- Hopkins: Getting bin Laden is Not the Target (September 24, 2001)
...... - Swarthmore Shuts Down Web Sites of Students Publicizing Company's Voting-Machine Memos (October 27, 2003)
...Swarthmore College last week temporarily shut down the network connections of two students wh... - Swarthmore Groups Told to Nix Links to Memos (October 23, 2003)
...Swarthmore College, a school with a history of passive resistance, is drawing the line at "el... - Students Fight E-Vote Firm (October 21, 2003)
...A group of students at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania has launched an "electronic civil disobedience" campaign a... - E-Vote Protest Gains Momentum (October 28, 2003)
...Swarthmore College students embroiled in a legal battle against voting machine-maker Diebold... - Diebold Threatens Publishers of Leaked Documents (October 27, 2003)
...o be weak, she worries about a chilling effect. Angered last week after Swarthmore College told them they could not link to the documents from college-sponsored site... - NION: Return of College Peaceniks (October 8, 2002)
... from the political process," says Jeffrey Murer, a political scientist at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. The marginalization of such protests as the Million Mom M... - Military Action May Get Peace Movement Rolling (September 2, 2002)
... about policy change," said Micah White, who with a handful of students at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania runs the Internet site why-war.com. "That has been ack... - The Revolutionary Music of Evan Greer (December 20, 2003)
...songs that complain about capitalism." Greer is currently a Freshman at Swarthmore College outside of Philadelphia. Since leaving his warm network of Boston, he has... - Bush Talks Security, Protesters Skeptical (March 31, 2003)
...sters voiced any expectation that their shouts would stop the war, retired Swarthmore College Russian literature professor Thompson Bradley, 68, said that wasn't the po... - Thinkers Launch Anti-Empire Drive (October 27, 2003)
...elations (CFR) and Kenneth Sharpe, a prominent foreign-policy analyst from Swarthmore College in Philadelphia. The launch of the coalition, which intends to recruit... - Web as Political Force (December 5, 2002)
...old Andrew Main, who founded Why War? with a handful of fellow students at Swarthmore College shortly after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. Disenchanted by the Bush... - The Tyranny of Copyright? (January 25, 2004)
...Last fall, a group of civic-minded students at Swarthmore College received a sobering lesson in the future of political protest. They had co... -
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Swarthmore College
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Swarthmore College is a small liberal arts college located in the town of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. It was founded in 1863 by the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and has been a co-educational institution from its beginning. Swarthmore dropped its religious affiliation and became officially non-sectarian in the early 20th Century.
Swarthmore is consistently rated as one of the best liberal arts colleges in the country and is particularly noted for its External Examiners Honors program and its engineering department. Its sprawling campus is home to Scott Arboretum and includes a variety of rare species of trees and plants.
Swarthmore is a member of the Tri-College consortium of liberal arts colleges, along with Bryn Mawr College and Haverford College. Trico as a whole is additionally affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania.
Swarthmore is the alma mater of three Nobel Prize-winners (biologists David Baltimore and Howard Temin, and chemist Christian Anfinsen) as well as novelist James A. Michener, philanthropist Eugene Lang, computer visionary Ted Nelson (who coined the term hypertext), author Jonathan Franzen, U.S. Senator Carl Levin, 1988 Democratic Presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, and composer Peter Schickele (P.D.Q. Bach).
The name 'Swarthmore' has its roots in early Quaker history. Swarthmoor Hall, in Cumbria, England, was the home of Thomas and Margeret Fell in 1652 when George Fox, fresh from his epiphany atop Pendle Hill in 1651, came to visit. The visitation turned into a long association as Fox persuaded Thomas and Margeret Fell and the inhabitants of the nearby village of Fenmore of Friendly teachings, and Swarthmoor was used for the first Friends' meetings.
External Links
- www.swarthmore.edu (Swarthmore College homepage)
- http://www.swarthmoorhall.co.uk/history.htm (History of Swarthmoor Hall)