Report on Waste Finds Progress and Areas for Improvement
The college’s Zero Waste working group will share a report detailing the college’s work towards becoming a Zero Waste campus
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Serenity Soular Wellness Event
Last Friday, Feb. 7, Serenity Soular hosted a wellness event in the Eldridge Commons at the Science Center. Students were
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Chester: Histories of Privilege and Opportunities of Wisdom
Chester is a place we have little wisdom of. We project. We perform. We claim to know. The majority just
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Six Swatties Arrested in Capitol Climate Change Protest
Over 150 members of Sunrise — including 14 Swatties — descended on the Capitol on Tues, Nov. 13 to demand
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The Necessity for an Infusion of Environmental Justice
Earlier this month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a report warning the world that if we don’t
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Sunrise referendum on 1991 divestment ban passes
On April 19, a Student Government Organization referendum introduced by climate activism student group Swarthmore Sunrise passed with 87% approval.
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EVP’s Nathaniel Stinnett: The Environmental Movement Has a Turnout Problem, Not a Persuasion Problem
Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As
Read moreStudents Lead on Divestment — When Will the Board?
Seven years ago, a group of Swarthmore students took a trip to West Virginia, where they witnessed the brutal injustice
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Anti-pipeline candidates elected with help from Sunrise
Sunrise lead a successful effort to elect opponents of the Mariner East II pipeline, currently under construction, to township boards
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President’s sustainability research fellowship expanded, refined
Amos Frye ’18, a fellow of the President’s Sustainability Research Fellowship program, worked first as a landscaper and farmhand in
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