College Holds First Womxn’s Leadership Summit On March 23, the college held its first ever Womxn’s Leadership Summit. The summit was themed around the idea of a “Brave You”, with bravery representing ...

Chris Van Hollen was born in 1959 to parents serving in the U.S. Foreign Service in Pakistan. After a childhood moving throughout Pakistan, Turkey, India, and Sri Lanka, he went to high school in ...

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 ...

12:00 a.m. 5/5/2025 Below is an abbreviated summary of the four-day encampment on Trotter Lawn, which ended in arrests by law enforcement Saturday morning. The events described below, as well as their ...

Žižek is not engaging in some semiotic analysis of the arguments surrounding the recent political controversy around trans rights in Scotland, nor is he truly linking them to much else. At the end of ...

I believe that this is the moment – our moment. We at Swarthmore are all called upon to “Mind the Light.” That is, if I understand correctly, a call not only to meditate and reflect but to act upon ...

In trying to do both simultaneously, the party did an insufficient job of either and it is fair to question whether telling white students to leave through a text-to-speech software loop is the ...

What happened here in The Polar Express is a good example of the uncanny valley. The uncanny valley describes the connection between an object’s degree of human resemblance and its uncanniness. The ...

Many French rappers hail from countries in North and West Africa that were historically French colonies. In fact, France’s North African colonial empire formed the largest block of immigrants to ...

This 1991 ban on ethical divestment was introduced during the revision of the Board’s investment policies that followed the College’s divestment from South African Apartheid. Even in one of the few ...

Nine protesters, including one Swarthmore student and one student on an extended leave of absence, were arrested last Saturday, May 3, ending the four-day Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) ...

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 ...