November 2007

Swat Fails to Meet ADA Standards

The college just completed an out-of-court settlement with the Justice Department after a random check of Swarthmore facilities this summer showed that the campus was not compliant with Americans with [...]
November 30, 2007

What Are Those Things On Our Lights?

Mark J. Dumic, Associate Director of Networking and Telecommunications, tells us that "those boxes are outdoor wireless access points that were recently installed as part of this year's wireless network [...]
November 30, 2007

New Deal Doubles Internet Bandwidth

The College recently finished negotiating a deal with Yipes Communication to double bandwidth from 30 Mbps to 60 Mbps over the course of the next few weeks. The deal will [...]
November 30, 2007

Candidates for StuCo VP Discuss Issues, Qualifications

Three vice-presidential candidates--Romaine Paul '10, Sofia Rivkin-Haas '09, and Sven David Udekwu '09--presented similar ideas in Wednesday night's debate. Current Vice-President Samuel Asarnow '08 began by asking the candidates what [...]
November 29, 2007

Worth Health Center to Provide Plan B

Instead of a combined pill, Worth will now be carrying Plan B, a newer, improved form of emergency contraception. The Gazette got information on the change from Director of Health Services Beth Kotarski, who made it a priority in her first months
November 29, 2007

Sports Update 11/28

Men's basketball falls by five points to McDaniel as Ian McCormick '08 posts a triple-double and classmate Noam Fleigelman adds a season-high 14 points... Drexel Dragons pull out win against Garnet badminton.
November 29, 2007

Rebecca Brubaker ’06, Swat’s Fourth Female Rhodes

Rebecca Brubaker is currently completing an Insight Fellowship in Morocco, so we reached her through e-mail. She says, "after a couple months of recovery from Swat's Honors program I was ready to dive back-in and try the model that inspired it."
November 29, 2007

The Bone Doctor: Lights, Camera, Action

I’ve always liked video cameras. When I was a teenager, my friends and I spent countless hours making amateur films. Topics ranged from drug deals gone bad to shirtless fights [...]
November 28, 2007
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