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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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Men’s Basketball Cruises to Sweet Sixteen

March 7, 2019
Midway through Saturday’s game against MIT, Cam Wiley ’19 sized up his defender, sent him lurching to the right with a crossover, then snatched the ball back to his left and drained a step-back three. In any other game, this would be

Swarthmore Adds Applied Mathematics Concentration for Math Majors

March 7, 2019
Swarthmore recently announced the new applied mathematics major, a special math concentration utilizing conventional math for use in more specialized fields in many disciplines, including biology, engineering, and physics. On February 8, mathematics professors Nsoki Mavinga and Joshua Goldwyn held an info

Stop Conflating Election Fraud with Voter Fraud

March 7, 2019
Months after the midterm elections in November, North Carolina’s 9th District still does not have a representative in Congress. The election in this Republican-leaning district was one of the closest in the country, with Republican Mark Harris recorded as winning 905 more

The Re-alliance of American Football

March 7, 2019
Denard Robinson, Christian Hackenberg, Zach Mettenberger, Aaron Murray, and Trent Richardson were names that once struck fear in the hearts of their opponents on college football fields. The star quarterbacks produced two NCAA national championships, perennial conference championships, numerous FBS season records,

Solange Says Less, Feels More on “When I Get Home”

March 7, 2019
The accompanying short film to Solange’s most recent album, “When I Get Home,” opens with the artist draped in jewels, standing motionless in front of an imposing painting by Mark Rothko. The spectacle undoubtedly calls to mind Beyonce and Jay Z’s recent

Smartphones Have Turned Us into Cyborgs

March 7, 2019
According to Pew Research Center, 94 percent of adults ages 18-29 own a smartphone. This puts most of us just seconds away from the internet. On average, according to the University of Southern California Annenberg, we spend 24 hours online every week.

Unequivocally Rejecting Swarthmore Hate

March 7, 2019
On Sunday March 3, SGO voted to support Students for Justice in Palestine’s resolution to “ban the ban” and to end the college’s investments in seven companies involved in the occupation of Palestine. That same day, Swarthmore Hate, an anonymous Twitter account,
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