Thursday, Feb. 22, 2007
C a b r i n i
C o l l e g e
The Loquitur Y o u S p e a k, W e L i s t e n
www.theLoquitur.com
Radnor, Pa.
Vol XLVIII, Issue 17
The reality of global warming
WHAT’S INSIDE
likelihood that global from now scientists say more than a 90 percent 25 years warming is caused by humans, that deaths caused by global 2050 million
according to the last IPCC report
warming will double
species could be extinct
Perspectives Gardisal Page 6
Features Manicure Mishaps Page 8
EMILY BUERGER/PHOTO EDITOR
Factories, such as the one shown above located on Interstate 495 in Delaware, emit gases that contribute to pollution and ultimately increase the concerns for global warming. Many of the solutions to global warming involve buying low-energy appliances and maintaining energy levels around the house. LIZ LAVIN
ASST. NEWS EDITOR
EAL723@CABRINI.EDU
“Is he telling us the Earth is going to die?” eight-year old Megan Dunbar asked after watching Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth.” Her father, biology professor Dr. David Dunbar, tried to explain to his daughter that Gore is saying the Earth could possibly
die, but not for a long time. The United Nation’s International Panel on Climate Change released a report on Feb. 2 which stated in no uncertain terms that since the middle of the 20th century, humans have been the main driver of global warming. The a IPCC report issued in 2001, stated that it was “likely,” meaning there was a 66 percent chance, that humans were caus-
ing global warming. Scientists stated in the 2007 IPPC assessment, which was released this month, there is a 90 percent probability that global warming is caused by human activity. “Well, are you going to be here when it dies? Am I going to be here?,” Megan Dunbar asked. Dunbar, starting to choke up, said that was when he decided he was going to make even more of
an effort to fight global warming. “The fact that it affects my children makes it my moral obligation to live to the standards I want to see,” Dunbar said. Gore makes a similar sentiment in “An Inconvenient Truth,” stating, “What we take for granted may not be here for our children.”
WARMING, page 3
A&E ‘Because I Said So’ Page 10
Heifer International educates students KATHERINE BRACHELLI NEWS EDITOR KB727@CABRINI.EDU
While some students will be packing their bags to head home over spring break, five Cabrini students will be donating their time to educate themselves on the issues of hunger and poverty with Heifer International, in Honduras. Starting Feb. 24 through March 4, junior accounting and Spanish major Lauren Peters,
senior accounting and finance major Josh Lange, senior finance major Courtney Storey, sophomore accounting and finance major Rick Marx and sophomore marketing, Spanish and business administration major Mike Orloski, will witness how Heifer International works to end world hunger by providing hungry families with a renewable source of food, a “living loan” of an animal. The “living loan” can range from milk from a cow or goat, eggs from poultry, meat from rab-
bits or wool from llamas. Ann Servey, associate professor of business administration and leader of the social justice trip to Honduras, hopes that when students return from the trip they will raise awareness about hunger and poverty based on their experience in Honduras. “You can’t ignore poverty if you’re aware of it,” Servey said. In June of 2005, Servey traveled with Heifer International to Zambia, Africa. It was after Servey’s experience in Zambia
that she knew she wanted to bring Heifer International to Cabrini students so they too could experience what she did. Servey said, “It’s an experience that you just want to share with everyone.” For over 60 years, Heifer has helped more than 7 million impoverished families in 128 countries lift themselves out of poverty and achieve self-reliance. Heifer aims to transform not
HEIFER, page 3
Sports Kickboxing Page 15