More than hummus: renewing the call to boycott Sabra
WEBMar 29, 2018 · by Aru Shiney-Ajay and Killian McGinnis. March 29, 2018. On March 3, 2018, Students for Justice in Palestine launched a petition to end the sale of Sabra products on campus. Within days of launching, over 500 students and other community members had signed. Today, three weeks after the initial launch, the …
Swarthmore Fencing: the best team you’ve never heard of
WEBJan 30, 2014 · Quick, name the largest sports team at Swarthmore College. Chances are, your first answer was track, or possibly lacrosse or baseball. Unless you are one of the 72 members, or nearly 5% of the student body, that compete on the fencing team, you probably had little idea of the sport’s rapidly increasing popularity here. Founded in 2007 by current Head Coach Marshal Davis, himself a former ...
The Phoenix - The Independent Campus Newspaper of …
WEBOct 3, 2024 · Swarthmore College's independent student newspaper since 1881, published weekly. We are committed to documenting and transmitting student perspectives on the daily operations and happenings at Swarthmore College! As an independent publication, we report on the college, not for the college. We pursue journalism freely without restrictions or review from the administration or any individual or ...
Student Council Platforms - The Phoenix
WEBNov 28, 2007 · Student Council elections will run from this Sunday 12/3 until Thursday 12/6. Online voting will be Sunday-Tuesday, and Sharples voting will. be Wednesday and Thursday. If you want to ask the candidates questions about their platforms, there will be a meet ‘n greet study break with all of the candidates from 9:00 …
The little orange square: fashion and divestment - The Phoenix
WEBOct 23, 2014 · On September 21, around 200 Swarthmore students joined the group of 40,000 marching in New York at the People’s Climate March, one of the largest displays of group action against climate change to date. Many of them had little orange felt squares pinned onto their jackets or their backpacks. The square represents one subset of the group that marched — those who are working against climate ...
Was Swarthmore ever a women's college? - The Phoenix
WEBNov 8, 2006 · Bryn Mawr was founded as a women’s college in 1885. One of the reasons Haverford waited so long to become coeducational was because it was worried about the effect on Bryn Mawr, but once it made the switch, it gained female students quickly. Today, over half of Haverford students are female. So why do people continue to believe that ...
Life as an International Student-Athlete - The Phoenix
WEBOct 4, 2018 · Swarthmore boasts a diverse student body, full of students with all sorts of talents, interests, and backgrounds. Although only 1640 undergraduates are enrolled at Swarthmore, 53 countries are represented at the college. Along with the distinct student population of Swarthmore comes a multitude of 22 diverse varsity athletic teams, 10 of which have an international student on the roster. Life ...
Lucretia Mott: far more than a founder - The Phoenix
WEBNov 2, 2017 · Today, Lucretia Mott may be a series of pictures and excerpts in the Friends Library and a Parrish conference room, but in her time, she was a force of nature. And we, as students of the college she helped found in line with her ideals, inherit her legacy. Mott was born in 1793 in Nantucket, Mass. When she was 22 years old in 1818, she gave her ...
“How do you write an advice column?” - The Phoenix
WEBSep 21, 2017 · First, you should set a conversational mood — this is, after all, an exchange of letters. This entails putting things like “hello” and “thank you for your interesting question” at the beginning of your column. You should do this even if it is insincere. It will be easier to do this if you pick questions to which you are excited to ...
An Interview with New BOM Chair Kemp ’72 - The Phoenix
WEBApr 6, 2012 · Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996.As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix.See the about page to read more about the DG. When Gil Kemp, who will become Swarthmore’s next Board of Managers Chair in May, was a prep school student in the late ‘60s, a teacher recommended he apply to ...