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Editors Note: This is a double issue.
The Times
(London)
Headline: We're spoilt for choice
25 March 2004
Features
By Anjana Ahuja
BODY:
The overwhelming array of options in everything from jeans to jams does not make people happy. So the answer is to lower your expectations and make do, says a leading psychologist. Anjana Ahuja reports.
LIKE most men, Barry Schwartz did not expect to feel inspired on a clothes-shopping trip. "I avoid buying jeans; I wear one pair until it disintegrates," says Schwartz, a psychology professor at Swarthmore College, in Pennsylvania.
"The last time I had bought a pair there was just one style. But then I was asked if I wanted this fit or that fit, or this colour or that. I intended to be out for five minutes but it took an hour. I ended up with jeans that fitted better than any I'd ever had, but feeling worse. After all that work and research I expected those jeans to fit perfectly, and when they didn't I was disappointed."
Newsweek
HEADLINE: The Afflictions Of Affluence
March 22, 2004 U.S. Edition
SECTION: ROBERT J. SAMUELSON; Pg. 45
LENGTH: 842 words
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Obesity and its complications--more diabetes and heart disease, for instance--now account for an estimated 9 percent of U.S. health spending. When we were poorer, obesity was not a big problem. The supposed villains here are fast-food restaurants and food companies that have supersized us to corpulence. There's some truth to this, but the larger number of children) complained more about the "time squeeze" as their incomes rose. Hamermesh and Lee's explanation: the more money people have, the more things they can do with their time; time becomes more valuable, and people increasingly resent that they can't create more of it.
Psychologist Barry Schwartz of Swarthmore College makes the broader point in his new book, "The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less." Our individual culture worships choice, but too much of it leads to choice congestion. Consumer Reports now "offers comparisons among 220 new car models, 250 breakfast cereals, 400 VCRs, 40 household soaps, 500 health insurance policies, 350 mutual funds, and even 35 showerheads," Schwartz writes.
Los Angeles Times
HEADLINE: Here and Now - Neurotic, table for one
March 25, 2004 Thursday
SECTION: CALENDAR WEEKEND; Calendar Desk; Part E; Pg. 2
LENGTH: 807 words
BYLINE: Paul Brownfield, Times Staff Writer
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When we go to Jerry's Deli or a place with a similarly discursive list of choices, my friend, who did much, much better than I did on the SAT, cuts to the quick and puts the menu down while I bounce around figuring out which sandwich or salad I want. Eventually this begins to take on the urgency of picking out a country to bomb. In my head, it sounds roughly like this: "Chopped salad ... half a turkey sandwich and the pea soup ... Libya!"
"A few decades of research has made it clear that most people are terrible choosers -- they don't know what they want, and the prospect of deciding often causes not just jitters but something like anguish," the New Yorker magazine said recently in a review of a new book called "The Paradox of Choice." The book, by Swarthmore social scientist Barry Schwartz, expounds on the theory that the more choices we're given, the less free we feel to choose.
Star Tribune
(Minneapolis, MN)
HEADLINE: In a world of more and more choices, we need to remember what's important
March 21, 2004, Sunday, Metro Edition
SECTION: VARIETY; Kim Ode; Pg. 2E
LENGTH: 820 words
BYLINE: Kim Ode; Staff Writer
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We headed out to find a computer chair, a straightforward enough task. But after spending way too much time sitting, adjusting and swiveling, trying to choose from several dozen adjustable swiveling chairs, we gave up and walked out.
We could have been case studies in Barry Schwartz's new book: "The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less." Schwartz, a psychology professor at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, explores the apparent absurdity of how a luxury of choices can make us feel dissatisfied, even depressed. After all, in a culture with limitless options, there's no excuse for making the wrong choice.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Headline: Afflicted with choice
Sun, Mar. 21, 2004
By Karen Heller, Inquirer Columnist
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Our world is drunk with choice. Lousy, even. For Americans living above the poverty line, each day delivers a fusillade of choice, more than we could have imagined, about everything from bran muffins to medical care. With choice comes responsibility, a dizzying number of decisions that swallow time and freedom while preying on emotional well-being. Huge choices about school, college, college courses, graduate school, career, neighborhood, housing, marriage, children, doctors, treatments to pursue after choosing a doctor, investing, retirement, prescription drug plans - as well as the quotidian though satisfying ones, like finding superior cheese.
"Employers think they're doing you a favor offering you a choice when it comes to retirement funds," says Swarthmore psychology professor Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, an insightful study that winningly argues its subtitle. "But the more choices offered, the less likely people are to choose any one because they're so daunted, like my colleague who has yet to chose a retirement plan. All of a sudden it's become a problem, a problem that affects your entire future."
The Washington Post
HEADLINE: The Afflictions of Affluence
March 17, 2004 Wednesday
SECTION: Editorial; A25
LENGTH: 828 words
BYLINE: Robert J. Samuelson
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Psychologist Barry Schwartz of Swarthmore College makes the broader point in his new book, "The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less." In 1950 Americans devoted a fifth of their disposable incomes to food (and less than a fifth of that to eating out). Now food's share is a tenth (and almost half is out).
