What is the deal with Swathmore?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I graduated from Swarthmore quite a while ago, but I have to say these news items don't surprise me. I thought I was liberal as a teenager, and in fact have been a lifelong Democrat, but I was considered right of center at Swarthmore. For instance, in the '90s there was an angry debate on campus about whether or not there should be an American flag on top of the main campus building. A number of students felt that they could not support what an American flag represented.

It was not a good fit for me in the end, because of its *truly* excessive academic intensity and its failure to direct students to anything other than academia/med school after graduation. It had small classes and I made some good friends, but I can't say I would recommend it for my kids.

AFter one gets through all of the prior "useless" posts (several of which were mean spirited) this post has the informtion that the original post had intended to solicit.....thanks for this constructive information

How nice -- constructive information that just happens to agree with your liberal-baiting post! What a coincidence that it is exactly what you "intended to solicit"!

Wow. I am late to this dog fight but interesting responses. While debate the pros/cons about this, no one can dsipute the fact taht the videos in the link truly reflect the culture of this school. I suspect that is what the OP was driving at with regard to the original posting. Later postings have made it clear..."this school ain't for faint at heart conservative!"

[Anonymous]

OP, you already know that schools have different cultures. You already know what Swarthmore's culture is like, because it was you who posted the video.

So what exactly are you looking for here? Not info, apparently. Are you hoping we'll all jump on the bandwagon and condemn Swarthmore? Ain't gonna happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, you already know that schools have different cultures. You already know what Swarthmore's culture is like, because it was you who posted the video.

So what exactly are you looking for here? Not info, apparently. Are you hoping we'll all jump on the bandwagon and condemn Swarthmore? Ain't gonna happen.

Troll Alert

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have any thoughts about Swathmore? At one point we were considering this place but we've been hearing alot lately about the place. The below posts recently came out. Shocking to hear to studnets take over a board meeting. We thought that was all over in 60s...!

Needless to say we won't be applying there.....


Speaker cancels and rejects honory degree due to protests

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/13126/


Students storm into and take over meeting.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/348110/swarthmore-spinning-out-control-videos

It's a black eye for the school. Makes them all look likea bunch of pampered liberal hypocrites who don't believe in free speech.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And you will pay $60,000 a year to have your dc live in this environment for 4 years. Not worth it!

Yes, better send your dc to liberty university!!! Or home school college!

Or St. Mary's in Maryland since it didn't fill its freshman class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you already know that schools have different cultures. You already know what Swarthmore's culture is like, because it was you who posted the video.

So what exactly are you looking for here? Not info, apparently. Are you hoping we'll all jump on the bandwagon and condemn Swarthmore? Ain't gonna happen.

Troll Alert

Because you like being challenged, you call troll. Classy. If you're not OP, then you tell us what OP is expecting to get out of a thread where OP lays out all the facts right at the start.

[Anonymous]

Love Swarthmore and every Swattie I've ever met. But then I went to Bryn Mawr, so I may as well get those little devil horn implants, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have any thoughts about Swathmore? At one point we were considering this place but we've been hearing alot lately about the place. The below posts recently came out. Shocking to hear to studnets take over a board meeting. We thought that was all over in 60s...!

Needless to say we won't be applying there.....


Speaker cancels and rejects honory degree due to protests

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/13126/


Students storm into and take over meeting.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/348110/swarthmore-spinning-out-control-videos

It's a black eye for the school. Makes them all look likea bunch of pampered liberal hypocrites who don't believe in free speech.

Wait - they were exercising their own right to free speech. You look like a conservative hypocrite for whining about it.

[Anonymous]

This was not Swarthmore's finest moment; a small minority of students mischaracterized Zoellick's involvement in the Iraq War while ignoring his many years of public service. Other students then spoke up in defense of Zoellick -- http://daily.swarthmore.edu/2013/04/11/op-ed-open-letter-to-robert-zoellick-75/ -- , but, unfortunately, the damage had been done. That said, however, OP's whole-cloth dismissal of student activism -- "I thought that was over in the '60s" --is pathetic and un-American: the exercise of free speech through non-violent protest is a fundamental right of all Americans. Throughout our history such action has galvanized our country to fight injustic and violence. In the '60s student protestors helped end Jim Crow and the Vietnam War, in the '70s they stirred Americans to accept responsibility for protecting our environment, and in the '80s they pushed colleges and universities to divest their assets in South Africa and thus to help end apartheid. I hope that our American tradition of speaking out isn't over.

[Anonymous]

DH and I went to top Ivies. Honestly, we always thought of Swarthmore as a junior women's college -- like a Pine Manor for Quakers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH and I went to top Ivies. Honestly, we always thought of Swarthmore as a junior women's college -- like a Pine Manor for Quakers.

Then you were misinformed because it has been co-ed since it was founded in 1864.

You are thinking of Skidmore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH and I went to top Ivies. Honestly, we always thought of Swarthmore as a junior women's college -- like a Pine Manor for Quakers.

You mean Pine Mattress?

[Anonymous]

Look folks. You don't want a liberal college? Don't go to one. No one is forcing you to attend a college you don't want to attend. What is your purpose of your post other than blowing air?

[Anonymous]

I went to Haverford. Swarthmore was our local rival, but as good academically as Haverford (and Bryn Mawr) are, Swarthmore was better, more selective but also more intense.

These sorts of protests happen all the time and have for decades. This one just happened to be particularly viral. If your dc is looking at slacs, this shouldn't discourage him/her.

[Anonymous]

Swarthmore does not tolerate diversity of thought/opinions or freedom of speech:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324216004578483080076663720.html