FRIDAY,
OCTOBER
1!$, 1982
CABRINI
COLLEGE,
RADNOR,
PA
19087
VOL.XXIX,
N0.2
Homecoming game: whose iob? by Brian P. Jensen
Parents Weekend and the annual Cabrini College Homecoming festivities scheduled for tomorrow might very well lack an essential aspect of any Homecoming event, namely, a game. Unless last-minute efforts to schedule an athletic game are successful, half-time Homecoming festivities will have to take place without a half time. According to the Cabrini activities calendar, there is no home sporting event scheduled for this Parents Weekend. Further, the annual Home-coming ceremony scheduled by the student government association for the same day does not appear on the calendar at all. According to Dane Linn, SGA president, the planned Homecoming activities will take place "game or no game. " Linn referred to the present situation as "pathetic." Linn explained that SGA's social activities board planned the date for Homecoming last Spring on the premise that "it is traditional to hold Homecoming on Parents Weekend ." Neither Linn nor Peggy Heffernan , social activ ities chairperson , checked to see if a game was scheduled for that dat e. "We base our Homeco ming date on the date chosen by Kappa Sigma Omega for Parents Weekend," Linn said. "Kappa scheduled a date last Spring. I assumed that either they or the athletic department would pick up on the fact that no game was scheduled for that day," Heffernan said. Terri Hundermark , president of Kappa Sigma Omega, Cabrini's service organization responsible for organizing Parents Weekend, explained that she, too, was not aware that neither a soccer nor field hockey game were scheduled at home on the date in question until she noticed it on the calendar at the beginning of this seme ster. "I did not pers onally set the day, but I confirmed th e dat e with the dean of stud ents office last Spring , ju st to make sur e a weekend had been set aside . I reall y hadn 't considered the n if a game was scheduled at that time or not, " Hundermark said. Marcy Nadel, director of student activities, who puts the Cabrini calendar together , checked her files and found that Kappa Sigma Omega had not submitted an activities calendar even though Parents Weekend was scheduled. Nadel recalled that she
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Marcy Nadel, "an oversight"
was approached early last year and told to put Parents Weekend on the third weekend in October. "I just don't pull dates out of a hat. I put it on the calendar based on information given to me . I don't have it in writing, so it must have been verbal, " Nadel said . Nadel was not certain who it was who dictated the information to her. "l. I don 't remember now who approached me about it. It might have been Carter Craigie ," Nadel said . Carter Craigie , advisor to Kappa Sigma Omega , said th at it was indeed he who scheduled Pa rents Weekend . "I assumed that there would be a game, that is an error on my part,'' Craigie said. Craigie said that in the past it has been "pure luck" that Homecoming has fallen on the same day a sporting event was scheduled. "I can promise you that it won't happen again. We can't let it," Craigie said. Craigie went on to explain that he always schedules Parents Weekend on the third weekend in October to avoid clashing with other area college's weekend functions. Nearby hotel acco mmodat ions for par ents ar e limite d when a college as large as Villanov a has an event. To avoid conflicts, Cabrini's Parents Weekend is usua lly held later tha n others. Meanwhile , the men 's soccer team is playing tomorro w, but not at Cabrini. They are scheduled to play across the street at Eastern College and, according to coach Will Langton , have no intentions of moving the game home. "It is difficult to switch the game onca it has been scheduled," Langton said. Langton explained that even though
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, Carter Cralgle, "error on my part"
the game is only across the street , it cannot be moved to Cabrini because Eastern College has its own plans for the day . Further, Langton pointed out that a contract was signed "a year ago" with Eastern agreeing that the game would be played at their home field on that day. "I did investigate moving the game home, but I didn't push the issue because the Eastern game is very imp ort ant to the cred ibility of our program," Langton said. Langton also explained th at he did chec k last winter with the r egistr ar , the academic dean , and the dean of student s officesio find out about their schedules . He was then told that the schedules are not made up until the Spring . Langton submitted his soccer schedule for Marcy Nadel to put on the calendar last April. The Eastern game at Eastern was on that schedule. Helen Goodwin, women 's athletic director, says she has been trying to schedule a field hockey game ever
Dane Linn , "pathetic"
since the situation was brought to her attention in September. "The reason that we don't have a game is because I schedule my games two years in advance. I've tried everyone. So far, it doesn't look like we can getr one, but I'm still trying," Goodwin said. Goodwin's last-minute efforts, along with field hockey coach Mimi Greenwood, appears to be the only chance to schedule a home game at this point. Goodwin also said that the same situ at ion occurre d last year, when she was able to schedule a ga me in tim e for the weeke nd . • " Last year I had to adjust th e schedule to suffice the weeke nd . I found a team then , I'm still tr ying now," Goodwin said . Like Langton , Goodwin had submitted her schedule to the dean of
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Mrs. Oristaglic;> Estelle Oristaglio, director of ad-
missions for continuing education, has been very busy lately. In this issue, Loquitur recognizes her efforts in an appreciative manner in an editorial (page 2) and a profile (page 6).
Cheerleaders The girls who attempt to please and excite the fans are moving up in the world of Cabrini College. In this issue, Loquitur recognizes the cheerleadinb squad and explains how they are to become their own team. See story on page 14.