead of his Roman collar. rie through his human qualities.

"Father Rudy defined the word human being," said Dr. Arthur Young, professor of English. '' A living example of the kinder and gentler side of humans."

Father Rudy accomplished more in a campus walk than many would in a formal setting. With his silver-streaked hair, vibrant smile, and delightful Dutch accent he was visually quite striking. He would listen to faculty and students alike and know when to offer a kind word or when tobackaway. "He was very funny, had a wonderful control oflanquage, and knew when to comfort or edge. With those twinkling Irish eyes he was ready magic,•' Craigie said.

Father Rudy was a native of Gernert, the Netherlands, where he entered the Norbertine Abbey of Berne in 1931. In 1938 he went to live in India where he served as principal of St. Aloysius High School,Jabalpur, and as vice-principal of St. Aloysius College, in the same village. He came to the United State'Sfor the first time in 1950 to spend a year at St. Norbert College (West DePere, Wis.) where he received a degree in education and philosophy. When he embarked upon a second missionary tour in India. where he started a high school and a social center in the slums of Bombay.

During these years he also founded the first Nobertine Priory at Jamtara, Jabalpur. He returned to the U.S. in 1967, where he subsequently joined the Norbertine Father's Daylesford Abbey in Paoli. In 1968 he was named resident chaplain at Cabrini and took residency in the gatehouse.

In the pre-campus ministry days at Cabrini, Father Rudy would bring the church to the people. But he was very informal in his presentation. A definite Vatican II man, Father Rudy would wear a turtle neck most of the day instead of his Roman collar. He was even buried in a white turtle neck under his priest cloak. ''Father Rudy was a wonderful configuration of a man who was a confessor to most of the people on this campus," said Anello.

"Father Rudy was a vibrant il)teractor and a good listener," said Sister Julia Toto, assistant

professor of education. '' A model of what I wanted in a Catholic priest,:' said Andrew Litavec, assitant professor of education, "he was concerned about students academically as well as spiritually."

"Father Rudy was·a very progressive and caring person - well ahead of his time,·' said Father Hubert Beaudoin of the Daylesford Abbey, "very much a human being who didn't hide behind a collar.·• "He was a great story teller who had an idea to make you better he listened," Young said.

Dr. Jolyon P. Girard, professor of history, best remembers Father Rudy as a scholar with a great global perspective. •·He knew the world and maintained the best in it,'' said Girard.

When he spoke of his missionary days in India, Father Rudy was fond of how he went there to teach and wound up learning. "He talked of an 'unsophiticated' India being so much in touch with the creator," Craigie said.

Rooyman would say that his office was where ever his schoolbag was.(Photo courtesy of w1975Woodcrest'1

The legacy that Father Rudy left behind is both tangible and intangible.

The man's name is prominently preserved on the counseling center building, but what is not so obvious is the legacy of love that he left behind to the faculty and staff.

"He developed the spirituality of the faculty that still stands to this day. We relied upon his judgement and wisdom as a valuable asset,'' Litavec said.

"The spiritual legacy that he left at Cabrini will be his most lasting monument," said Father Beaudoin.

The Cabrini that Father Rudy left in 1975 has gone

through many physical as well as enrollment changes.

According to many, Father Rudy woold be pleased with the growth. · 'He would be happy to see the growth and more importantly the same base of spirit. He would still demand that we be present. He would hope that we would still be concerned with the same thoughts of presence,'' said Anello.

"Father Rudy would be delighted and have approved that we our accomplishing a Christian atmosphere within all aspects of the institution,'' added Toto.

"He would be excited and he'd like it a lot," said Dr. Craigie.

"Father Rudy would be pleased with the enrollment, freshman advising, and he would have loved the new buildings. I can see him pointing out stuff during the construction.''

Even the event of his death occurred during the holy season of Christmas and in a quiet and unassuming way. ''Father Rudy had been sick a couple of days after the students had left for break. He missed mass prior to the faculty and staff dinner so we became concerned. We went down to the gatehouse and found him passed away, probably in his sleep, in a chair. The official cause was a returning case of malaria. We grieved and called a Norbertine brother to do the annointing. We went on with the staff dinner, albeit somberly, because we felt he would have wanted it that way," said Anello.

"When students foundouttheycamebacktoschool and we took a bus to the Daylesford Abbey for his funeral. It was as if he passed away after the students left in order not to create a disturbance,'' said Anello.

"Nobody will ever forget him," said Toto. "The spirit of Father Rudy was contagious."

Though a small man in physical stature, the man was big in soul. "With that silver white hair if that wasn't a halo, it was dam close," Craigie said. "You knew he was in collaboration-with God." ''He never dwelled on the negatives of people because he was always positive," said Litavec. "It was as if he was always ready to grow and bear fruit.''

Anello said, ''Father Rudy didn't have hours. That is because loving humans usually don't.''

Editor'sNote: In keeping with the spirit of change that has been present on campus during the summer, the Counseling Center has taken a new name. They will now be refered to as The RooymansCenter In making the change the campus will be paying homage to Father Rudy Rooymans, a man of great compassion and generosity of spirit, for whom the building was originally named.

The name change also more accurately reflects the range of services available in the building, including the Health Services, the Center for Academic Reinforcement (CARe), the offices of Resident Life and the Counseling Services.

The Reverened Rudy Rooyman will live forever in the college's memory as a walking ambassador of Cabrini. (Phot courtsey of "1975 Woodcrest'1

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Parents:

Making adjustments and doin' just fine Editor's Note: This is the second of a two part series on how families make the tranlsition when a child goes to college

find unexpected opportunities for their own development.''

For some parents, it seems as if they just bid farewell to their child suchashortamountoftimeago.

"It hasn't been that long since we dropped him off," said Charlie Waterfall's father. "Sure there is a void that we need to get used to.'' However, Charlie calls home frequently enough that his parents feel comforted, and secure about the fact he was the

by Angie Corbo At one time or another, a parent may come to realize the subtle changes that occur when their child is no longer at home. What do parents do to adjust to the changes that have. recently taken place in their household, once the student goes to college?

