Roommate problems, an ongoing issue

BRITTANY LIBERATORE

ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

BCL722@CABRINI EDU

It is 5 a.m. and it seems like one freshman at Cabrini has not slept a wink because a roommate has been on the phone all night talking to a boyfriend. Freshman “Jane,” as she will be called because she wants to remain anonymous, feels that 24 hours a day, her roommate is inconsiderate towards her.

So why would Jane choose to live with her chatty roommate? She did not. When she arrived at Cabrini for freshman orientation over the summer, she was already paired with her roommate. Is this a recipe for disaster?

Laura Shapella, assistant director of Residence Life, shed some light on the ways roommates are paired up before freshman year. All incoming freshman

The graduation rate of students at Cabrini is still lower than the state average, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. With a four-year graduation rate of 51.6 percent, Cabrini has a lower graduation rate than the majority of Pennsylvania private, non-profit colleges.

According to The state average for four-year graduation is around 58 percent as of 2002, and Cabrini is significantly below that number. There are a variety of reasons for this number. Students drop out because of poor grades or otherwise. Some decide to transfer to another school. Still other students simply do not make the grade or receive the proper amount of credits to graduate in four years and are forced enroll for an extra year as a “super senior.”

Students here at Cabrini who intend to graduate on time have been preparing themselves to do so by budgeting their time and picking the correct amount of classes. Colleen Bowman, a senior business administration major, thinks that graduating on time isn’t really that difficult to accomplish. Bowman said, “Graduating on time is not a difficult thing to do if you’re organized. Keeping track of what classes need to be taken and when they need to be taken is key. Once you figure out what major you want, it becomes very easy to plan out college and therefore graduate on time.”

For Bowman, who graduates this May, it has not been too much of an issue. But for 2005 graduate, Rich DeMatteo, a psychology major, things were a lit-

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