Dec. 1, 1989 Issue 10 Loquitur

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vol. xxxvi, no.10

Seniorclass honorsawardwinner

by Jason Pippin The 1990 recipient of the Mother Ursula Award is Trish Fitzgerald. The award was presented on Friday, Nov. 17 at a dinner held in the Mansion.

This award is presented annually to an outstanding senior, who, in the opinion of his or her classmates, has best fulfilled the ideals of the college through academic achievement, involvement in school activities as well as leadership and service to the college community.

The Mother Ursula Award is presented in honor of Mother Ursula Infante, M.S.C., who is the founding president of Cabrini College.

She was president for the first 10 years of the school's existence from 1957 to 1967 and is a life trustee of the school.

Martha Dale, director of alumni affairs, coordinated the event. She explained that all of the seniors were invited

to nominate a member of their class. Then the top four nominations were put on a ballot so that everyone in attendance at the dinner would get a chance to vote for one of the four. The winner would be announced at the dinner and would receive the cash award at commencement exercises in May. The nominees for the award were Angie Corbo, Lee Mirenda, Paula Phillips and Trish Fitzgerald.

Before the dinner began, a reception was held in the mansion lobby. The seniors were welcomed by Dale and members of the Alumni Association.

After the brief reception, the seniors were treated to dinner. About 60 seniors were in attendance, which is about half of the senior class, to vote for one of the four nominees.

According to Dale, attendance was not low compared to previous years.

Corbo said that this dinner was a trib-

ute to the seniors as a whole, not just the nominees of the award.

"After four years of college it's like a congratulatory dinner but it's also a way to introduce seniors to the fact that there is a way to stay involved with Cabrini College after graduation." .

She added that the dinner was a ''nice opportunity to get the seniors together.''

All four of the girls were not only surprised, but they were also honored to simply be nominated.

"I was really very surprised and honored," Mirenda said. "It's nice to know that my classmates respect me enough to honor me with this nomination. Just being nominated is a big honor for me. It's really nice to see that I'm being recognized by my peers for things that I do on campus."

Trish Fitzgerald gleams as she shows the Phillips said, "Words cannot express plague that will soon bear her name as the 1990 recipient of the Mother Ursula Award. (Photo by more Award on 9 Mark Gudas) _

Students show concern over a dying sense of spirit

by Mark Gudas

events as a personal challenge. It makes me work harder to make the next event even better.

"You think positive, and think you are going to reach people and hope they come to the event. The worst is to think no one is going to come to the event so we will not do

"Why didn't you come to the dance?"

"How come there were only nine people at the basketball game?''

"Did you know that there was a Kappa meeting last night?"

Is this lack of support felt onl.Y.by the student leaders or is it a pr&icm felt J.,ythe Since Corbo's freshman year she has seen entire campus? The consensus of the people alot of changes and a lotofnewfaculty. She interviewed agreed that it is a campus-wide doesn't think the new teachers know about problem. the traditions. When they teach they do not Lack of enthusiasm for the athletic teams have a sense of the Cabrini family and then is common. Most of the athletes agreed that in tum the students don't either. they would like to see more crowd support.

"We can be a family when we want to Good athletic teams make the college expe- be," Corbo said. "We left Leadership rience ~tter for the student body, especially Camp with a sense of family, but now it is for those who are not fortunate enough to gone." play. If these people can't play, why can't The atmosphere was different when this they support the teams? year's senior class were freshmen. ''We play basketball in a small gym so it "The spirit used to be really big but it should be easy to pack,'' Brian Kilroy said. seems to be dying," said Vicki Daywalt, '' A small crowd does not affect team play senior. "Maybe it is because I am a senior. but we would get more pumped up if there The closeness, support and warmth are gone. were more fans. Everybody likes to be I go home on Sundays to be with my family appreciated.'' andtogetawayfromthepressures that I face "A bigger crowd makes us play better," during the week." said Charlie Tucci, a volleyball player. "I Daywalt felt this is becoming a suitcase think we get a lot of support for being a club college because the students do not think sport. The crowd picks us up when we are there is anything to do. They do not care down. What's the use of playing at home what goes on. They want to see changes but when there is no advantage? Sometimes they do not want to help make them. playing at home is not enough. We need fan •'The spirit has not really died but it is support." hiding somewhere waiting to come back,'' Brainstorming and coming up with crea- Daywalt said. "Apathy is being used as an tive ways to entice people to come to events excuse now. People are all talk and no acis one way the Student Government tion."

Association (SGA) is trying to get more Jeff Foley, junior, personally felt the loss participation. Lack of spirit hurts people as of spirit during the first month of school this far as numbers go. The spirit of the SGA is year. there even though the numbers are not.

"Nobody seems to have the energy to ''People come to events because they have a good time or wants bring back the want to,'' said Angie Corbo, SGA presi- spirit that should be here," Foley said. dent. "I take people not showing up for "We have to bring back the ideals that the

college was founded on. We have to realize what our purpose here is. All the negative attitudes that the people on this campus have need to be alleviated. People only want to get involved if alcohol is involved."

Heather Schwarz, vice president of Kappa Sigma Omega, felt that when people do not

sb.aw.ueJorthe.~...upJQtheofficers to take upon themselves to tel1 the members what they are supposed to do.

•'The people who do not show up for the meetings do not care what the organization is about," Schwarz said. "All they care about is being a part of a ciub. They are just a part of Kappa because they want to be associated with the name."

Kappa continues to sponsor events because they have to and because they have dedicated officers. They can't just cancel an open house.

Schwarz personally felt the loss of spirit between her sophomore and junior years, but definitely more this year through Kappa.

"This is not a close family anymore," Schwarz said. ''People are just not willing to participate.''

Ellen Battersby, sophomore, felt that this has become a suitcase college because the activities on the weekends are good but they always attract the same people. The people who do not go to events are either at home or at parties. She felt that a way to solve this problem would be to open a place on campus where students could just hang out because the dorms are not enough.

Mary Shimkus, sophomore, said she wishes that more people would come out to events.

"The people who go always have a good time,'' Shimkus said. •'It is a shame that the majority of this campus does not know how to have fun without alcohol."

Shimkus has not personally lost the spirit but experiences the loss with the rest of the

campus. She sees the family slowly drifting away. She felt the apathy would go away if people were more open-minded and not so judgpiental.

Administration had some of their own opinions.

Sister Bernadette Anello personally feels &hatthorampus II a wholeis not apathetic because there are some people who are generous and have a wonderful spirit. If they did not, there would not be any outreach programs and no one would volunteer for Campus Ministry.

•'The spirit is al ways in danger,'' she said.

"People are too occupied with 'self and having fun and that is why they have a lack of concern for others. Money and material goods are toomanypeople'stoppriorityand when that happens that is when the spirit dies.

"I am a hopeful person and I see problems more easily. It is important to see the positive. We have to keep fanning the fire because the. sparks are all over the place.

Problems do not occupy me. If they did I would have left a long time ago. I am not going to contribute to the negatives."

Carter Craigie, professor of English and communications, said he felt that students are not involved in as many extracurricular activities as they used to be. '' I do not understand why there were only three floats in the Parents Weekend parade,'' Craigie said.

Craigie has not personally lost the spirit but has seen a change in the student's attitudes.

"I think those slobs who were trashing Maguire House (1) and Counsel Hall last year should have been expelled with no regrets,'' he said. •'Their personal disregard for other members of the college community was something I have never seen before on this campus."

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Bringingspiritback to Cabrini What is happening to Cabrini spirit? No, a more appropriate question would be, what is Cabrini spirit?

Many upperclassmen have felt the deterioration over their years here and agree that something is definitely missing.

The administration has seen a change in the number of students who participate in extra-curricular activities.

Athletes are disappointed in the number of supporters cheering them on at games.

Why is this happening, and what can be done to gain back the spirit we have lost?

We, as the students, have the choice to either make an impact or to sit back and watch Cabrini deteriorate.

Spirit comes in all sizes, shapes and forms .. It can be· emulated in the student who chooses to become involved in a number of different activities. Or a teacher, who goes beyond the call of duty to help a student, or even an administrator who takes the time to care about their staff.

It is a shame that so many people want to see things changed, yet don't want to do anything to change.

Maybe this attitude is fostered by a sense of not knowing how to change the things which need improvement.

The Student Government holds weekly meetings which are open to the entire student body. If you think that the Parents Weekend float parade is losing its flavor, you have the power to say so. Another popular complaint is that there isn't anywhere to "hang out" at Cabrini.

A solution for this, as well as an alternative to going off-campus, is to have a type of gathering area where people can get together socially. If you would like to see a new social event, such as a pub on campui, say something at the SGA meetings.

Spirit comes in all sizes, shapes and forms. It can be emulated in the student who chooses to become involved in a number of different activities.

Or a teacher, who goes beyond the call of duty to help a student, or even an administrator who takes the time to care about their staff.

Mother U rstila Infante, M.S .C., is an example of what Cabrini spirit should be. On a cold, rainy day, she took the time to walk down to support Sullivan's openhouse. MotherUrsulaalso satin the frontrowatthetheaterproduction, cheering for the actors.

The point is, Mother Ursula has been at Cabrini for a number of years, supporting events and enriching the community. After all of these years, her spirit has not slackened. She is still giving her time to Cabrini.

Cabrini spirit has dwindled, yes, but it is not too late to gain it back.

Support is vital in keeping Cabrini alive. Pride is a direct result of support.

Combining these two factions will enable the entire student body, -the faculty and administration to work together to bring the spirit back to where it belongs: in our hearts and at our school.

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Even the Grinchcould not change tradition ... kelly ann me gillan features editor Santa Claus ushered in the holiday season when his sJeigh pulled by eight tiny reindeer ended the Macy's parade, Thanksgiving morning.

Christmas time is here.

It's time to deck the halls with bows of holly and start the chestnuts roasting on the open fires as shoppers come home with their presents.

It's time to hang the stockings with care over the crackJing fire, trim the tree and catch someone under the mistletoe.

It's time for buying the perfect gifts and hiding them in the best places so no one will be able to peek.

As the big day approaches lettexs will be marked rush in order to reach the North Pole in time and while most of us will be humming carols everywhere we go, other's will be heard mumbling bah humbug from waiting in lines to make t~eir purchases or from arguing the true meaning of Christmas.

These Scrooges and Grinches will try to dampen the best time of year.

I learned, just as the Grinch learns every year, you can't stop Christmas. It comes anyway; anywhere you go.

