BY MOLLY SEAMAN Managing Editor

“Never shall I forget that night, the frst night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed….Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.” -Elie Wiesel, Night

Te Concept of Genocide: continued to walk that day as if the pages of located the target and nailed the tracks dead history were coming to life right before my on. From the beginning of time, man has very eyes. 2nd Lt. Teodore Seaman lived to tell the sinned against man. Blood has poured from story and returned home to the United States the hearts of the innocent only to stain the Tat is when I saw them. with a Silver Star and Bronze Star medals, hands of his brother. Genocide, however, is Purple Heart and the Distinguished Service a more recent term that came about after Te trees. Cross- only next to the Medal of Honor. World War II. I never got to meet this hero of mine Used mostly to describe the heinous Te trees of Auschwitz-Birkenau. because he sadly passed away before I was acts of inhumanity committed by the Nazis born. during their regime, the act of genocide is Te trees that saw everything. However, Grandpa’s fght against geno- classifed as violence toward members of a cide is one that continues to this day. national, ethnic, racial or religious minority Tat is when it hit me. with the intention of destroying their very Te Trees Have Eyes: existence. Te trees have eyes. In 1948 genocide was deemed an interna- 3 trillion trees. tional crime, followed by a treaty signed in Generations of Genocide: 1998 that created the International Criminal 3 trillion trees that have eyes. Court, or ICC. Te ICC strives to prosecute Tese very trees had witnessed the act genocide, war crimes and crimes against of genocide that I was struggling so hard to All over the world. humanity in order to prevent these crimes comprehend. from being repeated in history. It was then I realized that the trees of Tese quiet, wise and strong beings World War II had also witnessed my grandfa- deeply-rooted in their native soil have seen Coming Face to Face with Death: ther’s struggle with genocide before me. humans evolve from the beginning of time. After the Japanese bombed Pearl Har- Tey have witnessed the murders and Tis past July, I traveled to Krakow, Po- bor in December 1941, 2nd Lt. Teodore genocide of those in Poland, Rwanda, Cam- land, known as the city of kings as well as a Seaman, a quiet, intelligent and brave young bodia, Bosnia and Darfur. country haunted by its past. man, took to the clouds as a bombardier in Tey have seen the children and their Te largest of the German Nazi con- World II. families cry when they are forced from their centration/extermination camps, Aus- A man of honor, integrity and courage homes in war torn Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, chwitz-Birkenau is located in Poland, only he risked his life to fght the Nazis and their Somalia and Yemen and told that they are an hour outside of Krakow, and serves to this quest for power and bloodshed in Europe, banned from entering the United States or day as a reminder of the 1.1 million men, even if it meant never returning home to his forced to live in refugee camps. women and children that died inside its wife, Patricia, and two young children (with Tey have seen the farmers struggle to borders not so long ago. fve yet to be born). cultivate their agriculture in order to make Te camp itself goes on for miles and Ted was the lead bombardier of a Boeing a living and put food on their table due to miles. B-17 fying fortress in the Air Army Corp. efects of climate change. As I walked, my feet seemed to feel While in fight and under extreme pres- Tey have felt the pain of the ax that heavier with every step I took, making it sure, one of his tasks was to locate railroad mankind uses to chop them down despite sometimes impossible to even move. Almost tracks in Italy that the Nazis used to transport the fact that they provide the very oxygen we as though the grief I was feeling was literally their weapons and supplies. require to breathe. weighing me down. It was grandpa’s job to fawlessly calcu- Tey have witnessed human beings My stomach curdled at the site of the rail- late the speed of the plane, location of the repeating the same mistakes throughout road tracks and the trains that sat on them, track, wind factor and altitude in order to history over and over. knowing very well what they used for. determine when and where the large feet of Every single hair on my arms would stand planes that followed him would release their Yet, there they sit. at the indescribable yet unmistakeable feel- bombs to destroy Nazi train tracks. ing of the spirits that once roamed. During one particular mission, while Quietly planted. Te sight of certain landmarks that soaring at 20,000 feet, Teodore and his men seemed virtually untouched scared me to my were struck by anti-air craft fre stationed in Rooted in the struggle of mankind. very core. the mountains below at 10,000 feet. My hands felt like ice even despite the A piece of shrapnel pierced grandpa’s record-breaking heat Poland was experienc- chest, going straight through his shirt pocket ing that day. causing him to lose half a lung. Tears fowed quietly down my face as I Despite being hit, he pulled himself up, [email protected]

“Tere’s a long road of sufering ahead of you. But don’t lose courage. You’ve already escaped the gravest danger: selection. So now, mus- ter your strength, and don’t lose heart. We shall all see the day of liberation. Have faith in life. Above all else, have faith. Drive out despair, and you will keep death away from yourselves. Hell is not for eternity. And now, a prayer – or rather, a piece of advice: let there be comradeship among you. We are all brothers, and we are all sufering the same fate. Te same smoke foats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive.” -Elie Wiesel, Night

HOPE DALUISIO / VISUAL MANAGING EDITOR 2 | THELOQUITUR.COM EDITORIAL THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2017

WE ARE THE LOQUITUR Do not be a bystander: 2017-2018 Editorial Staf

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ANGELINA MILLER Be a source of change WRITING MANAGING EDITOR CORALINE PETTINE Bystander. You have heard the word: in classes, discussions, speak- VISUAL MANAGING EDITOR ers or on the news. You know what it HOPE DALUISIO means…kind of. It is someone who NEWS EDITORS stands by and witnesses something EMMA RODNER-TIMS bad take place and does nothing. KELLY BUSH You think to yourself, I am not a bystander. If I ever saw something SPORTS EDITORS inappropriate or dangerous happen- RYAN BRONG ing, I would step in. I would stop it. JOHN WILLIAMS You are wrong. Tink back. Have you ever heard an uncomfortable LIFESTYLES EDITORS conversation and thought to your- ERIC STONE self, ‘Ooh that sounds bad’ or ‘Tis KAITLYN D’AMBROSIO is uncomfortable.’ Did you step in? PERSPECTIVES EDITOR Probably not. Like most people, you LAURA SAMSON probably thought to yourself, ‘It’s really none of my business’ or ‘Tey WEB EDITORS should work this out on their own.’ ALEXIA PAGLIA Eventually you go about your SHANNON FINN day and within an hour or two, the whole encounter is put out of your JUNE LEE / FLICKR ADVISER mind. You are busy thinking about JEROME ZUREK your own life, your own problems or these situations is common. Psychology at publicly in this restaurant, vulgar and even what you will be having for dinner that Today even talks about the bystander efect, hateful words, yet not one single witness to night. After all, there is nothing you could literally the theory that the more people are this took a moment from their food in order MISSION have done to stop it, right? around during the situation, the less likely to step into the situation. Instead, Amanda Te Loquitur student news- Wrong again. While you went on with one is to intervene. Because if nobody else continued to leave with this man who went paper and website are inte- your day as normal, that situation that you around you is stepping in, why should you? on to choke and beat her once getting into gral parts of the educational overheard and brushed of after a bit of It is not your situation and you are not the their car. mission of the Cabrini com- discomfort got worse. It went from uncom- only bystander here. Each day people are bullied, abused, munication department, fortable comments to yelling, from yelling to But this is not the way to be. Do not step harassed, assaulted and so many more namely, to educate students physical violence, from physical violence to aside just because others are doing the awful things. Tey could all be prevented. to take their places in the any number of unthinkable outcomes. And same. Be a leader. Te least you can do, Sometimes all it takes to stop a situation is public media. Loquitur Me- dia provides a forum of free that is just one of many ways the situation and really all that you have to do to make a to bring attention to it. While sometimes expression. All members of could go wrong. diference, is to just speak up. Do not ignore these are very dangerous people and other the univeristy community Your simple, ‘Is everything okay here?’ what is happening, but take notice. Take measures must be taken, sometimes these may submit work to the could have been the point where a victim action. Speak up. bullies, abusers, harassers, assaulters, etc. editors for possible inclu- fnally shared her fear with someone, or One afternoon a young woman named will abort the situation just by being called sion. Publication is based on simply could confrm that you were right Amanda, newly pregnant and slightly show- out. Why not at least give it a try? Tis could the editorial decision of the and the situation was harmless. But now ing, was in a public restaurant meeting with be the chance to save a life. student editors. you will never know, will you? her abuser and child’s father. Te Loquitur Do not be ashamed. Non-action in story reports Amanda being screamed Cabrini selects the 2017 valedictorian BY KEITH BROWN “To be valedictorian means the world Sports Editor to me. I actually didn’t even consider it a couple years ago when I came here. My The valedictorian for the frst class goal was to maintain a high GPA, and ever graduating as Cabrini University has been since that frst semester it felt good to get LETTERS TO decided. Senior Natalie Trerotola will a 4.0, so I continued, continued, and then be honored as the 2017 class valedictorian. junior year someone said to me you’re THE EDITOR Trerotola is a Pre‐K‐4 education major probably going to be valedictorian and I Te Loquitur accepts letters with a concentration in special education was like ‘what,’” Trerotola said. “Didn’t to the editors. Tey should Pre‐K‐8. The recipient is chosen by the even consider it. As it got closer I was like be less than 500 words, usu- Academic Review Board for having the ‘wow, this is really cool.’ It feels good to be ally in response to a current highest academic achievement of the class able to maintain this and reach my goals, issue on Cabrini University’s among other criteria. The student cho- and all of those things. I didn’t want to get campus or community area sen for the honor is the one who delivers my hopes up too much, but it’s really cool and are printed as space the valedictory speech at the commence- to have that. It’s time to celebrate!” permits. Name, phone num- ment ceremony. “When I got the email I had to contain PHOTO SUBMITTED BY NATALIE TREROTOLA ber and address should be Trerotola was awarded the class plate, myself and it was almost impossible! I cation of the heart as well as social justice included with submissions given to the student with the highest was shaking, literally shaking, and I called and the common good. Trerotola was for verifcation purposes. All GPA of the class, both her sophomore my mom like ‘You’re never gonna believe looking for a school with a good education letters to the editors must be e-mailed to loquitur@ and junior years. Trerotola also made the it!’ I texted my whole family... it was a big program when she graduated from high cabrini.edu President’s List every semester (for a 3.9 deal.” school and has found a home at Cabrini. GPA or higher) and is a member of four Trerotola has completed four diferent “When I was looking at schools, I was diferent honor societies: Alpha Lamb- education feld experiences over her time actually looking for schools with a real- da Delta National Honor Society, Delta at Cabrini and is currently completing the ly good education program. I had a few Epsilon Sigma Honor Society, Kappa second half of senior year feld experience schools in mind, but when it came down Delta Pi Education Honor Society and Del- at the Elwyn Davidson School by working to it and I toured Cabrini, I defnitely ta Kappa National Leadership Honor with eight high-functioning students on chose Cabrini for the education pro- Society. Trerotola serves as Student the autism spectrum who struggle with gram,” Trerotola said. Ambassador for the Admissions Ofce and severe emotional disturbances. CONTINUE READING ONLINE treasurer of the group Cabrini Friends of Through her time at Cabrini, Trerotola Exceptional Children (CFEC). has bought into the school’s focus on edu- [email protected] THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2017 NEWS THELOQUITUR.COM | 3 The importance of having the life-saving drug Narcan on college campuses BY EMILY ROWAN campuses. How- Programs and Volunteer Photo Editor ever, they are be- Coordinator coming more and Description: the goal of Opioids: a type of drug that acts on the more available the Programs and Volun- nervous system to ultimately relieve pain, and pervasive, teer Intern is to further often abused and sometimes even deadly. especially with About 50 percent of college students availability of develop and retain our are ofered prescription drugs by other heroin in powder volunteer base through students for non-medical purposes by their form, black tar engagement. Te intern sophomore year, according to the Journal heroin and syn- will be responsible for of Drug Abuse. Unfortunately, many stu- thetic fentanyl, managing the volunteer dents will take up that ofer and potentially 50-100 times database, engaging vol- change their lives forever. more powerful unteers, and providing In many cases it only takes one, yes, than morphine,” administrative and onsite one pill, to get high and addicted to opi- Lori Holleran support to our volunteers. oid-based drugs. Steiker writes in Te Intern will also play Obtaining opioid prescription medica- her article, Opi- EMILY ROWAN/PHOTO EDITOR an important role in the tions can get costly, especially for students oid Overdose coordination of events on a tight budget, but once hooked on opi- Prevention Narcan Nasal Spray can quickly reverse an opioid overdose oids it is almost impossible to give them up. Initiatives on the and programs that sup- From taking pricy prescription opioids College Campus. enal counter agent to reverse the opioid port community cats and like OxyContin, codeine and Vicodin, which Overdoses on opioids are unfortunately [overdose],” Block said. their caretakers as well as to many seem like a safer way to get high, very common. According to the DEA, Penn- Kelly Day is grateful for the lifesaving drug activating the program’s people often eventually switch to using her- sylvania alone in 2015 saw 3,383 drug-re- Narcan for saving her daughter’s life. About workshops and events. oin because it provides a substantial high lated overdose deaths which is a 23.4 four years ago Day’s daughter, Sam, over- Location: Philadelphia, for a lower cost than prescription pills. percent increase from the total number of dosed on heroin and was unresponsive. Pennsylvania Radnor police lieutenant Andrew Block, overdose deaths (2,742) reported in 2014. “I got a phone call one night from Sam’s commander of the special operations divi- In April 2016, the Cabrini community friend around 10:30 at night,” Day said. “I Marketing and Develop- sion which includes the drug task force, has lost a student to a suspected drug over- remember it like it was yesterday.” ment Intern been serving the Radnor police department dose. The suspected overdose happened ‘Sam’s not breathing, I can’t wake her up,’ Description:Assist com- for 26 years and has seen too many lives of of the college’s campus at a house in the friend frantically said over the phone. munications for website, lost because of drug addiction. West Conshohocken. According to a report “Did you call an ambulance?” Day asked. by NBC Philadelphia, an “ofcer Sam’s friend said no. social media, events, administered [the] anti-overdose Day arrived to the scene to see her daugh- media relations, annual drug naloxone and performed CPR ter lying with her eyes rolled back. report, and newsletters. but the man didn’t respond and “When I got there I called back 911 and Implement varied tasks medics pronounced him dead on I was able to keep her alive and give her for planning annual the scene.” CPR until the ambulance got there, which is events (Annual Beneft; Unfortunately for this Cabri- something no parent should ever, ever have Golf & Tennis Classic) and ni student, the life-saving drug to do — give their child CPR,” she said. other fundraising activ- naloxone, also known by the brand “We got her to the hospital and they shot ities. Increasing public name Narcan, was unable to revive her with the Narcan... which is a drug that awareness of the Founda- him. The Cabrini community lost a puts you into instant detox,” Day said. tion to secure resources strong student-athlete, a friend to “The police and I went to my house to supporting the organi- many and a young man who had a ransack her room to see if we could pos- EMILY ROWAN/PHOTO EDITOR lot of potential. sibly fnd what it was that she took,” Day zation’s programs and People often take prescription medications to get high. According to the Journal of said. “Then the police went back to where services Drug abuse, “Naloxone hydrochloride Sam originally was, where it all happened, Location: Philadelphia, “Sadly, Philadelphia is one of the heroin is a generic, non-narcotic opioid antagonist and they found heroin in the freplace. We Pennsylvania hubs on the east coast where an individual that blocks the brain cell receptors activat- knew then what it was.” Desired majors: Business can drive to Philadelphia and be back in ed by opioids. It is a fast-acting drug that, Department Majors 40 to 45 minutes with a bundle of heroin, when administered during an overdose which is 10 to 12 hits that they’ll have for blocks the efects of opioids on the brain CONTINUE READING ONLINE Human resources Intern the next couple of days,” Block said. and restores breathing within two to three Description: Te Human “There are misconceptions that heroin minutes of administration.” [email protected] Resources Intern will be re- and fentanyl are not present on college “It is a phenomenal drug, it is a phenom- sponsible for supporting the day-to-day operations of the Human Resources team. Tey will provide assistance in a Convergence class aims to ‘Find a Fix’ combination of special proj- ects and routine HR-related tasks. Tis may include, but is BY EMILY ROWAN AND JILL NAWOSKI problem gets worse day-by-day. We are currently living in the largest Photo Editor / 2015 Editor-In-Chief public health crisis that America has yet to see. not limited to, tasks in re- “Tere are 345 million people in America and there were cruiting, talent management, Each and every day, America tends to 245 scripts written in ofce for opioid pain medications communications, compensa- turn a blind eye to the addiction problem last year. Tat is enough for a bottle in every family,” tion and benefts, and related that it is facing as a country. Addiction David Fialko, Certifed Prevention Specialist with human resources disciplines. is in everyone’s backyard. Everyone is the Council of Southeast Pennsylvania Inc., said. Location: King of Prussia, afected in some way, shape or form “People who are 20 year olds have a chance Pennsylvania — directly or indirectly. to impact the future and if you’re talking about Desired Majors: Business “So, what is addiction? It is a this, you can fnd solutions for it,” Brown said. Department Minors/Hu- pain killer and everyone’s tolerance “If you’re afraid to talk about it, there’s no man Resources Manage- is diferent. Today, I’ll call it that. chance of fnding solutions for it.” ment Tomorrow, you ask me the same Convergence, the honors senior commu- question and I might have a difer- nication capstone course, has researched the ent answer,” Patrick Brown, Interven- topic of addiction and substance abuse all year tionalist at the Malvern Institute, said. long to pull together a multimedia website to “But, what is addiction? It’s scary as educate society. If you are interested in heck. It ruins lives and not just the person Teir goal is to get the conversation started and any of these positions, addicted.” work towards fnding a fx. please visit the Career Drugs are smuggled over our borders, opioids FixForAddiction.com goes live Tursday, April 27th. Center or contact career@ are too easily accessible and the magnitude of this cabrini.edu [email protected] 4 | THELOQUITUR.COM NEWS THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2017 Get eduacted and be aware: Sexual assault will afect your life

