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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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Swat Compliments

November 29, 2012
College students have a habit of creating online forums about their schools. Usually, such mediums satirize aspects of the college. Facebook is littered with various college meme pages like “Swatmemes.” Twitter feeds that poke fun at school culture, like “Swarthmore Girl Problems,”

Swarthmore’s Dry Side

November 29, 2012
Throughout the course of the night of the Halloween Party, approximately 200 students showed up at the Women’s Resource Center, highlighting the possible need for having more dry social spaces and events on campus. Currently, if a Swattie chooses to spend a

Our National Pastime

November 29, 2012
James Earl Jones said it best in the movie, Field of Dreams, “The one constant through all the years, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again.

Dear Nestor: Get a Clue

November 29, 2012
Dear Nestor, How can you tell if someone likes you? When do someone’s actions go from being simply friendly to more than friendly? Thanks for your help, Clueless Dear Clueless: To be honest, this can be so hard to tell. One thing

Rita Skeeter Tells All

November 29, 2012
My dear readers, in my many years writing for you at The Daily Prophet, I have brought you many important biographies of leading personalities of our time, including “Armando Dippet: Master or Moron?,” “The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore,” and “Snape:

Apparate to Paces for a Mind Fuck

November 29, 2012
With tears in his sometimes green, sometimes blue eyes, Josh McLucas ’15 related the sometimes tragic, often challenging, ever exciting process of creating “The Horizon (Line): Salvador Dali Fucks With You For An Hour In Paces,” the first devised piece by Swarthmore’s

Life of Pi: The (Other) Boy Who Lived

November 29, 2012
About halfway through Ang Lee’s extraordinary 2001 movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, just as the pace is quickening and the plot is intensifying, we suddenly find ourselves in an empty desert. This is a flashback, but we do not yet know this.

Giving Thanks or Why Can’t I Write?

November 29, 2012
It’s come and gone. No, not Thanksgiving — I’m referring to the yawning abyss whose arrival I fear with the very quarks of my being: a lack of ideas, an inability to write. Read along as I try to figure out why
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