Public Intervention: Swarthmore College
In light of our frustration with the proposal rejections for our class, dealing with the college's bureaucracy, and staging a public intervention around that idea... I was reminded of this very much current issue that a nearby college (and a place I used to frequently visit) was facing.
These past few days, Swarthmore College students and students from its neighboring colleges have been closely following the events unfolding following the leaked documents and the ongoing history of racism, homophobia, and sexual violence on Swarthmore's fraternities Phi Psi and DU. Students have organized sit-ins at the fraternity houses as an act of demonstration against the administration's hesitant and lack of response to the appeals for the fraternities to be shut down more permanently rather than the temporary ban.
read more here (cw: mentions of sexual violence): https://www.philly.com/news/swarthmore-college-investigation-fraternity-suspended-phi-psi-leaked-documents-20190428.html
- Chloe
These past few days, Swarthmore College students and students from its neighboring colleges have been closely following the events unfolding following the leaked documents and the ongoing history of racism, homophobia, and sexual violence on Swarthmore's fraternities Phi Psi and DU. Students have organized sit-ins at the fraternity houses as an act of demonstration against the administration's hesitant and lack of response to the appeals for the fraternities to be shut down more permanently rather than the temporary ban.
read more here (cw: mentions of sexual violence): https://www.philly.com/news/swarthmore-college-investigation-fraternity-suspended-phi-psi-leaked-documents-20190428.html
- Chloe
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