THIS WEEK AT CABRINI

Thursday, April

26

Spring Research and Scholarship Symposium

On April 26, 2012, Cabrini College will be celebrating the achievements of the undergraduate students through poster sessions, oral presentations and performances at the Undergraduate Arts, Research and Scholarship Symposium stated on the Cabrini website. There will be no classes before 4:30 p.m. so the students can attend and support their peers.

Sunday, April 29

Mass

There will be a mass held at Bruckmann Memorial Chapel of St. Joseph from 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. This mass is to be celebrated for John Kelly.

German Facebook Fight Battles Piracy No Change For Zimbabwe

A German Olympic high–jump pulls a gun on the on a fan who sent her an outlandish message on Facebook. Ariane Friedrich, a trained police ocer publically humiliated and turn downed a fan and on her Facebook wall where she named the sender and the city he lived in.

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Friday, April 27

Honors Convocation

Faculty, staff and administration will be celebrating the students’ accomplishments at the Honors Convocation on Friday. It will be held at the Dixon Center from 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p .m., all are welcome to come..

Monday, April 30

Active Minds Meeting

“Active Minds” is a student-led mental health education, awareness and advocacy group. All students are welcome to come. The meeting is held to create a comfortable environment for open dialogue about mental health issue among college students. It will be held at the Iadarola Center in room 101e from 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. For any other questions, contact Dara Herkovits at 610902-8561 or dmh726@cabrini.edu

Six-year-old boy tortured and killed by parents

Six-year-old Khalil Whimes was beaten, tortured and starved by his foster parents to death in Philadelphia. Although his foster parents have been arrested, Mayor Nutter as well as the Philadelphia Department of Human Services are saying that they could not have prevented his death. While Whimes had to spend the nal months of his life beaten, bone thin, desperately ill, and out of school, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had failed to see what was going on right in front of them.

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As Zimbabweans are trying to wait patiently for a change in their government, the change has yet to come. e leader of Zimbabwe Robson Madzumbra spends all his free time waiting for a change to come. But since Zimbabwe changed their currency to U.S dollars in 2009, the money is now worth too much and they have it has now run into a unanticipated predicament.

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Saturday, April 28

Adventure Retreat

Campus Ministry is holding an Adventure Retreat, which is an outdoor off-campus low and high ropes course experience. This allows people to make friends, practice teamwork, and accumulate leadership skills plus more. There will be discussions in order to help students relate the ropes course activities to every life. This will be help at Blackrock Retreat Center from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Tuesday, May 1

End Of The Year Celebration

The center for teaching and learning is having an end of the year celebration! Come celebrate from 10:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. in the Iadarola Center lobby. There will be snacks, games, activites and prizes.

Cherry Hill father posts YouTube complaint

A Cherry Hill father states as he took his autistic son to school with a recording device has posted what he recorded onto Youtube. School faculty members are heard on the tape using bullying words in class towards his son.

Read the oRiginal StoRy on Philly com | aPRil 24, 2012

Cabrini welcomes the class of 2016

On April 15, Cabrini College embraced approximately 300 students and their families for the day at the college’s Accepted Students Day. Students explored their majors and found out what college had in store. e president of the college, Dr. Maria Angella George spoke to the students about the opportunities they would have if they attended the college. e students also participated in panel discussions led by current students and their parents.

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by allie JeteR aSSt newS editoR anj34@cabrini edu