February 2008 - Page 11

Professor-Lunch Program Confuses

Swarthmore's "Take Your Professor to Lunch" program is supposed to be used by students so that they can eat lunch at Sharples with professors at no cost to themselves. Despite [...]
February 6, 2008

The History of Screw

In the Foreign Student Advisor's "Survival Guide" to Swarthmore College, Screw Your Roommate is the first tradition listed. Described as "a dance when students pair their roommates with a blind [...]
February 6, 2008

Swat Celebrates Super Tuesday

As the 9:00pm results from Super Tuesday rolled in, Mephistos Lounge was filled with more than fifty Swatties. A handful of students hunched over textbooks, but most clustered around laptops watching [...]
February 6, 2008

Sports Update 2/5

Scoreboard Women's Basketball Swarthmore 68, Bryn Mawr 62 Garnet Collect Centennial Win in Overtime The Swarthmore women's basketball team (6-13, 3-10 CC) finished strong in their 68-62 overtime win against [...]
February 6, 2008

New Islamic Studies and Arabic Minor Emerges

Swarthmore will soon have a new minor: Islamic Studies and Arabic. Though the requirements for the minor are still being finalized, they will be interdisciplinary and include rudimentary knowledge of [...]
February 5, 2008

Seniors Win Swarthmore Book Collection Contest

Jake Brunkard ’08, Mark Kharas ’08, and Trude Raizen ’08 are this year’s winners of the A. Edward Newton student book collection competition. Swarthmore’s Newton competition is the oldest college [...]
February 4, 2008

Swatties or Swarthmoreans?

People who go to Swarthmore are Swatties, right? Not according to the About Swarthmore website, which calls us Swarthmoreans. We decided to find out what the reason for this was, [...]
February 4, 2008

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