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IC INTERNS MEETING
MINUTES
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2003
4:15 PM

(all interns and Rafael were present)

We began talking about Wednesday's All IC meeting to discuss the vandalism that occurred at the IC over the previous weekend when a large part of the sign (specifically the section with SQU's logo) was ripped out of the stone wall.

The meeting was scheduled for Wednesday at 8:45 PM in the IC big room. Interns were told to get there by 8:20ish. This meeting is for the IC community, which includes affiliated groups such as COLORS, QSA, ADVICE, MULTI, and DESHI.

We saw the piece of the sign that was torn from the wall (nails still protruding from the back).

There was a general feeling from many students that Maurice's emails following the incident was too vague and didn't identify the details of the incident so that the college community didn't know what had really happened apart from a case of vandalism.

There was some sentiment that perhaps we would like to see or demand that the administration make a formal statement of what had happened to inform students, this being an important baseline to establish in order to have a dialogue.

Rafael encouraged us to send something ourselves to the administration.

Questions to raise at this meeting include how to move forward as a community. First, there is a space needed to inform us of the situation. Then there is the question of how we respond as a community. Finally there was the question of what the timeline could be regarding the replacement of the sign (whether in whole or in parts). We are considering unveiling the new sign (whether it is temporarily a cloth sign for now) during Coming Out Week in October which would be a really powerful statement from the IC about our strength. We need to think about updating the sign in general (ENLACE and logo). Perhaps we can unveil the new finished wooden sign at another large IC event in the near future.

We began discussing the need for a certain protocol for how to respond to these types of events. This includes ways that the college responds in addition to steps we take as a community.

We want to make it clear that this was a violation of our space and that we will not accept such acts of violence. So we will respond while affirming our own space.

Rafael will get an agenda out to us before Wednesday's meeting.

There is a concern that in the past few weeks and in the past in general SQU signs have been taken down soon after they were posted. We talked about why this could be happening and perhaps ways that these incidents are either connected or surface issues within the Swarthmore community.

We will send out emails to IC and affiliated communities and to board members to post on their list-serves advertising the meeting.

It needs to be made clear that this meeting is distinct from the administration's response and that this will be an all IC meeting and not a public forum. This is a space for the IC to deal with our own community's response.

The IC mailing list is up. It includes the 5 of us, where we are all able to moderate the mailing list at this point. Thoughts include our ability to incorporate the lists of all individual IC groups along with MULTI, DESHI, QSA, and other affiliated groups along with allies to the IC. We are going to be hammering out the details soon.

 

UPDATES

 

Powen:

 

Michelle:

 

Alejandra:

 

Jyothi:

 

Rafael (director's updates):

INTERNS WORK SCHEDULES:

Michelle:

M: 2-4 PM
TH: 11AM – 1PM
T: 8-10PM (with SAO meeting)

Powen:

W: 1:30-3:30 PM
W: 9-11 (with SQU meeting)
TH: 5:45-6:45 (board meeting)
F: 10-11:30AM

Alejandra:

T: 10AM-12PM
T: during ENLACE meeting
TH: 3-5PM
F: 1-3PM

Jyothi:

M: 11AM-12PM
T: 3:15-5:15
W: 10AM-12PM
TH: 3-5PM