One of the advantages of studying art at Swarthmore is the close proximity of some of America’s greatest art museums in Philadelphia, New York, and Washington. The College’s art history faculty mentors often require students to visit the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the department organizes trips to see other collections, giving students direct experience [...]

Victor Navasky is interested in controversy. He is also interested in civility.
A lover of boxing, he has a great respect for the confines of the ring—a 50-minute debate, a 500-word letter to the editor, a 5 x 5-inch box allotted for a political cartoon. He’s thinking of writing a book about political cartoons or caricatures [...]

HOW SWARTHMORE DETERMINES WHAT ITS STUDENTS NEED
The process of awarding scholarships is complex and individualized. No one size fits all. Three hypothetical examples offer some insight into the many factors taken into account:
Zak’s father is a doctor. His mom, a software developer, is worried about being downsized at her job. His family lives in Northern [...]

FRIDAY, MAY 7, 2010
A Celebration of Community:
Performances in Honor of Rebecca Chopp’s Inauguration
Lang Performing Arts Center
8 to 10 p.m.
SATURDAY, MAY 8, 2010
Registration
Parrish Hall Parlors
9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Lunch
Sharples Dining Hall and Parrish Lawn
11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Symposium: Leadership, Liberal Arts, and the Common Good
Eugene M. and Theresa Lang Performing Arts Center
1:30 to 4 p.m.
Processional and [...]

Listen to Peter Conway singing on Tokyo radio and being interviewed by the Army during the 1950s.
This first cut starts out with a woman speaking Japanese. Associate Professor of Japanese and Section Head William Gardner translated her words:
Female voice: Everyone, do you know what it's like to be in love? I don't know that well [...]

Thanks to Tamara De Moor ’10, the lives of nine previously unskilled and unemployed Ghanaian women have been changed for the better—hopefully forever.
Last spring, De Moor, a Japanese and art history major, spent a semester studying at the University of Ghana. Besides courses in drumming, archaeology, and Twi (the most widely spoken language in the [...]

Students today have a hard time imagining the fiery debates that took place from the 1970s to the mid-1980s about the need for women’s studies at Swarthmore. With the Second Wave of feminism came a new and growing consciousness that women’s voices, women’s scholarship, and women’s contributions had been omitted or were grossly under-represented in [...]

Q: Why is it important to maintain your virginity as a college student?
Jeremiah: It’s actually not important to maintain your virginity as a college student. It’s just important to maintain your virginity until you’re married!
Gideon: So if you want to get married before you go to college, then that’s fine. Just be warned that you [...]

Jeremiah Smallchild and Gideon Lamb eagerly offered today’s Swarthmore students advice about living a clean, chaste life.
Q: Why is it important to maintain your virginity as a college student?
Jeremiah: It’s actually not important to maintain your virginity as a college student. It’s just important to maintain your virginity until you’re married!
Gideon: So if you want [...]

The nature of the conflict in Darfur has changed dramatically since Hanis first read about it in 2003. As Julie Flint and Alex de Waal write in their book Darfur: A New History of a Long War (Zed Books, 2008), the first two years of the conflict were “firestorm” years. During this time, Janjawiid militias, [...]