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The Toronto Star
HEADLINE: Scarborough native a Fulbright scholar
April 9, 2004 Friday Ontario Edition
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. B02
LENGTH: 387 words
BYLINE: Christian Cotroneo, Toronto Star
HIGHLIGHT: Swarthmore student Tim Lang plans return to Poland. He'll use scholarship to study environmental issues
BODY:
When Poland's environmental policy turns on a dime, Tim Lang plans to be at the intersection. Named one of this year's Fulbright scholars, the 21-year-old Scarborough native will spend his scholarship studying the environment in the former Soviet satellite.
"I feel great, obviously," said Lang, who is in his final year at Swarthmore College, near Philadelphia. "It's a great in-between from college and a professional year."
After he graduates this spring, Lang will travel to a country that is in between. When Poland joins the European Union this May, it will have to reconcile old-economy environmental policies with the stricter precepts of the E.U.
Newsweek
HEADLINE: Faster Food
April 19, 2004 U.S. Edition
SECTION: ENTERPRISE; Pg. 40
LENGTH: 942 words
BYLINE: By Daniel McGinn
HIGHLIGHT: Cheesecake Factory restaurants have giant menus and a bottom line to match. Here's how they do both
BODY:
As the kitchen buzzes during the height of the dinner rush, you can't help wondering: couldn't this system be made simpler? Swarthmore College professor Barry Schwartz, the author of "The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less," says that while Cheesecake's oversize menu may seem appealing, having so many choices probably detracts from the average customer's experience. "It creates an agonizing decision," says Schwartz, who's eaten at the chain once and found it "mediocre." Schwartz theorizes a Cheesecake Factory with just one quarter of its best menu offerings "will do even better," because the kitchen operation won't be so complicated.
The New York Times
HEADLINE: POSSESSED - One Man's Fancy, One Leg at a Time
April 11, 2004, Sunday, Late Edition - Final
SECTION: Section 9; Page 7; Column 1; Style Desk
LENGTH: 537 words
BYLINE: By DAVID COLMAN
BODY:
PRECIOUS few true-life stories are crying out to be made into screwball comedies. But if any Hollywood screenwriters are interested in some original material, they might pay a visit to the Philadelphia home of one Barry Schwartz.
Now, Mr. Schwartz's credentials -- a psychology professor at Swarthmore College and the author of "The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less" -- do not scream Kaufman and Hart. But take into account his near total dread of shopping (which happens to be his field of study); the fact that he is colorblind; that his two daughters never stop trying to get him to upgrade his beloved Gap jeans for a designer label; and you've got something.
Mr. Schwartz will not be giving up the jeans without a fight. "I wear them roughly 365 days a year," he said. He remembers his parents' frustration at his insistence on wearing jeans in the early 1960's. Now his daughters, 29 and 33, can relate -- to their grandparents. One recent weekend, they dragged him to the mall to shop for new ones. "Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren," he recalled. "It was an unmitigated nightmare."
Financial Times
(London, England)
HEADLINE: Is there just too much cheese?
April 10, 2004 Saturday
SECTION: FT WEEKEND - FOOD & DRINK; Pg. 5
LENGTH: 1390 words
BYLINE: By RICHARD EHRLICH
BODY:
We modern consumers are always told that choice is good. And if choice is good, more choice must be better. Isn't that right? Not necessarily. Sometimes the choices are both too numerous and too unclear. If the person making them lacks the information needed to choose well, he or she may not be any happier with the outcome. That's the theory proposed by Barry Schwartz, professor of psychology at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Professor Schwartz believes that you need to have a certain kind of personality to come out of that choice-heavy dilemma with spirits high. And he might have been thinking of the brave new world of modern British cheesemaking when he formulated his theories.
Professor Schwartz argued that "the proliferation of options can have a variety of negative effects on well-being". As options increase, we lack the information needed to choose between them. And if we decide we've made the wrong choice, we assume that the fault lies in ourselves, which makes us unhappy.
The Scotsman
HEADLINE: SORRY, PROFESSOR, BUT CHOICE IS GOOD FOR US
April 7, 2004, Wednesday
SECTION: Pg. 18
LENGTH: 1230 words
BYLINE: Fraser Nelson
BODY:
TONY BLAIR has at last found an ideological enemy. After spending months hearing his "choice" agenda echoed by the Tories, a voice has now risen in direct opposition: Professor Barry Schwartz, of Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania.
