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Headline: Payday lending, for the cash-poor at high rates, wants some respect
09/08/2002
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By Joseph N. DiStefano
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William M. Webster 4th, a former fried-chicken franchisee and White House staffer, is targeting Pennsylvania in his campaign to boost a new growth industry: short-term loans with annual interest charges of 442 percent. Walk into any of Webster's 1,700 Advance America and National Cash Advance outlets, prove you have a job, Social Security number and checking account, and you can take out a "payday advance loan" for $300. Two weeks later, pay back $351 - or they'll take it out of your next paycheck.
Need more? Borrow again. Most payday-loan customers do, according to Georgetown University and Swarthmore College research cited in a recent report by Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia supervising examiner Robert W. Snarr Jr. And seven of every 10 borrowers cannot say how much interest they are paying - even though the terms are clearly posted in loan offices, by law. ...
Headline: Payday Lending, for the Cash-poor at High Rates, Wants Some Respect.
09/08/2002
By Joseph N. DiStefano, The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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... Need more? Borrow again. Most payday-loan customers do, according to Georgetown University and Swarthmore College research cited in a recent report by Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia supervising examiner Robert W. Snarr Jr. And seven of every 10 borrowers cannot say how much interest they are paying - even though the terms are clearly posted in loan offices, by law. ...
Headline: WORDS: As world has changed, so has our language
09/08/2002
Section: Express
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BY JEFF GAMMAGE
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We're living in the "new normal," a state of "low-level anxiety" in which we worry that "evildoers" or "sleeper agents" could set off "dirty bombs." We're on "heightened alert" for "credible threats" against our "homeland security," uncertain about the intelligence community's ability to sift the "chatter" and "connect the dots." Get all that? Thought so.
In the past 12 months, as our hearts have been wrung, our language has stretched to reflect new cultural and political landscapes here and around the world. In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks ó or "9/11," as we collectively refer to them ó we've added new words and redefined familiar terms in an effort to describe and understand what we're talking about.
For example, as the sun rose on Sept. 11, "ground zero" was any site where a nuclear bomb had been detonated. By evening, the term had assumed a new identity: the 16-acre wreckage of the World Trade Center. "It's metaphor," Donna Jo Napoli, a linguistics professor at Swarthmore College, says of the new usage. "It wasn't a nuclear attack, but it leveled the place. And it had a nuclear effect on us as a nation." ...
Editor's Note: This article also ran in the Phila. Inquirer.
Headline: Anti-war groups not making much noise
09/08/2002
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BY JOHANNA NEUMAN
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WASHINGTON ó As the debate over President Bush's plans for Iraq grows louder in Washington, the voice of the nation's peace movement has been muted. Far from the mainstream, often connected only by the Internet or the quiet muscle of community activism, the peace lobby -- highly visible during the 1991 Persian Gulf War -- has been on the sidelines of public debate.
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Grass-roots organizers also note that the protests have so far been muted in part because of several important changes in a new generation's approach to activism. The first is an emphasis on individual effort, not mass rallies. "A 500,000-person protest against the gulf war and a 100,000-person protest against the war in Afghanistan didn't bring about policy change," said Micah White, who with a handful of students at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania runs the Internet site www.why-war.com. "That has been acknowledged by people within the anti-war movement."
Headline: UH exchanges paying off for students, coming and going
09/04/2002
Section: B, Page 1
By Beverly Creamer, ADVERTISER EDUCATION WRITER
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Catrina Tamayo's friends back at Grambling University in Louisiana are all envious when she calls home to tell them how blue the ocean is, how beautiful the mountains are and how friendly the people. "They all want to be here," she said, ensconced in the computer lab at the University of Hawaii, homing in on two final classes to fill out the course requirements for her junior year in psychology. ... Hawaii's two large state campuses are the most popular in the country for the 32-year-old program that enables students to come as close as possible to a year abroad - but without the high cost. Students gain by paying in-state tuition at colleges that participate in the exchange, with some saving as much as $9,000 a year.
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Inspired by this program, a second one was launched four years ago - this called "Semester Almost Abroad" - to bring students from pricey private universities such as Swarthmore, Smith, Brown, Amherst, George Washington, Trinity and others for a UH semester to study specialized offerings such as Asian and Pacific culture, language and theater; Japanese and international business; and oceanography...
