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Swat Says: Finals Edition

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December 11, 2025
In this special Final Exams edition of Swat Says, students discuss their plans for winter break, reveal their most dreaded upcoming finals, and share their thoughts on the Swarthmore Marriage Pact.

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Athlete of the Week: Genine Collins ’27

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December 11, 2025
Genine Collins ’27 is a force to be reckoned with in the pool. On Nov. 8, the junior swimmer broke Swarthmore and Centennial Conference records in the 50 freestyle with a time of 23.25, beating out her previous 23.30 school record. For

Philly’s Infamous Mascot: Gritty

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December 11, 2025
The National Hockey League’s (NHL) opening day was Oct. 7 this season. As you may know, the NHL sucks the last ounce of consumerism out of sports fans by making their season span six months of 82 games per team. In the

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Serenity in Solitude

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December 11, 2025
Recently, I have been conscientious of presence. The way one holds themselves. The way one walks with purpose. The way one eats alone in the glowing sunlight. Before college, I thought if one was by themself, it meant that they were lonely.

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Swarthmore at War, Part I

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February 19, 2010
When America broke out of its isolationism in 1941, Swarthmore faced a dilemma: how could a college with a traditionally pacifist Quaker ideology respond? Swarthmore founder Benjamin Hallowell was a conscientious objector in the war of 1812. Should the college encourage students

Incoming Dean of Students Liz Braun

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February 18, 2010
Rebecca Chopp announced Tuesday that Liz Braun, currently the dean of students at Mt. Holyoke College, will serve as Swarthmore's Dean of Students beginning next academic year. The Gazette had a phone conversation with her Wednesday about her thoughts on the selection.

Lakey Acquitted for Philadelphia Casino Protest

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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
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