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Plenty of Fish Outside the Bubble

The Quaker Matchbox, The Swat Marriage, The Sharples Run-In With Last Night’s Drunken Paces Hook-Up: for some, these relationships are an enduring facet of campus life, an inevitable consequence of the Swarthmore social scene. What other options are there? We’re hopeless intellectuals
September 19, 2012

Nude Models Bare All

“The human form is a very complex form [through which] to study light and value and volume… every drawing lesson you could possible desire to teach a student could be taught by that subject.” Such is the reason, according to Logan Grider,
September 19, 2012

Nightwish at the Electric Factory

Hello Swatties! I On the Arts is back again, reporting for the venerable old Phoenix, this time switching it up with a concert review! For future reference, I am primarily a visual arts lover, but also enjoy reviewing music, books and films.Last
September 19, 2012

Swat’s Fall Semester Theater Scene

Some people watch plays at Swarthmore for entertainment. Some watch because they want to examine life through the lens of theater. Many watch because their friends — the actors in the play — force them to. Those who attend shows for one
September 19, 2012

Stay Local and Indulge at Compendium Boutique

Compendium Boutique Rating: 4.5 out of 5 23 S Chester Road Swarthmore, PA 19081 610-543-0283 info@compendiumboutique.com Compendium Boutique is a co-op which offers a variety of clothing and accessories for women and children from up-and-coming designers. It is unique in that it
September 12, 2012

Dorm Dive: Steven Gu and Harshil Sahai

Steven Gu ‘15 Urban Studies, Political Science King of Prussia, PA Harshil Sahai ‘15 Economics, Mathematics Saratoga, CA Larger than most doubles, facing the Crum and with large windows, rooms flanking the ends of Dana and Hallowell rooms are now prime dorm
September 12, 2012

A Senior’s Fresh Take on the Arts at Swarthmore

In January of 2012, a month remarkable for little else but the nosehair freezing cold in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, I explored the full archive of author interviews conducted by The Paris Review since its establishment in 1953. Still a mostly aspiring writer, I
September 12, 2012

Investigation reveals Chopp’s sordid past

A multi-year investigation by a team of Phoenix reporters has unearthed new details about President Rebecca Chopp’s past.After reviewing countless documents and interviewing some of Chopp’s closest confidants, The Phoenix has determined that, in fact, Chopp was once a lobbyist on what
September 12, 2012

Barnes Collection’s New Location Dazzles

What is initially most impressive about the Barnes is not its meticulously arranged, first-rate collection of privately-owned Renoirs, Cézannes, and Van Goghs, but the mere architecture of the building. The Barnes Museum is the most beautiful museum in Philadelphia, even more
September 12, 2012

Not Your Mother’s Prom

The high school prom does not usually provide fodder for larger issues of societal representation. It typically entails dancing, hijinks and perhaps tomfoolery — or does it? “Prom: Photographs by Mary Ellen Mark,” on view now through October 28 in the Julien
September 12, 2012
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