When taking a tour of Cabrini, admissions counselors and student ambassadors mislead students. They tell students there’s always something to do and a great place to be but in reality it is only enjoyable Monday-Thursday.
They do not tell students it is a commuter campus and the school is not structured for students living on campus during the weekend.
After class on Thursday or Friday most students go home or a large majority of the campus commutes; the school is not designed for students to stay on campus during the weekend.
School dances are planned on Thursdays because people know a lot of people go home on the weekends. Jazzmans offers no meal exchange and Sandellas is not open. If people do not have flex they either have use their own money or go to the cafeteria.
The cafeteria is inconvenient because it is open for an hour and a half for lunch and dinner. Red Hot chef is not open and the cafeteria workers start cleaning up half an hour before the cafeteria closes.
Students are given two meals a day, lunch and dinner, so if a student wakes up for breakfast they are not given the luxury of a hot meal.
When I was given a tour of Cabrini they told me they were trying to draw in students from further states other than New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York and other surrounding states but they don’t make living far from home an enjoyable experience.
CAP Board plans wonderful activities for students but the events only occur Sunday- Thursday.
I understand that the cafeteria, CAP Board, Jazzmans and Sandellas plan events and the food schedule according to the majority of students but what about the students from Texas, Detroit, California and other further states.
I wanted to transfer somewhere closer to home last year but my parents said I needed to give the school another year then make a decision about transferring. A lot of people from my freshman class transferred and I don’t blame them; people want an enjoyable college experience seven days a week.
I chose not to transfer this school year because of the communications program, the social justice teachings Cabrini offers and the friends I made. I realized at any other school I wouldn’t be given the opportunity to have my own radio show as a freshman, write for the school newspaper my sophomore year and become an editor for the newspaper my junior year.
I love the communications department because it so hands on and every teacher in the department wants to see you grow not only as a student but also as an individual.
All teachers at Cabrini teach the students to use everything we learn in the communications department and every core required class to help social justice issues, like illiteracy in schools, domestic violence, genocide in Sudan, human trafficking and many other issues.
Cabrini has made efforts to make the weekends more enjoyable for students by creating the RAC, which I enjoy going to on the weekends. Cabrini is structured as a commuter school and I believe the school needs to tell students that before they attend.
Read the opposing view point by Jamie Santoro
I know it must be hard for you on weekends Chelbi! I think you and Jamie both have great arguments that needed to be assessed by the school itself!