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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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Break-Up Etiquette 101

March 4, 2011
When we are little, no one ever teaches us how to properly break up with someone. This is a shame, given that most of us will have to be on either side of the exchange at least once in our lives.

Town Center West: Rumors and Realities

March 3, 2011
In the two weeks since the College’s Board of Managers approved the Town Center West project, a number of rumors and misperceptions have arisen. We want to take the opportunity to correct some of these misimpressions.

Andrea Packard: Toward a Quaker Aesthetic

March 2, 2011
List Gallery director Andrea Packard '85 gave a lecture discussing her work as an artist and as a curator at the LPAC Cinema on Wednesday, March 2, 2011. With an introduction by Professor Brian Meunier, Andrea Packard’s lecture titled “Toward a Quaker

Q&A on Hotel Plans

March 1, 2011
On Monday evening, members of Swarthmore’s administration held an informational Q&A session on the college’s plans to build a hotel in Swarthmore. The hotel’s construction will be funded and supervised by the College, and its primary purpose will be to provide lodging

A “Pilates Connexion” in the Ville

March 1, 2011
Last year, personal trainer Jeanna Vanni decided to take what used to be Swarthmore’s bike shop (and before that, a candy shop) and transform it into The Pilates Connexion, a cutting edge Pilates studio.
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