Archive for March, 2006

Weekend Roundup: Philadelphia Orchestra and Philly Film Festival

By Micaela Baranello at 7:36 pm

OK, you need to get out this weekend, and this time we mean it. Next week and the week after you'll be hopelessly buried in papers and projects and tests, [...]

Colin Palmer performing in senior recital

By Daisy Yuhas at 7:35 pm

This Friday, March 31, in the Lang Concert Hall, the Swarthmore Department of Music and Dance will be presenting Colin Palmer '06, who will be performing in his senior recital. [...]

"Art" is in the eye of the beholder at Olde Club

By Alex Glick at 7:33 pm

'Tis the season for Drama Board shows, and "Art" arrives with a more intellectual bent than most. Playing at Olde Club this weekend, Yasmina Reza's play is a funny and [...]

Where are the Parrish vending machines?

By Micaela Baranello at 7:33 pm

The Parrish vending machines, formerly in the new student lounge near the Post Office, have been moved downstairs to the Parrish basement. According to Associate Vice President of Facilities Stuart [...]

Swarthmore hosts national debate tournament: a conversation with Julie Baker

By Marina Lima at 7:32 pm

This weekend, Swarthmore's debate team will be hosting an American Parliamentary Debate Association tournament. Julie Baker, the team's vice-president, sat down with the Daily Gazette to talk about the tournament [...]

Lax Conference on Entrepreneurship offers networking and social responsibility

By Lauren Stokes at 7:30 pm

The seventh annual Jonathan R. Lax '71 Conference on Entrepreneurship will be held at Swarthmore this Sunday. One of Lax's first steps into the business world was starting a mutual [...]

Why have the bells been ringing at 3 AM?

By Lauren Stokes at 7:38 pm

Have the sounds of the Swarthmore bell tower been haunting your dreams? The bells usually ring from 7:00 AM to 11:00 PM, but for the last two weeks the bells [...]

America Week provides a different view of the nation

By Jasmine Narang at 7:43 pm

Quick question: When you think of an American, what comes to your mind? If you're like most of us, you probably think of an American as being a resident of [...]

"Am I your friend?": Black subjectivities in early colonial art

By Lauren Stokes at 7:42 pm

On Tuesday afternoon, Professor Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw of the University of Pennsylvania delivered the annual Lee Frank Art History lecture on "Imagined Subjectivity: Portraits of the Past in Fred Wilson's [...]

English Department announces awards

By the Daily Gazette at 7:39 pm

The Creative Writing faculty of the Department of English Literature is pleased to announce that there will be TWO Morrell-Potter Summer Stipends in Creative Writing awarded for 2006: to Tiana [...]