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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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HR Plans Pay Category Changes for Student Jobs

April 21, 2009
According to a draft proposal obtained by the Daily Gazette, Human Resources has proposed student pay category changes to 69 student job definitions at the college. All but four are downgrades; nine shift down two pay categories, from category 3 to category

Weekend Roundup: Arts Abound

April 16, 2009
A collision of events, including Ride the Tide and Parents Weekend, make for an impressive array of on-campus options. Here’s an outline of a few of the performances and events of note, as well as some suggestions if you want to show

StuCo Presidential Debate

April 15, 2009
The two presidential candidates for next year's StuCo, Rachel Bell and Shaun Kelly, argued their points in the Kohlberg Coffee Bar last night. The candidates for other StuCo positions, all uncontested, also made brief statements about their goals for the year.

Armed Robbery between Mertz and Alice Paul

April 15, 2009
Earlier this morning, Public Safety released a bulletin warning of an armed robbery that occurred on Swarthmore's campus. The Swarthmore Police Department has released a bulletin describing the event in more detail.
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