Crusade for the New York Times

Amy Gassen

news editor

Has everyone noticed the shiny new metal newsstands decorating the entrances to various on-campus residencies? The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer and USA Today are currently free to students Monday through Friday.

For 20 days, the Collegiate Readership Program at usatodaycollege.com is attempting to lure in college readers to hook them into paying for subscriptions. The newspaper giants of the world want students to use newspapers in their everyday lives for 20 days so much so that the students will become dependent on reading a daily newspaper. For 20 days, we students are given free newspapers!!!!

Free newspapers are a journalism student's dream but should also be a more widespread dream because as college students in the suburbs we are devoid of easy access to current events sources. Adding a new addition of daily newspapers to fuel our budding communication minds with knowledge to encourage us to go out and take a stand on something is even better. I think that it is wonderful that we residents are given the opportunity to read a variety of newspapers. In fact, I think that this should continue.

I propose that Cabrini College foots the bill for the student body to continue to read a variety of daily newspapers.

Our core curriculum includes "current events." It would only make sense then that the administration pays for the service for residents to keep them up to date on current events.

Reading a newspaper is the most reliable way to keep up to date with current events. However, newspapers are not sold anywhere on campus.

The library subscribes to a nice selection of newspapers, however, there is only one copy of each paper for the entire student body and faculty to share. Plus, the newspapers have to be kept in the library. Personally, I have issues with "pre-read" periodicals. My family and close friends know not to touch my fresh copies of Cosmopolitan. I am the same way with newspapers. I like to read them throughout the day. I'll leave one section open to a certain page

Letter to the editor

and expect that page to be on display when I again pick up the paper.

_ In addition to newspapers being a vital necessity t<iour core curriculum, newspapers are also useful in many other ways. Newspapers provide an outlet to encourage students to form opinions on topics. Many times, visual medias show bias in the way that the material is presented. Newspapers bring the news in an unbiased fashion.

The newsstands we have are currently placed in very convenient places for residents. Newsstands should also be placed around campus for commuters. Commuters have the same curriculum as residents. Placing newsstands in the commuter lounge and in the food court greatly benefit commuters. The communications wing would also greatly benefit from a newsstand.

Bryn Mawr College, Temple University, Villanova University and Penn State University are some of the colleges that participate in this program through USA Today that offers students daily newspapers. I would love to see Cabrini College on this list in the near future.

see related story on page 5

Basketball team is snuffed coverage·

As a former writer for the Loquitur, which is the voice of the students of the college, I was very disappointed -not to see ANY coverage of the remarkable run by the men's basketball team in the NCAA tournament.

This team went further then any other team in Cabrini history and it was mentioned only. in the week in review?

They won the PAC and there was no coverage. The only way that I found out that the team went as far as they did was by reading www.D3HOOPS.COM.

The main point of this response is not so much that the Loquitur did not cover the game(s) but that a couple of weeks ago you did an article on why no one goes to games.

Well as an alumni, I would have LOVED to go

Poor are still poor

Renee Tomcanin managing editor

''Half of the world's people struggle to live on less than $2 a day." This shocking fact is from an article in Monday's New York Times. Estimating that there are 6 billion people in the world, which means that 1.2 billion people are living like that. Imagine having only $2 to spend on yourself for everything you need to do in one day. The article reported that a fifth of the world lives on less than $ l. That's half of the sum you were thinking about before. To me this is just mi11d-boggling.

poor. For example, many Africans have the same incomes as they did forty years ago. There has been much advancement in that time. Our own min- • imum wage has been raised 50 cents in the_last few years, and that's not even figuring in inflation.

to these games and I think others would agree. I wish I was notified about it through the student newspaper. Even if it was past a publish time, a report should have been giving to the team. When a big story happens on campus, you should cover it so that students and alumni, like myself can not only read about it but attend as well.

NickLuchko Class of 2001

The editorial is dedicated to the men's basketball team.

I started thinking about everything I do in a day. I wake up, turn on the lights-I'm spending money already. I brush my teeth-money gone from the toothpaste, wear on the toothbrush, not to mention the water I've used. Then there is the usual morning prep from washing my face to changing clothes to maybe grabbing something to drink. All in all, I've probably spent close to a dollar in everything I've just done, and I haven't been up for more than half an hour. Even now, as I am typing this article, I'm using power and resources that cost more than probably anyone in a third world country can afford.

So, back to the New York Times article I mentioned. It was previewing a meeting to be held by many world leaders in which they w11!assess how they will distribute aid to poor and struggling countries. The plans that more developed countries have been following since about World War II have been any-: thing but successful in recent yea.IS.Aid has.slowly been dropping off. While some things, like illiteracy, have been improving, the poor are still

It is hard to tell what the correct solution to this problem will be. Many will say more money is needed to help out these countries. However, it has been shO\-vnthat some nations, like Poland and Vietnam, are success stories, yet others are at a standstill; they are not effective in using the aid they receive. More prosperous countries should give more monetary aid to these nations because money is an issue. In the world that we live in money will always be needed; that is something that we cannot change, at least immediately. However, other types of aids will be necessary. Ways to plan and reorganize how the money will be distributed would help out drastically. Donations of time and caring will benefit these people in need.

Paul O'Neill, secretary of the Treasury, has dreams of revamping the World Bank. While this could be a good idea, O'Neill comes from a business background, having been CEO of Alcoa, Inc. This could help nations who need more of a business sense. However, many of the problems are from lack of food, education and health care. A humanitarian leader would be essential to make this plan come around full circle. The United Nations seems to be picking up this slack, which is a good thing. They_ are devoting money to fighting diseases such as AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. By caring for a nation's most valuable resource, their people, countries will prosper because they will have a fighting chance. Two dollars a day. Two portraits of George Washington. No one should have to live on that or less.

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