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Weekly Column: Swat Says

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September 25, 2025
In this edition of Swat Says, students reveal the most iconic professors on campus, discuss the best class they've taken at Swarthmore, and attempt to define the mysterious role of college Provost.

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The Best Quotes of Jalen Hurts

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September 25, 2025
We live in a current age of heat checks, lyric drops, motivational apps and posters, and speeches about “locking in” or “walking through fire.” And then there is Jalen Hurts — the starting quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles, an outright contemporary Nietzsche,

Garnet Soccer Takes on Johns Hopkins in Baltimore

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September 25, 2025
On Sept. 20, Swarthmore men’s and women’s soccer packed their bags and boarded buses for Baltimore to play their long-time conference rival Johns Hopkins University. The day began Centennial Conference play for both Garnet teams. The men came into their game carrying

Athlete of the Week: Colin Crowe ’29

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September 25, 2025
Colin Crowe: First-year goalkeeper Colin Crowe ’29 has been making waves for the Swarthmore men’s soccer team with incredible, game-time saves and plays. The Gonzaga College High School graduate, who played club soccer at Hybrid Football Club and has played all games

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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

Red Flags and Tote Bags 

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September 25, 2025
“Being a performative male means embracing women, embracing what it means to be a woman in this world, and understanding where they’re coming from,” said Nick Fettig ’26, Contestant 19 and finalist in the Performative Male Contest. “It’s being one with nature,

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Members of Enlace gathered for their first meeting of the semester in the Intercultural Center.Photo by Ellen Sanchez-Huerta '13

A farewell to arms

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April 30, 2015
This semester, the Phoenix named as co-Editors in Chief two people who, it could be reasonably assumed, held some suspicions of each other. One was an Econ major, the other studied Education; one a man, the other, a woman; one a fraternity

Could this be my final divestment column?

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April 30, 2015
On April 17, the faculty overwhelmingly passed a formal resolution in support of a proposal to divest Swarthmore’s separately-managed funds and reinvest in sustainable solutions to the climate crisis. This resolution capped an historic four weeks for the divestment movement here at

Weekend Roundup

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April 30, 2015
Baseball The baseball team closed out its season with a 4-1 victory away at Gwynedd Mercy on Monday. Nathan Booth ’16 allowed one unearned run and fanned six in a complete game effort, while the offense provided one run each in the

What do athletes eat?

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April 30, 2015
At Swarthmore, eating can be hard.  Face it, we all get tired of eating the “Sharples slop” every once in a while. Though you have your gem meals like flank steak, jerk chicken and salmon, more often than not you’ll get a

Athlete of the month: Lulu Allen-Waller ’17

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April 30, 2015
This weekend marks the beginning of the end as some of our spring season athletes compete in the competition their regular seasons have all been leading up to: The Centennial Conference Championships. One of these athletes, Lulu Allen-Waller ’17 of the women’s

How Swarthmore’s President Was Chosen

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April 30, 2015
Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG. On Saturday,

Swattie Seeks Slumber: McCabe Third

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April 30, 2015
Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG. Studies show–or

Chalk It Up: It’s Great to be a Florida Gator

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April 29, 2015
Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG. Last weekend,
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