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Taking the trophy wife back off the shelf

Modern masculinity in crisis was all the rage with network’s last season (“Work It” followed men who dressed as women to get jobs, “Guys with Kids” featured guys with kids), and this year studios didn’t buck the trend, implementing another round of
October 24, 2013

The Need for Femininity in Physics

Imagine finding these lines in a physics textbook: “A woman is pushing a stroller with velocity V… A woman is giving birth, having contractions at rate W… A woman is scrubbing the kitchen floor with force F…” This is a quote from
October 10, 2013

In Search of Fitness: Finding Fulfillment Beyond the Field

Varsity athletes are not the only Swarthmore students actively involved in exercise on campus. Many students are finding that physical fitness can be achieved outside of an organized sport. Trending workout routines are often short sessions of high-intensity workouts, a popular combination
October 10, 2013

Buzzing About Barbuzzo

A good meal is alchemy: the best company with fantastic food in the right atmosphere at the right time and in the right place. If all these things align like an auspicious arrangement of celestial bodies, you’re in for something that is
October 10, 2013

24-Hour Comix Challenge comes to campus

As demonstrations kicked off across Philadelphia on Saturday, October 5, Patricia Gutierrez ’15 sat quietly at a desk, buried in sheets of loose-leaf paper. The Latin American Studies major had planned to participate in the marches taking place on the National Day
October 10, 2013

From Crik to Creek: Cruising Down the Crum

Early on Sunday morning, Swatties gathered to race handmade boats down the Crum in the annual Crum Regatta. This notable and highly Swarthmorean tradition of racing homemade boats has been a part of Swarthmore since it was first held in 1969 —
October 10, 2013

The Reverse Side of Flipping

I feel safe in saying that by this point in the academic year, most people here have found a couple new students that they fancy. Not in a creepy way; it’s more of a “we should totes grab a coffee, and by
October 10, 2013

An addictive new heroine profits from resentment

You probably best know Lorde from her hit single “Royals”. In the song, the sixteen-year-old songwriter Ella Yealich-O’Connor takes us through her disenchantment with pop culture’s obsession with opulence. She croons, “Every song is like gold teeth, Grey Goose, trippin’ in the
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