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International Horror film fest spooks students

Last Saturday, in honor of Día de los Muertos and Halloween, constituents of the college’s department of modern languages and literatures teamed up to bring a wide selection of international horror films to the Language Resource Center. The French department kicked off

November 6, 2014

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Understanding the names of our everyday: a tour of Swarthmore’s historical buildings

“You know,” began Chris Densmore, curator at the Friends Historical Library, “These names, they’re not just dead, white, rich men.” The dozen relatives, alumni and students stood awkwardly around Densmore, blocking the entrance to McCabe Library. History is not only a performance,

November 6, 2014

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Midday Monday series provides a diverse and nuanced show to a perplexingly fickle audience

The music department’s Midday Monday Concert Series offers monthly classical programming for a single-digit number of interested college students and a reasonably-sized mass of local retirees, bused in to find their seats about 45 minutes early. Each concert begins at 12:30 –

November 6, 2014

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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

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Todd Haynes and Christine Vachon muse together on the making of New Queer Cinema

Last week, the college welcomed screenwriter and director Todd Haynes and producer Christine Vachon to campus. They were the guests of Sager Series events curated by Professor and Chair of Film & Media Studies Patty White. On Monday October 20, Haynes presented

October 30, 2014

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Ivan Coyote, storyteller to remember, wows LPAC

When someone says they are going to tell a story, a handful of mental images prepare your horizon of expectations — maybe a parent struggling to get an antsy child to sleep or a peer who never seems to apply a discriminatory

October 30, 2014

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How can we get the most out of the Matchbox? A commentary on functionality and aesthetics

CVMNEXT was hired to contract the “Matchbox” gym and multipurpose facility which opens its doors to the community next week. It’s fashionable. The art of the building itself, the skeleton, is not, however, quite as interesting as the motivations behind the insides.

October 30, 2014

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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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Greek tragedy fights its environment in Medea

Rehearsals for “Medea” began just like one of the lines of cocaine I’d witnessed, as an innocent bystander, being cautiously sniffed two and a half weeks ago by some faceless and nameless Swattie and his friend in the dark, off a small,

October 23, 2014

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Fiction and reality collide in the works Véronique Tadjo discusses on campus

Véronique Tadjo, pioneering francophone author, spoke of her work in various French classes and in a lecture held on Tuesday October 21. She discussed various works of hers, both in French and in translation, over the course of these events. Véronique Tadjo,

October 23, 2014

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