The 58-year-old academic is an unlikely nemesis for a prime minister. But his book, yet unreleased, is causing great excitement in Westminster, where it is already being spoken of in some quarters as a bible of anti-Blair resistance.
Prof Schwartz argues that "choice" - the Blair mantra - is fine for the choosy middle-class but can impose misery on the working man, leading to stress, irritability and even clinical depression. The answer: less choice leads to happiness. This argument, laughable at first glance, deserves to be taken seriously for several reasons. Prof Schwartz has conducted much research, and has been invited to brief 10 Downing Street. His ideas are rapidly filling the pages of the left-wing press.
Psychology Today
Headline: Choices - Lost in the Aisles
Mar/Apr 2004
By Carlin Flora
Summary: Why good enough is better than best when there are too many options.
BODY:
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All this decision making makes us unhappy, argues Swarthmore College psychologist Barry Schwartz in his new book The Paradox of Choice. Options overload applies to everything from picking extracurricular activities for toddlers to buying jeans. The result: a society of stressed-out and dissatisfied consumers.
Obviously, having no choices at all can make life unfulfilling. But Schwartz argues that in the United States, consumer options have proliferated far beyond the happiness threshold. People faced with too many alternatives waste time pondering insignificant purchases and then are apt to second-guess their decisions.
Chicago Tribune
Headline: Editorial - The glory of indecision
11 April 2004
BODY:
The decision to read this editorial is just one of hundreds you will make today. They start with the instant you wake up--the first is whether to hit the snooze button--and continue pelting you relentlessly throughout the day. What to eat for breakfast. Whether to take the car or train. How much to tip the waiter.
Unlimited choice, thus, often equals complete decision paralysis. Or, as Swarthmore College social scientist Barry Schwartz argues in his book, "The Paradox of Choice," unlimited choice "can produce genuine suffering."
It's not just about deciding which car to buy, he writes, but about all the choices in life--education, career, friendship, romance, parenting, religion. Anyone who has hesitated in the face of an important decision, ping-ponging between yes and no, do or don't, knows how excruciating that limbo can be.
Los Angeles Times
HEADLINE: Disconnect, cell by cell
April 14, 2004 Wednesday
SECTION: CALENDAR; Calendar Desk; Part E; Pg. 1
LENGTH: 1483 words
BYLINE: Paul Brownfield, Times Staff Writer
BODY:
It's not exactly a backlash, but there are a growing number of places around Los Angeles -- from sushi bars in the San Fernando Valley to Zipper, the modernist general store on fashionable 3rd Street in West Hollywood -- trying to get you off the phone.
Such disorientation is not surprising; we live, increasingly, not so much in cities or towns but in our own nameless "floating worlds," in the words of Swarthmore College psychology professor Kenneth Gergen.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Headline: A Swarthmore professor, worried that so many languages are dying out, undertook a rescue mission to Siberia
12 April 2004
FEATURES MAGAZINE
By James M. O'Neill,
Inquirer Staff Writer
BODY:
K. David Harrison made two tiring plane flights over an ocean and a mountain range, a daylong car ride on a rutted dirt road, and two river crossings by barge, all in the search for... words. And he wasn't sure the words even existed. Finally, in a handful of tiny log-cabin villages in central Siberia, a day's drive from Tomsk and more than 2,175 miles east of Moscow, the Swarthmore College professor found the Φs - a cluster of people last visited by researchers three decades earlier, who spoke a language that no academic linguist had ever recorded. Some even doubted its existence.
Harrison, a Swarthmore linguist, found that only 35 of the 426 Φs (pronounced oos) people still spoke their native language, Middle Chulym, fluently. But several were deaf. Others were in their 90s and unable to speak well. Ultimately, only a dozen Φs could work with Harrison to record Middle Chulym (pronounced CHUL-um) for posterity. Middle Chulym is going extinct; as the nomadic people came under Soviet domination, Russian became the primary language.
Now, Middle Chulym will be preserved on videotapes in a digital archive. And, at the Φs tribal council's request, Harrison will produce the first book ever published in Middle Chulym, a children's book of Φs folklore. Harrison presented his research on the language recently at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting in Seattle.
