As part of a new OneCard system, the college is planning to implement a new flexible meal service that would allow students to use meal points at certain businesses in the Ville. The college is currently in the process of selecting a
The 2014 application season yielded an applicant pool only slightly smaller than last year’s record number of applications. In addition, the application pool continues to diversify. To date, 7737 applications have been submitted, a less than two percent decrease from last year’s
The past weekend marks the first official Peripeteia, a campus-wide festival designed to share knowledge across disciplines. It consists of a series of lectures taught mostly by students. The topics ranged from “Fractals and Chaos,” taught by Aaron Wagener ’17, to “Hip
According to data collected by the Office of the Registrar, over the past six years more Swarthmore students have been taking classes within the Bi-Co than at University of Pennsylvania. From the fall semester of 2010 to the spring semester of 2015,
The college will build new suite-style housing alongside the baseball fields next to PPR, scheduled to be open in the Fall 2017 semester. The new residential building, tentatively called NPPR (or New PPR), will ensure that there will be a sufficient amount
Since the start of this semester, students have enjoyed the two new Garnet shuttles, which were introduced to better accommodate riders with handicaps. The vans are larger and more spacious, with aisles, fifteen reclinable seats, wide entrance doors, and non-slip entry steps.
According to a service of process filed earlier this month in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the college may be guilty of civil rights abuse and employment discrimination. The case was brought forward on January 5th by
At least seven residents of Roberts Hall found evidence of unauthorized access to their rooms and reported items missing to Public Safety upon returning from winter break. According to Director of Public Safety Mike Hill, Public Safety officers responded to one report
As a new initiative to modernize, the college is expanding key card access to dorms, academic buildings, and other areas in the near future. This expanded access will allow improvements in campus security and meal plans, among other benefits. Termed OneCard, the
Wednesday at 12:20 p.m. Mountain Justice gathered in Parrish Parlors to demand that several Board members who have ties to the fossil fuel industry recuse themselves from future Board discussions of divestment. About 10 Mountain Justice members, wearing the orange felt pins