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Don't take your Girlfriend to Club Sisters

Parents sacrifice for a better life

MELANI GOMES STAFF WRITER MSG722@ CABRINI.EDU

As the Widener parking lot becomes filled with commuter cars in the early morning, and students begin to walk across campus to their next class, you can see the diversity among students at Cabrini, and how it affects our College in a large way.

I come from a typical middle class American family from the Philadelphia suburbs, but what many might not know, is that my parents are immigrants from Portugal, English is my second language, and lam one of the first people in my extended family to attend college.

Emigrating from one country to another such as the U.S.A. for freedom and hope is not an easy thing, but thanks to different clubs and organizations in colleges such as Cabrini, you have the opportunity to talk to others and learn as well.

Ghostly housekeeping

contain dead insects and spiders crawling around, just might have been cleaned at least once while our parents were moving us in.

cell asking me why I have not returned her three voice messages.

The Border Experience was an eye-opening reality which really changed the way I thought about my family. Instead of being ashamed as a young child that my immigrants are from a different background than all my friends, I felt proud and thankful. I would not have received the education I have now if it was not for them to make the decision to move here.

I know firsthand how difficult it is for people such as my family who come to this country as an immigrant and the hardships they face.

That is why I am glad there are different clubs such as Ethnic Student Alliance, International Club and Latinos Unidos, that promote cultural diversity.

We can learn from the stories we hear, and bring a more positive outlook, and also respect for our many students.

While attending this college, it's also comforting to know that Mother Cabrini is the patron of immigrants. To me, that is a sign of welcome and understanding for every member of our College.

I wasn't sure if it was the squished grasshopper with guts protruding from its side, lying on the bathroom floor by the sink, or the golf-ball-sized hairball stuck to the side of the shower wall in the bathroom that made me want to vomit when I woke up to get a shower this morning.CabriniCotrege"sresident living space is grotesque!!

Ttseems the older you get, the poorer quality of living you receive. I am appalled by the fact that I walk into a bathroom every morning and it is covered with dirt, hair, mud and insects. Our bathroom goes days without being touched by any type of cleaning service. I am not even sure I want them to turn the airconditioning on in the house because my vent is covered in dust and mold, I would rather sweat than have that dirt infested vent blow in my face all night.

When I first walked into my house back in August, I thought I just might be able to get used to the fact that the stench made me feel I was about to live in a house that smelled like something died, and was rotting out of the walls. It looked like some type of wild animal had run though the house tearing up the rugs every five feet. Maybe you would have thought that the spider webs that cover the lights right outside of the house and the inside door frame, which

Maybe you think I am an over-obsessive neat freak or something, but a little cleanliness is all I ask. Thank God I keep my room clean and dust every now and then. The fact that their is a collection of black flies encompassing the corner of my wall after the fact that I know my screens are as securely fastened as possible, is really starting to get on my nerves. My monr-is going to start smelling like the stench of Raid in a few weeks. I can be absolutely sure that this house is not vacuumed, because a recent hole that was fixed on our hallway wall was spackled and the white residue flakes it leaves behind after being sanded down, still remains to this day all over the floor below.

It's not even the rooms or the bathrooms. It's everywhere J look. I don't have cell phone reception in my room, so I walk out into the hallway by a window to have a clear conversation, rather than do the "can you hear me now" bit. Even then I am sickened by the fact that I stare at flatted mosquitoes, inexplicable dried up yellow substances, flies and ants just hanging from the wal1 for weeks and the imprint of a shoe that had flatted a moldering insect. Well , at least they are dead, because I find myself swatting three other insects away from my head, as I try and hurry to finish my annoying conversation with my mother on my temperamental

Alright, so now you think I am just going a little too far and bitching like any regular type of prissy girl. Would you like to do your laundry in a basement where the ceiling is about to fall through? A mysterious leak, which is yet to be fixed, still drips to the floor, causing the paint to continuously chip off and fall, to the causing a messy puddle in the center of the basement.

No. you're right. I am going just a little too far. We fix that by placing a dehumidifier right by the puddle and then attaching a garden hose from one end of the dehumidifier to the edge of rusted 12-inch drain. This just so happens to be conveniently placed right in front of the dryers, in the connecting room. So, every time my laundry is finished and I take a handful of my clothes out of the dryer, I always end up dropping something into the rusty drainage system that chips off pieces of rusted metal that is pumped with water from the humidifier. This collects water from the ceiling, which is falling apart and cannot seem to be fixed.

Wow, what was I thinking? I must be so lucky to only be spending $8,550 on room and board here at Cabrini with these wonderful living facilities.

The dance team practices three times a week throughout the fall to prepare for its first

LAUREl'i REILLY STAFF WRITER LMR722@CABRJNI.EDU

What do you consider to be a good time? How about a bunch of hot and sweaty women gyrating their hips to a beat? No, this is not a dirty movie or MTV; it is the Cabrini College dance team. So move over Britney and start taking notes, because this year's team will show you a thing or two about getting your groove on.

New coaches Kendall Neil and Alicia DelPizzo have been hard at work preparing the team for their upcoming debut at Midnight Madness on Friday, Oct. 17. Both coaches have been planning for this year's season months before school had even started. Including Neil and DelPizzo, there are 25 women on the team, ranging from freshmen