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Hold the Hand and Guide: Money 101 With SWIFT and Franklin Mint

I have never considered myself to be a financial aficionado, but I was recently confronted with the depths of my ineptitude after a protracted tangle with the New York State Tax Department. In order to work a summer job scooping ice

March 8, 2018

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Scott Arboretum Reaches Out: A Conversation with Sue McQueen, Community Coordinator

The Scott Arboretum retains an air of mystery even for a veteran senior like myself. The word ‘arboretum’ is awkward to pronounce and clearly has something to do with trees, but at Swarthmore the term encompasses a vast botanical garden containing

February 22, 2018

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Screw Your Roommate

Screw Your Roommate, an impressively awkward school tradition that began in the 80s, returned this year on Feb. 18. Dressed in often embarrassing costumes, several hundred anxious and uncomfortable students gathered in Sharples around dinner time in search for a blind date

February 22, 2018

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The Ten Commandments: Queer Dating at Swat

Imagine, if you will, a bright-eyed freshman arriving at Swarthmore, hoping to find a beautiful gay utopia where everyone who was a lonely queer kid in high school will find love and be swept away on a beautiful rainbow unicorn. Now imagine,

February 22, 2018

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Strictly Good Advice

Strictly Good Advice, What’s the best way to get someone you don’t like to stop talking to you? This is a person who wants to be friends with me, but I don’t want to be friends with them. I have

February 22, 2018

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Hushed Truths

CONTENT WARNING: Eating Disorders 30 million Americans live within the shadows of an eating disorder. Now, imagine what that number would be if every individual had the privilege and opportunity to seek help for their disorder. It is well known that Valentine’s

February 22, 2018

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Title IX: Learning About Relationships, Respect & Safety

Despite the Healthy Sex and Relationships series having come to a close last week, the Title IX Office here at Swarthmore College still has more activities in store. According to Raven Bennett, Swarthmore’s Title IX Fellow, “Thus far this semester, the Title

February 22, 2018

Campus Journal

Screw Your Roommate

Screw Your Roommate, an impressively awkward school tradition that began in the 80s, returned this year on Feb. 18. Dressed in often embarrassing costumes, several hundred anxious and uncomfortable students gathered in Sharples around dinner time in search for a blind date

February 21, 2018

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Screw Your Roommate

Screw Your Roommate, an impressively awkward school tradition that began in the 80s, returned this year on Feb. 18. Dressed in often embarrassing costumes, several hundred anxious and uncomfortable students gathered in Sharples around dinner time in search for a blind date

February 21, 2018

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To shave or not to shave, that is the question

I was the fourth grade Queen of the handball court at the time, a title that can only be achieved after winning five games in a row. I would hit the red rubber ball with my fists and it would go flying

February 8, 2018

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