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This year, Swarthmore’s Global Health Forum kicked off their Minus Malaria Initiative campaign with a pancake fundraising event and a lecture on the eradication of malaria.

The Kitchen Table Revisited Concert, held on Saturday in LPAC, featured women artists of color, Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, Mayda del Valle, D'Lo, Ursula Rucker, and DJ Ultraviolet. Organized by Dean of Intercultural Center Rafael Zapata, and Maori Holmes from the Black Lily

Last week, Ezequiel Zaidenwerg, Argentinian poet, translator, and author of a book of poetry, _Doxa_, came to Swarthmore to deliver a lecture on translation as well as a bilingual poetry reading. The event included readings by Zaidenwerg, senior Robin Myers ’10, and

Photos from the annual Psi Phi-sponsored Pterodactyl Hunt.

Photos from women's volleyball beating Washington College, Orchestra 2001, Jazz Night at Paces Cafe, and Frances Smith Foster's lecture last week.

We bring back scenes from the epic dactyl battles of 2008 for a preview of what's to come.

Frances Smith Foster, the Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Emory University, forbids her Black Literature students from even mentioning the slave narratives of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs for the first half of the semester. In her

Hobbs Coffee is Swarthmore's anticipated incoming gourmet coffee shop, slated to open in the former location of Da Vinci's sometime late October to early November of this year.

Ah, autumn. The leaves are changing; the air is crisp. This weekend would be the perfect time to get out of the dorms and Cornell and enjoy the new season…

Just why were there were so many fireflies on campus this year, anyway?