The lights in Lang Concert Hall dimmed as Concert and Production Manager Jeanette Honig took to the stage to commence the start of that night’s Fetter Chamber Orchestra Concert, I took my seat in the ...

Live 1:53 p.m. 5/3/2025. After a review of footage and photos taken throughout the day, The Phoenix has been able to confirm the following law enforcement agencies were in attendance in Swarthmore ...

As we continually search for ways to improve gender inclusivity in Spanish, we have come up with a myriad of broad language such as Latino/a and Latin@. The most recent of these solutions is the term ...

As students at Swarthmore College, we had become accustomed to hearing about the college’s “ongoing responsibility for community care,” “commitment to social responsibility,” and care for “peace and ...

It is Slavoj Žižek who I have to thank for much of my interest in philosophy — and perhaps most of my intellectual outputs. A chance encounter with his books “Living in the End Times” and “The ...

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 ...

The pro-Palestinian encampment constructed on Trotter Lawn on April 30 by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and demolished May 3, 2025, bears many similarities to the encampment the group ...

Hosted by the Swarthmore Queer Union (SQU), Swarthmore African Student Association (SASA), Swarthmore ENLACE, and the Swarthmore African-American Student Society (SASS), the party at Paces the ...

Editor’s Note: In the final issue of the Phoenix this semester, we are introducing a new column, entitled “In Troubled Times,” which will continue as a weekly segment in Fall 2025. In this column, we ...

Last Wednesday, Feb. 19, Swarthmore’s campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) occupied Parrish East Wing for eleven hours, protesting disciplinary charges related to demonstrations ...

Le Voyage de Talia (2022) is a bilingual, 80 minute Belgian/Senegalese film in Wolof and French by director Christophe Rolin. The film was nominated for two awards at the African Movie Academy Awards.

Notice the framing of this emergency faculty meeting: absolutely zero mention at all of the demands of the protestors. The administration never even considered the possibility of resolving this ...