Daily Archives: April 4, 2013

Despite several standout individual performances, the Swarthmore men’s lacrosse team never got going against Dickinson on Saturday, losing 14-5 in a game that was over early. Three goals in the first six minutes, including back-to-back scores from Sam Abramson to open the game, put the 10th-ranked Red Devils (10-2, 4-1 in conference) up early. While [...]

The math is quite simple. A win on Saturday, Apr. 21 at Haverford in the regular season finale, and the Swarthmore women’s lacrosse team will be in the 2012 Centennial Conference playoffs. A loss, and the Fords will knock the Garnet out of the playoff picture in the final game of the season for the [...]

As the search for Swarthmore’s new Dean of the Sophomore Class approaches completion, there are now four finalists who faculty, staff and students have met with and submitted written feedback to the college’s search committee. The four candidates have been introduced by Dean of Students Liz Braun, who is also the head of the search [...]

The second annual Arts Weekend took place this past Friday through Sunday. A weekend dedicated to showcasing the extensive range of visual and performing arts programs at Swarthmore, it included over 30 different events that students, alumni and friends of the college were invited to attend. According to Susan Clarey, one of the Communications Office [...]

The recent release of Swarthmore’s 2005-2010 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventory constitutes a great stride for the college in improving its environmental sustainability and contributing to the fight against climate change. The inventory reviews the college’s current emissions levels, provides recommendations for future sustainability efforts, and establishes a baseline by which to evaluate future development. Environmental [...]

Whenever I stop and admire the packaging of beer (i.e. stop and drink), I am reminded of the victory of modern civilization over the forces of Nature. The simplicity of the pull-top can or the twist-off long-neck bottle help me to forget the tragedies of modernity even if just for the span of an ice-cold [...]

Infusing hospitalizations and breakdowns with satire and humor, 2009 Swarthmore graduate Fletcher Wortmann’s recently released memoir “Triggered” chronicles the mind of a young man living with OCD in a world where even the most banal happening can prompt an episode. Begun during his time at Swarthmore, “Triggered” follows Wortmann in his progression from pre-adolescent dinosaur [...]

What if government operated like a business? We would have more efficient delivery of services, programs that do not work would be instantly cut and we would know that all of our tax dollars were put to good use. I have brought up this idea before, but over the past week I have thought more [...]

Staff Editorial Isolating the multitude of inequalities that are inherent to our contemporary social structures is a reasonably effortless task. From health care to environmental policy, our notions of justice and liberty for all in a society are counteracted and replaced with institutional unfairness time and time again. But perhaps the most palpable embodiment of [...]

There are some days when you’re just broke and want to give yourself a quick pick-me-up after spending three days locked in McCabe writing a paper, studying for a test or even procrastinating on Facebook for three hours straight. You feel as if you should get back in touch with the real world, and what [...]