BY CECELIA HECKMAN Editor-In-Chief

Every 98 seconds, someone is sexually assaulted. By the time you watch a full-length movie, almost 100 people have been sexually assaulted. Microwaving pop- corn? Someone else was just sexually assaulted. At college, this can be a scary reality. According to the White House’s sexual assault report, one in fve women will be sexually assaulted while in college. This is not too far of from the average for both men and women in their lifetimes. “It is so frequent. One out of four women will be sexually assaulted in her lifetime and approximately one out of six men will be sexually assaulted in his lifetime,” Candice Linehan, the director of the sexual assault services for Delaware County Women Against Rape, said. “So if it is not you, by the grace of God, it could be your loved one, your friend, your neighbor, your colleague, your partner, your child. And so, unfor- tunately, crime doesn’t discriminate and, unfortunate- ly, you will meet someone or love somebody or care for somebody that unfortunately has been a victim.” FLICKR / DUKE UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES For the sake of not only possible victims but also all Take Back the Night marches are now decades old. Photo taken Nov. 19, 1987 by Peter Aman. of those other people who could be afected by know- ing a victim, April is national sexual assault awareness open to education about what to do and how to help.” questions. We’ll say those things. The frst thought well month. The awareness month is important to not only There are many outlets for all people to get educated what was she or he doing to cause it? Breathing.” get people to remember the issue of sexual assault, but on the diferent ways to help with sexual assault situa- Education is not only important for those who are also to educate every person on the topic. tions. Just in the area local to Cabrini is Linehan’s Del- helping the victims after the fact, but also for every per- “These are topics nobody wants to talk about, to aware County Women Against Rape located in Media, son so they can try to avoid future sexual assault situa- be honest,” Tommie Wilkins, the Violence Against Pa. They provide free services to any victim or family tions. Based on the statistics, there is a likely chance that Women grant coordinator at Cabrini University, said. member in Delaware County or with connections to any person may be in an assault-type situation during “If I just came up to you and went, ‘I want to talk to you Delaware county (work, school or the location of the some or multiple points in their lifetime; so, it can be key today about sexual assault,’ you would run or your eyes victimization). to know some ways to avoid being a victim. would glaze over and you would go into this like, ‘I look Another local outlet is the Women’s Center of Mont- “We do go to the mall, we go downtown, we go to New like I’m listening but I’m not.’” gomery County, which ofers services through seven York because we’re in a great location [at Cabrini]. We Education is key to moving forward. Some are not diferent ofces in the county. They not only work with can hop almost any place we want to on this side of the even aware of the true meaning of sexual assault. The victims but also focus much of their eforts on edu- country in a minimum of two hours, or just go down- term ‘sexual assault’ not only means rape, but also cation for students of all diferent ages as well as the town,” Wilkins said. “We are out there with other people covers any form of unwanted touch or advancement by surrounding community. and, not to say that they’re all horrible and evil and all another person. Robin Jordan, the center’s community outreach rapists and stalkers, but you don’t know. So the incidents “Anything that you don’t want to happen to you [is coordinator, ofers fve summarized ways to best help can be high. It’s just educating people about being aware sexual assault]. Sexual assault is sort of the umbrella support a victim. “The best way to help a victim is to: 1. of your surroundings and just taking care of yourself.” phrase,” Wilkins said. “Under that umbrella, sexual Stay calm. 2. Keep things drama-free and confdential. It is important for people to always stay aware of their assault, is rape and forcible touching and kissing and 3. Be non-judgemental. 4. Do not force the victim to surroundings and try to stay out of potentially harmful hugging. Rape is penetration. So if there is no penetra- get help if they are not ready. Gently encourage them to situations. Tis can upset some people because they do tion it is not considered rape. But it is sexual assault; get appropriate help, but respect their decision to act... not want to have to constantly feel on guard. still a crime, it’s just that’s the minute diference.” or not. 5. Know that YOU are not expected to solve the “People get upset because, why do women have to be problem. Your job is to be supportive and help provide vigilant? Why aren’t we talking to men about not raping? resources who are trained to help. If there is a true Which we are doing, but that’s a cultural shift,” Wilkins immediate emergency, however, do not hesitate to call said. “So until it shifts we, and not just we women, men 911.” also get raped, have to be vigilant about our surroundings Jordan’s advice is similar to that of most sexual assault and our safety. So, yes, it’s unfortunate that we need to do and domestic violence experts. One of the key pieces of that, but we need to do both.” advice given out when working with victims is to focus It is important to always be looking out and always on the will of the victim. For some it is not about getting practice self-care. Tere are many ways to help or seek justice, but more solely about being able to frst speak help for a sexual assault, but one must be willing and about the incident. ready to do so. If you are interested in helping, local “You can’t tell someone what to do. You can say these organizations are always looking for volunteers. However, are your options and this is what you can do,” Wilkins Linehan warns that the job can be tasking at times, mak- said. “Stepping forward and saying, you know, ‘Can I do ing self-care even more important. something for you? Here are some people you can call. “Ultimately if they’re not good to themselves they GRAPHIC DESIGNED BY CECELIA HECKMAN Do you just want to talk?’ Just being a listening ear for the can’t be good to anybody else and so that’s key,” Linehan victim and trying to fgure out what is going to be their said. “And if there’s a time when staf feel really down Sexual assault awareness month dates all the way best way to get some assistance.” and really blue and just not hopeful, it is my job to assess back to the 1970s, where women frst began Take Back “If you are informed and educated and sensitive and that situation and try to ofer them some guidance and the Night marches, where women began marching open to learning and willing to help somebody, then consultation. Self-care is huge.” in the streets to protest the violence that took place somebody will trust you enough to disclose,” Linehan “I think what motivates me particularly is when I against them at night. Later, men became involved in said. “And it’s a true privilege.” see hope. When I see individuals who heal, when I see these marches and protests as well. These Take Back While it may seem like an obvious point to some, it is individuals start to smile, who start to fnd diferent ways the Night marches even today continue to happen each important to avoid blaming the victim for the situation if to cope, who end up learning their new normal,” Linehan year. they come forward to talk about their victimization. How- said. “Every single person that calls our ofce or comes in The marches are just one example of public protest ever, in society it has almost become normal to frst point here, even if it’s at their worst during their time of crisis, against sexual assault across the world, but possibly to what the victim was doing to rationalize the attack. they made it. Tey survived. And it’s the most courageous even more important is the personal battle with sexual “We have a habit of, for sexual assault, blaming the step to pick up the phone and say, ‘I need help’ or to walk assault. This again is where education becomes highly victim. Well why was she dressed that way? Why was into this ofce. Everybody could choose to pull up and important, not only for the sake of the victims but for she in that neighborhood at that time of night? Why decide I’m turning right around. But they walk through those people who become confdants. was she drinking?” Wilkins said. “None of these things these doors and that gives me hope. It truly does.” “That is a really crucial point, when someone choos- are things that go here’s my sign saying please come es to disclose to someone,” Linehan said. “That is so attack me and touch me and feel me and do things to courageous and so the person who’s on the other end of me that I think are highly disgusting and frightening. [email protected] it, it can be very overwhelming. And so it’s helpful to be Please come and do these things. But, we’ll ask those THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2017 NEWS THELOQUITUR.COM | 5 Cabrini communication department slows down tech usage in the classroom BY JOHN WILLIAMS an old question back to the forefront: is multi-tasking Sports Editor possible? “Absolutely, but I think it depends on the person,” Dr. Coming into the spring semester, Cabrini University’s Sara Maggitti, director of counseling and psychological communication students were taken for a bit of a surprise services at Cabrini, said. to start their opening classes in their major. “Tere are people who in fact need to tune out all When they sat down in their seats on that very frst stimulation in order to focus, so they need a distrac- day of the semester, their communication professors told tion-free environment to study, yet there are also people them during their syllabus breakdown that they would no who fnd that extremely difcult to function and so to longer be permitted or allowed to use their computers or them having zero stimulation almost becomes the dis- cell phones during class time, unless instructed other- traction,” Maggitti said. wise. Maggitti, a licensed psychologist, believes that due to “[Te communication professors] had a meeting at the the amount of data thrown at millennials, they are much end of the fall semester and we were just saying how bad more likely to be able to multi task than those of older grades were in the fall, they just seemed worse than ever,” generations. Dr. Jerry Zurek, chair of the communication department “For [millennials], you guys have grown up in this at Cabrini, said. world where your brains are wired very diferently than In a report published in 2012 called Computers & mine and certainly even older generations because you Education, studies found that using sites such as Face- have grown up in this world where you have already been book and texting while doing schoolwork negatively fooded with tons of information that’s coming at you afected the overall GPA of the group of over 1,800 college very fast and your brains are able to process multiple GRAPHIC DESIGNED BY KELLY BUSH AND EMMA RODNER TIMS students ranging from the ages of 18 to 22. pieces of information at the same time. [Older genera- “If it’s music on in the background, I love it, but al- An additional study found that, when heavy media tions’] brains are basically wired a diferent way,” Maggitti though it’s popular now to have multiple screens, I found multitaskers were compared to light media multitaskers, said. it not to be something that I can deal with, but some peo- there was a huge diference in productivity. Heavy media According to an online questionnaire that was taken ple can,” Dempsey said. “It really depends on the project, multitaskers were on average 77 milliseconds slower than by 1,319 Americans spanning three generations, mem- if i’m trying to be creative or trying to design something a light media multitaskers when intentionally distracting bers of ‘Net Generation’ multitasked more than members lot of times I want quite. If i am doing some routine stuf, elements were added to the experiment, according to the of ‘Generation X,’ and more Gen X’s multitasked than I generally switch between the two.” report. members of the ‘Baby Boomer,’ which goes to prove When asked about the early returns of the new policy, Te professors of the department all had diferent Maggitti’s point. Zurek noted that, so far so good. rules and regulations for technology in the classroom So while some may fnd having the television on in “Journalism is a core course for communication ma- written in their syllabuses in the past. Te department the background or playing their favorite music play in the jors across the country. If you take two years of journal- fgured having one universal language surrounding the background as a distraction, some people actually thrive ism and you and you don’t have good portfolio stories, movement would be the best thing going forward. in those situations. you’re not learning about the laws of the press, you are Tis ironic shift in philosophy in the communication Donald Dempsey, chair of the graphic design depart- not learning about media ethics, you don’t know what’s department–one that thrives on the use of cell phones, ment at Cabrini, can see this phenomenon from both going on in the world, you’re not prepared.” computers and other forms of technology–has brought sides. [email protected] What you eat is not what you think

BY NINA SCHIRMER meat consumption was associated with elevated risk of Staf Writer cardiovascular disease and cancer. Te increased risk of mortality was 13 percent for unprocessed red meat and The agriculture industry is a giant mystery for many 20 percent for processed red meat. that have never taken the time to research how a steak “My family has many health problems and I hate gets to the plate of a consumer. Between the many doc- seeing them take pills everyday to get them through umentaries exposing the industry for its efects on our the day,” Vivian Yau, world traveler living in Scotland, world such as “Cowspiracy,” “Food, Inc” and “Lucent” said. “One of my grandfathers became very sick due the humans continue to contaminate the environment over consumption of meat and had many operations to and themselves by relying on the slaughter of helpless the point where he basically had no liver anymore and animals to feed of of. passed away two years ago.” The agriculture industry as a whole has many neg- The many medications/pills that humans consume ative efects on humans every single day. One of the are because of animal-based foods and how they major efects was discovered in a 2012 study published negatively afect human bodies. It only adds to the list in “Archives of Internal Medicine,” “Red Meat Con- of reasons humans do not need to consume animal GRAPHIC DESIGNED BY HOPE DALUISIO sumption and Mortality.” Tis study was conducted based foods. The types of medications/pills would be over a 22-year period with a pool of 121,342 individuals. Lactaid, Tums, diet pills, Pepto-Bismol, Plavix, Lipitor, lecturer who challenges people to think about why Te study examined how increasing meat consumption Crestor and countless others. they are consuming meat and why it is not worth it. He by one serving size (3 oz. or roughly one small beef The passing of Vivian’s grandfather became a big brings up many strong points such as the fact that hu- patty) a day contributed to earlier death. Te additional motivation for her to stick to being vegan. Veganism mans eat meat for four reasons; tradition, habit, taste daily serving size of red meat resulted in a 12 percent is a dietary lifestyle in which a person decides to not and convenience. Animals can think and feel, are self greater risk overall of an earlier death. Te increased red consume any animal products such as meats, eggs, aware and are not machines. Yourofsky points out how dairy and fsh. According to The Vegetarian Times, 3.2 every advertisement you see regarding food is about percent of U.S. adults, or 7.3 million people, follow a meat and that you never see advertisements for vegeta- vegetarian-based diet. About 0.5 percent, or 1 million, bles. Even on ice cream containers are pictures of cows of those are vegans. and it’s a happy graphic appealing to the consumer There are many reasons people have made the but the consumer is not thinking about the horrors a change. Besides the joys eating healthier, there are single cow endures to the consumer can eat ice cream. many more reasons as to why people choose veganism. Female cows are injected with semen so they can pro- One of those reasons is because of animal cruelty. duce a baby calf and also produce milk until they can’t “After watching Gary Yourofsky’s, “Best Speech You produce anymore. They are not even given the chance Will Ever Hear” on YouTube where he compares ani- to raise their baby calves. A majority are sent of to be mal slaughter to the holocaust, I didn’t want to support eaten as veal. Once they reach this stage they are sent that in anyway,” said Yau. The animals are trapped just of to be slaughtered. like the many innocent people trapped in the concen- CONTINUE READING ONLINE tration camps waiting for the death.” Gary Yourofsky is an animal rights activist and [email protected] PUBLIC DOMAIN PICTURES 6 | THELOQUITUR.COM PERSPECTIVES THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2017 A breakdown between life and academics while studying abroad

BY EMILY CROUSE Audience Development Editor

Amsterdam, Stonehenge, Brussels and ally a whole new world. While studying Bath. Each trip was quite the experience at St. Mary’s University in Twickenham that left me constantly in awe that what I London, I took courses in history, media was experiencing was reality. and psychology. Te classes I took abroad Not only did I make a massive amount helped shape me into a more well-round- of friends that were from England, I also ed person especially because of the style met girls who became my core group of teaching I had to adapt to. Not only did of friends that were also from America the class content and style help me have studying abroad for the semester too. diferent views but so did the opportunity Tese friendships ended up being one of to interact with the local students. the best things I got out of being abroad. In my history class I studied mainly While I was in England I made a con- about the Atlantic world. I enjoyed this scious efort to stay out of my room as class because I felt that I was most inter- much as possible and get myself involved ested in the content, and I got along with with the English students. I was even a the professor. Te professor I had was member of St. Mary’s University’s lacrosse originally from Ireland but spent a lot of EMILY CROUSE/AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT EDITOR team. Being involved in a sports team time in England. Tis made her accent so Emily posing at the Clifs of Moher in Ireland during her study abroad trip. flled with the English kids allowed me unique and pleasantly intriguing to pay to create strong bonds from spending attention to. Fall semester of my junior year of col- London called Twickenham. I decided time together on long bus rides to games, CONTINUE READING ONLINE lege I spent studying abroad in England. to choose London as my home because practice and team events held at bars and I lived on the St. Mary’s University cam- I didn’t want to have a language barrier clubs. pus located in a town a 45 minute train between myself and the locals. I also had Having the opportunity to study [email protected] ride away from the outside of Central the chance to travel to Scotland, Ireland, abroad I was able to open my eyes to liter- Te rainbow fag is not cultural appropriation BY JESSICA FERRARELLI Staf Writer