The News & Observer
(Raleigh, North
Carolina)
HEADLINE: Prospective freshmen hear university's pitch
April 13, 2004 Tuesday
SECTION: NEWS; The Word From; Pg. B2
LENGTH: 459 words
BYLINE: Bruce Siceloff, Staff Writer
BODY:
DURHAM -- Duke University selected fewer than one of every four candidates for its fall freshman class. Shagufta Sikder of Prestonburg, Ky., made the cut. Now it's her turn to be choosy. Thirteen other universities want her, too. Sikder is among more than 1,000 top high school seniors visiting Duke this month for "Blue Devil Days." They're trying to decide whether to return in August as part of Duke's Class of 2008.
Jiayi Hao of Basking Ridge, N.J., had offers from Duke, Carnegie Mellon, Swarthmore, New York University and Dartmouth. His high school computer science teacher told him he couldn't go wrong with that list, and she advised him on how to evaluate each campus.
Salt Lake Tribune
HEADLINE: College commitment
April 12, 2004, Monday
SECTION: Final; Pg. C1
LENGTH: 1587 words
BYLINE: Linda Fantin, The Salt Lake Tribune
BODY:
It's probably no coincidence that the arrival of college-acceptance letters coincides with Lent. Once high school seniors and their parents get a look at the financial aid offers, the talk inevitably turns to sacrifice. As in, "Do you really need two meals a day in college?"
And, "If we sell our youngest, can we send his sister to Swarthmore?"
For the uninitiated, Swarthmore is a small private college in Pennsylvania with a price tag of $ 38,000 a year. But given that college costs everywhere are increasing faster than the number of University of Connecticut basketball fans, it might as well be the public school next door. Tuition and fees at Utah's public colleges shot up 9 percent from 2002 to 2003 -- slightly less than the national average of 12 percent but three times the growth rate of the average federal student grant. Similar bumps are coming next year.
The Capital
(Annapolis, MD)
HEADLINE: He succeeds with a light touch
April 10, 2004 Saturday
SECTION: Pg. B1
LENGTH: 664 words
BYLINE: ROBIN WEISS, For The Capital
BODY:
When Alex Denny's former English teacher called him "a real sweetheart," she backed up the compliment with history. Diane Sepe recalled how, last year on Valentine's Day, Alex showered her 11th-grade honors class at Broadneck High with homemade valentines. This year, Alex is finding new ways to cheer up his peers, serving as a mentor for freshmen and sophomores.
Alex doesn't want to be "one of those kids who think they already have their life planned out," yet he's bubbling with career ideas. The field of biotechnology appeals to him. He's also passionate about social issues and takes pride in his debating skills. "If you can clarify and defend what you believe," he said, "it shows your commitment."
Alex's sister, Colleen, 20, studies at Duke University, one of three schools where Alex applied. He's waiting to hear back from Duke and Swarthmore and has been accepted into the Scholars Program at the University of Maryland.
Morning Call
(Allentown, PA)
HEADLINE: Keeping in Touch
April 8, 2004 Thursday FIFTH EDITION
SECTION: IN PERSON, Pg. B6, KEEPING IN TOUCH
LENGTH: 540 words
BYLINE: The Morning Call
BODY:
SACHIN KALE of Allentown, a senior at Swarthmore College, is the recipient of a Watson Fellowship, one of 50 college seniors in the country to receive the award. Each fellow receives funding for a year of independent study and travel abroad.
Kale, a son of Seema and Sanjay Kale, is a religion and biology major. He is a 2000 graduate of Parkland High School.
For his project, "Power of Hope: Exploring the Socio-Religious Influences in Hospice Care," Kale will travel to South Africa, India and Thailand.
ScienceBlog.com - USA
Headline: UCLA, Hawthorne Explore BNCT Foundation
Friday, April 02
BODY:
Frederick Hawthorne and the history of boron chemistry go hand in hand. Science Blog spoke recently with Hawthorne about boron, and about BNCT's potential and maddening history over the last 50 years.
...
BNCT isn't new. What's the urgency now?
BNCT was first proposed by Locher back in the middle 1930s, soon after the identification and characterization of the neutron by Chadwick in 1932. Locher, a physicist at Swarthmore College, published a paper in about 1936 in which he proposed the boron neutron capture reaction as a therapeutic device for the selective destruction of cells. That was the intellectual birth of boron neutron capture therapy.
