friday,feb. 23, 1990
cabrini college, radnor, pa 19087
vol. xxxvi, no.16
Issues force action Calicat resigns and contemplation by Chris Pesotski
by Barbara Wilson Racial and ethnic intolerance has been a key topic on Cabrini's campus for quite sometime. However, in recent weeks students involved in the Coalition Against Racial and Ethnic Intimidation (CARET) have begun to take strong action to bring the issue to the forefront and make it known that such actions will not be tolerated. The CARET was formed when students found that their requests for administrative public recognition of racial and ethnic injustices were not being met. "As a result of a lack of initiative on the part of the administration the coalition was formed," Pamela Stempleski, junior, said. • 'In other words, they weren't going to do anything so we might as well." "The students needed to know that an authority figure was supporting them," Assistant Director of Resident Life Tyrone Carr said. "Sister Eileen had before only responded (to the racial and ethnic problems) through letters to the campus. It was too late for writing. What was needed the other day was a public statement of disapproval,'' Carr said. Carr, who could be considered a 'coach' to the organization, felt that things would not
Members of the CARETmarch out of the Mansion after last weeks' rally. (Photo by Barb Wilson, printed by Mark Gudas) have been taken as far as they were if there was "direct and timely action taken by the administration.'' • 'The students went through the proper channels, yet there seemed to be nothing done about the incidents which have occurred on campus," he said. To some, the CARET is a hard organization to define. Without a defined hierarchy the members within the group consider themselves equal, with all being able to take on responsibility and leadership. "With hierarchy comes competition and with a coalition
there is no room for egos," Stempleski said. "Each member has a different level of commitment and that's fine." As of last week the CARET organized and participated in a sit-in in President Sister Eileen Cunie M.S.C.'s office, a march which resulted in speeches in the mansion and a campus wide assembly in which Currie addressed the faculty, staff and students on the racial problems. The assembly also included a student
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'Nova and Bryn Mawr take a stand by Clyde LaForest Cabrini College is not the only campus on the Main Line currently dealing with racial and ethnic disturbances. A recent "Neighbors" sections of The Philadelphia Inquirer described student and administrative reaction to incidents at Vilhmova University and Bryn Mawr College. When a Villanova student was put in jail by Radnor Police for taking a pear out of a cafeteria, the Black Cultural Society of Villanova University held a rally to protest the arrest and to call for the school to adopt a policy on racial
harassment. The student was black; he had broken a rule against taking food from dining halls and was confronted by a student cafeteria monitor. Campus security was called, and when the black student would not show his identification, security called the police. He went to jail with chatges of disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and harassment, and with a bloody lip, The Inquirer said in a Feb. 11 article. The president of the Black Cultural Society, Cynthia Glover, told The Inquirer she hoped the rally would begin "long-delayed
change" at Villanova. Instead, the pear affair has white students accusing black students of jumping to the racism conclusion too quickly, and of alienating themselves from the rest of the student body, according to the article. A proposal is being written by a coalition of student groups that would define the procedures for disciplinary action to prevent racialharassment, and to define when local police should be ca11ed onto the campus. Villanova's dean of students said the school's discrimination
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Rita Calicat Robert Bonfiglio, dean of students said. ' 'In that light, Rita's presence will be missed." Angela Corbo, Student Government Association president, and long-time friend of Calicat expressed shock at the sudden resignation. '• All of us at SGA are very surprised at the timing of it,'' Corbo said. Calfcat served the SGA as adviser. Calicat had recently been involved with tire Coalition Against Racial and Ethnic Intimidation (CARET). Yvette Everett, president of the Black Student Alliance, and active member of CARET said she was sorry to see Calicat leave Cabrini. ''We (BSA) wil1 miss Rita very much because she has supported us in every way," Everett said. Everett felt that Calicat's decision may have been innuenced by the string of racial incidents at Cabrini in the last year.
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·Newdorm
None in near future· by Carlo Iacono
payment of the loanwill begin in October, 1991. Cabrini'sresidentialhousing Although a dormitory is crunchwill not be alleviated technically easier to finance with the constJuctionof a new diJectlythroughroomandboard, dormitoryanytime in the near thecollege just doesn't have the future. Withthebill of PhaseI funds to initiate such a project. (Grace Hall Atrium, athletic But with the handicap of no field, and parltinglot) of con- large benefactors to the college, struction still needing to be paid Cabrini must plan their instituoff, any large monetaryinvest- tional growth from loan to loan ment by the college is unlikely. er tuitiooincrease. With the latter "Until Phase I is completely being unpopular, the capital paid, our hands are tied finan- campaign drive utilires creativciaUy as far as a new dorm,'' ity and initiative. Mary Ellen Herzog, director of "Staff and volunteers are institutional advancement said. After borrowing three million dollars from First Pennsylvania Bank to finance Phase I, the college has been paying the interest portion of the loan through a comprehensive campaign drive. The actual
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On Tuesday, Feb. 20, Activities Director Rita Calicat submit. ted her resignation to Dean of Students Robert Bonfiglio. The resignation is effective March 16. Calicat is a 1983 graduate of Cabrini, and was hired by the student services department in July of 1986. "One of the things Cabrini is known for is a reputation of integrity and value-centered people supported by a caring community," Calicat saio. "The things which lead me to leave the community are the erosion of those values. The people who run this institution have to buy into that, and realize there's work to be done." Calicat has accepted a position at Temple University. She will continue to work in the student services field. "This is the hardest thing I've ever had to do," Calicat said. "I'm not 100 percent ready to leave, but it's something I feel I have to do. I really love my work, but where I am professionally and personally, I don't feel the necessary supports and confidences are in place for me to continue to work here." "Rita Calicat has been a dedicated employee to the college, whose commitment to the institution goes far beyond her role as director of student activities,"
doing their level best to increase Cabrini's stock in the corporate community,'' Herzog said. May 5 is the official kickoff date for a month-long comprehensive campaign whkh will have a main goal of drawing f
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