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Live Updates: Swarthmore SJP Occupies Trotter Lawn

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May 1, 2025
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⟡Live 4:50 p.m. 5/2/2025 An emergency faculty meeting has been called to discuss the ongoing encampment. Swarthmore SJP’s Instagram reports that four more interim suspensions have been issued. Yard signs printed with the notice of trespass distributed to protesters yesterday have been placed in the ground around the encampment on Trotter Lawn. Swarthmore College has yet to respond to the vast
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Let’s Talk About “Adolescence” and Incel Culture

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April 24, 2025
Released a little over a month ago, “Adolescence” has become the third most-streamed Netflix original series, falling behind “Squid Game” and “Stranger Things.” The British limited series, written and created by Stephen Graham and Jack Thorne, follows the arrest of 13-year-old Jamie

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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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Swarthmore Hosts Summit On Fossil Fuel Divestment

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February 21, 2013
This weekend, Swarthmore will play host to a nationwide conference of students from colleges and universities from over 18 states interested in discussing tactics of an emerging movement to divest college endowments from extractive industries, namely coal, oil and gas. There are

Greek Life Referendum a Dangerous Precedent

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February 21, 2013
Over the last week, debates over Greek life have revealed the intense divide between those for and against the institution. The Phoenix’s staff editorial last week calling for a referendum to ban all Greek life opened the floodgates. Within a day after

You Can’t Stop the Violence

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February 21, 2013
With all the talk lately about gun control, I’m here to tell you that you can’t stop the violence.  People are going to be able to get guns and they are going to use them to inflict violence upon others.  To all

Looking Past Obama: The Future of Liberalism

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February 21, 2013
Many left-leaning observers commended Barack Obama’s State of the Union last week for its calls for a $9 minimum wage, universal preschool education, immigration reform, climate action, and election reform. Yet most also acknowledged that these goals have little chance of being

Freedom And the Greek Life Referendum

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February 21, 2013
The prospect of a referendum to ban a set of student groups should is not something that sat easily with me at first. We must always be concerned when the majority seeks to impose its will on a minority, when any freedom

Illegal PEDs Not a Problem on Campus

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February 21, 2013
In recent years, a number of scary-sounding names and acronyms have come into the public eye. BALCO. HGH. Biogenesis. Deer antler spray. And so on. While the details are shady, one thing is clear: our childhoods have been forever ruined by popular

The Rise and Fall of Paul Gascoigne

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February 21, 2013
The Man, the Myth, the Legend: Gazza was and still is the greatest mistake of English footballing history. The “Hand of God” incident ranks pretty highly, but that was the fault of a Mr. Nasser, a lovely man I’m sure but a

Jason Heo

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February 21, 2013
Athlete of the Week: Jason Heo Soph., Track and Field, Newburgh, Ind. What He’s Done: Tied program records in the 60 meter dash (7.48) and 60 meter high hurdles (9.21) to lead the Garnet at Haverford’s Keogh Invitational. Favorite Career Moment: Running

Swarthmore Basketball Sends Seniors Out in Style

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February 21, 2013
Being the visiting team at senior day is never an easy task. The emotions of the players combined with the increased attendance make the already difficult challenge of winning on the road even more perilous. After proving this by upsetting the regionally

Good song? Remix it.

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February 21, 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. The Internet
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