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Happy 86th Birthday Martin Hall and How a Eugencist Spoke at its Dedication

This week will see the uncelebrated but noteworthy passage of Martin Hall’s 86th birthday. The former location of the Biology department now stands as a skeletal wreck of its former self. It was one of two buildings on campus that housed just

October 5, 2023

Arts·Arts & Features·Highlights

Miranda July’s The Future (2012): On Loneliness

This article contains spoilers for The Future (2012). Gabriella (Isabelle Acres) digs a hole in the ground. Sophie (Miranda July), an unemployed dance teacher in her 30s, looks at her. Gabriella instructs her to act naturally and turn around to wave to

October 5, 2023

Highlights·Sports

Eagles vs. Buccaneers: Eagles Soar to 3-0 Record With 25-11 Win Over Buccaneers

On Monday, the Philadelphia Eagles faced the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on the road at Raymond James Stadium. Both the Eagles and Buccaneers started the game with a 2-0 record. The Eagles entered the stadium with the second-best rushing yards in the NFL,

September 28, 2023

Arts·Highlights

Artist of the Week Miranda Kashynski ’24 on Letting Birds Fly

I visited the Whittier senior studios a few days before my interview with Miranda Kashynski ’’24. I had never seen her work, and upon peering into her cubicle, I saw a bunch of stickers of pigeons lying on her desk. I immediately

September 28, 2023

Highlights·Sports

The Goose or the Goat? – Yared Nuguse Shatters American Mile Record

How far can you run in three minutes and 43 seconds? Most people should be able to cover a quarter mile (one lap around a 400-meter track) in under four minutes, and someone of exceptional aerobic fitness might be able to run

September 28, 2023

Highlights·Opinion

Where I’m From

I usually don’t like telling people at Swarthmore where I’m from. This is because I can inevitably predict what they’re going to say when I tell them that I’m from Hawaii, which usually falls along the lines of “Oh, how lovely! My

September 28, 2023

Against a white background are seven Barbie dolls and two Ken dolls with a variety of different skin tones and ethnic background. One Barbie has a purple prosthetic leg, one sits in a manual wheelchair with a pink frame, another Barbie has a curvy figure, another wears glasses and one has a pink hearing aid. One Ken has vitiligo.

Campus Journal·Highlights

America Ferrera’s Barbie Speech: Feeling Heard Not Only in My Womanhood But Also in My Disability – My Re-Interpreted Version

Spoiler alert: Major spoilers for Barbie: The Movie (Proceed with caution) The following is my re-interpretation, as a woman with cerebral palsy, of America Ferrera’s phenomenal anti-patriarchy speech about the cognitive dissonance of being a woman in society in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie:

September 28, 2023

Campus Journal·Highlights

Zero Waste (EP01): The Dung Crisis

Ding-dong! A pile of DUNG has arrived in your backyard. Imagine a hill of human manure piling up in your backyard. You just flushed your smelly poop down the toilet, but proud products of bowel movements made by your neighbor and even

September 28, 2023

Highlights·Opinion

Highways and the Politics of Our Surroundings

During the summer of 2020, at the height of the pandemic, my family moved across the country from a small town in upstate New York to Saint Paul, the capital of Minnesota. With my school, Central High, completely remote for most of

September 28, 2023

Campus Journal·Highlights

Where Worlds and Woes Collide: An Interview with Hannah Zhang ’27

There’s two of us. We share a first name, a last name, a mailbox. She gets emails meant for me, I get emails meant for her. Swarthmore is having a hard time telling us apart — and to be honest, as the

September 28, 2023

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