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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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Hiroyuki Hamada at the List

November 9, 2008
Hiroyuki Hamada, whose modern artwork is recognized for its power and simplicity, opened his exhibition at the List Gallery with a reception on Thursday, November 6. Students, faculty, staff and the public used this opportunity to meet Hamada and speak to him

Students Speak Out at SDS Panel on Financial Justice

November 7, 2008
On Wednesday night, a student panel on issues of financial justice at Swarthmore convened in Bond Hall to discuss class and financial aid issues at Swarthmore. Both the panel and much of the audience had concerns about financial aid at Swarthmore, particularly

Gazette Endorses Swat Financial Justice Petition

November 5, 2008
The "Swarthmore Financial Justice" petition calling upon the college to open an honest and accessible dialogue about its financial aid policies is a thoughtful document that all members of the Swarthmore community should support. It is a document that exemplifies Swarthmore's Quaker
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