News
The 8 Million Dollar Question
The Ad Hoc Financial Planning Group has been tasked with finding $8 million to cut from the annual budget. They have come up with a proposal for $6.85 million worth of cuts, and are currently seeking feedback from the community on their plan. More
Econ meets Pysch: Experimental Economics at Swarthmore
Unlike the psychology experiments that Swat students are regularly invited to participate in, the rewards earned from participating in economics experiments actually depend on the decisions that you make in them. Make certain choices, and you could earn rewards ranging beyond the scope of Swat’s pay scale. More
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StuCo "Textbook Forum" Discusses Spending Options
Last spring, students voted for a $10,000 grant to address high textbook prices as one of the ways to spend the $90,000 in rollover from the Student Activities Account. On Monday, a forum was held in Science Center 199 to discuss potential ways to spend this money effectively. More
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Changes on Campus
After a summer away from the rolling green lawn of the beach, you expect Swarthmore to seem a little different, but sometimes change arrives in the middle of the semester. With new technology in McCabe, new plates in Sharples, and new icons on the Student Dashboard, the Gazette would like to give a mid-semester update on some of the day-to-day changes at Swarthmore. More
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Swat Receives B+ in Sustainability
Swarthmore earned a B+ on the College Sustainability Report Card for 2010, which was released in October. The grade is a step up from last year’s B-; it was reached through a survey of nine categories such as “green building,” “student involvement,” and “endowment transparency.” More