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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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Farnaz Perry

November 17, 2009
The Daily Gazette sat down with Farnaz Perry, an Arabic language instructor and organizer of the Oriental Dance Coalition, a group that focuses on oriental dancing, known colloquially as belly dancing. Meetings are in Kohlberg 302 on Wednesdays 4:00–5:30, Fridays 7:00-8:30, and

Germany’s Fateful Day

November 17, 2009
Berlin’s happiest memory isn’t really one that it can celebrate with a good conscience. I went to the twentieth anniversary party of the fall of the Berlin Wall, took some pictures of people’s umbrellas, and came back to a Kristallnacht remembrance around

Changes on Campus

November 16, 2009
After a summer away from the rolling green lawn of the beach, you expect Swarthmore to seem a little different, but sometimes change arrives in the middle of the semester. With new technology in McCabe, new plates in Sharples, and new icons

Weekend Athletics In Review

November 16, 2009
Swarthmore Athletics had a successful weekend. The Men's Soccer Team advanced into the NCAA Sweet 16, the Women's Soccer Team won the ECAC tournament, and Cross Country performed strongly.

Weekend Round-up: Hip Hop and Saxophone

November 12, 2009
Greetings, Swatties. It only appears that it will be a bleak weekend. Despite the cold and rain tonight and tomorrow night, and recognizing that the date is Friday the 13th, there are some fun things happening on and off campus that may
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