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HEADLINE: College president who helped interned Japanese-Americans dies at 96
November 23, 2001, Friday, BC cycle
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John William Nason
KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. (AP) John William Nason, a college president who led an interfaith group to get Japanese Americans out of World War II detention camps and into colleges and universities, died Saturday. He was 96.
Nason died Saturday in Kennett Square, Pa., not far from Swarthmore College, where he served as president from 1940 to 1953.
From 1942 to 1945, Nason was chairman of the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council, which was set up by religious groups and helped 4,000 students who had no chance to pursue higher education in the internment camps. Colleagues later remembered that of all his work in academia, he was proudest of his work with the relocation council. ...
Editor's Note: This Associated Press article also appeared in the Houston Chronicle, Grand Forks Herald, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Tulsa World, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Grand Rapids Press, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Kyodo News,
HEADLINE: John W. Nason, 96, Educator; Helped Japanese-Americans
November 22, 2001, Thursday, Late Edition - Final
NAME: John W. Nason
SECTION: Section D;Page 9;Column 5;National Desk
LENGTH: 418 words
BYLINE: By PAUL LEWIS
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John W. Nason, who while president of Swarthmore College during World War II helped get more than 3,000 American students of Japanese descent out of detention camps and place them in institutes of higher learning, died on Saturday in Kennett Square, Pa. He was 96.
Mr. Nason was president of Swarthmore from 1940 to 1953 and served from 1942 to 1945 as chairman of the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council, an interdenominational body set up by religious groups to help Japanese-American students whose education had been interrupted by their internment under federal war-time regulations. ...
Headline: JOHN W. NASON - Educator, helped Japanese-Americans
11/24/2001
Page B-8:2,6,7; B-6:1
By Paul Lewis
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John W. Nason, who while president of Swarthmore College during World War II helped get more than 3,000 American students of Japanese descent out of detention camps and place them in institutes of higher learning, died Nov. 17 in Kennett Square, Pa. He was 96.
Mr. Nason was president of Swarthmore from 1940 to 1953 and served from 1942 to 1945 as chairman of the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council, an interdenominational body set up by religious groups to help Japanese-American students whose education had been interrupted by their internment under federal wartime regulations. ...
Headline: JOHN W. NASON, 96, COLLEGE PRESIDENT HE HELPED GET STUDENTS OUT OF WWII CAMPS
NATIONAL
11/26/2001
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By Paul Lewis The New York Times
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John W. Nason, who while president of Swarthmore College during World War II helped get more than 3,000 American students of Japanese descent out of detention camps and place them in institutes of higher learning, died on Saturday in Kennett Square, Pa. He was 96.
Mr. Nason was president of Swarthmore from 1940 to 1953 and served from 1942 to 1945 as chairman of the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council, an interdenominational body set up by religious groups to help Japanese-American students whose education had been interrupted by their internment under federal war-time regulations. ...
HEADLINE: Mohammed Ibrahim Kamel Egyptia ...
November 25, 2001, Sunday, Final Edition
SECTION: METRO; Pg. C08
LENGTH: 890 words
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John William Nason, 96, a past president of Swarthmore and Carleton colleges who had led an interfaith group to get Japanese Americans out of World War II detention camps, died Nov. 17 in Kennett Square, Pa. The cause of death was not reported.
From 1942 to 1945, Mr. Nason chaired the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council, which was set up by religious groups and helped 4,000 students who had no chance to pursue higher education in the internment camps.
He taught philosophy at Swarthmore College before serving as president there. When he left Swarthmore, he became president of the Foreign Policy Association, which created a forum for public debate about international issues. He was president of Carleton College from 1962 to 1970. ....
HEADLINE: John Nason, former head of Carleton College, dies
November 23, 2001, Friday, Metro Edition
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 8B
LENGTH: 280 words
BYLINE: Lucy Y. Her; Staff Writer
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John W. Nason, who was president of Carleton College during the 1960s and who created the College Council to bring a wide range of perspectives to campus issues, died Saturday at his home in Kennett Square, Pa. He was 96.
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He taught philosophy at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and became president of the college in 1940. In 1953 he left to become president of the Foreign Policy Association, which created a forum for public debate about international issues. ...
HEADLINE: CURRENTS; TECHIE TALK TAKES OVER
November 18, 2001, Sunday ,THIRD EDITION
SECTION: MAGAZINE; Pg. 7
LENGTH: 735 words
BYLINE: BY DON AUCOIN, GLOBE STAFF
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... Of course, specialized terminology, psychobabble, and all-purpose gobbledygook like "synergy" and "prioritize" have been cluttering our speech for years. But of late, they have been joined by a powerful new force: Web lingo.
