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Editor’s Note: This is a triple issue.
Philadelphia City Paper
Headline: Radio Warfare - For a group of Swarthmore reporters, Iraq is just a phone call away
August 18-24, 2005
Section: naked city
by Lee Norsworthy
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Pasha's story of nights spent painting the bomb-lit sky from his roof in Baghdad is broadcast on War News Radio (www.warnewsradio.org). The weekly show is reported and produced by a group of students at Swarthmore College who, over the past several months, have been trying to shake some life into the current coverage of the Iraq war. Over their 26 half-hour shows, the WNR reporters have interviewed subjects as varied as a professor at Basra University, an American platoon leader stationed in the Sunni Triangle and Wal-Mart shoppers.
The project has its roots during the Vietnam War, when Swarthmore graduate David Gelber spent several years with Pacifica Radio. More than three decades later, as an executive producer for CBS's 60 Minutes, Gelber watched as another war unraveled without due treatment from the mainstream press.
Remembering the groundbreaking work done at Pacifica, Gelber approached the Swarthmore administration with a proposal: Let's have a group of intelligent and curious college students produce a radio show presenting unconventional coverage of the war. Within weeks several students were holed up in a campus building for two 15-hour days recording WNR's pilot episode. …
Newsweek
HEADLINE: High-Tech Hot Spots
August 22, 2005 U.S. Edition
SECTION: EDUCATION: TECHNOLOGY; Pg. 64
LENGTH: 1188 words
BYLINE: By John Schwartz
HIGHLIGHT: Campuses are at the center of the digital age. Of course you have a PC and a cell. But are you in Thefacebook?
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And yet, for those who fully embrace the new world, the possibilities are great. Napster, after all, was created by Shawn Fanning in his dorm room at Northeastern, and college dropouts famously founded Microsoft and Apple. Students push technology forward. That's why Nelson Pavlosky, a Swarthmore student active in the copyright wars over file sharing, thinks all campuses are worth watching. "It's what the rest of the country might look like in two to five years." And then he pauses for a profundity moment. "Hey," he says. "We are the future." It's the sort of thing college students have always said. But guys like Pavlosky might actually be right. …
MARKETPLACE MORNING REPORT
HEADLINE: Cost of college textbooks rises
August 17, 2005 Wednesday
LENGTH: 203 words
ANCHORS: SCOTT JAGOW
REPORTERS: ASHLEY MILNE-TYTE
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SCOTT JAGOW, anchor: But forget gas prices. How about those college textbooks? The government says they've nearly tripled in price since 1986. Ashley Milne-Tyte tells us about it.
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MILNE-TYTE: He says $600 is a more accurate figure. Kathy Grace runs the bookstore at Swarthmore College. She says interactive extras can truly bring a subject to life.
KATHY GRACE (Swarthmore College Bookstore): Obviously it's very expensive to produce. It comes back to is it used or not? And if it's used, it makes for an amazing educational experience. …
USA TODAY
HEADLINE: Japan struggles to cope with effects of divorce
July 29, 2005, Friday, FINAL EDITION
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 12A
LENGTH: 1164 words
BYLINE: Paul Wiseman and Naoko Nishiwaki
DATELINE: TOKYO
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TOKYO -- Keiko Ito, 39, walked out of an abusive marriage four years ago. She said beatings by her husband put her in the hospital twice. Now she struggles to get by on about $1,400 a month between her job as a secretary for a women's group and government assistance for her 7-year-old daughter. The more money she earns from her job, the less she gets from the government, so she never makes any headway financially. Her ex-husband is contributing nothing toward their daughter's care.
Ito's troubles are increasingly common in Japan, which is struggling to catch up with massive social changes. Much of the turmoil is due to a growing number of Japanese women who have rejected traditional roles, Tokyo divorce lawyer Fujiko Sakakibara says.
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Aya Ezawa, a sociologist at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, says she finds the logic behind Japan's program puzzling. In the USA, it may have made sense to cut benefits because reforms targeted unemployed, unwed teenage mothers who relied on the government dole, she says. …
Patriot-News
(Harrisburg, Pa.)
Headline: ON CAMPUS
9 August 2005
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* Jennifer Johnson of Hummelstown, daughter of Ernest Johnson and Norah Getgood, has graduated with high honors from Swarthmore College with a bachelor of arts degree. Johnson majored in biology and minored in political science. She is a graduate of Lower Dauphin High School. …
Wyoming Tribune-Eagle
(Cheyenne, WY)
HEADLINE: SCHOOL BRIEFS
August 14, 2005 Sunday
SECTION: Local; Pg. c2
LENGTH: 584 words
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Ward earns honors degree from Swarthmore
Christopher Ward, a 2001 graduate of Cheyenne's East High, earned a degree with honors on May 29 from Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pa.
