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Outrage, opening Friday, October 30th, winds a plot that spans through location and era, bringing together the great thinkers and arguers of the past and present. Outrage hints at deeper and more complex themes, forcing the viewer to build unlikely connections. Ultimately, the viewer becomes the one who must decide what is worth fighting for and what must be left to die.
Read moreSheldon Danziger, noted labor economics and policy scholar, presented a lecture entitled “The Economy, Public Policy, and the Poor: What Changes Can Obama Make?” With the rapidly rowing unemployment rate likely to hit 10% in the coming years, the nation’s poor have been disproportionately impacted by the current recession. The silver lining? More is being done now, more than ever, to address poverty.
Read moreHappy Halloween, Swatties! Not everyone can enjoy a haunted house or horror film festival. Aside from all the spooky festivities, there are many other fun events that will be taking place on campus and in Philly.
Read moreThe first joint meeting of the Sustainability Committee and campus environmental activists opened last Monday, as student environmental organizations worked to patch over differences with the Committee and discuss ways to coordinate future sustainability efforts on campus. The meeting came at a moment of tension between student environmental groups and the Sustainability Committee, less than two weeks after members of Earthlust wrote a letter to President Chopp.
Read moreThe US News ratings came out a while back and, like Jan Brady, Swarthmore has once again been rated lucky number 3 (Williams, Williams, Williams!). But with a pretty prime spot, wouldn’t you think that people outside of Delaware County would have heard of us? Well, the solution is: more rap videos. The argument, and an example.
Read moreThe Garnet Men’ Soccer team and the Muhlenberg Mules battled fiercely last night to determine the host of the Centennial Conference: the Garnet needed a win against the Mules and a win on Saturday against Haverford, but the game went into double overtime with the final score at 0-0.
Read more“I’d never known whether it was the same creature hunting me or whether a different one came every time or whatever. It always looked different. Today the detail that gave it away, was its hands,” read Nalo Hopkinson from her newest work-in-progress Donkey this past Tuesday.
Read moreSAC has elected to move the Halloween party back to Upper Tarble, following concerns about weather and the use of Mertz bathrooms.
Read moreTuesday night, the Democratic candidate for Mayor of the Borough of Swarthmore, Rick Lowe, came to speak at the College Democrats’ meeting. Lowe is engaged in a race for mayor against the Republican candidate, Alice “Putty” Willets; the election takes place Tuesday, November 3rd.
Read moreThis coming Wednesday, The Swarthmore Literary Review will be issuing its first ever print magazine. The issue will feature work Meredith Root-Bernstein, whose work appeared in the March 9, 2009 issue of The New Yorker, as well as Swat students Rebekah Judson ’12 and Aakash Suchak ’11
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