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The Phoenix: The independent newspaper of Swarthmore College since 1881

Zachary Robinson

Zack Robinson '24 is a sophomore from Portland, Oregon, studying computer science and English literature. He enjoys tinkering with technology, epeé fencing, and diving into random Wikipedia rabbit holes.

Opinion

How To Stop A Housing Crisis

We have a whole lot of extremely complicated problems on our hands these days. The COVID-19 pandemic, for example, is a hellish…

February 3, 2022
Opinion

How To Talk to Strangers Where No One Can See You

Today, I’m writing about something that was first used by the Ancient Mesopotamians. It used to be illegal to export under weapons…

November 18, 2021
Highlights/Opinion

What’s Our COVID Plan?

Two weeks ago, a large chunk of the Swarthmore student body fanned out across the country for Fall Break. We crammed into…

October 28, 2021
Columns/Highlights/Opinion

Facebook’s Outage: The Worst Typo in the History of Typos

So, unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably know that Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp all went down for about five…

October 7, 2021
Highlights/Opinion

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly of Swarthmore’s COVID-19 Policy

We’re entering a new phase of the pandemic. We’re always entering a new phase of the pandemic, to the point that I’m…

September 23, 2021
Highlights/Opinion

Getting to the Bottom of Subway’s Tuna Sandwich

Back in January, you may have noticed articles floating around the web with headlines like “Subway’s Tuna Is Not Tuna” or something…

September 9, 2021
Highlights/Opinion

What Happened To Nuclear Power?

Modern society runs on electricity. It lights our cities, runs our factories, and powers the computer that I’m typing this on right…

May 7, 2021
Highlights/Opinion

A Note on Last Week’s Article

Last week I wrote an Opinions piece about vaccine hesitancy and the need for Swarthmore to require vaccinations for all its students.…

April 23, 2021
Highlights/Opinion

Vaccinate Every Swattie. No Exceptions.

Editor’s Note:  The Phoenix Editorial Board and the author of the piece have issued apologies regarding the editorial process of this article.…

April 16, 2021
Opinion

The Linguistics of Texting: Because Internet

Why do grandparents always text … kind of like this … with the dots … and use them to separate phrases? Why…

April 9, 2021
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