Students to raise awareness over commercial coffee farmer struggles
Be prepared to face a barrage of social consciousness on Thursday, April 22, from 11:30 to 1:30 in the caf and Jazzman's caf
Kelly Finlan
Articles by Kelly Finlan
Harcum to house Cabrini residents
An increase in demand for on-campus student housing has prompted Residence Life to lease 40 beds from Harcum College in Bryn Mawr, Pa., leading upperclassmen to question their chances of living on campus next year. Resident students have increased more than six percent in the last five years, according to the Cabrini College 2003 factbook.
Ex-weapons inspector calls for intelligence investigation
Former chief weapons inspector David A. Kay advocated an independent inquiry into prewar intelligence in Iraq on Wednesday, Jan. 28. President Bush, moved to quash the investigation before the election. Kay said he does not think the white house "pressured intelligence analysts to exaggerate the threat," according to the New York Times.
Suicide bomber kills 2 Iraqis and 3 U. S. soldiers
A suicide bomber killed two Iraqis and three American soldiers in a bomb patrol on Saturday, Jan. 17. The blast brought the American death toll to 500, according to the Boston Globe. A car bomb exploded outside the U.S. headquarters in Baghdad on Sunday, Jan.
Bush trip to Iraq a well-kept secret
President George W. Bush visited Iraq on Thursday, Nov. 27, Thanksgiving Day, to have dinner with more than 600 troops. The trip was kept secret from everyone including the first family and the troops themselves until the president left Baghdad, according to the British Broadcasting Company.
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The editor of a London-based newspaper received an email, sent by a member of al-Qaeda, claiming the attacks made on two synagogues in Istanbul, Turkey on Saturday, Nov. 15 were by al-Qaeda. More than 23 people were killed and 300 more wounded in the attacks, according to the British Broadcasting Company.
College mandates more Friday classes
As the bells chimed three o'clock, a lone student roamed the second-floor corridor in Founders Hall. All the classrooms are empty. All the students are gone for the weekend. Cabrini College is one of hundreds of American schools suffering from a severe disinterest in Friday classes.
Al-Qaeda may target cargo planes
The Department of Homeland Security issued a warning to United States law enforcement that al-Qaeda is likely to use cargo planes against pivotal locations like nuclear power stations, bridges and dams. Congress as well as the Coalition of Airline Pilots Associations are calling for more stringent security on and around cargo planes, according to the Chicago Tribune.
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Lawyer shooting caught on videotape Camera crews watched as Jerry Curry, a 53 year-old lawyer from Simi Valley, Calif, was shot multiple times on Friday, Oct. 31, by a very disgruntled former client outside Van Nuys courthouse where accused killer Richard Blake is on trial.
Crime sweeps Cabrini
Aegina Foto, a junior English/communications major, walks quickly along the trail between the houses on Residential Boulevard with her cell phone pressed against her head. She just left her room in House 6, but she is talking to her roommate. "I'll talk on my cell phone the whole time, especially by the house because it's dark," Foto said.
One more gripe about Residence Life
Clearly I missed the memo telling me, as well as every other Cabrini upper-classman, that I am totally unemployable. No one with any occupational status could possibly lug a person's entire life up stairs into half a room with a foot and a half of closet space.
Russian Professor teaches on American soil, abroad
Thousands of miles from home, Elena Glavatskaia teaches Russian History 408, a history she knows well. At home in Russia, she teaches the same curriculum to a generation of students who can hardly remember communism and the problems that accompanied it.
Poetry & Politics Through the Eyes of Back
February 18, 2002 - To a packed room, Dr. Rachel Tzvia Back read from her latest collection of poetry, Azimuth. This followed a lecture in which she tackled such controversial issues as US-Israeli relations and Israeli-Palestinian relations, ending Cabrini's week-long Cultural Kaleidoscope.
Dunbar: Reinforces desire to teach and experiment
Spring may be the season of new life, but fall is the season of new arrivals. Incoming first-year and transfer students and new staff are among the Cabrini novices on campus. Perhaps you have noticed the new face in the science department. Dr. David Dunbar, assistant biology professor, is Cabrini's newest resident science guy, straight from Yale Medical School via West Chester University.
Internationally recognized humanitarian visits Cabrini
Thick fog and rain could not keep Betty Tisdale from her audience, much like war and financial constraints can not keep her from her "babies" in Vietnam and all over the world. She is the founder of Helping And Loving Orphans and the driving force behind Operation Baby Lift during the Vietnam War.
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