On February 21st, the Board of Managers made four key decisions about the 2009-2010 budget in the areas of tuition, financial aid, student body size, and facilities spending, deferring decisions about other components of the budget until May.
From Wednesday to Friday of last week, the Trotter bathrooms were shut down because of a blocked sewer line, costing the college thousands in maintenance. The culprit? Paper towels that should never have been flushed.
Suzanne Winter '10 is bringing the Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company to campus this weekend with the help of a Cooper Grant. "The Legacy Project" is a celebration of the Jewish diaspora through dance.
The Metropolitan Regional Council of Carpenters has been protesting on Route 320 in front of the athletic fields, claiming that the College is "destroying the wages and benefit standards of area carpenters" by awarding work to non-union contractors for the greenhouse project.
Gazette talks to Jeff Jabco about the proposed deer cull in the Crum, postponed at least another year due to changes in the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
Swat alumni recently started a campaign urging Swarthmore to divest fully from Israeli companies and US companies that do business in Israel, inspired in part by Swarthmore's 1986 divestment from apartheid South Africa.
"Roland" is a nine-year old with a hyperactive imagination and a dysfunctional family, as well as a 70-minute play by Jon Peters '09 that will play three times this weekend, starting Friday at 6 PM.
A few dozen students attended Nguyen Tan Hoang's lecture and multimedia presentation exploring the intersection of visual culture and queer male Asian American identity on Wednesday evening. His films all explore what he called "my own sense of perverse identification with pop
Has the economic downturn affected Swatties looking for jobs? We talk to Career Services as well as to students who have already landed banking and consulting jobs.
The Gazette was asked about lights in the sky that appeared above McCabe and Pearson last Wednesday. We forwarded the image to Astronomy Professor David Cohen, who responded that "the images look plausibly like northern lights. It's unusual but not unheard