Activities fee proven effective for CAP board

by Nicholas Burch staff writer

Throughout the past year the Campus Activities and Programming board has come under scrutiny from students as well as past members, but now they hope to earn some praise.

Tricia Arnold, CAP chair, said she is trying to bripg excitement to the life of Cabrini.

She hopes the newly raised activities fee will allow for a comfortable budget to work from and a new sense of direction in positive events.

Last year, the activity fee provided the CAP Board with $35,845. The new fee gives the CAP Board

$95,628, a substantial raise in terms of campus activities.

·'With the added money there will be a ton of events," said Arnold. "It's just a matter of people getting to know them."

With the activity fee, more events will take place during the week. Arnold has a positive attitude about the upcoming year and one of her main goals is to get the commuters involved.

A focal point of the CAP is to keep more people here on the weekends, instead of going home or to other colleges. Without the added income, upcoming events would not be affordable.

Due to the added activities fee, there will be more of an upbeat at- titude. 'There is so much going on that the calendar is full," Arnold said.

Arnold does not want to hear students saying that there is nothing going on at Cabrini.

The activities fee has added to experimental activities, something that last year's budget would not be able to afford. One such activi• ty is a band in the food court, which will play once a month.

Arnold hopes to hear feedback about the bands and would like anyone who knows of a band to contact her.

''I'm getting a lot of good feedback from the students so far," Arnold said.

Looking ahead, October seems to be an eventful month for Cabrini students. The extra activities fee has allowed for the CAP board to bring in the band Mr. Greengenes to preform for Octoberfest on Saturday, Oct.17.

The Fall Gala will be held on Saturday, Oct. 31 and will feature a masquerade theme.

Toe sophomore class will be hosting a Mr. and Ms. Cabrini pageant on Thursday, Nov.12.

Friday, Dec. 5 is the date of the Winter Formal. Everything on the calendar will happen, but additional items will be added each week.

Even the first-year students are getting involved in campus activities.

Arnold met with 35 to 40 first- year students last week to inform them of what goes on around Cabrini and how they can help.

For the second semester, Arnold is trying to get a big-name band to come to campus. She would like to hear ideas from the students about what band to try to get.

"Everything is for the best and working out nicely," Arnold said. "Without the activity fee raise, none of this would ever happen. We are able to have leeway and able to afford things without question."

With everything happening so fast, the CAP is trying to make students look beyond last year's mistakes and look towards a positive experience to college life.