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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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Tri-Co Energy Competition Update

May 5, 2008
In March, the Daily Gazette reported on Earthlust’s “Tri-Co Energy Competition.” The competition, which measured energy consumption in dorms and of the campus in general ended with a win for [...]

Junior Talent on Display in the Kitao

May 5, 2008
Juniors Elizabeth Brown, Adrian Davalos, Yuan Liu, Sofia Lopez, Laura Post, Sebastian Moya and Crystal Richardson are currently exhibiting their work from the first-ever Junior Workshop in the Kitao Gallery. [...]

College Corner with Valerie Naranjo, Gyil Virtuoso

May 5, 2008
Valerie Naranjo, whose credits as a percussionist include performing with Saturday Night Live, Philip Glass, and the Lion King on Broadway, is leading a gyil workshop from 2-5 and performance at 7:30 today, May 5, in Science Center Room 101. [...]

Two More Nights of Scenes

May 5, 2008
Schedule Monday, May 5 THE MURDER OF PIERROT, An original piece Directed by Joanna Wright Tuesday, May 6 ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD by Tom Stoppard Directed by Jackie Avitabile [...]

WA Stipends Run Afoul of Federal Law

May 5, 2008
For years, Writing Associates [WAs] and Student Academic Mentors [SAMs] have been paid bi-semesterly stipends. Until very recently, however, few involved in the program realized that stipends violated the Fair [...]
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