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
Tonight, a group of student musicians will perform a concert of classical music at 8:00 in Lang Concert Hall as a benefit for victims of the late December tsunami in [...]
Robert Paxton, emeritus professor of History at Columbia University, discussed the "protean quality of fascism" last night at the annual Paul Beik Lecture. Paxton argued for an understanding of fascism [...]
Professor Carolyn Gordon, winner of the 1990 Centennial Research Scholarship, visited Swat this week from Dartmouth College to present the 2005 Arnold Dresden Lectures in mathematics. Professor Gordon, who specializes [...]
The two students in the Advanced Directing Workshop presented two comic one act plays this weekend in the Frear Ensemble Theater. Al Bradbury directed "The After-Dinner Joke," by Caryl Churchill, [...]
This year's Large Scale Event was a rousing success, as rock band They Might Be Giants performed many of their most popular songs to a packed crowd at the Pearson-Hall [...]
Opera fans have another weekend to check out the Philadelphia Opera Company's production of Aida, or more accurately to check out soprano Angela Brown's dazzling performance in the title role. [...]
Eliza Blair '07 was recently named First Runner-Up in the Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing (previously known as the Isaac Asimov Award) for [...]
Earthlust will attempt to raise about $3350 by the end of the semester to fund additional wind power for the college. Swarthmore currently uses 500 megawatt hours of wind power [...]
Last night, five professors discussed the purpose of study of the humanities and the disconnect between the general public and the academic world. English professor Nora Johnson moderated, and gave [...]