On March 31, Gilbert Baker, a gay activist and creator of the rainbow fag, died at age 65. On April 2, Bryan Fischer, host of American Family Radio’s Focal Point and anti-gay and anti-Muslim activ- ist, tweeted that the LGBTQ community stole the rain- bow from God and accused them of cultural appropria- tion. Tere is so much meaning behind the rainbow fag, its creation and why it is not “stolen.” Te Rainbow Flag In the 1970s the gay-pride movement was spreading across San Francisco and New York. Baker was asked by friends to create a new symbol to represent the gay com- munity due to his creativity and talent for making ban- ners. Most of the designs at the time included a pink tri- angle which was used as a label for gay men by the Nazi’s during World War II. He believed they needed a fresh, new design that did not hold this dark history. In June of 1978, Baker, with the assistance of voluteers, created the frst rainbow fag by flling trash cans of dye, washing them in public washing machines and sewing them together. It was frst unveiled on June 25, 1978 for the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade. Since then, the fag has been a symbol of equality, peace PTORBAKHOPPER / FLICKR CREATIVE COMMONS and love all over the world. Te rainbow fag has been an important symbol for the LGBT community since 1978. “We needed something beautiful, something from us. Te rainbow is so perfect because it really fts our diver- the rainbow out of disrespect. It seems as if Fischer is to give it back too? Maybe Fischer should speak to the sity in terms of race, gender, ages, all of those things. taking the Bible out of context to ft his own anti-gay candy company about cultural appropriation. Plus, it’s a natural fag—it’s from the sky,” Baker said dur- agenda. It gives him another reason to be angry with Baker took the beauty of the rainbow, added his own ing an interview at the Museum of Modern Art in 2015. people who are not hurting him in any way but that he deep meaning to it and gave it to everyone to enjoy. He Te frst fag had eight colors, each representing a dif- chooses to be angry with. refused to apply for a trademark for his creation. “It was ferent meaning. Pink for sexuality, red for life, orange for his gift to the world,” Cleve Jones, a friend of Baker, said. healing, yellow for sunlight, green for nature, turquoise Tis just showed that there is something wrong with for magic, indigo for serenity and violet represented the world we live in. Someone who is suppose to be rep- spirit. Over time it was changed to six colors, taking out resenting Christianity, morals and God is spreading hate pink and turquoise, but the meanings of each color still while someone who is hated by some for being diferent holds strong. is spreading the message of love and equality. Cultural appropriation To me, cultural appropriation means taking a tradi- tion or symbol that is associated with another culture and using it without understanding the cultural signif- cance or meaning. However, the rainbow is not a symbol JESSICA FERRARELLI/STAFF WRITER for Christianity and was given to all living creatures. American Family Radio host Bryan Fischer called Te Bible verse that Fischer is referring to is Genesis the rainbow fag a type of cultural appropriation. 9:11-17. God created the great food and promised Noah that He would not do it again by creating a rainbow. God created the rainbow for all human beings. Te GUILLAUME PAUMIER / FLICKR CREATIVE COMMONS Te rainbow symbolizes His promise between Him verse did not say He is only giving the rainbow to some Members of the LGBT community wave rainbow fags at and all living creatures. According to the Bible, God did people. Just like the sky, water, fowers and trees belong a rally. create the rainbow but the rainbow is not a symbol of to everyone. Tis is not the only way the rainbow is used. Christianity and the LGBTQ community did not choose Skittles’ slogan is “taste the rainbow.” Should they have [email protected] THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2017 PERSPECTIVES THELOQUITUR.COM | 7

HOPE DALUISIO / VISUAL MANAGING EDITOR Video and photography are Daluisio’s passions. Trough this, she gets to meet all types of people and make them happy with her work. A communication degree grows more than knowledge

BY HOPE DALUISIO college, so naturally I doubted I was not the type to speak to a an end I had already experienced assistant photo editor. Visual Managing Editor myself. total stranger in attempts to be so much more within those Being a staf writer has forced When I fnally made my very friends. two semesters than I had ever me to step outside my comfort When going on my college last minute decision to attend I took that frst step as a experienced in all of my 18 years zone by interviewing all types of tours the summer before my Cabrini I told myself I wanted victory and went on my way to of living in a small suburb of people. Being the least athletic senior year of high school I to step out of my comfort accomplish more. Philadelphia. person ever, I never would have heard fact upon fact about the zone. I wanted to be able to do Soon I got to know Cabrini’s My confdence sky-rocketed. imagined going to a baseball communication department. something extraordinary. communication professors very My professors encouraged me game and interviewing the “Comcast uses our studios My frst step in that journey well as my classes began. to do what I love and they paved baseball coach. once a month!” was joining the communication Being in the communication the pathway for me to achieve But I did so and succeeded “Our newspaper is nationally learning community. When we learning community, I took my dreams. My peers worked because my peers and recognized!” all met at orientation on that hot advantage of the comfort of with me and shared their talents professors believed in me. Most “Everything in our summer day, awkward me tried having the same peers in all of with me so that together we importantly, I believed in me. department is completely to bond with another quiet girl in my communication courses. could produce quality work. CONTINUE READING ONLINE student run!” the group and complained about We all raised each other up and Sophomore year triumphed To say the least, I was all the stairs we had to walk pushed each other to accomplish all, though. Tis year I became a overwhelmed. How can I catch during the tour of the mansion. excellence. With that I fell in love staf writer and video package for [email protected] up to these people? I was a very As minuscule as that sounds, with my major. our newspaper, graphic designer shy and quiet kid before entering that took a lot of courage for me. As my freshmen year came to for our news show and granted Why is disrespect so popular today? BY RAHMERE GRIFFIN I understand that the people participating in this a child could have growing up. Doing this could Assistant News Editor challenge may be a bit older but there are younger kids potentially damage that. Another thing that could cause watching people do these challenges. a big problem is the fact that younger kids would see Lately, it seems like many people are being praised Having challenges like these poses two very big this and think that this is a perfectly ok way to act when for doing the wrong thing as apposed to the right problems. One issue is that this challenge encourages they get older. Tis sets a really negative example on how thing. Tere has been many dangerous challenges that younger kids to actually try this on their own parents. people should treat their parents. have takena over social media with the likes of the fre Doing this strains the relationship between parent and It was mentioned earlier in this article but it really challenge, the cinnamon challenge and now the hell child and that is one of the most important relationships seems that what was once wrong in the world is now challenge.Te hell challenge is going around social right and what was right is now wrong. Take Danielle media and it is challenging people to frst text their Bregoli for example. Much of America knows her as the parents and ask them is hell considered a curse word. “Cash me Ousside” girl. She has gained internet stardom Of course all parents responses would be diferent but from disrespecting her mother. the parents would typically reply with “yes,” “no” or “it At age 13 she appeared on the Dr. Phil show with depends on how you use it.” Ten they would respond her mother. Te two made it on the show because of by using the word “hell” disrespectfully towards their Danielle’s antics of literally fghting her mother, running parents, they would typically type ‘“well why the hell away and stealing credit cards. She casually referred to not,” and other things of that nature. People would the audience as hoes and afterward spewed her famous then post their conversation on social media using the catch phrase, “Cash me ousside, how bow dah?” Tis has hashtag #hellchallenge lead to her gaining tons of fans and supporters. Danielle I think challenges like these are not only dangerous is now set to become a millionaire by the end of the year but it is also very disrespectful. How is disrespecting and even has a reality TV show deal in place. your parents and posting it for everyone to see fun now? CONTINUE READING ONLINE I cannot speak for all families but I believe that it is safe to say that disrespecting your parents and posting it on the internet where everyone can see all in the name BITMOJI of a challenge is unnecessary. I think that the people [email protected] who raised you and gave you everything that you have Memes such as “Cash me Ousside” encourage deserve way more respect than that. disrespect and have become popular on social media. Climate change is real; it starts and stops with us

BY JESSICA TENNETT of carbon and fossil fuels, we are As a country we provide barely properly grow food, or how to Audience Development Editor causing other countries to sufer. enough aid to help these fnd clean drinking water, or how Te countries that sufer the countries manage on their own. to start their own businesses People believe that climate most are the countries that are Tat is the problem, money does then in the end they would be change is not real because it is too poor to stand on their own not solve everything. able to survive on their own. not happening directly to us. two feet. Meaning they are too If someone who is poor is Americans think that money is Why as Americans do we believe poor to make it up the economic handed money they can do one the best solution to helping these that something is fake until it ladder by themselves. Tese poor of two things with the money. poor countries, when in reality happens to us? Is it because we countries struggle on a daily Spend all of it, or question they need us not to hinder them are scared to admit that we are basis, they are unable to grow exactly where they are going with climate change caused by one of the main causes? food, drink clean water, or even to use this money. However us. Unfortunately, the answer is stay alive long enough to make it they invest and hope to make CONTINUE READING ONLINE yes we are. Te United States is to the next day. progress, climate change can one of the leading countries in However, we do not seem to work against what they hope to ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK/FLICKR the world using more carbon and care. We continue to burn fossil do. [email protected] Poor farmers deal with the fossil fuels than we know what to fuels, and turn our back from Although if we as a country efects of climate change. do with. Due to our excessive use providing aid to these countries. assisted them on how to CONTINUE READING ONLINE THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2017 LIFESTYLES 8 | THELOQUITUR.COM Cabrini University will always be a home to the senior class of 2017

KEITH BROWN / SPORTS EDITOR Cabrini University’s seniors prepare for their Commencement ceremony by receiving their cap and gowns in Grace Hall Atrium.

BY EMMA RODNER-TIMS Pi International Honor Society, an orientation leader, a togetherness that I get on a day to day basis - having the News Editor member of CAP Board and LeadStrong. support and resources that I’ve been given on a day to Having Commencement right around the corner, the day basis. Whether it was through my major, the athletics As the school year comes to an end, the Cabrini family seniors are left to wake in their years and memories at department, the living and learning communities, prepares to set the 2017 graduating class of into the Cabrini. admissions or any other ofce on campus - I’ve been world. Te young men and women of tomorrow are going “I’m going to miss all the small moments like enjoying given the sense of that I am never alone and that I’ll to be set free into a world they can seize for their own, the long talks with my friends and roommate in the always have someone rooting for me in my corner,” each and every one of them leaving their unique mark. resident halls and in the classrooms, escaping from my Dietrich said. On May 21, 2017, the young men and women that reality and going to the library to do some homework, “I think I’m ready to graduate but not give up the were once Cabrini students will turn into Cabrini alumni. planning events with DAPI (Delta Alpha Pi International college experience just yet,” Roda said. “I just can’t With the graduation of the seniors, the world will gain Honor Society) or CAP Board,” Marinelli said. “I’m going believe four years went by so quickly.” some of the greatest people a university has to ofer and to miss the warm, sunny days to the cold dark nights No matter where the seniors go Cabrini will always be Cabrini will lose the teens that have grown into adults on where I just got walk around this beautiful campus.” a place they can call home. its campus. Senior Amber Dietrich said, “I have been ready to be “I feel that every memory (yes, every memory big “On the early morning of May 21 at commencement, I fnished with school, as it has been so crazy and hectic and small and even the memories that put a huge smile will be enjoying every moment, every second of this huge but as the days go on, I am starting to have a true feeling on my face to the moments where I just wanted to yell accomplishment of my life,” senior educational studies of sadness with the idea that ‘the best four years of my at the top of my lungs.) Each memory that I’ve spent on major Jena Marinelli said. life’ are over - it’s a bittersweet feeling being able to start the campus will always have a special place in my heart,” Jena Marinelli is a senior who has made the most of a new chapter of my life but sad to be able to close such a Marinelli said. her time at Cabrini. She is a member of the Delta Alpha great one.” Dietrich is a student ambassador and a four-yer [email protected] softball player. Not all of the graduating seniors will be leaving Cabrini in their rear-view mirrors. Senior Ben Roda will be returning as a student in the Cabrini’s master program. “I’m excited but also nervous to start the Master of Accounting Program at Cabrini,” Roda said. “But, being in the program will let me be on the soccer team for another season. so, that;s something I can look forward to.” Dietrich also plans to continue her education, after graduation. “After commencement, I’m going to graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania to study Nonproft Leadership with a certifcate in Higher Education with the possibility of having a full-time job. I’m still in the fnal interview process,” Dietrich said. Marinelli has a summer job lined up for her entrance into the “real world.” “I happy to announce that although it only a summer job, it’s still a job and opportunity for me to get my foot in the working world,” Marinelli said. “I’ll be working at Marple Newtown School District in the ESY Program as working as an Autistic Support/Life Skills, and hopefully, this will lead into a full time in the fall!” No matter what the seniors have planned post- graduation, they are driven with bright futures. “I would love to see my internship wit Grant Torton turn into a full-time job,” Roda said. PHOTO PROVIDED BY CABRINI UNIVERSITY Cabrini has been their home for the past four years PHOTO PROVIDED BY CABRINI UNIVERSITY Te class of 2017 commencement will be on May 21, and the current seniors are sad to say goodbye. Tis will be Donald Taylor’s third commencement 2017. “I’m going to miss the sense of community and service. 8 | THELOQUITUR.COM THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2017 LIFESTYLES 9 | THELOQUITUR.COM The next step: Life after graduation BY EMILY CROUSE Audience Development Editor

