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After an extensive search, conductor Richard Fletcher has been hired to lead the Swarthmore College Orchestra, succeeding Daniel Alfred Wachs. Fletcher attended Julliard and the New England Conservatory of Music, [...]

"Does wearing high heels make you sterile?" That is a question posed by a young woman visiting the sex researcher Alfred Kinsey (Liam Neeson) in Bill Condon’s intelligent new film. [...]

About forty students attended a movie screening and lecture on the life of Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, a revolutionary known throughout the Latin American world as "El Che." The [...]

Swarthmore classical music fans stayed on campus this weekend for two outstanding concerts. Though both Orchestra 2001 and the Bang on a Can All-Stars played concert music written within the [...]

The only superlative the capacity crowd could find to describe Saturday night's performance of Mozart's Requiem by the College Chorus and Orchestra was "powerful." Yet, in that single descriptor were [...]

It's the weekend before Thanksgiving, folks. With a shortened week, surely you can spare some time this weekend to go into Philly to blow off some steam. Philadelphia has a [...]

Jon Estey ’08 and Julia Bertaut ’08 are bringing Unitarian/Universalism back to the Swarthmore campus. The gazette staff was curious as to just what Unitarian/Universalism is and how the new [...]

Tonight, Margaret Leng Tan will perform the first two volumes of George Crumb's "Makrokosmos," a series of ambitious works for solo piano dating from 1972-3, in celebration of the composer's [...]

If you don't want to stick around for the Signs and Voices Conference or the parties on campus this weekend, take the R3 into Philly! Chinatown, just a block away [...]

If the only interaction you had with Deshi’s (Swarthmore’s Southeast Asian Association) just-ended Diya Week was getting handed sparklers as you left Sharples, you missed out on quite a lot. [...]