Akron Beacon Journal
Headline: A weighty manifestation of wealth
18 March 2004
By Robert Samuelson, Washington Post columnist
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Psychologist Barry Schwartz of Swarthmore College makes the broader point in his new book, The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less. Our individual culture worships choice, but too much of it leads to choice congestion. Consumer Reports now "offers comparisons among 220 new car models, 250 breakfast cereals, 400 VCRs, 40 household soaps... 350 mutual funds and even 35 showerheads," Schwartz writes.
Charleston
Daily Mail
(West Virginia)
HEADLINE: Commentary Our societal disease is affluence
March 19, 2004, Friday
SECTION: Editorial; Pg. P5A
LENGTH: 816 words
BYLINE: ROBERT SAMUELSON
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Psychologist Barry Schwartz of Swarthmore College makes the broader point in his new book, "The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less."
Our individual culture worships choice, but too much of it leads to choice congestion. Consumer Reports now "offers comparisons among 220 new car models, 250 breakfast cereals, 400 VCRs, 40 household soaps ... 350 mutual funds and even 35 showerheads," Schwartz writes.
Charlotte Observer
Headline: Obesity's just another affliction of affluence
18 March 2004
Page: 13A
By ROBERT SAMUELSON, Washington Post Writers Group
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Psychologist Barry Schwartz of Swarthmore College makes the broader point in his new book, "The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less." Our individual culture worships choice, but too much of it leads to choice congestion. Consumer Reports now "offers comparisons among 220 new car models, 250 breakfast cereals, 400 VCRs, 40 household soaps ... 350 mutual funds and even 35 showerheads," Schwartz writes.
The Globe and Mail
(Canada)
Headline: Choices make us unhappy
17 March 2004
By JUDITH TIMSON
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On more occasions than I like to admit, I have walked purposefully in to rent a video, stood staring for what seems like an eternity at the racks and racks of movies and then much to my despair, been unable to commit to spending a mere two hours with any of the possibilities. I reach for a comedy and think, no, that's too lightweight, then a drama until I imagine the labour-intensity of just sitting through it. Finally, smiling weakly at my friendly neighbourhood proprietor, who has even held up pictures of Johnny Depp to spur me on, I exit the store, shame-faced and empty-handed.
According to American author and academic Barry Schwartz, I have just experienced a modern malaise that he examines in his entertaining new book The Paradox of Choice (published by HarperCollins). We have too much choice in modern society, he argues, and that choice is making us unhappy. Mr. Schwartz, who teaches social theory and social action at the prestigious Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, writes that rampant consumer appetites, especially in North America, have resulted in a scale of choice that eventually becomes counter-productive, whether it's choosing the perfect chocolate-chip cookie or deciding which company to work for.
Newsday
(New York)
HEADLINE: Saving their words and their cultures
March 17, 2004 Wednesday
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A29
LENGTH: 689 words
BYLINE: BY EARL LANE. WASHINGTON BUREAU
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WASHINGTON - In a half-dozen fishing villages in a remote part of central Siberia, the Middle Chulym people are losing their language, one of hundreds of tongues likely to vanish around the globe during the next half century.
Among the Middle Chulym, who survive by ancestral ways of hunting, gathering and fishing, only about 40 out of 426 people continue to speak the native language, according to K. David Harrison, a linguist at Swarthmore College who traveled to the region last year to document two Turkic languages in imminent danger. He found that no one under the age of 52 can speak Middle Chulym fluently, and the rest speak only Russian.
"Each language that vanishes without being documented leaves an enormous gap in our understanding of some of the many complex structures the human mind is capable of producing," Harrison says.
Orlando Sentinel
Headline: LANGUAGES DYING
21 March 2004
A SECTION - A22
By Earl Lane, Newsday
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WASHINGTON -- In a half a dozen fishing villages in a remote part of central Siberia, the Middle Chulym people are losing their language, one of hundreds of tongues likely to vanish around the globe during the next half-century.
Among the Middle Chulym, who survive by ancestral ways of hunting, gathering and fishing, only about 40 of 426 people continue to speak the native language, according to K. David Harrison, a linguist at Swarthmore College who traveled to the region last year to document two Turkic languages in imminent danger. He found that no one younger than 52 can speak Middle Chulym fluently, and the rest speak only Russian.
The Seattle Times
HEADLINE: Linguists in race to save languages
March 18, 2004, Thursday Fourth Edition
SECTION: ROP ZONE; News; Pg. A6
LENGTH: 674 words
BYLINE: Earl Lane; Newsday
DATELINE: Washington
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Among the Middle Chulym, who survive by ancestral ways of hunting, gathering and fishing, only about 40 of 426 people continue to speak the native language, according to K. David Harrison, a linguist at Swarthmore College who traveled to the region last year to document two
Turkic languages in imminent danger. He found that no one younger than 52 can speak Middle Chulym fluently, and the rest speak only Russian.