"We scattered clothes on the floor of her room," Leah Rose, mother of freshman, Lisa Rose, said. ''The room is now used as our ironing room,'' as Lisa discovered the first time that she and a friend went home for a short visit.

"I am doing the dishes more on a regular basis now," the father of Ann Sexton, freshman, said. Overall, the transition is very much as the Sextons had anticipated. They had always been an "independent" family. The parents were always fortunate enough to be able to break away and spend time together, while the girls had their free time apart from the parents. When Ann and her sisterleft for school this fall, the parents were not shocked to discover what life is like without a child at home. l)lis, however, is a normal reaction for parents to feel when the last child leaves the "nest," according to Dr. Katherine Preston, directorof the counseling center. "Most parents do the 'preparation' work when they realize that the last child will be leaving," Preston said. Many times this preparation will begin when the child is in the sophomore or junior year of high school. After one child leaves, the parents generally know how to handle and prepare for the "blow" of the others who follow.

The departure of the first child is generally a little more difficult for parents to face. Preston said, '' A lot of parents, once they've gotten over the feelings of loss or grief, often

"We scattered clothes on the floor of her room," Leah Rose, mother of freshman, Lisa Rose, said. "The room is now used as our ironing room."

- Leah Rose, mother of freshman, Lisa Rose "I am doing the dishes more on a regular basis now."

- Richard Sexton, father of freshman, Ann Sexton first child to leave.

Waterfall felt reassured that Cabrini's setting was so calm and picturesque, that Charlie would have a relaxed area to study. This was an impressionable item for Waterfall,Sr., a Temple graduate.

a "motherly view" of her son's college experience. She asked him about the food in the cafeteria and the noise level in the dorms.

Mothers seem to voice the same concern: the noise in the residence halls. Mary Ann Marczyk is anxiously awaiting for her son Brian to get the phone installed in his room.

She realized that calling on a hall phone is not always the most effective way to get in touch with her son.

"When he gets the phone in his room, I can 'bother him,''' Marczyk said. Although trying to get in touch with Brian is sometimes burdensome, she is pleased with the idea that her son is already getting involved with campus life.

Marczyk is working on WCAB, the college radio station.

This is his niche that will introduce him to vast world of extra-curricular activities.

Most upperclass students and school leaders confessed to the freshmen at ori¥Qtation that this was the best way to be. involved in college life. Not only does this teach the student how to balance his or her schedule, but it makes campus life more enjoyable.

Students however, are not the only ones who need to juggle schedules. Parents of Mike Finn, freshman will be doing quite a bit of juggling this weekend.

The family has three children in college at present. During this weekend they will celebrate Parents Weekend both here and at St. Joesph's with their daughter, who is a senior. Next weekend they will be at LaSalle for their other daughter's celebration. Fortunately for the parents' schedule, the oldest daughter just graduated from Villanova. If she would still be a student, the Finns would have been at Parents Weekend also last weekend. That would mean three straight weekends in October, for four children.

Recapping it all, in both this article and in the Parent/ Student adjustment article in the first issue of LOQUITUR, bo th th e parents and st udents seem content.

Sharon Sheedy, junior resident assistant, and Kevin Kochner,junior, resident assistant both agree that the degree of home-sickness is surprisingly low.

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New title, new place; she's still the same Ruth

by Meghan M. Flannery Even on a dark and rainy morning, Ruth Scott adds cheer and color to the new atrium of Grace Hall. Her desk is always bright with fresh flowers, and from her ·station beneath the skylight she greets everyone who breezes

through.

For those who don't know, Scott is telecommunications coordinator and receptionist for the college. Anyone familiar with her knows not to call her a telephone operator. ''That saying went out with button shoes,''

Ruth Scott, telecommunicationscoordinator and receptionist extraordinaire, her post , welcoming all to the new Grace Hall. (Photo by Kristen Kroll) )

Scott said.

For 15 years, Scott has worked outside the business office in the mansion. Last Tuesday, she moved to the recently renovated Grace Hall.

The board of trustees decided to move Scott in order to accomodate the increased volume of traffic through Grace Hall. Also, the move created much needed space for the business office in the mansion.

Scott said she is "delighted" about the move which she views as a challenge.

•'With all the work put into the renovations and moving the offices from Sacred Heart, Grace Hall deserves a receptionist,'' Scott said.

Scott will no longer be a cashier for the business office. Students wishing to pick up work study checks or cash personal checks can do so in the business office located in the mansion.

"I likeditbetterwhen Ruth was cashing checks,'' said Melissa Landsmann, sophomore. '' She would always joke around, saying she was going to keep my money.''

Scott still has plenty of duties to keep her busy. Her responsibilities range from answering the active switchboard to administering fashion advice. '' Just this morning, a woman came to me to ask how she should wear her scarf,'' Scott said. ''They come to me because they know I used to run a charm and modeling school.''

Later in the morning, Scott demonstrated her receptive effeciency. Federal Express arrived with a package addressed only to ''.Nancy: Cabrini College". Within minutes, Scott tracked down the correct Nancy and directed the delivery men to her.

Scott's skills are also exemplified on the switchboard she uses. She handles with ease many calls at a time on a system she helped design.

''They said it wouldn't work, that the line couldn't run all the way from the mansion," she said. "I suggested they use adouble line and it worked. It was one of the best nights of my life when we picked up that phone and it worked."

Scott's combination of efficiency and friendliness endears her to her co-workers.

Jen Morrison, sophomore, is working with Scott for her second year.

"Ruth is a sweetheart," she said. "The move has been great for her. She loves to be out here where she can see everyone, especial{y thekids."

Scott's former co-workers in the busines office see Grace Hall's gain as the mansion's loss.

"It's just not the same without Ruth," said Elaine Rice,accountingmanager. "We miss her."

In the hustling madness of the business world, Scott literally makes people take time out to smell the flowers.

