1.0Lafayette Magazine Fall 2012https://magazine.lafayette.edu/fall2012gaulahttps://magazine.lafayette.edu/fall2012/author/gaula/Chautauqua of High Street - Lafayette Magazine Fall 2012rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="qPZ8qqgvIU"><a href="https://magazine.lafayette.edu/fall2012/2012/11/26/chautauqua-of-high-street/">Chautauqua of High Street</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://magazine.lafayette.edu/fall2012/2012/11/26/chautauqua-of-high-street/embed/#?secret=qPZ8qqgvIU" width="600" height="338" title="“Chautauqua of High Street” — Lafayette Magazine Fall 2012" data-secret="qPZ8qqgvIU" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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https://magazine.lafayette.edu/fall2012/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2012/11/FmckelvyFall2012FEATUREDNEW.jpg960400For a half-century, McKelvy house has been a role model for Lafayette’s living-learnig communities. by Geoff Gehman ’80 | photography by Chuck Zovko To spur an unwilling group to embrace his desire to lead a debate about the constitutional right to bear arms without infringement, Ben Wilmoth ’05 organized a field trip to a shooting club, a natural act for a gun-owning founder of Lafayette’s Fed Challenge Team. He wanted to discuss constructive uses of guns—like bonding with his father while shooting skeet. His housemates did not want to discuss destructive uses of guns—like killing deer and murdering high schoolers. All but one of the 17 members of the group accepted his invitation, an extraordinary response from weapon skeptics, most of whom had never fired a weapon. That Sund