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VOL. LVI, ISSUE 9
THURSDAY, OCT 30, 2014
Author familyman speaks out against homelessness
Leadership institute hosts panel on human trafficking
BY MACKENZIE HARRIS Editor in Chief
BY JOEY RETTINO Managing Editor
A published Poet, Pulitzer Prize winner and co-author with a lawyer, grassroots legal aid, President of the Covenant House International co-wrote this summer reading book, Almost home: Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope. Kevin Ryan, the President of the Covenant House International, has been a lawyer, grassroots legal aid and an activist for homeless young adults all around the world and on Tuesday, Oct. 21, Cabrini was privileged to welcome Ryan to campus. Ryan was this year’s Executive-in-Residence, where he came with his co-author, published poet and Pulitzer Prize winner, Tina Kelley to speak to students, alumni, faculty and staff about the effects homelessness has on children. The Covenant House serves more than 56,000 at-risk youth in 21 cities in the United States, Canada and Central America. In a world where there are 5,000 kids, in the United States alone, a year who die on the streets due to suicide or disease. “Real heroes are usually the ones concerned with the least glamorous of things,” Mayor of Newark, New Jersey, Cory Booker said. “In fact, I’ve come to believe strongly that the most heroic or biggest thing we can do in any day is a small act of kindness, decency or love.” Ryan was ecstatic to speak to students about the process of writing Almost Home, while speaking out against homelessness in young adults. “We wanted to be able to reflect how high the stakes are for young people at this juncture in their lives,” Ryan said. “There is a darkness that looms so largely for a lot of young people and that the ability for young people to hold on or continue to climb, up that ladder - across that bridge from poverty to opportunity, isn’t easy. It has a real set of challenges associated with it that claims lives.” Homelessness is an issue that continues to plague our society every single day.
The Cabrini community received incite on human trafficking both domestically and internationally and how officials are fighting the topic. “Figure out the thing you can do right now and do that,” Kevin Ryan, president of Covenant House and Executive-in-Residence, speaking about ways to fight human trafficking, said. “And then do a bigger thing when you can.” The Tuesday, Oct. 21, panel included Ryan, Hugh Organ, assistant director of Covenant House Philadelphia, Pearl Kim, Delaware County assistant district attorney, and Sarah Charles, district director for Senator Daylin, who could not attend. Each member of the panel offered a different angel of human trafficking. While Ryan gave a general example of both national and local perspectives, Organ spoke on working with victims of human trafficking and hotbeds right here in Delaware County. “This [human trafficking] is not a big city problem, this is an everywhere problem,” Organ said. “You can drive down certain streets in Philadelphia where kids are being sold on street corners every single day of the week. At the airports there are young women getting sold out of hotel rooms, Asian-run salon parlors, all over the city and all over the state of Pennsylvania.” Once people are spared from the human traffickers throughout the state, it is the job of people like Kim to prosecute the traffickers for their crimes. Compared to Organ, Kim explained underlining details about trafficking that may have not been know to the audience, such as the problems that they once faced on the prosecuting end, and the ease that it can take a pimp or trafficker to coerce a runaway to partake in particular actions requested of them. People like Charles, have made Kim’s job easier in recent years by helping pass legislation to make prosecuting traffickers more simple and even make the punishments for traffickers more just to the crimes they have committed.
What’s up, Doc? BY ERICA ABBOTT News Editor The sounds of bagpipes and drums signaled the entrance of the man who was about to become Cabrini’s eighth president. On Saturday, Oct. 25, Dr. Don Taylor was inaugurated as the first male president of Cabrini College. “What most attracted me [to Cabrini] was Cabrini’s mission and the students,” Taylor said in his inaugural speech. “Being the only Cabrinian college in the world is an advantageous distinction.The Cabrini name is known around the globe.” Inauguration began with a slideshow of old photos of the college juxtaposed with photos of the campus current day. Taking over as president, a video was also produced with people from all over campus welcoming Taylor to campus. “We love this college,” Mario Marino, Student Government Association President, said in his speech. “You’re taking
the leadership of a great legacy. You have our support.” Part of inauguration also included the presentations of symbolic elements, which include the passing of the college charter, the mace, and the chain of office that features the college’s seal. “This is a day of great promise,” Tom Nerney, chair of the Board of Trustees, said. “By the authority of the Board of Trustees, I confer upon you the presidency of Cabrini College,” Nerney said, placing the chain of office around Taylor’s neck. Despite being inaugurated just recently, Taylor’s first day on campus as the new president was July 1. He has been setting goals for the college since then. One big goal Taylor said he feels as already been accomplished with his time as president is getting a strategic agenda in place.
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Dr. Don Taylor making his speech during the inauguration ceremony.
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