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Athlete of the Week: Kenny Relovsky ’27

April 2, 2026
Kenny Relovsky, a junior from Ringwood, NJ, competes for Swarthmore track and field. He runs various events and has shown onlookers his abilities over the course of three seasons. He has career bests in the 800m (1:54.38), 1500m (3:55.89), the mile (4:16.63),

Athlete of the Week: Leor Kedar ’28

March 26, 2026
Sophomore baseball player Leor Kedar ’28 is a must-watch when he steps up to the plate. On the Garnet’s Spring Break trip to South Carolina, where they faced four teams across seven games, Kedar racked up eleven runs, eighteen hits, twelve Runs

Thank You, Swarthmore Women’s Soccer

March 26, 2026
Swarthmore Soccer senior Isa Specchierla reflects on her time with the team During this past Winter Break, 30 minutes into playing in a Sunday adult league pick-up game (as a washed-up, now-retired senior collegiate athlete does), I was hit with an overwhelming

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Mike Super Amazes

September 9, 2007
Image supplied by publicistOn Saturday, magician Mike Super returned to Swarthmore and performed a show to a not-quite-full, yet enthusiastic crowd at LPAC. Sponsored by the Office of Student Activities, [...]

Plant Sale Comes to Swat

September 9, 2007
I’m a freshman, the wide-eyed and overenthusiastic type, but hey, our arboretum is pretty awesome. When I heard the opportunity to report on those colorful and charismatic flowers, naturally my [...]

Student Council 411

September 9, 2007
Student Council discussed the agenda for an upcoming forum with the Intercultural Center and Black Cultural Center. This event will be happening in the Scheuer Room on Sunday the 16th [...]

Melissa Meyer at the List Gallery

September 9, 2007
Photograph of Melissa Meyer by Bruce Strong, 2003, Courtesy Bruce Strong/artcritical.comMelissa Meyer, the 2007 Donald Jay Gordon Visiting Artist, gave a talk last Thursday, presenting the fruit of her forty-year [...]

Incoming freshmen take AlcoholEDU

September 6, 2007
This year incoming freshmen were required to take AlcoholEdu, a web-based course that lasts about two and a half hours and imparts information about alcohol safety. The Delta Upsilon fraternity was the early adopter at Swarthmore. They were encouraged by the national

Facebook Becomes Source of Friendship, Scandal

September 6, 2007
During orientation week, it wasn't uncommon to hear a freshman greet another freshman with "hey, aren't we Facebook friends?" Even now, some freshman, such as Tramane Hall (301), Fumiko Egawa (282), and Ming Cai (233), have more Facebook friends than the average

Student Council 411

September 6, 2007
Student Council had many successes last year (the ITS calendar initiative, class syllabi on Blackboard) but is also still in the middle of many projects, some of which were discussed [...]
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