Late deliveries cause ·frustration for many

JOHN M. HOLLOWAY STAFF WRITER JMB723 @CABRINI.EDU

"No news is good news." Not for the students awaiting the Loquitur every Thursday at noon. For the past four weeks the Loquitur has been placed on the racks around campus four to five hours late. Who's to blame? Not the editors or staff, that is for sure.

The Loquitur is printed weekly and delivered through Interprint every Thursday. Three • members of the journalism staff meet the delivery person at the mailroom to distribute the papers throughout school. The driver is supposed to arrive around lunch time. Last Thursday, Justin Hallman had to leave his job early to wait for the delivery person who was running late.

"I don't mind distributing the paper," Hallman said. "It's just a pain when you have to arrange your day around the delivery."

Chris Jones, Hallman and I had to wait around the mailroom Thursday afternoon after it closed, because the truck still did not arrive. Jana Fagotti, managing editor, called to see what the holdup was, and was told it had been dropped off over a half hour before. Minutes after this phone call, the Interprint truck drove into Founders lot. Why was the truck coming back, oh, maybe because it hadn't been there yet. That's right, Interprint was incorrect, the truck did not arrive a half hour before, it was just getting there then.

As a writer for the Loquitur, I have deadlines to reach so we can get it out on time. If I write an article describing an upcoming event on Thursday evening, how will students read about this event if they are out of class by the time the paper gets to the shelf?

The editing team works longer hours than most people with full time jobs. When the paper is out on' time, who does it reflect on? Them. Well, it's time to shift the blame for once.

Maybe we are a small school. I understand that we are not the only delivery scheduled for Thursdays. However we all have schedules and huge corporations wouldn't stand for a month full of tardiness. If your trucks keep running three to four hours late, get new drivers, or start the day earlier.

One suggestion that was brought up during the meeting was that any club or organization will also be able to profit from this event. According to the proposition, any organization will be allowed to sell as many tickets as they want, and the amount of profit they make goes to that organization.

In case you're still confused, I'll give you an example. If it costs $50 per ticket, and SGA decides to profit $10, they will raise the ticket price to $60. So if 100 tickets were sold, profiting $10 per ticket, they would profit $1000. So, if the History Club (as an example) wanted to, they could ask to sell 30 tickets, and in this hypothetical situation, they would profit $300 for selling them, as discussed at the meeting.

A Winter Fonnal should be a fancy dinner and dance at a reasonable price for the entire community, seeing as we are only college students. It should also be a fun, off-campus social activity, as stated in the purpose of this eveJlt; not to make money. There are currently no plans for what the profit would go towards. It would be to just have the money. There is currently no need for it. I am not writing to complain. 1 am writing to infonn. I am informing you what goes on when your voice is not heard. You may not have the voting power at these meetings, but you have a voice, which is more important. Your voice and your opinion will be heard by those that do have the power to vote.

Ryan Norris

Pet peeve: the many empty seats in class

CHRISTINA WILLIAMS STAFF WRITER CMW722 @CABRfNI.EDU

Aristotle once said, "The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead." I firmly believe in this quote and support Aristotle's way of thinking.

Every morning I get up and go to class and there are times I get to class and the attendance is absolutely surprising. In some of my classes there is a maximum of 15 people and sometimes I go to that class and there are only nine people there.

As I sit in class I think 'how can these people not go to class ?' I understand if they are really sick or there is some type of emergency, but other than that I just don't understand.

I begin to wonder if I'm the one who has the problem. I think to myself maybe my high school just enforced the importance of regular attendance more than other schools. I cannot remember a day where there were more than 10 absentees in each class.

If I see someone in my class that I know I'll ask them why they weren't in class. The response I usually get is 'I didn't feel like getting up and going to class.' I then think to myself 'who cares if you feel like it ?' It is something that we have to do everyday. I mean what are these people going to do when they are out in the workforce?

Being a communications major and taking career development I have learned that college students don't get thi::jobs they want when they get out of college if they don't have certain skills. Taking what I know and ~plying it to those who don't feel like going to class I just want to inform them that they are in for a rude awakening after graduation.

Honestly, what are these students going to do when they are at low-paying-jobs that they don't even want to do? How are they going to explain to their bosses they didn't go to work because they didn't feel like it?

My best friend and I always talk about graduating from college and having good jobs. Getting a great job is our motivation for going to class.

Even though it does get boring real quick with the same old routine, I have to remind myself that when I leave Cabrini I'll have the education I need to do whatever it is I want. I won't have to be embarrassed when I show my resume to prospective employers and it says that I graduated a year or two late because I had so many classes to make up because I failed them due to lack of attendance.

I also know that attendance is something employers look at when considering hiring a person. No company is going to hire a person who cannot keep a constant schedule. Poor attendance is only hurting those who don't go to class and it is going to severely affect them when it comes to getting a job.