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BY JACQUELINE SMALL

In print | Published February 18, 2010

Meal points in Ville under review

Many people in the college community as well as restaurant owners in the Ville have discussed the possibility of allowing students to use the meal plan at certain local eateries.

Now, Student Groups Advisor Benjamin Francis ’12 said that, according to Director of Dining Services Linda McDougall, the only obstacle to using the meal plan at restaurants in the Ville is the college’s reluctance to buy the swipe machines for the businesses.

StuCo is considering buying the machines themselves, saying that it could be a significant improvement for relatively little money.

Snow policy

Esther Burson ’10, Educational Policy Representative, reported that she has heard many complaints about the college’s snow policy.

“If ‘non-essential’ staff and a lot of professors are gone, students do work that is meant for them, like tasks in the science labs,” she said.

She added that students are often not informed when professors cancel class and that it is unfair and unsafe for students who live off campus to have to walk to campus only to discover their class will not be held. Other students had expressed concerns that it was unfair that certain staff members, like those in Dining Services, are penalized for missing work. StuCo President Rachel Bell and StuCo Vice President Deivid Rojas planned to speak to Acting Dean of Students Garikai Campbell ’90 about these issues.

Board of Managers lunch

Bell and Rojas hoped to have an open lunch with the board of managers this Saturday, but were told it was too logistically difficult to have more than 18 students.

Bell said, “I was a bit frustrated with this,” and the council agreed to send an e-mail to administrators asking if they could help with the logistical difficulties.

They also discussed which StuCo members should attend and agreed that they should show the administration that students would be interested in going to the lunch. After a meeting on Tuesday, it was decided that the entire student body will be allowed to attend.

Financial aid pamphlet

StuCo Financial Policy Representative Dan Symonds ’11 has been working on creating a pamphlet about financial aid “to build transparency,” he said.

This would compare Swarthmore to other colleges and include the socioeconomic makeup of the student body.

He expressed hope that he would be able to get the help of a statistics professor to gain information.

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