The Phoenix

Guangtian Ha, an assistant professor of religion at Haverford College, was arrested on Tuesday, Oct. 6 and charged with online harassment and intimidation. College President Wendy Raymond announced the arrest on the same day, writing that the on...

Swarthmore College’s Department of Public Safety released the 2026 Annual Fire Safety and Security Report last Wednesday, which contains campus safety policies, statistics on crimes and disciplinary action in th...

On Sept. 16, a case was filed by a Jane Doe against Cornell University under the Clery Act, alleging that the university had failed to appropriately prosecute her case after she was allegedly raped two years ago by seven members of the Chi Phi fraternity. Seven days after the case filing, Cornell’s undergraduate newspaper, The Cornell Sun, published an editorial titled

In late March of 2024, Robert Smythe, owner of the local baked goods business Pastry Pants, announced that the operation would be moving from his home on Cornell Avenue to a brick and mortar bakery in downtown Swarthmore. A few months later, the new incarnation of Pastry Pants opened its doors to the Swarthmore community and resumed production of European-style breads and pas...

During a brisk week last April, I found myself going into the special collections reading room, where there was one box waiting for me. The archivist kindly let me know that this was all they found, and that normally there were more boxes. As the founder of the Swarthmore Survivor’s Collective, I had put in a request a week prior in anticipation of my planning for the renewal...