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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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Conference Inspires Black and Latino Men

November 15, 2007
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].

Lost in Thought: Susan Nolen-Hoeksema on Depresssion

November 15, 2007
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

A New Vision for “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

November 14, 2007
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,

O’Rourke on Geometric Reductionism

November 14, 2007
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 WGA Strike And You

November 14, 2007
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 [...]
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