Ashia Troiano

Demarcating the jurisdictions of campus security

“The [Borough] Police don’t do anything here that they can’t do in the real world,” Reid Wilkening ’10, Pittenger 1st RA, said. “We pretend that Swarthmore isn’t the real world, but we are. The Police…

Rooted in the sciences, two named Goldwater Scholars

Two Swarthmore juniors, Benjamin Good and Markus Kliegl, were recently named Goldwater scholars for the 2009-10 academic year, and another junior, Julia Berthet, received Honorable Mention. Named afte…

Indigenous symposium explores disappearing culture

Today marks the first day of a three-day symposium entitled Pa Kusra Tu Pit’Athuun: The Sun is Shining Back at Us, Reflecting a Better Tomorrow, which will explore the culture of Californian Native Am…

Sager Symposium breaks off ties with Genderfuck

While the Sager Symposium and the Genderfuck Party have never officially been associated with one another, the party is generally publicized as the culminating event of the Symposium. This year, howev…

UPDATE: Matthew Baldwin safe, found camping

The following reporting was done this past week before Matthew Baldwin was found safe in a state park. According to an email from Martin Warner, Baldwin is with his family and the college believes he …

2009: African American support networks grow

This article is the final installment of a four-part series celebrating Black History Month. Accompanying this story is a November 2003 Phoenix article describing the possibility of a Black Studies ma…

1975: African American professors up for tenure

This article is the third of a four part series celebrating Black History Month. Accompanying this article is a 1975 Phoenix article describing the new position of equal opportunity officer.

After the…

1969: SASS occupies Admissions Office in protest

Correction Appended

This article is the second of a four part series celebrating Black History Month. Accompanying this article is a 1969 Phoenix editorial defending the members of SASS and supporting…

1943: first African American student matriculates

With the recent election of the first black president, many Americans are reflecting on the past and the events that have brought the country to this major milestone in history. This Black History Mon…

Wilcox, Garrity to perform Assistant Coordinator of Student Activities duties

As Paury Flowers, Assistant Coordinator of Student Activities, prepares to go on maternity leave, Kelly Wilcox ’97 and Elise Garrity ­­’09 are preparing to pick up where Flowers left off. Flowers’ rol…

Grassroots training promotes student activism

The “Swarthmore has GROWN” sign in the Scheuer Room marked the completion of a weekend-long, grassroots organizing set of training sessions conducted by the United States Student Association. A mult…

Borough among top in green power efficiency

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the borough of Swarthmore is ranked 12 among all Green Power Communities in the U.S. In the borough, 14 percent of the energy use is green power.…

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebrated at college

In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Swarthmore held a breakfast, a luncheon and a viewing of the PBS documentary “In Remembrance of Martin” on the federal holiday, all of which were open to the en…

Former NPR producer joins WNR staff

With former War News Radio Director Ayub Nuri’s return to Iraq this year, a new journalist-in-residence, Abdulla Mizead, has joined the weekly broadcast program. Covering the untold and ignored storie…

SWOCC hosts student-faculty networking luncheon

More than 50 students, faculty and staff turned out for the Swarthmore Womyn of Color Collective’s first luncheon at Bond Hall on Friday, Nov. 21. The luncheon was themed around women of color who ser…

College prepares Middle States reaccreditation

This year, Swarthmore is up for review by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, an organization that accredits colleges and universities across America. Chaired by Ellen Magenheim, Profes…

Sophomore showcased in grassroots campaign video

During her search for summer internship opportunities last spring, Candice Nguyen ’11 came across a position available with the Feminist Majority Foundation in her hometown of Los Angeles, a national …

Coming Out Week celebrates queer experience

Students returned from fall break to a flurry of chalkings around campus. “I’m straight, but it could just be a phase,” “I kissed a girl and I liked it” and “If Michelangelo was straight, the Sistine …

College accommodates Muslim students during Ramadan

Traditionally, Ramadan is a time for Muslims to connect with their families in the context of religious traditions, but for Muslim college students, who are sometimes thousands of miles away from home…

Casino’s proposal to relocate in Chinatown angers residents

Featuring chain clothing stores, fast food restaurants and vendors, the Gallery at Market East is designed to attract all kinds of shoppers and generate substantial revenue for the city of Philadelphi…

Former NPR producer joins War News Radio staff

With former War News Radio Director Ayub Nuri’s return to Iraq this year, a new journalist-in-residence, Abdulla Mizead, has joined the weekly broadcast program. Covering the untold and ignored storie…

Women's Resource Center transitions into dry space

Starting this school year, the Women’s Resource Center has joined the ranks of the Black Cultural Center, the Intercultural Center, and Upper Tarble in becoming a dry campus space.

Originally, the W…