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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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Samuel Bak: Holocaust History and Memory

October 27, 2010
Painter, writer and Holocaust survivor Samuel Bak spoke last week on his past and his art currently being exhibited in the List Gallery. Having spend his adolescence witnessing genocide, Bak’s works focus on the impact of the Holocaust on the Jewish people

Garnet Weekend

October 26, 2010
The first annual Garnet Weekend was last weekend. See pictures of the pep rally, the Crum Regatta, and more.

Glamour Editor Leive Gives Annual McCabe Lecture

October 25, 2010
“Would Walter Cronkite Have Tweeted?” Cindi Leive, ’88, editor-in-chief of Glamour magazine asked family, friends and alumni at Garnet Weekend. Leive gave this year’s Thomas B. McCabe Lecture on “Old Media, New Media and What You Should Know about Everything You Read.”

Coming Out Week In Pictures

October 22, 2010
This week is the annual Coming Out Week, where the community organizes events about and promoting Queer identity. Students also create elaborate chalkings on the paths. See pictures of the chalkings and read about the rest of the week.

Where To Do It On Campus

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October 22, 2010
It’s a new semester, and it’s about time to fill that gaping void: discourse on everybody’s favorite hot and sweaty topic? For my first column, I’d like to take some time to explore one of the greatest hindrances to any Swattie’s sex
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