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The practice of "bookmarking" favorite Web sites has given social planners a new verbal tool: "Can you bookmark the date?" My wife tells me that a single friend, after a disappointing date with a once-promising guy, sighed: "He doesn't have the emotional bandwidth for a relationship." And the funny thing is, when people talk like that, we know exactly what they mean. We are witnessing "the speeding up of words from technology coming into the regular language," says Donna Jo Napoli, chairwoman of the linguistics department at Swarthmore College in Penn sylvania. "It's amazing how fast things are happening." ..
November 20, 2001 Tuesday
SECTION: WASHINGTON
LENGTH: 1201 words
BYLINE: By JIM NESBITT; Jim Nesbitt can be contacted at
jim.nesbitt(at)newhouse.com
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
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In the current terror crisis, Americans are being told they'll have to trade some civil liberties to keep the country safe and learn to be more like the Europeans, who have lived in the shadow of extremist violence for more than 30 years. Europeans have fewer individual rights, endure a far more overt paramilitary presence and must carry the national identity cards that cause such fierce debate in the United States, experts say.
But there's an irony in hyping Europe as a collection of terrorist-hardened societies. With the European Union, the Continent has become a far less restrictive place. Unionism is knocking down national borders and national economic barriers and setting up a common standard for human rights.
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"At the very time when Europe is being cited as a model of security by America, the Europeans are trying to turn away from that model and have been turning away for the past 15 years," said Jeffrey Murer, a political science professor at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania who specializes in European democracies. ...
HEADLINE: You needn't be a wizard to love Harry
November 16, 2001 Friday Final Edition
SECTION: ENTERTAINMENT; Pg. D07
LENGTH: 1533 words
SOURCE: The Hamilton Spectator
BYLINE: Susan Clairmont
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Professors of literature have set aside Hamlet, Jane Eyre, the Wife of Bath and J. Alfred Prufrock this week to poke, prod and analyze the most popular fictional character of our time. They are studying him because he is the archetype of goodness, the embodiment of the modern-day Cinderella story, an extension of Biblical heroes, the allegory for the U.S.'s battle against recent political and socio-economic woes, the moral compass of our times
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Oh yes. And they're also studying Harry Potter because he's fun.
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Raima Evan, an assistant professor in the English department of Swarthmore College near Philadelphia, says she wouldn't expect a child to pick up on the symbolism of the lightening bolt scar on Harry's forehead or his immense powers that -- even when he was an infant -- could stand up to Lord Voldemort, Rowling's archetypical evil character. Evan says Harry represents "a miraculous child who rises out of the ashes" in the Judeo-Christian tradition. ...
Headline: HARRY POTTER 101 - Welcome to the new genre on campus
11/16/2001
Page 069
By PEGGY O'CROWLEY
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IT'S HERE AT LAST! "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" opens today in theaters throughout New Jersey. See The Ticket for Stephen Whitty's review, a look at Harry's next movie, and some stuff you may not know about your favorite boy wizard. Sandwiched between seminars on "Literature in African Languages" and "Open Session on Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature," at the Modern Language Association convention next month in New Orleans is a panel that could easily attract 10 year olds along with distinguished literary scholars: "The Politics and Poetics of Harry Potter." The kids would soon find themselves a bit confused, however, listening to a presentation on using the model from "queer theory" to examine the consumerist ideology within and without the Harry Potter text. They also might scratch their heads over the debate about the real Harry.
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"As academics we like to think of ourselves as existing in an ivory tower debating questions for their own sake," said Raima Evan, a Swarthmore College professor who teaches Harry Potter in a class on fairy tales. "But like every other field or industry, we're not isolated from those things a lot of people are interested in, and we are bringing a critical lens to it."
Headline: Experts differ on aftermath of Sept. 11 attacks
11/28/2001
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By STACEY BURLING
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The conventional wisdom is that Sept. 11 marked a turning point in American history, one which will forever change the way we think and behave. But will it? One professor says the attacks on the World Trade Center dealt the final blow to the already-waning "clean living" movement - that righteous time of Jane Fonda, vegans and thank-you-for-not-smoking posters - of the last part of the 20th century. Another academic says events of the last two months will only make that movement stronger.
