By Jodi Duckett Lafayette students gather in the huge living room of McKelvy House, a 19th-century stone mansion on High Street, three blocks east of campus. The students, who live here, chatter as they help themselves to take-out Chinese food and settle into couches or chairs. What ensues is a lively and thought-provoking discussion about the topic.
Students debate, trade jabs, and joke.
Topical and philosophical discussions like this one are what attract students to McKelvy House, home base for the McKelvy Scholars program. We want to create a community of thinkers who know that intellectual discourse goes on beyond the confines of the classroom. They come from all majors-there are budding artists, engineers, philosophers. Some are involved in fraternities or sororities, others are not. Some are athletes, some Marquis Scholars.