He is an admissions officer at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif. Ward is the son Douglas and Katherine Ward of Cheyenne. …
The Post-Standard
(Syracuse, New York)
HEADLINE: ACHIEVERS
July 28, 2005 Thursday
SECTION: NEIGHBORS SYRACUSE; Pg. 19
LENGTH: 1056 words
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Graduates
The following Syracuse residents have graduated from their respective colleges and universities:
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Swarthmore College: Hanifa Abdul Sabur, of Syracuse, daughter of David and Michele Abdul-Sabur, bachelor of arts in sociology and anthropology with a minor in religion. She is a graduate of Nottingham High School and plans to enter the Ph.D. program in sociocultural anthropology at Columbia University. …
Bergen Record
(New Jersey)
Headline: Crusading for peace at the school level
Friday, August 12, 2005
By PAUL H. JOHNSON, STAFF WRITER
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Brandon Lee Wolff wants to bring peace to Bergen County schools. The Englewood teen, who will be a sophomore at Swarthmore College this fall, wants to bring the anti-violence project he started - dubbed Save R Us - to schools here.
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When he arrived at Swarthmore last year, he brought his organization with him. He started a chapter that held a peace week in April. He also started a program called Peacemakers, which had college students mentor high school kids to teach them how to avoid violent confrontations and stop bullying. The program runs at Chester High School in Pennsylvania.
New York Daily News
(New York, NY)
Headline: Gay African forced to flee to U.S.
August 2005
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Sybille Ngo-Nyeck says it was something she had to do, whatever the cost. The price was high. Four years ago, the then-24-year-old Ngo-Nyeck accused a relative of incest - that is, of sexually assaulting another relative. (She declined to identify either relative for this column.) This happened in her hometown, Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon in West Africa.
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Two years ago, she enrolled in LaGuardia Community College as a nondegree student. When she graduated this year, Ngo-Nyeck received two awards, a "Zami" Audre Lorde Scholarship, reserved for students of color whose work advances the rights of sexual minorities, and a Third Wave Foundation scholarship, which goes to lesbian students engaged in activist work.
She'll use both to attend Swarthmore College in the fall, where she plans to major in political science and comparative literature.
The Recorder
HEADLINE: In the News
August 9, 2005 Tuesday
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. I7 Vol. 129 No. 153
LENGTH: 4597 words
BYLINE: IP Mag Staff
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Pavlosky and Luke Smith, two students at Swarthmore College, won in 2004 against Diebold Election Systems. Pavlosky and Smith, members of their school's free culture group, posted online Diebold internal memos, which suggested that the company knew about flaws in its voting machines. In a cease-and-desist letter sent to Swarthmore's Internet service provider, lawyers for Diebold said the ISP would not be liable for copyright infringement under safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act as long as it removed the posting. In a federal suit filed in California, the students sought a judicial declaration that they didn't infringe any copyrights, an injunction against future lawsuits and monetary damages. …
The Chronicle of Higher Education
HEADLINE: If at First They Don't Succeed...
August 5, 2005, Friday
SECTION: STUDENTS; Pg. 30
LENGTH: 3299 words
BYLINE: BEN GOSE
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Mr. Aibel is among a small but growing number of students who continue to pursue slots at highly selective colleges after striking out the first time. While some admissions deans believe that a handful of applicants are using unethical strategies to achieve their dream, gap years pay off for dozens -- perhaps hundreds -- of students like Mr. Aibel each year.
The gap-year strategy is most common among students from affluent families. As one college counselor says, "Prep-school kids who thought it was their birthright to get into a Harvard, Yale, or Princeton are ending up at Muhlenberg, and their parents can't get their heads around it."
For students like Mr. Aibel, postponing college for a year is a small sacrifice to make for a second crack at a more prestigious institution. They believe that even a modest improvement in their resumes will make them more attractive to elite colleges. The trend is being fueled by a realization among some high-school counselors that many selective colleges are accepting a far smaller proportion of transfer students than of freshman applicants. (At Swarthmore College, for example, relatively few students drop out, and therefore in the past several years, the college has admitted as few as 4 and as many as 20 transfer students per year, out of an average applicant pool of 150.) …
AScribe Newswire
HEADLINE: Rockefeller Brothers Fund Names 2005 Minority Teaching Fellows
August 2, 2005 Tuesday
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NEW YORK, Aug. 2 [AScribe Newswire] -- Twenty-five college juniors from 16 participating institutions have been named recipients of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund's [RBF] 2005 Fellowships for Students of Color Entering the Teaching Profession. Each fellow receives up to $22,100 over a five-year period that begins this summer and ends after completion of three years of public school teaching.
