Student Council's revitalized bike program begins this week. It had begun last fall, but was hampered by maintenance difficulties when Swarthmore Cycles went bankrupt.
StuCo discussed the bike share program, problems with cleanup following Saturday's Halloween party, and plans to investigate the costs associated with allowing students to use meal points in the ville.
The Writing Center has launched a new program on writing workshops in Chester at the College Access Center, which provides a variety of free services for preparing students for college. In this new project, three Writing Associates conduct weekly workshops with a
Dare 2 Soar, which provides tutoring and mentoring to Chester youth, has discontinued their Columbus Elementary School site, while trying to launch a new site at Chester High School.
Painter, writer and Holocaust survivor Samuel Bak spoke last week on his past and his art currently being exhibited in the List Gallery. Having spend his adolescence witnessing genocide, Bak’s works focus on the impact of the Holocaust on the Jewish people
On Monday, George Akerlof delivered a lecture in Sci 101 on new methods of economic thinking. He argued that the current economic crisis has shown economics needs to rethink its basic assumptions.
“Would Walter Cronkite Have Tweeted?” Cindi Leive, ’88, editor-in-chief of Glamour magazine asked family, friends and alumni at Garnet Weekend. Leive gave this year’s Thomas B. McCabe Lecture on “Old Media, New Media and What You Should Know about Everything You Read.”
Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno of the activist group the Yes Men, who conduct pranks to bring awareness to important social issues, gave a lecture Thursday on their work, including collaborations with two Swatties at the Copenhagen climate change conference last year.