Daily Press
Headline: LINGUISTS STRIVE TO PREVENT LOSS OF THREATENED TONGUES
21 March 2004
A-section
Byline: Newsday
BODY:
Among the Middle Chulym, who survive by ancestral ways of hunting, gathering and fishing, only about 40 out of 426 people continue to speak the native language, according to K. David Harrison, a linguist at Swarthmore College who traveled to the region last year to document two Turkic languages in imminent danger. He found that no one under the age of 52 can speak Middle Chulym fluently, and the rest speak only Russian.
Scripps Howard News Service
HEADLINE: Money-saving strategy: 2-year college, then Ivy League
March 14, 2004, Sunday
SECTION: DOMESTIC NEWS
LENGTH: 886 words
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
BYLINE: BILL SCHACKNER
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Stacie Clark has a Smith College degree. Nowhere on her diploma does it say half the credits are from a community college hundreds of miles from the prestigious women's campus in Massachusetts. Yet that's exactly how she did it, saving $58,000 in two years by staying close to home. It's given her a degree with more cachet than those held by many of her peers, who went deeper into debt by spending all four years at lesser-known universities. Not everyone jumps from a two-year college to an elite campus, but it's not as unheard of as some might think.
Increasingly, bargain-conscious students are using community college credits to aim as high as the Ivy League and other top-tier campuses. Some of those schools, in turn, are showing more interest in recruiting from community colleges that have diverse student bodies and learners who sometimes prove highly motivated.
Still, life on a commuter campus is far different from living in a residential setting. And some say students are missing out by concluding that short of the prestige that comes with an education at a Princeton or a Swarthmore, a four-year campus isn't worth the price.
LANCASTER
NEW ERA
(LANCASTER, PA.)
Headline: Money-saving secret: 2-year college, then go elite
March 15, 2004, Monday
SECTION: A, Pg. 1
LENGTH: 860 words
By BILL SCHACKNER, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Legislators in Pennsylvania encouraged state-owned universities to sign agreements with community colleges, making it easier for students to transfer general courses, from English to theater. Still, life on a commuter campus is far different from living in a residential setting. And some say students are missing out by concluding that short of the prestige that comes with an education at a Princeton or a Swarthmore, a four-year campus isnt worth the price. After all, say some who help prepare families for college, many campuses offer large amounts of financial aid that can make what seems like an insurmountable tuition bill reasonably affordable.
The Gazette
(Montreal, Quebec)
HEADLINE: Our foul-mouthed society
March 15, 2004 Monday Final Edition
SECTION: Editorial / Op-ed; Pg. A19
LENGTH: 1025 words
SOURCE: Newhouse News Service
BYLINE: MARK O'KEEFE
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Rasheda Williams, 24, recently walked through the Detroit neighbourhood where she grew up. She observed a girl about 12 calling to a friend across the street. "Hey, b-ch," the pre-teen said. Had Williams used such language at that age, she said, "I might have had a bar of soap for lunch." But today, foul language is common, and not just among potty-mouthed children or shock jocks like Howard Stern. Consider John Kerry using the f-word in describing President George W. Bush's war effort in Iraq, rock singer Bono using similarly raw language at the Golden Globe Awards or Garrison Keillor singing a ditty that included "pissed" and "ass" on his A Prairie Home Companion radio show.
Not everyone sees cause for concern. Donna Jo Napoli, professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania sees such change as a normal part of the evolution of language. "We're still shocked by lots of things," Napoli said. "We've just changed what we're shocked by. A racial slur, for example, knocks us flat."
St. Petersburg Times
HEADLINE: nu-kye-ler
March 15, 2004 Monday 0 South Pinellas Edition
SECTION: FLORIDIAN; Pg. 1E
LENGTH: 1195 words
BYLINE: BILL ADAIR
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About 600 Democratic voters gathered in a theater in Manchester, N.H., in January to watch President Bush's State of the Union address. They didn't like what they saw. They booed Attorney General John Ashcroft and hissed at Vice President Dick Cheney. Every time Bush said a word that sounded like "nu-cu-ler," they shouted a correction. "It's nuclear!" Bush's pronunciation of the word has become a flashpoint for his critics. In just three syllables, they hear an aristocratic upbringing, a Texas swagger and a disdain for details.
Donna Jo Napoli, a linguist at Swarthmore College, says Bush is making a common mistake. "I am not a Bush fan by any stretch," she says. "But this has no reflection on his intelligence. He is doing something that is perfectly ordinary. Anybody with any kind of intelligence can do it."
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Headline: Minority statistics tell two stories at Temple
17 March 2004
NATIONAL - A01
By James M. O'Neill, Inquirer Staff Writer
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Temple University officials have been proud to talk up the school's impressive
enrollment jump over the last five years. But some students and alumni say the
university has lost touch with its traditional mission to offer a low-cost college
education to the city's underserved.
A Latino students group recently sent an angry letter to Temple president David Adamany; and today a coalition of student and community groups plans to hold a rally at noon on the main campus in North Philadelphia to voice displeasure. But Temple officials say that they are still committed to the university's traditional goals, that they are redoubling their efforts to recruit minorities, and that recruiting in the suburbs has not reduced the number of minorities on campus.
