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Womens Wear Daily
HEADLINE: TO CHOOSE OR NOT TO CHOOSE; Barry
Schwartz on decision making
SECTION: Pg. 13; ISSN: 0149-5380
LENGTH: 898 words
BYLINE: Seckler, Valerie
BODY:
Although
the scenario seems a nightmare in the making for marketers of most any stripe,
it's a dream scene for Schwartz, author of "The Paradox of Choice"
(Harper Collins), who contends that, when it comes to most decisions, "people
want virtually no choice." In his book, slated to be published in January,
Schwartz, a professor of social theory and social action at
Schwartz
began forming that principle while observing his highly intelligent and
talented students at Swarthmore,
many of whom, he said, "wind up serving coffee at Starbucks as they
torture themselves trying to decide what to do." Such people are members
of a group the author calls "maximizers,"
or people who expect to attain the best of everything. That trait makes
it difficult for them to pull the trigger on various decisions and, subsequently,
causes them to question the choices they do make.
Library Journal Reviews
HEADLINE: The Paradox of Choice - Why More
Is Less
SECTION: BOOK REVIEWS; Social Sciences; Pg. 148
LENGTH: 238 words
BYLINE:
BODY:
The
freedom to make choices is perhaps the fundamental right of free persons.
The entire social system of the
Headline: Mather
to chair
BODY:
Barbara
W. Mather, the head of the litigation department at Pepper Hamilton
LLP of Philadelphia, was named chairwoman of the
Mather
graduated from Swarthmore in
1965. She is the first woman to lead the college's board. She succeeds
J. Lawrence Shane, who has chaired the board since 1997.
Mather
was the executive partner at Pepper Hamilton from 1992 to 1994. She was
previously city solicitor for
PR Newswire
Headline: Smart Dating Site Launches Serving Alumni, Students From Top North American and European Schools
12/10/2003 7:07:50 AM
BODY:
NEW YORK, Dec 10, 2003 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- TheSquare.com, the online
networking community for alumni and students of the world's top schools,
today unveiled SquareDating.com. Unlike other Internet dating services,
SquareDating's membership criteria serves as a de facto pre-screener and
therefore provides its members with a smaller, more eligible pool of singles.
...
TheSquare.com and SquareDating is open to students and alumni of the following
top schools: Amherst, Berkeley, Brown … Stanford, Swarthmore,
Tufts …
Chronicle of Higher Education
Headline: Voting-Machine Producer Retreats
on Threats to Colleges and Students
December 12, 2003
By ANDREA L. FOSTER
BODY:
A company that makes electronic-voting
machines has backed down from its threats to take legal action over internal
company memorandums that students at several colleges have posted on college
Web servers. The students and other critics of the company say the documents
reveal security weaknesses in the company's voting system.
Despite Diebold's
latest statement, two Swarthmore
College students and the Online Policy Group, a nonprofit policy-research
group in San Francisco, are asking a federal district court to rule that
publicizing the memorandums is covered by the fair-use provision of the
digital-copyright law. In addition, the students and the policy group are
asking the court to order Diebold to pay them
damages for "copyright misuse," among other issues. The students,
Nelson Pavlovsky and Luke Smith, and the policy
group laid out their grievances in a complaint filed last month in U.S.
District Court for the Northern District of California, in
After
Diebold's announcement, Swarthmore announced that Mr. Pavlovsky
and Mr. Smith had reposted Diebold's memorandums
on the college Web server, with the college's permission.
Financial Times
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HEADLINE: Counting the cost of sharing - PEER-TO-PEER
COMPUTING
SECTION: FT REPORT - FT-IT; Pg. 3
LENGTH: 916 words
BYLINE: By PAUL TALACKO
BODY:
Companies that allow their employees to use peer-to-peer file sharing applications can be in for an expensive shock. Last year, Integrated Information Systems, an Arizona-based IT company, paid Dollars 1m in a settlement to the Recording Industry Association of America, a music industry trade association, for allowing its employees to share copyrighted music files through a network.
