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The Daily Gazette
Swarthmore College
Wednesday, March 15, 2000
Volume 4, Number 91
NEWS IN BRIEF
1) World news roundup
2) Campus events
SPORTS IN BRIEF
1) Women’s lacrosse pounds Widener in season opener
2) Baseball team falls to Widener
3) World sports roundup
4) Today’s and tomorrow’s contests
WEATHER FORECAST
Today: Partly cloudy. High in the upper 60s.
Beware the ides of March.
Tonight: Cloudy. Low in the low 50s.
Remember March, the ides of March remember.
Tomorrow: Showers. High in the upper 60s.
The ides of March are come. (Good thing I’m not Caesar, or today
would really be awful.)
NEWS REPORT
1) World news roundup
George W. Bush and Al Gore both garnered enough delegates in yesterday’s
primaries to guarantee their nominations for the presidency. For all
intents and purposes, the 2000 primary election season is now
over. …Secretary of State Madeleine Albright sternly told India
yesterday that it must curb its development of nuclear weapons and
missiles and its exports of military technology if it wants to improve
relations with the United States. …A Florida judge on Tuesday threw out
the nation’s first statewide school voucher system, ruling that the state
Constitution bars public money from being used for private
education. Gov. Jeb Bush, who championed the program, promised to find
the money to keep it going despite what happens in court. An appeal is
certain. …The United States and Britain agreed Tuesday to openly share
data from a groundbreaking project to decode the human genetic pattern–a
study that could pave the way for new medical cures and
preventions. This news, however, may badly hurt private biotechnology
companies because leaders of the two nations have urged that the gene
mapping data be made public. … Russian election officials moved
yesterday to bar ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky from the
Russian presidential campaign. The Central Election Commission had to add
Zhirinovsky to the list of 11 other candidates last week after the Supreme
Court overturned its decision to keep him from the March 26 vote. Staying
away from high-fat, high-cholesterol foods isn’t just a warning for adults
to heed. A new study of teen-agers found one-third of them had increased
their heart disease risk factors with junk food diets that could lead to
high blood pressure and clogged arteries as they grow older.
*****
2) Campus events
Discussion and Film Screening of “The Battle in Seattle: Independent
Media Coverage of the Protests against the WTO,” with Sara Zia
Ebrahimi and Ginger Takahashi
LPAC Cinema, 4:15 p.m.
“Reproduction in the Genetic Age” by Paul Wolpe, Center of Bioethics,
UPenn
Scheuer Room, 4:30 p.m.
Swarthmore College Democrats Meeting
Parrish Parlor East, 8:30 p.m.
Dialogues
Danawell Trailer, 9:00 p.m.
Dialogues
Wharton E/F Lounge, 9:00 p.m.
Film Society Screening
DuPont 161, 10:00 p.m.
*****
SPORTS UPDATE
1) Women’s lacrosse pounds Widener in season opener
The women’s lacrosse team defeated Widener 16-6 yesterday in its season
opener. The team started off strong with a goal by Katie Tarr in the first
54 seconds of the game, and went on to lead 10-2 at the half. Tarr had
five goals and two assists; Mavis Biss had five goals and one
assist (her career high); Mariam Levy had three goals and one assist; and
Erica Williams, Liz Brainerd, and Kristen English each had one goal. Jane
Kendall turned away 12 Widener shots and allowed only one goal. The team
is now 1-0 on the season.
*****
2) Baseball falls to Widener
The baseball team lost to Widener 10-3 yesterday. The team is now 3-5 on
the season.
*****
3) World sports roundup
In his first action since the World Series–and his controversial
magazine interview–John Rocker pitched a perfect ninth inning
Tuesday night to finish the Braves’ 4-0 victory over the Detroit
Tigers. …Following an outcry of protests from coaches around the NBA,
a temporary compromise was reached Tuesday between the commissioner’s
office and the coaches’ association, giving coaches who do not wish to
wear a wireless clip-on microphone a new option–having a boom microphone
placed near their bench. …The NCAA is still barring reporters from
internet sites from courtside coverage of the NCAA basketball tourney,
saying that “there’s just a finite amount of seats and space, and there’s
no legitimate way to distinguish between legitimate and non-legitimate
web sites.”
*****
4) Today’s and tomorrow’s contests
TODAY
Men’s volleyball hosts TCNJ, 7:00 p.m.
TOMORROW
Baseball at Lebanon Valley, 3:00 p.m.
Softball hosts Neumann, 3:00 p.m.
*****
Quote of the day:
“I suppose flattery hurts no one, that is, if he doesn’t inhale.” —
Adlai Stevenson
*****
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Jeff Heckelman
Melanie Hirsch
Claire Phillips-Thoryn
Staff Writers
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