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Tuesday, May 16
Program: The World
Lisa Mullans, Anchor
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ANCHOR: Amid concern over the record breaking US economy, the Federal Reserve raised the interest rate half a point in April, the largest increase in five years. Joining us is Philip Jefferson, former research economist with the Federal Reserve Board and now a professor at Swarthmore College.
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PHILIP JEFFERSON: What the Fed is concerned about is inflation getting out of control. And Alan Greenspan does not want to back to the 'bad old days' of the 1970s in which those wage increases led to even higher price increases, thereby leading to a spiraling, if you will, of wages and prices. . . .
HEADLINE: S. Carolina's Allegiance To the Flag; State Is a Sports Outcast Because of Confederate Link
May 20, 2000, Saturday, Final Edition
SECTION: SPORTS; Pg. D01
LENGTH: 1380 words
BYLINE: Rick Freeman , Washington Post Staff Writer
DATELINE: COLUMBIA, S.C.
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Memories here--especially painful ones--have lasted a long time. Sometimes, they're preserved on purpose, the way General Sherman's artillery wounds to the State House have been left untouched, marked by solemn bronze stars. Sometimes, no one seems sure of how to make them disappear. Witness the Confederate battle flag that still flies over the very same building.
The flag has flown over the State House since 1962. The South Carolina legislature on Thursday approved a bill to move the flag to the capitol's front lawn, where it will fly behind an existing memorial honoring the state's Civil War dead. The move has been called both a victory and an insult by the state's chapter of the NAACP, and, like any compromise, has left bad feelings on both sides of the issue.
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During the regular season, some teams canceled plans to visit the state; others came but protested. Penn State's baseball team played Furman in Greenville, S.C., in February, but wore red armbands in protest. Various teams from Temple, Haverford, Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore were among schools that canceled trips to South Carolina for spring break tournaments.
HEADLINE: A LEGACY CONTINUES FORMER INTERNEES CARRY ON WITH SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
May 19, 2000, Friday ,THIRD EDITION
SECTION: METRO/REGION; Pg. B1
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BYLINE: By Charles A. Radin, Globe Staff
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Few of the sons and daughters of Asian immigrants who will pick up $1,000 scholarships in a ceremony at the University of Massachusetts in Boston tomorrow have any idea where the money is coming from, or why. "It's about Southeast Asian kids - Lao, Vietnamese, Hmong," said Xeng Her, whose Hmong people fled the hill country between Vietnam and Laos after the Vietnam War. . . . The people behind his scholarship, and 29 other scholarships being awarded to children of immigrant families throughout Eastern Massachusetts tomorrow, are in fact nisei (pronounced knee-say) - second-generation Japanese-Americans. And the awards, the recipients, and the donors, all are part of a story that is profoundly American.
The nisei were among 120,000 Japanese-Americans yanked from their homes, businesses, and campuses on the West Coast during World War II and confined in barbed-wire-encircled camps by a US government doubtful of their loyalty. In response, religious and academic leaders appalled at the racist injustice were forming a group to get the young men and women whose educations had been interrupted back to school.
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The deep connection to that effort is shared by John W. Nason, who during World War II was president of Swarthmore College, near Philadelphia, and chairman of the volunteer effort. "As I look back over a kind of varied career," said Nason, who is 95, "I think of what I did in the student relocation council as the one most significant thing I've done in my life." Nason is particularly pleased that the Japanese-Americans - whom he still calls "the students" - now are helping Southeast Asian students.
HEADLINE: Payday loans draw a hefty price, heavy criticism
May 22, 2000, Monday
SECTION: Pg. 13
LENGTH: 883 words
BYLINE: Jennie Phipps, Special to CRAIN'S DETROIT BUSINESS
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With almost two weeks until payday, Roberta Koert of Ferndale needed $100 in a hurry to pay her phone bill. Rather than face disconnection, she went to Check 'N Go on 10 Mile in Oak Park and wrote a check for $116 in exchange for $100 in cash. The cost of that two-week payday advance loan is equivalent to a roughly 400 percent annual percentage rate, but Koert doesn't look at it that way. To her, paying $16 for a quick loan is $34 less than it would cost to get the phone re-connected and $9 less than her bank would charge for a bounced check. That kind of high-priced but quick lending is becoming common locally and nationally. As it has grown, payday lending has drawn criticism from consumer groups who say the practice exploits consumers. But advocates say expensive credit is better than no credit at all for those who need it.
