Buoyed by developments at Lockheed Martin's recent shareholders meeting, Swarthmore College will continue to press the company to broaden its anti-discrimination policy to include sexual orientation.
Acclaimed Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish will read his poetry for the first time in the U.S. at Swarthmore College in the Lang Performing Arts Center. The event is free but seating is limited, with priority given to Swarthmore students.
Swarthmore College is using its position as a Lockheed Martin shareholder to urge the company to bar discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in its equal employment opportunity policy. A resolution filed by the College has been published in the company's proxy ballot and will be voted on until the annual shareholders meeting in San Diego on April 25.
Swarthmore College will host a symposium, "Private Eye / Public "I": Female Crime Writers of the 21st Century," in the Scheuer Room of Kohlberg Hall on Saturday, April 6. Featured authors are Val McDermid, Barbara Neely, and S.J. Rozan. The event will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
By promising classic battles between good and evil, the new movies "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" and "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" appeal to audiences' desire for reassurance, says a Swarthmore College English professor.
The title character of the novel and new movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone represents a male Cinderella who conveys timeless lessons that also reflect contemporary values, says a Swarthmore College English professor.
The current anthrax scare would abate if the public understood the basic science behind the disease and its transmission, according to a Swarthmore College microbiologist.
By withholding evidence that links Osama bin Laden to the recent terrorist attacks, the Bush administration risks the ideals the President says he wants to defend, according to a Swarthmore College political science professor.
Making the destruction of Osama bin Laden and his network the symbol of victory trivializes and misunderstands the duration and depth of the terrorist threat, says a Swarthmore College political scientist.
Despite the impulse to rebuild, the size of skyscrapers such as the World Trade Center Towers makes them attractive targets to terrorists, says a Swarthmore College professor. According to a physics professor, of the three sources of energy delivered to New York City Tuesday morning -- exploded jet fuel, kinetic energy due to the motion of two aircraft, and gravitational potential energy due to the falling building material -- the last is the most devestating.
Although stem-cell research will proceed following President Bush's recent policy statement, a Swarthmore College developmental biology expert cautions that if the research is not publically funded, it will likely be driven by market considerations rather than ethical ones.
Swarthmore College President Alfred H. Bloom will award honorary degrees to bioethicist and civil rights advocate Adrienne Asch, author Ken Hechler of the Class of 1935, and author and physician Abraham Verghese at the College's 129th commencement on Monday, June 4.
Young people are underrepresented on juries not because they don't want to serve, but because the need for day care and the potential loss of wages makes it difficult for them to do so, new research from a Swarthmore College political scientist shows.
An adult workplace learning program at Swarthmore College provides more than a unique forum in which students and staff members can learn from each other. The program also suggests a new model on which similar programs can be based.
President Clinton says the $1.3 billion aid package he recently approved for Colombia will be used to help fight the war against drugs. A Swarthmore College drug policy expert says the plan will not only fail to affect the price or availability of drugs in the U.S., but will drag the U.S. deeper into a protracted and unwinnable civil war.
In his presidential campaign, George W. Bush says Americans will benefit from more choice in their lives. Research by a Swarthmore College psychology professor shows the opposite might be true.
The new president is very likely to appoint at least one new justice to the Supreme Court. Hanging in the balance are high-stakes issues such as civil rights, voting rights, federalism, and the extent of the federal government's power to regulate interstate commerce, says a Swarthmore College constitutional law expert.
"Powwow 2000: Remembering Carlisle Indian School" will be a gathering of alumni and their descendents of the country's first off-reservation boarding school for Native American children and will draw people from all over the country, says a Swarthmore College instructor of English.
Swarthmore College President Alfred H. Bloom will award honorary degrees to physicist and theologian Ian Barbour, innovative dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones, and political and civil rights advocate Elizabeth Martinez at the College's 128th commencement on May 29.
In the first major evaluation of Job Corps in 20 years and the biggest study of any American social program, research confirms the federal program's success in improving the prospects of disadvantaged young people, a Swarthmore College economist says.
A Swarthmore economist has good and bad news on the new economy: the bad news is that sooner or later the economy will experience a recession; the good news is that the recovery will be less painful than that of past recessions.
Mercedes de Acosta, the poet and playwright who wrote of her affair with Greta Garbo, left the letters she received from the film star to Philadelphia's Rosenbach Museum and Library; now that the ten-year waiting period is almost over, two Swarthmore College English professors are eagerly awaiting their unsealing.
Lessons learned since Waco can help achieve a peaceful resolution of the situation developing in Miami over the fate of Elian Gonzalez, says Robin Wagner-Pacifici, Swarthmore College professor of sociology and author of a new book on standoffs between the state and anti-system groups.
How do mammals know when to migrate, reproduce, or take other action necessary for their survival? According to a study by a Swarthmore College biologist, a gland in the brain helps maintain the body's synchronization with the environment (Journal of Biological Rhythms, 4-00).
A book by a Swarthmore College sociologist says it is the violation of cultural taboos that ultimately triggers destructive confrontations between authorities and anti-system groups.
The very adult members of Slow Food see the pervasiveness of American fast food as the enemy, and themselves as champions of meals as communal and social gatherings.
Despite the efforts of the U.S. Treasury to promote a new dollar coin this year, the coin will likely fail, says a Swarthmore economics professor.
Among the professors of political science at Swarthmore College are some of the nation's leading experts on national politics.
Some of the nation's most prominent African-American political leaders and policy experts will speak at the "Black Political Issues Forum 2000" (2-4-00).
Despite major changes in the roles of men and women, gender still determines who does the housework. A Swarthmore College sociology professor finds that not only do married women continue to do the bulk of the chores, but that their daughters do more than their sons.
Swarthmore College, the primary beneficiary of the estate of the late James Michener, is devoting the bulk of the funds to the support of faculty research.
Swarthmore College has established two first-of-their-kind study-abroad programs in Poland.
Student researchers and a professor at Swarthmore College have developed a method for delivering a glaucoma pain-relief drug that could be significantly more effective than products currently on the market.
Economic clout in the hands of a powerful few, technology advances, and concern over America's role in a changing world order was the zeitgeist as Americans faced the new century 100 years ago, says a Swarthmore College historian.
Cultural observers sometimes contend that today's twenty- and thirty-somethings lack the common experience that binds previous generations. But a Swarthmore College professor and his co-author brother take exception in a new book. The members of Generation X do have something in common, Timothy and Kevin Burke claim --the Saturday morning cartoons they devoured with their Cap'n Crunch back in their childhood.
Increasingly, it takes more than a college degree to get the best jobs. New research by a Swarthmore College economist and a University of Wisconsin colleague shows that "functional literacy" separates the most successful college-educated workers from fellow graduates who take jobs for which a high school diploma used to be sufficient.
Increasingly, it takes more than a college degree to get the best jobs. New research by a Swarthmore College economist and a University of Wisconsin colleague shows that "functional literacy" separates the most successful college-educated workers from fellow graduates who take jobs for which a high school diploma used to be sufficient.
For the past year, astronomers have been imaging the southern heavens in hydrogen-alpha light every night while keeping their day jobs, and without losing any sleep. Thanks to a new robotic telescope installed at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, the tedium of sky mapping is handled autonomously.
In a small, tungsten-lined chamber in a campus laboratory, a Swarthmore College physicist and a team of undergraduates are recreating conditions found on the surface of the sun -- including temperatures near one million degrees -- to give science its first up-close look at solar flares and the heating of the sun's enigmatic corona.
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