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NEWS IN BRIEF
1) Sugar Plums to close this weekend
2) Student Council election results
3) Campus group sponsors poverty workshops
4) World news roundup
5) Campus events
SPORTS IN BRIEF
1) Men’s soccer falls to Bears
2) World sports roundup
3) Today’s and tomorrow’s contests
WEATHER FORECAST
Today: Partly sunny with a light breeze. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
Watching the Olympics tonight, I wondered why Swat doesn’t have a diving team…
Tonight: Clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
Is it fear of heights?….
Tomorrow: Sunny, crisp day. Highs in the mid 60s.
Or just fear of those clingy swimsuits…
TODAY’S SHARPLES MENU
Lunch: Chicken pot pie, homemade biscuits, barley moussaka, *Creole cabbage, spinach, vegetable blend
**Fajita bar
Dinner: Salisbury steak with gravy, mashed potatoes, pasta with asparagus cream sauce, *baked tofu, peas, carrots
**Patty-grill bar
NEWS REPORT
1) Sugar Plums to close this weekend
One year, two months and twenty-nine days after Archie and Susan Surplus opened the doors of Sugar Plums Ice Cream and Candy in the Ville of Swarthmore, they will reluctantly close them this Saturday at 6:00 p.m.
“We absolutely love the students, and we’re very sad to leave, but this town just doesn’t support its businesses,” Susan Surplus said.
After a tough winter for ice cream sales, the Surpluses channeled most of their funds into a big spring push, expecting the summer to provide good business in the form of ice cream-starved neighborhood kids.
Instead, at the beginning of the summer, the Borough Association granted a permit to a local man who owns an ice-cream truck, allowing him to park alongside the town pool. “We lost about $400 in business to that truck every single day for the entire summer,” Surplus said. “You just can’t recover from that.”
When the Surpluses came to Swarthmore last summer, they saw a town that didn’t cater to its students, and for the last year did their best to change that image.
“I kept suggesting that the Ville be more receptive to the student population.” Susan said. “I didn’t understand why each store couldn’t have a little section where they sold something of interest to the students.”
When she suggested it to the Borough Association, she was met with a firm rejection. “They said, ‘why should we? They never come here anyway.”
“I went to a Borough Association meeting and asked them why they don’t cater to Swarthmore students,” Surplus said, “one of them answered, ‘it goes back to the ’60s – they were all beatniks and hippies and we didn’t want them here.'”
That general feeling trickled down into a general distaste for Sugar Plums. “They didn’t like the fact that we stayed open until 11:00 p.m. and set up all those tables inside and outside, inviting kids to come and hang out.” Surplus said.
Many Swarthmore students are very fond of the Surpluses and Sugarplums, and had rather strong reactions upon hearing the news. “I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the Borough Association found a way to shut down the only store in the Ville that Swatties might ever possibly want to go to,” Jessica Schwartz ’01 said. “Well, fine. If they don’t want my business, then they’re not going to get it anymore.”
The Surpluses have drastically reduced prices on all their ice cream and candy for their last week. “We want to thank all the students at Swarthmore who supported us,” Susan said.
The Ville will replace Sugar Plums with a delicatessen.
– Jeff Heckelman
2) Student Council election results
Secretary
Andy Wong – 277*
Kristina Pao – 178
Charles Small – 153
None of the Above – 17
College Budget Committee
Colin Moore – 369*
Dave Thomas – 173
None of the Above – 57
College Judiciary Committee
Vasya Dostoinov – 297*
David Kamin – 290*
Carrie Cooper-Fenske – 189*
None of the Above – 30
3) Campus group sponsors poverty workshops
The Kensington Welfare Rights Union, a Philadelphia group of homeless and formerly homeless families, will be hosting a series of five informal, hour-long workshops that will address methods for alleviating poverty and hunger both in the nation and around the world.
The workshops are made possible by Empty the Shelters, a campus group committed to long term solutions for poverty. Anyone is welcome to attend, particularly those who would like to understand poverty and homeless, both worldwide and locally.
Empty the Shelters encourages students to bring questions or even challenges for the speakers. The workshops will be held every other Thursday, at 9:00 PM in Kohlberg 116.
