Friday, October 31, 2003

by Evelyn Khoo
Living and Arts Editor

All costumed up and nowhere to go? If you’re pumped with Halloween enthusiasm
and the four hours you’re going to spend at the S&ML Halloween party simply
isn’t enough, the Daily Gazette has just the solution to soothe your restless
spirit (pun intended.) Happy Halloween!

* The House is set to vote on Friday on President Bush’s proposed 87 billion
dollar budget for aid to Iraq and Afghanistan. A proposal to make half of the
money given to Iraq a loan, not a grant, was eliminated in final negotiations.
The House is certain to pass the budget, though Democrats have criticized it
for not including enough controls on how the money is spent. After the House
passage, the bill will move to the Senate and then to President Bush, both of
which are expected to give their approval to the bill.

* The economy is now believed to have rapidly accelerated its growth from July
to September, with the gross domestic product growing 7.2 percent. Economists
attributed the gain to rock-bottom interest prices, as well as President Bush’s
third round of tax cuts. The unemployment rate, at 6.1 percent, still needs
improvement, but the payrolls did grow by 57,000 jobs in September.

* The suicide attacks in Baghdad this week used tactics employed by Al-Qaeda,
a US counterterrorism expert said on Thursday. The New York Times reported that
senior US officials believe that this means that Saddam is still alive and behind
the attacks.

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Friday:

Sociology/Anthropology Cooking Demo
Bond Kitchen, 10:30 a.m.

‘Globalization and Violence’ Conference Presentations:
“The New Barbarians: Piracy and Terrorism on the North African Frontier”
by Paul Silverstein, Reed College

“Bioavailability, Operability, and Questions of Scale”
by Lawrence Cohn, University of California, Berkeley

“Terror of the Everyday: Fantasies of Corporal and Social Dissolution
in Witchcraft and Bioterrorism Narratives”
by Gregory Starrett, University of North Carolina

Scheuer Room, 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

‘China’s Sacred Mountains, Hermit Tradition, and Zen Monasteries’: Slide show
and lecture by Bill Porter, Buddhist Translator
Kohlberg 115, 2:00 p.m.

Trick-or-Treating against the FTAA (petitioning)
Meet on Parrish Steps, 6:30 p.m.

Movie Committee Film Showing: “The Ring”
LPAC Cinema, 7:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m.

P(P)Re-Halloween Party
PPR Basement, 8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.

Vertigogo Show
Science Center 101, 8:30 p.m.

Anime Club Halloween Contest
Science Center Coffee Bar, 9:00 p.m.

S & ML Halloween Party
Mary Lyons, 10:00 p.m.

Saturday:

College Football Tailgate Extravaganza
Delta Upsilon, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Muslim Student Association Ramadan Dinner (Iftar) and Informational
Bond, 5:00 p.m.

Piano Recital: Catherine Kautsky, professor of piano at the University of Wisconsin
Lang Concert Hall, 8:00 p.m.

SOCA Party
Olde Club, 10:00 p.m.

Sunday:

Shakespeare in the Crum
IC Fragrance Garden, 3:30 p.m.
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SPORTS UPDATE

Today:
There are no contests scheduled for today.

Saturday:
Field Hockey at F&M, 11:30 a.m.
Cross Country in Centennial Conference Championships at Muhlenberg, 1:00 p.m.
Men’s Soccer at Haverford, 2:00 p.m.
Women’s Soccer hosts Villa Julie, 3:00 p.m.

Sunday:
There are no contests scheduled for Sunday.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of
witnesses.”
–Margaret Millar

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