Archive for March, 2007

Weekend Roundup: Peace, Fools, and a trip through the Old City

By Daisy Yuhas at 9:26 pm

For this lovely April Fools weekend, there are quite a few things to see on campus, including a Sager and Peace Week events. While you're at it, why not take [...]

International relations giants come to Swarthmore

By Dustin Trabert at 9:25 pm

Starting later today, Swarthmore begins a extensive symposium on "Anti-Americanism, Failing States and American Foreign Policy: Challenges in Contemporary International Politics."
The symposium, held in honor of retiring Political Science Professor [...]

George Lakey suggests a new approach to nonviolent campaigns

By Miles Skorpen at 9:24 pm

Yesterday, on Thursday, March 29, the Eugene M. Lang Visiting Professor, George Lakey, unofficially opened the second annual Tri-College Peace Week. Despite this title, however, Lakey began his talk by [...]

Students protest CIA recruitment on campus

By Urooj Khan at 9:17 pm

On Wednesday evening, a group of Swarthmore students protested a CIA recruitment event on campus. Before the talk, students tabled at Sharples and handed out fliers speaking out against the [...]

Class of 2011 tops five thousand applications for the first time ever

By Lauren Stokes at 9:23 pm

Swarthmore received 5,244 applications for admission to the Class of 2011 and admitted 890 students in all for an acceptance rate of seventeen percent. The number of applications represents an [...]

William Plumer Potter Fiction prize awarded to McIlraith, Crampton, Baldwin

By Daisy Yuhas at 9:13 pm

Yesterday afternoon in the Scheuer Room, novelist Diane Ayres read a portion from her novel "Other Girls" and announced the winners of the William Plumer Potter Fiction competition. First place [...]

ITS Considers Move to Google Apps

By Miles Skorpen at 9:13 pm

For several weeks, Swarthmore's Information Technology Services department has been pondering whether or not to move the school from its current self-hosted e-mail and calendar system to Google's web-based alternative, [...]

Tri-Co Peace Week, now with more Tri-Co

By Lauren Stokes at 9:12 pm

In the third year of Swarthmore's Peace Week, founded by Brandon Lee Wolff in 2005, Wolff is proud of increased Tri-Co involvement.
Wolff started with the idea of a two-day Peace [...]

Four citations for underage drinking handed out Saturday night

By Lauren Stokes at 9:11 pm

According to Director of Public Safety Owen Redgrave, three Swarthmore students and one Haverford student received citations for underage drinking the night of Saturday the 24th. All four citations occurred [...]

Ask the Gazette: Are freshman assigned to dorms based on the dorm's individual "culture"?

By Daisy Yuhas at 9:10 pm

The Gazette recently received a question regarding whether or not freshman were assigned to a dorm based on the dorm's "culture." Students imagined that this could be done for one [...]