2008 Student Writing and Fine Arts Awards

Phi Kappa Phi Student Writing and Fine Arts
Winners for 2008

Fine Arts Awards:

Houston Trueblood
  Nominator: Robert Barrett, Dept. of Visual Arts

Rachel Willis-Sørensen
  Nominator: Darrell Babidge, the School of Music

Paper Competition Awards
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   Freshmen

1st place: Stephen Salisbury, "New World Warfare"
  Nominator: Katherine Cowley
2nd place: Krystle Wahnschaffe, "The Unspoken Law: China's Double Standard Regarding Freedom of Press"
  Nominator: Jessica Wiest

   Sophomores

1st place: Samuel Spencer Wells, “Of Pen and Sword: The Pennsylvanian Press and the Decline of Quakerism 1740-1765"
  Nominator: Christopher Hodson

   Juniors

1st place: Jonathan Luke, "The Genesis of the Guatemalan Peace Accords of 1996"
  Nominator: Donlu Thayer
2nd place: Christopher McKeen, "On the (Trans-)Formation of Souls: A Parallel Reading of Inferno and Purgatorio XXIV-XXV”
  Nominator: Madison Sowell

   Seniors

1st place: Elizabeth Morris, "From Slavery to Freedom: Why Free Blacks Stayed in Warwick, New York"
  Nominator: Matthew Mason
2nd place: Brandon McDaniel, "Video Games: Effects on Childhood Development"
  Nominator: Gary Hatch