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The Dallas Morning News
HEADLINE: As native languages are lost in droves, ideas go with them
February 26, 2004, Thursday
SECTION: DOMESTIC NEWS
LENGTH: 841 words
BYLINE: By Alexandra Witze
BODY:
SEATTLE A fisherman from Cornwall and an accountant from Houston may have trouble understanding each other, but the English tongue itself is in no danger of disappearing. The same can't be said for many of the world's native languages.
"Human languages are vanishing as we speak," says K. David Harrison, a linguist at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. The rate of loss, he adds, "makes the extinction of species look trivial by comparison."
Last July, Harrison traveled to Siberia to meet with the Chulym people, who live in six isolated villages using traditional means of hunting, gathering and fishing. Only 35 people in the community of 426 _ and no one under the age of 52 _ could speak the Middle Chulym language fluently, Harrison found. The rest spoke mainly Russian.
National Public Radio
HEADLINE: John Katzman of The Princeton Review discusses the new SAT essay test
SHOW: Weekend Edition Saturday (12:00 Noon PM ET) - NPR
February 21, 2004 Saturday
LENGTH: 1060 words
ANCHORS: SCOTT SIMON
BODY:
SCOTT SIMON, host: This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. Coming up, Socrates and a double espresso.
But, first, next year, aspiring college students will be subjected to an extra 30 minutes of that annual ritual of tribulation, the SATs, Scholastic Aptitude Tests. The new, longer tests will include a writing section, essentially an essay. An article in the current issue of The Atlantic Monthly claims that William Shakespeare wouldn't score so well on the new SAT essay nor
Ernest Hemingway or Gertrude Stein. John Katzman wrote that article for The Atlantic along with Andy Lutz and Erik Olson.
SIMON: John Katzman, who along with Andy Lutz and Erik Olson, are the authors of "Would Shakespeare Get into Swarthmore?" in the current issue of The Atlantic Monthly. Thanks very much.
Time Magazine
HEADLINE: Pornography For Preppies
March 1, 2004
SECTION: NOTEBOOK; Pg. 20
LENGTH: 240 words
BYLINE: Jeremy Caplan
BODY:
Harvard alums were blushing a deep crimson red last week as the university's Committee on College Life approved the campus's first student sex magazine. Its co-founder, Camilla Hrdy, a junior, told the Harvard Crimson that the formal committee got "past the fear of porn." But after a spate of publicity and a chorus of shocked responses, the university reconsidered and now says it won't fund the magazine. Even so, Hrdy and sophomore Katharina Baldegg plan to bring out the publication--dubbed H Bomb, campus lingo for the powerful effect Harvard credentials have on suitors--in May, in time for commencement.
Hrdy and Baldegg are modeling their magazine on Squirm, a journal of erotica put out by Vassar students since 1999. And for other inspiration, the students don't have far to look. A number of other elite colleges have got down and dirty:
-- SWARTHMORE A slick journal called Untouchables, packed with sexy stories, was a short-lived hit in 2001 at this top Pennsylvania college.
Detroit Free Press
HEADLINE: Simplicity often is the best for travelers
February 24, 2004, Tuesday
SECTION: TRAVEL
LENGTH: 524 words
BYLINE: By Ellen Creager
BODY:
When you take a vacation, do you fret that you might be having a better time somewhere else? Blame your anxiety on too many travel choices. With hundreds of online deals and vacations beckoning, picking a trip is like choosing one apple in an orchard you're never sure you got the best one.
"If my analysis in general is correct, all the choice people have makes it hard for them to choose where to go and detracts from their satisfaction," says Barry Schwartz, a professor of psychology at Swarthmore College.
Schwartz is an expert in what's called the "paradox of choice" the theory that people are happier when they have fewer choices, not more. He cites studies that show too many choices in jam flavors, chocolate, investments and even cancer treatments burden and depress people. He thinks the paradox applies to traveling, too.
