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Fossil Fuel Divestment and the Climate Change Threat

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February 13, 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. I would

How to cross the great, big boring sex divide

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February 12, 2015
For many at a school like Swarthmore, the end goal is to get hitched for good. After all, few things take the edge off stress like a regular fuck — and emotional intimacy, I guess. This is especially true now, in the

Remembering the origins of struggle, change

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February 12, 2015
From 1968 to 1972, the Black student protest movement reached more than 500 American colleges and universities. Students across the country demanded, often successfully, higher enrollment of Black students, increased hiring of Black faculty and administrators, more relevant educational curricula in the

Lang Scholars misrepresented by editorial

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February 12, 2015
As current Lang Opportunity Scholars, we wish to respond to the Phoenix’s editorial, “Lang Scholars Program Must Change.” While the Lang Opportunity Scholarship program is not perfect, the editorial was misinformed in several ways. First, the Phoenix argued that LOS should fund

Swarthmore throwers practice meticulous art

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February 12, 2015
At 6 feet 2 inches and 230 pounds, Colton Aho ’15 resembles a tank. Lean, muscular and physically intimidating, Aho easily fits into any athletic environment. And, as one would expect, Aho can often be seen in both the field house and

‘1969’ student projects enhance Black History Month

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February 12, 2015
Students from Professor of History Allison Dorsey’s class “Black Liberation 1969” have begun to hold various events around campus as part of what Dorsey called a “takeover of Black History Month.” The series of events includes interactive workshops, student-led discussions, art

Candidate gives talk on Afro-German cultural movements

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February 12, 2015
Hip-hop is often thought of in a strictly American context without consideration of its international iterations and nuances. Consequently, the implications of the genre and its embedded messages in other countries are rarely considered from an American perspective. Vanessa Plumly, a PhD
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