After one year of remote learning and stringent COVID-19 restrictions, Swarthmore has opened its campus to all students for the Fall semester.…
For first year students, moving onto campus can be as disorienting and difficult as it is enthralling and exciting. While most first…
From the windows of the airplane that departed from the city I call home, I felt both dreadful and thrilled as I…
On Wednesday, Coordinator of the Student Academic Mentor program Melissa Mandos said in an email acquired anonymously by the Phoenix to Student…
On August 23rd, Swarthmore’s newest students — the Class of 2020 — arrived on campus to start their five-day orientation program. New…
After a week of classes, the Welcome Play, commonly known as the Orientation Play, returned to campus, bringing a candid and cautionary…
Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall…
From finding condoms in our orientation packets to finding new friends in our halls, orientation was a week not soon forgotten. Orientation…
This year’s dry week was surrounded by confusion, despite the fact that the policy regarding alcohol during orientation did not change from…
Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall…