Policies

Letters policy

Letters and opinion pieces represent the views of their writers and not those of the Phoenix staff. All letters and op-eds must be signed and have the writer’s contact information. Letters cannot be longer than 400 words and must be submitted by noon on Monday. Op-eds cannot be longer than 600 words. The Phoenix will not accept pieces signed on behalf of any groups or containing unfounded attacks upon a person’s character. The Phoenix reserves the right to edit all pieces for content, length and clarity. The Phoenix editors reserve the right to withhold any letters from publication.

Submit letters to letters@swarthmorephoenix.edu or The Phoenix, Swarthmore College, 500 College Ave., Swarthmore, PA 19081.

Click here to submit a letter to the editor

To report a correction, e-mail editor [at] swarthmorephoenix.com.

Comments Policy

In keeping with our letters policy, The Phoenix will not allow anonymous comments to be posted on this Web site. In order to promote thoughtful, impassioned discussion, The Phoenix will allow our reader’s comments to be posted on our discussion forums without moderation, so that comments appear as soon as they are posted. We trust members of the Swarthmore community, alumni and other readers to follow our guidelines by providing their real name along with their comments. Hateful or anonymous comments will be removed immediately.

It is our hope that this policy of requiring that readers stand behind their comments by providing their real name will increase the amount of thoughtful, informed commenting, while minimizing the potential for moderator bias to hinder discussions that take place in our forums. However, we will enable moderation on our discussion forums if the guidelines described herein are not followed.