Tom Corbani

Lee Kucic with her two pet rats

Rediscovering safety in their own space

What makes a room feel safe? This question is especially pertinent here at Swarthmore, where the high-stress environment reinforces the need to create a space where one is comfortable: an escape of sorts from campus life. In building a home away from
January 29, 2015

Just another hypothetical scenario

I’ve written about them before, I’ll write about them again. Hometown exes are difficult. Here is the most recent, purely hypothetical as always, iteration of the issue. You return home expecting to catch up with a summer fling. The fling was fun,
January 29, 2015

Mixed response to Jeffrey Angles on translation

Last Monday, Jeffrey Angles visited from Western Michigan University to give a lecture titled “Migrant Poetics: Gender and Trauma in Translation”. After a summary discussion of the constraints placed on translators, especially those who translate poetry that treats trauma, he delved into
December 4, 2014

CUPSI team of eclectic voices readies for VCU

On Saturday, November 8, Swarthmore’s fourth annual CUPSI team was selected at a qualifier held in LPAC. The five teammates are entering this process having had various experiences with each other and the competition at large. Four of the poets have competed
November 20, 2014

Missed connections

Have you ever had a Cosmopolitan? Or, more specifically, have you ever had a Cosmo too many? I definitely have. Livid nights of booze are scattered across my memory, indistinguishable from one another, which is to say I’ve blacked out my fair
November 20, 2014

Marginalized Ashkenazi voices shown at McCabe

Yesterday, Hanna King ’15 presented her award winning book collection, “Plucked from a Holy Book: Ashkenazim on the Margins,” to a small crowd in McCabe Atrium. Her collection won the A. Edward Newton Student Book Collection Competition, the oldest book collection prize
November 13, 2014

You will eat up “Sharples: The Musical!”

“I think I’m gonna die because it’s pasta bar, today, pasta bar, hurray.” This weekend, look forward to the reveal of Swarthmore’s very own musical, or more specifically Sharples Dining Hall’s. “Sharples: The Musical!” will present us with show unique to our
November 6, 2014

A reorchestrated production of “Guys and Dolls”

This weekend’s production of “Guys and Dolls” will revamp the musical classic whilst trying to recreate its original feel. This is going to be Swarthmore’s second concert-staging of a musical, following “South Pacific” last spring. Many of the cast commented on how
October 30, 2014

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