Trade-offs Between the Top and the Bottom.From a moral point of view, should physicians be allowed, required, or forbidden to help their patients die?
Richard MacDonald, M.D.,
Donald Stoner, M.D.
Joel Zimbelman, Ph.D.
Religious Perspectives on Same-sex Marriages.Are teachers more obligated to the least or the best prepared students? Every semester, many Chico State faculty find themselves struggling to create and teach classes that are challenging and valuable to their broad student base. Invariably, though, some students feel left out. And the instructor may feel that teaching "to" certain segments of a class necessitates an abandonment of professional and personal educational standards. The forum covered different views about how faculty should manage trade-offs between meeting the needs of their least and best prepared students.
Ian Barnard, English
Roger Lederer, Dean of The College of Natural Sciences
Kirk Monfort, Philosophy
Alayne Sullivan, Education
Gay Marriage: A Feminist Conversation.Are same-sex marriages compatible with religious traditions or a religious outlook?
Reverend Lyndell Cheeves, Alta Mesa Church of Christ
Reverend Philip Person, Congregational Church of Chico.
Should We Tell Our Parents?Should feminists support gay marriage, or does it compromise feminist ideals?
Should we shelter our parents from our college lives? When does your life become your own? This was a student forum in which a panel of students gave their own perspectives on the issue and responded to audience questions.