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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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How Best to Use the Sager Fund?

February 15, 2009
The Sager Symposium has been part of the Swarthmore calendar for the last 21 years, but it may look different--or disappear entirely--in the future. Richard Sager '73 has spurred a conversation about revisiting the original purposes of his gift and thinking about

Febrary 15, 2009 StuCo 411

February 15, 2009
Student Council discussed their Dean Larimore meeting, communications to the upcoming Swarthmore President, and updates on the recipe contest.

Critical Theory Catastrophes & Luv From Afar

February 15, 2009
Dear Duke of Swarthmore: So today in my Analysis of Queer Pacific Islander Literature of the 19th Century seminar, someone projected their conception of the self onto my self, but to me their own self signifies the other, so like, if the

Weekend Roundup: Cupid Calling?

February 12, 2009
Valentine’s day weekend means different things to different people. For some, it’s a sentimental commercialized holiday of minimal importance and loosely tied to a saint who no one seems to talk about. For others, it means you can look forward to cheap

Marking Whiteness in “About Face”

February 12, 2009
Stephen Graf ’s honors solo performance thesis, “About Face: Marking the Unmarked” is a challenging piece for performer and viewer that treads the fine lines of race-relations from a specifically white ‘lens.’
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