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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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Editors’ Note(s): Farewell

May 21, 2010
We, the graduating senior editors of the Gazette -- Ramya Gopal, Jack Keefe, and Urooj Khan -- are taking this opportunity in the last issue of the semester to bid our e-farewells to all the folks (both e- and real alike) who’ve

SBC Budgeting Results From 2000-2010

May 21, 2010
Each year, the Student Budget Committee holds Spring Budgeting, two twelve-hour days in late March or early April that determine the vast majority of student group spending for the next year. This year, the committee opened the process to journalists, and also

Chopp Inaugurated as 14th President of Swarthmore

May 21, 2010
On Saturday, May 8th, 2010, Rebecca Chopp was installed as Swarthmore’s 14th president. The inauguration came after a year of serving as the college's president, during which time President Chopp met with countless students, faculty, staff, and alumni to hear their ideas

Profile on Rebecca Chopp

May 7, 2010
Rebecca Chopp’s inauguration as president of Swarthmore College will be held on May 8th. The theme of the inauguration is "Hope in the Age of Clamor: Leadership, Liberal Arts and the Common Good." As she moves forward in her career, she does

The Cure At Troy: Photo Preview

April 30, 2010
Photos from a rehearsal of The Cure At Troy, Seamus Heaney's adaptation of Sophocles' Philoctetes. This production, Niccolo Moretti's Honors Directing Thesis, runs Friday through Sunday.
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