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Athlete of the Week: Lola Diaz ’26

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April 30, 2026
Lola Diaz ’26, hailing from Portland, OR, and Marbella, Spain, has been an integral part of the Swarthmore women’s tennis team for the past four years. She has been awarded All-Centennial First Team Singles (2024) and All-Centennial First-Team Doubles (2024) and has

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The Moonlit Path

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April 23, 2026
Megumi Jindo '28 reflects on her experience at Swarthmore so far and the passing of the baton in her Kizuna, Japanese club.

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Mushroom tones

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September 18, 2014
Jackson Hart ’17 arrived 20 minutes early to our interview, but had disappeared by the time I was set up for the meeting. He wanted to be interviewed outside in the sun, where the pink stone in his ear glittered impishly. Tucked

Faculty considers changes to end of year schedule

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September 18, 2014
On Friday, the first faculty business meeting of the academic year was held in the Scheuer Room. The most discussed topic was student feedback to the spring semester schedule changes that were announced in an email in May. The result of the

Juniper Street

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September 18, 2014
“What would it be like if death was your sister?” This haunting question, posed on the flyer just above an aqua-tinged girl sleeping beside a skeleton, beckons theater fans into [redacted] Theater Company’s latest production, “Juniper Street.” After a semester in London

Behind the scenes at Rhythm n Motion auditions

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September 18, 2014
“I love to dance,” they all said, in various ways. Rhythm n Motion hosted its fall auditions this past Sunday, September 14, from 1:30 to 5 p.m., and my pride was one of its victims. I do not love to dance. Dancing

Baenziger exhibit sculpts gallery as canvas

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September 18, 2014
Nature is a common subject of art. It is romanticized, rationalized, and splattered into impressionistic dots. Although there are a variety of ways to artistically interpret natural beauty, few ways are as inventive as the approach taken by Markus Baenziger in his

On Ian Hoffman ’15, from the poet to the poetry

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September 18, 2014
“I would very much like,” Ian Hoffman ’15 confessed, as we approached the end of the interview, “to stop writing.” Regarding poetry itself: “I don’t think it’s ‘important.’ I like writing it. But it’s not important like ISIS is important.” “I get

Party overflows during the first wet weekend

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September 18, 2014
After a week’s delay, Phi Psi put on their annual party, “Disorientation” last weekend. Given that the fraternity was the only open space that night, the number of party-goers far exceeded the house’s capacity, causing Public Safety’s involvement. Swat Team members were

99 breakups, but no problems for Pig Iron Theater Co. show

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September 18, 2014
The Pig Iron Theatre Company, founded by several Swarthmore alums in 1995, continues to pursue their mission to “expand what is possible in performance by creating unusual and exuberant ensemble-devised works.” Showing at Philadelphia’s renowned Fringe Festival, “99 Breakups”  takes the audience

You may want to avoid those awkward glances

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September 18, 2014
Well Swarthmore, here it is: new year, new ass. Disorientation, rumor has it (I had one cosmo too many to recall), was full of new couples, whether they were conjoined for one hazy night or more permanently, for that haphazardous miracle that
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