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Meditation and Mindfulness or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love Everything

Many students can probably relate to Gloria Shepard’s feelings after her first few years teaching elementary school, regardless of whether or not they’ve ever worked with third and fourth graders. She taught for years, with stress piling up, until she discovered the

September 19, 2013

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Archeology student digs at artistic roots

Ironically, Carolyn Corbin ’15 doesn’t identify herself as an artist. For Corbin, art is a craft: an expression of her desire to communicate ideas and feelings without words. As a studio arts and archaeology double major, she says that art inspires her

September 12, 2013

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Distance Dating: Students Check Baggage Before Heading Abroad

From her profile pictures alone, anyone can see that Anita Castillo-Halvorssen ’15 is in a happy, long-standing romantic relationship. There’s the photo from October 2012 featuring her and her honey standing in front of the SEPTA tracks at the base of campus,

September 12, 2013

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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

Campus Journal

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

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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

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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

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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

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Look Closer: Jennifer Bartlett’s Captivating Retrospective at PAFA

Have you ever laid on the grass face down with your eyes open? When you’re that intimately close to the ground, you can’t really see the grass. Rather, you see the blurs of rich, vibrant green and fuzzy, pointed spires pushing out

September 12, 2013

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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

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