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Athlete of the Week: Kenny Relovsky ’27

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April 2, 2026
Kenny Relovsky, a junior from Ringwood, NJ, competes for Swarthmore track and field. He runs various events and has shown onlookers his abilities over the course of three seasons. He has career bests in the 800m (1:54.38), 1500m (3:55.89), the mile (4:16.63),

Athlete of the Week: Leor Kedar ’28

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March 26, 2026
Sophomore baseball player Leor Kedar ’28 is a must-watch when he steps up to the plate. On the Garnet’s Spring Break trip to South Carolina, where they faced four teams across seven games, Kedar racked up eleven runs, eighteen hits, twelve Runs

Thank You, Swarthmore Women’s Soccer

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March 26, 2026
Swarthmore Soccer senior Isa Specchierla reflects on her time with the team During this past Winter Break, 30 minutes into playing in a Sunday adult league pick-up game (as a washed-up, now-retired senior collegiate athlete does), I was hit with an overwhelming

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The belly of the Atlantic

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February 4, 2016
I remember once going to the beach on a school field trip. We went to Sandy Hook on probably the worst day. There had just been a terrible storm, the likes of which blew hundreds of jellyfish onto the shore, waiting to

Smaller, but more diverse applicant group for class of 2020

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February 4, 2016
The 2014 application season yielded an applicant pool only slightly smaller than last year’s record number of applications. In addition, the application pool continues to diversify. To date, 7737 applications have been submitted, a less than two percent decrease from last year’s

Cozying up to study, with some furry friends

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February 4, 2016
It comes as no surprise when we hear that Swarthmore students are constantly working – we really are. This undoubtedly stops the student body from venturing out to new places, simply because we lack the time to do so. The study

Swarthmore students struggle with storage

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February 4, 2016
Over half of all Swarthmore students hail from regions outside of the Middle Atlantic. These students hail from distant nations like New Zealand, and far out states like California. At the end of each summer, these students return to Swarthmore as they

In defense of the Iowa caucus

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February 4, 2016
I stood outside my old junior high school in 30 degree weather awkwardly waving to my high school government teacher and those neighbors whose names I just couldn’t remember. I looked up and down the 150 yard line of lively people laughing

In the lab with engineer Ascanio Guarini ’16

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February 4, 2016
This week, I sat down with Ascanio Guarini ’16, an Honors engineering and economics major, to discuss biomedical research he did over the summer of 2014 at a lab affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital. When Guarini joined the lab, the team was

Weekend marks first annual Peripeteia

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February 4, 2016
The past weekend marks the first official Peripeteia, a campus-wide festival designed to share knowledge across disciplines. It consists of a series of lectures taught mostly by students. The topics ranged from “Fractals and Chaos,” taught by Aaron Wagener ’17, to “Hip

Beloved Labor seminar runs one last time

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February 4, 2016
There are few things Swarthmore students are known for more than strong work ethic and passion for social justice. Professor of History Marjorie Murphy’s Honors seminar Labor and Urban History seem to tie those things together perfectly. Murphy, who has taught at
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