Traditions are important, but Christmas is in your heart and with your family and friends. The spirit and meaning of Christmas is what you want it to be.

look like the North Pole by using white confetti and angel hair in their windows. I was outside in 80 degree weather looking in at the typical snowy scene in a store window.

It just wasn't the same.

When! least expected it the Christmas spirit started to soften my heart Some traditions came with us from New Jersey. We still drove around town to notice how people had decorated their homes.

Tiny colored Christmas lights on palm trees was different at first, but I got used toit. Weevenjokedthatmaybe this was how the JerusaJem must have looked like the first Christmas.

Midnight mass was still the sam,e.

The choir still sang aJI the favorite carols and everyone was joyous. The only difference was I was wearing the dress I had worn for Easter.

Dad still was the first one down the haJI Christmas morning to check if Santa had come the night before. (It was an old ploy they used when rqy .sister and I were little to keep us from waking up at 6 o'clock to opening our presents while they were sti!J sleeping. It had become tradition.) Santa had found us in Florida.

Helping to cook our traditionaJ Christmas dinner barefoot and in a pair of shorts was unusuaJ, but it didn't matter, we were all merry and together.

I learned, just as the Grinch learns every year, you can't stop Christmas.It comes anyway; anywhere you go. Traditions are important, but Christmas is in your heart and with your family and friends. The spirit and meaning of Christmas is what you want it to be.

However, this year I'll be glad to sit by a crackJing fire, sip eggnog, dream of a white Christmas and celebrate Christmas at home.

Editor~n-chief: Bart>ara Wilson

Last year I learned that while I love this time of the year because of it's traditions, I turned into a Scrooge. Instead of having Christmas at home in New Jersey, we were going to celebrate it in Florida at Grandma's house.

It originally sounded like a good idea the year before, but as Christmas came closer I began to complain.

There would be no hope for snow, no fresh cut Christmas tree to make the house smell great when I walked in, no crackJing fires, and no new bulky sweater to wear on Christmas morning.

There wouJd however, be warm sunny weather and trips to the beach, they just didn't replace the Christmas traditions I had grew up with.

Since Grandma aJways flew north for Christmas she bought a small table top artificiaJ tree and one package of ornaments to trim it with.

We didn't get the rusty saw and trek out to the Christmas tree farm to cut our own tree; put it in the stand and then argue as to which was it's best side.

When I arrived in Florida four days before, my suitcase packed full of summer clothes it hit me. This was going to be the worst Christmas ever!

Everywhere I turned to look for tradition it wasn't there.

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Students_saySGA does . Admissions honest in practice what it preaches reporting S.A.T. scores TotlleF.dhor: I would like to comment on the letter from Lee Mirenda and Alice Mahoney about the attendance of class officers at the :'Rare Essence .. fashion show who supposedly did not give their support.

I highly respect those individuals who felt the need to make it known that only a handful of senior and junior class officers attended this event. However, when they stated that no sophomore or freshman class officers were there, I became tremendously upset.

Although I cannot speak for the sophomore class, I can say a few words for the freshman class. The two people who wrote the letter obviously did not know who I was, because if they did, they would have noticed me sitting right up front, cheering for all of the fabulous models.

Being a member of the freshman class office, I understand that Lee and Alice did not intentionally want to put down the freshman class officers, instead, they

To the Editor: A letter came to my attention in last .week's Loquitur. Lee Mirenda and Alice Mahoney commented on SGA practicing what they preach. Let's tty not to be so · judgementaJ toward our Executive Board.

These students give a tremendous gift to the school in their time and effort with small reward. Small reward is fine, that is not the main reason they do their jobs.

They do their jobs because they care about Cabrini and the students. Before you attack an executive board member, stop by the SGA office anytime, day or

To the Editor: I would like to address Lee Mirenda and Alice Mahoney about their letter to the editor in last week's issue of Loquitur.

I have a few things to say to both of you.

First of .all, was the BSA fashion show the first event you supported? It must have been, because the following are just a few events that the sophomore class officers supported: Parents Weekend, CEC's Halloween Dance, Hurricane Hugo relief drive, hunger awareness week, the theater production, bedtime stories, ASPA's basket of cheer, to name a few.

The sophomore classcouncilmembers were not only in the show, but also at the show. I would like to see both of you, Lee

probably didn't taow who the officers were. I an parlimentarian of the freshman class andI gave 100 percent of my ~ to this event.

Before stating that therewereno class officers at this event, it should have been known who exactly the class officers

were.

Rather than saying that SGA should "practice what itpreaches," stop accusing and start evaluating all of the circumstances. You will see that SGA does in fact, practice exactly what it preaches.

Thank you for writing your letter of concern.Perhaps more people will have the courage to speak out andmaybe some of that "Cabrini Spirit''. I have been hearing so much about will come back intoexistance.

Sincerely,

LorrainelJD

Freshman

night, especially at2 a.m. I can assure you that there will be an executive board member worlting to make Cabrini a better place.

To all Cabrini students,ifyouwant to change things, elections are held every year. You have the power to improve 11 ttiidp if :,Wi I t IM:'iM!lt 81&&1,it-• in"g is easy, doing something about it is 0

a little bit harder.

Sincerely,

Dana Lepis

and Alice, make a list of the events you have attended this year.

I am willing to bet that my class officers supported aJmost all of the events.

I would also like to lcnow where you · were for the MasqueradeBall, sponsored by the sopbomcxeclass? For that matter, wheie were the Kappa.CBC and BSA officers that night? 1banb for your support.

In conclusion. I would like to apoloJize for my class officers and myself for having a life outside of Cabrini.

Slnc:erely, Joseph Schmidt Sophomore Cu President

Loquitur's coverage of incident goes "too far" To the Editor:

In two consecutive issues of Loquitur I have read about my '' drug incident.•• I am sick of it. You have had your say for two weeks in three articles.

Well now it is my turn! This has been taken too far. You have taken my business and publicized it all over campus. To you it is news, but to me it is "grapevine gossip."

You expected me to sit by while my mistake is made into a crime of murder. Why don't you just execute now? I am informing you and the student body that I and the other three girls have learned from this stupid mistake. Resident life handled this incident accordingly and treated me fairly. I am trying to live this down and you are making it impossible.

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Dear Editor:

I am writing in regard to the article in the October 20, 1989 issue about colleges' reporting of their SAT scores. While I certainly will not deny that in this age of drastically declining numbers of high school graduates and increased competitiveness among colleges, some unethical colleges are using false advertising to attract students. I was sad to see, however, that you chose to approach the SAT issue only from the perspective that most colleges are out to "rip off' prospective students.

In reality, most colleges, like Cabrini, consider the SAT to be one of the least important factors in the admissions decision.

A student's course selection, grade point average, class rank, recommendations, essay and interview are much better predictors of success.

The SAT's can be helpful in that they provide a nice constant against which to compare the very subjective activity of grading and the very real, but difficult to measure qualitative differences between high schools.

Their usefulness is limited, however, as the volumes of research show that despite constant efforts by the EducationaJ Testing Service to prevent it, the SA T's are culturally biased toward upper-middle class, white males.

At the same time, colleges are being judged in ihe myriad of published guides to colleges on the basis of their SAT scores, which then puts colleges in a bind. Should we not accept students whose grades, motivation, maturity, etc. show them to have tremendous potential for success, simply because their SAT's are low and will pull down the school's SAT average?

Cabrini chooses to give many of these

students with potential, who may just need help with test taking, note taking, study skills, time management or whatever, a chance to succeed here through our General Studies program offered by the CARe center.

We do report these student's SAT's seperately for research purposes, but contrary to what was reported in the article, we aJways report our SAT' s for three populations: 1) our regular admits (75-80 percent of our incoming class) 2) our general studies admits (20-25 percent of the class) 3) all of our enrolled students When asked our average SAT, our staff explains that the SAT' s are the least importantfactorinourdecision, and thatthe average for regular admits was 926 last year. We also caution people to realize that this is an average and doesn't include our general studies students. The SAT issue will no doubt continue to t:xra "hot' issue in the difficult admissions years ahead, and all colleges, including Cabrini, will continue to emphasize their positives.

However, I can assure you that as long as I am Director of Admissions here, I and my staff will continue to provide honest information about the college to the absolute best of our abilities.

To do otherwise is fruitless, since students fed false information are unhappy and leave, causing the the admissions office has to work even harder to replace that student the next year.

Sincerely, Nancy K. Gardner Director of Admissions

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Photographer snaps back with personal view '

To the Editor: In regard to last week's letter to the editor regarding the bent Cabrini sign off the Gulph Mills exit, I would like to offer additional comments.

As a photographer, I am generally concerned with the ·safety of my equipment at all my assignments. At this particular shot I was not only concerned about my equipment, I was worried about my genera] well being.

Anyone familiar with the intersection realizes that cars approach the sign from either the Schuylkill exit or from two sharp turns. As a photographer I am always aware of the artistic makeup of my picture, so I am gong to try to get the best angle and the proper aperture and shutter speed in order to get a picture which I believe tells the story.

I was definitely uncomfortable with the situation in which I was in while taking the picture.

First, I had to wait for a break in traffic.

Then I would run to the center of the intersection, sq~at down, steady myself, focus at a

, sign which was aJmost beyond recognition, take a meter reading and finaJly depress the shutter release, all this while watching for a car to speed around one of the three comers.

I did this four times to assure myself that I would come back with an image in film.

When I took the last picture I was just glad to have survived the assignment, and that I had not had any close calls. The furthest thing from my mind was to stand back in the middle of traffic and bend back the sign.

I reaJize that Mr. Brinlee was only trying to make a point about apathy on Cabrini• s campus and society in general, and I respect his opinion. I am ashamed and embarrassed that I had not thought about doing it myself.

It is the caring people like him at Cabrini that make Cabrini--Cabrini. Thanks.

Frank Emmerich

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Commission formed to evaluate campus problems ,

by Sharlene Sephton The charge of thenewly formed Campus Life Commission consisting of 24 members selected by Sister Eileen Currie, MSC, president, is to collectively identify the multifaceted problems within the campus community such as ethnoviolence, apathy, insensitivity, internal communication and limited vision.

The commission• s formal statement of problem was agreed upon during the meeting on Nov. 15.

It reads: "The college community does not sufficiently avail itself of its rich tradition - a tradition steeped in religious and humanistic values, social service, personal respect and love for others. Lack of an articulated vision and seemingly unfocused growth, resulting in campus-wide insensitivity are experienced by every level of the college community.

