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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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Lakey Acquitted for Philadelphia Casino Protest

February 17, 2010
Former Lang Visiting Professor of Issues for Social Change George Lakey and twelve others of the group Casino-Free Philadelphia were acquitted Tuesday of charges of criminal conspiracy and two misdemeanors. The "SugarHouse Thirteen" were arrested in September while blocking the construction site

A Propos of the Frozen Grass

February 17, 2010
We're suffering. We're drunk, we're overworked, we're shortening our resumes, we're ruining our lovers' lives, and we're late, again, with another exegetical statement on the first third of the book of Acts. And we have not seen an advice column at Swarthmore.

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
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