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The Daily Gazette
Swarthmore College
Friday, October 3, 1997
Volume 2, Number 25
NEWS IN BRIEF
1) Eugene Lang strikes again with another endowment
2) Swarthmore swingers jazzing up the party scene
3) World news roundup
4) Weekend party plans
SPORTS IN BRIEF
1) Today’s and tomorrow’s contests
WEATHER FORECAST
Today: Mostly sunny, warmer. High near 70.
It’s so nice — if you don’t go outside, I won’t be your friend.
Tonight: Partly cloudy, no rain expected. Low around 55.
Nice evening to be outside; not too many of those left.
Extended weekend forecast:
Saturday: Still a few clouds, even warmer. High of 75.
Sunday: Clear and sunny. High might reach 80.
NEWS REPORT
1) Eugene Lang strikes again with another endowment
On Friday night, Eugene Lang, who last spring donated $30 million to
Swarthmore, announced a new endowment designed to advance orchestral music
at Swarthmore. The interest earned from the endowment will be used by the
Department of Music and Dance to invite a young composer to Swarthmore to
create a new piece of music. The piece will be played at the College by an
orchestra containing at least one Swarthmore student.
Lang’s most recent endowment will “act as an inspiration and a facilitator
of creating new pieces of music. It will symbolize the extent to which
Swarthmore is committed to the humanities, to music, particularly to
encouraging young creators to add to the field of music,” said President Al
Bloom.
The money from the endowment will be available this year.
*****
2) Swarthmore swingers jazzing up the party scene
Dancers will be grooving to the tunes of the Swarthmore College Jazz
Ensemble on Saturday in Upper Tarble at a SAC-funded jazz/swing formal.
The idea for a party with live music came from a similar event the ensemble
threw last semester for the Friends of Music and Dance, ensemble members
said. Only about 30 people attended that event, and the group decided it
should hold a dance for the whole student body.
The 16-member ensemble will alternate with a smaller jazz combo led by
conductor John Alston. Dress for the dance is semi-formal or formal.
*****
3) World news roundup
CANADA RECALLS ITS AMBASSADOR TO ISRAEL
Canada recalled its ambassador to Israel on Thursday to protest the use of
forged Canadian passports in an attack last week by two suspected Israeli
agents on a leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas. The two men
have not been identified — the Canadian documents they carried were fakes,
said Canada’s foreign minister, Lloyd Axworthy. The men allegedly tried to
poison Khaled Meshal, the political leader of Hamas, outside his office in
Amman, Jordan on Sept. 25. Hamas claims the men were working for the
Mossad, Israel’s secret service, but Israel denies the charge.
CLINTON SEEKS TIGHTER CONTROLS ON IMPORTED FOOD
President Clinton on Thursday asked Congress to require the Food and Drug
Administration to ban imports of produce from countries that do not meet
U.S. safety standards or permit U.S. inspections. The FDA already has that
authority over imported meat and poultry. Clinton said the proposal was
part of an effort to make imported food safer after hundreds of
schoolchildren ate contaminated Mexican strawberries and came down with
hepatitis in March. But food industry officials criticized the plan, saying
it was a bid to strengthen Clinton’s quest for “fast-track” trade treaty
authority by deflecting criticism from those worried about the safety of
foreign foods.
IN OTHER NEWS …
After dropping off one astronaut, David Wolf, and picking up another,
Michael Foale, at the Mir space station, crew members on the space shuttle
Atlantis closed the hatches Thursday and prepared to return home. … With
the execution Wednesday night in Texas of convicted murderer Dwight
Adanandus, the total number of executions in the United States this year
reached 57, the highest in any year since the death penalty was reinstated
in 1976. … An out-of-control New York City bus raced six blocks down
Fifth Avenue on Thursday, killing a pedestrian and then smashing into a
building, after the driver apparently had a heart attack.
*****
4) Weekend party plans
The Social Affairs Committee is funding several activities this weekend,
SAC members said. The events are:
* SOCA party in Olde Club from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Friday.
* Worth party from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Saturday.
* Jazz Ensemble’s Jazz Ball in Upper Tarble from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Saturday.
*****
SPORTS UPDATE
1) Today’s and this weekend’s contests
TODAY
No contests are scheduled.
SATURDAY
Men’s tennis hosts the second day of the Eastern Rolex tournament, which
began Thursday.
Women’s Ultimate faces 11 other teams at regionals in Oaks, Pa.
Field hockey travels to Dickinson to play at noon.
Football goes to Ursinus for a 1 p.m. game.
Men’s soccer brings Dickinson home for a 1 p.m. game.
Women’s soccer travels to Dickinson for a 1 p.m. game.
Volleyball plays Goucher and Widener at 9 a.m. at Widener.
SUNDAY
Men’s tennis hosts the third day of the Eastern Rolex tournament.
Women’s Ultimate battles it out in the second day of regionals.
*****
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