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MJ presents proposal to Board members
Photo by Mindy Cheng ’18 On Monday night, five members of Swarthmore Mountain Justice met with five members of the Board of Managers to discuss a newly released proposal for divestment of the college’s...
View ArticleEditorial: The Board should take MJ seriously
We at the Phoenix are dismayed that the Board has not taken Mountain Justice’s invitation to negotiate more seriously. These students have invested substantial time in learning about the issue of...
View ArticleMembers must have deep love for college, Board says
In light of the increased mobilization of Swarthmore Mountain Justice, study breaks with Dean of Students Liz Braun earlier this year in Parrish Parlors, and the selection of Valerie Smith as the...
View ArticleStructure of Board raises some concerns that it is out of touch
On December 2 of 1862, the Board of Managers of what was to become Swarthmore College met in Philadelphia for the first time. The Friends’ Educational Association, a conglomeration of Quakers from the...
View ArticleBoard of Managers decide not to divest
Following two days of meetings and deliberations, the Board of Managers announced that they have reached consensus against divestment from fossil fuels, according to an email sent by Chair of the...
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Board decides not to divest, MJ’s campaign to continue
Members of Mountain Justice wait outside the Board’s meeting on Saturday. Photo by Bobby Zipp On Saturday afternoon, the Board of Managers decided against divestment of the college’s endowment from...
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Mountain Justice Protests Board, Citing Republication of Board Data by IPAA
photo courtesy of Sophia Zaia ’18 — Members of Mountain Justice present “#1 oil and gas industry ally” award to Board of Managers on Saturday As the Board of Managers held their first meeting of the...
View ArticleGiving a gold star for all the wrong reasons
Last May, the Board of Managers put Swarthmore on the wrong side of history. They continued to invest in and legitimize the fossil fuel industry — an industry that actively profits from racial and...
View ArticleBoard members obligated to recuse themselves
Today, Swarthmore Mountain Justice called on Board members Rhonda Cohen ’76, Samuel Hayes III ’57, and Harold Kalkstein ’78, to recuse themselves from future conversations on fossil fuel divestment....
View ArticleMountain justice stage protest on steps of Parrish
Last Friday, Swarthmore Mountain Justice held a protest reiterating their demands that board members Samuel Hayes III ’57, Rhonda Cohen ’76, and Harold Kalkstein ’78 recuse themselves from future board...
View ArticleAs seniors graduate, how will the spring of 2013 be remembered?
Many seniors are soon approaching the scariest part of college: the end. Each class leaves, a new one replaces it, and the campus seems to change a bit. Leaving with this senior class is a very...
View ArticleDivestment and the need for moral leadership on climate
On Monday, thousands of students and faculty at colleges, high schools, and even two middle schools across the nation walked out of class to reject the deadly climate denialism of the Trump...
View ArticleWe forced divestment from apartheid, we will do it again
Yesterday, SGO announced the results of the student referendum on fossil fuel divestment. The referendum passed by a landslide: 80.5 percent of voters agreed that Swarthmore College should divest from...
View ArticleWhy the Board should listen to the divestment referendum
In 2013, I was skeptical of divestment. I reasoned through simple, and undoubtedly naïve, cost-benefit analysis that the expected gains in terms of direct reduction of fossil fuel consumption did not...
View ArticleWho Has the Power? My Journey into Swat Bureaucracy
Ever since the Board of Managers chose not to divest from fossil fuels, I’ve started envisioning the people “at the top” of the Swarthmore administration, who chose to ignore the strong student support...
View ArticleStudents Lead on Divestment — When Will the Board?
Seven years ago, a group of Swarthmore students took a trip to West Virginia, where they witnessed the brutal injustice of mountaintop coal removal. Horrified in the face of the climate crisis, they...
View ArticleThe Board of Managers needs greater transparency with students
This past weekend, approximately 35 business people gathered in the Scheuer room of Kohlberg to discuss matters relating to the college. These people, also known as the Board of Managers, convened...
View ArticleSunrise, SGO, SBC to invest surplus money into a fossil-free fund
On Friday afternoon around 12:30 p.m., the Student Government Organization, Student Budget Committee, and Sunrise Swarthmore gathered in Parrish Parlors to announce that they would be working together...
View ArticleSunrise pushes for new divestment referendum
Sunrise Swarthmore collected digital signatures last week in an effort to call a Student Government Organization referendum on the school’s investment in fossil fuel companies and the 1991 ban on...
View ArticleSunrise referendum on 1991 divestment ban passes
On April 19, a Student Government Organization referendum introduced by climate activism student group Swarthmore Sunrise passed with 87% approval. The referendum calls for the Board of Managers to...
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