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A Day in the Life of a Volleyball Player

October 8, 2026
Before arriving at Swarthmore, I thought I knew what being a collegiate student-athlete would look like. Although most of the basics are as expected, there are many small thrills and daily traditions ingrained in my life that I would never have anticipated

Athlete of the Week: Charlotte Martin ’28

October 1, 2026
Charlotte Martin ’28 is a junior runner for the Swarthmore women’s cross country team. Hailing from Southlake, TX, Martin led the Garnet with a 17th-place finish at the Haverford Main Line Invitational event on Friday, Sept. 18. She ran a personal-record time

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On Living Liminally

October 8, 2026
Kush Kaur ’28 reflects on her relationship with her Nani ma’s house — a place intertwined with her hometown, past, family, and sense of self.

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Reviewing Jose Saramago’s “Blindness”

September 14, 2009
A review of Jose Saramago's "Blindness." It is something too familiar, too intimate, stuck in the uneasy company of nightmares and overexposed film. Lingering on longer than the usual allegory-cum-dystopia, when the lights go out you get the feeling that they could

Clothesline Project Materials Vandalized

September 12, 2009
Around the time that school started, someone found the Clothesline Project's supplies in Tarble and "ransacked" them. All of the supplies had been taken, including markers, paint cans, and eighteen blank red and white T-shirts. No decorated T-shirts were missing, but instead

Interview with Alice Rivlin

September 11, 2009
After she gave a lecture on "Saving Market Capitalism," the Daily Gazette spoke with Alice Rivlin about healthcare, the economy, and the Obama presidency. Rivlin (Bryn Mawr '52) is currently a fellow at the Brookings Institute and on the board of directors

Alice Rivlin Lectures On “Saving Market Capitalism”

September 11, 2009
On Thursday night, Alice Rivlin, former Cabinet official and first Director of the Congressional Budget Office, presented the annual Bernie Saffran Lecture, this year entitled "Saving Market Capitalism." Rivlin gave solutions to what she identified as the primary flaws of America's capitalist

Letter – Coke’s Return

September 10, 2009
Recently you may have noticed Coca-Cola trucks on campus and the reemergence of Coke products in our dining halls and vending machines. With the reassurance that human and labor rights and environmental abuses are fundamentally unacceptable to The Coca-Cola Company, and the
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