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Friday, May 25, 2012

Elizabeth Buckner

Scholarship program overhaul complete

After more than 20 years of helping Swarthmore students conduct social change work, the Lang Opportunity Scholarship is revolutionizing its approach to selecting Lang Scholars.

While the five to six s…

Lang Center finds new home

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After its second move in less than a year, the Lang Center for Social Responsibility has finally found a permanent home behind the Swarthmore train station. This newly renovated space features more of…

New IDs for first-years only

While incoming first-years received a newly designed identification card featuring the Scott amphitheater and a garnet stripe, the ID cards will be issued only to entering students and are not set to …

Budget cuts don't dampen orientation

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The 375 first-years in the class of 2007 arrived at Swarthmore this year greeted by six days of a Caribbean-themed orientation. In addition to a mandatory swim test, library and computing orientations…

Honors political science overenrolled

When political science major Raghu Karnad ’05 tried to register for an honors seminar, he found himself waitlisted in one while another was rescheduled for a different semester, forcing him to alter h…

'Fighting over a piece of land'

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After living in Israel, traveling extensively in the Palestinian territories and talking to refugees and Israeli settlers, Jonathan Schanzer came to understand the Israel-Palestine conflict as fundame…

Project Pericles touts civic ideals

A group of 13 students, faculty and administrators from Swarthmore traveled to New York City the weekend of April 3 to participate in the first conference of Project Pericles, a program with the goal …