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Full anonymity removes accountability on website

Since the 18th century, readers have offered their views to newspapers by writing letters to the editor, which are still printed in the majority of ne…

Second $8M plan structurally adjusts spending

Over the past several weeks, this column has explored the income side of the college’s budget — how tuition, fees, endowment spending and annual fund …

Politics drives campus activism on conflict

One thing I’ve never understood in my peers is the impulse to run around like little Che Guevara’s in keffiyehs. Rebellion has never called to me acro…

Endowment remains large, but spending must fall

Published February 25, 2010

One of the best-known features of the college’s budget is that Swarthmore has a billion dollar-plus endowment. One of the least-understood features of the college budget is what that actually means fo…

Responding to concerns about security officer hiring

We offer this statement in response to concerns recently expressed by community members about the decision to contract with Allied Barton to supply se…

Shedding light on previous and current revenues

Op-Art by Carey Pietsch

Op-Art by Carey Pietsch

Future hiring must be accessible, transparent

With four high-profile administrators leaving the college to pursue careers at NYU Abu Dhabi in the last year, the campus has been forced to deal with…

Campus must evaluate dorm smoking policy

As The Phoenix reported last week, evaluating whether Hallowell should be a smoking dorm has become a high priority for the Housing Committee and the …

Misrepresenting abstinence-only sexual education

A recent study conducted by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, among other institutions, found that abstinence-only sex education was th…

Campus activist groups are needed for diversity of opinion

The longer I am at Swarthmore the more I begin to recognize the need for a diversity of opinion. My classes challenge me to question the assumptions I…

Honesty facilitates productive conversation

Why can’t we all just talk [and listen] about it? My course in Plato gave me a tool for the real world: a little gem I like to call the “smile-and-nod…

Questioning Phoenix policy

To The Editor:

The Phoenix should not have published the name of the individual involved in last week’s article “Student arrested at Bryn Mawr.” The o…

Lack of incentives hinders the Tri-Co relationship

Varying expectations impede advising process

Dialogue key to Israeli-Palestinian cooperation

Free news expectation demands new business model

Letter from the editor

Boosting student involvement in college budget

Op-Art by Carey Pietsch

Op-Art by Carey Pietsch

Op-Art by Carey Pietsch

Op-Art by Carey Pietsch

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