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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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Gyil Workshop, Virtuoso Performance at Swat

May 2, 2008
A workshop for the Ghanaian percussion instrument the gyil (pronounced jeel singular, JEE-lee plural) will be held in Sci 101 on Monday, May 5, from 2-5 pm, followed by a concert performance at 7:30. Valerie Naranjo, an award winning percussionist and one

An Inside Perspective on SBC

May 2, 2008
Dear Fellow Students, As outgoing SBC members with a combined six semesters of experience, we wanted to give you a sense of the state of the budget. In spring budgeting, [...]

Students Join Chester Co-op

May 1, 2008
Swarthmore students in the Environmental Studies Capstone seminar are spearheading an effort to publicize Chester's Community Grocery Co-op. According to Swarthmore religion professor Mark Wallace, the goal is to implement [...]

Gazette Picks

April 30, 2008
1. Automatic Citation Generators It has come to my attention that there are college students out there who don't know about the existence of these marvelous, bibliography generating tools. There [...]

Junior Housing Lottery

April 29, 2008
The Junior housing lottery opened with handful of open single-occupancy and many multiple-occupancy rooms. The first room went to number 416. Several dorms were closed to certain genders to preserve [...]
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