“While in college I experienced so many highs and lows that I didn’t think I’d ever get through,” senior Alyssa Sonn said. “But I’m most proud of how far I’ve come mentally since my freshman year.” “I feel most accomplished about fnishing school,” senior Megan Barlow said. “I never saw college as an option for me and now I’m about to graduate with a full-time job. It’s a great feeling.” As the spring semester is PEXELS/PIXABAY coming to an end, the seniors Graduation day is only a short step away for Cabrini University’s seniors. are starting to feel the reality of their future. For some Cabrini school,” senior Sasha Wozniak Wozniak said. “I’m excited to doing homework.” graduate,” Fichter said. students, they see themselves said. “I’m super excited to start put my four years of knowledge “I’m going to miss staying up “I’m excited to start the next heading of to grad school while making money and becoming to work but I am sad to leave the until the sun rises with my best chapter of my life but I’m going others are ready to take on the independent.” college atmosphere.” friends talking about our future,” to miss the little things college workforce. “I do have a job lined up For each student, they have Sonn said. “I’ll defnitely miss all has to ofer, especially playing “Graduating is bittersweet, and it’s at the company I’m diferent memories and reasons of the memories that I’ve made lacrosse,” Barlow said. I’m excited to be fnished but interning with at the moment why they will miss the college and the experiences at Cabrini “I defnitely plan on visiting I don’t think I’m ready to be in called GeoBlue which is an life. It can be the relationships that a lot of other people would Portugal and meeting some of the real world,” senior Shannon international health insurance with professors, the opportunity never think of doing.” my family members,” Sonn said. Fichter said. “I plan on attending company,” Barlow said. to learn something new every With their newfound freedom, “I’m looking forward to learning graduate school for a Master of Tere are so many feelings day or even being a part of a some students plan on taking the more about myself and exploring Arts in clinical and counseling that the soon to be alum are sports team. time to explore the world and more options outside of college.” psychology.” feeling during the countdown to “I am defnitely going to take opportunities they couldn’t “I am currently still looking graduation. miss being a student-athlete the while in school. [email protected] for a job but I am not going “Tere are many mixed most,” Wozniak said. “I won’t “My family and I are planning to grad school right out of emotions about graduation,” miss the late nights of staying up on going to Europe once I Farewell to Cabrini’s class of 2017 BY HAYLEY CURTISS student’s last semesters can be exhilarating but also “My advice to underclassmen is to never give up, make Staf Writer worrisome. It will be liberating but the fear of the “real sure that you love what you do forever, and enjoy every world” is right around the corner. minute of college while it lasts because before you know Ah, graduation. An exciting and bittersweet time in “I am currently at a stage where I am in between it, it will be gone,” said Tretola. every college student’s life. excited and nervous for the ‘real world,’ after graduation, People think the main part of college is to prepare for It represents four long years of hard work, tears, laughs so I have plenty going through my mind,” said Natalie something called the “real world.” and friendships that will last a lifetime. In the moment, Tretola, an early education and special education major. However, we are in the real world and we may not college may seem stressful and overwhelming but it is “Of course, I cannot wait to have my own classroom as even realize it. Tis is now. Life has started and it is up important to enjoy it while it lasts because time has a way a teacher and do big things in the ‘real world’ but at the to us to make the most out of everyday because we will of passing us when we do not realize. same time I am defnitely going to miss being a college never know when it will be our last. Carpe Diem cavaliers! “It has not really hit me yet, it does not feel real. All I student, which were the best years of my life so far.” “Don’t be afraid to get involved! College is fun, but can think about is what my life will be like next year. I will In the fnal semester of college, there are feelings of getting involved and meeting new people created some hopefully have a full time job and be living back home denial and disbelief when you think ‘how did I get this of the best memories that I will take with me,” Manning which, will be a weird adjustment,” said Cortney Hanson, far and accomplish so many things in a short period said. “Being at Cabrini has taught me many life lessons. an early education and special education major. “Part of of time?’ It is important to feel proud of all of those One of the most important is learning to love myself for me is ready to be done and start my future as a teacher accomplishments, big or small, because it was you who who I am.” but the other half of me still wants to be at Cabrini chose to better yourself, educate yourself, and create a College graduation is one of those days that will hold a because it feels like home. I’m not ready to leave the team life for yourself. special place in many hearts for a longtime. and end my season of dance.” “It hasn’t really hit me yet. I don’t think it will hit me For many college students, graduation means fnally until fnals week when I have to pack up my room for [email protected] gaining full independence and looking for jobs that there the last time,” Bryanna Manning, a senior English and degree is in. Te anticipation towards graduation in many secondary education major, said.

GRAPHIC DESIGNED BY HOPE DALUISIO Te graduates of 2017 will leave college prepared to enter the world and embark on a new journey. 10 | THELOQUITUR.COM LIFESTYLES THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2017 Omigod you guys! ‘Legally Blonde’ review BY ERIC STONE begins to make the best of the Lifestyles Editor opportunities given to her and fnds love in someone else along Legally Blonde: Te Musical the way. was flled with big, fashy What really stuck out in numbers, dozens of costume Cabrini University’s “Legally changes and a whole lot of Blonde” was just how pink. It is certainly a large-scale charismatic and charming the production and one that requires actors were in their roles. Saying specifc attention to detail and a that Witherow did superbly in decent amount of actors. her role as Elle Woods is entirely Cabrini University’s theater an understatement. department took on that Clay Anders, a junior challenge and performed marketing major, was quite fond “Legally Blonde” for their of many of the performances in spring musical production. the musical. Legally Blonde frst opened at “Everyone was perfectly cast,” the Golden Gate Teatre, San Anders said. “Tere wasn’t a Francisco in 2007, with music single person that felt out-of- PHOTO BY THERESA PAESANI. and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe character.” Te cast and crew of ‘Legally blonde’ had a blast performing. and Nell Benjamin and book by Aside from Witherow’s star Heather Hach. performance, other characters to see her sister Annie Gorski Te lighting and sound of setback. Te musical centers around that stood out especially were the perform as Pilar in the musical, the production, orchestrated by “Te cast clearly put a lot of Elle Woods (Jackie Witherow), roles of Emmett (Johnny Myers), praised Cabrini’s production. sophomore Hope Daluisio and hard work in this production,” a perky and delightful sorority Paulette (Samantha Murray) “I have to say it’s probably junior Luke Alonso respectively, Weaver said. “It would just girl, as she embarks on a journey and Woods’ sorority friends one of the best, if not the best were both impeccable. Daluisio be silly if you missed your to Harvard Law School in order Pilar, Margot and Serena (Annie experience I’ve had seeing a and Alonso are the true hidden opportunity to go see our to win back the love of her life. Gorski, Jay Cattani and Alyssa musical,” Gorski said. “You could gems of the theater and their school’s production of Legally While she is at Harvard Law Massarella). tell the cast believed every word work on the show deserves the Blonde. School, Elle (Jackie Witherow) Stephanie Gorski, who came they sang or spoke and every utmost recognition. “If it wasn’t already sold out, move was made with purpose.” Junior marketing major, I’d tell people ‘get of your lazy Te design and set were Brandon Weaver, reacted butt and go have some fun with terrifc as well. Te colors, positively to the design and Elle and her friends!’,” Gorski costumes, creative set pieces sound of the production. said. and general attention to detail “Te choreography was on Final Grade: A (Legally are what truly helped piece the point and the audio sounded Blonde was masterful; a musical entire show together. masterful,” Weaver said. that will leave you saying Deb Clair, the costume I would certainly recommend “ohmigod.”) designer, created many of the this to anyone who has a general beautiful looking costumes for interest in musicals. My only [email protected] the musical. Tere are several nitpick is that the demographic costume changes during the is certainly leaning more towards show yet none of the costumes the female crowd but there are PHOTO BY THERESA PAESANI. feel as though they are less enough catchy songs and witty Cabrini University’s Legally Blonde’ was a smash hit. authentic than the last one. lines to distract from that minor ‘Jurassic World: The Exhibition’ features dinosaurs at Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute BY LAURA SANSOM Tere are diferent sections of the Jurassic World.” Perspectives Editor exhibit, simulating diferent parts Te exhibit is very popular and has of a theme park. Tese include the attracted many visitors in its run so far. With less than a month left at the “Gentle Giants Petting Zoo,” a science “On slow days like weekdays, we get 50 Franklin Institute, Jurassic World: Te lab containing props from the actual people an hour,” Stormy, a greeter at the Exhibition will run through April 23. movie as well as a design-your-own exhibit, said. “On the weekends, it’s Te exhibit allows visitors to be dinosaur station and two dinosaur shows. about 300 people. immersed in the park of Jurassic World Te dinosaur shows, one featuring a To deal with the from even before the moment they enter. velociraptor and the other featuring a amount of visitors, Te frst thing visitors do is take a picture tyrannosaurus rex (and the infamous employees use pretending to escape from a dinosaur. jeep), are pretty realistic, which is actually crowd control Ten, while they wait to enter the exhibit, fairly scary. methods such as visitors stand in a room with tv-screen After exiting the exhibit, visitors can timers and only letting a few people “windows” and watch a video explaining visit the exhibit’s shop which contains in at a time. the background of the park and that they both exhibit-exclusive and general Te exhibition is open are on a ferry on its way there now. movie merchandise, as well as dinosaur during daytime hours Visitors then step inside the gates memorabilia. Ten, they can look at the from 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. of the “park.” Tey are greeted by pictures they took before entering the Admission costs $33.95 for animatronic dinosaurs and leafy plants. exhibit. adults and $29.95 for children during Te exhibit is very in-detail and features a Even for people who do not consider daytime hours, and includes general lot of scenery and many animatronics to themselves huge Jurassic World fans, the museum admission. It is also open for really give visitors the feeling of walking exhibit is still fun. evening hours from 5 p.m. - 7.pm. with through a dinosaur-flled theme park. “I did like it,” visitor Micole Galli said. tickets costing $19.95 and $14.95 for Tere are also science facts throughout “My favorite part was the t-rex show. It children. Evening admission does not the exhibit, displayed as “fun facts” was very realistic. include general admission, and is just for on displays or said in videos of “park However, the exhibit is especially the exhibit. rangers.” Te exhibit includes real thrilling to fans of the Jurassic Park and dinosaur bones, one of which could be Jurassic World movies. touched, and a part where visitors can “Te exhibit was great,” visitor Josh compare their heights and foot sizes to Cepeda said. “It’s a great way to geek out [email protected] those of dinosaurs. to your favorite movie moments from THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2017 LIFESTYLES THELOQUITUR.COM | 11 Switching from roommates to colleagues