The Latino situation is different. Latinos accounted for only 3 percent of Temple freshmen in 2001, compared with similar or higher percentages elsewhere, including 6 percent at Penn, 7 percent at La Salle University, and 8 percent at Swarthmore.
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
HEADLINE: They're a diplomatic dream team
March 14, 2004 Sunday All Editions
SECTION: A SECTION; Pg. A1
LENGTH: 1351 words
BYLINE: CHRISTINA DeNARDO, christina.denardo@heraldtribune.com
DATELINE: CHARLOTTE COUNTY
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Just how good is the Port Charlotte High School Model United Nations team? So good that they have won the top award in all seven competitions this year, earning them comparisons with the New York Yankees. Even when they kept their best players at home, the junior varsity team came back with top awards.
So good that, at a regional Model U.N. competition in Fort Myers last week, the rules were changed to give other schools a better shot at getting an award. Port Charlotte still swept all the major categories, although some awards were not announced so as not to demoralize the other teams.
At the Fort Myers conference, delegates earned points when they won individual awards, and every year the students with the most points earn $1,500 scholarships. The scholarships have helped the students go on to some of the nation's most prestigious universities, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cornell, Vanderbilt and Swarthmore College.
Legal Times
HEADLINE: Diebold Strikes Out at Hackers, but Gets the Black Eye
March 15, 2004
SECTION: LEGAL BUSINESS; Pg. 23
LENGTH: 1439 words
BYLINE: By Louis Trager
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After someone electronically lifted embarrassing e-mails from Diebold Inc. and posted them online, the company responded with a tactic that more and more companies are using to put a lid on Internet distribution of sensitive information: Diebold sent cease-and-desist notices to organizations hosting Web sites and forums that had published or even linked to the e-mails. But Diebold's move blew up in its face. The company's enforcement efforts brought more attention to Diebold's security vulnerabilities, not less. If state election officials who will soon decide whether to use Diebold's technology in the upcoming election and beyond didn't already know about these vulnerabilities, they almost certainly do now.
Diebold's takedown efforts, however, took down the sender. An unidentified hacker broke into a private Diebold computer site and discovered the e-mails. The messages then began to circulate. When the company last fall sent Swarthmore College a cease-and-desist letter concerning two students' links to an off-campus site that had posted the e-mails, the college grumbled but pulled the plug. That's when the matter got out of hand. A flash mob of computer scientists, libertarians, and others -- many already aroused against the DMCA and what they considered Diebold's shoddy voting security -- swung into action.
The Internet Newsletter
HEADLINE: DMCA Abuse?
March 9, 2004
SECTION: NEWS; Vol. 2; No. 3; Pg. 3
LENGTH: 1432 words
BYLINE: By Louis Trager
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When the company last fall sent Swarthmore College a cease-and-desist letter concerning two students' links to an off-campus site that had posted the e-mails, the college grumbled but pulled the plug. That's when the matter got out of hand. A flash mob of computer scientists, libertarians, and others many already aroused against DMCA and what they considered Diebold's shoddy voting security swung into action. They swiftly spread the company's e-mails around the Internet, like a host of SoBig worms.
The Atlantic Monthly
HEADLINE: Letter to the Editor
April 1, 2004
SECTION: No. 3, Vol. 293; Pg. 24; ISSN: 1072-7825
LENGTH: 1020 words
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The question asked by "Would Shakespeare Get Into Swarthmore?" (by John Katzman, Andy Lutz, and Erik Olson, March Atlantic) is not relevant in the context of evaluating the writing section of the new SAT. Evaluating the new SAT is not a bad thing to do, but I believe that the authors of this piece ignored a prose author's first duty to an audience: assuring readers that the writer has the facts straight.
Why would anyone be surprised that a blank-verse passage from As You Like It doesn't have the characteristics of a good persuasive essay? Surely the authors don't believe that the purpose of an expository writing test for high school students is to uncover a twenty-first-century Shakespeare.
Gaston Caperton
President, The College Board
LANCASTER
NEW ERA
(LANCASTER, PA.)
Headline: Bird blood bath
March 23, 2004, Tuesday
SECTION: C, Pg. 4
LENGTH: 1373 words
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Muhlenburg College biology professor who is the worlds foremost expert on bird mortality from striking glass. Klems estimates are staggering. Nearly 1 billion birds are killed each year in the United States from striking windows in homes and office buildings.
But the tide may slowly be turning. The glass-bird phenomenon is featured in this months Audubon magazine and Klem has been prominent in similar articles in recent months in the Wall Street Journal and Philadelphia Inquirer. Swarthmore College is building a $71 million science building which uses small dots of opaque glass for a semi-frosted look. The college insisted on a bird-friendly building after Klem spoke on campus and a faculty biology professor claimed another building project on campus had killed off the campus hummingbirds.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Headline: Writer 'hard-wired' for edgy fiction
Sun, Mar. 21, 2004
By Wendy Walker, Inquirer Suburban Staff
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Gregory Frost's career as a writer had a fiery start. He had been studying painting, but a fire in his apartment destroyed all his artwork - yet left a short story only singed around the edges. "I took that as a sign," he said. "I took a year off, wandered around, changed majors and ran with it." Now, the Merion Station resident writes a blend of horror, science fiction and fantasy that he calls "interstitial fiction." He said he didn't choose that genre; rather, "I fear I'm hard-wired that way."
