The Phoenix’ Policies

All content from the newspaper can be found on The Phoenix website indefinitely, but will be removed from search engines 365 days after initial publication. The Phoenix does not publish the names of students who receive police citations, although it does reserve the right to publish the names of any students who are arrested by the police. The content available on the website will accurately and fully reflect the content published in a given week’s issue. Those students whose records are expunged by court order and who would like the content on The Phoenix’s website to accordingly reflect such developments should directly contact the editor in chief. The Phoenix staff recognizes that the newspaper’s audience is a small campus community; therefore, reporters and editors continue to strive for a balance between reporting events in a factual manner and respecting the privacy of community members.

Given The Phoenix’s status as a community newspaper, and given the fact that it is staffed completely by students, students are urged to respect the boundaries of business and personal life in dealing with concerns about the paper or its content. Members of The Phoenix are deeply committed to maintaining open dialogue with students in a healthy and appropriate context. Thus, any threats or harassment of Phoenix staff will duly be considered serious. Such actions will be consequently referred to local law enforcement and will be dealt with as necessary.

The weekly unsigned staff editorial is reached by consensus at the Phoenix editorial board meeting. If a given editorial does not represent the consensus opinion of the editorial board, it will be expressly noted in that editorial.

Letter and op-ed policy

Letters and opinion pieces represent the views of their writers and not those of the Phoenix staff or Editorial Board. The Phoenix reserves the right to edit all pieces submitted for print publication for content, length and clarity. The Phoenix also reserves the right to withhold any letters or op-eds from publication.

Letters, opinion pieces and online comments represent the views of their writers and not those of The Phoenix staff or Editorial Board. The Phoenix reserves the right to edit all pieces submitted for print publication for content, length and clarity. The Phoenix also reserves the right to withhold any letters, op-eds or comments from publication.

Comments posted online may be anonymous or signed with a full name and email address. All letters and op-eds must be signed and should include the writer’s full name.

Letters are a minimum of 250 words and may not exceed 500 words. Op-eds are a minimum of 500 words and may not exceed 750. Letters and op-eds must be submitted by 10 p.m. on Monday, and The Phoenix reserves the right to withhold letters and op-eds received after that time from publication.

Letters may be signed by a maximum of five individuals. Op-eds may be signed by a maximum of two individuals. The Phoenix will not accept pieces exclusively attributed to groups, although individual writers may request that their group affiliation be included.

While The Phoenix does not accept anonymous submissions, letters and op-eds may be published without the writer’s name in exceptional circumstances and at the sole discretion of the Editorial Board.

Please submit letters to:
letters@swarthmorephoenix.com or

The Phoenix
Swarthmore College
500 College Avenue
Swarthmore, PA 19081

Please report corrections to:
corrections@swarthmorephoenix.com

Letters, corrections and news tips may also be submitted online to the paper by clicking “Contact” on the Phoenix website.

Submit a letter to the editor.

Comments Policy

The Phoenix encourages the discussion of stories in our publication on our website as well as in Letters to the Editor. We do ask, however, that in commenting on stories on our website you follow a few guidelines to keep the discussion courteous.

While we approve most comments, we moderate all comments posted on our website to verify that they are not:

- Hateful
- Disrespectful
- A personal attack
- Unrelated to the story
- Spam
- Otherwise inappropriate

We do not edit comments before publishing them, and will generally not do so upon request after publication either.

You must provide your full name and email address when posting a comment directly to an article. Your email address will not be made public; we merely ask for it so that we may contact you to follow up on your posting if the need arises.

If you wish to correct an error, please contact us directly instead.