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Patrice Berry, Swarthmore College, Political Science/Public Policy
Ja'Dell Davis, Swarthmore College, Sociology/Anthropology & Education …
The New York Times
HEADLINE: Admissions: Director's Cut
July 31, 2005 Sunday
SECTION: Section 4A; Column 1; Education Life Supplement; ENDPAPER; Pg. 38
LENGTH: 893 words
BYLINE: By James R. Petersen. (James R. Petersen is a former senior writer/editor at Playboy.)
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IN ABC's summer reality show ''The Scholar,'' three genuine college admissions officers offer color commentary as telegenic college-bound students compete for scholarship money. Imagine ''The McLaughlin Group'' on sedatives. Paula, Randy and Simon they are not.
One knowledgeable viewer, Robin G. Mamlet, former admissions dean at Stanford, Swarthmore and Sarah Lawrence, says she particularly objected to the demeanor of the admissions representatives, which she found ''off-putting, scary, threatening, menacing.''
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
Headline: Personal Health | News and Notes
15 August 2005
FEATURES MAGAZINE
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Restricting teen driving reduces deaths
Teenagers' automobile deaths have been reduced by at least 5.6 percent in states with more restrictive "graduated" licensing for teen drivers, according to a study published in May in the Journal of Health Economics.
The result is based on an evaluation of annual traffic deaths from 1992 to 2002 involving 15- to 17-year-olds in the United States. The study, led by associate economics professor Thomas S. Dee of Swarthmore College, also finds that stricter policies - such as those requiring that someone over 21 supervise young drivers - reduce the death rate by as much as 19 percent. …
News-Press
(Fort Myers, Fla.)
Headline: Florida likely to toughen driving laws
15 August 2005
Metro; B
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EDITORIAL - MONDAY MOTORING MINUTE
Expect state legislatures, including Florida's, to enact more restrictive driving rules for teenagers now that several studies have shown the tougher requirements really work. Florida actually was the first state to enact "graduated driver's licenses" for new, young drivers in 1996, starting a trend that has extended to nearly all the states.
Under the rules, teen driving privileges are granted gradually: First they get a learner's permit, then a provisional license, then a permanent driver's license. The policy has reduced traffic deaths for 15- to 17-year-olds by 5.6 percent, according to a May 2005 study by a Swarthmore College researcher. And the more restrictive the state rules, the more teen lives were saved, the studies found. …
The Daily Oklahoman
Headline: Safe driving
17 August 2005
OPINION - OUR VIEWS
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THERE’S NO DOUBT driving is a rite of passage for teenagers eager to ditch the days of being chauffeured by mom and dad. But it’s with caution and wisdom that lawmakers in many states, including Oklahoma, have moved in recent years to slow down the rate at which teens can drive solo.
Stateline.org recently reported that automobile deaths involving 15-to 17-year-olds dropped in the decade after many states began altering their driver’s licensing programs. One recent study by an associate professor at Swarthmore College found a 5.6 percent decrease and that more restrictions on teen drivers could reduce fatalities by as much as 19 percent. Ultimately, it’s those statistics that convince us graduated licensing systems provide the best balance between teenage freedom and safety. …
WBOC TV 16
(Salisbury, MD)
Headline: Graduated License System Reducing Teen Driving Deaths
August 10 2005
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SALISBURY- More teenagers are surviving the early years of driving. According to a study conducted by Swarthmore College, graduated licensing has cut the number of driving deaths among young people ages 15 to 17 by 5 percent nationwide. One Salisbury driving instructor says the wait is worth it.
"There's more practice, students are much more serious, they know they have the time to put in with their families, and I think that families are taking it much more seriously," said Sandy Greer of A+ Driving School. Delaware, Maryland and Virginia all have a graduated driver's license system. Only four states do not have it.
Federal Computer Week
Headline: Architect of information retrieval - Eliot Christian seeks to preserve cataloging traditions in online world
Aug. 8, 2005
BY Aliya Sternstein
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It is impossible to categorize Eliot Christian. He is an advocate for search standards, a developer of a unified emergency warning system and ironically a man obsessed with cataloging the world's information.
