HEADLINE: Swarthmore College Sociologist Lisa Hajjar Available for Comment on Iraq Situation
February 23, 1998 20:30 Eastern Time
SECTION: ASSIGNMENT DESK
LENGTH: 377 words
CONTACT: Tom Krattenmaker of Swarthmore College, 610-328-8534, or e-mail: kratte1@swarthmore.edu
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News Advisory:
A lack of consistency in U.S. Middle East policy undercuts the Clinton administration's position on Iraq, says Lisa Hajjar, a Swarthmore College sociologist and an editor of the Middle East Report. While the United States voices outrage about Saddam Hussein, Hajjar points out, it goes on tolerating human rights violations and other misdeeds by regional allies.
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Hajjar is available to offer analysis of the issues and events surrounding the buildup to war and to put the current situation in context by considering regional affairs, the role of the U.N. and the problems of arms proliferation (including weapons of mass destruction) throughout the region.
Located near Philadelphia, Swarthmore is a highly selective liberal arts college with a student body of approximately 1,400 undergraduates. Swarthmore is the No. 1 liberal arts college in the country in the last two college rankings issues of U.S. News and World Report.

HEADLINE: Exploring the wonders of science
February 23, 1998; Monday 12:08 Eastern Time
SECTION: Washington - general news
LENGTH: 1085 words
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THERE are lots of great sites on the Net if you are interested in (or struggling with) science.
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Searching for something special? Steve's Dump at http://forum.swarthmore.edu/steve/index.html is the place to start searching for anything obscure and mathematical on the Net. Apart from a powerful search engine, this site has quick links to places such as maths education, lesson plans, arithmetic, geometry, linear algebra, combinatorics and more.

HEADLINE: Exploring the wonders of science
February 23, 1998, Monday
LENGTH: 976 words
BYLINE: Maria O'Daniel
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Searching for something special? Steve's Dump at http://forum.swarthmore.edu/steve/index.html   is the place to start searching for anything obscure and mathematical on the Net. Apart from a powerful search engine, this site has quick links to places such as maths education, lesson plans, arithmetic, geometry, linear algebra, combinatorics and more.

Headline: They're small in number, but some of them are large in voice
February 22, 1998
Section: National
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They managed to silence, at least for a few minutes, Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright on Wednesday at an Ohio State University town meeting with cackles and jeers, chants and rants over the military strike being contemplated against Iraq. Little by little, protests against such a strike have started to bubble up. Candlelight vigils are being planned; antiwar sites are turning up on the World Wide Web. The voices of opposition range from college students, Quakers and socialists to veterans and church leaders -- including Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua.
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Notwithstanding the heckling from a few dozen protesters at the Ohio State meeting last week, campuses here and elsewhere have been mostly quiet. Small protests by University of Pennsylvania students were held at Rittenhouse Square when President Clinton visited recently, and more are planned if and when Iraq is bombed. None of the protests, so far, have attracted more than 100 people, activists say. A video, Genocide by Sanctions, has been played in Swarthmore College dorms. At Haverford, a student group called Left Out organized an educational meeting last Monday, and about 80 students showed up.

Headline: Orchestra 2001 at Swarthmore
February 22, 1998
Section: Entertainment
By Daniel Webster, INQUIRER MUSIC CRITIC
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The sound of trumpets led Orchestra 2001 through its program last night that linked Russia and the U.S. James Freeman led the ensemble at Swarthmore College's Lang Concert Hall in three fanfares and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 1 with piano and trumpet.
Susan Starr, piano soloist in the Symphony, was also featured in Sofia Gubaidalina's Introitus, the two works suggesting widely separated poles in the complex world of Russian music.
Gubaidalina, already 67, is still heard as an emerging voice in Russia. Her piece incorporated moaning microtones, long slides in the strings, solemn drumming bass notes in the piano, and repeated short motifs in the strings and winds. ...

