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several clubs and ran for Student Council. I joined the play and sang at school functions. I even became the boy's baseball manager!
By the end of my senior year at Archbishop Carroll, I had changed quite a bit. By getting involved with activities such as these, I was able to contribute a part of myself that I would never have done if I had played sports.
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To th.e Editor: studnets are full. heart raced as I walked up the 1n the locker room. Please let be up, please let them be up, I said self over a hundred times. The d<'or seemed miles away. I could !ittle white paper hanging. As I do,, n the list, I wasn't surprised. ~as cut number eight. -=eld hockey three times, ~ading twice, tennis once and softrw.ice. y. so I broke a few sticks in field ~y. got a' leg cramp .during my e ding routine, ran all over the • tennis and missed several fly softball. Why did they cut me? ..::a!Ilehome one more time in tears.
We agree with Tara Palmisano that there is a parking problem at Cabrini. However, it is not the resident students that are causing the problem.
The best solution to the problem· would be to add more parking spaces.
U;Dily was waiting for me at the at that point that I had to uEfference. I immediately joined
They had a little card for me. (To --£~ I still can't figure out how they I would be cut.) The card read, ~R LUCK NEXT TIME! ce. sports were everything. Then I got cut, I felt that everything that to offer was taken away from me, --""g the field hockey uniform that .::.ade us practice with!
Student Council President, activity rep., Amnesty International, S.A.D.D Spring Musical, Junior and Senior prom committees, the newspaper, a singer at school functions, a writer for the literary magazine, Peer group and May Queen were some of the activities that I acomplished throughout my four years at Carroll.
I had grown so much. I learned that I had other interests. I actually overcame my insecurities and ·participated in and enjoyed my high school career. without playing sports.
I look back on the decisions I made in high school. I didn't give up after my fall. And believe me, I fell a lot at softball practice! My family and friends encouraged me to try again and again (and again and again!) I jus·t hope that I will use this information all of my lifeif you fail, try harder and try one more time.
I do sometimes pick up a field hockey stick or a baseball bat. After everyone .around me ducks, I realize that maybe sports aren't really for me
Resident students park in the Sacred Heart parking lot, not because we want to drive to class, but because we were unable to find an empty spot anywhere near the residence halls. We do not enjoy walking to House 6 after returning to campus at midnight.
Your idea of fining residents for parking in the Sacred Heart parking lot is absurd. Especially since the Public Safety Department has told us that residents aQd our guests are to park there when the lots reserved for resident
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Finally, nowhere in the 1993-94 Student Handbook does it state that firstyear studet1ts are restricted from having cars on campus.
Sincerely,
Kristin Pastino, Diane Osborn, Judi Panasik, Charlyn Adams, Heather Quinlan, Cyndy Bangs, Carolyn Freitas, seniors
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