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
One of the most talked about young rock bands of the year came to the Olde Club on Thursday and played an hour’s worth of material in front of an [...]
You probably already know if you're going to be around campus this weekend. That's right, this weekend is the ML Halloween Party, the night when most people are either in [...]
One of the newest editions to the Swarthmore campus is the "blue tree" in front of Kohlberg. And many of our readers wanted to know what brought about this transformation. [...]
Julie Baker '08 and Emily Tredeau '06 won the University of Maryland Debate Tournament this weekend, beating teams from up and down the East Coast. Tredeau was the 2nd place [...]
While brushing their teeth in the morning, many students feast their eyes upon "Water Efficiency Measures for Residencies," a poster that provides such helpful tips as "Report all leaks," "Take [...]
1. It will be packed. 2. The band, headed by vocalist/guitarist Alec Ounsworth, provides a poppy fresh sound, slightly reminiscent of indie darlings The Walkmen. 3. Ounsworth hails from Philadelphia. [...]
Since the declaration of Israel as an independent state in 1948 there has been an ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians over territorial disputes. We all know the story, or [...]
Swarthmore welcomed writer and journalist Alfred Lubrano to talk about his latest book "Limbo: Blue Collar Roots, White Collar Dreams" on Tuesday. One of the featured speakers for Class Awareness [...]
Benjamin Braddock, the protagonist of "The Graduate", was not the first or the last college student who wanted their future to be "different". Theresa Williamson '97 found herself in doing [...]
This week, the Department of Mathematics and Statistics welcomed Andrew Gelman of Columbia University as this year's Arnold Dresden Lecture Series speaker. The Lecture Series invites its participants to give [...]