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Weekly Column: Swat Says

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October 30, 2025
In this edition of Swat Says, students reveal their campus priorities, discuss the time-honored Swat tradition of Screw Your Roommate, and share surprising thoughts on sports teams at Swarthmore.

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Athlete of the Week: Dahlia Bedward ’26

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October 30, 2025
Dahlia Bedward, a senior hailing from Altholton High School in Columbia, MD, saw a combined six games over the course of her first three years at Swarthmore. In her second season, she started one game and appeared in four, making seven saves

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The elusive independent

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September 15, 2011
If political strategists are to be believed, there is one creature in American politics that trumps all, an elusive beast whom, if tamed, ensures electoral hegemony. Elections, we are told, are about independent voters. This zealous faith in the ‘moderate independent’ has

Sharing our collective myths in commemoration

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September 15, 2011
When I read David Rieff’s recent article in Harper’s Magazine, “After 9/11: The limits of remembrance,” I remembered that it was August 15th on the lunar calendar. I remembered because I was born on both of these days, depending on which calendar

ML residents resist being stereotyped

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September 15, 2011
Mary Lyon is a dorm many Swatties may not have been to this week, or this month or this year. Some may never have been to ML. Yet, there are many others who have continued to request rooms in ML year after

Lakey database released ten years after 9/11

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September 15, 2011
On the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, as a decade of violence from New York City to Afghanistan came to a close, a group of Peace and Conflict studies students and teachers offered a new solution to the conflict: nonviolent

Activities Fair Likely To Be Pushed Back Next Year

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September 15, 2011
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. For the
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