“Afraid of Damnation”: Inside a Christian Campus Group’s Controversial Past and Present

April 17, 2025
Alpha Omega (AO), a religious organization at Swarthmore, portrays itself as a nonsectarian Christian club. According to its description on the college’s club listing, the organization invites students to “read, discuss and test the Bible for themselves to understand what it means to live following Jesus.” It is mostly known by the larger community for the tendency of its members

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Napping Spots on Campus Ranked

April 17, 2025
It is my professional, chronically exhausted opinion that not all spots on campus are made equal for napping. For one, I can assure you that falling asleep sitting up in class is toward the bottom of the list (I am not made

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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,

Battle of the Bands: Meet the Warriors

April 10, 2025
Battle of the Bands celebrates and brings to light the hidden talent within Swarthmore’s student body. The contest features a range of bands competing for a coveted spot at the annual Worthstock Festival at the end of the semester. Curious to know

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College: Beyond the Hollywood Hype

September 26, 2024
We all came to college with some general expectations. Were they all realistic? Maybe now we are realizing no, but, nonetheless, we had some general ideas of what to expect. Parties all night, every night! Endless freetime. Hundreds of friends. Perfect roommates

The Bund: An Alternative to Zionism

September 26, 2024
At the end of last semester, Naomi Klein shared her historical analysis of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the Middle East to a packed auditorium in her talk, “Israel, Palestine, and The Doppelganger Effect.” Essential to her understanding of this crisis

Spitting First Words

September 26, 2024
When I was a baby, my parents spoon-fed me many things as I slowly grew. They fed me applesauce. They fed me rice. Foods I loved from the beginning because they looked appealing and novel to me. Then they tried introducing brussel

Surviving Campus HAAAte

September 26, 2024
Although many people on this campus know me to be a bundle of joy, those who are closest to me are well aware of my larger-than-ideal hater count. It is a very unfortunate circumstance that, to be clear, I do not intend

America is Failing at Capitalism

September 26, 2024
In America, we have a superiority complex. Just ask the kids I grew up with in the U.K. Common assumptions about the U.S. are as follows: everything is bigger, they all worship Walmart, they only eat McDonalds, and they all have guns.

Swarthmore Athletics Weekly Recap

September 26, 2024
Field Hockey Swarthmore 8, Sewanee College 1 On Saturday afternoon, Swarthmore field hockey cruised past Sewanee College to take an 8-1 win. Seven different players found goals in the back of Sewanee’s cage, the first in the fifth minute of the game.

Athlete of the Week: Len Yamabe ’27

September 26, 2024
Len Yamabe ’27 is a midfielder from Tokyo, Japan. He has started every game for the unbeaten men’s soccer team. #13 Swarthmore is currently 7-0-1 with 21 goals on the season. Yamabe took part in almost half of those goals, with seven
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