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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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Sex Sex Sex Masturbation Sex

April 23, 2008
I was originally going to title this week's column “In Defense of Straight Men” and write about the ways in which misogyny, homophobia, and sex negativity damage the straight men [...]

Sports Update 4/22

April 23, 2008
SCOREBOARD Softball Moravian 7, Swarthmore 0 Moravian 7, Swarthmore 1 Baseball Rutgers-Camden 7, Swarthmore 0 Women's Tennis #26 College of New Jersey 6, Swarthmore 3 Golf 11th at Glenmaura National [...]

Housing: The Numbers

April 23, 2008
Very soon, most of Swarthmore's students will be entering the housing lottery. To help you make an informed choice, the Gazette has compiled information from the Housing website, averaging together [...]
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