SJP Encampment Ends with Arrest of 9 Protesters, Including 1 Current Swarthmore Student

Nine protesters, including one Swarthmore student and one student on an extended leave of absence, were arrested last Saturday, May 3, ending the four-day Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) encampment on Trotter Lawn. The seven others arrested were unaffiliated with the college, and their affiliations are largely unknown at the time of publication; however, one was identified as a

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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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Looking Back: From The Beginning

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 Collegiate Blog expands over summer, gains notice

August 30, 2012
Senior year at high school can be a challenging and harrowing environment as students begin the college application process and attempt to piece together little nuggets of wisdom from various sources. Overworked and thinly stretched college counselors form the primary source of

Sharples Shake-Up

August 30, 2012
Old Favorites Make Exciting New Deals It’s the first week back! The health center is renovated, Worth courtyard is spruced up, and the first-years are wide-eyed and fresh-faced. But for all these changes, our old faithful Sharples is still serving up familiar

Back to School Reading Tips

August 30, 2012
Welcome back, Swatties! After a long, hopefully rejuvenating summer vacation, it is time to answer the call of academia and return to the Swat grind. Though the specific demands of our workloads may vary, we each face long to-do lists that include

Breaking the ice with Swarthmore’s RAs

August 30, 2012
Breaking the ice: a look at RA orientation As first-years, it’s easy think that the Swarthmore experience begins the instant you set foot on campus, waving the plane/train/automobile that delivered you to academic salvation off into the haze of Philadelphia. However, for

Inherit the Wind: Obama and the economy

August 30, 2012
As legend has it, Rip van Winkle woke up from a 20-year snooze to find America had won the Revolutionary War. Colonial portraits of George III were replaced with the humbler George Washington. Flip your storybook forward to 2012. The United States

Tour guides answer our questions, finally

August 30, 2012
As August ends, Swarthmore again awakens from summer’s relative calm to the surging crowd of returning and new students and the routine bustle and noise of college life. Next year, as summer begins, most students will again leave, and the campus will
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