Rhetoric Program
Rhetoric Program Address

6th Annual Festival of Writing


Ron Sudol, interim CAS dean, chats with Catherine Haar, RHT special instructor, at the Festival.

The 6th Annual Festival of Writing was held on Thursday, April 12, 2007 in the Oakland Center Banquet Rooms with more that 250 people sharing in the event. This year the cash awards were given in three categories: 1) individual projects, 2) group projects, and 3) honorable mention. Winners were selected through nominations made by faculty, administrators, and surveys filled out by both participants and visitors.

Festival Individual Winners

  • First Place - Sarah Smith – Women’s Study
  • Second Place - Debra Nadai-Frey – Home is Where the Heart Is – or Is It?
  • Third Place - Ashley Owens – New Green
  • Fourth Place - Mary Gietzen – Blood Diamonds

    Festival Group Project Winners

  • First Place – Genocide in Darfur Quoshauntea Phillips & Skye Fissette
  • Second Place – Sexual Selection Shannon Murray, Jenny Shinska & Kaitlyn Yestrepsky
  • Third Place – Martial Arts Timothy Wolffbraudt & Vincent Asmar

    Festival Honorable Mention

  • Ryan Easton – Concussions in the NFL
  • Shadie Emiah – Video Games
  • Drew Hall – Alternative Energy
  • Jean-Bernrd Joseph – Illegal Dog Fighting
  • Lauren Long - Yoga
  • Lindsay Nagle – Ethnic Foods
  • Chad Nelson – Living with Deafness
  • Wasseem Samaan – Investment Banking
  • Beverly Seay – MP3 Players
  • Danielle Waltz – Hair Today, Research Tomorrow

    Individual Projects:
    Megan Barnhart, Stem Cells; Carly Bates, Chemistry Labs at St. Clair CC; Jeremy Bennett, Immigration – Assimulation; Renee Blackburn, Roles of women as lighthouse keepers; Mary-Kathrina Casmer, Buddhist art work; Ken Constance, Tips & strategies for good health; Mike Cumper, Military Draft; Michelle Damer, Angels in Islam & Christianity; Kenny Deneweth, Alternate heating sources; Amber Dietz, Media Censorship; Bryan Dunklin, Effects of legalizing abortion; Miyoshi DuPont, Portayal of Women in the Media; Lauren Ennis, Global warming; Colby Gardner, American Indian reservations; Lyndsey Gershenson, U.S. response to Nazi Holocaust; Mary Gietzen, Blood diamonds; Stephanie Gilbert, International Adoption; Sabrina Gill, Plastic Surgery; Rachael Girard, History & violence in nursery rhymes; Gabrielle Gogou, Icons of worship; Raynard Goodson, Violence & Nudity; Drew Hall, Alternate heating sources; Tracy Hamparian, Art education; Krysta Hand, Shamanism; Jessica Harris, Hemp; Amanda Henderson, Decline of Nuclear Family; Mercedes Hendricks, Fashion Models/Bad Role Models; Ashley Hipsher, Outsourcing; Benjamin Hopkins, Artwork on Hell; Elena Ilieva, Blood diamonds and Divorce; Jessica Joe, Health Insurance; Demitri Kerasiotis, Lunar Landing Conspiracy; Tim Kilgore, Foreign Aid/Education and Alcoholism; Deanna Kossaras, Scientology; Jennifer Kramer, Divorce Effects on Children; Lindsay Kramer, Sexual Abuse & Children; Jen Kuhn, Global warming; Katherine Lawdicina, Global religious facts; Marie Leh, Body Art; Ashley Ligon, Organ & Tissue Transplants; Lauren Long, Yoga; Angela Loomis, Holocaust; Nathan Maronek, Genocide;Alyssa McInnis, Global Poverty; Naibon Moore, AIDS Epidemic; Debra Nadai-Frey, Idea of Home in horror fiction; Lindsey Nagle, Ethnic Foods; Chad Nelson, Deaf Culture; Amanda Papageorgiou, Globalization of McDonald's; Nick Pasque, Killer Bees; Jaclyn Payne, ADHA; Ryan Pittrich, Gulf War; Kathryn Ressler, Changes in views about 1st Amendment; Allison Rice, Eating disorders; Sam Roll, Bio-chemical and Engineered Food Crops; Michael Rourke, Global Competition; Waseem Samaan, Investment Bankers; Tareva Sanders, Blood diamonds; Rebecca Scherer, Censorship & the Media; Beverly Seay, MP3 Players; Charlotte Sesi, Prostitution; Chris Shealy, Hindu & Buddhist religions; Lindsey St. John, Christianity & Hellenistic religions; Magdelena Surepanczyk, Smoking Addiction; Chelsea Tappen, Arranged v. love-based marriages; Meghan Tappen, Charter schools; Brandon Taylor, Global warming; Colin VanBibber, Teen Sex; Danielle Waltz, Running a Saloon; Russell Warren, Peace in the Holy Land; Lexi Weaver, Men's Roles; Salwan Yago, Death Penalty; Marisha Young, Global Hairstyles; Scott Zimmerman, Steroids in Global Sports

