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People who go to Swarthmore are Swatties, right? Not according to the About Swarthmore website, which calls us Swarthmoreans. We decided to find out what the reason for this was, [...]

Readers of the works of Albert Memmi, a half-Berber half-Jewish writer from Tunisia, often remark upon the similarity of his characters to himself, and upon his fixation with his protagonists [...]

Pennsylvania natives Illinois — yes, you read that right — and the Extraordinaires played the semester's first show at Olde Club last Friday night. Illinois, whose music is relatively standard indie with country influences, made for [...]

Farha Ghannam, Associate Professor of Anthropology, went on leave last year to pursue her fieldwork in Egypt, where she has been examining attitudes toward the body. “I was very interested [...]

Veteran activists Miguel Melendez and Steve Levin were recently invited to campus by the Office of Multicultural Affairs, Intercultural Center, and History Department in a conjoined effort to provide relevant [...]

Here’s how the stats for the Reserved Students Digest actually break down for the first 10 calendar days of the spring semester — for this year, last year, and 2005.

Add/Drop is now officially done! But there's no need to despair because you still have plenty of other things to pick and choose… such as what you'll be up to [...]

I often go into Philly on Friday afternoons to catch matinée concerts of the Philadelphia Orchestra and take the opportunity to go out to eat in Center City. Going out [...]

Professor Mark Wallace is a unique professor in Swarthmore’s Religion department as a specialist in both spirituality and environmentalist issues. He is currently on sabbatical and researching the spiritual source [...]