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John Caskey, professor of economics of Swarthmore College near Philadelphia and an expert in alternative finance, said that's a typical profile. Payday loan customers often are ''new members of the middle class'' who find themselves strapped for cash, he said. ''If you live paycheck to paycheck, it's easy through bad management or bad luck to get an impaired credit rating,'' he said. ''If you don't have that margin of safety, then you have to turn to other sources. Even in a booming economy, there are lots of people in that category.''
Headline: JBHE's Report Card on the Progress of Black Faculty at the Nation's Leading Liberal Arts Colleges
Edition: Spring 2000
Section: News and Views
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In the last issue of JBHE we reported the results of our survey of black faculty at the nation's highest-ranked universities. We found that of the 43,374 full-time faculty at these schools, there were 1,488 black faculty making up 3.4 percent of the total full-time faculty at these universities. Black faculty ranged from a high of 7.2 percent at Columbia University to 0.6 percent at the California Institute of Technology.
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Full-Time Black Faculty at the Nation's Highest-Ranked Liberal Arts Colleges, 2000 (Colleges Listed According to the Percentage of Black Faculty): Amherst College 6.9%, Haverford College 6.9%, Mt. Holyoke College 6.9%, Wellesley College 6.3%, Bates College 6.2%, Swarthmore College 6.1%. . . .
Headline: Trendiness Has Replaced Tradition in English-Department Curricula, Report Concludes
Thursday, May 25, 2000
By COURTNEY LEATHERMAN
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English majors at elite liberal-arts colleges are more likely to encounter the writings of Toni Morrison and Zora Neale Hurston than those of Mark Twain, Henry Fielding, and Jonathan Swift, according to a report to be released today by the National Association of Scholars. The association decries its findings; professors at the colleges dismiss them.
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The report lauded a few departments in the survey for showing "a conspicuous, though not complete, resistance to the dominant trends. The report specifically cited Grinnell and Middlebury Colleges as institutions that had held their ground. Colgate University, Washington and Lee University, and the College of William and Mary were also credited with continuing to offer a traditional English major. At the other end of the spectrum were Amherst College, Haverford College, Swarthmore College, Trinity College (Conn.), and Wesleyan University, which the report accused of being the worst offenders when it came to watering down their English majors.
Headline: The Lessons of a Lost Career
May 26, 2000
Section: The Faculty - Page: A18
Part 5 of series
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By staying in Charleston, Mr. Overton stepped aboard the Baptist College's fiscal roller coaster. He became subject to the whims of an academic culture where personal loyalty is all-important, and popularity with students counts. Instead of an up-or-out tenure-and-promotion system, the college advances some people quickly, while others languish for years, turned down but not turned out. It's the worst of both worlds, says Tunis Romein, a veteran professor of English.
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The 1980's were a bleak time at the Baptist College. Whispers of mismanagement mingled with rumors of the college's demise. "We were all looking for jobs," says Mr. Romein, the English professor. Mr. Overton was among them, and he applied wherever there were openings. In 1986, he asked Mr. Niketas to write him recommendations for jobs at Swarthmore College and at the Spartanburg campus of the University of South Carolina.
Headline: THE QUAKERS: STRENGTH BEYOND NUMBERS
Sunday, May 21, 2000
Page: J07 - Edition: D
Section: FEATURES LIFE
By Gwen Florio, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
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Pennsylvania's official nickname might be the Keystone State, but when people say Quaker State, we know they're talking about us - the same way when we see a Quaker City cab, we know it's from Philadelphia. "Quaker" is the area's unofficial moniker, used by everything from manufacturers (Quaker Oats) to social clubs (the Quaker City String Band) to sports teams. Most of us know that the name is popular around here because the city and state were founded by William Penn, a Quaker.
