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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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Swat Senior Gets Published

September 22, 2008
A short story and poem written by Lauren Stokes '09 went to print last month, as part of an anthology titled We Are Quiet, We Are Loud: The Best Young [...]

Hip Hop to Reggaeton

September 19, 2008
Raquel Rivera, Ph.D, Research Fellow at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, delivered a lecture on Thursday, September 18th entitled From Hip Hop to Reggaeton: Gender, Blogging, [...]

What Happens to the Shane Lounge Batteries?

September 19, 2008
The small recycling bin labeled “batteries” is an unremarkable item in Shane Lounge. But where, asked one Gazette reader, do the batteries go from there? Ralph Thayer, Director of Maintenance [...]

Leak in Willets Causes Some Ceiling Collapse

September 19, 2008
Ceiling damage caused by leakage in WilletsWillets’ third floor has reported several leaks that appear to have been caused by rainwater dripping through the ceiling. Maintenance has reported making repairs [...]
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