FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1982
Cabrini College, Radnor, PA 19087
VOL. XXVIII, No. 10
Vandalism plagues campus BY TOM DeMATTEIS
Behind all the excitement and glamour of the opening of the George D. Widener Campus Center there is a negative aspect vandalism. Within the first month of the opening of the center the game room has had to be closed to clean black scuff marks up off the floor, a $75 headphone set has been stolen and the art woks of alumni Eileen Slattery, Kitsy and Louise Humes and Loi Bullock on the walls of the now deserted first floor of Sacred Heart Hall have been damaged. Director of Student Activities, Marcy Nadel, is concerned about the increasing vandalism. Nadel believes that the game room floor may have started innocently enough playing ping pong. However, when the players saw the marks their shoes were making on the floor they drug their heels in circles around both the pool and ping pong tables. "We had to close the game room down while maintenance stripped the wax off the floor to get the marks out," Nadel said "I can understand some scuff marks but.. .. " Nadel also said she is having trouble keeping up with the equipment in the game room. Pool stick tips and ping pong balls are breaking and no one is telling her so that she can replace them. "If the felt gets ripped on the pool table, the whole table will be replaced with a coin operated one," she said . Nadel said, "I do not want to be a policeperson. The students
taken from the Communications Center, Dr. Jerome Zurek, chairperson of the English and communications department, has no idea how they were stolen. However, other than a sign being ripped down, no other vandalism has taken place in the new center . "The students realize this is for them." Zurek said .
Vandals marred the artwork of alumna Eileen Slattery, '8lhin the hallways of Sacred Heart Hall in the basement near the lockerrooms. Both er tennis mural and her basketball mural were destroyed when someone kicked in the wall. Student Activities Director Marcy Nadel said of the vandalism, "It makes me unhappy to think that nothing is sacred around here." (Photos by Tom DeMatteis) have to police each other . We can scream until we are blue in the face but what we need is the peer pressure ." Nadel also reported that the toilets used during dances have been stuffed with toilet paper and tape marks have been made on
the freshly painted walls in the center. Nadel said the bills for "the marks on the walls will have to be paid by the students through SGA if they keep up and if anyone is caught damaging equipment they win receive a bill for repairs.
Cabrini increases tuition
"There is no excuse for the vandalism in Sacred Heart," Nadel said. "It looks bad for incoming students and visiting sports teams. It makes me unhappy to think nothing is sacred around here," she said. As for the $75set of headphones
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BY ,JOYCE PATITUCCI
The Cabrini College Boad of Trustees voted unanimously to increase tuition for the 1982-83 school year by 10 per cent. Aceording to Sister Mary Louise Sullivan, MSC, president, the decision was made March 12 at a special board meeting to renew finances and approve the operating budget for 1982-83. Sullivan said, "In the inflationary spiral we're in, it's a foregone conclusion that there will be increases." She added, "Our main concern was that, as a school, we do not want to price ourselves out of the market." Room and board will also be increased by 12.8 per cent . Students will pay an additional $175 in tuition per semester and residents will pay $150 more per semester in room and board.
TUITION AND ROOM AND BOARD CHARGES AT AREA CATHOLIC COLLEGES 1982-83 tuition
Villanova Rosemont LaSalle Cabrini lmmaculata
$4,900 14% $4,550 9.6% $4,150 12.2% $3,850 10% $2,950 9.3%
Zurek explained that the Com. munications Center .is kept locked and alarmed as much as possible but when it is open on nights and weekends work gr~nt students are on duty to keep a watch over the equipment. However, if any serious damage is done to the center, Zurek said he would not hesitate to bring in the police. Another area on campus that has been hit lately is the theater. Daniel Perna, the director of the theater program, reported several pieces of equipment stolen over the Christmas break . Among them were theater lights, an electric organ and tape recorders. Perna said, "We need these things and work hard for them . I wish people would realize these things are good for the whole school." Perna said that the proper sources have been altered so that no more theft will occur. "It is getting to the point, " Perna said, "that I am afraid to put my false teeth out in fear that someone might take them for the gold."
1982-83 room& board
$3,100 $2,950 $3,160 $2,650 $2,200
121/2% 11% 11.7% 12.8% 18.9%
Not all area Catholic colleges have determined what their increases will be yet.
Currently, tuition is $3500per year, rising to $3850 next semester with room and board jumping from its current $2350to $2650. According to Sullivan, there will also be additional "minor" increases, including a $15 increase in general fees and a $25 late fee, as well as an 18 per cent increase in late tuition payments . Sullivan explained that the last increase was proposed to discourage students who pay late in order to invest their money and collect interest at the school's expense. Sullivan emphasized the fact that more students means more revenue. "If we don't realize the anticipated amount of students, it means we will not be able to afford some of the additional items the school would like to Continued on Page 4