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NCHC Conference
Salt Lake City 2002!
Twenty-one students and four staff members attended the annual conference of the National Collegiate Honors Council held in Salt Lake City from 30 October to 3 November..
Matie Little '03 (psychology), Alan Sherburne '03 (biological sciences), Richard A. Becker '03 (history and geological sciences), Isaac Record '03 (electrical engineering), and Charlie Slavin, Director, presented Honor Codes and Honors Colleges: Tautology, Contradiction, or ... ? a description of the process used in the student-constructed Honor Code.. Slavin also was part of a panel on Taking Honors to the Next Level: From Program to College (with Patricia MacCorquodale, University of Arizona, and Steve Wainscott, Clemson University), part of Developing in Honors where he described the history and process at the University of Maine. Also at the conference, Honors student Robin Arnold '06 (geological sciences), presented The Honors Experience as a Non-Traditional Student.
Moira Reilly '04 (psychology) participated in a student fishbowl discussion on Teaching and Learning in Honors . Student bookshelf roundtables were led by Elizabeth Burnett '03 (English) on Terry Tempest Williams’ Refuge and by Nicholas Robertson '03 (philosophy) on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations. At the Idea Exchange, Amaranta Ruiz-Nelson '05 (new media and business) and Jonathan Beever '03 (philosophy) presented Online Honors Program Theses Archive and Jonathan Dunn (electrical engineering) and Jennifer Merchant '05 (communication) presented Climbing a Mountain: Honors Reading. Anthony Antonition (business) and Amy Van Der Wende '04 (political science) took part in How to Learn Science at an Honors Conference organized by Martin Brock of Eastern Kentucky University.
Honors students presenting at the poster session included Heidi Crosby '03 (biochemistry) And You Thought Lima Beans Were Bad: Surviving on a Carbon Monoxide Diet, Matthew Jura '03 (mathematics) Unprovable Truth: A Study of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem, Dawn Madore '03 (sociology) Experiences of Uninsured College Students, and Richard A. Becker The Johnson Dynasty and the Middle Ground.
In addition to attending numerous conference sessions, the students also took advantage of the opportunities that Salt Lake City has to offer and were treated to a wonderful dinner at the Merchants' home -- Jenna's family!
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ON THE WAY TO SALT LAKE CITY -- the second wave (the first wave left at 5:30a.m., no one was going to let their picture be taken!)
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Jonathan,
Matie, and Elly (Good thing Matie put that apple down!)
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Autumn, Barbara, and Moira (Really, that security notice sign did not just go up...)
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Alan, Tony, and Matt (Nobody gets Tony's ticket!)
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Isaac
and Sarah (They're ready to go...)
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THE GALA!!!
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Charlie thinks his tie is hot...
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Nick and Dawn are ready for a wonderful dinner!
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Heidi,
Richard, Tony, and Matt can stay, but we're sorry Julio
— you don't have your sneakers!
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Charlie's smiling even though Sarah's parents won't let him adopt her.
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THE CONFERENCE
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Four cool posters —
Dawn,
Heidi,
Matt, &
Richard —
Illustrating the four main food groups: sociology, biochemistry, mathematics,
and history!
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Richard and Heidi tour the city (Guess who's taking the pictures?) ...
Our Hotel,
The LDS Temple, and
Assembly Hall on Temple Square
SALT LAKE CITY, THE SEQUEL
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Julio
practices his semaphore — with cars!
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Jon, Jenna, and Nick ARE ready for our last dinner.
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Of course none of these pictures are posed; Amaranta, Sarah, and Isaac always
look like that!
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Matt and Alan wonder whether Tony is getting psychic messages from the menu?!
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Alan and Julio -- lost in Honors thought!
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THANK
YOU!!!! Once again, all of us in the Honors community wish to thank
Betsy and Bill Leitch for their wonderfully generous and gracious contributions
to Honors at UMaine which enabled us to bring these 21 students to Salt Lake
City!!!
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