A decision will be handed down in the spring that will give the social work department national accreditation. This may greatly benefit students graduating from Cabrini.
The social work department underwent an evaluation to decide whether the department will become accredited by the Council of Social Work Education. The final decision will not come until June.
Carol Bennett-Speight, director of the social work program, said, "The council had many positive things to say about the social work program."
According to Bennett-
Speight, the cou.ncil came here on Feb. 26 and 27 to evaluate the program. The team of examiners will report back to the Council of Social Work Education in Washington, D.C. This council has the final decision on whether or not the program will become accredited.
A benefit of being accredited, according to BennettSpeight, would be that the s0cial work program would meet the high quality standard requirements the social work practice applies to graduates nationally.
According to Janet Lohmann, an instructor in sociology, if the social work program is accredited it would be a very good thing. It would mean that students will graduate with an accredited social work degree. This degree means that a certain curriculum is recognized by the Council of Social Work Education.
"An accredited degree gives a graduate a different social standing than a person with a degree that is not accredited," Lohmann said. " An accredited degree could make getting a job a little bit easier."
Accreditation would allow
Students looking for freehandouts like Slinkies, T-shirts and mugs outside of the Widener Center gathering area will be hard-pressed to acquire them now that credit card vendors are no longer permitted to sell their products on campus.
The reason for this action, as explained by Jennie Colianni, assistant to the vice president for student development, is that the allowance of credit card salespeople to set up shop on campus was not providing the students any particular service.
«Basically, we 'want to clean up our act as far as what we're offering the students," Colianni said.
According to Colianni, since
graduates from our program to compete with other students nationally for graduate school and in the job market, according to Bennett-Speight.
Junior Meredith DiNapoli is a social work major. DiNapoli feels the program is highly recognized in the area, but not outside this general area. By being accredited, the social work program would be widely known.
"Cabrini is small and might not be well known in other areas. If I were to move to Maine with a social work degree that is not acciedited, my employer would not know the curriculum I followed in school," DiNapoli said. "If the program was accredited, employers would know what kind of curriculum was followed by the pr6gram being accredited.".
"Being accredited is a way to measure the standards met in the education a social work student receives," Bennett-Speight said. "It is a way to see if basic employment standards are being met by our program."
If the program does ~ot meet the standards set by the council, a social work degree is still just as useful. A degree will not become useless because the pro-
gram is not accredited. According to Bennett-Speight, social work students will still be able to get a job without an accredited degree.
"Previous students have graduated with social work degrees that were not accredited by the council," BennettSpeight said. "They were able to get excellent jobs regardless of having a degree that was not recognized by the council. Our program has never been accredited before and it never was a problem."
According to DiNapoli the social work program does not lack because it is not accredited. Through field work the program gains recognition by agencies. Agencies that work with the college know how excellent the program is, but other agencies might not know.
According to BennettSpeight, the social work program is known throughout the area. Social work students never had any trouble before finding a job because the area recognizes the strong program already.
According to Lohmann, social work graduates who do not have an accredited degree are
not limited. They just do not have the social standing that an accredited degree has.
"By not having an accredited degree, a social work graduate can still get a job. An accredited degree just puts a social standing on their degree," Lohmann said.
"The program has gone through the process and the department will find out in June the Council's final decision," Bennett-Speight said.
there are other avenues through which students can purchase items like credit cards and cellular phones, the school was not really helping students by having the vendors come to the school.
Io fact, Colianni is aware of instances where the credit card vendors have indirectly harmed the students.
Colianni knows of students who, after receiving credit cards from the campus vendors, have gotten into trouble by creating huge debts for themselves through the use of the cards.
Prior to prohibition of credit card vendors on campus, there was no contract between the school and the vendors stipulating what the salespeople could could not do.
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pay a minimum fee. Credit card companies would ply the students with free merchandise, usually with the credit card -
company logo attached to them.
Now, according to Colianni, a contract has been established that states commission-type sales of items such as credit cards will no longer be sanctioned on campus.
Also included in this dec-laration of the contract is the selling of cellular phones on campus.
The contract was created after Colianni performed research and compared Cabrini's treatment of commissioned vendors with other colleges in the same size bracket.
Some of these schools also did not allow credit card and cellular phone salespeople on their campuses, so the decision was made that Cabrini should implement the ruling as well.
Possibly in the future, according to Colianni, there may be an agreement between the school and an alumni association developed that would allow the alumni group to sell their credit cards on campus. These sales would perhaps take place once a semester or one time a year.
"There would be no reason why members of the campus community could not come to the school and sell credit cards," Colianni said.
In the meantime, there will be no credit card and cellular phone vendors posted outside the Widener Center gathering area plugging their products to the on-campus community.
Basically we want to clean up our act as f ~r as what we' re of-
There are a variety of science majors offered at Cabrini. However, many classes required for these respective majors are not offered on campus.
Students striving toward science degrees are many times forced to attend classes at nearby colleges. Eastern and Rosemont are the two main schools that Cabrini science majors attend for lheir major requirements.
According to the college's undergraduate catalog, courses taken off-campus require the, signature of the provost/academic dean and the adviser of the student on an approval for credit taken at another institution form. This applies to many students who attend community college in the summer.
Grades from these courses are transferred to Cabrini, but are not computed in a students GPA. The exception to this rule is for
any course taken in the fall or spring semesters only at Eastern, Rosemont, Valley Forge Junior College and Villanova University. Cabrini has • arrangements with these four schools, making classes almost interchangeable among the schools because of the closeness in location.
These affiliations allow students to take classes that are not offered here.
Cabrini and Eastern are the most affiliated, especially when it comes to science classes. In fact, any student registered fulltime at either school may freely elect to take any course on the other campus, as long as there is room in the class. The exchange is on a student-per-student basis and no additional tuition fees are added for taking classes at Eastern.
All of the registering procedures are the same when a student wants to take a class at an affiliate school. The only difference between attending class
here and at another school is that the student must follow the policies, regulations and calendar at the host school.
This semester meant starting classes at Eastern a day sooner than classes at Cabrini started.
Junior and pre-physical therapy major Brian Ferrese is one of the students who is required to take i:nany classes at Eastern. He was in class a day before Cabrjni started its spring semester.·
According to Ferrese, taking classes at Eastern is not that bad although he would -rather take the classes here'. He was unaware this would happen when he chose Cabrini.
"It can be a pain to go over there sometimes, but if it's what I have to do to get the classes that I need to graduate, then I just have to deal with it," Ferrese said. "I didn't know that it was going to be like this when I decided on Cabrini."
Sports science major Becky Grabie has attended class at both
"I had a night class at Rosemont last semester and I felt uncomfortable sometimes. "Other than that I really don't mind taking class at other schools."
While flipping through the spring semester 1998 class schedule booklet, which students use as a guide when choosing their classes, one would notice that a majority of the classes listed in the biology section have the notation class held at Eastern to the far right of the page, and
one class, molecular genetics said class held at Rosemont. The entire physics section held class held at Rosemont. Students are sometimes not aware of what they are getting into when they decide to be a science major here but the classes for any science major are available. It's whether you take them on Cabrini's campus or not that remains the issue.
by Jennifer L. Kietur news editor
Andrea R. Altman guest writer
The goal of an entire culture is to find areward in heaven, which is salvation after death. Punishment would be below in hell. Everyone is born into a different stratum or class and in a fixed world, everyone knows their place.
Everyone was taught a value system all their life and was never taught anything different. That is an up and down vertical world
In the horizontal world, there are laws by a constitution and we abide by systems. Along this horizontality, all ideas from the verticality (abortion and religious denomination) echo from the vertical world of the past.
In his Tuesday,Jan. 27, presentation in the Cabrini Mansion, author Chaim Potok used his novels such as "The Chosen," as a basis for a discussion on value conflicts and cultural evolution.
Potok's experience growing up in an Orthodox Jewish environ-
ment gives him a unique literary perspective. However, Potok examines Westernculture as a collective experience, which he shares with his audience. Culturalconflict within the Western model is "the invisible scaffolding that holds [his] fiction together.''
