Abigail Keefe

Eighty percent of college students feel stress in their daily lives, according to a recent survey. Of those 80 percent of students feeling stress, the results from the poll showed that 63 percent could not get their schoolwork done, 55 percent did not feel up to hanging out with their friends and one-third of those students felt as though they were failures or let people down.

For the second year in a row, Cabrini College was named to the second annual President's Higher Education Community Honor Roll with Distinction for General Community Service on Feb. 27. Being one of only seven colleges and universities in Pennsylvania and 127 nationwide to be named to the Honor Roll with Distinction, Cabrini proved to be once again a strong leader in community service among universities nationwide.

While most colleges offer the typical orientation for freshmen, Princeton University plans to send a large group of its freshmen abroad. "Princeton University is working to create a program to send a tenth or more of its newly admitted [freshman] students to a year of social service work in a foreign country before they set foot on campus as freshman," according to an article titled "Princeton Plans for an Early Year Abroad," by New York Times reporter Karen Arenson about a program starting in 2009.

In the past two years Cabrini has begun to offer fair trade coffee. This year, Sodexho Food Services' contribution to fair trade has become even more significant because Cabrini is now one of the few college campuses that offer fair trade bananas. Coffee is no longer the only fair trade product offered at Cabrini.