The Phoenix - The Independent Campus Newspaper of …
WEB2 days ago · Swarthmore College's independent student newspaper since 1881, published weekly. We are committed to documenting and transmitting student perspectives on the daily operations and happenings at Swarthmore College! As an independent publication, we report on the college, not for the college. We pursue journalism freely without restrictions or review from the administration or any individual or ...
Football Players Forgive, But Don't Forget - The Phoenix
WEBJan 30, 2012 · 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. Thanks in large part to former President Alfred Bloom’s resignation and President Rebecca Chopp’s aggressive efforts to cultivate connections with former ...
How Swarthmore’s New Strategic Plan Could Better Build …
WEBNov 16, 2023 · At the end of October, the office of President Val Smith released their current draft of Swarthmore’s next strategic plan entitled “Sustainable Swarthmore”.This plan outlines four broad goals for the college’s future: “build a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education for the 21st century,” “create a community prepared for life in a multiracial, multicultural democracy ...
Swarthmore College and the Fiction of Jonathan Franzen ’81
WEBFeb 17, 2011 · 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. In Jonathan Franzen’s 2010 novel Freedom, protagonist Patty Berglund visits her daughter Jessica at her Philadelphia-area liberal arts college on Parents ...
Swarthmore Acceptance Rate Rises to 7.46% for Class of 2028 …
WEBMar 28, 2024 · On Friday, March 22, Swarthmore released its admissions decisions for the class of 2028. The college received 13,065 applications in this year’s cycle and admitted 975 prospective students, equating to a 7.46% acceptance rate for the college, slightly above last year’s acceptance rate of 6.84%. The college expects to yield a final class of 2028 of 415 students. Last year, for the class of ...
WSRN Returns to Airwaves After Two-Year Hiatus - The Phoenix
WEBOctober 27, 2022. For the first time in two years, the Worldwide Swarthmore Radio Network (WSRN) is back on the air. Its first shows premiered in the first week of October. Over a century old, WSRN has been an integral part of the college’s history. Founded as a radio club by students and faculty from the engineering department in 1919, much ...
The little orange square: fashion and divestment - The Phoenix
WEBOct 23, 2014 · On September 21, around 200 Swarthmore students joined the group of 40,000 marching in New York at the People’s Climate March, one of the largest displays of group action against climate change to date. Many of them had little orange felt squares pinned onto their jackets or their backpacks. The square represents one subset of the group that marched — those who are working against climate ...
Trans and Non-Binary Students Face Barriers in On-Campus Housing
WEBDec 5, 2019 · Clay Conley ’20, a non-binary student, believes that the people in charge of housing at Swarthmore are gender essentialist, which causes discomfort for trans and non-binary students (Conley has contributed an op-ed to the Phoenix about being non-binary in athletics). Gender essentialism is the idea that men and women intrinsically have ...
Swarthmore Palestine Coalition Hosts Sit-In in Parrish Hall
WEBDec 7, 2023 · 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 other member organizations — plans to continue the sit-in until the semester’s end; a culmination of two months of student protest ...
Swarthmore Faculty on Academic Freedom and the Gaza Crisis
WEBDrafted: December 11, 2023 As faculty members at Swarthmore College, we are deeply concerned about the erosion of academic freedom in the United States, particularly in regards to the ongoing crisis in Gaza. Over the past few weeks, we have learned that our administration has made several attempts to discourage, intimidate, and/or silence pro-Palestine speech on campus. According to reports by ...