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ELA - Core
ELA 1000: Images of Nature
This introductory course for all first year students explores some of the ways in which human societies make sense of the natural world. Students read literature that ranges from folklore and poetry to environmental philosophy and natural science, and develop a sense of how culture determines our understanding of our environment. The course begins to develop student writing through formal and informal essays and journaling. Frequent field trips help root students in their new home while they test ideas from classroom readings. The ELA portfolio is begun in this course and added to in each of the subsequent core courses.
Freshman Year, Fall
6 credits
ELA 1500: Voices of Community: Writing Seminar
Building on the writing skills developed in Images of Nature, Voices of Community provides students with more extensive practice in composition and revision. The course focuses on cultivating the conventions of Standard Written English and enriching students' expressive and stylistic resources through a series of assignments that explore from diverse perspectives how the environment encompasses human relationships and communities. The critical thinking and communication skills learned in this course enable effective and informed participation in these communities.
Freshman Year, Spring
3 credits
ELA 2000: Dimensions of Nature
This course focuses on the development of scientific thought as humans endeavored to understand the structure, origin, and character of the natural world. Using original sources, students learn how the process of science has evolved from Aristotle and Euclid to Darwin, Watson and Crick and chaos theory in mathematics. The influence of mythological, religious, political and economic factors will be discussed as they arise from those sources. Toward the end of the course, students prepare oral and written presentations on current scientific papers to show how they are illuminated by a study of some of the landmark events and ideas that have punctuated the history of science. Students are challenged to think and read critically, to speak and write clearly, and to formulate intelligent questions about difficult texts that challenge their current beliefs and values.
Sophomore year, Spring
3 credits
ELA 4000: A Delicate Balance: Capstone Seminar
What does it mean for me to be an engaged citizen? Students explore the question in this seminar-based capstone course. Different contemporary issues each semester provide background for reflection on individual duty and ethical, environmental, and social policy issues. The readings draw on the work of political philosophers and leaders, artists and scientists, and on contemporary analysis and stories of engagement. Students are asked to integrate, reflect upon, and apply these concepts to their personal goals. The course seeks to refine and enhance the student's understanding of herself as a citizen and her ability to research independently, critically assess disparate pieces of information, and communicate in both written and oral forms. Students explicitly make connections with prior courses in the ELA program and major; each student completes a project that relates the focus of this class to his own career projections and his best understanding of his own goals for civic engagement. This project is a culmination and expression of his personal interest and involvement with the mission of Green Mountain College.
Junior Year, both semesters
3 credits
ELA – Quantitative Analysis
ELA 1105: Quantitative Environmental Analysis
This course develops students' ability to understand, interpret and analyze quantitative data about environmental issues, and to understand the role of such data and methodology in problem solving. The course is not focused on any single type of mathematical analysis, rather it spans a range of analyses that are commonly used and that the student is likely to encounter in the newspaper or in scholarly works they might read in their fields of study. The course is applied and problem based, with issues chosen in which students will use data sets in analyses. Students will use algebra, geometry, and statistical methods to solve problems. They will develop facility in representing mathematical information, interpreting formulas, graphs, and tables to draw inferences, and estimating answers. Finally, they will recognize both the power and limits of mathematical analysis.
3 credits
ELA- Natural Systems
ELA 1013: Environmental Science
Humans have significantly altered the natural world on which we depend. Environmental science is the study of the complex issues surrounding these alterations, covering topics such as human overpopulation, toxics and pollution, declining biodiversity, and climate change. This course will help you understand the science behind these issues, assess the data, and communicate about them. Students will learn and apply the methods of scientific inquiry and analysis to address these issues. We will also discuss how human values impact the methods we use for protecting the environment. Over the course of the semester, you will evaluate your own ecological footprint to determine your individual impact.
3 credits
ELA 1016: Astronomy: A Guided Tour of the Heavens
This course is intended to provide the foundation for a life-long enjoyment of the science of astronomy, a science that, with all its sophistication, still welcomes the contributions of skilled amateurs. We will study the night sky and learn to relate the motions of the stars and planets to our place on the surface of the earth, and to the place of the earth in our solar system. We will learn how we know where we are, how we know the solar system's place in the galaxy and how we know our galaxy's place in the universe. We will learn about our sun as a star, and about the life cycles of all stars. We will also explore the role of astronomy in the setting of calendars, the telling of time, and in the understanding of long-term climate cycles. We will study the effects of artificial lighting on organisms and on human astronomers, including ourselves. No special optical equipment is required, but a good pair of binoculars will come in handy. Night-time observing sessions, required in addition to class time, will be scheduled weather permitting, and lab sessions in an electronic classroom are also a required component of the course.
4 credits
ELA 1017: Introduction to Environmental Chemistry
This lab and lecture course will introduce the basic concepts of chemistry and use them to describe and explain current environmental issues. Topics include the air we breathe, global warming, the ozone layer, the wonders of water, acid rain, nutrition, and nuclear energy. 2 laboratory hours weekly
4 credits
ELA 1112: Wildlife Ecology
Wildlife ecology is a study of the ecology and life histories of animals, their habits and habitats. This course will address the history of wildlife concerns and practices in this country, the population and ecological principles that govern wildlife populations (e.g. predation, competition, disease. etc.), ecological physiology and inter relations between wildlife and people. We will examine wildlife conservation practices including past species reintroductions (beaver, fisher, turkey, marten in Vermont), the issue of biodiversity, and in particular the present issues surrounding reintroduction of large carnivores. Finally the course will touch on the issues surrounding urbanization, acid rain, mercury pollution, and global warming as they impact wildlife.
Finally there will be brief homework and lab exercises involving analysis of wildlife population data, along with observation and measurement of biological specimens, and identification of selected mammals.
3 credits
ELA 1114: Conservation Medicine
In the past quarter century, there has been an unprecedented emergence of new diseases in both human and wildlife populations. Lyme disease, West Nile fever, avian influenza, and pesticide toxicosis are but a few examples. This diversity has a common denominator: man-induced environmental change on local and global scales. The study of this rapidly changing landscape of disease constitutes the new field of Conservation Medicine.