year I had on campus living a diferent light.” here,” John said. “Living with Now, the two have spent my four best friends was a great the past three months working experience and that memory in very closely together and have itself is a good one.” found that they are now even After their year of living closer than when they were together, John graduated from roommates. Cabrini and Justin began his “I would consider him like a senior year. Te two stayed close best friend at this point,” Justin because John continued to work said. “We were always very close on campus and stay close with but now I think it’s a lot closer.” their mutual friends. However, Te two both agreed that their true friendship rekindling their working together has did not take place until about not only been benefcial to four months ago. their friendship but also to the “About three and a half, four university. months ago, to assist me and the “I get to work with my best college with recruiting transfer friend and work the transfer students as an institutional process really well. If I need priority, we were able to hire a something from him he’s right transfer counselor,” John said. there with it and vice versa,” “I thought he’d be a good ft John said. “I think we’ve already and Shannon Zottola, assistant seen the transfers numbers ANGELINA MILLER/EDITOR-IN-CHIEF vice president for enrollment, spike. Right now we are ahead John Solewin (right) and Justin Siller (left) are happy to be co-workers in Cabrini’s Admissions Ofce. thought he was a good ft as of where we were last year with well, and three months later he enrolling transfer students into BY CECELIA HECKMAN transfer admissions counselor. defnitely is a really good ft.” the university so I think we’re Editor in Chief Unlike many employees, “He had told me about this Justin was not only excited to already seeing the benefts of Justin has known one of his job and I was actually really get into the world of admissions having two transfer counselors.” It is Monday morning and supervisors pretty personally interested because I used to be a but also excited to see his friend “Just having that personal Justin Sillner’s alarm goes of. for a few years before getting student ambassador,” Justin said. in a new light in this leadership friendship I think really helps After a fun weekend with friends, the opportunity to work for him. “And so I said, ‘Yeah that’d be role. because I know how he works many employees struggle with Justin and John Solewin, now great’ and he told me, ‘You know, “Just like being interviewed by and how he doesn’t,” Justin the thought of going back to colleagues in Cabrini University’s I would be like your boss’ and I him was kind of surreal,” Justin said. “Like he just had me look work- but not Justin. Admissions ofce, were also was like that’s great.” said. “‘Cause you know you take at an email, I’m very good at On his way to work, he stops roommates when they both Te two frst met at Cabrini your friends seriously but you’re that kind of aspect of it, and he’s for cofee. Besides picking up attended the school. when taking a journalism also like ‘Oh he’s my friend.’ better at talking with people his own order, he grabs an extra John, just one year older course together during Justin’s But seeing him in his element and kind of relaying a point one. Instead of the usual plain than Justin, is currently the sophomore and John’s junior being an associate director in better than I would be. So, as a cofee with cream and sugar associate director of admissions year. Te following year, the admissions and having that team, I think we work very well from Dunkin’ Donuts, he decides at Cabrini, working specifcally two moved into a suite in West respect for him and seeing him together because we play of to stop at Starbucks to get his with incoming transfer students. Residence Hall together and really talk to me as like someone of each other’s strengths and colleague the caramel macchiato Justin began this past year in grew even closer. outside of a friendship, I thought weaknesses.” he loves. a new position in the ofce, “It was defnitely the best that was really cool to see him in [email protected] Snapchat flters: Fun or deceiving? BY NINA SCHIRMER because I am able to be more To make using an active shape Staf Writer creative when taking Snapchats,” model, a model of a face that has Melanie Reeves, sophomore at manually marked the faces of On Sept. 15, 2015, Snapchat Cabrini, said. “It is a lot more hundreds of sample images. Te users were introduced to fun to have cute and funny algorithm takes an average face Snapchat face flters. Tis new flters when taking pictures with from the data and aligns it from concept took the world by storm friends.” the image with your phone’s and added a lot more fun and Every once in a while the camera. Dots are traced around silliness to the world of social flters will change and which your face and adjusted to match media. Te addition of aesthetic allows users to constantly be your facial features. Tose dots fower clowns to selfes, turning engaged in the app. create coordinates around your faces into puppies or even “I think Snapchat flters give face which then create a mesh freakier additions of changing people diferent ways to express which is a 3-D mask that moves faces into zombies, users quickly themselves,” Taylor McCologan, along with your face which became captivated with the sophomore at Cabrini, said. “Te allows the flters to change your update. Snapchat is constantly flters give of a comedic vibe face and move with you. adding new and diferent and let’s people have more fun To go along with all the fun, flters to the app, keeping users when sending Snapchats to each there are of course conspiracies captivated and continuing to other.” theories to add to the sketchiness enjoy the app. As fun as the face morphing of the face scannings. Te “My favorite flter that flters may be, there is a lot of theory is that every time your Snapchat has ever had was work that goes on behind the face gets scanned by Snapchat, the Harry Potter flter where it scenes to allow this feature to it is actually going to the F.B.I. HOPE DALUISIO/VISUAL MANAGING EDITOR turned you into Harry Potter and exist. Te technology frst came Te F.B.I already has facial Snapchat users can scan each others snapcodes to add each other it rained letters from Hogwarts,” from a Ukrainian startup called recognition for anyone who has on Snapchat. Joe Berardi, sophomore at Looksery that Snapchat bought ever committed a crime so they Cabrini University, said. “My for $150 million. Te app uses can easily track them down if users to even delete the app. It friend and I had a really fun time computer vision which is the they needed to. Since the F.B.I still remains a mystery to many making funny videos with that same thing that allows you to needed a way to scan the faces users who continue to use the flter.” deposit checks with your phone, of everyone that is when they app, unphased by the facial Snapchat flters can allow how other applications can turned to Snapchat. Tis is only recognition additions. users to be more creative and determine who’s face belongs to a theory and is not facts but it enjoy the app more. who and even how self driving has left Snapchat users curious [email protected] “I like Snapchat flters cars do not hit things. and concerned causing some THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2017 LIFESTYLES THELOQUITUR.COM | 12 Cabrini student makes a difference in Nicaragua

PHOTO SUBMITTED BY SAMANTHA PENECALE Samantha along with a group of service members outside with Nicaraguan woman.

BY EMILY ROWAN didn’t understand in a real experienced way,” Margaret “She wanted to go back immediately,” Runyen said. Photo Editor Rakus, professor of communication who studies cultural Penecale has now visited Nicaragua on three experiences among college aged students, said. “So you occasions over the course of her time at Cabrini and she Samantha Penecale had never been on a missions trip might have understood it in a – ‘you read about it, you has a fourth trip planned for this upcoming summer. before her time at Cabrini and did not really know what might have seen some videos about it, you might have “I’m going back again to see my friends,” she said. “It to expect when she signed up to attend a service trip to even been moved in some ways’ but nothing compares to sort of has become a home away from home for me. I Nicaragua. experiential learning.” have a lot of friends who are natives who I cannot wait to She decided to venture to a third-world country in Te bonds Penecale made and hands-on service see.” hopes of making a diference and that is exactly what she learning that she experienced with Amigos for Christ Visiting Nicaragua has not only inspired Penecale wound up doing. were so extraordinary that frst time she went to and helped her to see the world in a new light but it also A short-term mission (STM) is often defned as the Nicaragua that she decided her frst trip would not be her helped to restore her faith in God, something she will mobilization of a Christian missionary for a short period last. forever be grateful for. of time ranging from days to a year. Joe Fiore, junior exercise science and health “I am going back because I feel like it’s where God According to barna.com, research found that only 9 promotion major, had the privilege of going to Nicaragua has lead me,” Penecale said. “I wasn’t really practicing percent of Americans have ever been on a short-term for the past two summers along with Sam. my faith and then I got down there and you see God missions trip. During one of their summer visits they helped dig shine through everyone in everything they do down in Penecale is a part of that 9 percent. She is a junior, areas to put in pipes so the community they were Nicaragua.” early education major pre-k to four with special working in could have running water and more modern Penecale’s missions trip experience with Amigos for education pre-k to eight. Her background in teaching has bathrooms. Tey also helped to build a much-needed Christ has changed her life for the better from rekindling inspired her to want to lend a helping hand to as many school in the area. her relationship with God to meeting friends that will last people as she possibly can. While there, “all of the Nicaraguan children focked to a lifetime. Before her frst trip to Nicaragua, Penecale was Sam,” Fiore said. “I think that defnitely says something According to barna.com those who go on missions nervous but once she got there she felt almost at home. about her as a person.” trips most commonly consider them to be “life- During the week she got the opportunity to make lasting While in Nicaragua, Penecale grew to love a three- changing.” bonds with the people she encountered there. She year-old boy named Gabriel. He showed her how he picks After a mission trip people typically respond that recalled how those in the community there were all mangos and they would have lunches together every day they, “have become more aware of other people’s so welcoming and grateful for the help that was being at noon. His grandmother spent one afternoon making struggles, learned more about poverty, justice or the provided to them. her a home cooked meal after she spent a few days eating world, deepened their faith and boosted their fnancial Penecale partnered with Amigos for Christ for her peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. generosity.” missions trip a nonproft organization which was “Going on these trips, the experience of it makes it a Because many people understand the benefts of founded in 1999. Since then, it has grown from a small person,” Rakus, said. “So all the students come back and mission trips especially in early adulthood, most colleges youth-group-based mission to one that now includes they have met at least one person or they played with a and universities ofer ways to get involved with service thousands of volunteers and works alongside over 150 child and that connection – you can’t beat that. Reading based learning or study abroad experiences to expand communities. 15 books is not going to equal that kind of connection, it’s cultural competence. Amigos for Christ has an ultimate vision and goal sort of a diferent kind of knowledge [gained].” CONTINUE READING ONLINE to “be a model community development organization Te bond Penecale wound up making with Gabriel is that facilitates water, health, education, economic, and one that has left a lasting impact on her life. [email protected] infrastructure improvements in rural Nicaragua.” “Te second year we went, Sam wanted to make it “You’re going on a one week missions trip, what a point to see Gabriel and his family, even though we that really lets you do is to open your eyes to things you weren’t working in his community,” Fiore said. “Gabriel and his uncle walked miles to fnd Sam and that just shows the impact she had on them.” Penecale still keeps in touch and gets calls from Gabriel and his family back in Nicaragua which always brightens her day. “Te trip made me realize there are still good people in the world and that life does not always have to be so crazy,” Penecale said. Junior Brittany Runyen, one of Penecale’s close teammates from the Cabrini soccer team, went to Nicaragua with her in the summer of 2015. “Te experience was incredible,” Runyen said. “Everyone takes away something diferent from that kind of trip and I could really see the efect that it had on Sam.” PHOTO SUBMITTED BY SAMANTHA PENECALE Runyen noted how much Penecale loved the culture PHOTO SUBMITTED BY SAMANTHA PENECALE Samantha hanging out with children in Nicaragua. and lifestyle in Nicaragua Samantha had a life changing experience in Nicaragua. THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2017 SPORTS THELOQUITUR.COM | 13 No pain no gain: Looking back at the 2016-17 basketball season

