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Bound and Shagged: A First Taste

September 6, 2012
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. So you

Election Time Spurs Action on Campus

September 6, 2012
With the United States’ presidential election quickly approaching, politics is a prominent topic of debate around campus. And because Swarthmore College found a way around Pennsylvania’s voter identification registration law, the election is increasingly personal to Swarthmore students. The law, implemented this

Referendum Against Sorority Gains Prominence

September 6, 2012
As is now common knowledge across campus, the student group, Not Yet Sisters (NYS), worked with the college’s administration last semester to establish a sorority at Swarthmore that will open it doors to the community in Spring 2013. As students returned to

The Sorority Question: Bringing in Opinions from 1931

September 6, 2012
This speech was given by College President Dr. Aydelotte during a meeting of fraternity and non-fraternity students, both undergraduates and alumni, on December 15, 1931, two years before the abolition of Swarthmore’s last sorority.  The meeting was a part of an ongoing

Pennsylvania Voter ID Law an Affront to Civil Rights

September 6, 2012
It is a fundamental tenet of democracy that the government is stronger and its power more justified when more citizens are enfranchised. America has progressively relaxed restrictions on the right to vote — be they based on property ownership, gender or race

The DG does Call Me Maybe!

September 5, 2012
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. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3exAnRCZErs&feature=youtu.be Don’t
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