Potok discussed the ethical codes, which became maps to his stories. Potok's charactersgrow in order to face "the chaos of the human experience" in the postmodern world.
Potok attended Jewish parochial school in New YorkCity.
From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., he studied the Talmud and from 1:30p.m. to 5 p.m. he studied his secular subjects. Potok then took the bus . home and ate dinner, possibly listened to a radio show and then went to bed
When Potok was 16 years old, he decided to read his first contemporary adult novel. He bon:.owed "BridesheadRevisited," by Evelyn Waugh, from the library. The librarian warned him the novel was nothing he knew about and he would have read about 60-70
pages into the novel before it really got into the story. The novel was about an upper-class English Catholic family and the daughter's disbelief.
The novel took him forever to read and he lived more deeply inside the world of the novel than within his own world.
It wasn't his first reading expenence but it was the first time the language participated in telling a story. He became aware of the language and the power in this creativity.
Potok then read "Portrait of an Artist as a Yowig Man," by James Joyce and by the time he finished, he knew he wanted to be a fiction writer. The books had utterly transformed his world.
His father and Talmud teacher were furious with him and thought he was crazy. They tried to dissuade him but to no avail. Potok wanted to write fiction.
Potok sent a short story he wrote to the ''Atlantic Monthly" and received a letter from the editor wanting to publish it.
He said we have entered a tradi-
tion called modem literature which is a way of thinking and realizing the games people play and the masks people wear.
From the beginning of the horizontality and the end of the verticality, individuals have used the oldest forms of communicationthe story.
The story gives shape to given shapelessness and tells what will happen to us. The business of the novel is to tell us what we really are like and the tacit hope we hold onto will maybe change one day.
Novels in one way or another, allow the novelist to have the chance of perpetuallykeeping people off balance.
Potok also spoke about the core periphery, which allows the experi-ence of self in one core in accordance with the core of another culture: a core-culturalexperience.
As an example he spoke about his visit to France. All the French watch American television shows, but no matter what, they are still living in the French culture and the core bolds firm no maner what the culture.
That is the map in outline form only. The world is filled with particular details and when reading, you become part of the novel's world.
"It's no small thing to feel oneself somewhat fulfilled as a writer," Potok said. There are gritty truths in this horizontal world and deep inside ourselves, there are truths here, buried deep. Everyone is trying to cope without blinders, but must use them to our advantage."
Many people who attended his speech came out enlightened and fulfilled.
Freshman Trish O'Neill said Potok reminded her that "writing,is a form that makes it easier to express inner conflict."
Faculty member Jill Moniz commented, "His idea of the confrontation of core values stood out most for me which is why I asked [Potok] about his view on Toni Morrison. She is chipping away at that core. A recognition of the periphery by the core means a lot. So the map Potok laid out was significant."
by Aimee Somers assistant sports editor
It's finally here.
After many setbacks and delays, Cabrini College's sports and recreation complex is almost completed.
At the end of last year's term, the new apartment complex and the sports complex were two of the biggest projects on the school's agenda.
Now that the apartments are complete, the campus committee is anxiously awaiting the grand opening of the sports and recreation complex.
According to Dr. Robert Bonfiglio, vice president of student development, a dedication of SPARC, now renamed the Dixon Center, is scheduled for April 24, but the facility will most likely be open to students before the actual dedication occurs.
Bonfiglio said the facility is fully equipped and holds a gym with three full-size courts, a swimming pool, two squash courts, locker rooms, training
rooms, an aerobics room, a free weight and fitness area and an efevated track.
The complex also holds classrooms, sports science labs, offices for the athletic department and a hospitality suite that will host guests, recruits and alumni parties.
Bonfiglio said, "Cabrini is excited about the completion of the sports complex because it will improve the quality of life on campus and how students fell about he activities being offered on campus."
First-year student Shaun Hazlett said, "We'll finally have something to do around here and the track team will finally have a place to practice and train. It is ridiculous that this has had a track team all of this time but could not provide the proper facilities to accommodate us."
According to Dr. Tony Verde, head of the sports science department, it is certain that complex will be open seven days-a-week. However, availability hours have not yet been
Sure, we all know that New Year's Eve has come and gone and hopefully most people remember what they did that brisk December night. However,most of us did not get the opportunity to ring in the new year with our good friendsfrom school.
On Friday, Jan. 30, the students were given back that missed opportunity. The party, held in the Widener Center gathering area, was cosponsored by the campus activities programming board and the Latino and Friend's club.
This was the first legal party of the school year that included alcohol. As some students may recall from last year, legal parties, which include alcohol, were suspended due to fist fights and problems with underage drinking.
According to Emma Legge, di-
scheduled.
J'he hours should be determined within the next few weeks.
Also, the complex will be open to the public, but not immediately, and membership for students will be free.
First-year student Rich Balasa said, "I don't mind if the complex is open to the public as long as it doesn't interfere with the amount of time students can spend there. I don't know if I agree with the Sixers being able to train there, though. It won't be fair to the students if parts of the complex are closed off so they can practice."
According to Verde, Cabrini is still in talks with the Sixers but nothing has been agreed upon.
Verde said, "Nothing with the Sixers is concrete at this point and time. They want a few things that Cabrini cannot offer but it is still too preliminary to predict what will happen.''
Sophomore Heather Holesak said, "I wouldn't really mind if they practiced here or if the
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been compfeted.
complex is available to the public, but I hope Cabrini knows that the students should come first. It was built for the benefit of the students and that should always be kept in mind when making important decisions like these."
Sophomore Lisa Finnigan said, "The sports complex is
rector of student activities, the students who ran the party did a good job and public safety did a nice job keeping things under control.
Fortunately, no reported incidents occurred during or after the party. According to Legge, there were a number of studentswho tried to get into the party using fake ID's.
In order to combat this problem, the school will now have a list of all the names and ages of each student. If an ID card appearsto be questionable then public safety will have the list at hand for referral.
Accordingto Legge, she realizes that underage drinking will still occur. However,it will now be a little more difficultto get away with it. Legge confirmed that there will be one alcoholic event scheduled per month until the end of the semester. This month's party is set for February 20 and will be sponsored by campus ministry to benefit Project Appalachia. -
is ready and available for all students who wish to recapture the events of the past year.
Any student who would like to purchase
going to be the best thing that happens to this campus. The exercise room in the gym and the weight room do not have adequate equipment and could never accommodate everyone here. Also, this school is pretty boring and the activities are horrible. This will at least give us one thing to do .•,
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During the weeks of Feb. 6-12
01/29
Riots in Indonesia
FRIDAY 0 Crab Racing
Go to the Widener Center gathering area for crab racing on Friday, Feb. 6 at8 p.m.
SATURDAY 0 Basketball
Go out and support the women's basketball team at they host Centenary College on Saturday, Feb. 7 at 3 p.m.
MONDAY 0 Basketball
Watch the Men's JV Basketball team as they try and beat Eastern College on Monday, Feb. 9 at 7 p.m.
TUESDAY 0 Orientation
There will be an Appalachia Orientation on Tuesday, Feb. 10 from 12:30-2 p.m. and 8-9:30 p.m. See Campus Ministry for more details.
0 Scripture and Supper
There will be a scripture and supper in the Xavier great room on Tuesday, Feb. 10 from 5:30- 7 p.m.
THURSDAY 0 Bingo
Try and win some big bucks on Thursday, Feb. 12 during Bingo in the Widener Center gathering area at 9 p.m.
There is fear that thousands of newly unemployed workers in Indonesia will rise up in violent protests and revolt against the power. In Java, small food riots '.have already began. Even more ' riots are exp~cted when price subsidies for beans, sugar and flour are enforced by the government. This move is partof the plan to end the country's economic crisis.
01/29
:: MS Study
Researchers reported on Thurs•day, January 29 that multiple sclerosis appears to go beyond the stripping of insulation that wraps around nerve cells and serves them. this may eventu'allyexplain why MS patients become unable to walk or lose visibn in their eyes. This will also bring forth news strategies for treatments with ex-periroental drugs to prevent nerve cell death.