Frost's first work, a short story about Edgar Allan Poe, was published in the Twilight Zone Magazine in 1981. Frost described his fifth and most recent book, Fitcher's Brides, as "the tale of Bluebeard re-envisioned as a dark fable of faith and truth."
In addition to his own writing, Frost teaches fiction writing at Swarthmore College and is a technical writer for Phonetics Inc., an Aston firm that manufactures environmental-monitoring systems. At Swarthmore, his class of 12 students meets once a week for three hours to discuss and critique one another's stories. Each student is required to write three stories per semester.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Headline: George C. Avery | Literature scholar, 77
19 March 2004
OBITUARIES
BODY:
George C. Avery, 77, of Swarthmore, professor emeritus of German at Swarthmore College, died March 5 at Crozer-Chester Medical Center of complications from a stroke.
Professor Avery joined the faculty of Swarthmore in 1959 and was chairman of the modern-languages department for five years. A colleague, Marion Faber, called him a meticulous, erudite scholar who "inspired so many of our students to develop their own powerful responses to the literature he loved."
During his academic career, Professor Avery received three research fellowships to study abroad. He pioneered work on Swiss writer Robert Walser, and in 2002 he published a book on the correspondence between Berlin writer and publicist Herwarth Walden and Vienna satirist Karl Kraus.
United Press International
HEADLINE: Kids curious about object functions
March 17, 2004 Wednesday
LENGTH: 147 words
DATELINE: SWARTHMORE, Pa., March 17 (UPI)
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When children ask what an object is, they may be more interested in its function than its name, U.S. researchers reported Wednesday. Most adults assume when children ask, "What is this?" they are seeking a name -- a label that differentiates the elements of their expanding universes.
The researchers, from Swarthmore College, studied children ages 2, 3 and 4 who asked about unfamiliar objects. They found the kids tended to ask follow-up questions for clarification when told only the object's name.
In addition, children given only an object's name tended to rephrase their questions in an attempt to find out more about its function. The results suggest young children might be able to distinguish objects by more than their names.
Webindia123.com
(India)
Headline: Kids information requests require comprehensive responses: Study
March 18, 2004
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Washington -- There's much more going in your child's mind when he unassumingly asks you "What is this?" A new study conducted by researchers at the Swarthmore College indicates that children posing such a question might actually be seeking the object's function, not simply its name.
National Post
(Canada)
HEADLINE: Ivy League porn leaves me cold
March 17, 2004 Wednesday National Edition
SECTION: Comment; Barbara Kay; Pg. A16
LENGTH: 830 words
SOURCE: National Post
BYLINE: Barbara Kay
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In May, two Harvard women are inaugurating a "porn magazine" (The Harvard Crimson's words) called H-Bomb that will "showcase sexual content and nude photos of students." Young publishers Katherina Baldegg and Camilla Hrdy insist H-Bomb is simply "a magazine that deals with sex and the issues surrounding sex for men and women of all sexual orientations."
But it's a bit unfair to reproach Harvard alone. H-Bomb comes rather late into the campus porn business. In fact H-Bomb is modeled on Squirm, a Vassar-run erotic magazine, which their Web site describes as "an intelligent and provocative exploration of sex and sexual pleasure." Then there is Yale's Rumpus newspaper, which has a section called "Bed Humping." Swarthmore College students publish an erotic magazine entitled Unmentionables (what could that possibly mean in 2004? One shudders to think).
Editors Note: As noted in previous editions of Swarthmore in the News, the above-mentioned erotic magazine at Swarthmore published just once and is no longer in existence.
Richmond Times Dispatch
HEADLINE: DANIEL BOORSTIN
March 15, 2004 Monday City Edition
SECTION: EDITORIAL; Pg. A-12
LENGTH: 452 words
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History is an art. Clio resides with Calliope, Erato, Terpsichore, and other muses ageless since antiquity. The historian's theme is memory. The stories he tells endure in part because of the grace with which he tells them. The masters of English literature include not only Shakespeare and Tennyson but also Gibbon and Macaulay. Daniel Boorstin, too, stands with the masters of language and content.
Boorstin was born in Georgia, reared in Oklahoma, and educated at Harvard and Yale. A Rhodes Scholar, he earned a degree from Balliol. He majored in history but also studied law. Boorstin taught at Harvard, Radcliffe, and Swarthmore - and at Chicago during the glory days.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Headline: Lecture on a master of landscape
12 March 2004
FEATURES MAGAZINE
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Thomas W. Sears is a landscape architect whose work, including the impressive outdoor amphitheater at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, has endured.
On March 23, Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College will host a free illustrated lecture on the designer, "Thomas Warren Sears: A Man for All Seasons," by Kathryn Meehan. Sears was well known for his residential and public garden designs, and was also an expert landscape photographer. Many of his own images will be shown.
