Tuesday, September 10, 2002

Movie Committee Films
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LPAC Cinema or Kirby Lecture Hall
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30 & 10:00 p.m.
*Weekends with only one movie listed will feature that film on both evenings

09/13  Lord of the Rings*
09/20  Zoolander
09/21  Monster’s Ball
09/27  Amelie
09/28  Waiting for Guffman
10/04  Star Wars Episode II*
-October Break-
10/25  The Wild Bunch
10/26  Brotherhood of the Wolf
11/01  Insomnia
11/02  Brazil
11/08  Clueless
11/09  Gosford Park
11/15  Wayne’s World
11/16  In the Bedroom
11/22  Dr. Strangelove
11/23  The Apartment
12/06  Road to Perdition*

SWILMovies
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Kirby Lecture Hall – Martin
Mondays @ 10:00 p.m.

09/16  Dark City
09/23  Yellow Submarine
09/30  Flight of the Navigator
10/07  Monty Python and the Holy Grail
-October Break-
10/21  Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
10/28  The Heroic Trio
11/04  Metropolis
11/11  Lost Boys
11/18  A.I.
11/25  Time Bandits
12/02  The President’s Analyst
12/09  Raiders of the Lost Ark
12/16  Little Shop of Horrors

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The Staff Compensation Review Committee (SCRC) is seeking members of the
Swarthmore
community to participate in focus group sessions on evaluating the current job
grading
system.

According to a flyer distributed across campus earlier this semester, the SCRC’s
primary
goal is “to examine the current [job grading] system and make recommendations
for
improvements that will ensure the factors reflect current thinking as well as
make the
grading system more open, easier to understand, and practical to use.”

Current factors used to evaluate positions and rate compensation are “knowledge
and
experience required, the complexity of the work, the impact a job has on the
College, and
the amount of supervisory responsiblity it has.”

The recommendations made by the SCRC will be presented to the Board of Managers
for
adoption, and if passed, would lead to a re-evaluation of all staff positions on
campus.
While the re-grading wouldn’t necessarily generate overall increases in
compensation, as
members of Swarthmore’ Living Wage Movement have campaigned for, the flyer
acknowledges that
job-grading reforms may pave “the way for the implementation of a broad range of
staff
compensation reforms during the 2003-04 fiscal year.”

Finally, the SCRC reminds the community that diverse input is essential:
“Because a new
grading system could affect both individual job classifications and the
relationships
between jobs, it is vital that the entire campus community – particularly
members of the
staff – participate in this study.”

* With the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks just one day away, the FBI is
reporting
increased communications between terrorist organizations and as such, is warning
locations
and personnel in New York, Washington, and across the world to be on guard
against a new
round of attacks.  While the Bureau cannot be certain about the credibility of
recent
threats, it is taking no chances, placing military bases and diplomatic missions
on high
alert and asking high-risk locations to increase security.  A US
counterterrorism official
warned that new attacks may not be linked to al-Qaeda, but instead inspired by
that group’s
actions, as seems to have been the case in recent terrorism incidents in Germany
and
Afghanistan.

* The Bush administration claimed a diplomatic victory yesterday, saying that
several
influential European allies had shifted their stance in dealing with Iraq. 
Spanish, Dutch,
French, and Danish officials all released statements Monday attacking Saddam
Hussein, with
some of them accepting military force as a means to coerce Iraq into allowing UN
weapons
inspectors back into the country.  President Bush, for his part, is scheduled to
address the
UN on Thursday and ask for support in demanding that Iraq open its weapons sites
to
inspectors or face military consequences.

* Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat spoke to the Palestinian parliament
yesterday, condemning
terror attacks and vowing to conduct general elections in January, as he has
promised.
However, Arafat skipped a portion of his speech that would have called for a
parliamentary
ban on the attacks, and he neglected to make any offer to share power with a new
prime
minister.  In Jerusalem, Israeli officials denounced the speech and demanded a
new
Palestinian leader, while the US Embassy in Tel Aviv said it would wait for
Arafat to back
up his words with actions.

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Observatory Open House
Sproul 300, 7:00 p.m.

Baroque Ensemble Auditions
Presser Choral Room – Lang Concert Hall, 7:00 – 9:30 p.m.

Observatory Open House – Planetarium Program
Upper Tarble, 8:00 p.m.

Argentine Tango Class
Upper Tarble, 9:00 p.m.

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SPORTS UPDATE

Today:
Field hockey v. Ursinus, 4:30 p.m.
Women’s soccer at Cedar Crest, 4:30 p.m.

Tomorrow:
Men’s Soccer hosts Baptist Bible, 4:15 p.m.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.”
–Carl Sandburg

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