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Athlete of the Week: Lola Diaz ’26

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April 30, 2026
Lola Diaz ’26, hailing from Portland, OR, and Marbella, Spain, has been an integral part of the Swarthmore women’s tennis team for the past four years. She has been awarded All-Centennial First Team Singles (2024) and All-Centennial First-Team Doubles (2024) and has

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The Moonlit Path

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April 23, 2026
Megumi Jindo '28 reflects on her experience at Swarthmore so far and the passing of the baton in her Kizuna, Japanese club.

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Major Changes Planned for this Year’s Orientation

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February 23, 2011
This year's Orientation for first-year and transfer students will look substantiallygt different from those of years past. The most dramatic decisions are shifts to the way CA groups are organized, which will result in a drastic decrease in the number of CAs

What Happened to the Sliced Tomatoes at Sharples?

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February 22, 2011
Some Sharples-goers may have noticed a reduction in fresh produce at Sharples. At the sandwich bar, the sliced tomatoes have disappeared and been replaced with pickled peppers or onions. Tomatoes were also missing from Patty-Grilla Bar and Burger Bar and fewer fresh

Swarthmore’s Website to be Redesigned

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February 18, 2011
The Communications and ITS Departments plan to update the Swarthmore website’s homepage by early next year. The website hasn’t been redesigned in about six years and according to Nancy Nicely, Director of Communications, “websites don’t have a long shelf life.”

Swarthmore College and the Fiction of Jonathan Franzen ’81

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February 17, 2011
In Jonathan Franzen’s 2010 novel Freedom, protagonist Patty Berglund visits her daughter Jessica at her Philadelphia-area liberal arts college on Parents’ Weekend. There are a number of clues that Jessica attends Swarthmore, Franzen’s alma mater. Swarthmore, indeed, plays a prominent role throughout
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