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Notes on Phenomenology from a Freshman Perspective

The concept of college, from applications to attendance, is interlaced with the goal of identifying who you are. This is obvious from the very beginning of the college search process. “What schools will help you accomplish your goals?” “Which will offer the

September 29, 2022

Opinion

Election Day Should be a Campus Holiday: It’s time for Swarthmore’s administration to live up to its institutional ideals

In 2018, the Editorial Board wrote that Swarthmore’s failure to recognize election day as a federal holiday conflicted with its commitment to increase student turnout and promote civic participation. In the four years since, our nation’s aspirational commitment to representative democracy continues

September 29, 2022

Opinion

Swarthmore Owes Its Students More

It can be difficult to be a student at Swarthmore. You are constantly trying to balance school work, a social life, sleep time, and possibly a job. There is always something that might throw your precariously teetering and hard-earned balance into disarray:

September 22, 2022

Opinion

The New Roommate

COVID, or as I like to call it: the bug. Most of us have had that flea bite us in the ass at some point — and I can tell you, mine itched for a while. At this point, getting bitten by

September 22, 2022

Opinion

Why Everyone Should Go Stargazing, From a Non-Astronomy Student

In what might be my favorite piece of Korean literature, Jo Changin writes: “Look up at the sky ten times a day. A day you have not looked at the sky at least ten times is a day poorly lived.” And what

September 22, 2022

Opinion

The Time to Connect is Now: Strengthening Our Swattie-to-Swattie Alumni Network

Although Swarthmore may sometimes feel like an escape from reality, it is an escape that only lasts about four years. Once that time is up most of us are forced out into the “real world,” where some students may find themselves lost

September 22, 2022

Highlights·Opinion

Sharples Utensils: The Sweet Taste of Greenwashing

Today it’s take-out time. The clock ticks; the rush-hour Sharples adrenaline kicks in. I pass people by and the New Yorker within comes out of me. I’m so sorry. I get my food into my cardboard takeout container, letting it brew with

September 15, 2022

Opinion

Time to Stop Dancing Around the Issue and Restructure Swat Party Policies

Swarthmore is a challenging place academically. We all know this: we grumble about it, we take pride in it, and we chose to come here because of it. As students, we expect to put in the long hours, become a little too

September 15, 2022

Highlights·Opinion

Reflections From a Senior: A (Grapefruit-Esque) Love Letter to the Class of 2022

CW: burnout Dear graduating students (and all those who began this experience with us, and all those who embody the experience of this letter), First of all, congratulations. We made it. Whether you’re still finishing up multiple theses and prepping for honors

April 28, 2022

Opinion

Reflections From a Senior: (Don’t) Quit The Phoenix

I have tried writing this piece many different times. I don’t know how to emotionally sum up what The Phoenix has meant to me over the past four years in an eloquent, thoughtful way. I think my friend and EIC Anatole Shukla

April 28, 2022

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