Symptomatic of this condition are issues which touch all of the members of the college community: apathy. destructive behavior both personal and communal, denial and lack of awareness of racism, ethno-violence and poor interpersonal relations.•• The commission is represented by students, faculty and staff on an equal basis, with eight members per interest group.

"It reflects all levels of the

college," said Gary Bundy, chairperson of the commission.

The invitations to serve on the commission came directly from Currie around the beginning of October. The meetings are held approximately every other week at which time each representative shares their own concerns and perspectives. There are nine meetings scheduled in all. The commission is to be dissolved by the end of this school year.

Bundy, a part-time teacher at Cabrini, is experienced in conflict and resolutions and interpersonal skills. He has had extensive interaction with the Race Desegregation Assistance Program at the University qf Pittsburgh.

As seen by Bundy, the commission's charge is two-fold. This consists of identifying the problems and recommending possible solutions. For example, Bundy hopes to find the root of the ethnoviolence on campus and to "develop programs to sensitize the needs to minority students.'• "It is premature at this stage to cite any specific outcomes," Bundy said. ' Bundy requested John Doyle, director of resident life, to act as co-chairperson based on Doyle's intimate contact with the campus.

Doyle describes the commission as a "fact-finding" process that emphasizes discovering prob-

lems, not solving them.

"Sister Eileen has given the commission a lot of freedom," Doyle said.

Although there is no one issue the cgmmission was designed to deal with, Doyle does seethe initiative as a result of the continuing racial tension on campus. ''The FBI said action needed to be taken,'' Doyle said.

The commission is apartofthis active effort. Doyle stressed that problems on campus will be dealt with on a regular basis throughout the school year.

Doyle said he perceives many of the problems on campus as symptoms of a greater one. He gave one example that the loss of family atmosphere may be an extension of changes in living styles and a breakdown of values and ethical integrity. ''The key is unbiased participation to see larger problems within the community as a whole, not individual concerns," Doyle said.

Dr. Joseph Romano, former vice-president of academic affairs and now full-time profe55or, also serves on the commission.

Romano addressed the fragmentation of the campus. He feels that the "value-ladened glue" of the college has been erroded. ''We' re not looking out for each other," he said. "We're not pulling together. That's why we have

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things like vandalism happening on our campus."

Romano suggested that the reinstitution of the Council of College Affairs may be a way of continuing the work of the commission beyond this spring. It would hear issues, follow-up and make direct recommendations to Currie within a free forum of an elected body. The now-defunct Council is responsible for making the college co-ed and abolishing the dress code.

Helene Hennigan, assistant professor, agrees that a specific place and time for students, faculty and staff to get together is needed.

"We're all busy people," Hennigan said. "We need to get back to the traditions of Mother Cabrini.''

Jeffrey Hines, junior, agrees that establishing the commission was a necessary move.

"It was long overdue," Hines said. ''There is a lack of unity in certain areas of student relationships."

Hines cites internal communication with the faculty, the threat of ethno-violence, the diversity of family backgrounds, drugs and alcohol and what kind of values we have as problems to be analyzed.

Hines is skeptical that one year will be enough.

"It's a lottocoverandtheseare 'difficult issues," he said. "It's an

experimental project so we won't know until the end.•' "We need to make objectives and follow-up on them, not leave them lingering," said Angela Corbo, senior. "We need to become more aware of atmosphere and spirit, and then find ways to bring it back to the campus.''

Doyle does not want the commission to be a secretive entity.

"To be successful, we cannot be self-centered or myopic,'' he said.

"We must be available to the community and involve the entire campus."

Bundy said he also welcomes input from all those with campus interests and suggests they contact Doyle or himself. ''Good interpersonal contact and effective communications are the hallmarks of a good college," Bundy said.

The final report of the commission's findings will be published in the spring. Progress updates will be sent campus-wide.

Overall, Doyle feels the commission must find ways to heal the students. As the last paragraph of the commission's problem statement reads, ''These problems are part of society's legacy to our community but rather than deploring the negative influences of society, the college must try to open its members to their potential for positive action and attitudes."

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It takes 'cultivating' and 'research'

by Christina Roach

"cultivating" prospective donors for large gifts. The purpose of this cultivation period is to identify prospective contributors. These potentialfinancial supports for the college are individuals, corpora-

the college to present its need to the right people.

"Dad, can I have 20 bucks?"

"People give because they beWhen you are going out with lieve non-profit organizations, such your friends, and you are strapped as Cabrini, provide a valuable for money, do you ask your parents service," Brocchi said. "Educato give or lend you some cash? tions and foundations. tion is a valuable service. If someMany students do. But what can an "Since the government has one feels what we do is important, institution like Cabrini do when it withdrawn a lot of monetary they may be interested in reacting needs_money? supportand this country has a hard to our needs.''

Does President Sr. Eileen time operatingwithout that fundThe college does this by preCurrie, M.S.C., sheepishly ap- ing, charitiesand fundraisinghave senting a ••case-statement'' to the proach multi-million-dollar busi- become a very importantpart of prospective contributor. This is the ness moguls and ask them to society," Brocchi said. "The fu- mission statement of the college, "float her a few?" When you ask ture of this college, as it approaches and it tells the story of Cabrini. By your parents for money, do you maximumsize, dependsuponrais- presenting the various strengths of have an JJnwritten maximum ing money from as manyexternal the college, the Capital Campaign amount? Can the Vice President sources as possible."

Committee hopes to give these for Institutional Advancement, When the college identifies a friends of the school a reason to Tony Brocchi, get an advance on prosP,ective contributor it "recontribute their support. the "allowance" of the college? searches'' the organization. The "This is a slow process for Why, if you have a job, .should membersof the Capital Campaign Cabrini," Brocchi said. "We are your parents give you money? Do SteeringCommittee must then de- asking people to make a higher you say, "But, Mom, it will be so termine what is the best way to gift than ever before. In a cammuch fun?" What reasons can approach those people. paign the gift asked for should be Currie and Brocchi give to big The members of the commit- reasonable, yet a stretch from that investors when they ask why they tee represent all of the constitu- usual contribution.'' should give their endowments to encies of the college, such as trusAccording to Brocchi, building Cabrini College instead of some tees, administration, staff, faculty, a college's financial base parallels other worthy cause? students and alumni. The commit- the idea of building a corporation's The college, in the beginning tee members may be able to pro- asset base. It is important for a stages of the capital campaign, is vide valuable connections to allow college to procure endowments.

Formal plans delayed due to problems with booking a hall

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This year's spring fonnal is in the the needs of all the students.,, process of being developed, bat the Wbeoaat.e4wllllodler..,.._were StudentGovenunentAalot;,ialiml (SGA) beinlCOMicleled,..Jkhrj,11 ........ bas nm intoa majo(dil,:mma,Whemis it AdamsMnffcldwGUldlle...

An endowment is a gift of cash which sits in the bank and earns interest. The principal is never touched and a portion of the interest is put back into the capital. For instance, if the college was given a $1 million endowment and on a yearly basis that money earned $100,<XX> interest, the college might spend $60,000 and return $40,000 back into the endowment fund, thereby increasing the capital and the yearly interest.

"Together, Sister Elieen and I will cultivate people,'• Brocchi said. "We wanttoprovetopeople this is a great institution doing great things. The strength of the college is the people who go here.

"Sr. Eileen is the highest level of representation for the college.

Her position carries a lot of importance which allows us to talk to the important people to present our case," Brocchi said.

Another alternative to Currie and Brocchi in approaching the potential donors themselves is to work with a board member, committee member or friend who might be in a position to persuade the prospec-

tive gift givers.

According to Brocchi, Edith Dixon, chairperson of the board of trustees, has been a valuable resource both in herself and her ability to approach others for their gift.

The capital campaign has not been officially announced yet.

Brocchi said the administration bas not picked a date for the event, but it hopes the kick-off will be in the spring.

Before the campaign began, the college commissioned a feasibility study to determine a realistic and obtainable financial goal.

At that time, the college decided on $7 million, and as it moves into the solicitation phase of the campaign, Brocchi still feels this is a reasonable goal.

"Many people don't know there is a need unless they are asked," Brocchi said. "Most people have been very receptive to our needs.

This whole campaign has come a long way- tmder the direction of Sister Eileen. This is all part of the normal transition of a growing school."

Students reach out to illiterate in prison

by Carol Wells Yarrow

The cold, uncaring environment of Graterford Prison, a maximum security penitentiary, is warmed by the literacy outreach program of Cabrini's campus ministry. going to be held?

Cabrini's prison ministry literacy pro..Many people 9till ~Thereare many nunors floating around Cabrini WII told dW 81P1r■II .... gram is moderated by Sr. Bernadette Ancampusthat the reasonCabriai is having not beabJetoRDtromnsafterta:6imill ello, M.S.C. and Francesca Bansbach, thelle problems is due to the evenlll of last wu over," Scbmidtsaid. '"Tbiais-aat campus minister. Senior, Pam Croke, project year's formal held at the King of Pnls.,ia true. In fact.the Adams Mam caAed coordinator for the outreach program, is one Sheraton Hotel, where hotel &eCUrity Cabrini aating if the school wilbedle of seven volunteer students who venture forced many Cabrini students to leave reservea block of rooms for students. weekly to the Montgomery County pnson. their rented rooms due to the underage The only problem that we have with The goal of the prison ministry literacy drinking that was taking place. holding the formal at the Adams Mn program is to help inmates achieve their These rumorsweie cleared up by Joe Hotel is the date. Cabrini'sformal is General Educational Development (GED) Schmidt, sophomore class president, and scbeduled for April 21. The Adams certificate. This literacy goal is achieved Rita Calicat. director of student activities.

