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LOQUITUR p.5
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Phobias & SAD pp. 6&7
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FRIDAY,JANUARY31, 1997
VOL.XLIII, NO.15
RADNOR, PA 19087
Aiming HighNe~schedule change •
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raises student concern by Dina M. Tartaglia assistant copy editor
The administrations plan to hold classes three days a week, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, wilt mainly affect firstyear and sophomore students in the fall semester. According to Ray Matzelte, registrar and assistant dean of student academic services, the current schedule will remain the same for the fall semester except more intro-level classes wiU be offered on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. They will run 50 minutes. The faculty is in the process of handing in schedules for the fall semester. So far, the only departments that have scheduled classes three times a week are English, Spanish, chemistry, computer information science, Italian, French, business and education. Junior Patrice Miller, who is an education major, said sophomores would not be able to do their field experience on Wednesdays if a required class was scheduled to meet three days a week. However, according to Dr. Dawn Middleton, division chair
photo by Stacey Caiazzb
Sophomore Sean Tait is shown here firing a three-pointer. Tait has been explosive on offense this season, averaging 17.1 points per game.
and professor of education, only one education course is scheduled to meet three days a week next semester and only first-year students will need to enroll. Middleton said firstyear students do not need to do tlreir field experience on Wednesdays. "Wbat- if there is a lowerlevei class that I realized that I need to take?" Lori Jarosh, a sophomore education student, said. Dr. Cynthia Halpern, department chair and associate professor of Spanish, said the Spanish department is offering intro-level classes three days a week, as well as two classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays to accommodate education and social work majors who need to fulfill their language requirements. Middleton also said there cannot be courses only offered three days a week because it would not work out. Miller also raised a question about the course load for threeday-a-week courses; "Professors may give the same amount of work and you only have one day to do it in," Miller said. •
Ebonics: noblackorwhneissue by DaveJurkiewicz assistantperspectiveseditor
of the decision that states that the language patterns of African-Americansis "geneticallybased." Thatexplanationof Ebonicscaused much debate In Oakland, Calif.,the birth of a new language becauseit tracesthe origin of the dialectnot to culhas resultedin a silentwar. A decisionwas made by ture and upbringing,but to biology and genetics. the Oakland school district to declare Ebonics Several professors, students and staff members (Black English) a secondlanguage to be used as a were asked their opinion on the Ebonics decision. way to teach standardEnglish. Silence was the mostcommon answer. Somepeople According to Dr. MarilynJohnson, professor of said they did notknow enoughto makea comment. English and communications,Ebonics seems to be Some made jokes about the subject, The most comwhat .linguists have, for years, called "Black mon answerfrom all asked was, '1(0 comment." English." ,The problem of teaching standard English has • "Black English" bas been. d~bed oy the existed for several decades. According to the San American Speech, Language and• Hearing Francisco,Examiner,for the past 15 years,_ the State Associationas a socialdialect. It has.its own rules Department' bas spollSQredthe 'StandardEnglish and proµunciations. There ma:y be dr()pped ~al Po)icy(SEP). That policy is very similarin formand consonants, intel'Changed iioundsand ~ible dou- intent to the Oakland EboniC& decisi9n. . bleand triple negatives. ' ~ TheSEP has recognizedthata significantnumber , • The decisiontoconsider Ebonics a separateJan. of children entet schools not speaking .s~. guage has gainedmticli'disapprovaleven:from the English. communityit"isintendedto benefit~ • Jackson said that the inability to speak stalldard . Rowever, no one-~ to have a defitµte opin- F.nglishstems from poverty, not gene~,~d thaf • ion on thesubject. Rev. Jesse Jackson,whowas one ba1f of all African-Anieiicanchildren live in poverof the first and'most vehementcritics on the subject, ty. ~ recentlysaid, '!Theintentis to correctand teach stanThe Oakland schooJ board said, ''We are not dardEnglish." ' teaching Ebonics." They said that they are merely Both Jackson and Carolyn Gertridge,~ super• usingEbonics ~ a middle ground in the process of intendent of the Oakland school district,_agree that teachinga1student to speakin standardEnglish. the decision to accept Ebonicsas a separate lanDespite their stiitement, the battle wages on 1.1guage mUQIJ .neededand greatlymisunderstood. r becauseof what Gertridge{lalled"very ba&cm:isin~ The m,ispnderstandiqg.stemsfrom the wordipg_ terpretationsof the meaningand intentofthe policy.'' .
College. celebrates Black History Month by HollieHavens
copy editor Black History Month is a time for all people to celebrate and recognize the uniqueness and vitality of African-Americanculture;to recognize people who have left unerasable impressions on this world, but who have slippedoff the pages of many historyhooks. The celebration starts on Sunday, Feb. 2, with the Cabrini College wide-screen premiere of "Malcolm X" at 8 p.m. in the WidenerCenter lecturehall. For the ultimateexperiencein blackhistory, a tour of the African-American History Museum is scheduled on Saturday, Feb. 8. Interested students should sign up in the student activitiesofficeand van servicewill be provided.
Laughter is the best medicine and comedian Kivi Rogers is the doctor, performing on Monday, Feb.10. The seemingly most anticipated event in the celebrationis the arrival of MohammedBilal, star of MTV's "Real World ill: San Francisco." Tentativelytitled ''Hangin' with Mohammad," the event is scheduled on Monday,Feb. 17. A specific time and place will be available soon. Large student attendance is anticipatedby senior John Lindsay, chair of the CAP Board. "I feel the events are worthwhile for students to better themselves," Lindsay said. "The activities are not lecture-type. They are very entertainingand each one is a learning pos.5ibility." For information on more events, please contact Emma Legge at x 8407.
Halpern said she, personally, would not expect the same amount of work for courses that met three days a week as opposed to two days a week because there would be more time to spread out the course work. Halpern also said introS~nish courses have been offered here before and it has been on experience that stud~nts benefit from meeting more frequently. Matzelle said the alteration in the schedule is linked to the desire to have classes on all five days in order to improve the quality of education at Cabrini. Dr. Thomas Boeke, academic dean, added that the college is stepping forward to help the incoming students. Other changes to the calendar will begin in the fall. Cla~ses will ·,,begin on the Thursday after Labor Day instead of before Labor Day. Dean's Fall Holiday is shortened to one day, a Monday. The school day will continue to begin at 8:15 a.m. and end at 9:40 p.m., instead of from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. as had been considered.
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