Third Parties Can and Do Win - The Phoenix
网页2024年2月29日 · Today I wish to present the simple, humble fact that third parties can and do win elections. At the national level, third parties were represented near-continuously from 1828 to 1950. (This is more than half of our nation’s history.) Third parties have since been ominously excluded from national elections, however, third parties and ...
Orientation Play evolves to welcome the Class of 2020
网页2016年9月8日 · After a week of classes, the Welcome Play, commonly known as the Orientation Play, returned to campus, bringing a candid and cautionary take on campus life for new students and plenty of laughter for the whole audience. The play, traditionally performed in conjunction with the other Orientation programming for first years and transfer students, has long been an entertaining introduction to the ...
Was Swarthmore ever a women's college? - The Phoenix
网页2006年11月8日 · Bryn Mawr was founded as a women’s college in 1885. One of the reasons Haverford waited so long to become coeducational was because it was worried about the effect on Bryn Mawr, but once it made the switch, it gained female students quickly. Today, over half of Haverford students are female. So why do people continue to believe that ...
Trans and Non-Binary Students Face Barriers in On-Campus Housing
网页2019年12月5日 · Clay Conley ’20, a non-binary student, believes that the people in charge of housing at Swarthmore are gender essentialist, which causes discomfort for trans and non-binary students (Conley has contributed an op-ed to the Phoenix about being non-binary in athletics). Gender essentialism is the idea that men and women intrinsically have ...
The little orange square: fashion and divestment - The Phoenix
网页2014年10月23日 · On September 21, around 200 Swarthmore students joined the group of 40,000 marching in New York at the People’s Climate March, one of the largest displays of group action against climate change to date. Many of them had little orange felt squares pinned onto their jackets or their backpacks. The square represents one subset of the group that marched — those who are working against climate ...
Engaged Scholarship Evolves in Response to Pandemic
网页2020年9月23日 · The COVID-19 pandemic has forced all professors to rethink their curriculum and adapt to remote learning. This transition, however, is particularly difficult for professors running Engaged Scholarship (ESCH) courses, programs that are based on in-person experiences in local communities in Chester and Philadelphia. How would professors emulate in-person experiences when everything was online ...
Student Council Platforms - The Phoenix
网页2007年11月28日 · Student Council elections will run from this Sunday 12/3 until Thursday 12/6. Online voting will be Sunday-Tuesday, and Sharples voting will. be Wednesday and Thursday. If you want to ask the candidates questions about their platforms, there will be a meet ‘n greet study break with all of the candidates from …
How Do Swatties Stack Up? Visiting Professors And ... - The Phoenix
网页2012年10月11日 · According to Forbes, we’re attending the ninth best private college in the U.S., but if you ask US News and World Report, Swarthmore places six slots higher, rounding out the top three private liberal arts schools behind Williams and Amherst. College Prowler says our guys are a whole two letter grades more attractive than our gals. Urban Dictionary tells us that we do, occasionally, have fun ...
Athlete of the Week: Dana Bandurick '23 - The Phoenix
网页December 8, 2019. Ben Ainslie // The Phoenix. Dana Bandurick is first-year women’s basketball player from New Hope, Pennsylvania and a graduate of Council Rock High School North. Bandurick led the Garnet to a 61-55 victory over Washington College on Tuesday, November 26th. She registered 14 points, 3 steals, 2 blocks, 3 …
The Phoenix - The Independent Campus Newspaper of …
网页2024年9月19日 · Swarthmore College's independent student newspaper since 1881, published weekly. We are committed to documenting and transmitting student perspectives on the daily operations and happenings at Swarthmore College! As an independent publication, we report on the college, not for the college. We pursue journalism freely without restrictions or review from the administration or any individual or ...