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Advice From A Professional Matchmaker

November 6, 2025
If you haven’t read your emails in the last month, then there’s a chance you don’t know me. If you have, you might recognize the name Corinne even if you don’t want to. I ran Screw Your Roommate this year because I

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President, Shaun Kelly

April 13, 2009
Greetings to all. I am Shaun Kelly ’10, and I am running for the office of Student Council President. We face an environment that promises to pose a number of challenges in the near future. Primarily, the Swarthmore community faces a dismal

President, Rachel Bell

April 12, 2009
My name is Rachel Bell and I want to be your next Student Council President. I know how to make StuCo relevant, responsive, representative, and, to give you another alliteration, pertinent and prevalent.

Financial Policy Representative, Richard Brode

April 12, 2009
If elected Financial Policy Representative, my first priorities will be to ensure that student groups continue to receive the funding they deserve and that new student spending initiatives will continue to be entertained by the College Budget Committee. We are in the

Student Groups Advisor, Ben Francis

April 12, 2009
Student groups make Swarthmore what it is. You’ll find the bad food and the awkwardness at other colleges. What you won’t find is a student body devoted to such a wide range of causes. On my campus tours I make a point

Educational Policy Representative, Esther Burson

April 12, 2009
My name is Esther Burson, and I’d like to serve as your Educational Policy Representative. I gained experience in educational policy when I served as the student representative to the Council on Educational Policy (CEP) last semester. As the only student representative

Swarthmore Goes to War

April 12, 2009
These military elements of our heritage, though, are largely anomalies in an institution which clings to our "Quaker heritage" one hundred years after we dropped our affiliation: The year 2009 indeed marks the centennial anniversary of our secularization. Whether secular or not,
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