Dean of Admissions explains how Swarthmore recruits and enrolls students while sustaining its test-optional policy amid national debates over standardized testing.
In this special Final Exams edition of Swat Says, students discuss their plans for winter break, reveal their most dreaded upcoming finals, and share their thoughts on the Swarthmore Marriage Pact.
Nayla Punjabi '26 shares her experiences at Middlebury's Experiential Learning Conference, where herself and two other Swarthmore students learned about systems mapping, a technique which encourages a holistic and strategic approach to problem-solving.
Genine Collins ’27 is a force to be reckoned with in the pool. On Nov. 8, the junior swimmer broke Swarthmore and Centennial Conference records in the 50 freestyle with a time of 23.25, beating out her previous 23.30 school record. For
Track and Field: On Friday, Dec 10., Swarthmore track and field traveled to Lancaster, PA, to compete in the Diplomat Open hosted by Franklin & Marshall College. The Garnet were one of fifteen colleges represented in the indoor meet, the first of
The National Hockey League’s (NHL) opening day was Oct. 7 this season. As you may know, the NHL sucks the last ounce of consumerism out of sports fans by making their season span six months of 82 games per team. In the
Recently, I have been conscientious of presence. The way one holds themselves. The way one walks with purpose. The way one eats alone in the glowing sunlight. Before college, I thought if one was by themself, it meant that they were lonely.
The second in a series of conversations with alumni, Sara Sargent ’07 is currently a senior executive editor at Penguin Random House. Like last week’s Grace Dignazio ’22, she’s pursued a career around writing, though the dates and details differ slightly …
Over the past weekend, The Daily Gazette got a new look. This revision marks the second site change for the Gazette in the past 18 months. The last update introduced comments, RSS, and individual article pages. These initial changes have been enormously
It may have been brought to the reader's attention that the "Williams-Mystic Program" that purports to be the subject of this column is a Maritime Studies program. I had heard the same, but over the past 11 days, one of them (that,
SCOREBOARD F. Hockey Muhlenberg 5, Swarthmore 3 W. Soccer Swarthmore 1, Muhlenberg 1 2OT FIELD HOCKEY: Mules Down Garnet SWARTHMORE, Pa. -- Swarthmore sophomore Sophia Ferguson scored two goals but [...]
To figure out the answer, I sent an e-mail off to a recent Psi Phi (formerly known as SWIL) alum, and the power of that network quickly put me in [...]
SCOREBOARD W. Soccer Swarthmore 2, Bryn Mawr 0 F. Hockey Dickinson 4, Swarthmore 0 X. Country Fifth at DeSales Invitiational (MEN) Volleyball Dickinson 3, Swarthmore 1 M. Soccer Swarthmore 3, [...]
"We are not hostile to [corporations]; we are merely determined that they shall be so handled as to subserve the public good. We draw the line against misconduct, not against [...]
In part one we learned that in order for me to get to a comfortable place sexually, I had to first crash, hard, into the myth that women who don't [...]
[Disclaimer: Yes, we are writing a story about ourselves. No, it is not objective. Sorry.] When you check your e-mail on Monday, October 20th, Reserved Students Digest will look something [...]
This past Wednesday, chief of New York Times West Africa bureau Lydia Polgreen gave a talk entitled “Darfur, Congo, and the Aftermath of Genocide.” Polgreen explained that she intended to [...]
Fall break is here at last. The following activities, though applicable to just about anyone in Philly on the weekend, are specially targeted to those who will be around campus [...]