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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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Parent’s Weekend

October 21, 2008
Have you ever felt that while everyone you know agrees that you are wrong, they just can’t agree what part of you is wrong? And you just feel sort of helpless, not wanting to upset anyone, but instead not being able to

World Series Preview

October 21, 2008
After a long and grueling regular season and an exciting first two rounds of the playoffs, the World Series is finally set to start with the Tampa Bay Rays hosting the Philadelphia Phillies. Here is how the two teams stack up.

Where’s the Heating?

October 21, 2008
Wondering why you shiver in Chemistry class while boiling in your room? Ralph Thayer explains how his team decides when it's time to turn on the heat in Swarthmore buildings.

Bryn Mawr Considers Abu Dhabi Campus

October 21, 2008
Bryn Mawr College has begun investigating the possibility of creating a new campus in Abu Dhabi. President McAuliffe appointed a small working group to conduct the initial fact-finding on the proposal, and write a funding request for a feasibility study.

SBC Report

October 21, 2008
Yesterday, SBC met, with a bare quorum of four members, to consider five budget proposals. In total, SBC distributed $2,841.50 to five groups, including QSA, pun/ctum, The Daily Gazette, the College Democrats, and the Drag Troupe.

Classes End, Work Begins

October 20, 2008
As you return from October break, which was hopefully filled with lengthy naps and apple-picking, I'm taking finals. I am quite unprepared, but still having trouble getting worried. Instead, my attention has moved on to my internship. I will be working with

The Daily Gazette Reloaded

October 20, 2008
Over the past weekend, The Daily Gazette got a new look. This revision marks the second site change for the Gazette in the past 18 months. The last update introduced comments, RSS, and individual article pages. These initial changes have been enormously

Standing By

October 19, 2008
It may have been brought to the reader's attention that the "Williams-Mystic Program" that purports to be the subject of this column is a Maritime Studies program. I had heard the same, but over the past 11 days, one of them (that,

Sports Update 10/15

October 15, 2008
SCOREBOARD F. Hockey Muhlenberg 5, Swarthmore 3 W. Soccer Swarthmore 1, Muhlenberg 1 2OT FIELD HOCKEY: Mules Down Garnet SWARTHMORE, Pa. -- Swarthmore sophomore Sophia Ferguson scored two goals but [...]
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