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The Swarthmore Food Cooperative

Swat summer news roundup

Associate Dean for Student Life Tedd Goundie leaves Swarthmore after twenty years to become Dean of Students at Bates College, Assistant Dean Myrt Westphal assumes his duties... Construction begins on Parrish Hall, hiding former Admissions Office behind temporary walls; Admissions moves to Whittier Place for the present..."Frodo" and "Gollum", robots designed by a team of Swarthmore students and professors, claim first place at American Association for Artificial Intelligence competition...New Dorm remains nameless, but opens on time, complete with air conditioned halls; work on lounges still scheduled to be completed in the coming months...Much loved Dining Services worker Andre Singleton, known for his friendly demeanor and for always having a kind word for a student having a bad day, passes away...ITS upgrades servers, plans to institute "three strike" policy for illegal network file sharing...College welcomes 365 freshmen to campus in beautiful but hot and humid weather...Orientation Week culminates with students voluntarily cramming themselves into LPAC Cinema for annual screening of "The Graduate"...

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October 30th, 1929- The Day a Cow Entered Parrish

In the wake of Halloween, I think it’s appropriate to celebrate the 80th anniversary of one of the more wonderful pranks ever pulled at Swarthmore: the Cow Episode. On December 4, 1929, the editor of the Phoenix received a letter from the owner of Crumwald, a nearby farm with some loose connections to the college.

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