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2013 Fall Honorable Mention
No full textHonorable Mention mentioning Westminster honorables since 2002 Honors students write “poetry for the people” with Westminster Slam Last year, Honors student Willy Palomo started the Westminster Slam Poetry club with the help of Honors Director Richard Badenhausen and English professor Natasha Saje. Although the club is relatively new, it already has a significant presence on campus. The club has nearly a dozen members, over half of which are members of the Honors program. Many of these students were active in the slam poetry community before coming to college, and they wanted to bring their love of the art to Westminster. The slam poetry movement, which began in the mid-1980s, represents a dramatic break from the tradition of subdued poetry recitation in academic and literary circles. This new movement encouraged artists to create poetry about, by, and for the people. This principle of equality influences both the people and procedures involved in slam poetry. Poetry slams are competitions, but the judges are chosen from the audience. According to Westminster Slam founder Willy Palomo, the ideal judge has never even been to a slam before because slam poetry is about “making poetry accessible to everyone.” Westminster Slam carries this ideal forward in the Salt Lake slam community, and together they strive to create a free speech zone in which poets can address a wide range of personal, political, social, and spiritual issues through poetry. The audience is expected to participate in slam performances, snapping to express appreciation and enjoyment or calling out “push” to encourage poets to continue when they seem to be faltering. Hissing and booing are not off-limits, either. As Palomo points out, “the audience is in total control.” Because of this atmosphere of direct engagement, slam poets strive to connect to the audience for which they write. But slam poetry is also an opportunity for the poets to better understand themselves. Senior psychology major Courtney Hammond saw her first slam as a freshman in college and is now an active member of the team. “Participating in Westminster Slam has helped increase my confidence in interpersonal conversation,” she said. Erin Cavender, a sophomore marketing major currently studying in the Honors Principia program in Scotland, has also enjoyed her experience as a member of Westminster Slam. “I joined the slam team because it seemed like a fun way to get involved with other students at Westminster while improving my skills as a writer,” she said. Cavender thinks that being in the Honors program was one of the major reasons she decided to join the team. “I felt that slam complemented my developing writing skills,” she said. “While Humanities taught me precision in language, slam encouraged me to use language to produce emotion. The combination was truly delightful.” Westminster Slam is currently fundraising in order to attend the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI), which will be held in Boulder, Colorado in March. Though most slams are competitions among individuals, CUPSI is a team event in which four poets can compete together. A large portion of the fundraising will be done through Battle at Botanica events at Botanica Coffee House, such as the Haiku Deathmatch held earlier this fall. Additional Battle at Botanica events will be held on the third Saturday of every month. All of these events are free, but attendees are encouraged to offer a donation. The Westminster Slam poets meet on Mondays from 8 to 11 p.m. to workshop their ideas and generate new poems through prompts and improv games. For more on upcoming events and videos of performances, visit Westminster Slam Poetry on Facebook. By: Jorie Page Fall 2013 Honors program undergoes review from national expert Dr. John Zubizarreta and Honors Director Richard Badenhausen hit the slopes after the program review. Review report points to current successes and future opportunities. Over the course of the past academic year, the Honors Council conducted its six-year program review to assess whether Westminster’s Honors program is achieving its learning goals and offering students enriching extracurricular opportunities. The Council began the process by compiling a selfstudy. To gather information for the report, the Council reflected on the program’s current features, solicited feedback from Honors faculty, and examined data on student outcomes. Assistant Director Dave Goldsmith oversaw the development of the report, which was then revised by the Honors Council and sent to an external reviewer, John Zubizarreta. Dr. Zubizarreta is the Honors Director at Columbia College, a former National Collegiate Honors Council President, and the 2010 CASE/Carnegie Outstanding Baccalaureate Colleges Professor of the Year. He compiled an overall assessment and recommendations based on the Honors Council’s report and his on-campus interactions with students and faculty during a two-day visit in March. The program review’s findings show the Honors program to be successful in many respects, both inside and outside the classroom. The curriculum’s focus on critical analysis and communication skills has translated into substantial learning gains as measured through assessments like the Collegiate Learning Assessment exam. Furthermore, the program has very high completion rates: about 70% of students complete the entire program in four years. Finally, the retention of firstyear students is especially noteworthy: over 90% for the past two years. Opportunities to engage in social and academic events, research, and travel also continue to enhance students’ experiences. page 2 Dr. Zubizarreta’s conclusions were enthusiastically positive and highlighted the recognition that the program has gained in the national Honors community. He cited the unique interdisciplinary