Maria Khim

Nobel Laureate for Physics John Mather ’68 visited campus last Thursday, Oct. 25 to address the student body in the McCabe lecture titled “From the Big Bang to the Nobel Prize and on to James Webb Spa…

College continues to work with borough on inn development project

No significant advancements have been made thus far in the college’s plans to build an inn. However, ongoing collaboration between the college and the borough, in addition to a general consensus on th…

Chalkings provoke emotional discussion

Over the past few weeks, the Coming Out Week chalkings have spurred dialogue across campus, with added controversy following the second round of chalkings. In response to the intense widespread reacti…

College ranks first for black first-years

According to the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, Swarthmore ranked first out of America’s 25 highest-ranked liberal arts colleges for the greatest percentage of black students in this year’s fr…

Genocide expert urges more concrete student action

John Prendergast, one of the world’s leading experts on the genocide in Darfur, exhorted Swarthmore students to act more concretely to bring an end to the genocide at a well-attended lecture organized…

Class Awareness Month kicks off with panel discussion

Class Awareness Month kicked off on Monday with its first event, a staff-faculty-student panel in the Science Center. Initiated by a group of students who saw a lack of awareness about social class at…

Revitalized pro-life group aims to raise awareness

Swarthmore Students Supporting Life, the pro-life group on campus, is beginning this year with renewed goals and fervor despite its intermittent existence over the past few semesters.

In addition to p…

Alum, former diplomat encourages entry into diplomacy

Swarthmore alum John Brady Kiesling ’79 visited the Swarthmore campus on Tuesday, invigorating students with a speech that shed light upon American diplomacy and foreign policy. Just recently, Kieslin…

Stolen car reported and found within hours

A student-owned vehicle parked in C lot was discovered missing and reported stolen on Monday afternoon. Within an hour after police officers began searching in the campus vicinity, the vehicle was fou…

Thieves target LPAC and multiple dorm rooms

Over the past few weeks, additional thefts in McCabe have been reported, with several recent thefts occurring in the dorms as well. According to Director of Public Saftey Owen Redgrave, there have bee…

Preventive measures taken towards recent thefts

In response to the recent thefts that have been occurring in McCabe and in other locations around campus, there have been multiple efforts to ameliorate the situation, including informative posters, i…

WoC supports campaign denouncing violence against women

Students wore red shirts yesterday to support the global movement to denounce violence against women of color. Though yesterday’s series of events included the litany reading and an open meeting in th…

McCabe exhibits the Lieberman Collection

In June 2005, William Lieberman ’43, a well-known curator for the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, passed away and donated his extensive personal collection to the college libr…

Possibility of later hours at McCabe under investigation

Student Council is investigating the possibility of establishing later operating hours for McCabe Library. Presently, the library closes at 1 a.m. Sunday through Thursday, at 10 p.m. on Friday and at …

Projects press sexual violence awareness

The Clothesline Project is currently well underway, along with the HandPrint Pledge and the newly established White Ribbon Project. These projects are separate but working together toward a common goa…

Iraqi journalist Nuri begins work with WNR

Ayub Nuri, a well-known Iraqi journalist who has extensive radio broadcasting experience and has been published in newspapers from The New York Times to The Washington Post, is now War News Radio’s ne…

Campus responds to the continued threats

Since the first series of threatening e-mails two weeks ago, there have been two more similar bomb threats directed at the campus, one that specifically targeted the Lang Center for Civic and Social R…

WNR progresses forward despite a loss

Even after losing a mentor this past June, War News Radio has nonetheless managed to have a dynamic summer that consisted of many changes and accomplishments, ranging from acquiring a new advisor to f…

SwatMail encourages earlier communication

The Class of 2011 was the first in Swarthmore’s history to receive their college e-mail addresses over the summer, rather than upon arrival to campus as in years past. While the change has provided th…

UCA exports liberal arts educational model to Central Asia

This week, two administrators from the University of Central Asia, Dean of Faculty Mark O’Brien, and Director of Research Nasreen Dhanani, visited Swarthmore to gain insight on the workings of liberal…

Class differences invisible yet pervasive

Scott Storm ‘08, who comes from a rural town in northeast Pennsylvania, described the “culture shock” he experienced upon arriving at Swarthmore, where the upper-middle-class culture is in the majorit…

Is Swat out of the Tri-Co loop?

As part of the Tri-College (Tri-Co) consortium with nearby Haverford and Bryn Mawr colleges, Swarthmore ostensibly shares academics, logistics and social events with its sister schools. However, a clo…

Get the runaround: 30 minutes in the hot seat

I had never ridden in the arrestee seat in the back of a police car before last Thursday, and that will hopefully be my first and last experience. For Swarthmore Borough police officer Ed Kline, thoug…

Is Swat safe?

On Nov. 23, 2006, an intruder allegedly barged in on a female Parrish resident while she was taking a shower. Two similar intrusions occured in Parrish in August of the same year and April of the prev…

Under Diagnosis: Students and facult offer a complex evaluation of the Worth Health Center

The Worth Health Center, a modest building of stone, lies nestled between the more imposing facades of Mertz Dormitory and McCabe Library. Swarthmore students have varying familiarities with the insid…

Spring break proposal awaits administrative approval

After the spring break referendum indicated overwhelming support from the student body, Student Council has been working hard to implement a four-day weekend in the spring while taking into considerat…