3 credits
ELA 1115: Nutrition and Health
Food is the substance we take into our bodies to sustain life and maintain optimal health. But too often our food choices run on automatic pilot, unmindful of the consequences for our long-term well-being or the fate of our planetary ecosystem. The epidemic ills of western society (for example, obesity and diabetes mellitus) and global issues (climate change, pollution) are rooted in no small part in our food choices. However, there is a large body of sound science to empower our decisions. This course begins with the physiology of nutrition and digestion. How to design a healthy diet leads into a consideration of the traditional Mediterranean diet of southern Europe. A holistic approach to health begins the second part leading to specific topics in clinical nutrition. Lastly, the connection between food and the environment is explored. The science-based wisdom of a healthy diet is, indeed, the omnivore's solution; it is easy being green – and it is delicious.
3 credits
ELA 2012: Natural History of Vermont
This course will initially deal with an examination of Vermont's climatic and geological history. It will then cover in greater depth, the period from the end of the Pleistocene glaciation to today; from woolly mammoths to the present day flora and fauna of the State including the ecological processes which produced the present vegetative and faunal patterns on the Green Mountains and Taconics. Forest zonation from the Champlain lowlands and the Connecticut River Valley to the tops of the Green Mountains will be surveyed as well as the wetlands. Students will identify and understand the physiographic regions of Vermont, their geology, ecology and influence on Vermont's flora and fauna. Students will also become familiar with, and be able to identify, representative members of Vermont's fauna. A final field trip will explore many features of the State discussed during the course.
3 credits
ELA 2110: Natural Disasters
Humans are fascinated by natural disasters; primarily because we have little ability to control them and are in awe in their power and often, uncontrolled rage. Our lives, economy, environment and feelings of personal security are closely tied to the geologic processes driving these events. This course will examine the processes that cause natural disasters, such as earthquakes, volcanoes, mass wasting, subsidence, flooding, severe weather, erosion, climate change and meteorite impacts. In addition, we will evaluate the effects of these events on global ecology and society, and discuss possible mitigation options.
3 credits
ELA 3010: Climate Dynamics
This course provides a scientific foundation in climate dynamics through multiple scientific perspectives. We will explore the origins of Earth's climate system, historical and modern climate change, methods used to identify climate change, global atmospheric and ocean currents, ocean and atmospheric chemistry, natural feedback mechanisms, climate forcing, Earth's energy budget, evaluate global climate models, and explore proposed technological solutions. The primarily goal of this course is to provide a scientific understanding of the physical and chemical processes governing climate.
3 credits
ELA- Human Systems
ELA 1023: Contemporary Social Issues
This course concerns major social challenges both inside American society and around the world. It investigates newsworthy events that have occurred within the "living memory" of students and examines them in the context of the social sciences (especially sociology and psychology; also economics, history, and political science). Both liberal and conservative interpretations of the facts are considered, and some resolutions are suggested.
3 credits
ELA 1027: Simplicity & Sustainability
This course examines the relationship between the satisfaction of individual psychological and economic needs and the ability to live in a way that promotes environmental sustainability. Topics include human needs and motives; the relationship of money to need satisfaction; consumerism and its effects on people and on the environment; different paradigms for the relationship between people and the world; and the voluntary simplicity movement.
3 credits
ELA 1043: Utopias: Envisioning the Good Society
This course asks students to read, write about, and discuss selected works in utopian literature from the Classical Age to modern times, including historical accounts and primary descriptions of experiments in intentional community. Since utopias are projections of ideal societies, they raise a number of significant questions about the proper role of individuals in their communities, as well as the about the mechanics of personal and collective identity, the dynamics of individuality and conformity, and the tension between freedom and responsibility, within the context of community.
3 credits
ELA 1123: Energy & Society
Societies throughout history have harnessed different forms of energy for survival and expansion. Today, hundreds of millions of people in the developing world continue to struggle to obtain adequate energy sources to meet basic needs. At the same time affluent societies consume enormous amounts of energy. The US, for example, with just 5% of the global population consumes 25% of the total global energy supplies each year. Furthermore, the combustion of carbon-based energy sources is leading to rapid global climate change, arguably the most critical environmental issue of our times. This course provides students with an historical understanding of energy use over time to better understand our current energy use patterns nationally and globally, the critical cultural and economic issues linked to the energy-environment crisis, and what can be done to change directions toward a sustainable energy future. This course serves as a foundation for additional courses at Green Mountain focusing on energy studies and sustainable design.
3 credits
ELA 1124: Unraveling Food Systems: Plentitude & Poverty
Although we may define food systems, in the end, they also define us. Food systems are cultural, historical, economic, and ecological. They tend to dictate whether we live in fortune or famine, and both our individual and our cultural choices aggregate into food systems that determine the fate of peoples and ecosystems near and far. This course is an exploration into the complexity of our current food systems, beginning with local food systems and then broadening the inquiry to include regional, state, national, and international food systems. The course will culminate with an examination of the impacts of globalization and vertical integration on different continents.
3 credits
ELA 1125: Poverty and Inequality in America
This course is a critical analysis of the nature and extent of poverty and inequality in the United States. This course maintains an analytic and descriptive focus on variables tied to poverty among a myriad of different groups and cultures living in the U.S. It will present multiple dimensions of socioeconomic stratification including, but not limited to race, gender, immigration, age, family structure, and individuals with disabilities. The role of policy within the Unites States will be examined.
3 credits
ELA 1127: Speech Communication: Making a Difference through Critical Listening and Effective Public Speaking
This course analyzes and reinforces the essential skills and techniques that will improve verbal communication, both in active listening and effective speaking in public. Students will learn to evaluate and critique information sources and create effective arguments. Students will demonstrate these skills through hands-on practice in assessing an audience, choosing appropriate speech topics, organizing, writing and delivering several speeches, ranging from short readings, introductions and tributes to formal, well researched, timed informative and persuasive speeches. The readings, discussions, and speech content will center around the ELA theme: Perspectives on the Environment.
3 credits
ELA 2021: Law & Society
Garrett Hardin's "tragedy of the commons" at least implies that to live together (and to avoid degrading the environment) societies need rules and ways of enforcing them. Where these rules (or laws) come from, how social institutions shape laws, and how laws shape social institutions and affect individuals are the main topics of this course. These issues and questions of justice, equality, and fairness will be examined mainly through the issue of environmental justice and decisions about the locations of locally undesirable land uses (LULUs).