coursework, leadership opportunities, and strong sense of community among students as some of the features that make this Honors program, according to him, one of the strongest in the country. The Honors Council is now discussing ways to further strengthen the program based on internal findings and Dr. Zubizarreta’s recommendations. Developing ways for transfer students to enter Honors is one such opportunity. The Council will also explore how to make the core Honors curriculum even more creative and interdisciplinary in light of our campus’ increasing support for a revised Liberal Education program. Finally, the program review has identified the importance of expanding diversity in the program. New initiatives to pursue this goal include examining the curriculum and continuing our involvement in the Clemente Program, a mentoring program for underserved students at East High, which includes the support of two current Honors students (Nicole Bedera and Willy Palomo) as teaching fellows. Program Director Richard Badenhausen emphasized the community-wide efforts involved in making the program review a success. “I appreciate both Dave’s leadership in overseeing the compilation of the report and the engagement of other constituencies, including the Honors Council, faculty, and students,” Dr. Badenhausen said. Students will have an opportunity to learn more about the program review and to provide their feedback during an open forum this spring. By: Melanie Long President Brian teaches Honors ‘Law in History’ Though the Honors program has many stimulating classes, its newest offering—a cross-listed history course taught by the president of Westminster College—is especially unique. “Law in History” is a course that examines the interaction of law with culture, economics, individuals, and society. This exploration is guided by none other than Dr. Brian Levin-Stankevich, a long-time student of law and history, and Westminster’s current president. Several Honors students registered for the class because they hoped it would supplement their Honors experience as well as their majors. “It’ll give my major a little more context for classes I will be taking in the future,” said Jasmine Carlson, a junior majoring in political science, I force myself who also plans to go to continuously to law school. rethink this Senior English major Nicole Holbrook course, and that agrees. “I enjoy the means I need to new perspective it continue to read adds to my literature and learn myself. studies,” she said. Each week, the “Law in History” students discuss a different historical legal system such as Greek, Roman, or Salic law. Quizzes are taken in groups of four, which allows the students to combine their knowledge to get the best grade possible. “The quizzes are kind of difficult,” said sophomore Lauren Waters. But groups that get wrong answers on a quiz are encouraged to defend their responses in true Honors style. A successful defense can earn back the missed points. The class doesn’t just challenge the students. It challenges the president, too. “I force myself to continuously rethink and reconstruct this course and the readings, and that means I need to continue to read and learn myself,” said Dr. Brian. The president is also learning to adjust to the more interactive teaching valued in Honors. “It’s hard to break the habit of talking and the feeling that I need to convey lots of information and analysis,” he said. “That is still a work in progress for me.” And as if the new teaching style weren’t enough to worry about, Dr. Brian has also had to deal with a constant stream of technical difficulties. “He has a fleet of IT technicians that follow him and do his bidding,” joked Carlson. Overall, though, the class experience has been decidedly positive. “I have really enjoyed getting to know Dr. Brian,” said Lauren Waters. “Although he’s still a little intimidating to me, I have loved seeing him get really passionate about things.” Dr. Brian has also enjoyed this new teaching experience and is “quite impressed” with students’ abilities. By: Brianne Sandorf “ ” page 3 Honors students present in New Orleans at National Collegiate Honors Conference This year, a group of four Honors students traveled to New Orleans to present their research at the annual conference of the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC), the professional organization that represents the approximately 800 Honors programs in the country. Their presentations before some of the 2,000 conference attendees covered a variety of topics ranging from a Baconian analysis of wildlife documentaries to a study of the best Honors peer mentor practices. In addition to their personal presentations, Katrina England and Nicole Bedera also participated in the Student Fishbowl Session, during which a select group of about eight Honors students from around the country came together to discuss what makes Honors programs work best. Sara McCaskey also participated in an additional presentation titled “What Makes a Winning Honors Newsletter.” In this presentation, McCaskey and the four other judges for the NCHC’s annual newsletter competition reflected on their evaluation process to explain why certain newsletters were more successful than others. The students were accompanied by Honors Director Richard Badenhausen, who was attending his 18th NCHC convention. As always, he kept busy throughout the meeting, presenting on panels about Honors recruiting and the value of Honors site visitors. He co-chaired the meeting of the Publications Board, which oversees all NCHC Publications, co-chaired the Student Interdisciplinary Research Paper strand at the conference, and served in the consultant’s center. But the best part of the meeting occurred when the entire Westminster contingent finished off one of its busy days with a relaxing dinner at local hotspot Cochon, where they were joined by 2011 Honors grad