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Figure painter Michael Ananian at List

Yesterday, March 8, Michael Ananian opened his exhibit at the List with a lecture in LPAC discussing his work and influences. "Two Voices," his show, will be exhibiting through April [...]

March 9, 2007

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Genderqueer soprano birds? Oh my! : interviews with the winners of the Newton Book Collection Award

Opera, birding, and lesbian and transgender identities: the three winners of this year's A. Edward Newton Prize for the Best Student Book Collection represent a wide variety of ways in [...]

March 8, 2007

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Science fiction writer Connie Willis discusses time travel and writing

Connie Willis, a science fiction/fantasy writer, spoke in the Scheuer Room on the evening of March 6, 2007. The recipient of six Nebula Awards and eight Hugo Awards, Willis has [...]

March 7, 2007

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Nees speaks on Carolingian illustrations

The field of art history, to many outside it, probably doesn't seem like one with a great many unanswered questions. In some ways, this seems even more true of Medieval [...]

March 7, 2007

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What’s the deal with the email handles?

For those of you like me, it doesn't seem to be the most intuitive way to set up email addresses: first initial, first six letters of last name, the number [...]

March 6, 2007

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Where does “the Kremlin on the Crum” come from?

One of the most persistent pieces of Swarthmore folklore is the famed description of Swarthmore as "the Kremlin on the Crum." Recently, the Gazette was asked to hunt down the [...]

March 6, 2007

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Guerilla Girls: Masked avengers miss the mark

On Friday night, Swarthmore was lucky to have as speakers two notable women, Frida Kahlo and Emma Goldman. Before you get confused, you should know that those are only stage [...]

March 5, 2007

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Trains

A train rushes by. By Ryan Shevin

March 4, 2007

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Weekend Roundup: Laughs and culture abound this weekend

"Life is a tragedy to those who feel, a comedy to those who think." The last weekend before break and for many a weekend amidst midterms is the perfect time [...]

March 2, 2007

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Haverford gallery includes work from Swarthmore’s collection

Haverford student William Coleman '07 will be the first student at Haverford to curate an exhibit in Haverford's Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery. The exhibit is an impressive collection of Pennsylvania landscape [...]

March 2, 2007

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