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HEADLINE: Fear of Flying
May 28, 2000, Sunday, Final Edition
SECTION: MAGAZINE; Pg. W06
LENGTH: 875 words
BYLINE: Liza Mundy
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Simply being rich isn't enough to make a person happy. What's also necessary is there be others who are poor. That this is a true fact of human nature has been well-documented. Strange as it may seem, sociological studies have routinely shown that being well-off doesn't necessarily make a person feel well-off. What does make a person feel
well-off is being better off than somebody else. Human beings are, by nature, obsessive comparers, and it is only through comparison that we can decide how we feel about our lives.
"Absolute wealth matters, but much less than you'd think," says
Barry Schwartz, a psychology professor at Swarthmore College.
At subsistence levels, more money does mean more happiness, but after
that, rising wealth does not by itself result in rising contentment.
A study in Japan, for example, showed that during widespread economic
growth, the national sense of well-being did not rise
correspondingly: People were doing well, but when they saw others who
were also doing well, they figured they weren't doing as well as they
thought. "People respond to differentiation," says Schwartz. "What
matters most is how you're doing relative to others."
HEADLINE: Payday lending is on the rise - but at a cost
May 31, 2000, Wednesday
SECTION: USA; Pg. 1
LENGTH: 938 words
BYLINE: Craig Savoye, Special to The Christian Science Monitor
DATELINE: ST. LOUIS
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Payday lending is growing nationwide, sparking an unprecedented small-dollar borrowing binge and a controversy over what it means for personal debt. From fewer than 1,000 stores in 1995, it has mushroomed to hamburger-stand prevalence with 10,000 outlets across the US. But its rapid growth and high fees have led consumer advocates to deride the practice as legal loan sharking. Several lawsuits have targeted the industry, and states such as California and Florida have this month considered regulating the practice.
Still, with lenders taking in more than $ 1 billion in fees last year - and expecting to take in another $ 2 billion this year, the trend is only growing. "It's a phenomenon, no question," says John Caskey, an economist at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and an expert in consumer finance. "Payday lending has exploded. A few markets are saturated now, but for the most part you keep seeing new states open up and the industry rushes in and grows rapidly."
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Even Professor Caskey, who does not endorse payday lending, says the relatively high fee structure is needed to survive. "A $ 15 fee on a $ 100 loan for two weeks allows them to flourish [391 percent annual rate]," he says. "Somewhere near the range of $ 10 or slightly under on a loan of $ 100 for two weeks, is where you start seeing they can't operate."
Headline: Sugar and spunk
May 27, 2000
Nancy Imperiale Wellons of The Sentinel Staff
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They're so-o-o cute, wif their wittle bitty voices and wuv for wainbows. But step out of line, buster, and they'll bust your chops. They're The Powerpuff Girls, Cartoon Network's original animated series featuring three kindergarten-age girls who battle evil before bedtime. Sort of a Superman meets Hello Kitty, the show has in less than two years earned an Emmy nomination and attracts the network's second-largest viewing audience. In February, a Powerpuff marathon drew 8.5 million viewers.
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"The Powerpuff Girls have been successful because they combine two pleasures at once," said Tim Burke, a Swarthmore College cultural historian and author of Saturday Morning Fever, a cultural history of cartoons. "It's got irony and these post-modern wink-winks at the audience," said Burke, whose favorite character is Professor Utonium. "But it also has good stories and funny gags. If you're a little girl, you can watch it straight without any of that. It's not just for the people who get the in jokes."
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"I think right now we're in a very healthy moment, cartoon-wise," he said. "In the '70s we had cartoons with fighting made for boys, like G.I. Joe, and cartoons for girls, like The Care Bears, that said all girls need to do is be huggy and think about emotions. Now we're saying little girls can also kick some butt."
Headline: Flag slap spills onto field
05/29/2000
Page E4
Section: SPORTS
By Rick Freeman
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WHILE THE CONFEDERATE flag still flies over the South Carolina Capitol grounds, bad memories have been reawakened and old wounds reopened. The debate has forced recruits, teams, schools, conferences and the NCAA to take sides.
