friday, march 16, 1990
cabrini college, radnor, pa 19087 · .
vol. xxxvi, no.18
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Circumstancesleave seniors-without pomp by Kelly Reed Not everyone from the class of 1990 will be walking to the end of their college career on Sunday, May 20. There are four or more students for whom there will be no graduation party, no sense of accomplishment and most of all no diploma until May of 1991. Cabrini's policy on requirements necessary to graduate is based on tradition. The college catalog states that in order to graduate, a student must meet all of the requirements of their major, as well as the general education requirements for a total of 130 credits.
seniors their credits do not total the magic number 130, and as a result they will not be allowed to participate in commencement. Chris Lampazzi, an education major, found out that she did not have enough credits to graduate when she registered for classes in January. Through a miscommunication between Lampazzi and her adviser, she is now 12 credits short in student teaching. Lampazzi believed that she would be able to make the credits up if she was to teach during the summer. This wasn't possible and now she can not graduate. "I am extremely irritated and
Christmas thinking that it was all go out onto the teaching world settled and I came back and found now, only I can't,'' Lampazzi said. Meghan Kane, a business maout that there was nothing I could jor, will not be graduating in May do," Lampazzi said. "I always used to kid my dad _ because she is five credits short in that I was going to be the kid on the · the general education requirefive- year plan and now it looks like ments. When totaling her major and I am,'' Lampazzi said. Although Lampazzi will be done credits, Kane did not realize that they did not total 130. her student teaching in December, ''When I received my academic she will not receive a diploma until evaluation in August I mis-read it May 1991. This might make it difficult for and I thought that it was just stating six credits I received from summer her to find a full-time teaching classes," Kane said. position in the middle of the year. Besides the disappointment of "What hurts is that I was a transfer from Marywood College not graduating, these seniors must last year and the education I face their families and friends, who received here is I00 percent had planned on coming to watch them in commencement.
Kane is the last of seven children to graduate from college, and her dad, who is a police officer, has to retire this year. · 'I cried and cried. I didn't want to tell my parents. Where are they going to get another semester's tuition?" Kane said. Unlike Larnpazzi, who plans to attend graduation, Kane will not be there. "It would be too hard for me to go and not be up there with the rest of my class.'' ''The worse part of not being there is that I will not be there for Trish (Fitzgerald) when she receives the Mother Ursula Award. She means so much to me, but she
BU Sh.Si8sh esWC0°11eg•eWia1crmdro Positionto promote by Jennifer A. Morrison
President George Bush recently proposed a slash in aid for 300,000 college students in the 1991-1992 academic year. According to Assistant Financial Aid Director Elizabeth Cairns, this should not cause any major problems for Cabrini students. Bush's proposal would contain cuts in the following Cabrini programs: Perkins Student Loans, Pell Grants, College Work-Study awards, and Stafford Student Loans. The Perkins Student Loan is a low interest loan that gives a small amount of students financial aid that is given by the college or university. In his proposal, Bush will save $135 million by eliminating the federal contribution to the Perkins. Education Department officials said institutions would have sufficient Perkins funds to provide loans to 695,000 students in 1991-1992- down from 804,00 expected in 1990-1991. ''Thts may hurt us a bit, but I feel that the govern-
ment is trying to make the colleges and universities self-sufficient," said Cairns. "There will be tougher rules on the Perkins recipient acceptance.'' Pell Grants are grants that are given to those students who are in need of extra financial aid. The reqirements for a recipient to receive the grant are strict. With this proposal the requirements will be tightened. Education officials said that 14,000 students who now qualify for $200 grants will be eliminated in the program in 1990-1991. According to Cairns only six Pell recipients at Cabrini will lose their $200 Pell grant. College Work-Study programs will drop an additional 5,000students according to Bush's plan along with providing no increases in the program for I9911992. According to Chris Pesotski, financial aid work study coordinator, this drop should not effect students
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Jeffersonadded to affiliatelist by Anna-Marie Karlsen For students pursuing a career in the sciences, a new affiliation agreement with Thomas Jefferson University may be just what the doctor ordered. The basic agreement is that a student would enro11 at Cabrini for two years, fulfilling the requirements for TJU, then after those two years, he or she applies for academic transfer. "TJU has the final say whether or not a student is accepted," said Anne Kruse, chairwoman of Cabrini's biology department. "We have an affiliation agreement, not a direct transfer." The largest benefit of the ac-
cord belongs to the students. In applying for an academic transfer, students here would receive preference over students applying from a non-affiliated school. "This is especially important with physical therapy and occupational therapy, two very competitive fields," Kruse said. This affiliation is also important in that Cabrini may gain some prestige for its biology department. "We could have an increase in enrollment because students may prefer Cabrini due to the affiliation," Kruse said Maureen Becker, a 1987 graduate ofTJU, transferred there from Cabrini under the old program of "2+3." She now works at St. Christopher's Hospital for Chil-
dren. "I wish Cabrini had a four year program, because I made a lot of friends there in my first two years," Becker said. "Since there were only five students in my biology classes(at Cabrini), the one-to-one instruction helped prepare me for the more clinical training I received at Jefferson.' ' Presently, there are three freshman in pre-nursing, four in pre-pharmacy and three in prephysical therapy. Other schools sharing an affiliation are Bloomsburg University, Villanova University, Elizabethtown Co11ege and Juniata College.
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culturalawareness by Clyde LaForest Recognizing the need for a student government office which addresses the concerns of minority students, the Student Government Association's executive board has created the position of human affairs director, Angie Corbo, president of SGA's executive board said. ''The number one job of the human affairs director," Corbo said, ''is to promote cultural awareness in the student community. "The position is a link," · Corbo continued, "between the SGA and the student body who is consciously aware of the needs of minority students, by working with the Black Student Alliance and Melting Pot, for example. They're two SGA clubs." Initiating affinnative action, which Corbo defined as social justice within the community, is the third majorresponsibility of the new office, she said. The new position was tentatively called "minority affairs director" during its planning stages, but the SGA changed the name due to the accepted meaning of the word ''minority'' when it is used in contexts dealing with race-relations. '"Minority affairs'," Frank Emmerich, vice president of SGA 's executive board said, ''may be misinterpreted and therefore limit the effectiveness of the position. The position is there to help people solve prob-
terns. We are dealing with a human problem. Although everyone's a minority in some way, they may not know it." Emmerich referred to those other minority groups as ''nontraditional minorities'' and he said they would also be able to use the new position as a resource. Emmerich said an example of a non-traditional minority here is male students, and a male member of the community should be able to go to the human affairs director for help if he thought he was being treated differently because of his sex, he said. Emmerich said he believes this does not broaden the position's focus so much that it becomes ineffective. He said the traditional minorities' needs will not be left undealt with. "We don't anticipate," Emmerich said, ''many nontraditional minority problems, but we wanted to be able to address th~m if they arise.'' Corbo said that she and Emmerich are on the campus life commission, which has discussed the hiring of a paid administrator as a minority affairs director several times. Most colleges have such an administrative position, Corbo said, but in the absence of one here, Corbo and Emmerich decided the SGA should attempt to have a student acting in that capacity.
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