Chris Roundy, who is studying tropical disease and public health at Tulane University. By: Sara McCaskey Courtney Hammond and Nicole Bedera explored the relationships between peer mentors and their mentees in their presentation, “You Can Trust Us: The Benefits of a Two-Step Trust-Building Approach to Peer Mentorship.” Their proposed plan involved a trust-building exercise at orientation and a social, authentic follow-up with mentees during the first semester. Nicole and Courtney used the Westminster Honors program’s “Confidential Q&A” exercise as an example of an opportunity for mentors to become more approachable and trustworthy during orientation. Sara McCaskey discussed the best practices for creating a student-run campus magazine in her Idea Exchange presentation, “Integrating Print and Digital Media: A Campus Magazine Project.” By reflecting on her personal experience creating a campus magazine at Westminster, Sara led a discussion about the value of integrating traditional print journalism practices with modern technology. In addition, her presentation explored practical solutions to the creative and logistical challenges that creators of a new campus publication must address. page 4 Katrina England participated in the Student Independent Research Paper portion of the conference with a presentation titled “No ‘Idols’ in this Cave: Minimizing Baconian Biases and Engaging Wildlife Documentary Viewers in the Scientific Process through ‘Making Of ’ Videos.” In her presentation, Katrina discussed how wildlife documentaries are positioned at the nexus of science broadcasting and fiction. By examining classic cinema’s constructed ‘realism,’ and Francis Bacon’s theory of the “Idols of the Mind,” she argued that wildlife documentaries can and should strip back their façades of objectivity and scientific authority with supplemental ‘making of ’ videos which reveal the crew’s process of creating the film itself. By being intentionally transparent with their production process, wildlife filmmakers could open themselves and their methods up to critique, and allow the genre to be more true to the untidy nature of scientific inquiry. Andre Biscaye conducted breast cancer research with the Huntsman Cancer Institute this summer. Caitlin Himelright had her work featured at the Mod-a-go-go art gallery in October. Nicole Bedera presented at Westminster Thinks Big on college sexual assault report rates. Lauren Carter presented research on mercury distribution in the Great Salt Lake at an EPA Wetlands conference in September. Pratik Raghu worked with the nonprofit Youthlinc this past summer in Kenya. He taught English and helped organize a microenterprise workshop. Christian Swenson’s original play The Box was produced by Warboy Theatre Projects at Echo Theatre in Provo this summer. ! News & Notes Katrina England was selected as an External Reviewer for the International Undergraduate Philosophy Journal, Stance. Alicia Foster walked the Camino de Santiago with a group of Westminster students this May. Pratik Raghu, Jorie Page, and Emma Deloughery earned the first, second, and third place awards respectively in Westminster’s 2013 horror story contest. Sabina Schill worked at Nightmare on 13th, the number-one-rated haunted house in Utah during the 2013 season. Hannah Williams placed second in the design category of Foliotek’s ePortfolio contest. She is also the president of Westminster’s Residence Hall Association. Did you do something notable? We want to know! Email your news and notes to Richard at [email protected]. Joey Devine competed in the Ragnar relay race competition. Jordan Larsen (’07) began classes in the MBA program at BYU this fall. Kait Thomas (’10) was interviewed by CNN about her work as a park ranger in Arches National Park. Amanda Anais Ruiz, (’10) graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School this May with magna cum laude honors and the school’s Public Service Award. She also received a commission as an officer in the U.S. Navy to serve as a J.A.G. Corps Lawyer. Ashley Pedersen (‘10) accepted a new job as Director of Education at the Tucson Botanical Gardens. Bryan Craven (’10) and Ali Monjar (’10) were married in September. page 5 A natural fit: Students find love in Honors The recent marriage of Westminster Honors alums Ali Monjar (’10) and Bryan Craven (’10) is just one example of at least a half dozen Honors marriages in the past decade. The couple met during Honors orientation and according to Ali, “we both had instant crushes on each other.” It’s hard to believe that Honors students can find love page 6 in the midst of their busy schedules. Who has the time to think of romance when challenging readings and freshman prompts intrude daily? However, despite the workload, Honors couples are everywhere. Ali and Bryan agree that without Honors there is “a good possibility we wouldn’t have met. And if we did meet, we wouldn’t have gotten to know each other.” In Honors, students get to know each other in a special way. The fact that they’re graded on their critical thinking and analysis skills affects not only their academics, but also their social lives. “The shared experience of completing the Honors core breeds a fellowship which naturally transitions into romance,” Bryan said. As students become more confident with the ‘so what?’ of arguments, the ‘why not?’ of relationships with fellow Honors students seems much less daunting. Juniors Megan Peters and Greg Yerkes are two Honors students who have been dating for over a year. They first met in Humanities, but sparks didn’t fly instantly. In fact, Greg never imagined he would date anyone in Honors because he “thought they were all nerdy!” And Megan thought that “the Honors tendency to date within was just an exaggeration.” Little did they know. While Honors couples could certainly benefit from helping each other academically, Honors students’ competitive nature has the