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Renewal #298 By Hank Silverberg Commentary A new semester begins for me this week. I have two classes and 50 students at the community college where I teach as an Adjunct Professor. The start of a new semester always brings a fresh look for me with a new group of students and some revised material I have added to my syllabi. I teach introductory courses in Public Speaking and Communications, so many of my students, though not all, are right out of high school. A large number of these students chose a community college because they can take the introductory courses with lower tuition and then transfer later to a four year college. In Virginia, the curriculum for my classes is identical to that of freshmen taking the same class at a four year college to make the credits more transferable. Unfortunately, a number of the students over the last few years have come in with a big gap in their education. They went through h