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Community Arts in Action

Swarthmore’s Arts in Action symposium was years in the making and ultimately realized in a Monday morning webinar moderated and largely organized by Lang Center Associate Director Katie Price. The day-long online lecture series with funding from The Cooper Foundation focused, in

October 28, 2021

Arts·Highlights

Artist of the Week: Veronica Yabloko on Duality and Womanhood

“I had a mock trial tournament this weekend. I wrote a song on the flight there and a song on the flight back.” In this manner, completely humble and matter-of-fact, Veronica Yabloko ’22 described the impressive accomplishments of her past few days.

October 28, 2021

Highlights·Sports

Men’s Soccer Poised for Postseason

With the regular soccer season coming to a close and the Centennial Conference tournament right around the corner, Swarthmore men’s soccer is looking strong and confident. Ranked second in the conference with an impressive 4-1-1 conference record and 9-2-2 overall record, they

October 21, 2021

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Campus Journal·Highlights

Dish-Lifters: The Unsung Heroes of Sharples

It’s 1:05 p.m. on a Tuesday in Sharples. People everywhere are frantically chugging their last bits of juice and stuffing their belongings into bags. Some are even power-perusing the last twenty pages of their readings before their 1:15 p.m. seminars. Soon, people

October 21, 2021

Highlights·Opinion

A Student’s Perspective on Swarthmore’s Eateries: Did Fall Break Dining Fall Short?

Considering its relatively small student population, Swarthmore treats students to a broad range of daily dining options that are generally diverse, tasty, and readily available. Swarthmore’s primary eatery, Sharples, makes a clear effort to appeal to all members of Swarthmore’s diverse student

October 21, 2021

Arts·Highlights

Artist of the Week Marcos Castro on Reimagining the Artistic Status Quo

Marcos Castro ’22, an art major, began his time at Swarthmore studying S.T.E.M. When he took the course Asian Art: Past and Present, however, he became fascinated with art as a full-time pursuit. “Learning about how people write about ethnic art made

October 21, 2021

Highlights·News

Student-Athletes Return to Competition, Themselves in Process

As students have returned to campus and in-person classes, student-athletes have returned to competition, facing other teams for the first time in more than a year. For many student-athletes, this is much more than a mere return to normalcy. The return to

October 21, 2021

Arts·Highlights

Red Light, Green Light: On Watching Squid Game

“Please tell me you’re not writing a review on ‘Squid Game.’” So said my colleague at The Phoenix when I mentioned I’d recently watched the hugely popular TV show. “There have already been so many reviews,” he continued. And he’s right; the

October 21, 2021

Highlights·Opinion

Facebook’s Outage: The Worst Typo in the History of Typos

So, unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably know that Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp all went down for about five hours starting at around noon Eastern Time on Monday. Online services have outages sometimes, usually due to a cascading system

October 7, 2021

Highlights·Opinion

The Phoenix Is Back in Print

The very first issue of The Phoenix was printed on December 1, 1881. Its inaugural editorial board was a group of eleven students with a desire to provide their community with an advocate for truth and independence through fair and honest journalism.

October 7, 2021

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