The college's endowment enjoyed stronger returns in 2024-25 than in the years before it. Chief Investment Officer Frank Grunseich contextualizes the numbers.
Wyatt Brannon '26 argues that, if students want to have some control over how the college operates, they should use the historically radical power of student government.
Former Opinions Editor Nathanael Brown takes a deep dive into the history of the Swarthmore CO-OP's intertwined, and sometime fraught, relationship with Swarthmore College.
Take the ultimate Swattie quiz and see — I bet you are a Swattie! Answers: If you mostly got 1), Yay, you belong at this school! You are the “Swattie” who wakes up right before class because you’ve worked your butt off
Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG. Satya Nelms
This past Tuesday afternoon, Swarthmore administrators and Strategic Planning Council Members gathered in the Scheuer Room to present their developing nascent ideas for the “Campus Master Plan” to an open student forum Swarthmore students and to receive feedback from the forum. The
Sarah Coe-Odess: Why did you decide to run for co-president? Victor Brady: I’m really focused on working to make Swarthmore more accessible and user-friendly. I think having been here for three plus years now, repeated things keep coming up. And how do
Last spring at Pub Nite, a guest of a Swarthmore student waved a Confederate flag around, and continued to do so even when people requested that he stopped. It is this kind of scene in which bystanders may feel a need to
Despite the recession and economic downturn, Swarthmore students have continued to secure post-graduate employment in impressive numbers. This steady trend owes itself primarily to diversity in fields of study and to a strong institutional relationship with alumni of varied career paths.Career Services
As freshmen flood campus and Orientation Week begins in earnest, the chaos of settling in — buying things, losing things, picking classes — also includes finding a way to satisfy the physical education requirement. Though not an entirely common practice amongst colleges,
Swarthmore College’s already prodigious list of student-run organizations has expanded even further this semester with the revival of the previously dormant Investment Club and the foundation of the App Club. Although both focus on highly lucrative industries, neither clubs’ immediate interests seem
The sun sank toward eye-level as I walked to Beardsley Hall, clad in my “most flamboyant patterned shirt,” as per Sarah Diamond’s request. “I have an idea,” she warned me at the end of her email invitation.Her idea, it turned out, was
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Last Spring when the Brewer’s Association — the national trade organization that collectively represents craft brewers — released its quarterly assessment of the state of beer in America, many a pint glass were clinked in celebration. Since Prohibition, the overall national demand