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Cabrini celebrates 10-year partnership with CRS
Civil rights activist wins award BY ABBIE KEEFE Asst. News Editor
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Cabrini celebrated its 10-year anniversary with Catholic Relief Services Tuesday, April 14, by signing another 10-year partnership, as well as hosting another interactive Refugees Seeking Safety simulation by CRS Student Ambassadors. BY JILL NAWOYSKI Asst. News Editor 10 years ago, faculty and administrators at Villanova and Cabrini realized that introducing college students to the real world lives of people around the world would help to shape them into engaged and caring citizens. Catholic Relief Services came to the conclusion that in order to engage young people in the United States, working through universities would be the best way. With this realization, the two groups began to help each other. CRS works to lessen suffering and help those who are in need in over 100 countries around the world.
On campus, CRS student ambassadors work to raise awareness and involvement for a variety of global humanitarian issues that impact the less fortunate all around the world. CRS Student Ambassador President, Abby Pressimone, knew that she wanted to be involved with the program, because her sister was a part of it at the time she came to Cabrini. “I just wanted to be a person that could inspire others to be passionate about the topics that CRS is passionate about,” Pressimone said. “I found a club that was about what I was passionate about: helping people. I got a chance to learn about issues that I never knew existed.”
On Tuesday, April 14, Cabrini celebrated 10 years of partnership with CRS. At the celebration, Dr. Donald Taylor and Joan Rosenhauer signed a partnership for the next 10 years. Throughout the partnership, Cabrini assisted CRS with its national global curriculum, Cabrini became the 17th college to receive fair trade status and students were given chances to lobby and advocate on over 500 lobby visits. “It’s a profound privilege to have been here since the beginning of our partnership,” Maureen McCullough, regional CRS director of Northeast Mid-Atlantic, said. “Throughout the 10 years, it is amazing to see the impact not only on Cabrini and on
CRS, but on the people that we seek to serve around the globe.” Caroline Brennan, senior communications officer in the humanitarian response department, is on the CRS Emergency Response team. Her role is to travel to some of the most difficult and challenging parts of the world to capture the voices and stories of those who are in need of help, then bring them back to the United States. “Often I am talking to people who have just been uprooted from their homes or their towns due to some crisis,” Brennan said.
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Stand up and be a creator of history, NAACP president says BY ERICA ABBOTT News Editor There can be no progress without struggle, the president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said during this year’s executive in residence keynote address. “We have to struggle in order to bring about progress,” Cornell Brooks, president and CEO of the NAACP, said. “We can’t give in, we can’t give up, we can’t give over, we have to stand against injustice day in and day out and we have to write our own history.” This year’s Nerney Leadership Institute’s executive in residence brought Brooks to campus on Thursday, April 9 for a day-long residency, also coinciding with the student diversity office’s Unity Week. His keynote address in Grace Hall delved deep into civil
rights in America, entitled “Civil Rights in America: From Ferguson to Selma, Captors or Creators of History.” Dr. Jeffrey Gingerich, interim provost and vice president of academic affairs, began the keynote address with the poem “Harlem (A Dream Deferred)” by Langston Hughes, relating it to the how the NAACP works on dreams. “First they work to ensure that as many dreams as possible can blossom and flourish so that they do not need to be deferred,” Gingerich said. “But the NAACP is also there when those dreams that have been deferred by injustice, by racism, by fear, do explode. They are there in moments of crisis and confusion to make sense and to renew the dream and to replant the dream.” CONTINUE READING ON PAGE 5
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Cornell Brooks, president of the NAACP, presenting his keynote address on civil rights Thursday, April 9, in Grace Hall.
A civil rights pioneer and leader of the Cambridge Movement spoke of retaliation and social justice during the challenging time when races fought for freedom and equal rights. “Demonstrations were illegal, picketing was illegal, but after that was over and at night, don’t come in and try to burn down my house,” activist Gloria Richardson, the 2015 Ivy Young Willis Martha Willis Dale award winner, said at the ceremony, which was held on Wednesday, April 8 in the Mansion Foyer. Ivy Young Willis is one of whom the award is in honor of for her outstanding contributions in the field of public affairs. Her daughter, “Martha Dale, is [also] being honored as a friend and as a pioneer of the college in alumni relations,” Dr. Darryl Mace, history and political science department chair, said at the event after he and President Donald Taylor opened the ceremony by acknowledging the Willis family. This is the first year with the new title for the award, now including the late Martha Dale. Also, no awardee has ever been a civil rights pioneer before, making this year notable for these two reasons. Dr. Joseph R. Fitzgerald, assistant professor of history and political science, presented in an interview format alongside Richardson for the audience and asked questions to reveal her story. Richardson is an American human rights activist who is best known for her work in Cambridge, Maryland during the modern civil rights movement. “In the early 1960s, she was a leader of the Cambridge Movement for the human rights struggle [and the group] established the goal of overthrowing Cambridge’s racial caste system that included inadequate living wages, poor housing and lack of health care,” Taylor said. “This signaled the beginning phase for the modern black liberation struggle.” @ABBIEROSEKEEFE CONTINUE READING ONLINE