Archive for March, 2007

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]