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Weekly Column: Swat Says

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October 30, 2025
In this edition of Swat Says, students reveal their campus priorities, discuss the time-honored Swat tradition of Screw Your Roommate, and share surprising thoughts on sports teams at Swarthmore.

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Athlete of the Week: Dahlia Bedward ’26

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October 30, 2025
Dahlia Bedward, a senior hailing from Altholton High School in Columbia, MD, saw a combined six games over the course of her first three years at Swarthmore. In her second season, she started one game and appeared in four, making seven saves

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(Cor)boning in the amphitheater in spring

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February 26, 2015
This is the vice issue, so I wrote erotica (TW: explicit description of various sexual acts between two consenting cis men). The first person doesn’t imply it’s a true story, but it doesn’t preclude it either. Enjoy. I’d never spoken to him,

Squash brings home the hardware

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February 26, 2015
After defeating the Minnesota Golden Gophers, the University of Miami, and the College of Charleston, Swarthmore took home the Hawthorn Cup, squash’s G division championship. It’s not a typo. Swarthmore emerged victorious in three separate sporting events against well-known NCAA Division I

Adventures in potato: A Sharples love experience

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February 26, 2015
Sometime around the end of my sophomore year, I stopped eating Sharples food regularly, and started doing weird things, like eating salad a lot. Actually, I just started eating salad a lot. This was because I found myself eating unconscionable amounts of

Just a phase: Genderfuck is over

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February 26, 2015
Due to concerns felt by the Swarthmore queer and trans community, we believe that Genderfuck should not be held this year. The initial aim of the party was to celebrate queerness and gender variance through the destabilization of gender in a public

Advice to Mountain Justice supporters

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February 26, 2015
Last week’s editorial was a ringing endorsement for Mountain Justice’s calls for escalation. The Phoenix’s editorial board joined in the popular criticism of the Board of Managers, describing Mountain Justice as a group of students who have “invested substantial time in learning

Spring sports preview

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February 26, 2015
Women’s Tennis The women’s tennis team officially begins its Centennial Conference matches on Saturday, March 21 against McDaniel. Until then, the team has five non-conference matches to look forward to. The first of these begins the team’s season this Saturday in a

Envisioning radical consent

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February 26, 2015
Practicing consent can be simultaneously easy, mandatory, difficult, and radical. At Swarthmore, we exist in a culture in which a drunken hookup is a clear violation of the sexual misconduct policy, yet still very typical and normalized. It can be challenging to
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