Headline: PHILADELPHIA SCENERY
Sunday, February 22, 1998
Section: FEATURES BOOKS
Page: Q01
Reviewed by Sarah Willie
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PRIDE
BY LORENE CARY
NAN A. TALESE/DOUBLEDAY 321 PP. $23.95
Lorene Cary's 1995 novel of antebellum Philadelphia, The Price of a Child, proved the author could tackle the complexity of America's racialized past with the accuracy of a historian and the nuance of a gifted wordsmith. With her second work of fiction, Pride, a contemporary story about four black women, Cary interprets the disappointments and joys of friendship and the challenges of adulthood with humor and compassion.
Just 10 years ago, the thin popular fiction on display at the front of many bookstores boasted few African American authors or characters. Today, you can find novels with cardboard, stereotypical characters who also happen to be black, written by authors who also happen to be black. And you might find Pride displayed with them. But don't be fooled. While Pride may superficially resemble those books in featuring a group of black baby boomers, the similarity ends there.
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Sarah Willie is assistant professor of sociology and black studies at Swarthmore College.

Headline: SWARTHMORE WILL ADJUST SURVEY REQUEST
Thursday, February 19, 1998
Section: NEIGHBORS
Page: B06
By Robert F. O'Neill, INQUIRER CORRESPONDENT
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The borough's strategic planning steering committee agreed to modify its controversial request for a market survey proposal to redevelop the town's flagging business district at a public forum Tuesday.
Borough Councilwoman Lora Lavin said the committee would fine-tune the proposal but not overhaul it. Lavin chaired the meeting in the absence of the planning committee chairwoman, Elisabeth Aaron, who was sick.
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More than 100 citizens, the largest audience in recent history, attended the forum in the Borough Hall to air their opinions on the request for a market survey. The proposal was prepared jointly by the borough and Swarthmore College.
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Maurice Eldridge, Swarthmore's vice president for college and community relations, told residents the college wants to be a good neighbor in a good town. ``We are interested in helping to improve the vitality of the town to benefit both residents and the college,'' he stated. Eldridge called the effort to revitalize the business district a partnership, saying the college ``isn't interested in doing anything the town wouldn't want.''

February 23, 1998, Monday, SOONER EDITION
SECTION: OBITUARY, Pg. B-6, OTHER DEATHS
LENGTH: 204 words
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Hans Wallach, 93, an experimental psychologist at Swarthmore College who helped explain human vision and hearing, Feb. 5 in Media, Delaware County. Mr. Wallach, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, did basic research on perceptual adaptation that led to a better understanding of the role learning plays in perception.

February 22, 1998, Sunday Final Edition
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A21; PASSAGES
LENGTH: 780 words
HEADLINE: PASSAGES
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Hans Wallach, 93, a retired Swarthmore College scientist who was a major contributor to the science of hearing and vision, Feb. 5 in Media, Pa.

HEADLINE: Diane DiPrima
SHOW: ALL THINGS CONSIDERED (NPR 8:00 pm ET)
FEBRUARY 18, 1998, WEDNESDAY
TYPE: INTERVIEW
SECTION: News; Domestic
LENGTH: 1169 words
BYLINE: Linda Wertheimer, Washington, DC; Noah Adams, Washington
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HIGHLIGHT:
Linda talks with our poetry guide, Catherine Bowman, about the life and work of Beat writer Diane DiPrima. DiPrima is the author of more than 35 collections of prose and poetry. She was born in Brooklyn in 1934 to first generation Italian-Americans. After dropping out of college, she moved to Manhattan's Lower East Side to write, and her apartment became a way station for many other famous Beat writers, as well as painters and other artists. We'll hear excerpts from some of her poems and talk about how her work is representative of the Beat Generation writers.
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LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: And I'm Linda Wertheimer.
Buddhist beatnik poet Diane DiPrima is a mother of five, the author of over 35 collections of prose and poetry. She was born in Brooklyn in 1934 to first-generation Italian-Americans. She dropped out of Swarthmore after a year and moved to Manhattan's Lower East Side to write. Her apartment became a haven for dancers, musicians, painters, and poets. Writers Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac were among those who used to drop by.