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Extention8245; not the onlyway to get security.

by Anna-Marie Karlsen Admit it! Everyone around you knows that behind that tough exterior lies the reality that you had a teddy bear! A big soft, squashy, adorable stuffed TEDDY BF I\R! Oh sure, say that your mother made you carry it around and say you loved it, but WE know. Who do you think we are? We had them, ¡too.

There is nothing to be ashamed of with owning a teddy bear. To many people, it is an integral part of growing. up. However, most people only find the need for one as a child. ''I would say that people outgrow security items, but sometimes return to them as the need arises," says Dr. Katherine Preston, director of the couseling center.

Although there is no real reason to be ashamed of a teddy bear or a like counterpart, men as a general rule don't save these cute little friends.

"We generally don't see men

forming the kinds of attachments to security items that we see in littJe children and in women, but that may well be because it is not as socially acceptable,'' Preston said.

Our bears also have many ~ources. They come from Mommy and Daddy (although Daddy usually lets Mommy pick those "girl'' things out), Santa Claus, even the Easter Bunny. But the most important source of "bears" is Grandma!

They al ways have one, and on each and every visit! One person said that she takes a blanket, that her Grandmother made, with her everywhere. "It doesn't have a real name. It just has a lot of meaning to me.

Personal meaning.''

Darrel Sifford, a writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer, said, ''Teddy bears make little children of us all, at least for a few moments, when we can cut through the garbage of adulthood and see things as they are.'' He also wrote about a popular form of therapy 20 years ago called primal therapy, developed by Arthur Janov. This therapy used teddy bears and other

stuffed toys to bring people back to their childhood to heal emotional wounds that still affect the patient.

There are actually two kinds of teddy bears. There are the kind you can buy in any store. They are generally very soft and plush, possessing the most subtle expressions you have ever seen. They will cost somewhere around $25 to $50. Then there are the artist version dolls. They are hand-made and "bear" the name of the artist.

They will costupwards of $300 for the inexpensive ones. Sadly, these are usually put on shelves and never hugged.

Dolores Groseck, a teddy bear artist, says that creating teddy bears is more than fur and glue.

"You can teach anybody to make arms and legs, but you can't just teach eye placement so that the feeling comes through.''

Mary Shimkus is happy that her bear, named "Teddy," was with her on one particular night ''Teddy came with some friends and me camping. Later that night, a real bear was roaming around the camp-

ground. I held Teddy out facing the door and screamed 'Don't you dare come in this cabin.' at the bear, and it left."

A 19-year-old Woodcrest resident named Trish Lee is a lucky person. She has two ''bears.'' One is a bunny named Dalts, who is named after a restaurant that she and her boyfriend, Kyle, had tried to get into one night four years ago.

The other is a Pooh-bear doll named "Pooh." She received Pooh from her friend April in February. The two sleep with her, so they have to be there or all heck breaks loose.

Lee said, I sleep with both of them.

One night I couldn't find Dalts and I didn't sleep all night. It just didn't feel right."

There are even some people who have a good luck charm that makes them feel more secure. Lia Terrey in the Continuing Education office carries with her a special keychain. It has a picture of Pope John Paul II on the one side. The other side has the Vatican's flag and the flag of her home country of Peru. "It doesn't always work, but

I do feel more secure with it."

"I neverthoughtofLuv-a-lotas a good Iuck charm. As a matter of fact, I already have Care Bear Good Luck bear!" Said Jacqui Ricci.

She thinks of her Luv-a-lot bear as a security item and companion.

Where does she take Luv-a-Jot? She said, "Oh, Luv-a-lot goes everywhere!''

But as I said, not all of us have a teddy bear in our past. One woman on campus told me that her "bear" was a set of drumsticks. She says, "When I get nervous, I have to have something in my hands. They just fill the need. I also have a set of bongo drums.'' Although the drumsticks are different, they do supply her with a therapeutic value.

She ends with a smile, "The more I play, the more relaxed I become.''

There is no real specific size or color of your little friend. However, if there were a way to describe the teddy bears that are all over campus, most will agree that they are all just big enough to give a "bear-hug."

By the way, have you hugged yourteddy bear today? ¡

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Kappa'sinvolvementaffectsadmi$Sions

by Jim Bligh Kappa Sigma Omega's importance to the admissions office is growing, artd according , to Laurie Bentz, associate director ofadmissions, their mission is to actively and positively communicate what Cabrini is all about to prospective students.

On Sept. 20, a special Kappa meeting was held in the new Grace Hall Conference Room to <::onsolidatea message that was both positive and truthful about Cabrini, and consistant with the goals of the admissions office.

Bentz coordinated the meeting, and explained that it is the students. not the admission counselors, who make the biggest impact on applicants.

"Seventy percent of Cabrini students chose Cabrini because of the positive feeling they got during their visit, and that is largely due to the Kappa members,'' Bentz said.

Although Kappa has been involved with the admissions process for quite some time, by helping with open house and conducting personal tours of the school and campus, it hasn't been used as much as it could have, according to Bentz.

Over the last two or three years, several new appointments to the admissions staff initially reduced their effectiveness to train incoming Kappa members. ''Now that the office has had time to learn and grow together as a unit, we are more ready to help ·the Kappa members help us better," said Nancy Gardner, director of admissions.

The admissions office has been busy as of lately. With a projected drop in admissions for most colleges in general for the next few years, any admissions office would have a right to be concerned.

Gardner realized something needed to be done to avoid this situation, and called in a marketing firm to survey current Cabrini students, alumni and high school students from several areas. The purpose was to find out how Cabrini saw itself, and then how potential students viewed it. · "I knew Cabrini had plenty of things to be proud of," Gardner said.

"It was just a matter of finding out

more successful.

Some of the results of the informationgathering surveys shouldn't surprise too many people. Most surveyed considered Cabrini a small school that allowed for personal growth not always present at larger institutions, and the opportunity to "Stand Out From the Crowd."

Ironically, that slogan, which at one time was under consideration to be changed,

aren't compensated for their time and energy; they are volunteers whom we rely on more and more to help make the personal contacts with the applicants.'· And how do the members of Kappa feel about this?