Mn Hotel is booked for that date.as through personal tutoring by Cabrini volun" SGA has contacted 30 places or well as the Holiday Inn. the Twelve teer students. more trying to reserve a room for the Ceasersand the FranklinPlaza.,, Cabrini's prison ministry literacy program formal, but we keep running into thesame Right now Schmidt is checking out began three years ago, in 1986, when Cabrini two problems," Schmidt said. "Either local halls and catering services. student Linda Panetta began working with the hotels are not equippedto bold some '' At first I thouaJtt that we would be homeless and illiterate persons in her com600 people or more, or the hotels do not able to find a place by Thanksgiving munity. Through her work, she learned of wish to serve alcohol.'' break," he said. "Now, I'll be happy if a direct link between the homeless and When asked if Cabrini was not per- weareable to reservea place by Christilliterate population and the likelihood of mitted back at the Sheraton, Schmidt mas break. It's next to impossible to their eventual incarceration. said, "No, the only thing that the Shera- please everyone, but we 're doing our Panetta wanted to make a difference in ton said they would change would be the best.'' the lives of illiterate people. The ability to security. Last year the hotel provided Schmidt praised the efforts of Caliread and to sign their name could help them one security guard for every I00 students. cat. avoid prison and enable them to become This year the Sheraton would have one "Rita bas given 100 percent of herproductive citizens. gU8!_d per 50 students.'' self to help the S.G.A. find a place to Panetta's excitement was contagious. She Also, the Sheraton has no problem hold the spring formal.'' he said. '' She recruited friends and fellow students to join with serving alcohol at the fonnal. The made countless phone calls to hotels her in working with homeless and illiterate only provision that the Sheraton has is and has exhausted herself in making people in Philadelphia. that those who plan to drink will be every effort in helping us find a place.'• Through Panetta's dedication, Cabrini's required to· present proper identification "It would really putmymindatease campus ministry outreach began a literacy and will be given wrist bandsto wear as ifwe are able to reserve a room soon," program with Graterford this fall. µroof oftheirage. Anyonewhoisseenby Schmidt said. ''The last thing that I Extreme caution was exercised to prosecurity who is not wearing one ef these want to do is settle. I, along with the vide the safety and training necessary for the wrist bands and is holding an alcoholic entire SGA, want Cabrini's spring forstudent volunteers. beverage will be asked to leave. mal to be a memorable one. The sooner "This program is greatly appreciated by So, why not theSheraton? we get this room, the sooner we can the inmates," Bansbach said. "It's so "With the added security and wrist continuewiththeotherpreparations that important to them, that they conduct themband wearing,both RitaCalicat and I feel are necessaryin makingtbi&formala selves very professionally and responsibly, that other hotels might offer a more • success'' so as not to endanger the program.''

Training for student volunteers was

coordinatedby thePrisonLiteracyProject (PLP), co-founded by Mitch Blatstein. PLP is a volunteer organization based in Graterford.

Blanstein said, "we network with some Philadelphia organizations'' such as Ancillae Assumpta Academy, which is affiliated with the Philadelphia Commission for the Homeless, Also, the Center for Literacy conducted a training course for student volunteers, which stresses the central idea of a "partnership" --student and tutor working toward a common goal.

Prison literacy student volunteers, in addition to Croke, are: Ellen Battersby, Kim Keck, Sue Roux, Juliann Dunn and Julie

McKee. "This is one of our works of mercy," Bansbach said. "Our students get as much out of the program as the prisoners do.''

In addition to the training, the inmate coordinators hold an orientation for the volunteers. ''They tell us what to expect, what the environment is like, whatto wear and how to handle situations,'' Croke said.

The orientation also outlines the prison rules for volunteers.

At this meeting, tutors and inmate students are matched.

A contract between the inmate and his tutor, expressing their commitment to be present at the scheduled schooling time, is written in the words of each. Their common goal is for the inmate to achieve his GED through literacy.

"Something so simple as removing the stress associated with the classroom environment can give an illiterate inmate the confidence to further his education,'' Bansbach said.

Inmate participation is simply by "will."

When an inmate comes down to the school and asks for a tutor, •'we strike while the iron is hot," said Irwin Schmuckler, Graterford Prison school principal.

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Historyr0peats·asscandal terroris The fourthin a seriesof five focusingon the last decadesof 'this century Editors Note: As we approach the '90s, Loquitur will be taking a look back at the past decades to understand where we have been and where we are now. We will tlJen be looking ahead to where we are going in the future and what the '90s will bring.

No historical documentation of the '80s can deny the fact that Ronald Reagan was the '80s; if not for the world, at least for the country.

Reagan and his conservative approach to government survived dramatic economic recovery, a major political scandal in the Iran Contra affair, major legal decisions, changing political structures in foreign countries, terrorby Frank Emmerich istic act1V1t1es and negotiating with four Soviet prime ministers.

The '50s were a time of childHis ability to adjust and to adapt hood dreams, the '60s were a time to the changing national and interof adolescent dilemma, the '70s national situations was proof of were a time of adjustment, and the his chari.sma. Surviving physical '80s were a time of maturity. traumas including an assassin's For the college student the '80s bullet, cancer and brain surgery are a unique period of time to look typified Reagan's ability to surback on. The '80s are most memo- vive in a pivotal ·period of rable for this age group because American history and history in this is the period in which they general. Ronald Reagan was truly matured from young children into a "teflon" president. adults. It was a time when not only Although the' 80s will probably was the country trying to adjustto be coined the "Reagan Era" and the previous decades of change, were rich in political changes the but the college student also was decade was filled with many other trying to adjust to a new realm of memorable events. existence, the prospect of the The '80s were a time when twenty-first century and "the real technology failed and grounded world" billions of dollars worth of investHowever, the '80s are a difficult ments. The Space Shuttle Chalperiod of time to analyze. First of lenger exploded and crumbled all the '80s have not ended. Also it seconds after takeoff. The Chalwill take years and probably lenger accident had the impact upon decades for historians and people the space programand the Amerito come to a sensible conclusion can people's pride and confidence andanalysisofthe 1980s. The final in their nation as if it were the problem in looking at the '80s and failure of the 1960s moon mission. its effect upon the international Although it was not the first scene is that the attitude of the '80s launching of the space shuttle, it doesn't end at midnight.on Decemwas to be the first time an educator ber 3'1, 1989. The attitude can live would be in space.

Christa well into the '90s, but only time and McAuliffe was selected from thoupeople will tell. sands of other teachers to become A man who will always be the first teacher in space. Howassociated with the' 80s and who ever, her dream and America's perhaps had the most visible effect dreams would not come true when on a decade was one-time movie a small $900 0 ring, or gasket, star turned politician, Ronald Refailed causing an explosion on one agan. of the external solid rocket boosters.

America's confidence was shaken.

The organization which was perhaps the most, respected and trusted governmental agency apparently failed in the planning and execution of the launch.

NASA, which was perhaps the only governmental organization which did not suffer from the '70s Watergate scan-· dal, was now questioned President Reagan comforts Ai/son Smith, daughter of Challenger pilot Michael Smith during about its ethics and decisiona Houston memorial service. (photo: U.S. News making poli& World Report, printed by Kristin Kroll)

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It took NASA • three years and two more failures in other space ventures before the shuttle would fly again. Although the first post-Challenger launch and the successive launches of the space shuttle have renewed the nation's enthusiasm towards the space program, the confidence in NASA and its programs has become vulnerable.

Reagan and NASA were vulnerChrista McAuliffe, center, was to be the first teacher in space. (photo: U.S. able, but survived News & World Report, printed by Kristin Kroll) their individual problems: The American people, how- of 57,939 Americans who were U.S. fighter planes attacked ever, were unable to conquer their either killed or missing in action Libyan dictator, MuammarGadphysical vulnerability. In the 1980s were inscribed on a long black dafi's compound killing innocent AIDS went from an undiagnosed granite wall in Washington, D.C. people. Attorney General Edwin disease to the most recognizable Product tampering became a Meese announced that in the hopes and the most feared sickness of the major scare when seven people of freeing American hostages io decade. died from taking Tylenol which Lebanon, the U.S. sold arms to Not only did the disease grow was laced with cyanide.

The Iran, while the profits went to buy in name recognition, it expanded Tylenol case would spur further guns for Nicaragua's Contras. its presence within the community. product tampering in the decade.

On a day which has been labeled In the beginning of the '80s AIDS In 1983 American troops were Black Monday 1987, economic was classified as a homosexual and sent to war-tom Lebanon as a reform faced a major setback intravenous drug users' disease, peacekeeping force to try to estab- when the Dow Jones dropped 508 but by the middle of the decade it lish peace and maintain order, but points after once being up 712 points expanded its realm of influence when a truck filled with TNT ex- for the year. into the entire population. ploded neara Beirut barracks which In 1988, Yellowstone National Throughcontaminated blood trans- housed the Marines, 260 soldiers Park suffered heavy losses to its fusions, dirty needles and sexual lost their life. Americans, feeling natural resources as a fire charred contact, AIDS has killed more than hurt and vulnerable by this thousands of acres of forest.

60,000 people from the poor to the terrorist activity, tried to regain Garbage and raw sewage plagued rich, from the black to the white, some pride and stature by ousting eastern beaches, and drought affrom adults to children. AIDS has the leftist rulers of Grenada in the fected 43 states. no boundaries and in the '80s no days following the bombing.

Across the Pacific, hundreds of cure.

The Soviet air force shot down thousands of people where afIt is a sad trend of the '80s, but it a Korean 747 airlinercarrying269 fected in a large territory of the was an evident trend. People will passengers during its "mistaken" Soviet Union, called Armenia, remember the decade through its flight into Soviet airspace. It still is when a devastating earthquake hit tragedies and failures. a mystery six years later as to an already depressed population.

Two major volcanic eruptions whether it was a navigational error Fear of terrorism hit an alloccurred at Mount Saint Helens in or the plane was on a spy mission. time high in 1988. The American 1980. The first eruption alone reIn 1984 lethal gas leaked from a armed forces, fearing terroristic leased 500 times the power of the Union Carbide Plant killing 2,500 attack made a mistake when the Hiroshima A-bomb and blow vol- unsuspecting citizens in India.

U.S. cruiser Vincennes incorrectly canic matter 1,377 feet from the 1985 is most remembered by identified an Iranian passenger jet mountain's summit. the efforts that were made to carrying 290 people for a fighter President Carter's last attempt to rescue the 53 Americans held hostage in Iran failed and so did his, and the Democratic party's No historical documentation of the '80s can political influence, when mechanideny the fact that Ronald Reagan was the cal problems forced the American commandos to abort the mission '80s; if not for the world, at least for the while in the Iranian desert. country.

In 1981 Americans feared another sudden death of their president. President Reagan was increase the world's awareness to plane-- all aboard perished. shot by John Hickley as he entered natural calamities, most specifiIn 1989, 5,000 protesters in his limousine. As America was cally the drought which plagued Beijing were gunned down when recovering from this near tragedy, the country of Ethiopia. Live Aid China's rulers ordered a crackthe most prominent religious leader attempted to address and relieve down on political demonstrators of the world, Pope John Paul II, the suffering. However, it was inside Tiananmen Square. was hit by an assassin's bullet only a temporary cure to a big probThe Alaskan ecosystem was during a procession. Although lem. threatened when the Exxon Valdez two significant world leaders surTechnological tragedies were ran aground, spewing 11 million vived the bullets of their assassin, symbolic of the year 1986. Not gallons of crude oil onto the Alasone ieader did not-- Egyptian only was there the space shuttle kan coast.

