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February 2010 - Page 2

Week in Sports: Tennis Starts Season with Wins

The Swarthmore College women’s tennis team (1-0) got its season off to a winning start on Saturday by beating NYU (0-3) 5-4 at the Mullan Center. The Swarthmore men’s tennis team (1-1) began its home season by easily dispatching NYU 9-0. On
February 22, 2010

Drag and Dance

The blizzard has passed, and the snow is melting. In preparation for impending midterms and deadlines, you’ve probably locked yourselves away in Cornell, McCabe, Kohlberg, your rooms, and whatever other places you’ve decided are the best for studying. And, you know what?
February 19, 2010

College Corner with Money Man, Simon Zhu ’11

Simon Zhu ’11 is the SBC director, crucial to ensuring that the student activities budget gets to the necessary people to keep social life at Swarthmore active and varied. The Daily Gazette sat down with Simon Zhu ’11, the SBC director, to
February 19, 2010

Swarthmore at War, Part I

When America broke out of its isolationism in 1941, Swarthmore faced a dilemma: how could a college with a traditionally pacifist Quaker ideology respond? Swarthmore founder Benjamin Hallowell was a conscientious objector in the war of 1812. Should the college encourage students
February 19, 2010

Incoming Dean of Students Liz Braun

Rebecca Chopp announced Tuesday that Liz Braun, currently the dean of students at Mt. Holyoke College, will serve as Swarthmore's Dean of Students beginning next academic year. The Gazette had a phone conversation with her Wednesday about her thoughts on the selection.
February 18, 2010

Lakey Acquitted for Philadelphia Casino Protest

Former Lang Visiting Professor of Issues for Social Change George Lakey and twelve others of the group Casino-Free Philadelphia were acquitted Tuesday of charges of criminal conspiracy and two misdemeanors. The "SugarHouse Thirteen" were arrested in September while blocking the construction site
February 17, 2010

A Propos of the Frozen Grass

We're suffering. We're drunk, we're overworked, we're shortening our resumes, we're ruining our lovers' lives, and we're late, again, with another exegetical statement on the first third of the book of Acts. And we have not seen an advice column at Swarthmore.
February 17, 2010
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