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During the regular season, some teams canceled plans to visit the state; others came but protested. The Penn State 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. But some schools decided contracts made years ago for games take precedence over the flag issue.
HEADLINE: ON THE ROAD; Renaissance on the Schuylkill
May 26, 2000, Friday, Late Edition - Final
SECTION: Section E; Part 2; Page 31; Column 1; Leisure/Weekend Desk
LENGTH: 3561 words
BYLINE: By R. W. APPLE Jr.
DATELINE: PHILADELPHIA
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This is a city on second base, wondering if it can make it all the way home. The old Philadelphia, which lived on manufacturing and banking and lawyering, ran out of steam a half-century ago. Now the city is betting a billion dollars and more that a new Philadelphia can prosper on history and culture and tourism -- that people will come here not merely for the obligatory visit to the Liberty Bell with the kids but for several days of meetings, music, art, shopping and good food as well.
An unmistakable new energy has taken hold in Center City, as the locals call downtown Philadelphia. Without losing its civilized manners, the city has begun to bounce after dark; Walnut Street's sidewalks are still crowded at 10 p.m. A Democrat, Ed Rendell, a husky, dynamic former mayor, gets much of the credit for setting the transformation in motion, but the first big payoff is this year's Republican National Convention, opening here on July 31.
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The Philadelphia story started with that redoubtable Quaker, William Penn, who laid out the city's grid in 1682. It was he, not some latter-day adman, who named it the City of Brotherly Love, and he who gave it many of its characteristics: its respect for education (Temple, Villanova, Haverford, Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr and Drexel, as well as the University of Pennsylvania, with its celebrated Wharton School of Business, carry that tradition forward today); its wide streets and its extensive parks, religious tolerance and closely knit families.
HEADLINE: Top student-athletes advised to go ahead and make their day
May 26, 2000, Friday Final Edition
SECTION: SPORTS; Pg. D12
LENGTH: 1202 words
BYLINE: Craig Smith; Seattle Times staff reporter
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The city's best student-athletes were told yesterday, "You don't have a good day, you make a good day."
Frosty Westering, Pacific Lutheran football coach and motivational speaker, spoke to the students at the 67th annual Scholar-Athlete Award Luncheon sponsored by the 101 Club at the Washington Athletic Club.
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The honored students: . . . Courtney Caughey, 4.0, soccer, track, Swarthmore.
Headline: The Best Colleges That Sent in a Check
June 2, 2000
Section: Students
Page: A51
By LEO REISBERG
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Miriam H. Weinstein compiled the Making a Difference College & Graduate Guide not only to catch the eye of idealistic high-school students, she writes, but also to fulfill her commitment to "healing the Earth, to healing people." The book lists about 80 institutions, like Bemidji State University ("a friendly college ... where students are exposed to concepts of civility and trust") and Swarthmore College ("If you want to make a difference in the world, Swarthmore College will encourage and support you all the way").
In an interview, she cites several criteria for inclusion in her guide: "historic concerns for peace, social justice and the environment; an ethic of service; a goodly number of practical, meaningful, career-oriented majors; and interdisciplinary education." She left out one thing: money. Nowhere in the book does it say that each of the colleges paid hundreds of dollars to be included -- and that others were left out because they did not respond to her solicitations.
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Other guidebooks, too, fail to disclose that many colleges essentially buy coverage. Several publishers of college directories -- including Peterson's and Princeton Review, two of the largest -- sell space in their books to admissions offices that want to add their own messages to the standard profiles. Critics call such tactics highly misleading to students and parents.
Editor's Note: The article errs in asserting that Swarthmore pays for inclusion in the "Making a Difference" guide.
Headline: HEAR A MUSICAL FABLE: 'PETER AND THE WOLF'
Monday, May 29, 2000
Page: E12 - Edition: SF
Section: FEATURES MAGAZINE / ENTERTAINMENT
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Peter and the Wolf, Sergei Prokofiev's well-loved musical folk tale, will be presented by Mum Puppettheatre and Orchestra 2001 twice this weekend. Ann Crumb, star of Andrew Lloyd Weber's Aspects of Love, will narrate.
