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VOL.XLIII, NO. 7
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1996
RADNOR, PA 19087
Students seek SPARC of hope by ThomasMcKee
mores, potential transfer students are also being affected by the newness of the program. Greg Wood, a second-semester sophomore and sports science major, transferred to Cabrini last year after a semester at the University of Connecticut. Cabrini is the third college that Wood has attended. He also studied at Daemen College in Buffalo for a semester. While a student at Cabrini, Wood changed his major from pre-physical therapy to sports science because it was closer related to the job field he plans on entering after coUege. Wrth the exception of his religion requirements, Wood has completed his core requirements and is now focusing directly on the classes that he will need for his major. He is not enrolled in Fundamental Physiology of Exercise, but said he will take it
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First-year student Diane Soto never had any intentions of joining a starter program. She had been burned once before and wanted no part of the disappointment that comes with the potential empty promises. Nevertheless, Soto, a resident from King George, Va., found herself at Cabrini, majoring in sports science, a department in its first full year as a part of the college's curriculum. "I was very apprehensive about joining a new program because of the bad experiences I had with the last one I was in," Soto said. Soto's fears came about as a result of her enrollment in a new private grade school and high school before her eighth grade year. According to Soto, several problems occurred and she transferred from the school after her freshman year. Now, six years later, Soto, along with various other students, is cautiously watching the construction of the Sports and Recreation Complex (SPARC), for which groundbreaking occurred on Sunday, Sept. 29. The sports complex will not only house Cabrini's sporting events, it will also serve as the site in which many of the classes within the sports science major will be held. Dr. Thomas Boeke, academic dean and provost, said the sports complex as integral to the development of the sports science program, due to the fact that many of the classes will eventually be taught there. Plans call for the building to be ready in 13-15 months, in plenty of time for the fall 1998 semester. Sports science majors must take classes in biology, physics, chemistry, business and sports science. Students in their first two years of study will take science classes such as Biological Principles I and entry level sports
science classes such as Fundamental Exercise of Physiology, the only class now being offered within the sports science department. Two more classes will be offered during the spring semester, according to Dr. Tony Verde, acting department chair of sports science. Students will not need to take the more advanced classes until their third year of study within the program. giving construction of the SPARC almost two full years to be completed. Verde does not foresee a potential problem if the SPARC is not completed by the target date. "You don't have to have the sports and recreation complex to run this major," Verde said. ''The only thing it provides is a place to gain practical experience."
Verde said students could gain the necessary practical experience at other local fitness and health centers. Verde also said an arrangement between Cabrini and Eastern may be made, allowing students at Cabrini to use Eastem's exercise physiology lab. Even so, the students in the program see SPARC as the key to gaining the practical experience needed. "I think that SPARC will be a big deciding factor in whether I stay or transfer," Soto said. "I want to get back in the field and work with athletes and use equipment. SPARC will have all that. If construction hasn't progressed by the end of my sophomore year, I have to transfer." Soto was recruited for the program by the admissions office and Dr. Linda LeMura, professor of
program. 'Tm going to have to take sports science. According to classes at Eastern, Villanova or Boeke, LeMura was recruited to Rosemont," Wood said. "Next leave her present position and year, I'll probably only have one or two classes here. I'll basically work at Cabrini, but decided be a traveling college student." against it. Nancy Gardner, assistant to Soto visited the school in June and was assured that the college provost and academic dean, said had both the funding and the ini- that the availability of classes was a major concern with potential tiative to implement the program. Soto also applied to Shepherd transfers into the program. "We were very concerned," College in West Virginia, which Gardner said. "The issue was offered a major in leisure studies, dependent on the number of credbut ultimately chose Cabrini, a its a student needed. We wanted to decision based partly around the fact that she received a scholarship - make sure that [transfer] students and partly because she had more didn't need specific sports science confidence in Cabrini than her classes before we were able to offer them." other choice. "I would be cautious if I were a "It sounded like a better program than I would get at transfer student with the intention of graduating in four years," Shepherd," Soto said. Although the majority of the Boeke said. "The best way of students within the program are being cautious is to talk to the department chair." first-year students and sopho-
CAP raiseshauntedhousefrom dead by JustinFalclani staff writer
After a year in the grave, the campus activities and programming board (CAP) has brought the haunted house back from the dead. It did not take a seance to complete the task, it took extensive planning from the CAP Board along with the student government association (SGA) to bring back what was a gone but not forgotten project. The haunted house will be a new experi-
ence for first-year students as well as for sophomores and transfers. The event will take place in Xavier Hall from Thursday, Oct. 7, through Saturday, Oct. 19, with a return of Cabrini's haunted house. The haunted house tradition goes back to the days when Grace Hall was still a horse stable, however it was discontinued last year because there was no student activity director at the time. John Lindsay,president of CAP, said it was a lot of hard work and he
hopes this year's haunted house is a big success. Lindsay also said that there are many' ways people can participate. In the halls of Xavier, participants can be floaters, people dressed in black with black head tops who will roam though the halls attempting to scare passers by. Each quad in Xavier will make up a theme for their area, and decorate the quads in accordance with the Halloween spirit. There will be traditional scary monsters as well as
a guest appearance by Freddy Krueger, who will line up his next victim. SGA President Andy Burke said there will be new features to this year's haunted house such as face paintings, halloween music, and a few other surprises. WYBF will also be live outside of Xavier playing music and offering free giveaways. On Thursday, Oct. 17, the haunted house will be open from 7-10 p.m. and on Friday Oct. 18 to
Saturday Oct. 19 it will be open from 7 p.m. to midnight. Xavier Hall will be transformed into a house of horror, where the college community and outsiders can participate.Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for children, and $2 for Cabrini students with valid identification. This activity is sponsored by the CAP Board of the student government association. For more information contact Bob MacCartney at 902-8255.