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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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Student Council Election Results

April 24, 2008
Student Council election results were released last nights. The winners include Yongjun Heo for president (by 96 votes), Bradi Covert for Financial Policy (by 177 votes), Ayanna Johnson for Educational Policy (by 485 votes), Andrew Scott Taylor for Campus Life (by 81

Sports Update 4/23

April 24, 2008
Scoreboard Men's Tennis Swarthmore 6, Haverford 3 Men's Lacrosse Swarthmore 12, Drew 6 MEN'S TENNIS: Garnet Streak Hits 50, Clinch #2 Seed The Swarthmore men's tennis team defeated Haverford for [...]

The Big Chair: End of an Era

April 24, 2008
I write a "Where is the Big Chair?" Ask the Gazette about three or four times every year. Each time, we're sent a panicked e-mail from a concerned student, and [...]
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