01/30
Bombing
A bomb set off at an Alabama abortion clinic managed to kill one off-duty police officer and critically wounded a nurse in the blast on January 29, 1998.
The explosion at the New Woman, All Women Health Care Clinic went off about 7:30 a.m. just as the clinic was about to open. This is to be believed as the first fatal bombing of an abortion clinic in the United States.
Robert D. Sanderson, 35, and eight-year police veteran who was working part time as the clinic guard was killed in the blast. Emily Lyons, 41, a nurse was in surgery all day on January 30 to help save her life.
01/30
Baldness
Scientists have identified the first human gene ever to be linked to hair loss. In Pakistan, the rare condition was found. This gene apparently plays a domin(\nt role in the formation of hair, and will be a big help in developing better
ways to prevent baldness and treat it in the early stages.
0 2/1
lrillion dollar budget
President Clinton sent a $1. 73 trillion budget to Congress, promising a history making achievement. ''This budget marks the end of an era, an end to decades of deficits that have shackled our economy in the White House.
The balanced budget deal came after years of arguing by both parties. The budget hit an all time low in 1992 and declined steadily since then.
02/2
Diplomats head for Baghdad Envoys without military force from Russia, France and Turkey were sent to Baghdad to resolve the crisis in Iraq.
Officials from Iraq and United Natitms met to talk of the country's disarmament. Many Kuwaiti officials are ready to support the United States and their threat.
0 2/3
Philippine plane crash
A DC-9 was recovered on Feb. 3 with 15 survivors and 30 bodies after the fatal crash on Feb. 2 on Mindanao Island. The flight was headed south to Cagayan de Oro from Manila.
Airline officials said the DC-9 made its last contact when it was at n,ooofeet and about 35 miles from Cagayan de Oro. The plane had been bought from Air Canada.
02/3
Attacks on Catholics
More Catholics were threatened to be killed on Tuesday, Feb. 3, after several were already by the Loyalist Volunteer Force, in an "unholy war".Peace talks are in affect with the Northern !rel.and and the British Parliament. They are intended to produce a peaceful settlement after warfare has killed more than 3,200 people since 1969
The recent killings were a result of the assassination of Billy Wright, the leader of the Loyalist VolunteerForce, outside of a highsecurity prison in Belfast.
Punxsutawney Phil's weather outlook for 1998 is six more weeks of chilling winter. In the past 11 years, Phil has only predicted an early spring seven times.
Phil was born, raised, and still resides in the groundhog happy town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.
As legend goes, every Feb. 2 an animal, like Phil, has the· power to foretell the coming of an early spring or an extended winter, all on tlte basis of whether or not he spots his shadow.
Spring is in the air if the shadow is a no-go, but if its appearance is made, the world is graced with six more weeks of JackFrost fun.
Punxsutawney Phil, dubbed Seer of Seers, gives his forecasts on the top of a now, well-known hilltop christened, Gobbler's Knob.
It is believed that only from this knob, will Phil be able to accurately foretell the upcoming weather.
So what is a groundhog to do the other 364 days of the year?
In Phil's case, it is spent residing in the Childrens Library of Mahoning East Civic Center where he, and his home, are visible to interested tourists.
There is a gigantic summer groundhog festival which takes up a whole month of Punxsutawney celebration • where Punxsutawney Phil is, you guessed it, the honored hog. Phil has been escorted to Washington, D.C. by members of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club
in 1986, where he met President Ronald Reagan and he has even guest starred on the Oprah Wmfrey Show in 1990.
It's a wonder that Phil ever meets his groundhog hibernation requirement of nine months but then again, Phil is no ordinary woodchuck. Each prophetically reported forecast has been recorded in the Congressional Record
in the National Archives and the Library of Congress.
Fortunately, as the good old World Book deems necessary to tell us, "these forecasts have not been scientifically proven," and there's a -chance that Punxsutawney Phil's all foreseeing powers could be a false forecast. But either way, the furry critter's got the world in bis paw.
Thursday, February 5, 1998
by Paul Monte guest writer
It begins with the first kiss. We watch flirtation give way to desire and desire into dreams. We see a young man and woman join hands and dance, which triggers their destinies. To fall in love? No. To drift apart and wish they had? Not quite. In fact we can come to no other conclusion that their destiny is simply to be destined. This question is one of the several loose ends that makes "Great Expectations" (Twentieth Century Fox, R) a fractured folly of literary updating.
The story, taken from a very loose adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel, focuse,'l on the memories of Finn (Ethan Hawke), an artist raised in a fishing illage along Florida's Gulf Coast. He has a boyhood encounter with fate in the form of an escaped convict (Robert De Niro) to whom he was kinder than he needed to be. Now it's the 1980s, and he is about to be
plucked from obscurity and given a chance to showcase his heartfelt drawings at a famous Manhattan gallery.
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The woman Estella, (Gwyneth Paltrow), is also destined to go to New York City and as a result becomes truly fabulous by wearing dazzling clothes, meeting rich men and continuing her ambiguous dance of desire , with the young artist.
Although the filmpacks its star power with a flighty Paltrow and the boyish charm of Hawke, it struggles to find its modem day commercial strategy.It offers nudity, a push-pull romance and an abstract "literary" story set in an '80s art world.
Most of us will not know what to make of a romance th~ consists of Paltrow gazing at Hawke, then giving·him the cold shoulder, then having her come back to pose nude, only to have her give him the cold shoulder again, etc. This results in a repackaged classic that only amounts to, in essence, a post-
photo obtained via internet Ethan Hawk and Gwyneth Paltrow embrace in a scene from the motion picture "Great Expectations," which leaves the audience with many questions upon leaving the screening.
modem Cliff Notes with an altema- siren quality of visual beauty, amtive-rock soundtrack (which does bition and destiny. However, the not fit into the '80s feel of the film). characters that relay these themes
Every scene in the film speaks appear to exist in worlds nowhere of the impossibility of love, the near the one we are on. Case in
point, Estella's frightfully garish aunt, Ms. Dinsmoor (Anne Bancroft). She spends her time swooning and posing and singing endless choruses of "Besame Mucho."
Every part of her speaks of unrequited love, but most of us will think she is simply nuts. Her fairy godmother quality pushes the story further into space and mystery.
Men will not resist fantasizing once they are exposed to Paltrow, who plays the ultimate tease with a sultry playfulness. She has a talent for making you care about a cold, neurotic character.
Hawke glides through the film as the pretty boy who always keeps an eye out for Estella. He catches all the breaks except that of her, or does he?
The mystery of their relationship ]eaves us with an unsettling feel of complexity and unease, paralleling that of our most unusual dreams. We are left with a great expectation, which unfortunately leaves no satisfaction.
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Denise Whalen, the selected professional actress for the production, is also an alumna of "Dance on a Country Grave," the spring the- Cabrini College. Although the hiring of a profesater production to run at Cabrini on the weekend sional actor may not mean much to the average of April 24-26 and the following week.end,April student, it does allow cabrini to promote this as a 30 to May 2, is persevering despite major set- professionalshow,which means a lot to the critics backs shortly after winter break. and the media.
With the loss of Dr.Bethany,professor of fine Barring any other unforeseen circumstances, arts and music, as musical director, the musical "Dance on a C01mtryGrave" should proceed as was left with no one to conduct the musical scheduled. score.Acting quickly,theater director Neal New- In other theater news, the cast record of the man found James Dell'Orefice, who was willing musical score will be put onto m. The CD is due to work at a feverish pace to catch up and take out for a national release. Senior Mia Fitzgerald over as music director. was selectedto desi_gnthe cover for the upcoming
Had it not been for the non.stop work of CD.
