Julian Chender

Religion on campus a priority for administration

It is no question that religion holds great power in this world. From the Judeo-Christian faiths to Zoroastrianism, from Scientology to the Elián Gonzalez Religious Movement, religion commands signifi…

Fierce competition and stomach aches mark annual 4xDonut race

When your professor brings donuts to your 8:30 a.m. math class the day before Thanksgiving and puts them right next to your desk, it’s usually a good thing. But when Faith Pampel ‘09 found the sweet c…

Women's Basketball

With a new coach and a new set of captains, the women’s basketball team is sporting a fresh attitude as it embarks on a campaign to improve on last year’s strong 16-11 finish.

The Garnet have brou…

Men's Track

Last season the men’s indoor track team, plagued by inconsistency, came in eighth place at the 2005 Centennial Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships.

“We generally finish several spots lower…

Badminton

After coming in second in the conference to Bryn Mawr last season, the badminton squad has a chip on its shoulder. Luckily, the team is returning all of its players from last season and will also brin…

Women's track

Last season witnessed a montage of record setting for the women’s indoor track team.

Swarthmore’s mile record was broken three times during the season. Carrie Ritter ‘06 beat the previous record hel…

Cross country finishes fifth, seventh at Regionals

Carrie Ritter ’06 and Emma Stanley ’09 led the Garnet women to a fifth-place finish at the 2005 NCAA Mid-East Regional Cross Country Championship, earning All-Mid-East-Regional honors along the wa…

Puckers provides fun for hockey players of all skill levels

If you fall, make your hands into fists so your fingers don’t get skated over. This is the only rule you have to remember when attending Motherpuckers, Swarthmore’s student-run intramural ice hockey p…

Tide's playoff hopes dashed

Last week the Tide found itself tied with Washington (Md.), Franklin & Marshall and McDaniel for fourth place in the Centennial Conference, with each team vying for the last two playoff spots. With Wa…

Tide keeps playoff hopes alive

The Tide came out strong on a raw and rainy Tuesday evening to defeat rival Haverford 3-1 in one of a series of conference games that will determine the team’s playoff future.

The Fords struck first…

Field hockey falls in two conference games

In its game against Ursinus on Oct. 10, the Swarthmore field hockey team discovered why Ursinus is considered the best in the nation, with the Bears charging out to a 3-0 lead after the first half of …

Field hockey evens conference record at 2-2

The Swarthmore field hockey team met Gettysburg, ranked sixteenth nationally, in their Centennial Conference opener Sept. 24. The Tide was not intimidated by its opponent’s credentials and came out wi…

Hockey second at Seven Sisters

Last weekend, the Garnet Tide field hockey team traveled to Waltham, Mass. to compete in the Seven Sisters Tournament hosted by Wellesley College, an exhibition of some of the top field hockey teams i…

Women's tennis second in tourney

Last weekend the women’s tennis team hosted a preseason round-robin tournament in which they defeated Johns Hopkins but fell to the University of Delaware. The competition was a good challenge for the…

Garnet hockey posts two wins to start season

The Garnet field hockey team opened its 2005 season last week by plowing through Neumann and Villa Julie with scores of 5-2 over the Knights on Thursday and 5-1 against the Mustangs on Saturday. At 2-…

Season's top ten moments

With the winter season of sports winding down and the spring sports starting up, we felt that the sports section ought to take the pre-Spring Break week to officially close the half-semester with the …

Hindu Club adds diversity

The Hindu Club of Swarthmore fills a very important role for its roughly 25 members. Started in 2006 by Devi Ramkissoon ’06, HCS “fulfills the needs of students who identify with or would like to be…

Op-Ed Responses

This column serves as a response to the op-ed and two letters that the Phoenix received in response to my previous column, “Fundamentalism can leave little room for discussion.”

Instead of going t…

Fundamentalism can leave little room for discussion

For a considerably left-leaning campus, Swarthmore houses a substantial religious right. Swarthmore Christian Fellowship, the evangelical Christian group and Swarthmore’s chapter of Intervarsity Chris…

Quaker traditions

On Sunday mor-ning, I participated in a Swarthmore tradition far older than the Ptero-dactyl Hunt, Screw Your Roommate or freaking out about work: I attended the Quaker Meeting for Worship.

It was her…

Swat spirituality

When members of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends founded Swarthmore College in 1864, they established it as a Quaker institution. The College retained its Quaker aff…

Jays hand men's soccer loss

Over the past week the men’s soccer team (4-1-2, 0-1-0 CC) was a model of perseverance. On Sept. 13, the Garnet traveled to St. Mary’s City, Maryland to face St. Mary’s College of Maryland in non-conf…

Bahá'í teachings, though mostly beneficial, also partly narcissistic

According to Bahá‘í.org, in 1852, a Persian nobleman named Husayn-`Ali "received a vision of God’s will for humanity" while in Tehran’s most notorious dungeon. In this way, the Bahá‘í Faith began. Adh…

Chalkings of a majority

When I walked from my room on the west side of Parrish to brunch on Easter Sunday I saw the Easter chalkings that had sprung up in the early morning hours. “Bunnies are cool, but Jesus is cooler,” one…

MSA challenges need for spiritual advisors

At the end of last year, members of the Muslim Students Association sat down with Dean for Multicultural Affairs Darryl Smaw to discuss how the year went for the Muslim students of Swarthmore. It had …

Meditation clears mind

The great meditation teacher Chögyam Trungpa said “the mind is like a crazy monkey, which leaps about and never stays in one place. It is completely restless and constantly paranoid about its surround…

Faith taboos

Swarthmore houses a vibrant religious life, which last week’s Religion and Spirituality Week illustrated quite nicely. The week, organized by Swarthmore’s Interfaith Interns Virginia Tice ‘09 and May …

Chabad at college

Chabad-Lubavitch, a branch of the ultra-orthodox Hasidic movement of Judaism, has about 200,000 members. About an eighth of the Chabadniks, as they are called, live near the organization’s headquarter…