Olivia Huang ’29 challenges the popular belief that increasing reliance on artificial intelligence is unavoidable and urges readers to embrace the human spirit.
In this edition of Swat Says, students reveal their go-to news sources, share which bad habits they would be willing to give up for a month, and reflect on the 2026 midterm elections.
First-year Dylan Myrick is a freestyle, Individual Medley (IM), and breaststroke specialist for the Swarthmore men’s swim team. The Eugene, OR resident swam at his first collegiate meet on Oct. 24, where Swarthmore, Franklin & Marshall College, Ursinus College, and Dickinson College
For much of Swarthmore’s history, students faced the reality of Sharples’ abbreviated hours: if you didn’t make it by the 8 p.m. closing time, you were going into the night without dinner. Student athletes would oftentimes be forced into rushing to the
Outside hitter Isabel Adam ’28 has been lighting it up for the Swarthmore volleyball team this fall. She came into this season with extensive on-court experience, playing in all but one game in her first two years at Swarthmore, and earning All-Centennial
When I tell people that my major is German studies, I often get the follow-up question, “Are you German?” No, I am not German. I took Spanish and German in high school, and I liked German enough that I decided to continue
Norah Rutkowski ’28 is a first-year athlete on the women’s No. 9-ranked swim team. Rutkowski is from St. Louis, MO, and graduated from Parkway West High School in the spring of 2024. The Centennial Conference Athlete of the Week swims butterfly, breaststroke,
On Feb. 5, Keziah Ridgeway and Maura Finkelstein visited Swarthmore for a conversation on “Academic Freedom and the Palestine Exception” as part of the 2024-25 Cooper Series. Both teachers have been the subject of intense pushback for pro-Palestine speech: Finkelstein was fired
We, the Phoenix Opinions section, are proud to debut Swat Says. In this weekly column, we will talk with students around campus who might otherwise not want to write full opinion articles and record highlights from their responses here. For our first
When they’re not writing, the Swarthmore Creative Writing Program (CWP) students are dancing. Or, well, this may have been a one-time occurrence. On Wednesday, Jan. 29, the CWP started the semester with a Spring 2025 Welcome Back Party and Reading in the
Dr. Bernice King, daughter of Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., delivered a talk on the King philosophy of nonviolence and love-centered activism at Pearson Hall Theatre in the Lang Performing Arts Center on Friday, Jan. 24. The event, hosted
Mary Beard, described as the most famous classicist in Britain, presented her lecture titled “The Boy Who Breathed on the Glass at the British Museum” on Friday, Jan. 31, in the cinema of the Lang Performing Arts Center. The Professor of Classics
At the philosophy panel talk “From Perception to Action: Intelligent Action in the Absence of the Intellect” hosted at Swarthmore College on Monday, Feb. 3, Sofia Berinstein, a graduate student from the University of Pittsburgh, presented her theory on sensual actions, challenging
Regular and winter early decision application review is underway at Swarthmore College as the admissions team continues to adjust to “race-neutral” admissions policies. Winter early decision is the second of two rounds of admissions decisions that are binding unless families can’t afford
Upon attempting to order my textbooks this semester, I was shocked to find that I had $289.72 less in my Textbook Affordability Program (TAP) account than I thought. “Where did the funds go?” I asked myself. Upon investigation, I found they had