Ms. Charette, a Robert L. Bartley fellow at the Journal in 2012, is a junior at Swarthmore College.

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He studied art and art history at Swarthmore College and started his label in 2008, after working as designer Riccardo Tisci's assistant at Givenchy.

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When his father's income dropped last year, Aldo Frosinini anticipated his aid package from Swarthmore College would be more generous for his coming sophomore year.

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Why buy a science lecture when you can download a syllabus from NASA, the Discovery Channel or PBS for free, or plug into Swarthmore College's math education library?

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"It's now easy for us to see how other people around the world live, not just how our neighbors live, " says Barry Schwartz, a professor of psychology at Swarthmore College.

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"Small languages are using social media, YouTube, text messaging and various technologies to expand their voice and expand their presence, " said K David Harrison, an associate professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College and a National Geographic Fellow.

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This could work for those in the early stages of the disease, but eventually there comes a point where people with Alzheimer's no longer recognize their lives as their own, said Barry Schwartz, professor of social action and social theory at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

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Student activists at Harvard, Swarthmore, Tufts, Williams, and other colleges have demanded their college endowments to disclose and in some cases divest its holdings of companies active in Sudan however college activists are strangely silent on Iran, a nation with at least as bad a human rights record as Sudan and one that provides all forms of aid to terrorists and insurgents who are killing Americans every day.

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