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The idea that there are cycles is disputed by many historians. And predicting the future, everyone agrees, is tough. -Timothy Burke, a cultural historian at Swarthmore College who is teaching "History of the Future" this semester, said prognosticators have a "pretty bad" track record. Burke thinks cultural arguments about healthfulness and living more hedonistically often coexist. Sept. 11 may not change the balance at all, but it likely will mute the argument. "They're the kinds of things people struggle about when they don't have anything else to struggle about," he said.
Editor's Note: This article also ran in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
HEADLINE: Payday loans will just make it worse
November 27, 2001, Tuesday
SECTION: BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL NEWS
LENGTH: 732 words
BYLINE: By Jeff Gelles
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If you've never encountered "payday lending" first-hand, consider yourself lucky. That means you've never had to write a post-dated check, say, for $240, just to get a quick infusion of $200 in cash. Or had to decide what to do two weeks later, when the payday lender calls to ask whether it's safe to deposit that check.
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The trouble is, borrowers are likely to just get farther into debt. John P. Caskey, a Swarthmore College economist who has studied payday lending, says the majority of borrowers go back to the well seven or more times a year.
HEADLINE: High-Interest Payday Lending Booms in Colorado Springs Area
November 25, 2001, Sunday
LENGTH: 1672 words
BYLINE: By Wayne Heilman
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Payday lending is a booming business, both in Colorado and nationwide. Nearly 200 Colorado lenders made 536,375 payday loans for $ 106.1 million last year, compared with nearly 600,000 loans for $ 86.4 million in 1999, according to reports from the Colorado Attorney General's Office. Nationwide, some 8,000 such lenders complete nearly $ 14 billion a year in transactions, according to a report released in August by the Fannie Mae Foundation. The report said payday lenders are part of a $ 78 billion "fringe banking" industry that includes pawnshops, check-cashing outlets and rent-to-own stores.
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Most payday borrowers take out the loans as a result of a financial emergency, said John Caskey, a Swarthmore College economics professor and author of "Fringe Banking," a 1993 book on payday lenders and other nontraditional financial service providers. "There is pretty universal agreement that the borrowers are in a financial emergency and have no savings. Most have impaired credit that precludes them from traditional bank loans and while they have credit cards, they tend to be maxed out," Caskey said.
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HEADLINE: Student worries vary from essay topics to lost SAT scores
November 24, 2001, Saturday
SECTION: DOMESTIC NEWS
LENGTH: 994 words
BYLINE: By James M. O'Neill
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PHILADELPHIA -- ... The college-application process, always angst-ridden, has been more trying for many high school seniors this year. Picking a compelling topic _ and
standing out from other applicants _ is key, so seniors are grappling over whether they should write about that day of unimaginable terror. They're also worried about lost SAT scores _ thousands have failed to surface because of mail disrupted by the anthrax scare.
And at colleges, admissions offices are wringing their hands, worried that the sluggish economy, combined with new fears of flying, could diminish enrollment _ especially at expensive private colleges.
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Even as students worry about outshining their competitors, colleges have worried that applicant numbers will decline. Swarthmore College admissions dean Jim Bock expected to see a decline in applications from western states and an increase locally, but so far the reverse has been true.
HEADLINE: UCR refashioned in a decade of growth
November 22, 2001, Thursday
SECTION: A SECTION; Pg. A17
LENGTH: 773 words
BYLINE: MATTHEW TRESAUGUE; THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE
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Wednesday, President Raymond L.Orbach said that he expects to step down as chancellor soon. Whoever succeeds him won't need to know about agriculture either. The new leader must be able to manage a rapidly growing enrollment, raise millions of dollars, establish a law school, build a big-time athletics program and connect the campus to the city and region. And do so in tough economic times.
Some faculty members, students and civic leaders are worried that Orbach's departure could mean that things will slow down at UCR after a decade of unprecedented expansion.
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No longer Swarthmore
Gone are the days when UCR was referred to as the Swarthmore of the West after the small liberal arts school in Pennsylvania. The transformation has stirred emotions ranging from exhilaration to exasperation among the people who study and work here. ...
Headline: Blessing of hounds in Chester Springs will cover pets, too
11/15/2001
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NEIGHBORS MAIN LINE
By Catherine Quillman INQUIRER SUBURBAN STAFF
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Lecture on Friends
* Christopher Densmore, curator of the Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College, will give a talk on local Quakerism and slavery at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Marlborough Meetinghouse at Marlborough and Marlborough Springs Roads about two miles east of Unionville. The title of the talk is "Marlborough Friends Meeting and Anti-Slavery: The Separation of 1851 and the Origins of Longwood Meeting.
