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Editor's Note: This is a double issue.
HEADLINE: Ideas & Trends - Cleaning Up
July 21, 2002, Sunday, Late Edition - Final
SECTION: Section 4; Page 5; Column 1; Week in Review Desk
LENGTH: 1024 words
BYLINE: By TOM ZELLER
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For those who don't know, the sponge is SpongeBob SquarePants, the title character of the most popular cartoon on cable television. ... The show, which debuted on Nickelodeon three years ago and has since gobbled up the children's cable television market, is a loopy half-hour ride that youngsters clearly enjoy. It also has been aggressively marketed. Young fans can strap on SpongeBob backpacks each morning and tuck into SpongeBob sheets every night. But it's that other part of the audience -- the nearly 5 million adults who also tune in every week (and who purchase millions of dollars worth of the merchandise for themselves) -- that is elevating SpongeBob from child's confection to cult classic.
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"Virtually every great cartoon, both in the sense of being commercially successful and artistically successful, somehow has a simultaneous appeal to both adults and kids," said Timothy Burke, a professor of history at Swarthmore College and an author of "Saturday Morning Fever: Growing Up With Cartoon Culture" (St. Martins, 1998). "SpongeBob seems to have a different formula for doing that than most of the shows that have pulled off the same trick in recent times." ...
Headline: Robot with social graces will debut at Edmonton convention
07/24/2002
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PITTSBURGH (AP) _ A group of scientists who set out to build a robot with human social skills may have actually improved on humanity: their creation courteously steps aside for people, smiles during conversation and politely asks directions.
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Carnegie Mellon computer scientist Reid Simmons, co-ordinating the GRACE project with help from the Naval Research Laboratory, Swarthmore College, Northwestern University and defence contractor Metrica Inc., gave GRACE a 50-per-cent chance of completing all her tasks.
HEADLINE: CAN GRACE THE ROBOT FIND HER OWN WAY AND WIN?
July 25, 2002 Thursday SOONER EDITION
SECTION: SCIENCE, MEDICINE, TECHNOLOGY, Pg.A-1
LENGTH: 846 words
BYLINE: BYRON SPICE, SCIENCE EDITOR, POST-GAZETTE
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Grace is a robot that must survive on her wit and her charm. Looks alone won't cut it. She's about 6 feet tall with a face as flat as a pancake and a body that resembles nothing so much as a 50-gallon barrel. But Grace -- an acronym for Graduate Robot Attending ConferencE -- has
software in abundance. She has computer programs for standing in lines, for giving a PowerPoint presentation, for asking passersby for help, for navigating through a convention center and more than a dozen other skills.
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Sitting next to the Biclops cameras is another video camera for a vision system, designed by Bruce Maxwell of Swarthmore College, that enables the robot to read signs. A group from the Naval Research Laboratory has contributed software for speech recognition. ...
Headline: Amazing GRACE? Time will tell
07/25/2002
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By Judy Lin
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A 6-foot-tall robot that courteously steps aside for people, smiles during conversation, and politely asks directions shouldn't be blamed for being too eager to please. After all, it's programmed to act that way.
The robot, named GRACE (short for Graduate Robot Attending Conference), will wander around a symposium on artificial intelligence that begins this weekend, where it will demonstrate basic human social skills.
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Carnegie Mellon computer scientist Reid Simmons, coordinating the GRACE project with help from the Naval Research Laboratory, Swarthmore College, Northwestern University and defense contractor Metrica Inc., gave GRACE a 50 percent chance of completing all its tasks.
HEADLINE: New Robot Has Basic Social Skills
July 26, 2002 Friday
SECTION: Domestic News; Business News
LENGTH: 835 words
BYLINE: JUDY LIN; Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: PITTSBURGH
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A 6-foot-tall robot that courteously steps aside for people, smiles during conversation and politely asks directions shouldn't be blamed for being too eager to please. After all, it's programmed to act that way.
The robot, named GRACE (short for Graduate Robot Attending Conference), will wander a symposium on artificial intelligence that begins this weekend, where it will demonstrate basic human social skills.
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CMU computer scientist Reid Simmons, coordinating the GRACE project with help from the Naval Research Laboratory, Swarthmore College, Northwestern University and defense contractor Metrica Inc., gave GRACE a 50 percent chance of completing all her tasks. ...
