Headlines/July 8, 1998

Twenty students win writing awards

The judges culled through over 70 student entries in 18 categories to find the winners of this year’s Writing Across the Curriculum awards. The 20 winners received their prizes at the annual : Awards ceremony June 17.

“The contest celebrates and supports

student writing from all levels and disciplines, by offering prizes of $100 in each of several categories,” said Vicki Grieve, this year’s committee chair. The contest is funded through generous donations from the senior management group, the Faculty and Staff Association and the Communications department.

The 1998 winners are: Co-operative Education Reports

Arts: Jaswinder Dhaliwal: Exploring My Heritage Via the Mission Museum

Science and Technology: Jeff Jones: ICBC’s Telecom Customer Services Installations Applied: Sonia Trapp: Some Feedback on the “Introduction to Employee Share Ownership”, Narratives, lower-level

Baljit Lidder: Just the Two of Us (English 105) Research, upper-level

Catharine Lawrence: The Mentally Ill Homeless (Nursing 304)

Research, analytical, lower-level

Heidi Konig: The Evolution of Child Benefits in Canada (Human Services 210) Research, primary

Michael Toop: Demonstration of Repetitive DNA in Eukaryotic Genomes Using Restriction Endonucleases (Biology 202) Research, informative, lower-level

Jamie Hellewell: Existentialism (Philosophy 100) Research, applied, upper-level

Carol Baird: Sandbags and Rubber Boots: Chilliwack and the Flood of 1948 (History 301) Critical Analysis, lower-level

Sandi Dressler: Toward a Future Hope: An Analysis of Augustus Egg’s Past and Present (Art History 102) Critical Analysis, upper-level

Steve Penner: 4 Spy in the House of Morality: The Pardoner and the Prioress Have a Discussion (English 306) Special Projects

Taylor Brown-Evans: Character Study of John Proctor (Theatre 101) Position Paper, lower-level

Jeffrey Muthanna: Loosing Face: Grace Suh and Deborah Tanner on Cosmetics and Women (English 105)

Developmental Writing Ed Glendinning: Jack (English o7)

. Reports, lower-level

Erica Jurgens: Attrition of First

_ Nations Student: A Literature Review

and Recommended Research Topics (Communications 255) Writing in French

Melissa C. Cameron: Candide (French 320) Writing in Spanish °

Nolan Webb

Barbara Lafresnaye

. Japanese Essay Prize

Kathryn Garcia: Coming Home Alana Bryce: My Japanese Experience

Thanks go out to the judges who volunteered their time after spending weeks marking their own students’ papers, exams, etc!

.. Program Head Dr. Michael MacColl

congratulates Brian Kent, the first graduate of the Bachelor of Business -

. Administration in Aviation, while Dr.

Noel Hall looks on. The program is the first degree of its ype in Canada. It combines formal aviation training with academic studies in business.