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Sam Gray ’17: Boat-schooled

No one would strike up a conversation with freshman Sam Gray and call her out for being different. Like most Swatties, she speaks animatedly in long-winded stories about her life and her passions and is excited about her classes. However, there is
September 12, 2013

What Carrie Bradshaw forgot to tell you

Welcome to The Spectrum, the Phoenix’s brand-new all-inclusive sex column. Here you’ll find musings, advice and answers to any questions you send in. As I write this first installment, I find myself turning to my iconic counterpart: Carrie Bradshaw, the most infamously
September 12, 2013

Baseless confidence: Tao Lin’s “Taipei”

In praise of James Joyce’s “Dubliners”, Ezra Pound wrote, “since de Maupassant we have had so many people trying to write ‘stories’ and so few people presenting life.” Perhaps Pound would have liked Tao Lin. He certainly does his best in Taipei
September 12, 2013

Student radio still makes waves

Radio as an artform may not have the ubiquity it once did, but the airwaves are still full of great programming, from NPR to Swarthmore’s own WSRN, or Worldwide Swarthmore Radio Network, which has broadcast out of Parrish since the sixties. Started
September 12, 2013

Theatrics Brought to You By …

Let’s face it: it’s barely been two weeks at Swarthmore and you’re probably tired, burnt out and — most importantly – completely unamused. Here’s a guide to some of the drama and improvisation groups on campus that can help lift your spirits,
September 12, 2013

Gone Girl: The poetry of manipulation

You’ve heard the story before. A perfect couple is happily married; husband works while wife stays home. One day, when husband arrives at the house, his beautiful wife has disappeared. Police investigate and the media descends, but we all know exactly who
September 12, 2013

Traditions Take Root for Class of 2017

One of the questions I hear most often when informing a well-meaning yet clueless person that I go to Swarthmore is, “Swath-more? Is that an all-girls’ school?” No, Swarthmore College is not all girls. Swarthmore, in fact, attempts with moderate success not
September 5, 2013

A Novel and Authorial Mystery Worth Solving

The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (a nom-de-plume of J.K. Rowling) is a carefully crafted London-based detective novel that succeeds in building and sustaining intrigue despite a slow rhythm. Of course, the gradual acceleration makes sense for a book that is an
September 5, 2013
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