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February 17, 2011

Rob LaMoy, Middlebury Exchange Student and Quidditch Pioneer

Rob LaMoy, a junior at Middlebury College, is spending a semester here at Swarthmore. LaMoy plays Quidditch at Middlebury, the birthplace and epicenter of collegiate Quidditch, and is hoping to start a team at Swarthmore. The Gazette sat down with him before
February 17, 2011

Swarthmore College and the Fiction of Jonathan Franzen ’81

In Jonathan Franzen’s 2010 novel Freedom, protagonist Patty Berglund visits her daughter Jessica at her Philadelphia-area liberal arts college on Parents’ Weekend. There are a number of clues that Jessica attends Swarthmore, Franzen’s alma mater. Swarthmore, indeed, plays a prominent role throughout
February 17, 2011

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