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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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In defense of introductory courses

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March 27, 2014
To the editor:  Your recent editorial about co-taught introductory courses (“Bias 101”, March 20, 2014) suggests that professors from one academic sub-discipline bias introductory courses by emphasizing the doctrine or methodology of that sub-discipline at the expense of alternative perspectives. While some

Editors’ Picks

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March 27, 2014
Television show: ‘House of Cards’ This summer, just like every other one of the underpaid, overworked D.C. interns sweating on each other in the Metro and eyeing one another’s Senate badges, I binge-watched Season One of “House of Cards” with that perfect

Women’s tennis blows past McDaniel for first conference victory

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March 27, 2014
Swarthmore’s women’s tennis team won their first match of the spring in decisive fashion, defeating McDaniel 9-0. The Garnet were thoroughly dominant, winning every set and losing just eight games collectively. The victory provided the players with confirmation that their difficult non-conference

Le1f wows Tri-co crowd

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March 27, 2014
Khalif Diouf, better known by his stage name Le1f, blew away crowds of fans at the Bryn Mawr Campus last Friday, March 21st. He performed to an audience hailing from the entire Tri-co and further out, in a double act with Betty

Book review: 24/7

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March 27, 2014
In “Digital Witness,” the first single of St. Vincent’s latest album, Annie Clark laments over a throbbing array of guitars: “What’s the point of even sleeping? / If I can’t show it, you can’t see me. / What’s the point of doing

A grand hotel, worthy of a weekend trip

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March 27, 2014
  If any of you have the good fortune to escape your piles of work and make it to a movie theater this spring, consider “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” Wes Anderson’s latest irreverent film. “Grand Budapest” is a delightful, engaging romp through a

How Swarthmore invests: a response to Peter Collings

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March 27, 2014
I write in response to Peter Collings’ open letter, “The Inequity of Swarthmore’s Endowment Spending.” I am often called on to explain why we are not spending more freely from the endowment. For many of the nation’s most prestigious colleges and universities,

The unfathomable fallacy of heterosexual interaction

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March 27, 2014
From times immemorial, endeavors to elucidate and fully understand the murky realm of sexual practices have been stunted by the impenetrable mystery of one set of practices. Its alien character to most people makes it all the more pregnant with suppositions: perplexed
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