Headline: Photography exhibit focuses on images of peace in history
NEIGHBORS MAIN LINE
11/18/2001
N-MAINLINE
By Victoria Donohoe INQUIRER ART CRITIC
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Two decades ago, complaints were heard about a growing lack of moral awareness in photography of that era and about the avant-garde's near-total rejection of history as a category of artistic experience. But times have changed. This turnaround can be measured by looking at what artist Buzz Spector has achieved by his work with 90 old photographs from an internationally known archive, the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, a 71-year-old facility that collects, preserves and organizes materials from around the world that are related to peace and social justice.
He altered each of these photos slightly (and temporarily), and is presenting the resulting "edited" images as an installation titled Public/Private Peace, together with a related new book of these same peace images.
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Headline: Studio aids distance learning
NEIGHBORS BUCKS
11/18/2001 - Page BC08
College Notes
By Valerie Reed INQUIRER SUBURBAN STAFF
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Swarthmore College
The college's lecture series, "Muslims in the Contemporary World," will continue Tuesday with a look at Kashmir, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The lecture is scheduled for 7 p.m. Forthcoming lectures will focus on jihad at 4:45 p.m. Nov. 29, and Islam and feminism at 8 p.m. Dec. 6. All the lectures are free and will be conducted in Kohlberg Hall, off College Avenue. For information, call 610-328-8045.
Headline: Departure at 'PHT: The details
11/27/2001
FEATURES MAGAZINE
Page C01
By Michael Klein
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Out and around
Miss America, Katie Harman, hung around after her appearance at the Thanksgiving Day Parade. Friday night, she and traveling companion Bonnie Sirgany had dinner at Capital Grille (Broad and Chestnut Streets) with Kevin McAleese, executive director of the Miss Philadelphia Pageant; Sandy Fox, the political operative and chairman of Executive Search Group (and one of this year's seven Miss America judges); and Fox's son-in-law, Stephen Bayer, associate director of planned giving at Swarthmore College. Harman, in a red Kasper suit, had a spinach salad, swordfish and creme brulee - and emphasized that she does so eat dessert. But Harman, Miss Oregon, did not touch the Oregon wine offered; she emphasized that she does not drink. Capital Grille comped the meal, and Fox paid a 20 percent tip. ...
Headline: Winning Tenure, Losing the Thrill
November 16, 2001
Section: The Chronicle Review
Page: B7
By JUDITH SHAPIRO
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Winning tenure is the major rite of passage for an academic, a consummation devoutly to be wished. But let us remember that, thereafter, except for promotion to full professor, the faculty member's career path is relatively unmarked by changes in job description or title. The professional trajectory is, in that sense, front-loaded. Some faculty members move into administrative positions, or leave academe altogether, when they feel the need or desire to try something different. But most stay put -- fortunately, because the future of our colleges and universities depends upon faculty members who experience a growing sense of fulfillment and achievement as they mature in their work as teachers and researchers.
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We should, however, be able to do better at identifying the typical challenges that arise at successive points in a faculty member's life, and to see patterns in the choices that professors make. Those are the goals of a research project that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is undertaking in association with a group of selective liberal-arts colleges. The colleges -- Bryn Mawr, Carleton, Haverford, Macalester, Swarthmore, Wellesley, and my institution, Barnard -- are engaged in a pilot study of the faculty life cycle, collecting career biographies from their faculty members and experimenting with a variety of support-and-development programs for them.
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Judith Shapiro is president and a professor of anthropology at Barnard College.
HEADLINE: A 'gender effect' in college learning?
November 27, 2001, Tuesday
SECTION: FEATURES; LEARNING; Pg. 14
LENGTH: 1435 words
BYLINE: Mark Clayton Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
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Women learn less than men in college - about one-third less, according to new research peering into the mysterious realm of what students actually learn on campus. Discovering just how much undergraduates learn in English, math, science, and social studies was the aim of a study of 19,000 students at 56 four-year colleges and universities in 13 states. But when researchers compared students' scores on a standardized test, one finding leaped out: gender was a huge factor in how much those scores improved over time. Women's scores improved only two-thirds as much a men's over the course of four years. Women lagged most in math and science, but also in other areas.
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Much of the unhappiness over rankings today is because higher education is "a black box" - and rankings like those by US News & World Report only hint at what's inside, researchers say. "People assume that if a young person goes to Harvard, Wellesley, or Swarthmore they will be better off than at a state public university," says Roger Benjamin, president of the Rand Council for Aid to Education in New York. "What the institution adds to the individual student is never really answered."
