SJP Encampment Ends with Arrest of 9 Protesters, Including 1 Current Swarthmore Student

Nine protesters, including one Swarthmore student and one student on an extended leave of absence, were arrested last Saturday, May 3, ending the four-day Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) encampment on Trotter Lawn. The seven others arrested were unaffiliated with the college, and their affiliations are largely unknown at the time of publication; however, one was identified as a

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Athlete of the Week: Olivia McClammy ’25

May 1, 2025
Swarthmore softball standout Olivia McClammy ’25 has not only been stealing bases but also the attention of many for record-shattering effort. The senior utility player currently holds a handful of all-time program records, her first of the season on March 1, when

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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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Swat Bromance: Bill Beck and Nathan Wainstein

February 14, 2011
Every Valentine’s Day, the Gazette sheds light on one or two campus romances for some easy human interest fluff. But there are equally important relationships all around us that often go unnoticed. I am of course referring to the bromance – that

Success Without Putting a Ring On It

February 11, 2011
The marriage standard devalues any relationship that doesn’t climax in a white dress ceremony with a violin quartet version of Bittersweet Symphony, 200 witnesses, and a cake the size of a Smart Car. So I was thinking about what my alternate definitions

Swat Poetry Jam Features Def Jam Poet Shihan

February 10, 2011
Today in LPAC, the student spoken word group OASIS will hold their first large-scale poetry exhibition, the Swat Poetry Jam. The event will showcase the literary works of some of Swarthmore's finest spoken word poets and will also host All-Time Def Jam

Cooking in the Caucasus

February 9, 2011
In 2010, we spent a lot of time eating food. What made the food-eating a little more noteworthy is that we were both abroad for a decent amount of 2010. Today’s column comes straight from Tbilisi, Georgia, where Jasper spent far too

Schwartz and Sharpe on Practical Wisdom, Part II

February 9, 2011
Psychology professor Barry Schwartz and Political Science professor Kenneth Sharpe recently released their new book Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing. In this second part of The Gazette's interview with them, the professors discuss the concept of practical

Bathtub Debates, Egypt, Filmmakers, And More

February 8, 2011
Photos from the last week, including the Bathtub Debates moderated by President Chopp, a panel about the Egyptian Revolution and a march in favor of it, a visit by filmmaker Tanya Hamilton, and a lecture on Ghanian development by an alum.
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