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3 departments pilot mid-term grade reporting BY KEVIN MOYLETT Staff Writer For the fall 2014 semester, the business, mathematics and education departments will be reporting mid-term grades. As of now only these three departments will be required to input mid-term grades. These departments will be piloting the midterm grade reporting so that academic affairs can review the process and adjust anything if necessary. Midterm grades for these departments must be entered into CabriniOne between Oct. 10 and up until Oct. 17. Faculty can update midterm grades for students until the last day, Oct. 17. The last day to withdraw from a course is Oct. 24. Students now have time to evaluate their grade and decide whether or not to continue in the course or fix anything they need to work on. Students will be able to view their midterm grades by clicking on mid-term grades grades section in CabriniOne. “Students will have a better idea of how they are doing to that point,” Dr. John Brown, mathematics department chair and associate professor, said. “Especially the lower level courses it helps because of all the homework and quizzes.” The faculty in these departments have been instructed to discuss the midterm grade calculation in class with each student so that they understand what the grade represents. The grades being submitted are just estimates of how the students are doing. The faculty will only be inputting whole grades. “It doesn’t really affect me,” Ally Fiorelli, junior mathematics major, said “I’m in the upper levels of math so I already have a good idea of what my grade is. In Calculus we just have three tests and a final the entire semester so by mid-semester I have very few grades.” Not everybody was aware of the midterm grade reporting happening this semester in their department.
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Dr. Don Taylor begins new campus-beautifying tradition BY ERICA ABBOTT News Editor 19,000 bulbs, 200 mums, three trees and a brisk fall day brought with it a new tradition to Cabrini’s campus. President Don Taylor began the new tradition of campus beautification day on Oct. 2. Faculty, staff and students came out to the Commons at 8:30 a.m. to participate. Right off the bat, Taylor said how excited he was to see the intermingling and mixing of things going on all over campus. One of the major aspects that Taylor wanted to achieve with this event was building and strengthening community on campus. “If you can’t play together, you can’t work together,” Taylor said in his opening speech. It was also an opportunity for faculty and staff to get out of their offices and meet new people. That is exactly what they did. Faculty and staff were all engaging in conversation, some with people that they met that day. People were working around various parts of the campus, including the Mansion, the Commons, the Chapel, King of Prussia Road and the walkway behind Iadarola. Taylor said he really wanted to get people out of their comfort zones. One new face to campus found beautification day a great way to
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Faculty, staff and facilities planting flowers in front of the King of Prussia Road entrance. meet and talk to some faculty and staff. Matt Kaehler, Cabrini Mission Corps missioner, said that he got to talk to people he normally would not have been able to when in the Wolfington Center or Campus Ministry all day. “I think it’s good that President Taylor is doing this. It’s a really cool opportunity to get to know some new people and get outside a little bit,” said Kaehler. “I don’t know what the campus normally looks like in the spring when things are blossoming but I can only imag-
ine this is going to make it 10 times more beautiful with all the blue flowers popping up and the mums and everything.” Another member of the campus community also met two new people who he had never met before. Though not as into planting, he played his part by picking up trash. “They’re in different departments so sometimes our interactions are limited,” Thor Kress, financial aid counselor, said. “It’s also [about] helping facilities and making the campus
look better, which is cool.” Many were also grateful for the chance to get out of their office and do something different for a day. One staff member got the chance to plant hyacinths at the King of Prussia entrance. “I like working outside,” Andrew Smith, mechanical tech worker in the facilities department, said. “I prefer gardening over any other type of work so it’s nice.” CONTINUE READING BEAUTIFICATION DAY ON PAGE 5
Dixon House to be restored
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The back entrance of House 2, the Dixon House, which is currently unoccupied by students. BY JOEY RETTINO Managing Editor Dr. Donald Taylor, president of Cabrini, and the school’s board of trustees decided last
week to renovate the Dixon House Residence Hall, which was shut down in September 2011 due to the extensive growth of mold. As stated in a campus-wide email sent on Thursday, Oct. 2, by Taylor, Dixon House, commonly known to students as “House 2,” has a slated reopening for fall 2015 and renovations will “commence as soon as possible.” In a Sept. 26 interview, Taylor spoke about the future of Dixon House and alluded to the news released earlier this week. “We’re growing as an institution” Taylor, speaking about Dixon House, said. “We’re at capacity right now. We need the beds” Aside from the influx of students this year, Taylor said that his plans for the future of the living learning communities will hold a stake in what is to come of Dixon House. While it still is in discussion with student life and academic affairs, Dixon House may be occupied by freshmen in LLCs next year, rather than by upperclassman as it had been in the past. Kim Crowther, alumna of 2014, lived in
Dixon House the summer between her freshman and sophomore year, and really enjoyed her time there. “It was a fun house and down right awesome if it weren’t for the mold,” Crowther said. “It’s worth fixing if it can be done.” Dixon House’s quality amenities will act as an incentive for students’ participation in living learning communities. According to Crowther, the house’s rooms are much different than the others on campus and do not follow the same traditional layouts. Some triples have their own bathrooms, rooms have larger closets and nearly all the rooms are above average size for Cabrini living. With a tentative ribbon cutting for August 2015, Taylor believes that Dixon House will become a showpiece for the school and the future of what living at Cabrini will be. @JOEYRETTINO