For 15 years, Christian, who manages of data and information systems at the U.S. Geological Survey, has prodded governments, industry and interest groups to create an electronic card catalog of human knowledge. But don't confuse him with the founders of Google or Yahoo. He is not after money or fame, admirers say.
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Family: His wife, Marcia, is a volunteer at DisasterHelp.gov, where she maintains the database of all sources pertaining to disaster management. They have three daughters: Sikandra, a senior at Swarthmore College; Theresa, a sophomore at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Sheila, a junior at Thomas Jefferson High School in Northern Virginia.
Inside Higher Ed
Headline: Guns, Germs, and Steel' Reconsidered
Thursday, August 4, 2005
BY Scott Jaschik
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies has had the kind of impact that most scholarly authors can only dream about for their works. First published by W.W. Norton in 1997, the book won a Pulitzer Prize the next year for its author, Jared Diamond, a professor of geography at the University of California at Los Angeles.
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Timothy Burke, who teaches African history at Swarthmore College, writing in Cliopatria, says that Diamond's problem is "that a term like 'race' can still serve some useful purpose in describing variations between human populations: I'm not going to make a definitive statement on that subject here. But just to give the example of the Africa chapter, Diamond clings to the term 'blacks' as racial category within which to place most pre-1500 sub-Saharan Africans except for Khoisan-speakers and "pygmies," even as he explicitly acknowledges that it is an extremely poor categorical descriptor of the human groups he is placing in that category."
Further, Burke discusses other differences he has with Diamond's approach. "Anthropologists and historians interested in non-Western societies and Western colonialism also get a bit uneasy with a big-picture explanation of world history that seems to cancel out or radically de-emphasize the importance of the many small differences and choices after 1500 whose effects many of us study carefully," Burke writes. …
The Hook
(Charlottesville, VA)
July 28, 2005, in issue 0430 of The Hook
BY LISA PROVENCE LISA@READTHEHOOK.COM
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Since November, when former UVA student Andrew Alston was sentenced to three years in jail for stabbing 22-year-old firefighter Walker Sisk 18 times, many in Charlottesville have wondered what that jury was thinking. Now they know.
In the 3,000-word cover story of the June edition of the Swarthmore College Bulletin, "Seek Justice, Love Mercy," juror Liz Kutchai describes how the jury rendered its verdict-- and how emotionally devastating the experience was, not only for the families of the two young men, but for the jurors as well. …
San Jose Mercury News
Headline: SPARK PLUG OF THE VALLEY'S INVESTMENT SCENE LAUNCHING ENTERTAINMENT AND MEDIA BUYOUT FIRM
14 August 2005
By Matt Marshall
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Roger McNamee leans forward slightly and breaks into a whisper, as if he's about to divulge a big secret. His eyes lock, and he's got you. Slowly he raises his voice. He picks up pace. His hands start to flap. He's off, and he's talking with all the drama of an actor in mid-speech, replaying a conversation with venture capitalist John Doerr about launching an investment company. For two decades, McNamee has thrived as the spark plug in the valley's investment scene, hooking up players to launch cutting-edge investment firms. And he's about to do it again with a new $ 1.8 billion firm, Elevation Partners -- the first buyout fund in the risky but groundbreaking area of media and entertainment.
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Along with starting Elevation, McNamee has also written a book, called ``The New Normal,'' about the individual in the age of technology. And he and his wife have moved into a house they've just finished building in Woodside, after living on different coasts. For the first 18 years of their marriage, McNamee worked four days a week in Silicon Valley and saw his wife, then a professor of music theory at Swarthmore College, on weekends. …
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Headline: Letters
8 August 2005
EDITORIAL
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Easing tuition shock Patrick Kerkstra tempers his somewhat alarming story about the high cost of local colleges and universities ("Tuition shock," July 22) with a paragraph mentioning some supposed good news: The average cost of tuition is rising a little more slowly locally than nationally (though remaining well above the national average).
I wish he had mentioned the real good news: the large amounts of need-based financial aid provided by many private colleges, which makes the sticker price moot for many students and their families. At Swarthmore College, for example, about half of students receive need-based aid each year; this past school year, the average package totaled nearly $27,000, most of it grants rather than loans. Some low-income families spend almost nothing to send their children to Swarthmore.
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Tom Krattenmaker
The writer is director of news and information at Swarthmore College.
