Archive for November, 2007

The college just completed an out-of-court settlement with the Justice Department after a random check of Swarthmore facilities this summer showed that the campus was not compliant with Americans with [...]

Mark J. Dumic, Associate Director of Networking and Telecommunications, tells us that "those boxes are outdoor wireless access points that were recently installed as part of this year's wireless network [...]

The College recently finished negotiating a deal with Yipes Communication to double bandwidth from 30 Mbps to 60 Mbps over the course of the next few weeks. The deal will [...]

This Friday at 8:00 pm, Swarthmore’s illustrious sketch comedy group, Boy Meets Tractor, will be having a show in Science Center 101. As Madalyn Baldanzi ’08 noted in an [...]

Happily for Swarthmore, Brubaker is actually not our first female Rhodes Scholar. Fellowships and Prizes Advisor Melissa Mandos informed us that there have actually been four since the Rhodes began [...]

Three vice-presidential candidates–Romaine Paul '10, Sofia Rivkin-Haas '09, and Sven David Udekwu '09–presented similar ideas in Wednesday night's debate.
Current Vice-President Samuel Asarnow '08 began by asking the candidates what they [...]

Instead of a combined pill, Worth will now be carrying Plan B, a newer, improved form of emergency contraception. The Gazette got information on the change from Director of Health Services Beth Kotarski, who made it a priority in her first months here.

Men's basketball falls by five points to McDaniel as Ian McCormick '08 posts a triple-double and classmate Noam Fleigelman adds a season-high 14 points… Drexel Dragons pull out win against Garnet badminton.

Rebecca Brubaker is currently completing an Insight Fellowship in Morocco, so we reached her through e-mail. She says, "after a couple months of recovery from Swat's Honors program I was ready to dive back-in and try the model that inspired it."

Next semester, Benjamin Blonder '08 will run a class looking at biology from a different perspective than is normal for Swarthmore. Instead of "describing properties of the natural world," this [...]