March 2009 - Page 2

Novelist Elizabeth Strout read a selection of her work and announced the winners of the Plumer Potter Awards for student fiction.

“Therefore, my lord, go travel for a while,” says Helicanus to Pericles and these words of advice are certainly followed in Shakespeare’s “Pericles, Prince of Tyre.” The play, an adventure that floats the audience across the Mediterranean, is opening tonight in the

Last night was the opening of the Philadelphia Film Festival, a 12 night series of “cinematic bacchanalia” from around the world. Here are a few films you might stop and see.

This Friday, Swarthmore’s Middle Eastern Cultural Society (MECS) will be hosting a screening of Iranian documentary “Nobody’s Enemy” followed by a performance by the popularly-known King of Persian Rap, YAS [7 PM LPAC Main Stage]. The event, entitled “A Glimpse into Iranian

This past Tuesday, the College's English Department and Cooper Foundation sponsored a reading by Paul Muldoon—Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Poetry Editor of The New Yorker, professor at Princeton University, and lyricist and rhythm guitarist for his band Rackett.

The Black Cultural Center (BCC) and Swarthmore African-American Students Society (SASS) held their first Black Alumni Celebration, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the founding of SASS and the BCC.

"Intersections of Queer: Coalition Building Across Our Communities" kicks off tonight, and is "about exploring the ways different movements can build off of each other and strengthen each other from learned experiences and learned strategies." The symposium's social is also taking a

On Tuesday, more than fifty Swatties gathered in the packed McCabe reading room to listen to Yu Hua, one of most famous writers in China, discuss his latest novel “Brothers”.