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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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Mullarkey Earns All-America in Mile

March 15, 2009
Swarthmore senior Cait Mullarkey (Wilmington, Del. / Ursuline Academy) earned All-American honors Saturday afternoon, finishing fifth in the mile at the NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships held in the Rose-Hulman Sports and Recreation Center.

What are Swat’s Activists up to?

March 15, 2009
We asked activist groups to send us brief blurbs about their current campaigns--check out information from the Global Health Forum, Global Neighbours, Swarthmore Amnesty, Voices for Change, STAND, and the Village Education Project, which is sponsoring Global Education Week this week.

Matthew Baldwin ’10 Found Safe

March 8, 2009
Missing Swarthmore student Matthew Baldwin '10 was found safe and sound early Sunday afternoon, camping in a state park. The team discovered Baldwin at noon, nearly a week after he had been reported missing by concerned friends and family.

Screw

March 5, 2009
Gabriel Ramirez and Sergio Rivas works their magic in another video that examines Screw.

Overcommitment

March 1, 2009
Swarthmore students are very busy. Spend more than fifteen minutes talking to any Swarthmore student, and somehow you'll get the unmistakable impression that, while he enjoys the conversation, he probably should be doing something else instead.
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