HEADLINE: Polish troupes coming to S.L.
November 25, 2001, Sunday
SECTION: ARTS; Pg. E17
LENGTH: 239 words
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A joint production by the internationally acclaimed Teatr Provisorium and Kompania Teatr, both from Lublin, Poland, will present their award-winning stage adaptation of Witold Gombrowicz's 1937 absurdist drama, "Ferdydurke," at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 at Westminster College's Jewett Center for the Performing Arts.
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Although his plays are rarely performed in the United States, Gombrowicz (1904-1969) is one of the most popular playwrights in western Europe. "Ferdydurke," based on his first satirical novel, has become an underground classic with a passionate cult following in many parts of the world. The U.S. performances utilize an English translation by Swarthmore College professor Allen J. Kuharski, who is considered to be an expert on the Polish playwright's works.
HEADLINE: If you want to know novelist Anne Tyler, you have to read between the lines
November 18, 2001 Sunday FINAL EDITION
SECTION: ARTS & SOCIETY, Pg. 7E
LENGTH: 5228 words
BYLINE: Mary Carole McCauley
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Go searching for Anne Tyler, Baltimore's Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, and this is what you'll find: a recipe for a spicy Chinese dish called Mapo Dofu that feeds six. A schematic diagram of the interior of a fictitious boardinghouse. A log of the weather. You will learn that it rained overnight in Baltimore on Sept. 23, 1993. But you won't learn it easily.
The woman who explores the bittersweet victories and defeats of domestic life in such novels as The Accidental Tourist, Breathing Lessons and Back When We Were Grownups hasn't granted an interview about her own domestic life since 1977.
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Anne's lackadaisical first teacher doesn't appear to have hampered her; she was ready for college at age 16. She wanted to attend Swarthmore College but her mother and father balked. "My parents suggested Duke instead, where I had a full scholarship, because my three brothers were coming along right behind me and it was more important for boys to get a good education ...
Editor's Note: This article also ran in the Orlando Sentinel.
HEADLINE: BOWING IN AS CONCERTMASTER
November 16, 2001 Friday SUNRISE EDITION
SECTION: ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT; Pg. 60
LENGTH: 681 words
SOURCE: DAVID STABLER - The Oregonian
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Taking on the high-visibility role of concertmaster of the Portland Youth Philharmonic was not a huge leap for Phillip Falk. After all, music runs deep within the family. Falk, 17, is the third child of Leila and Ted Falk to play in the youth orchestra. Ariana Falk, 20, played cello and Abram, her twin brother, played viola. Leila Falk is a professor of music history at Reed College. Dad is the "professional listener" in the family. So when Phillip Falk won the blind audition last spring, the high school senior took the appointment in stride, he said.
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Falk practices about 90 minutes a day, which leaves time for other interests, notably cross-country running and math and science, he said. With a sister at Yale and a brother at Swarthmore, he's also in the thick of college planning this fall. ...
HEADLINE: G-Prep senior earns Eagle Scout;
November 12, 2001 Monday Spokane Edition
SECTION: IN LIFE; TEEN ACHIEVEMENTS; Pg.B5
LENGTH: 463 words
BYLINE: Nancy Plourde
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Emery Ku was one of two delegates representing Washington at the National Youth Science Camp in West Virginia this past summer. Ku is a 2001 graduate of Pullman High School and is studying physics and engineering at Swarthmore College this fall. ...
HEADLINE: War comes to Williams; Observations.
November 1, 2001
SECTION: No. 4, Vol. 112; Pg. 49; ISSN: 0010-2601
LENGTH: 1844 words
BYLINE: Lewis, Michael J.
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WILLIAMS HAS no great tradition of radical politics. A small liberal-arts college in the Berkshires of northwestern Massachusetts, usually counted among America's elite schools, it lacks the self-conscious progressivism of a place like Swarthmore. While its alumni are as diverse as George Steinbrenner, Stephen Sondheim, and William J. Bennett, they tend to be disciplined overachievers rather than firebrands. ...
ALUMNI
Headline: Margaret Byrd Rawson, 102, led lifelong dsylexia campaign
News
11/28/2001
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Margaret Byrd Rawson, the "grande dame of dyslexia" who helped generations of young people overcome the reading disability, died Sunday at Foxes Spy, Md. She was 102.
Since the mid-1930s, when Rawson was a teacher and librarian at a private school near Philadelphia, she had campaigned tirelessly for greater understanding of dyslexia, a neurological disorder that causes difficulty in reading.
