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the help of my colleagues and a bit of humility, I learned that both my students and I are in this together. I have been allowed to create experiments with all manner of ideas that I hope will foster a discussion regarding great works of art, or the ideas of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tao.â&#x20AC;? This is the way Eckerd College faculty learn about each other and the many disciplines that make up our curriculum. This is very special, and it lets us know we are all in this together, and in the end, creates a FXOWXUH RI OHDUQLQJ IRU DOO RI XVÄ§ students and teachers alike. We discuss student development, new modes of teaching, new ideas and we take ownership of the Eckerd College curriculum as a whole. Finally, I am convinced that our most innovative interdisciplinary programs: environmental studies, marine science, international UHODWLRQV DQG JOREDO DÉąDLUV ZRPHQ and gender studies, etc., are the result of our universal participation. How else would we have engaged in the most meaningful conversations, learned of each othersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ideas, and learned how to work together to make the leaps across disciplines to get these programs going? In my experience, all of these conversations began with General (GXFDWLRQ DQG RXU FRPPRQ ÂżUVW year experience. For 25 years, I have EHHQ OHDUQLQJ DQG UHÄĽOHDUQLQJ KRZ to be a teacher. The fourth element is the common or core texts that are the basis for the General Education courses. These texts are subject to change some from year to year, as each faculty is allowed to make QHZ VXJJHVWLRQV DQG RÉąHU LGHDV but in the end, all of us, students and faculty together, read the same books. The debates over the content of WHGC can be intense, but for faculty, they become illuminating. Our personal libraries of great works that we take seriously are expanded beyond our narrow areas of training. This creates a common background of works that initiates the basis for conversations we can have with our students for years to come. It is as if we all enter the Eckerd College book club, and now we can use examples from â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Odysseyâ&#x20AC;? or Plato when teaching classes in our various disciplines. It creates a common language, and surely, shows we are committed

to a set of books and ideas that will draw all of us together into an intellectual community. We may never agree on which â&#x20AC;&#x153;core textsâ&#x20AC;? to read, but the beauty of it all is that we should not agree. I have learned so much with my students over the last 25 years, and each year the students teach me new ideas and interpretations. The syllabus will never be â&#x20AC;&#x153;perfect,â&#x20AC;? but !"#$#%&#'($)*+%#,%-&.)(/%0#11)2)%/3()&$#(+ the conversations !"#$%"&'()*"+,,%-'.%,/#/01,'20/+"0+'.)%3+22%)4 between students and faculty are True. No one is an expert on every priceless. text and subject in WHGC. I Of course there are many know I am no expert on the arts, FULWLFV RI WKH ÂżUVW \HDU SURJUDP but these have always existed and but WHGC has taught me to love the substance of their criticisms the encounter. Having said that, have changed many times in my frequent assessment over the years 25 years. One of the great myths has shown that no one discipline about WHGC is that the course is or sector of the college is most universally disliked by the students. VXFFHVVIXO RU SURÂżFLHQW LQ WHDFKLQJ Student course evaluations and WKH ÂżUVW \HDU SURJUDP mentor evaluations do not bear The very best mentors and this out, but I have found the appreciation is often deferred. By teachers in this Humanities based this I mean that my students over experience come from all over the the years, no matter what they college. The Natural Science faculty eventually choose as their major, frequently have the highest ratings ZLOO UHPHPEHU WKH ÂżUVW \HDU WKH\ and strongest results, and certainly will remember me, and they will are no less well equipped to be a still be in contact with me long after they graduate from Eckerd College. PHQWRU WR ÂżUVW \HDU VWXGHQWV WKDQ 6WXGHQWV UHPHPEHU WKHLU ÂżUVW \HDU the faculty in Letters, Creative mentor. Graduates will recall the Arts or the Behavioral Sciences. texts they read in WHGC and later In fact, the real distinguishing in life be surprised at their value. I characteristic of a successful also often hear that students want section of WHGC in any year is to have their own mentor in their commitment, drive and energy. own major right away once arriving at Eckerd College. Maybe, but Nothing is more exciting than many students change their majors when the energy of the students or donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even have one to begin and faculty is strong, and the desire ZLWK DQG ÂżUVW \HDU VWXGHQWV GR to learn together is shared. No not know the faculty well enough discipline has the market cornered to know whom to choose as the on that kind of energy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;perfect mentor.â&#x20AC;? I wonder if such 7KH ÂżUVW \HDU SURJUDP LV D ODUJH an animal really exists. part of Eckerd College and its $ ÂżQDO FULWLFLVP RI :+*& LV identity. I am pretty certain that it that faculty are forced to teach outside their â&#x20AC;&#x153;comfort zonesâ&#x20AC;? and plays a big role in helping us to be a thus the program is diminished. college that â&#x20AC;&#x153;changes lives.â&#x20AC;?