Headline: 'Homeland security' evokes feelings of safety -- and the willies
09/05/2002
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By Darlene Superville / The Associated Press
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WASHINGTON -- The name of the Department of Homeland Security is meant to evoke images of safety -- even family, hearth, comfort. It gives some people a knot in the stomach. An uncommon word to begin with, "homeland" became an everyday word after the Sept. 11 attacks and was institutionalized when President Bush created the Office of Homeland Security.
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The compound of "home" and "land" has roots in German, says linguist Donna Jo Napoli, who believes the Bush administration chose it to be as comforting as possible to a shaken public. "It's a feel-good name and it's probably what George Bush felt we needed, and maybe it is what we all need," said Napoli, who teaches at Swarthmore College. "By making it a straight old Germanic compound, they were saying, 'This department is not going to be far away from you.'" ...
Headline: Academic All-Stars
09/09/2002
Section: B, Page 04
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Cathy Hindersinn Age: 17 School: Essex High School ... Her favorite book: "Brave New World," by Aldous Huxley. Favorite music: Billy Joel Favorite movie: "Hearts in Atlantis." Next year: Planning to attend four-year college to major in biology and minor in French; looking at Swarthmore, Pomona, Brown and Reed. ...
Headline: Borough perks up to B&B idea
09/12/2002
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By Robert F. O'Neill
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Bed-and-breakfast guest houses could soon be popping up in this staid Delaware County borough of tree-lined thoroughfares and fine Victorian mansions. After years of community discussion and more mixed feelings than outright opposition, the Borough Council this week authorized the advertising of an ordinance that would permit B&Bs. Although the proposal sets strict limits on their operation and signage, guest houses could become a reality in Swarthmore by next year. The ordinance comes up for final approval in November.
"The B&B issue has been with us for a long time, mainly because some of our older homes are so large and so expensive to maintain," Council President Kenneth Klothen said. "Couple that with the lack of housing accommodations for short-term travelers, especially parents visiting their children at the [Swarthmore] college, and you can see the need."
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The latter was a reference to the 65-room inn proposed for construction on the campus of Swarthmore College near the SEPTA rail station, part of the borough's town center revitalization plan. Voters in the dry borough already have approved a referendum to allow the sale of alcoholic drinks at the inn. ...
Headline: 28 Colleges Announce Events to Mark the Anniversary of September 11
Friday, September 6, 2002
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Swarthmore College will hold a silent gathering on Wednesday morning; later in the day, there will be a screening of the film Promises, which uses the viewpoints of Israeli and Palestinian children to promote the idea that constructive dialogue can overcome challenges. ...
Headline: Listening for the Voice of the Desert
From the issue dated September 13, 2002
Section: Students
Page A56
By SCOTT SMALLWOOD
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Deep Springs, Calif. -- Oliver Morrison rises with the sun. He's up before 6 a.m., carting an empty milk jug to the dairy shed. A Seattle native, the 20-year-old considered colleges far from home, including Yale and Swarthmore. But he chose Deep Springs College -- geographically closer but worlds away from any of those places. Tucked into a desolate valley between California's White Mountains and the Nevada border, just a buzzard's flight north of Death Valley, Deep Springs is a working cattle ranch and a student-run utopia. It may also be the quietest campus in the world. As dawn breaks, the "dairy boy" hears little more than the crunch of his boots on the gravel road. No low drone of an early-morning garbage truck. No air conditioners humming. No cars.
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HEADLINE: Group calls for termination of drug provision
September 10, 2002, Tuesday
LENGTH: 577 words
BYLINE: By Arthur Simoni, Daily Lobo
DATELINE: Albuquerque, N.M.
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The U.S. Department of Education recently released data showing more than 30,000 college students lost federal grants or loans due to the 1998 Higher Education Act drug provision. The provision is an amendment to the Higher Education Act of 1965.
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Rogers added that Students for Sensible Drug Policy is working on providing reimbursement programs to students whose financial aid was lost due to the drug provision. Currently, Swarthmore College, Western Washington University, Yale University and Hampshire College have policies to reimburse students who lose their financial aid due to the provision.
HEADLINE: Conductor on the run
September 7, 2002 Saturday Final Edition
SECTION: A; Pg. 15
LENGTH: 890 words
BYLINE: Ken Healey
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IF CANBERRA-BORN conductor Sarah Ioannides misses by a smidgeon winning a place in the New York grand final of the Maazel/Vilar Conductors' Competition towards the end of this month, she'll possibly recall a slightly earlier disappointment. She narrowly missed making a flying visit to Canberra on August 24. Ioannides, who has recently taken up her appointment as assistant conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, spent six days in Sydney for the regional final of "the Maazel", as it's become known in Sydney. Saturday, August 24, was when she spent her first session, rehearsing the orchestra composed of Sydney Sinfonia, section leaders and outstanding students.
