Slow-starting formal proves succesful by night's end

by Adam Greenberg assistant a&e editor

Cabrini students partied hard at this year's spring formal, which was held at the Valley Forge Hilton on Saturday, April 17.

The evening started off with a farewell dinner to the seniors. As a parting gift to the soon-to-be graduates, the seniors received their admission for free.

The dance, which all students were invited to attend, followed th~ dinner.

According to Emma Legge, director of student activities, while the night started off slowly, with very few people at the beginning, the formal had drawn a healthy number of students by the end.

Approximately 150 students attended the dinner and a total of about 350 people took part in the evening's festivities, Legge said.

First-year student Cliff Beckett said "I really enjoyed the dance."

Brandon DeCloux, also a first year student, said "It was a really good time. I was happy, there were no fights."

Legge felt that the event was a success due to the large amount of work that the sophomore class put into organizing it.

Nick Luchko, treasurer of the sophomore class board, was also pleased with the response to the formal.

"It seemed like everyone had a good time," he said.

While some students may have thought the single admission price of $25, or $40 per couple, was too expensive, Luchko pointed out that it was necessary in order to allow the senior class to go for free.

The charitable Cabrini spirit was also present at the formal

Troop scouts out opportunites, makes new memories

by Melissa Lessig staff writer

Girl Scout Cadette Troop 504 engaged in a day of career exploration in the fields of accounting, biology, psychology and communications. Workshops in these areas were held throughout campus for the 12 seventh grade girls on Thursday, April 15, 1999.

The Accounting Association sponsored the day. Ann Servey, professor of business administration is co-leader of the troop. According to Servey, every badge that the Girl Scouts must earn has a career exploration component. She gave the girls a list of majors and the girls themselves choose the majors that interested them, which were accounting, biology, psychology and communications. According to Servey, it was an excellent opportunity for the girls to experience different career paths.

Servey and students from her income tax course organized the accounting workshop, which taught the Girl Scouts how to prepare tax returns electronically. According to Servey, the students made up a W2 form, walked through computer software that prepares federal taxes with the girls and then they manually prepared a Pennsylvania tax form with the girls.

"What was interesting for the Cabrini students was that they entered the classroom in January confused and lost, but they shared what they learned with the girls and they were able to show what they learned," Servey said.

Servey also noted the advantages were absorbed by the Girls Scouts by truly learning how to prepare their taxes electronically, particularly when the girls asked pertinent questions, such as "what if I was married?"

"The Girl Scouts surprised and pleased me and they showed a lot of insight," Servey said.

The accounting students also were quite enthused upon working with the girls and expressed their positive feelings of not only interacting with the Girl Scouts, but also affirming their knowledge of taxes.

"It was interesting to see how the girls reacted to us. They seemed to have a good time with it. It was neat to show them how to do it,"senior Catherine Driscoll said. "It gave us a better understanding of why and how we do it. It was definitely interesting. We enjoyed as much as they did."

Junior Kristen Hartley echoed these sentiments. "It [workshop] was a benefit on both ends. They had a lot of questions. They enjoyed it and were interested in tax day," she said. "It was good for us because we were able to apply what we did throughout the year. We were able to teach and show what we learned rather than take a test."

Darioush Tashayyod, a continuing education student said the benefit was, "to show someone a new thing to do and try to give them an overall idea and realistic feeling of how to do taxes."

Kruse allowed the girls to use a compound and dissecting microscope to observe live organisms. Then Kruse gave them a preserved fetal pig. According to Kruse, the girls observed the external characteristics and features and then dissected the fetal pig and observed the digestive, heart, and lung cavities and all organs in these cavities.

"They all said they loved it and all were so excited and all so motivated. I hope they continue this throughout college," Kruse said. "I was surprised they were never exposed to any of this in school."

Kruse reveled in the experience just as much as the Girl Scouts did and took pleasure away from it. "I didn't know what to expect, but they really were excited the whole time," Kruse said. "I enjoyed it as much as they did because they were students excited about learning."

After a lunch break that the girls were reluctant to attend because of their fun in the bio lab, according to Kruse, the girls attended the psychology workshop conducted by Dr. Anthony Tomasco, department chair of psychology, and some psychology majors.

Junior Jasmine Paulino saw fun in the whole experience. "[The girls] were interested in what they were doing and learning and had fun the same time," Paulino said.

Anthony DiMarco, junior, said "It was cool that I could teach them and guide them through it."

Other students also gained confidence in knowing that they understood how to prepare taxes electronically and teach others to do the same.

"I was able to teach them as well as understand enough to do it. I was intimidated before, but I'm starting to love it and I am able to do people's income taxes," Alwyn Brown, sophomore said.

Sophomore Margaret Davoly, who is president of the Accounting Association, said "it helped me understand more by explaining it to them."

Jeff Lefevre, sophomore, said that "I was able to realize that I knew more." From the accounting workshop, the Girl Scouts moved to the biology lab where Ann Kruse, department chair of biology, introduced the girls to science that they had never experienced. "We couldn't get the girls out of the bio lab," Servey said.

The Girl Scouts' day of discovering careers ended on a great note for them, according to Servey, in the radio station with the communications workshop, headed by Cathy Yungmann, professor of communications.

Yungmann said that she took the girls on a tour of the communications center, but the highlight came when the girls went into the radio station. Sophomores Brian O'Connell and Bill Price and junior Anthony Scalfaro recorded lines with the girls, wrote them a script and recorded their voices. They then made a tape for the Scouts to take home. "We had a lot of fun with them," Price said.

''The guys did a wonderful job and they were great with the girls," Yungrnann said. "The students don't realize how much they know until kids come in who are fresh to it and they explain it to them."

Yungmann pointed out the kindness of the students. "Students are always willing to help. This is a big plus for Cabrini," Yungmann said.

The Girl Scouts ended their day of a career exploration with more knowledge to add to their brains and more fun to add to their memories. •