"I feel good about being in Kappa," said Debbie Frankenfield,junior. "It's nice to be able to share some of my experiences with the prospective students, while we discover together if Cabrini is the right place for them.''

For the applicant, it can be tiring to visit school after school being treated "like a "I knew Cabrini had plenty of things to be number." so friendly and personable tour guides can make a big difference to them. proud of, it was just a matter of finding out It can also surprise the guide. exactly what mattered most to the people who "It's really neat when someone will come up to you and say, 'I remember you. You knew Cabrini best, and what the potential were one of my group leaders last spring,"' students were most concerned with." ,said Melissa Middleman, junior. ''Ina way, you feel responsible for help-Nancy Gardner ing them choose Cabrini." director of admissions '' Kappa members are our special ambassadors,'' Gardner said. ''They go out and make the first contacts.

They help get a feel for the applicant, and exactly what mattered most to the people was greeted very favorably by most polled, can make each tour a personal one, by who knew Cabrini best, and what the poten- especially the high school students, and has asking questions and relating personal tial students were most concerned with, so been kept. experiences.

If the applicant has any special we could promote those aspects."

Gardner said the image that Cabrini concerns, then that person is referred to the A separate survey was also sent around wishes to present of itself to prospective right place and the right people," she said. to various departments throughout the col- students is that of "quality education in a Gardner said that she sees a continuing lege to try and invite constructive criticism personalized environment, and located on a need for Kappa in the admissions office. of the student tours. No one knows what's beautiful campus." ''What I like is that Kappa is brought in to New publications were designed to make more important to each department than the be an extention of the Admissions office." people who run them, so their suggestions the Kappa members' job that much easier. are bound to help the students give a more ''I think Kappa members are doing a great Gardner said.

"They do a great job. And as far as the accurate view of each, according to Gardner. job. They really are making the difference future is concerned, their role will become In addition, tour evaluation forms are here at Cabrini." Bentz said. more important as admissions gets more given to the prospective student, with the ''Our applications have risen while most competitive among the different area hope that any positive or negative feedback of the area colleges are down. And I think schools." will make the personal tours stronger and it's important to realize that Kappa members ,_

RELAXAND --RENEW YOURSELF! YOGACLASSES BEGINNING 9/25

Parents, Students and Alumni --

Have a Blast at Cabrini'sFirstHomecoming!

September 30, 1989

The Institutional Advancement Staff

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Studentsfrom 1 ··A liberal education gives the student the opponunity to appreciate learning more," Ydung said. "Act 10 l ensures cenain students who meet certain skills will appreciate the liberal education more."

However, a number of professors at Cabrini did think that a ponion of Cabrini students need basic preparation in a number of fields. For those students the college offers courses such as Eng 10 l and Math 112. Some students who are a little more advanced than others usually get exempt from such classes and can get further into their major quicker than the average student.

"We are reviewing things that students should have le~ed in high school," said James Hedtke, assistant professor of history and political science. "Some students are strong in some areas and others are weak in some areas.

To make students more competent in what they are studying professors can administer tests to see if the students are prepared enough. Judging from the results the professors can gauge how much time they need to spend on reviewing, and how fast or how slow they can move.•'

"A liberal education gives the student the opportunity to appreciate learning more."

-Dr. Arthur Young

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According to Hedtke, some students are entering college without knowing the basics.

'• Jumping right into a higher level math instead of having to review fractions would be beneficial to the teacher as well as to the rest of the class,• ' Hedtke said ''That is not the way life is, and if certain individuals need special attention they should be given more work and watched more closely."

Moving beyond remedial-type courses and basic introduction course, other professors thought of different ways to provide students with a basic preparation.

• 'In order to better prepare students we have to look at the careers students are prepared for," said Dr. Dawn Middleton, assistant professor of education. •'Academic programs have to reflect the students future. Liberal arts courses as well as major courses have to fit the same mold.•' "Do not allow students to take passive classes," said Dr. Jolyon Girard, professorofhistory. "Makethemgoout and do more on their own such as get internships and co-op's.

After these types of experiences, students are better prepared for the real world that lies ahead of them.•' _. "Students have to take the knowledge they learn in the classroom and apply it in the outside world," said Dr. Joseph Romano, professor of philosophy. "It does not make sense to teach ethics in a classroom and then go out and tear a dormitory apart. We cannot produce students who only speak about their majors. If we did that we would have narrow minded people who are one-dimensional.''

Dr. Carter Craigie, professor of English and communications, has 21 years of teaching experience at Cabrini behind his suggestions.

"In order for students to be better prepared we should build classes around problem solving so that students get experience in science, the arts, and math,•' Craigie said.

"This will allow the students to look at problems from different perspectives, and come up with intellectual answers.'' '' A lot of mechanics such as writing should be stressed. said Cosmo Rose, radio instructor. '' Students are reluctant to write because not enough of it is stressed. Mandatory writing programs would definately better prepare the students."

How to strengthen college education?In order to strengthen college education, professors think that liberal education must be stressed.

The Carnegie Study found that 56 percent of all faculty members thought undergraduate education would be improved if there were more emphasis placed on broad liberal education.

Here at Cabrini, most professors felt that a broader liberal education would definitely benefit the students.

"A broad liberal education gives the students more diversity,'' Middleton said. ''The student has to come into the class with a general sense of what he wants to learn. He can then talk to the professor, and together they can formulate a syllabus that will allow the student to become more well rounded. The teacher's syllabus has to complement the student· s agenda. This way the professors can see what the students need and what they want to get out of the courses.·· ''Liberally educated people are more marketable. A liberal education is better for career development," Hedtke said. '' Students are no longer locked into one major.

Broadening a student's liberal education can help him do well in classes outside his major. This type of education allows the student to have a better perspective on the world."

"Colleges are not producing students who only speak about their majors," Rose said. "When a person graduates with a broad liberal education he can put more into his work because he is more interested in everything that is going on around him, and not just focused on events that go on in his line of work. The liberally educated person can carry on a conversation with someone who is totally different from him as a result of his broad knowledge. This person does not have to feel intimidated because he is well-rounded.••

CabrinPs means to strengthen college education.A new core curriculum was instiuted in an attempt to strengthen the general education of students at Cabrini. Fre hmen will be the ones most affected, while the rest of the student body will still take general education requirements.

