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Inaugural Phoenix Campus Opinions Survey – Spring ’25

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May 1, 2025
On April 21, The Phoenix sent its inaugural campus opinion survey to 593 randomly selected Swarthmore students, representing 34.8% of the student body. The survey asked students to indicate whether they approved, strongly approved, disapproved, strongly disapproved, felt neutral, or didn’t know of twenty campus institutions, depicted in the graphic above. Beyond these institutions, the survey also asked students for their analysis of relevant college topics, including support for students of color, financial aid, the college’s recent response to student activism, the college’s response to the second Trump administration, campus food and housing, and faculty’s grading standards. The Williams Record,

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Looking Back: From The Beginning

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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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Speaker addresses radio journalism, WNR reflects

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April 12, 2012
Charles Mayer, a 1998 Swarthmore graduate, came to campus on Monday to speak about his long-standing career in NPR News. He met with several different groups of students throughout the day to talk about careers, internships and the job process (specifically in

Annalise Penikis

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April 12, 2012
WHAT SHE’S DONE: The team’s leading scorer this season, Penikis recently scored her 100th career goal, then added four more last Saturday against Franklin & Marshall. FAVORITE CAREER MOMENT: “Beating McDaniel for the second straight year (this season).” WHAT SHE WANTS TO

A beginner’s guide to the world of cricket

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April 12, 2012
It seems, with the opening of the Indian Premier League last week that cricket is back on the agenda. The sign that the summer has arrived in England is that the cricket season has begun. This column piece will be a brief

Baseball hits rough stretch to dim playoff hopes

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April 12, 2012
With little more than of half of its 18 conference games remaining on the schedule, the Swarthmore baseball team (16-10, 2-6 CC) suddenly finds its postseason chances in jeopardy due to an unfortunate mid-season slump. The Garnet, which dropped a game to

F&M pulls away in 4th quarter to beat women’s lax

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April 12, 2012
Playing eighth-ranked Franklin Marshall on Saturday, the Swarthmore women’s lacrosse team came on the losing end of a road contest whose final score belies its competitive nature. The second-place Diplomats (10-2, 5-0 in conference) broke open a close game near the end

Supreme Court “partisanship” severely overblown

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April 12, 2012
Supreme Court is a tempting target. It’s easy to spot the justices, their black robes giving them away against Washington’s white marble. Two-thirds of Americans can’t name a single justice, and most of Constitutional law is too dense for waiting-room reading. The

The unspoken violence in the college Greek system

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April 12, 2012
Staff Editorial In the “bubble” that is Swarthmore College, it’s often easy to forget that the vast array of higher education options don’t all subscribe to the same sort of unique progressive cultural assumptions that we do. Not all universities and colleges

Spring play brings ‘Spelling Bee,’ humor to Upper Tarble

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April 12, 2012
A spelling bee is a familiar childhood competition for most people. Last weekend, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” a musical comedy originated by Rebecca Feldman with lyrics and music by William Finn, came to Swarthmore. This theatrical performance, through the

Matching up to comparable LACs in Planning goals

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April 12, 2012
In previous columns covering the Strategic Directions plan released this winter, I have focused on the problems and weaknesses of the strategic plan, from the lack of a community center to the inclination towards boosting Swarthmore’s ranking over more substantive changes. However,
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