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October 5, 2006
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Discovery Weekend draws diverse prospective applicants
Last weekend, Swarthmore College welcomed 143 prospective students to its campus for Discovery Weekend. Courtesy of the college, students are flown in from such locales as Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Idaho.
The largest recruiting program of the year, Discovery Weekend is held annually to expose talented students of diverse ethnic backgrounds to Swarthmore’s campus. While on campus, the prospective students increased the student population by 10 percent.
Discovery Weekend is part of Swa…
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- Alum wins Nobel Prize for physics
- Board of Managers officially approves dorm plan
- Underhill Library contemplating dramatic changes
- Debate party leads to citations
Living & Arts
- Take the R5 to inexpensive, intimate shows
- Cheap orchestral classics and explosive improvs
- Fat Joe helps 'Kick Off' Campus Philly
- I scream ... you scream ...
- South of the Border
- Willa Kramer's Top Ten
- Urban unconventional
- Things heat up down on South Street
- University City for dummies
- Chinatown wears its heart on its very cramped streets
- Philly, from the comfort of home
- Activists unite at Autonomous Center
- Getting hands-on at Franklin Institute
- Fall in Philly: culture, terror and more
- Shopping without guilt: A Swattie's guide to consumerism
- Put on those dancin' shoes
- Laugh the stress away
- Philly Guide 2006
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- Inns & outs
- Rest in peace, Halloween party
- Birthright a chance to explore
- FAA woes
- A Swattie's search for purpose
- Keep closed groups
- Op-art
- Benedict's challenge
- No such thing as free lunch
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- Soccer women at top of game
- Success continues for Tide harriers
- Devils take down Swat volleyball
- Swat loses trainer, friend
- Rugby teams fall again
- Examining the wild card system, 12 years later
- Garnet men lose tight battle to F&M, tie Widener
- Swat field hockey nets two big victories
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