Swarthmore College The Phoenix Alumni Relations Alumni Online Community News and Information For Parents Haverford College Bryn Mawr College Borough of Swarthmore Philly.com			Stunned Campus Students, faculty, and staff express horror after terrorist attack By Andrea Hammer On Tuesday morning, Sept. 11--a day now frozen in all of our memories--colleagues filtered into my office with the horrific news about the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center. With our minds reeling, we all stood together around radios in co-workers’ offices and televisions set up in the Lang Performing Arts Center and Parrish Parlors. Students nearby were on the pay phones, frantically checking on parents’ travel plans that morning, while others were openly weeping. High Stakes for Education Can federally mandated testing improve learning in America's public schools? By Marcia Ringel As President George W. Bush’s education reform proposals limped through Congress this year, their reliance on standardized tests to determine the fate of students, teachers, and schools has sparked a national education debate. From the classroom to the school district office to the Department of Education in Washington, D.C., federally mandated testing raises the stakes for kids--and a lot of questions for educators. Village Time What's next after eating goat in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa? The night before going out to site, as a celebration, Adam ate a lot of goat. Being a neophyte, he chose poorly across the board: the goat bar, the goat parts, and especially the decision to go for the mayo. The Challenge Is to Choose With his cleanshaven face, bright eyes, and glad-to-meet-you enthusiasm, you might peg Jim Bock as a 20-something grad student or minister-in-training. This summer, he got one of the best jobs in that profession when he became Swarthmore’s new dean of admissions and financial aid. Commencement 2001 A perfect spring day On June 4, a perfect spring day, faculty members, students, and their families gathered in the dappled sunlight of the arboretum to celebrate Commencement. Senior speaker Evan Gregory ’01 got things off to a rousing start with a speech worthy of an off-Broadway production. The address was so entertaining, in fact, that National Public Radio rebroadcast a portion on All Things Considered.

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