Archive for February, 2007

An evil overlord race has used bananas, Viagra, and cough syrup to destroy all of the books (and most of the people) in the world, but three avatars of knowledge [...]

On February 21, in LPAC, Professor Richard Meyers of the University of Southern California presented the lecture "What was Contemporary Art?" Meyers evaluated three instances in which the term 'contemporary' [...]

In the coming months, groundbreaking will begin on Alice Paul's new twin. It will be named David Kemp Hall. According to Associate Vice President of Facilities, Stuart Hain, the dorm [...]

Sobering news for Swarthmore students: while our education here "rewards attention to complexity, nuance, precision, and book-learning… intellectual accomplishment and sophistication can actually impede advancement and success." That's how Daniel [...]

According to Swarthmore Chief of Police Brian Craig, an officer doing a routine patrol at approximately 12:15 AM on Sunday the 18th saw a student wearing only boxer shorts and [...]

Swarthmore's email program, SquirrelMail, is well-named for the Swarthmore campus but it isn't beloved for its speed or reliability. Many students use it simply because it sits on the portal [...]

In the early 1990s and the early days of e-mail, any student was allowed to send a mass e-mail to the rest of the student body. "We thought this was [...]

Student Council discussed a variety of issues in brief at Tuesday's meeting.
First, the "Thanksgiving in the Spring" referendum is still being discussed by the faculty, the administration, and Student [...]

In 1999, when Swarthmore College began the Meaning of Swarthmore campaign, one of it's long term curricular goals was to develop a strong Islamic studies program. "We had plans to [...]

If this semester, Swat seems a little more crowded than in the past, it's not your imagination. An unbalanced number of students returning from study abroad versus leaving for study [...]