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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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Bryn Mawr Prof Discusses Queer Asian-American Sexuality

December 3, 2008
A few dozen students attended Nguyen Tan Hoang's lecture and multimedia presentation exploring the intersection of visual culture and queer male Asian American identity on Wednesday evening. His films all explore what he called "my own sense of perverse identification with pop

Thanksgiving

December 3, 2008
Thanksgiving has come and, hard to believe, is already gone again. It was great to go home and visit with my family, but it was also very strange to return home, which feels so much the same, and yet so different: home

Protecting the Crum Woods, Humanely

December 1, 2008
Jeff Jabco and Colin Purrington, co-chairs of the Crum Woods Stewardship Committee, respond to Ethan Bogdan's editorial and defend the college's plan to use sharpshooters to control the deer population.

Thanksgiving in Edinburgh

December 1, 2008
It figures that three weeks before I leave, I am starting to feel really comfortable in Edinburgh. Recently my program ate a wonderful Thanksgiving meal, but first, a couple tidbits about student cuisine (read: cheap eating) in the city.

Mediaswain

December 1, 2008
Nautical types like to call people "swains." If you have some sort of job, you're probably a swain. Refreshment-swain, office-swain, and the ur-swain, the boatswain. This column is an extension of my duties as program Mediaswain, as it was coined by the

Caitlin Mullarkey, Rhodes Scholar

November 25, 2008
This past Saturday, Caitlin Mullarkey '09 discovered that she had been selected as one of thirty-two Rhodes Scholars, one of the most prestigious awards offered to college students. "I've been walking around in a daze since I found out," said Mullarkey, who
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