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A Day in the Life of a Volleyball Player

October 8, 2026
Before arriving at Swarthmore, I thought I knew what being a collegiate student-athlete would look like. Although most of the basics are as expected, there are many small thrills and daily traditions ingrained in my life that I would never have anticipated

Athlete of the Week: Charlotte Martin ’28

October 1, 2026
Charlotte Martin ’28 is a junior runner for the Swarthmore women’s cross country team. Hailing from Southlake, TX, Martin led the Garnet with a 17th-place finish at the Haverford Main Line Invitational event on Friday, Sept. 18. She ran a personal-record time

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On Living Liminally

October 8, 2026
Kush Kaur ’28 reflects on her relationship with her Nani ma’s house — a place intertwined with her hometown, past, family, and sense of self.

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Yerbabuena Returns to Swat

September 15, 2008
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. [...]

Students Join LSE

September 15, 2008
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 [...]

Ten Days Before the Mast

September 15, 2008
"...[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:

September 15, 2008
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. [...]

Sports Update 9/14

September 14, 2008
Scoreboard M.Soccer #23 Swarthmore 2, #5 Stevens Tech. 0 Field Hockey Eastern 2, Swarthmore 1 Volleyball hosted Sixth Annual Garnet Classic Swarthmore 3, Clarke 2 Swarthmore 3, Cabrini 1 Salisbury [...]
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