The Journal News
(White Plains, NY)
Headline: GOING LIBERAL
7 August 2005
Education Outlook; K
By Meryl Hyman Harris, Staff
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The liberal arts remain popular in a world gone daffy over business and technology. Latin and Greek majors may give way to "urban studies" and "American culture," but the basic idea of a graduate with intellectual skills across many disciplines has changed little since the Middle Ages.
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The definition holds, even if the idea seems a little shaky in today's I-want-it-now society and the growth of business courses and technical schools. It is "one of the American illnesses - you should get out with a job ticket, that every activity you engage in should have an immediate payoff," said Margery Franklin, who is herself the product of a liberal arts education and took a traditional route to a life in academe: Swarthmore College B.A., 1954; Clark University master's 1956 and Ph.D. 1961; posts at Bank Street College of Education and Vassar College; joined Sarah Lawrence in 1965, where she is now a professor and director of the Child Development Institute. …
ALUMNI
The News Journal
(Delaware)
Headline: Charged subjects make provocative poetry
4 August 2005
Crossroads; W
By GERALDINE ELTER, Special to The News Journal
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NEWARK - Franetta McMillian has been writing since childhood. When she was 6 or 7, McMillian wrote "about a girl who moved from Camden to Willingboro, N.J. I was really proud of myself. It was about 600 words." Her poetry began in the third grade with a piece she wrote shortly after the assassination of Martin Luther King. She recalled a particular poet that she admired around that time: "I remember hearing Nikki Giovanni, one of the more famous black poets of the '60s and '70s ..." Music has also been in her life for many years. She took piano lessons for six years but "was more interested in writing songs."
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PROFILE
Franetta McMillian
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EDUCATION: Archmere Academy, bachelor's degree in psychology from Swarthmore College …
Morning Call
(Allentown, Pennsylvania)
HEADLINE: William F. Weart
August 5, 2005 Friday
SECTION: LOCAL; Pg. B8
LENGTH: 197 words
BYLINE: The Morning Call
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William F. Bill Weart, 65, of Allentown, died Aug. 3, 2005 in his home. He and his wife, Stevie Gay (Davis) Weart, were married on June 4, 1966.
He was an executive engineer for Ford Motor Co. at their world headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan, until retiring in 1986. Born in Philadelphia, he was the son of the late William G. and Bernice (Fulton) Weart. He attended Penn Charter School, from 1946-58; Swarthmore University, from 1958-59; Drexel University, from 1959-64 and Wharton School of Business, where he received his masters degree in business administration. …
Newsday
(New York)
HEADLINE: Queens librarian's surprising gift to college
August 5, 2005 Friday
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A21
LENGTH: 357 words
BYLINE: BY AINSLEY O'CONNELL. STAFF WRITER
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No one at SUNY Geneseo took much notice in 1997 when alumnus Mark Scheiber, an Astoria librarian, called the college development office to ask about making a bequest.
He had one condition. "He specifically asked that we not send him any more brochures," said Dick Rosati, interim vice president for college advancement.
Rosati honored the request, and Scheiber returned the favor, donating his life savings of nearly $900,000 to the school. It is the largest alumni gift ever made to the college.
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Haft frequented the Museum of Modern Art and other museums with Scheiber, who she said studied painting when not working at the Queens library branch near his Astoria apartment. Haft said Scheiber was grateful for the library degree, which gave him time to pursue painting and kept him close to the books he loved.
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Peter Sternlight, 77, of Park Slope, who played with Scheiber in the student orchestra at
Swarthmore College, said, "He was a quiet guy. He lived very modestly." Scheiber earned his undergraduate degree at Swarthmore and his master's in library science at Geneseo. "I wouldn't say that he was snubbing Swarthmore," Sternlight said. "He just had warm feelings toward Geneseo." …
Rochester Business Journal
(Rochester, NY)
Headline: Alumnus leaves $863K to Geneseo
August 12, 2005
By KATHRYN QUINN THOMAS
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SUNY College at Geneseo has received the largest single alumni donation in its history-$863,000. Mark Scheiber, who died two years ago at the age of 75, bequeathed his life savings to the college in a planned gift. He earned a master's degree in library science from SUNY Geneseo in 1970. He received his bachelor's degree in English literature from Swarthmore College, and had a master's degree in English from the University of Minnesota.
Buffalo News
(New York)
HEADLINE: FRANCES POODRY IS BRIDE OF GREGORY PITTER
July 31, 2005 Sunday
SECTION: LIFESTYLES; Pg. F4
LENGTH: 151 words
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Frances Janine Poodry, daughter of Doris Cowles and Joseph Brandt Poodry III of Buffalo, was married to Gregory Michael Pitter at 11:30 a.m. Saturday in Swarthmore College, from which the bride was graduated.
