The text of the statement appears below in the Phoenix, the Swarthmore College student newspaper. More than 50 Swarthmore students were occupying a building that’s home to the office of college president Valerie Smith on Thursday afternoon. At Swarthmore, students urged administrators to release a statement condemning “Israeli aggression in Gaza,” and to drop disciplinary warnings against pro-Palestinian student organizers. Swarthmore students also urged their school to divest portions of its $2.7 billion endowment from companies that are shareholders in defense contractors, among other demands. I don’t think that there’s equity here: surely more than 4.8% of Swarthmore faculty are in STEM fields!

Source: Los Angeles Times December 27, 2023 19:39 UTC