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“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

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

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,

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

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

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

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,

Author Vladislov Zubok spoke Wednesday about high culture in the life of Russians. He touched on the role of the Russian Revolution and especially Stalin's regime in supporting (and censoring) artistic expression, and on its "diluted" state today.

Stalls in a Mertz women's bathroom were found covered in sexually explicit graffiti during the last week of September. The graffiti was clearly targeted at two women on the hall.