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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 ...
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 ...
All members of our campus community must be able to freely express themselves during such a pivotal moment in history. The suggestion that the classroom is not a political space or that the College is ...
You’ve almost verbatim articulated the “YIMBY” or market-urbanist position on housing, which certainly holds merit in some contexts. Its critical flaw is in viewing all neighborhoods and housing ...
2025 Swarthmore SJP: makes a farce of protesting Swarthmore’s investment in the genocide by: referring to fellow students using misogynistic and racial slurs; making light of white supremacist torture ...
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 ...
yo read the frat documents and try to reckon with the fact that in this past decade the campus party spaces were heavily dominated by white men who TYPED OUT SENT AROUND AND SAVED racist slurs- if ...
In a new weekly segment, "In Troubled Times", Eugene M. Lang Visiting Professor for Issues of Social Change Ted Gup argues for campus-wide unity and action in the face of the unprecedented threats of ...
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 ...
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 ...