Archive for December, 2006

Holiday shopping, finals cramming, and end of the semester performances… it's beginning to feel a lot like Winter Break! With the tantalizing perpetual forecast of "maybe" snow leading us to [...]

Results of the student referendum on the recent Student Council to add a two-day break midway through the spring semester were sent out in a [students] email late last night. [...]

This Thursday afternoon, a fascinating lecture at Bond Memorial Hall offered a respite from the cold as Caryl Emerson of Princeton University spoke. Emerson is the Chair of the Slavic [...]

Below are the platforms submitted for the upcoming Student Council elections. Online voting will start today and run until December 10th, with Sharples voting following on Dec. 11 and 12.
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Robert Greenstein, an analyst and founder of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, spoke Wednesday evening in an Economics 1 Lecture. Greenstein's presentation, 'The Dramatic Fiscal Policy Challenges Facing [...]

On Wednesday night in Kohlberg's Scheuer Room, documentary filmmaker, photographer, and human rights activist and educator, Robin Romano, spoke on "Global Child Labor and Poverty." The event was sponsored by [...]

When Joella Fink ’07, Co-President with Tom Evnen ’07 of Student Council, was elected at the end of last spring, she had a certain goal in mind.
"When I stepped [...]

The Swarthmore chapter of Amnesty International has dedicated the week of Dec. 3rd - 8th to children's rights. Amnesty is commemorating International Human Rights day, Dec. 4th, with a full [...]

Last Thursday, November 30th, a trio of information-technology (IT) experts came to Swarthmore to help develop a comprehensive 3-5 year plan for the College's use of technology, touching on classrooms, [...]

"The more energy you give us, the more energy we'll give you," shouted Rhythm 'n' Motion co-director Tanya Gonzales '07 [corrected 12/4/06 by AQ] at the beginning of the Rhythm [...]