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Men’s Basketball Reflects on Asia Trip

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October 1, 2026
College basketball seasons are known for loud gyms, nighttime bus rides, and conference rivalries. Our trip to South Korea and China this August was quite the opposite. Beyond being competitive, it offered a chance to immerse ourselves in the culture and realize

Athlete of the Week: Charlotte Martin ’28

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October 1, 2026
Charlotte Martin ’28 is a junior runner for the Swarthmore women’s cross country team. Hailing from Southlake, TX, Martin led the Garnet with a 17th-place finish at the Haverford Main Line Invitational event on Friday, Sept. 18. She ran a personal-record time

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Marriage Pact a Smashing Success

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October 10, 2024
Marriage Pact’s first run at Swarthmore ended with high participation and matches all across campus, with roughly 62% of students participating in the survey intended to couple up the most compatible pairs. The survey quietly spread on campus — without any official

What We Call Ourselves

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October 10, 2024
What does the Swarthmore student call themself? Current students and admissions officers would invoke the term “Swattie,” a term of endearment for the student body and a way to make the institution more amiable. It’s a nickname that represents the way Swarthmore

In Our Defense: First Years

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October 10, 2024
Envisioning my first year as a college student, I dreamed of going to parties, attending intense sports games, and spending late nights cramming for midterms. When I committed to Swarthmore, I knew I’d have to settle for just the last one. After
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Carl Friedrich Goose: A Call for Homecoming

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October 10, 2024
It should’ve been a gorgeous day. It was warm, but not too warm; the first years had settled in, the upperclassmen were moving back; Sharples may or may not have had deep-dish pizza, and campus construction seemed somewhat less invasive; professors were

In Support of Rescheduling Election Day Classes

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October 10, 2024
We, The Phoenix Editorial Board, maintain that Swarthmore College should not hold classes on Election Day, in order to reduce the voting barriers for students and the broader community. As Swarthmore’s mission “commit[s] to peace, equity, and social responsibility,” the college should
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