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 ...

Žižek is not engaging in some semiotic analysis of the arguments surrounding the recent political controversy around trans rights in Scotland, nor is he truly linking them to much else. At the end of ...

Chaos and uncertainty ruled campus yesterday. Another chapter in Swarthmore’s long history of student protest felt intensified amidst an increasingly defensive college administration and a reactionary ...

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 ...

Did you know that France is the second largest market for rap albums in the world? In fact, some French artists sell more units than their American counterparts. However, Americans know hardly ...

As we continually search for ways to improve gender inclusivity in Spanish, we have come up with a myriad of broad language such as Latino/a and Latin@. The most recent of these solutions is the term ...

On March 3, 2018, Students for Justice in Palestine launched a petition to end the sale of Sabra products on campus. Within days of launching, over 500 students and other community members had signed.

Swarthmore’s first co-ed dorms were piloted in 1971, when sections of Mary Lyon, Wharton, Willets, and Worth became co-ed living spaces. Nearly fifty years later, the only gendered dorms that remain ...

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 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 ...

What song makes you cry? Like, tears streaming, bawling on the floor kind of cry. For me, it’s Johnny Cash’s melancholic ballad “Hurt.” Cash’s sincere voice is filled with wistful emotion; his echoing ...

In the last few years, major components of Swarthmore’s “To Zero By Thirty-Five” plan, such as the Dining and Community Commons with its geoexchange plant in the basement, have been completed. The ...