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Board of Managers plans spring agenda

This past weekend, the Board of Managers held their final meetings for the Fall 2006 semester. While no major decisions were made at the meetings, the Board did hold individual committee meetings that…

Swat Sudan to host national conference

This weekend, from Dec. 1 to 3, the STAND Time to Protect Conference: Mid-Atlantic Region will be held at Swarthmore. STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition is an organization with over 600 high sch…

Concerns arise over Health Center despite unique services

While Worth Health Center offers services that peer health centers at other colleges do not, students have recently expressed concerns, specifically regarding long waiting lists for appointments with …

SSSL event questions partial-birth abortion

Two representatives from the Bioethics Defense Fund argued that abortion issues should be resolved by the states in a lecture on Monday hosted by Swarthmore Students Supporting Life.

The two speakers …

Katrina relief trip successful, but sparks safety concerns

Over fall break, a group of 16 students traveled to New Orleans to work with Mercy Response and Common Ground, two community service organizations performing charity work in the beleaguered city. Whil…

Swarthmore Political Review to publish inagural issue

The Swarthmore Political Review, a new student-run publication, will publish its first issue within the next few weeks. SPR was formed with the intention of providing students with a publication that …

College initiates Buenos Aires study abroad program

Swarthmore has begun running a new study abroad program in Argentina this semester, with an aim at creating a strongly personalized academic and living experience in the country’s capital, Buenos Aire…

Students raise funds for Louisiana trip

Over break next week, a group of 16 students will head down to New Orleans for five days to take part in volunteer work with the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. The group has been taking part in vari…

SAC, Student Council to host Halloween party in Tarble

On Monday night, the Social Affairs Committee made a decision to organize the upcoming Halloween party together with Student Council. This decision was made in light of the fact that Mary Lyon RAs, th…

Students attend NYC rally to save Darfur

This past Sunday, a group of approximately 50 students from Swarthmore Sudan joined a rally in New York organized by the Save Darfur Coalition. The rally intended to continue to put pressure on the Un…

Bloom signs letter supporting open access to research

On Sept. 6, a group of 56 presidents from various liberal arts colleges around the country issued an open letter supporting the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006. This letter, which was co-si…

College replaces telephone and e-mail systems

Information Technology Services completely replaced the out-of-date campus phone and voice mail systems this summer. The webmail system was also revamped to provide an improved e-mail management inter…

Students and faculty to celebrate the retirement of Dean Bob Gross on Tuesday

On Tuesday, May 2, students and faculty will celebrate the retirement of dean Bob Gross ‘62. The sendoff is set for the Kohlberg/Science Center Quad area, with the Science Center’s Eldridge Commons as…

Voting begins on four mascot nominees

This Monday, the mascot committee, made up of volunteers from the Student Athlete Advisory Committee and Garnet Club, revealed the final four nominees for the new mascot. All four choices — the phoeni…

New Republic editor decries state of media

This past Monday, Jason Zengerle ‘96, senior editor of The New Republic Magazine, discussed “The Polarization of Political Media.” The Forum for Free Speech Committee welcomed Zengerle, who was a co-f…

NUS rejects plan for Coke boycott

At their Annual Conference held this past week, the National Union of Students, a voluntary membership organization in the United Kingdom with over 750 constituent members, voted to reject a motion to…

Lax Conference to be held this Sunday

This Sunday, the seventh annual Jonathan R. Lax ’71 Conference on Entrepreneurship will be held at Swarthmore. Lax, a business executive and social activist, left the college a bequest to fund the con…

Hajjar gives talk on torture justification

In a lecture last Friday, Lisa Hajjar presented several ideas on how the United States and Israel were reinterpreting the basic principles of International Humanitarian Law in order to justify torture…

Student-run cafés make ends meet with varying resources

While both seemingly fixed institutions on the Swarthmore campus, Paces and Qub, the two student-run cafes, nevertheless face very different economic situations. While Paces is subsidized by the Deans…

Earthlust for wind power

Earthlust is currently working on a proposal to increase the proportion of energy that Swarthmore purchases from renewable sources to 35 percent by the end of the year.

Currently, 8.5 percent of Swart…

Celebration of resistance

Over the past week, various exhibits have been on display around campus in celebration of Black History Month. Many people are doing their part to raise the awareness of black history and educate the …

Swat Sudan pressures politicians to end genocide

Seven students from Swarthmore Sudan traveled to Senator Specter’s Allentown office last Friday to persuade him to pressure congress and the president to work harder against the genocide in Darfur.

Collection celebrates Martin Luther King

Last Friday, the Rev. Dr. M. William Howard spoke to the Swarthmore community about the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. to mark the college’s official observance of Dr. King’s birthday. However, ther…

Several Swarthmore professors publish books on diverse topics

Four of Swarthmore’s renowned professors have recently published or are about to publish books on diverse topics, ranging from wedding advice for brides-to-be to the legacy of Rosa Parks.

Professor …