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quick to judge me and what I say.

At the same time, these people are getting all bent out of shape at what 1 say, but it is all right for them to say stuff about me. Where is the justice in that?

But I'm beyond that. I don't let the little stuff bother me. If you have a problem, you can always find me, and if I'm so bad, prove me wrong.

JOE ELLIOTT

I always find it extremely funny about how people constantly are changing their minds and feelings.

For instance, a person can be extremely happy one second and then turn around and be completely nuts the next second.

I just thought that would be a good observation to tell you guys before I start.

I think I'm a pretty nice person, and I'm definitely not an (use your imagination), but it bugs me that people will go around and talk so much trash about me.

I always figured myself to be somebody who was open to criticism, and I am very open, if you did not know.

I started to think about why people would hate me, and I was told by my friend, Tony, it's because of the fact that I write for the paper.

So, I immediately started to laugh and said to myself, gee, that's funny.

I thought that if people hated me it would be because of something else, like cutting in front of them in line or leaving a cup in their room.

Unfortunately, that would be a stupid reason for somebody not to like me.

Anyway, we are at Cabrini, the land of non-prejudices.

What makes it really funny is that the people that obviously hate me are the same people that are so

Try to take an educated and professional approach to it. Challenge me on a topic, walk into my world, and see what happens.

Maybe you can prove me wrong.

Or, you can just sit there and do nothing, like the rest of the slowgrowing majority of this campus does.

Which brings me to my next point.

How come this school is so lazy?

I cannot believe how people can just sit around and complain all day and all night and not do anything to try to solve the problems.

Sure, a select few people have tried to make a difference with what is going on here at school.

Colleen Murphy, the senior class president, has been trying to make strides to change the location of where the graduation is going to be held this coming May. Along with a few seniors, they have been facing unbelievable odds to make a difference in this, a school, not a democracy.

The best thing is that there are probably no more than 30 students that are making any difference here on campus.

I figure that you are all pretty tired of listening to people ranting and raving about graduation. I think that you guys need to really band together. Then things will happen.

I'm also sure that you guys think that you know everything, and you guys probably have done almost everything that is possible.

I would suggest that, to the people that really want to get involved, do what I do to get things done.

- Confuse your opponent, and never let them know what you are thinking. When it comes time to surprise them, you will definitely surprise them.

We all know that people like to talk about what is going on here at Cabrini, especially when it has nothing to do with them. So you guys should be extremely careful when planning what you are going to do.

I think that one thing is for sure, that the school has a definite upper hand on all the students.

First off, how come we, the students at Cabrini College-the ones who pay the bills-cannot write to a public newspaper and show our feelings about the school?

I bet a majority of the people here at school did not even know that.

What's up with that?

I think that we the students should have the right to say and do whatever we want to.

My solution to that whole thing is to make the parents and friends write the letters to all of the big newspapers.

They cannot get in trouble for writing that stuff.

At least that is what / would do.

Well, I do not really want to sit around and tell you guys how to fight against the school, but I just wanted to help.

I figure, as I see it, the students here at Cabrini College really need to figure out what is the best for not only themselves, but also the rest of the school community.

When we left high school, we were given the responsibility to do whatever we want.

Since we have chosen to go to school, we have made the first steps

Letter To The Editor

To whom it may concern,

I am a first-year student here at Cabrini and I have a few questions concerning the coverage of athletic events. Okay, yes, we all know that both the men's and women's basketball teams rock, and will probably take the PAC titles, but what about the men's and women's track teams? Why is it that every basketball game is listed in the "What's going on this week" part of the Loquitur, but not once has there ever been any mention of the track teams? Why is there always a big article about every single basketball game, and the one time that th track team IS in the paper, every single person's name is completely botched up? The track teams may not have as good a winning streak as the basketball teams, but they have just as much right to be recognized (correctly) in the Loquitur.

Sincerely,

A concerned member of the women's track team towards being successful in life.

The mission of a liberal arts college is to help teach us to think independently and make decisions for ourselves.

Now, I cannot make decisions for you, the same way an adviser can not make a decision for you when you are choosing a class, but I can help make you believe in yourself, and help you with your decisions the same way an adviser will help you by selecting classes that will benefit you in the future.

I figure that we are all in the same boat and we need to look out for each other.

When I came to Cabrini, I never in my life thought that I would be able to write to a large audience and make people listen.

What is really funny is that last year, I hated the Loquitur. I wanted nothing to do with the people that ran the paper, especially the former editor in chief.

If it were not for Dr. Zurek-and a certain albino deer-I would have probably never written for the Lo- quitur again.

I bet half of you wish that albino deer was dead now. After I wrote a story about the albino deer on campus, people started to realize that I was not all that bad at writing, so I was given a chance-unlike the first semester, when the motto for the Loquitur seemed to be; "If at first you don't succeed, then we will make you feel stupid and never give you another chance."

Not too friendly if you ask me. I stuck with it though, and rode out the semester, and was able to convince the editors from last year to let me be an editor this year. Of this story, the moral can only be that you should never give up, don't ever give up. Just like Jimmy Valvino once said (I think): You will be surprised by what persistence and determination will do.

JoeElliottis a juniormajoringin English/ communication.Heis theperspectives editorof Loqultur.ThealbinodeerALWAYS agreeswithhim.

Loquitur is established as a forum for student expressionand as a voice in the uninhibited,robust, free and open discussionof issues.

Gaines

Loquitur is a laboratory newspaper written, edi:ed and produced by students of Cabrini College registered in COM 346, 350, 351, 352. 353 and 354. Members of the campus community are invited to work on or submit stories for publication. Only students registered in the above classes, however, are eligible to receive academic credit. Subscription price is $25 per year and is included in the benefits secured by tuition and fees. Loquitur v,elcomes letters to the editor. Letters should be signed and tbe authorship known to the editors. However. if the writer wishes and the editor ag=. the writers name may be left off the publication and an inscription insened, such as ·'name withheld at the request of the writer." Leners to the editor must be submitted by noon on Moodays.