We Don’t (All) Need No Education
I’ve recently been reading a lot about the value of a college education — it was a major issue during
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In Which We Learn To Appreciate Our Education
At Swarthmore, we sometimes take our elite, intellectual college experience for granted, yet there are people who would do anything
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College to go through Middle State’s accreditation process again
Every eight years, Swarthmore must evaluate their quality of education to be approved by Middle States, a Philadelphia-based accreditation organization.
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CFB Recap!
Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As
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The freshman feels: academic rigor
We are almost there, Swatties. Only three more weeks before the end of finals, before the first years reflect on
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Hating Swarthmore, and loving it
I’m from Philadelphia. As a rule, Philadelphians hate Philadelphia. We hate that SEPTA buses always smell faintly of piss and
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An exercise in entropy
It’s an oft-stated and well-treaded fact that systems tend toward disorder. This tendency is called entropy, and to say that
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Swarthmore as a college
It is important for me to preface this piece by saying that I admire, appreciate, and agree with much of
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Campus Self Study Finds Positive Academic Experiences, Discontent Outside the Classroom
Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As
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That one college love: A reflection
Most of us have had that one college love. For some, it was unrequited. For others, passionate. It may have
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