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The Daily GazetteSwarthmore College
Friday, April 2, 1999
Volume 3, Number 103
NEWS IN BRIEF
1) World news roundup
2) Campus events
SPORTS IN BRIEF
1) World sports
2) Today’s and tomorrow’s contests
WEATHER FORECAST
Today: Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
Last normal weekend for a while, folks…
Tonight: Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
Specs next weekend, parents after that…
Tomorrow: Chance of showers. Highs in the low 60s.
Something tells me there’s gonna be a little extra energy at this
weekends’ parties, if you know what I mean…
NEWS REPORT
1) World news roundup
JUST CAN’T SHAKE THOSE KOSOVO BLUES
Thursday marked the ninth day of NATO’s bombardment of Serbian targets in
Yugoslavia, but the most attention in the United States has been focused on
three American soldiers captured by Yugoslav forces near the Macedonian border
on Wednesday. Serbia announced plans to bring the soldiers before a military
court Friday, drawing a quick response from the USA that such a move would
violate international law. It is not clear whether the soldiers were captured
inside Macedonia or Yugoslavia. Thursday also saw the crossing of some 22,000
new Kosovar refugees into Albania, bringing the total number of displaced
ethnic Albanians to as many as 150,000 or more. … The four white New York
City police officers who killed Amadou Diallo, an unarmed Guinean immigrant,
with a barrage of bullets on February 4 were each indicted with second-degree
murder in the Bronx County Courthouse on Thursday. The officers all pleaded
innocent. … Peace talks in Northern Ireland, which had been going around the
clock since Monday night, were adjourned on Thursday until April 13, marking
the most recent sign of trouble of last year’s Good Friday accords. …
According to the American Automobile Association, gasoline prices have jumped
an average of over eleven cents across the country in the last two weeks,
putting an end to the long run of extremely low prices that car owners have
enjoyed.
2) Campus events
FRIDAY
Passover Co-op
Lodge Five, 7:00 a.m.
Welfare to Work Transportation Solutions
Scheuer Room, 9:00 a.m.
“The Administration of Justice in Rwanda: A View from the Trenches”
by Melissa Crow
Kohlberg 226, 1:00 p.m.
Collection: “Respect for Cultural Diversity Among the Navajo People”
by Ellevina Perkins
LPAC Cinema, 1:00 p.m.
Passover Dinner
Bond Memorial Hall, 6:00 p.m.
Movie: “Back to the Future”
DuPont 161, 7:00 and 10:00 p.m.
Dead Dog Evening Cafe
ML Dead Dog Cafe, 8:00 p.m.
Concert with Mixed Company and the Williams College Springstreeters
Mephistos, 8:00 p.m.
SATURDAY
Passover Co-op
Lodge Five, 7:00 a.m.
Passover Dinner
Bond Memorial Hall, 6:00 p.m.
Movie: “P.I.”
DuPont 161, 7:00 and 10:00 p.m.
Asian Pacific Awareness Month Film Festival
LPAC Cinema, 7:00 p.m.
Waylon and Heliarc Concert
LPAC Pearson-Hall Theatre, 8:00 p.m.
SUNDAY
Glenn Goldberg Exhibit, last day
LPAC List Gallery
Passover Co-op
Lodge Five, 7:00 a.m.
Celebration of Easter Sunday Mass
Bond Memorial Hall, 11:00 a.m.
All-Campus Easter Service
Friends Meeting House, 4:00 p.m.
CommonSpeaking Writing Workshop for Women
Kohlberg 116, 4:00 p.m.
Passover Dinner
Bond Memorial Hall, 6:00 p.m.
Dialogues
Mertz 2nd floor lounge, 8:30 p.m.
Group Meditation (All Faiths Welcome)
Bond Common Worship Room, 2nd floor, 9:00 p.m.
Greatest Movie Countdown: “The Graduate”
ML Lounge, 10:00 p.m.
*****
SPORTS UPDATE
Note: Thursday’s baseball game was postponed due to rain, with no make-up date
given.
1) World sports
INDECISION, VICTORY, AND MORE INJURIES…
Jim Harrick isn’t quite sure what he wants these days. On Wednesday, he was
introduced as new head coach of Georgia basketball, only to change his mind
and
stay with Rhode Island. Then on Thursday he changed his mind yet again and
reaccepted Georgia’s offer. Only time will tell what he will do next. …Karl
Malone pulled up with the game winning jumper with 2.7 ticks left to give the
Utah Jazz an 88-87 win over the Houston Rockets. …The Nets suffered their
biggest loss in a season of losses Thursday, when Jayson Williams broke his
right leg during New Jersey’s 90-85 win over the Atlanta Hawks. …Christian
Laettner broke a rib, but that didn’t stop his Detrot Pistons from routing the
Chicago Bulls 107-75.
*****
2) Today’s and tomorrow’s contests
TODAY
Golf visits Berlin, MD for the F&M Invite at 1:00 p.m.
TOMORROW
Track and Field hosts the Swarthmore Five-Way Challenge at 10:00 a.m.
Women’s rugby hosts F&M at 11:00 a.m.
Men’s tennis hosts Williams at 12:00 noon
Baseball visits Dickinson for a doubleheader at 12:00 noon
Women’s lacrosse visits Dickinson at 1:00 p.m.
Men’s rugby hosts Lafayette at 1:00 p.m.
Men’s lacrosse hosts Western Maryland at 1:30 p.m.
*****
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