2000-2001 Annual Report

Excellence in Competition In another year of impressive academic achievements, students reaped the benefits of their world-class education. Cedarville’s debate team brought home national championships in both the novice and varsity divisions. The forensics team earned a national team championship and two individual championships (national varsity champion and national novice champion). And the novice forensics team garnered top honors in the state, outdistancing squads from Ohio University and The Ohio State University. The University’s emphasis on technology and the sciences continues to pay dividends. Nearly 30 percent of the student body majors in one of the sciences. Cedarville shone as one of only two schools in Ohio to have a 100 percent pass rate on the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam. Engineering students brought home fifth place in the international Trinity College Fire-Fighting Home Robot Competition, where their robot raced to find and extinguish a burning candle in a model house. In addition, the Elmer W. Engstrom Department of Engineering was chartered as the 228 th collegiate chapter of Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society. Cedarville also gained a chapter in Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society. Faculty Pursuits Students weren’t the only ones busy cultivating a mind for truth. Greg Belliveau, instructor of language and literature, released a new novel. In Go Down to Silence , Belliveau gives a fictional account of the boyhood experiences of an actual Holocaust survivor. 5