Cassie Fabry: What's a Teacher To Do?

Cassie Fabry successfully defended her thesis “Classroom Management: What’s a Teacher to Do?”. Cassie presented her thesis before a panel of professors including Dr. Marc Klippenstein, Dr. Rich Alford, Dr. Martha Pennington, and Dr. Phyllis Isaacs. Cassie now looks forward to graduating with full university honors in December, 2012.

Dr. Marc Klippenstein, Dr. Rich Alford, Cassie Fabry, Dr. Martha Pennington, and Dr. Phyllis Isaacs.

Lindsey Dugan: Souls and Supers

Honors senior English major Lindsey Dugan successfully defended her thesis Souls and Supers: A Novella with a Critical Introduction.” Lindsey presented her thesis before a panel of professors including Dr. Christine Pappas, Dr. Joshua Grasso, and Dr. Mark Walling. Lindsey now looks forward to graduating with full university honors in the Spring of 2013.

Dr. Christine Pappas, Dr. Joshua Grasso, Lindsey Dugan, and Dr. Mark Walling

Raise The Roof: 2012 Honors Christmas Shindig

On Sunday, December 9th, the Honors Student Association hosted a Christmas party to help Honors students wind down and get ready to enjoy their Winter break. Students were invited to eat, drink, mingle, and break out the stereotypical ugly Christmas sweaters.

Ridge Kennedy, Chelsi Norris,and Morgan Hicks

Monica Storey and Cora-Lee Snow

Why so serious, Ridge?

Honors student Laura Asaro is rocking her
"ugly Christmas" Santa sweater.

2nd Annual Laude Dinner

On Thursday, December 6th, the Honors Student Association welcomed honors students and their guests to the 2nd Annual Laude Dinner, celebrating  Honors winter graduates and Honors juniors and seniors holding 4.0 grade point averages.  This year's Laude address was given by Dr. Christine Pappas, coordinator of ECU's Political Science and Legal Studies program.

Trevor Sutton (4.0 gpa), Mary Newport (Winter graduate), Lindsey Dugan (4.0 gpa), and Ashley Cardwell (4.0 gpa)

Brace Yourself: Finals Are Coming

On December 5th, the Honors Student Association put together finals care packages for university students as a fundraiser for the organization.  Purchased by students’ parents and other loved ones, the care packages included a variety of finals week “essentials” including snacks, drinks, notebooks and highlighters to help students over that finals week hump. With a grand total of 57 care packages ordered, the fundraiser was a huge success

Swimming in a Sea of Brown Paper Bags
After putting the care packages together with HSA President Nikki Dickerson and Community Branch leader Laura, HSA Treasurer Ashley Cardwell sacrifices her body in order to clear a path out of the brown bag corner they've painted themselves into.

Ashley Cardwell: Defender of Math and Golfer Extraordinaire

On November 30th, senior mathematics major Ashley Cardwell  successfully defended her thesis over how mathematics can be applied to the game of golf to help explain why uphill putts/shots are "easier" to make as opposed to downhill putts/shots. Ashley (front and center) presented her thesis before a panel of professors including (from left to right): Dr. Carl Rutledge, Dr. Andrew Wells, Dr. Andrei Ghenciu, and Dr. Robert Ferdinand. A member of ECU's varsity golf team, Ashley now looks forward to graduating with full university honors in the Spring of 2013.

Dr. Carl Rutledge, Dr. Andrew Wells, Ashley Cardwell, Dr. Andrew Ghenciu, and Dr. Robert Ferdinand

Ashley fills in the last box on her Honors progress card in the Honors office.

You go, girl!

Fake Indian: Why America Bought a White Supremacist’s Native American "Memoir"

The Estep was packed when director Marco Ricci, producer Douglas Newman, and executive producer Dr. Laura Browder flew in from New York, Houston, and Richmond, Virginia, respectively to screen their film The Reconstruction of Asa Carter.  The 2010 documentary dramatizes the story of Asa Earl Carter, a white supremacist who wrote speeches for Alabama governor George Wallace and later published a bestselling "nonfiction memoir," The Education of Little Tree (1976).  Though the "memoir" was later exposed as a complete hoax, it was later made into a feature film and still gets taught in some college literature courses that focus on ethnic literature.

After the screening, the filmmakers participated in a lively, hour-long question-and-answer session focusing on the history of race hatred in America, the performance of ethnic identity, and the kinds of truth you can expect to find in fiction and film.

No seat? No problem. I'm NOT missing this!
Eager throngs pack the Estep Auditorium for a chance to watch the documentary The Reconstruction of Asa Carter
and take part in a Q&A session with the director and producers of the film.

