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Swarthmore Leaders React as SEPTA Announces Severe Cuts

April 24, 2025

News

On April 10, the South-Eastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) announced widespread service cuts and fare increases for the 2026 fiscal year. The cuts, which total a 45% reduction of service, are the culmination of several years of long-term deficits that have only been met with short-term solutions. Pennsylvania’s yearly allocation of around $1 billion to the agency has long been

Student Affairs Denies Disciplinary Appeals, Amends Some Sanctions

by Daniel Perrin

April 24, 2025

On April 10, the Division of Student Affairs notified students previously found

New NCAA Policy Implications for Transgender Student-Athletes

by Lucy Tobier

April 24, 2025

Under a new NCAA policy banning transgender and gender non-conforming athletes from

Rethinking the Origins of COVID and Pandemics to Come

by Rafi Karpowitz

April 24, 2025

Photo Courtesy of James Shelton

AAUP Hosts Academic Freedom Teach-In

by Erin Picken

April 24, 2025

On April 17, 2025, the Swarthmore chapter of the Association of American

Latest Stories

William Jin Platform

by William Jin

April 24, 2025

Writing Nature with Jennifer Placido-Rosas ’26

by Jennifer Placido-Rosas

April 24, 2025

Weekly Highlight: Swarthmore at Widener Invitational with Two Program Records Broken

by Aimee Lee

April 24, 2025

News

Dr. Wade Manora Jr. Takes on IC Role

by Reina Jones

April 24, 2025

In January 2024, the Intercultural Center (IC) announced a change in leadership for the first time since 2019. Dr. Wade Manora Jr. is the

Building Community: Ms. Nona Yancey Reflects on Her Time at Swarthmore

by Zaid Ali

April 24, 2025

While the majority of the Swarthmore student body is sound asleep at 6:00 a.m., Nona Yancey, affectionately known as Ms. Nona, has already begun

Resident Peer Leader Hiring Cycle Sees Surge in Applications

by Ellen Stewart

April 24, 2025

As the spring semester comes to a close, many students and administrators are well into preparations for the 2025-2026 school year. The housing lottery

“Afraid of Damnation”: Inside a Christian Campus Group’s Controversial Past and Present

by Melanie Zelle

April 17, 2025

Alpha Omega (AO), a religious organization at Swarthmore, portrays itself as a nonsectarian Christian club. According to its description on the college’s club listing,

SGO Holds Town Hall, Aims to Address Student Concerns

by Ella Walker

April 17, 2025

Swarthmore’s Student Government Organization (SGO) held a town hall on Monday, April 14, from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. at the Intercultural (IC) Dome, providing

Opinions

Letter from 129 Alumni Boycotting Reunion

by Undersigned Alumni/ae

April 24, 2025

We are writing as alumni/ae from the classes scheduled to hold their reunions in 2025 who have been saddened and outraged as we have watched Swarthmore abandon its principles over the last year and a half. We have watched as students protesting

Weekly Column: Swat Says

Rafi KarpowitzandNathanael D. Brown

April 24, 2025

Did you do anything fun for Easter? Adrian Ferguson ’26: No. Homework. Ian Flynn ’28: I went on a nice, long walk in the woods. Jonah Sah ’27: I visited the house of one of my friends. His family is quite Jewish,

Arts on Competition, Debate, and Open Discourse

by Corinne Lafont

April 24, 2025

Photo Courtesy of Corinne Lafont

Arts

Let’s Talk About “Adolescence” and Incel Culture

by Neghemi Micah

April 24, 2025

Released a little over a month ago, “Adolescence” has become the third most-streamed Netflix original series, falling behind “Squid Game” and “Stranger Things.” The British limited series, written and created by Stephen Graham and Jack Thorne, follows the arrest of 13-year-old Jamie

Artist of the Week Megumi Jindo ’28 Is Changing the World, One Poem at a Time

by Olivia Beck

April 24, 2025

Producing a good piece of writing that the public applauds — or cries over — is not an easy feat. Trust me, I’m writing this piece. But Megumi Jindo ’28 doesn’t just write poems that are celebrated by others. Rather, the process

Accidentally, On Writing

by Zephyr Weinreich

April 24, 2025

Note: This piece was originally written in February 2025 When I first arrived at Swarthmore, I couldn’t stop taking pictures. It was August, and the whole campus was bursting with late summer bloom – bright blue cushions of hydrangea just at eye

Sports

How do Swarthmore Team Shape Up in the Centennial Conference So Far?

by Danny Lombardo

April 24, 2025

As the regular season comes to a close, Centennial Conference playoffs are just around the corner. Post-season play will begin on April 29, at which point teams who qualify will compete in a single-elimination tournament. Swarthmore boasts several serious competitors for the

