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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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SBC Report

October 1, 2008
SBC's weekly minutes can be found here. Men's Volleyball approached the Budget Committee to request an exemption from rules prohibiting the use of transportation funds for paying van drivers. The [...]

Things Cost a Lot in Edinburgh

September 30, 2008
It turns out I was wrong about the hot air balloon club; their advertising was deceptive, and it was just out of my price-range, all told. But if hot air [...]

Nautical Terminology: On Display

September 29, 2008
Working and studying in the historic Mystic Seaport is one of the aspects that the Williams-Mystic program advertises. They mention the many historic buildings, moved here from all over the [...]

Salsa Bursts onto Swarthmore Campus

September 29, 2008
Salsa, a form of Latin dance with a fusion of African and Caribbean musical traditions, has officially come to Swarthmore. Interest in salsa has been high this year, and after [...]
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