VOL. XXIV NO. 6
CABRINICOLLEGE.RADNOR.PA.
SGA Elections
19087
FEBRUARY 10, 1978
Dowling joins dept.
Constitution questioned following voting mix:up While the hearts of the members election committee maintained of the election committee seemed that this meant the candidate had Leslie Hickman and Sue to be in the right place , their minds to be a junior when he/she took ofO'Hagan were elected SGA presi- were apparently somewhere else . fice, and not necessarily when dent and vice -president respec- In an attempt to make the election elected. This was to insure the suptively on Fri. , Feb . 3 following a more competitive, the elections posedly essential transitional mix-up in last semester's election were delayed to try and lure more period between SGA administranominations. This seemingly lions. Somehow, in a vote 路 wtifch attempt. caused more problems than it was was to decide which interpretation At a dinner meeting held Tues- worth. would be followed, the latter won day , Jan. 31, members of the SGA The only team nomination that out by one vote and Albert was election committee convened to the delay succeeded in alluring found eligible for election . decide on the fate of the presiden- was that of Bob Albert and John After the elections were finaliy tial and vice-presidential elections Gallagher. Upon investigation it - held and tallied, the outcome was a which ended in a dead-even tie last 路 was discovered by certain mem- dead tie. A run-off election was to semester . hers of the election committee , be held, but it would have to be BY RON KATKOCIN
..Thepresident willbeelectedfromthemembers ofthepresent Junior class" The reasons for the vast confu- however, that Albert did not sion in the 1977-78SGA elections . have the necessary 64 credits to be are manifold. classified a junior and thus eligible First of all the elections were for election to the SGA presidencompelled to be delayed by the tial office. These committee memoverall lack of the students' in- bers used Article IV, Section 1, terest in their government. As late Part a, of the SGA Constitution as. as December there were still a basis for their argument . The number of positions open. In the clause reads : "The president will presidential/vice-presidential slot, be elected from the members of the most important position, there the present junior class." This remained only one team self argument met resistance from nomination, that of Hickman and other members of the committee. O'Haaan . Certain other members of the
taken during exam week, a time when student apathy in governmental affairs is at its peak . The election committee then decided to hold elections the following semester, apparently disregarding thP first amendment to the SGA Constitution which reads: "All Student Government , class and club elections shall be held during the latter part of the first semester. " Continued on Page 3
Chaplaincy search is narrowed BY SUE O'HAGAN The choites for a new chaplain have been narrowed down to "a couple of possibilities" according to Sr. Sharon Morano, MSC, dean of students and chairperson of the Chaplaincy Search Committee. The committee was formed in December as the result of Rev. Thomas Piechocinski's decision to leave Cabrini. The committee, consisting of members of the student body, faculty and administration, convened several times during the interim in an effort to make final decisions concerning the choices for a new chaplain. According to Sr. Sharon, 35 applicants "~f wide and varying backgrounds" responded to a three-week advertisement for the chaplaincy position that was run in the National Catholic Reporter and in a campus ministry magazine. The applicants ranged in age from 28 to 67. When asked if age was being heavily weighed in the final decision , Sr. Sharon said that it was not. Instead, the search committee gave other factors more consideration . Some of these qualifying factors include: possession of a personal sense of ministry; openess to youth-oriented expressions of worship; full committment to the development of a campus ministry; the ability to relate to the enti re college community and willingness to become actively involved in all aspects of colle,e life.
In addition, the committee is , looking for a full-time priest willing to celebrate daily masses and special liturgies, and a spiritual and pastoral counselor. The 35 applicants for the job each received packets of information about Cabrini and about the duties expected of them in the position. They were also asked to evaluate themselves and their potential in being able to meet the necessary qualifications . In the final stage of the search nine applicants were interviewed, some before the interim and most during the interim according to Sr. Sharon. Members of the search committee served as an interviewing committee for each of the applicants. Student members were unable to be present during the interim interviews . And because of bad ' weather conditions not all o( the other members were able to participate in each of the interviews . Sr. Sharon, as chairperson, attended all of the interview sessions. , Evaluations of each of the interviews were submitted by those in attendance. Again, weather conditions prevented the final evaluations of all of the interviews to take place before this semester. The committee met on Friday, Jan. 'r1 at 1 p.m. to review the interview data collected during the interim. As a result of the meeting the possibilities for the chaplaincy have been narrowed down.