• Newman and Dell'Orefice, "Dance on a Country In addition, the theater department is auditionGrave" wouldnot be back on schedule, Howev- ing for three-actressesand a stage director for the er, the price of catching up was a high one. Both production of "The Girl Who Went There" on men are thoroughly exhausted from all of the Feb. 12 at 12:30 p.m. in the Red Cloud Coffeework. house. This 40 minute was written by Cabrini
All that is left to do is the casting of WJ!deve. alumna, Kathy Malone, who graduated last year. N§\'.tnan is takinghis time looking for the right The play will premiere as part of the fall orientaactress for ifiepar'a;- tion and will then go on tour to seven other col-
On a positive note, Actor's Equity t r's_ leges. Actresses and stage director will be paid union) has given Cabrini the go-ahead to hire a $400 tor meir..seroces. professional actress for "Dance on a Country
I was dumfounded, when I watched the Grammy Award nominations announcement being televised on E!, a cable networ:k dedicated to entertainment, one morning during the first week of January while on break. It appeared as though the people at NARAS (the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences), those who vote on the nominees, finally had a clue and a pretty good one 1n fact about the type and quality of music offered in '97.
Fc,r those not familiarized with the usual Grammy mishap from yesteryear, let me bring you up to date. Over the past decade, the Gram-: my Awards received a bad name from some music . insiders because the music from several nominees and sometimes even the winners was just blatantly out of touch and outdated. It was not a true representation of the music that was out at the time.
- I have always enjoyed watching music award shows. For some reason or another, it was a big event for me. I can remember back to 1989, when I had my fingers crossed for my boys, Guns N' Roses, to win best hard rock performance, when out of nowhere Jethro Tull took the gold gramophone back to their seat. Now, I was quite the hip, little 11 year old when it pertained to music and l did not know of any Jethru Tull infiltrating the album and singles charts from the previous year. J
This is because thay didn't. From that point on, I became a slight skeptic of the Grammy's.
The odd nominations have continued until last year, when The Beatles and Journey where nominated for best pop performance by a duo or group. The Beatles are without a doubt a truly innovating and talented bunch of musicians. However, the Beatles have not to my knowledge released any new material since the departure of John Lennon. Thus, if the music is not recent it should not be up for an award, which itself has strict confines on timeliness of release dates, etc.
While I loafed on the couch that morning, I was delighted at the sound (!f intelligent choices for potential contenders for the big Grammy. Fiona Apple, Radiohead, Wyclef Jean and the late Notorious B.I.G. were the names that got me the most hyped.
The people at NARAS realized their was a discrepancy within their system and changed it just in time to celebrate their 40th anniversary on February 25.
The Grammy's have definitely went through a reinvention. The change combines the best of the commercial pop world with the critically acclaimed releases that have not garnered much commercial recognition.
'This year's nominations also reflect the huge jnflux of female artists in the mainstream today's in the most sought after categories. For the category Record of the Year, three out of the five nominations include women, those being Paula Cole, Shawn
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Although some rooms are filled with posters and have little empty space, other rooms have little or no posters and the walls are very plain. First-year student Becky Jurich likes it that way_Even though her room does not have many posters, it reflects that she is a simple person and does not need a lot of things to make her happy_
Gail Miller, a first-year education major, also believes her room reflects who she is as an individual. Lights crisscross her ceiling and a heartshaped balloon hangs above her desk while a large collage of family and friends hangs above her bed.
According to Miller, the lights just help to make the room brighter and the pictures help to remind her of her BECKY'S ROOM friends at home. Miller, also a fanatic of the Sesame Street character Elmo has three talking Elmos sitting on her bed and even has an Elmo alarm clock she wakes up to every morning.
In a room across the hall from Miller, first-year roommates Colleen Martin and Stacy Cressman relax while watching television. Pictures in crayon cover the doors of Martin's wardr-obe_
According to Martin, who is the third oldest of nine children, the pictures were colored by her younger brothers and sisters to remind her of home. Pictures of family and friends also border Martin's desk, which help to make the room cozy and comfortable. And even though Martin and Cressman share their room with another person, they still said they have plenty of room for everything.
In a triple in Woodcrest, firstyear students Liz Hannigan and Sue Gionta said it took them four tries before they finally got their room the way they wanted. According to Hannigan, each roommate has her ovm obsession. For instance, she loves Winnie the Pooh and Gionta is fond of babies and frogs. Their other roommate likes pigs. While pictures of Pooh, pigs and babies grace the walls, stuffed frogs and pigs sit on the desk next to pictures of family and friends to help remind them their friends are always with them.
When entering into the room
next door to Hannigan and Gionta, the first thing that catches your eye is the cutouts from empty cases of beer that border one comer of the room. The walls are also covered in pictures of first-year student Melissa Bullock, one of the room's occupants, and her boyfriend_ Bullock said, "I miss my boyfriend and with the pictures, it makes me feel like he is always with me." Bullock's roommate, first-year student Katie Hecht, also has pictures of family and friends gracing her walls along with ladybug cutouts on their door, which is her small obsession. While girls decorate their rooms with pictures of family and friends and stuffed animals sit on their beds, guys, on the other hand, have a whole different take on decorating_
In one room in Xavier, first-year student Mike Repice has his own way of decorating. Posters of TuPac Shakur and 311 are taped to the walls while a Flyers beanbag sits in a comer. Included in the room's atmosphere are hats from New Year's Eve and empty beer bottles sitting along the window sill. According to Repice, "Some people find my room a little outrageous while others find it normal."
In another room in Xavier, first-year students Kahiem Brockington and Lordston Foster decorated their room with posters of their favorite musical artists, such as the WuTang Clan, as well as their sports icons. Included in their room is also a picture of "Super Fly," who Brockington simply refers to as the man.
In a triple in Xav-ier there are posters from "Reservoir Dogs," "Pulp Fiction," and "Usual Suspects." These posters belong to first-year stude,nt Mike· Butler_ While Mike's wall is covered in movie posters, one of his other roommates has decorated his section with pictures of Led Zepplin and Live and a guitar sits on the floor. According to first-year student Nick Reilly, "These posters help me to express my musical interests_"
Butler and Reilly's other roommate likes things simple. The only decorations he has are a wall of pictures of friends that help to remind him of all the good times.
Whether your tastes are simple-and modest or cluttered and ornate, the consensus remains: the best part about your dorm room is not only does it reflects your personality, your interests and your hobbies, but itis also a sign of your individuality and it truly becomes your home away from home. Photos by Jennifer Nespoli
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Cabrini College is celebrating Black History month in a new way. The office of Diversity Initiatives decided to celebrate all cultures this month, throughout different activities, speakers and programs.
by Shannon Downs assistant perspectives editorBlack History Month can be looked at in many different ways. Here at Cabrini College, the opportunity is given to students to see the world through the eyes of other cultures as well. Black History Week was originally created in 1926 by a historian named Carter-G. Woodson.
This week in February included the birthdays of Frederick Douglas and President Abraham Lincoln. It was made to give pride to the African Americans as well as educate the white community of the accomplishments that African-American men and women brought about in history.
Fifty years after this week was first celebrated, it became known as "AfroAmerican History Month." This was done to allow more time of celebration, education and programs reflecting the timeless changes brought about from
the African-American community to the United States.
There are many names of African Americans that stand out in the minds of people of all races. There is Martin Luther King Jr., whose protests brought the minorities to their feet in Washington, D.C. as they marched and listened to the famous "I Had A Dream" speech.
During this month, African-Americans celebrated the 13th amendment, that brought the black community from slavery and oppression.
Anoth.er well-known, popular name, is Harriet Tubman. The Underground Railroad is linked to her story. Her courage helped free hundreds of slaves from the south and escape to the north.
Here are some names that you may not know so much about. Alpha Kappa Alpha was the first African-American sorority which was founded at Howard University on Jan. 15, 1908. Major Frederick D. Gregory, Major Guion S. Bluford and Dr. Ronald McNair were
the first African-American astronauts to be named. The first black Supreme Court Justice member was Reuben V. Anderson. These are just names from the tip of the iceberg.
Here at Cabrini, Shirley Dixon, coordinator of the office of Diversity Initiatives, is planning a week of cultural understanding in February. Cultural Kaleidoscope will take place from Feb. 15 until Feb. 21. The whole week consists of many activities and events which touch on all of the different cultures of the world.
"I think that the week will be a very successful and educational one," Dixon said. "I hope that the faculty and staff will encourage the students to attend the programs that are being planned, and that they, too, will attend."