The Rev. Libby Smith, a Unitarian Universalist minister, performed the ceremony for the bride and the son of Keiko Pitter of Walla Walla, Wash., and Richard Pitter of Brookline, Mass. A reception was given in the college before the newly married couple left for Machu Picchu, Peru, and Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.
They will live in Morton, Pa. A physics teacher in West Chester (Pa.) High School, the bride has a master's degree in science education from Temple University. The bridegroom is a graduate of Willamette University and received a master's degree in music composition from University of California at Berkeley. …
The Hill
HEADLINE: The Tuesday Profile: The ambassador: Mark Bloomfield is part wonk, part endurance athlete
July 26, 2005 Tuesday
SECTION: Pg. 14
LENGTH: 989 words
BYLINE: By Jonathan E. Kaplan
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As president of the American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF), Mark Bloomfield is more than just another well-connected power broker. He is also an ambassador. He's not a former State Department hand or foreign policy wise man, although that description might apply to him in the realm of tax policy, and it isn't Congress that has conferred the honorary title of ambassador upon him. Bloomfield was named ambassador by the organizers of the Comrades Marathon, an annual 54-mile race from Pietermaritzburg to Durban, South Africa. As Comrades ambassador to the United States, he is responsible for promoting the race in this country.
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After graduating from Swarthmore College and while working on a joint MBA and law degree at the University of Pennsylvania, Bloomfield spent a summer preparing for the 1972 GOP convention. …
Playbill
Headline: Al Carmines, Head of Judson Poets Theatre and Totem of Off-Off-Broadway Movement, Dies at 69
15 Aug 2005
By Robert Simonson
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Al Carmines, who as assistant rector of Greenwich Village's Judson Memorial Theatre, helped create the experimental crucible that was the Judson's Poets' Theatre, and thus became one of the seminal forces of the Off-Off Broadway movement, died Aug. 11 at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan. He was 69.
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Alvin Allison Carmines was born in Hampton, Virginia, on July 25, 1936. His father worked as a fishing trawler and his mother was a substitute schoolteacher. Raised as a Protestant, he soon developed a knack for performance, and won a music scholarship. However, he didn't go into music, but studied theology at Swarthmore. He later enrolled at the Union Theological Seminary. Upon earning his bachelor of divinity, he was hired at Judson Memorial Church.
Wellesley Townsman
(Wellesley, MA)
Headline: Feathered and furry friends come to the Hills Library
Thursday, August 11, 2005
By Beth Hinchliffe / Special To The Townsman
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A Goffin Cockatoo and a French Bulldog will, respectively, fly and waddle their way to the Hills Branch Library next Tuesday, Aug. 16, at 7 p.m. to be the special guests for the last of this summer's series of Young Scientists' Programs. They will be the assistants for that evening's lecturer, veterinarian Dr. Jeff Giles.
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Giles graduated from Swarthmore College and the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. Following an internship at the MSPCA in Springfield, he worked at the Brookline Animal Hospital before opening the Highland Animal Hospital with Dr. Elizabeth Shepherd. After 10 years, they have just moved into their newly constructed hospital on Wellesley Avenue in Needham. Giles shares his home not only with the cockatoo and bulldog, but also with two pugs, a golden retriever and a cat.
PR Newswire US
HEADLINE: Mickey Herbert Named President & CEO of ConnectiCare to Replace Gus Gamache
August 2, 2005 Tuesday 2:03 PM GMT
LENGTH: 1593 words
DATELINE: FARMINGTON, Conn. Aug. 2
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FARMINGTON, Conn., Aug. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Anthony L. Watson, Chairman & CEO of HIP Health Plans, today announced the appointment of Mickey Herbert as President & CEO of ConnectiCare, which HIP acquired last March. Mr. Herbert will replace Marcel ("Gus") Gamache, who had announced earlier this year that he will be leaving in September to pursue other interests.
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He is currently the President, CEO and majority owner of the Bridgeport Bluefish Baseball Club, an independent professional baseball team in the Atlantic Professional Baseball League.