Performances are at 11. a.m. Saturday at Trinity Center for Urban Life, 22d and Spruce Streets, and at 2 p.m. Sunday at Lang Concert Hall at Swarthmore College.
Headline: CONFERENCE FOCUSES ON ENVIRONMENT
Friday, May 26, 2000
Page: E10 - Edition: SF
Section: FEATURES MAGAZINE / HOME & DESIGN
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Environmental ethics and aesthetics will be the focus of the 10th annual Native Plants in the Landscape Conference at Millersville University in Lancaster County June 8 to 10. The conference theme - "Revisiting Aldo Leopold's Land Ethic: Celebrating the Past and Envisioning the Future" - will look at the roots of the native plant movement as well as exploring the directions it might take in the future.
Environmental thinker Aldo Leopold, in his 1949 work "Sand County Almanac," articulated "a vision which has endured and influenced later wildlife biologists, environmental managers, and philosophers," according to conference organizers. And although the landscape has changed dramatically in the 51 years since, they add, "we can learn from how he approached and tried to understand that world."
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The three-day event will end with an address by Claire Sawyers, one of the conference's founding members and director of the Scott Arboretum at Swarthmore College. Her topic will be "Celebrating the American Landscape."
HEADLINE: Lynette Jennings Builds a Website Home at Discovery.Com
May 31, 2000, Wednesday
SECTION: LIFESTYLE
DISTRIBUTION: TO HOME AND GARDEN, RADIO-TELEVISION AND TECHNOLOGY EDITORS
LENGTH: 624 words
DATELINE: BETHESDA, Md., May 31
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Just in time to bring fresh summer decorating and craft projects online, interior decorating maven Lynette Jennings builds a website home on Discovery.com Lifestyles. A long-time star of Discovery Channel's daytime lineup, Lynette Jennings now brings her accessible style into the cyber age letting the audience ask questions, and encouraging them to roll up their sleeves to participate in the new hands-on projects that will post every week.
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In addition to great content formed around Discovery Channel and TLC daytime programs, visitors will find regular columns, updates and tools covering a variety of interests. Consumers can get relationship advice from Anthea -- a full time attorney with a part-time propensity for solving personal problems, or tips from gardening guru Andrew Bunting, curator of the Scott Arboretum at Swarthmore College.
Headline: Letters to Editor
May 27, 2000, Saturday, REGION EDITION
SECTION: EDITORIAL, Pg. A-14
LENGTH: 1234 words
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Commitment to equality The Statewide Pennsylvania Rights Coalition thanks the Post-Gazette for the May 23 article on domestic partnership benefits being granted to employees of Carnegie Mellon University ("CMU Board OKs Same-Sex Benefits"). Carnegie Mellon President Jared Cohon and the board of trustees are to be commended for their commitment to equality and justice in regard to employment and benefits to unmarried heterosexual couples and same-gender couples who are in long-term relationships.
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Thank you, Carnegie Mellon, Beaver College, Bucknell University, Dickinson College, Franklin & Marshall College, Susquehanna University, Swarthmore College, Thomas Jefferson University & Hospital and the University of Pennsylvania, for placing a high value on equality and quality education.
LAURA MONTGOMERY RUTT
Media Co-Chair
Statewide Pennsylvania Rights Coalition
Lancaster, Pa.
HEADLINE: Trinity, Wesleyan blasted by National Association of Scholars
May 26, 2000, Friday, AM cycle
SECTION: State and Regional
LENGTH: 479 words
BYLINE: By The Associated Press
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A report by a national education group criticizes two Connecticut colleges for replacing literary classics with more trendy texts. In a 77-page report, the National Association of Scholars cited Trinity College and Wesleyan University as examples of the decline in the teaching of classic authors.
Of 25 schools reviewed, those that have the most watered down their English programs are Trinity, Wesleyan Swarthmore College, Haverford College and Amherst College, the report said. . . .
HEADLINE: REPORT FAULTS TRINITY'S ENGLISH
May 26, 2000 Friday, STATEWIDE
SECTION: MAIN; Pg. A3
LENGTH: 749 words
BYLINE: By ROBERT A. FRAHM; Courant Staff Writer
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Too much Toni Morrison, not enough Shakespeare? That is among the criticisms directed at Hartford's Trinity College by a group of scholars who describe undergraduate English programs like those at Trinity as "bloated, fragmented and super-trendy."