3 credits
ELA 2023: Environmental Justice
This class is premised on the notion that the problems of earth's biophysical systems cannot be disentangled from our social and political systems. In this course, students will explore the following questions: Why do certain racial, ethnic, and socio-economic groups bear the burden of environmental pollution? Who decides how natural resources are used and allocated? How have groups of people that have been disproportionately affected by environmental problems organized to address those issues? We examine these questions through case studies of different EJ initiatives, independent research, and collaborative work with community partners. Students will learn basic theories related to environmental justice and grassroots social action by reading and discussion texts, talking with EJ activists, viewing documentaries, and through service to a local community organization. Students will also develop deeper understandings of the history of the environmental justice movement, contemporary and regional EJ issues, and directions forward for the field.
3 credits
ELA 2024: Introduction to Systems Thinking
This course is for students who want to learn how to intervene in systems in ways that will create more positive results with fewer unintended consequences. This will be a hands-on, active-learning course. We will use experiential simulations and modeling to discover how systems ranging from fisheries and businesses to classrooms and residence halls respond to attempts to bring about beneficial changes. We will also learn about leverage: how small changes in just the right part of a system can produce big results. Students will then design and make a change to a real system and compare the results with the outcomes they intended to produce.
3 credits
ELA 2026: Indigenous America
This course surveys indigenous cultures of the Americas from interdisciplinary and critical perspectives. From the arrival of humans in the Western Hemisphere, across a chronologically and geographically diverse range of cultural adaptations, and on into the 21st century, students will learn about the dynamic range of prehistoric, historic, and contemporary indigenous experience. Students will also learn to contextualize and challenge representations and interpretations of Native Americans. Along the way, they will identify and assess the underlying assumptions of controversial issues such as cultural appropriation and post-colonial identity politics.
3 credits
ELA 2027: Conservation Psychology
This course uses theories, models, principles, and methods from the field of psychology to inform intervention strategies that aim to solve environmental problems and encourage conservation of natural resources. Students examine root causes of problems and gain a deeper sense of how to approach issues by understanding the multitude of motivations and cognitive functions that drive human behavior, both sustainable and unsustainable. Particular attention is placed on the study of beliefs, attitudes, values, motivations, information processing, communication, and stewardship behavior.
3 credits
ELA/ECO 3023: Contemporary Political Economy
This course provides students with a firm foundation in economic theory with particular emphasis on the neoclassical model of market efficiency. With this foundation, students study the subfield of environmental and natural resource economics. Particular emphasis is placed on understanding market failures associated with public goods and externalities along with the policies that the government can use to correct these market failures. The course explores critiques of the neoclassical model of market efficiency and considers emerging concepts in ecological economic and the growing local economies movement. Students assess competing views on the potential for continued economic growth of the macro economy and become familiar with our monetary system and the role of the Federal Reserve. Quantitative skills are developed throughout the course by interpreting data and doing economic analyses.
3 credits
ELA/ENV 3021: Sustainable Development: Theory & Practice
To alleviate poverty and raise living standards, third world nations need to aggressively pursue economic development. If the resource- and energy-intensive western model of development is followed in these countries severe resource shortages and widespread environmental degradation are likely to ensue. Sustainable development theory has emerged to describe an alternative path to economic development that averts potential resource and environmental crises. This course analyzes these theories and critically evaluates alternative sustainable development policies.
3 credits
ELA/SOC 3022: Ethnoecology
Ethnoecology, with theoretical roots in cognitive science and environmental anthropology, investigates local, folk systems of knowledge pertaining to plants, animals, and ecological dynamics. Since the 1950s, ethnoecological case-studies around the world have demonstrated the internal coherence, complexity, and adaptiveness of indigenous systems of classification. While this is still a central goal, contemporary ethnoecologists also apply their findings to goals such as the conservation of biological diversity, rural development, sustainable use of common property resources, and negotiation of intellectual property rights. Ethnoecology has therefore also become politicized: we are now interested in how "native" systems of knowledge and behavior are embedded in systems of unequal distribution, access and power.
In this course, students will learn about the theoretical underpinnings and development of approaches to ethnoecology; become acquainted with case-studies from the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australia; and become trained in basic ethnoecological methods and use them to produce a significant research project and present your findings.
3 credits
ELA- Aesthetic Appreciation
ELA 1031: Theatre: The Audience Environment
This course provides an in-depth look at the theatre environment from an informed audience point of view. In the course, students will examine the collaborative nature of a play as a piece of "living literature" in order to identify its shape, conflicts, climax and resolution and how it is adapted to the stage. Plays will be looked at as reflections of our culture and we will question why they ultimately need to be seen and heard to be fully understood. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the components of effective playmaking and will apply these criteria to assess the effectiveness of theatrical productions, viewing both live stage performances and films. Assessments will include discussions, written responses/reviews, projects and scene presentations.
Lab fee: $60 (tickets and transportation)
3 credits
ELA 1035: The Western Imagination
This course explores masterworks in the art of Western literature that have influenced any disciplines and which have provided fundamental imaginative concepts whose [power has been enduring and pervasive. At times, we will examine how these works have been reinterpreted in other forms that may include the visual arts, film, and music.
3 credits
ELA 1039: Nature in Theatre & Film
This course provides an in-depth look at the theatre environment from an informed audience point of view. Students will examine the collaborative nature of a play as a piece of "living literature" in order to identify its shape, conflict, climax and resolution and how it is adapted to the stage. Plays will be looked at as reflections of our culture that are most effective when they subvert the status quo, exposing society's hidden needs and fears. Productions will be critiqued as mutually observed artistic statements that cause a catharsis (tragic or comic) which ultimately needs to be seen and heard to be fully understood. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the components of effective playmaking and will apply these criteria to assess the effectiveness of theatrical productions, viewing both live stage performances and films and their relevancy to our lives. Assessments will include attendance at four theatre productions, discussions, written responses, reviews, group presentations and/or scene presentations.
