Later this week the Large-Scale Events Committee is expected to announce that The Roots, a Philadelphia-based alternative hip-hop group, will play at Swarthmore in November.
Today, Richard Townsend — a physicist at the University of Delaware — gave the first colloquium of the semester. Entitled Animating the Glowing Magnetospheres of Massive Stars, the colloquium was [...]
The school considered and rejected Google Apps and Zimbra. Swarthmore’s current system, SquirrelMail, seems to be appropriately named. Squirrels are ubiquitous on campus, but no one really likes them very [...]
Brooklyn-based retro rockers Earl Greyhound played Olde Club on Saturday night, to great success. “During a recent Earl Greyhound show, one audience member turned to another and said, ‘Why aren’t they signed to a major yet?’ ‘They’re still playing,’ his friend quipped.”
Hip hop artists Rebel Diaz performed in Olde Club Friday night, rapping about such topics as immigration reform, Puerto Rican independence, women's rights, and, of course, revolution.
For the first time, RAs distributed a little red-and-white box with a compact fluorescent light bulb inside to all incoming freshmen.