potential to get in the way. “It’s hard not to get competitive when someone does better in class, but we won’t share who does better in our relationship,” said Megan. Having a knowing companion close at hand just makes Honors seminars a little bit easier. Megan explained, “We help each other when one of us has already taken the class.” “But we’ve learned not to edit each other’s papers, because that’s just too much for a relationship to handle,” she joked. As for their theory about why Honors couples just work, Megan and Greg agree that it’s because they “have similar schedules, similar drive, and similar likes.” Not only do Honors students understand each other’s frustrations, they also understand Nick More references. Senior Sara McCaskey and David Luhr (’12) represent yet another example of Honors love. Megan & Greg Sara and David have been dating for about two years, but Sara never believed she would find a match in Honors because the “program is relatively small, so the odds didn’t seem all that great.” However, David wasn’t as surprised. “The Honors program brought me together with my closest friends from college,” he said. “So it follows that I should find my love there, as well.” Sara and David agreed that just being in the Honors program together draws students to one another. “Being in the program gives us all some common ground that makes it easier to build relationships—romantic or not,” Sara said. Other recent Honors marriages include Paula Porter (’10) and Chert Griffith (’09), Jenn Niedfeldt (’09) and Andrew Waterhouse (’08), Anna Hansen (’08) and Greg Bowen (’08), and Sharayah Coleman (’08) and John Cook (‘10). That group will soon be joined by recently engaged Ashley Pedersen (’09) and Ben Rackham (’09). Ashley and Ben met at Honors orientation, and though neither one was interested in dating they quickly realized how much they had in common. The rest is history. “We both realized somewhere between Halloween and winter break that we were, in fact, dating,” said Ben. “Things were going pretty well, so we just kept up with it, and now we’re still together, and engaged, eight years later.” But who better to ask about the phenomenon of Honors couples than the man who witnessed them first-hand? As Director of the Honors program, Richard Badenhausen claims, “Honors students have come together as life partners so often because, like Aristotle, they understand that genuine friendship is based on reciprocal good will. Honors students enjoy spending time together with others of excellent character in situations that allow them to exercise their arête. What could be more natural? Of course the highest form of friendship is based on a mutual horror over the use of passive voice.” Suddenly, Humanities makes sense. By: Anabel Alvarado Favorite date spot in SLC? Park Café because we’re huge breakfast people (our hipster side). Most romantic spot on campus? Bassis is our place to go; we try to meet up between classes for a quick coffee and crossword puzzle. Sara & David Favorite date spot in SLC? We love to go on walks together around the neighborhoods in Sugar House and admire all of the beautiful houses. It’s really fun because all of the houses are so different and I think we get to know each other even better every time we go. Most romantic spot on campus? With its wobbly tables, crumb-filled seating booths, and displays of abandoned dishes, Shaw is an obviously romantic getaway—one particular high table against the windows facing the Commons, to be exact. That’s where we ate lunch when we first started spending time together outside of class, with lots of joking and nervous attempts at flirtation. Ali & Bryan Favorite date spot in SLC? The Broadway Theater is our favorite date spot. It’s where we had our first date to see Man on Wire, and we’ve seen so many great films there since. It’s a great place because it’s local and supports artistic, independent films that sometimes make you reflect more than standard blockbusters. Most romantic spot on campus? Well, we didn’t really interact romantically when we were at school together. As I ment
A Floating Question Mark: An Interview with Sara Hawys Roberts, Author of Withdrawn Traces: Searching For The Truth About Richey Manic
No full textAn interview with Sara Hawys Roberts, co-author of 'Withdrawn Traces: Searching For The Truth About Richey Manic' about the researching and writing of this much-anticipated book about the missing Manic Street Preacher.</p
A Floating Question Mark: An Interview with Sara Hawys Roberts, Author of Withdrawn Traces: Searching For The Truth About Richey Manic
No full textAn interview with Sara Hawys Roberts, co-author of 'Withdrawn Traces: Searching For The Truth About Richey Manic' about the researching and writing of this much-anticipated book about the missing Manic Street Preacher.</p
Sara Gossett Crigler Collection - Accession 614
Get PDFThe Sara Gossett Crigler Collection consists of a microfiche copy of her book titled, Education For Girls And Women In Upper South Carolina Prior to 1890 with Related Miscellaneous Articles: A Compilation by Mrs. Henry Towles Crigler (Sara Gossett Crigler), self-published in Greenville, SC on April 15, 1956. This book also includes many anecdotes and reminiscences of Sara’ family including a section devoted to the slaves owned and later freed after the Civil War by her family. The book is dedicated by the author, Sara Gossett Crigler (1886-1966), to her mother Sallie Brown Gossett (1859-1942) and her aunt Mary Brown Mahon (1861-1948) who were both graduates of Williamston Female College in 1877 and 1879 respectively. The 170 page volume would be useful to anyone doing research on the education of women in South Carolina during the 19th century. The original copy is housed at the South Carolina Historical Society as SCHS 509 and was dedicated and signed by the author, “For the Charleston Library Society” on July 10, 1964.
