Swarthmore Encampment Ends with Nine Arrests; Students and Faculty Rattled

This article shows live updates and coverage of the now-demolished encampment on Trotter Lawn. Older posts may not accurately reflect present information or conditions. ⟡Live 12:15 a.m. 5/4/2025 The Guardian’s coverage has been amended. It is now consistent with seven notices being issued before arrests were made and two being issued after, for a total of nine suspensions. —Melanie Zelle ⟡Live 11:00

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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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New Theatre Company Explores Intimacy

January 24, 2013
Since the final weeks of last semester, posters for the American Masturbatory Theater Company have been posted across the Swarthmore campus. A cursory glance at the flyers has left many students perplexed about the nature of the club, which, as Sam Swift

Change for Charity

January 24, 2013
On Sunday evening, Salman Safir ’16 posted an idea on Facebook that has already started attracting attention on campus. His idea is simple and charitable. Safir wants to devise a system to collect students’ spare change and donate it to a worthy

Public Policy Program to End in 2016

January 24, 2013
After over a quarter of a century in existence, the Public Policy Program will no longer be available to students at the end of the Spring 2016 semester, college officials announced to those involved with the program this past break. Current Public

Course Load Contraction Continues

January 24, 2013
Starting next fall, Swarthmore College will begin a seven- to ten-year process to transition all faculty to teaching four classes per year. While for the past approximately 30 years Swarthmore professors have usually taught five classes per year (three one semester and

Newly Named Lang Scholars Discuss Projects

January 24, 2013
Each year, the Eugene Lang Opportunity Scholarship program provides finances for up to six sophomore students to establish social action projects that foster change or aid communities in the United States and abroad. Criteria include academic and extracurricular achievement, as well as

Party Shutdown Causes Controversy

January 24, 2013
After local police and Public Safety officers broke up four parties on a Saturday night shortly before the end of fall semester, students waged a heated debate about drinking culture and fraternities on campus in the comments section of a Daily Gazette

What I Saw Over Winter Break: Picasso Black and White

January 24, 2013
Pablo Picasso painted Woman Ironing (La repasseuse) at the end of his Blue period, an era brought on by the suicide of his friend, Carlos Casegemas. The nature of the suicide was intensely tragic—Casegemas committed suicide when his lover left him for

Once More, With Feeling

January 24, 2013
It’s that time of year again. Snow is falling. Students ante in for the first round of misery poker (I bet my winter break was more stressful than yours). Seniors try to figure out where “I acted in a lot of plays”

Center City Restaurant Week

January 24, 2013
This week and the next food-deprived college students and budgeting recent grads will bustle into some of Philadelphia’s highest-rated restaurants for 3-course lunch or dinner meals priced at $20 or $35 respectively, a deal meant to satisfy their watering/expectant mouths/pallet and modest
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