"The new core should expose students to things they were never exposed to before,'' said Dr. Sharon Schwane, chair of the philosophy department.

"The seminars will give them more coherence and a broader cultural background. Before, students had to take so many courses from each department, but now they can move on to new areas of learning.

"We want students to see the connection between the classes they take. In the past, students would put such things as cars and music at the forefront of importance. Our attempt was to make them think of civic issues and things that are going on in the community around them.•' Freshmen this year are taking Seminar 100 programs, which are writing intensive. The coursework will continue in their sophomore year and in their junior year they will take Seminar 300, which has the theme of the common good. This course will combine such disciplines as communications and business, with a concern for the good of society.

-Parent: How's that math class that was gining you trouble?

-Freshman: I got a tutor in the CARE Center and I got a perfect quiz grade the next day.

-Parent: Do they only offer math help1 Freshman: No, my roommate is getting help in writing and economics . They have help in all subjects and it doesn't cost you a thing. They're located in RRCC. That's the building next to the library.

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Parent: I'm so glad you're getting the help you need. Now I don't have toe,ut you!

"We want to help the students ·nk outside of narrow disci1ines," Sch wane said.

"Students are too worried about etting jobs when they graduate d do not want to take classes that ill make them better people. tudents should be more intersted in paintings at the Art Muum.

"They should be able to make onnections between paintings and ssiblyawar or a movie. Having at type of knowledge makes it un to go on cultural trips because he person can see the relationship tween different things."

In keeping with that belief, ch wane made an insight into the orld of the liberally educated

rson.

"Good people at thetopofthe orld are not narrowly eduated," Schwane said. "A pern who goes to hairdressing hool only knows things that have o do with hairdressing.'•

~Dean's

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The following students have made the Dean· s list for the spring semester of 1989:

SENIORS Marian Armstrong Mary Elizabeth Beckett Diane Leslie Flint Kerry Maureen Gallagher Stephanie Tina Giardini Harry Hagan Samantha Hidlebird Karen Marie Holcombe Andree M Jost Judith Ann Krajnak Paul Kropiewnicki Jill Meredith Lehman LaTonya Lucille Lucas Heather L Marotta Kathleen Anne McCabe Mary McGill Maeghan Mercer Patricia Ann Miller Barbara Marie Noone Karen Ann O'Connor Terrie Anne Pancio Jeffrey Sander Christine Schlindwein Julie Ann Sledzeski Andrea Thompson Jennifer Lynn Wimmer

JUNIORS Dana Alessandrine Dorothea Beckett Robert Bell Aimee Bisiakowski Kathleen Brennan Colleen Camey Denise Civa LindaConroy Patricia Conway Angie Corbo Heather Corlett Lisa Corridoni Diane Crosley Peter Dabback Nancy Dadourian Victoria Daywalt Christine Dreger Elizabeth Durbano Kimberly Egresits Althea Falconero Michael Feeley Patricia Fitzgerald Kathleen Flynn John Gallagher Stephen Geary Rosemary Giangiulio Marko Gittens Lisa Goldberg Geraldine Gorman Michelle Holmes Aliza Insogna Susan Johnson Diane Kadash Patricia Keogh Kristen Kroll Donna Kulesa Robin Lacey Margaret Lewis Kelly Ann Lyons Alice Mahoney Minette Cannon Malkoch Michael McNichol Sean McWilliams Rosalie Mirenda Joyce Mundy Sherry Nesbaum Viginia Obrecht Paula Phillips

RebeccaRebalsky Andrea Romano Christine Royce Kare·n Salemo Kristen Schaller Dawn Scott Linda Srnisko Lisa Smith

James Steffler Shari Tachna Maria Tatta Evelyn Waggenhoffer Rosemarie Wellman Carolyn Wilson Paul Zulli Kathleen Zwaan-Donato

SOPHOMORES Tracey Andress Jeffrey Barnes Elizabeth Baumstark Natacha Bolufer Nonna Borzillo Linda Collins Christine Conti Carrie Corr Doris Costello Georgina Demas Kevin George James Heasley III Heather Hinkle Timothy Janusz Jeanine Kederis Catherine Libertz Nancy Luongo Lisa Martelli Mary McBlain Kristine McCarthy Barbara McPhelim Michelle Merger Susan Moriarity Shawn Mott Tami Moylan Katherine Mullen Suzanne O'Connor

ChristinaPasqualini Christine Piombino Beth Reed Patricia Renz Dolores Rodgers Ralph Romano Karen Shank

FRESHMAN Megan Boyle Amy Carroll Denise Castorani Laura Colamosca Kathleen D' Amelio Frank Emmerich Meghan Flannery Stacey Gaiser Lesa Ganavazos Michele Gerhart Diane Glancy Elizabeth Goldman Alissa Guerra Carlo Iacono Melanie Johnston Kristine Karwoski Donna Kindig Clyde Laforest Melissa Landsmann Michele Maguire Deborah Malveaux Ray Mescallado Kathleen Murray Antonia Muskett Elizabeth O'Shea Ann Olswald Christopher Pesotski Amanda Picher Beth Rivenburgh Christina Roach Heather Scheetz William Schellinger Sharlene Sephton Christine Smith Barbara Stone Tanya Teece Eileen Turner Rosemarie Visalli

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Women's tennis aces opponents

by Pamela Stempleski Erin McCarte, sophomore, is the fourth addition to the core group of returning members of the tennis team. McCarte, although injured for the first game against East Stroudsburg is The women's tennis team started this year's season with a record of 5-1.

The team's first game, with East Stroudsburg, was their only loss so far. Since then, they seen by Day as having great potential for this season also.

Sophomore Kim Wheeler is also returning to the team this year. She has seen some action have maintained a five game winning streak.

The team lost their number two, four, and seven-seeded players to graduation last year, in the doubles games.

