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NY Times Graphics Editor Talks on Data Visualization

This week, the Math/Stat Department brought New York Times Graphics Editor Amanda Cox for the penultimate lecture in its colloquia series. The talk, entitled "Data Visualization (and a Little Bit of Math) at the New York Times", gave a brief overview the
April 7, 2009

First Women in Sport Symposium Hosted for Swat Athletes

The first ever Women in Sport Symposium took place this past weekend in the Scheurer Room. The 3-hour-long event featured a panel of women working in sports, dinner plus a screening of the HBO special Dare to Compete, and a keynote address
April 7, 2009

“12 Angry Men” Rebirths Classic

After I see a play—any play—I ask myself: “Could I have just _read_ it instead?” The value of translating the words of the playwright from the Cartesian Theatre to the actual theatre—to living flesh and blood—is often unclear, and the uninspired performance
April 7, 2009

Chender and Graf Share Book Collections

The Gazette talks with Newton Prize winners Julian Chender and Stephen Graf, both seniors, about their book collections--Chender's "humor of suffering" and Graf's "messy world of contemporary art."
April 1, 2009

All’s Well that Ends at Some Point

Installation artist Ima Fraud and Dramaturge Keith Galessing have joined forces in developing a new vision of Shakespeare's "All's Well that Ends Well," performed entirely with garden gnomes.
March 31, 2009

Spec Chooses Swarthmore, Forfeits Dreams

John Smith '13 isn't fully aware of it yet, but checking the "I'm Coming!" box on that acceptance letter he got yesterday means that he has just given up all hope of ever changing the world.
March 31, 2009
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