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Meditations on Meditating

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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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Athlete of the Week: Iris Barone ’26

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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

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The Moonlit Path

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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

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

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Life as an International Student-Athlete

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October 4, 2018
Swarthmore boasts a diverse student body, full of students with all sorts of talents, interests, and backgrounds. Although only 1640 undergraduates are enrolled at Swarthmore, 53 countries are represented at the college. Along with the distinct student population of Swarthmore comes a

Jess King is a Candidate to Watch

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October 4, 2018
When one thinks about progressive politics, it is likely that rural Pennsylvania is not the first location to come to mind. That is exactly where we should be looking this election season, however, to Lancaster, PA — in Jess King’s campaign for

Athlete of the Week: Ethan Witkowski ’20

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October 4, 2018
This past week, the Swarthmore men’s soccer team battled out two big Centennial Conference matches. On Sept. 26, they pummeled Ursinus 5-1 for their largest winning margin of the season. They followed up this big performance with a 2-2 draw against defending

In STEM and Econ Majors, Large Gender Gap Persists

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October 4, 2018
According to a Swarthmore Institutional Research compilation of the class of 2018, four different popular majors have a disproportionate amount of students identifying as men. These statistics do not come as a surprise to many female Swarthmore students in these fields. Many

Sustainability and Zero Waste: Swarthmore at a Glance

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October 4, 2018
On Friday, Oct. 21,  the Zero Waste Working Group held their annual Waste Characterization Study, where bins of gray, green, and blue surrounded a tent with a table on Parrish Beach. Volunteers sorted Swarthmore’s trash, recycling, and compost into their respective categories

Why You Should Go to ML Breakfast

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October 4, 2018
I wondered about the food at Swarthmore after I was accepted. I asked some upperclassmen about their impressions of campus food, and I searched comments and complaints about campus food online. It seemed that quite a lot of people didn’t like the

Japan: Pearls of The Heisei Period

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October 4, 2018
In the past few years, I have traveled to Japan multiple times, and every time was a wonderful experience. The country, which neighbors China, has a culture that is so similar to mine, yet so different sometimes. Even though we share the

Trump Versus World

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October 4, 2018
I don’t think I’ll ever forget the moment I realized Donald J. Trump had won the 2016 presidential election. It was the morning after, because I had forced myself to go to bed at about 10 p.m. the night before, right around
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