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Inaugural Phoenix Campus Opinions Survey – Spring ’25

On April 21, The Phoenix sent its inaugural campus opinion survey to 593 randomly selected Swarthmore students, representing 34.8% of the student body. The survey asked students to indicate whether they approved, strongly approved, disapproved, strongly disapproved, felt neutral, or didn’t know of twenty campus institutions, depicted in the graphic above. Beyond these institutions, the survey also asked students for their analysis of relevant college topics, including support for students of color, financial aid, the college’s recent response to student activism, the college’s response to the second Trump administration, campus food and housing, and faculty’s grading standards. The Williams Record,

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Looking Back: From The Beginning

May 1, 2025
Dear Freshman Year, In three days, school will end; freshman year will end. It’s so crazy how fast time has flown by. Truly. Looking back, I don’t think I would have thought that this would all end so fast. So many things

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A Different Set of College Rankings

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September 5, 2008
Last year the infamous U.S. News and World Report college rankings, as well as other similar rankings, had prompted Al Bloom and many other college presidents to publish an official [...]

The Class of ’12 Reflects on ASAP Workshops

September 5, 2008
Annual Acquaintance Sexual Assault Prevention (ASAP) workshops were added to Swarthmore’s orientation schedule in the mid-eighties in response to the number of sexual assaults that occurred to new students early [...]

Pompeii Revisited at the Fringe

September 4, 2008
In “The Destruction of the City, and Also an Itinerary for Visitors,” Ad Hoc, a company made up of four current students and nine alums, brings the ruins of Pompeii [...]

Sports Update 9/3

September 4, 2008
Scoreboard Volleyball Neumann 3, Swarthmore 2 VOLLEYBALL: Knights, Garnet Steam Towards Five-Set Thriller SWARTHMORE, Pa. -- Garnet freshman Genny Pezzola tallied 31 digs and 17 kills in just her third [...]
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