Celeste Eschbach, freshman, and seeds second and thhd for the team this season. and coach Reggie Day was unsure as to how they would recover.

"Celeste has had some tough matches. She's been forced into hard "We had a good group of girls last year. This year we lost three girls starting positions, and has made some freshman mistakes, but it's who were really strong. but we have a good core group this year, and a big adjustm~nt, and she's been handling it incredibly well," Day I hope we can do even better than last year. The work we put in during said. summer.camphelpedtodevelopa sense ofunity._ The returning girls · There are five other first-year players on the team this season. can help pave the way for the freshman," Day said.

Susie Detrick plays second and third. Detrick is a transfer This is also the first year that the team has been recognized as sophompre from Susquehanna University and is doing very well, aNCAADivisionlllteam. This means that thecompetition is much according to Day. Currently, her record is 4-2. tougher. Cabrini now plays with teams such as East Stroudsburg April Scott, although she suffered from a hand injury in the (Division II), Moravian (Division III) and Textile (Division II). beginning of the season, has seen some play time, and has been a Heather Schwarz, senior co-captain, seeds first this season and has strong doubles player. a personal record of 4-2. "Heather's record is not too bad considering Scott was impressed by how well the team got along. "I think she's been up against some pretty strong players. She's done very well the coach thinks we get along too well, because we may socalize in doubles too,'' Day said. too much," she said. Scott is hopeful that the season will be Schwarz feelsthattheteamhassomeroomfor improvement. "We productive. "I think we could win every game with some effort. have a winning record, butthe team as a whole isn't doing so great yet.

Marywood should be tough, but I think we'll do O.K. overall," We have a good chance of winning the ESAC championship," Scott said.

Schwarz said.

Stacey Koneski had a late start with the team as she couldn't Schwarz feels that the team,'s overall attitude needs improving. attend summer camp, but Day said that she has a lot to contribute "Thecoachisreallytryingtohelpus.

He wants usto work itout. We to the team and will probably do well. · really need to just get in gear," Schwarz said.

Freshman Michele Yorgan is new to the tennis court. Day feels Coach Day stated that the new tennis courts have added to the that with a little initiative, she can help the team out down the road. team's encouraging year. "We're visible now, and really have the "She'll be improving, as I hope all the girls do." possibility to do well with ournew 'home court advantage'. We also Yorgan feels that being on the tennis team has helped her adjust have the opportunity now to host tournament play,"Day said. to school Q.Yerall." It's a great team, and getting to know them at Day suggested that there is the chance that a Philadelphia- area, summer camp helped a lot. It was a lot of work, but fun, too.''

Catholic-college tournament is in the making.

Overall, Coach Day as well as the team is hopeful that this Schwarz and Carol Risse are co-captains of the team. They share Susie Dietrich shows her serving season could bring on some big wins. "We should finish in the the responsibilities of getting the team organized, and assisting the style. (phcto by Kristen Kroll) • top half ofESAC Conference. 'We have some tough teams ahead coach in his responsibilities. "They do an excellent job of helping of us, but I think we can pull it off. We definitely show the potential on paper, but we're me when I can't be around. They get information out to the girls. organizing the lunches, starting to realize that potential. and helping me out,'' Day said.

"I hope I have the experience to get the best out of tht;se girls. It's trying sometimes, Pam Croke is returning to the team this year as a senior. Croke is holding down her but they really care, and that makes my job much easier,'' Day said. number four position and expected to perform well this season. Her record so far is 2-1.

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by Kelly Walsh The Cabrini men's basketball team already has one foot in the door for an exciting and "conditioned" 1989-90 team. They have been attending camp where they stretch, run, jump rope, sprint and have practice drills with the basketball.

-''Last year people who tried out for the team were out of shape," said Marco Gittens, senior captain.

"This camp will improve us physically and mentally. We want to improve our record from last year and while doing that, have fun."

"As a team, we weren't in the best shape last year," said Jeff Hines, junior. "But, being a collective group this year, we will be able to outrun the other teams and be in better condition."

There are three purposes for the camp, according to Brian Kilroy, senior.

"One, to be in better condition before the season starts," Kilroy said. "Two, not only physically, but to improve mentally. Lastly, to get to know the other players on the team. We have a lot of good, talented plaY.ers on the team, and I want my last year to be a memorable one.''

Basketball coach, John Dzik, is enthused about the camp. He wants to see the team ' 'in shape'' this year and to work hard for a better rec-

ord.

"Athletes don't like to practice, they like to play," Dzik said. "The qualities I want to .instill in the players are one, by meeting new players and to work _asa team. Two, to be in better condition. Lastly, to have a positive effect on the season.

Many do not do enough physical work in the summer months to play at our level of basketball.''

"There's a lot of dedication," said Drew Molloy, freshman. "We guide each other and hope to gain determination for the season.''

Dave Kerchner, freshman, feels they will be in mid- season shape and will be ahead of other teams.

"Along with the exercises, we have intra-squad games against each other," he said. "We have an upbeat tempo and work together well." ''The coaches are there to watch the practice but are not involved in the camp," Gittens said." said Gittens, who set up the camp. up There are 22 participants in the camp. Ten will make the varsity team, while the others will play for the J.V. team.

Practice for anyone, not only those who were involved in the camp, will be held on Oct.15. The firstgameofthe season is Nov. 17, against the University of Scranton at Dickinson.

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Women's V-ball loses tough one

by Charles Waterfall

The women's volleyball 2-3 loss against West Chester last week was an encouraging one.

The team fought hard, losing the first two games in a best of five. Then, coming back strong, the women tied the score, winning the following two games.

"Everything just clicked," said co-captain, Paula Phillips. "We were supposed to get blown-out by West Chester, yet it was the best game we have played."

The team's serves, passes and communication contributed to a promising outlook of future matches. ''We' re now headed in the right direction and ready to show people and ourselves what we're made of," Phillips said.

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It was the coach's decision to switch positions of team players Trish Payton, setter, and Kathleen Rowan, hitter, that attributed to the Lady Cav 's night of success. ''It helped a great deal because Payton is powerful at the net and Rowan (set) outstanding for just coming on," Phillips said.

