We are concerned that our readers have become complacent due to our insistence on reporting actual news and previewing events that will actually occur. Maybe it’s time to include alternative facts as well as truth in our pages. With this edition, The Swarthmorean ventures into the murky world of fake news, presenting a couple of stories that aren’t true, but maybe could be.

The Swarthmorean, which at 126 years old is among the longest publishing Pennsylvania newspapers, has been sold again, following a change of ownership at the beginning of this year. This time the buyer is Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and reputedly the richest man in the world. The Swarthmorean joins the Washington Post among Bezos’s newspaper holdings.