BY ALEXANDER ROLLE

In print | October 2, 2008

On Friday and Saturday, the Board of Managers convened for the first of the two meetings scheduled to take place this fall.

According to Vice President Maurice Eldridge ’61, the weekend included meetings of the Academic Affairs, Student Affairs and Propert Affairs Committees.

On Friday, the Student Council hosted a lunch meeting for all members of the Board. This particular meeting focused on issues surrounding the Intercultural Center and the Black Cultural Center, including the future goals of these organizations and their more recent projects.

Student representatives of both the IC and the BCC were present at the lunch meeting to discuss their organizations’ activities and objectives. “We gave a brief presentation [explaining] the goals of the IC and BCC and some of the milestones we have accomplished in the past few years,” Cecilia Marquez ’11 said in an e-mail. According to Marquez, she and the other IC/BCC representatives were primarily concerned with raising the Board’s awareness of the presence of these groups at Swarthmore. “I don’t think many of them realized what a huge population we are. As an IC/BCC community we represent over 50 percent of the student body and more than 50 percent of the events that happen on campus,” Marquez said.

Students were generally supportive of Student Council’s decision to use their traditional meeting with the Board of Managers as a forum for dialogue between the IC/BCC representatives and Board members.

Michelle Walters ’12, a member of ENLACE, said she was glad that the Board had an opportunity to learn about two of the more active and influential groups on campus.

“The IC and the BCC are such an important part of life here at Swat. I think it’s extremely important that the Board knows about what’s going on in those places and knows how important [the groups] are to the student body,” Walters said.

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