Editor's Note: This AP article also moved on international wires and ran in papers across the U.S. and Canada, including the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Sun-News (Myrtle Beach, S.C.), Columbian (South Carolina), Tallahassee Democrat, Times Union (Albany, NY), Augusta Chronicle, Duluth News-Tribune, Lexington Herald Leader, Chattanooga Times/Chattanooga Free Press, Tulsa World Kansas City Star, Ottawa Citizen, and Edmonton Journal.
HEADLINE: Robot stars at forum on artificial intelligence
August 1, 2002 Thursday Ontario Edition
SECTION: BUSINESS; Pg. C05
LENGTH: 707 words
BYLINE: Rachel Ross, Toronto Star
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What a prima donna.
GRACE entered the conference hall like a celebrity. She took her sweet time entering and exiting the elevator, drawing applause each time from excited crowds and sending photographers scrambling. When she finally rolled up to the registration desk, she cut into the middle of line. GRACE stands for Graduate Robot Attending ConferencE and she was part of the "robot challenge," a special event yesterday at the American Association of Artificial Intelligence annual conference in Edmonton.
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GRACE is as much a marvel of teamwork as it is artificial intelligence. She was built by a large group of researchers from Metrica Inc., the Naval Research Laboratory, Northwestern University in Chicago, Swarthmore College in Philadelphia, and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, with each team focusing on a specific part of the project.
HEADLINE: Dinner is served, by Mabel the Table
July 31, 2002 Wednesday Final Edition
SECTION: News; Pg. A3
LENGTH: 294 words
SOURCE: Edmonton Journal
BYLINE: Andy Ogle
DATELINE: EDMONTON
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Mabel the Mobile Table comes up to a gentleman, fixes her beady eye on his face and presents her laptop screen asking if he wants to know anything -- anything at all -- about the artificial intelligence conference going on at the Shaw Conference Centre. ... Mabel and three other robots will be serving hors d'oeuvres at the American Association for Artificial Intelligence conference which has attracted some 1,600 scientists and students here.
An easy job for humans. Not so simple for robots. The challenge for Mabel, a University of Rochester computer science student project, and her competitors -- Frodo and Gollum from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, Carl from the Universidade de Aveiro in Portugal, and Borivoj from Kansas State University -- is to distinguish people from inanimate objects, go up to them, talk to them and offer them a choice of snacks. Then, they have to listen, and if you want strawberries, say, they will present the strawberries to you instead of crackers. They also have to know when their tray needs restocking.
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HEADLINE: Mabel's smart--but can she get an order straight?
July 31, 2002 Wednesday Final Edition
SECTION: Top Copy; Pg. A2
LENGTH: 807 words
SOURCE: The Edmonton Journal
BYLINE: Andy Ogle, Journal Staff Writer
DATELINE: Edmonton
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The challenge for Mabel, a University of Rochester computer science student project, and her competitors -- Frodo and Gollum from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, Carl from the Universidade de Aveiro in Portugal, and Borivoj from Kansas State University -- is to distinguish people from inanimate objects, go up to them, talk to them and offer them a choice of snacks. ...
HEADLINE: GLUT OF VARIETIES CAN CAUSE CONSUMER OVERLOAD
July 29, 2002 Monday Final Edition
SECTION: BUSINESS; Pg. B3
LENGTH: 440 words
BYLINE: John Malmo
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Choice is good. Up to a point. Two social psychologists wrote a paper in which they stated that, while people like options, increasing the number of options you give them reaches a point at which it becomes counterproductive. The New York Times reported that Columbia University's Dr. Sheena S. Iyengar and Stanford's Dr. Mark R. Lepper found that providing too many options, especially when the differences are small, can overwhelm people. Customers become less likely to buy any of the options.
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Another psychologist, Dr. Barry Schwartz of Swarthmore, said when options multiply, two things happen. Buyer expectations go up. Then the letdown is greater. Because with 100 options, "you have no one to blame but yourself if you choose poorly." ...
HEADLINE: Blacks underrepresented on Allegheny County juries
July 22, 2002, Monday, BC cycle
SECTION: State and Regional
LENGTH: 697 words
DATELINE: PITTSBURGH
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A review of jury records shows that whites in Allegheny County are more than twice as likely as blacks to be called to jury duty. While every ninth adult in the county is black, fewer than one in 20 people in the jury room, where potential jurors are selected, is black, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported in Sunday editions.
The Commission for the Selection of Jurors uses three sources to select jurors: the county voters' registration list, the telephone directory and a state list of licensed drivers.
