February 2011 - Page 3

The term Quaker Matchbox is almost as old as the College itself, and the college doesn’t shy away from the label. To celebrate it for this Valentine's Day, we spoke with a third-generation matchboxer, Ben Camp ’05.

Every Valentine’s Day, the Gazette sheds light on one or two campus romances for some easy human interest fluff. But there are equally important relationships all around us that often go unnoticed. I am of course referring to the bromance – that

Phil Everson and Andrea Stout met while they were both professors at Swarthmore. Though Andrea has since moved to Penn Medical, their story remains very much a Swarthmore love story. See them each tell the story from their own point of view.

Today in LPAC, the student spoken word group OASIS will hold their first large-scale poetry exhibition, the Swat Poetry Jam. The event will showcase the literary works of some of Swarthmore's finest spoken word poets and will also host All-Time Def Jam

Swarthmore has long lacked an officially recognized major in a field that is considered a staple at most other colleges: neuroscience. This scientific discipline is one of the most rapidly expanding fields of the 21st century, leaving students, professors, and potential applicants

Psychology professor Barry Schwartz and Political Science professor Kenneth Sharpe recently released their new book Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing. In this second part of The Gazette's interview with them, the professors discuss the concept of practical