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The Daily Gazette
Swarthmore College
Friday, September 12, 1997
Volume 2, Number 10
NEWS IN BRIEF
1) Students debate Public Safety emails
2) AIDS researcher says treatment is too expensive to stop epidemic
3) World news roundup
4) Weekend party plans
SPORTS IN BRIEF
1) Women’s tennis falls to Millersville
2) Tonight’s and tomorrow’s contests
Weather Forecast:
Today: Partly cloudy, more rain likely.
Tonight: Partly cloudy, more rain likely.
This is a recording.
Extended Weekend Forecast
Saturday: A little bit more sun, but more rain possible.
Sunday: Clearing up. High around 75.
NEWS REPORT
1) Students debate Public Safety emails
At least one student is tired of having the Department of Public Safety’s
bi-weekly email messages cluttering up his email system. As a result, Josh
Kramer ’00 has devised a way to have any email from Terri Narkin
immediately erased.
Kramer, who posted the computer program and discussion on the bulletin
board swat.talk, wrote, “Transcribing the standard public safety documents
every other week is a big waste of all of our time, and it merely serves to
make me ignore any and everything she [Narkin] plans on mailing to me and
every other student.”
Not everyone agreed with Kramer and Elaine Huang ’98 explained, “The
[public safety] tips are not entirely useless, nor is the concern which
they express unreasonable.”
Kramer though, does have his supporters and as Elizabeth Nickrenz ’99
added, “These messages are not emergency information; there is no reason
why any interested student cannot seek this information out on their own.”
Terri Narkin chose not comment on the student backlash towards her Public
Safety emails.
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2) AIDS researcher says treatment is too expensive to stop epidemic
Last night Dr. David Ho, Director of the AIDS Research Center at
Rockefeller University, warned audience members that despite the
effectiveness of new HIV and AIDS treatments “this epidemic will be with us
for several lifetimes.” He explained that because of the high cost of the
triple drug therapy treatment, these new advances will not be widely
available in the developing world, which has the highest infection rates.
After calling the AIDS epidemic “the plague of the millennium,” Ho said
that researchers’ advice for HIV positive people is to treat the virus
early and hard. He recommends that patients start taking the cocktail of
drugs within 90 days of infection. His research has shown that by
following this regimen the HIV virus will drop to undectable levels in the
body.
Ho, however, reminded the audience that even with new scientific
discoveries there is still no clear sign of eradiction.
The lecture was presented by the Cooper Foundation and Swarthmore Asian
Organization.
*****
3) World news roundup
NORTH KOREA AGREES TO PARTICIPATE IN NEW YORK PEACE TALKS
North Korea agreed Thursday to participate in a second round of preliminary
talks aimed at bringing lasting peace to the Korean Peninsula. North
Korea’s participation in the New York talks, which also involve the United
States, China and South Korea, had been in doubt since August, when the
United States granted asylum to two senior North Korean diplomats who
defected. Officials said North Korea was still protesting the asylum
decision but would consider that issue separately from the current
negotiations, which could lead to a peace treaty replacing the armistice
that ended the Korean War in 1953. North Korea and South Korea technically
remain at war.
ARMY REPORT FINDS RAMPANT SEXUAL HARASSMENT
Sexual harassment is commonplace throughout the Army, according to an
internal report the service released Thursday. The study, prompted by
allegations last year of sexual abuse at the U.S. Army Ordnance Center in
Aberdeen, Md., found 78 percent of women and 76 percent of men had
experienced “crude or offensive behavior” during the past year, and 47
percent of women and 30 percent of men had faced “unwanted sexual
attention.” Army officials said they would take steps to curb sexual abuse
and harassment, including a week of ethics training for new recruits and
tighter screening of drill sergeants.
*****
4) Weekend party plans
The Social Affairs Committee is funding numerous activities this weekend, SAC
members said. The events are:
*a Writing Associates party in Paces from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Friday night;
*a SASS party in the Black Cultural Center from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Saturday;
*an HOLA party in Paces from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Saturday;
* Foggy Brain party from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. in Delta Upsilon.
All SAC-funded events are free and open to the entire student body.
*****
SPORTS UPDATE
1) Women’s tennis falls to Millersville
The women’s tennis team was defeated 8-1 yesterday by Division II
Millersville University. The #1 singles player Jennifer Pao ’01 provided
the team’s only win with a victory in straight sets (6-0, 6-4). Coach Dan
Sears says the team is using their fall season to play some tough
non-conference schools, “get the team into shape, work on the doubles teams
and to see what [they’ve] got.” In addition to four new freshmen, the team
is also looking forward to the addition of Allie Parker ’99 and Jenica
Yurcic ’99, who are both here on domestic exchange this year.
*****
2) Today’s and tomorrow’s contests
TODAY
Women’s soccer hosts Pomona-Pitzer at 4:00 p.m. on Cunningham Fields.
Men’s soccer hosts Southwestern in the first game of the Jimmy Mills
Tournament at Clothier Fields.
Volleyball travels to Wilmington for their season opener at 7:00 p.m.
SATURDAY (13 Sept)
Field hockey travels to Western Maryland for their first conference game.
Football hosts Bethany in its season opener at1:30 p.m.
Women’s soccer hosts Misericordia at 2:00 p.m.
Women’s ultimate frisbee hosts Haverford, U. Penn, Bucknell, and U.
Delaware in a tournament that starts at 9:30 a.m. at Cunningham Fields and
Mertz Lawn.
Men’s ultimate frisbee travels to Haverford for a 9:30 a.m. tournament.
Men’s tennis travels to the Bloomsburg Invitational for their season opener.
SUNDAY (14 Sept)
Men’s soccer travels to Haverford to play Rowan College at 3:30 p.m. in the
second part of the Jimmy Mills Tournament.
*****
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