Brittany Liberatore

The Click Campaign, sponsored by the finance club and international finance class, works to reduce global poverty. By logging on to www. PovertyFighters.com, students and faculty can click on the donate button up to twice per day. With every click, money will be donated to finance microlending loans.

Teenagers throughout the country have found a different way to achieve a cheap high; taking over-the-counter cough and cold medicine. A growing population has found that various medicines, such as Robitussin DM and Coricidin HBP Cough and Cold, contain dextromethorphan, which has the ability to cause hallucinations and out-of-body experiences when abused.

Ninety thousand Americans a year die from infections that they picked up from unsanitary hospitals, according to the AARP Bulletin. Hospital infections have become the eighth leading cause of death in this country. Hospitals have become a major source of infection.

The United States Defense Department is considering an increase in American troop levels, according to an article in The New York Times. This increase will coincide with an addition of thousands more trainers to work with Iraqi forces. These are the plans that were considered after a review of the Iraq strategy that is already in place.

Cabrini's utility bills are on the rise, mainly due the new additions on campus including the creation of the Center for Science, Education and Technology, West Residence Hall and the new athletic turf field. "Due to Cabrini College's recent growth, as well as the recent increases in energy, the cost for utilities has increased dramatically over the past five years," Howard Holden, director of facilities, said.

Facebook, the popular networking site, has recently undergone a few changes that have left many users with a bad taste in their mouths. The new features are causing an uproar because many people feel that their privacy on Facebook has been violated. Now, after the changes were made, on every home page of a Facebook account there is a "news feed.

Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, author, professor and Holocaust survivor, delivered the keynote address for the President's Convocation on Sept. 26 at the Nerney Field House of the Dixon Center. Wiesel stressed the need for human action to prevent other events like the Holocaust.

Francine Clement, a junior exercise science and health promotions major, won the Commonwealth Good Citizen Scholarship for her endless hours of community service. Clement was one of six students from 84 colleges belonging to the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Pennsylvania who received the Commonwealth Good Citizen Scholarship for $1,000.

A Carbon Monoxide leak in a Roanoke College dormitory ended the life of one man on July 14, 2006. Along with the fatality, approximately 80 people were sent to the hospital, complaining of headaches, nausea and dizziness. At the present time, Carbon Monoxide detectors are not installed in any of Cabrini's dormitories.