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A Day in the Life of a Volleyball Player

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October 8, 2026
Before arriving at Swarthmore, I thought I knew what being a collegiate student-athlete would look like. Although most of the basics are as expected, there are many small thrills and daily traditions ingrained in my life that I would never have anticipated

Athlete of the Week: Charlotte Martin ’28

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October 1, 2026
Charlotte Martin ’28 is a junior runner for the Swarthmore women’s cross country team. Hailing from Southlake, TX, Martin led the Garnet with a 17th-place finish at the Haverford Main Line Invitational event on Friday, Sept. 18. She ran a personal-record time

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On Living Liminally

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October 8, 2026
Kush Kaur ’28 reflects on her relationship with her Nani ma’s house — a place intertwined with her hometown, past, family, and sense of self.

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WRC creates space for conversation, home cooking

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February 16, 2012
This semester, students at Swarthmore College will have another party option on Saturday evenings. At the Women’s Resource Center (WRC), parties with different themes each week will provide a cozy and home-like atmosphere. This past Saturday, the themed party “Home Sweet Home”

New administrator will buttress ethics board

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February 16, 2012
Created by the federal government to ensure that all research involving human subjects be ethically principled, the Institutional Review Board (IRB) has recently hired an administrator, Erin Starzyk, to be solely dedicated to the board and its work after years of having

They found love in a swawkward place

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February 16, 2012
How two Screw dates turned into actual couples For all the freshmen reassuring themselves Screw is a meaningless, uncomfortable dinner conversation best suffered through and then removed to the dark recesses of repressed memories, think again. The following Screw couples have been

Men’s basketball follows F&M loss with heartbreaker

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February 16, 2012
In their first game since the Swarthmore men’s basketball team picked up their long-awaited second win, the Garnet’s hopes of beginning a winning streak halted with a 77-59 loss to conference-leading Franklin & Marshall on Saturday afternoon. The victory clinched the top

The English Patient: choosing England’s new manager

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February 16, 2012
On Feb. 9, the highest-paid manager in football resigned. Fabio Capello left an England team that he was set to manage at the European Championships in Poland and the Ukraine this summer. Capello spoke out against the decision by the English Football

Track & field team shows what it’s made of in BU meet

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February 16, 2012
Facing stiff competition at last weekend’s Boston University Valentine Invitational, Swarthmore’s track and field teams rose to the occasion, breaking two school records and several other personal records as well. The meet, which included athletes from all NCAA divisions and competitive running

Imagining a world without Henry Kissinger(s)

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February 16, 2012
This month 40 years ago, the world was shaken when President Richard Nixon and his national security adviser Henry Kissinger paid a historic visit to the People’s Republic of China. The visit was an exploration of the possibility of normalizing what would

Breaking and reframing the equality-efficiency dichotomy

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February 16, 2012
Two weeks ago I chronicled the use of racially charged language in the Republican primary. Much research suggests this language is part of a 45-year old GOP strategy to “racialize” poverty so as to delegitimize the very notion of government activism. This
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