Sara Forster

Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, Professor at Yale University, spoke on "Rumination and Depression". According to her, people who ruminate get stuck in a cycle of thinking about their problems and, as a result, make it worse by creating negative thinking and a decreased ability

Jobs at Swarthmore seem like pretty standard campus employment. Students work everywhere from the library to offices to the Mary Lyon breakfast room. Jobs pay between $7.98/hour to $8.56/hour. Most [...]

Friday night, Parsons Dance, an internationally known dance company, came to Swarthmore for a performance in LPAC. The performance consisted of six pieces, all of which were drastically different yet [...]

For the past two weeks, upperclassmen have been unable to track down freshmen using the online Cygnet due to the fact that they simply haven’t been added to the database. [...]

Out on Parrish beach on the afternoon of Tuesday September 11, a group of interested students gathered around a woman playing a unique instrument. The woman was Gina Ferrera, a Philadelphia-based musician who plays the gyil, a Ghanaian xylophone-like instrument. [...]

During orientation week, it wasn't uncommon to hear a freshman greet another freshman with "hey, aren't we Facebook friends?" Even now, some freshman, such as Tramane Hall (301), Fumiko Egawa (282), and Ming Cai (233), have more Facebook friends than the average