The Peaslee Debaters attended the University of Pennsylvania Pro-Ams this weekend. Julie Baker continued her impressive run with another first place finish in the Novice Speaker category. She also placed [...]
“Heard on the Hill,” a new series of speakers organized by Doru Gavril ’05 and the President’s office, gets off to an exciting start on Monday when Congressman Peter Deutsch [...]
On November 6, the team of Chris White '05, Wren Elhai '08, Rachel Burrow '08, and late addition Arthur Chu '06 placed second overall at Princeton's "Kickboxer" tournament, rallying from [...]
Daniel Hoffman gave a reading of some of his work at the McCabe Library last night to a crowd of roughly 40 people. Hoffman was Poet Laureate of the United [...]
This weekend, Swarthmore College will be hosting a conference along with Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges, entitled "Signs and Voices: Language, Arts, and Identity from Deaf to Hearing" that will [...]
The College Facilities department has been kept busy this academic year dealing with both incidental and student damage to the physical plant. While for the most part each incident has [...]
Dr. Jerrold M. Post spoke yesterday on the "socio-cultural underpinnings of terrorist psychology" to a large audience in the Scheuer Room. Dr. Post, a psychiatrist, has worked with many government [...]
Early last Thursday morning, a resident of Worth dormitory opened his door to find three intruders, one of whom was armed with what is believed to have been a handgun, [...]
An enormous crowd packed the smaller Science Center lecture hall last night for a faculty panel discussion on genocide, particularly recent events in the Darfur region of the Sudan. Swarthmore [...]
On Thursday afternoon Dr. Thomas Cech, who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1989, visited Swarthmore to talk about his discovery and characterization of ribozymes. Cech, current president of [...]