Ant-Man!Fall 2016When it came to ants, Carl Rettenmeyer ’53— like the insects—more than carried his weight.
Pranks EngineeredSummer 2016 A look back at some recent April Fools' Day pranks by Swarthmore's engineering students.
Gotcha!Summer 2016 Swarthmore students have often turned their creative and intellectual powers to the commission of pranks.
Trip of a LifetimeSummer 2016 Students from Sa’ed Atshan ’06’s Israeli-Palestinian Conflict class spent 10 days in the Middle East, meeting top humanitarians.
Film Noir LibrariansSummer 2016 A stranger up against a deadline walks into an office with a question...
The Art of Choosing a MajorSummer 2016 Kelsey Rico ’16 is the second studio artist to graduate with a special major in architectural design.
Sayed Dreams of BirdsSpring 2016Avian 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.”
Birds of a Feather: Swarthmore Student PublicationsSpring 2016A gallery of avian-inspired student publications available online.
Woven EnchantmentSpring 2016David Fraser, Swarthmore president from 1982 to 1991, mastered weft-twined Bedouin weaving and wrote the definitive book on the subject.