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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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Propriety and Other Such Beasts to Slay

March 17, 2010
We thank you for the roses, the candy hearts, the well-wishes, the twelve-story luxury ocean liners, and the offers of matrimony that followed our last column. Although we cannot reciprocate each and every one of your feverish bids for our hearts (and

Craig Williamson, Medieval Studies Coordinator

March 16, 2010
The Gazette sat down with Professor of Englis Craig Williamson, the coordinator of the Medieval Studies program, to talk about the unique program at Swarthmore. Williamson discussed, among other things, being the world's leading expert on Anglo-Saxon riddles and the importance of
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