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Men’s Basketball Reflects on Asia Trip

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October 1, 2026
College basketball seasons are known for loud gyms, nighttime bus rides, and conference rivalries. Our trip to South Korea and China this August was quite the opposite. Beyond being competitive, it offered a chance to immerse ourselves in the culture and realize

Athlete of the Week: Charlotte Martin ’28

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October 1, 2026
Charlotte Martin ’28 is a junior runner for the Swarthmore women’s cross country team. Hailing from Southlake, TX, Martin led the Garnet with a 17th-place finish at the Haverford Main Line Invitational event on Friday, Sept. 18. She ran a personal-record time

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Hating Swarthmore, and loving it

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April 14, 2016
I’m from Philadelphia. As a rule, Philadelphians hate Philadelphia. We hate that SEPTA buses always smell faintly of piss and hopelessness. We hate that our public schools are approaching Dickensian levels of dysfunction. We hate that our most iconic tourist attractions are

Men’s Ultimate at their best going into playoffs

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April 14, 2016
Touting a conference best 15-7 regular season record, Swarthmore’s male Ultimate team — the Earthworms — is eager to begin post-season play this Saturday at Franklin & Marshall. Playoff play is comprised of three stages: Conferences, Regionals, and Nationals. This weekend, the

Athlete of the Week

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April 14, 2016
What she’s done: Last Friday, McMenamin competed in the 5k for the first time as a member of Swarthmore track & field. She made the most of it, running it in a time 17:02.96 that was the third-fastest for the event in

Students, faculty meet to discuss social justice requirement

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April 14, 2016
On Monday night, advocates for the requirement, representatives from student groups, and interested parties met in the Intercultural Center to continue discussions concerning the potential new academic requirement in social justice and diversity. Killian McGinnis ’19, one of the organizers, asserted that

College to begin round of construction over summer

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April 14, 2016
The college will start several new construction projects this summer to accommodate the growing student population. The projects include a new residence hall between PPR and the baseball fields, a new academic building to be called Whittier, new parking lots by Cunningham

WTF? Where’s the family in STEM?

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April 14, 2016
The biology department feels like a family. This is something that resonates with my peers in Bio 2 as we munch on bagels (courtesy of Nicole, a professor) before morning lab, as we dispute “challenge questions” at Study Group Meetings, and as

An exercise in entropy

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April 14, 2016
It’s an oft-stated and well-treaded fact that systems tend toward disorder. This tendency is called entropy, and to say that systems tend towards disorder is to say that the available energy in a system (energy that is available for work) decreases. Another
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