Mershon Memo: A newsletter of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies

The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.Last fall, Eileen McDonnell worked on an assignment about identity with seven other students from the United States and Middle East. Each student started with seven aspects of their identity, and then gradually removed items until they were left with the three most important. To McDonnell’s surprise, every single student had kept religion as one of the most important aspects of his or her identity. This was just one of the discussions made possible during Richard Herrmann’s Foreign Policy Decision Making class by technology from a company called Soliya.Soliya helps Ohio State students meet students from Middle East; Speaker compares costs of war, containment; Newell reconstructs history of Native American slaves; New journal to be forum for debate on defense; Calendar of events; Faculty and Student Achievement