{"id":1386,"date":"2015-09-21T08:34:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2015-09-21T14:58:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T19:58:00","slug":"1386","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/1386\/","title":{"rendered":"First-Year Summer Reading Essay Winners!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce the winners of the inaugural <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.iwu.edu\/firstyear_summer\/\">First-Year Summer Reading Essay Contest<\/a>, open to all members of Illinois Wesleyan University\u2019s Class of 2019. The general topic of the essay this year was our Summer Reading selection,<em>Unlikely Disciple: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1387\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2015\/09\/digi-comm-1st-yr-winners-2015-300x191.png\" alt=\"digi comm 1st yr winners 2015\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2015\/09\/digi-comm-1st-yr-winners-2015-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2015\/09\/digi-comm-1st-yr-winners-2015.png 871w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>A Sinner&#8217;s Semester at<br \/>\nAmerica&#8217;s Holiest University<\/em>, by Kevin Roose. Students had the opportunity to discuss this selection during New Student Orientation, take part in programming for this year\u2019s intellectual theme of Nation(s) Divided?, hear the voices of our faculty members and even the voice of Kevin Roose himself, but the discussion stands incomplete without the most important voice of all\u2014our students&#8217; voice, the many voices of the men and women who are Illinois Wesleyan University\u2019s Class of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Read each of the award-winning essays by clicking through to the Digital Commons @ IWU!<br \/>\nFirst place winner<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.iwu.edu\/firstyear_summer\/3\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Still a Jerk<\/em><\/a>, by <strong>Benjamin Alan Zentner &#8217;19<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Honorable Mention essays<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.iwu.edu\/firstyear_summer\/2\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Between Two Worlds<\/em><\/a> by <strong>Emma Marie Haan<\/strong> <strong>&#8217;19<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.iwu.edu\/firstyear_summer\/1\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Complexity of Balance<\/em><\/a> by\u00a0<strong>Kathryn Halford &#8217;19.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce the winners of the inaugural First-Year Summer Reading Essay Contest, open to all members of Illinois Wesleyan University\u2019s Class of 2019. The general topic of the essay this year was our Summer Reading selection,Unlikely Disciple: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/1386\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":500,"featured_media":1387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ames-highlights","category-students"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2015\/09\/digi-comm-1st-yr-winners-2015.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1394,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions\/1394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}