Meehan, the retired assistant chief of horticulture at the Smithsonian Institution, was on the team that acquired the Thomas Sears Collection, which includes about 8,000 autochromes taken by Sears, his designs, and other archival material documenting his career.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Headline: Artist merges her creativity with computers
14 March 2004
NEIGHBORS DELAWARE
By Victoria Donohoe, Inquirer Art Critic
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Valerie Hollister's recent landscape paintings and prints are on view at Swarthmore College in a show involved directly with issues of the moment in American art: the use of computers in the creative process.
Hollister, a California-born Swarthmore resident, is no neophyte but a seasoned and developing professional. Computer aside, she is a traditional painter, one who for 40 years has always sought to distill the essence of natural forms. So, after she directly observes a natural scene, she draws it in pencil, makes notations and paints it on paper. Then she boldly takes the next step of redrawing the landscape on a computer with a mouse. The landscapes she produces this way are partly a figment of this artist's imagination and partly real: exotic terrains conjured up largely in the mind and not really tangible.
Hollister here uses color to soften the severity of internal relationships, to offer an intimate, sensual overtone to essentially abstract studies. Such brightly painted landscapes combine a crisp, almost brittle assurance with a lush, decorative scheme, defining her mature style and personal vision as it stands to date.
ALUMNI
American Artist
Headline: Expressive color, adjoining contrasts
1 April 2004
By Finucane, Anne H.
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Although, the popularity of colored pencils as an artists medium has grown exponentially in recent years, the styles and methods on view in exhibitions and articles continue to be Super- or Photo Realist. I love colored pencils for all the reasons that other artists do, but my work tends to be looser and more abstract. In the past few years I have moved away from representational art to abstraction. I'm still interpreting the landscape, but now I'm using color more expressively.
In some ways, it's a return to form. My years as an artist began after I earned my B.A. degree at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, which at that time had no studio-art degrees. I moved to Chambersburg and began painting seriously, focusing on the pastoral surroundings of south-central Pennsylvania.
The New York Sun
HEADLINE: Celebrating Navasky's Nation
October 8, 2002 Tuesday
SECTION: SPORTS; Pg. 8
LENGTH: 796 words
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"So this is what the great liberal media conspiracy looks like," said Nation magazine editor Katrina vanden Heuvel, looking out at a throng of former interns with the publication. "They're working at CBS, NBC, ABC, Pacifica, and the Los Angeles Times." She was speaking last Thursday at a 70th birthday bash for Nation publisher and editorial director Victor Navasky at the Black Door on West 26th Street. The soiree, which doubled as the first ever Nation intern reunion, featured a program booklet with a picture of an intern biting into a rock to fact
For, earlier in private remarks to a reporter, Mr. Navasky recalled having attended Swarthmore in the company of (the late) Harry Blackstone Jr., stage illusionist par excellence, from whom Mr. Navasky recalled he had gleaned some pointers on levitation.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Headline: John Seybold, print innovator
Sun, Mar. 21, 2004
By Sally A. Downey, Inquirer Staff Writer
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John W. Seybold, 88, who spearheaded technology that transformed the publishing industry, died last Sunday of heart failure at the Quadrangle, a retirement community in Haverford.
In 1963, Mr. Seybold established a company called Rocappi in Swarthmore. Over the next seven years, his programmers developed concepts used to create, edit, format and manipulate text information for print or electronic distribution. Early projects included a catalog for the Chester County Library and an automotive directory for McGraw-Hill. Rocappi also developed a database for the King James Bible.
Mr. Seybold grew up in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. While earning a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College, he became a member of the Religious Society of Friends.
In addition to his wife and son Jonathan, Mr. Seybold is survived by another son, Andrew; a daughter, Patricia; and four grandchildren. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. April 10 at Swarthmore Friends Meeting on the Swarthmore College campus.
The Jerusalem Post
HEADLINE: A giant in genes
March 21, 2004, Sunday
SECTION: HEALTH; Pg. 7
LENGTH: 1568 words
BYLINE: Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
BODY:
When a scientist becomes a Nobel laureate at the age of 37, does the rest of his career inevitably go downhill? Prof. David Baltimore's pursuit of biology since he was in high school has had many ups and one long down, but he's at the top again as president of the California Institute of Technology. One of the world's leading academic and research institutes, Caltech chose Baltimore to head it in 1997 despite a decade of uncertainty after he backed the co-author of a paper accused of scientific misconduct (who was later completely exonerated). Since then, as one of America's top scientific policy advisers - especially regarding recombinant DNA research and AIDS - researchers and administrators, Baltimore has never looked back.
He recently came to Israel for perhaps his 20th visit. His first was a month in 1960 to volunteer at Kibbutz Ayelet Hashahar and enjoy a visit to the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot. Last week he came to deliver the prestigious Albert Einstein Memorial Lecture and receive the Einstein Medal from the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
After spending a summer at the Jackson Memorial Laboratory in Maine as a high school pupil, he was inspired to study biology and chemistry, which he did at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. He then earned his doctorate from New York's Rockefeller University and became a research associate at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies at La Jolla, California, where he met Dr. Alice Huang, an outstanding Chinese-born scientist who did cancer research with him.