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Robert Boatright, an assistant professor of political science at Swarthmore College, said an inordinate amount of blacks may not be receiving notices because of bad information or are not returning them because they cannot afford to serve. Boatright surveyed adults in Montgomery County and three jurisdictions outside the state in 1998 and found that money was a large determinant. He said a greater proportion of black jury candidates held jobs that did not pay for days missed on jury duty. ...
HEADLINE: Transform a drainage problem into an asset; Rocks make channels look like stream bed
July 21, 2002, Sunday
SECTION: REAL ESTATE;Pg. I-20
LENGTH: 956 words
BYLINE: Marty Ross; Marty Ross is a free-lance garden writer in Kansas City
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Rugged but artful dry stream beds can look as old as the hills, but they turn tricky drainage problems into handsome elements in any garden design.
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GRAPHIC: 1 PIC | 1 CHART; 1. Rob Cardillo 2. MARTY ROSS; 1. A dry stream bed solves drainage problems and looks terrific. This one is on the campus at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.
Headline: A squawk in Delaware Co. over home-grown aviary
07/23/2002
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By Dan Hardy
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Can a bird lover with sparrows roosting in her bamboo grove be fined up to $1,000 for violating the noise ordinance of Springfield, Delaware County? Township resident Mary Kenney, who was cited last month by Springfield's health officer for "harboring" birds that her neighbors say disturb their peace and threaten their health, may soon find out.
Kenney, a Swarthmore College and Drexel University Spanish instructor, has lived on South Highland Road in Springfield for 10 years. She grew the bamboo in the narrow side yard of her suburban bungalow, she said, because she wanted to attract birds and to block the view of an "electric-blue tarp" covering a boat in her neighbor's driveway, a few feet from her property line. ...
Headline: Columnist wins awards
07/25/2002
Page 10
Section: Home & Garden
By KENT STEINRIEDE
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Ilene Sternberg, one of The News Journal's gardening columnists, will accept a pair of Garden Globe Awards from the Garden Writers Association of America at a reception in Seattle next week.
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A freelance writer for 25 years, Sternberg had written little about gardening when she began contributing to the News Journal. In the last couple of years, however, she has also written for the Washington Post, Grandiflora, Fine Gardening and Hybrid, the newsletter of the Scott Arboretum at Swarthmore College.
Headline: Holy Family to offer degree aimed at adults
07/28/2002
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By Valerie Reed
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Swarthmore College
Swarthmore's Intercultural Center welcomed a new director this month. Rafael A. Zapata was named assistant dean of the college and director of the center, which houses several student organizations. Zapata had worked at New York University as assistant director of the Office for African American, Latino, and Asian American Student Services. He is pursuing a doctoral degree in sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Headline: MOODY'S ASSIGNS Aa1 RATING WITH A STABLE OUTLOOK TO SWARTHMORE COLLEGE'S $40 MILLION SERIES 2002 ...
07/12/2002
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Moody's Investors Service has assigned a Aa1 rating with a stable outlook to Swarthmore College's $40 million Series 2002 Refunding Revenue Bonds, to be issued by the Swarthmore Borough Authority. The Aa1 rating on an additional $127 million of parity debt is affirmed. The Series 2002 bonds, which are secured by Swarthmore's general obligation pledge, will refund the College's Series 1992 Revenue Bonds.
The Aa1rating, which carries a stable outlook, is based on:
A. excellent student market position reflecting stellar national reputation;
A. substantial financial resource base with successful fundraising mitigating modest investment returns;
A. excellent operating performance based on traditionally low endowment spending rate.
PRESTIGIOUS REPUTATION AS PREMIER LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES ENSURES EXCELLENT STUDENT DEMAND AND STABLE ENROLLMENT:
Moody's expects that Swarthmore will continue to enjoy excellent student demand for its prestigious liberal arts programs, maintaining enrollment at about 1,350 students. ...
HEADLINE: Dispute Over White-Owned Farms Not the Root of Zimbabwe Crisis, Says Swarthmore College Africa Expert
LENGTH: 563 words
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SWARTHMORE, Pa., July 29 [AScribe Newswire] -- The dispute between the government and white farmers in Zimbabwe is a red herring that has nothing to do with righting historic wrongs as the government asserts, says Timothy Burke, associate professor of history at Swarthmore College and an expert on African history. Instead, he says it is government propaganda meant to distract from the broader crisis engulfing the country.
