SJP Encampment Ends with Arrest of 9 Protesters, Including 1 Current Swarthmore Student

Nine protesters, including one Swarthmore student and one student on an extended leave of absence, were arrested last Saturday, May 3, ending the four-day Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) encampment on Trotter Lawn. The seven others arrested were unaffiliated with the college, and their affiliations are largely unknown at the time of publication; however, one was identified as a

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Athlete of the Week: Olivia McClammy ’25

May 1, 2025
Swarthmore softball standout Olivia McClammy ’25 has not only been stealing bases but also the attention of many for record-shattering effort. The senior utility player currently holds a handful of all-time program records, her first of the season on March 1, when

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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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The Coastal Conundrum

April 7, 2022
Many weighty and controversial issues face us today. I am equipped to settle none of them, and hardly well-informed enough to have rock-solid, nuanced opinions on most of them. Still, there is one stance I will never relinquish and will hold to

The Week in Headlines

April 1, 2022
New Covid Variant and Life Form Simultaneously Evolve in Primordial Soup of Swat Prom  Looking to Attract More Students, McCabe Library to Allow Smoking Indoors Small Craft Warnings and Kitao Gallery Showcase Jonathan Franzen’s Nudes in Collaborative Exhibition  RA Hosts Event Revealing

Lost, Found and Lost Again

April 1, 2022
After “temporarily misplacing” my AirPods for what’s conservatively the tenth time this semester, I paid a visit last week to the McCabe lost & found. While I unfortunately didn’t find my missing earphone pieces there, the lost & found was quite full

So Your Crush Looked Better With A Mask: What Now?

April 1, 2022
Change is in the air, a mysterious wind that brought with it the relaxation of Swarthmore’s mask mandate. As the post-prom condensation on the Matchbox 3rd windows dried and students awoke from their weekend-long hangovers to return to their shared indoor common

You Are Squirrel, I Am Chipmunk

April 1, 2022
Some part of them was warning Reggie that this was a terrible idea. Merely thinking about trespassing onto squirrel territory would get them into some serious trouble. But as they watched a squirrel with an unusual head to body ratio scamper away

Athlete of the Week: Skylar Westley ’22

April 1, 2022
Skylar Westley, a senior from Egg Harbor, NJ, is a four-year member of Swarthmore’s jousting team. Westley competed in the Eastern Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Jousting Tournament this past weekend, posting a 6-0 record. Westley, currently ranked No. 4 in the nation, and the
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