Nomination Form -- Spring 2006 Awards

Instructions:

On the next page you will find the ballot for the Spring 2006 awards.

Please circle one candidate for each category. We ask that you only vote in categories for which you have seen most of the presentations. You may vote in a category if you've missed one, but please abstain from categories for which you feel unable to make an informed judgment. The word "corpus" indicates that an individual's nomination is based on his or her performance in more than one debate during the course of the semester.

Deadline &Announcement:

Awards will be given out during the Elections Meeting. The Deadline for returning the ballot will be 10 pm Tuesday, April 25^th.

Please drop off hard copies of the ballots at tomorrow’s OC or at the WASH-Weatherman debate on Tuesday evening. If this is not possible, e-mail responses to keithedwhite@gmail.com (just click reply).

Some VP Appreciation:

I give my sincere thanks to the many members who lent a hand during the nomination process. Gene Lepley and Ben DeForest provided excellent records and other considerable aid.

And finally, thank you to all the people that gave such excellent literary presentations and debates throughout the semester. I hope every future Vice President can have such a high caliber membership to draw from in following semesters. Culling down the considerable work of the Society was no easy task, speaking volumes about the quality of our members.

Provisional Literary Presentation:

1) Tim Gray: Classified section of the London Times

2) Ethan Hamlin: Three Poems ‘Girls are like Cigarettes’, ‘You Asked me where you would go and I said, ‘August 23^rd, 2003)

3) Lauren Palmer: ‘The Down Beat’

4) Chen Song: (corpus: Politically Correct Bedtimes Stories, Time Traveler’s Wife, ‘Parsley’)

5) Dan Herrmann (Donald Barthelme’s short story ‘The School’)

Member Original Literary Presentation:

1) Jamie Trowbridge: ‘Choose your Own Language’

2) Caitlin Stapleton: ‘History Part I’

3) Pablo Mann: ‘Tribute to Girlfriend’

4) Tara Ebrahimi: ‘Turtle’

5) Gwen Kirk (‘Feeders Keepers, Losers Weepers’)

6) Mike Dindoffer (Corpus: ‘I’m the man that Killed your Family’ & ‘Valentinius’)

7) Nicole Eickhoff: "Whisper"

Group Literary Presentation:

1) Evan Monez, Gwen Kirk, David Rodenbaugh: ‘Percussion Ensemble’

2) Emmett Synder and Doug O’Reagan: ‘Sci-Fi and Wrestling’

3) Vadim Elenev and Sarah Begeman: “How Painful, Darling, and how Foreign’ by Alexander Kochetkov

4) Kelly Webster and Shannon Gorman (Alice in Wonderland)

Member Serious Debate:

1) Dan Wiser: (corpus: Mao is Dead, PM, God Debate, MG, Smith Simpson Tryout and Debate)

2) Trevor Dobson (Smith Simpson Debate)

3) Charlie Mason (God Debate, PM)

4) Meg Olson (Immigration Debate, LO) and Wiretapping Debate, LO)

5) Steve Gottschling (God Debate, MO)

Provisional Debate:

1) Rohan Pai: Melting-pot assimilation vs. Salad Bowl assimilation, MO

2) Tim Gray: ‘Anarchist Senator Debate: Do It,’ MO

3) Dan Herrmann: ‘Do not allow illegal immigrants to attend public K-12 schools,’ MO

Member Non-Original Lit. Presentation:

1) Michelle Unterbrink: ‘Guts’, in Haunted, by Chuck Palahniuk

2) Katie Bray (corpus: Beatles White Album & Faulkner, The Foxfield Weekend by Tucker Max)

3) Andrew Morgan (‘Tell-tale Heart’)

4) Mary Butcher (‘Laughing Wild’ by Christopher Durain)

5) Ben DeForest (‘On a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes’ by Thomas Gray)

Service to Society:

1) Caitlin Stapleton & Joy Arcangeli: Banquet Slide Show

2) Jen Swalec: Poetry Readings/Readathon

3) Katie Bray: Handcopying Constitution

4) Peter Trauernicht, Trevor D., Preston Gisch: Sound/Music Contributions for Parties

Member Humorous Debate:

1) Evan Stewart (Humorous Debate)

2) Mike Dindoffer (Humorous Debate)

3) Gene Lepley (Humorous Debate)

4) Meg Olson (Ice Debate, LO)

5) Trevor Dobson (Ice Debate, MO)

Alumni Literary Presentation:

1) Amy Hawkins: ‘Interview with Dan Savage’:

2) Nathan Royster: ‘I Hate Bohemians’ from The Hate Verses

3) Sara Driskell: ‘What to do if your Neighbor Used to be a Nazi’