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Vol. XLVII, Issue 4
Cabrini withstands Isabel's fury KELLY FINLA~
NEWS EDITOR KAF722{g;CABRI'.>II.EDl.i
The wind has died down, and the rain has ceased, but the effects of hurricane Isabel are still being felt long after she has gone. "Three trees in my front yard were uprooted. One of them hit the transformer and it literally exploded,,, Ryan Mulloy, a senior English/communications major, said. "If the trees had fallen toward the house, I wouldn't be telling this story.,, Busy intersections in Wayne and Radnor stood at a standstill Friday, Sept. 19, as aopre:hensive driver;; ~re on the side af caution incbing down an unlit _Lancaster Avenye, Busmesses stood dark and empty. As of Saturday, Sept. 20, more than 80.000 Peco E..nergyCo. cus-
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Perspectives Alternatives to thirsty Thursday nights page 10
Sports Junior lacrosse player returns to Cabrini page 14
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18,000 of which were in Delaware MU,.Y F~NEWS EDTOR County. The heat generated by the fallen wire burned thi• hole m the middle of EagleRoad. "We were drivmg d0'-"11the road KELL\' F1:-iu., and resident assistant. said. ··we had a problem with students and there wa:; a tree m t.liemiddle of NEWS EDITOR A conventional power line that commg down the hill. They got a lit- the road. We almOStcrashed into it.., d KAF722@CABRI'-1.EDu feeds a house carries about 115 volts. tle too close. Electricity can travel Jeff Feurhammer, a freshman ele- "~':{> The line that fell. according to 20 to 30 feet in the ground. They mentary education major, said. 5"~ ~~ An electric buzz and the pungent Vincent Difilippo, the chief of the were in danger,., Difilippo said. ··we were tracking the hurricane aroma of burning rubber and asphalt Radnor volunteer fire department, The Radnor fire department all week long,., Howard Holden, the filled the air Thursday night, Sept. "originated in a substation on Poplar showed up shortly thereafter. ._Tull. director of facilities, said. Earlier in I 8, after a falling tree, brought down Road, .. and it feeds areas all along trucks and 13 men were dispatched. the week, Holden and others were by the winds of hurricane Isabel, King of Prussia Road, including Public Safety and Radnor police afraid Isabel would travel up the took out a wire carrying 13,200 volts Cabrini and Eastern University. arrived shortly thereafter. Chesapeake and hit Philadelphia of electricity on Eagle Road. Students stood in confusion and "We barricaded the road and head-on. "I saw it arcing all the way from ~f-in-the-rcsitlemial packing IQl directed people up toward the housA meeting of administrative Wawa,,, Marc Neft~ a Peco Energyras the woods lit up in a brilliant blaze,_ es,,, Murray said. departments, including residence Co. employee. said. Neff sat in hi~ energy and uutamedJ!lectcicity. Students had differing opinions life. public safety, food services and Peco Energy truck by the Cabrini "I got there first because I was on Public Safety's control through- facilities, met Monday, Sept. 15, iasr entrance on Eagle Road, !. safe dis- just curious; I wanted to see what the out the situation. week to develop contingency plans tance from the fallen wire, while he fire was like,,, Michelle Murray, a "Public Safety had too slow of a to go into effect if and when Isabel waited for a road crew to turn off the graphic design and studio art major response,,, Andy Kulp, a sophomore posed a threat to campus. power source that feeds to the area. and RA, said. "Then people started history and secondary education Stephen Lightcap, the vice presi"We walked outside and saw the going into the woods. Jhe RA inJ!le major, said. dent of finance and administration, sky was bright purple,,, Gio Pena, a kicked in_and I started telling_p.eop.Ie sent out a memo informing faculty junior elementary education major to get out 9f the ~ds.,, WIRE, pageS and staff, as well as students, of the policies concerning inclement weather. Emergency closure numbers and informational phone numbers were given out in case of a closure. JACLYN FREESE A variety of items ranging from EDITOR IN CHIEF tarps to water pumps were ordered in JMF722@CABRINI.EDU preparation for power outages and flooding. The phone systems and While Pennsylvania continues to the walkie-talkie systems were conbe one of the top producers in thenected to generators so they would recycling industry. accordi:Jg to the "stay alive,, even if the power was National. Recycling Coalition, lost, Holden said. Cabrini is still having problems with Holden said that facilities prethe community members recycling. pared for the worst. "You usually Howard Holden, director of facilhave your downed trees, lost power ities. said the college has a recycling and flooding. And how do you get program that is a-.ailable to all faculrid of the water when you don't have ty, staff and students .• power? That's why we got genera"There is a large cardboard recytors,,, he said. "We didn't get a lot of cle dumpster next to the dining hall rain, thank God.,, and a commingled dumpster behind Xavier,,, Holden said. STORM, page 4 /STAFFPHOTOGRAPHER
RECYCLING.page 3
An overflowinggarbagecan is surroundedby studenu' recyclables.