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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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The Campus Flâneur

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September 26, 2024
To embellish an otherwise dull world, I paint my life with literary and philosophical constructs — those created to impose order upon generally chaotic disciplines. Rather than seeing life solely through disconnected tableaus, I create a map of the world populated with

In Our Defense: Men’s Lacrosse

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September 26, 2024
As a little boy, the world tells you about that one day in your life you won’t ever forget — the day you post your D3 commitment edit to Instagram, of course. Showered by praises of “himmy,” “the goatt,” and more likes

College: Beyond the Hollywood Hype

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.
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