Archive for February, 2006

"The Regurgitator" shocks, amazes, overjoys

By Lauren Stokes at 8:18 pm

Stevie Starr had one piece of advice for the assembled crowd: "Don't go home and tell your friends what you've seen, because they'll say 'No way, man, you're smashed out [...]

Weekend roundup: Crazy Russian horror movies and Beethoven

By Micaela Baranello at 8:24 pm

Do you have too much work to do this weekend to get off campus? Yeah, we do too, but there is a compelling reason to leave tonight. Namely, the alternative [...]

Solving the global health crisis with an English professor

By Lauren Stokes at 8:22 pm

On Thursday, Duke Professor of English Priscilla Wald gave a truly interdisciplinary talk on "Imagined Immunities: Narratives of Emerging Infections and the Epidemiology of Belonging." Wald's talk centered on the [...]

Elsaesser puts the "melo-" in drama

By Jasmine Narang at 8:24 pm

When one thinks of melodrama, the mind immediately conjures a weeping Kate Winslet on the ill fated Titanic. To offer a different perspective on melodrama, last night in LPAC Thomas [...]

Student Athlete Advisory Committee and Garnet Club head search for new mascot

By Alex Glick at 8:25 pm

This coming fall a new mascot may be representing Swarthmore at Clothier Field. The Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and the Garnet Club are working together to initiate a search [...]

College kicks bottled Coke, keeps fountain Coke

By Lauren Stokes at 8:26 pm

The college has decided to replace bottled Coca-Cola products with Pepsi products at Essie Mae's and the two coffee bars. "We have made two gestures towards Coca-Cola to get this [...]

Weekend Roundup: Silly theater and a silly movie

By Micaela Baranello at 8:29 pm

Did the snow keep you from your wild adventures in Philly last weekend? Well, it did for us. Despite the SEPTA customer service line's insistence that the trains were "out [...]

Sixteen Feet spring concert and a new CD

By Marina Lima at 8:28 pm

This Saturday night, at 7:00 pm in the Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore's Sixteen Feet will be performing their spring concert. The group has just recently finished recording their new CD, [...]

Debate results

By the Daily Gazette at 8:28 pm

At the World Debate Championships in Dublin over break, Christopher Ford '07 and Garth Sheldon-Coulson '07 represented Swarthmore as one of the highest ranked American teams in a field of [...]

An elephant headed god, a hopeful grandmother, and a little boy from Texas

By Daisy Yuhas at 8:28 pm

This weekend, Neal Dandade's original play "Mango Chutney on Mesa Street," as directed by Maria Möller, will be premiering in LPAC'S Frear Theater stage. The one-act, one man show is [...]