Meghan Hurley

"I was in Vietnam 10 months, 28 days, six hours and 22 minutes." Forty years later, HMC (FMF) Charles R. Haig can still remember, down to second, how longed he served in Vietnam with the United States Military. Serving as a Navy corpsman attached to the U.

This past July, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates on the Stafford Federal Student Loans from 5.3 percent to 7.14 percent on previous loans and to 6.8 percent on new loans, according to the St. Louis Business Journal. At Cabrini, 94 percent of the full-time undergraduate students who filled out a Free Application for Federal Student Aids for financial aid received a Stafford Loan, according to Mike Colahan, director of financial aid.

Don't be afraid to stray away from a life plan because it probably won't turn out that way. This advice comes firsthand from a Cabrini alumna and extremely influential woman in the world of politics. Christy Mason Cox, the current chief-of-staff to the U.

The anti-plagiarism website, Turnitin.com, is causing controversy across the nation. High school students in McLean, Va., have banded together to fight against the mandatory submission of all papers to Turnitin, according to the Washington Post. Other colleges have dropped their contracts with Turnitin and the Conference on College Composition, an organization of 6,000 college-level educators, is discussing whether use of the site "undermines students' authority over the uses of their own writing," according to the Washington Post.

"Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights for all those who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend rights of the poor and needy." With this Bible verse, Gerry Adams began his talk on the need for peace and a national republic in Ireland.

Water and the degradation of natural resources are directly linked to poverty, making the environment a central focus of many humanitarian aid organizations. Dr. Gaye Burpee spoke on these issues on Sept. 7 to a variety of audiences. "The people that I am going to be talking about in this talk are people that are so poor and struggling to survive.that when a crisis comes, that's it for them.they die, they split up their family or sell themselves into prostitution," Burpee said.

On August 2, 2006, Fitz Eugene Dixon, Jr. died. A wealthy man and well-known figure in Philadelphia society, Dixon, along with his wife Edith Robb Dixon, was a prominent contributor to the growth of Cabrini College and the state of Pennsylvania. Their involvement with the college started in 1973 when Edith Dixon joined the Board of Trustees.

An essential part of the Cabrini College core curriculum is community service. Cabrini was the first college in the country to integrate community service into their curriculum and make it a requirement for graduation. As juniors, students take a course where community involvement is an essential part of the course learning.

Fair trade, fair labor practices and conflict commodities. These are just a few social justice issues that the world is currently dealing with. Respect, dedication to excellence, community and vision. These are the four core values of Cabrini College and the four main reasons that the campus community needs to be concerned with those issues.