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Politics drives campus activism on conflict
One thing I’ve never understood in my peers is the impulse to run around like little Che Guevara’s in keffiyehs. Rebellion has never called to me acro…
Responding to concerns about security officer hiring
We offer this statement in response to concerns recently expressed by community members about the decision to contract with Allied Barton to supply se…
Future hiring must be accessible, transparent
With four high-profile administrators leaving the college to pursue careers at NYU Abu Dhabi in the last year, the campus has been forced to deal with…
Endowment remains large, but spending must fall
Published February 25, 2010
One of the best-known features of the college’s budget is that Swarthmore has a billion dollar-plus endowment. One of the least-understood features of the college budget is what that actually means fo…
Campus must evaluate dorm smoking policy
As The Phoenix reported last week, evaluating whether Hallowell should be a smoking dorm has become a high priority for the Housing Committee and the …
Misrepresenting abstinence-only sexual education
A recent study conducted by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, among other institutions, found that abstinence-only sex education was th…
Campus activist groups are needed for diversity of opinion
The longer I am at Swarthmore the more I begin to recognize the need for a diversity of opinion. My classes challenge me to question the assumptions I…
Honesty facilitates productive conversation
Why can’t we all just talk [and listen] about it? My course in Plato gave me a tool for the real world: a little gem I like to call the “smile-and-nod…
Questioning Phoenix policy
To The Editor:
The Phoenix should not have published the name of the individual involved in last week’s article “Student arrested at Bryn Mawr.” The o…
Lack of incentives hinders the Tri-Co relationship
To the Editor:
I stumbled entirely by chance upon the article in the Jan. 28 edition of the Phoenix “Urging the importance of the Tri-Co relationship,…
Varying expectations impede advising process
Academic advising is an integral part of Swarthmore culture and is expected to factor into all major academic decisions that students make. Yet studen…
Boosting student involvement in college budget
Urging the importance of the Tri-Co relationship
Moving the TSA beyond reactionary security
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