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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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Weekly Newscast – November 21, 2013

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November 22, 2013
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. Henry Zhang:

New alcohol and drug counselor comes to campus

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November 21, 2013
This past Monday, Joshua Ellow assumed the position of alcohol and other drugs counselor and educator. Ellow holds a Master of Science in Clinical and Counseling Psychology with a concentration in addiction studies from Chestnut Hill College and has, until recently, worked

Students attend climate change convention in Warsaw

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November 21, 2013
The college recently sent three representatives, Alex Ahn ’15, Laura Rigell ’15 and Environmental Studies Program Chair Carol Nackenoff, to Warsaw, Poland to participate in the 19th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Following a visit from Christiana Figueres ’79,

Students fast in solidarity with typhoon victims

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November 21, 2013
In the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, a group of students has decided to fast in solidarity with Filipinos suffering from the storm and to raise awareness about climate change. The idea originated at the United Nations conference on climate change, which took

Hari Kondabulo’s Race-Conscious Comedy

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November 21, 2013
When comedy writer and stand-up comedian Hari Kondabolu took the stage at the LPAC Cinema on Saturday, November 16, he opened with a joke about the relatively recent Intercultural Center controversy. He said that his act was filled with a lot of

From genocide to mass atrocities

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November 21, 2013
In 1943, Polish resistance member Jan Karski secured a meeting with American Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Karski was desperate to find a sympathetic audience for the intelligence he had obtained by sneaking into Nazi concentration camps. At the time, there was
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