The National Association of Scholars issued a 77-page report this week citing Trinity and Wesleyan University in Middletown as leading examples of a decline in the teaching of classic authors and traditional literary genres in English literature courses on campuses across the country.
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Among the schools, the report said, that have most watered down their English programs are Trinity, Wesleyan, Swarthmore College, Haverford College and Amherst College.
HEADLINE: Carnegie Mellon U. grants same-sex benefits to employees
May 26, 2000
LENGTH: 1169 words
BYLINE: By Jonathan Hare, The Pitt News
SOURCE: U. Pittsburgh
DATELINE: Pittsburgh
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Carnegie Mellon University became a trendsetter in Pittsburgh Monday by granting health benefits to both same-sex and heterosexual partners of its employees. By taking this action, the university has become the first of the city's seven institutions of higher learning to award health benefits to domestic partners of employees regardless of a legal marriage.
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By enacting this plan, CMU becomes the ninth campus in Pennsylvania to offer benefits to same-sex partners. The schools in Pennsylvania that have already passed this measure are Beaver College, Bucknell University, Dickinson College, Franklin & Marshall College, Susquehanna University, Swarthmore College, Thomas Jefferson University & Hospital and the University of Pennsylvania.
HEADLINE: Getting Along the Office.Com
February 1, 2000
SECTION: No. 2, Vol. 17; Pg. 20
LENGTH: 2337 words
BYLINE: Cullen, Scott
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During the past five years, the growth of electronic communications in the workplace has made staying in touch and accessing information easier and quicker. But does easier and quicker make for a better run and more efficient
workplace? And just how easy is it to abuse those technologies that make it easier to communicate and gather information? We don't have to travel far to find the answers to those questions. Thanks to e-mail and the Internet, the answers are just a few mouse clicks away.
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Although many of us are turned on by the convenience of electronic communications, others feel it isn't a replacement for voice or face-to-face communications. "E-mail has its obvious place, but sometimes I prefer to reply to someone's e-mail by walking down the hall and talking in person," says Tom Krattenmaker, director of news & information, Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pa. "We're sometimes tempted to overdo it. The phone and face-to-face conversation are still better for lots of situations." Overall, Krattenmaker has found electronic communications and the Internet a valuable tool in helping to get the college's name out into the media. "The Net has enabled us to broaden and deepen our interactions with the media in several ways and on several different levels," says Krattenmaker. "It's really revolutionized higher education PR over the nine years I've been in the field."
ALUMNI
Headline: Anderson Selects Senior Adviser
05/27/2000
Page B3
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Beginning July 6, D.J. Baxter will help Anderson track funding for an intermodal hub, an eastern leg of light rail, commuter rail and plans for Library Square and Pioneer Park.
Baxter, 33, is a Williamsburg, Va., native. With degrees in political science from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and a law degree from the University of Utah, Baxter worked as project manager for Envision Utah, a nonprofit planning partnership. He also worked for Bear West.
Headline: Hoover's Online Launches Significant European Initiative
May 24 2000 04:00
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LONDON, May 24, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Hoover's, Inc., 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: Tested Mediator to Help Omaha Fight Hate Crimes Newsmaker/Patrick McNamara
May 29, 2000, Monday SUNRISE EDITION
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 11;
LENGTH: 661 words
BYLINE: RICK RUGGLES
SOURCE: WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
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When a Jewish principal at a Los Angeles elementary school alleged he had been assaulted by Hispanic parents, city officials sought the best mediators they could find to cool the explosive situation. Patrick McNamara was among them. McNamara, the City of Omaha's new coordinator for hate-crimes projects, called it an intense atmosphere in which he mediated last year for more than two months. . . . As the city's coordinator of hate-crimes projects, McNamara will determine what support is available in Omaha to victims of hate crimes and strive to make the community more aware of what hate crimes are. He also might work with police officers and prosecutors on their response to hate crimes.