The Washington Post
HEADLINE: A Tale of Two Ladies, Each Devoted to Good Works
March 21, 2004 Sunday
SECTION: Prince William Extra; T05
LENGTH: 2150 words
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March is National Women's History Month and, thus, a time to honor two women of the near past: Mary Elizabeth Hughes, the first woman to be ordained in the Virginia Piedmont, and Eugenia Baskerville Tennant Fairfax, considered by many Loudoun and Fauquier county residents to be the area's first champion of historic preservation.
Hughes was born in May 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, at Overbrook Farm, near the village of Hughesville.
Thus, Elias Hughes and his wife, Virginia Jefferson Nichols, could send young Mary Elizabeth to the select Rockland School of Henry Hallowell in Sandy Springs, Md., to prepare for Swarthmore College, the coeducational college of choice for bright and affluent Quakers. After graduating from Swarthmore in 1884, Hughes taught at Friends' schools in the Philadelphia area for nine years and attended Moody Bible Institute in Chicago before beginning her ministerial career. The late Thomas E. Taylor of Lincoln, a neighbor who heard Hughes preach many times, remembered that she told him she initially was a supply preacher to several Friends' congregations in New England.
She became a minister of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends in 1894. From 1912 to 1917, she ministered to and taught American Indians in Plainview and Brunswick, Neb.
LANCASTER
NEW ERA
(LANCASTER, PA.)
HEADLINE: Kove - Maher
March 20, 2004, Saturday
SECTION: MAGAZINE, Pg. B-8
LENGTH: 124 words
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Pamela Kove and Daniel Maher, both of Belmont, Mass., announce their engagement.
The bride-to-be graduated from Drury Senior High School, North Adams, Mass., and Bates College, Lewiston, Maine. She earned a master's degree from Northeastern University, Boston, Mass., and is a Ph.D. candidate in the electrical engineering department. She is employed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, Mass.
Her fiancι graduated from Warwick High School and Swarthmore (Pa.) College. He earned a juris doctorate from New York University and is employed by Ropes and Gray, Boston.
The Times Union
(Albany, NY)
HEADLINE: A life filled with fun, songs
March 19, 2004 Friday THREE STAR EDITION
SECTION: CAPITAL REGION, Pg. B7
LENGTH: 445 words
BYLINE: Joseph Dalton; Staff Writer
DATELINE: ALBANY
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If you're a friend of Peter Schickele, make sure he writes you a song sooner or later if he hasn't already. They seem to pour out of him. Schickele's seemingly endless repertoire of songs was the heart of his program Thursday night at the WAMC Performing Arts Center.
In an extended number that Schickele wrote and sang to a graduating class of his alma mater Swarthmore College, the composer came up with one of the best lines of the night, which also seemed to sum up his approach to life: "Make some noise and let your body have a chance, remember Mozart loved to dance."
Delaware Law Weekly
HEADLINE: Minner Mulling Over New High Court Chief
March 24, 2004
SECTION: NEWS; Vol. 7; No. 12; Pg. D1
LENGTH: 1108 words
BYLINE: By Jennifer Batchelor
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Three sitting justices are rumored to be the front-runners for Chief Justice E. Norman Veasey's soon-to-be-vacant seat at the helm of the Delaware Supreme Court.
According to local political pundits, Justice Myron T. Steele, Justice Carolyn Berger or Justice Randy J. Holland could succeed Veasey when his term ends on April 7. On Jan. 15, Veasey, 71, told Gov. Ruth Ann Minner that he would retire from his post at the conclusion of his 12-year stint with the court.
Holland, age 57, was the youngest justice ever to have been appointed to the Supreme Court. Prior to his 1986 appointment, Holland was a partner at Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell. He earned his undergraduate degree at Swarthmore College and, in 1972, graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Associated Press
HEADLINE: Obituaries in the News
March 22, 2004 Monday
SECTION: DOMESTIC NEWS
LENGTH: 1248 words
BYLINE: The Associated Press
BODY:
John Seybold
HAVERFORD, Pa. (AP) John Seybold, whose company's technological innovations helped transform the publishing industry, died March 14 of heart failure, his family said. He was 88.
Rocappi, the Swarthmore-based company Seybold started in 1963, helped develop ways to create, edit, format and manipulate text for print or electronic distribution.
Seybold taught economics at Olivet College in Minnesota and Swarthmore College. During World War II, he was a regional wage-stabilization director for the National War Labor Board.
The Daily Iowan
HEADLINE: Civil rights, music mark past spring breaks
March 12, 2004 Friday
LENGTH: 443 words
BYLINE: By Jim Butts, The Daily Iowan; SOURCE: U. Iowa
DATELINE: IOWA CITY, Iowa
BODY:
As University of Iowa students impatiently attend final classes before Spring Break, some faculty members are reminiscing about their own spring-recess memories as undergraduates -- which ranged from fighting for civil rights to a trip to New Orleans. Phillip Jones, the University of Iowa vice president for Student Services, said he was involved in civil-rights demonstrations in Illinois during his breaks. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1963 and said he moved in and out of the civil-rights movement when he had free time.