But beyond that? Many visitors "are surprised to find that we still exist," said Florence Tatum of Westmont, N.J. A quarter-century ago, when Tatum, now 85, served as a volunteer during Philadelphia's Bicentennial celebration, a number of tourists asked her whatever had happened to the Quakers.
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Ever slide down a snowy hill on a Flexible Flyer sled? They were designed in 1889 by South Jersey resident Samuel Leeds Allen, a Quaker. Go to Swarthmore, Haverford or Bryn Mawr, or know somebody who did? Quaker-founded colleges, all.
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Though Quaker influence has waned over time, the Quakers "still have a kind of moral clout," said J. William Frost, director of the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and author of A Perfect Freedom: Religious Liberty in Pennsylvania, and other books about Quakers.
Headline: HIALEAH MIDDLE STUDENTS SOAR ABOVE AND BEYOND
Sunday, May 21, 2000
Section: Neighbors NW - Page: 12NW
By Herald staff
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NATIONAL AWARD
Competing against more than 9,000 students from around the country, Danny Guevara, a Miami Carol City Senior High senior, won a National Honor Society scholarship sponsored by the National Association of Secondary School Principals.
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At Miami Carol City, Danny has been president of the Math Club, editor for the student newspaper, an intern with Neighbors Northwest and Northcentral and a research assistant at the University of Miami. He plans to attend Swarthmore College to study engineering in the fall.
``Mr. Guevara has demonstrated outstanding ability in his academic work and service to his school and community,'' said Gerald N. Tirozzi, executive director of NASSP. ``He's a fine example of the outstanding caliber of young people in America's high schools.''
HEADLINE: Carnegie Mellon adopts policy to provide same-sex benefits
May 23, 2000, Tuesday, AM cycle
SECTION: State and Regional
LENGTH: 568 words
DATELINE: PITTSBURGH
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Trustees at Carnegie Mellon University voted to provide health benefits to same-sex partners of employees, in contrast to the neighboring University of Pittsburgh. Criteria that those partners must meet to qualify for health benefits have yet to be developed, but the trustees' 34-8 vote on Monday approved, in general, providing benefits for gay and lesbian and unmarried heterosexual partners of employees.
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Eight other Pennsylvania colleges that offer same-sex benefits are the University of Pennsylvania, Swarthmore College, Dickinson College, Beaver College, Bucknell University, Franklin & Marshall College, Susquehanna University and Thomas Jefferson University & Hospital.
May 23, 2000, Tuesday, SOONER EDITION
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Carnegie Mellon University's governing board voted overwhelmingly yesterday to extend health benefits to same-sex partners of its employees, adopting a provision that the University of Pittsburgh has fought for the past four years.
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Carnegie Mellon becomes the ninth campus in Pennsylvania, all of them private, to offer same-sex benefits. The others are Beaver College, Bucknell University, Dickinson College, Franklin & Marshall College, Susquehanna University, Swarthmore College, Thomas Jefferson University & Hospital and the University of Pennsylvania.
HEADLINE: Harris Internet Services Unites The Nation's Top Liberal Arts Colleges
May 22, 2000, Monday
SECTION: FINANCIAL NEWS
DISTRIBUTION: TO BUSINESS AND EDUCATION EDITORS
LENGTH: 970 words
DATELINE: WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., May 22
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Harris Internet Services today announces that with the recent addition of Bowdoin College, more than 50 percent of the nation's top 40 liberal arts colleges, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report, have now contracted with the company to develop private-label, online alumni communities.
With an emphasis on undergraduate education, higher admission standards and smaller student/faculty ratios, liberal arts colleges often foster a strong bond with students that correlates into strong alumni relations and support. According U.S. News & World Report (August 1999), on average, more than 45 percent of alumni from these colleges donate to their alma mater.
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As an application service provider, the division has contracted with more than 170 clients to build and manage online communities, including the following liberal arts institutions:
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Colby College (ME), Swarthmore College (PA), College of the Holy Cross (MA) . . . .
Headline: Harris Internet Services Unites The Nation's Top Liberal Arts Colleges With Their Alumni . . .
