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On Saturday, Nov. 2, six scholars from universities all over the country joined Swarthmore Professors Nina Johnson, Anthony Foy, Jamal Batts, and Isaiah Wooden for a series of panels discussing the role of James Baldwin in modern American life. The conversations took

“Don’t be afraid if what you’re thinking does not look popular,” said Dr. John Hopfield ’54 H’92 in a conference call with The Phoenix. On Oct. 8, Hopfield received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics with “Godfather of AI” Geoffrey Hinton for

On Tuesday, Oct. 29, representatives from the Philadelphia Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), as well as Swarthmore students and faculty members, appeared at a press conference in Philadelphia at the Friends Meeting House.

On Saturday Oct. 26, Associate Professor of Political Science Jonny Thakkar hosted “The Meaning of Democracy,” the first event of the academic year in his Night Owls series. The guest speaker was Daniel Wodak, associate professor of philosophy at the University of

The Crumb Cafe is set to reopen at its new location in Sharples Commons this Friday, Oct. 25, at 8 p.m. following a delay communicated via email to the student body on Sept. 30. In an interview with The Phoenix, Ashley Rehrig

An email sent over the summer by the college’s Bias Incident Response Team (BIRT) to several faculty about a student-run Instagram meme account they were following sparked concerns about academic freedom, which continued into September. The email was sent to seven faculty,