Dean of Admissions explains how Swarthmore recruits and enrolls students while sustaining its test-optional policy amid national debates over standardized testing.
In this special Final Exams edition of Swat Says, students discuss their plans for winter break, reveal their most dreaded upcoming finals, and share their thoughts on the Swarthmore Marriage Pact.
Nayla Punjabi '26 shares her experiences at Middlebury's Experiential Learning Conference, where herself and two other Swarthmore students learned about systems mapping, a technique which encourages a holistic and strategic approach to problem-solving.
Genine Collins ’27 is a force to be reckoned with in the pool. On Nov. 8, the junior swimmer broke Swarthmore and Centennial Conference records in the 50 freestyle with a time of 23.25, beating out her previous 23.30 school record. For
Track and Field: On Friday, Dec 10., Swarthmore track and field traveled to Lancaster, PA, to compete in the Diplomat Open hosted by Franklin & Marshall College. The Garnet were one of fifteen colleges represented in the indoor meet, the first of
The National Hockey League’s (NHL) opening day was Oct. 7 this season. As you may know, the NHL sucks the last ounce of consumerism out of sports fans by making their season span six months of 82 games per team. In the
Recently, I have been conscientious of presence. The way one holds themselves. The way one walks with purpose. The way one eats alone in the glowing sunlight. Before college, I thought if one was by themself, it meant that they were lonely.
The second in a series of conversations with alumni, Sara Sargent ’07 is currently a senior executive editor at Penguin Random House. Like last week’s Grace Dignazio ’22, she’s pursued a career around writing, though the dates and details differ slightly …
The Swarthmore baseball team has gotten off to a very hot start the year. After starting the year 1-2, the team has won eleven of their past twelve contests, including a big win over then-first ranked Wooster. The Garnet offense has been
At Culture and Identity Appreciation week, students participated in workshops, lectures, and other events centered around raising the visibility of underrepresented student groups on campus and creating conversations about topics such as traditions, identity, and culture. The week began on Monday March
President Trump’s campaign hinged on extreme right-wing rhetoric. One of the most celebrated tenets of this rhetoric was his idea to build a border wall. Shouts of “Build the wall!” can still be heard from the mouths of Trump supporters, as has
“U.S.-Backed Forces Declare Defeat Of ISIS ‘Caliphate,’” the headline read. On Saturday, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the militant jihadist group that has terrorized the world, and especially Iraq and Syria, finally lost the last remnants of its territory in
The Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics opened the 2019 MLB season last week with two games in Japan. While those games gave Japanese superstar Ichiro a grand send off into retirement, the rest of the league is set to kick off a
Australian producer Flume has been gradually making a name for himself over the last seven years. Bursting onto the scene in 2012 with his self titled album and a hit remix of the Disclosure track “You & Me,” Flume eventually followed up
Last Thursday was the beginning of the NCAA Division I College Basketball Tournament. Colloquially, this period from late March to early April is known as March Madness. This massively popular tournament has become a social event, with tens of millions of Americans
The new (and alliteratively named) coach of the Arizona Cardinals, Kliff Kingsbury, is introducing a team policy in which players’ meetings will be punctuated with regular twenty-to-30-minute cell phone breaks. He believes that this is the best way to hold players’ attention:
On March 16, the field of economics lost one of its intellectual giants: Alan Krueger, former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers and professor at Princeton, died by suicide. Krueger reflected the very best of the economics profession. He was known