May 22, 2000 08:17
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., May 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Harris Internet Services today announces that with the recent addition of Bowdoin College, more than 50 percent of the nation's top 40 liberal arts colleges, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report, have now contracted with the company to develop private-label, online alumni communities.
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As an application service provider, the division has contracted with more than 170 clients to build and manage online communities, including the following liberal arts institutions:
Pomona College (CA), Colby College (ME), Swarthmore College (PA) College of the Holy Cross (MA) . . . .
Editor's Note: This article also appeared on Office.com
ALUMNI
HEADLINE: OBITUARIES
May 19, 2000, Friday
SECTION: Police Beat; Pg. A11
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Kenneth Cloukey
Kenneth Carroll Cloukey, 84, a resident of Annapolis for 34 years, died of cardiac arrest May 18 at Anne Arundel Medical Center after a brief illness. Born in Madison, Wis., Mr. Cloukey graduated in 1934 from Lansdowne, Pa., High School, and in 1938 from Taylor Business School in Philadelphia, Pa. He attended Swarthmore College for two years, and in 1955 completed a course in the Russian language while employed at the National Security Agency.
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HEADLINE: CITIZEN DUKAKIS; Michael Dukakis; Brief Article; Interview
April 10, 2000
SECTION: No. 15, Vol. 22; Pg. 30 ; ISSN: 0194-2603
LENGTH: 1216 words
BYLINE: POMERANTZ, DOROTHY
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Now a public policy professor at UCLA, former presidential candidate Michael Dukakis is trying to inspire young people to get involved in politics WHEN most people think of Michael Dukakis, they recall the famous photo from his presidential run in 1988 in which the liberal Democratic nominee was incongruously driving a tank.
While that may have been a regrettable public relations decision, Dukakis made his mark in that closely contested race against George Bush and has gone from serving as governor of Massachusetts to becoming an elder statesman of the Democratic Party at the age of 66.
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Position: UCLA Professor
Born: Boston, 1934
Education: Bachelor's degree in public policy, Swarthmore College; law degree from Harvard Law School
HEADLINE: OBITUARIES
April 7, 2000, Friday
SECTION: Indian River County; Pg. A7
LENGTH: 222 words
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Paid Obituary
Clifford C. Baker, M.D.
VERO BEACH - Clifford C. Baker, 89, of Vero Beach, FL, formerly of Nantucket, MA and Scarsdale, NY, died Tuesday, April 4th, 2000 at Indian River Memorial Hospital.
Dr. Baker was born October 19, 1910 in Deposit, NY, the son of Dr. Hugh W. and Erna L. Baker. He was a graduate of Swarthmore College, Class of '31 and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Class of '35, and completed his
residency in Radiology in 1942. He was Chief Radiologist at Yonkers General Hospital, Yonkers, NY from 1952-1970, with a private practice in Scarsdale, NY. He was Chief Radiologist at Nantucket Cottage Hospital from 1971-1994.
HEADLINE: Good cause eviction and the low income housing tax credit
Spring 2000
SECTION: Vol. 67, No. 2; Pg. 521-546
LENGTH: 6387 words
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Marc Jolin ; B.A. 1992, Swarthmore College; M.A. (Sociology) 1996, The University of Chicago; J.D. Candidate 2000, The University of Chicago.
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The Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) was enacted as part of the shift toward localized and privatized federal social programs that occurred during the Reagan Administration. One might have expected the LIHTC to embody another common feature of privatization, the reduction of federal regulation. This Comment argues, however, that this expectation is unsupported, at least with respect to federally mandated good cause eviction protection.
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Headline: Hoover's Online Launches Significant European Initiative
May 24, 2000
TO BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY EDITORS:
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LONDON, May 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Hoover's, Inc. (Nasdaq: HOOV), operator of the businessperson's portal Hoover's Online (http://www.hoovers.com), today announced the opening of its first European headquarters, the appointment of a European managing director and the launch of its new Hoover's United Kingdom site (http://www.hoovers.co.uk).
