Daily Archives: April 4, 2013

Staff Editorial As we plod through the Republican primaries and steadily approach the 2012 presidential election, several key issues continue not only to plague our collective conscience, but also to stifle any hope for complete progress. The political arena has responded garishly, with rampant partisanship demonstrated by a gridlocked Congress on issues from taxes to [...]

Hello-My name is Daniel Cho ’13 and I would love to become your next Student Council Co-President. Over the past three years, I have had the opportunity to serve as a Resident Assistant, Student Representative on Council on Education Policy, and the President of the Lang Center sponsored Student-Run Emergency Housing Unit of Philadelphia (SREHUP). [...]

Hey Swat! My name is Victor Brady ’13, and I would love to be your Student Council Co-President. Having nearly reached the end of my third incredible year here at Swarthmore, I am eager to give back to this community by serving on Student Council. As Co-President, I will work to ensure not just the [...]

My name is Shelly Wen, and I am running for Student Groups Advisor for the 2012-2013 school year. When I first arrived at Swarthmore in my freshman fall, I remember being amazed at how independent and student-run this campus was, between committees like SBC and SAC and groups like SAO and Enlace who plan a [...]

Hi, I’m Elowyn, and I’d be honored to serve as next year’s educational policy representative. I know that if I’m chosen to be next year’s educational policy representative I’ll give it everything I’ve got, and I believe I have the experience and dedication needed to do the job well. Educational policy and student government have [...]

Dear Fellow Students: My name is Camille Robertson, and I am running for Campus Life Representative. Now a rising senior, I would like to put the experience and perspective I have gained over my past three years here in the service of the student body by working to implement structural changes that will allow for [...]

Last weekend, Swarthmore saw the premiere of student Sam Swift Shuker-Haines’ ’14 interpretation of the British playwright, Sarah Kane’s play entitled “Cleansed.” During a week where “Krunkfest” served as the main attraction on campus (or even all year), this weekend’s running of “Cleansed” might’ve topped our little Saturnalian festival as the most disturbing cultural offering [...]

Five members of OASIS (Our Art, Spoken in Soul), the spoken word poetry group on campus, flew to Los Angeles over the weekend to represent Swarthmore College for the first time at the College Unions’ Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI). Held at the University of La Verne from April 18-21, the competition featured 48 teams from [...]

Who doesn’t like to laugh? Those who went to the April 21 Improv Workshop in Mephistos lounge found a place where they could laugh loudly and create laughter in turn. As a part of Comedy Weekend at the college, the workshop was taught by Russ Armstrong from the Magnet Theatre Company. The Magnet Theater, founded [...]

One certainly cannot find fault in lack of ambition in “Cabin in the Woods,” directed and written by Drew Goddard with producer, co-writer, and cult favorite Joss Whedon. It attempts not to be a horror movie, but to be all horror movies. The film, ripe with meta-reflexivity and genre-savviness, pits two tried and true generic [...]