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YOU SPEAK, WE LISTEN CABRINI COLLEGE Pacemaker Winner Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011 INSIDE Tucson shooting raises gun control issues See PERSPECTIVES, page 6 Top fads 2010 See FEATURES, page 9 Black Swan receives widespread critical acclaim See A&E, page 11 Lady Cavs welcome new recruits for 2010-11 season See SPORTS, page 14 CRS president urges continued aid for Haiti ONE YEAR LATER A year after the devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti last year, many are still living in tent cities across the na- tion. An outbreak of cholera has left the western hemisphere’s poorest nation in an even more desperate situation. Western powers contributed to Haiti’s economic instability By Holly Prendergast Sports Editor Swaziland visitors share story By Kelsey Kastrava Editor in Chief Ssarah luckert / photo editor From left to right: President Dr. Marie Angelella George, Sharon Singleton, Simo Mamba, Dr. Beverly R. Bryde and Dr. Susan Pierson. Few children in Swaziland can stay in school past grade seven. Many children even have to raise themselves because HIV/ AIDS has taken both parents. Two visitors from the im- poverished African country brought their story to the college this week. They are teachers at Cabrini Ministries, an orphanage in Swaziland that serves 120 or- phans. The visit is another step in building a partnership between the college and Cabrini Minis- tries, following the summer visit of some college faculty and pres- ident Marie George. Teachers Sharon Singleton and Simo Mamba have lived their entire lives in a country where 40 percent of the country is infected with HIV/AIDS, the highest percentage in the world. AIDS has left many children of Swaziland orphaned. “Like the saying goes, if you are not infected with AIDS, you are affected, because somebody in your family will have died of AIDS or will have AIDS,” Sin- gleton said. Both Singleton and Mamba are employees of Cabrini Min- istries at St. Philip’s Mission. Two Cabrini sisters, Sr. Barbara Staley and Sr. Diane DalleMolle, MSC, run a hostel for the or- phaned children that provides educational, childcare and health care services. According to Singleton and Mamba, the orphans attend pub- lic school outside of the hostel and continue their education at the hostels after school program. Both the public school teach- ing staff along with the students speaks SiSwati as their first lan- guage and English as their sec- ond. Out of the seven subjects taught in public school, only one is taught in SiSwati. In addition, the literature the PARTNERSHIP, page 3 By Nick Guildin Sports Editor The earthquake of Jan. 12, 2010 was not the only force adding trauma to Hai- ti’s current demise. Countries like the U.S. and France have also played a seri- ous role in its epic downfall. This was the part of the message brought forth by Johanna Berrigan and Bishop Thomas Gumbleton as they spoke to several Engagements in the Common Good classes at Cabrini College. “Haiti has been subject to the destruc- tive forces from outside and that has to change. Then Haiti will have a chance,” Gumbleton, auxiliary Bishop of the Cath- olic Archdiocese of Detriot, said. Berrigan and Gumbleton work directly with the Kay Lasante Project, which is operating in St. Claire’s Parish in Port-au- Prince. Recently, President Bill Clinton pub- licly apologized for forcing Haiti to drop tariffs on imported and subsidized U.S. rice during his time in office. Subsidies were given to U.S. farmers so they could ECONOMIC, page 3 Ken Hackett, president of Catho- lic Relief Services, laid out a plan at a conference at Villanova University on Nov. 8 how aid and development organizations like CRS can work with Haiti for a sustainable future. He stressed that Haiti was a poor country before the earthquake, it will be after the earthquake and it will continue to be in the years to come unless the correct steps are taken to help this nation build to- wards a sustainable future. “When we talk about getting it right in Haiti, we’re not talking about spending a few years clean- ing the place up and leaving behind a prosperous developed country with everyone nicely housed, fully employed and well fed and healthy. That ain’t it. That’s not going to happen,” Hackett said. On Jan. 12, 2010 a catastrophic earthquake struck the country of Haiti just 16 miles from its capital city, Port-au-Prince. It measured 7.0 on the Richter scale, produced at least 52 aftershocks, claimed the lives of more than 250,000 people and left over one million individuals displaced. “The immensity of the destruc- tion, the many, many needs of the people, the total absence of a strong HAITI, page 3 johanna Sberrigan / submitted photo Radnor, Pa. www.theloquitur.com Vol. LII, Issue 14
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Hundreds of thousands of people rallied at the National Mall in
Washington D.C. on Sunday, March 21 in support of comprehensive
Tucson shooting raises gun control issuesSee PERSPECTIVES, page 6
Top fads 2010See FEATURES, page 9
Black Swan receives widespread critical acclaimSee A&E, page 11
Lady Cavs welcome new recruits for 2010-11 seasonSee SPORTS, page 14
CRS president urges continued aid for Haiti
ONE YEAR LATER
A year after the devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti last year, many are still living in tent cities across the na-tion. An outbreak of cholera has left the western hemisphere’s poorest nation in an even more desperate situation.
