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The Phoenix through the Ages

Our oldest campus newspaper was first published in 1881, rising from the ashes of the Great Fire of Parrish. In its earliest form, the Phoenix was more of a literary journal than a newspaper as we think of it today.

April 19, 2010

Opinion

Decisions, Decisions

We’d like to call for a broad and considered school-wide conversation that re-evaluates what types of decisions are important to students, evaluates why those decisions are important, and moves towards re-shaping the way students are included in -- and excluded from --

April 12, 2010

Opinion

Getting it and Getting Tasered: It’s a Swat Story

With Valentine’s Day a safe month and a half behind us, we find this the ideal time to engage with the topic that feverishly consumes your every thought.

April 11, 2010

Opinion

Orgasms, Easter Eggs, and Defining for Yourself What Constitutes Good Sex

Orgasms, it has recently occurred to us, are a lot like Easter eggs. Sometimes they're big; sometimes they're small. Sometimes you find a whole bunch, and sometimes only a few make it into your Easter basket. More to the point, though, the

April 9, 2010

Opinion

Deleted Comments

Here are the comments the Editors of the Daily Gazette deleted because we believed they violated our new commenting policy. Also, a letter written by Stephanie Appiah '10 addressing the current state of comments.

April 9, 2010

Opinion

Unpaid Internship Regulations: They Don’t Help Us

Last Friday, the NYT highlighted a recent initiative by one of the Labor Department’s top law enforcement officials, M. Patricial Smith, to crack down on the increasing number of firms that illegally use unpaid internships for free labor. I’m not sure who

April 8, 2010

Opinion

“Three Days in Palestine” and the Purpose of Checkpoints

"Three Days in Palestine" has brought an incredibly important issue to the forefront of students' minds at Swarthmore: namely, the difficulty of balancing a state's legitimate security concerns with the vital work of ensuring universal human dignity and rights, and perhaps more

April 7, 2010

Opinion

Arboreal Love and Tragedy at the Melamine Factory

This week, we received two questions. We're really all asking the same thing, at heart: how to make our lives more lovely; and how to make our loves more lively. We're not sure which of the two questions below corresponds to which,

April 6, 2010

Opinion

Secrecy, Timing of “Three Days in Palestine” Counterproductive

A Swarthmore student writes in to the Gazette to discuss her misgivings with the planning behind the "Three Days in Palestine," and the issues she believes to be relevant to continuing discourse regarding both the event and its broader themes.

April 6, 2010

Opinion

The Pros and Cons of Paying Student Council

In light of the recent discussion over whether or not to pay members of Student Council for their service, Student Council compiles the pros and cons (as they see them) of StuCo compensation.

April 6, 2010

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