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Town Center West: Rumors and Realities

In the two weeks since the College’s Board of Managers approved the Town Center West project, a number of rumors and misperceptions have arisen. We want to take the opportunity to correct some of these misimpressions.
March 3, 2011

Legacy Satisfaction Services with Ben Ellentuck

This week's WSRN show is Legacy Satisfaction Services by Ben Ellentuck '14. It is combination of guided meditation and breathing exercises, meditative musical tracks, horoscopes, and more by a Zen Buddhist practitioner and licensed psychic.
February 24, 2011

Aleppan Spice

Today's dish is Mahshe (MAH-shee), a Syrian stuffed zucchini dish straight from the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, where Clara spent the summer studying Arabic and eating as much as she could.
February 24, 2011

Swarthmore College and the Fiction of Jonathan Franzen ’81

In Jonathan Franzen’s 2010 novel Freedom, protagonist Patty Berglund visits her daughter Jessica at her Philadelphia-area liberal arts college on Parents’ Weekend. There are a number of clues that Jessica attends Swarthmore, Franzen’s alma mater. Swarthmore, indeed, plays a prominent role throughout
February 17, 2011

Villagers

The poetic darkness of O’Brien’s folk will capture your heart if you like singer-songwriters with soft, soothing voices and a hint of edginess.
February 15, 2011
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Success Without Putting a Ring On It

The marriage standard devalues any relationship that doesn’t climax in a white dress ceremony with a violin quartet version of Bittersweet Symphony, 200 witnesses, and a cake the size of a Smart Car. So I was thinking about what my alternate definitions
February 11, 2011

Cooking in the Caucasus

In 2010, we spent a lot of time eating food. What made the food-eating a little more noteworthy is that we were both abroad for a decent amount of 2010. Today’s column comes straight from Tbilisi, Georgia, where Jasper spent far too
February 9, 2011
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