At Tuesday’s general faculty meeting, College President Nancy Dye stressed that despite balancing its budget last year and nearing the completion of its latest fundraising campaign, the College is not yet out of hot water financially.

“Next year will be the toughest,” she said.

She remained optimistic but stressed that the College would do whatever it took to regain the school’s financial security.

“If we need to make changes, then we will make changes,” she said.

The school will have to present a budget for the approval of the board when they meet on campus in December.

“We’re looking to put together a budget next year that is balanced,” she said. “But it will be tight.”

-Josh Keating

Dye responds to anti-Semitism on campus and around the world

“I’m deeply concerned with both anti-Muslim sentiment and anti-Semitism around the world,” Dye said at Tuesday’s faculty meeting. “Reading The New York Times it’s hard to miss the stories about growing anti-Semitism, particularly in the recent acts of violence in Turkey and France.”

The College has recently taken aggressive steps through the President’s office and the Office of the Ombudsperson to improve the level of the Israeli-Palestinian debate since last year, when the campus was littered with stickers proclaiming “Zionism=Racism” and the Review’s editorial pages were packed with letters from both sides.

“We have to work to make this place a place for people to express themselves freely,” she said. “I fear that this will become more difficult in the next few years, not easier.”

-Josh Keating