AScribe Newswire
HEADLINE: Two More Companies Broaden Anti-Discrimination Policy Under Pressure From Swarthmore College
February 23, 2004 Monday
LENGTH: 535 words
BODY:
SWARTHMORE, Pa., Feb. 23 [AScribe Newswire] -- Swarthmore College once again has used its position as a shareholder to effect change in corporate America. Under pressure from the College, two Fortune 500 companies have agreed to broaden their equal opportunity polices to bar discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. The action follows Swarthmore's notification of each company of the intention to co-file a shareholder resolution for inclusion in the companies' proxy ballots.
The development mirrors the College's successful efforts last year to pressure Lockheed Martin to add sexual orientation to its non-discrimination policies. After the College filed a shareholder resolution -- the first in the country solely initiated by a college or university since the anti-apartheid movement in the 1980s -- Lockheed amended its policy.
Credit Union Journal
HEADLINE: For Putting The Quantitative Behind The Qualitative, The Filene Research Institute Wins Wegner Award
February 23, 2004
SECTION: Vol. 8; No. 8; Pg. 76
LENGTH: 1495 words
BYLINE: By Carol Anne Burger
DATELINE: MADISON, Wis.
BODY:
Key to Filene's knowledge base is the fact that they never study a topic and consider it closed: they revisit subjects over time as they are applied by the system, and follow up with expanded information. Check cashing services is one important case in point.
Check Cashing and Savings Programs for Low Income Households: An Action Plan for Credit Unions, written in 2001 by John P. Caskey of Swarthmore College, showed how credit unions and CUSOs could collaborate to provide low-fee transaction services to people who customarily used high-fee check cashing operations and pawn shops. Offering such means also provided a segue for this usually "unbanked" group into mainstream financial operations. And these operations needn't be loss leaders forever, but can lead to more profitable loans as the relationships mature.
Daily Collegian
(Penn State)
HEADLINE: Abortion debate will continue until question of 'life' answered
February 23, 2004 Monday
SECTION: COLUMN
LENGTH: 808 words
BYLINE: By Torie Bosch, Daily Collegian; SOURCE: Pennsylvania State U.
DATELINE: UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.
BODY:
Even science is divided about when life begins. Scott Gilbert, a biology professor at Swarthmore College, lists seven possible ways to scientifically define when life begins, from the "metabolic view" (which says that life exists before conception, since the egg and sperm cells are both alive) to the "integrated physiological view" (which says that life begins when one is completely independent of the mother's body). In-between views say that life begins at conception, at day 12 of gestation, at 25 weeks, at 27 weeks and at birth.
Morning Call
(Allentown, PA)
HEADLINE: PROFESSOR IS BIRD-DOGGING A CURE FOR BIRD DEATHS
February 19, 2004 Thursday FOURTH EDITION
SECTION: IN PERSON, Pg. B6, HAVE YOU HEARD?
LENGTH: 297 words
BYLINE: By Christina Gostomski Of The Morning Call
BODY:
Muhlenberg College professor Daniel Klem Jr. is a man in search of a cure. Not any cure, mind you. He's looking for a way to prevent the deaths of winged creatures from blunt-force trauma. Klem, an ornithology and conservation biology professor, estimates that up to 1 billion birds die annually in the United States because of a culprit that is invisible from a bird's-eye view -- plate glass.
The professor's work is getting noticed. Swarthmore College is experimenting with patterned glass to see if it reduces the deaths. Niagra Falls State Park designed an observation tower with striped glass and builders in the Netherlands are working with Klem to design bird-friendly noise barriers made from glass.
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE
(Massachusetts)
HEADLINE: Rocking the voters not enough - Young people still sitting out elections
February 18, 2004 Wednesday, BLACKSTONE VALLEY EDITIONS
SECTION: LOCAL NEWS; SINA-CISM; Pg. B1
LENGTH: 921 words
BYLINE: Chris Sinacola
BODY:
You can rock, smack down or hip-hop the vote all you want, but the fact remains that, when the March 2 presidential primary arrives, most young voters in Massachusetts will simply the skip the vote. Voter turnout among 18- to 24-year-olds has been declining for more than 30 years. After the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age to 18 in 1971, a larger percentage of people 24 and younger registered to vote. However, the number of those registered voters who actually voted fell below 50 percent for the first time.
Richard Valelly, a political scientist at Swarthmore College, punched the chad clean through, I think, when he recently told an Internet news organization that some proposed changes, such as electronic voting, would likely corrode the civic ritual that comes with the act of voting.
