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April 2010 - Page 5

Will ITS Be Expanding Internet Restrictions in the Future?

An ominous bulletin appeared in the ITS spring newsletter: “3) Keeping out the riff-raff.” While this announcement is not particularly new or revelatory, it is a reminder that external computers attempt to infect the Swarthmore network daily. The ambiguity of the update
April 9, 2010

Peaslee Debate Society to Host Nationals

The Amos J. Peaslee Debate Society, a well-established and independent club organization at Swarthmore, plans to host the APDA Nationals Tournament the weekend of April 16th to the 18th. A yearly event that gathers the best of the best debaters on the
April 9, 2010

Unpaid Internship Regulations: They Don’t Help Us

Last Friday, the NYT highlighted a recent initiative by one of the Labor Department’s top law enforcement officials, M. Patricial Smith, to crack down on the increasing number of firms that illegally use unpaid internships for free labor. I’m not sure who
April 8, 2010

“Three Days in Palestine” and the Purpose of Checkpoints

"Three Days in Palestine" has brought an incredibly important issue to the forefront of students' minds at Swarthmore: namely, the difficulty of balancing a state's legitimate security concerns with the vital work of ensuring universal human dignity and rights, and perhaps more
April 7, 2010

F&M Steamrolls Garnet Women’s Lacrosse 17-7

The Franklin and Marshall Diplomats women’s lacrosse team has made three consecutive Division III National Championship games. On Tuesday, the defending national champions were efficient on offensive and suffocating on defensive en route to a 17-7 victory over the homestanding Swarthmore Garnet.
April 7, 2010

Arboreal Love and Tragedy at the Melamine Factory

This week, we received two questions. We're really all asking the same thing, at heart: how to make our lives more lovely; and how to make our loves more lively. We're not sure which of the two questions below corresponds to which,
April 6, 2010
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