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Materia-autore = Author-Matter
Get PDFThe etymology of the word author refers to an act of creation, an act of augmentation, from the Latin verb augere. Author instantiates creation, the expansion of the pre-existing. In 1967 Roland Barthes declared the death of the author in his famous essay to state once more that the crisis is that of the author as a single subjectivity and as a term that condenses prestige, undermined by the de-subjectivation strategies of automatism, fortuity and fragmentation of the historical avant-gardes, as well as by the machinic act and by the reproducibility of the second avant-gardes.
Fifty years after Barthes’ paradigmatic formula, this lack of authorship appears to be a successful brand. The ten- sions between the anomie of matter, the law that establishes authorship and the economy that makes the work pos- sible, invoke discordant perspectives. Artists make the self-destruction of their work the real work, and appeal is made for the demolition of architectures, whether by a recognised author or not, in order to re-design, or better still, re-claim the territory. Artificial intelligence consolidates its logics and its design by progressively shedding human ingenuity. The space of criticism becomes, finally, increasingly ephemeral. However, there is an acceptation of criti- cism that is, rather than an individual ‘signature’, an exploration and explanation of how design makes theory.
The binomial author-matter seeks to mark these tensions and contradictions: the featured term author is main- tained to underline the persistence of that prestigious subjectivity, at the very moment when the rhetoric of “mat- ter as an author” promises other forms of authorship
Sara Winthrop Smith letter to Frances Casement, August 14, 1887
No full textLetter written to Frances Casement from Sara Winthrop Smith of Cincinnati, Ohio, August 14, 1887. Winthrop expresses the challenges of generating support for the suffrage movement among the conservative residents of her city, and encourages the creation of clear materials that make the argument for women's suffrage to be more widely distributed.
This item comes from the Frances Jennings Casement Papers, a manuscript collection comprised of letters and association records related to the founding and leadership of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association. Casement (1840-1928) was born in Painesville, Ohio, and graduated from Painesville Academy and Willoughby Female Seminary. Her father, Charles Casement, supported abolition and women's suffrage and encouraged Frances to be active in social causes. Frances Casement established the Painesville Equal Rights Association in 1883, and shortly after became involved in the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association, serving as its president from 1885 to 1888
Sara Brown
No full textSara E. Brown is the Executive Director of Chhange, the Center for Holocaust, Human Rights & Genocide Education. Brown holds the first Ph.D. in comparative genocide studies from Clark University\u27s Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. She has presented at an array of professional conferences around the world, published pieces in academic journals, news outlets, and edited volumes, and currently serves on the Advisory Board for the International Association of Genocide Scholars.
Brown has worked and conducted research in Rwanda since 2004, served as a project coordinator in refugee camps in Tanzania, worked in refugee resettlement in Texas, and researched conflict globalization and conflict in Israel. Prior to coming to Chhange, she developed and managed post-secondary education programming for USC Shoah Foundation. She has designed and taught courses on human rights, mass violence, and history at San Diego State University, Mt San Jacinto Community College, and Worcester State University. Brown served as an academic consultant for Aegis Trust in Rwanda and as the scholarly advisor on the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda for Chhange\u27s museum-quality exhibit, Journeys Beyond Genocide: The Human Experience.
She is the author of Gender and the Genocide in Rwanda: Women as Perpetrators and Rescuers and the co-editor of the forthcoming Routledge Handbook on Religion and Genocide.https://commons.erau.edu/genocide-bios/1059/thumbnail.jp
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