''Our current system has the virtue of reminding us of our fundamental political equality,'' he said. ''On Election Day, we must leave our homes and offices, travel to a polling place and physically mingle with people who are plainly our equals that day, no matter what other differences we have.''
Chicago Tribune
Headline: Home gyms gain popularity
25 February 2004
By the Associated Press
BODY:
ATLANTA -- The days of long waits for sweaty machines are losing their appeal faster than a New Year's resolution. Is it any wonder more people are opting to work out at home?
Many are buying their own exercise equipment, driven partly by affordable prices and the notion--sometimes unrealistic--that the sight of a new cross-trainer will get them moving.
Americans spent about $4.3 billion on exercise equipment in 2002--up more than 11 percent from the previous year, which saw almost $3.9 billion in sales, according to the National Sporting Goods Association.
Tom Krattenmaker of Yardley, Pa., prefers using his own treadmill and Bowflex machine--which offers exercises from resistance training to rowing--despite having free access to a fitness center at Swarthmore College, where he works. "It's a hassle to do it [work out] at a public gym," he said. "Sometimes you have to wait to get on the machine you want."
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Headline: Danger of glass to birds overlooked
22 February 2004
By JOANN LOVIGLIO, Associated Press
BODY:
Allentown, Pa. -- Daniel Klem Jr. cradles a small, dead bird with chestnut-mottled wings, another victim of what he says is a largely unrecognized environmental hazard that kills birds in flight. The culprit is the plate glass used in windows, skyscrapers and other structures, which the birds strike because they cannot see it.
Carr Everbach, a Swarthmore College engineer heading a "green team" working on a new science center at the school, likens plate glass to other scientific advancements later found to harm the environment, such as ozone-depleting CFCs and leaded gasoline. The new science center will have glass etched with dots and other patterns, which the green team hopes birds will see and avoid. The building also will have clear glass and "thump sensors" to see whether -- and where -- birds strike the structure.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Headline: Sketches take viewers back to 1956 boycott
22 February 2004
By Victoria Donohoe, Inquirer Art Critic
BODY:
Swarthmore College
In any show of present-day artists' books, we expect that the next page we turn represents the unknown. That's because artists' books today are full of surprises. It's even the case in the display "Binding Structures: Book Artists Look Back" at Swarthmore College's McCabe Library. Seen here are certain examples of early and historically significant structures used for binding - papyrus scrolls, wooden boards and palm leaves, stab bindings, exposed cords, and leather library bindings.
These are paired very attractively with up-to-date examples of work by a broad cross-section of book artists revisiting some of these earlier methods, with varying results.
Swarthmore began its collection of fine-press books in the 1920s. Gradually, library director Michael J. Durkan added many artists' books, and associate college librarian Amy Morrison has continued this practice.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Headline: Russian dancers teach discipline
22 February 2004
NEIGHBORS DELAWARE
By Mary Anne Janco, Inquirer Suburban Staff
BODY:
Under the watchful eye of Anastasia Babayeva, the dancers rehearsed scenes from the classical ballet Coppelia. With graceful leaps and powerful jumps, the boys crossed the room. The girls danced forward in unison, en pointe, then pirouetted.
Babayeva - who like her husband, Denis Gronostayskiy, trained for eight years at the famous Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow - paid attention to every detail: how the dancers' arms were positioned, their leg extensions, even the looks on their faces.
On Friday night, the dancers will do that as they present the romantic comedy ballet Coppelia at Swarthmore College. Babayeva will play the role of Swanilda, the town beauty, whose betrothed, Franz, danced by Gronostayskiy, becomes enamored with Coppelia, a life-like doll created by the village's mysterious old Dr. Coppelius.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Headline: My Backyard | Suggestions from two who preach what they practice
20 February 2004
FEATURES MAGAZINE
By Denise Cowie, Inquirer Columnist
BODY:
In the world of fashion, it's a standing joke that the divas who dictate that the rest of us wear pink, purple or polka dots in a given season wear nothing but black themselves. Horticulturists generally don't subscribe to this do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do credo. They tend to recommend plants they know and love, plants they grow in their own backyards.