BY KELLY BUSH with each other,” Monroe said. News Editor Tis past season was another rough one for the Cav’s, coming up short in a For athletes that are in their of-season, heartbreaking thriller against Gwynedd relaxing and catching up on school Mercy University in a semi-fnal CSAC work can be what occupies most of their tournament game 73-71. Te Cavaliers time. For number fve of Cabrini men’s fnished the season 19-8 overall with a basketball team, there is no of-season. 15-3 CSAC conference record. Tis of- “I’m usually in class or hitting the gym season there are things Monroe would to put in extra work during the of season,” like to improve and there are still holes rising senior forward, Tyheim Monroe, that need to be flled. said. Monroe has been playing basketball Being a lead scorer is tough, but it is an since he was six years old and it means honor because Monroe’s main focus is to the world to him. contribute the best way possible for his “Many folks think that because I play team to win. division III basketball that it’s just a hobby “For the future I hope my accolades of mine,” Monroe said. allows me the chance to get a shot to play As a junior, Monroe felt as though he KELLY BUSH/ NEWS EDITOR professional basketball,” Monroe said. increased his ability to be more mobile, Tyheim Monroe set a school record for career double-doubles. Tis past season saw many ups which helped him a lot on footwork, and downs, but the biggest takeaway strength and speed. Monroe’s knowledge points, 15.3 rebounds, and 2.6 assists, to States Athletic Conference), ECAC was being able to make it to the NCAA of the game increased as the season went 21.8 points, 15.8 rebounds, and 2.5 assists (Eastern Colonial Athletic Conference), tournament. At the tournament, the Cav’s on. per game. He also improved dramatically Hero Sports and City of Basketball Love. were given the chance to experience a “He has continued to work really hard as a marksmen from three-point range, Monroe is leading scorer in CSAC and new feeling and expectation for next year. and improve his overall skill sets on the going from shooting 20 percent outside to leading rebounder and double doubles in foor,” head coach Tim McDonald said. 42 percent. the country. “I believe from freshman year I Everyday Monroe balances putting Monroe believes his work ethic helped CONTINUE READING ONLINE averaged about 12 points a game and the same amount of efort in between him achieve this, of course along with his sophomore year I averaged 18 to junior both school work and basketball. Monroe teammates support. year around 21 points a game,” Monroe received numerous number of weekly “My teammates are good people on said. awards throughout the season. In the and of the court I grew close to a lot of [email protected] Starting in all 27 of Cabrini’s games, Cav’s post season, Monroe was awarded them where they became family to me, Monroe upped his averages of 18.4 player of the year for the CSAC (Colonial which allow us all to connect on the court

Cabrini tennis player continues to play despite a myriad of health problems

BY JOHN WILLIAMS a bit apprehensive to get back a test where the subject is asked could see that something was Sports Editor on the court after the leg injury. to go to sleep so his or her sleep wrong,” Mike Tollok, Douglass’ It took her a year and a half patterns can be tested. boyfriend, said. “She would until she was on the campus One of the tell-tale signs of space out a little bit. If we were of then Cabrini College when narcolepsy is a prolonged REM watching a movie, 30 minutes in, she decided to join the school’s sleep. REM sleep is one of fve she’d be out like a light.” woman’s tennis team in March of stages of sleep that everyone As for how it will afect her 2016. After fve days of practicing goes through every night. Te game, Douglass says as long with her new team, Douglass REM stage is repeated multiple as her symptoms don’t get any sprained her ankle in a non- times throughout the night, but worse--which isn’t a promise tennis incident, keeping her of frst happens within the frst 70- she, or anybody, can make--she the court for the 2016 season. 90 minutes of sleep. REM stands will be able to keep playing. With those factors, coupled for rapid eye movement. REM is Even with the medication, with her ADD and anxiety, thought by many to be the stage she is on for her new-found Douglass was allowed by the where your brain stores memory, diagnosis to add to the laundry University to have a support sets your mood and helps you to list of other health issues she animal on campus. She knows dream. faces on a daily basis, Douglass her dog, Harper, who has helped 25 percent of the average said that all they are is a band- Douglass see some improvement person’s sleep is REM sleep. For aid, a temporary solution for her

PHOTO BY CABRINI ATHLETICS in her anxiety. people with Narcolepsy, upwards disorder. Lexi Douglass prepares for her sophomore season of tennis at Tings were beginning to be of 90 percent of their sleep is “I’m not fxed, and I’m never Cabrini University at practice. on the upswing again, so what REM sleep. going to be fxed,” Douglass said. could go wrong now? After the tests, the doctor “It’s just learning to deal with it.” Aug. 8, 2014 was a life Tis was not the frst time After a successful fall season came back and tell her and her With one more issue added changing day for Lexi Douglass. Douglass had faced adversity in which Douglass was partnered mother the bad news. She was to her list, Douglass must do Douglass, a varsity tennis through injury or health in with senior Katie Muska, diagnosed on the spot with what she has done with the rest player at Lower Cape May her life, let alone in her tennis Douglass is getting set for an narcolepsy with cataplexy. of them, put them to the side to Regional High School, was career. Douglass dealt with equally successful spring season. playing in a challenge match a concussion during her But now with another health against her friend Carolyn sophomore year of high school twist. “I’m not fxed, and I’m never going to be Megonigal during her senior that may have led to another Douglass was diagnosed with year. Megonigal, who was losing problem she had; an eating Narcolepsy this past March. fxed, it’s just learning to deal with it.” at the time, laid a hard hit on disorder. Narcolepsy is a neurological LEXI DOUGLASS the ball. Douglass anticipated Douglass’ tennis team, sleep disorder characterized the ball to bounce to the left, including her coach, was not by chronic, excessive attacks so she began to run over to get supportive of her and her health of drowsiness during the day, “[When we were given the continue to play the game she in position. Te ball had other problems at all. When she went sometimes called excessive news] I could hear my mom’s loves. “I have had to learn new plans, as it had a wicked spin to her coach about the bullying daytime sleepiness. Te attacks heartbreak,” Douglass said. “It ways to do certain things because on it that made it go the other that was going on in the locker can range anywhere from a few was something that, not one of of my past injuries. I’m not as way. While in mid-run, Douglass room at the time, the coach just seconds to a few minutes and her children have but now two of good as I was in high school. I am realized this and tried to go the brushed it of and told her that they can happen multiple times them do.” not the same player, but every other way. if she couldn’t handle it that she a day and can occur almost at Cataplexy is the sudden loss day is a learning experience and I Her right leg gave out from should quit the team. random. of muscle tone and changes of get a little better.” under her as her foot went one Douglass didn’t quit, despite On March 9th, Douglass emotion. Tis could mean she way and her knee went the other. all the adversity. So when she went to Jeferson Sleep Disorder may have a tough time carrying She didn’t know it yet, but she tore her ACL on that sunny Center and met with her sister’s things. She also may be subject CONTINUE READING ONLINE had torn her ACL. August day in 2014, it would only doctor--her sister also has to mood swings. Te tear was so bad, that be right if she bounced back narcolepsy. Tey made her Douglass’ symptoms had her doctor said her ACL almost from that and got back on the undergo some diferent tests been present for a while, which is [email protected] completely disintegrated. court again. including a sleep study. She went how she knew that she needed to Douglass was, admittedly, in and had a polysomnography, get tested in the frst place. “You THELOQUITUR.COM | 14 SPORTS THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2017 Social media is changing the game in sports information

BY JESSICA FERRARELLI Apps range from general sports news to Staf Writer sport- and team-specifc apps. A hockey fan can download the NHL app and the Te score, the highlights, the schedule Philadelphia Flyers app for the sched- and even the live game are now all avail- ule, scores, news, roster, tickets and more. able on a smartphone and social media. During March Madness, for instance, there Social media use has been steadily was an app called NCAA March Madness increasing from 2010 until today. In 2016 Live which allowed individuals to follow there were 2.34 billion social media users their brackets, choose their favorite teams, worldwide and that number is expected learn about the teams, view highlights to increase to 2.67 billion is 2018. In the and even watch live games right on their United States alone there were 207.1 mil- device. lion smartphone users, which is predicted Live streaming is also a popular tread to increase to 236.3 million in 2018. that is taking the sports world by storm. Te increased popularity of social Apps like WatchESPN allow viewers to live media and the smartphone is changing stream the games straight to their phone the way sports fans view and stay updat- so they do not miss a second. Even Twitter ed on their favorite teams. Many believe and Facebook are getting in on the action that the addition of social media and the and allowing fans to watch their favorite HOPE DALUISIO/VISUAL MANAGING EDITOR mobile phone is positive in the sports sports in real-time. As social media continues to evolve, so does the way sports fans recieve their news and world but not everyone agrees. Loquitur Media recently sent out a sur- other media. Sports news is the second most delib- vey asking sports fans if they use their erately sought out topic, followed by busi- smartphone to follow sports. Six of the 11 can eliminate the element of surprise. In highlights can be a challenge for those who ness news, according to Pew Research participants in the Loquitur Media survey 2016, the NCAA bracket was leaked on miss the game and want to watch later. Center. Social media and apps make it said they follow sports at least a little bit. Twitter an hour before it was suppose to Recording a game on television means even easier for individuals to fnd what All six of those individuals said they use be revealed. So when the bracket was of- keeping away from the smartphone and they are looking for because it is all at their their smartphone at least sometimes to cially released there was less excitement social media as much as possible to avoid fngertips. keep up with the games. around it. spoilers. Te score and key events from the Twitter is a popular vehicle for sports “It’s easier to see what’s going on even Though many participants in the game are posted everywhere which makes teams and associations to share informa- when I can’t watch it. I get scores and Loquitur Media survey answered that they it nearly impossible to be surprised when tion. Sports fans are 67 percent more likely updates sent to my phone during a game used their smartphone at least sometimes watching the game on your own time. If to turn to Twitter as a “second screen” so I know what is happening when I’m to keep up with sports some did have dif- notifcations are turned on, social media than non-sports fans. Tey use the plat- not close to a TV or I can actually watch ferent opinions. and sports apps will send updates straight form before, during and after a game. the game from my phone,” one participant “It’s so much harder to have sports to the lock screen. Twitter, like other social media platforms, wrote. debates, like who’s hit the most home-runs Te phone can even be a distraction allows all statistics, scores and highlights Popular apps listed by participants in a season, since everything’s online,” one while attending a sporting event. to be instant and easily available. included ESPN, team apps, Yahoo Fantasy participant wrote. “I think [smartphones] made the expe- Social media is a great vehicle because and social media apps like Facebook and Due to the number of apps out there rience worse. Fans are going to actual it allows for two-way communication. Twitter. and social media accounts information is sporting events and looking at their Fans can see the opinions of others and With the mobile phone and social constantly being shared but it may be too phones more so than the game!” one sur- they are able to interact by sharing, liking media all the information sports fans need much for some. On March 27, ESPN post- vey participant wrote. and commenting, as well as using pop- is available all day, everyday. ed and retweeted 24 times on Twitter and ular hashtags like #MarchMadness and Tough there are numerous reasons both NCAA and NCAA March Madness #BecauseItsTeCup. the smartphone is helping fans, it is not tweeted and retweeted a combined 26 The smartphone makes accessing all great for those who enjoy sports but do times. Following these, plus other sports [email protected] this information even easier. Not only not want to be constantly fed information. accounts, will fll a newsfeed and that are the social media apps available but Having information continuously being could be considered overbearing to some. there are apps specifcally for sports fans. shared on social media and sports apps Receiving up-to-the-second scores and The support systems behind Cabrini’s student-athletes

