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It's the first weekend: time to do something fun. The Philly Fringe (including three shows by current Swatties) is starting this week, but there's also plenty of options on campus and in the Ville for the train-averse.

The residents of Wharton CD 3rd and Strath Haven are facing a unique situation this year: no RAs on their halls. Swarthmore now has a total of 49 RAs, as opposed to 51 RAs last year. After much consideration, Rachel Head, the

Let's be honest: after you turn in your last final, thinking about all the messed-up drama that our small, (beloved?) liberal arts college can sometimes rouse up is... well... probably the last thing you want to do. Seeing that word on the

While the Co-op and Renato's are fairly well-known on campus, most Swatties never bother to browse or explore the Ville's small collection of specialty boutiques, much to the disappointment of the Borough's store-owners.

There's something of a tradition at the Gazette of profiling an incoming student, to bring the rest of the community an annual dose of nostalgia and to make the hundreds of new faces on campus that much more human to the rest

Rebecca Chopp, the College's new President, took the reins from longtime president Al Bloom after the class of 2009 graduated. As students return to the beginning of the school year, the Daily Gazette sat down with her for a talk about what

In a few brief weeks, four of Gazette editors--Miles Skorpen, Lauren Stokes, Carolyn Whipple, and Daisy Yuhas--will be graduating. It has been a momentous four years for the Gazette, and we wanted to thank you for sticking with us.

The Gazette e-mailed Russian and sociology/anthropology major Latavia Elmore '09 about her upcoming Fulbright year in Kazakhstan.

Lauren Stokes ’09 was awarded one of eight Fulbright Scholarships at Swarthmore this year. Stokes, one of this paper’s Editors in Chief, will be spending next September through July in Berlin. She is planning on studying how Holocaust education is handled in