It was embarrassing enough when an Eckerd College trip overseas celebrating the glory of Europe last winter culminated in a group of students’ sampling too much of the local vintage, insulting the residents and keeping guests at their hotel awake with their drunken revelry.
But after another student on one of Eckerd’s overseas excursions studying human rights and diplomacy decided to settle a political disagreement with his fists less than six months later, the college had had enough.