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.
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Jasmine Narang contributed to this article. On Friday, November 18th, the much anticipated fourth installment of the Harry Potter Series, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" was released to [...]
This spring, Swarthmore's theater department is welcoming the award winning playwright Adriano Shaplin to teach the playwriting workshop. Shaplin, whose writing was described by Tony Kushner, author of "Angels in [...]
On Monday in the Scheuer Room, C. Brian Rose, Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, spoke on "Assessing the Evidence for the Trojan Wars" in a well-attended [...]
Discussions between Swarthmore students, faculty, and staff are currently underway to enact stricter enforcement of the College's existing alcohol policy, which prohibits the use of College Student Activity Funds to [...]
The Sociology/Anthropology Department will offer a new course this spring entitled, "The Triumph of the Therapeutic." The course covers the historical sociology of the mental health field as well as [...]
Yesterday, Julius Tsai '91 returned to Swarthmore to speak on the themes of "secrecy, power and immortality" in Chinese religions. He framed his talk around the titular "murder mystery," involving [...]
Choreographer Jane Comfort and her modern dance company performed two striking works to a packed LPAC in a performance supported by the Cooper Foundation. Though the pieces differed in many [...]
If you are one of the many Swatties who calls him or herself a Harry Potter fan, you surely already know about the new movie. If not, one of your [...]
This Sunday evening a variety of flutists, violinists, cellists, and other musicians will serenade students in the Lang Concert Hall as part of the Fetter Chamber Music Concert. This performance [...]
This weekend, Anita Kumar '06 will present her senior dance project entitled "Dancing on a Hyphen" at the Troy Dance studio in LPAC. The performance will focus on South Asian [...]