Rooymans Center gives assistance to students

KELLY MCKEE STAFFWRITER KMM723@CABRINI EDU

Cabrini’s on campus tutoring center offers free peer tutoring to all students. The Rooymans Center provides the setting for students to receive the help they need. Whether difficulties are ongoing or are specific tasks, such as reviewing for upcoming tests, peer tutors are available through walk-in hours and by appointment.

Students who need assistance benefit by getting help from tutors who have been successful in a similar course and are in a unique position to help others with the material.

Peer tutors are students who have been trained through a onecredit course, EDU 190, receiving instruction on issues such as communication skills, learning styles and confidentiality. Recommended by faculty, these high performing students offer time periods each week in which students can visit the center without appointment and review personal obstacles.

Sarah Boyer, a senior education major, has been a peer tutor at the center since her sophomore year. Boyer hopes to pursue a career in special education.

“Tutoring is great experience for me as a teacher and also as a stu- female students who party on college campuses are so lucky. dent. I enjoy the feeling of helping others and the atmosphere in the center is great,” Boyer said.

LaSalle University, located in North Philadelphia, has experienced its share of drama in the past year. Two basketball players, Michael Cleaves and Gary Neal, were charged with raping a female visitor during its summer basketball camp. Another woman, a LaSalle student and basketball player, accused Dzalo Larki of raping her in 2003—He was arrested and charged. The woman apparently went to the coaches of the women’s and men’s basketball teams, but they urged her to not go to authorities.

Both the coaches were fired over the incident. This does not mean that LaSalle University is an unsafe environment. Many students are doing what they can to prevent such events from happening again and to make the campus a safe place to be. The Dean of Students at LaSalle, Joseph J. Cicala, Ph.D., has addressed a letter to the community that students have come forward with helpful information to progress the investigation and that police are very grateful.

Also available at the center are classroom coaches. These highly qualified peer tutors are assigned to certain classes to act as a support for professors and develop a greater understanding of how stu- dents are progressing. Students from these classes can receive extra review and practice for course material previously taught. By attending the classes in question, the classroom