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CABRINI COLLEGE'S STUDENT NEWSPAPER www.theLoquitur.com
Radnor, Pennsylvania
Vol. XLVII Issue 10
Crime sweeps Cabrini cops here at least once a weekend. I felt safer when I first came to Cabrini," senior Christina KAF722@CABRINI.EDU Casale said. Aegina Foto, a junior Physical assault Shouts filled the air on English/communications major, walks quickly along the trail Saturday, Nov. 1, as a group of between the houses on women, returning home from a Residential Boulevard with her Halloween party, were accosted cell phone pressed against her and assaulted by three men who head. She just left her room in do not attend Cabrini. "One of them started harassHouse 6, but she is talking to her ing us," one of the girls involved roommate. "I'll talk on my cell phone the said. "We ignored it for a while, whole time, especially by the but he wouldn't leave us alone. I house because it's dark," Foto ran up to him to ask what his problem was." said. As she approached the Foto is one of many students who is becoming increasingly assailant, he grabbed her by her afraid of individual travel on hair and threw her to the ground. campus, given the recent influx She incurred injuries to her head, of violent crime. chin and leg. "When my friends saw what "The level of confrontation and confrontational violence on happened, they were absolutely campus has really escalated this nuts," she said. One began yelling year," Charlie Schaffner, the at the attacker. She, too, was director of Public Safety, said. thrown to the ground. A yelling The Radnor Police Department match ensued. A public safety was called 15 times in September officer stationed in the Cabrini alone, according Schaffner. This Apartment Complex heard the is a significant jump from the 18 commotion and called for back incidents for the entire 2002- up. On her way home from anoth2003 school year. "Lately you can see Radnor er party, Michelle Ward, a junior KELLY FINLAN NEWS EDITOR
News Double majoring overloads students page 4
\ A&E Art with Cabrini flair page 6
Features Artistic talents page 8 & 9
social work and psychology major, saw her friends in the physical altercation with the unknown men. She and a friend watched as one of the assailants walked over to a white van. "I didn't see the gun, but I saw the guy put something down the front of his sweatpants,'' Ward said. Radnor police arrived shortly thereafter. A Tredyffrin Township K-9 unit was called in to search the woods for the gun. The area, the men and their van were searched, but no gun was ever recovered. One of the attackers was arrested and held on $25,000 bail. "This is way beyond anything we were looking at before. It's almost like their first option is to fight. I don't know how we're going to get around it. but we have to stop it,'' Schaffner said. He went on to say that "fistic adventures,'' fistfights and physical assaults, are up dramatically from last year. Physical incidents among students have occurred in Woodcrest, Xavier, and New Residence Hall since mid-
October. "I'm a lot more cautious now," Ward said. "I'd never seen a gun before. It' really changed my perspective." Theft Nonviolent crime is up as well. A series of thefts, starting shortly after the beginning of the academic year, left residents looking for everything from Playstation 2s and laptops to cash. Senior Rich Magda, a senior _English/communications major and resident of the CAC, was robbed on early Friday morning, Oct. 31. When he woke up that morning, he found his wallet in a different place and $55 that was there the night before was conspicuously missing. "I blamed myself at first, but we started putting pieces together,'' Magda said. Magda's roommate Dan Varra, a senior fine arts major, recalled finding a man in the hallway of the apartment.
C~MPUS, page 5
Staff panel addressesdrivers'concerns KRISTEN CATALANOTTO STAFF WRITER KMC723@CABRINI.EDU
Perspectives Do we trust or deny God? page 12
Sports Women hit the weights page 14
The junior class held a meeting with students and administration to discuss the issue of parking around campus on Monday, Nov. 3. The meeting was held in the Widener Center Lecture Hall. Director of Public Safety Charlie Schaffner, Vice President for Student Development Christine Lysionek and Director of Facilities Howard Holden were all in attendance. Schaffner was questioned as to why it seems there are a large amount of freshmen students parking on Residential Boulevard. Schaffner was quick to respond that he personally approves any notes concerning why a freshmen must have a car on campus. The first reason he stated was that the student may need the car for personal medical reasons, the second being financial reasons in which the student must work off campus while in school and the third is if the student is taking a class of campus at a location the shuttle does not go. According to
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A line of cars formed on the drivewayin front of House five when all the parkingwere full.
Schaffner, he has only given 25 permits allowing freshmen to have their cars on campus. Public Safety also said that a large reason there are parking . issues is because a majority of the classes at Cabrini are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays, "We ticket every day of the week. Tuesdays and Thursdays we are a little relaxed though due to the amount of people on campus," Schaffner said. One solution that has been implemented is that the college
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will be required to hold 25 percent of its classes on Mondays and Fridays. This will help even out the amount of cars on campus . Schaffner also stated that Public Safety has written tickets amounting to $30,000 so far this semester. This does not mean this is the amount paid by those being ticketed. The $30,000 includes offenses such as shortterm guest parking, repeat student offenders without a registered vehicle, as-well-as tickets
that have been appealed the students do not have to pay. Holdem said that the parking on campus "Is a growing pains problem." Lysionek said, "The long term solution for parking is to build a parking garage." Garages though, according to Schaffner, are extremely expensive and each spot within the garage can cost $14,000-$20,000.
ANGRY, page 3
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