Same with Andrew Bunting, who'll talk about "Shady Gardening" at the daylong event. He reels off one list of plants that would be great for dry shade, such as gingers and epimediums, and another set that would thrive in the moister shade of a woodland garden, including the foamflower Tiarella "Oakleaf," with white flowers and a purple splotch on its leaves, Phlox stolonifera "Sherwood Purple," a woodland phlox whose flowers are a soft mauve-purple, and Adiantum pedatum, a maidenhair fern whose fronds come up lime green in spring, he says, and then turn darker.
"These are all personal as well as professional favorites," adds Bunting, curator at Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College. "These are all at Scott, and also in my home garden."
The New York Sun
HEADLINE: Defund Middle East Studies
February 24, 2004 Tuesday
SECTION: FOREIGN; Pg. 7
LENGTH: 729 words
BYLINE: DANIEL PIPES
BODY:
Here's a prime example, one that involves me personally, of how the radical Left and the Islamists, those new best friends, readily deceive. It has to do with a proposed piece of U.S. legislation passed by the House, the "International Studies in Higher Education Act of 2003," known familiarly as H.R. 3077, and awaiting action by the Senate. H.R. 3077 calls for the creation of an advisory board to review the way in which roughly $100 million in taxpayer money is spent annually on area studies, including Middle East studies, at the university level.
Well, that's the record. But why should mere facts get in the way? Seemingly convinced that turning H.R. 3077 into my personal initiative will help defeat it in the Senate, leftist and Islamist organizations have imaginatively puffed up my role.
* The Council on American-Islamic Relations states that I am "actively pushing" for the advisory board. This deception prompted campus newspapers - for example, at Columbia, CUNY, Swarthmore, and Yale - to link me to the bill, as have city newspapers the Berkshire Eagle and the Oregonian, Web sites, and listservs.
Centre Daily Times
Headline: A suffragist's story
21 February 2004
By Geoff Mulvihill, The Associated Press
BODY:
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. -- She stood with other suffragists at the gates to the White House, holding signs that asked President Wilson, "How long must women wait for liberty?" She was thrown in jail, went on a hunger strike and endured having a tube forced down her throat so she could be fed. Now, more than 80 years after Alice Paul helped American women win the right to vote, she has become the focus of books and a movie.
Paul is a key figure in Eleanor Clift's best seller, "Founding Sisters and the 19th Amendment" and the subject of a forthcoming children's biography. Another writer is working on what could be the first full-length biography of Paul. The suffragist's story also is told in the movie "Iron Jawed Angels," starring Academy Award winner Hilary Swank
Clift, a Newsweek writer and a regular on "The McLaughlin Group," said one reason Paul had been overlooked for so many years was because the suffragist was accused of racism because she shut out black women from key roles in the movement to avoid alienating Southern whites. The allegation caused Paul's alma mater, Swarthmore College, to rename a women's center that had carried her name.
Editors Note: The above paragraph inaccurately describes the reason Swarthmore renamed its womens center.
The Kansas City Star
Headline: Movie shines belated
spotlight on Alice Paul
20 February 2004
By GEOFF MULVIHILL, The Associated Press
BODY:
Clift, a Newsweek writer and a regular on "The McLaughlin Group," said one reason Paul had been overlooked for so many years was because the suffragist was accused of racism because she shut out black women from key roles in the movement to avoid alienating Southern whites. The allegation caused Paul's alma mater, Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, to rename a women's center that had carried her name.
Editors Note: See correction above. This article was also carried by The Canadian Press.
ALUMNI
The Boston Globe
HEADLINE: ELLEN GOODMAN - BOUQUETS FOR LEFT-COAST LIBERALS
February 22, 2004, Sunday, THIRD EDITION
SECTION: OP-ED; Pg. D11
LENGTH: 803 words
BYLINE: BY ELLEN GOODMAN
BODY:
I DON'T CARE IF THE SAME-SEX NUPTIALS GET NIPPED IN THE BUD. I'M STILL GOING TO SEND FLOWERS FROM THE BAY STATE TO THE BAY AREA.
