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SJP Encampment Ends with Arrest of 9 Protesters, Including 1 Current Swarthmore Student

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May 7, 2025
Nine protesters, including one Swarthmore student and one student on an extended leave of absence, were arrested last Saturday, May 3, ending the four-day Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) encampment on Trotter Lawn. The seven others arrested were unaffiliated with the college, and their affiliations are largely unknown at the time of publication; however, one was identified as a
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Athlete of the Week: Olivia McClammy ’25

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May 1, 2025
Swarthmore softball standout Olivia McClammy ’25 has not only been stealing bases but also the attention of many for record-shattering effort. The senior utility player currently holds a handful of all-time program records, her first of the season on March 1, when

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Looking Back: From The Beginning

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May 1, 2025
Dear Freshman Year, In three days, school will end; freshman year will end. It’s so crazy how fast time has flown by. Truly. Looking back, I don’t think I would have thought that this would all end so fast. So many things

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Reconciling art and the artist

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October 10, 2013
When I was in elementary school I read “Ender’s Game.” Even without context, that’s a common enough occurrence, and a perfectly acceptable one. With context, it’s a bit more significant. During the first few years of my education I had to go

No Love, Deep Web: Pynchon’s Latest Novel Falls Flat

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October 10, 2013
Thomas Pynchon was something of a Terrence Malick figure before Terrence Malick. Like the reclusive filmmaker, Pynchon likes to stay off the grid. A snaggle-toothed photo from his high school years floats around the web, Nabokov sort of remembers teaching him at

In Search of Fitness: Finding Fulfillment Beyond the Field

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October 10, 2013
Varsity athletes are not the only Swarthmore students actively involved in exercise on campus. Many students are finding that physical fitness can be achieved outside of an organized sport. Trending workout routines are often short sessions of high-intensity workouts, a popular combination

Buzzing About Barbuzzo

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October 10, 2013
A good meal is alchemy: the best company with fantastic food in the right atmosphere at the right time and in the right place. If all these things align like an auspicious arrangement of celestial bodies, you’re in for something that is

24-Hour Comix Challenge comes to campus

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October 10, 2013
As demonstrations kicked off across Philadelphia on Saturday, October 5, Patricia Gutierrez ’15 sat quietly at a desk, buried in sheets of loose-leaf paper. The Latin American Studies major had planned to participate in the marches taking place on the National Day

Rethinking assumptions

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October 10, 2013
We have the tendency to make quick assumptions about others without knowing them. So when a bearded man with a turban walks down the street, he is quickly assumed to be a religious fundamentalist — most likely an Islamic one. This is

From Crik to Creek: Cruising Down the Crum

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October 10, 2013
Early on Sunday morning, Swatties gathered to race handmade boats down the Crum in the annual Crum Regatta. This notable and highly Swarthmorean tradition of racing homemade boats has been a part of Swarthmore since it was first held in 1969 —

The Reverse Side of Flipping

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October 10, 2013
I feel safe in saying that by this point in the academic year, most people here have found a couple new students that they fancy. Not in a creepy way; it’s more of a “we should totes grab a coffee, and by

Shutdown demonstrates how not to negotiate

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October 10, 2013
Nearly two years ago, I wrote on these same pages how the deficit reduction “supercommittee” that was supposed to reign in the nation’s debt was “predictably unsuccessful.” Perhaps the same goes for the current situation in Washington. Over these past two years,
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