10 | PERSPECTIVES
Friday, March 18, 2005
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Backstreet Boys reunite for tour CHRISTINE BLOM ASST. COPY & PERSPECTIVES EDITOR
CBB722@CABRINI.EDU
Recently, according to MTV News, the Backstreet Boys have announced that they will be going back on tour again as a group. Personally, I am a huge teenybopper at heart and I am all in favor of the group reuniting. As a young teenager, I saw the group in concert several times, each time more exciting than the last. When my friend and fellow groupie heard the news, she was equally ecstatic. However, some valid points were made.
Wo u l d they make any money on this tour? Would they be too different that we wouldn’t enjoy their show? Would the performance be worth our while? When the group went to press about this recent decision, they said that the tour would run from the last week in March to the first week in April. This also made the idea more conceivable, to actually attempt to get tickets,
because the day they are in Philadelphia just happens to be March 25, a.k.a. Good Friday. Because of this opportune chance that it fell on our day off, my friend and I decided that we
Negative feelings are felt on campus ANDREW MATYSIK ASST. SPORTS EDITOR AJM722@CABRINI.EDU
Public disapproval for the Cabrini administration has been very frequent lately. From controversy with on-campus housing to the dispute of John Dzik’s termination, negative emotions have been widely circulating at Cabrini. I have a new complaint to add to the list of disappointments. Recently, an unnamed student in the Cabrini apartment complex (CAC) received a letter requesting a meeting with the area coordinator of the apartments. The purpose of the meeting was to address a previous violation of the school’s alcohol policy. It was not the first time the student had met with the area coordinator for an alcohol violation. The area coordinator proved this fact to be true with documented occasions that he recorded where an R.A. or the area coordinator himself had to take action. Do
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The student was fully aware that he had been in trouble before and was ready to accept the consequences. What happened in the meeting was very surprising. The area coordinator presented the student with a very tough choice. The student either had to rat-out his friends and tell the area coordinator the names of all the people that were underage in the apartment on the night in question or face probation and possible removal from campus. I thoroughly understand that the area coordinator has an important obligation to maintain peace in the CAC. I feel, however, that it is not the obligation of students to take down the names of students that enter the CAC. It is also not the duty of students to check identification cards for who is 21 and over. Isn’t this the reason why we have a desk with a public safety officer at the front doors? Nevertheless, I am struggling to figure out how the student being charged with the violation is going to recall every person who was underage in his apartment on a date that was over a week ago.
On the night of the violation, an R.A. was said to have cleared out the apartment and ended the party. Shouldn’t the R.A. have taken down the names of the people in the apartment, rather than the student? We pay enough tuition at this school to have someone accept the responsibilities like these for the residents. During the meeting, the student said that there was no definite ultimatum set. The student left the meeting unaware of whether or not he would be kicked-off campus if he did not “tell-on” his fellow students. I think the student could at least be given the satisfaction of knowing what will happen to him if he does not succumb to the request of the area coordinator. Notifying someone of their definite consequences is merely a sign of respect; respect Cabrini residents deserve. As stated before, I know that R.A.s and area coordinators have important jobs to uphold. I simply think that there are better ways that complicated situations like these can be handled.
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would risk our $42 and try to snatch up some tickets for the reunion of the Backstreet Boys. So we prevailed. We decided that we try and get tickets and go to the show. To our disKRT may, when we went on the Ticketmaster website we found out that the concert was completely sold out. Whoever would have thought that the Backstreet Boys would sell out their reunion tour within
three days of going on sale, maybe sooner than that. We were so disappointed. If they were expecting, or even just hoping for a large turn out, why would they pick a venue such as the Electric Factory? It is only able to hold approximately 3,000 people. Wouldn’t you think they would at least go to somewhere such as the Liacoura Center at Temple University or the Spectrum? I don’t know about the rest of the fans out there who couldn’t get tickets but I know that my friend and I will be a couple of the first people waiting to buy their new album and concert ticket once it all hits the market in July.
New NASCAR rules ANGELINA WAGNER A&E EDITOR AMW722@CABRINI.EDU
I enjoy a good NASCAR race just as much as the next fan but I recently read an article concerning the drivers’ speed going into pit row. NASCAR is cracking down on pit road speeds during this season and officials are saying that it’s keeping drivers more honest. Now I understand that there are rules that drivers have to follow but during the Las Vegas race this past weekend one driver exceeded the 35 mph speed limit at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Now, I’ve never drove in a race before but I’m guessing that if you’re driving at speeds of 200 mph it has to be hard to clock down to less than 35 mph. The majority of the time, like, Kevin Harvick argued the call but the drivers are still required though to pass through pit road at the proper speed. Now it comes down to the drivers and the crew getting of the track and getting into pit road speed. I understand that this is a concern but some drivers don’t even get busted for the pit road speeds that they clock in at. I feel that they should be more concerned with drivers who are constantly running into other drivers
but they’re just my views as a fan. Also concerns have been rising with hard liquor advertisements that were running during the Daytona 500. Some past NASCAR drivers have raised concerns that running television advertisements for hard liquor is going against the family values that the team is trying to represent. Now, during the races they show beer and tobacco advertisements so what’s the big deal? I understand that a lot of children watch the races but alcohol is a legal substance that can be advertised. The alcohol advertisements that I’ve seen during the races have been geared towards adults and have promoted drinking responsibility. There are sponsors on the cars out there for even Viagra, so not having hard liquor advertisements is being somewhat hypocritical. As long as these advertisements aren’t being geared towards children there’s no harm in advertising a legal substance. Children who come with their parents during the races can see Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s car that is sponsored by Budweiser or even Dave Blaney’s car that is sponsored by Jack Daniel’s. So with speeding regulations and alcohol advertisements, don’t worry Kasey Kahne, I’ll still be watching the races.
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