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Advice From A Professional Matchmaker

November 6, 2025
If you haven’t read your emails in the last month, then there’s a chance you don’t know me. If you have, you might recognize the name Corinne even if you don’t want to. I ran Screw Your Roommate this year because I

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Seniors Search for Jobs During Instability

April 10, 2025
Swarthmore College seniors are facing a tumultuous political climate as they search for jobs ahead of May graduation. Since January, the executive branch has paused grant funding that employed thousands of researchers and PhD students while federal job cuts have impacted over

March Madness Storylines

April 10, 2025
When April rolled around the calendar corner, the annual craziness of March Madness had settled, and the National Championship concluded with the University of Florida Gators as victors. They defeated the University of Houston Cougars on Monday, April 7. This year, we

Diane McHale ’83 Letter to the Editor

April 10, 2025
President Trump’s administration is attacking due process and freedom of speech in our country as part of his effort to destroy democracy. Actual fascism is growing in America. Part of Trump’s strategy is to attack universities. The only way to resist this

Let’s Talk About “Mickey 17”: The Identity Problem

April 10, 2025
How can a director explore ethical considerations of murder, spiritual complications of immortality, altruistic treatment of non-human life, and duplication of identity in under 140 minutes? How can an opening scene spark profound compassion, sadness, and understanding of humanity? Bong Joon Ho,

Swarthmore Tennis Falters After Winstreak-breaking Losses

April 10, 2025
Women’s Tennis After a Saturday game against Gettysburg College was postponed, Swarthmore women’s tennis made a long trek to Pittsburgh to play Carnegie Mellon University. The No. 5-ranked opponent was coming off two straight losses against Emory University and Washington University in

Athlete of the Week: Trel Trelstad ’25

April 10, 2025
Trel Trelstad ’25, a senior from Brookline, Mass., is a double major in educational studies and history. They are a standout on the Swarthmore Women’s Track and Field team, specializing in high jump and the javelin throw. Throughout their career, Trelstad had

In Pursuit of Aimlessness

April 10, 2025
Ever since I became an expert on the human condition (philosophy major), I’ve seen its twofold nature described in countless ways. For Gilles Deleuze in “A Thousand Plateaus”, life can be experienced as smooth space — moving nomadically, with an emphasis on
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