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 …
In the two weeks I've been in Edinburgh, I have yet to see even one blue-faced, kilt-wearing warrior, much to my dad's disappointment. I've actually only seen a few kilts [...]
To kick off Latino Heritage month, historian and professor Vicki Ruiz spoke to students about the place of Latinos in history. Her lecture, entitled “Nuestra America: Latino History as United [...]
Mark Dlugash '08 in UgandaMark Dlugash '08 recently received a Seth Green Social Entrepreneurship Grant from Americans for Informed Democracy, a non-profit that focuses on promoting youth and especially student [...]
David Kemp / Alice Paul Names Last September, the Gazette asked you what you planned to call the soon-to-be-finished David Kemp Hall. Overwhelmingly, readers told us they could imagine calling [...]
Yerbabuena Returns to Swarthmore In what is becoming an annual event, the self-described "Puerto-Rican hill-billy"-style music group, Yerbabuena returned to Swarthmore, showing an uncanny knack at getting Swatties dancing. [...]
On Saturday, September 6, five Swarthmore music students performed with Broken Social Scene on the LPAC stage for the Large Scale Event. Junior Carl Shapiro, a trumpet player, was approached [...]
"...[T]here is such an infinite number of totally new names of new things to learn, that at first it seemed impossible for me to master them all. If you have [...]
To the Swarthmore campus community: As leaders of the Swarthmore College Jewish community, we were saddened by the recent acts of hatred directed toward a Palestinian student on our campus. [...]