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So what if I’m bossy? The pitfalls of Sheryl Sandberg’s #BanBossy campaign

Sheryl Sandberg is a business woman who has recently launched a feminist campaign called Ban Bossy. The campaign was made to encourage young girls to be leaders, and she’s managed to get together a pretty extensive celebrity support system for it —

March 20, 2014

Opinion

Why we should start leaving ‘Twilight’ alone

I am not ashamed to admit that I read and loved Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series before it was cool. I was in eighth grade when I devoured the first book in Barnes & Noble. I was so engrossed that I read the

March 20, 2014

Opinion

Are you an advocate too? How to support victims and survivors

Like many others, I came to my work in student affairs with a deep commitment to social justice and an even deeper desire to see the students that I advise meet their full potential. I was absolutely prepared to help students navigate

March 6, 2014

Opinion

Build Town Center West, but hire a new architect first

A full fifteen years after the college proposed its Town Center West inn and restaurant complex, the Swarthmore Borough Council at last granted final approval to the project at a meeting in late February. Thankfully, the acrimony that surrounded Town Center West

March 6, 2014

Opinion

An open letter to President Chopp

President Chopp, I got home from work today and eagerly started reading the book for Swarthmore’s 150th, “Swarthmore College, A Community of Purpose.” It was especially enjoyable to read about the birth of the honors program under President Aydelotte and how it

March 6, 2014

Opinion

Divided consent builds a slippery slope

The US Supreme Court ruled in Fernandez v. California (2014) that police may search a residence without a warrant if an occupant consents to a search and an objecting occupant is removed for reasonable purposes such as lawful arrest. Justice Alito delivered

March 6, 2014

Opinion

Macroeconomic illiteracy

In his February 24th article, “A critique of the Federal Reserve System,” Eric Yao provides some seriously disturbing, frankly catastrophic, prescriptions for central banking in the United States. In his critique, Yao channels century-old Austrian economic theories that are unfortunately still espoused

March 6, 2014

Opinion

Free Market Fairness

On Monday, I attended Brown Professor John Tomasi’s talk on his book “Free Market Fairness,” where he attempted to offer a theoretical framework for uniting libertarian theories on free markets with theories of social justice. I had anticipated a predictable talk, outlining

March 6, 2014

Opinion

Irregular conflict and cartel dynamics in “The Wire”

“The Wire,” praised as the best TV series of all time, has inspired its fair share of academic analysis. Multiple universities have devoted entire classes to exploring themes such as poverty and drug policy through the medium of David Simon’s creation. The

March 6, 2014

Opinion

Swat 7: Cornel West & Robert George Fail to Pleasure Us

Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG. Swat 7, Swarthmore’s

March 3, 2014

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