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In Washington, alum finds “high” level employment

We often hear that Swarthmore prepares its graduates for high level employment in white-collar sectors. According to Career Services, “among graduating seniors, the largest percentages have entered research and business careers over the past decade.” The numbers of graduates entering the agricultural
February 26, 2015

(Cor)boning in the amphitheater in spring

This is the vice issue, so I wrote erotica (TW: explicit description of various sexual acts between two consenting cis men). The first person doesn’t imply it’s a true story, but it doesn’t preclude it either. Enjoy. I’d never spoken to him,
February 26, 2015

Adventures in potato: A Sharples love experience

Sometime around the end of my sophomore year, I stopped eating Sharples food regularly, and started doing weird things, like eating salad a lot. Actually, I just started eating salad a lot. This was because I found myself eating unconscionable amounts of
February 26, 2015

The BCC: a hard-earned space for everyone

It is an ordinary Sunday night in Robinson House, also known as the Black Cultural Center, on the corner of College Avenue and Cedar Lane. Overlooking Cunningham House and the rest of campus from its hilltop perch, the BCC appears quiet in
February 15, 2015

Remembering the origins of struggle, change

From 1968 to 1972, the Black student protest movement reached more than 500 American colleges and universities. Students across the country demanded, often successfully, higher enrollment of Black students, increased hiring of Black faculty and administrators, more relevant educational curricula in the
February 12, 2015

Oral histories project captures the past

Campus Journal Oral Histories “What’s the story that you’d like to tell?” asked Jasmyne Kim ’17. Two recording booths had been set up in the back of McCabe’s first floor, first over the course of this past Alumni Weekend, and then over
February 12, 2015
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