On the frontline, Missy Greisser, sophomore, and Sue Westgate, senior, were consistent at net blocking. The girls worked well enough to intimidate their opposing players, taking away several West Chester power hits.

With a 1-9 record, the team is looking forward to the, home alumni game this Saturday, September 30.

Sat. 9/30 Sun. ~0/1 Wed. 10/4

Wesley home 1pm Shenandoah home 2pm SpringGarden home 3:30pm

Field Hockey Sat. 9/30 Tues. 10/3 Fri. 10/6

Marywood home3:30pm Widener away 4 pm Misericordia home 4 pm

Volleyball Sat. 9/30 Tues. 10/3 Thurs. 10/5

ALUMNI GAME home noon Rosemont away 7pm Lincoln home 7pm

Women's Tennis Sat. 9/30 FrostburgSt. home 11am Mon. 10/2 Rosemont home 4pm Wed. 10/4 Rutgers-Camdenhome 3pm

Men's X-country Sat. 9/30 Phila. Metro. away noon Sat. 1on DickinsonInv. away 4pm Wed. 10/11 Alvemia away 4pm Sat. 10/14 AllentownInv. away noon

Balabon's dream pitch rests in .Seattle

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by Carol W. Yarrow

Settling into the rigors of homework and the daily routine required of carrying a full course load reminds Seattle Mariners AA pitcher, Rick Balabon, of playing hard ball.

Balabon, who enrolled as a second semester student, finds it difficult to knuckle down to the demanding task of homework. He has to muster up discipline not unlike.that necessary to play minor league baseball.

College life for Balabon is just another aspect of "movin' on." "Movin' on" is justwhatthis superstar has been doing since his 1985 record-setting year at Conestoga High School. As a senior, his pitch was clocked at 96 mph. His pitching speed and dexterity resulted in 170 strikeouts in 90 innings. His earned run average of0.55 lead the Pioneers to a victorious 11-2 season.

Balabon 's stats during his junior year season at Conestoga · were outstanding as well, tallying 117 strikeouts in 75 innings and capturing a 0.35 earned run average.

Balabon's talent drew full scholarship offers from virtually every college and university across the nation. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill held special appeal for him but could not outweigh the opportunity to "go for it" in the major leagues. This "big-league" opportunity has him "movin' on" from city to city.

In June 1985, Balabon was the Number one draft pick of the New York Yankees among high school and college prospects.

His pitching speed and consistency were ''big- league'' quality. These attributes were initially put to the test at short-season A ball in the New York-Penn league in Oneonta,

N.Y. In 1986 Balabon was invited to bigleague camp with the Yankees. Spring training was successful in opening many eyes. His 1986 season began in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., under the coaching ofB ucky Dent, where he played high A ball. He was named "opening day" starter. As the season progressed, there was a noticeable drop in his stamina. The Yankee organization thought it best for Balabon to move back to Oneonta in hopes of getting stronger. The opposite occured. After the season, test results confirmed that he had been stricken with mononucleosis.

In 1987 Balabon continued his "movin' on" to Prince William, Va., where he started the year playing high A ball again. Still weak, the Yankees requested that he recover more before jumping up to double A status.

After pitching 47 innings, elbow and forearm cramps restricted the flexibility of

his arm. The Yankees moved Balabon to New York where tests were run on his arm and elbow. A cyst on his elbow was detected, but considered not to be problematic.

However, this misfortune landed him on the disabled list for the rest of the year.

July 22, l 988 echoed yet another move.

Balabon, along with Jay Buhner, was traded to the Seattle Mariners for Ken Phelps, now the Yankees' designated hitter.

This "movin' on" has its confusing times on the road, but, Balabon said, "I'm very, very lucky, because I have good family and friends around me.''

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I have good family and friends around me."

-Rick Balaban

Balabon said that life with the Mariners is comfortable for him. It's a place where the emphasis is on player development and not solely on winning.

During his first season with the Mariners organization, he played A and AA ball. San Bemandino, Calif., was home for high A ball at the beginning of the 1988 season. A move up to AA ball was short-lived, but he managed a 1-0 season with four starts. Overcrowding forced Balabon back to high A ball to finish out the season with a 10-6 season and an earned run average of 2.57.

Seattle may be where dreams come true for Balabon.

"I'm obsessed with making a lot of money," he said. "I don't know in what exactly, but I just want to be successful and I know I will be."

Being realistic and filled with confidence helps him relate what he learns on the field to life in general. He can get into people's heads.

"I know if I don't produce, I'm out," Balabon said.

As for baseball at Cabrini, he feels that if

there is enough interest from the students, it would be great. "Funds, playing fields and equipment are prime considerations that would need to be worked out," he said, adding that he'd be happy to put in his two cents to help the Cavs.

Balabon is looking forward to spring training in Tempe, Ariz. He hopes that a strong performance in March, combined with his last season's record. will give him a shot for AAA placement in 1990. Armed with a good record behind him he's hoping to be brought up to join the invitational, 40-man "big- league" team at the end of the season.

With his baseball homework done, he said "I know how the game of baseball works."

Inspiration for the game of baseball had always been in Balabon's blood. '' As a kid, I used to stay up nights and think of tomorrow's game," he said. "It's fun for me. I like the pressure, and the guys always looked to me to be a leader."

Being very competitive is part of his inspiration. Balabon doesn 'tidolize anyone in the game, he just plays ball.

How does the "great American dream" affect Balabon as he is "movin' on" through life?

"Well, I know I'm a bit cocky, but everyone that plays a sport has to be,'' he said. As for baseball memories, they're his and no one can take them away. I' II always treasure my minor league experiences.

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Straightfrom Monaco'sMouth lou monaco sports editor After a week's absence, I'm back! My mouth was closed for quite some time, but suddenly I found the need to pry it back open.

Here it goes: * ·'Randall, can you spare a dime?'' -You have enough of them for cryin' out loud. * God Bless You, Sal Aunese. Sal, starting quarterback for the University of Colorado, died this past Saturday, after a sixmonth battle with inoperable stomach cancer. He was 21.

