Daniel Perrin

Oct 10, 2024 | swarthmorephoenix.com | Daniel Perrin |Lucy Tobier

On Thursday, Oct. 3, the Swarthmore Resident Assistants (RAs) Union and Swarthmore College came to a “full tentative agreement.” The agreement came during the eighth bargaining session of a negotiation process that started in February between the college and the union, formed after a 46-5 vote in December 2023. The agreement would, if ratified, increase compensation for RAs. Before this agreement, RAs were compensated the equivalent of the cost of housing.

Oct 10, 2024 | swarthmorephoenix.com | Daniel Perrin

In the last few years, major components of Swarthmore’s “To Zero By Thirty-Five” plan, such as the Dining and Community Commons with its geoexchange plant in the basement, have been completed. The plan, formerly known as “Roadmap to Zero Carbon,” involves connecting all campus buildings to a geoexchange system that takes heat from the summer and stores it to be used in the winter.

Sep 26, 2024 | swarthmorephoenix.com | Daniel Perrin

On Sep. 7, over three thousand protesters gathered in pouring rain on the north side of City Hall in Philadelphia in protest of the proposed 76 Place arena in Chinatown. Their numbers were on par with a similar demonstration last June, says Kaia Chau, one of the founders of Students for the Preservation of Chinatown (SPOC), citing the continued opposition to the arena from groups around the Philly area.

Sep 19, 2024 | swarthmorephoenix.com | Daniel Perrin

In two June 2023 Supreme Court cases — Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina —the Court ruled against race-based affirmative action programs in college admissions. In doing so, it decided that colleges and universities could not use race as a factor in admitting students. Ever since, many have wondered how the change would ultimately impact racial diversity at America’s higher education institutions, including Swarthmore.

Apr 25, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Daniel Perrin

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