Live Updates: Swarthmore SJP Occupies Trotter Lawn

⟡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

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

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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We are Christian and We Affirm Queer Identity

February 5, 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. Dear Swarthmore

StuCo Report: Budgeting and Chartering

February 4, 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. Budgeting Student

Lewis Hyde Brings “The Gift” to Swarthmore

February 3, 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. Poet, translator

College Resists MJ Divestment Efforts

January 31, 2013
When The New York Times published an article on Dec. 4, 2012 about Swarthmore College students’ effort to make the college divest from fossil fuel companies, the entire campus learned about student group Mountain Justice’s goal to fight against pollution and climate

Global Health Forum Honors Ravi Thackurdeen ’14

January 31, 2013
From Grapevine to Rythm ’n Motion, an array of student clubs came together to fight malaria and entertain the student body in the fifth annual Global Health Variety Show. The show, held by the Global Health Forum (GHF) on Saturday, Jan. 26,
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