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Inaugural Phoenix Campus Opinions Survey – Spring ’25

On April 21, The Phoenix sent its inaugural campus opinion survey to 593 randomly selected Swarthmore students, representing 34.8% of the student body. The survey asked students to indicate whether they approved, strongly approved, disapproved, strongly disapproved, felt neutral, or didn’t know of twenty campus institutions, depicted in the graphic above. Beyond these institutions, the survey also asked students for their analysis of relevant college topics, including support for students of color, financial aid, the college’s recent response to student activism, the college’s response to the second Trump administration, campus food and housing, and faculty’s grading standards. The Williams Record,

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Looking Back: From The Beginning

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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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,

Campus Master Plan Project Requests Student Input

January 31, 2013
It does not require particularly close examination to notice that some spaces on campus are overcrowded. At the peak of lunch and dinner, navigating Sharples becomes chaotic. High housing lottery numbers can inspire nightmares. Some facilities are operating at overcapacity, and others
A number of students set up posters in Bond to discuss current humanitarian projects

J. Henry Fair Showcases Eco-Fouls at McCabe

January 31, 2013
How can disaster be beautiful? Dare to find out. Currently on view in McCabe Library atrium until February 20, J. Henry Fair’s “Extraction and the American Dream” is both breathtaking and shocking. The exhibit is comprised of a series of photographs of potentially
Sarah Scheub '12 discusses her Lang Opportunity Scholarship project with a fellow student

Hot Diggity Dog

January 31, 2013
A LAB IN THE FAM: Kaylee was brought into the family from Burt’s Black Dog Rescue  when she was just six months old. She was an angel from the first week home and was easy to train afterwards. Vince Formica had grown
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