CLP 2010: Day 20, Friday, June 18

College Leaders Program Class of 2010
Day 20-Friday, June 18
Recorded by: Lena Morrill, Sweet Briar College

It was a busy day on Friday. We had to finished our first draft of our policy proposal. My group is public safety and we are working on making more detailed guidelines for the Family Life curriculum in regards to teen dating violence. With relationships starting earlier and earlier, the rates of violence among tweens and teens has gone up over the past few years. We are taking a proactive approach so that hopefully, by exposing and educating sooner, dating violence will be recognized sooner and stopped. All of the groups had mock interviews with Bob Gibson in the afternoon. The interviews definitely helped all of us realize the weaknesses and strengths of our proposals and arguments. My group at least will be taking time this weekend to fill in the gaps in our argument.

Class was lively today with our discussions of the readings and making connections. Dr. Bragaw, in usual fashion, managed to find a clip of "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" that related wonderfully to our discussion of policy problems and solutions. I was really excited that it had many in class talking and asking questions.

We ended the evening heading to "Fridays at Five" on the Downtown Mall, had dinner with friends and ended the night hanging out in the hall, talking and watching TV. It is dawning on us that this is going to end in less than a week, so we are trying to get everything in now!