From the beginning, Alston has worked closely with Vice President for College and Community Relations Maurice Eldridge '61 to make the chorus, and now the school, a reality. Eldridge, a lifelong educator, says both projects represent community building at its best.
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Michael S. Dukakis '55 spoke to a large LPAC crowd on Constitution Day about this year's historic presidential campaign and what is at stake.
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A community celebration of music and culture, featuring the bomba and plena sounds of Yerbabuena, took place in Upper Tarble this week. Dozens of students, faculty, and staff followed the exhortations of the Boricua roots music group to join in the singing and dancing. "The last thing that will come to your mind while at a Yerbabuena event is that you're watching a show," says Assistant Dean Rafael Zapata, director of the Intercultural Center and one of the sponsors of the event. "It feels more like a cross between a jam in the park, a spiritual ceremony and a family reunion." (video by June Xie '11)
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In his welcome to parents of the Class of 2012, Dean of Students Jim Larimore discusses how what he learned of the "formative and transformative experiences of being a Swarthmore undergraduate" first led him to the College. Now in what he describes as his "junior year," he says, "The experience that your daughters and sons begin today as members of the Swarthmore community will be beyond comparison."
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The dome for the new Peter van de Kamp Observatory literally capped off the College's LEED-certified Science Center when it was installed this month. The facility, in which students will be able to pursue their own research projects, now just awaits the arrival of its 24"-telescope, set for later this fall.Music by Bear is Driving (Chris Conaway '02, guitar; Dan Consiglio '03, keyboard; Corey Mark '02, drums; Erik Osheim '03, bass)
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Headlines
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- Live Chat with Admissions Dean Jim Bock '90
- Japanese Cafe Culture Discussed by Asso. Prof. William Gardner
- Swarthmore College Hosts Event on Future Black Studies
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Voices that Matter One winter morning last year, Hansi Lo Wang '09 was conducting a phone interview in Lodge 6, just behind Bond Hall, when he heard something on the other end of the line that shocked him: the tattoo of gunfire, frighteningly close. "You all right? Are you OK?" Wang asked the person to whom he was speaking, a freelance Iraqi cameraman named Isam Rasheed.
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Faculty Lecture Podcast
Professor Tyrene White describes the regulatory framework within which China's NGO's have begun to operate and the strategies sometimes used to be allowed to
register.Featured Events Podcast
Maurice Eldridge '61 describes how his efforts to help Associate Professor of Music John Alston expand upon the successful model of the Chester Children's Chorus culminated this fall with the opening of the Chester Upland School of the Arts.Music Podcast
Listen to the Swarthmore College Fetter Chamber Music Ensemble perform Johannes Brahms' Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8.Featured Blogs
Swatify Yourself Katherine Lam '11
writes about her day-to-day happenings, classes, the weather, dorm life, and friends.
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