bitingthehand

We’d like to call for a broad and considered school-wide conversation that re-evaluates what types of decisions are important to students, evaluates why those decisions are important, and moves towards re-shaping the way students are included in -- and excluded from --

The College’s decision to contract security officers’ services from AlliedBarton in order to replace positions previously held by College employees raises so many red flags that there’s barely any room left on top of Parrish for Old Glory.

Given the disappearance of proposed Proposal Review committee, and the experience of one of our two Lang Center interns responsible for examining ethical purchasing guidelines, it’s hard not to worry that the student body has been baited-and-switched when it comes to ethical

Student Council members invest time and energy into functioning as our representatives and, you know what? We think it’s time to pay them. In fact, we should pay all our student representatives—committee members too.

Whatever you’re doing tomorrow, make it a point to go to SCI 199 at 7 PM tomorrow evening, where there will be a discussion about the College’s finances with Deans Jim Bock and Garikai Campbell. As students, we have—now—an opportunity to demand

Swarthmore students already attend school here at considerable expense, and seminar breaks are a lurking expenditure that isn’t technically required, but can’t be avoided for students taking a seminar. Naturally, the extent to which a student is capable of paying for seminar

We have begun to take our journalism for granted. Few students derive much pleasure from reading the majority of the journalism produced on this campus, and even fewer take an active part in its production. In this state of disrepair, journalism stagnates.