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Swat Says: Finals Edition

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December 11, 2025
In this special Final Exams edition of Swat Says, students discuss their plans for winter break, reveal their most dreaded upcoming finals, and share their thoughts on the Swarthmore Marriage Pact.

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Athlete of the Week: Genine Collins ’27

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December 11, 2025
Genine Collins ’27 is a force to be reckoned with in the pool. On Nov. 8, the junior swimmer broke Swarthmore and Centennial Conference records in the 50 freestyle with a time of 23.25, beating out her previous 23.30 school record. For

Philly’s Infamous Mascot: Gritty

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December 11, 2025
The National Hockey League’s (NHL) opening day was Oct. 7 this season. As you may know, the NHL sucks the last ounce of consumerism out of sports fans by making their season span six months of 82 games per team. In the

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Serenity in Solitude

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December 11, 2025
Recently, I have been conscientious of presence. The way one holds themselves. The way one walks with purpose. The way one eats alone in the glowing sunlight. Before college, I thought if one was by themself, it meant that they were lonely.

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Reimagining Changemaking: Human Awesomeness

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September 11, 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 a

We say the more DiscoSwat, the better

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September 10, 2015
The Office of Admissions has recently decided to expand Discover Swarthmore, an all-expenses-paid overnight program for high-achieving high school seniors to visit campus. In previous years, Discover Swarthmore was held for only one weekend in the fall semester, but two will take

Angela Lorenz spreads to McCabe with book art

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September 10, 2015
Scattering beauty around campus in our first month back is Angela Lorenz, who is making her mark with two distinct exhibits. The first, covered by this paper last week, is a series of mosaics rethinking ancient Roman artwork. The second, refreshing in

Lang project helps children affected by violence

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September 10, 2015
A’Dorian Murray-Thomas ’16 founded and launched “SheWins” this summer, a program to support young girls affected by the violent loss of a loved one. SheWins is based in Murray-Thomas’s hometown of Newark, New Jersey, a city she said experiences high rates of

Looking through a new lens

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September 10, 2015
Chester, Pennsylvania. Karachi, Pakistan. 34,000 people in one city, 23.7 million in the other, give or take. I attended Chester 101 during the spring of my freshman year as part of the community-based learning component of my World Religions course. Chester 101

New SafeConnect system raises privacy concerns

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September 10, 2015
Upon returning to campus this semester, students with laptops and other internet compatible devices were prompted to download a security key called SafeConnect in order to access SwatNet. The new software replaces the Bradford Persistent Agent as the college’s network security software.

Weekend Roundup

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September 10, 2015
Women’s Soccer This past weekend, the women’s soccer team lived up to their reputation as the 2014 Centennial Conference Champions and not only defeated all three of their opponents but destroyed them. During their first week of the 2015 season, the women

How do we talk about speech on campus?

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September 10, 2015
The argument seems never-ending. Every news-conscious college student in the country, or maybe even the world, knows about the issue of campus free speech. Countless publications, professional and amateur, have offered their opinions on the issue of campus speech codes, threatened academic
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