The
HEADLINE: Voting-Machine Makers To
Fight Security Criticism
SECTION: A SECTION; Pg. A02
LENGTH: 604 words
BYLINE: Jonathan
BODY:
Electronic-voting-machine companies announced yesterday that they are banding together to counter mounting concerns about whether their machines are secure enough to withstand tampering by hackers. Although less than 20 percent of the nation's counties use electronic voting machines, their use is growing in the wake of the problems with punch-card ballots in Florida that threw the 2000 presidential election into turmoil. Last year Congress passed the Help America Vote Act, which provides funds for states and localities to modernize their election systems.
But several academic and cyber-security experts argue that the new machines, which let voters make their choices on video screens, have disturbing security flaws.
The
company also has angered critics by suing two
Newsbytes
HEADLINE: Voting-Machine Makers To
Fight Security Criticism
LENGTH: 614 words
BYLINE: Jonathan Krim;
DATELINE:
BODY:
Electronic-voting-machine companies announced yesterday that they are banding together to counter mounting concerns about whether their machines are secure enough to withstand tampering by hackers. But several academic and cyber-security experts argue that the new machines, which let voters make their choices on video screens, have disturbing security flaws.
The
company also has angered critics by suing two
Global News Wire
HEADLINE: VOTING-MACHINE MAKERS TO FIGHT SECURITY
CRITICISM
LENGTH: 608 words
BYLINE: Jonathan Krim
BODY:
The
company also has angered critics by suing two
Associated Press
HEADLINE: Pitcairns'
former home is a treasure trove of religious art
SECTION: Entertainment News
LENGTH: 753 words
BYLINE: By JOANN LOVIGLIO, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: BRYN ATHYN,
BODY:
Known
to generations of
"This
is a significant and spectacular collection that people who live right in
the area are essentially unaware of," said Michael Cothren,
an art history professor at
The
HEADLINE: Honoring a man steeped in the city's
past
SECTION: LOCAL, Pg. 3B
LENGTH: 652 words
BYLINE: Jamie Stiehm
SOURCE: SUN STAFF
BODY:
Descended
from Maryland Quakers and Massachusetts Puritans, Samuel Hopkins grew up
on a
Martha
Ellicott Tyson, his great-great-grandmother, was a founder of
HEADLINE: MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION: SHOW; SUNDAY; Pg. 16
LENGTH: 850 words
BYLINE: Jeff Wisser
BODY:
VARIOUS ARTISTS, "IT'S ABOUT CHRISTMAS" (IT'SABOUTMUSIC.COM)
"Go Tell It" by the Swarthmore College Alumni Gospel Choir is not an auspicious beginning, but this varied compilation steadies itself quickly with such pleasures as Kyf Brewer's "Christmas in New York," the Contes' cover of "Father Christmas and Huffamoose's silly "Hanukkah and Christmas Hand in Hand." There's even a cover of "The Chipmunk Song," so what could go wrong?
The Patriot Ledger
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HEADLINE: Chomsky to speak at
SECTION: NEWS, Pg. 22
LENGTH: 228 words
BYLINE: Jessica Van Sack
BODY:
MIT
linguistics professor Noam Chomsky will close
out a series of
He
has received honorary degrees from the
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HEADLINE: @36Times: Brighter future for low-income
scholars
SECTION: POMONA/LA VERNE/SAN DIMAS
LENGTH: 1272 words
BODY:
Along with Godinez, the other 2003 Bright Prospect scholars, their high schools and new colleges are: Ricardo Acosta, Ganesha, Bucknell University in Pennsylvania; Miriam Aguirre, Chaffey, Pomona College in Claremont; Sandra Cun, Montclair, Skidmore College in New York; Faith Dang, Montclair, Harvey Mudd College in Claremont; Mauricio Fuentes, Montclair, Wesleyan University in Connecticut; Criselda Haro, Ganesha, Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania
ALUMNI
HEADLINE: People to Watch - The It List
November, 2003
LENGTH: 8964 words
BYLINE: Caroline Tiger
BODY:
Who will be Philly's next Georges Perrier? Who has the refined Main Line taste to be the next Barbara Eberlein? Who will take over where Paul Vallas leaves off? We wanted to know who would make up our next power generation, who would shape the future of our city. So we asked the people who already have. We mailed more than 700 surveys to the players on our power Rolodex, asking them to name the rising stars in their industries. There was no age limit--the 22 who made the final list range from age 24 to 47--and just one guiding principle: that in the next decade, these people will become household names.