President Anwar Sadat. tragedy, but radioactive fallout Hugo blew high winds and driv1982 marked the construction spread across Scandinavia killing ing rains up and down the East of a monument to remember a past 31 people when a meltdown Coast, hitting the Carolinas the tragedy. Seven years after the last occurred at a Soviet nuclear reactor hardest •and leaving despair and American left Saigon, the names in Chemobvl. cieva~tation fnr ill':~ A~ thP

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,, and tragedy adds fuel to the fire world sat to watch America's the iron curtain crumbled in 1989. favorite past time, baseball, the The opening of the East German's San Francisco area was rocked border symbolized the greatest with an earthquake measuring 6.9 political reform of the decade of on the Richter scale. The nation reform. and the World Series paused for The 1980s were comprised of only a moment, but slowly recov- many memorable events, but what ered and continued. The "big makes the '80sthe '80s istheissues one" was.not to be in the 1980s. which are associated with the decAlthough tragedy does seem to ade. leave a lasting impression upon Abortion which was made legal our memories, the '80s offered a in 1973, allowed 1.5 million women diversity of triumphs and man's to chose this procedure in the '80s. ability to overcome great obstacles. The issue of abortion has always After a year courtship, the been a power struggle between world's eyes focused on the royal right-to-life advocates and prowedding of Lady Diana Spencer choice supporters, but in July of and heir to the British throne 1989 the Supreme Court repealed Charles Philip Arthur George. its decision in the historic Roe vs.

After years of development Wade case and allowed individual and testing the first space shuttle, states to establish restrictions.

Columbia, lifted off on its maiden • President Reagan and the first voyage in the hopes of rekindling lady Nancy Reagan began the cruthe space objectives of the 1960s. sade against drugs which will be The summer of 1984 is remem- continued by President Bush into bered for the color and pageantry of the '90s. Drugs, which were at one the 1984 summer olympicsin Los time considered a poor man's probAngeles where American athletes lem, began affecting everybody in dominated the scene. The Nobel society - the rich, the poor, the Peace Prize was awarded to an white, and the black. The demand antiapartheid activist, South Afri- for cocaine and crack has driven can Bishop Desmond Tutu. The the drug industry into a$ 140 billion a year business.

Although the '80s economic Question: What reform has helped many, there are still three million homeless Ameriwas 1he the best cans and 30 million who live selling new board below the poverty line.

Smoking regulations were game of the 1980s. established, not by local ordiAnswer: Trivial nances but by state laws. Spurred Pursuit. It spurred by the efforts of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers and Students Against the decade into a Drunk Driving, tougher drinking trivia craze. and driving laws were instituted in the '80s, and every state raised its Answer: Back to drinking age to 21. back TV shows that A problem which advanced technology has forced upon the '80s became the '80s and probably the '90s is the art of "educational" altering conception. Now infertile programs? couples can have babies by means of in vitro fertilization. This new Question: What are problem has already had serious Jeopardy and Wheel legal implications in the late '80s and will undoubtedly plague the of Fortune?

'90s.

The culture and the way of livfirst female, Geraldine Ferraro, ing in the '80s was unique and as was selected as a vice- presidential diverse as it is in in any decade. running mate to Walter Mondale.

In 1980 children and adults After 73 years of searching, alike spent hours at a time maniputhe Titanic was finally discovered lating a small cube trying to arin the icy waters of the Arctic by range its smaller color cubes in a explorer Robert Ballard in 1985. predesigned pattern in the toy _of The nation was captivated for two days watching a small town Rubik's Cube.

The '80s were truly a technounite in an effort to save 18logical era and Pac-Man proved it. month-old, Jessica McClure, who fell 22 feet into an abandoned well. Pac-Man games consumed $1 bilAfter 60 hours of rescue opera- lion, a quarter at a time.

Society's desire for power tions, Jessica emerged almost unscathed in the arms of a local created a new mythological figurine, toy, and eartoon for its chilrescue worker. dren called He-Man. Those chilThree years later there would dren who preferred a more be an international re,scue attempt ''transformabJe toy" chose Transof three gray whales trapped by the formers, those plastic robots who Arctic ice. Two of the whales could in a kid's instant change into swam to freedom when a Soviet ice a car, boat, plane, etc ... breaker cleared a path of blowSince the old baby boomers holes to the open waters. The third could not afford or desire a new and the smallest of the whales never baby boom, they created a ficresurfaced at one of the breathing tional one for their children-holes.

Cabbage Patch kids. Not only did Brick by brick, stone by stone the majority of children adopt the political freedom came for East unique dolls, they often adopted Germans as the historic symbol of

families of kids, allowing Coleco to rake in the profits.

What could be the last hyped toyofthe '80s? Could it be Rock 'n Aowers, the flowers that boogie , to music? Christmas 1989 will tell.

Question: What was the the best selling new board game of the 1980s.

Answer: Trivial Pursuit. It spurred the decade into a trivia craze.

Answer: Back to back TV shows that became the '80s "educational" programs?

Question: What are Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune?

The farewell episode of M* A *S *H, which played longer than the event it was created to depict, had 122 million people crying when it aired on CBS in 1983. .

The box office smashes proved that society wanted adventure, violence, comedy and love.

"Raiders of the Lost Ark" and Harrison Ford set new box office records in 1981, but Ford would return in '84 and '89 to conquer more adventures and more records.

Another premier that succeeded in two sequels, Sylvester Stallone's "First Blood", faced criticism and support from movie goers.

Disney's animation excellence resurfaced in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"

Michael J. Fox mania hit its climax with his performance in ''Back to the Future.'' The sequels promise to at least take us into the '90s.

Robert Redford and Meryl Streep starred in the romance of the decade-- "Out of Africa."

However the movies of the 1980s can be summed up in one word-- "BATMAN." American sports excelled with the 1980 gold medal victory of the U.S. hockey team, and although the names and faces have faded, the memory and chills are still there.

The U.S. hockey team may have inspired the Philadelphia Phillies to win their first World Series behind the names of Carlton, Rose, McGraw, Schmidt, Bowa and Luzinski.

Excellence in sports hit all-time highs with the outstanding performances of the decade: Nolan Ryan's 5,000 strikeout; Greg LeMond's comeback in the 1989 Tour de France to win his second tour; Wayne Gretzy surpassing the Iron Horse's (Gordie Howe) points record; Julius Erving 's superior performance on and off the court; Joe Montana's leadership and his "gutty" performances during the 49ers' glory years; Bo Jackson's excessive talent which allowed him to play both major league baseball and football; and Eddie "the Eagle" Edward's courageous jumps in the 1988 winter Olympics.

Although there was excellence in sports in the decade there also were disappointments. The '80s

claimed many .sports legends lives.

Some to natural causes like Paul "Bear" Bryant, others due to drug or alcohol abuse, such as Len Bias and Pelle Lindberg, and others, such as Joe Delaney, to freak accidents.

Not only was there physical death in sports, but perhaps the man who could best represent the sporting

The '80s were truly a technological era and Pac-Man proved it.

Pac-Man games consumed $1 billion, a quarter at a time. world was accused of illegal gambling. '' Charlie Hustle,'' Pete Rose, was accused by major league baseball of betting on baseball Rose's demise may leave a sour taste in the mouths of all sports fans, one which will carry into the '90s.

Names of the '80s included: Vanna White; Oprah Winfrey (and her diet); David Letterman; Donald Trump; Mike Tyson; Dan Quayle; Michael Jackson; Bill Cosby; Mario Lemieux; Mikhail Gorbachev;

Madonna; the California Raisins; Ivan Boesky; Bruce Springsteen; Lee Iacocco; Spuds MacKenzie; Bird and Magic; Jimmy Swaggart; ALF; Geraldo Rivera; Don Mattingly; Terry Waite; Jim and Tammy Baker; Bill Murray; Mother Theresa; Ted Koppel; Robin Williams; George Michael; Wadd Boggs; E.T.; Arsenio Hall; Jessica Hahn; Tom Hanks; Steve Largent; and Tom Selleck.

Names, memories and issues are what we will carry into the 1990s. History claims that one should learn from and carry on what one has learned in the past.

But then again according to Billy Joel's latest hit song, 'We Didn't Start the Fire.' The '80s were a great learning experience for all generations. Americans grew and matured as a nation, as a body divided and yet united. Some say we should now move from thirt)'rsomething and become something more in the 1990s, maybe more committed to ethics and morals.

The '90s are a new era. There will be new tragedies, successes, issues and people but they will not be the ones of the '90s. Some may say that is for the better, some may say it is for the worse.

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'51: ....... ff-bomb, Supr . ,,1: "Hemmiopay, BicllRay,Panmanjom.Bmndo,TheKing mann.~ in a SlrtMge and I, andTMCatcl,erin the~" Lawl,Dylaa.Bedin.BaydPip '52: "Eisenhower, vaccine, invasion" England$ Sot a new queen. Mar'62: "Ltzwrenceof Arabia, ciaoo, Libence, Saranyana goodbye"British Beatlemania,Ole Miss, Chorus: "We didn't start the fire John Glenn, Liston beats PatterIt was always burning son" Since the world's been turning '63: "Pope Paul, Malcolm X, We didn't start the fire British politician sex, JFK blown No we didn't light it away, what else do I have to say" But we tried to fight it" (Chorus repeats) '53: "Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, '64-'89: "Birth control, Ho Nasser and Prokofiev, Rockefeller, Campanella, Commmunist bloc" '54: "Roy Cohn, Juan Peron.

Toscanini, Dacron, Dien Bien Phu fall, Rock Around the Clock" '55: "Einstien, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team, Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presely, Disneyland" '56: "Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev, Princess Grace. Peyton Place, trouble in the Suez" (Chorus repeats) '57: "Little rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac, Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge on the River Kwai" '58: ''Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball, Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide"

Chi Mihn, Richard Nixon back again, Moons1¥,t, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock, Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline, Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan, Wheel of Fortune,Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide, Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS. crack, Bernie Goetz, hypodermics on the shore, China's under martial Jaw, Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore'' Chorus: "We didn't start the fire it was always burning since the world's been turning on us we didn't start the fire but when we are gone will it still bum on, and on, and on.andon ..."

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Susan Elder 'reachesfor the Plasticmoney:Buy now pay later moon,stillamongth·estars'

by William A. Fulton

by Kelly Ann McGillan Delaware Miss T.E.E.N. America pageant night. The top five firialists are dressed magnificently in expensive evening gowns as they stand side by side squeezing each others hand's tightly, trying to look calm.

