Swarthmore

There are some who think fraternities should be banned.

In 2019, Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania took that step.

It followed leaked documents that showed members referencing a date rape drug and calling an upstairs bedroom of a frat house the rape attic.

Since the ban, the average number of sexual assaults reported at the campus each year has declined.

However, the rate of reported sexual crimes per student remains higher at Swarthmore than most other U.S. colleges, according to federal data.

And the wider research on whether banning fraternities solves the problem of sexual assault on campus is mixed.

To tackle the issue, experts and advocates recommend a comprehensive approach that deters heavy drinking and drugs and bolsters education about sexual violence.

Fun fact.

He went to Swarthmore.

He was doing all that.

He ended up working for the Park Administration.

And we, you know, look, he worked for her.

No personal, like, we was always cool.

He was always, like, take the opportunity, right? He leaves because I told him, like, he gets to Swarthmore, like, you got Ivy League in you.

He's now at Penn Law.

I think this is really more important to you.

So the one team of, is a, young lady at Swarthmore and a young lady at Temple, looked at, does do free and equal elections call extremism? And they looked at a bunch of different countries in Europe and looked at um the openness of and they did find a correlation between civil unrest and the level of fairness or unfairness

and um

so that was it seems

Magnolias are, are so cool.

I was, I did an article a long time ago about magnolias and I went down to the Swarthmore campus in, it's in, Pennsylvania, near Philly.

And it was full bloom time and they have some magnificent flowers.

And the Scott Arboretum is on that campus.

Although for me, it didn't really... hop onto the horizon until Sony's recent announcement that it was phasing out physical game media.

One of the things I study and teach is video games and it's usually a pretty popular area of our curriculum at Swarthmore.

So all of the students in the current video game class have gotten very focused on this question of Are we going to be able to own our games going forward or are games like movies, like television, like anything that's now moving to these streaming and subscription-based models only yours for as long as the company decides it's yours? And I think there's a real sense of resistance to that.

That's what I noticed first is the...

We'll wear number 63.

He's a sophomore from Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

19 years old, 6 feet even.

Weighs in at 205.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, and the first of them is that she went to a No Kings protest on Saturday, and the second of them is that she drove to and from Swarthmore College at some point over the weekend.

So now you know as much as I do about what today's show is gonna be about.

And we're gonna turn it over to Holly to set the agenda, all of which is a five-minute long-winded way of saying that we are not allowed to have fun anymore, but we are allowed to have Holly set the agenda and to have a cubist dog shirt to mark the occasion.

Um, and then Sunday they had their big sort of kickoff day where, so the original Freedom Riders, again, they left from the Greyhound bus terminal in DC, but they, before they left, they had a big, um, send-off for them at Metropolitan AME Church, uh, on M Street.

So I, they had a big service there that, wherein which they recognized the Freedom Riders, and then they had a lunch afterwards, and the Freedom Riders, um, spoke at that.

I couldn't s- I had to leave a little early to go get Charlotte to take her up to Swarthmore.

But, um, but, uh, anyway, um, and then they did a little tour around the city that I did not, um, go on.