May 2007 - Page 3

Come this January, Swarthmore's Information Technology Services department will have a new director. After 20 years of working at Swarthmore, Judy Downing is preparing to retire. "I always said I would retire as soon as I had grandchildren, and I just became

Pericles Project grants to create sustainable projects for Darfur, Ecuador. Two student-organized groups, the Darfur Radio Project and the Village Education Project, were recently awarded grants of $25,000 each to support their sustainable social action programs.

The men's tennis team has not only earned a berth in the 2007 NCAA Regionals; Swarthmore has also been selected to host the first three rounds of its portion of [...]

Historian Harvey Neptune spoke gave the tenth annual Jerry Wood Memorial Lecture yesterday. Wood taught American and Latin American history at Swarthmore from 1970 to 1996 and was a trailblazer in the field of Latin American Studies.

Linda Echols has worked at Swarthmore for 26 years. Come this fall, however, Worth Health Center will have a new director. Linda Echols is retiring from Swarthmore.

The controversial election was good for voter turnout, with 953 students voting. The election for Educational Policy Representative resulted in a dead tie a run-off election for this position later this week. Full results are presented at the end of this report;

The Amos J. Peaslee Debate Society ends another successful semester. On April 6 and 7, the Debate Society hosted a tournament of about forty teams from schools around the country. [...]