Athlete of the Week: Aidan Sullivan ’26

by Katherine Kerman

April 24, 2025

Aidan Sullivan ’26 is a junior outfielder from Cos Cob, CT, on the baseball team. The Canterbury High School graduate is a psychology and mathematics double major. Outside of the classroom he is a baseball game changer. Sullivan has broken the program

Weekly Highlight: Fieldhouse Revamp Plans, Women’s Lacrosse Conference Win

The Editorial BoardandKatherine Kerman

April 17, 2025

Swarthmore’s Plans for a Sport Facility Revamp Swarthmore College already boasts impressive athletics facilities: a newly turfed field, two outdoor tennis courts, one indoor tennis center adorned with an indoor golf simulator, Ware Swimming Pool, and baseball and softball fields. But for

Campus Journal

These are the Things I Think about Sometimes: Life’s Hard Decisions.

by Megumi Jindo

April 17, 2025

These past few weeks, more so than ever since going to college, I have had to make many hard decisions. Stumbling upon two roads diverged in a yellow path, both having their own pros and cons, and more urgently, I have realized

May There Be Peace on Earth (A Story That’s Not About Kyle House)

by Megumi Jindo

March 27, 2025

A little away from most Swarthmore’s residential halls, tucked away in the corner next to The Lang Civic Center and across Singer, you’ll find Kyle House: a women’s dorm. Housing ten women in three rooms of doubles and three rooms of singles

Swarthmore’s Spring: Photos of Spring 2025

by Megumi Jindo

March 27, 2025

Soren Miner ’28 on Los Deliveristas Unidos, A Workers Justice Project

by Zephyr Weinreich

April 17, 2025

Most college students have never heard of the Deliveristas’ Rights movement. Soren Miner ’28 wants that to change. This summer, he will be working with Los Deliveristas Unidos, an organization devoted to advocacy for New York City’s app-based food delivery workers. Miner

Economist Joshua Hausman ’05 Delivers Bernie Saffran Lecture

by Milan Tenn

April 17, 2025

On Thursday, April 10, Joshua Hausman ’05, associate professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan, delivered a talk on how the markets for cars and houses influenced the United States macroeconomy in the 1920s and 1930s. The talk

Comic: Roommate Rant

by Logan Roth

April 17, 2025

Let’s Talk About “When Life Gives You Tangerines” (and the gaping hole in my chest)

by Neghemi Micah

April 17, 2025

“When Life Gives You Tangerines” is a bittersweet, endearing Korean drama that has the world under its spell. The story spans the lives of Oh Ae-sun (IU and Moon So-ri) and Yang Gwan-sik (Park Bo-gum and Park Hae-joon) on Jeju Island in

“An Anti-Colonial International Student’s Final Struggle” – A Review on Cui Yixin’s Senior Recital

by Elaina Pan

April 17, 2025

On April 5, 2025, Swarthmore College’s students, professors, and community members witnessed a strikingly thoughtful senior recital by Cui Yixin, a senior majoring in philosophy and minoring in music. The program, exploring the Chinese literati and musical tradition of “polished jade” that

An Exploration of Heritage: Le Voyage de Talia (2022)

by Benjamin Scully

April 17, 2025

Le Voyage de Talia (2022) is a bilingual, 80 minute Belgian/Senegalese film in Wolof and French by director Christophe Rolin. The film was nominated for two awards at the African Movie Academy Awards. It follows nineteen-year-old Talia, an Afro-Belgian, on her first

Artist of the Week Vaidehee Durgude ’25: Tropes, Photographs, and Documentary Journalism

by Benjamin Scully

April 17, 2025

Vaidehee Durgude ’25 walked into the East side of Shane lounge where I had settled myself with my various interview materials. She introduced herself, shook my hand, and sat down with the casual, self-possessed confidence of someone completely comfortable with her surroundings.

SPAA Organizes Swarthmore’s Fourth Annual Cherry Blossom Festival

by Ellen Stewart

April 17, 2025

On Saturday, April 12, the Swarthmore Pan-Asian Association (SPAA) hosted its fourth annual Cherry Blossom Festival in Upper Tarble. The event, which featured Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) -identifying dancers, singers, poets, and themed crafts, was completely student-organized by SPAA and its

2025 MLB Season: Which Teams Look Like Promising Playoff Contenders?

The Editorial BoardandDanny Lombardo

April 17, 2025

The 2025 MLB season is underway, with Opening Day on March 27. While it is still early in the season, several teams have begun to separate themselves from the pack and are promising contenders this year. The first of these teams is