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Mr. Herbert earned his MBA degree at Harvard University and his BA degree at Swarthmore College. He is a graduate of a special HMO Fellowship Training Program at the Wharton School. He has an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the University of Bridgeport and was a Senior Fellow of the Executive Program in Managed Care at the University of Missouri in Kansas City. …
The Journal News.com
(Westchester, NY)
Headline: Westchester, Rockland women remember Japanese internment
August 13, 2005
By JOSEPH AX, THE JOURNAL NEWS
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Dr. Sumi Mitsudo Koide
On the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, Dr. Sumi Mitsudo Koide, then a 12-year-old, was doing her household chores at the farm where her family worked in the fields of rural Washington state, the radio blaring the news of the day.
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After the war, unwilling to confront more of the West Coast's racism, the family settled in Philadelphia. It was only while studying at Swarthmore College that Koide began to comprehend fully what had happened to her family. She soon became involved in the "redress movement," an attempt by Japanese-Americans inspired by the civil rights movement to persuade the government to apologize and provide reparations. Presidents Reagan and George H. W. Bush did both as a result.
Tucson Citizen
(Tucson, AZ)
Headline: Guest Opinion: McCain-Kennedy immigration bill realistic, sensible
August 10, 2005
By JACOB CORTÉS, Tucson Citizen
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We've been hearing a lot about McCain-Kennedy, aka the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act. As a native Texan, I know a thing or two about immigration, and I want to offer you my reaction to some of the criticism I've been hearing.
What opponents of the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act don't want you to know is that it is desperately needed to protect our borders and end illegal immigration and smuggling into this country.
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Jacob Cortés, a recent graduate of Swarthmore College, is an intern organizer at the Pima County Interfaith Council.
Physics Today
Headline: A Nontrivial Manifesto
5 Aug 2005
By Matt Landreman
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Flip through an average textbook or article, and you are likely to come across one of these insinuating taunts: "Obviously
. . .," "After some simple algebra . . .," "An easy derivation shows . . .," "It should be clear that . . . ." A student reading the book for the first time may not find the derivation in question nearly so clear as the subtext: "If you don't understand this immediately, your ineptitude for physics must surely exceed that of a rutabaga." However, no word in the physicist's vocabulary exudes more contempt and scorn than the obnoxious "trivial." We use this word with reckless abandon: "The proof is trivial." "Trivial algebra yields . . ." "I assigned just a few trivial problems this week." No other word better exemplifies how the jargon of our trade can be so condescending. I will grant that unlike the other terms I have just indicted, "trivial" can have a technical mathematical meaning: the uninteresting solution to a differential, matrix, or other equation. However, most of the times we invoke this word, we have no such excuse, and even in those technical contexts we can come across as pompous.
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Matt Landreman, a 2003 graduate of Swarthmore College, is a Rhodes Scholar and doctoral student in the University of Oxford's physics department.
Art Daily
Headline: Thom Collins Is New Director of the Neuberger Museum
August 5, 2005
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PURCHASE, NY.-Thom Collins has been appointed the sixth director of the Neuberger Museum of Art. Mr. Collins will take up his position at the Neuberger Museum on the Purchase College, State University of New York campus, in early September. In making the announcement, Purchase College President Thomas J. Schwarz said, "Based upon his excellent record of accomplishment, Mr. Collins will build upon a distinguished tradition of leadership as the Museum enters the 21st century."
Mr. Collins, a native of Philadelphia, was most recently Executive Director of the Contemporary Museum of Baltimore, MD, an institution that presents the art of our time as an educational tool and a catalyst in the processes of social change in Baltimore and the surrounding region. At the Neuberger, Collins will be responsible for all operations and decisions at the Museum including collections, acquisitions, and exhibitions. He will work actively with campus academic leadership to incorporate more fully the resources of the Neuberger into the educational experiences of students at the College. He will collaborate with the Friends of the Neuberger Museum and other community members to enhance the Museum's role in the region.
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Thom Collins is an honors graduate of Swarthmore College who earned his master's degree in art history at Northwestern University, where he completed coursework for a Ph.D. in art history. He is an art historian and critic with more than a decade of experience curating, teaching and publishing in the fields of contemporary art and visual culture. He was a Newhall Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of Modern Art, an associate curator at the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington, an associate curator of the Cincinnati Art Museum and chief/senior curator of the Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati.
Charlotte Observer
Headline: Philly trio takes stage at Evening Muse
Wed, Aug. 03, 2005
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In a city becoming increasingly known for its strong folk scene, the Philadelphia trio ellipsis has made a habit of turning heads and creating new fans at every show they perform. It's no wonder once you hear their sound: richly textured guitars, elegant violin riffs, sparkling mandolin solos, all led by a rich, soulful alto lead vocalist. With intricate arrangements and added harmonies, it can be hard to believe there are only three members in the group.
