Archive for November, 2004

The Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility has awarded the Lang Opportunity Scholarship to 5 members of the class of 2007. The 5 winners will receive funding for the [...]

Long-time Swarthmore economics professor Bernie Saffran passed away on Monday morning. Saffran was the Franklin and Betty Barr Professor of Economics at the college and well known in the larger [...]

Tom Evnen, Win Chia, Sarah Hobbs, Joella Fink, Emily Nolte, and Ethan Ucker will join the returning members of Student Council next semester as a result of the elections that [...]

"Does wearing high heels make you sterile?" That is a question posed by a young woman visiting the sex researcher Alfred Kinsey (Liam Neeson) in Bill Condon’s intelligent new film. [...]

About forty students attended a movie screening and lecture on the life of Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, a revolutionary known throughout the Latin American world as "El Che." The [...]

The effects of earlier hurricanes in Florida are making their way to Swarthmore, in the form of increased produce prices. The high cost of tomatoes has caused Sharples and Tarble [...]

Douglas Holtz-Eakin, notable for being the director of the Congressional Budget Office, for having been a Professor of Economics as Syracuse and Columbia, and for being the father of Colin [...]

With 27 candidates competing for six seats, Swat's current round of Student Council races features an increased number of candidates and more vigorous campaigning than other elections in recent years. [...]

Swarthmore classical music fans stayed on campus this weekend for two outstanding concerts. Though both Orchestra 2001 and the Bang on a Can All-Stars played concert music written within the [...]

The only superlative the capacity crowd could find to describe Saturday night's performance of Mozart's Requiem by the College Chorus and Orchestra was "powerful." Yet, in that single descriptor were [...]