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Swarthmore Palestine Coalition Sit-In Demands Acknowledgement, Divestment, Boycott, and Protection

Under normal circumstances, The Phoenix does not allow groups to publish as a collective and requires individual members to submit on their groups’ behalf. After careful consideration, The Phoenix has decided to make an exception to this policy due to credible concerns

December 7, 2023

News

Swarthmore Palestine Coalition Hosts Sit-In in Parrish Hall

Posters, banners, and sleeping bags line the walls of Parrish Hall as students in support of Palestinian freedom, led by the Swarthmore Palestine Coalition (SPC), continue a now four-day sit-in. SPC — composed of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and 28

December 7, 2023

News

Peace and Conflict Studies Students Organize Teach-in on Institutionalized Fatphobia

Students in a peace and conflict studies course, Human Rights, Law, and Advocacy, organized a teach-in about institutionalized fatphobia on Wednesday, April 5th. The teach-in was organized by Jiwoo Choi ’25, Julie Tan ’26, Leo Douhovnikoff ’25, and Mehreen Shahid ’25. According

April 6, 2023

Campus Journal

Student Activists Drive Change at Swarthmore by Driving Change at Williams and Amherst

Despite all the fancy buildings and gushing promotional materials that the college generates feverishly day in and day out, it seems that Swarthmore can never break out of the #3 spot on U.S. News and World’s Top Liberal Arts Colleges list. The

November 18, 2021

Highlights·News

Canary Mission Website Adds Profiles of Swarthmore Community Members for Pro-Palestine Activism

Co-reporting by Bastiaan Phair Earlier this month, some members of the Swarthmore community discovered they had been added to the anonymous website Canary Mission for their activism on the Israeli occupation of Palestine — including the push for the Student Government Organization

February 27, 2020

Around Campus·Breaking News·News

Flyers around campus provoke discussion on sexual violence

Content warning: sexual violence A series of two different flyers posted in various public and private spaces on campus has sparked conversations about activism and Title IX policies at the college. The flyers were discovered across campus midday Monday by various members

April 6, 2017

Opinion

Candy-coated family-friendly version of activism achieves nothing

Swarthmore brands itself as an institution where student-staff-administration collaboration is crucial not only to student culture but to college function. Another critical value of the campus community is student activism, which has been present at the college since its radical founding. This

March 23, 2017

News

Department of Education Visit Underlines Latest Shift in Campus Culture

Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG. When investigators

January 20, 2014

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Swarthmore Palestine Coalition Sit-In Demands Acknowledgement, Divestment, Boycott, and Protection

Swarthmore Palestine Coalition Hosts Sit-In in Parrish Hall

Peace and Conflict Studies Students Organize Teach-in on Institutionalized Fatphobia

Student Activists Drive Change at Swarthmore by Driving Change at Williams and Amherst

Canary Mission Website Adds Profiles of Swarthmore Community Members for Pro-Palestine Activism

Flyers around campus provoke discussion on sexual violence

Candy-coated family-friendly version of activism achieves nothing

Department of Education Visit Underlines Latest Shift in Campus Culture

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