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From 1997 to 2000 Ioannides was director of music of the Swarthmore College Orchestra. The Fulbright Trust requires its scholars to return home for two years before they can qualify for a green card, the essential work permit for the US. ...
HEADLINE: Who's Who of Chicago Executives
September 2, 2002, Monday
SECTION: Pg. WW16
LENGTH: 3655 words
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J. Parker Hall III, Managing director, New Salem Capital LLC, Chicago
Age: 69
Business: Investment management
Assets under management (millions): Not available
Professional: Economic Club
Civic: Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Ravinia Festival; University of Chicago, YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago; Swarthmore College ...
HEADLINE: Awards
August 8, 2002
SECTION: MANAGING; Pg. 34
LENGTH: 1176 words
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The following awards have been presented for achievement in fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas:
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In the category of individual development publications, the top awards went to Duke U. Medical Center (Durham, N.C.), Indiana U. Foundation (Bloomington), Lewis and Clark College (Portland, Ore.), Swarthmore College (Pa.), and U. of Southern California (Los Angeles). ...
HEADLINE: College Science
August 31, 2001
SECTION: No. 5535, Vol. 293; Pg. 1557; ISSN: 0036-8075
LENGTH: 793 words
BYLINE: Kennedy, Donald
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Now is a good time to look at undergraduate education in the sciences, for two reasons. It matters: society needs to prepare an adequate number of talented young people to do science and to do it well. At the same time, public policies increasingly hinge on scientific and technical issues. How well those decisions are made will depend on whether policy-makers and voters have gained, in their higher education, an adequate literacy in science. On both counts, undergraduate science education gets a pass but doesn't earn credit.
A diagnosis of how we are faring would yield a mixed report for the industrial world. For example, only a small proportion of students in the United States, having entered college less well prepared than European and Asian youth, decides to major in science. The national average hovers around 8% of all enrollees. But the fine structure is interesting. In the selective undergraduate liberal arts colleges, it may be as high as 20 to 25%--larger and faster growing than in comparable research universities. The former also go on to earn doctorates at a much higher rate. For the decade 1986 through 1995, the proportional Ph.D. productivity of undergraduate institutions was far higher than that of the research universities; the top five included four liberal arts colleges. The top two, Reed and Swarthmore, nearly doubled the proportional productivity of Harvard and Yale....
ALUMNI
HEADLINE: THE WRITE TIME
September 5, 2002, Thursday
SECTION: Music; Pg. 39
LENGTH: 1486 words
BYLINE: FRED MILLS
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Thirty-six years ago, Paul Williams started a revolution--music journalism hasn't been the same since. 'Twasn't always thus, the media-industry lockstep, the two-thumbs-up/Siskel & Ebert brand of music journalism we've become so accustomed to. Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away--Philadelphia's Swarthmore College, circa 1966 to be exact.
"I was bored in my first semester at college," writes Paul Williams in the introduction to The Crawdaddy! Book: Writings (and Images) From the Magazine of Rock, a 320-page anthology of the first 19 issues of Williams' 1966--68 rock 'zine Crawdaddy!, Williams outlines how, as a music buff impressed by such scholarly magazines of the era as Sing Out! and Downbeat, he wondered why rock didn't have an equivalent. "One day in late January 1966 I was in a drugstore off-campus looking at a fan magazine aimed at teenage girls. I read that two of my favorite bands, the Yardbirds and the Rolling Stones, had got their start playing in the Crawdaddy Club--and it hit me in a blinding flash that it was now time to start this rock 'n' roll magazine I'd been thinking about, and that it should be called Crawdaddy!." ...
Headline: Seattle Weekly Names Tim Appelo Senior Arts Writer
9/5/2002 3:07:00 PM
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SEATTLE, Sep 5, 2002 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Knute Skip" Berger, Editor-in-Chief of Seattle Weekly, today announced the appointment of Tim Appelo as Senior Arts Writer.
In this newly created position, Appelo, a former senior writer for Entertainment Weekly, will be joining the paper on September 30. His focus will be on local and national arts and culture.
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Appelo comes to the paper from Amazon.com, where he was editor for Bestsellers, Entertainment, Biography, History, and Art. His work has also appeared in The Nation, LA Times, Slate, TV Guide, New York Times, Washington Post, Village Voice, People, Premiere, Rolling Stone, Details, Salon, and many other national publications and websites. From 1995-7, he was film critic of The (Portland) Oregonian. Appelo actually began his writing career at the Weekly where he was a staff writer from 1978-1985.