Dixon is also happy there are several programs which are being presented by Cabrini students as well. Ethnic Student Alliance and Latino and Friend's Club are just some of the groups of stu-
dents who are busy working on bringing cultural awareness to the college community.
Student Government Association is also taking part in the week events. They will be kicking off the weeks' early on Tuesday, Feb. 10, with guest speaker Luis Morena. Morena will be speaking on the grounds of diversity training and sensitivity. Students will be able to interact in this discussion as well.
There is a great deal of different activities and events that will touch many of the cultures in the world. Just to name a few, there will be a lecture on the Holocaust, Irish dancing and the Joy Unlimited Youth Choir, who performed for the President's Summit in 1997.
Dixon said, "I really hope the students will take adva»tage of learning more about the different cultures in our world."
Students of Dr. Marilyn Johnson, professor of English and communications,are experiencinga whole new way to explore literature and language.With the powers of the In-
ternet no longer a dream for the future, Johnson is utilizing the popularity of online commwricationwith her own web page,
While on sabbaticallast spring, Johnson made the decision to incorporatethe Internetinto her teaching.In the fall 1997, she began using e-mail for communication with and amongher students.This semester marks the introductionof her web page.
"I want to see this capability develop into a tool for discussionof class-related topics,"she said "I'm workingoo ways to increasestudentuse of this device and the frrst step is to get everybody's e-mail address so I can put them on the list."
of course information.
"I think that more instructorsshould incorporatethe use of Internet technologyinto the classroom,"junior Joe Ferenchick said. "Her web page provides additionalinformation and resources that a traditional syllabus cannot give a student."
Once this step is accomplished,Johnsonplans to post instructionsand samplesof assignmentsfor her students.
If you take a trip through cyberspaceto Johnson's site, you shall come to her colorfulhome page. Listedhere are all of the componentsand subsequentpages a visitor can access. Berthree English courses for this semester are listed and each has its own page featuring thorough explanations
At the bottom of her homepage, Johnson lists resourcesthat can be found on the World Wide Web. This, some students think, is the greatestbenefit of her site. By clicking on "Literary Research Tools on the Net," studentsare able to accesseverything from libraries to newsgroups on their selectedtopic of English studies.
"I think it willhelp us gain a betterunderstandingof the coursematerial," Tyler Wood, a post-graduate swdent of Johnson's said. "But not all sbJdentshave access to the IoletDetand thereare always the usual tednJicalproblems that may keep someone.fiumbeing able to access it"
Johnsonrecognizesthis problem. ''M)'. hope is that all studclllswill haveeasy access to the Internetfor all the electronicgoodiescurrentlyhere and for those that are coming,Johnsonsaid."Wewill be able to devise creativeways to use this capacitywhenwe have it."
If you want to accessJohnson'sweb page and take a look for yourself,her address.is http://www.bslc.org/~mjohnson/.
Whether it is a picture of a basketball superstar, a relative or perhaps no pictures at all, dorm roo1!1sare designed by the individuals living there. For many, living at college is the first time being away from home. A dorm room is supposed to be a home away from home for residents. That could be a reason why so many students take pride in their rooms, whether they hang posters, plants or even make their own beds.
However, it is quite ironic how a place of pride can tum into a place of disaster. Vandalism has occurred at the new apartment complex.· Broken screens on windows, missing fire extinguishers, smoke detectors dangling from walls and the mass of trash spilled over onto the floors-these are just a few examples of how people treat their home away from home. It kind of makes all the energy it takes to decorate a dorm room worthless when the building itself is turning into a danger zone.
Some may blame this on the immaturity of the residents living there. Others may see it as a lack of public safety and supervision. However, having an apartment complex available would mean the administration would hope students could live independently with the maturity and responsibility of adults. It seems the administration may have been wrong. Measure must be taken to reinsure that acts of vandalism will not occur. Here are some suggestions:
• Permit only upper-class students to be able to live in the apartment complex. These will be students who have proven themselves worthy of such independent living, with no prior vandalism charges and no write-ups by resident assistants.
• Have a public safety officer stationed at the apartment complex at all times, permitting only those students with identification to visit an apartment. Also, have an officer make rounds looking for underage students drinking alcohol and excessive partying.
Two days ago, Karla Faye Tucker was put to death in Texas. I am relieved.
Now, some people object to the death penalty because a disproportionate number of minority men are put to death. Others object because, at times,the wrong person has been convicted and executed. Still others have religious convictions that say that only God should take a life, even of a murderer. I do not think these objections apply to Tucker. She's not a minority. She has admitted to the crime. And as a newly converted religious person, she should be glad to meet her Maker.
Karla Faye Tucker was on death row for c1oseto 15 years after found guilty for killing Jerry Lynn Dean and Deborah Thorton with a pickax. On Tuesday, Feb. 3, 1998 Tucker was executed for her crime by lethal injection. Get tltls: Tucker admitted to the crime, but asked for clemency on grounds that she has accepted religion and is no longer a threat to society-whatever.
Oh, she's sorry for hacking up two innocent people now she thinks we should give her another chance! Crazy. First of all, those two victims were not given a second chance, they weren't even given a first chance.
Did you know that 35 out of 36 death penalty states have an automatic appeal system? The victims got no appeal. That's it, their life is
over. To be honest, I think people use the statement, "I'm sorry" a little too loosely and as merely a fluff statement that sometimes does not hold any water. I don't think her repenting for her sins has anything to do with the price of rice in China. It only makes me even more sure she really, definitely did it.
mitted to it?
If you haven't guessed it by now, I am all for Tucker being put to death. Of course this is a controversial topic, so I'll address the issues. Some, may say that death row is crowded. Would you rather let them run free and commit horrible acts of murder again? Or would you just let the ones that are truly "sorry" see daylight again?
This occasional act of mercy would make our criminal justice system less just. How do you decide who gets put to death and who Jives? You commit murder, you should face the death penalty. End of story. And none of this 13 years on death row. No wonder it's so expensive to the tax payers.
Here's what all the hub-bub is all about. No woman has been executed in Texas since 1863. Well, there's no time like the present to start making these heinous people pay for their sins. Apparently Tucker is "bible reading and angelic looking," according to the Houston Chronicle. Who cares? For all I am concerned, she looked like the devil tome.
In a recent poll the Houston Chronicle published, 48 percent said to execute her and the rest favored sparing her or said they need more information. How much more infonnation is needed after she ad-
Even Albert Einstein agrees with me and he was a pretty smart guy. ''There is no reason why society should not rid itself of individuals proved socially harmful" Robert E. Crowe, Illinois State attorney, said, "I urge capital punishment for murder, not because I believe that society wishes to take the life of a murderer, but because society does not wish to lose its own."
Let me break it down for you. I know how controversial this topic this is and I didn't type this to get people to agree with me because I could really care less, so get your own viewpoint.
BeckyRaetschis a juniormajoringin English/communications. Sheis thenewseditor of Loquitur.
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• Install cameras and other- security devices so that the vandalizers can be caught.
• Have a front desk where an officer must buzz the room to announce visitors so that not just anyone can stroll into the complex.
If adult-age students need to be treated in such a manner, then so be it. At least their safety will no longer be a concern. It is just a shame that as much time and effort as it takes to design a room, the beauty of it can be ruined so quickly.
Public safety: it makes you wonder what the real purpose of having them around is. Public means the general environment of people that go to Cabrini. Safety is what they are trying to keep us from not having. In my eyes, I see a problem. Of course this does not mean everybody is going to agree with me, due to the fact that my eyes are trained to nit-pick all of the little things that are wrong with this scl;lool.
I do not see public safety as a task force for the safety of the people. That is why we have RA's and cops. In my eyes, I see public safety as a meter maid service that keeps the lawns safe to grow. Protecting the environment is what public safety is doing. They are not protecting me. If they are so concerned with saving the environment, why do they write more tickets in a day then most cities write in a week? I am sure they are not using recyclable paper either. Why is it that public safety said there are so many more parking spots on campus than last semester? Too bad for residents, those parking spots are located in the ill-planned SPARC complex on the other side of campus.