Axis of Logic
Headline: Black Box
Voting
Apr 7, 2004,
09:05
By Bob Fitrakis and
Harvey Wasserman
Summary: Diebold's Political Machine: Political insiders suggest Ohio could become as decisive
this year as Florida was four years ago. Which is why the state's plan to use
paperless touch-screen voting machines has so many up in arms
BODY:
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The hackers posted some 13,000 pages of internal documents on various web sites - documents that were pounced on by Harris and others. A desperate Diebold went to court to stop this "wholesale reproduction" of company material. By November of last year, the Associated Press reported that Diebold had sent cease-and-desist letters to programmers and students at two dozen universities, including the University of California at Berkeley and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The letters were ignored by at least one group of students at Swarthmore College, who vowed an "electronic civil disobedience" campaign.
Shrewsbury Chronicle
(Massachusetts)
Headline: Keohane digs her Dookies
Saturday, April 3, 2004
By Lenny Megliola /
News Sports Writer
BODY:
Now, she's Coach K's boss, so to speak. Keohane has been Duke's president since 1993, the first woman to serve in that capacity. She will retire in July.
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Keohane, a 1961 Wellesley graduate where she made Phi Beta Kappa and graduated with honors in political science, has a resume that even Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski would envy. She went to Oxford and won class honors; earned a Ph.D. in political science from Yale; taught at Swarthmore, Pennsylvania and Stanford before moving on to Wellesley. She is an author and serves on several boards including IBM and the National Humanities Center. Winner of numerous awards, Keohane was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1995. She is married to Robert Keohane, a Duke professor. They have four children and seven grandchildren.
Chronicle of Higher Education
Headline: Noted Higher-Education Researcher Urges Admissions Preferences for the Poor
April 16, 2004
Section: Government & Politics
Volume 50, Issue 32, Page A26
By PETER SCHMIDT
BODY:
Selective colleges should consider giving preferences to low-income applicants
to help level the playing field in admissions, William G. Bowen, a prominent higher-education
researcher and former university president, urged in a speech last week.
The 19 institutions covered by Mr. Bowen's study consist of 5 private Ivy League universities (Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale Universities, and the University of Pennsylvania), 4 leading state institutions (Pennsylvania State University, the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Virginia), and 10 selective, private liberal-arts colleges (Barnard, Bowdoin, Macalester, Middlebury, Oberlin, Pomona, Smith, Swarthmore, Wellesley, and Williams Colleges).
Chronicle of Higher Education
Headline: What's Gone Right in the Study of What's Gone Wrong
April 16, 2004
Section: The Chronicle Review
Volume 50, Issue 32, Page B6
By RICHARD M. VALELLY
BODY:
Ever have discipline envy? As a political scientist, I've lately felt that
the grass is greener in, of all things, the sociology of disasters.
Let me be
clear: It's not that I like calamities. Like most people, I fear and abhor them.
That is why the sociology of disaster seems so promising. Work that unravels the
logics of avoidable catastrophes could prove extraordinarily useful to policy
makers and government officials.
One can see both
traits -- the persuasive depiction of causal mechanisms that would otherwise go
undetected, and consequent policy relevance -- in the prize-winning work of Robin
Wagner-Pacifici, a colleague at Swarthmore. (Disclosure: I don't get anything
from discussing her work, except maybe a warm hello the next time we bump into
each other.) She has a particular interest in the law-enforcement standoff. She
has studied the very deadly May 1985 assault by 500 Philadelphia police officers
on the urban redoubt of MOVE (a cult that for many years had made its neighbors
quite miserable), as well as the law-enforcement tragedies at Ruby Ridge, Idaho,
in 1992 and Waco, Tex., in 1993.
Richard M. Valelly
is a professor of political science at Swarthmore College.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Headline: At the furniture show
12 April 2004
Section: BUSINESS
By Peter Binzen, Inquirer
Columnist
BODY:
In April 1995, woodworkers Bob Ingram and Joshua Markel put Philadelphia on the map with a show of "artisan-made furniture" at the Convention Center. It was believed to be the first show of its kind exhibiting the skills of American craft furniture-makers, and it caught on.
Markel and Ingram are still at it. This weekend, their 10th annual Philadelphia Furniture and Furnishings Show will attract 209 exhibitors from all parts of America. There are other such shows around the country, but none as big as this one focusing on "studio furniture," that is, pieces made one at a time by craftsmen rather than coming off a factory production line.