-It makes you wonder, doesn't it? * Elvis Grbac-University of Michigan quarterback. Watch out for this kid! He

could be something. * Let'sgoChicagoandBaltimore!

Goodbye, Mets! I am a die-hard fan for you guys, but this year, you just plain blew it! * The Fightin' Irish of Notre Dame. Best team in college football. Period. Write a letter to the editor, if you would like to challenge that thought. * To the Ben-Gay Guys, who played football out on the soccer field, this past Sunday, I hope your aches and pains go away for Parent's Weekend. Let's schedule another real soon! * Let's hope the Eagles get "out of the fog" when they play the Bears, Monday night. No pun intended. * Anybody, hear of any new and exciting rumors about anything on this campus? The Cabrini Grapevine is in rare form this year and its not even October J. INCREDIBLE!!! * The Dallas Cowboys: You have got to be kidding me! * WiJI WIP sportscaster Howard Eskin

ever be nice? * Better yet, imagine Eskin and CBS Sports broadcaster, BrentMusburger, doing play-by-play together. Oh, those ears! * Don't you love the CBS college and pro football pre-game theme songs? * Who thinks the ABC Monday Night Football theme song should go? What "Richardhead" thought of this song? * Hextall-stop crying and goaltend! * Trivia: What does the word "Nittany" mean in Penn State· s nickname, the Nittany Lions? Answer next week. * Sign-up sheets for intramurals are all over the place. Sign:up now for men's softball and co-ed volleyball. * Doesn't Vikings head coach Jerry Bums look like he has had a little bit too much to drink before each Vikings game? * Excuse me, can we get the rocks, weeds and dead animals off the new soccer field please, so maybe the students can use it before they reach parenthood. * College football scores of the week:

Peru St. 71 Concordia, Neb 6 -Where the heck are these schools?

Dana 27 Tarkio 23 -These schools are sanctioned by the NCAA? Lepis, I never knew you had a football team, too. * Alumnus Peter Bisconte has been offered the golf head coaching job at St. Joe's High School in Hammonton, N.J. - As you can tell, the person hiring Pete, doesn't know what the heck their doing. * Yogi Berra finally lived up to his favorite saying, "It ain't over till its over."

He has been an inspiration for baseball for over 40 years. Thanks for the memories! * No more shuffling for Ickey ! Cincy will miss him! * Good luck to new Sixer Kenny Payne! * I always knew Mookie Wilson could be a great centerfielder!

Any comments or criticisms, please write!

It would be nice to get some mail! See Ya!

Nechchadiwins PhiladelphiaMarathon

by Chris Pesotski <Body text> Anyone tuning in to the Philadelphia Distance Run on Sept.

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•'The man who is leading this race, El-Mostafa Nechchadi, the 27-year-old from Italy, is a student at Cabrini College."

The announcer wasn't totally wrong. According to crosscountry coach Tom O'Hora, Nechchadi, a world-class distance runner and native of Morocco, was registered at the college as a computer science major until Sept. 19, when he cancelled his fall semester enrollment.

Nechchadi won the Phila. delphia event, a half marathon, in one hour, two minutes and one second, securing his second major halfmarathon victory this year. The victory ensured a $15,000 appearance fee at the Chicago Marathon in October.

In the meantime, Nechchadi plans to run another half-

marathon in Italy to condition himself for Chicago.

"If he turns professional, Mustafa could conceivably make $200,000 thi~ year," O'Hora said.

Family problems in Morocco forced Nechchadi to return to his homeland on Sept. 19, according to his agent, Lisa Buster. Before returing home, Nechchadi visited O'Hora and Director of Admissions, Nancy Gardner.

"He wanted to see the school, apologize to Ms. Gardner, and make his intentions known about the spring semester," Buster said.

Speaking through an interpreter, Nechchadi expressed disappointment.

"I am saddened,., he said. "I want to study here, but right now I have a problem at

home that came up. I think Cabrini College will be very yaluable for me after running.

I have friends in the area, and I was looking for a nice school in Philadelphia."

Nechchadi hopes to return to the United States and re-enroll here in January. A portion of his course load would be devoted to two classes of English as a second language.

"We'll need to know from Nechchadi by December first, whether he plans to attend in the spring or not,'' Gardner said.

"Originally, I had found a sponsor, the same man who sponsored Sydney Maree when he first came to tlte U.S., who was going to pay Mostafa's tuition and room and board," O'Hora said.

• 'But at that time he was relatively unknown outside of Europe. With this win in Philadelphia, the offers

are beginning to pour in. He may not need the sponsor anymore. With all the money he's being guaranteed, there's no reason Mostafa shouldn't tum professional.'• As a professional, O'Hora believes Nechadi would be able to pay his own college costs with marathonwinnings.

"When I say professional, I mean in the eyes of the NCAA," 0 'Hora said. "The Olympic Committee would still consider him an amateur."

The amateur designation is important to Nechchadi, a 1988 marathoner for Morocco. ''One of my goals is to break the Olympic marathon record in 1992," he said.

The college would benefit if Nechchadi remains an NCAA amateur. He could then compete with the cross-country team in NCAA Division III meets.

"I don't think that's going to happen," O'Hora said. "He'd be foolish to tum down all of those financial guarantees to run with us.

Even if he does go pro, I'll coach him, and he'll work out with the team. It will be a very good experience for our runners, and it would keep him close to his studies."

Nechchadi, who describes his practices as mixtures of "quality and quantity," routinely runs distances of 25 to 35 kilometers a day. Some days he'll run a marathon distance 38 kilometers in abeut two-and-a-half hours.

Senior, Mike Feeley looked a little doubtful as Nechchadi described the regimen.

"Are you sure he's not flying?" Feeley said.

Open Gym Hours Through October 15th, the gym will be available to students at the following times: Monday/Wednesday: 3:30-5:00 pm and 8:00-11:00p Tuesday: 3:30-5:00 pm and 7:00-11:00 pm

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