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Student groups make Swarthmore what it is. You’ll find the bad food and the awkwardness at other colleges. What you won’t find is a student body devoted to such a wide range of causes. On my campus tours I make a point

In another quiz from Angela Meng, the Gazette helps you figure out whether or not you qualify as a workaholic.

My name is Esther Burson, and I’d like to serve as your Educational Policy Representative. I gained experience in educational policy when I served as the student representative to the Council on Educational Policy (CEP) last semester. As the only student representative

Somehow or other, it’s April, which means spring flowers, pollen, and the last push before classes end and everyone starts thinking about exams. While this can be an overwhelming time, it’s also a great time to take advantage of events on and

Crystal Richardson’s senior art exhibition at the Kitao Gallery is a testament to her pride and devotion to her personal and family history. The show, which closed this week, ran concurrently with the “Pa Kusra Tu Pit’athuun: Indigenous Women’s Symposium,” of which

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

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

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

This weekend the last of the film festival offerings are screened and a few events, like the Franklin Institute’s “Galileo, the Medici and the Age of Astronomy,” begin.