People making a BIG difference at Cabrini

JILLIAN MILAM ASST. FEATURES EDITOR JGM726@CABRINI EDU

Teachers and professors are without a doubt vital to any college campus. Well, what about the people that make the world go around for Cabrini who do not get the recognition they deserve? Imagine life without the help of the Information & Technology Resource Depar tment. Lauren Kupniewski, 25, serves as the ITR Coordinator/Analyst at Cabrini and plays a major role in helping students with their computer problems. With three years of part-time work at the Help Desk Group and Computer Administrator’s Group at Drexel University, Kupniewski graduated from there in 2002. She then began working full-time at Cabrini beginning in Sept. 2002.

“The IT group here is really good. I enjoy working with a small group and we really work well together,” Kupniewski said. “The position allows me to have free- dom. I’m not stuck doing one thing all the time.” She could not be closer to the truth.

Kupniewski is involved with so much in regards to the technology at Cabrini, whether she is helping students with computer problems in their dorms, helping people get on the network or assisting with web site maintenance.

“All the calls and requests come through me. So I need to delegate the calls, help students, aid people with wireless computers, fix the audio or video in classrooms for teachers; I kind of dabble into everything,” Kupniewski said.

Cabrini students recognize her hard work and commented on her kindness. Lori Ianella, junior English and communication major, said, “She is always so helpful for the com- puter illiterate…and my computer loves her!”

Colleen Bowman, junior b usiness major, wanted to show appreciation to all the people who do maintenance work around the school, she said, “A lot of facilities people are really nice. I worked here over the summer and we had problems with the vents. They were more than willing to help.”

Although Jazzman’s Café is under new management, employee Michelle Armour, 18, maintains the same outlook about Cabrini and work- ing here. “I like it a lot…people here are polite, ” Armour said. “The environment is really nice.”

The people at Cabrini share the same feelings about her Janine Faulls, sophomore English and communication major, said, “She’s nice, really friendly and she knows what she’s doing.”

Her part-time job at Jazzman’s not only requires cash register skills, but going the extra mile and staying about a half an hour after closing to clean and prepare for the next day.

“We switch jobs almost every day,” Armour said.

“Some people are assigned to wash the dishes all day, others get the register or other jobs.”

While balancing out her school work at Upper Darby

High School, taking classes at Delaware County Community College and working parttime at Jazzman’s, she feels that “it’s a good job, it pays well for part-time [job] and we all get along well.”

What’s lunch in the cafeteria without Dave Elms, cook, behind the action station? His white cooking hat and apron top off his ensemble to make lunch at Cabrini a memorable one. Although he has been in the cooking industry for over 20 years, there was a time in his life where he trained service dogs for the mobility impaired. When that organization dissolved, he worked for Haverford College for 10 years then applied to Cabrini and has been here ever since.

“I love Cabrini, I really do. The chef is great to work for and we have a lot of fun working here,” Elms said. “It takes a while to get to know everyone but students here are very polite,” Elms said. “It’s a lot of fun.”