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BY JACQUELINE SMALL

In print | Published April 1, 2010

*Revived Homecoming, Family Weekend to come in fall *

Due to the absence of four of the 10 Student Council members, this week’s meeting was not considered an official assembly. Nevertheless, present members discussed several issues.

Family Weekend

At the meeting, StuCo members said that the administration wants StuCo to gather student feedback about a family weekend planned for the weekend after fall break.

Yesterday, President Rebecca Chopp sent out a campus-wide e-mail saying that there will be a “Garnet Homecoming and Family Weekend” from Oct. 22 to Oct. 24.

“The entire College community — alumni, families, friends, faculty, staff, and students — will join together to celebrate Swarthmore,” she said in the e-mail.

This tradition, which Chopp said has not happened since 1997, “will offer the opportunity to experience first-hand the many extraordinary activities and events the campus community enjoys during the year, including faculty lectures, exhibitions, performances, and athletic contest,” the e-mail said.

This change means that Family and Friends Weekend, as well as the Crum Regatta, will be in the fall instead of the spring.

During the StuCo meeting, there was confusion expressed about whether this would be in addition to the current annual Parents’ Weekend or a replacement for it. Rachel Bell ’10, StuCo President, said, “I know that in my experience, some students’ parents can’t come for various reasons.” Some members were concerned that families, especially those who live far away, would be unwilling to travel to campus so soon after fall break.

Campus Camp Wellstone

The meeting began when Anna Stitt ’13, a member of Earthlust, gave a brief presentation inviting StuCo to Campus Camp Wellstone, a two-day program that Deivid Rojas ’11, vice president of StuCo, called, “one of the best grassroots activism training in the US.”

The program will teach leadership development and methods of mobilizing people, among other activism lessons.

Paying StuCo members

Student Council continued its discussion about whether StuCo positions should be paid jobs in the future. There was a focus meeting in StuCo Lounge on Tuesday, and a letter to the editor for The Phoenix and the Daily Gazette about the possible benefits and disadvantages will be published this week.

StuCo is also considering sending students a survey and holding an open forum. StuCo may also publish fliers that list several of StuCo’s accomplishments. “I think you could be setting yourself up to get pretty flatly rejected… if there isn’t education [on this issue] before,” Leah Rethy ’10, who attended the meeting, said.

Budget pamphlet

StuCo will publish a pamphlet that lists current and upcoming budget cuts, which will be distributed next week.

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