Frustrated at her inability to teach a bright second-grader to read, Rawson discovered the work of Samuel T. Orton, a neurologist who was the first in the United States to identify dyslexia and trace its origin. Testing the boy, Orton recognized the signs of what came to be known as dyslexia and returned him with a set of instructions - now called the Orton-Gilligham method - on how to help overcome his reading difficulties.
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Rawson was born in Rome, Ga., in 1899, and raised in Philadelphia, where she attended Quaker schools. She graduated with high honors from Swarthmore College in 1923, the same year she married Arthur Joy Rawson, an engineer.
Headline: Obituaries - Margaret B. Rawson, 102; Pioneer in Study of Dyslexia
11/29/2001
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Margaret Byrd Rawson, a teacher and librarian who helped generations of young people overcome dyslexia, died Sunday at her home near Frederick, Md. She was 102.
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Rawson was born in Rome, Ga., in 1899, and raised in Philadelphia, where she attended Quaker schools. She graduated with high honors from Swarthmore College in 1923, the same year she married Arthur Joy Rawson, an engineer.
HEADLINE: Margaret Byrd Rawson, 102, teacher who helped children overcome dyslexia
November 28, 2001 Wednesday FINAL EDITION
SECTION: LOCAL, Pg. 7B
LENGTH: 830 words
BYLINE: Mike Bowler
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Margaret Byrd Rawson, who helped generations of young people overcome the reading disability dyslexia, died Sunday at Foxes Spy, her home near Frederick. She was 102.
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Mrs. Rawson was born in Rome, Ga., in 1899, and raised in Philadelphia, where she attended Quaker schools. She graduated with high honors from Swarthmore College in 1923, the same year she married Arthur Joy Rawson, an engineer.
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November 27, 2001, Tuesday, BC cycle
SECTION: Domestic News
LENGTH: 1105 words
BYLINE: By The Associated Press
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Margaret Byrd Rawson
FREDERICK, Md. (AP) - Margaret Byrd Rawson, a leader in dyslexia education and research for more than 70 years, died Sunday at her home. She was 102.
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Born in 1899 in Rome, Ga., Rawson attended various Quaker schools. She earned a bachelor's degree in 1923 from Swarthmore College and a master's in social work in 1940 from the University of Pennsylvania.
Headline: "THE CORRECTIONS" TAKES FICTION PRIZE AT NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS
11/15/2001
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By The Associated Press
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Jonathan Franzen, the author whom Oprah Winfrey disinvited to dinner, found a forgiving home Wednesday night at the National Book Awards. He won the fiction prize for his acclaimed best seller "The Corrections." Also Wednesday, Andrew Solomon won in nonfiction for "The Noonday Demon"; Virginia Euwer Wolff received the young people's literature prize for the novel "True Believer"; and Alan Dugan won the poetry category for "Poems Seven."
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Franzen was born in Chicago in 1959 and moved to St. Louis in 1965. He graduated from Webster Groves High School in 1977 and went off to Swarthmore College.
Headline: Renaissance man explores Earthly, extraterrestrial life
Section: News
11/22/2001
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By Brian Bergstein
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Christopher Chyba insists he sleeps, but it's hard to imagine how he finds time for more than a quick nap here and there. An astrobiologist who also happens to be an expert on international relations, bioterrorism and nuclear security, Chyba is devoted to searching for intelligent life in the universe and doing his part to make life on Earth a little wiser.
For being seemingly everywhere science can be, this 42-year-old renaissance man was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant" last month -- $500,000 to use however he wants over the next five years.
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Education: Bachelor's degree in physics, Swarthmore College, 1982; bachelor's in mathematics, University of Cambridge, 1984; master's in the history and philosophy of science, Cambridge, 1986; master's in mathematics, 1990, Cambridge; Ph.D. in astronomy, Cornell University, 1991.
HEADLINE: Garrett-Goodchild
November 25, 2001, Sunday FIRST EDITION
SECTION: SUNDAY MAGAZINE, Pg. E5
LENGTH: 124 words
BYLINE: The Morning Call
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Karen L. Goodchild and Stephen J. Garrett were married May 19 in the Terrace Room at the Radisson Hotel Bethlehem.
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The bride, who graduated from Adelphi University, is an air traffic controller with the FAA. The bridegroom graduated from Swarthmore College and received a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and from St. Joseph's University. He is a systems engineer at Lockheed Martin Corp.