3 credits
ELA 1135: The Nature of Design
If design is aesthetically inferior, it will simply be discarded as another obsolete poorly designed object entering the waste stream. Beauty is an essential element in the pursuit of sustainability. In this course, students will learn how to observe the designed world through freehand sketching. They will apply their aesthetic sensibilities to real world hands-on design/build projects. Infused into the design/build process will be a critical understanding of core ecological design principles.
3 credits
ELA 2032: Stage to Screen: Social Issues in Theatre and Film
Students will analyze a series of plays and films dealing with contemporary issues in our society. They will be examined and discussed from the playwright's viewpoint and compared with a film adaptation of the work and, when applicable, live stage productions. The works will also be looked at from an aesthetic standpoint, examining how casting, character interpretation, setting, dialogue and directorial vision impact the message. Important questions that will be asked include: What was sacrificed and/or enhanced in a different artistic medium? Is the play's essential message, including conflict, themes and resolution, still clear and effective? How does the presence of a live audience affect one's personal reaction to a work of art? The plays and films will be divided into topic categories, with classic works ranging from early 20th century to award winning contemporary plays/films which illustrate societal changes in thought and opinion. Categories will include: Academic Life, What makes a Family, Faith in Crisis, Fulfilling (or not) the American Dream.
3 credits
ELA 2033: Aesthetics: The Interpretations of Beauty in the Arts and Literature
This ELA course will investigate the theories and attitudes toward the idea of beauty in the Western world. By examining literature, the visual arts, evolutionary biology, and some of the more influential theories on the nature of beauty, this class will enable the student to understand more deeply the changing attitudes toward beauty from antiquity to the present.
3 credits
ELA 2034: Chinese Nature Poetry
The human encounter with nature and wilderness has informed Chinese poetics for over two thousand years. In this course, we will survey the major poets and themes in Chinese nature poetry, emphasizing the poetry of the Tang Dynasty. Students will read multiple English translations of Chinese poems and craft their own translations. Students will also work with a Chinese dictionary to examine the original poems, and learn to write a minimum of 75 Chinese characters. Throughout the course, we will also explore the cultural, historical and religious contexts of the poems.
3 credits
ELA 2035: Natural Science Illustration
In the DaVincian tradition of Arte/Scienza, natural science illustration seeks the balance between science and art, logic and imagination. This course introduces practical application of interpretative, artistic, qualitative, and quantitative skills to the representation of the natural world in both informal and formal media. Close observation will address the morphology of individual specimens, including their adaptations of form and function to evolutionary niches. Such studies lead directly to the rationale for inclusion in a given taxonomic classification. Specimens in college collections provide the models for learning; substantive papers and the final project will display the successful student's mastery of images that are both scientifically correct and aesthetically pleasing.
3 credits
ELA 2036: Latin American Literature and the Environment
This course will consider Latin American literature from the point of view of its relationship with the natural environment, focusing on how various writers depict the natural world in their writing, how their works are shaped by their experience of and beliefs about the natural world, and how these beliefs reflect or interact with the larger social and political context of the time. Beginning with the Popol Vuh and the chronicles of the first Europeans to arrive in Latin America, we will examine the chronological development of interactions with the environment in Latin American literature, ending with 21st century writers who write in full consciousness of the cultural impact of current environmental challenges.
3 credits
ELA- Moral Reasoning
ELA 1045: Environmental Ethics
What is the appropriate ethical relationship between humans and nonhuman nature? How should I live in light of my relationships to the natural environment and to other animals? This course is a general introduction to environmental ethics, a branch of philosophy that has emerged as a response to the profound impact of human practices on the natural environment, its ecosystems, and other species. Environmental ethics emerged as a distinct discipline in the late 1970s in the United States, but as a branch of philosophical ethics it draws from highly articulated traditions that reach back to ancient times. The perspectives we will explore in this course are relevant to how you understand yourself and nature, how you act in relation to the more-than-human world, and what policies you will endorse. The purpose of the course is not to answer all the questions we will raise, but to work together to think more perceptively, imaginatively, and effectively about environmental issues.
The following are among the many topics we will explore, often through case studies: global climate change; food production and consumption; population, consumption, and the ecological crisis; energy and ethics; the tragedy of the commons in the world's oceans; vegetarianism; the great apes, endangered species, and habitat destruction; zoos; and competing environmental philosophies. To help you grapple with issues in contemporary environmental ethics, this course will include a series of "very short lectures" on some key figures and movements in the history of ethics.
3 credits
ELA 1049: Moral Beliefs: Who's to Say?
This course explores critical thinking and the formation of beliefs regarding ethical issues that affect our social and physical environment. With a foundation in the history of philosophic reflection, students hone their thinking skills by evaluating and discussing beliefs about timely moral and political issues. Special emphasis will also be placed on students' ability to create strong arguments and speak articulately about their own critically considered views.
3 credits
ELA/PHI 3041: Ethical Theory
Where do we derive our conceptions of goodness, and, how do such conceptions shape our moral perspectives regarding values, character and appropriate conduct? In this course we shall ruminate upon this two part question as we examine the ethical theories, metaethical problems and the social, political and environmental issues that define the legacy of moral philosophy. Herein, our reflections will be guided by both primary and secondary sources.
3 credits
ELA- Historical Contexts
ELA 1057: World History & the Environment
This course examines the relationship between human history and the environment. We will examine how the environment has affected human societies, how the development of human civilization has impacted the environment, and how human attitudes towards the environment have formed and changed over time.
3 credits
ELA 1058; American Views of the Environment
This course focuses on the history of the American environment. We will examine the historical development of social systems (economic, political, cultural), and how they affected perceptions, usage, management, and conservation of the American environment from pre-colonial times to the present.
3 credits
ELA/HIS 3054: The Silk Roads
The Silk Roads refer to an extensive network of East-West trade routes that emerged by the first century BCE as commodities, especially silk, from Han China began to reach the Roman Empire. Increased commercial traffic and encounters between various peoples encouraged the spread of ideas, disease, and technology as well. This course will emphasize the trans-ecological, economic, cultural, and biological exchange that linked much of Eurasia and North Africa from the beginning of the Common Era to the late eighteenth century. Major themes in the course include the Central Asian nomads' relationship with the land and with sedentary peoples, the spread of religions along the routes, travel accounts, the emergence of empires, and the maritime trade routes.