Maybe the idea of public safety being around is a good idea and offers a safety blanket for some of the students, but not me. Who is public safety really trying to protect? Maybe they are trying to protect the school's budget hoping they can get a new safety mobile.
With the lights and bells to go with it, that must have cost at least three or four working computers in the ever-changing computer lab.
I read in a recent article published in issue 14 of Loquitur on page 3, that public safety has just promoted one officer to full-time
and one part-time officer has been added. Unfortunately, they are here for the students and nothing else. With the addition to the new officers the campus has added, or moved around, all those little yellow phone boxes to accommodate the students. What I do not understand is why do they need to put in new phones if they have officers that are going to be more present
are here to help with my safety.
Unfortunately, it seems as if they are going out of their way to tum my life into a miserable hell. That is up until last semester. This school has never really had a good, strong, enjoyable weekend. More or less, people stayed up here for Thursday night and then left Friday morning.
JOE ELLIOTT
in the student environment?
Over the past couple of days, starting with Thursday, I have been taking mental notes of the whereabouts of public safety. The only place I seem to see them is right in front of the apartment complex or right inside the apartments. So what exactly are they doing? Busting all the parties that go on.
Of course, that is what they are supposed to do, but why do they sit right in front of the apartments?
It is to keep track of the students. Who knows, maybe they _have a computer somewhere in Grace Hall that keeps a count of all the students with the new ID cards. Maybe this computer keeps track of all the times you go into the apartments. I do not know, but the whole idea seems like it could happen.
For those who could not go home, the rest of the weekend seemed to be very boring because of the lack of things to do on campus. With the coming of the new apartments, weekends on campus have been a lot of fun. In truth, every weekend has been a lot of fuo and it is because people are staying up on campus. It is as if the apartments are a sign from God to have fun. Too bad God left his car parked on the grass and public safety gave him a ticket.
Every night I have gone to a party in the apartments, public safety has been seen wandering the hallways. Most of the time they do not come in and kick everybody out, but they have this presence that they are constantly in the building. It kind of makes you wonder if they are always in the apartments, who protects the rest of Cabrini?
Think about this whole idea: public safety is here for the students to protect us in the best way they can. Whether it is writing tickets on your car day after day, writing people up for taking apples and oranges out of the cafeteria, public safety remains a confused force that is here to protect us.
Of course I do not want to be JoeElliottis a sophomoremajoringin the one who comes off as an un- English/communications. Heis a staff grateful person. I am happy they writerfor Loquitur.
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Neel Daphtary, a junior: I just hope to use the gym on the days that I can't go to Bally's.
Greg Salvato, a Junior: We should have access to SPARC at all hours and incorporate a swim team.
Nick Burch, a first-year student: I'd use it. I would use the weight lifting and the swimming facilities.
Cathy Pagano, a senior: They told us it was going to be done how long ago? And now we can only use it for one semester. We should utilize it to the fullest extent.
Caroline Currie, a senior: I hate it because I do not want graduation in it. It is tradition that graduation is held behind the mansion.
Angela Evangelista, a sophomore: Yes, I would use the new center, especially the track and the pool.
BEN LUNN
A:Dear l;IelpMe, In order to give you a good answer, I'm going to assume seme things. First of all, I assume you two are somewhat separated (otherwise she wouldn't be calling) and that you want this relationship to work, right?
Good.
I am also assuming you have been going out for a while (more than a few weeks). If this is tnie, then here's what I think. Your girlfriend may be feeling a little insecure. She probably realizes you are attending a school that is mainly female. That is more than enough to cause some worry. I
Q:Dear Ben, I have a problem. My girlfriend calls me everyday. It'~ not that I don't like talking to her, it's just that she calls me so often that we don't have any-
would be worrying if I was her. She is probably calling so often because it is her way of showing that she cares. I recommend that you try to find out what, if anything, is bothering her.
Assure her she has nothing to worry about. This will make her feel much better.
Also, I recommend telling her how you feel about her constant calls. Let her know you enjoy talking to her, you lik'.eto hear her voice, but that she calls so often you have nothing interesting left to say. Above all else though, be diplomatic when you talk to her. Be nice. After all, she is your girlfriend.
thing to talk about. We just sit on the phone with nothing to say. What should I do?
Sincerely, Help Me
Send in your questions to Ask Ben. I'll do everything I can to answer them. Many times, like this one, I'll try and get the-opinion of Dr. Andy King, director of counseling services. He and the other counselors in the Rooyman 's Center are here to help us. I'm only human and therefore a second opinion could never hurt. I want to give you the best advice I can, even if I need some of his. You can hand your questions in to the Loquitur addressed to Ask Ben, or e-mail them to me at benlunn@hotmail.com. Remember, if you don't want your name in the paper, anonymity is encouraged.
In issue 14, in the commentary, "A hockey lover to the extreme" Jason said, "Then there are some of us that need the game, thrive off of, like a coma patient."
Jason also works at Chili's not Chillies. Gavin watches the Super bowl in his commentary that same week.
On Thursday, Feb. 12, at 12:30-1 :30 p.m ., in the Widener Center lecture hall, a panel of Cabrini graduates will share information about their careers, graduate school and jot5 searches. All welcome to attend. If you have any questions contact Ann Servey at 902-8322.
On Saturday, Feb. 21, there will be a trip to Washington, O.C. The bus will leave campus at 9 a.m. Cost is $3, which includes the bus ride and a ticket to the Star Wars exhibit at the Smithsonian. The trip is·co-sponsored by Student Activities and Dr. Marice Bezdek. Space is limited. Sign up in student activities. Any questions, call 902-8407.
Despite a strong lead in the second half of the game, the men's JV basketball team suffered a disappointing loss to Manor Junior College this week.
The Cabrini men's JV Basketball team hosted Manor Junior College last Monday, Feb. 2, at 7 p.m. in the gymnasium.
First-year student Thomas Leonard was one of the leading scorers with 20 points and firstyear student Allen Brydges, played a very good defensive game as well.
Five minutes into the game a time out was called to rectify sluggish playing and mental mistakes by Cabrini.
First-year student Gabriel Hargrove was taken out of the game early for two fouls and replaced by sophomore Malachi Israel.
Missed shots and numerous turnovers kept first-half scoring at a minimum for Cabrini.
Tension was high among the
The Cavaliers again let a firsthalf deficit continue into the end of the game as they fell to the Gwynedd-Mercy Griffins, 89-74, on Wednesday, Jan. 28. The team trailed 27-18 at the half and was unable to catch up with the Griffins.
Sophomore forward Tim Anderlonis led the Cavaliers with 16 points on 70 percent shooting (7-10) in the loss. Junior center Cory Miller posted double figures in the game with 12 points and six rebounds. The scoring raises his average to 8 points per game, giving him a career high.
Senior forward John Drummond moved into fourth place on the Cavs' ali-time rebounding list, pulling down 10 against Gwynedd-Mercy. He also blocked four shots.
Junior forward Derrick Grayson shot l 00 percent from the free-throw line (7- 7) and fin-
players of both teams and the effects of that tension caused many scuffles between Cabrini and Manor.
Brydges came face-to-face with Manor's David Smith. The two exchanged words and the confrontation escalated to minor shoving until they could be broken apart by the referee, who in turn had a brief shouting match with Manor's head coach.
After a time out to regtoup for both teams, the. Cavaliers began to hustle up and down the court.
Their zone defense kept Manor at bay for the last two minutes of the first half, leaving the score unchanged at 28:22.
It was not until the second half that the Cavaliers got pumped up even more and dealt calmly with the opposing team's hostility.
A few more minor scuffles, brought on by Manor, were inconsequential to the Cavaliers.
Manor's Jazmine Williams was given a technical foul for arguing with the referee at the
foul line for not moving to the opposite side of the lane.
Manor's Malachi Cotton was also given a technical foul for tripping Brydges.
AH of this did not sit well with Cabrini fans, who echoed their sentiments with a loud, "They're [Manor] losing control out there!"
