The recently renamed Edley-Morgan Hall honors Kathryn L. Morgan, a former professor who was previously denied tenure, which had sparked intense debate on campus.
The Phoenix interviews Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures (Chinese) Qiaomei Tang on her new position, research, and teaching goals.
Alice Sheffer '30 and Maeve Noble '30 argue that post hoc punishments for perpetrators of sexual violence should not be a solution to broader problem, and Cornell should take a lesson from Swarthmore and disband fraternities on campus.
In this edition of Swat Says, students share their views on the Phoenix, weigh in on the closure of Pastry Pants, and look back on bouts of food poisoning at the dining hall.
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
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
This past weekend, Swarthmore hosted "The New Danger: Black and Latino Men Facing Evolving Challenges to their Scholarship and Community," a conference for Black and Latino men from the Consortium on High Achievement and Success [CHAS].
Two new college committees are currently in the process of being formed. One will focus provide long-term planning for sustainability at the College, while the other will focus on instituting and recommending socially responsible programs.
Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, Professor at Yale University, spoke on "Rumination and Depression". According to her, people who ruminate get stuck in a cycle of thinking about their problems and, as a result, make it worse by creating negative thinking and a decreased ability
Anne Coleman '09, the director of A Midsummer Night's Dream, "loathes the play when it is done poorly." Expanding on this, she explains that many productions of the play are "fluffy, insubstantial, and a waste of a beautiful text." From all appearances,
As part of this year’s Math Department lecture series, Philadelphia-native and Smith College professor Joseph O’ Rourke returned this Tuesday to present his lecture entitled “Geometric Folding Algorithms: Linkages, Origami, and Polyhedra.” The talk focused on the computational geometry behind the deconstruction
The Amos J. Peaslee Debate Society competed at a tournament hosted by University of Pennsylvania last weekend. One of Swarthmore's novice teams - Chenge Mahomva '11 and Carlo Felizardo '11 - placed as the 8th team overall. Read more inside.
On Tuesday, approximately 100 Swarthmore students pledged not to eat meat for a day as part of College Veg Day, a new event that was started by a student at [...]
If you, unlike most Swatties, actually penetrate the Swat bubble and participate in popular culture, you'd know that the most important thing going on right now in the the entertainment [...]