Monday, January 26, 2004

by Josh Hausman
Gazette Weatherman

Summary: This week will begin with a prolonged period of wintry
precipitation. As you read this on Monday morning, a few inches of
fresh snow may be covering the ground. Tonight freezing rain and sleet
will accompany brisk northeast winds and rather mild temperatures
around freezing. On Tuesday night precipitation will resume with
chances of freezing rain, sleet and significant snow. The snow should
end on Wednesday, with cool temperatures prevailing for the rest of the
week.

by Lauren Janowitz
Gazette Reporter

Last week, students who attempted to print from their personal
computers
found themselves unable to do so. The problem, as many found out after
calls
to ITS and dorm techs, was due to a change in printer servers. While
network
instructions were to have been posted in the dorms, some students have
complained that they were left without direction.

Over winter break, ITS switched public and dorm printers from the
server
“admin-print” to a new one known as “Sturgeon” in an attempt to improve
efficiency. The impetus for the switch was the large increase in public
printing over the last few years. “Having one print server for faculty,
staff, and student printing was insufficient,” stated ITS’ Robin
Jacobsen.
“Sharing the print load will result in a better load balance and faster
processing time for student printouts.”

While all public labs are already configured to the new server, it
is up to
the student to change his own settings. As always, “students should
contact
a dorm consultant if they need help,” says Jacobsen.

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* On Friday, January 24, 2004, Dr. David Kay who was head of the
Iraq
Survey Group in charge of finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,
relinquished his post and said, “he has concluded that Iraq had no
stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons at the start of the war
last year.” In an interview with Reuters, he told the public that Iraq
most likely had banned weapons at the close of the Persian Gulf War in
1991 but decided to get rid of them when the United Nations began
inspections. Dr. Kay’s statements invalidates one of the primary
justifications used by President Bush and other administrative
officials
to go to war with Iraq and gravely questions the administration’s basis
for war and the quality and integrity of the American intelligence.
Representative Jane Harman of California, the senior Democrat on the
House Intelligence Committee, stated, “The potential threat posed by
Iraq’s stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and Iraq’s nuclear
weapons program was central to the case for war. In light of Dr. Kay’s
statement, the president owes the American public and the world an
explanation.” The administration appointed Charles A. Duelfer to
continue the weapons search, but Mr Deulfer said on January 9th in a
PBS
“Newshour” interview that the likelihood of finding any chemical or
biological weapons in Iraq “is close to nil at this point.”

* Sunday brought cold rain, sleet, and snow over the Plains to the
East
Coast, causing over 15 deaths from weather-induced car accidents. In
Ohio,
a helicopter and airboat rescued 14 people who were fishing on the ice
and
got separated from Catawba Island. There were no serious injuries in
that
incident, however in another region of Ohio, a woman died in a head-on
collision with a pickup truck. A 15-year-old Missouri boy and a
16-year-old
was also seriously injured when their sled slid right into the path of
another pickup truck in Jefferson County, Missouri. Susan Yeaman of the
weather service in Raleigh, North Carolina commented, “It¹s far
worse than
just having snow, because that crust is going to be slippery into
Monday.”
In North Dakota, the winter stormed caused multiple car crashes that
closed
Interstate 90 which spans from Grand Forks to Fargo. According to the
state
Department of Crime Control and Public Safety, troopers in North
Carolina
responded to over 2,000 traffic accidents by mid-afternoon on Sunday.

*A woman passed the security screening in New York¹s LaGuardia
Airport with
a stun gun and a knife. She found out she had these items on an
airplane to
Denver and immediately notified the flight attendant. The pilot then
messaged Denver International Airport, where police waited to take her
in
for questioning. The officials of Transportation Security
Administration
declined comment on the security slip, and TSA official Darrin Kayser
stated
the agency would investigate what happened. The woman was released
without
charges.

*****

Lecture by Dr. Carol Swain
Scheuer Room, 4:30 p.m.

SWIL Movie Night: Ladyhawke
Science Center 101, 10 p.m.<

*****

SPORTS UPDATE

Led by Ali Wolff ’05, Kristen Lee ’05, and Radiance Walters ’06,
Swarthmore
beat Ursinus 74-54. Wolf grabbed a career-high 19 points, Lee scored
17, and
Walters shot 8 with a career high 17 rebounds to bring the Garnet’s
record
to 11-6, 6-4.

*****

With an amazing 130 points, the Garnet took home the win over Drew’s
57
points. In this non-conference match, Michele Hom ’07 won the 200 IM
and
participated in the 200 medly relay. Swat is now 6-1.

*****

With 116 points to Drew’s 76, the men’s swimming team brought home a
victory
to bring their tally to 3-4. Anders Taylor ’07 won the 200 IM and swam
on
the 200 medley.

*****

With an array of different awards, the Garnet track performed
smashingly
well at the Haverford Invitational. Jessica Zagory ’05 won 2nd place in
the
high jump after clearing 4’6″, Njideka Akunyili ’04 got 5th in the
1500, and
Sarah Hobbs ’06 nabbed 6th in the 3000. Also, the men’s 4×200 relay
grabbed
2nd place.

*****

In a heartbreakingly close game, Swarthmore fell to Ursinus 85-81.
In the
Centennial Conference game, Matt Gustafson ’05 managed 35 points, but
the
Garnet still dropped to 7-9, 4-5.

*****

Today:
Badminton at Bryn Athyn, 7:30 p.m.

Tomorrow:
Badminton hosts Haverford, 8:00 p.m.

*****

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love
is a
battle, love is a war; love is growing up.”
–James Baldwin

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