Melissa Bertosh's contributions to the Daily Gazette

Boy Meets Tractor: Saturday Night Live, "except funny"

December 9th, 2005

Boy Meets Tractor will perform this Saturday at 8:00 p.m. in Science Center 101. You have seen the hilarious signs plastered around campus. You have done double takes, duped into [...]

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Fienberg reveals the truth about polygraph accuracy

December 1st, 2005

Stephen E. Fienberg, professor of Statistics and Social Science at Carnegie Mellon University, presented a lecture titled "In Search of the Magic Lasso: The Truth about the Polygraph," yesterday in [...]

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What was registration like before internet technology?

November 29th, 2005

Before computer preregistration, "arena" registration (similar to first-year student registration) was used. Although stressful, the arena meetings were also very efficient.
Computer registration was used throughout the nineties and was followed [...]

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Elverson and Piker to teach new course on sociology of mental health

November 22nd, 2005

The Sociology/Anthropology Department will offer a new course this spring entitled, "The Triumph of the Therapeutic." The course covers the historical sociology of the mental health field as well as [...]

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Mysterious banana visits classrooms, intrigues and confuses campus

November 17th, 2005

There you are, sitting in your lecture, when you realize how quiet the room has become and notice a large banana staring at your professor. As your prof motions to [...]

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Voices for Choices: Protecting Reproductive Rights

November 11th, 2005

A Pro-Choice Task Force was established in 1985 to help defend reproductive freedoms for all women and men, maintaining an emphasis on contraceptive issues and the prevention of unwanted pregnancies. [...]

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What is up with the blue tree?

October 28th, 2005

One of the newest editions to the Swarthmore campus is the "blue tree" in front of Kohlberg. And many of our readers wanted to know what brought about this transformation. [...]

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Beating the odds: Williams speaks on grass-roots work against poverty

October 26th, 2005

Benjamin Braddock, the protagonist of "The Graduate", was not the first or the last college student who wanted their future to be "different". Theresa Williamson '97 found herself in doing [...]

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