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Athlete of the Week: Isabel Adam ’28

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November 5, 2026
Outside hitter Isabel Adam ’28 has been lighting it up for the Swarthmore volleyball team this fall. She came into this season with extensive on-court experience, playing in all but one game in her first two years at Swarthmore, and earning All-Centennial

LeBron James: The 76ers’ New Addition

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October 29, 2026
On a beautiful Friday afternoon, July 24, 2026, LeBron James announced to the world that he would continue his illustrious career by signing with the Philadelphia 76ers on a two-year, eight-million-dollar contract. Widely regarded as the best professional basketball player of all

USWNT Wins Friendly Against Spain in Chester, PA

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October 29, 2026
A crowd of 18,000 chants in unison to the beat of the fan section drums. It’s the 86th minute of the match, and the U.S. Women’s National Team is down 2-1 to reigning World Cup Champions, Spain. The beat continues. The left

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A monastery as a model for effective communication

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April 10, 2014
At 7 o’clock this morning, seventeen men started their day with Matins — the burning of incense, a reading from the Gospel and a few pages of chanted psalms. These brothers follow the Holy Offices (five daily services that follow the cycle

Men’s golf team finds its swing

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April 10, 2014
After their previous weekend tournament was shortened by rain, the golf team made it back to the course this past weekend, battling both their opponents and the weather. Over the course of Friday to Monday, the team participated in both the Rutgers-Camden

Is FIFA a mass killer?

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April 10, 2014
Qatar’s successful bid for the 2022 FIFA World Cup has all the makings of a great underdog story.  A small country from a region that has has traditionally been a soccer backwater throws together an ambitious plan to build nine new stadiums.

Inter-web celebs

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April 10, 2014
In the late nineties, Evan Gregory ’01 created an SCCS website. The interface of the site is simple: the top of the page reads “Movies” and below are default-blue hyperlinks, all in Times New Roman, to fourteen videos with names like “Poop

Rough sex, hitting the elusive three and sex tapes

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April 10, 2014
Why don’t boys like me? — LonelyGirl95 Dearest LonelyGirl95, Are you really certain that’s the case? Love is a battlefield and sometimes words can’t communicate the horrors of war effectively. A radical approach to this would be to redefine your weapons of

Winner of SwatTank announced

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April 10, 2014
Brennan Klein ’14 won this year’s SwatTank — a competition designed to support entrepreneurship — for his business plan, Wall.it, a social consumer network. “Wall.it is an app/website, and it’s a way to give people free stuff, based on what they like,”

The Mystery of Irma Vep: Photo Gallery

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April 8, 2014
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. Patrick Ross
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