Changing from zone defense to man-to-man, the Cavaliers stayed in the lead well into the second half with a 10-poinr lead.
With seven minutes to go, Cabrini's winning edge was cut down to three points by Manor. With renewed confidence in its players, Manor finally took the lead.
Manor's Tyree Strickland made a free-throw shot to make the score 51-50 with one minute left in the game.
Cavaliers' coach Rob Rowe took his players aside for a time out with a mere 38 seconds left to play, realizing Manor was becoming more focused by the minute.
With conviction, the Cava-
liers attempted to regain their lead. Their rigorous efforts failed, causing Cabrini to put Manor's Frank Crawford on the line.
Crawford hit two free throws to put Manor up 53-50.
The crowd was brought up from their seats, some standing and cheering and others stamping their feet, depending on whose side they were on, when Leonard nailed a three-pointer.
This shot brought the teams to a nail-biting 53-point tie with just seconds remaining.
The Cavaliers were rejuvenated by Leonard's shot but Manor fought back, not wanting to give up the win.
After a time-out, Manor tried a three-pointer, which missed and fell into the hands of Manor's Keith Dinkins.
It was Dinkins' falling jump shot that clinched the game for Manor,· making the final score a close 55-53.
"We played a great game despite the minor. problems between the players," Rowe said. "Our missed free throw shots
ished the game with 13 points. Grayson has missed only five free throws all season.
The Lady Cavs came from behind to win big in an upset victory over Gwynedd-Mercy College on Wednesday, Jan. 28. With the win, the Lady Cavs moved into sole possession of second place in the Pennsylvania Athletic Conference.
Down 52-37 with 11:14 left in the second half, the team went on a 41-17 run in the game's final nine minutes to come away with the victory. Sophomore guard Jackie Pierangeli hit two threepointers and drained nine of 12 free-throws iii the second half.
Junior center Melissa Posse gave the Lady Cavs a 58-57 lead with 5:28 remaining in regulation by converting a layup into a threepoint basket, then nailing a freethrow on a foul call.
As a team, the Lady Cavs hit
five three-pointers down the stretch for a season-high game total of 12.
The Cavaliers rebounded from a five-point, 65-60 loss to Community College of Philadelphia on Monday, Jan. 26 and defeated Eastern College's junior varsity squacf, 72-60, on Saturday, Jan. 31.
Sophomore Ron Realer lead the way in the Eastern game, scoring 17 points and pulling down 12 rebounds. Realer averaged -12.5 ppg and eight rpg on the week and is third on the team
in scoring with 11.6 ppg.
First-year student Gabe Hargrove, a forward, made his JV debut in a big way against Eastern, pulling down 13 rebounds, scoring six points and recording three blocked shots.
Both the Cavs and Lady Cavs competed in the Widener University Invitational on Saturday, Jan. 31.
Sophomore Miguel Williams finished in first place in the 440y ard dash with a time of 52.6. First-year student Colin Broderick finished in sixth in the 880-
are what did us in, though. These
yard dash with a time of 2:10.9.
Senior Sue Buchholz was named the women's indoor track team's player of the week after finishing in fourth place in the 60-yard dash with a time of 7.8.
First-year student Sabrina Smith finished in fourth place in the 880-yard dash (2:36.9), while first-year student Becky Jurich placed 12th with a time of 2:50.5.
First-year student Jen Brogan placed third in the triple jump with a distance of 29'6" and in the long jump with a distance of 14' 6 1/2".
guys justplayed hard."
The Lady Cavaliers clinched another Pennsylvania Athletic Conference game in their big 8745 win over Eastern College on Saturday, Jan. 31.
The Lady Cavs came out with a bang against the Eastern Eagles and went full force from the beginning to the end.
•, The Lady Cavs dominated the game offensively and defensively.
By the end of the first half, Cabrini already possessed a considerable lead with a score of3920 and showed no signs of easing up on Eastern.
As the second half began, all, if any hope, for Eastern seemed to fade away because the Lady Cavs blasted past Eastern and did not look back.
The start of the second half showed three as the magic number. Three-point shots were being swished left and right by Cabrini.
First-year guard/forward Gina Virelli nailed three three-point shots and finished the game with 15 points, five assists and five rebounds as she empowered the
Lady Cavs to victory.
"It was a good win. We had a • good win over Gwynedd-Mercy and we didn't want to get our hopes up so it was good to have a big win like this. We have to take it one game at a time," Vrrellisaid.
Sophomore guard Jackie Pierangeli also put on an impressive performance with four threepoint goals. She brought Cabrini to their powerful \\-in with 16 points, seven assists and four rebounds.
"The team played really well," Pierangeli said. "We came out good from the start and kept it going throughout the game."
First-year guard Lisa Reynolds also contributedto the outstanding win with 13 points, four assists and four rebounds.
"It felt good because now we have a good momentum going and we're stepping it up. We're woiking together as a team," Reynolds said.
Sophomore forward Erin Barney paved the road to victory for the Lady Cavs with eight points and six rebounds.
As usual, the victory over Eastern could not have been accomplished without junior center
Melissa Posse.
Posse is the PAC's leader in scoring and rebounding and it showed in her impressive numbers on Saturday. Posse was the high scorer and rebounder of the game with 25 points and 12 rebounds.
'This was a really big game because coming off the win over Gwynedd-Mercy,we did not want to be playing lazy against a lower ranked team," ~osse said.
According to head coach, Dan Welde, Posse was integral to the victory.
"They could not stop Posse." Welde said. "She dominated the paint offensively and defensively. She controlled the boards," Cabrini scored 31 points off turnovers by Eastern and scored 20 second-chance points. The Lady Cavs were the superior team and their excellent performance proved this.
"It was another good step for us. After beating Gwynedd-Mercy, a good team and PAC rival, it was nice to come out and not have a letdown," Posse said. "We have good momentum going into our game againstAlvernia, an-
other PAC rival, next Wednesday."
The game between the Lady Cavs and Alvemia is the focus for Cabrini right now. The result of this game on Wednesday, Feb. 4 holds a great deal for the Lady Cavs.
A win against Alvernia would give them better positioning in the PAC conference and somewhat signify the future for the Lady Cavs' basketball team.
The confidence and outlook of the team is strong and positive as they approach the Alvernia game. They have no intentions of faltering.
"We're confident. We have a Jot of young girls, only one junior and no seniors," Posse said. "The young girls are improving. People keep picking up their individual play and that improves the team." Cabrini College Lady Cavaliers vs.
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in the game to get good seats for the men's game following the women's game.
Unfortunately for most, they missed a great game from a young and hungry basketball team.
I am making my appeal to the entire Cabrini community to come see them in action.
I am going to tell you the biggest sports story of the week, for me anyway.
And it's not just because the Eagles are in their off-season either.
The sports story of the week was the upset of the year in the Pennsylvania Athletic Conference as our own Lady Cavs defeated Gwynedd-Mercy College, 78-69, last Wednesday, Jan. 31.
The only thing that was disheartening about this win was the crowd. The majority came later
I am not just plugging them because I am the radio voice of the Lady Cavs, but because they are seriously exciting. This was proven without any question last Wednesday.
Gwynedd-Mercy came 'into this game 8-0 in the PAC and in first place in their division within the PAC. Cabrini was 5-2 and coming off an upset loss to Marywood the previous weekend.
The Lady Cavs had their problems in the first half, trailing by as many as 12 points and also without one of their leading scorers coming off of the bench,
first-year student Jackie Cooper, who was in some foul trouble.
The second half seemed to be the same story !}S the Lady Cavs began the half missing their first couple of shots and trailing by as much as 15.
With a little over 10 minutes left to play, the Lady Cavs went on a run that pushed the Gwynedd-Mercy head coach to toss his chair across the gym.
The Lady Cavs scored 41 of their 78 points in that time period and held Gywnedd-Mercy to just 17 to pull out the victory.
The second half lit up the Founder's Hall gymnasium with the team's inspired play.
Junior Melissa Posse was quoted after the game as saying, "We just weren't going to lose this game."
