Politics at Swarthmore?

interesteddad
Fri, 09 Apr 2010 01:13:30 +0000

Sounds like the family found a good reason to keep daughter closer to home. Nothing wrong with that.

I will say that Swarthmore is absolutely the wrong college for anyone who believes that the college administrators should tell students what and what not to do, especially in areas of free speech.

I did have to laugh at Rebecca Chopp being described as an “inexperienced administratrator”.

Dean of Candler School of Theology at Emory University (4 years)
Provost and Executive VP of Emory University (3 Years)
Dean of Yale Divinity School (1 year)
President of Colgate University (7 years)

Experienced college administrators know that shutting down student protests always makes things worse. I think it actually speaks very well of Swarthmore that the students felt comfortable going to the administration and accepting some guidance in terms of making sure that the protest wasn’t forced on anyone.

I have no idea where you got the notion that the school built the checkpoint.

As student issue protests go, I thought this one was pretty thought-provoking. I’m guessing that it stimulated a lot of discussion on campus