Western powers contributed to Haiti’s economic instability
By Holly PrendergastSports Editor
Swaziland visitors share storyBy Kelsey KastravaEditor in Chief
Ssarah luckert / photo editor
From left to right: President Dr. Marie Angelella George, Sharon Singleton, Simo Mamba, Dr. Beverly R. Bryde and Dr. Susan Pierson.
Few children in Swaziland can stay in school past grade
seven. Many children even have to raise themselves because HIV/AIDS has taken both parents.
Two visitors from the im-poverished African country brought their story to the college
this week. They are teachers at Cabrini Ministries, an orphanage in Swaziland that serves 120 or-phans.
The visit is another step in building a partnership between the college and Cabrini Minis-tries, following the summer visit of some college faculty and pres-ident Marie George.
Teachers Sharon Singleton and Simo Mamba have lived their entire lives in a country where 40 percent of the country is infected with HIV/AIDS, the highest percentage in the world.
AIDS has left many children of Swaziland orphaned.
“Like the saying goes, if you are not infected with AIDS, you are affected, because somebody in your family will have died of AIDS or will have AIDS,” Sin-gleton said.
Both Singleton and Mamba are employees of Cabrini Min-istries at St. Philip’s Mission. Two Cabrini sisters, Sr. Barbara Staley and Sr. Diane DalleMolle, MSC, run a hostel for the or-phaned children that provides educational, childcare and health care services.
According to Singleton and Mamba, the orphans attend pub-lic school outside of the hostel and continue their education at the hostels after school program.
Both the public school teach-ing staff along with the students speaks SiSwati as their first lan-guage and English as their sec-ond. Out of the seven subjects taught in public school, only one is taught in SiSwati.
In addition, the literature the
PARTNERSHIP, page 3
By Nick GuildinSports Editor
The earthquake of Jan. 12, 2010 was not the only force adding trauma to Hai-ti’s current demise. Countries like the U.S. and France have also played a seri-ous role in its epic downfall.
This was the part of the message
brought forth by Johanna Berrigan and Bishop Thomas Gumbleton as they spoke to several Engagements in the Common Good classes at Cabrini College.
“Haiti has been subject to the destruc-tive forces from outside and that has to change. Then Haiti will have a chance,” Gumbleton, auxiliary Bishop of the Cath-olic Archdiocese of Detriot, said.
Berrigan and Gumbleton work directly
with the Kay Lasante Project, which is operating in St. Claire’s Parish in Port-au- Prince.
Recently, President Bill Clinton pub-licly apologized for forcing Haiti to drop tariffs on imported and subsidized U.S. rice during his time in office. Subsidies were given to U.S. farmers so they could
ECONOMIC, page 3
Ken Hackett, president of Catho-lic Relief Services, laid out a plan at a conference at Villanova University on Nov. 8 how aid and development organizations like CRS can work with Haiti for a sustainable future. He stressed that Haiti was a poor country before the earthquake, it will be after the earthquake and it will continue to be in the years to come unless the correct steps are taken to help this nation build to-wards a sustainable future.
