For this survey, we took a look at some of the issues of the past decades that filled the Letters to the Editor section of the Swarthmorean with the most passion and words. The survey showed consensus or near consensus on the most recent bones of contention.

Respondents to our most recent survey, about Joe Biden’s vice presidential pick, were internally divided.

Last week we asked for your recommendations on great ways to fill some of the expanses of time many of us seem to have looming in front of us. We’ve assembled some of the responses: the recommendation itself and, for context, how the recommender completed the sentence “You’ll like it if you like…”

You love it but you don’t use it. That’s one way to view the results of Unscientific Survey No. 3, about the Swarthmore Community Center. The SCC’s lease from Swarthmore College is ending as of August, and with the organization’s future uncertain, we asked you about your use of and thoughts about it.

The pronunciation of “Swarthmore” — both the borough and the college — has long been a subject of disagreement and sometimes contention. There are those who pronounce both r’s in the word, and those, like SEPTA conductors, who drop the first one and say it “Swathmore.” We now have the survey results, and the R’s have it.