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The Daily Gazette
Swarthmore College
Thursday, April 16, 1998
Volume 2, Number 119
NEWS IN BRIEF
1) Earthlust plans big for Earth Week
2) World news roundup
3) Today’s campus events
SPORTS IN BRIEF
1) Men’s lacrosse beaten by Washington
2) Today’s and tomorrow’s contests
WEATHER REPORT
Today: Overcast, rain likely. High around 75.
Oh, stop complaining about the rain.
Tonight: Still raining. Low near 55.
Complain about your work instead — its more fun.
Friday: Still raining (this is a recording). High of 75.
NEWS REPORT
1) Earthlust plans big for Earth Week
Next week is Earth Week, and according to Jessica Watson ’00 Earthlust has
a large number of events planned. Central to the plans is a “speaker and
panel about the greening of higher education and whether liberal arts
colleges have a responsibility to produce environmentally literate
citizens,” Watson said. The speaker, Richard Clugston, is the director of
University Leaders For a Sustainable Future and will speak at 4:30 p.m. on
Tuesday the 21st in Kirby Lecture Hall. The panel discussion, which will
follow at 7:30 p.m. in Kohlberg 115, will be moderated by Clugston.
According to Watson, the College Planning Committee will meet and discuss a
letter “a couple of seniors have drafted … about the environmental future
of Swarthmore. They want to form a committee [to, among other things] try
and make any new buildings that are built more environmentally friendly,”
on Wednesday the 21st, which is Earth Day.
Although Earthlust always “throw[s] together something,” for Earth Week,
this year’s plans are much more extensive. “We really wanted to put a focus
on it and make it something big that the campus would notice,” Watson said.
Earthlust has worked closely with environmental groups at Haverford and
hopes to put a Tri-Co spin on this year’s Earth Week activities.
Also planned are a Wednesday cookout on Parrish Beach, a Friday party in
the Straw Bale House by the Crum side of the track, and movie nights.
*****
2) World news roundup
CONTEMPT TRIAL FOR FORMER SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT BOTHA BEGINS
P.W. Botha, the last aparteid-era president of South Africa, appeared
before a judge yesterday on charges of ignoring subpoenas from that
country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The Commission is charged
with investigating crimes committed under apartheid, and has asked Botha to
testify about the activities of the State Security council which he headed.
The 84 year old ex-president has called the Commission “a circus,” and has
refused to testify. Botha led South Africa’s white minority government from
1978 to 1989. He relaxed some of the harshest apartheid laws, but also
introduced emergency laws under which tens of thousands of protesters were
held without trail and thousands were killed in clashes with police. If
convicted on contempt charges, he could face two years in jail.
KHMER ROUGE LEADER POL POT DIES IN HIS SLEEP
Khmer Rouge officials said that Pol Pot died of heart failure last night.
He led the Khmer Rouge, the Cambodian Communist Party, from its founding in
1953 until last year. Under his leadership, Cambodia embraced “agrarian
communism” and emptied its cities. Approximately a quarter of the
population died of overwork, starvation, or execution during the three
years of Khmer Rouge control. Pol Pot’s government was toppled by a
Vietnamese invasion in 1978, and he spent the remainder of his life in
guerilla camps. The Khmer Rouge had dwindled to about 2,000 men by the time
of his death, and overthrew Pol Pot as party leader, placing him under
house arrest about a year ago.
IN OTHER NEWS…
A biology graduate student at Columbia University was convicted of sexually
assaulting and kidnaping a Barnard College Senior, in a case which drew
national attention because the two originally met over the Internet. …
Unionist leader Ian Paisley began a campaign to convince Northern Irish
voters to reject the proposed peace accords for the region. … Tehran
mayor Gholamhossein Karbaschi was released from prison on bail, a day after
police broke up a demonstration on his behalf. … In India’s Kashmir
province, a bomb killed one person and injured nine, while four separatist
guerrillas and an Indian army soldier were killed in a clash. … The
Bennington Museum unexpectedly received two crates from a phony address
containing seven paintings by Grandma Moses which were stolen 14 years ago.
*****
3) Today’s campus events
“What is Pluralism at Swarthmore College?” Table and display
Parish Parlors, 10:00 am-12:00 pm
French Caribbean literature class students will speak about talks by Chinua
Achebe, Ngugi Wa-Thiongo, and Maryse Conde on various topics in African
literature, politics, and sociological trends held at the African
Literature Association conference in March.
Intercultural Center, 12:30 pm
Lecture by Naomi Lindstrom
Kohlberg Scheuer Room, 3:30 pm
Lecture: “Puerto Rican Social Activism In The U.S.”
Martin Kirby Lecture Hall, 4:00 pm
Lecture: “Recent Advances in AIDS Chemotherapeutics” by Dr. Paul J. Reider,
VP for Process Research at Merck Research Labs
DuPont 139, 4:30 pm
Student Dance Concert
LPAC Pearson-Hall Theatre, 4:30 pm
Workshop: Job Search Strategies and Interviewing for Seniors
Kohlberg 115, 7:00 pm
Puerto Rican Awareness Week movie showing: “Pa’lante,” about the Young
Lords Party, a Puerto Rican activist group in the 70’s
Intercultural Center, 9:00 pm
*****
SPORTS UPDATE
1) Men’s lacrosse beaten by Washington
The Swarthmore mens lacrosse team was beaten at home 29-1 by Washington
College Wednesday afternoon. The Garner’s lone goal was scored by Steve
Shin ’98 in the second half. The men are now 3-9 overall and 1-3 in the
Centennial Conference. They will next see action when they travel to
Gettysburg on Saturday for a 1:00 p.m. game.
*****
2) Today’s and tomorrow’s contests
TODAY
Women’s lacrosse hosts Rowan at 4:00 p.m.
Volleyball has its last home match of the season vs. Rowan at 7:00 p.m.
TOMORROW
Men’s tennis hosts SUNY-Binghampton at 3:00 p.m.
Baseball travels to Muhlenberg for a 3:30 p.m. game.
*****
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