With the advance of biotechnology, the fanciful is becoming increasingly real. Although not perfected, cloning—once the stuff of science fiction—has become ever more possible.

The 2003 Swarthmore calendar—mailed to alumni, parents, and friends of the College in November—is titled Through Student Eyes. Its images of the College were all taken by students, mostly during the week of Sept. 9.

A new liberal arts college opened on Sept. 8, 1999. Stretching over several city blocks, it has classrooms, laboratories, and sports facilities—including an Olympic-sized pool. There’s an 800-seat auditorium, a cafeteria, state-of-the-art library, computer center, and a house of worship.

Ask Margaret “Maggy” Reno Hurchalla to discuss her career, and “professional grandmother” is the first job title she mentions.

As fascism and war infected Europe in the 1930s and 1940s, millions fled their homes to escape persecution and violence. Only a fraction of those uprooted managed to settle in the United States, yet among them were a remarkable number of scholars—many of them Jewish.

Sometimes, when I need an easy answer, I blame it all on Shamu. Every summer, when I was a child, my dad would drive my younger sister, Randi, and me to Sea World in Aurora, Ohio, to watch the famous Orca whale perform.

Karima Wilson ’03 has always known that there was something just a little bit different about her. “I grew up as part of a biracial family in a very segregated town—Birmingham, Ala.,” she said. “Especially in Birmingham, everyone who’s not black or white is put into this amorphous category.”