3 credits
ELA/HIS 3055: Chicago: History of a Built Environment
This course examines the development of the built environment of Chicago. As the prototypical U.S. industrial city, the development of Chicago illustrates a number of important facets of urbanization. We will examine how the environment was shaped over time, how that then affected the area's inhabitants, and then how they responded to the successive changes. Human societies are constantly engaged in a dialogue with the environments that they inhabit, no matter how humanized those environments become.
3 credits
ELA – The Examined Life
ELA 1061: This Sacred Earth: Spirituality and the Natural World
This course acquaints students with the various ways in which people and cultures approach the earth and the natural world from a spiritual perspective, asking such questions as: Is care for and participation in the natural world a spiritual issue? How do religious communities and spiritual worldviews approach environmental concern? What are the historic roots of our current environmental crisis from a spiritual perspective? This course is designed to be experiential as well as informative. While learning about and discussing various views, beliefs, and practices, we will also experience first-hand a variety of rituals, prayers, meditative and other earth-honoring practices drawing from different religious traditions and from the personal insights of class participants.
3 credits
ELA 1066: The Vegetarian Lifestyle
This course will explore the philosophical rationale for vegetarian and vegan dietary choices. Areas of practical consideration include animal ethics, health concerns, and environmental protection. There are many considerations that come into play when we make dietary choices. Our approach to these choices can be practical, scientific and/or spiritual and moral in nature. For example, an organic vegan or vegetarian diet can have a positive effect on the treatment of farm animals in the agricultural industry, which is a moral consideration for those who want to avoid causing unnecessary suffering. The purpose of this course is to explore the options and examine the validity of our own dietary choices and the impact of those choices on our health, our community, and our planet.
3 credits
ELA 1068: Exploring Virtues
Virtues form the basis for how individuals flourish. In this course, we will examine how our connection to other people fosters personal well-being. Indeed, by examining specific virtues in depth through readings, activities and reflection papers, students will experience first hand how fostering virtues affects their lives and their communities.
3 credits
ELA 1121: Multiculturalism, Diversity Awareness, & Social Justice
This course provides students with an opportunity to explore various facets of multiculturalism and diversity including age, gender, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, ability, social class, and religion. Special emphasis will be placed on how people interact with these facets of diversity in a social environment. Students will explore various social issues including causes and potential solutions for problems caused by prejudice, discrimination, and privilege. In addition, current events related to multiculturalism, diversity, and social justice will be discussed throughout the course.
3 credits
ELA 1161: Body & Being: Tribal Dance and Spirituality
Engaging body, mind and spirit, this course will explore the art and practice of tribal dance and spirituality and its immense value both as a rich form of growth and self-expression and as a means to greater understanding and appreciation of the self, others, community, and earth. Through thoughtful exploration of a variety of elements, the student will develop a holistic understanding of the beauty and bounty of being available to each of us by means of our embodiment. Class content will include carefully selected texts, lecture, open discussion with peers and instructor, and the discipline and learning of the body in the acquisition of the movements, cues and transitions of tribal dance. There will also be some public performance of this improvisational art. The philosophical approaches will include phenomenology, existentialism, Eastern philosophy, aesthetics, ecophenomenology and ecofeminism.
3 credits
ELA 2045: International Negotiation
Everyone negotiates but few take the time to study the process and improve their skills. This course is fundamentally a skills based course. You will learn though practice in addition to discussion, readings, and lecture. You will also learn a lot about yourself. Do you listen to others? Do you make unfounded assumptions about others? Do you avoid conflict? The first part of the course helps you build your skills in the art of negotiation. In the second part of the course we examine how negotiations are affected when you deal with parties from different countries or cultures. In the third part of the course we investigate negotiation in cyberspace. In the final portion of the class students will present their research on negotiations with people from a selected country or cultural group. You will engage in regular mock negotiations in class and online with partners in other countries. The only prerequisite is an open mind.
3 credits
ELA 2065: Homesteader's Ecology
A Homesteader's Ecology is an exploration of various value-based approaches to integrating the issues of food, work, and natural resource consumption in a chosen lifestyle that actively works toward addressing and redressing the health of humans and natural ecosystems.
3 credits


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Edmond, Okla. -- The Missouri Southern golf team improved its round two total by six strokes and shot its third-lowest team score of the season as the Lions are in seventh place after the first two rounds at the Kickingbird Classic hosted by Central Oklahoma at Kickingbird GC in Edmond.
Southern shot a 296 in the opening round today and improved to a 10-over 290 in the second round to move from 11th to seventh place after day one.
Sophomore Andy Hogenmiller shot a 71 and 72 for a three over 143 and was tied for 17th to lead the Lions. Senior David Eddy shot a six over 146, while sophomore Jared Essary and juniors Seve Smith and Jamie Voegeli shot a 150, 151 and 152, respectively. Senior Chris Needham shot a 154 playing as an individual.
Cameron and Abilene Christian shot lights out as a team as Cameron leads the field after two rounds with five-under 555. ACU is four shots back, while Central Oklahoma, Midwestern State and St. Edwards round out the top five. Southeastern Oklahoma and Southern are sixth and seventh, respectively, while Barton, Newman and Southwest Baptist are tied for eighth.
The Lions will conclude the tournament tomorrow morning with the final 18 holes.

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The sanitation workers of Nagaram village panchayat have performed massive burial of birds in the early hours of Saturday. According to a rough estimate over 300 birds of the species of cormorant, pond heron and common crane (Eurasian crane) were killed in the gas pipeline blast in the early hours of Friday.
The huge tamarind tree located near the agriculture market committee building remained the hub of nesting birds has affected badly due to the flames and a good number of nests were reduced to ashes. The sudden flames gave no scope for the birds to fly from the spot to a safer place. As a result, a good number of birds were killed in the nests and a few others sustained severe injuries.
They lost their wings and eyesight to the fire and moving helter-skelter. As the district officials identified the AMC building as perfect spot for providing makeshift shelter to the VIPs, who were thronging the village to get firsthand information about the incident and to interact with the victims, the panchayat workers were asked to keep the surroundings clean. As part of making the premises spick and span, the workers collected the carcasses of the birds and buried them on the village outskirts.
