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Inaugural Phoenix Campus Opinions Survey – Spring ’25

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May 1, 2025
On April 21, The Phoenix sent its inaugural campus opinion survey to 593 randomly selected Swarthmore students, representing 34.8% of the student body. The survey asked students to indicate whether they approved, strongly approved, disapproved, strongly disapproved, felt neutral, or didn’t know of twenty campus institutions, depicted in the graphic above. Beyond these institutions, the survey also asked students for their analysis of relevant college topics, including support for students of color, financial aid, the college’s recent response to student activism, the college’s response to the second Trump administration, campus food and housing, and faculty’s grading standards. The Williams Record,

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Looking Back: From The Beginning

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May 1, 2025
Dear Freshman Year, In three days, school will end; freshman year will end. It’s so crazy how fast time has flown by. Truly. Looking back, I don’t think I would have thought that this would all end so fast. So many things

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Strictly Good Advice

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April 26, 2018
Strictly Good Advice, I have no plans this summer, but people keep asking me what I’m doing. How do I give them an answer? Thanks, E. Hello E., and thank you for your question. I’ll get right to the advice. I suspect,

Ceasefire

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April 26, 2018
You died a day before the ceasefire. Another tally they forget but we remember. You were born on national day: an honor they don’t deserve. They cheer in the city square, Their planes fly past like vultures, their fireworks explode like

The problems with human rights journalism

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April 26, 2018
Human rights journalism is a field that has encountered and continues to confront numerous obstacles and setbacks. Firstly, journalists do not know how or where to properly cover internationally-occurring human rights abuses. As I have learned in professor Patnaik’s “Human Rights and

Athlete of the week: Lucy Decker ’21

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April 26, 2018
Lucy Decker ’21 has become a key contributor to the softball pitching staff in her first year at Swarthmore. The right-handed pitcher from Walnut Creek, Ca., has six wins on the year, a team high for the pitchers. Most notably, Decker threw

A case for leaving hummus alone

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April 26, 2018
Last week, Students For Justice in Palestine wrote an op-ed in the Phoenix, calling for the college to stop selling Sabra products and claiming the effort was “about more than hummus.” To me at least, the question seems to be less to

We aren’t kidding around, Swarthmore needs childcare

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April 26, 2018
Recently, a survey was sent out to the Swarthmore community assessing the potential for a child care program on Swarthmore’s campus. The survey, sent out by the Childcare Committee,  asked questions about how important Swarthmore community members feel childcare is to “Swarthmore’s

Checking in on women’s soccer spring season

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April 26, 2018
After beating Johns Hopkins in the Centennial Conference finals to win the championship, the Swarthmore women’s soccer team look to work hard during their spring season in order to come back next fall and reclaim their title. Last year women’s soccer went

Professors fast to pressure Board to repeal 1991 ban

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April 26, 2018
On April 20, two days after a referendum demanding that the Board of Managers repeal the 1991 Investment Committee ban passed with an 87% approval rate, Peace and Conflict Studies Professor Lee Smithey announced that three professors would be fasting for one

A call to deinstitutionalize stress

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April 26, 2018
“Have you taken care of yourself recently?” My professor asked me this question a few weeks ago after noticing how enervated I was. As midterms were rolling in, I needed to sacrifice several hours of sleep every day to catch up with
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