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
Catherine Fukuda '07, the winner of this years' Concerto Competition, will perform Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto on Saturday night as part of the College Orchestra's spring concert on Saturday night [...]
Soprano Tamara Ryan, a junior from Fayetteville, Arkansas, will give a recital of works by Bizet, Brahms, Strauss, Mozart, Duparc, and Copland tonight at 8:00 p.m. in Lang Concert Hall. [...]
Parents' Weekend is upon us, and hopefully that means you can get off campus and get some non-Sharples food (with your parents or somebody else's). If you drive down Baltimore [...]
Last weekend four Swarthmore debaters competed against the top debaters from across the United States at the American Parliamentary Debate Association Nationals championship. Aviva Aron-Dine '05, debating with Sonya Hoo [...]
A distant crash came from the upper floors of Parrish. "That sound you hear is Bush shredding the safety net," said a voice from the crowd. The Swarthmore College Young [...]
The weekend before your parents (or at least an awful lot of parents) invade is an excellent chance to slack off a little. The Philadelphia Film Festival is in full [...]
Contralto Mark Thatcher '06 will give a recital tonight at 8:00 in Lang Concert Hall, where he will perform the music of Maurice Ravel, William Bolcom, Dominick Argento and Swarthmore [...]
A sport little known outside of Willets has begun to increase in popularity recently, due to the construction of an official league that plays every weeknight at 9:00 and 10:00. [...]
This past Thursday, Professor Stephen P. Zeldes of Columbia University gave a talk on the political hot topic of Social Security privatization, titled "Should the U.S. Privatize Social Security?" Over [...]
Simon Morrison, a professor of music at Princeton, gave the Peter Grant Swing memorial lecture last Thursday. His talk was entitled "Prokofiev's Soviet Ballet," and concerned the forgotten ballet "Le [...]