With Swarthmore’s reputation for non-conformity, the presence of special, custom-built majors don’t seem so out of place. Students that feel that their…
Assistant Visiting Professor of Theater Quinn Bauriedel’s “Movement Theater” course is arguably the most out-there course offered at Swarthmore College. Those theater…
Every semester, hordes of Swarthmore students occupy the corridors and classrooms of the Science Center to attend some of the most highly…
To My Honors Examiner: Dangling Apricots. When we meet in 106 days and start our conversation masked as the oral examination,…
February marks the beginning of Black History Month, a month dedicated to the act of remembering and acknowledging. In other words, it…
Unicorns. Lady Gaga. “Mr. Wong Dong’s Emporium.” When it comes to framing conversations on religion, sexuality and race, Dr. Patrick Cheng tends…
In 1999, a professor of art history at the college delivered an address titled “The Usefulness of Uselessness.” Her argument has since…
According to the most recent statistics compiled by the Off Campus Study Office, Swarthmore students are not shy to dive into a…
Pass/fail is a lot of things. Approaches to the semester are hardly uniform, as every Thursday night of the last semester you’d…
Take a moment and imagine your all-time best hand at Misery Poker – the twenty-page lab report, the twenty-hour problem set, the…