I'll send a dozen roses to the eightysomething couple who led the gay parade up to the civil marriage window in City Hall. No one can say those women married in haste. But my biggest batch of blooms will go to the city itself for one simple reason: It has taken the heat off my home. The spotlight on same-sex weddings has shifted from the Bay State's Constitution to the Bay Area's civil disobedience.
With John Kerry the likely Democratic nominee, San Francisco has saved the citizens of this commonwealth - gay and straight - from another round of Massachusetts bashing.
In 1984, the torch passed to San Francisco, site of the Mondale-Ferraro convention. In 1988, it passed back to Massachusetts when Mike Dukakis, a Greek-American who graduated from Swarthmore and took the streetcar to work, was attacked as an elitist running on a platform created in a "Harvard Yard boutique" against that Kennebunkport populist George the First. Meanwhile, Ted Kennedy has the longest running role in right-wing fantasies as Lord Sauron of the dark forces.
The Times Union
(Albany, NY)
HEADLINE: From one radical to another, thanks
February 24, 2004 Tuesday THREE STAR EDITION
SECTION: MAIN, Pg. A9
LENGTH: 808 words
BYLINE: Ellen Goodman
DATELINE: BOSTON
BODY:
In 1984, the torch passed to San Francisco, site of the Mondale-Ferraro convention. In 1988, it passed back to Massachusetts when Mike Dukakis, a Greek-American who graduated from Swarthmore and took the streetcar to work, was attacked as an elitist running on a platform created in a "Harvard Yard boutique" against that Kennebunkport populist George the First.
The Baltimore Sun
HEADLINE: Bay Area unions take liberal spotlight
February 23, 2004 Monday FINAL Edition
SECTION: EDITORIAL, Pg. 11A
LENGTH: 825 words
BYLINE: Ellen Goodman
DATELINE: BOSTON
BODY:
In 1984, the torch passed to San Francisco, site of the Mondale-Ferraro convention. In 1988, it passed back to Massachusetts when Michael S. Dukakis, a Greek-American who graduated from Swarthmore and took the streetcar to work, was attacked as an elitist running on a platform created in a "Harvard Yard boutique" against that Kennebunkport populist George the First.
The Fort-Worth Star-Telegram
Headline: And for Best in Left Field, the title goes to ...
25 February 2004
By Ellen Goodman, The Boston Globe
BODY:
In 1984, the torch passed to San Francisco, site of the Mondale-Ferraro convention. In 1988, it passed back to Massachusetts when Mike Dukakis, a Greek-American who graduated from Swarthmore and took the streetcar to work, was attacked as an elitist running on a platform created in a "Harvard Yard boutique" against that Kenne-bunkport populist George the First.
The Cincinnati Post
Headline: Bay State can take a break
24 February 2004
By Ellen Goodman
BODY:
In 1984, the torch passed to San Francisco, site of the Mondale- Ferraro convention. In 1988, it passed back to Massachusetts when Mike Dukakis, a Greek-American who graduated from Swarthmore and took the streetcar to work, was attacked as an elitist running on a platform created in a "Harvard Yard boutique" against that Kennebunkport populist George the First.
The Tallahassee Democrat
Headline: Thanks to San Francisco, Boston gets less heat
24 February 2004
By Ellen Goodman, BOSTON GLOBE
BODY:
In 1984, the torch passed to San Francisco, site of the Mondale-Ferraro convention. In 1988, it passed back to Massachusetts when Mike Dukakis, a Greek-American who graduated from Swarthmore and took the streetcar to work, was attacked as an elitist running on a platform created in a "Harvard Yard boutique" against that Kennebunkport populist George the First.
The Kansas City
Star
Headline: Same-sex spotlight has shifted
23 February 2004
By ELLEN GOODMAN
BODY:
In 1984, the torch passed to San Francisco, site of the Mondale-Ferraro convention. In 1988, it passed back to Massachusetts when Mike Dukakis, a Greek-American who graduated from Swarthmore and took the streetcar to work, was attacked as an elitist running on a platform created in a "Harvard Yard boutique" against that Kennebunkport populist George the First.