First-year student Lisa Reynolds capped that second half by hitting two key three-point buckets to seal the victory for the
Lady Cavs.
Posse is playing better than ever in her third season as the Lady Cavs center. She is the best player in the PAC and one of the best players in Division III ball.
Next, you can tum to the outside game of the Cavs. Players like first-year students Gina Virelli and Reynolds and sophomore Jackie Pierangeli round out three of the best three-point shooters in the PAC.
The beautiful part of this team is the fact that the majority of the players are so young. As head coach Dan Welde has said in the past, "We are getting all of our players back next year."
I was recently talking to a friend in the newsroom and he began telling me why he loved to watch college basketball. He cited the lack of ethics found in the professional players nowadays and the slam-dunk style the NBA players seem so fond of.
This person would much rather watch three-point shooting and good passing than watch alleyoop slam dunks.
I agree with him to a point. Although the NBA has some players who tend to make you discouraged as a fan, there are those that are fun to watch.
I can now see the fun in watching college basketball also. The Lady Cavs are playing really well right now and are a very exciting team.
Next time, instead of deciding to sleep in or watch television, try attending a Lady Cavs basketball game.
You might be surprised with what you see. Or if you 're in your car, listen to me call the game on WYBF.
PaulMoseris a juniormajoringin English/communications. Heis oneof Loquitur'ssportseditors.
It is time once again for that biennial tradition, time for the best in the world to come together and see who actually is the best in the wor1d.
The '98..Winter Olympics begins this Friday, Feb. 6, and, like the others before it, some interesting stories are bound to come up, from the Lipinski-Kwan saga and the new Olympic sports, like snowboarding and women's ice hockey, to the chase for the gold in men's hockey.
There will also be former Olympic medalists chasing the gold again this time around, as U.S. skiers Tommy Moe and Picabo Street are going after medals again.
Moe won a gold medal at Lillehammer and Street won a silver medal. Both athletes medaled in the downhill event.
Since then, both have blown out their knees, but are now on the road to recovery in their respective events.
There are also some events that are being tried out for the first time ever in the Olympics.
The two most interesting events to some spectators are the snowboarding competition and the women's ice hockey
competition.
In snowboarding, there will be two events. The first one is the giant slalom, which resembles the downhill skiing race because it is a timed event and competitors race down a hill.
The. second event is the half-pipe, which is a judged event with point scores based upon how difficult a participant's routine in the half-pipe is.
The point tallies resemble those in figure skating, with point scales ranging from one to 10.
Which brings us to another new event in the Olympics this year: women's ice hockey.
The United States is 1ooking for Sarah Tueting and Sara DeCosta to step it up and perform for the United States and win.
The similarities in the play of the men's and wome.n's teams are very surprising. Both of the teams are almost equal in talent.
Which brings us to the most heated competition of the Olympics: ice hockey. It may be the most watched event of all the Olympic competitions.
The United States stunned Team Canada in the World Cup this past summer. Team Canada returns to competition look-
ing a lot different.
Both the United States and Canada are heavy favorites to get the gold in the Olympics.
Team Canada is lead by captain Eric Lindros and goalie Curtis Joseph, while Team USA is lead by John LeClair and goalie Mike Richter.
The United States have Olympians Brian Leetch, Keith Tkachuk and Pat Lafontaine leading the way.
Team Canada also has a lot of veteran leadership behind it. It will be lead by Wayne Gretzky, Brendan Shannahan and Paul Kariya.
This is the first time that the professional hockey players were allowed to compete in the Olympic games, just as the professionals in the NBA did for basketball in Seoul, Korea.
There is only one sport that can compete with hockey for popularity. The one event that caused so much scandal at Lillehammer: figure skating.
The United States stands a good chance of coming home with some medals in this event.
Michelle Kwan and Tara Lipinski are both defending world champion skaters on this team.
Both are considered the early favorites to medal at Nagano. Kwan, however, beat Lipinski in the U.S. Figure Skating Cham-
pionships and seems to have the advantage going into the world event.
xf Along with Kwan and Lipinski, there is another U.S. hopeful in figure -skating.
Nicole Bobek also is one of the favorites to win a medal at Nagano. If Kwan, Lipinski and Bobek were to sweep the event, it would be the first time in history that one country received all three medals in figure skating.
On the men's side of the figure skating circuit, Todd Eldridge is looking to capture the gold for the United States. If he did, he would be the first man to bring home the gold in figure skating for the United States since Brian Boitano.
Besides figure skating,
The Olympics looks to be one of the most competitive ones in recent memory for the U.S. They have extremely strong chances in each of the two major events of the Olympics, figure skating and ice hockey.
Now it is time to sit back and enjoy the next two weeks of Olympics.
The U.S. should end the Olympics by bringing home at least a couple of medals.
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After losses to Neumann College and Gwynedd-Mercy College, the men's basketball team came back with a vengeance, defeating Eastern College, 89-74.
by Nicole Klimas ass;stantmanaging editorThe tension in the air was thick on Saturday, Jan. 31, when Cabrini's own men's varsity basketball team met their closest rival, the Eastern College Eagles.
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In then: last meeting, the Cavs defeated the Eagles on their home turf, 73-51. When the Eagles came to Cabrini on Saturday, they were hungry for revenge. But, would their hunger pangs be fulfilled or would they continue to feel the powerful crush of the Cavs?
Saturday, Feb. 7 Centenary College 3p.m.
Monday,Feb.9 at King's College 6 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 11 Rosemontco11.,6 p.m.
The Eagles were defeated quickly and insatiably as the Cavs came out with a win of 8974.
After a loss o.n Wednesday. Jan. 28 to Gwynedd-Mercy, the "team was ready for a comeback. According to junior guard and tri-captain Sean Tait, the team was hyped despite the loss. It was time to move on and go out and take care of business.
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Men's basketball coach John Dzik said, "The team played much better on Saturday than in the game against GwyneddMercy, but you have to give the other team credit. GwyneddMercy is a better team than us and we're a better team than Eastern."
When sizing up the competition Dzik said. "Eastern's team is rebuilding. They have improved but they're still at the bottom of the PAC ladder. They play hard but they aren't as talented as we are."
Right from the start the Cavs came out shooting and within the
first 13 minutes of the game sophomore forward Tim Anderlonis had scored 11 points and had an overall 13-point game in the first half while junior center Cory Miller chipped in his own 10 points.
When the first half ended with a score of 43-31, the Cavs were 12 points ahead. After halftime the Eagles came out a little stronger but they were still no match for the Cavaliers.
The Cavs continued to fight tenaciously and with the help of senior forward John Drummond, who slam dunked the ball three times, the team was well on their way to holding onto their lead and their second-place ranking in the PAC.
Drummond has also helped the Cavs with his rebounding skills. His 631 career rebounds have moved him into fourth place on the Cavaliers' all-time rebound leader's list He is currently ranked 13th in Division III with an average of 10.6 rebounds per game.
According to Tait, Jimmy McTarnney was another driving force behind the Cavs win. "Jimmy [McTamney] really stepped up into the starting position big time. especially since be isn't used to starting," Tait said.
McTamney knocked in a career high 15 points and pulled down six rebounds. increasing his average to 9.8 points per game.
Tait is working on improving his game now that he is back in the swing of things. "It's frustrating to be out with an injury but it takes time to rehabilitate it," Tait said.
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"Sean's [Tait] being out with an ankle injury has hurt us," Dzik said. "He was one of the leading scorers last year. He continues to get better along with his ankle and we hope that he is completely better for the postseason."
"Jimmy [McTamney] did a good job starting and I believe that capable replacements at all positions helps to make for a good team," Dzik said.
Dzik's goal for the rest of the season is for the team to resolve
to play together and play hard every time out.
According to Dzik, the team seems to have problems with combining the two together, but if they are successful at working to achieve this goal, he will be satisfied.
Up next for the team is a game against Beaver College on Saturday, Feb. 7. The Cavaliers need to win at least two more PAC games in order to achieve a sixth-straight, post-season position.
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The Lady Cavs made ulook easy in their 87-45 victory over Eastern College.