“When we talk about getting it right in Haiti, we’re not talking about spending a few years clean-ing the place up and leaving behind a prosperous developed country with everyone nicely housed, fully employed and well fed and healthy. That ain’t it. That’s not going to happen,” Hackett said.
On Jan. 12, 2010 a catastrophic earthquake struck the country of Haiti just 16 miles from its capital city, Port-au-Prince. It measured 7.0 on the Richter scale, produced at least 52 aftershocks, claimed the lives of more than 250,000 people and left over one million individuals displaced.
“The immensity of the destruc-tion, the many, many needs of the people, the total absence of a strong
Haitian people held back by economic policies of the west
Additional disasters cripple Haiti
Visit strengthens partnership between orphanage and Cabrini
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public schools are using is writ-ten in American English, differ-ent from the British English that is their second language.
“What makes us unable to maybe progress fast is because all the books that were getting from the donors, they are not associated with their culture,” Mamba said.
Cabrini’s president, three fac-ulty and a trustee visited the mis-sion last June.
This first stage in establishing a partnership between Cabrini College faculty and students with Cabrini Ministries has al-lowed Singleton and Mamba to be provided with cultural and educational experiences in the United States to implement into their education programs.
Professor Joseph Clark, as-sistant professor of education and member of the trip, said all components of the college’s aca-demic departments would assist in the development of the or-phanage in Swaziland.
“Coming back here we did layout what we thought were the essential components of a partnership with them,” Clark said. “We’re still in the first year of our partnership and we’ve already made some significant progress.”
Clark, along with George; Dr. Beverly Bryde, chair of the education department; Dr. Erin McLaughlin, assistant profes-sor of business administration and Dr. George Weathersby, a member of the board of trustees, stayed in the drought-stricken re-gion of the country for one week. They all were able to welcome Singleton and Mamba to this country for a mutually beneficial experience.
“Just bringing Sharon and Simo here…isn’t this a wonder-ful experience. They are very im-portant players at Cabrini Minis-tries,” Clark said.
The college hopes to eventu-ally have students visit Swazi-
land as an immersion trip experi-ence.
Mamba says the idea of hav-ing American college students visit the hostel would be a great influence on the children.
“We can be very glad if we can get some students here and visit so that our children can see how important it is to get your-self into books and read,” Mam-ba said.
The students attending public schools are faced with the chal-lenge of not only learning in a second language, but the over populated classrooms are lacking school supplies.
“You find that in each class a teacher may be taking 80 stu-dents per class which makes it difficult for the students to grab the basics of each subject,” Mamba said.
According to Singleton, who is responsible for the childcare
component of the hostel, the children need more undivided at-tention to advance themselves in their education.
“When you sit with each of the kids they have a different sto-ry behind each and every one of them,” Singleton. “What we are focusing on strongly is reading and reading and reading! I don’t think we can have enough read-ing,” Singleton said.
The campus community wel-comed Singleton and Mamba during the campus-wide recep-tion hosted in the Mansion. Gene Castellano, vice president for marketing and communication; Ms. Shirley Dixon, assistant professor of education; Presi-dent Marie George; Dr. Susan Pierson, assistant professor of education and Bryde all spoke on behalf of the college and its excitement of having the Swazi guests for the week.
The visit also included a campus-wide presentation in Widener Lecture Hall called “Educating Children in Swazi-land” which allowed Singleton and Mamba to discuss their work with the orphaned children and the mission of Cabrini ministries.
Singleton and Mamba plan to return home with plans to further enhance the after-school program and ultimately the child care services.
“What I would like to say to a child is you’re not the only one that has lost somebody some of us have survived it. You may be born to be an orphan but that’s not the end. You can change things,” Singleton said.
“We can help them get the education and nobody can take the education away from them.”
Figure A: The life expectancy in Swaziland is 47.97 years while in the U.S. it is 78.24. Figure B: The number of deaths of infants under one year old in a given year per 1,000 live births in Swaziland is 66.71. In contrast, it is 6.14 per 1,000 live births in the U.S.Figure C: The number of adults living with HIV/AIDS in Swaziland is 26.10%. in the U.S. it is 0.60%.Source: CIA World Factbook
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undersell Haitian farmers. This slowly destroyed the agri-culture of Haiti.
