Mastronardi recipients dedicated to service

KIMBERLY WHITE STAFF WRITER KMW722@CABRINI EDU

Two students were extremely grateful to be presented with the Charles A. Mastronardi service and leadership award at the Cabrini day event on Thursday, Nov. 11. Megan Beauduy and Michaela McGowan are two Cabrini students who received the award that is presented to deserving students once every year.

New Residence Hall, 8:23 p.m.

I stroll through the doors and flag down the first person to pass me by. “Hey, do you know where…?” Realizing that there is an on-duty Residence Assistantwithin 10 feet of me, I try to be as inconspicuous as possible; I hesitate, and with a dubious squint, raise, and then wrinkle my brow.

“Try that hallway,” the student said.

I’m good…real good. Overconfident about my newfound means of communication, I enter the first open room I come across.

“So…uh…(simultaneously wrinkling and nodding) would you guys be able to help me out with something?” I said. Rejection was pouring from their blank stares, yet for some unknown reason I remained optimistic. “You know…some drugs?” I said.

DRUGS, page 5