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When it came to ants, Carl Rettenmeyer ’53— like the insects—more than carried his weight.

A look back at some recent April Fools' Day pranks by Swarthmore's engineering students.

Swarthmore students have often turned their creative and intellectual powers to the commission of pranks.

Students from Sa’ed Atshan ’06’s Israeli-Palestinian Conflict class spent 10 days in the Middle East, meeting top humanitarians.

The new Inn at Swarthmore features 130-plus artworks by students and alumni.

A stranger up against a deadline walks into an office with a question...

Kelsey Rico ’16 is the second studio artist to graduate with a special major in architectural design.

Avian and otherwise, rare birds abound at Swarthmore. 

Among the many roosting in the College’s Peace Collection is Horace Gundry Alexander, a world-famous
pacifist, Quaker, and adviser to Mahatma Gandhi.

Nowhere in the 14 boxes of papers by the Englishman who eventually moved to Swarthmore is there more passion than in the slim folder, “Writings re: birds.” 

A gallery of avian-inspired student publications available online.

David Fraser, Swarthmore president from 1982 to 1991, mastered weft-twined Bedouin weaving and wrote the definitive book on the subject.