The Gazette e-mailed Russian and sociology/anthropology major Latavia Elmore '09 about her upcoming Fulbright year in Kazakhstan.
At a fireside chat on Tuesday night, College Treasurer Suzanne Welsh presented a budget cut proposal that will be discussed at the May Board of Managers meeting and solicited student feedback on what matters to them in budget planning.
Michael May '11 and Louis Rosenberg '09 recently launched Swarthmore Storage, a business that will offer an off-campus storage and delivery option for students who want to store things over a summer, year abroad, or even after graduation.
College deans, Student Council, and members of the Student Budget Committee are currently discussing the possibility of donating SBC's unspent funds for the year--funds that come from the student activity fee--back to the college to help cover college expenses. Student Council is
5,574 students applied to Swarthmore, with 959, or 17%, offered a spot in the class, a small dip in applications from last year but still the second-largest number of applications ever. The economy may have an effect on accepted student yield, and
The Gazette talks with Newton Prize winners Julian Chender and Stephen Graf, both seniors, about their book collections--Chender's "humor of suffering" and Graf's "messy world of contemporary art."
Aaron David Miller, author and former adviser to six Secretaries of State, came to Swarthmore on Wednesday to offer his advice to President Obama on dealing with Israel during his administration.
Increased computer virus activity in January and February caused ITS to upgrade part of its anti-virus system, a move that has caused a handful of older computers to crash.
31 Swarthmore students (and 16 high schoolers from Chester) attended an environmental justice conference in DC the weekend before break, coming back to campus with renewed energy to push for climate action.
On the morning of Wednesday the 18th, a few students in Mary Lyons were woken up by two deans on a "mouse patrol" to take note of food storage conditions in ML. A student who wished to remain anonymous told the Gazette