With both parents employed, the Mackintoshes have been able to finance higher education for their son, a graduate of Swarthmore College, and their daughter, who is now working for her doctorate at the University of Minnesota.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Headline: Notes on Neighbors
11 April 2004
NEIGHBORS CHERRY HILL
BODY:
Jamal Jones of Camden, a senior at Moorestown Friends School, has received a $2,500 National Achievement Scholarship from the National Merit Scholarship program. He is among 700 winners nationwide in the program, which honors outstanding black youths and aims to increase their educational opportunities. Jones is undecided on which college he will attend, but has been accepted to the University of Chicago, Yale, Swarthmore, Amherst and Bowdoin.
Akron Beacon Journal
Headline: A man's castle in Pa. evolves into museum
11 April 2004
By Joann Loviglio, Associated Press
BRYN ATHYN, PA.
BODY:
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 Swarthmore College. The strength of Glencairn's collection is the architectural arts from the 12th and 13th centuries, and it has some of the greatest works produced in that time.
Glencairn, north of Philadelphia, was built between 1928 and 1939 under the direction of Raymond Pitcairn, heir to the Pittsburgh Plate Glass fortune. A lawyer by trade with no formal architecture or art expertise, Pitcairn began collecting antiquities in the 1910s to inspire and inform craftsmen who were building the dramatic Gothic- and Romanesque-style Bryn Athyn Cathedral.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Headline: To Do in the Garden | Purchase a plant and get a preview
9 April 2004
FEATURES MAGAZINE
By Jane G. Pepper, For
The Inquirer
BODY:
Any month is a great time to visit Tyler Arboretum in Media, but April is one of the best, with so many spring-flowering plants in bloom, from magnolias to cherries and crab apples. If you visit on April 24, you'll get a bonus: a chance to make some excellent purchases at the Arbor Day plant sale.
Carla Hetzel, who will be at the sale to help you, has been on the Tyler staff only a few months, but she has worked at area gardens for several years, including Scott Arboretum at Swarthmore College and Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania.
ALUMNI
The New York Times
HEADLINE: Frank A. Sieverts, 70, Specialist In Refugee Issues at State Dept.
April 7, 2004, Wednesday, Late Edition - Final
NAME: Frank A. Sieverts
SECTION: Section C; Page 15; Column 1; Business/Financial Desk
LENGTH: 448 words
BYLINE: By DAVID STOUT
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, April 6
BODY:
Frank A. Sieverts, a specialist in refugee and relief issues at the State Department for 25 years and later as an executive in the Washington office of the International Committee of the Red Cross, died here last Wednesday. He was 70. The cause was a heart attack, said his wife, Sue Hubbell.
Mr. Sieverts, who lived in Washington, was assistant to Christophe Girod, the head of the Washington Red Cross office. He had worked for the Red Cross since 1995.
Frank Arne Sieverts was born in Frankfurt and grew up in the Milwaukee area, where his parents, Helmut and Cecelie Sieverts, settled after their flight from Germany. He studied international relations at Swarthmore, graduating in 1955, then pursued economics and politics at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.
At Swarthmore, Mr. Sieverts shared a room with Michael S. Dukakis, who became governor of Massachusetts and was the 1988 Democratic nominee for president. At Oxford, he roomed with Paul S. Sarbanes, now a Democratic senator from Maryland.
The Washington Post
HEADLINE: Frank Sieverts - Specialist In POW, Refugee Affairs
April 5, 2004 Monday
SECTION: Metro; B04
LENGTH: 615 words
BYLINE: Adam Bernstein, Washington Post Staff Writer
BODY:
Frank A. Sieverts, 70, a child of German-Jewish refugees who became a POW and refugee specialist at the State Department and most recently was a top Washington official for the International Committee of the Red Cross, died March 31 at George Washington University Hospital after a heart attack.
He was a 1955 international relations graduate of Swarthmore College, where his roommate was Michael S. Dukakis, the 1988 Democratic presidential candidate.
USA TODAY
HEADLINE: St. Louis Fed chief sees no inflation problem
April 6, 2004, Tuesday, FINAL EDITION
SECTION: MONEY; Pg. 5B
LENGTH: 843 words
BYLINE: Barbara Hagenbaugh
BODY:
During six years as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, William Poole has earned a reputation as a staunch inflation "hawk," or one who has less tolerance for price gains than other central bankers. So if Poole calls the current rate of inflation "satisfactory," as he did in a recent interview, it's safe to say most members of the Fed don't see inflation as an immediate risk.
