For more than 30 years, Philosophy Professor Richie
Schuldenfrei has been asking Swarthmore students that question. They
don’t leave with the answers. What they get are ideas about how
to define a moral life and how to measure their own lives against
it.
Laura Markowitz ’85 came out as a lesbian in her junior
year at Swarthmore. At the 10th annual Sager Symposium, she recalled
her early “emotional homelessness” and the process of
coming home psychologically to her family and friends&emdash;and the
College.
Significant economic differences exist between an institution
of higher learning and a for-profit corporation. Paul Aslanian, vice
president for finance and planning, explains the reasons, based on
the College's choice to remain small yet of the highest quality.
She spoke on women’s rights, asked for stronger action
against slavery, and fought for American Indian rights. Jamie Stiehm
’82 talks about her love of the Quaker woman who helped found
the College and was a major player on every front of social progress.
