Smokersneed to take a step back

get the point across that I think the smokers here at Cabrini should try and move back a little when they smoke outside of the most occupied buildings on campus.

MATI DONATO STAFF WRITER MCD724@CABRJll.1.EDU

Chances are if you were a first timer here at Cabrini College you would find the Jazzman 's Cafe to be a nice place to eat. The place just radiates with this indescribable aura.

When you walk in you are comforted with their own hand picked selection of smooth jazz and these beautiful pictures on the wall that tantilze your imagination. And there is always an enjoyable fragrance coming from the soup section. They always have a plethora of soups awaiting your taste buds.

Yes, Jazzman's Cafe is a nice place to eat a meal, but it is not the best place to purchase that meal.

the cafeteria. Oh wait; the cafeteria is closed after my two-anda-half-hour class on Wednesday, I almost forgot. So the only choice I have to get a decent, that term is used lightly, meal around here is by going to Jazzman's and wasting my already meager $50 flex that we are granted at the beginning of the year. I have $14.36 left on my card, what about you?

Oh yea, at breakfast you only get $2.40.

"We need to get more money for meal exchange. In middle school, my parents were giving me five dollars for lunch," Erik Parrillo, a junior marketing major, said.

If the meal exhange money fiasco wasn't enough, doesn't it piss you off that you can't even get meal exchange all throughout the day. I think that it's preposterous that you have to wait until a certain hour to receive meal exchange. l know of a few schools where they offer food from 6-12.

PATRICIA J. SHEEHAN STAFF WRITER PJS723@CARBINI.EDU

I'm walking along the lovely Cabrini campus. I say hello to friends I pass on my way out of New Residence Hall. As I go outside, I am greeted not only by the warm sun, but also by the cloud of smoke l must pass through as I leave the building.

"No big deal," I think to myself. "There is no point in complaining about every little thing that bothers me during the day."

I keep on walking towards Founders Hall. I notice the amber colors of the leaves that are beginning to fall and then my peaceful state of mind is once again broken by yet another, even bigger, wall of smoke that greets me as I walk through the doors into Founders.

To be completely honest, the smoking outside of Founders and the residence halls does annoy me as a non-smoker. As a nonsmoker I have obviously chosen not smoke for a reason; I don't like cigarette smoke. Now I'm not going to turn this into an anti.smoking campaign. I just want to

When I spoke to some Cabrini non-smoking students, they said that it does annoy them when they have to walk through cigarette smoke in order to go to class, dinner or their dorm.

Many said they think the smokers should move back 30 feet whichever building they are smoking near. This is the required rule, which is supposed to be enforced.

From my experience, I rarely see people smoking this far away from the buildings even at New Res, which has its own patio especiall):..,.designed for people who wish to smoke outside and away from the building.

Other places on campus don't have this luxury. Woodcrest Hall, Xavier Hall and other buildings on campus don't really have a place for smokers to smoke. Maybe there should be a place built for these smokers, like the patio at New Res.

Why is it that this rule of standing 30 feet away is not enforced? It seems that the other rules on campus are. I mean, if you don't have your ID in the cafeteria, you can forget about that mashed potato dinner you were dreaming about all day.

When I asked smokers about this issue, some said that they sometimes don't move away from the front of the buildings because of the weather outside. Other smokers just smoke by the stairs outside of New Res., which is further away from the main doors. Some smokers didn't know about the 30 feet rule at all.

Other Cabrini students say it's a courtesy issue. They think that it is rude for smokers to stand in front of the buildings and smoke because it is an inconvenience to non-smokers.

Now, I'm not saying that smokers are rude people and that they shouldn't be allowed to smoke, for those of you who are about ready to send me hate mail, but please just move away from the building if you can. It would be easier for everyone. I understand that some places on campus are not eqoipped with places for you to smoke, but if there is, please take advantage of them.

The prices are just too high, and it's not like our school helps us out.at all. They give us a $4 meal exchange limit and of course the average salad and sandwich at Jazzman's is higher than that. The most expensive sandwich and salad at Jazzrrian's is $5 .39. That is a $1.39 coming out of your flex dollars just so that you can be handed your dinner. I for one would rather go to

"When I get out of class on at 4:30 p.m., l don't have enough time to get a bite to eat at Jazzman's before my 7: 10 p.m. because it is so populated," Dave Damiano, a junior English and communications major, said.

So even though Jazzman 's prices and hours are bad, don't forget the nice atmosphere. So go to Wendy's, buy yourself a meal and bring it over to Jazzman's Cafe.