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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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Cuckoo Clock Neutrality

September 12, 2008
In the classic film The Third Man, Holly Martins, an American writer of dime novels, goes to postwar Vienna looking for his old friend Harry Lime, who has gotten involved [...]

Sports Update 9/11

September 11, 2008
Scoreboard Men's Soccer Swarthmore 2, Eastern 1 Volleyball Moravian 3, Swarthmore 2 MEN'S SOCCER: #23 Garnet Fly Over Eagles ST. DAVID'S, Pa. - 23rd-ranked Swarthmore (3-0-1) picked up their third [...]

StuCo Platform: Augusta Christensen

September 11, 2008
My name is Augusta Christensen, and I am a sophomore transfer student looking to get involved in the Swarthmore community during my first year by running in the special election [...]

Why Can’t I Walk Around the Back of Parrish?

September 10, 2008
Many of us have noticed and complained about the inconveniently blocked walkways behind Parrish. The walkways are blocked because of the construction on Parrish’s roof, but what is the construction [...]
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