President Robert Mugabe ordered white farmers last month to stop farming their land and to vacate their farms by August 8. Many farmers have vowed to defy the edict rather than leave their crops to rot. The order is the latest in the government's efforts to seize white-owned farms for redistribution to landless blacks, which it says is needed to redress the imbalances of the colonial era. ...
HEADLINE: SCHOLASTIC CORNER
July 28, 2002, Sunday
SECTION: LANCASTER, Pg. B-2, SCHOLASTIC CORNER
LENGTH: 1053 words
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GRADUATION
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Rachel Nafziger, Lancaster, daughter of Miriam and Rodney Nafziger, received a degree in English literature and Spanish from Swarthmore College on June 4. ...
HEADLINE: ON CAMPUS
July 25, 2002 Thursday
SECTION: Pg. 8D
LENGTH: 279 words
BYLINE: Compiled by The Post and Courier
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ON CAMPUS
Bruce R. Lichtenstein, a son of Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Lichtenstein of Mount Pleasant, graduated from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania June 1 with a B.A.degree with highest honors. He completed Swarthmore's special major in biochemistry. He graduated in the top 10 of his class and was inducted into the Swarthmore College Chapter -- Epsilon of Pennsylvania of Phi Beta Kappa and the science organization of Sigma Xi. Lichtenstein graduated from the Academic Magnet High School in 1998. He plans to remain in Philadelphia to continue doing research in the biophysics department at the University of Pennsylvania. ...
HEADLINE: Summer interns belie their tarnished image
July 24, 2002 Wednesday
SECTION: Pg. 14
LENGTH: 671 words
BYLINE: By Kathryn Harvey
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"My family and friends never had this opportunity," said Sachin Kale, a WLP participant who is working with the legislative assistant on Indian affairs in the office of Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.). "There is a steep learning curve, and I'm soaking it all in."
Kale, a 20-year-old pre-med student at Swarthmore College, sees his internship as a way to give something back to his adopted country. "My parents have done really well," he said. "It's important to realize that we are Americans. We owe it to the community."
Like many interns, Kale views spending six weeks on Capitol Hill as an opportunity to make connections and gain experience for his subsequent career. "Being on the Hill opens a lot of doors," he said. ...
HEADLINE: Lincoln University - Sandra D. Yates, director of development and major gifts
July 4, 2002
SECTION: No. 10, Vol. 19; Pg. 34; ISSN: 0742-0277
LENGTH: 52 words
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SANDRA D. YATES has been appointed director of development and major gifts for Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. Previously she worked at People's Place II Inc., a social service agency that helps the homeless, and Swarthmore College. Yates earned a bachelor's in economics from Wesley College in Delaware. ...
ALUMNI
Headline: Kerr - Patron saint of campus radicals
07/22/2002
Page 48
By Susan L M Huck
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Ah, the folks they love to hate! On June 9, the San Francisco Chronicle published an eight-page report titled "Reagan, Hoover and the UC Red Scare." That UC is for the University of California at Berkeley; the reference to Reds who were swarming there is intended to elicit a sneer.
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The "UC Red Scare" story also needed a saint. At age 91, former UC president Clark Kerr is ripe for sainthood. Again, the Chronicle, despite its "200,000 pages" of Freedom of Information Act-released documents, does not tell us why Kerr was of interest, but biographical reference books provide hints.
Kerr had attended Swarthmore, Stanford and Berkeley, and "studied labor economics" at the London School of Economics under Harold Laski. He was a certified lefty-liberal who had been with the pacifist American Friends Service Committee and served during the war as a bureaucrat. In the late 1940s, he was arbitrating disputes between the shipping industry and Harry Bridges, who controlled the West Coast and Hawaiian ports as head of the longshoremen's union. Kerr surely knew that Bridges was a Communist, but the fashionable attitude was, "So what?" ...
Headline: Clarence Bell, 88, longtime lawmaker
07/27/2002
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By Steve Esack and Dan Hardy
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Clarence D. Bell, 88, a stalwart advocate for working people and the longest-serving state legislator in Pennsylvania's history, died yesterday at Crozer-Chester Medical Center of congestive heart failure.
He was first elected as a Republican state representative in 1954. From 1961 until his death, he represented the state Senate's Ninth District, which covered parts of Delaware and Chester Counties.
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Sen. Bell, a courtly gentleman who graduated from Swarthmore College in 1935, had deep roots in Upland, where he was born and raised, and where he lived all his life. His family went back several generations in the area.