    Group Projects:
    Amanda Housden, Kristi Evans, Jenn Karstensen, Stephanie Koslowski - Child Safety Restraints; Rachael Beardsley, Bonnie Baker, Jeanet Bourlier, Ashley Dahms, Adriana Dodge -Unintentional Injury; Elizabeth White, Alissa Stopczynski, Brittany Swint, Kristi Tomczyk - Intentional Injury – Cutting; Alana Schweihofer, Billy Schmieder, Andrew Sheperd, Jessica Sander, Dana Salmon - Unintentional Poisonings; Theresa Kulman, Nathan Lott, Leann Morgan, Ben Saathoff, Cat Panabaker - Roadside Occupational Injuries; Bryan Bennett, Alex Johnson - Political Cartoons about religions; Timothy Wolffbroudt, Vincent Asmar - Martial arts; Dan Seidl, Mary Hanson, Tim R. - Global warming; Quoshauntea Phillips, Skye Fissette - Darfur War; Shannon Murray, Jenny Shinska, Kaitlyn Yestrepsky - Prenatal sex selection; Elisa Pallisco, Nina Olivero, Hans Kivari - Alzheimer's disease; Katherine Kerrick,Brad Davis, Kellie Atwood – Autism; Alex Castronova, Zack Benton, Joe Geraci, Mike Koehler - Global warming; Justin Clarke, Allison Podraza, Amber Follis, Sarita Abdullah, - Stem cell research; Douglas Piernick, Anthony Iafrate, Eric Shackelford, Katie Schrader, Erika Mitchell - Alternate fuels

    Oral Presenters:
    Eric Boldenow John Cameron, Jacqueline Carlson, Alex Carter, Samantha Criscenti, Stephanie Defever, Miyoshi DuPont, Dreianna Eck, Reed Eckhout, Kyle Edwards, Alyssa Ernst, Skye Fissette, Stephanie Galvez, Dexter Green, Holly Hamming, Jessica Harris, Krystal Hawkins, Chris Hendrickson, Greg Hofelich, Natalie Hunt, Raylee Hurt, Jessica Joe, Carrie Johnson, Michelle Joly, Demitri Kerasiotis, Amy Lackie, Angela Loomis, Chris Martini, Alyssa McInnis, Abbey Moony, Evan Moorehouse, Shannon Murray, Debra Nadai-Frey, Duru Odinaka, Kelly Orlando, Quoshauntea Phillips, Julia Pridenmore, Kathryn Ressler, Allison Rice, Michael Rourke, Brittany Safford, Tareva Sanders, Bryson Schlegelmann, Joshua Schurig, Martin Shafer, Jenny Shinska, Sarah Smith, Ryanne Snider, Rachael Swortwout, Chelsea Tappen, Meghan Tappen, Brandon Taylor, Kathryn Tewilliager, Shawn Thornton, Ashley Voeks, Nick Willey, Kaitlyn Yestrepsky, Margaret Zielinski, and a panel from Corrie Pokrzywa’s RHT160 Class.

    Class Projects

    RHT 160 Becker, U.S. Legislative Committees; JRN 350 Becker, PR Writing Assignments; RHT 160 Briggs, Visual Arguments; RHT 160 Drapeau, Bear Project; RHT 160 Kietlinska, Varius; RHT 160 Lamphear, Music Genres; RHT 160 Lamphear, American Obesity; RHT 160 Pokrzywa, Debate on Body Exhibit at DSC; RHT 160 Pollard, Author Viewpoints. There were also table displays from: Honors College , Writing Center, Community Book, Writing Excellence Awards and Student Writers Group.

    Festival of Writing - Archives

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