Fed policymakers have left the key fed funds interest rate at 1%, a 45-year low, since June. USA TODAY's Barbara Hagenbaugh talked to Poole Thursday, before the latest government jobs data were released. Through a spokesman, Poole said he did not see the need to revise his comments after Friday's upbeat report.
About Poole
Born: June 19, 1937, in Wilmington, Del.
Education: Undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College; MBA and doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago, where he studied under Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Headline: Research is finding that young video-game fanatics are developing the reflexes and literacy needed to succeed in the modern world
14 April 2004
FEATURES MAGAZINE
By Daniel Rubin, Inquirer
Staff Writer
BODY:
Justin Hall, a gaming consultant who began blogging while studying at Swarthmore in 1994, credits games for teaching him morality. Hall - who once gave an address to game developers titled "How has inventory management in computer role-playing games affected the way I pack?" - says Richard Garriot's Ultima IV game helped him grasp that good behavior sometimes means choosing between competing virtues.
"Honesty and compassion often stood at odds, as did humility and honor," he writes on the Game Girl Advance blog. "By playing his game, I learned a little bit about ethics."
In a Garriot-designed universe, a person might lose the game by seemingly making all the right moves, but failing to give money to a pauper met along the way.
INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL
(LANCASTER, PA.)
Headline: Noble McHugh, 78, PECO retiree
March 31, 2004, Wednesday
SECTION: B, Pg. 3
LENGTH: 249 words
BODY:
Noble T. McHugh, 78, of Willow Street, formerly of Media, died of natural causes Monday at Lancaster General Hospital. He retired in 1991 after 45 years as director of community relations for PECO Energy Co. He also was director of Peach Bottom Atomic Information Center.
A U.S. Navy veteran, he served as an ensign in the V5 and V12 programs during World War II. He earned a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering in 1946 from Swarthmore College.
LANCASTER NEW ERA
HEADLINE: Kove - Maher
March 20, 2004, Saturday
SECTION: MAGAZINE, Pg. B-8
LENGTH: 124 words
BODY:
Pamela Kove and Daniel Maher, both of Belmont, Mass., announce their engagement.
Her fiance 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 Washington Post
HEADLINE: 'Manny' Fierro Lobbyist "Manny"...
April 7, 2004 Wednesday
SECTION: Metro; B06
LENGTH: 1627 words
BODY:
Thomas Keith Glennan Jr., 69, a McLean resident who spent most of his career with the Rand Corp. public-policy research organization and at his death was a senior analyst on education policy, died April 2 at the Hospice of Northern Virginia. He had melanoma.
Dr. Glennan joined Rand in the late 1950s in Southern California. Early in his career, he worked on weapon acquisition strategy that examined the role of prototypes.
He was a Los Angeles native and a 1957 electrical engineering graduate of Swarthmore College. He received a master's degree in industrial management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a doctorate in economics from Stanford University.
SPORTS
Clarion-Ledger
Headline: HIGH SCHOOLS
8 April 2004
Section: Sports
By Bill Spencer
BODY:
Laura Mortimer has a lengthy list of accomplishments at St. Andrew's. A three-time individual state meet champion, she has been a part of the Lady Saints' incredible girls cross country dynasty, which has produced 10 straight Class 2A state titles. Last year, she helped St. Andrew's win a 2A state crown in girls track.
Even so, Mortimer's studies haven't suffered. One of Mississippi's top student-athletes, she carries a 3.8 GPA, scored 30 on the American College Test and is a National Merit Finalist.
Mortimer - an avid backpacker, she plans to hike the Appalachian Trail this summer - will decide among Amherst, Swarthmore, Emory and Northwestern. She gives plenty of credit for her success to St. Andrew's coach Andy Till.
Fort Collins Coloradoan
Headline: Former Poudre soccer player Hobbs finds success on track
6 April 2004
Section: Sports
By Rachel Lenzi, Coloradoan
staff
BODY:
Sarah Hobbs remembers the strange feeling underneath her as she took to the track for her first collegiate race last season. For the Swarthmore (Pa.) College sophomore, the sensation was unusual - the crunchy, chewy feeling of fresh spikes on the track. It was nothing like the feel of soft grass under a pair of soccer cleats. Then, she took a few strides to make sure if everything felt OK.