A proposal to have the remaining applicants visit the campus to informally meet students, faculty and administration was suggested. Sr. Sharon calls this a "good idea" and sees it as an opportunity for the final applicants to get a "feel of what they'll be dealing with if they are hired." Two of the priests, Rev . Andrew Ciferni, 0 . Praem., and Rev. Marinus Verivey, 0 . Praem . visited the campus on Wednesday, Feb. l. Another priest, Rev. James Vizza, T.0.R ., is scheduled to visit on Mon. Feb. 13. "We 're aiming for a final decision sometime before the end of February" says Sr. Sharon, "but the new chaplain will not assume his position until September 1978." Rev. John J. McKenzie, O.S.A. of Villanova University and St. Augustine Church, Philadelphia, has been hired as campus chaplain on a part-time basis according to the January-February President's Newsletter. Rev . McKenzie will serve as chaplain for this semester since the Chaplaincy Search Committee hasn't made its final decision on a full-time chaplain. A revised Mass schedule is also in effect for this semester. Masses will be celebrated Mondays through Fridays at 5 p.m ., and Sundays at 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. There _will be no 4 p.m. Mass on Sundays nor will there by any Saturday Masses.
. A NEW FACE. Msgr . Philip Dowling of St. Elizabeth 's Church in
Phila. will teach Religion 105 "Who is Jesus" semester.
at Cabrini this
TV producer is Convoca~ion speaker BY SUE O'HAGAN "It is surprising that when you 路set out to do something, bow much you can really accomplish." Adrian Malone did just that . He set his mind on a goal and subsequently worked to accomplish that goal. His goal, from the young age of 17, was to become a television producer . The reality, at the age of 41, is just that. Adrian Malone has risen to become one of the top television producers in England as well as the United States . Malone, a producer of "creative documentaries" for the British Broadcasting Corporation and current member of the University of Pennsylvania's faculty, is scheduled to be the guest speaker at the Spring Convocation ceremonies at Cabrini on Tuesday, Feb. 21 at 1 p.m. His topic, yet uncertain, will ''probably be along the lines of -television documentaries as a form of education ." Yet he is certain of one thing : he will talk . In tact, he assures, "You'll probably have a bard time stopping me once I get started." Presently, Malone is serving an appointment as lecturer for Penn's Department of History and Sociology of Science. He bas been in this country since June and claims to enjoy the academic scene immensely. "I have no univei:_sitydegree," he states with bis British accent, "but I do have a degree of sorts, in television." His "degree" in television is the result of over twenty years in the field. He took his first job with BBC radio as a technician at the age of 17. He then moved on to television
doing as many jobs as he could, from sweeping studio floors to camera and sound work. Termed "too young and too inexperienced" by the BBC to be hired in the capacity of producer, Malone went to work in British commercial television for a time, only to be rehired by the BBC as an "executive producer ." A job which Malone says entails a little of everything - producing, directing, editing. Two of Adrian Malone's better known works in America are THE ASCENT OF MAN and THE AGE OF UNCERTAINTY series. Malone served as editor of THE ASCENT OF MAN, a 13 part program tracing the development of science. He was executive producer for the AGE OF UNCERTAINTY, a 13-part narrative of the past two centuries of economic history. He is currently working on a film series on the life of Albert Einstein and also on a 13-part series on space. Malone says his space show will have the "Gloss of STAR WARS, but at the same time will be as good as Socrates ." Malone's education is on the job. He learned television by "doing it" and he also learns all of his subjects by doing almost all of the actual research for them. "It's like taking a Ph.D. before producing each show," says Malone. "The first three months of each produ.ction are nothing but reading and research." So, why the move from television to the academic scene? Basically, Adrian M~one is a dynamic person, constantly in the state of motion. Contibued on Page 路 2