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Swarthmore Leaders React as SEPTA Announces Severe Cuts

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April 24, 2025
On April 10, the South-Eastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) announced widespread service cuts and fare increases for the 2026 fiscal year. The cuts, which total a 45% reduction of service, are the culmination of several years of long-term deficits that have only been met with short-term solutions. Pennsylvania’s yearly allocation of around $1 billion to the agency has long been
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Letter from 129 Alumni Boycotting Reunion

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April 24, 2025
We are writing as alumni/ae from the classes scheduled to hold their reunions in 2025 who have been saddened and outraged as we have watched Swarthmore abandon its principles over the last year and a half. We have watched as students protesting

Weekly Column: Swat Says

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April 24, 2025
Did you do anything fun for Easter? Adrian Ferguson ’26: No. Homework. Ian Flynn ’28: I went on a nice, long walk in the woods. Jonah Sah ’27: I visited the house of one of my friends. His family is quite Jewish,

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Let’s Talk About “Adolescence” and Incel Culture

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April 24, 2025
Released a little over a month ago, “Adolescence” has become the third most-streamed Netflix original series, falling behind “Squid Game” and “Stranger Things.” The British limited series, written and created by Stephen Graham and Jack Thorne, follows the arrest of 13-year-old Jamie

Accidentally, On Writing

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April 24, 2025
Note: This piece was originally written in February 2025 When I first arrived at Swarthmore, I couldn’t stop taking pictures. It was August, and the whole campus was bursting with late summer bloom – bright blue cushions of hydrangea just at eye

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Athlete of the Week: Aidan Sullivan ’26

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April 24, 2025
Aidan Sullivan ’26 is a junior outfielder from Cos Cob, CT, on the baseball team. The Canterbury High School graduate is a psychology and mathematics double major. Outside of the classroom he is a baseball game changer. Sullivan has broken the program

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Swarthmore Admits Class of 2029

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April 3, 2025
Correction: A previous version of this article listed Feb. 28 as the letter releases date. It has now been corrected to March 21. On March 21, Swarthmore College sent acceptance letters to 965 prospective members of the Class of 2029. The admissions

Athlete of the Week: Lilly Goldberg ’28

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April 3, 2025
Lilly Goldberg ’28 is a first-year pitcher on the Swarthmore softball team. The Pittsford native had a strong performance on Tuesday against Franklin & Marshall College, when she made a season-high fourteen strikeouts in seven innings. Goldberg only allowed one hit against

Jeremy Dutcher’s Echoed Reverberations

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April 3, 2025
Jeremy Dutcher. A celebrated Canadian Indigenous musician known for masterfully blending Wolastoqiyik elements into his music. Set to perform a concert on March 21 at 8 p.m. “You want to go?” I asked my friend, who was doing math. “Sure thing,” she

Spotlight on OASiS: Celebrating Women Poets

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April 3, 2025
About OASiS: Our Arts Spoken in Soul (OASiS) is a student-led creative writing club deeply rooted in spoken word poetry performance. OASiS seeks to help cultivate a voice of truth in every creative writer through their arts: spoken word poetry performances, paper

Weekly Column: Swat Says

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April 3, 2025
Since the housing agreement was due this week, have you been thinking about your plans for and thoughts about housing next semester? Yeyoon Song ’27: I don’t really have a plan, all I want is just a single. As long as it’s
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