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Friday, March 18, 2005
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Vol LXVV, Issue 19
jobs Big plans; bigger problems Top await students
ASHLEY WEYLER ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR ARW723@CABRINI.EDU Construction for the brand new West Residence Hall, set to open in the Fall of 2006, adjacent to Cabrini apartment complex (CAC),is scheduled to begin April 1, 2005. All residents who now park in the CAC lot will now have to resort to parking on Residential Boulevard or at the Dixon Center. At a meeting held Monday, March 14, on the first floor of CAC, Residence Life Director George Stroud, Project Manager Tim Curns and Charlie Schaffner, the director of Public Safety, spoke of the conditions and plans that will take place in the next year of construction. Also present were area coordinators Tutaleni Asino, Rebecca Fegeley, and William Zimmerman, the assistant director of Residence Life, Laura Shapella, and nine students. Stroud said that when the project is completed, the new residence hall will lie in between the CAC and houses six and seven, eliminating the front parking lot of the CAC, as well as the driveways of those houses. Wehn finished, Residential Boulevard will now start from the Eagle Road entrance behind the CAC, wrap around the CAC and the
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Director of Residence Life, George Stroud, presented these plans of the News West Residence Hall, March 14, 2005.
new hall, then follow in between houses six and seven as usual. The new hall will be in suite style, containing double rooms including adjoining bathrooms with a kitchen in each floor. It will house mostly upper classmen, placing other classes there if necessary. Current and future residents of these affected areas must prepare for construction noise from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, and occasionally on Saturdays. If there is no park-
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in and move-out days will also occur. Cars will be able to pull up when ready to load, and be shipped out as soon as it is loaded. Senior educational studies major, and current CAC resident, Lyndsey Griffin, doesn’t understand why the school couldn’t have waited until May, the start of summer break. “There’s already, now, a huge problem for parking at PLANS, page 3
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ing around Residential Boulevard, students are not permitted to double-park or park on the grass. Those who do not obey these rules may have their cars ticketed $55 or towed. In addition to this, the back door to the CAC will be inaccessible. The Eagle Road entrance will be completely cut off and guarded by a fence. A fence will also block off the current road between the CAC and the tennis courts. Special acceptions for move-
Letter-writing parties until midnight, pizza, movies and massages are just part of the rewards that Up ‘Til Dawn offers students, the biggest being helping kids with terminal cancer. The 14 member executive board has selflessly labored all year to plan and coordinate fundraising events that will climax with the finale party on Friday, March 18, in the Dixon Center. Up ‘Til Dawn is a campusbased, student-run charity that benefits the St. Judes children’s hospital. The hospital treats cancer patients with their groundbreaking technology and care, and they do this amazingly at no cost to the patient. Up ‘Til Dawn is one of the most successful organizations at Cabrini College
thanks to the dedication of the executive board along with student and community support. “Up ‘Til Dawn is one of the best things a student can become a part of; knowing you are working to help save a child’s life is so rewarding,” Maria Moglioni, a special and elementary education LAUREN REILLY/NEWS EDITOR major and Up ‘Til Students of Up ‘Til Dawn decorated the lobby of Dawn executive Founders Hall in preparation for the finale taking place board member, said. on Friday, March 18. “The children of St. fundraising events carried out so Judes deserve a chance at life— far. The success of each event to have a chance to go to college has confirmed for Up ‘Til and do all the things we do.” Dawn’s Executive Director Letter writing parties, a dodgeball tournament and student dances have been among the FINALE, page 3
Between 60 and 75 potential employers will be looking to recruit students on Tuesday, March 22, from noon until 3 p.m., in the Dixon Center. The Intercollegiate Career Fair is an event open only to students of Cabrini College, Eastern University, Immaculata University, Neumann College, and Rosemont College. Undergraduate students of these five schools will be brought together and given the chance to leave their lasting impressions on companies that are looking for possible interns and full-time employees with the right stuff. Both Nancy Hutchinson, director of co-op and career services and Jeanine Piccini, assistant director of the co-op education and career services agree that the career fair offers students of all majors the opportunity to find potential employment. It is reported by The Chronicle of Higher Education that “start-up” adults just out of college are hugely unprepared for the nine-tofive grind once keg parties and soccer games come to an end. According to some students, problems adjusting to the “real world” aren’t exclusive to skills instilled or uninstalled, for that matter, by a college or university. Sometimes it’s finding a job alone that remains the biggest nuisance for some, and that’s precisely where the career fair fits in. Kristen Reichenbach and Geoffrey Klock, both senior biology majors, aren’t fazed about being unprepared academically or otherwise. “My only concerns are that I’ll have problems finding a job without experience and that I won’t remember the basics I’ve been cramming in over the last four years,” Reichenbach said. With companies like Onlab Assignment and Eximias Pharmaceutical Corporation in attendance, Reichenbach and Klock will only have to remember to dress professionally and bring plenty of resumes. Aside from the stereotypiCAREER, page 3