Oct. 4 — Violet Mark, F22, called an all-student meeting in an email sent out to the student body on September 30th, to discuss the changes to student employment.
The meeting is scheduled for Friday, October 4th at 3pm in Franklin Patterson Hall, and an agenda has been set to attempt to explain the ~$700,000 shortfall, it’s causes, the implications on the school’s future, and to begin brainstorming a student response, which will be continued at another meeting at the same time the following Friday, focused on student action.
This is the second major student action to address student employment concerns, after the Adhoc Transparency Organizing Committee collected over 200 signatures on a letter of demands to administration. The Organizing Committee is currently in talks with administration on the issue, and met with President Wingenbach on October 1st.
Mark, in collaboration with Raymond Kasei, F23, reintroduced the practice of all-student meetings in March, the first focusing on student worker layoffs, failures of the Title IX system, and incidents of racism and other discrimination on campus. A second all-student meeting occurred in April, making this the third held in recent memory overall, and the 1st held in this academic year.
