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Students face 'major' decisions' BRITIANY LIBERATORE
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Students at Cabrini are encouraged to talk to their advisers about the majors they are con. sidering. It is recommended that students declare a major before their sophomore year. These are both suggestions from the registrar and can be seen in print in Cabrini's undergraduate catalog. Dr. Charles McCormick, the dean for acad~mic affairs, said that there is no policy forcing students to declare a major before they register for classes. However, he said that students are recommended to declare a major as soon as they know the area they want to major in. McCormick said, "It is better for a student to prepare a schedule with an adviser in their major, than to take random courses." However, not everyone at Cabrini agrees that declaring a major early in a student's college career is always the best thing. Sophomore Steve TreDenick, a criminal justice major, has changed his major from business to criminal justice. TreDenick said, "I think it's better for students to wait to declare a major until they really know what they are interested in. At first, I thought about making money in
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the future and that's why I chose business as my first major." Dr. Sharon Schwarze, a professor of philosophy, feels strongly that there should be no rush for students to declare a major. This year is the first year Schwarze is not an adviser for freshmen students. In her past experiences, many of her students have had a variety of majors before they settled on one. Schwarze said, "Students should not be pushed to declare a major. I think it's good when students have a lot of different interests; it shows excitement. Undeclared equals open-minded and exploring." Schwarze believes that it takes maturity to declare a major. She also feels that when students take different types of classes, it allows them to learn about things they might not have ever thought to explorebefore. This may lead to them discovering the major that they want to declare. Dr. David Dunbar, an assistant professor of biology, advises honors science students. Dunbar said, "I encourage students to consider other majors if they are having concerns over whether they really want to major in science."
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JessWEBBIPHoroEoooR Amanda Murphy walks from the CAC by West Residence Hall, which is set to be open in August, but many students are skeptical. If the building is not complete, George Stroud said residence life may have to arrange a plan similar to the current Valley Forge set-up: Such options have students anxious about the upcoming housing lottery.
Housinglotto leaves studentsapprehensive ASHI-EY RANDAZZO
Residence Hall will house approximately 130 students, AAR722@CABRINI.EDU according to Howard Holden, the Students are anxious about the director of facilities. upcoming annual housing lottery. The process for the housing West Residence Hall, set to be lottery has also changed this year, ready in fall 2006, has been a due to the demand for the new main source of student concern. residence hall. George Stroud, Many wonder if the building will director of residence life, said, be ready on schedule, and what "We have a new way to deterwill be done if it is not complet- mine housing for next year's students. We will have a separate ed. Because of the amount of lottery about a week before the freshmen accepted into the col- actual lottery for the Cabrini lege this year and a lesser-a.mount Apartment Complex. After those of beds available for other stu- students find out. whether they dents, Cabrini was forced to find did or didn't make it into •the other ways to house its students. CAC, that --will promote a new Next year, that problem will be lottery." one step closer to being solved There is a slight twist for the with the new dormitory finished. better interest of the students for The set completion date for next year. Stroud said, "If stuthe new dorm is the upcoming dents that want to live together summer of 2006, right before the don't get moved into the CAC, move-in-time for students. West they will have a choice of who ASST. FEATURES EDITOR
they want to break up with and we can possibly move them into a house on the same floor altogether." If West Residence Hall is not ready for the students in the fall of 2006, Stroud believes that they will have to do something similar to what they are doing with Valley Forge for this year. "If we have a problem like that, we will just have to deal with it when it comes. There's nothing more we can do." Concerns about the housing lottery come from those students who do not have cars to drive back and forth from class or money to move off campus. Some students feel no sympathy from the college regarding their
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Subshortage lowers education quality KELLY MURPHY STAFF WRITER KAM736@CABRINI.EDU
Freshman Matt Warren, undecided, looks over the major list offered in the course catalog.
After begging mom for five more minutes numerous times, sitting on a crowded bus for what seemed like hours and frantically copying a friend's homework from the night before, the bell
rings, which means the start of another day. Eight hours of school. Well, only four until recess. But today is a lucky day. A new face enters the classroom and writes their name on the board. All the students hiss amongst each other, "Yes! A substitute!" A "sub" may have been
good news in the third grade because of the possibility of having a night with out homework was the coolest thing that could happen. For college students, every class counts and there is an acknowledgement of the imporSubstitutes, page 2
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