Look mom! I'm taking pictures with CELEBRITIES.
After the film screening and Q&A session, a few lucky Honors students got to pose for a picture with the film's director and producers and then join them for dinner. Can you pick the three  filmmakers out of this lineup?   How about Honors students Derek Reed, Meagon Eagon, Marissa Hinton and Jaime Worden?

"Fake Indian: Why America Bought a White Supremacist’s Native American 'Memoir'" was paid for in part by a generous grant from the Hayes Native American Center.  Additional funding provided by The Oklahoma Humanities Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the ECU Foundation.

Ask Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham's body, at University College London

Click on the "comment" link to offer advice to the questions posed below.

Use two or more of the following evaluative terms recommended by Bentham in your answers:
Intensity,
Duration,
Certainty,
Propinquity,
Fecundity,
Purity,
Extent.

Dear Jeremy:
Should I erase all memories of a certain unpleasant someone from my mind?
Joel in New York

Dear Jeremy:
Should I go along with my parents' ways of thinking to avoid confrontation with them?
Former Cave Dweller in Greece

Dear Jeremy:
Should I ask my brother to kill my lover? She's threatening to tell my wife about our affair; she's also threatening to tell people that I am guilty of embezzlement. If it helps--I am confident that my brother can "take care of this problem" without it getting traced back to me (or him). And I don't want a more serious relationship with my lover.
Successful Opthamologist in Manhattan

Meet John Stuart Mill

Costumes, Cans, and Volunteers Oh My!

You're never too old to dress up for a good cause! On October 31st, Honors students volunteered to get together and go "trick-or-treating" for canned goods around the city of Ada. Canned goods collected by the Honors students were donated to a local food shelter in Ada.

Honors Students Sarah Snow (left) and Cerina Stiles (right) join Marissa Dodson to take a moment to smile for the camera after a long evening collecting canned goods.

We Play Mind Games

"Josh, Cody and Trevor Prepare for Mind Games"? Or "Game of Bowls" (1908) by Henri Matisse? You decide.

On October 21, 2012 the East Central University Mind Games team competed in Oklahoma City against Rose State in a battle of the brains. Mind Games is a prime time Oklahoma television program that brings together teams of students from Oklahoma colleges and universities in a weekly battle of knowledge. ECU's team is led by Chemistry professor Dr. Dane Scott, and last year it consisted of Josh Smith, Cody Soden, and Trevor Sutton, all of whom are members of ECU's Honors Program. During the course of the game, each team answered a variety of questions and scored very respectably; however, at the end of the game, the score was tied. Did East Central team triumph and score the last point? Or did Rose State chime in at just the last second to come out victorious? Check out this link to see how it turned out.

2012 Honors Arkansas Overnight

On Sunday, October 21st, twenty-six ECU Honors students, along with Drs. Benton, Hannah and Latimore hit the road. Destination:  Arkansas.  Over the next 36 hours, we visited the Crystal Bridges Museum of America Art in Bentonville; the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock; and the University of Arkansas Medical Center, also in Little Rock, where we attended a talk and Q&A session with Rebecca Skloot, author of this past summer's ECU Honors SummerRead: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

  

A little Atlatl anyone?

Catherine Phipps examines an arrowhead.

On October 16^th, 2012, Dr. Andrews and Honors students in his Enduring Questions:  Perspectives from the Sciences section visited the OU Archeological Survey in Norman for a unique opportunity to glimpse into the past. Students who visited the OU Archeological Survey were able to learn more about prehistoric life around the world as well as in the Oklahoma region, including the awesome fact that wooly mammoth remains were found in Caddo County in February of 2012. Students who attended the field trip to Norman also had the opportunity to participate in a spear throwing contest using a common Ice Age device called an atlatl.  In the process, they learned that size doesn’t always matter when the girls of the trip dominated the spear throwing challenge.

"You found that where?!" Honors students look on at the tusk of a wooly mammoth found in Caddo County in 2012.

"He didn't say 'Simon Says, Laura!" Laura Asaro (far right) is the first to fall in reenactment of pre-historic ritual.

Catherine Phipps prepares to defend
herself against approaching male.

Atlatl Rugby  . . . John Dale's Dream Sport?

Homecoming 2012

Represent! Trevor Sutton and Emily Davis serve HSA as Homecoming Royalty.

2012 Honors Road Trip, Destination: OKC

On Friday, September 21st, Dr. Benton, Dr. Latimore, and 25 Honors students joined Dr. Edwards and 6 students from his classes in the Communication and Performance Studies program to form a five-vehicle road-trip caravan. Our destination: the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, the OKC National Memorial, La Luna Mexican Cafe, and the Myriad Gardens, where we watched the Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park performance of Othello.