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ever felt comfortable being vocally open about being gay. What stuck with me more than anything else was a short paragraph detailing the â&#x20AC;&#x153;identity synthesisâ&#x20AC;? stage of coming out, when an individual experiences â&#x20AC;&#x153;consistency between their perceptions of self and othersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; perceptions of them.â&#x20AC;? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not to say itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been smooth sailing since. It got better; Dan Savage has a point. But it isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t good. Coming out has released a lot of internal pressure, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also left me with an indescribable array of emotions, running the gamut from anger to regret to jealousy. And ask any of my close friends, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll tell you I still donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a very positive view on modern gay society. How can I expect 300 million Americans to DFFHSW PH LI , WR WKLV GD\ KDYH D GLÉˇFXOW time being fully comfortable with myself. As a society, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re stuck somewhere around this point, looking to synthesize our identities. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re beginning to see the emergence of alternative mainstream gay identities, a shift from the stereotypical caricatures the media portrayed gays as until recently. Still, I encounter a staggering amount of sheer misunderstanding of not only the gay FRPPXQLW\ ÄŞZKLFK , GR QRW QRZ QRU HYHU FODLP WR EH VSHDNLQJ IRUÄŤ EXW RI VH[XDOLW\ LQ JHQHUDO , EHOLHYH WKDW LV WKH ÂżQDO KXUGOH before our society can accept its gay side. To do our part to further public discourse and knowledge, The Current will focus a SRUWLRQ RI LWV FRYHUDJH WKLV \HDU WR /*%7ÄĽ relevant topics. It is an initiative that I hope sheds light on topics not normally considered by the general public, from transgendered housing, to the prevalance RI PDOH ELÄĽVH[XDOLW\ WR H[DPLQLQJ WKH LGHD RI WKH Âł3RVWÄĽ0R Â´ We invite any and all students, faculty, VWDÉą DQG IULHQGV RI WKH FROOHJH WR SDUWLFLSDWH in the discussion. Send us your reactions to our pieces, or submit your own writing, whether it be a simple coming out story or an intriguing new look at a LGBT topic. PEL and ASPEC members, send us tales of how youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen society adapt to the presence of an LGBT community in your lifetime, since our memories only go back twenty or so years, when the situation had already begun to improve. ,WÂśV EHWWHU EXW LWÂśV IDU IURP ÂżQLVKHG

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leaders are democratically elected, in the modern world, they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fool everyone forever. Eventually, egotistical maniacs like Col. *DGGKDÂż FDQ RQO\ EXLOG WKHPVHOYHV a smaller corner to wallow in their own hysterical rhetoric. As for the U.S., the Libyan operation represented a reassessment of the governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s system of checks and balances. The House under Republican leadership sought to undermine the presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s purpose in deploying airpower in Libya by evoking the War Powers Resolution IURP LWV OHJLVODWLYH FRÉˇQ $V IRU President Obama, commentators have reckoned the presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s handling of Libya as ambiguous and unclear, which I view as strategic in Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s overall foreign policy doctrine. But we must remember that Tripoliâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current status remains unstable, which begs the question, whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s next?

Ethan: While I am certainly sympathetic to the cause of greater international cooperation, the United States and NATO only acted at the last moment possible. The general revolt started RQ )HE ZLWK QRQÄĽIDWDO FODVKHV between protesters and police in Benghazi along with several arson ÂżUHV OLW LQ JRYHUQPHQW EXLOGLQJV LQ %HQJKD]L :LWKLQ GD\V ÄŞ)HEUXDU\ ÄŤ RI WKHVH LQLWLDO FODVKHV PRVW RI Libya was under rebel control and by Feb. 27, the Libyan National Council had been formed as the rebel government in Benghazi. Well before the end of February, the Arab League had called on the West to intervene in Libya. We did not have to wait for an international

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Sean: While I agree that NATO and the Obama Administration failed to respond immediately, such a decision made in haste would have produced negative results. As I said in my initial statement, I believe Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hesitancy is far from a sign of weakness. It shows that the president is willing to sit down, sort out the details with KLV VWDÉą DQG LPSOHPHQW IRUHLJQ policy on a case by case basis. This departs from the disastrous decisions made in haste by the Bush Administration which resulted in two quagmires and embarrassing international standing, thereby sobering American hegemony. Besides, Libya certainly wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t WKH RQO\ FRQĂ&#x20AC;LFW WKH 8 6 ZDV keeping its eye on during the Arab

spring and it would have been a mistake to put all our eggs in one basket. As far as the War Powers Resolution is concerned, you and I both know that it represents a commendable intention but one that is hardly used outside partisan bickering. If the House had a Democratic leadership, the War Powers Resolution would never have been mentioned. If the House truly disapproved of the operation, it would have voted to block IHGHUDO IXQGV WR WKH /LE\DQ HÉąRUW which it did not, despite voting to disapprove of the presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unconstitutional action not to seek congressional approval, which it did. In my analysis, this stunt was VLPSO\ D SDUWLVDQ HÉąRUW WR GHIDPH the administration.

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And I will note for the record that when Bush went into Afghanistan, it was over a full month after Sept. 11. And the whole international community spent months debating what to do in Iraq. President Bushâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s policy was not to act with haste but to act when reasonable. I am simply suggesting that Obama should have considered the pace with which developments were happening in Libya and responded along a more appropriate timeframe.

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