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#18 - anon (07/18/2013) [-]
#138 to #96 - ElegantSiren (07/18/2013) [-]
If I had the choice of buying a purse or a game I'm going with the game. Every. ******* . Time.
#199 to #153 - ElegantSiren (07/19/2013) [-]
Well golly-gee, I never saw it that way before, Anon! Let me just put down my controller and get back in the kitchen like the good little girl I am. Whatever was I thinking having an opinion!
#209 to #204 - ElegantSiren (07/19/2013) [-]
I think I know how to act like a girl. And I don't do it to please you or any other man that I don't know. The only one I am out to please is me and my boyfriend. I could give a rat's ass what you "think" a woman should be like.
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#101 to #96 - razschi (07/18/2013) [-]
#154 to #101 - anon (07/19/2013) [-]
I like my girls to look like and behave like a girl, none of that tomboy or gamer girl **** . It's not attractive what so ever. I'm not saying they belong in the kitchen or any **** like that, just know how to be a girl. I hate girls who get those short hair cuts... those are the ugliest styles... I like my girls to be feminine and that kind of gets lost when they scream faggot, motherless father ****** or the like in games like c.o.d or bf3 gamer girls are to have as friends, i don't wanna feel like i'm ******* one of my guy friends... Girls should look like and act like girls, and boys should act like and look like boys. boys should be boys, girls should be girls.
#215 to #154 - razschi (07/19/2013) [-]
Yeah, well, that's just your opinion, and as much as you would like everyone to have the same tastes as you that's not gonna happen... ever. Differences like this make the world what it is today and there will allways be someone who disagrees with someone. If you would be more mature, you would learn to accept these kind of things.
Reply+7#42 to #18 - tombombadil (07/18/2013) [-]
If you don't see why people can get excited at the prospect of buying a bunch of really good games for that cheap, you don't have any imagination.
And a bunch of loser virgins? Really? If you're going to insult an entire group of people, at least make the attempt to be creative.
And a bunch of loser virgins? Really? If you're going to insult an entire group of people, at least make the attempt to be creative.
Reply+5#82 to #42 - buriedstpatrick (07/18/2013) [-]
#81 to #38 - nickmandemon (07/18/2013) [-]
When you could easily purchase a purse for 20 that does the same thing.
#162 to #155 - rhiaanor (07/19/2013) [-]
Yeah I will, because it doesn't ******* matter what random schmucks think of you. That's like caring about what people think of you on the internet, if they are your friends, then they don't give a **** , if they do, they aren't your friends. But obviously you wouldn't know that since you are too afraid to make an account. I do have a "fashion sense." I just don't give a damn about it, because I care more about my own enjoyment and quality of life, than what other people, that I may or may not meet, think about me based on my appearance. Of course, I don't strive to look like a beggar, but i don't go out of my way to look good.
#208 to #162 - anon (07/19/2013) [-]
You go to a job interview wearing a cheap suit or your very best expensive custom made suit? You'll impress more people with the nice suit. No matter how much people deny it the FIRST thing they notice about a person is their clothes. You want to make a good first impression don't you? You never know when you'll meet your future wife/husband. You always want to look your best.
#44 to #38 - largeheadphones (07/18/2013) [-]
Nobody buys games and never plays, them, this is a horrible choice of words, after one buys a game, they always at least beat it once, afterwards there isnt much use in playing it unless if there are mods.
#100 to #44 - anon (07/18/2013) [-]
Just yesterday I think it was I saw a post about how some guy was looking through steam and saw a guy then thought to himself this game looks cool... maybe I should buy it. Then when he clicked it it said he already had it and he's like oh yeah haha then all you losers laughed and thumbed up.
#147 to #100 - largeheadphones (07/18/2013) [-]
But he probably beat it before at least, girls buy clothes all the time and never take the tags off, at least it's not something as material as clothes, video games supply an experience.
#149 to #147 - largeheadphones (07/18/2013) [-]
and P.S. I don't laugh and thumb things up, if you do that your ******* queer, I blow a small amount of air out of my nose, and then i press the right arrow..
#179 to #29 - anonymousloggedin (07/19/2013) [-]
********* I logged in. You satisfied?
Boys should only do boy things, men only do men stuff, fags on fags and girls only on girls. I hate feminists and I prefer my women and men to be dominate in bed.
So **** ya'll women stay away from games and get makeup and purses so I can picture you with penis under ur namebrand skirt.
Boys should only do boy things, men only do men stuff, fags on fags and girls only on girls. I hate feminists and I prefer my women and men to be dominate in bed.
So **** ya'll women stay away from games and get makeup and purses so I can picture you with penis under ur namebrand skirt.
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In was during the presidency of Richard M. Nixon – who had the rare opportunity to appoint four conservative Supreme Court justices – that the notion of judicial restraint took hold, Professor Stone said. Such restraint, which implied not altering established laws or lower-court decisions except in extraordinary circumstances, was intended to counter years of what he called "the wild west of judicial activism run amok." The problem with it, he went on, is that the framers of the Constitution "clearly intended judges to take an active role."
Professor Stone said he is not a fan of the current Supreme Court, which is "in no way committed to the principle of judicial restraint" and, to prove it, has "invalidated more laws than the Warren court." He cited the decisions in Bush vs. Gore and Citizens United vs. Federal Elections Commission, among others, as examples of the court's "pure political predilections."
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Professor Stone was introduced at the lecture by Miami Law Associate Professor Mary Anne Franks, who knows him well from her days as a Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Chicago. "That was the nicest introduction I've ever had," Professor Stone remarked. The crowd was welcomed by Miami Law Dean Patricia D. White, who was described a few minutes later by Professor Stone as "one of the real leaders of American legal education."
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... who commit crimes such as theft, burglary, fraud and shoplifting to get money to buy drugs. However, drugs and crime are also linked in a number of other ways including:
Some research studies have found that a lot of acquisitive crime (stealing) is committed by dependent users of heroin and crack cocaine trying to pay for their drugs. Some show a high proportion of people arrested for a range of offences testing positive for drug use. It has been suggested that one third to over a half of all acquisitive crime is related to illegal drug use.