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McNamara grew up in Portland, Ore. He and his wife moved to Omaha last year when Segall became music director and conductor with the Omaha Area Youth Orchestras. McNamara said there is a simple first step the community can take in addressing hate crimes. "Stand up. Say something. Stand with the victims. Be there with the people of the community who have been victimized and declare in a unified voice, 'We will not allow this hatred in our town.'" For the one-year appointment, McNamara will receive about $ 36,500, which will be paid with federal money. McNamara has a bachelor's degree in religion from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and a master's degree in conflict resolution from George Mason University in Virginia.
HEADLINE: 'For the Love of Ike'; Original musical scores Ike's affair with his aide.
May 28, 2000, Sunday
SECTION: ENTERTAINMENT, Pg. H-1
LENGTH: 687 words
BYLINE: Marty Crisp
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Jack Hughlett spent 17 years writing a musical called "For the Love of Ike." You might call it a labor of love. Not love of Ike. The love of musical theater. This 67-year-old retired Armstrong World Industries marketing manager originally wanted to adapt the military comedy "Mister Roberts" as a musical, "but I couldn't get the rights," Hughlett said before a rehearsal of the Theater of the Seventh Sister's June 2-4 production of "Ike."
"So I thought I might use a real-life story instead. That's what the fellows did who wrote "The King and I" and " The Sound of Music."
Hughlett, who graduated from Swarthmore College in 1955, wrote and directed three of his own original musicals there. He moved to Lancaster to produce, write and direct industrial shows for Armstrong sales meetings and conferences. Working with Kiwanis Club in his spare time, he directed the very first community musical produced at the Fulton Opera House after its renovation from movie house back to live stage in 1966.
HEADLINE: An Interview with Carol Gilligan - Restoring Lost Voices; Interview
May 1, 2000
SECTION: No. 9, Vol. 81; Pg. 701 ; ISSN: 0031-7217
LENGTH: 2877 words
BYLINE: Goldberg, Mark F.
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This Harvard professor tells Mr. Goldberg what she has learned from carefully listening to the voices of women and children.
CAROL GILLIGAN is a professor in the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University, the first holder of the Patricia Albjerg Graham Chair in Gender Studies at Harvard, and the author or co-author of four books and dozens of scholarly and popular articles. She is best known for her landmark book In a Different Voice, published in 1982 and still in print after selling nearly 600,000 copies in 12 languages. This book established that girls and women often approach moral decisions in a way that is different from what male researchers had identified as the 'norm.' It also established Gilligan's reputation, among both academics and the informed general public, as a significant researcher, feminist thinker, and psychologist.
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As an undergraduate at Swarthmore College in the middle and late 1950s, Gilligan had majored in English and was comfortable in small coed classes where her views were respected and where she studied great writers who rendered male and female voices with considerable accuracy and sensitivity. However, as a graduate student at Harvard, she studied psychology in the time-honored and unquestioned patriarchal tradition, focusing on male psychologists whose work was based largely on male subjects. She 'felt a dissonance in the way my professors spoke about human experience. . . ."
SPORTS
Headline: LINCOLN TRACK TEAMS FACE TOUGH TASK IN DEFENDING NCAA TITLES
Friday, May 26, 2000
Page: B14 - Edition: C
Zone: WEST - Section: SPORTS
By Chris Morkides, INQUIRER SUBURBAN STAFF
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English, Carey named. Swarthmore College junior defender Kristen English and Haverford College senior attacker Lindsey Carey have been selected as Division III all-Americans by the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association.
English finished third on Swarthmore's team in scoring with 18 goals and six assists. She led the squad in ground balls (89) while causing 52 turnovers. Carey scored over 50 goals for the fourth time in her collegiate career. She finished her four-year stint at Haverford with 215 goals and 67 assists.
HEADLINE: Downe vying for 5th trophy Downe vying for 800 win
May 25, 2000 Thursday
SECTION: SPORTS; Pg. c1
LENGTH: 967 words
BYLINE: MATT DiFILIPPO Staff Writer
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Talk of the campus: Despite her team's 5-22 record, Swarthmore (Pa.) College shortstop Heather Marandola of Madison was named second team all-Centennial Conference. Marandola, a junior, hit .320 this season, with a team-high 11 runs scored, and swatted the team's only home run.