The college's endowment enjoyed stronger returns in 2024-25 than in the years before it. Chief Investment Officer Frank Grunseich contextualizes the numbers.
Wyatt Brannon '26 argues that, if students want to have some control over how the college operates, they should use the historically radical power of student government.
Former Opinions Editor Nathanael Brown takes a deep dive into the history of the Swarthmore CO-OP's intertwined, and sometime fraught, relationship with Swarthmore College.
Take the ultimate Swattie quiz and see — I bet you are a Swattie! Answers: If you mostly got 1), Yay, you belong at this school! You are the “Swattie” who wakes up right before class because you’ve worked your butt off
This coming fall a new mascot may be representing Swarthmore at Clothier Field. The Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and the Garnet Club are working together to initiate a search [...]
The college has decided to replace bottled Coca-Cola products with Pepsi products at Essie Mae's and the two coffee bars. "We have made two gestures towards Coca-Cola to get this [...]
Did the snow keep you from your wild adventures in Philly last weekend? Well, it did for us. Despite the SEPTA customer service line's insistence that the trains were "out [...]
This Saturday night, at 7:00 pm in the Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore's Sixteen Feet will be performing their spring concert. The group has just recently finished recording their new CD, [...]
At the World Debate Championships in Dublin over break, Christopher Ford '07 and Garth Sheldon-Coulson '07 represented Swarthmore as one of the highest ranked American teams in a field of [...]
This weekend, Neal Dandade's original play "Mango Chutney on Mesa Street," as directed by Maria Möller, will be premiering in LPAC'S Frear Theater stage. The one-act, one man show is [...]
Quick quiz: who's the opposite of Blackalicious? Answer: Ben Folds! This spring, the Large Scale Events committee has pulled a one-eighty and decided to bring piano-rocker Ben to Swat. Ben [...]
History Professor Robert DuPlessis lectured on "Globalization and the Creation of the 'Atlantic World' in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries" in the Scheuer Room on Wednesday. Although globalization is often [...]
Dr. David Ramirez, Director of Psychological services at Swarthmore, recently returned to his hometown of San Antonio to give the fifth Annual Frank Paredes Lecture. Ramirez is the president of [...]
As we all know, every year, the month of February is reserved as a celebration of black history. This year, rather than focusing on African-American history with commonplace themes such [...]