Archive for November, 2006

On Wednesday night, Betsy Leondar-Wright gave a lecture entitled "Bridging the Blue-Red Divide: Untangling Class in the Midterm Election." Leondar-Wright is on the board of Class Action, a non-profit that [...]

The MPAA contacted Swarthmore administrators last year about repeated infringements of copyright law; they did not threaten a suit, but they did inform the college that it had been breaking [...]

It's hard to miss student-run Paces Cafe's advertisements all over campus describing sweets like Southern Red Velvet Cake and savories like Pita and Hummus platters. These are just one sign [...]

This past Sunday, Swarthmore College experienced an Internet outage that blocked students from accessing any external websites. The outage also caused a backup of incoming and outgoing mail. Both internal [...]

On Monday, November 20th, graphic artist and novelist Eric Drooker arrived at the Intercultural Center armed with a banjo, harmonic, and slide upon slide of his art mounted on a [...]

On Monday, the Housing Committee heard a proposal to change the current housing system to something that creators George Dahl '08 and Meggie Ladlow '09 feel is more equitable. Instead [...]

Last Tuesday, Professor Larry Westphal of the Economics Department announced to his Intermediate Microeconomics class in the middle of his lecture that he needed to stop teaching. He had become [...]

McCabe Library is an overwhelming place. Packed with books and computers on every floor, it is easy to get lost amongst the stacks. Molly Weston '10, like so many other [...]

This past Friday, November 17 in LPAC Cinema, Marjorie Heilman Visiting Artist Bill Freeland presented a retrospective lecture of his work and influences. Freeland, who is exhibiting some of his [...]

In a discussion sponsored by the Ring Board on Thursday night, students discussed topics such as the tension between religious and secular values on campus, the difference between being spiritual [...]