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Weekly Column: Swat Says

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October 2, 2025
In this edition of Swat Says, students share their favorite dining hall meal, reveal the craziest thing they've heard from a professor in class, and discuss the buildings with the worst vibes on campus.

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Athlete of the Week: Lauren Lior ’27

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October 9, 2025
Swarthmore women’s soccer forward Lauren Lior ’27 hails from Fairfield, CT, and is a graduate of Greens Farms Academy. During her first year with the Garnet, she had a stellar season, breaking into the starting lineup, and cementing herself as an integral

WSOC Day in the Life: Away Game vs. Muhlenberg College

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October 9, 2025
As we head into the middle of the fall semester, Swarthmore’s sports schedules will become increasingly busy. While exams and paper deadlines approach quickly, varsity athletic teams plunge into the middle of conference play, when the significance of winning is the most

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First-Years Flaunt Fashion

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October 2, 2025
In the post-COVID era, the art of dressing well seems to have slowly and sadly started to fade into antiquity. No longer are the schools of America flooded with fashion-forward students determined to dress their best. Chic jeans and sweaters are disappearing,

How To Do Things You Suck At: Lesson One

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September 25, 2025
Welcome to “How To Do Things You Suck At,” every Swattie’s go-to guide on how to try something new and (eventually) succeed in it. Want to learn how to crochet? Play badminton? You’ve found the right place, then. Every month, you’ll follow

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The Crum and I

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March 23, 2023
March 8, 2023 At 6:00 p.m., the sun hangs low, painting the skyline with multiple shades of reddish-orange. I have just left Essie’s, but instead of walking back to my dorm as I always do after a meal, I’m staring dumbfounded into

The Swarthmore Sandwich Scandal

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March 23, 2023
If you ask someone to define a sandwich, odds are they are going to say something along the lines of “two slices of bread with some sort of filling in between.” Oh, you can debate endlessly over the gray areas — is

An Analysis of “La La Land’s” Ending

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March 23, 2023
Spoiler alert: This article contains spoilers regarding the film “La La Land.” Ever since I began writing the Artist of the Week, I’ve found myself asking my friends for a script of questions whenever we sit down for dinner. ‘What’s your favorite

Hillary Kim on Art for Its Own Sake

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March 23, 2023
Hillary Kim ’25 is an applied math major. Yet, art permeates her life at Swarthmore. After attending an arts-oriented high school in California, art became Kim’s norm, a grounding and standard part of both her experience and expression. “When I got here

Athlete of the Week: Kate Hallmark ’26

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March 23, 2023
Kate Hallmark ’26 is a first-year swimmer from Chevy Chase, MD. Her strokes include freestyle, backstroke, fly, and individual medley. On March 15-18, Hallmark competed in the NCAA Championships in Greensboro, NC in the 1650-yard freestyle and 500-yard freestyle. The Maryland native

Swarthmore Athletics Weekly Recap

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March 23, 2023
Women’s Swimming: Over the weekend, ten swimmers represented the Swarthmore women’s swim team at the NCAA Championships in Greensboro, NC. The Garnet had great success with three individual and two relay All-American honorable mention distinctions. Kate Hallmark ’26 finished sixteenth overall in
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