About SCCS
We're the Swarthmore College Computer Society, or SCCS for short: a student-run group offering computing services, tools, toys, and information to the Swarthmore College community. Our goal is not to mirror ITS, but to complement and supplement widely available services by providing resources that would otherwise be out of the reach of individuals. For our part, SCCS Staff learn extremely practical system administration and software development skills—the stuff you can't learn in a CS lecture.
Our Services
- The Cygnet: The Swarthmore College student directory
- The RSD: A daily email with news, events, jobs, and more
- Course Planner: Plan your schedule for next semester
- Mailing Lists: Distribute emails to clubs and student groups
- GPA Calculator: Quickly calculate your Swarthmore GPA
- SCCS Sites: Create sites with Wordpress
- Minecraft: The Swarthmore College Minecraft server
- Advanced: Some more goodies for the tech-savvy
Who We Are
SCCS is run entirely by student volunteers. We're not affiliated with Swarthmore ITS nor the Computer Science department (although our staff are sometimes CS majors, for obvious reasons). We accept new members in the first few weeks of each semester.
Executive Board
- President: Thomas Makin '25
- VP, Finance (Treasurer): Theo Yochum '27
- VP, Human Capital: George Fang '26
- VP, Infrastructure: Leo Douhovnikoff '25
- VP, Program Management: Victor Sumano Arango '25
- VP, Public Relations: Lily Davoren '25
- VP, Software Engineering: Damian Rene '27
- VP, System Architecture: Jhovani Gallardo Moreno '25
Project Leads
3D Campus Map
- Aidan Corpus '26
- Ava Babcock '27
AirPool
- Finn McKibbin '27
Reserved Students Digest
- Jhovani Gallardo Moreno '25
Course Planner
- Victor Sumano Arango '25
SwatSwap
- Eli Young '26
Staff
- Adi Chattopadhyay '27
- Adrian Duran Rey '27
- Ahmad Fayyaz '27
- Alina Vykliuk '26
- Allison Chong '26
- Carson Lin '27
- Dylan Jacobs '27
- Eli Young '26
- Ethan Pang '27
- George Fang '26
- Gia Kwon '27
- Jamie Pickar '26
- Jasmine Fan '25
- Jefrey Torres '26
- Joey Alander '27
- Jonathon Cubus '26
- Katelynn Swaim '25
- Lisa Farley '26
- Nick Fettig '26
- Philip Dinh '26
- Vahan Tadevosyan '27
- Yana Outkin '26
History
SCCS was founded in Fall 1991 by a group of Swarthmore students, who obtained an official charter from the Student Budget Committee for the Spring 1992 semester. We were founded, in part, to support the activities of students in Dana and Hallowell who had decided to create an AppleTalk network by stringing phone cable between rooms. Approximately 32 Macintoshes on 4 floors (3 in Hallowell, 1 in Dana) were on the network, as was one heavy-duty laser printer—two years before the College network came into being. Gobs of time were spent diagnosing the many network outages that occurred on an almost-daily basis (usually due to cables being clamped by window frames).
In the more than 30 years since, we've swapped buildings, upgraded our hardware, and expanded our Staff. We're no longer stringing phone cable through dorms, but we're still having fun and providing useful facilities and services for our fellow students. Check us out in Clothier basement!