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Economist Danziger presents “Public Policy, and the Poor: What Changes Can Obama Make?”

Sheldon Danziger, noted labor economics and policy scholar, presented a lecture entitled "The Economy, Public Policy, and the Poor: What Changes Can Obama Make?" With the rapidly rowing unemployment rate likely to hit 10% in the coming years, the nation’s poor have

October 29, 2009

Sports

SusCom and Student Activists Meet to Coordinate Efforts, Work out Differences

The first joint meeting of the Sustainability Committee and campus environmental activists opened last Monday, as student environmental organizations worked to patch over differences with the Committee and discuss ways to coordinate future sustainability efforts on campus. The meeting came at a

October 29, 2009

Sports

Men’s Soccer Game Against Mules Ends 0-0: Photos

The Garnet Men' Soccer team and the Muhlenberg Mules battled fiercely last night to determine the host of the Centennial Conference: the Garnet needed a win against the Mules and a win on Saturday against Haverford, but the game went into double

October 29, 2009

Sports

Nalo Hopkinson Reading

“I’d never known whether it was the same creature hunting me or whether a different one came every time or whatever. It always looked different. Today the detail that gave it away, was its hands,” read Nalo Hopkinson from her newest work-in-progress

October 28, 2009

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Halloween Party Returned To Upper Tarble

SAC has elected to move the Halloween party back to Upper Tarble, following concerns about weather and the use of Mertz bathrooms.

October 28, 2009

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Democratic Candidate for Swarthmore Mayor Speaks at Swat

Tuesday night, the Democratic candidate for Mayor of the Borough of Swarthmore, Rick Lowe, came to speak at the College Democrats’ meeting. Lowe is engaged in a race for mayor against the Republican candidate, Alice “Putty” Willets; the election takes place Tuesday,

October 28, 2009

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Swarthmore Literary Review to Host Release Party

This coming Wednesday, The Swarthmore Literary Review will be issuing its first ever print magazine. The issue will feature work Meredith Root-Bernstein, whose work appeared in the March 9, 2009 issue of The New Yorker, as well as Swat students Rebekah Judson

October 27, 2009

Sports

Dom Sagolla ’96 Presents New Book About Twitter

On Friday, Dom Sagolla ’96—or, as he is sometimes known, @dom—came back to Swarthmore to promote his new book, 140 Characters: A Style Guide for the Short Form. “I saw a need for this type of guidance," said Sagolla: "I wrote this

October 26, 2009

Sports

Textbook Exchange, Financial Committee, and Campus Safety Updates

StuCo discussed a textbook exchange program, the schedule and goals of the Ad Hoc Financial Committee, and campus safety concerns, among other things.

October 26, 2009

Sports

Gary Lupyan Discusses Labels’ Impact on Thought

Gary Lupyan came to Swarthmore Thursday to give a talk called "What Do Words Do?" about the impact of language on our thought processes. He posited that giving labels to objects can have a powerful effect on the way we think about,

October 26, 2009

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