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BY MENGHAN JIN

In print | Published October 7, 2010

Dash for Cash

Elizabeth Hamilton ’12 and Dennis Fan ’11, captains of the women’s and men’s rugby teams, attended the Student Council meeting again this week to request that StuCo send out a survey to the entire student body for input on the possibility of bringing back Dash for Cash. This biannual tradition in which members of the rugby teams streak through Parrish was discontinued last year due to the participation of the men’s team in an unrelated streaking incident.

“We would like to hold Dash for Cash again,” Hamilton said. “It was a lot of fun; we’d like to make some money, but we realize that it can be a problematic event for many people.”

According to Hamilton, Myrt Westphal, Associate Dean for Student Life, advised the rugby teams to go through Student Council first before going to the administration. “She seemed to think that if after we had this survey and possibly had some discussion . . . if then Student Council was comfortable saying to the deans that you would approve Dash for Cash, then we’d be in a stronger position talking to them ourselves,” Hamilton said.

However, because not all members were present at the meeting, StuCo was unable to vote on whether or not to send out a survey on rugby’s behalf. Deivid Rojas ’11, StuCo vice president, suggested Hamilton and Fan come back with a written resolution on how they want StuCo to help at the next meeting.

Board of Managers Meeting

All StuCo members who attended the Board of Managers meeting on Saturday found their discussions about a variety of issues related to Swarthmore productive and helpful.

“It went pretty well. The Board of Managers just generally seemed to want to hear a lot of our opinions. We talked and disagreed on some things and agreed on others. I thought it was pretty productive,” said Educational Policy Representative Sean Thakurdeen ’11.

This being his third Board of Managers meeting, Rojas found the meeting to be the best in student-board interaction.

Other members, though, found some shortcomings to the efficiency of the discussions with the Board. “I just didn’t see how it would shape up in the real world and what Swarthmore can actually do about it,” Student Events Advisor Luis Penate ’13 said. “They were actually a bit cynical, I would say.”

StuCo will send out an e-mail to all students recapping their experience at the Board meeting.

Parrish Board Space

Anna Stitt ’13, Student Groups Advisor, reported that all requests for board space in the Parrish East and West wings have been submitted.

Stitt and several other StuCo members will meet with Assistant Coordinator of Student Activities Paury Flowers and her assistants this week to map out a plan for the allocation of board space. An event will then be held sometime after fall break to allow student groups to revamp old or create new board space.

State of Televisions on Campus

Rojas sent out an e-mail last week to all Resident Advisors asking for an update on the condition of televisions in their halls. Most RAs have responded and currently, only one dorm has functioning cable, and the televisions and DVD players in some dorms are defective.

StuCo will contact Stu Hain, Vice President for Facilities and Services, about the next steps to take in repairing televisions on campus.

BikeShare program

Next weekend, Rojas will meet with Jeff Cao ’10, Chester Neighborhood Bike Works coordinator, to try to revive the Bike Share program that has been running with just two functional bikes for three weeks now.

He hopes that Cao and Bike Works will assist the program, but if not, StuCo must search for another solution.

“Other solutions will probably be. . . first, proposing to SBC to give us money again to buy more bikes and second, trying to see if there are any students interested that we can employ to take care of repairing bikes,” Rojas said.

No concrete solution will be made until Rojas discusses the possibilities of the Bike Share program with Cao.

Aerobics

Leila Bengali ’11 and Adriana Popa ’12 requested funding for a Fall II section of Aerobics. Due to recent budget cuts, the administration was forced to reduce the PE class to just once each semester.

“Aerobics is very, very heavily attended,” Bengali said. “It’s very popular; everyone I talked to really enjoys it.”

To add another section though, Bengali and Popa would need to figure out logistics with the PE department and StuCo. But they were unsure of whether they could work that out before the Fall II section, which starts right after Fall break.

Ben Hattem ’12, Financial Policy Representative, suggested for the two to form an aerobics group and go through SBC to get funding. “I would say, almost certainly, the way to go about this in the long-term is to get a charter group and an instructor budget. Those are both pretty straightforward SBC [processes],” he said.

PE credit for the group will have to be worked out with the athletics department, but StuCo advised Bengali and Popa to work with SBC in the meantime to form an aerobics group.

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