BY JACQUELINE SMALL

In print | Published April 29, 2010

$90K in rollover funds to be spent

StuCo talked about how to use the money left over from the Student Activities Fund, which President Rachel Bell ’10 said “will probably be close to $90,000.” In past years, this money has gone into a capital replacement fund, which is used to repair and replace expensive items of property.

Because of the economic crisis last year, StuCo conducted a survey of the student body, which indicated the money should be put toward initiatives proposed by students. One of these was the Renewing Fund for Resource Conservation, which provides loans to environmentally-friendly initiatives, provided that they make back enough money to replenish the fund.

This year, they plan to contribute half the money to the capital replacement fund and then hold another survey in about a week, which will determine how the remainder of rollover money should be allocated.

In an e-mail sent to the student body, Bell said that this money could be used “to create an endowment for student initiatives. This endowment would create a fund to which individual students and student groups could apply for funding to implement proposals that would improve the quality of life at Swarthmore. … This could obviously mean many things, and could range from providing picnic tables behind Sharples for those warm fall and spring days to professionally cleaning Paces.”

Esther Burson ’10, educational policy representative, said she hoped they were not “getting into a paradox of choice situation.”

Arizona’s SB 1070

Student Council discussed the law recently passed in Arizona that makes “reasonable suspicion” grounds for a police officer to pull over someone and check for immigration documentation.

Members agreed to sign their names to two signs, which hang in Parrish and Sharples, that oppose this law. They will also generally support campus activism against it. “I think it would be a good idea to put our names out there,” said Deivid Rojas ’11, StuCo vice president.

Changes to StuCo position

Watufani Poe ’13, one of two Campus Life Representatives, suggested that changes be made to the position of Campus Life Representative to make it more accessible to the student body. Specifically, he said that these representatives should meet frequently with leaders of other student groups in order to better understand their concerns. Among other things, they should attend IC/BCC Coalition meetings so they could meet the leaders of the intercultural organizations.

This change, however, would require an amendment to the Student Council Constitution, so Burson suggested a trial period to see how effective it will be.

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