Thoughts are rushing through the head of freshman, Susan Elder as she waits for the emcee to announce the name of the runners-up. The anxiety and excitement builds · inside her when her name is not called as fourth runner-up ...third runner-up ...second runner-up.

She hugs the other contestant standing next to her still awaiting their results. Elder and the other final contestant had become friends that day, now one would become Delaware Miss T.E.E.N. America, the other would not.

Elder whisperd to the new friend beside her as the emcee begins to announce the first runner-up, "You've got it."

Delaware Miss T.E.E.N. America (Teens Encouraging Excellence Nationally) was Eider's second pageant, she had entered late, and had spent weeks preparing.

The week before pageant night Elder spent most of her time rehearsing and trying to relax. Pageant events would consist of a speech or talent performance, an interview, and evening gown. Also taken into consideration would be grades and volunteer service.

Grades and volunteer service were already finished. She had created and sponsored a model-a-thon which raised money for the Make-A- Wish Foundation; a group that grants wishes to terminally ill children.

Her speech was written, designed to encourage excellence in teens, she had focused on excelling in being yourself. Her theme was ''Reach for the moon because even if you miss you're still among the stars." The only thing left to do was get comfortable with it. Reciting it over and over to family, friends, teachers Elder was confident.

Elder decided that through the pageant, she was going to be herself. "Many times in pageants people think that their hair has to be out to Guam, they have to have a pound of make-up on and their three

wishes have to be life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness. They would like to save the world,•• Elder said.

Elder believes that many contestants get too caught up with saying what they think the judges want to hear. "I was going to be me. Either I was going to win being 100 percent me or I was going to loose being 100 percent me," Elder said. ''I was there to have fun. I wasn't there to be out for blood," Elder said, "I was there to gain experience, to hopefully learn from it and have an overall good time."

The state pageant consisted of eleven contestants. They arrived early the day of the pagent and rehearsed two production numbers, met with the judges and once again tried to relax.

The pageant began and soon Elder heard her named called as one of the top five finalist. The evening continued. Elder was wearing her favorite gown, multicolored sequined bodic~ and a deep blue tafata bottom.

•'The judges notice everything,'' Elder said, "Points are takenoff if the dress doesn't fit exactly perfect.•' As she stood shaking and appearing calm while hang on the announcers next words Edler really didn't think she had won.

The long pause continued forever, finally, "The first runner up is ... '' it wasn't Edler, she was the 1989 Delaware Miss T.E.E.N. America "I didn't know how to react," Elder said as she imitated how her hands came up to her face, covering her nose and mouth.

"I started to cry because I didn't know what else to do."

The 1988 Delaware Miss T.E.E.N. pinned the crown on Elder's head. "She pinned the crown on so tightly and so fast that the pins were sticking me in the head,'' Elder said with a laugh.

"I wasn't paying attention duming rehearsal as to what the winner was suppose to do after being crowned because I wasn't expecting to win,'' Elder said.

Like every other pageant seen on television, she walked down the runway for the first time wearing her crown stunned and confused. When she returned to center stage, the other contestants hugged and congratulated her.

"The rewards of being Delaware Miss T.E.E.N. is all of the young girls who look up to me and want my autograph," Elder said "At first it was hard to believe somebody wanted my autojp"ilph."

As a state winner Edler was eligible , and competed in the National Miss T.E.E.N.pag. eant Thanksgiving weekend in Kansas City, Missouri.

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getting applications for all types of credit cards," Daigneau said. "The only problem was that after I got these cards, I didn't know how to budget all the different monthly payments."

Daigneaus' mismanagement of his credit cards eventually led to major financial problems.

"It didn't take me too long to get in over my head with my creditors," he said. "By the time I ~ontacted a credit counselor, I was already over $8,000 in debt, mostly because of credit cards."

"It was like a disease, and I had it bad,"

In today's age of plastic currency, credit· • card companies are now looking at college students as a potential source of future clients. Through their various appearances at colleges across the country, the credit card companies are making the availability of their product visible to a whole generation of eager students.

•'Credit card companies feel that if you are ~ college graduate then you will be a worthwhile risk as a customer," said Ray Daigneau, 29, a 1985 graduate of the State University of New York at Utica. "They assume that if you have a college degree, then you will probably get a decent paying job and, as a result, be able to make your charge payments on time."

"Overall, I guess I have about eight credit cards," said Olympia Tahopoulos, a senior ac• counting major. "But just because I have them doesn't mean that I always use them."

Tahopoulos basically amassed her collection of plastic for reasons similar to those of many college students.

"I usually use my Visa to make really big purchases," she said.

•'That way, when I need to go on a vacation trip, ,11·\,,; 'Ji I can charge it rather than take forevertrying Junior Terri Rizzo uses her credit card to make a Christmas present purchase . {photo by Giselle to save up the money for Bellanca) it."

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Another more practical reason for obtaining tredit cards while still in college is to get a head start on establishing a credit history. ''Getting my first credit card was the beginr.ing of my building my line of credit," said Jennifer Foster a former college student at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. "My first credit card was from Macy's Department store. After about two weeks after receiving that card, I applied and was approved for a Visa card. With these two cards, I started to build my credit.''

Foster also pointed out that it was especially important for her, as a woman, to build her own line of credit.

"If I were to.get married and chose to use acreditcard inmy husband's name, iflever became divorced or widowed, my privileges of using that card would stop. That would then leave me without a credit history," she said. "So I decided to develop my own credit under my own name.

Although credit cards are an investment in a student's future, there is always the potential for misuse.

"You can fall into debt very easily," Tahopoulos said. "That's when you have to have the will-power to say to yourself' Stop, I'm not going to use these cards anymore."'

This habit of spending more money than you actually have is something that will come back to haunt students.

"College students have a difficult time understanding the concept of money,'' Foster said. "What I had to learn was that you always need to have enough money to cover whatever you may owe on your charge.

Because the last thing you want to do is pay added late penalties and finance charges.''

Even though the threat of poor credit faces today's student, sometimes the temptation to use credit cards is too great to ignore.

"Once I graduated from college, I kept

said Dan Ohrlei, a former student of Delaware County Community College. •'Things got so bad that I had to file for chapter I 3 under the federal bankruptcy code. I just totally lost control of what I was doing financially."

While Daigneau and Ohrleis' stories are unique in their own way, they are not alone in this credit dilemma.

• •My credit counselor was telling me that credit misuse was rampant in our society,'' Daigneau said. "He also said that they are not just shopaholics either. They are just normal everyday people who just got in over their heads."

"What are you supposed to do?"

Daigneau said. ''Today you almost have to

"During Christmas, with credit .cards, it's a lot more convenient for me to shop when the stores get really crowded." use some type of credit card in order to exist in society. I guess everyone just has to learn to use them properly."

As the Christmas season approaches, those who have charge cards will now be using them more than ever before. '·Personally, I hate to carry cash.'• Foster said. "Especially during Christmas, with credit cards, it's a lot more convenient for me to shop when the stores get really crowded.''

"It's ~ood to have different charges during Christmas. Tahopoulos added. "It gives me more freedom to buy presents from different stores.' ' Although this convenience may increase the temptation to use credit cards, one should always consider the phrase "There is no such thing as a free lunch."

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f~AHPUSUPDA'l'ES A Financial Aid Workshop will help you find the answers to the questions about paying for college. Representatives from the financial aid office will be on hand from 12:30 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 3. Contactthe admissions office at 971-8552 for more information before you attend.

Flu shots will be available from campus health services, located in the Rooymans Center until the beginning of December. The shots are not intended for everyone, but are recommended for the following groups of people: those over 65, those with a chronic illness or anyone who works with large groups of people, particularly children. The shots are available from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, and cost $8.

Take a Power Nap. Lili Goodman serves as a guide to relaxation, tension, anxiety release and self-healing. There are two remaining sessions this semester, Dec. 7 and Dec. 14. Both will be conducted from 12:45 to 1:45 p.m. in Xavier's Great Room.

-Lisa Lipar The annual Lighting of Residential Boulevard will take place on Nov. 30 beginning at 8:45 p.m. This event, which officially marks the opening of the Christmas season at Cabrini, has been a tradition for five years. White Christmas lights will illuminate the houses as a group of carolers walk up Residential Blvd. singing Christmas hymns and songs until all of the houses are lit. The entire Cabrini community is invited to participate in this special holiday event. -Melissa von Siegel The Christmas Concert will be held Sunday, Dec. 10 in the chapel. The Cabrini Community Chorus will sing all your favorite Christmas carols. There will be no admission charged and free refreshments will be available following the concert.

Off Campus The Snowball Dance, complete with hors'deuvres, a live band (For the People) and ad.j., will be held Saturday, Dec. 2 from 9 p.m. to l a.m. in the Widener Center. Admission is $3.

A reading of holiday stories will take place on Friday, Dec. 8 at the Church of the Savior, 651 North Wayne Avenue in Wayne. Truman Capote's holiday stories, A Christmas Memory and The Thanksgiving Visitor will be read by Broadway-television actor, Tom Key. In addition to the stories, the audience will get to join a choral group in singing carols. Tickets for students are $5 and available at the door or in advance by calling 687-8809.

A poetry contest, with a grand prize of $1,000, sponsored by the American Poetry Association, is open to all students. Send your poems of no more than 20 lines to American Poetry Association, Dept. CT-90, 250-A Potrero St., P.O. Box 1803, Santa Cruz, CA 95061 by Dec. 31.

Internships in Japan are available to college students and college graduates who wish to learn more about Japanese business and culture by experiencing it. The internships are four weeks long and are held between June 23 and July 21, 1990. Call 1-800-869- 7056 for more information. Registration deadline is Dec. 15.

Get your announcements printed here. Send information to Kevin George, box 357

Nl~WSBlllEFS Czechoslovakians Demand Changes As of Monday, the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia had appointed 13 new members to the ruling Central Committee, and ousted four of its hard-line members including party chief Milos Jakes in attempts to quell the growing demands for reform.

For ten days, millions of Czechs have been rallying in all of the country's major cities calling for free elections and an end to the Communist Party's domination of Czechoslovaki~ government.

East Germans See Changes The first ever formal discussions between the ruling communist party and various opposition groups will take place in two weeks in East Germany for the purpose of holding free elections.

