Mid-semester point already?

YADIRA R. TOLEDO

ASST SPORTS EDITOR YRT722@CABRINI EDU

On Tuesday, Jan. 17, the commencement of the newly arrived spring semester was marked. The bookstore was filled by the busy fluttering of students up and down each aisle in search of their course materials. The hallways, cafeteria and Jazzman’s were all made complete by the laughter and voices of separated friends sharing accounts of their winter breaks.

Now, with spring break crossed off of the calendar in early March, the next stop on the Cabrini College academic calendar is one that inspires and evokes mixed emotions from students. On Thursday, March 9, the both dreaded and awaited semester midpoint will be upon Cabrini.

Sophomore accounting major Eric Pendleton said, “I’m sort of surprised that the semester midpoint is already approaching. It feels like the first half of this semester just came and went pretty quickly.

But I’m not complaining; I just hope I can say the same for the second half of this semester.”

For those individuals who share the same sentiment as Pendleton, the somewhat unexpected arrival of the semester midpoint is welcomed.

But for many students across the Cabrini College campus, the midpoint’s seemingly sudden arrival can cause apprehension.

Those individuals who may have fallen slightly behind in the first half of the semester, will be left to race the clock in an effort to improve their grade.

Sloan Harrison, a sophomore psychology major, said, “I don’t feel overwhelmed at all by the quick pace of this semester. But it also depends on the person and the difficulty of their course schedule. Personally, I feel that I have performed and enjoyed myself much better this semester than I did in the fall.”

“This semester went by fast.

I feel that I am learning material at a much faster rate than I did last semester. There’s no doubt in my mind about that. It has definitely been keeping me on my toes. Thankfully, I decided early in the semester that I was going to practice time management.”

Though Cabrini students harbor a variety of feelings towards the pace of this semester, one thing is certain. March 9, 2006, marks the inevitable arrival of the semester midpoint. Those individuals who have performed up to par may not feel threatened; meanwhile, the rest of the student body may feel a slight motivation to shift

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The voting is in and the results final. The winner of this year’s “Spotbowl” is “Cave Man” from FedEx. Each year companies spend millions to see their spot run during the Super Bowl, and each year, consumers rate them.

Among those consumers are Cabrini students.

This year’s ads proved to be pretty mediocre. Cnn.com predicts, “Like the game itself, [the ads] probably won’t go down in history as being all that memorable.” Cabrini students agreed. When asked about the ads, most students couldn’t come up with one

KRT from this year.

However, Dan Squire, an English and communication junior, could. He picked the Michelob Ultra Amber commercial which shows “a hyper-competitive male tackling a female co-worker in a friendly game of touch football,” according to stltoday.com.

Vache Soghomonian, a junior chemistry major, picked out one from this year also. He liked the Bud Light commercial in which a camper is attacked by a bear and subdues the bear with a bottle of beer when a fellow camper comes by and steals the beer. This spot can be seen on spotbowl.com, and they rated the spot No. 3 for 2006. The winner is determined by consumer votes on-line.

In an article from Cnn.com, Paul Hirsch, an executive for Leo

Burnett, an ad agency said, “Super Bowl ad rule number one is put a critter in a spot and it should do well.”

Acouple of Cabrini students agree. Mike Lynch, a sophomore marketing major, and Sean Fogel, a graphic design super-senior both picked out the classic Budweiser frog commercial. According to espn.go.com, this commercial came in No. 3, of all-time.

Wayne MacDowell, an English and communication senior, said his favorite was a commercial for Yahtzee which included a cat getting kicked in the groin. He remembers the ad from his childhood.

Matt Paris, a junior history major, liked “Medical Misunderstanding,” an ad for Ameriquest. The spot shows two doctors over a patient being bothered by a fly. They zap it with a defibrillator paddle and one doctor remarks about how the fly is dead, when the family of the patient walks in. This commercial scored No. 10 on spotbowl.com.

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