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Knowledge is Power: Sources for learning about your body

This weekend, I attended a groovy workshop in New Delhi that focused on what else but sex. Well, sexual health, but we all know why everyone (or at least why I) showed up. There was one NGO based in the southern Indian

March 15, 2012

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Balancing size vs. substance in Swat’s Strategic Planning

One of the most interesting, and potentially controversial, aspects of the Strategic Plan is the suggestion that Swarthmore slowly increase its student population by about 200 students over a span of many years. The increased revenue from students would allow for increased

March 15, 2012

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Waffle House, Martindale’s provide surprising local options

I had a very exciting moment over spring break. I was sitting in a Waffle House somewhere in the South, on the way back to Swarthmore from South Carolina. I was not especially hungry, and therefore not planning on eating, when I

March 15, 2012

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“A Separation” explores religion, ethics of family drama

From its very first seconds, “A Separation,” a 2011 Iranian film directed by Asghar Farhadi and winner of the 2012 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, confronts its audience with difficult ethical choices. Simin (Leila Hatami) wants to capitalize on the

March 15, 2012

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Speed dating with Psi Phi: the group and its visions

Psi Phi is an organization at Swarthmore that describes itself as being at least partially about having fun on Saturday evenings and pulling what one of its presidents described as “shenanigans.” No, this is not, Phi Psi a fraternity at Swarthmore. It

March 1, 2012

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Bryn Mawr’s Athena’s Circle hosts alternative religion mixer

While Swarthmore students hopped between Olde Club’s Engineering Party and Paces’s Jock Jamz last Saturday, a group of Bryn Mawr students were hosting a similarly novel event in the Quita-Woodward Room on their own campus. The Pagan Mixer, although lacking in attendance

March 1, 2012

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Delving into Dostoevsky’s ‘Notes from Underground’

“Notes from Underground” is commonly considered Fyodor Dostoevsky’s first great novel. Many of the themes in this novella are further developed in his later books, particularly in “Crime and Punishment.” As Swarthmore English professor Philip Weinstein noted in the lecture on “Notes

March 1, 2012

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Bringing feelings into friendship offers risks and rewards

The warmth of spring is only weeks away, the weather is beginning to brighten up, the days are becoming longer and less depressing. Those relationships that have borne those long cold nights are beginning to melt and single life is beginning to

March 1, 2012

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Forever 21 offers deals on party attire, clothing basics

This past weekend I woke up super early, excited for my trip to King of Prussia. Not that it was my first time going there, but I had a good feeling about it. Let’s just say I saw deals in my near

March 1, 2012

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Defending Pennsylvania as the nation’s premier beer state

Although I have alluded to it in past columns, I have yet to come right out and say it — Pennsylvania is the greatest state in the union for beer drinkers. A bold claim you say? Why not California where all the

March 1, 2012

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