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2008
March The growth of environmentalism on campus is symbolized by a sapling that rises from the sculpted stump of one of the College’s oldest trees—the Bender Oak. The sculpture is by Marty Long. The cover illustration is a photomontage by Andrew Pinkham.	June	September	December

2007
March In March 1965, a young demonstrator in Montgomery, Ala., with the word “vote” written in his sunscreen, marches for black voting rights—part of a long struggle for black suffrage in the United States. (Photograph ©Bettmann-Corbis.)	June As [You] Are: Swarthmore Students Today. Carlos Villafuerte ’08 of Los Angeles, Calif. listens to “Shine a Little Love” by Electric Light Orchestra on his iPod. Of himself, he says, “I can cook, tango, and massage. (Photograph by Eleftherios Kostans.)	September Artist Alexandra Grant ’94 in her studio in The Women's Building in Los Angeles. (Photograph by Tierney Gearon)	December Chinese men atop an observation platform point at the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River—and at China’s powerful future. (Photograph by Jeffrey Lott.)

2006
March Survival of a Gumbo Culture. (Story by Joe Thompson ’86. Photos by Eleftherios Kostans)	June The Spirit of Vietnam. Independent, confident, and unified, Vietnam is a country on the move. Text and photos by Jeffrey Lott)	September Millions of people around the world wear, eat, drink, sing, and dance American—seduced by all things “Made in U.S.A.” Read about America, the Überpower by Josef Joffe ’65. (Illustration by Daron Parton.)	December Truth in Translation, a project of director Michael Lessac ’61, explores the process of healing after violent civil conflict has torn a society. (Photo by Jeff Barbee/Black Star.)

2005
March During Swarthmore’s Extern Program in January, Jordan Shakeshaft ’05 (center) worked with students in an after-school program run by the Harlem Educational Activities Fund. (Photo by Sam Erickson ’88).	June One man was dead, and Elizabeth Probasco Kutchai ’66 had to help decide the fate of another. (Photo by Jen Fariello.)	September "The Earthen Spirit" How “green spirituality” can inform the environmental movement by Mark Wallace. (Photo by Eleftherios Kostans)	December The Alice Paul Residence Hall opened in fall 2004. The Philadelphia Inquirer architecture critic Inga Saffron discusses how this modern structure fits aesthetically on Swarthmore’s historic campus. (Photo by Robert Benson, courtesy of William Rawn Associates.

2004
March A Natural Choice: Nurse-midwives recognize that birth is not an illness but a normal process.Cover illustration: ©2004 Marlene Rudginsky/Water Spider Designs, http://www.waterspider.net	June This Warholesque image of Swarthmore’s Adirondack chairs first appeared on the front page of the April 15 Phoenix, which is offering full-color glossy prints starting at $10. For information, e-mail Phoenix@swarthmore.edu	September Dan Wasserman ’71 is a political cartoonist for The Boston Globe. More of his work appears in “How We Vote,” our cover story for this issue.	December A Swarthmore Tapestry. Cover photos show the featured alumni in alphabetical order starting at top left

2003
March The 32nd annual English-Scottish Ball is the highlight of the folk-dance season at Swarthmore. (Photo by Eleftherios Kostans.	June The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is the nearest galaxy to the Milky Way—and the only one visible from Earth with the naked eye. Photo by Bill Schoening, Vanessa Harvey/REU program/ NOAO/AURA/NSF.	September The international theme of this issue of the Bulletin is captured in this illustration by Steve Dininno <i>(Corbis).</i>	December Two Swarthmore students were among 32 participants in the spring 2003 International Honors Program. All 32 posed in a circle at the closing ceremony in Curitiba, Brazil. (Photo provided by Ricardo Ocampo ’05 and Esther Zeledon ’04.)

2002
March World Vision: Dan Aubry ’57 has circled the planet in search of great pictures. On the cover: Children on a tramp steamer photographed by Daniel Aubry.	June Pig Iron Theatre Co. leaps onto national and international stages.	September Are You a Renaissance Soul? Swarthmoreans find a way to juggle many interests.	December 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.

2001
March “The best way to teach stewardship is by example,” says biologist Roger Latham ’83 of the effort to preserve Swarthmore's priceless Crum Woods.	June International students adjust to another culture: Olga Rostapshova ’02, a Russian citizen and a U.S. permanent resident, feels most at home on the campus under the Wharton Hall magnolia trees.	September High Stakes for Education: Can federally mandated testing improve learning in America’s public schools?	December War and Peace. This issue focuses on the many aspects of peace including the study of peace and the effects of the September 11, 2001 tragedies on the College community and alumni.

2000
March Correspondence between alumni and their former professors ranges from the personal to the professional. Have you written home to Swarthmore lately?	June Eva Allan ’00 made the “harp room” in the Lang Music Building, next to the Crum Woods, her home at Swarthmore. The Bulletin asks Eva and others in the Class of 2000 what they are taking away from Swarthmore.	September Kathryn Morgan was Swarthmore's first African-American professor. After nearly a decade of retirement, she speaks about her struggles and joys at Swarthmore.	December Artist Patrick Dougherty wove hundreds of saplings into a 50-foot environmental sculpture in front of Trotter Hall.

1999
March This portrait by Mildred Miller is among 300 of her works recently donated to the College.	June Choreographer and dancer Sasha Welsh ’99 has some new partners—digital dancers.	September Nathan Florence ’94, a modern painter with a classic style, captures a perennial Swarthmore summer activity—construction work—in his 1996 painting, now in the collection of the College.	December Physicist and theologian Ian Barbour ’44 has spent a lifetime trying to bridge the conflicts between religion and science.

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.