{"id":1447,"date":"2015-06-04T18:09:42","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T02:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2015-06-04T18:09:42","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T02:09:42","slug":"leadership-awards-honor-standout-scholars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/leadership-awards-honor-standout-scholars\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership Awards honor standout scholars"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Jack Armstrong and Madison McCammon\r\n News Editor and Freelancer<\/pre>\n
The Student Leadership Recognition Awards were held Tuesday, May 12. This awards ceremony is an annual event on campus.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was the 25th year of these awards here at Western,\u201d said Gary Dukes, vice president for student affairs.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s ceremony entitled \u201cLead Long and Prosper,\u201d was presented in a classic Star Trek theme, and even provided party-goers with the opportunity to utilize a photo booth featuring Kirk and Spock.<\/p>\n
The awards themselves are focused on recognizing students who display great effort and achievement in both their on campus, and off campus activities.<\/p>\n
\u201cStudents can be nominated by anybody on campus, although it is usually faculty,\u201d said Dukes. \u201cThen, once a student has been nominated, there is a committee of faculty and staff who makes the final decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some of the awards were campus-wide nominations but some were department or club specific.<\/p>\n
\u201cEach department has their own process for award determination. Some are peer-selected, others are staff-selected and some are selected directly by the university committee,\u201d said Megan Habermann, assistant director for student leadership activities.<\/p>\n
Kylie Roth, recipient of the Julia McCulloch Smith Outstanding Graduating Women Award, said she felt \u201cvery honored and grateful\u201d to be given the award. Roth, a senior psychology major, also received the Karl Amspacher award and a Who\u2019s Who certificate.<\/p>\n
Roth has been chosen to be one of the speakers at commencement as a result of receiving the award. Roth said she still is not certain what she intends to speak about.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn general, I plan to talk about the things that stood out to me during my four years at WOU and encourage all graduates as we move forward with our lives,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Two other graduating students were selected to speak at commencement ceremonies after receiving their awards.<\/p>\n
Eli Zachary was announced as winner of the Delmer Dewey Outstanding Graduating Men Award, and Erica West Oyedele was announced as winner of the 2015 Outstanding Graduate Student Award.<\/p>\n
Oyedele was recognized by her supervisory professors for her work on her thesis entitled \u201cPersistence of African-American\/Black Signed Language Interpreters in the United States: The Importance of Culture and Capital.\u201d She was also recognized for her commitment to complete her program remotely from California.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know exactly what they saw in me,\u201d said Oyedele, \u201cbut they saw something, and for that I am grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n
Even though the award ceremony lasted much longer than expected, winners and attendees left happy.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a special, fun night, and my congratulations go out to all of the deserving winners,\u201d said Roth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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