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FRIDAY,
OCT.
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19B3
CABRINI
COLLEGE,
RADNOR,
VOL. XXX,
PA 190B7
NO. 2
Kappa.expandsfocusof ParentsWeekend Further discontentment came last year when the date on which the annually combined Pa:rents Weekend and Homecoming were scheduled, failed to include an athletic event.This year a men 's soccer game against Delaware Community College and a women 's hockey game against Pennsylvania State University are scheduled. According to Gaffney, the aim for this years Parents Weekend is to include everyone . Gaffney feels that there were a lot of hard feelings in previous years from students who did not have parents on campus . She pointed out that students who did not have parents on campus were served dinner in the cafeteria earlier than those with visitors. "We were pushing people out ." Gaffney said. In accordance with a focus on making the weekend of impor t ance to all members of the campus community, the theme "All in the Famil y" was -chosen . ''The theme will ceincide with Cabrini 's overall view of how everyone should feel at the school," Gaffney said . This year Kappa has planned for dinner to be served in three shifts . No specific shift is designated for those students without visitors . Stud ent s and parents will have a choice of shifts. This year , for the fir st time , varying departments of the college will provide displays . This is in accordance with Kappa's goal to ··show ofl'• t he college as well as mclude all a,,-pects of the college in the weekend. A faculty lectu re will be give n by Jolyon Gira rd , cha irper son of the histo ry depart ment, at 3 pm. on aturday . The lecture will be followed by the President's reception in the Mansion .
by Barbara Bruhin After a re-evaluation of the purposes behind Parents Weekend at a student body meeting last spring, Kappa Sigma Omega , the student service organization in-charge of plans for the weekend, ha5 come up with a change in focus. Activities , this year , have been planned with the goal of including individuals from
'ParentsWeekendhas been the same for too long.It has to changewithall of the otherchangesthat have occuredat Cabrini.' all aspects of the campus community in the celebration. Karen Gaffney, president of Kappa , stated that in previous years, activities have been aimed mainly toward freshmen and their parents. According to Dr. Carter Craigie, faculty moderator of Kappa, these changes are based on an attempt to expand Parent s Weekend as the largest campus event in the fall semester . Craigie sees the focus of Parents Weekend as a chance for students to express how they feel about Cabrini. "It should be a positive affimation or reaffimation of why I came to Cabrini College ," Craigie stated . "This is my goal for it." A need for changes in Parents Weekend was partl y due t o th e growth of the college , according to Gaffney . "We got :<tuck in a m~ld,'' Gaffney said. "We are trymg to get out of that mold because Parent s Weekend has been t he sa me for too long . It ha s to chang e with all of the other changes that have occured at Cabrini." A lack of enough activities to interest those other than freshmen and their parents is anoth er rea son given by Gaffney for the discontentment with previous Parent s Weekends.
President of Kappa Sigma Omega, the student services organization, Karen Gaffney.and Faculty Moderator of Kappa Carter Craigie are seen surveying the gym where the Parents Weekend dance is scheduled to take place. (photo by John Doyle) •
Board rejects dorm bids _by Robin Larkins The finance committee of tlie Cabrini College board of trustees has rejected all bids received for the construction of the new dormitory . The decision was handed down at the September 29th meeting of the committee , according to Sr. Eileen Currie, ·MSC, president of Cabrini College. According to the committee, the bids were unacceptable because they weren't within budget. They will "reopen the bidding process and seek new bids or revision of the old ones," said Currie. Currie said the rejection will cause "a delay of at least a month and a half while we seek new bids." Since the committee vetoed the bids the decision to proceed with the project"is not anticipated to be decided ~pon at the board 's October 3rd meeting . The ultimate go ahead must be passed through the committee before it can be presented to the entire board for vote and approval. Currie added , "The committee is still very much in favor of the project. Wejust need better bids. I really do not see this as a downer just a slight delay." ' Gus Nicoletti, director of resident life, commented on the delay in relation to the residency program and its plans, "Even when we were hoping for a target date of September, 1984 for the dorm to be ready for occupancy, we had a contingency plan in the back of our minds." The delay of the project may result in utilizing the contingency plan of housing at Cabrini East until the new dorm is ready . Nicoletti said that the decision would probably hold to house new students at the Cabrini East facility, unless "the present residents there opted to stay, or there are an overwhelming number of returning students who opt to move there," he said.
A hospitality center will be run by Kappa in the George D. Widener Center Loun ge on Saturda y. Th e center will remain opened all day for stud ents and · visitor s to pick up tickets and receive genera l inform ati on about activities .
Libraryreceives$150,000 by 0.8. Field Holy Spirit Library has received a $150,000 grant from the Pew Memorial Trust (The same foundation that provided the funding for the communications center .) and has several plans on how to use the money. Library Director Claire Skerrett said that the first project is to install an air conditioning system. "The building was originally built .with air conditioning in mind," Skerrett explained, "but there wasn't enough funding at the time. As a result, only the small windows in the rear of the building open. " "In the summer the tempature in the library averages about 90 degrees. This is unsafe for some of the older volumes in our collection and some of our equipment . It also causes library use to go down considerable." To protect equipment such as the micro film, the micro film projectors, and the photo copiers, the air conditioning system will have humitification capabilities. The heating system will also be modified with a zone tempature control, so that in the winter the basement will be as warm as the rest of the building. There is asbestus in the ceilings of Holy Spirit
Library , according to Skerrett. Therefore , part of the grant will go toward encapsulating the asbestus . In this proccess a special protective coating is sprayed onto the ceiling to trap the dangerous asbestus. . Like many of the buildings on campus, the library is lfot handicapped accessible. "Last year
New bookshelves willbe set up in the largecorridor(in the basement)betweenthe classrooms, increasing the volume capacityto 15,000. there was a Harrisburg evaluation," Skerrett said, "and that was the only real complaint they had about the library, so the third project will be making the library accessible to the handicapped . This will include a ramp at the front entrance and renovation of the bathrooms. We already have an elevator . With the money that is left they plan to expand the library into the basement. New bookselves will more LIBRARY GRANT on 4
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The Student Government Association covers issues such as the new party policy and homecoming in a special SGA section on ~age 8. As a campus service, SGA publi shes two full pages in every issue of Loquitur .
7a.m. Wake up Members of the resident life staff wake up to early IJlOrning breakfasts in the Office of Student Services. These meetfog times are part of a plan on the part of the Office of Resident Life to provide a stronger support system for resident assistants.