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Swatting While Suffering: Some Tips for Surviving at Swarthmore When Your Body Wants to Collapse in on Itself

What may have first appeared to be a garden-variety Swat Plague has, over the past few weeks, hit our campus with the force of a hurricane fueled by snot and despair. It seems like everyone either has a hacking cough, food poisoning

February 28, 2019

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I Tabled at Sharples So That You Never Have To

I sat there, in the front entrance Sharples, at the series of tables that everyone has no choice but to walk past as they enter. I held a crimson Center for Innovation and Leadership pen in my right hand, and before me

February 28, 2019

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Occupy The Truth: Beginning the Journey

It was a rainy week in December of 2016, definitely not good baseball weather. It was a normal day, nothing out of the ordinary. The clock struck four and people shuffled out of their seminars and to their respective activities, maybe going

February 14, 2019

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The $0 OneCard Challenge

It was November. Who was it? Us. What was it? Entrapment. A new game to assert one’s dominance: depleting every scarce category on our OneCards. While more frugal students might use their meal plans as a way to learn responsible financial skills,

February 14, 2019

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Things I’ve Found in Willets Basement

When it was confirmed I was moving from ML into Willets, I was overjoyed. Even though I wrote an article earlier this year about living in ML, I couldn’t wait to leave the “Sunday school” (as a friend jokingly called it) for

February 14, 2019

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Swat Ed: Level Pegging

Swat Ed is The Phoenix’s biweekly sex education Q & A. We accept all questions and they are kept completely anonymous. If you’re looking for medical advice or a diagnosis for that weird thing on your genitals, get in touch with a

February 14, 2019

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Quiet Room Energy: Your Sign as a Sharples Seating Area

Author’s note: This list applies to Sharples only during the day. At night when Sharples becomes the Crumb Cafe, the energy shifts into Aquarius and Gemini energy. I’ve left out the middle and right side tables in the main room because the

February 14, 2019

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A Love Letter to Swarthmore’s Peripeteia

I first heard about the group Peripeteia soon after I arrived at Swarthmore. An email about it appeared in my freshly activated Zimbra inbox, whose announcement noted their first open office hours — I believe — ever, located in Shane Lounge. I

February 14, 2019

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WHO’S YOUR CRUSH?

So you’re back at Swarthmore for the spring semester, but something is clearly very wrong. You’ve been seeing ghostly figures appear and disappear in between bookshelves in McCabe, or in the corner of your room at night. Street lights flicker or burn

January 31, 2019

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Dean Terhune Reassures Student Body that He Received Email*

The three months since October 30th, 2018, when students received an email from Director of Public Safety Michael Hill about a campus security incident, have been filled with apprehensive anxiety. This terrible nervousness was finally ended a few days ago when Interim

January 31, 2019

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