The Chair of Bryn Mawr College’s Board of Trustees, Arlene Gibson, announced in a community-wide email two weeks ago that the Board had approved a working group’s recommendation to examine and clarify the college’s stance towards trans, intersex, non-binary, and gender non-conforming
Last Friday, several Bryn Mawr students received a personally addressed email from the Bryn Mawr health center. Bearing the subject line “Give a HOOT,” the email invited students to sign up for a weight loss program that was eligible for P.E. credit
Over the course of the past ten days, an incident involving two Bryn Mawr college students has developed into a multi-day campuswide movement against racial discrimination. The series of events began when the two Bryn Mawr students in question flew the Confederate
Khalif Diouf, better known by his stage name Le1f, blew away crowds of fans at the Bryn Mawr Campus last Friday, March 21st. He performed to an audience hailing from the entire Tri-co and further out, in a double act with Betty
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. Recently, I
Patti Smith has had an amorphous career. Even before she published her National Book Award-winning memoir, “Just Kids,” in 2010, it always seemed salient to ask whether the artist was more of a musician or a poet. Now after her book’s publication
“I haven’t experienced such a dangerous time since the nuclear arms race in the late 1950s,” said Peace and Conflict Studies Professor George Lakey. He was speaking about the precarious state of the Earth’s climate and he’s hardly the first or only
While Swarthmore students hopped between Olde Club’s Engineering Party and Paces’s Jock Jamz last Saturday, a group of Bryn Mawr students were hosting a similarly novel event in the Quita-Woodward Room on their own campus. The Pagan Mixer, although lacking in attendance
As students at Swarthmore listened to Nicholas Kristof’s humanitarian pitch on Monday, students at Bryn Mawr flocked to a philosophical lecture that, according to an official publication, covered “the important distinction between queer politics and gay and lesbian rights frameworks,” and questioned