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Fetter Chamber Music Ensembles, a perennial feature on campus, consist of small groups of like-minded musicians who perform, jam, and just generally gel with one another. Stephanie Whang, a freshman, [...]

So, why do we have the swim test? The answer is that no one really knows. Athletic director Adam Herz told the Gazette, "We believe that the requirement was prompted [...]

"I'm not a real person. I go to Swarthmore." So proclaims a character in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein's new play, "Third", currently in previews at Lincoln Center's Newhouse Theater [...]

Doug Wright's fascinating play, "I Am My Own Wife," was written only a few years ago, but the current production by Philadelphia's Wilma Theater reinvents it already. It is the [...]

With three productions in the works, the Drama Board is offering an interesting mix of works this semester. The much anticipated musical, "We So Are Them" is set to hit [...]

We are really into local music at the Gazette. So it was a real pleasure to chat recently with Ashley Brandt '07 of the campus band Eclipse. Short one member, [...]

The Philadelphia Orchestra fires up another season this weekend in Verizon Hall with music director Christoph Eschenbach conducting. This year the orchestra will focus on Beethoven, including all nine symphonies [...]

Where has the Sharples toaster oven gone? The question has been asked by every upperclassman who remembers last year's glorious days of toasted sandwiches for lunch. Thankfully, the toaster oven's [...]

Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor of "The New Yorker" and a guest lecturer last night at the Science Center, posed a question to the audience early on: "Any young people here [...]

The Daily Gazette sat down for a chat with Glenavin White '07, who recently came to Swarthmore from New Orleans. DG: Where are you from? GW: I go to school [...]