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The Daily Gazette
Swarthmore College
Thursday, October 28, 1999
Volume 4, Number 28
NEWS IN BRIEF
1) ML Halloween party is on – Sharples out
2) Cooper Lecture Series continues
3) World news roundup
4) Campus events
SPORTS IN BRIEF
1) Mens soccer falls to Washington
2) Volleyball swept by Haverford
3) World sports roundup
4) Today’s and tomorrow’s contests
WEATHER FORECAST
Today: Mostly sunny. Highs in the low 60s.
Damn Yankees.
Tonight: Mostly clear. Lows 40-45.
Tomorrow: Partly sunny. Highs approaching 70.
NEWS REPORT
1) ML Halloween party is on – Sharples out
It was reported in last Thursday’s Daily Gazette that there was a conflict
about
both the host and location of this weekend’s Halloween party. SAC and Mary
Lyons Dormitory met earlier this week to see if they could compromise.
SAC has decided to cancel its plans to hold the party in Sharples, citing
problems with the building as a space. Further, SAC has thrown its funding (in
the name of $1,000) to the ML party, which will be held Saturday night from
10-2. It will be a costume party, in accordance with tradition.
There will also be trick-or-treating in ML Sunday evening, sponsored by the
Dean’s office and open to the community. From 6:00-9:00 p.m. candy will be
available at every door in ML, and RA Christine Lattin promises they won’t say
anything like, “Aren’t you a little old to still be trick-or-treating?”
*****
2) Cooper Lecture Series continues
Juliet Schor’s lecture, entitled, “The Overworked American” will speak in LPAC
Cinema tonight at 8:00 p.m. She is the second of the Cooper Lecture speakers
appearing at Swarthmore College this fall. The Lecture Series, entitled
“Rethinking Contemporary Liberalism: Critiques through the prisms of morality,
race, class and gender,” examines and critiques the state of contemporary
liberal individualism through the prisms of morality, race, class and gender.
The three featured speakers are prominent social scientists at the forefront of
important and timely debates surrounding the future of contemporary liberalism.
Juliet B. Schor is Director of Studies and Senior Lecturer in Women’s Studies
and Professor of Economics at Harvard University. She also holds a Chair in the
Economics of Leisure Studies at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. In
addition, she is an associate at the World Institute for Development Economics
Research and the United Nations Development Program. She is the author of
several books, including the best-selling and critically-acclaimed The
Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure and The Overspent
American: Upscaling, Downshifting and the New Consumer. The Overworked American
was listed by the New York Times as one of the ten best books of 1992.
Professor Schor’s writings appear regularly in scholarly publications and also
in popular newspapers and magazines. A Guggenheim Fellow in 1996, Ms. Schor is
one of the most visible and poignant social and economic critics writing today.
*****
3) World news roundup
The House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that would make it a
Federal crime for doctors to prescribe drugs to terminally ill patients for
assistance in ending their lives. The voting for this bill was particularly
interesting:
Total = 271-156
Yes = 200 Rep.
71 Dem.
No = 135 Dem.
20 Rep.
1 Indep. …
Gunmen assassinated Armenia’s Prime Minister, the Speaker, and a number of
senior legislators, storming the capital and taking 50 hostages in the process.
…Democratic Presidential hopefuls Bill Bradley and Al Gore had their first
face-to-face public session in New Hampshire; both faced tough questions from
those gathered at the CNN-sponsored event.
*****
4) Campus events
Juliet Schor Meeting with Students
Kohlberg 202, 4:15 p.m.
Swarthbucklers Fencing Practice
Upper Tarble, 7:30 p.m.
Lecture: Juliet B. Schor, “Liberalism and Gender”
LPAC Cinema, 8:00 p.m.
Russian Movie Series
Kohlberg 116, 9:00 p.m.
Latin Dancing
Upper Tarble, 9:30 p.m.
*****
SPORTS UPDATE
1) Mens soccer falls to Washington
The mens soccer team lost to Centennial Conference foe Washington College 3-1.
Alvaro Munoz scored the only goal for the Garnet. The loss drops the team’s
record to 4-13, 1-6.
*****
2) Volleyball swept by Haverford
The volleyball team lost to Haverford in three straight games Wednesday night.
The final scores were 15-7, 19-17, and 15-9. The loss drops the team’s record
to 4-20, 1-6.
*****
3) World sports roundup
The New York Yankees completed their second straight World Series sweep,
beating the Braves 4-1. In the last baseball game of the century, Roger Clemens
threw over seven innings of shutout ball to earn his first ring. Yankees closer
Mariano Rivera earned series MVP honors. …49ers quarterback Steve Young told
reporters that he is not ready to retire, despite suffering from
post-concussion syndrome at 38 years of age after the latest in a long line of
concussions that have sidelined the All-Pro. …Investigators have uncovered a
thirty minute loop of tape from the cockpit voice recorder in the Learjet that
killed Payne Stewart and five others. They hope to recover the tape in search
for answers as to the events leading up to the plane’s descent upon South
Dakota Monday.
*****
4) Today’s and tomorrow’s contests
TODAY
There are no contests scheduled for today.
TOMORROW
Field Hockey at Haverford, 3:30 p.m.
*****
Quote of the day:
“Linen underwear feels great! But it’s not the same thing as owning your
own cow.” –Professor Timothy Burke, on the textile industry of early Europe
*****
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