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The Leadership Fellows Program, formally the Leadership Grant Program, has been active on Eastern’s campus since 1999. While twenty students from each class have been involved in the program, most of the student body does not know about it. The program was developed to aid aspiring leaders in the skills that they need to lead.

On September 22, Rutgers University first-year, Tyler Clementi, committed suicide by jumping off The George Washington Bridge after finding out a web video of him was released on the internet by his roommate and roommate’s girlfriend. Clementi’s roommate, Dharun Ravi and Ravi’s girlfriend, Molly Wei, have been charged with two counts of invasion of privacy

What do civic virtue, the common good and freedom have in common? According to the newly created Institute for Civic Virtue and the Common Good, these three things should have a great deal of similarity. The Institute is a new research center housed at Eastern and the Templeton Honors College. Their web press release says

Sophomore Jeff Stoltzfus “Last year at Penn State, I saw these guys who were dressed normally, except with real stuffed deer heads attached to their chests.  It looked like the deer were coming out of their bodies.  They were pulling another guy, dressed up like Santa Claus, behind them in one of those Playskool wagons.”