Tri-Valley Herald
(Pleasanton, CA)
Headline: Former UC President Kerr
honored
Saturday, February 21, 2004
By Kristin Bender, STAFF WRITER
BODY:
BERKELEY -- He is considered one of the most influential academic leaders of the 20th century. But also as a man who used humor and humanitarianism to resolve conflicts large and small. Former University of California President Clark Kerr died in El Cerrito at age 92 last December.
...
Born May 17, 1910, in Stony Creek, Pa., Kerr was raised on an apple farm and attended a one-room school. During an age when fewer than 5 percent of America's high school graduates went to college, Kerr earned a bachelor's degree from Swathmore (sic) College, a master's degree from Stanford University and a Ph.D from UC Berkeley.
The Washington Post
HEADLINE: Chris Van Hollen * Age: 45
February 26, 2004 Thursday
SECTION: Prince George's Extra; T13
LENGTH: 786 words
BODY:
Age: 45
Residence: Kensington.
Education: BA, philosophy, Swarthmore College; MPP, Harvard University; JD, Georgetown University.
Occupation: Congressman.
Elected offices/civic activities: Member, U.S. House of Representatives, 2003-present; member, Maryland State Senate, 1995-2002; Member, Maryland House of Delegates, 1991-94; member, Advisory Board of Governors, Partnership for Public Service; board member, Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washington; honorary board member, American Red Cross of the National Capitol Area; former board member, Lourie Center for Children; youth soccer coach, MSI.
INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL
(LANCASTER, PA.)
February 24, 2004, Tuesday
SECTION: B, Pg. 12
LENGTH: 195 words
BYLINE: lvaningen
BODY:
Margaret Williams Thompson, teacher Margaret Williams Thompson, 94, formerly of West Chester, died of natural causes Saturday at Masonic Village at Elizabethtown, where she lived since 1990. Mrs. Thompson taught English and French at Ridley Park High School. She and her husband operated Blue Spruce Motor Court, Wilmington Pike, from 1952 until 1979. She also worked at Brandywine Book Store, West Chester. A graduate of Ridley Park High School, she earned a bachelors degree from Swarthmore College.
The Baltimore Sun
HEADLINE: Robert Zanes Brown, 77, biology professor, scientific researcher
February 23, 2004 Monday FINAL Edition
SECTION: LOCAL, Pg. 5B
LENGTH: 534 words
BYLINE: Andrea F. Siegel
SOURCE: SUN STAFF
BODY:
Robert Zanes Brown of Annapolis, a retired biology professor and scientist, died Thursday of multiple myeloma at Anne Arundel Medical Center. He was 77.
In a lengthy career, Dr. Brown, who studied rodent-borne diseases and rodent behavior, held positions at several research and educational institutions. He published papers on army-ant behavior, mouse biology, rodent control, water supplies and rain forest ecology.
Born in Jackson, Mich., he earned a bachelor's degree in biology from Swarthmore College. He received a doctor of science degree from the Johns Hopkins University in 1951.
Newsday
(New York)
HEADLINE: PAID DEATH NOTICES
February 21, 2004 Saturday
NASSAU AND SUFFOLK EDITION
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A24
LENGTH: 3204 words
BODY:
BROWN-Robert Z., Dr. (Professor Emeritus), age 77, of Annapolis, MD, on February 19, 2004. Graduate of A.B. Swarthmore College, ScD., Johns Hopkins University. Professor of Biology, Colorado College; University of Texas Institute of Marine Science; Dowling College, Special Staff Member; Rockefeller Foundation; Senior Scientist, U.S. Public Health Service. U.S. Navy V12 Program, WWII, U.S. Public Health Service.
The Capital
(Annapolis, MD)
HEADLINE: Feb. 21 Obituaries
February 21, 2004 Saturday
SECTION: OBITUARIES; Pg. A11
LENGTH: 1097 words
BODY:
Robert Brown
Robert "Bob" Zanes Brown, 77, a biology professor and science consultant and a 10-year resident of Annapolis, died of multiple myeloma Feb. 19 at Anne Arundel Medical Center.
The son of the late Raymond A. and Marie Fash Brown, Mr. Brown was born July 31, 1926, in Jackson, Mich. He attended Marquette University and received a bachelor of arts degree in biology from Swarthmore College in 1948 and a doctor of science degree from Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1951.
He served in the Navy during World War II.
