Op-Ed: Religion Faculty Call for Divestment
Op-Ed submitted by members of the Religion Faculty To the Swarthmore Community, We, the undersigned members of the Religion Department faculty, are writing in solidarity with our students in the department who recently called for Swarthmore College to divest its endowment holdings from the fossil fuels extraction industries.…
Op-Ed: Overlooked Aspects of the Student Intervention in the May 4th Board of Managers Meeting
Op-Ed submitted by George Lakey, Visiting Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, Research Fellow at the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility I understand the hesitation to endorse MJ’s forceful action, nearly at the outset of the hour the Board had set aside publicly to dialogue about the proposed divestment…
Religion Department Students for Divestment
Op-ed submitted by Lo-Yuan Chou ’15, Damella Dotan ’15, Benjamin Ellentuck ’14, Marcus Ford ’15, Christopher Geissler ’13, Joshua Gregory ’15, Porsché Poole ’14, and Naia Poyer ’14, majors and minors in the Department of Religion A variety of important issues have recently dominated our campus discourse, but…