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Planned Parenthood Advocacy Meeting: Having a Voice is More than Just Talk

Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG. On Monday,

April 4, 2016

Arts

Community Joins with Dr. Barnwell in Song

Last Saturday, over 30 members of the Swarthmore community (including President Valerie Smith) gathered in the Lang Concert Hall to listen to and sing with former member of a capella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock, Dr. Ysaye Barnwell. Over the past

February 11, 2016

Opinion

Social media activism might be just a card game

The myriad damage they inflicted upon the world aside, English aristocrats have left us at least one enduring gift: the terms of venery. From the brutal Anglo hunting tradition, we have derived a wealth of enchanting collective nouns: “a pride of lions,”

November 19, 2015

DG Roundtable·Opinion

DG Roundtable: On Activism in Yale and Mizzou

Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG. This week,

November 13, 2015

Campus Journal

Students voice need for further discussion of Black Lives Matter

Last year, first-year orientation began only three weeks after Mike Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson, just as the Black Lives Matter movement gained momentum and began to command attention from mainstream media outlets. Over this past summer, the Black Lives

September 3, 2015

Opinion

The campus culture conundrum

I hated the college left before I even started high school. At the tender age of twelve, I began my political education in earnest, at the foot of what was then a novel portal into the wider world: the Internet. This proved

September 3, 2015

Opinion

If we are allies who can win, why aren’t you involved?

Throughout the fall semester of my freshman year, I chose to refrain from engaging in any activist clubs, including Mountain Justice. I had worked on human rights issues throughout high school and wanted to focus on myself and try something new, like

April 30, 2015

College·News·Social Responsibility

The Imperfect Legacy of “Save Darfur”

Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG. On Tuesday,

April 23, 2015

Opinion

An open letter to the Swarthmore College students sitting in for divestment

Thank you for taking a stand to encourage Swarthmore to divest from fossil fuel companies. In encouraging Swarthmore to divest, you are also helping Swarthmore financially. While it can be argued either way that selling fossil fuel stock could raise or lower

April 2, 2015

Campus Journal

The BCC: a hard-earned space for everyone

It is an ordinary Sunday night in Robinson House, also known as the Black Cultural Center, on the corner of College Avenue and Cedar Lane. Overlooking Cunningham House and the rest of campus from its hilltop perch, the BCC appears quiet in

February 15, 2015

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Planned Parenthood Advocacy Meeting: Having a Voice is More than Just Talk

Community Joins with Dr. Barnwell in Song

DG Roundtable: On Activism in Yale and Mizzou

Students voice need for further discussion of Black Lives Matter

The campus culture conundrum

If we are allies who can win, why aren’t you involved?

An open letter to the Swarthmore College students sitting in for divestment

The BCC: a hard-earned space for everyone

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