Together for over seven years, Vale Jokisch (24, lead vocals and acoustic guitar), Matt Murphy (25, acoustic guitar and vocals) and Joel Price (27, mandolin, violin and vocals) were best friends long before becoming bandmates. Their near-sibling relationship quickly becomes clear to each audience, as the trio members good-naturedly trade verbal barbs that would convince any member of Oasis to leave the stage mid-concert.
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Ellipsis was formed in 1998 while all three members were attending Swarthmore College. In 2003, the band began exploring the Philadelphia folk scene and touring to venues, coffeehouses, colleges and radio stations throughout the south, northeast and midwest. By 2006, they hope to grace the cover of Rolling Stone magazine...or at least to still be living together.
Waldo Village Soup
(Maine)
Headline: Hess makes calls the world over
July 30, 2005
By Rory O'Donnell, Sports Reporter
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PHILADELPHIA, PA. (July 30): In some cases it might be a stretch to say the emerald green grass of Mount View High School's field hockey field was a gateway to points across the globe -- but for former Mustang Lurah Hess, that grass has become exactly that.
Hess, 29, a native of Freedom and 1995 graduate of MVHS, has parlayed her high school and college hockey playing career into a lifetime goal -- on the other side of the lines.
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Hess was the leading scorer on those Mount View teams her final three years and a captain her junior and senior campaigns. The lack of high school team success did not discourage the speedy forward, however, and Hess attended Division III Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Penn. "I knew that I wanted to play sports in college," she said.
The Garnet Tide had exponentially more success than the Mustangs, winning the conference championship three of Hess' four years, earning berths in the NCAA Division III national tournament
Belleville View
(MI, USA)
Headline: Storyteller visits Fischer Library
PUBLISHED: July 28, 2005
By William Zilke, Special Writer
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When Yvonne Healy came to western Pennsylvania as a small child, her father brought the Irish love for storytelling across the Atlantic with him. "Story telling is a part of the Irish culture," said Healy, "We were like the storytelling Irish Von Trapp family."
It's no surprise the animated Healy is so comfortable in front of audiences, the verbose redhead spent years sharpening her routine as an actress on soap operas on all three major networks and is also a veteran of the New York stage.
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Healy attended Tufts University, Swarthmore College and continued to study and perform at the Second City in New York, the Open Theater and the Gratowski Polish Theater.
The Santa Fe New Mexican
HEADLINE: KUO CHING "K.C." LI
July 10, 2005 Sunday
SECTION: SPECIAL SECTIONS; Pg. SS-07
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When Kuo Ching "K.C." Li, a Chinese- American from Brooklyn, N.Y., served with the Flying Tigers. He wore an American flag on the back of his jacket so he wouldn't be mistaken for a Japanese soldier. Li was one of the 87 U.S. pilots sent to Rangoon, China, on a volunteer mission headed by Claire L. Chennault, a retired captain of the U.S. Air Force. The Flying Tigers worked to keep China in the war and free from Japanese invasion. They flew P-40 and P-41 fighter planes that were distinguished by the teeth painted under the propellers.
Li's plane was called "The Vicious Virgin." He flew 96 missions, was shot down twice, and saved a fellow pilot from a burning plane. Li suffered from a fear of flames thereafter. He was honored with two Purple Hearts, an Air Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross.
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When Li was at war, his father adopted a Chinese son to carry on the family tungsten dynasty in case his son did not return. Li survived and earned a science degree from Swarthmore College. He eventually took over his father's tungsten company and sold it in 1966. He then opened a trendy restaurant call K.C.'s on West 10th Street in New York City. The restaurant attracted Oscar-winning actress Faye Dunaway and other A-list Hollywood stars of the time. …
Richmond Times Dispatch
HEADLINE: EVERY JOB A PREPARATION FOR STORYTELLER'S PRESENT
August 15, 2005 Monday
SECTION: METRO BUSINESS; Pg. D-20
LENGTH: 988 words
BYLINE: By Devorah Ben-David Special Correspondent Trade Names is a regular feature about established Richmond-area businesses.
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Les Schaffer is a storyteller, and the stories he tells encompass all he has seen and everyone he has met. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and reared in a tenement in the Bronx, his innate knack for artful storytelling helped ensure his survival.
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He began taking psychology classes at Swarthmore College, one of the top Quaker colleges in the nation, from a feminist psychologist. The experience led to a family internship at a community health center in Westchester, Pa. "It was a complete career shift for me, but I loved psychology because you could make small interventions and really help a person out in their life," …