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Rotaract brings polio awareness to Swat
Last Monday, Swarthmore’s Rotaract group brought the issue of polio awareness to Swarthmore. The “purple pinky project,” was a fundraising and awareness raising day of tabling at Swarthmore about the ongoing issue of polio worldwide. Members of Swarthmore’s Rotaract were stationed at
Swatties head to Georgia to protest at U.S. military base
Swarthmore students will be driving down to Fort Benning, Georgia on November 18 to protest against the Western Hemisphere Institute for National Security Cooperation (WHINSC), formerly known as the School of the Americas (SOA), a United States Department of Defense training facility.
Occupy Philly attracts Swat supporters
Fueled by citizens discontented with an economic system that they say favors 1% of the population at the expense of the remaining 99%, the Occupy protests that began on Wall Street more than a month ago have spread across the United States
New clean-up policy for Paces Cafe proposed
This summer’s Paces makeover, both inside and out, has been followed with a proposal due Sunday for a new systematic policy regarding the use of Paces as a social space — the Social Affairs Committee (SAC) has agreed to pay a nonrefundable
Lecturer to discuss why Tea Party will help Obama
John Geer, Professor and Chair of Political Science at Vanderbilt University, will be coming to Swarthmore on Wednesday, October 26 to give a lecture. It will be held in Science Center 101 at 7:30 p.m. Entitled “Why the Tea Party is Obama’s
Valuables stolen from student car in parking lot
Last week an unidentified burglar broke into a student’s car parked in Cunningham parking lot and stole some valuables. “I know of at least one student who had their car physically broken into,” said Jessica Cannizzaro ’12, an RA on Willets Second
Letters in student mailboxes address investment of Swat’s endowment
Looking in their mailboxes earlier this week, students found a mysterious note from the chair of Swarthmore’s Committee on Investment Profitability. What may have confused many, along with a photo-shopped image of Parrish Hall adorned with four smokestacks, is that the Committee
Inn project begins, debate continues
After more than a decade of intangible progress, a physical advance has finally been made on the Town Center West project. Construction on the project, more widely known as the Swarthmore Inn, began this summer with the rerouting of utility lines in
Swatties arrested at D.C. mass sit-in
Earlier this month, a group of six Swarthmore students took a two-day trip to Washington D.C. to participate in one of the largest acts of civil disobedience in decades. Over two weeks of protests that lasted from August 20 to September 3,
Party policy may hinder senior class fundraiser, raise weeknight activity
Many students at Swarthmore spend their Thursday nights at Pub Night, a weekly event held at Paces Café. In the past, some Pub Night attendees have moved to the fraternities afterwards to unwind after a night of dancing before returning to their