Once Renato Pizza and the Science Center Cafe close at 10 p.m. and midnight respectively, students in search of a late-night snack often turn to one of the 50 or so vending machines scattered across campus. Managed by RDS vending, the machines
I want to talk about access, and particularly access to physical spaces. Swarthmore is wonderful in that it is very small, and one tends to see the same people congregate in the same library and the same spaces. The downside of this,
Construction on Martin Hall began on March 3. Martin Hall is being reimagined as a space for the computer science and film and media studies departments, as well as for a media center. The renovations are scheduled to be completed by the
The United States is the only country with more guns than people, with 120.5 firearms for every 100 people. One of the most pressing questions today is why gun violence is so pervasive in the U.S., especially in educational institutions throughout the
On Saturday, Feb. 11, costumed students filled the Dining and Community Commons for the biannual Screw Your Roommate event, a Swarthmore tradition where roommates set one another up on blind dates. Despite Screw’s longevity (originally starting in the 1980s), it is not
Swarthmore is a challenging place academically. We all know this: we grumble about it, we take pride in it, and we chose to come here because of it. As students, we expect to put in the long hours, become a little too
After spending the past two years in an unusual campus environment, the Swarthmore community has returned to full residential life in the Fall 2021 semester. COVID-19, however, is still affecting the community, with the administration continuing to enforce restrictions to contain the
Three hundred seventy-five. That’s how many windows Parrish Hall has (or at least that’s how many I counted by circling the building several times). Mertz has 214, Palmer has 66, and many other dorms have a three-digit number of windows that would
Over the past few months, industries such as food service, hospitality, trucking, retail, and more have been having a difficult time hiring employees, finding themselves in an unprecedented labor shortage that has befuddled businesses. Job openings are at a record high as
Located a fifteen-minute walk away from campus, Mary Lyon dormitory does not even appear on the campus map. It’s located in a residential neighborhood, and many Swarthmore students who have not lived in Mary Lyon have no idea where it’s situated. To