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Inaugural Phoenix Campus Opinions Survey – Spring ’25

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

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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Campus Haircutters

May 31, 2011
Interviews with three students who cut other students' hair: Sarah Diamond, Alex Anderson, and Miyuki Baker explain how they started, what makes a good haircut, and more.

Editors’ Note: Farewell

May 30, 2011
We, the graduating senior editors of the Gazette, wanted to take this opportunity to say our farewells. (Including pictures of June getting her diploma with her camera at her side.)

Missing the Boat

May 6, 2011
To the people who are “late to the game”: you are most likely a lot better off than you think you are, because you have been watching the rest of us screw up for years.

Senior Art Show: Logan Tiberi-Warner and Petra Floyd

May 5, 2011
Logan Tiberi-Warner and Petra Floyd presented their Senior Art Shows last week in the List Gallery. Tiberi-Warner showed monochromatic paintings of skulls, while Floyd exhibited sculptures intended to evoke "awe, creepiness, curiosity, and fear."

Breaking Free of the Swarthmore Dating Binary

April 29, 2011
For some reason, somewhere along the way, all romantic entanglements here are forced into this binary of Hookup or Swat Marriage. Like most binaries, the majority of people aren’t actually at one of the poles that are emphasized, and some may want
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