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College opens doors, aids in Katrina relief efforts

As Swarthmore searches for ways to help victims of Hurricane Katrina, for those students from the New Orleans area, the past two weeks have been more than a far-off tragedy being played out on television.

“I couldn’t reach my parents for the first three days,” New Orleans native Jessica Langston ‘08 said. Langston’s parents had evacuated to Houston, Texas, but because of storm-related problems with e-mail and telephone lines she had been unable to get in contact with them. “I have two friends wh…

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• First open Tri-Co Summer Institute successful
• Homecoming for WSRN
• Alumni, GIF establish genocide scholarship
• Students forge treasurer's statements, SBC to check IDs
• College wins grant for Mideast studies
• Teaching by example
• Not just Parrish: College makes improvements around campus

Living & Arts

• Is Kanye West the new Bob Dylan?
• Senior brings love of camera to comedy
• Slim, Thomas bring funk back into folk
• Reaping 'Harvest' at LPAC
• Fashionable and not afraid to flaunt it
• 'Aristocrats' an irresistible donkey-on-grandma *#@&fest
• Total humiliation, with a side of fries
• Aperitifs and assault weapons mix in 'Bel Canto'
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Opinions

• Katrina aftermath hits poor hardest
• Funding Mideast studies
• Discover your own politics, dismiss liberal dogmatism
• Student Council appreciates OC
• PA candidate's policies regressive and unfair
• New mailboxes help students overcome unhealthy addiction
• Where is Swat's feminism?
• Put that damn race card away
• Op-art

Sports

• Garnet men capture second straight Alumni Classic
• Volleyball tops competition at Moravian Invite
• Swarthmore club teams ready for action
• Relief for a baseball fan: the man-made doubleheader
• Three new head coaches join athletics staff
• Women's soccer opens season with strong tournament
• Garnet hockey posts two wins to start season

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