How do they get away with it

MELISSA STEVEN STAFF WRITER

MS727@CABRI

NI EDU

Everyone knows who I am talking about, those people who walk into class 10 minutes late and only come to class seven or eight times a semester and still receive a passing grade. This is my second year at Cabrini and since I have started, my professors have been very strict on how many days a student is allowed to miss class. They range from approximately two to five unexcused absences. After that, the teacher threatens to lower your class grade a letter for every absence after that.

In a couple of my classes there are those people who show up either on a test day or once in a while in between test days to show the professor that they have not dropped their class. Still they always make it to the midterm and the final to get their passing grade even though they rarely showed up for the class.

When they do show up for class they are normally late, have no textbook or notebook, put their feet up on the table, take up half a table when they need a nap in the middle of class and talk throughout it, disrupting every- one. I pay for the classes I go to and unlike some people I intend to learn for the amount of tuition

I am paying, and I certainly do not need rude people like this disrupting class when they feel like coming that day.

Alot of students work very hard throughout the semester to get a good grade. They do all the homework assigned, all the projects and wake up every morning to get to class. So how do the people who hardly show up to class still receive a passing grade? How is that supposed to be fair? I am sure that they probably do not recieve an Aor a B, but the fact that they still pass without going to class, not doing their homework or taking notes makes me upset.

College is a fun time, but people who get a free ride like this are going to have a huge shock when they go out into the real world. If they cannot even handle waking up to go to class then I guess they will get what is coming to them when they get a job and find out what it means to be an adult.

If these people are not willing to come to class, then do the people who are paying their tuition to attend class the favor of either dropping the class, or when you do decide to come, be quiet so the rest of us can learn.

As executive board members of Up ‘til Dawn, we would like to bring attention to the recent vandalism that has taken place to our signs and posters campus wide. “You may have torn down our posters, but you can’t tear our hearts.”

This is Cabrini’s first year to be involved in a nationwide effort to raise money for Saint Jude Children’s Research Hospital through a project called Up ‘til Dawn. As a student-led program driven by the executive board who meets weekly, each moment we spend working on ways to raise money, which helps with the possibility of saving the life a child suffering from cancer.

In a time when students spend countless hours of their college life partying during Monday Night Football, we are brainstorming ways to assist with the help of saving another life. Through advertising and promotion, we count on YOU, the students, to take a moment and help to save a life through donations.

Recently, many of our posters and flyers have been vandalized. Maybe you have seen the large alphabet poems that are displayed weekly in the lobby of Founder’s Hall. These poems are written by the kids of St. Jude that are currently living with cancer. Not only is a piece of paper being defaced, but the thoughts, the feelings, the emotions of these children are being demeaned. To those students who defaced the posters, we ask: Where are your hearts?

Up ‘til Dawn prides itself on helping others and as dedicated members of the Cabrini community we strive to promote “Education of the Heart” through our posters introducing children who need of our help. It is that penny, that nickel, that dollar that may give them an extra minute to live.

These children are not given an option when they are diagnosed with terminal cancer. By tearing a poster in half, a child’s chance of getting the needed treatment they deserve, is torn in half. Alife is not something to play around with.

This insensitivity toward a good cause shows that some students lack the core values we should all share as students of Cabrini. Respect, Vision, Community and Dedication to Excellence is the foundation of our education. Ripping down our attempts to unite a campus—to do something good; is showing anything but respect for these children.

If you are upset about your fellow members of the student body thinking cancer is a joke and you want to do something about it, join Up ‘til Dawn.

EVERYTHING WE DO IS FOR THE KIDS. Every poster we color, every flyer we design, every letter we write, every penny that we raise. Don’t rip down another chance a child has to beat cancer. Cancer is real and it can affect anyone and next time it could be your mother, your father, your brother, your sister, your roommate— you.

Executive Board of Up ‘til Dawn CabriniUTD@yahoo.com