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Weekly Column: Swat Says

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October 2, 2025
In this edition of Swat Says, students share their favorite dining hall meal, reveal the craziest thing they've heard from a professor in class, and discuss the buildings with the worst vibes on campus.

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Athlete of the Week: Lauren Lior ’27

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October 9, 2025
Swarthmore women’s soccer forward Lauren Lior ’27 hails from Fairfield, CT, and is a graduate of Greens Farms Academy. During her first year with the Garnet, she had a stellar season, breaking into the starting lineup, and cementing herself as an integral

WSOC Day in the Life: Away Game vs. Muhlenberg College

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October 9, 2025
As we head into the middle of the fall semester, Swarthmore’s sports schedules will become increasingly busy. While exams and paper deadlines approach quickly, varsity athletic teams plunge into the middle of conference play, when the significance of winning is the most

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First-Years Flaunt Fashion

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October 2, 2025
In the post-COVID era, the art of dressing well seems to have slowly and sadly started to fade into antiquity. No longer are the schools of America flooded with fashion-forward students determined to dress their best. Chic jeans and sweaters are disappearing,

How To Do Things You Suck At: Lesson One

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September 25, 2025
Welcome to “How To Do Things You Suck At,” every Swattie’s go-to guide on how to try something new and (eventually) succeed in it. Want to learn how to crochet? Play badminton? You’ve found the right place, then. Every month, you’ll follow

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Mushrooms, Mushrooms, Mushrooms!

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February 2, 2017
On Saturday, January 28th, one of my more strange – yet important – dreams came true!  I taught a class called MUSHROOMS, MUSHROOMS, MUSHROOMS! at Peripeteia Weekend.  My opening slide quoted well-known Mycologist Paul Stamets. It read: “Fungi are the grand molecular

Swatties build worlds

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February 2, 2017
“What is Ash Ketchum eating?” asked Rachel Davis ’19 during her Peripeteia workshop devoted to examining worldbuilding in fiction. “I suppose the writers thought no one would think about implications of casually eating meat in a world of non-sentient animals? But people

Athlete of the Week: Jared Hunt ’19

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February 2, 2017
This past week, Hunt put an exclamation point on his already impressive sophomore season. Earlier this January at the Coach I Open, Hunt recorded a stellar 13.42 meter throw — a throw that was .8 meters away from cracking the top ten in

Editorial: Standing Together

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February 2, 2017
Scrolling through various news sources, one can’t help but sit in terror at the thought of the news on the screen. Trump has created an unprecedented executive order that threatens every value for which America stands, including freedom and the right for

How Trump’s EO Has Affected Pro Athletes

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February 2, 2017
Mo Farah has lived an incredible life. He was born in Somalia and moved to Great Britain at the age of eight, speaking little English at the time. Like many young British boys, Farah dreamed of becoming a professional soccer player, but

College Athletics: Business or Experience

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February 2, 2017
The National Collegiate Athletics Association’s existence, according to its website, is predicated on “integrating intercollegiate athletics into higher education so that the educational experience of the student-athlete is paramount.” Of course, this mission can manifest itself in many ways, the most common

DU to Re-Open Doors, Try to Improve Practices

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February 2, 2017
Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG. Swarthmore’s sole

On Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

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February 1, 2017
Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG. Full disclosure:
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The Swatter: January 24 – 30

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January 31, 2017
Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG. Assist to
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