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Meditations on Meditating

April 23, 2026
Leon Leveau '26 discusses how meditation can help you take a step back from the overwhelming and often uncontrollable sequence of thoughts and actions that dominate our daily lives.

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Sports

Athlete of the Week: Iris Barone ’26

April 16, 2026
Katie Kerman: Congratulations on your Centennial Athlete of the Week award and becoming the program’s all-time leader in triples and stolen-bases! Can you take us through those moments when you broke two program records and how you and your team celebrated? Iris

Features

The Moonlit Path

April 23, 2026
Megumi Jindo '28 reflects on her experience at Swarthmore so far and the passing of the baton in her Kizuna, Japanese club.

Hey Mom

April 16, 2026
Corinne Lafont '26 writes a touching piece about her Mom in honor of Mother's Day.

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Daft Punk: From Human to Robot to Human Again

March 20, 2021
On Monday, Feb. 22, 2021, the ever-enigmatic electro-music duo Daft Punk announced their breakup through a wordless video titled “Epilogue,” an excerpt from their 2006 movie Electrorama. “Epilogue” features the band’s two members, Guy Manuel De Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, walking in

A Week in the Entertainment Awards: Grammy Results

March 20, 2021
On Sunday, March 14, The Grammys finally happened. The 2021 Grammy nominations were released in late November, about two months before the “biggest night in music” is usually set to take place. Despite the tradition of American entertainment, award shows have felt

NBA Championship Contenders

March 20, 2021
After months of game postponements, cancelations, and a compressed schedule, finishing the NBA season will be an accomplishment in and of itself. The season just recently reached its half-way point, as the annual All-Star festivities took place two weekends ago. With the

Swarthmore Approves Plan to Eliminate Carbon by 2035

March 20, 2021
On Feb. 27, the Swarthmore Board of Managers approved a $69 million “Energy Master Plan,” which includes the goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2035. Entitled the ‘Road Map to Zero,’ Swarthmore’s energy plan includes finding ways to eliminate or offset all

Reflections On My Arrival At Swarthmore

March 19, 2021
Imagine for a moment you are in a parachute. You can see beneath you. It looks scary, yet exciting. Landing approaches. The canopy is opening. At any moment you will hit the ground. The anticipation of impacting the earth when you touch

Spend Three Racks on a New Blockchain

March 19, 2021
If you’ve been paying attention to the news any time in these past few years, Bitcoin seems like a big deal. A whole lot of people seem to be investing in it, that’s for sure, and the price is going up like

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March 19, 2021
When I was young, probably 4th grade or so, my mother told me I wasn’t a “S.T.E.M. person.” My mother is a person who believes in excellence; she believes there is little point to working in a field in which you will

Know the Ban, Ban the Ban II. Duplicitous Ban

March 19, 2021
Editor’s note: This piece is part of a series about the ban on divestment at Swarthmore. To read the first part, click here. Introduction Swarthmore College has a policy banning the consideration of ethics in the management of the endowment. Swarthmore uses
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