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Appelo holds a degree in English and History from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. He currently resides in Seattle.
Headline: OBITUARY - HELEN S. LYNCH
09/05/2002
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Helen Spencer Lynch, 82, of 13 Lincklaen Terrace, Cazenovia, died Tuesday. Born in Lakewood, Ohio, she lived 42 years in Cazenovia. She graduated from University School of Ohio State University and Swarthmore College. She was an assistant claims supervisor for the Social Security Administration in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey. She was a member of Unitarian Universalist Church and past president of the Cazenovia Parent Teacher Association. She was a member of the American Association of University Women and American Water Works Association and League of Women Voters. ...
Prep Wars: 'Kid' faces his mentor St. Joseph's Prep's
09/06/2002
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As the sun set behind the green fields on Belmont Plateau early this week, St. Joseph's Prep football coach Gil Brooks, squatting in a lineman's stance, ignored the darkness enveloping his practice. If lights were erected on those fields, players moaned later, Brooks would never let them go home. Until nearly 8 p.m., Brooks provided scenario after scenario about what the Hawks should expect tomorrow night when they face Malvern Prep in a nonleague game filled with emotional importance.
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Brooks started coaching at St. Joseph's Prep in 1992, after stints as an assistant at his alma mater, Swarthmore College, as head coach at Bishop Eustace and at Paul VI in South Jersey, and a few years out of the sport while practicing law. ...
Headline: FROM RAT RACE TO AUTO RACE - EXEC $1 MILLION POORER, BUT RICHER FOR TAKING PLUNGE
09/08/2002
Section: Money, Page 1
By Jennifer Files
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At 6 feet 1, Carl Russo is way too tall to be a professional race car driver, and at 45, he's twice as old as the typical rookie. Fit, tan and self-assured, Russo looks like what he essentially is -- a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur, executive and investor. Meet the other side of Carl Russo -- the man who left a high-ranking job at Cisco Systems this spring and became driver No. 81 in this year's CART Toyota Atlantic Championship series, racing's equivalent of baseball's minor leagues.
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Today's hottest drivers started competing in go-karts as young as 7 or 8. Russo didn't get interested in cars until he got to Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and met people who competed. He raced on and off over the years and managed a couple of professional teams, but the sport was a sideline.
His main focus was on the communications business. He worked at industry giant AT&T and several smaller companies before joining Cerent, an optical networking start-up in Petaluma, as president and chief executive officer in 1998. ...
Headline: High-Powered Tech Company Executives Use Auto Racing to Let Off Steam.
09/09/2002
By Jennifer Files, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.
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Sep. 9-DENVER - At 6 feet 1, Carl Russo is way too tall to be a professional race car driver, and at 45, he's twice as old as the typical rookie. Fit, tan and self-assured, Russo looks like what he essentially is - a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur, executive and investor.
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Today's hottest drivers started competing in go-karts as young as 7 or 8. Russo didn't get interested in cars until he got to Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and met people who competed. He raced on and off over the years and managed a couple of professional teams, but the sport was a sideline. ...
SPORTS
Headline: Worst college football teams of all time
Monday, September 9, 2002
Updated: September 10, 12:34 PM ET
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Last week we offered our picks for the 10 greatest college football teams of all time, so now we turn our attention to the worst. We've compiled our list of the 10 worst college football teams below, and now we'd like to hear what you think. Send us your choice for the worst college football team along with the reason for your selection. Later this week we'll run our readers' list along with a poll to crown the worst of them all.
1. Prairie View (1989-98): Once-mighty Prairie View -- the Panthers won five national black college titles between 1953 and 1964 -- took quite a fall.
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6. Swarthmore (1997-99): The small Pennsylvania school has a rich football tradition, but in the late 1990s fell into a stupor. On Sept. 19, 1997, the Garnet Tide's defense allowed 10 different Johns Hopkins players to score touchdowns, a Division III record. The Garnet Tide snapped a 28-game losing streak when they defeated Oberlin 42-6 on Sept. 4, 1999, in what was called "the game that somebody had to win." (See above.) In 2000, the Tide seemed to be rising, as the squad went 4-5. It wasn't enough. Swarthmore had been playing football for 122 years, but despite the occasional win and occasional interest on the part of students, school administrators decided they had enough, and made a controversial decision to end the program after the 2000 season. ...