“Haiti has been, in a sense, abused by other countries who never wanted Haiti to survive as an independent, black democracy or republic,” Gumbleton said.
Gumbleton went on to explain that in 1986 Haiti was producing most of their own rice, importing only 7,000 tons into the country. By 1996, those numbers sky-rocketed to 196,000 tons of rice, which were being imported from outside sources.
Haiti was also forced to pay interest on $500 million worth of loans that they did not even
receive due to its corrupt gov-ernment. In 1825, France forced Haiti to repay $21 billion to slave owners whose African slaves were liberated. Haiti paid inter-est on this debt for more than 100 years.
Along with working on the Kay Lasante Project, Berrigan is also a member of the House of Grace Catholic Worker Commu-nity and a physician’s assistant. Berrigan spoke about the Mon-santo Company Project, which donated seeds to the people of Haiti so they could grow crops.
“It seemed like it was a great thing but it was not,” Berrigan said.
The Monsanto Company wanted control of all the crops
that were being grown along with all the profits. Each farmer would also be forced to purchase new seeds for each new season. Hai-tian farmers were enraged and protested immediately.
“What it’s coming back to is the concern of the profit of the company that is moving forward to help Haiti,” Berrigan said.
Now crippled and weak due to the destruction of the economy, Haiti is reliant on outside sources.
“Whenever aid becomes a se-rious component of the economy in any country, then it is a prob-lem,” Todd Kaderabek, a Mission MANNA employee, said.
Mission MANNA is an orga-nization that works to provide malnutrition relief, medical care
and education to improve the overall health in the small village of Montrouis and the areas that surround it.
“Our focus is on making Hai-tians self sufficient so that they in fact do not need us,” Kaderabek said.
After the earthquake non-governmental organizations, aid organizations and humanitar-ian groups raced to the shores of Haiti to help. Berrigan agreed that in emergency situations that is necessary, but Berrigan feels that these organizations may be hindering the country rather than helping it in the long run.
“They become a band aid to the underlying problems that have never been addressed in Haiti and
which I see as a critical time in Haiti’s history where they could be addressed,” Berrigan said.
Gumbleton went on to explain that these organizations are pro-viding humanitarian contribu-tions to Haiti but it does not boost the Haitian economy, only the economy of other countries.
“The farmers make the rice. Then there are those who package it and those who transport it and they are all making money and Haiti gets nothing,” Gumbleton said. “It keeps Haiti poor, while countries that are supposedly helping Haiti are being enriched.”
functioning government, the ex-tent of the displacement and the difficulties of the coordination among those who were and still are responding [in Haiti]; they’re all part of this complex of factors that make Haiti really difficult,” Hackett said.
“Even before the earthquake in Haiti, it was already one of the poorest countries in the world,” Hackett said.
In addition to the earth-quake that struck Haiti, they have even more recently ex-perienced a tropical storm that left over five inches of rain on most of the country. Also, there is currently an outbreak of cholera, the first outbreak in 50 years, which has claimed over 1,000 lives.
With such catastrophes con-tinually occurring, it seems as though it is virtually impossible for Haiti to even begin to climb on the ladder of development. In a nation with no productive education system, a lack of gov-ernment and a completely failed health care system, it is apparent that merely short-term aid with-out a plan for long-term develop-ment is not the correct solution.
CRS alone raised $149 mil-lion from private contributions in the aftermath of the earthquake and it is only a portion of what has been raised throughout the international community. In the United States alone about $1.3 billion was raised to help Haiti in the efforts to rebuild following the earthquake.
“We have committed our-selves to build, however slow it’s going to be, those capabili-ties that will be sustained and lasting,” Hackett said. “Because the handout after handout does not generate empowerment and it does not increase the ability or the capacity that it breathes the sense of the dependency that we want to stop in Haiti.”