THE PUBLISHER
Mattathias Schwartz, 24, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, THE
Ah,
young love. In a move that seems positively Peanuts-esque,
Matt Schwartz started a newspaper to impress a girl. Was the girl impressed?
Sadly, no. The day Schwartz delivered the first issue to the
store where she worked, she glanced at the front
page, at a picture of a heart superimposed over a map of
The New Yorker
HEADLINE: THE OFF-SEASON
SECTION: THE TALK OF THE TOWN; Wellfleet Postcard; Pg. 48
LENGTH: 644 words
BYLINE: Philip Hamburger
BODY:
Ever wonder what goes on up on the Cape when all the summer people are long gone, settled for the winter back in their metropolis? Nothing world-shaking, but the world is shaking enough, wouldn't you say?
And then there are the artists-painters and sculptors, the most prominent being Penelope Jencks, who sculpted the peaceful, beautiful eight-foot-high statue of Eleanor Roosevelt that stands in Riverside Park at Seventy-second Street. Well, Jencks is working on a statue of Robert Frost, commissioned by the Amherst College Class of 1957. He will be seated, on some rocks (Jencks's people sit on rocks), holding a book in his hand and facing the Frost Library. Jencks is a perfectionist-a month on a thigh or an ankle. She plans for the statue to be in granite. "He has a granite face," she says. "At first when I was asked to do this I said no-I was all burned out from Eleanor. I preferred Eliot to Frost when I was at Swarthmore-Eliot was my boy. But I finally said I would do it. I won't do the carving myself-that will be done by wizard artisans from my model. People tell me he had a mean streak. I don't give a damn about that. I'm interested in the face and the thoughts behind it."
The Guardian
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HEADLINE: Obituary: Clark Kerr: American university
reformer sacked by Reagan at the height of the 1960s student protests
SECTION: Guardian Leader Pages, Pg. 21
LENGTH: 885 words
BYLINE: Christopher Reed
BODY:
As the most distinguished American academic administrator of his day, and the man who introduced free university tuition in California, Clark Kerr, who has died aged 92, was known as the Henry Ford of higher education. His nine-year tenure as president of the University of California in the 1960s, and his earlier chancellorship of its Berkeley campus (1952-58), set the standard for American universities. But it took just one meeting of the board of regents in 1967 for the new state governor Ronald Reagan to get him sacked on the spot.
Kerr
was born in Pennsylvania, the son of an apple farmer and a milliner, who
imbued their son with a deep respect for education. His father was the first
member of his family to go to university and spoke four languages; his mother
had left school at 12 but postponed getting married until she had saved
enough money to fund a college education for her future children. Kerr graduated
from
Chronicle of Higher Education
Headline: Clark Kerr, 'One of the Giants,'
Dies
December 12, 2003
By JEFFREY SELINGO
BODY:
Clark Kerr, who helped create
the model of the modern American higher-education system as president of
the University of California in the 1960s, and continued to play an influential
role in national policy for decades after he was fired by then-Gov. Ronald
Reagan for refusing to quiet student protesters, died last week following
complications from a fall. He was 92.
After his dismissal, Mr. Kerr turned down job offers from Harvard and Stanford Universities, as well as his alma mater, Swarthmore College, in order to become chairman of the Carnegie Commission. For most of the 1970s, the commission produced a plethora of reports and studies on all aspects of higher education, including international education, the faculty, and law schools -- a collection that is often referred to today by scholars as the "five-foot shelf" of the commission's works.
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CLARK KERR
1932:
Graduates from Swarthmore College
and spends the summer touring California on a "peace caravan."
Ottawa Citizen
HEADLINE: Love, lust and Lolita - Sex in literature
SECTION: News; Pg. A6
LENGTH: 2136 words
SERIES: Sex at 50
SOURCE: The Ottawa Citizen
BYLINE: Jenny Jackson
BODY:
In 1953, Playboy hit the stands with shocking news: Sex could be fun! A few years and several court battles later, we discovered sex could also be creepy (Lolita, 1958), frolicsome (Lady Chatterley's Lover, 1959), copious (Tropic of Cancer, 1961), and very painful (Story of O, 1965).
When Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset went to court to defend it, literary critic Malcolm Cowley testified that its view of sex wasn't that far away from that of Ladies' Home Journal. The judge agreed, and the appeals court upheld the decision. Rosset is 81, and working on his autobiography in his home in New York City.