Headline: Bell, longtime state lawmaker, dies
07/27/2002
Local/State
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Sen. Clarence D. Bell, the longest-serving legislator in the history of Pennsylvania, died yesterday of congestive heart failure. He was 88.
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A Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School graduate, Bell was a retired major general in the Pennsylvania National Guard and served during World War II. He served for 38 years in the Army or reserves.
HEADLINE: CLARENCE D. BELL - REPRESENTED DELAWARE COUNTY FOR 47 YEARS
July 27, 2002 Saturday SOONER EDITION
SECTION: OBITUARY, Pg.D-3
LENGTH: 191 words
BYLINE: JOHN M.R. BULL
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State Sen. Clarence D. Bell, the longest-serving legislator in the history of Pennsylvania, died yesterday of congestive heart failure. He was 88.
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Sen. Bell was a graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School.
He was an Army private for more than five years, joining in 1935 and serving active duty during World War II. He later served more than 30 years in the Pennsylvania National Guard, from which he retired as a general.
HEADLINE: Culture and national identity
April 1, 2002
SECTION: No. 2, Vol. 25; Pg. 55; ISSN: 0140-2382
LENGTH: 12764 words
BYLINE: Laitin, David D.
AUTHOR-ABSTRACT: Relying on data from language use, religion and exposure to popular culture, this contribution evaluates the extent to which there is a cultural divide separating member states of the EU from Eastern European applicant states.
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BYLINE: Laitin, David D. ... David D. Laitin received his BA from Swarthmore College and his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. ...
Headline: Delaware Supreme Court Justice Randy J. Holland
07/24/2002
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Delaware Supreme Court Justice Randy J. Holland was elected to a second two-year term as president of the American Inns of Court Foundation by the board of trustees. This follows four years as vice president of the foundation, where Holland has served on the board of trustees since 1992.
Now in his second 12-year term on Delaware's highest court, Holland was appointed and confirmed as a justice in 1986 after practicing in the Georgetown office of Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell, a Wilmington-based firm. He is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School and also received a master of laws in the Judicial Process from the University of Virginia Law School. He received the 2002 University of Pennsylvania Law School's Award of Merit. ...
BYLINE: By Jennifer Yachnin
July 29, 2002 Monday
SECTION: CLIMBERS
LENGTH: 675 words
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Into the Great Wide Open. The Wilderness Society has snagged Senate Budget Committee staffer Bonnie Galvin to be its new director of budget and appropriations. Galvin, who hails from Oregon, had served as an analyst focusing on energy and natural resource issues.
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An alumna of the University of California at Berkeley, Galvin has a master's in public policy. She earned her bachelor's from Pennsylvania's Swarthmore College. ...
HEADLINE: Her perspective historical
July 28, 2002 Sunday
SECTION: LIVING; Pg. 15
LENGTH: 295 words
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Elizabeth Alexandra Singreen, who graduated with honors from Benjamin Franklin High School and was a National Merit Scholar, has attended Swarthmore College in Philadelphia, Pa., and taken courses at Tulane University. This fall she will be a junior at Newcomb College with a major in history.
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At Swarthmore, Elizabeth served as vice president of Rotaract and secretary-treasurer of the student council, volunteered in Philadelphia's Empty the Shelters program and was a member of the women's Frisbee team. In the spring, she presented an art show at Swarthmore's Art Gallery. She has been a member of the Catholic Choir at both Swarthmore and Tulane. ...
HEADLINE: Barbara Carnarius, 71, was counselor
July 27, 2002, Saturday
SECTION: OBITUARIES, Pg. A-4
LENGTH: 294 words
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Barbara "Rusty" Smith Carnarius, 71, of Boulder, Colo., died July 15 at Boulder County Hospice after a lengthy illness.
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She served as a counselor with the Quaker Family Relations Committee in Philadelphia from 1965 to 1975.
An avid theater person, she worked on numerous musical productions, then rejuvenated an amateur theater group in Levittown and helped them put on four productions each year from 1955 to 1969.
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She attended Beaver Country Day and Rogers Hall in Boston, and graduated from Swarthmore College.
SPORTS
HEADLINE: Tuesday's Sports Transactions
July 24, 2002, Wednesday, BC cycle
SECTION: Sports News
LENGTH: 1008 words
BYLINE: By The Associated Press
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SWARTHMORE -Named Jeremy Loomis women's tennis and badminton coach.