Hungarians are Changing The first free vote in Hungary's 40 years of communist rule resulted in a victory for pro-democracy parties. The vote was a public referendum to decide whether to hold a presidential election this January, before free parlaimentary elections in the spring

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Prison from 5 "Will" is provided by the inmates. The Many other precautions are exercised as textbooks and materials are made available well. · Student volunteers, whose names to the Prison Literacy Program by the Free appear on the memo, must provide personal Library of Philadelphia. picture identification. Valuables are not to Inmates accepted into the literacy be visible in the vehicle and no pocketbooks program "are well- screened," Bansbach are permitted. Additionally, there could be said. ''They must be free of any psychiatric a random search with metal detectors, similar disorders.'• to those in airports.

According to Schmuckler the literacy Other precautions prohibit taking in program at Graterford has been operating for items of any kind; likewise, volunteers are five years. prohibited from bringing out anything. It is "We've had two inmates achieve their stressed that there must not be an exchange of bachelor degrees,'• he said, proudly. any kind.

Associate degrees and bachelor's degrees After clearance is granted, guards are are obtainable to the inmates through a assigned to escort the ,group to the school similar prison outreach program sponsored building. A walk through the prison corriby Villanova University. dors brings the group to the site.

The prison literacy outreach program is The school building houses the audiheld together by sheer desire and compastorium, library, classrooms and other educasion for mankind. Student volunteers re- tional facilities. ceive no college credits for their particiHere, tutor and student meet, and onepation in the literacy program. on-one instruction begins. After a period of "It makes you feel good to see these time, when the student becomes comfortpeople so happy," Croke said. able with the learning environment, he may Croke is a business major, who happens be advanced to a regular classroom, where to enjoy being involved with people and he will continue to progress toward achievtheir problems. ing his GED certificate.

"Maybe I'll use my major in the social Even after difficulties in other Pennsylservices field," she said. vania prisons, "we're operating as norThere is a similar concern for mankind mally as ever,'• Schmuckler said. among the prisoners. "Graduates of the literacy program often volunteer to be peer tutors," Schmuckler said.

The security that surrounds the prison literacy outreach program is cautious and conservative, keeping the safety of the student volunteers in mind.

Upon arrival at Graterford Prison, clearance is granted only for those volunteers whose names appear on the guard memo.

Ellen Battersby, (left) and JulieAnn Dunn listen as Anita Pomerance teaches them about tutoring.

(Photo by Dana Damiani)

Awardfrom1 how I feel to be nominated by my fellow classmates. It's really special to know that your own peerscan believe in you andthe things that you do. I'm very touched and I'll always remember it." , After the announcement of the winner andFitzgerald accepted the award. Martha Dale said "Trish has been my wortstudy student since her freshmen year. She's a very special young woman. I can't think of anyone else who best shows thequalities of this award. I'm very happy for her.•• Frtzgerald was both surprised andbonoledto receive this award. She stated that she loots up to MotherUrsula. '' She is a role model for us because I want to be as people oriented as she is.••she said. '' It's bani sometimesto be like that in the wodd today. I respect her for lbaL When I pass by heroncampis she seemsto brighten upeverything around her. I hope that I can have the knowledgeand wisdom that she bas.wbicb has gone far beyond basic knowledge••• Each of thefOID' girls agreed that thedinner was a major highlight to theirsenior yearin college.

The general atmosphere at the dinner was,in the opinion of Fitzgerald, a good one. ''This dinner is one of those times that makes us realne that we are not going to be together thatmuch longer, that we woo't spend the time togedler six months from now like we are now," she said. "It makes us realize that ow- lives will be completely changed in a matter of months.'' ._,

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Security Incidents which occured between 11/12 and 11/26 11/12-1 a.m.-False fire alarm in Xavier Hall.

Liver Transplant Offers Hope The first livenransplant operation using a live donor was performed in the United State this week. A portion of a Texas woman's liver was transplanted to her 21-month old daughter by doctors at the University of Chicago's Wyler Children's Hospital. If successful, the new procedure could save the lives of small children suffering from incurable liver diseases who now die waiting for liver donors.

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Between 11/10 and 11/14, a students 18 speed bike that was secured to a stairwell in the donn was vandalized.

11/25-1:15 p.m.- False smoke alarm in Xavier.

Between 11/22 and 11/25 holes were punched in the wall of the corridor of the lower south wing of Xavier hall.

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Straight fram Monaco'sMouth lou monaco sportseditor ¡ All right! All right! All right!

Yes, Notre Dame looked lethargic last Saturday night, losing to the Hurricanes of Miami, 27-10.

Yes, the Drive and Third and 4 3 will cause die-hard Irish fans grief and aggravation for the next year or so.

Yes, Lou booed and Tony was full of baloney.

Yes, dreams of going undefeated for the second straight year in a row are dashed.

Yes, even thoughldreadtoputthisinmy column, Miami played a great game and ...deserved to win. UGH! Yes, Howard Eskin is gloating about his prediction and probably will not shut up for a month.

Finally, the Convicts somehow beat the Catholics, which in today's society, doesn't surprise me one bit.

BUT, WAIT ONE SECOND! To all of those Miami bandwagoners, whose favorite colors are NOW orange, green and white and who have jumped all over my case and other true Dame lovers, this team is still in the hunt for their second straight national championship.

Granted, some things would have to happen in order for this to take place but, it seems to me a whole lotta people are throwing this team in the wastebasket.

Consider these points: * Only one loss in the past two seasons. That loss came six days ago. * Played eight bowl teams this year. Their record against these teams: 7-1. Four of these teams play Jan. 1, 1990. * Ironically, Notre Dame still has to play the number one team in the country, Colorado. * Out of all of the bow ls, the Orange Bowl is the one to watch. * The national media has jumped all over Lou Holtz because he doesn't praise his team enough. Now you wonder why?

Lou Holtz doesn't get the respect'and admiration that he

deserves .. Some people even think that Gerry Faust should come back and coach. Remember him? For cry in' out loud, get a clue would ya!

All I gotta say is that if people think that the Fighting Irish are dead, you gotta another thing coming.

Come Jan. 1, the chants of '' Here we go Irish'' will once again Wake up the Echoes. ¡ After that, its up to the pollsters.

Other Monaco items of interest: * Andre Ware will win the Heisman Saturday. * Isn't it sad to see that the Orange Bowl has Federal Express in front ofits name, the Sugar has USF&G, the Fiesta has Sunkist and the Holiday has Sea World?

Money,Money,Money!

Congratulations to the Rose, Hall Of Fame, Peach, Liberty and Independence Bow ls for keeping their original names and keeping football...football.

One footnote: Whatever happened to the Bluebonnet Bowl? * Kansas deserves to be #1 in college basketball. * Buddy DID NOT put bounties on Cowboy players. * Jimmy Johnson uses way to much mousse. * The Flyers are playing some real good hockey right now. Tqo bad the Rangers aren't. * What's up with the Oilers? * Wade Wilson? Gimme a break! * SCRANTON ...HA, HA, HA! * It Snowed e~ly up at the Hunter College Tournament. * The road to success has begun for the Cabrini basketball teams. Congratulations on early victories! * Jay Burson, former outstanding guard who played with Ohio State until he broke a cervical vertebra last season, has signed a contract with the Columbus Horizon of the Continental Basketball Association.

Jay is ready to play! An amazing player and amazing person. * Team USA: World Cup-bound!!! * Bjorn Nittmo? * Can you believe Marvin Hagler could be coming back to fight the winner of Leonard versus Duran?

Boxing has lowered itself to the mundane level of worm poop. * NBC's NFL Live beats out CBS' NFL Today! * Brent Musberger doesn't look good in glasses. * Check out that new Reebok Pump basketball sneaker

commercial * The Skins game. Nobody was in the Red for this madefor television golf showcase. * I miss ESPN! CABRINI WANTS ITS CABLE!!! * Buddy to the Jets? Leon Hess needs another superunleaded gas tank but it will never happen. * Dexter Manley struck out and should not be admitted back. * The term "banned for life" should be deleted. Nobody will ever be banned for life. Just watch! Another point: Why is the word reinstatement attached to this term? * LaSalle and Lionel on national television Saturday.

Watch it! *WFAN!

*WIP! * God's gift to talkradio! * Gittens for All-American! * Carrafa for three! * The Pack is Back! Lombardi is smiling up there, somewhere! * A prayer for Ralph Norwood. Falcon Football suffers another Joss. * Don Shula or Lindy Infante for Coach of the Year honors? * Phil Price, former West Virginia tight end, loves Fruit of the Loom! * For Eagle victory laps - see Vince Romeo and the 1989 yellow Jeep Islander around Cabrini and surrounding vicinities. * Pat Zipfel and the Citadel Bulldogs opened up their season against Clemson Tuesday. Updates next week. "' Upsets of the week: Lions over Saints and Raiders over Broncos. "' Best Sports Commercial: MCI, 24 hours ago, NFL football commercial shown on Monday nights.

Next week, a column to end the 80's. See ya then!

CAVS!!I

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Pass, pow, barn, touchdown? Let's go: Eagles! byCluisf'elotski I miss the good old days. lbrowing the Nerf football the length of the backyard. Crushing the Wiffle ball over theoutfielders. Footrac:esandhurdlesovCT"theneighbor•s bushes. As BruceSpringsteen would say, those were my Glory Days. They were also about as good as I ever got at sports.

There's something wholesome and unconuptedabout backyard sports. Just a couple of guys getting together and having some fun. Everybody•s pretty equal in the backyard. The fastest guy ran baclcthe kickoffs, the guy with the best arm played quarterback. Somedays everybody•s arm was tired and the guy who owned the ball played quarterback.

Nobody got hurt real bad.and the game was overwhen the first mother called someonefor dinner. Everyone went home feeling good.a little out of breath.

Somewhere along the line. we got caughtup in bigger time stuff. Girls. cars. exams. all took away a coupleof games a week. Pretty soon.the backyard game only happened once in a while. and it was a lot more serious.

More was riding on one game, because you didn't want to get showed up in front of your girlfriend.

Besides, who lcnew when the next game was going to be? You played all out. the other guy wasn't your buddy any more, he was your opponent. You had to go back home with a win in your pocket, a girl saying how much she loved that catch.

This didn't happen much to me. I was usually limping toward my car with all of the rest of the guys who weren't going out with anyone at the time, preparing to drop them off at their houses, which were invariably scattered all over creation.

After a while. the games weren't that much fun anymore. Eventually we stopped playing altogedlcrand just ~ watching television sports.

What happened?Wheredid all the fun go? Wasit just part of growing up? If it was. I want to go back. What rally happened. I guess.is we started talcingourselvestoo seriously. I gotabigheadaboutbeingthebestquarterbaclc onmy street.andlwanledtobeRonJaworski.

