Swarthmore Leaders React as SEPTA Announces Severe Cuts

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

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

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,

Arts

Let’s Talk About “Adolescence” and Incel Culture

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

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

Sports

Athlete of the Week: Aidan Sullivan ’26

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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Administration holds finance and spending presentations

February 18, 2016
Since Feb. 1st, the administration has been holding meetings about the financial component of the college’s operations. On Jan. 18th, Vice President for Finance and Administration Greg Brown sent an email to all faculty, students, and staff announcing a series of information
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Athlete of the Week 2/18/16: Jessica Jowdy ’16

February 18, 2016
What She’s Done: She’s done it all. Top five in the Centennial Conference in points (17.8 ppg), assists (3.6 apg), steals (2.1 spg) and minutes (38.5 mpg), Jowdy has put together an All-Conference caliber season. Though the Garnet are eliminated from playoff

Swiping your way through Swarthmore

February 18, 2016
Last August, dating entered an apocalyptic stage. The culprit? Tinder. “Hookup culture, which has been percolating for about a hundred years, has collided with dating apps, which have acted like a wayward meteor on the now dinosaur-like rituals of courtship,” Nancy Jo

Eduroam in place despite student confusion

February 18, 2016
This semester, the college replaced SwatNet with Eduroam to improve Internet speed and connectivity. However, during the initial implementation of Eduroam, some students experienced trouble in connecting to the college’s wireless network. Chief Information Technology Officer Joel Cooper explained that the main
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