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friday,may2, 1986
cabrinicollege,radnor,pa. 19087
vol.xxxii,no. 23
Changes¡
Locksto supplementdorm security
in store for Orientation
by Lisa Mason The ongoing issue of whether or not residents living in the campus houses should be given keys to their front doors may soon be resolved. However, the proposed solution does not involve issuing keys. Instead, a budget request has been made to purchase combination locks. "If the budget request is approved, the locks will be installed this summer on the houses and Counsel Hall," Mike Caranfa, director of physical plant, said. Caranfa added that because of the style of doors presently on Woodcrest and Xavier Halls, combination locks may not be installed on these dorms. According to Caranfa, the installation of combination locks as opposed to issuing keys will eventually save money, as well as maintenance. "Initially the combination locks will cost more money (approximately $2,400), but it wouldn't be an ongoing cost," Caranfa said. However, Caranfa believes issuing keys would create ongoing costs because of the frequency oflock changes. "We would have no way of knowing. if keys were duplicated or if transfer students still had keys, so we would have to re-key every semester for security reasons," Caranfa said. He continued, "It would cost approximately $400 a year, and there are also maintenance and labor costs involved." After doing research on combination locks. Caranfa found the proposed style to be sturdy and easily maintained.
by Kathy Hibbard Major changes are being planned for the 1986-87 Freshmen Orientation. Changes will included: an ongoing student board, the new position of student coordinator, an extra day of orientation, and a goal to extend the theme and purpose of orientation beyond the first week of school. "One of my goals this year was to develop a permanent student board for evaluating orientation," Colleen DiRaddo, director, student activities, said. "We did that and got many good students." The Orientation Advisory Board (O.A.B.) is comprised of volunteer students who, meeting bi-weekly this year, have gathered student feedback, and have generated ideas responsible for promoting the established and suggested changes concerning orientation. "The purpose of the board," Jeanne Reineberg, sophomore, board member, said. "was to look back on the previous year and look at where the successes were, where the failures were, what can be done to change the failures, and what new ideas can be implemented that would be effective for freshmen." ..The goal of orientation is to introduce the freshmen to Cabrini College in the best posswlew~." she added. "In the past. they have done an excellent job. but the more people that share their ideas, the more effective we can be in carrying out our goals." The selection of next year's orientation staff was entirely student run with O.A.B. members conducting the interviewing, as well as resident assistants, (RA's) orientation counselors, (OC'sl and class officers (CO'sl._ The 1986 orientation staff includes freshmen: Pete Bisconte, Anne Marie Baeurle, Jennifer Carlin, Mike Charvala, Theresa Daly, Donna Dougherty, Joann Falciani, Bob Frankenfield, Judith Krajnak, Jo Long, Kathy McAssey, Lori Petrozza, Dina Simmons, Terri Smith, Laura Wilson, Joel Zazycsny, and Pat Zipfel; sophomores: Terry Ciarlante, Peggy Federico, Debbie Ferrar, Chris Francis, Monica Palko, Steve Saville and Eileen Zebrowi,ki; juniors: Brian Feeley, Michelle latesta, B.J. Petracci, Mike Johnson, and Donna Kolb; alternates: Carole Kirchner, sophomore, and Coleen McGlaughlin, junior. "I think it was good that the interviews for OC selection were conducted by students," Peggy Federico, sophomore, said. "They are more in-tune with what the freshmen need and can pick up on who would be good for an OC position. With your peers, you have to be honest because they can see through you." According to DiRaddo, she has aimed to make orientation more student-run, and the newly established position, student coordinator of orientation, evidences her efforts for the realization of this goal. Joe Giuffre,junior, will man the position, and according to DiRaddo, was the logical choice for the job. "He was selected because he's always been involved in orientation even when he was an RA," DiRaddo said. "He has expressed the desire to go into student personnel and administration, so this would be the ideal thing for him to do." "I could definitely utilize him in giving continuity to the orientation program when I'm not going to be here," she continued. DiRaddo will be stepping down from the position of director of student activities with the conclusion of this term. more ORIENTATIONon 5
"The type of lock that we would use is used by Eastern College. They haven't found any maintenance drawbacks. Also, if the combination lock had to be changed, it is very easy to change the combination at no added cost," Caranfa said. He added, "These locks are very good; they are much better than the locks put on houses six and seven." Mary Ellen Lilly, director of resident.. life, can see pros and.cons to giving residents kPys to the houses. Lilly said, "It would be convenient for the students, and theoretically it would provide more security during the day and night." However, she added that lost keys and the costs of changing the locks are factors to be considered. Lilly believes combination locks can also have drawbacks because of laziness on the part of students. "I try not to be, but I am pretty skeptical when it comes to students' sense of security. Too many times I have seen pizza boxes used to prop open doors," Lilly said. She continued, "We tried combination locks on houses six and seven one summer, and the students didn't even take the time to turn around and lock the door after they came in." Students have mixed feelings concerning the issue
"I'd love having a key to the front door," Maureen Steady, sophomore, said. "Wi~h combination locks, it would be so easy for someone to get the combination." Julia Malik, junior, has no preference when it comes to keys or combination locks. "It doesn't matter which one, as long as I can get it," she said. "I do think t~e combination locks would be cheaper, and it is easier to remember a combination than to remember your key all of the time." Carolyn Duckworth, ophomore, also believes combination locks are the better solution to the problem. "People lose keys. Also, people get keys made and give them out," she said. "They can also give out the combination, but it is cheaper for the school to change the combination than for them to change the lock and give out more keys." Though there is divided opinion as to whether or not combination locks are a good solution, most students, as well as Caranfa, agree that no matter which form of Jock is used, the responsibility lies with the residents. "It will always end up to be the responsibility of the students not to give out the key or the combination." Caranfa said. Christy Mason, sophomore, added, "I see pro and cons to both, but no matter which form you use, it is up to the women of the house to enforce it."
Cabrini joir.1s'global village' by Gia DiGiminiani Cabrini students filled the Widner Center Lecture Hall to participate in last Saturday's videoconference. The videoconference was sponsored by the Boston-based daily newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor. Cabrini was one of over 200 colleges and universities around the world involved in the videoconference. The Monitor reportedly spent approximately $1,000 to install a videodish at each college participating in the conference. The videoconference was dubbed "the global village" by the participating commentators, many of whom were media personalities, including, Edwin Newmann of NBC-TV, Pierre Salinger of ABC-TV, and Georgie Ann Geyer of ''Washington Week in Review." Staff members of the Monitor were also panelists, including, Editor-inChief Elizabeth Pond. The discussions centered around the reporting of world events by the news media. Geyer commented, "We (the media) must have dual citizenship-journalists especially. Everyone seeks to preserve their own interests. Journalists must stand up and look outside their own world, their own interests, and have more global interests." Students viewing the videoconference could also call in questions through a toll free number, and address their questions to the international panelists. Student questions came from the following schools: University of Cairo, American University in Paris, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Emerson College, Boston, Northeastern University, Boston, and Northwestern University, Illinois. The vidaoconference was followed by Cabrini's panel of local experts. Panelists included: Lee McCarthy, anchorman of the Channel 29 Ten O'Clock News and former NBC-TV foreign correspondent, Joe Hoephel, congressional candidate, Jolron Girard, chairperson ofhiS t ory a nd political science, and Jerome Zurek, chairperson of English and communications.
Lee McCarthy of Channel 29 participates session after video teleconference.
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