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Administration to Repurpose former Frat House as “Promising Gentlemen’s Club”

The Swarthmore College administration received permission this week from the board of managers to move forward with its plans for the house…

February 3, 2022
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Student Protests, Hunger Strike Follow Phi Psi Sit-In

[Editor’s note: This article addresses events that happened in the Spring 2019 semester after our last regular issue of The Phoenix was…

September 12, 2019
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College Releases External Reports, Next Steps To Follow

On August 30, 2019, Jim Terhune, dean of students, released the reports of two separate investigations that the college initiated last May…

September 12, 2019
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2013 DU Minutes, Past Members Provide Window into Culture of Frat

Content warning: sexually explicit language When individuals pledged to now-disbanded Delta Upsilon fraternity at Swarthmore in 2013, they were required to create…

May 2, 2019
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Both Fraternities Disband on Day Four of Ongoing Coalition Sit-In

On Saturday April 27, a student accompanied by two friends called Public Safety claiming to have forgotten her wallet in the basement…

May 2, 2019
Highlights/News

After Phi Psi Leak, O4S and Coalition to End Frat Violence Take Action

After the publication of 2013 Phi Psi internal documents revealing sexist, homophobic, and racist attitudes, O4S and the newly formed Swarthmore Coalition…

April 25, 2019
Highlights/Opinion

I Was in D.U. — Swarthmore’s Fraternities Must Go

In the Spring of 2013, I wrote an op-ed in the former Daily Gazette defending the continued existence of the Delta Upsilon…

April 23, 2019
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DU Reopens Amid Scrutiny of Greek Life

After being closed for the Fall 2018 semester, Delta Upsilon Fraternity will host its first party on March 23. Its reopening comes…

March 21, 2019
Op-Eds/Opinion

‘The merits of Swarthmore’s Delta Upsilon’ misses the point

Last week, Nathaniel Frum wrote an Op-Ed defending Delta Upsilon (DU) in the wake of instances of racism coming forward from other…

March 26, 2015
Op-Eds/Opinion

A response to ‘The merits of Swarthmore’s Delta Upsilon’

Last week’s Op-Ed from the brothers of Delta Upsilon is, to put it mildly, absurd. I could write a thirty page paper…

March 26, 2015
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