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Administration Continues to Increase Access, but aims are limited.

As the number of students with disabilities grows, the college’s Student Disability Service is continuing its efforts to reduce the barriers students with disabilities face, such as inaccessible buildings and unaccommodating academic standards. For students with disabilities, these barriers continue to make

September 28, 2016

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OneCard increases business for ville vendors

For students, the new OneCard system has meant new IDs and more trips to the Ville for the pleasures of off-campus dining. But there’s another side to the story: merchants in the Ville have been affected by the new system just as

September 22, 2016

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Swarthmore implements a Carbon Charge, but what will be its effects?

This year, the Office of Sustainability is implementing a carbon charge on each department at the college. Swarthmore and Yale University are currently the only two institutions of higher education to impose such a charge for carbon use. The charge will be

September 15, 2016

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Faculty Continue to Express Concern About Benefits

Faculty and staff continue to express concerns about the college’s retirement plans and the lack of support for faculty and staff with children. While changes to the retirement policy have come in in recent years, progress in childcare and maternity leave, have

September 8, 2016

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Statistics department introduces new courses

This year the Department of Mathematics and Statistics rolled out a new statistics curriculum which created two new applied statistics courses and incorporated teaching the R programming language into Stat 11. Student reactions to this new curriculum have been mixed, with some

April 28, 2016

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Bryn Mawr, Haverford have already tried social justice requirement

As the debate about introducing a social justice requirement at the college continues, a comparison of the course offerings within the Tri-College consortium reveals that Byrn Mawr and Haverford offer more social justice related courses and programs than Swarthmore does. In addition,

April 21, 2016

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Summer Scholars Program returns with changes for second year

The Summer Scholars program will enter the second year of its four year pilot run this summer, and several changes are being implemented. The program, often abbreviated S3P, seeks to help students from underrepresented groups who have an interest in STEM fields

April 7, 2016

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Multi club to host bone marrow drive

Multi, a Swarthmore club for students of multiple heritages, will be holding a bone marrow registration drive this Friday and Saturday in the Science Center’s Eldridge Commons and in the front lobby of Sharples. Multi’s interest in bone marrow transplants began after

March 24, 2016

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Financial Aid lacks transparency, despite new appeal form

Over the course of the last year, the college has instituted several changes to financial aid policy, including the creation of a form for financial aid appeals and the assigning of financial aid counselors to individual students to help them through the

March 17, 2016

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Mountain justice stage protest on steps of Parrish

Last Friday, Swarthmore Mountain Justice held a protest reiterating their demands that board members Samuel Hayes III ’57, Rhonda Cohen ’76, and Harold Kalkstein ’78 recuse themselves from future board discussions regarding divestment due to their fiscal ties to the fossil fuel

February 25, 2016

Joe Mariani

Administration Continues to Increase Access, but aims are limited.

OneCard increases business for ville vendors

Swarthmore implements a Carbon Charge, but what will be its effects?

Faculty Continue to Express Concern About Benefits

Statistics department introduces new courses

Summer Scholars Program returns with changes for second year

Multi club to host bone marrow drive

Financial Aid lacks transparency, despite new appeal form

Mountain justice stage protest on steps of Parrish

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