Swarthmore College News

Posted by Meg Spencer on November 12, 2009 at 8:52 AM Posted in General News , Info & Society , Swarthmore The Swarthmore College Library has been holding ongoing discussions with students this semester about how to deal with increasing expensive textbooks.

Within the span of a little more than a week, Hillel of Greater Philadelphia first declined to host a speech by a staunch critic of Israeli policy, then featured a lecture by a controversial politician from the ranks of the Jewish state's pro-settlement movement.

Davidson College has been named the fourth-best value among top liberal arts colleges by Kiplinger's Personal Finance .

The Cornell Public Service Center will present 'Service-Learning: What's in it for Communities? Is it simply another academia jargon? What's the role of community?' from 8:30 to 10 a.m. Friday, Nov.

Earlier this year, the Princeton Review ranked Washington University fourth in the nation for financial aid.

Are you likely to spend a week of your life when you're 60 looking at your life when you're 20? --Douglas Hofstadter, cognitive scientist at Indiana University-Bloomington Learning how to use technologies is good for the brain, just like learning a language or doing puzzles, he said.

October was the deadliest month in the war in Afghanistan, but it's been ages since I saw anyone protesting the military industrial complex.

Six Olentangy students have qualified as semifinalists in the 2010 National Merit Scholarship Program, giving them a chance to compete for about 8,200 scholarships worth more than $36-million. The Olentangy students are among roughly 1.5-million high school students across the country who entered the 2010 National Merit Scholarship Program by ...

The more diverse America becomes, the more remarkable it must seem that its founders were of a single creed and color.

Actress Susan Marie Frontczak portrays Nobel Prize-winning chemist Marie Curie in a performance held in Ryan Family Auditorium.

Via Emily Rutherford at Campus Progress : It's a pilot program which designates Spelman Hall, an apartment-style housing option for upperclass students , as gender-neutral. Instead of having to draw in groups of four students of the same gender, there will be no gender requirement on groups entering the Spelman draw...Depending on interest, they ...

John Alston is an avid cyclist. With a tailwind, he can pedal from Chester to Swarthmore - just over two miles - in about six minutes.

It's curious that none of the three finalists for the first Jack Wolgin international fine arts prize of $150,000, to be awarded Oct.

Talk of embryos -- and the scientific, religious and moral implications of their treatment -- as well as how that treatment is defined and understood, keeps alive the intense debate about when human life actually begins.

Both Lewis's father and his mother taught government at Oberlin College . Lewis studied philosophy at Swarthmore College and Harvard University , where he received an M.A. in 1964 and a Ph.D. in 1967.

Gordon Hershey sits by the window of the hospital room with its view of the changing leaves.

Local dance artist, Jumatatu Poe, inaugurates his BRAND NEW physical theatre company, idiosynCrazy Productions, with a fall concert at the Jeanne Ruddya TMs Performance Garage.A The concert, FLATLANDa and other worlds, will take place Saturday, October 3, at 2pm and 8pm, and Sunday, October 4, at 2pm and 7pm.

Princeton Instruments of Trenton, N.J., announced that Ed Gooding has been promoted to product manager of the Spectroscopy Group, Greg Combs has been promoted to product manager of the Industrial Group, and Matt Lyons has joined the company as sales and marketing manager for the Acton Optics & Coatings product line.

What would it take to get you to attend class? Would you get out of bed for $500 a week? Principal Mark Commanducci believes, for his students at Children's Charter Middle School in Louisiana, this reward works.

During their school careers, students read hundreds of books. For a few youngsters, one becomes life-changing. They find a theme or idea that resonates, or learn something about themselves.