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Inaugural Phoenix Campus Opinions Survey – Spring ’25

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May 1, 2025
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

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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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The six editors of The Daily Gazette discuss the nature of Swarthmore's daily publication with Kristof

Committment-Conscious Cabaret

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January 31, 2013
Do you want to be in a musical at Swarthmore, but just don’t have the time? Paolo Debuque ’15 and Audrey Edelstein ’15 bring you Cabaret Night: excellent musical theater with a low time commitment. Life at Swat can be hectic. Between
Cariad Chester '13 chats with Kristof about global health

Learning How To Think … About Majors

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January 31, 2013
In 1999, a professor of art history at the college delivered an address titled “The Usefulness of Uselessness.” Her argument has since become the academic credo on campus; the idea that the pursuit of interests, no matter how disparate or “useless” they

Pop Minimalism to the Max: The xx at The Electric Factory

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January 31, 2013
Early in The xx’s Sunday set at Philadelphia’s Electric Factory, Romy Madley Croft, the band’s guitarist and female vocalist paused between songs to say, “We finally made it.” She was referring to the cancelation of the band’s last Philadelphia performance during October’s Hurricane

Lost in Translation

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January 31, 2013
According to the most recent statistics compiled by the Off Campus Study Office, Swarthmore students are not shy to dive into a completely new culture; of the graduating class of 2012, 40% studied abroad. In the 2011-2012 academic year, 150 students, mainly

A Guide To Getting It In

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January 31, 2013
Since I am writing a sex and dating column, I feel like it’s appropriate that I start with an article about swag. I’m sure you all have heard “swag” used in different contexts; purple swag, swag me out, pretty boy swag, etc.,

Life: Plan, But Plan in Pencil

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January 31, 2013
We can’t stay teenagers forever, believe me I have tried. We all wake up one day with kids and bills to pay and we say “How did I get here?” When I was a teenager I had a part time job, no

Marrakesh: South Street Moroccan

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January 31, 2013
Angela Oh and Gaby Campoverde are second year Swatties determined to visit and critique as many college-friendly restaurants as possible. Angela will be focusing specifically on the restaurant space and ambience. Gaby will be focusing on the food.  Marrakesh is a chain

Sorority to Accept Bids on Saturday

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January 31, 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 return

“You Are an Illegal”

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January 31, 2013
Wetback. Spic. Terrorist. Chink. Most at Swarthmore wouldn’t dare address an immigrant or person of color with one of these terms. Yet the framework for the immigration debate commonly uses the term “illegal immigrant” or “illegal alien” to describe a resident of
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