Tuesday, September 23, 2003

by Greg Leiserson
Campus News Editor

Student Council members will hold a town hall meeting on Parrish steps at
10:00 p.m. tonight where they will unveil and receive feedback on a proposal
to restructure student group charters. Members will also respond to any other
issues in which students are interested.

While a final copy of the proposal was not available in time for publication,
the discussion at prior meetings has focused around developing a chartering
system which provides charters in one of two categories. At the September 16
meeting, a system was outlined in which one category would be the charter as
it exists now, where a student group would be able to appear at spring budgeting
with a proposal for funding and have an account with the Student Budget Committee
from which the group can fund activities. The new category of charters would
provide official college recognition of a student group but would not allow
the group to appear at spring budgeting.

According to Secretary Andrew Gisselquist ’05, “Student Council has found
that the budget simply can’t support every group that students are willing to
or have put the effort into creating, but we feel these groups deserve some
form of recognition.” In order to provide this form of recognition council
members are looking into the new charter category. Gisselquist also said that
he hopes the new type of charters “will facilitate administrative groups
like admissions in publicizing the existence of Swat groups and allow groups
to go off-campus as official Swarthmore organizations.”

The rain location for the meeting will be Parrish Parlors. Refreshments will
be served.

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by Pei Pei Liu
Managing Editor

Residents of dorms on the south side of campus received an unpleasant surprise
last night as the electricity went out during prime studying hours. The power
outage occurred at around 11:30 p.m. and lasted about twenty minutes, enough
to send some residents scurrying up the hill to finish their work in the library.

“I freaked out,” said Aaron Cheng ’04. “Then I went to McCabe
to work on my paper. It wasn’t a big deal, but it caused some unnecessary stress.”

The reason for the power outage is under investigation.

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* On Monday, an Iraqi suicide bomber struck outside a security checkpoint
for the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad. The attack killed an Iraqi policeman and
wounding 19 other people, including 2 U.N. workers. U.N. officials, who already
had scaled back their efforts in Iraq after a similar bombing a month ago, warned
that if the situation continued to deteroriate the U.N. would be severly handicapped
in its efforts. However, President Bush is scheduled to ask the U.N. tomorrow
for further help in managing Iraq, while at the same time continuing to argue
against an Iraqi handover.

* The arrest of Captain James Yee, an Islamic chaplain at the U.S. Army base
at Guantanamo Bay, for suspected espionage and treason has led to the investigation
of other possible security breaches at the base. Investigators are currently
looking into whether other U.S. military personnel may have been involved. Yee,
a West Point graduate and one of only twelve Islamic chaplains in the U.S. military,
was arrested on September 10 because he possessed documents, including diagrams
of the Guantanamo holding cells, that a chaplain would normally not have access
to.

* A federal appeals court heard arguments on Monday about whether to allow
the California recall election to go forth on October 7. The court questioned
whether the 2000 Supreme Court case Bush v. Gore was suficient grounds for delaying
the vote. A decision from the court is expected this morning.

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Orchestra 2001 Event
Science Center 101, 7:00 p.m.

American Express Financial Advisers’ Info Session
Bond, 7:00 p.m.

WRC Open Hours (Sex and the City Screening)
WRC, 7:00 p.m.

SAM Reading/Notetaking Workshop
Kohlberg 226, 8:00 p.m.

Open Group Meeting for Students with Disabilities
Kohlberg 115, 8:00 p.m.

Tango class
Upper Tarble, 9:00 p.m.

Good Schools PA Meeting
Parrish Parlors, 9:00 p.m.

Student Council Town Hall Meeting
Parrish Porch steps, 10:00 p.m.
(rain location: Parrish Parlors)

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Sign up this Wednesday and Friday for the blood drive on October 8! Sign-up
sheets and information will be available in Sharples and Tarble on both days.
Contact John Krawczyk (jkrawcz1) with any questions.

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SPORTS UPDATE

Today:
Women’s Soccer hosts Franklin & Marshall, 7:00 p.m.
Men’s Soccer at Scranton, 7:00 p.m.
Volleyball at Gwynedd-Mercy, 7:00 p.m.

Tomorrow
No contests are scheduled for tomorrow.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

“It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.”
–Oscar Wilde

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