Theme: Since many worlds must share one world, how then shall we live?

Common Readings

• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
  
• The End of Nature by Bill McKibben
  
• Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Ssilko
  
• Legacy of the Prophet by Anthony Shadid
  
• Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol
  
• My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki

Faculty

• John Anderson (Mathematics)
  
• Diane Bukatko (Psychology)
  
• Robert Garvey (Physics)
  
• James Miracky, S. J. (English)
  
• Frederick Murphy (Religious Studies)

 

Events

Fall Semester

• Ice Cream Social & Introductory Remarks by FYP Faculty in Hanselman
  
• Jill Ker Conway talk the Need for Character Building in Liberal Arts Education in Brooks Concert Hall
  
• Discussions of 10 years of FYP on the Saturday following the Conway talk in Rehm Library
  
• Climp up Mt. Monadnock
  
• Movie - The Missionin - 103 Haberlin
  
• Howard Zinn talk in Rehm Library
  
• Talk/performance by Therese Schroeder-Sheker in Brooks Concert Hall
  
• Faculty Panel Discussion about The End of Nature in Hanselman
  
• Play - The Night of the Iguanain - Fenwick Theater
  
• Movie - Smoke Signalsin - 103 Haberlin
  
• Talk by Prof. Cathy Roberts on modeling raft trips on the Colorado River in Swords
  
• Poetry reading by Martin Espada in Dinand

Spring Semester

• FilmBowling for Columbinein Fenwick Theater
  
• Faculty discussion on Zionism in Rehm Library
  
• Rodino lecture by Prof. Karen Turner in Rehm Library
  
• Lecture by Daniel Pipes on Radical Islam in Hogan Ballroom
  
• Performance of Chitra in Fenwick Theater
  
• Discussion by David Lizotte on Educational Reform Initiatives in Hanselman
  
• Student Panel Discussion on the Morality of the War in Iraq in Hanselman
  
• Talk by Prof. Alison Fleming on the Cloisters Museum in Stein
  
• Trip to NYC to visit Ellis Island and the Cloisters Museum
  
• Reading by Chris Merrill in Dinand
  
• Lecture by Dennis O’Brien on The University: Before, After, and Beyond in Rehm Library
  
• Talk by Prof. Rick Murphy in the Last Lecture Series in Rehm Library
  
• FYP Banquet in the Hogan Ballroom