During her senior year at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, Julie Hochstrasser, a University of Iowa assistant professor of art and art history, departed school by automobile for a Spring Break trip to New Orleans. "We ceremoniously took off our watches and left them in the glove compartment for the whole trip," said Hochstrasser about her 1976 journey. "That was the best part, to just leave our schedule completely behind us, and I don't think that has changed."
The Oakland Tribune
HEADLINE: An upbeat Clark Kerr memorial
February 21, 2004 Saturday
SECTION: MORE LOCAL NEWS
LENGTH: 727 words
BYLINE: By Kristin Bender, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: BERKELEY
BODY:
Former University of California President Clark Kerr died in El Cerrito at age 92 last December. But his legacy and dedication to the UC system and to Cal in particular were remembered at a public memorial service Friday afternoon at Zellerbach Auditorium.
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 Swarthmore College, a master's degree from Stanford University and a Ph.D from UC Berkeley.
CBS Marketwatch.com
Headline: Study Finds Reforming the Student Loan Consolidation Program Will Make More Financial Aid Available to Future College Students
3/10/2004 4:22:00 PM
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WASHINGTON, Mar 10, 2004 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Federal consolidation student loans will cost taxpayers at least $14 billion in interest rate subsidies on existing loans and, if legislative remedies are not enacted soon, an additional $21 billion on consolidation loans made between 2005 and 2011. That is the conclusion of a new study authored by two noted economists: Kevin Hassett, Director of Economic Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and Dr. Robert Shapiro, chairman of Sonecon, LLC, and a non- resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and the Progressive Policy Institute.
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Kevin A. Hassett is Director of Economic Policy Studies and Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He holds a B.A. from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
SPORTS
Portland
Press Herald
(Maine)
HEADLINE: WOMEN'S BASKETBALLD3HOOPS.COM ALL-AMERICA TEAMS
March 22, 2004 Monday, Final Edition
SECTION: SPORTS; Pg. 2C
LENGTH: 176 words
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First team - Lora Trenkle (Surry, MaIne), sr., G, Bowdoin; Katie Robinson, sr., G, Swarthmore; Allison Coleman, sr., F, Eastern Connecticut; Tara Rausch, sr., F, Wilmington; Alicia Davis, sr., C, Loras.
The Wilkes-Barre Times Leader
Headline: Wilkes, King's win in Florida
13 March 2004
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Misericordia 1, Swarthmore 0
KISSIMMEE, Fla. - Misericordia (4-6) concluded its spring trip with a pair of wins at the Rebel Spring Games.
Laura Mushinski tossed a two-hitter in the win over Ohio Wesleyan and Kristi Devens picked up the win in relief in the win over Swarthmore.
Amber Lazorka led the offense in the opener with three hits, three runs and three RBI. Kerri Buckman added three hits and two RBI. Barb Rexer had two hits, two runs and an RBI, and Kirsten Lazorka added two hits.
The Press Democrat
(California)
Headline: FIVE-RUN SEVENTH INNING LIFTS SANTA ROSA OVER PINER
11 March 2004
SPORTS
BODY:
At Rohnert Park, Pennsylvania's Swarthmore College men's tennis team completed its four-match spring break trip to California with a 5-4 victory over Sonoma State. Swarthmore (6-2) and SSU (2-9) divided the six singles but the visitors won two of the three doubles.
The Press Democrat
(California)
11 March 2004
SPORTS
BODY:
College tennis
Swarthmore 5, Sonoma State 4
Single--Rodd SC d. Nagle SSU, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4; Morton SSU d. Reiss SC, 6-2, 6-4; Parker SSU d. Uislinno SC, 6-4, 7-6 (5); Park SC d. Taylor SSU, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4; Durand SC d. Tuttle SSU, 7-6 (4), 6-0; Frazier SSU d. Ngeika SC, 6-2, 6-7 (4), 6-2.
Doubles--Nagle-Parker SSU d. Uislinno-Ngeika SC, 8-4; Rodd-Park SC d. Morton-Tuttle, SSU, 8-5; Durand-Reiss SC d. Taylor-Frazier SSU, 8-5.
The Star-Ledger
(Newark,
NJ)
Headline: Calistri's 3 HRs, 8 RBI lift FDU Florham; Schoonhoven leads CNJ by Coast Guard
11 March 2004
SPORTS
BODY:
* Drew 7, Swarthmore 6: Dan Mosso's scored his second goal of the game 3:24 into overtime for Drew (1-0) in Sanford, Fla. Mosso, who tied the game at 6-6, 1:55 into the fourth quarter, scored the game-winner off a scramble. Eric Siegel three goals in the victory.
Northborough Southborough Villager
(Southborough,MA)
Headline: Reiss - Wayland lax coach preps for new season
Monday, March 15, 2004
By Mike Reiss
BODY
...
Medfield's Katie Robinson closed her basketball career
at Swarthmore in grand fashion, as she became only the sixth player to
be named to the Centennial Conference first team in three different seasons. ...