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The Daily Gazette
Swarthmore College
Tuesday, October 7, 1997
Volume 2, Number 27
NEWS IN BRIEF
1) Few seniors vote in class elections
2) Public Safety officer who resigned not replaced yet
3) World news roundup
SPORTS IN BRIEF
1) Volleyball knocked out by Wilmington
2) The weekend’s results
3) Today’s and tomorrow’s contests
WEATHER FORECAST
Today: A wee bit sunny, breezy. High around 80.
Give an Adirondack chair a little hug.
Tonight: A smidgen cloudy. Low near 55.
Might as well do a touch of homework.
Wednesday: A tad sunny.
NEWS REPORT
1) Few seniors vote in class elections
Less than one-third of the class of 1998 voted for senior class officers
last week. One hundred and five students voted in the election, said Katie
Bowman, assistant director of alumni relations, who organized the elections
with Coordinator of Student Activities Davirah Timm-Dinkins. According to
the registrar’s office, 322 seniors are enrolled this semester.
Two slates of candidates — a group of five students and a group of 15 —
sought to serve as class officers. The final tally was 39 votes for the
group of five and 66 votes for the group of 15. The winners were Lauren
Basta, John Delatush, Liz Galatin, Jordan Hay, Dan Johnston, Edgar Lee, Jen
Lee, Maryann Lee, Ariane Liazos, Kim Nelson, Sujin Seo, Gaurav Seth, Rani
Shankar, Amita Sudhir and Anna Yangco.
Ballots were placed in seniors’ mailboxes on Sept. 30, and students were
asked to return them to the Alumni Office by noon on Oct. 3.
Seth said he was “very surprised” that so few seniors voted in the election. “I
expected at least two-thirds (of the class) to vote. Since the Alumni
Relations office is so close to the mailroom, you would expect people to
have done so.”
Mandy Hourihan ’98 said, “If there had been an additional box for
abstentions, I would have turned my ballot in.” Ashley Flynn ’98 said, “I
didn’t feel comfortable making a decision between the two groups because
the first group didn’t fully represent an accurate cross-section of our
class and the second group was too large to make decisions and was too
homogeneous to represent the varied interests of our class.”
Timm-Dinkins is currently taking suggestions from students on how to
improve next year’s elections.
*****
2) Public Safety officer who resigned not replaced yet
The Public Safety Department has not been able to find a replacement for
Kelly Dodson, the Public Safety Department’s sole female officer, who
resigned last month. Some students had expressed concern that a recently
hired officer was her replacement, but it turns out that he was hired
before Dodson resigned.
Public Safety is working “hand in hand with Human Relations,” according to
Director Owen Redgrave, to hire another officer. Administrators have
already conducted a search, but they were not satisfied with the pool of
applicants, citing low quality and a low percentage of minority and women
applicants.
Public Safety and Human Resources are beginning a second search which they
hope will yield a better applicant pool. But, Redgrave, “it will be a
while” before a replacement for Dodson is hired.
*****
3) World news roundup
TEN BOSNIAN CROAT WAR CRIMES SUSPECTS SURRENDER
The top Bosnian Croat war crimes suspect and nine others accused of
persecuting Muslims turned themselves in Monday to the U.N. war crimes
tribunal in The Hague. Dario Kordic, a leading Bosnian Croat politician, is
accused along with General Tihomir Blaskic of commanding troops who
rampaged through the Lasva Valley of central Bosnia in 1993, brutally
killing hundreds of civilians. Blaskic surrendered in April 1996, and
Kordic and nine lower-ranking officials did the same after receiving
assurances of a speedy trial. Kordic, Blaskic and the others all maintain
they are innocent.
SUPREME COURT BEGINS NEW TERM
On the first day of its new term, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a
case pitting banks against credit unions and rejected about 1,500 appeals
on topics ranging from immigration to gays in the military. The banking
industry contends that federal regulators must limit the expansion of
credit unions, which are tax-exempt and whose members must be affiliated
through workplaces or other institutions, such as colleges. A decision will
come later this year. The high court rejected without comment a case
challenging the Clinton administration’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy
allowing the military to discharge service members for overt homosexual
acts or statements. It also rejected a lawsuit from the states of Arizona
and California demanding that the federal government stop an “invasion” by
illegal immigrants.
IN OTHER NEWS …
The FBI on Monday arrested three people, including a former Pentagon
lawyer, on charges of spying for East Germany and Russia in the 1970s and
’80s. … An armored car driver and $15 million that he was guarding
vanished Sunday night in Charlotte, N.C.; authorities don’t know if he
stole the money or was the victim of a crime. … This year’s Nobel Prize
in medicine has been awarded to Stanley B. Prusiner, a biochemist at the
University of California at San Francisco who discovered prions, the
infectious agents that cause Alzheimer’s disease, mad cow disease and a
variety of other neurological disorders.
*****
SPORTS UPDATE
1) Volleyball knocked out by Wilmington
The volleyball team lost in three games to Wilmington on Monday night. The
scores were 2- 15, 12-15 and 6-15. “It was a really interesting game,” said
co-captain Jordan Hay ’98, “because a lot of players were missing (or)
sick, and for various other reasons we had a lot of people who aren’t
normally playing.”
*****
2) The weekend’s results
MEN’S RUGBY
The Evil Buzzards lost Saturday at Lockhaven.
*****
3) Today’s and tomorrow’s contests
TODAY
Field hockey travels to Washington College for 4 p.m. contest.
Two pairs of players from Swarthmore’s men’s tennis team face off in the
Eastern Rolex doubles finals.
TOMORROW
Women’s soccer plays Cabrini in a 4 p.m. home game.
Men’s soccer takes on Wesley in a 4 p.m. home game.
*****
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