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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Campus Joins Together to Support Haiti

February 16, 2010
Since a magnitude 7.0 earthquake devastated the nation of Haiti in January, the campus community has united several times to show support, to raise awareness, and to raise funds. Still, according to Jamila Hageman '13, a member of the Coalition for a

The Way of the NinjaGram

February 16, 2010
For the fourth time in five years, black-clad bearers of Valentine’s Day cards swarmed across Swarthmore, sneaking into classes and dorms to deliver their messages of love and affection with a dash of stealth and aggression. NinjaGrams, headed for the first time

Agnostics Need Representatives Who Don’t Hate Religion

February 15, 2010
Polling has consistently shown that the one group of people Americans will not vote for are nonbelievers. It’s pretty easy to recognize why: Americans tend to be religious people who equate morality with religion; Americans only recently finished fighting off an atheist

Putting the Vice in Advice

February 15, 2010
We’re two humble Swatties (Ankhi Thakurta: Homo sapiens, Lang Haynes: sapiens Homo) on a mission to answer the littler questions in life...the ones that would have made Aristotle laugh himself silly or driven Socrates to take another swig of that hemlock.

The Island Unleashes History and Performance

February 11, 2010
Legends and history collide with explosive results in the Theater Department’s upcoming production of The Island. A staging driven by the momentum of two dynamic performances and an intensely political text, the Honors Acting Thesis of Niccolo Moretti ’10 offers a compelling

Professor Quaker Matchboxes

February 11, 2010
It can be difficult to imagine professors as outside the pedagogy of the classroom, especially in the context of romance and family life. But some members of the faculty and staff of Swarthmore College have relationships with each other, and with Valentine's

Prints and Prisoners

February 11, 2010
Swatties, emerge from your abodes! The snow isn’t that bad. At least, not bad enough that you would shut yourselves in rather than indulge in the wonderful arts events we have going on this weekend, on and off campus! Whether you’ve got
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