Earlier this week, the Momenta String Quartet ushered in another year of Swarthmore’s Midday Monday Concert Series. The four instrumentalists, Miranda Cuckson and Annaliesa Place on violins, Stephanie Griffin on [...]
This week, the Math and Statistics Department presented its first colloquia of this year’s lecture series: Markov Chain Monte Carlo: Taking Advantage of Chance. Swarthmore stat professor Steve Wang (pronounced [...]
Although Swarthmore cut its fountain contract with Coke last October, the Board of Managers may reinstate the contract at their next meeting on the weekend of September 28th. The contract [...]
Sweaty Swatties rejoice--air conditioning is finally being installed in Sharples for a price tag of $900,000. Stuart Hain, Vice President of Facilities, explained that "we have been aware that the conditions in that building can be really uncomfortable for both students and
The ranks of Swarthmore's activist organizations are joined this semester by a new group dedicated to raising awareness of infectious diseases that threaten the lives of people in developing countries. [...]
The SCCS server was compromised and was being used to host and send out pharmaceutical spam content, largely due to a URL vulnerability in The Phoenix's index.php
Professor Sawsan Abbadi, recently hired as a lecturer for the Tri-Co Arabic program, aims not only to teach students Arabic, but also to give them wider exposure to Arabic culture.
Late Friday afternoon, Al Bloom joined the presidents of eighteen other liberal arts colleges in releasing a statement outlining the colleges' positions on college rankings. All but one of the colleges signing Friday's letter are currently ranked in the top twenty-five LACs