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Examples of users needing £15,000 to £30,000 a year to fund drug habits have often been given. To make such amounts of money from stolen goods police often suggest multiplying by three – on the basis that stolen goods will fetch about one third of their normal value. There are estimates of around 306,000 heroin and / or crack users in England, with around 200,000 of them in treatment in any one year. That is a lot of theft, burglary, fraud or shoplifting if all are stealing to pay for things. This has led some people to suggest that up to half of all acquisitive crime is drug-related and that the market value of goods stolen involved could be between £2-2.5 billion each year.
This can all seem very frightening and has often been sensationalised in the media. The picture given may be exaggerated for a number of reasons:
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Over the past 3 years, the Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI), a collaboration between Brown University and Santander Universities overseen by Brown's Office of International Affairs, have hosted participants and visiting speakers from over seventy countries. In 2011, the presenters included Professors Chinua Achebe and Glenn Loury, both faculty members from Brown University, and Professor Diyah Larasati of the University of Minnesota. These three short video pieces, shot and edited by Lindsay Richardson, offer glimpses of their BIARI presentations.
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Professor Glenn Loury is the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences at Brown University, where he teaches in the Economics Department. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Professor Loury is one of the leading experts on the economic and social impacts of U.S. policies of mass incarceration, and in particular their effects on black communities. His published works include The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (2002). Leading by example, he has consistently counseled fellow academics to make their work accessible to wider audiences, and take on the responsibilities of the public intellectual. At BIARI 2011, where he was introduced by Brown Professor Rich Snyder, he spoke at the Institute on Development and Inequality. He drew on his own research, and recent debates about the significance of Barack Obama's presidency for race relations in the United States, to urge BIARI participants to make their research speak to the public interest.
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Urologyby Macfarlane, Michael T.
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The Fifth Edition of Urology in the House Officer Series creates a concise source of clinical information on urology for medical students and residents that can be easily carried for quick reference. Concentrating on the non-surgical aspects of urology, this pocket guide provides the information needed for making a diagnosis and deciding on the proper treatment course.
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The House Ethics Committee said on Tuesday it has unanimously voted to take no action against Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., for failing to report outside positions he held at six companies and organizations as well as income on his financial disclosure statements for the years 2007-2010.
The committee says it found no evidence that Buchanan's omissions were "knowing or willful," or that the errors were "substantially different" from "the hundreds of thousands" of mistakes found in as much as 50 percent of other lawmakers' financial disclosure statements filed each year.
"Such errors and omissions are not uncommon and are typically corrected through amendments to financial disclosure statements and do not involve any further committee action," states the announcement from Chairman Jo Bonner, R-Ala., and ranking member Linda Sanchez, D-Calif.
"Representative Buchanan has now corrected the errors and omissions in his financial disclosure statements by his subsequent amendments," their announcement says. "Therefore, no further action by the committee is warranted, and the committee considers the matter closed." The panel's vote to dismiss the case against Buchanan--who continues to head fundraising for the National Republican Congressional Committee--was 9-0.
However, Buchanan remains under review by the committee on a separate matter concerning allegations that he improperly reimbursed contributors to his campaigns $67,900 from his former chain of auto dealerships.
Buchanan said he was pleased with the committee's action on Tuesday but not surprised, echoing the committee's statement that many representatives and senators routinely amend their reports due to inadvertent omissions.
Along with its announcement, the committee released a six-page report on the case, which gave details of the accusations forwarded to the committee on Nov. 8 by the Office of Congressional Ethics. The OCE is a quasi-independent ethics body charged with vetting allegations against lawmakers before passing a case on to the committee.
The report discloses that OCE found that Buchanan failed to disclose up to $14,315 in interest income imputable to these six companies over the four-year time period upon which it focused its investigation, but that those mistakes also had been corrected.
In the end, the committee's report seems to suggest that the panel should not have been required to take the case from OCE, or be forced now to publish details about it, but that it was required by House rules to do both. The report states that Buchanan, "by filing financial disclosure statements containing inadvertent errors and omissions, found himself in a posture not uncommon among filers of financial disclosure statement[s]... ."
But it added that "while many others in that position are able to exit it in a manner which is not the subject of a public investigation by the committee, House and committee rules forced the committee to publish OCE's report and findings in this matter and accordingly publicize Representative Buchanan's errors and omissions."


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Carolyn J. Kessie, 74, of Columbia City, passed away at 5:35 p.m., Saturday, June 4, 2011 at her residence surrounded by her loving family.
Born Nov. 11, 1936 in Whitley County, she was the daughter of Paul C. and Violet M. (Dolly) Boggs.
She was a lifetime resident of Whitley County. She attended Thorncreek School and graduated from Larwill High School with the Class of 1954. On June 9, 1957, she married Dick D. Kessie at Troy Presbyterian Church, Whitley County.
She worked at NIPSCO from 1954-1978, 5C's Nursing Home, Dr. Vogel's office and for Dr. Bryan Wait as an office assistant from 1989 to 2006.
She was also co-owner of D&C Crafts and Woodworking.
She was a member of Troy Presbyterian Church where she was the organist and pianist for many years.
She was a member of the Columbia City United Methodist Church. Other memberships include Columbia City-Order of Eastern Star and Daughters of the Nile, as well as Shrine Lady, Whitley County Shrine Club.
Survivors include her husband of 53 years, Dick D. Kessie of Columbia City; daughters, Cerese (Jim) R. Brock and Terri (Chris) A. Clupper of Columbia City; sons, Dennis (Aimee) P. Kessie of Braidwood, Ill.; Doug (Tina) D. Kessie of South Whitley; brother, Paul "Butch" (Louisa) C. Boggs of Fort Wayne; grandchildren, Emily and Abbey Brock, Justin and Tyler Clupper, Alexandra, Mason and Wyatt Kessie, Kayla, Joshua and Cole Kessie; great-grandson, Aiden Linn. She was preceded in death by her parents.
Visitation is from 2-8 p.m. Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at DeMoney-Grimes Countryside Park Funeral Home, 600 Countryside Drive, Columbia City.
Funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at DeMoney-Grimes Funeral Home. Burial will follow at South Whitley Cemetery.
Memorials in Carolyn's memory may be given to Shriner's Chicago Hospital for Children, Columbia City United Methodist Church Building Fund or Parkview Whitley Home Health and Hospice.
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How much of a crowd does gay days draw in?
In comparison to last weekend for example will this weekend be busier? How much busier?
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How much of a crowd does gay days draw in?
In comparison to last weekend for example will this weekend be busier? How much busier?
In my experience, the past two years the park was MOBBED! Last year was rough, but two years ago the park was reportedly only a cople thousand peopel under capacity with gate closure impending.
Last year they instituted handstamps for re-enty for all guests, Premium AP holders as well.
My family has really loved attending to show support for our gay friends, but after last years mob and our witnessing near violence (the park was closed early due to a private Miley Cyrus event leaving many out of townwers furious), I think this year we'll just stay home.
You should expect big crowds! I went on the Happiest Haunt tour last night and the park was very crowded. There is a big convention in town, plus the Gay Days celebrants, the Utah escapees, the first night of the Trick or Treat party, and the usual weekend crowds.
I hope it won't be too crowded and it's on my birthday.
I went to the parks last night about 5pm. It was packed! I had to park at the Anaheim convention center. Which isn't bad because it is really close to the Timon tram.
I drove all the way up Harbor from home instead of taking the freeway, because of rush hour. And I figured I'd better obey the signs, which were telling people to park at the convention center, instead of going out of my way to get to the structure and then finding out it is closed.
Crowded and Packed!? Great....
But remember its not just Gay Days this weekend. There is that, conventions going on, UEA people coming down from Utah...this is just a very busy weekend all the way around.
Yeah, mostly every Anaheim hotel is sold out due to a HUGE convention - Fresh Summit - October 2-5, 2009
(Those guests might not be here for Disneyland, but on top of other events going on, the city/Disney is very busy!)
My GF and I are planning to visit tomorrow. Any reason to believe the crowd will be any lighter?
Dumb question I know, but just trying to get an idea of what to expect, what time to leave the house, etc.
I arrived today at 2:10 pm and the Mickey and Friends structure was already closed. I ended up in Buzz Lightyear and barely made it into the parks for a 3:30 set by one of my favorite bands.
Tomorrow I'll get there early, like 9:00 am. I recommend that you do too if at all possible. Burning up your time trying to get into the parks is not my idea of fun.
What were attraction wait times like today (Saturday)? Anything approaching the 85 minutes I waited for Ghost Galaxy?
I went to Disneyland today (I'm not gay though). I told my parents how the park was going to be packed due to Gay Day but they disagreed and said it wouldn't be too busy. Well, we got into Disneyland around 10:30 and it wasn't packed at all. We ate some lunch and when we were done with lunch there were HUGE mobs of people everywhere! It was craaaazy! They were all wearing red shirts too.....My mom finally accepted the fact that I was right when I said Gay Day was a huge event at Disneyland when she saw the huge mobs. Well, we will tyr to never go the first weekend of October again
At around 2:00 the wait for Space Mountain was 75 mins
My boyfriend and I ended up there on the gay days last year. It wasn't that busy I thought. We did go on like the last day so I don't know if that makes a difference.


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Internet service providers have called for more meaningful discussions with Federal Government agencies on the data to be captured and hold under a proposed data retention regime.
The regime, included in a discussion paper released by the Attorney-General's Department last month, has been the subject of closed-door negotiations between government and service providers for the past two years.
If implemented, it would oblige telcos to hold a certain amount of telecommunications data for customers for up to two years for the purposes of criminal investigation.
However, the extent of the data captured and stored under the proposal has been a continued point of confusion, despite a parliamentary inquiry into the proposed reforms.
The discussion paper only refers to data as "a communication that is not the content or substance of a communication".
But representative bodies for ISPs and mobile carriers say they have not held any discussions around the proposed data to be captured and stored for the past two years.
A confidential discussion paper prepared in 2010, parts of which were subsequently leaked to the media, was the last major point of contact from the Attorney-General's Department on the issue.
John Stanton, chief executive of telco representative body the Communications Alliance, told a parliamentary committee hearing that the industry remained uncertain whether the information contained in that paper — which provided a "very clear description of a metadata-based dataset" — was relevant to the current proposals.
"We don't know whether that discussion paper is current, we don't know what the current view is so we are relying on experiential material without understanding with any degree of specificity what's being sought today," he said.
The type and extent of data sought is likely to depend on whether Australia follows a similar route to the European-style data retention regime, which focused on the source, type and destination of communication, time and duration, and device used.
Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association chief executive Chris Althaus told the committee hearing that the industry would support such a targeted scheme, but called for more discussion on how the costs would be involved.
The industry supported a UK-style scheme, which saw the government there promise to shell out £1.8 billion ($A2.75 billion) to cover the setup and operational costs of systems required to retain the data.
Althaus said an Australian equivalent, estimated to cost between $500 million and $700 million, would have to be footed by the communications industry.
"That's somewhat of an assumption because we haven't seen that detail," he said.
"At enormous cost, there seems to be little discussion about where the efficacy might lie and we think that's an opportunity that should be pursued more deeply in partnership with industry."
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Apple looking to get new SIM standard, creating ever thinner devices.
Apple has proposed a new, super-slim design for SIM cards, enabling smartphones to get even thinner. That's according to Reuters, which has had word from an Orange exec about the plans.
According to ETSI, the European telecoms standards people, Apple has made the proposal, which would see phones made by Cupertino and its key rivals use the tech. "This process may take some time, up to a year or more, if there is strong disagreement between industry players," said an ETSI spokesperson. "However, when there is broad consensus among the companies participating in the standards committee, the process can be accelerated to a number of months."
Orange said it was keen on the move and that Apple's request to ETSI had been made with a number of other mobile networks. These new SIMs are set to be even smaller than the microSIM currently found in the iPhone 4 and iPad 2.
This proposal also suggests Apple has decided against building SIMs into its phones and tablets, bypassing the need for punters to buy from mobile networks. For more on this and the rest of the day's gadget news, stay tuned to our Facebook and Twitter pages.
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