The schedule is as follows:
Today, 9/28 – Welfare Reform
10/12 – Globalization
11/2 – Poverty pimps
11/16 – Party politics
– Eric Levy
4) World news roundup
Yugoslavia’s electoral commission has called for a second round of elections, citing the lack of a majority vote-getter in last Sunday’s contest. As people rallied in the streets of Belgrade and foreign leaders condemned current President Slobodan Milosevic’s refusal to leave power, the commission maintained that opposition head, Vojislav Kostunica, had only 48.96% of the popular vote. Though still considerably more than Milosevic’s 38.62%, under Yugoslavian law, the country’s leader must be established by majority support.
The FDA has announced that it will decide on whether or not to approve a controversial abortion pill by this Saturday. Mifepristone, or RU-486, lets women abort pregnancies up to 7 weeks after their last menstrual cycle, and has been available internationally for a decade. If approved, the pill would provide the first non-surgical abortion method available in the States.
A congressional investigative report released yesterday announced that the FAA had “serious and pervasive problems” in regards to its computer security. The report accused the agency of being prone to attacks by both hackers and foreign governments waging electronic warfare. Especially contentious to the report’s authors was the hiring of Chinese and Pakistani nationals to help ready the FAA’s software for the Year 2000.
Rapper Flesh-N-Bone of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony as convicted in an Los Angeles court Thursday of assault with a firearm and for being an ex-convict in criminal possession of a firearm for threatening a friend with an AK-47 in December. Flesh-N-Bone, whose real name is Steven Howse, could face up to 19 years and 8 months in prison on the two charges when he is sentenced on July 14.
5) Campus events
Resume Blitz with CP&P
Parrish 140, 3:00 p.m.
“If It Feels Good, Do It: Subjective Accounts of Reasons for Action” by David Sobel, Bowling Green University
Papazian 324, 4:15 p.m.
M & T Bank Presentation
Bond Memorial Hall, 7:00 p.m.
Swarthbucklers Practice
Upper Tarble, 7:30 p.m.
ETS Alternative Fall Break Meeting
Kohlberg 116, 8:00 p.m.
English Country Dancing
LPAC Dance Studio 3, 8:15 p.m.
Empty the Shelters Meeting
Kohlberg 116, 9:00 p.m.
QSA Workshop #3: Transgender
IC Big Room, 10:00 p.m.
SPORTS UPDATE
1) Men’s soccer falls to Bears
The men’s soccer team traveled to Collegeville, PA yesterday for a matchup with Centennial Conference foe, Ursinus, but was downed by a score of 5-2. Yet, even in defeat, where the Garnet were outshot 19-7, there were strong individual performances from Frank Sersale ’02 and Frank Yeo ’01, who each contributed a goal, and from keeper Chris Milla ’03, who added 8 saves. The loss brings the team’s record to 0-3 in Conference action, 2-5 overall.
2) World sports roundup
America’s baseball team, made up of a little-known group of young minor-leaguers and aging ex-pro players, stunned Cuba yesterday to bring home the country’s first baseball gold. Fueled by Ben Sheet’s 3-hitter, the Americans cruised to a 4-0 victory, despite the fact that they had lost to the Cubans 6-1 in last week’s preliminaries. It was the first time the Cubans had been shut out in Olympic competition, as well as their first silver in baseball, which became an official medal sport in Barcelona… In what is probably the biggest upset of these Olympic Games, US Greco-Roman wrestler Rulon Gardner defeated Russian legend Alexander Karelin 1-0 to take the gold medal. However, more significant than the medal itself was the win over Karelin, who had not lost a match of any kind in the last 13 years. During this period, he had acquired 3 consecutive golds and even gone 10 years without surrendering a single point, leading to the assumption that he was invincible – an assumption which was overturned Wednesday by the American who had never been ranked higher than 5th in the world… By virtue of a 6-2 win over their divisional rival, the Atlanta Braves, the New York Mets clinched the National League Wild Card and a berth in the playoffs. With just 4 games left, the victory eliminated the Los Angeles Dodgers, though it may seem a little premature for the Mets, who didn’t make the postseason last year until they had beaten the Cincinnati Reds in a one game playoff held after the conclusion of the regular season.
3) Today’s and tomorrow’s contests
TODAY
Women’s soccer hosts Phila. College of Bible, 4:00 p.m.
TOMORROW
No contests tomorrow
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.” – Ambrose Bierce
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