Chronicle of Higher Education
Headline: Leaving the Campus for a High-Tech Payday
February 20, 2004
Section: The Faculty
Volume 50, Issue 24, Page A9
By PIPER FOGG
BODY:
Alfred Lee
1999: Denied tenure at Duke University, physics department
Now: Program manager at Microsoft
When Alfred Lee heard a senior colleague in the physics
department at Duke University in 1999 drone on about his 40-year career, he was
turned off. "I was awestruck by how depressingly boring it was," he
says. "I wasn't excited about the career path." That realization softened
the blow, he says, when Duke denied him tenure a short time later.
Meanwhile, he was talking with friends from graduate school
who had left academe for Microsoft and were thriving. And at his Swarthmore
College reunion just six months after his tenure denial, he found that one after
another, his old physics classmates had left academe for industry. They persuaded
him to look into the prospect of taking a job at Microsoft.
Now he works for
Indigo, one of the software-development groups, where he is a program manager.
Mr. Lee remembers making the transition from academe seamlessly.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Headline: Kimberly Paterson-Lang | Physician, 47
OBITUARIES
26 February 2004
B09
BODY:
Kimberly K. Paterson-Lang, 47, of Wallingford, a physician who volunteered as a medical missionary, died of cancer Monday at her home.
For 15 years, Dr. Paterson-Lang shared an internal medicine practice with Dr. Alan Zweben at Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland.
Dr. Paterson-Lang was on the staff of the Center for Occupational Health at Crozer and also cared for students at the Swarthmore College health center.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Headline: PIVOTAL ISSUES TO BE DECIDED ON MARCH 9 SEVEN CANDIDATES SEEK THREE SEATS
22 February 2004
By Daniella Aird Staff Writer
BODY:
John Thompson
SEAT: Commissioner
POLITICAL: Ran for city commissioner in 2002
PERSONAL: 66; married; two children
PROFESSIONAL: Retired U.S. diplomat
EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree in history and foreign affairs, Swarthmore College, 1962; master's degree in public affairs, Princeton University, 1964; post-degree study at Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton, 1979-80
SPORTS
INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL
(LANCASTER, PA.)
HEADLINE: BRIEFLY
February 23, 2004, Monday
SECTION: SPORTS, Pg. C-5, SPORTS DIGEST
LENGTH: 229 words
BODY:
Swimming sweep for F&M
Franklin & Marshall made school history Sunday night at its Kunkel Aquatic Center, winning both the men's and women's team competition at the 11th annual Centennial Conference Swimming Championships.
The Diplomat men won their third title in five years with 810 points to finish ahead of defending champion Gettysburg (730), Dickinson (558) and Swarthmore (536).
LANCASTER NEW ERA
February 20, 2004, Friday
SECTION: C, Pg. 1
LENGTH: 793 words
BODY:
Glenn Robinson talks about his basketball team and his face lights up. His eyes widened. His lips smile. Youd think he were Phil Martelli talking about his backcourt. F&Ms coach has the same reason to grin as Martelli does. St. Josephs coach doesnt have to game plan to defend Delonte West and Jameer Nelson. Robinson doesnt have to prepare to play against Steve Juskin, Bobby Lynch, Brandon Smith, Duran Searles, and Jackiem Wright. Those five starters, all double-figure scorers, are the guys behind F&Ms regular-season championship in the Centennial Conference.
Hopkins (15-7) and Ursinus (15-8) have already clinched berths in the Centennial Championship tournament. Swarthmore (13-10) and Gettysburg (13-10) are battling it out for the final spot, and their meeting Saturday at Swarthmore will go a long way toward determining who gets it.
The Baltimore Sun
HEADLINE: Rohde's fight continues after surgery - Swarthmore freshman makes improbable return
February 19, 2004 Thursday FINAL Edition
SECTION: SPORTS, Pg. 7C Postcards
LENGTH: 581 words
BYLINE: Bill Free
SOURCE: SUN STAFF
BODY:
Mark Rohde Jr. never wavered during an inspiring fight to continue his basketball career at Swarthmore College this season. From his open-heart surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital last June through a three-month recuperative period, Rohde always believed he would be in a Garnet Tide uniform for the season opener. Rohde had just graduated from Gilman last June when he underwent open-heart surgery to repair a hole and a damaged vein in his heart. The hole, between the size of a nickel and a quarter, had been discovered the summer between his junior and senior years at Gilman. The vein problem was a late surprise to the doctors.
