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Gratitude Week, sponsored by Speak 2 Swatties, was last week. (Photos by Jiuxing June Xie unless otherwise noted.)The Montreal band Shtreiml played music that melded klezmer, blues, and rock in Olde Club last Thursday night.The High School Conversations program mentored low-income Asian students from Bodine High School during College Day last Saturday.The annual 4xDonut race challenges participants to alternate running a lap of the track with eating a donut, of various types.The Global Neighbors project discussed its volunteer projects abroad and locally at a Parlor Party last weekend.The Olde Club Cover Show on Saturday featured student bands playing covers of various songs.The a capella concert last Saturday featured Grapevine......and Essence of Soul.The Village Education Projects held a fundraiser Sunday night, including a $5 buffet and a raffle. They raised over $1900, which they said was enough to sponsor ten Ecuadorian children for a year of high school.Good Food and Swarthmore Chickens (aka SwatChix) held a Parlor Party with local food and chickens to play with on Wednesday. Photo by Brendan Work.Students at the Chickens Parlor Party on Wendesday.
Nine protesters, including one Swarthmore student and one student on an extended leave of absence, were arrested last Saturday, May 3, ending the four-day Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) encampment on Trotter Lawn. The seven others arrested were unaffiliated with the
The pro-Palestinian encampment constructed on Trotter Lawn on April 30 by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and demolished May 3, 2025, bears many similarities to the encampment the group constructed Spring 2024. However, one of the most striking differences between the
As the encampment continued at Swarthmore College, faculty-admin communication on next steps was minimal, with many faculty sharing that there was no communication other than President Smith’s messages to the entire campus. On Friday afternoon, more than 48 hours after the tents