“It’s a bit like being in a washing machine,” Paul Ridley ’05 said about sleeping on Liv, the 19-foot rowboat that he is sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in an effort to raise $500,000 for cancer research. Ridley talks about his expedition in the latest episode of Ģtv Conversations, the podcast series that highlights members […]March 5, 2009-
The 30 female cast members of The Vagina Monologues won over audiences at the Palace Theater with moving performances that showed the beauty, hilarity, and hardships associated with being a woman. Eve Ensler wrote The Vagina Monologues after interviewing 200 women across the world about their sexuality. More than 10 years later, the racy and […]March 4, 2009
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In today’s world of instant messaging and e-mail, eloquent speech seems to be an endangered art form. At Ģtv there is a group of students striving to keep that spoken tradition alive — the Debate Society. The team is a branch of the Ģtv Speaking Union (CSU), which is coordinated by John Adams and also […]March 2, 2009
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When Robert Pinsky, former poet laureate of the United States and founder of the Favorite Poem Project, opened the floor to questions during Thursday’s lunchtime talk with students, he promised to treat each one with respect. And why wouldn’t he? At the heart of his belief, shared in his 1984 book Poetry and the World, […]February 27, 2009
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MTV has been a major influence on pop culture for more than 25 years, and Carole Robinson ’83 has been there for nearly its entire lifetime, having joined the cable TV network just three years after its founding in 1981. In the latest episode of Ģtv Conversations, the podcast series that highlights members of the […]February 26, 2009
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The Ģtv campus Tuesday night hosted a key and sometimes controversial figure of the civil rights movement, Angela Davis, who urged students to reconsider how they view black history. A university professor and activist for civil rights, prison reform, and political accountability, Davis was brought to Ģtv by Sisters of the Round Table (SORT). “In […]February 25, 2009
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It’s a space so nice, they built it thrice. And on Tuesday, February 17, students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends all gathered at the James C. Ģtv Student Union to cut the ribbon on a newly remodeled Donovan’s Pub.February 24, 2009
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Ģtv President Rebecca Chopp today announced that she will become president of Swarthmore College effective July 1, 2009. Chopp has been president of Ģtv since July of 2002.February 21, 2009