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In fight for college
aid, rich kids win LAURA VANDE PETIE NEWS EDITOR
Lcv722@CABRINI.EDU Every year Cabrini's tuition increases, causing low-income students to fret. The tuition at Cabrini has increased 32.7 percent over the past five years, while the national average among private colleges shows an increase of 22.2 percent. With an increase of nearly eight percent between last year and this year, low-income students have good reason to worry. Not only is the tuition increasing, but colleges like Cabrini and thousands of other colleges are trying to attract wealthier students to their campus by giving them increased amounts of meritbased aid. A trend shows that in recent years, many colleges and universities, particularly private institutions, have been giving more and more aid to their wealthiest undergraduates, students who wouldn't qualify for aid under most need-based formulas. Why? ·Because even after talcinginto account the cost of the aid, these students still provide institutions with far more net revenue than their low-income peers. Mark Osborn, the vice president for enrollment management, said, "There is no question or doubt that there is a direct correlation between the income of a family and the level of intelligence of the prospective student. Nine times out of ten, the wealthier the family, the smarter the student, and colleges in general, not just Cabrini, are seeking to enroll smarter students." According to the National Postsecondary Student Aid Survey, private institutions gave financial aid to 53 percent of students in the lowest income quartile in 1993. That number has held steady, rising only 3 percentage points to 56 percent in 2000. But for students in the highest quartile, the percent receiving aid jumped by 16 percentage points, from 35 percem to 51 percent. Furthermore, the amount of money received by high-income students rose faster as well. In
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House7 submergesin stink MELl&$ASTEVEN PERSPECTIVES EDITOR
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Throwing a towel down in front of her door on Sunday morning to stop what she thought was dirty water seeping into her room from the bathroom, sophomore Kristen McGowan realized soon after that it was not water leaking into her room; it was raw sewage. On Thursday, Jan. 26, the facilities department wasnotified that there was "effluent overflowing in the basement bathroom of Sullivan House," Howard Holden, the director of facilities, said. According to George Stroud, the director of residence life. the construction workers working on the West Residence Hall damaged a sewer pipe leading to the house. He said that there were still two functioning bathrooms in the house that stu• dents could use that day and a plumber would be there on Friday to ftx the problem. When the plumbing company arrived the nextday, they discovered a collapsed sewage line, which meant they needed
DANSQutllE/Assr. PHoro Eonol!. A first-floor bathroom in house 7 was covered in mud and sewage while maintenance workers attempted to repair the plumbing situation. On Sunday night,residena were forced to find an alternate place to sleep.
to dig up the front yard of the house. Since they were not prepared to do that on Friday, it was agreed that they would come back on Monday to fix it. "I was never informed at all about what exactly was happening with the sewage and the bathrooms," McGowan said. "I know that on Thursday something happened, and by Sunday it got worse, and finally by Monday they decided to do something
about it. When something was leaking out from the bathroom on my side of the hallway, I immediately e-mailed facilities with my concern and how I was nervous about it seeping into my room and being toxic. I never heard back." Holden said that some of the residents ignored the signs posted on the out of order bathrooms and used them anyway, which caused the overflow again later
that weekend in the basement. "Facilities then shut the water off to the entire house, and residence life evacuated the building," Holden said. "The only thing that was done to notify the residents was a sign placed on the broken bathroom that said, 'broken' and 'will be back to fix
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1million people trafficked intolifeofforced labor, sex MEGHAN HURLEY STAFF WRITER
Mui722@CABRINI.EDU For about $20, a family in India can buy a domestic child slave. These children are victims of human trafficking, an issue that has been growing in the world today. A renowned opponent of human trafficking spent over an hour educating almost 200 hundred Cabrini students, faculty and staff about this issue and what they can do to help. "We won't give in. We won't give up. We won't go tired," Sister Jean Devos, ICM said about her more than 20 years of work in fighting the trafficking and abuse of children who are being sold in domestic slavery. Devos spoke on her work with child labor in India on Monday, Jan. 30 in the Widener Lecture Hall in response to the
growing interest in the issue of human trafficking. Sister Devos, the national coordinator and founder of the National Domestic Workers' Welfare Trust and the National Domestic Workers' Movement, has worked in India for the rights of child domestic workers that are trafficked into the country and forced into servitude. These children are sold to families, mostly as domestic workers, and they face sexual, physical and emotional abuse. Bridget Flynn, a freshman elementary and special education major, said that she knew very little about human trafficking and child slavery before hearing Sister Devos speak. "It was shocking that nobody knew about this issue," Flynn said. "It is estimated that more than 1 million people are trafficked
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After the tsunami in December of 2004, thousands of women and children were traf• ficked into the Unites States and forced into labor and were sexually exploited.
annually . around the world," according to a website created by the Academy for Educational Development and funded by the United States State Department, humantrafficking.org. The trafficking industry brings in over $9 billion annually. The definition of human trafficking, as stated on humantrafficking.org, is the "transportation of persons for forced labor, sexual exploitation or other illicit activities."
Of the 1 million people trafficked, 80 percent of them are women and children. Between 14,500 and 17,500 women and children are trafficked into the U.S. every year, according to the U.S. Department of State. According to Sister Devos, the effect that trafficking and forced labor has on these children is unimaginably profound.
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