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April 3, 2008
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Admissions selectivity on the rise, lower yield expected
Once again this year, Swarthmore’s admissions acceptance rate has dropped to an all-time low. The college received 6,118 applications this year for the class of 2012 and admitted only 15 percent, a two percent decrease from last year’s acceptance rate of 17 percent.
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News
- Highly attended talk by conservative ‘modesty’ author Wendy Shalit draws big crowds and even bigger questions
- Event series on Islam begins
- Luce scholarship for Asian study awarded to two students
- 3rd annual Tri-Co Peace Week to include panel on Iran-US relations, benefit concert by State Radio, and MLK Jr.
- Gaw named head of anti-genocide STAND
- Sawyer, Stoller take highest award at Skidmore debate tournament; Mahomva, Felizardo win second for novice
- Spirited mascot contest ends with ‘phoenix’ debut
- New publications vie for student interest, funding
- Delay in annual animal research report, still in compliance with AWA guidelines
- Man ban at Harvard gym
Living & Arts
- cartoon
- Exploring Africa
- Mouth water for fans of Animal Collective
- Blitzen Trapper
- Horton hears a success
- No shame in drag in the post-feminist era
- Le’s comeback recital
- Chalkings of a majority
- Food for thought: Sharples etiquette 101, continued
- Yoga symposium calls together practitioners, flexes body and mind
- Spike at the mike
- Students document a Screw to remember
- Miao tells the ‘Truth’ about exiled Chinese journalist
- Editor’s picks
Opinions
- Israel and Palestine
- Op-art
- Boycott Olympics over Darfur
- Young black academic elite have lost touch with reality
- U.S. athletes not martyrs
- U.S. and China need more dialogue
- Homophobia at Genderfuck Party
- Sager loses sight of symposium
- Unwelcome education
Sports
- Men’s track team comes out strong
- Women’s track team impresses in spring opener
- Women’s lacrosse drops two against tough opponents
- Softball plays busy stretch
- Robotic Referees?
- Baseball blasts Washington, falls to Hopkins
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