"I published Lady Chatterley's Lover because it was a good book and I thought it would lead me to publishing Tropic of Cancer, which indeed it did," he told the Citizen. "I believe in free speech, that's why I published them. I had to do it.
"I
first read Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer in 1940 when I was a freshman
at
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HEADLINE:
SECTION: THIS WEEKEND, Pg. 12
LENGTH: 686 words
BYLINE: Jane Holahan
BODY:
BACK WHEN MORGAN Phillips was in high school and college shows, his favorite thing was when someone -- more often than not himself -- forgot his lines. No, he wasn't a cruel kid. He was an improv actor in the making. "That intense, focused moment, when you had to be completely in your character to fill in the lines, to fix the problem without seeming like you were struggling -- that was exciting," remembers Phillips.
These
days, as a member of Chicago City Limits, the famed improv
group that's coming to
Phillips,
who got a theater degree at
Journal of Management
HEADLINE: Reflections on the Looking Glass:
A Review of Research on Feedback-Seeking Behavior in Organizations
December, 2003
SECTION: Vol. 29, No. 6
LENGTH: 12301 words
BYLINE: Susan J. Ashford; Ruth Blatt and Don VandeWalle
2.
Ruth Blatt is a Ph.D. student in Organizational Behavior and Human
Resources Management at the University of Michigan
Business School. Her research interests are in how individuals proactively
create conditions for excellence in their work lives, particularly when
they have weak contractual, physical, or psychological attachments to organizations.
She has a B.A. in psychology from
HIGHLIGHT:
This paper presents and organizes the results of two decades of research
on feedback-seeking behavior according to three motives: the instrumental
motive to achieve a goal, the ego-based motive to protect one's ego, and
the image-based motive to enhance and protect one's image in an organization.
SPORTS
Headline: Chestnut Hill men making mark on court
11 December 2003
SPORTS - D07
BODY:
Player honorees. University of the Sciences' Pete Adams, a Camden Catholic graduate; Holy Family's Ryan Haigh (Father Judge); Haverford's Jeremy Bass; and Swarthmore's Jacob Letendre received awards as the small-college coaches' players of the week.
The
Headline: Terrapins upset top-ranked Gators on Garrison jumper
SPORTS - D03
By the Associated Press
BODY:
Johns Hopkins 68, Swarthmore 62 - Matthew Gustafson scored 26 points, but the Garnet (2-5, 0-2) lost the Centennial Conference game to the Blue Jays (4-2, 1-0) in Baltimore.
The Associated Press
HEADLINE: Johns Hopkins 68, Swarthmore 62
SECTION: Sports News
LENGTH: 66 words
DATELINE: BALTIMORE
BODY:
Danny Nawrocki scored 24 points and grabbed game-high 13 rebounds to lead Johns Hopkins to a 68-62 victory over Swarthmore Wednesday night.
Matthew Gustafson scored a game-high 26 points and grabbed a team-high rebounds for Swarthmore (2-5).
The
HEADLINE: Miami's 13-2 run pushes back UMBC
SECTION: SPORTS, Pg. 6C
LENGTH: 303 words
SOURCE: FROM STAFF REPORTS
BODY:
Johns
Hopkins 67, Swarthmore 47: Sophomore Amanda Leese
scored a career-high 19 points and added six rebounds as the host Blue Jays
(7-0, 3-0 Centennial Conference) defeated the Garnet Tide (5-3, 1-2).
HEADLINE: COLEMAN SETS EASTERN SCORING MARK
IN LOSS
SECTION: SPORTS; Pg. E2
LENGTH: 357 words
BYLINE: Staff And Wire Reports
BODY:
Swarthmore 44,
Morning Call
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HEADLINE: The Morning Call 2003 All-Area Soccer
Team
SECTION: ACTION! LOCAL SPORTS, Pg. C11
LENGTH: 1125 words
BYLINE: The Morning Call
BODY:
MATT REICHL
Central Catholic, Senior
Midfielder
Senior
year, stats: 10 goals, nine assists; Lehigh Valley Conference, All-star
team; LVC, Lehigh Divsion All-Star Career, stats: 16 goals, 15 assists 3.0 GPA
member of Triboro Hurricanes club soccer team
Ski club plays volleyball Plans on majoring in astronomy, and attending