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Nine protesters, including one Swarthmore student and one student on an extended leave of absence, were arrested last Saturday, May 3, ending the four-day Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) ...
The pro-Palestinian encampment constructed on Trotter Lawn on April 30 by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and demolished May 3, 2025, bears many similarities to the encampment the group ...
As the encampment continued at Swarthmore College, faculty-admin communication on next steps was minimal, with many faculty sharing that there was no communication other than President Smith’s ...
According to Swarthmore Public Safety and Information Technology Services (ITS), the college was likely the target of a cyberattack on Wednesday, April 30, on its network and associated computer ...
This article shows live updates and coverage of the four-day encampment on Trotter Lawn that ended after local law enforcement demolished it and arrested nine protesters, one of which a current ...
In a new weekly segment, "In Troubled Times", Eugene M. Lang Visiting Professor for Issues of Social Change Ted Gup argues for campus-wide unity and action in the face of the unprecedented threats of ...
In his final article as a Swarthmore student, Nathanael Brown '25 takes a look back into the origins of Swarthmore and discusses whether the college is living up to the ideals of its founding.
One of the last living witnesses to the Holocaust, 97-year-old Helga Melmed, visited campus last Wednesday, April 23. Melmed survived the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps.
“When Life Gives You Tangerines” is a bittersweet, endearing Korean drama that has the world under its spell. The story spans the lives of Oh Ae-sun (IU and Moon So-ri) and Yang Gwan-sik (Park Bo-gum ...
The 2025 MLB season is underway, with Opening Day on March 27. While it is still early in the season, several teams have begun to separate themselves from the pack and are promising contenders this ...
As students at Swarthmore College, we had become accustomed to hearing about the college’s “ongoing responsibility for community care,” “commitment to social responsibility,” and care for “peace and ...
A little over a year ago, Swarthmore’s administration announced the kickstart of the Swarthmore Forward initiative, which outlines the college’s strategic plan for the future. Just before the 2024-25 ...