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 …
Friday night, Parsons Dance, an internationally known dance company, came to Swarthmore for a performance in LPAC. The performance consisted of six pieces, all of which were drastically different yet [...]
Scoreboard F. Hockey: Swarthmore 3, Franklin & Marshall 1 Volleyball: Franklin & Marshall 3, Swarthmore 2 W. Soccer: Swarthmore 2, Franklin & Marshall 0 Cross Country Men: Placed 5th at [...]
Professors, students, and Swarthmore community members gathered in Lang in celebration of the centenary year of James Michener’s birth. Frank Delaney, a journalist and radio broadcaster at the BBC, and [...]
FFS is intended to distribute funds from the Student Budget Committee in order to “ensure the presence of a diverse array of spoken-word events on Swarthmore's campus,” according to Jason [...]
Kelly sees art as a way to reconciliation, and believes that reconciliation is necessary for peace in Northern Ireland. “Our work is not just about challenging the status quo or the government. It’s also about challenging our own people. My people are
John Mather, a Swarthmore alumnus and Noble laureate, gave the McCabe lecture for this year. He told "the story of the whole universe, from the Big Bang to far in the future. Unfortunately," he quipped, "I can’t tell you every detail of
In his lecture "Oh Say, Can You See" eminent art historian and critic Leo Steinberg addressed the problem of writings about art, rather than the art itself, forming the basis by which images are interpreted. His lecture was both [...]
One of the selling points of Swarthmore College is that funding for clubs, events, and speakers is plentiful. This should not be a surprise: Swarthmore College is part of a tiny and exclusive club: schools with endowments of more than one billion
This morning, Public Safety sent out a notice via e-mail notifying the college community that there were three separate incidents of theft of student property over the past two days. [...]