1998 - 1997 - 1996

1998
March Associate Provost Emeritus and Associate Dean of the College Gilmore Stott still comes to work in Parrish Hall.	June Professor Richard Schuldenfrei says he's not a philosopher—he just teaches philosophy. The ideas he brings to class come from a pantheon of great thinkers, some of whom surround him here.	September The campus that never was: This fanciful rendering of a proposed amphitheater, which looks like it should be in a public park, was drawn for Swarthmore in the 1920s.	December New head football coach Peter Alvanos wants the Garnet Tide to “play with one heartbeat.”

1997
March Odetta performs in the Pearson-Hall Theatre of the Lang Performing Arts Center, January 1996.	June The Future of Dying: Physician and Supreme Court plaintiff Thomas Preston ’55.	September There's a lot of action on campus during the summer—and not all of it on the playing field.	December Faces Like Mine: Conversations about identity and diversity at Swarthmore

1996
February Virtuoso Computing: Neil Gershenfeld ’81 is a physicist, not a cellist. He says, “Any real cellist would be appalled by how I'm holding the instrument.”	May This 1993 theater poster by Polish artist Andrzej Majewski is part of the collection exhibited this winter by poster collector—and assistant professor of theater—Allen Kuharski.	August The current “get tough” approach to fighting drug abuse in this country isn't working, say political scientist Kenneth Sharpe and former student Eva Bertram.	November Nadia Murray ’00 holds a treasured picture of herself and her mother, who died when Nadia was 15. It’s one of many “things from home” brought by first-year students.