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Students Charged for Distributing Allegedly ‘Violent’ Zines on Campus

Eight students who distributed zines protesting Swarthmore’s administration and Board of Managers have received letters identifying several possible violations of the college’s Code of Conduct. In the letters, Student Affairs alluded to potential charges for “threatening and intimidating” imagery and rhetoric, citing “bullying and intimidation” and “endangerment or affliction...


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College’s Cunningham Fields Development Plan Met With Resident Pushback

Swarthmore College, the town’s largest landowner and most active developer, frequently relies on the Borough’s Planning Commission and Council to approve its development projects. However, zoning code amendments to allow a proposed development on Cunningham Fields are attracting an unusual amount of public attention and controversy, drawing multi-hour public comment sessions ...


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Our Community Norms: Isolating Survivors

Content Warning/Editors’ Note: This article contains references to sexual assault. It is published anonymously given concerns for the author’s safety in accordance with The Phoenix’s anonymity policy.

Swarthmore College is not only rife with sexual violence, but its students also punish survivors who speak out. The detailed accounts of sexual assaults commi...


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Swarthmore Applies to Switch its Accreditation Agency to New England Commission

On Feb. 19, Swarthmore President Val Smith announced that the college would pursue a switch in its accreditation organization from the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) to the New England Commission on Higher Education (NECHE). Between punishing winter storm...


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Aramark and Outsourcing: Undermining the Purpose of Public Institutions

Last spring, unionized food service workers at the three major sports stadiums in South Philadelphia finally agreed on the terms of a new contract after multiple years of fraught negotiations....


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