HEADLINE: CELEBRATIONS
November 25, 2001 Sunday ALL EDITIONS
SECTION: LIFE; Pg. D10
LENGTH: 131 words
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Syrena Troxler Case and Sebastian Balfe Hargrove were married July 14, at Redfish Lake, Idaho, before family and friends. Judges Trott and Nelson of the Ninth Circuit Court and Judge Winmill of the Federal District Court presided.
Syrena is the daughter of Kathryn and Chris Troxler of Greensboro and Samual Case and Judy Azus of Fairfax, California. A graduate of Grimsley High School, Swarthmore College and Harvard Law Schoool, she is permanent clerk for Judge Nelson in Boise, Idaho, where the couple are making their home. ...
HEADLINE: NEWLIN R. SMITH; WAS TUFTS PROFESSOR
November 21, 2001, Wednesday ,THIRD EDITION
SECTION: OBITUARY; Pg. D19
LENGTH: 199 words
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A memorial service will be held Dec. 2 for Newlin R. Smith, a former economics professor at Tufts University. Dr. Smith died Sept. 9 in his home in Medford Leas retirement community in New Jersey. He was 97.
Dr. Smith was born in Philadelphia. He graduated from Swarthmore College and earned a master's degree and doctorate in economics at Columbia University. ...
HEADLINE: Paid Notice: Deaths RAUCH, R. STEWART
November 19, 2001, Monday, Late Edition - Final
SECTION: Section F; Page 7; Column 3; Classified
LENGTH: 309 words
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RAUCH-R. Stewart. 87, at his home in Bryn Mawr, PA, November 16, 2001, after a brief illness. Born in Villanova, PA, on July 15, 1914, he attended the Montgomery Country Day School and graduated from St. Paul's School, Concord, NH. A member of the Class of 1936 at Princeton Unversity, he was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society and was a member of the Ivy Club. He held a LLB from the University of Pennsylvania and honorary degrees from Swarthmore College and Temple University. ...
HEADLINE: Thinking about life: Peter Unger
November 19, 2001, Monday
SECTION: WEATHER
LENGTH: 1111 words
BYLINE: By EDITED BY S. PHINEAS UPHAM
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In 1979, as now, few agreed with the statement "I do not exist," but that was the title of a piece by Peter Unger in a book published that year. A professor of philosophy at New York University, Unger is best known for his penchant for provocation and for excursions to the extremes of philosophy. Long a skeptic and among the most demanding of ethicists, Unger has traced a philosophical career often at odds with conventional wisdom. But he has not always been perched out on a limb.
After majoring in philosophy at Swarthmore, Unger completed his Doctorate in Philosophy at Oxford with Strawson and Ayer. His thesis (completed under Ayer's supervision) did not foreshadow his controversial career. ...
HEADLINE: OBITUARY
November 2, 2001
SECTION: No. 44, Vol. 42; Pg. 47 ; ISSN: 0005-3635
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Donald S. Tayer, a prominent San Francisco attorney and union leader, died of cancer on Oct. 26 at the age of 69.
A graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School, Tayer began his career in New York with the Port Authority. In addition to a thriving legal practice, he served as Executive Secretary of the San Francisco office of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and Screen Actors Guild for 25 years. Retiring from that position in 1988, he continued as co-counsel for National AFTRA and the AFTRA Health and Retirement Funds until his death. ...
HEADLINE: David Halberstam, Malcolm Browne; Seeing the War
November, 2001 / December, 2001
SECTION: Supplement; SPECIAL: 40TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE; Pg. 56
LENGTH: 794 words
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Halberstam, of course, was David Halberstam, the Times's correspondent in Saigon, who, along with Malcolm Browne of The Associated Press, would be awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1964 for his tough-minded coverage of the deepening quagmire in Vietnam.
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But Halberstam wasn't the only target of the White House and Madame Nhu. Neil Sheehan, then with UPI, and Peter Arnett and Malcolm Browne of AP were also filing skeptical dispatches from Saigon. Browne was, in many ways, the polar opposite of Halberstam: He was quiet and restrained a low-key loner who valued his privacy. Raised in Greenwich Village by an architect father and a Quaker pacifist mother, Browne was educated at Swarthmore and arrived in journalism rather late, having spent time in his twenties as a scientist. He landed in Saigon in late 1961, and took up residence as AP bureau chief. Surveying the political landscape, his nostrils instantly detected the stench of corruption. ...
SPORTS
HEADLINE: Red Hawks soar over Swarthmore
November 25, 2001 Sunday THREE STAR EDITION
SECTION: SPORTS, Pg. C2
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The Red Hawks of RPI outscored Swarthmore 36-22 in the second half and cruised to a 74-55 win in men's college basketball Saturday in Troy.
