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The Daily Gazette
Swarthmore College
Monday, September 20, 1999
Volume 4, Number 6
NEWS IN BRIEF
1) Mental health support group formed
2) World news roundup
3) Campus events
SPORTS IN BRIEF
1) Football falls to Johns Hopkins
2) Field Hockey gets to conference championship
3) Cross-country teams triumph over Johns Hopkins
4) Men’s soccer falls in first conference game
5) Volleyball struggles through dual match
5) Frisbee teams travel to Lehigh tournament
7) Intramural soccer scores
8) Today’s and tomorrow’s contests
WEATHER FORECAST
Today: Partly cloudy. High in the upper 70s.
The worst thing about reserve reading is having to enter the icebox
that is McCabe when it’s gorgeous outside.
Tonight: Cloudy. Low around 60.
Maybe we could fence in an area on the lawn, so you could take your
reading outside while still technically being on library grounds.
Tomorrow: Clouds and rain. High in the low 70s.
If we added a swing set and a jungle gym, we could call it “Plato’s
Playground” and provide some good clean intellectual fun for Ville kids…
NEWS REPORT
1) Mental health support group formed
Last night was the first meeting of Swarthmore’s newest student group, a
support group for depression and other mental health concerns. Anna Staab
’02, one of the group’s organizers, said that the group’s goal is to have
a place where people can openly discuss mental health issues. “We want to
cut down on the isolation that people can feel. You can feel like you’re
the only one,” she said.
Staab said she had felt that mental health issues were not openly
discussed at Swarthmore, but that such discussion can be enormously
beneficial. “I feel like it can be a positive thing, to be open about it.
It can be a healing thing,” she said. Eventually, the group hopes to also
work on increasing awareness of mental health issues on campus as well.
The group’s next meeting will be Sunday at 6, in a location not yet
determined. All meetings are strictly confidential and intended only for
people struggling with mental illness.
–m.h.
*****
2) World news roundup
Peacekeeping troops arrive in East Timor. …Israeli prime minister
promises to work for peace on eve of Yom Kippur. …KLA and NATO disagree
on demilitarization plan. …Hurricane death toll counted at 49, with the
highest state tolls in Pennsylvania (8) and North Carolina (23).
*****
3) Campus events
Yom Kippur
Lodge Five, 8:00 a.m.
All Women Over Lunch
PACES, 12:15 p.m.
Falun Gong Introductory Seminar, Session 3
Bond 2nd floor, 4:00 p.m.
Chemistry Colloquium
Kohlberg 115, 4:30 p.m.
Yom Kippur Break the Fast
Bond Memorial Hall, 6:00 p.m.
Escort Training for the Pro-Choice Task Force
Kohlberg 115, 9:00 p.m.
Empty the Shelters Meeting
Kohlberg 228, 9:00 p.m.
Swing Practice
Upper Tarble 9:30 p.m.
SWIL Movie: “Bedknobs and Broomsticks”
Kirby Lecture Hall, 10:00 p.m.
****
SPORTS UPDATE
1) Football falls to Johns Hopkins
The football team followed up its win over Oberlin with a 37-3 loss to
Johns Hopkins Friday night. Homecoming is this Saturday at 1:30 p.m.
against Gettysburg.
*****
2) Field hockey gets to tournament championship
After beating Randolph Macon 6-0 and Haverford 2-1, the field hockey team
lost to Wellesley 2-1 in the championship game of
the Seven Sisters tournament Saturday. Ingrid Kaszas ’03 scored
Swarthmore’s lone goal, which tied the score until 23 seconds before the
end of the game, when Wellesley scored its game-winning point. Jane
Kendall ’00 and Julie Finnegan ’00 were named to the All-Tournament team.
The team is now 4-2 overall.
*****
3) Cross-country teams triumph over Johns Hopkins
The men’s and women’s cross-country teams both beat Johns Hopkins in a
meet on Saturday. The men won 18-40, with Marc Jeuland ’01, Liam O’Neill
’00 and Jeff Doyon ’00 sweeping the top three places. The women’s team won
24-31, and Joko Agunloye ’01 and Karen Lloyd ’00 took the top two spots.
*****
4) Men’s soccer falls in first conference game
The men’s soccer team opened its Centennial Conference play with a 4-0
loss to Johns Hopkins Saturday. The team is now 2-6 on the season and 0-1
in the conference.
*****
5) Volleyball struggles through dual match
The volleyball team fell 3-0 to Bryn Mawr and Gettysburg Saturday,
bringing the team’s record to 0-8 overall and 0-3 in the Centennial
Conference.
*****
6) Frisbee teams travel to Lehigh tournament
On Saturday, the Warmothers, the Earthworms, and a coed team (the
Smartwhores) traveled to Lehigh. The Warmothers lost the first game to a
mostly-male Susquehanna coed team 13-4, then lost to the Lehigh rookies,
another coed team, 13-1. The Earthworms lost to Lehigh 13-10 and the
Lehigh alumni 13-2, then beat Haverford 13-6. The Smartwhores beat
Susquehanna 13-4.
*****
7) IM soccer scores
120 – 4
FC Expediter – 2
Curious George and the Junk Monkeys – 5
Al Bloom’s Legions of Doom – 0
Fabulous Faculty and Stupendous Staff – 3
Shady Business – 1
*****
8) Today’s and tomorrow’s contests
TODAY
No contests scheduled for today.
TOMORROW
No contests scheduled for tomorrow.
*****
Quote of the day:
“It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting
shells than to have been born a millionaire.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
*****
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