Morgan Miller

Chilly air and cold rain did not put a damper on about 200 faithful American citizens from gathering at LOVE Park in Philadelphia. As a bell rang nearby and the crowd chanted "repeal the pork, cut back taxes," the petition began. Don Reimer, husband of the organizer of the Philadelphia Tax Day Tea Party Diana Reimer, held a sound check raising the question if anyone could not hear his words.

A week before she was set to come back to Cabrini in January, Erin Doyal, junior biology major, experienced a setback in her future career goals.

The preliminary results from Iraq's first national election in four years labeled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki the victor. Maliki, of the Dawa Party, serves as a sign of hope to Iraqis for a strong central government. Sunni tribal leaders, believing that Sunnis in charge of the provincial government were guilty of electoral fraud, were quickly kept from causing any harm by an overnight curfew and armed forces to confront any civilians with weapons.

Change has come in the form of the 44th president of the United States. Cabrini faculty, staff and students passionately applauded in the Widener Lecture Hall as they watched the first African-American president be sworn into office. "He's a leader, his choice of words, his delivery [and] his confidence came to show," newly-inaugurated Cabrini President Marie George said.

Cabrini plans to hire a new vice president of enrollment management by early spring. A search committee, headed by Dean of Academic Affairs Charlie McCormick, is working closely with an external consultant Tom Williams. Williams is a former employee of Noel-Levitz, a company that has specialized in enrollment management for more than 2,000 campuses in its 35-year history.