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Hoover's named Gehan Talwatte as managing director for its European subsidiary. . . . Talwatte was most recently founding partner of eccelerate.com, a unit of Dun & Bradstreet devoted to enabling business-to-business e-commerce. Previously, he ran D&B's e-commerce business in Europe, where he established major content and distribution partnerships, as well as developed the company's Internet channel strategy. He has worked in a senior management capacity for Dun & Bradstreet in the US, France and the UK, and has also established a software company in India. Talwatte holds MBA and Master of International Affairs degrees from Columbia University in New York, and a BA with honors from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.
HEADLINE: Medical Memos
May 22, 2000 Monday, ALL EDITIONS
SECTION: HEALTH; MEDICAL MEMOS; Pg. C4
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Janet M. Stavnezer of Shrewsbury, a professor of molecular genetics and microbiology and pathology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, has been invited to serve on the allergy and immunology study section of the National Institutes of Health's Centers for Scientific Review. She received a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, and a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. . . .
HEADLINE: Partners approach same goal from two directions;
Obstetrician and midwife join forces
May 21, 2000 Sunday
SECTION: Pg. 11
LENGTH: 730 words
BYLINE: Craig S. Semon; STAFF REPORTER
DATELINE: LEOMINSTER
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With her hands already full with taking care of her two children, (Cherrie) Evans embarked on a seven-year odyssey before midwifery became a reality. "A lot of what we do as midwife and as obstetrician is to inform mothers and families what their choices are and educate them about their bodies. What's normal. What's not normal,'' Ms. Evans said. Dr. Robert M. Chang, an obstetrician-gynecologist who followed his father into medicine, said he feels today's ob-gyns are more considerate of their patients' needs, questions and concerns and in making them feel more relaxed and comfortable than in his father's time.
Together, Dr. Chang and Ms. Evans have joined forces to form Birth & Gynecology Associates, a new medical practice at 14 Manning Ave.
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Dr. Chang earned a bachelor's degree in biology from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.
SPORTS
Headline: Irate sports fans: Throw the book at troublemakers
May 16, 2000
Section: Local
By: John M. Roman
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Delaware County sports fans, fed up with Hooliganism at pro sports events, know what to do with offenders: Give'em the boot! That was the opinion yesterday in a random survey at Modell's Sporting Goods in Clifton Heights after the latest embarrassment in Philadelphia.
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Mike Mullan, director of physical education at Swarthmore College, lauded Sixers' team President Pat Croce for his immediate denunciation of an incident last week where a fan threw a can of beer on the court. "He didn't hesitate. And he's a person that people respect. I think that was important too," he said.
Mullan, a tennis coach and adjunct sociology professor, said there is actually less violence in the arena today than there was 50 to 100 years ago. He had two theories about why sports fans commit violent acts during games. Games are a kind of emotional release for the fans. People are engaged by the action on the field or court and have emotional response that cleanses them of their need to commit violence, he speculated. . . .
Headline: WILSON FINISHES CAREER IN STYLE FOR WESTTOWN
Monday, May 22, 2000
Page: B10 - Edition: C
Zone: WEST - Section: SPORTS
By Todd Zolecki, INQUIRER SUBURBAN STAFF
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Westtown senior Julee Wilson could not have finished her high school track and field career any better. She won four events in the Friends School League championship Saturday at Swarthmore College. Wilson, who will attend the University of Richmond in the fall, won the 100-meter run (12.2 seconds), the 200 (26.3), the 400 (59.9), and long jump (18 feet, 3 inches). . . .
Headline: WEST CHESTER'S BAUR EARNS ALL-CONFERENCE HONORS IN LACROSSE
Friday, May 19, 2000
Page: B20 - Edition: C
Zone: WEST - Section: SPORTS
By Chris Morkides, INQUIRER SUBURBAN STAFF
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All-Centennial
Haverford College junior attackman Chris Anderson, Swarthmore College senior defenseman Tucker Zengerle, and Western Maryland junior attackman Brett Sweeney, a Springfield High graduate, have been named to the all-Centennial Conference men's lacrosse first team.
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Zengerle earned first-team honors for the second straight season after leading Swarthmore to an 8-6 record, the Garnet's first winning mark since 1985.