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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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Dark Clouds Menace Buenos Aires

April 21, 2008
Yesterday, in Buenos Aires, thick dark clouds were suffocating the city. These clouds were not the heralds of a thunderstorm; rather, they are the marks of fires burning in the [...]

Sports Update 4/20

April 21, 2008
Scoreboard Men's Tennis #15 Johns Hopkins 7, Swarthmore 2 Golf at Glenmaura National Collegiate Invitational MEN'S TENNIS: Top Doubles Pair Collect Win, Garnet Fall to #15 Blue Jays Despite a [...]

Sports Update 4/19

April 21, 2008
Scoreboard Men's Tennis Swarthmore 9, F&M 0 Women's Tennis Swarthmore 7, F&M 2 Softball F&M 1, Swarthmore 0 Swarthmore 4, F&M 0 Baseball Gettysburg, Swarthmore Gettysburg, Swarthmore Women's Lacrosse Swarthmore [...]

Chelsea Clinton Visits Swarthmore

April 18, 2008
Swarthmore has not had the best track record of receiving presidential figures. Last year former President Bill Clinton was considered but not able to be received by Swarthmore and instead [...]
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