HEADLINE: AN EXPERIENCE ALMOST TOO PAINFUL FOR WORDS
February 15, 1998 Sunday, STATEWIDE
SECTION: ARTS; Pg. G1
LENGTH: 934 words
BYLINE: FRANK RIZZO; Courant Staff Writer
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Richard Selzer, the New Haven author and retired physician, is anxious about how the Long Wharf Theatre production of "A Question of Mercy" ---- will be received in the community where he lives, where he practiced medicineand where the dramatic incident on which the play is based took place.
The David Rabe play has as its source material a story Selzer wrote in 1991 about doctor-assisted suicide, a story based upon Selzer's real-life experience with a New Haven gay couple, one of whom was in the final, agonizing stages of diseases brought on by AIDS. The couple implored the doctor to help them oversee a speedy and -- in their eyes -- humane and dignified death for the deteriorating man. This occurred years after he had retired from his practice and given up his surgical mask to become a full-time writer and the poet laureate of medicine.
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"A Question of Mercy" is not Selzer's first brush with the theater. He adapted one of his own short stories, "The Black Swan," for the stage, first at Williamstown Theatre Festival in Williamstown, Mass., and later at the Sundance Theatre Institute in Utah and in St. Louis. "The Black Swan" is being adapted as a chamber opera at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.

HEADLINE: BUSINESS BEAT
February 22, 1998, Sunday, SPOKANE EDITION
SECTION: MAIN NEWS, Pg. A16
LENGTH: 1743 words
BYLINE: Compiled by Tina Carey
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Trilby Dorn has joined the Seattle office of the international law firm of\ Graham and James LLP. Dorn, an associate, practices litigation and environmental law. She received her law degree from Tulane Law School and her undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College. Dorn has served as a law clerk for the Federal Defenders of Western Washington and as a legal intern to the Washington Environmental Council.

Headline: Big day is near for 'Nova's No. 41
February 23, 1998
Section: Sports
By Beth Onufrak, INQUIRER CORRESPONDENT
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William McElroy, a sophomore at Muhlenberg, was third among 22 runners in the 1,500-meter run at the Swarthmore Five-Way Challenge on Feb. 7. The graduate of Archbishop Wood finished in 4:21.12.

Headline: Pharmacy's Koschineg sets school scoring record
February 20, 1998
Section: Sports
By Rob Quinn, FOR THE INQUIRER
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Outstanding wrestler. Ursinus freshman Josh Moyer from Phoenixville was named the outstanding wrestler at last weekend's Centennial Conference Wrestling Championships at Swarthmore College.

HEADLINE: Saturday's College Basketball Scores
February 23, 1998, Monday, BC cycle
SECTION: Sports News
LENGTH: 1063 words
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Swarthmore 58, Haverford 38
Union, N.Y. 83, Clarkson 76
Vermont 59, Hartford 56

HEADLINE: Saturday's Women's College Basketball Scores
February 22, 1998, Sunday, BC cycle
SECTION: Sports News
LENGTH: 1636 words
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Swarthmore 58, Haverford 38
Union, N.Y. 83, Clarkson 76
Vermont 59, Hartford 56

HEADLINE: Thursday's Women's College Basketball Scores
February 20, 1998, Friday, BC cycle
SECTION: Sports News
LENGTH: 615 words
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Franklin Pierce 70, Stonehill 56
Gwynedd Mercy 57, Swarthmore 49
Hillsdale 84, Gannon 50

HEADLINE: Wednesday's College Basketball
February 19, 1998; Thursday 01:15 Eastern Time
SECTION: Sports
LENGTH: 806 words
BYLINE: The Associated Press
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Muhlenberg 70, Swarthmore 43
N.Y. Maritime 74, Mount St. Mary, N.Y. 72
Phila. Pharmacy 84, Villa Julie 79

HEADLINE: Tuesday's Women's College Basketball Scores
February 18, 1998, Wednesday, BC cycle
SECTION: Sports News
LENGTH: 466 words
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Muhlenberg 54, Swarthmore 27
Nazareth, N.Y. 96, Rochester Tech 41
Nyack 68, Teikyo-Post 64

HEADLINE: 'BERG WOMEN DOUBLE UP ON SWARTHMORE
February 18, 1998, Wednesday, FIFTH EDITION
SECTION: SPORTS, Pg. C3
LENGTH: 447 words
BYLINE: MONICA DEEB; The Morning Call
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When Lisa Clarke hit a leaning jumper early in the second half, the night was pretty much complete for Muhlenberg. The Mules were well on their way to an easy 54-27 win over visiting Swarthmore on Thursday, and Clarke was the last of four seniors to score on senior night.

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