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Matt Gustafson had 15 points for Swarthmore.
Headline: Matejkovic receives honor from SUNY
11/14/2001
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LOCAL NEWS SPORTS
By Don Beideman INQUIRER SUBURBAN STAFF
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Westtown School graduate Ashley Robbins, a resident of Newtown Square, and Garnet Valley graduate Katie Tarr made the first team. Robbins is a senior forward for Johns Hopkins. She led the Blue Jays in goals with seven. Her 37 career goals put her in a tie for eighth place on the all-time conference list. Tarr, a senior back for Swarthmore , made the first team last season, too.
Headline: Scorers should lift 'Sciences'
11/16/2001
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By BOB COONEY cooneyb @phillynews.com
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Here are capsules of other area small-college teams:
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Swarthmore
Last season: 4-20.
Coach: Lee Wimberly, 115-228.
In passing: Junior David Pearce, a 6-3 forward, led the Garnet in scoring (15.5 ppg) for the second year in a row. Kyle Lewis, a 6-7 senior who averaged 9.4 points and 5.1 rebounds, and 6-3 guard Eran Ganot (9.2 ppg) are the other main scoring threats. Sophomore Jacob Letendre (8.8 ppg, 3.9 apg) will run the point. ...
Headline: 9 NBA players fined for low-slung shorts
Section: SPORTS
11/21/2001
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Swarthmore forward Kyle Lewis was named the Centennial Conference player of the week.
Headline: UConn's Jones tops 1,000-point mark
11/25/2001
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Elsewhere: Joy Silver shot 12 for 16 for 28 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead Rutgers-Camden (2-0) to a 73-35 win over Rutgers-Newark in Newark, N.J. . . . Katie Robinson led all scorers with 26 points, but Swarthmore (2-2) fell to Wisconsin-Stout, 74-64, in St. Louis.
Headline: Top-ranked Duke routs Portland
SPORTS
11/26/2001
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Union 73, Swarthmore 60 - The Garnet (2-3) fell in Schenectady, N.Y., despite Matt Gustafson's 23 points. Aaron Galletta also had 23 points for the Dutchmen (2-1).
Headline: South Carolina wins Duke tournament
SPORTS
11/26/2001
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Swarthmore 64, Washington and Lee 49 - The Garnet (4-1) took the consolation game of the McWilliams Tournament in St. Louis as Katie Robinson scored 20 points. Heather Kile added 19 points, while her eight rebounds brought her career mark to a school-record 1,005.
Headline: Bryant fined $7,500 for misbehaving
SPORTS
11/27/2001
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Elsewhere: Katie Robinson, a sophomore guard at Swarthmore , was named Centennial Conference women's basketball player of the week. . . .
HEADLINE: HICKS, HOKIES FALL IN TOURNAMENT FINAL
November 26, 2001 Monday Metro Edition
SECTION: SPORTS; Pg. B2
LENGTH: 267 words
BYLINE: FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
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Swarthmore 64, Washington and Lee 49: Swarthmore opened the second half with a 22-7 run to pull away with the victory over Washington and Lee in the consolation game of the McWilliams Classic in St. Louis.
The Generals (0-2) trailed 29-23 at halftime but shot 39.6 percent and committed 23 turnovers as the Garnet Tide (3-2) took over. Jessica Mentz scored 22 points and grabbed 12 rebounds, and Megan Babst added 17 points and 12 boards for W&L.
Katie Robinson led Swarthmore with 20 points and nine rebounds.
HEADLINE: RPI tops Haverford
November 26, 2001 Monday ONE STAR EDITION
SECTION: SPORTS, Pg. D2
LENGTH: 133 words
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Union 73, Swarthmore 60: Senior Aaron Galletta hit all 11 of his free throws and finished with 23 points to lead the Dutchmen. Devon Bruce added 15 points for Union, which improved to 2-1. Matt Gustafson scored 23 points and
added eight rebounds for Swarthmore.
HEADLINE: Hopkins routs Goucher, 104-38
November 21, 2001 Wednesday FINAL EDITION
SECTION: SPORTS, Pg. 7D
LENGTH: 329 words
SOURCE: FROM STAFF REPORTS
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Swarthmore 60, Western Maryland 58: Three Green Terror players scored in double figures as Western Maryland (2-1) fell to the Garnet Tide in each team's Centennial Conference opener. ...