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Forget Politics, and Let’s Talk Issues: Romney’s Plan for America

Four years ago, Obama ran a campaign about changing the tone of politics, crystallized in his dazzling Invesco Field convention speech by the mantra, “There are no red states, blue states, just the United States.” His election was seen as essential to

September 6, 2012

Opinion

Pennsylvania Voter ID Law an Affront to Civil Rights

It is a fundamental tenet of democracy that the government is stronger and its power more justified when more citizens are enfranchised. America has progressively relaxed restrictions on the right to vote — be they based on property ownership, gender or race

September 6, 2012

Multimedia·Opinion

The DG does Call Me Maybe!

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. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3exAnRCZErs&feature=youtu.be Don’t

September 5, 2012

Columnists·Opinion

Principled Progressive: Fear and Loathing in the Swing States

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. Mitt Romney

September 5, 2012

Op-Ed·Opinion

The Price of an Education: It’s Time to Take Action

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. The annual

September 3, 2012

Opinion

Let them be sisters: a campus-wide referendum on a sorority at the College is inappropriate

A new institution will soon join Greek life on campus. In 2013, Kappa Alpha Theta will become Swarthmore’s first sorority since 1933. Though the sisterhood has not yet begun, its very existence has been the subject of intense controversy throughout the previous

September 3, 2012

Op-Ed·Opinion

Oriented: A Freshman’s Impression of Week One

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. “It’s a

September 3, 2012

Op-Ed·Opinion

Sororities: Every Voice Needs To Be Heard

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. Sororities at

September 3, 2012

Op-Ed·Opinion

Sorority on Swarthmore’s Campus: Dear Freshmen

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. Note: This

September 3, 2012

Opinion

Rethinking our rights and responsibilities as students as the new year dawns

Any time rights and responsibilities are mentioned in the same breath, I think of the musty yellow booklets we took home every year in Fairfax County Public Schools. It was called Student Rights & Responsibilities, or SR&R, and it laid out the

August 30, 2012

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