"I'd never run before," said Hobbs, a 2002 graduate of Poudre High School. "I was terrified. I'd never worn spikes before. I went to practice before the race, and I fell on my face."
Hobbs simply chalked the mishap up to experience - or lack thereof. After her first collapse on the track, she picked herself up and began to run. Since that day, she's continued to run, concentrating on the distance events - the 800-meter run, the 1,500, 3,000, 3-kilometer and 5-kilometer runs - for the Garnet Tide. Hobbs also runs a leg of Swarthmore's 1,600 relay.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Headline: Four from area garner weekly baseball honors
2 April 2004
LOCAL NEWS SPORTS
By Don Beideman, Inquirer
Suburban Staff
BODY:
Swarthmore senior Kristin Pao made the Centennial Conference tennis honor roll last week. The Council Rock graduate was a 6-0, 6-0 winner at No. 2 singles against Ursinus, then teamed with Elli Suzuki for an 8-5 win at doubles. The Garnet won the match, 9-0.
The Baltimore Sun
HEADLINE: King warming up at plate for St. Bonaventure
April 14, 2004 Wednesday FINAL Edition
SECTION: SPORTS, Pg. 10C
LENGTH: 748 words
BYLINE: Bill Free
SOURCE: SUN STAFF
BODY:
Swarthmore freshman softball pitcher Marianne Klingaman (Centennial) has pitched seven complete games this spring, compiling a 3-6 record, a 3.43 ERA, striking out 35 and walking 23. One of Klingaman's victories was a 2-1 decision over Coe College, which was ranked No. 24 in Division III at the time.
The Capital
(Annapolis, MD)
HEADLINE: Lots of locals contributing
April 10, 2004 Saturday
SECTION: SPORTS; Pg. C6
LENGTH: 1135 words
BYLINE: Bill Wagner, College Notebook
BODY:
Severna Park product Lindsay Roth is the starting center midfielder for Swarthmore College and ranks among the Centennial Conference scoring leaders with 15 goals and five assists.
The Capital
(Annapolis, MD)
HEADLINE: College Roundup
April 9, 2004 Friday
SECTION: SPORTS; Pg. D5
LENGTH: 197 words
BODY:
WASHINGTON TENNIS: Host Swarthmore College defeated visiting Washington College, 8-1, in Centennial Conference women's tennis. Swarthmore is ranked 16th in Division III and fourth in the Atlantic South region, while the Shorewomen are tied for eighth in the region.
The Patriot Ledger
(Quincy, MA)
HEADLINE: COLLEGE NOTEBOOK
April 6, 2004 Tuesday ROP Edition
SECTION: SPORTS, Pg. 26
LENGTH: 437 words
BYLINE: John R. Johnson
BODY:
It's been quite a spring for Jackie and Curtis Kahn. The sibling lacrosse stars from Cohasset are having explosive seasons at their respective colleges. Jackie, a senior captain at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, leads her team with 25 goals and two assists through seven games.
Ironically, both players began the season with a bang in their season openers two weeks ago. Jackie Kahn scored three goals and an assist in a 16-3 victory over Trinity College of Washington D.C., earning a spot on the Centennial Conference's honor roll. The same day, Curtis scored four goals in his first collegiate game - including the game-winner in the second sudden-death of a 9-8 overtime decision against Bates. He earned New England Small College Athletic Conference co-Player of the Week honors.
On March 27, Jackie Kahn matched her career-high when she scored six goals and added an assist to lead the Garnet (4-3) to a 15-3 victory over Moravian (1-4). She has scored in 28 consecutive games and tallied her 100th career goal recently.
Pacific Daily News
Headline: Pipes decides to attend Swarthmore
8 April 2004
Section: Sports
By Jill Espiritu, Pacific Daily News
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After visiting several colleges over the span of two summers, St. John's School senior and one of the island's top high school soccer players Lenore Pipes made the decision to enter Swarthmore College's doors this fall.
"I visited and toured over 25 colleges," Pipes, an early-decision applicant, said. "I did the Midwest tour after my sophomore year ... and the next summer, I toured east coast colleges. When I went to Swarthmore, I knew that was the place I wanted to go. The college is one of the top liberal arts colleges in the U.S.
"It has a great intellectual atmosphere and, after visiting the college, it confirmed my belief that there's no better place where one can get an undergraduate education," she added.