April 2010

Photos from a rehearsal of The Cure At Troy, Seamus Heaney's adaptation of Sophocles' Philoctetes. This production, Niccolo Moretti's Honors Directing Thesis, runs Friday through Sunday.

The Borough of Swarthmore was named the #1 “Awesome Neighborhood to Call Home,” by Philadelphia Magazine. The article described “access to Swarthmore College’s 300-acre Arboretum" as a main perk and President Rebecca Chopp as a "resident you ought to know."

Pictures from the last week, including the Battle of the Bands, the Spring Student Dance Concert, the Taleah Debut Concert, and rugby in prom dresses.

Nacht Magazine and the English Department co-hosted a symposium this past Tuesday on notoriously reclusive author Thomas Pynchon, writer of such novels as "Gravity's Rainbow" and "The Crying of Lot 49." The symposium was brought together as a continuation of Laura Backup’s

An activist since the Vietnam War protests and an author of seven books, George Lakey is a Research Associate at the Lang Center of Swarthmore College. In this interview, Lakey talks with the Gazette about the Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT) he