That knee surgery came exactly two months before the successful heart operation which forced Rohde to halt all physical activities for three months. However, he headed to Swarthmore in September to start freshman classes and begin light workouts, preparing himself for the season opener. The 6-foot-5, 190-pound forward/center has appeared in 22 games, averaging 11 minutes a game for the Garnet Tide (12-10 overall, 9-6 Centennial Conference). He's averaging 2.5 points and 1.8 rebounds a game.
Another former Gilman basketball player, 6-8 junior center Arthur Chalmers, has averaged 9.1 minutes, 1.3 points and 1.5 rebounds in 15 games this season for Swarthmore.
The Baltimore Sun
HEADLINE: Towson can't catch W&M in 74-68 loss
February 19, 2004 Thursday FINAL Edition
SECTION: SPORTS, Pg. 4C
LENGTH: 696 words
SOURCE: FROM STAFF REPORTS
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Swarthmore 59, Washington College 47: The host Shorewomen (7-16, 3-13) scored just 15 first-half points in a loss to the Garnet Tide (14-9, 9-7) in a Centennial Conference game.
The Capital
(Annapolis, MD)
HEADLINE: College Roundup
February 19, 2004 Thursday
SECTION: SPORTS; Pg. D5
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WASHINGTON MEN'S BASKETBALL: Jonathan Webb scored 26 points and David Hovrath netted 24 in the Shoremen's 79-62 victory over Swarthmore.
SUNDAY NEWS
(LANCASTER, PA.)
February 15, 2004, Sunday
SECTION: C, Pg. 11
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F&M 57, Swarthmore 48: Amy Abernathy scored 13 points, pulled down 15 rebounds, and swatted 10 blocked shots for a triple-double as Franklin & Marshall defeated Swarthmore (13-9, 8-7 CC) 57-48 in the Mayser Center. The Diplomats (11-9, 11-4 CC) were led in scoring by Dana Johns who had a game-high 17 points. Abernathy is the third F&M womens player to record 1,000 points and 1,000 rebounds. She is sixth in school history scoring, third in rebounding and second in blocked shots.
The Philadelphia Daily News
Headline: Louisville drops fourth straight
26 February 2004
SPORTS
Daily News Wire Services
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Noteworthy
Ursinus guard Dennis Stanton (La Salle High), Franklin & Marshall guard Danny Searles (Camden product, Peddie School), Gettysburg forward David Glaser (Malvern Prep) and Swarthmore forward Matt Gustafson were named to the All-Centennial Conference first team.
Newsday
Headline: SCHOLAR ATHLETE: Ann Verdino
26 February 2004
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Grade: Senior
School: New Hyde Park
Athletics: Swimming (fall), basketball (winter), lacrosse (spring).
Statistics: Verdino is captain of the basketball team, averaging 16 points a game, and was named All-State in 2003 and All-Nassau in 2003-04. She was one of 20 high school juniors selected to play for the New York State Fair team in Syracuse. She has three varsity swimming letters and was a member of the county-qualified 4 x 100 freestyle relay. She is about to play her third year of varsity lacrosse, and won the Most Improved Player Award in 2001.
Academics: Verdino is ranked 15th in her class with a 95 grade point average, and she scored 1300 on the SAT. She is a member of the National Honor Society, the National Foreign Language Honor Society and the National Music Honor Society.
Ambition: Verdino is looking at Swarthmore, Hamilton, Vassar, and Haverford, along with Boston University, and plans to play basketball. She will study liberal arts and wants to work with children.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Headline: Krauser helps Pitt to its 25th win
25 February 2004
SPORTS
Compiled By The Inquirer Staff
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Haverford 59, Swarthmore 55 - Jeremy Bass scored
16 points and Mark Gabriel added 15 to lead the Fords (12-12, 10-8) past the host
Garnets in the Centennial Conference game. Jeff Maxim had a game-high 18 points
for Swarthmore (12-13, 9-9).