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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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Parrish Dome

September 23, 2010
The Gazette explores Swarthmore's hidden places in a new series. In this first installment, we go up into the dome of Parrish, check out what was once a library and then an illicit student hangout, and take pictures from the roof.

Joan Scheer, EVS Technician

September 22, 2010
Last week was EVS Appreciation Week, and so Sinan Kazaklar '14 sat down with Joan Scheer, his EVS Technician in Wharton, for a conversation. They talked about her time at Swarthmore, her volunteer work rescuing ferrets, and more.

What is NOLArize! Doing Five Years After Katrina?

September 22, 2010
When students first came back to Swarthmore after the summer, there were chalkings across campus advertising NOLArize! and the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Swatties may wonder: what is NOLArize doing, given that it's been five years since Katrina?

Letter to Students on Pakistani Flood Relief

September 20, 2010
Over the past several weeks, we have watched as the flooding in Pakistan has devastated the lives of millions of people. In the coming days, Swarthmore Hillel, the Muslim Students Association, Deshi, and Swarthmore Asian Organization will be working in partnership to
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