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Inaugural Phoenix Campus Opinions Survey – Spring ’25

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May 1, 2025
On April 21, The Phoenix sent its inaugural campus opinion survey to 593 randomly selected Swarthmore students, representing 34.8% of the student body. The survey asked students to indicate whether they approved, strongly approved, disapproved, strongly disapproved, felt neutral, or didn’t know of twenty campus institutions, depicted in the graphic above. Beyond these institutions, the survey also asked students for their analysis of relevant college topics, including support for students of color, financial aid, the college’s recent response to student activism, the college’s response to the second Trump administration, campus food and housing, and faculty’s grading standards. The Williams Record,

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Looking Back: From The Beginning

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May 1, 2025
Dear Freshman Year, In three days, school will end; freshman year will end. It’s so crazy how fast time has flown by. Truly. Looking back, I don’t think I would have thought that this would all end so fast. So many things

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September 24, 2015
Jose Mourinho is, to put it one way, a very good football manager. “The Special One” is a serial winner; his teams have won eight domestic titles and two UEFA Champions League trophies (as well as innumerable smaller tourneys). Individually he

Board’s continued failure to divest is unacceptable

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September 24, 2015
In light of the chance concurrence of Discover Swarthmore and the Board of Managers meeting, we at the Phoenix feel that the college should consider the potentially negative ways in which the Board of Managers’ decision not to divest from fossil fuels

Finding a place between satire and distaste

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September 24, 2015
Astute Swatties have likely heard and read about the Syrian refugee crisis. Last week, The Phoenix itself had two European nationals writing on the lack of awareness pertaining to this issue here at Swarthmore College. It is a terrible and complex situation

Why are we so obsessed with PSLs?

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September 24, 2015
Ah yes, it is finally mid-September; the leaves are slowly (but surely) beginning to change color and hey, we have even had a few days cold enough for a sweater in the morning. Fall is on its way, and my friends, that

Giving a gold star for all the wrong reasons

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September 24, 2015
Last May, the Board of Managers put Swarthmore on the wrong side of history. They continued to invest in and legitimize the fossil fuel industry — an industry that actively profits from racial and economic injustice and whose fundamental business plan involves

NCAA brings changes to college sports

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September 24, 2015
Every year, the NCAA convenes to discuss the current state of college athletics and to propose and vote on new policies and rules. This past January, the NCAA gathered in Washington DC eager to bring about even bigger changes in college

Serenity Soular Spreads Solar Power to North Philadelphia

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September 24, 2015
Last week marked the kickoff of the fourth year of the Serenity Soular Project, a collaborative effort between Swarthmore students and the Serenity House in North Philadelphia. North Philly is one of the most impoverished neighborhoods in Philadelphia, having a high unemployment

Students to revive Queer Straight Alliance

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September 24, 2015
Queer Straight Alliance is being revived by Anthony Chiarenza ’18, Kate Musen ’18 and Kate Collins ’18. In the last two years, QSA has had no presence on campus and only more exclusive groups (i.e. Swarthmore Queer Union, Picante, PersuAsian, Colors, QTC,
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