"Sweet Sweet Honey" by Joe Raciti '05.
Time: 3 min
President Bloom answered a variety of questions at a lively session during Alumni Weekend 2009. The subjects he addressed include how to ensure diversity on campus (:50), the breadth of Swarthmore's academic curriculum (6:20), and the future of the liberal arts education (11:50).
Time: 21 min
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At Swarthmore's 137th commencement on May 31, 2009, President Alfred H. Bloom awarded degrees to 384 undergraduates. more
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The 2009 senior class speaker, as voted by his classmates, was Sonny Sidhu '09, who graduated with a major in film and media studies and dual minors in history and religion. In his introduction, President Bloom remarked on his "passion for exploring the potential of human-computer interactions to alter and enrich human experience."
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In awarding Mary Schmidt Campbell '69, dean of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and professor and chair of art and public policy, the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, President Bloom described her as "a tireless champion of artists and the arts, a powerful educator, an esteemed scholar, and a visionary interpreter of the role of artistic expression in our cultural, ethical, and political lives."
Time: 8 min
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Headlines
- Rebecca Chopp Begins Term as College's 14th President
- Modern Languages Launches New Web Site
- Listen: Psychologist Barry Schwartz Discusses "Essence of Happiness"
- Honors Program Noted for Rigor, Distinctive Nature
- Hunter Bandy '07 Awarded Liebmann Fellowship
- Listen: Political Scientist Darius Rejali '81 Discusses Torture and Democracy
- Sociologist Braulio Munoz Honored for Work of Historical Fiction
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Skyscrapers and Emptiness Although he does not have any Jewish ancestry he is aware of, Zadara sees Jewish-Polish culture-which once stood on the brink of annihilation-as part of his heritage.
Podcasts
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Music professor Barbara Milewski examines a selection of extermination camp songs created by Krystyna Zywulska during her imprisonment and the contexts in which they were created. She also considers the stylistic qualities that lent Zywulska's post-war writings, including I Survived Auschwitz, their force and the extent to which they were developed in the works she created in Birkenau.Featured Events Podcast
After an introduction by Sven-David Udekwu '09, Professor of Spanish Aurora Camacho de Schmidt delivered the Last Collection during the 2009 Commencement Weekend. Speakers at this address, an assembly-style gathering, are chosen by the senior class.Music Podcast
Listen to the Swarthmore College Fetter Chamber Music Ensemble perform Felix Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 49.Featured Blogs
Beijing 2009 Five students on Freeman Fellowships share their reflections and experiences from Beijing as they explore how its citizens "work with, around, and through government policy."
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