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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.
When Swarthmore upscale wine bar and restaurant Village Vine announced that it would be holding its final dinner service on March 8, many members of the community were shocked and disappointed to hear the news. The day after its closure, however, chef-owner
Correction: A previous version of this article listed Feb. 28 as the letter releases date. It has now been corrected to March 21. On March 21, Swarthmore College sent acceptance letters to 965 prospective members of the Class of 2029. The admissions
On Saturday, March 22, artist and documentary filmmaker Sharon Hayes came to Swarthmore’s campus for a screening and discussion of her most recent work, “Ricerche: four.” The fourth of a series of documentaries centering on questions of gender and sexuality, the film’s
Chris Van Hollen was born in 1959 to parents serving in the U.S. Foreign Service in Pakistan. After a childhood moving throughout Pakistan, Turkey, India, and Sri Lanka, he went to high school in Massachusetts before attending Swarthmore and graduating with a
Dr. Carl Hart, an acclaimed researcher of neuropsychopharmacology and behavioral neuroscience, gave a lecture titled “Drug Use for Grown Ups: Where Science and Policy Intersect” on Wednesday, March 19. Hart, the Mamie Phipps Clark Professor of Psychology at Columbia University, said he