Sol played rougher. made every play COUDL I stopped ha\'ing fun.

Seems to me that's what ~e•re beginning to do to all lcinds of sports in America. we•re taking a fun gameand blowing it all out of proportion.

Off-the-field beatinas of fans at high ~l games mam,d the bonauaofThanlcsgmng Day bailk-yanlrivalriea. The always-intellle. traditional first meeting of the Baglea wt Cowboys degeneratedinto a bout you needed a boxing card to-ioare.Themuch-awaited clashof Pitt and Penn Staleeven fell to a battle of the fills.

I blow footWI is lllemotiooalgame. But1011C am the

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Eastern and Cabrini's very own Eagles cheerleader, Cyndi Fuhrer. (photo by Philadelphia Eagles)

By Kelly Walsh

The envy of all the girls. The dream of all the guys. Her other within 1herules.• gentlemm. Today, foolball. ad family, relatives and friends are all proud of her. And her all sponsseemto reqmakillerillltiact. Vic:aory is not brother is her biggest fan. enough. Annihilalioo is the goal. Why win by a Her name is Cyndi Fuhrer. She is a senior at Eastern touchdown if you canreally mate the other guy look bad?

College and often takes classes at Cabrini. She took a class I don •t want all sports to go1he way of my backyard games. And I'm afraid they will. I don•t want to wallCh last year and will be taking more classes in the spring semester.

She will graduate in December of 1990. guys go out and kill each other. I want to see well-played Fuhrer grewupinClearview,N.J. Sbegrewup with apple games, with intensity and excitement. Notmonster-sized and peach farmers because Clearview, on the south side of guys wearing armor wildly throwing fists at each other.

Jersey, was basically a pasture area. She is one of two children Maybe what we need is to get some fun back in the and the youngest in the family. games.

I wish I knew how. I couldn't keep the From New Jersey, she went on to college at Eastern. It was neighborhood fun after we stmtx,d growing up. because of her family's influence that she went to college.

Big is hurting athletics right now. Big contracts.big Other than studying, she played softball and basketball for TV. big betting, big egos. Maybeit•s time to tbinlcsmall Eastern. Apparently, she got hurt playing basketball and later to bringthe fun back. Thinkback to what made those went out for cheerleading. She has cheered all her life and backyardgames fun. Justa coupleof kids airingit out. enjoys it very much. giving tb4ir playing a game. Thesearegames. Not I One day, while she was listening to the radio, she heard wars. about try outs for the Philadelphia Eagles. She, along with four friends, went and tried out "for the fun of it".

•'There were 350 girls trying out and out of the 350, 36 girls made the squad,•' Fuhrer said.

The ~ss of trying out. cl:ioosing girls and coming tiaclc for final cuts lastedabout a month.' Fuhrer was asked to keep coming back until finally she made the squad. ''I was the only one who made the squad out my friends who I went down with,'• Fuhrer said. '' As we were driving home, I just wanted to jump up and down and scream because I was so excited and happy. Meanwhile, my friends, who didn't make the squad, were just sitting there disturbed and very upset.''

Fuhrer has learned a lot about cheerleading. One, you can't talk to any of the players.

Two, you can't put yourself in a position that may lead to dating a player. Three, these two points of information are for your own good because of your career as a cheerleader,'' said Fuhrer.

Other than cheerleading, Fuhrer has interviews set up with the marketing and public relations offices of the Philadelphia Eagles. Out of the whole season, she cheers only for ten games. With the exception of the Super Bowl, if the Eagles make it, they'll go out to New Orleans to cheer. There are no ''traveling cheerleaders''. This means, the girls only cheer at "home" games and not away ones.

"We love to cheer, but we have certain routines to follow,'' Fuhrer said. "So, more or less, we dance rather than cheer out on the field.•' •'I like cheering better than doing publicity because I was hired to cheer, not to walk around the stadium,'' Fuhrer said. Fuhrer has been on the squad for two years and practices two nights a week for about three hours. Fuhrer will be taking classes, here at Cabrini and later, looking into a public relations or advertising career.

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Cavs upend Scranton, 75-74; go on to win Dickinson Tipoff Tourney

by Anna-Marie Karlsen

The weekend of Nov. 17 was one of joy and excitement for the men's basketball team. Not only did they win the Dickinson Tournament, but the Cavs defeated the University of Scranton, who Sports Illustrated touted as the number two NCAA Division ID basketball team in the country.

Friday night, Nov. 17, Scranton and Cabrini faced off in a game that was won by the smallest of margins. This game was a defensive showdown. The game's high scorer was John O'Hare of Cabrini, with 16 points.

The defense was something Coach John Dzik was hoping to improve on for the tournament.

"We needed a good defense for the Scranton game," he said. "The defense really won the tournament for us. Two of Scranton's top shooters were held to only twelve points each, and only four players scored in double digits. ''The Scranton game was a very balanced game, scoring wise,'' said Marko Gittens, senior and MVP of the tournament. "The game was emotionally charged. They dido 't

think we would win.''

The final score of the game was 75~74.

Even though Dzik doQbts that Cabrini will get recognized for the win over Scranton, he does not doubt that "Scranton isn't number two anymore."

That same night, Ursinus defeated Dickinson to advance to the final game of the tourney.

The game started out looking like a Cabrini landslide, beginning with 11 unanswered points, mainly from outside and three-point shots, but by halftime, the Cavs were down by six points. ''The one thing we wanted to make sure of is that if we beat Scranton, we had to keep our game strong,'' Gittens said. '' If not, we could lose to Ursinus."

A surprising statistic from Ursinus, is that only six of the 16 team members scored, and three were under seven points. "Ursinus doesn't have a very deep team this year," Dzik said. '' At one time we were down by 15,'' said Gittens, ''but we picked up our game, and overwhelmed them in the end.''

The final score in the game was 86-73.

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Division Il team, during the last two school.we have to be able to do thatif we me "We did everything we wantedto do going to win games,,, Dzik said. minutes of their game on Monday night. apinst themexcept handle the ball well,'' "I was pleased wit!\ one aspect of the During the wt minutes of the game. said Gittens. in that we caught Cheyney off. Cabrini had two tumoVers andmissedtwo "We just didn't control the ball very guard and forced them to change their foul shots, critical miNkes that cost the well, but we playedmdly solid defense style," Dzik said.

Cavs a third consecutivewin. andwerereal patient on offense.•' Gittens Cabrini took over early in the first half • 'They didn't win it, we lost it; they made said. and lead Cheyney by 16 points at one the shots when "Clleyney's aaitudewasjust like we're point. they needed them and we didn't. said · gonnarunall overyou. andwe didn't let ''We werebeatingthem upoo theboalds Kilroy. themdo that,we reallythought that we in the first half, and that's how we got a ' 'We can't let the downthe intensity level. could beat themas the game went on," 16 point lead,'' junior guard Jeff Hines All good teams have to rise to the occasion Gittenssaid. said. andput a tough Josslike this one behind us.

While the first halfbelonged to Cabrini, The people who played Monday night. played Cheyney State made some defensive a great game against a tough school,•• said said.

game,

Cabrini 75 Scranton 74 Cabrini 86 Ursinus 73 The Cavaliers capture the title!

Senior Marco Gittens: Tournament MVP! Had 37 points and 12 rebounds.

Junior Mike Carrafa: All-Tournament Pick Had 28 points and was 8 of 13 from the free-throw line.

Other games: , At Cheyney,Cavs lose a tough one.

Cheyney 51 Cabrini 48

. Women's Basketball 1989 Hunter College Tipoff Tournament Cabrini 71 Hunter 52 Cabrini 7 1 Jersey City 53 Lady Cavs win the championship!

Senior Julie Snow: Tournament MVP! Had total of 47 points including 10-01-21from the 3-pt. line.

Junior Barbra Milligan: All-Tournament Pie Had 22 points, 14 assists, 14 steals and 13 rebounds.

Other games: 1st loss of season for Lady Cavs!

Muhlenburg College 77 Cabrini 7 Lady Cavs bounce back to an easy win!

Cabrini 79 Neumann 30

Schedules Men's Varsity Basketball Dec. 5 Lincoln Univ. A 7 East Stroudsburg . A 11 YOl1< College A

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Men's JV Basketball Dec. 2-3 Penn St-Delco Tourney A TBA 7 Mont. Cly. Comm. Coll. H 7:00 p.m.

11 Cecil Cty. Comm. Coll. H 6:00 p.m.

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Alumni soccer game renews old friendships

by Kristen Mainero

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It was a perfect November day for a friendly but competitive game of soccer. The air was crisp and clear, and the action on the field was fast-paced and fun.

The setting was the college's annual alumni soccer game featuring Cabrini's current players and. some of the best players from years past.

The game began with grins all around until Matt Capone, freshman, scored the first goal toward the end of the first half. At that point, the alumni moved out and John Berenato, class of '87, scored a goal (unfortunately, that was the first and last goal by the alumni). The grins began to fade as Billy DiRitta, sophomore, scored the last goal in the first half.

During half time, alumni and guests were asked about the game and• their return to

Cabrini.

"I feel old but it's fun to get everyone back together," said Sean Meenan, class of '87. "It's too bad not everyone could be here but since we're all scattered about, it's understandable.''

Steve Brown, class of '82, said, "The soccer team has come a long way from the dinosaur days when we began. We really have a great soccer team now and it shows when we (the alumni) come up against them."

Spectators included a contingent of alumni from the class of' 89. Among them was Lori Petrozza . ''I have mixed feelings about being back,'' she said. ' 'I would rather be back here than in the real world, but it's somewhat sad coming back and not knowing anyone.''

Maria Falcone mentioned that "part of

the alumni strategy for winning the game included a pre-game warm-up on Saturday night at the Wayne Tavern which ended late but with a brilliant finish.''

Alumni player's lives are at present as varied as their footwork on the field. Their careers ran·ge from commercial real estate agents and real estate developers to government employees in the DEA and physical therapists.

The alumni players included: Kevin Brennan '89, Charlie Young '89, John Callinan '89, Basil Ingemi '89, Eric Ehresman '88, Sean Meenan '87, Joe Klimek '87, Chuck Mongello '87, Bob Berger '88 ~d Steve Brown '82.

The final score was 5-1, in favor of Cabrini. But the score is only half of the story whenever alumni and current students get together for the annual game.

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Alum Sean Meenan and Brian Fitzpatrick relive the good ole 'days. (photo by Sue Roux)