Archive for September, 2006

Underhill to see major changes

By Lauren Janowitz at 7:08 pm

Music students at Swarthmore will soon have something to sing about: Underhill Music Library will undergo an almost total renovation over the next two years.
According to Performing Arts Librarian Donna [...]

Student Council and SAC to throw this years Halloween party

By Lauren Stokes at 7:18 pm

Student Council and the Social Affairs Committee have decided to co-sponsor this year’s Halloween party, which will be held on Saturday October 28th. The Halloween Party has traditionally been held [...]

Classical Japanese music comes to Swarthmore

By Myles Louis Dakan at 7:20 pm

Tonight, Swarthmore will host Tokyo Chigakukai, a traditional Japanese ensemble. Compositions from the 17th to the 20th century will be played, with brief historical background presented between songs. This authentic [...]

Webcomics Symposium offers laughs and good business sense

By Lauren Stokes at 7:19 pm

On Friday evening, Cunniff Hall was filled with students, faculty, staff, and community members eager to meet webcomics authors Shaenon Garrity of Narbonic, Howard Tayler of Schlock Mercenary, Rich Burlew [...]

Conversations offer a new perspective on diversity

By Elizabeth Hipple at 7:19 pm

This fall, the Office of Multicultural Affairs offered Swatties a new way to approach the subject of diversity. The Diversity Conversation Series, the first program of its kind, offered a [...]

Weekend Roundup: Let's go to the movies…

By Daisy Yuhas at 7:22 pm

As fall blusters in, theaters are offering a lineup of hopeful blockbusters ranging from distinctive little indies to epic scale films, magic and adventure to film noir and horror. A [...]

Swarthmore's finest are on call: get to know the volunteer firefighters and EMT's

By Michelle Kim at 7:21 pm

That fire horn can be pretty obnoxious, can't it? Perhaps many readers have learned to tune it out by now–I confess that even after four semesters I jump when I [...]

Student group policy debate continues at The Ring

By Andrew Quinton at 7:21 pm

An overflow crowd of around 75 people filled the Alice Paul main lounge to debate the merits of closed groups on campus in the first Ring Discussion of the year. [...]

Webcomics Symposium starts today, explores business and creativity on the Internet

By Lauren Stokes at 7:21 pm

This weekend, Free Culture Swarthmore has planned Swarthmore's first-ever Webcomics Symposium. Even if you've never read a webcomic before, you should still consider taking a look at the symposium, which [...]

The New Pornographers announced as fall's Large Scale Event

By Lauren Stokes at 7:22 pm

Canadian indie-rockers The New Pornographers will be this semester's Large-Scale Event, according to LSE Committee Chairman Douglas Gilchrist-Scott '09. The event will be held on November 10th in LPAC.
Gilchrist-Scott [...]