BY HAYLEY CURTISS head coach of women’s feld hockey and that there is a positive correlation Staf Writer lacrosse teams, said. between parental support and the Sports play a signifcant role in likelihood to progress to professional Having a strong support system is important for the lives of many diferent people. All level.” all athletes. Not only is believing in yourself and your athletes are taught by someone who “My parental support does afect abilities an important part, but the support from your knows how to teach their passion and my playing because without my family goes a long way. Tere is a lot more than just look out for the player’s best interest. parent’s support I would not be able playing on the feld that goes into being an athlete. Coaches become mentors and form a to succeed on and of the playing “I am a very family-oriented guy so my parents played special bond with their players that difer feld. I have been very lucky to have a huge part in my decision to commit here. We sat down from the parent-player relationship. such a great support system from my and found out what the best path for me was,” Steve When playing on a team for many parents who come to all my games Halko senior co-captain of the men’s lacrosse team said. years, players say that they feel like and cheer me on,” Kaite Kucia, According to Educated Sports Parent, when the family their teammates become a part of their sophomore member of women’s feld is supportive, the player is more encouraged to enjoy it extended family. hockey and lacrosse team, said. and develop new “I have been blessed and continue “Te coaching staf had a huge skills. “I think it’s to have young ladies who come from impact because I knew how great important for each very supportive families, who love PHOTO BY GARY R. ELLIOT of a person [head-coach] Jackie of my players to Cabrini University. And they also Steve Halko was named team Neary was and that I wanted to play have someone at understand that being a college athlete captain for his junior and senior under her because she has had such home that they can only enhances your undergraduate seasons. success with both the feld hockey call on good days experience!” Neary said. “My job and lacrosse team.” and bad days. Tey is to get them to play up to their potential and teach Playing sports are an integral piece in many people’s know that myself some life lessons along the way. I have one of the best lives. It gives athletes the chance to escape the pressures and my assistants professions, working with young adults and watching of school and life, so when they are on the court or the are always here for them mature and develop over their four years in college. feld they can zone out and focus on the game. them, but its special We both learn to deal with success and setbacks, and “My parents have always been involved in my lacrosse to have your families along the way create wonderful memories.” Having career so to a point they afect my play. At the college support. Whether parental support for the players opens up a new door level we play an elite style of lacrosse and sometimes you its parents, siblings, of success for them. Tey may be the best player on the have to trust your coaches based on their experience and or grandparents, team, but with a supportive backing, they gain the self- that may contradict what a parent is saying,” Halko said. it just nice to have confdence to keep going and are more encouraging of “My favorite thing is a timeline of events, just getting out someone in your their teammates. According to Believe Perform, a recent there on the feld and getting after it with my friends. corner,” Jackie Neary, study by Mills, Butt, Maynard and Harwood (2012), said PHOTO BY GARY R. ELLIOT that “parents have one of the most important roles in CONTINUE READING ONLINE Jackie Neary plays lacrosse under her mother. academy player development. Coaches even suggested [email protected] THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2017 SPORTS THELOQUITUR.COM | 15

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BY JOHN WILLIAMS “When I laid down I started to get nauseous. Tat trained or not. Sports Editor made me very worried because it came out of nowhere,” A few weeks later, Cooke is feeling like his old self Cooke said. It was very late at night, Cooke recalled, so he again, and while he is in a category with 90 percent Brian Cooke, 20, was playing an intramural game went to bed hoping for the best. of other 5-to-21-year-olds who recovered from their of handball with his friends at Rowan University’s rec Tings did not get any better. concussions in two weeks, there are many examples of center. After nobody volunteered to play goalie to start “Te next day I woke up and I felt horrible, like, this professional athletes whose careers are ruined by similar the game, Cooke answered the call for his team, a team was one of the worst feelings I ever had,” Cooke said. injuries. Look at former NHL player Marc Savard, for full of average non-athletes just trying to have a good “It was all in my head and not the rest of my body, but instance. time. just the light coming through my shades was blinding. On March 7, 2010, Savard, one of the most talented Not even 10 minutes into the contest, the opposing Te headache I had felt like a knife slicing through my scorers in the league in his heyday, took a devastating team blew right past Cooke’s team’s defense and were all brain. [I was] very sensitive to any sound or light,” Cooke blow to the head from former Pittsburgh Penguin alone, 10 feet in front of the net. Cooke noticed that the said. “Te nausea wasn’t there anymore, but the biggest Matt Cooke and was never the same. Despite eforts to player with the handball, a smaller and denser version thing was the mental fogginess, which was like not being come back and play, he was never able to defeat the of a soccer ball as Cooke noted, was gearing up to shoot as sharp and aware of what’s going on around you and it lasting efects of his injury, and couldn’t build enough at the left side of the 6-by-10 net. Cooke looked into the almost felt like for the next few days things were going in momentum to stay in the league. shooter’s eyes, preparing to move to his left to make the slow motion around me.” To this day, Savard still experiences symptoms from save. When he did this, Cooke moved right into the ball, When asked if he ever thought about leaving the game his post-concussion syndrome including memory loss, which ended up being thrown towards his head. after he was hit in the head, Cooke said no. “I think that anxiety and depression. “At frst, I didn’t even feel anything, I guess mixed with is completely due to adrenaline, I literally felt 100 percent Maybe one day, science will fnd a way to prevent or the adrenaline and the embarrassment. Tat’s what I was fne for the rest of the game and, like I said, it wasn’t even even defeat concussions once and for all. worried about at that moment,” Cooke, the junior public till a few hours later that I felt a little weird so no I never “I think the reality is that technology can help us solve relations major, said. After he was hit, Cooke proceeded thought about it,” Cooke said. certain aspects of the issue,” NFL Commissioner Rodger to keep playing, as he picked the ball right up and threw According to a report by the Institute of Medicine Goodell said in an interview printed by the Wall Street it to one of his teammates. “I played the rest of the game and the National Research Council, there is a “culture Journal “I think [there are] cultural issues of being more and felt fne,” Cooke said. of resistance” when it comes to reporting concussions aware of these injuries and what to do to prevent them. When he got back to his apartment a couple hours despite increased knowledge about the injury. Te report Technology can prevent some. We need technology later and tried to go to bed, Cooke realized that he had a was written by a committee of academic medical experts to help us in the diagnosis, so we can diagnose these really bad headache that came out of nowhere. and was based on research of several youth sports with injuries. We need medical research to tell us how to treat “I thought, ‘Could this possibly be from taking that hit athletes with ages spanning fve years of age all the way to it.” earlier?’” 21-years-old. One example of scientifc technology that could help What Cooke started to realize is that he had a An injury like the one Cooke sustained might have fnd a cure is the blood test that some scientists at the concussion. been even more dangerous than one a football player University of Rochester and some of their colleagues According to Current Concepts in Sports-related could sufer since there was not any concussion protocol in Germany have developed. Tis blood test appears Concussions, concussions fall on the mild end of the in place since it was an intramural game. to “reliably” correlate with sports-related concussions, traumatic brain injury (TBI) spectrum, and according to According to Cooke, the referees on the court were according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. the same article, an estimated 1.6 million to 3.8 million just other students, and other than being asked: “are you Te scientists report that a brain protein called S100B concussions occur annually in the United States, many of okay?” Tey really did not do anything but tell him to the same circumstances as Cooke’s. take a breather. Cooke did not know if the referees were CONTINUE READING ONLINE

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BY RYAN BRONG Te game in four more including Brooks But Cabrini’s senior captain SUNY Cortland, who at the Sports Editor opened fourth and fnal goal of the game. Evan Downey put the icing on tame was ranked number 11, with a long Te scoreline read 14-8 with just the cake for the Cavaliers, scoring and are since ranked number Te Game possession under eight minutes left. with four minutes left. fve. Tis loss will not afect the Cabrini men’s lacrosse won for Stevenson. As the rain began to pick up, Te 15-9 victory moves rankings as much, as on paper, it convincingly as the rain fell at But after being Stevenson’s Kyle Karsian got one Cabrini to 11-3 on the season. was a game that Cabrini was not Edith Robb Dixon Field, beating held scoreless, back making the game 14-9. Te Cavs will close out their supposed to win. non-conference rival no. 14 Cabrini charged season with conference games Te other big piece of criteria Stevenson 15-9 on April 21. right down the against Immaculata and that comes in the selection Te ofense was on fre feld and Brooks Gwynedd Mercy. process is strength of schedule. in the game scoring goals in rifed home his Cabrini, outside of the two bad bunches. Cabrini never really frst goal of the What does it mean? losses, has done very well in their gave Stevenson a chance to get day. Te victory comes at a crucial out of conference schedule this into the game, with a wire to wire A goal from time in the Cavaliers season. season. victory. Jordan Krug less In any college sport, a win Te problem comes with Te key matchup was the than a minute later over a ranked opponent is a Cabrini’s conference schedule. Cavaliers holding the Mustangs had the Cavs exactly good thing when it comes time Cabrini, who has not lost a lead scorer, J.T. Telan in check. where they wanted to get selected for the NCAA conference game in almost And the blue and white did just to be early on, with a tournament championship. 17 years, dominates their that holding the sophomore 2-0 lead. When looking at Cabrini’s conference with out any attacker to only two points. Later in the second resume for this season, they’ve resistance. Another matchup to watch quarter, two goals for beaten four diferent ranked In the eyes of a selection was how the Cavalier face of Stevenson brought the opponents. Te most notable committee, this sort of specialists would slow down their game even at four going being an upset versus the dominance over a conference, counterpart, Justin Burnette, who into halftime. number one team in the puts Cabrini’s legitimacy as a came into the game top-20 in After the break the nation, Salisbury. team in question. the nation in faceof percentage Cavaliers came out Other ranked wins include But with the crucial wins over winning right around 70 percent clicking on all cylinders. Ursinus College, Stevenson Salisbury and Stevenson, who of the time. Two goals for the Cavs and Lynchburg College, each were both top-fve teams at one Te trio of Riley Michaels, coming from Brooks and of which by a margin of at point in the season, could prove Zack Gregory and Bobby Gregory less than a minute least fve goals. to be enough to give the Cavs a Cressman stepped up to the task in the third quarter had the Cabrini has sufered good seeding position. well splitting the faceofs evenly Cavs up 6-4. signifcant losses at the Te seeding position with Burnette at 14 wins for each After a goal from hands of Dickinson and determines the difculty of a team. Stevenson’s Kyle D’Onofrio Frostburg State. Both teams teams road to the championship. Sophomore Timmy Brooks led who had three on the day, were unranked when they In the past fve years, except nation’s no. 13 scoring ofense Cabrini rattled of four beat the Cavs, severely for 2015, Cabrini has been with four goals as he was the hot straight goals including damaging Cabrini’s knocked out of the national hand for the Cavs. Brooks added two from Kostack during resume. tournament by a top-fve team. and assist to give him fve points the run making the Te teams other loss With potentially higher on the day. game 10-5. came in a game against seeding this year, Cabrini could Freshman Tyler Kostack After a three- have a chance to avoid the higher followed suit with a hat trick of goal run for the ranked teams, until later in the his own. Kostack added three Mustangs, the tournament. helpers for six points on the day. Cavaliers poured [email protected] SAAC gives student-athletes a voice on campus

BY HOPE DALUISIO “Te SAAC reps are really the advocates throughout the year to kick of the to those expectations. Tey are not only Visual Managing Editor for student athletes on campus. We are a diferent seasons and work closely with recognized within the athletic department voice,” junior soccer player Joe Fiore said. their adviser Jess Huda to come up with as leaders but also all throughout campus. Cabrini’s athletic department allows “We meet once a month and talk about ideas at their monthly meetings. “In two years we went from barely student athletes to be a part of the NCAA concerns that are going on with our teams “Someone will say one idea and it having anyone show up to meetings to Division III Student-Athlete Advisory or ways to get athletes involved with other will turn into ten diferent ideas because having our SAAC not only have a voice Committee, also know as SAAC. SAAC organizations on campus.” everyone is so excited,” sophomore within our athletic department but also allows for student athletes to have Te Division III SAAC mission basketball player Mike Doyle said. “We’re across campus and is being recognized as leadership positions within the athletic statement is to enhance the total all athletes so we’re all competitive, a big leadership group on campus. How department and to have their voices student-athlete experience by promoting everyone wants to have the best idea. ‘Lets can I not love my job?” Huda said. “I get heard on what they want to change or see opportunity for all student-athletes; do this! We should do that! We’ll make it to come in here, work with them, hang out happen within Cabrini’s athletics. protecting student-athlete welfare; and bigger, we’ll do this!’ and when you get six with them, listen to their ideas, support Te student-athletes who are fostering a positive student-athlete image, people like that who all come together it their ideas, watch their ideas come SAAC members are very passionate while maintaining the tenets of the turns into some really special things.” through, it’s awesome.” about Cabrini athletics alongside their Division III philosophy. SAAC is often referred to as the student own individual sport. SAAC members also plan events government of athletics and has lived up [email protected]

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