Loquitur
Thursday, Oct. 21, 2004
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Cabrini College’s Student Newspaper
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Features Popular Halloween costumes page 8
Vol LXII, Issue 7
Martin ‘In Good Company’ with students KELLY MCKEE STAFF WRITER KMM723@CABRINI.EDU An awed silence fell across the Widener Center lecture hall as students gathered to hear the extraordinary stories of speaker Father James Martin. The onetime- business-man turned priest, as well as author and editor, spoke to students on his experience in the industry, his presence at Ground Zero during the 9/11 attacks and, to the great amusement of the audience, his fondness of the television show “Sex and the City.” Martin, associate editor of America magazine, began the afternoon, on Thursday Oct. 14, with a poignant reading from his first book “In Good Company,” a book that Martin describes as “the difference between my old life and my new life.” Transporting the audience to the damp, pungent bathrooms where he MARTIN, page 3
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LaSalle University is trying to bounce back and make students feel safe after three students say they were raped.
Students unaffected by LaSalle rapes ASHLEY WEYLER STAFF WRITER ARW723@CABRINI.EDU It is seven o’clock on Thursday night. Most students are “pre-gaming” for the Thirsty Thursday festivities, but 22 year-old Melissa Landrin, a senior elementary education major, is walking back from class to her apartment. As soon as she arrives, there is a certain aura in the air. It’s an exciting feeling that makes Thursday nights so special on Cabrini’s campus. Landrin hops on the shower and consumes a few drinks
while she gets herself ready for the night. She and her roommates then have a few drinks together before Melissa makes her rounds to various apartments in the building. “By midnight, we all get a little more rowdy but never too outof-control. We just like to act stupid and let loose because it’s the beginning of the weekend,” Landrin said. Landrin and her friends appear to be celebrating the end of the week somewhat responsibly. They have never experienced any type of danger, just pure fun. Unfortunately, not all
female students who party on college campuses are so lucky. LaSalle University, located in North Philadelphia, has experienced its share of drama in the past year. Two basketball players, Michael Cleaves and Gary Neal, were charged with raping a female visitor during its summer basketball camp. Another woman, a LaSalle student and basketball player, accused Dzalo Larki of raping her in 2003—He was arrested and charged. The woman apparently went to the coaches of the women’s and men’s basketball teams, but they urged her to not go to authorities.
Both the coaches were fired over the incident. This does not mean that LaSalle University is an unsafe environment. Many students are doing what they can to prevent such events from happening again and to make the campus a safe place to be. The Dean of Students at LaSalle, Joseph J. Cicala, Ph.D., has addressed a letter to the community that students have come forward with helpful information to progress the investigation and that police are very grateful. LASALLE, page 2
Rooymans Center gives assistance to students A&E Alternatives to boredom page 7
Sports Swim team’s second season page 14
KELLY MCKEE STAFF WRITER KMM723@CABRINI.EDU Cabrini’s on campus tutoring center offers free peer tutoring to all students. The Rooymans Center provides the setting for students to receive the help they need. Whether difficulties are ongoing or are specific tasks, such as reviewing for upcoming tests, peer tutors are available through walk-in hours and by appointment. Students who need assistance benefit by getting help from tutors who have been successful in a similar course and are in a unique position to help
others with the material. Peer tutors are students who have been trained through a onecredit course, EDU 190, receiving instruction on issues such as communication skills, learning styles and confidentiality. Recommended by faculty, these high performing students offer time periods each week in which students can visit the center without appointment and review personal obstacles. Sarah Boyer, a senior education major, has been a peer tutor at the center since her sophomore year. Boyer hopes to pursue a career in special education. “Tutoring is great experience for me as a teacher and also as a stu-
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Students are helped by their peers in various subjects in the Rooyman Center.
dent. I enjoy the feeling of helping others and the atmosphere in the center is great,” Boyer said. Also available at the center are classroom coaches. These highly qualified peer tutors are assigned to certain classes to act as a support for professors and develop a greater understanding of how stu-
dents are progressing. Students from these classes can receive extra review and practice for course material previously taught. By attending the classes in question, the classroom TUTOR, page 4