By Owen Henry

While many were busy dancing naked in the ‘Sco on Thursday evening (re: Safer Sex Night), the College’s Board of Trustees met with students in an open forum just one floor above their heads. Board members were in town for one of their four yearly meetings and sought to respond to student questions and concerns. Members in attendance included Thomas F. Cooper, Chelsey Maddox-Dorsey, Kofi Lomotey, Assishana Osho, Patricia Shanks, Susan Troy, and Danette Wineberg. As the event was nominally hosted and moderated by Student Senate, Senators Mandy Hogan, Eliana Golding, Jen Rivera, Meaghan Harty, and Brittany Craig were also in attendance. Continue reading →

By Alice Beecher

Photo courtesy of cleveland.com.

“People are coming here to protest what makes them sad,” said Neil Brooks, a farmer from Medina who was organizing the arts workshop at the Occupy Cleveland protest. Unemployment and the ensuing issues of crime and alcoholism are endemic to Cleveland, whose economic debilitation represents a microcosm of the recession-era issues facing the country as a whole. Along with supporting the grander ideals of the entire Occupy Together movement, the protesters at Cleveland this past Saturday used the protest as a platform to voice local grievances, such as the buddy system employed by wealthy city officials that prevents real people from getting civic jobs. Overall, however, the injustices inflaming the protesters in Cleveland were much the same as those invigorating protesters in Wall Street and across the country—corporate greed and rampant unemployment, unregulated banks and unfair tax rates, enormous student loan debt and harrowing financial inequality. Continue reading →

By Owen Henry

It isn’t often that a reporter enters a Senate meeting with an agenda, or at least it shouldn’t be. Continue reading →

By Owen Henry

This week’s meeting was significantly more engaging than the first one I attended, mainly because Senate was not forced to yet again spend two hours on appointments.  Continue reading →