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 …
William Lieberman '43 passed away in June 2005 after a long career at museums such as the Metropolitan and MoMA, leaving a collection of approximately six thousand items to his [...]
If you're like me, you really want to like silent films, but you can't help but think that they'd be so much better if they had awesome music to make [...]
How we can be sure Swarthmore is better than New Jersey: although the Swarthmore squirrels are pretty bad, none of them has ever lit itself on fire and exploded a car.
Two coups for women's soccer--midfielder Kristen Peterson is the Centennial Conference Offensive Player of the Week, and Swarthmore is seeded third in the conference and will play second seed Ursinus this upcoming Saturday.
Appointments start this week, and so Council has created a list of everyone on student committees currently available in front of the Council board for prospective applicants. Council discussed an [...]
MEN'S SOCCER: Garnet Triple Up Fords Swarthmore men's soccer rebounded from a 2-1 halftime deficit to earn a hard-fought 3-2 Centennial victory over Haverford in their regular-season finale Sunday afternoon. The Garnet (11-3-3, 5-3-1 CC) got goals from juniors Yoi Tibbetts, Jeff
Simon J. Carmel’s lecture, “Silent No More: Testimonies of Deaf Holocaust Survivors” related the unheard stories of the persecuted deaf Jewish during World War II. Carmel, who teaches at the [...]