2005 Miracle Yearbook

Academic onors Cedarville University's Honors organizations continued a tradition of excellence and dedication in 2005-06.The five organizations—Alpha Beta Phi, Alpha Kappa Delta, Omega Mu, Tau Beta Pi, and Tau Delta Kappa—grew and changed this year, leaving some great memories and the promise of even more growth in the future. Alpha Kappa Delta, Cedarville's local chapter of the International English Honors Society, offered some exciting new opportunities. In addition to hosting the school's first literary conference, Seeds of Discourse, AKD featured several campus-wide movie nights With challenging and inspirational international films. Brandiann Biggar, newly appointed Co-President of AKD, discussed some of the organization's future Plans: "I am very hopeful for next year. We have a lot of activities planned, including literary awareness activities, community service projects, and of O licourse the undergraduate literary conference here at Cedarville, as well as several other conference Opportunities for members and non-members alike." Tau Delta Kappa, the organization associated With the Honors Program, grew into a significant voice on campus. TDK President Joe Dugan shared ii his thoughts:"The org really moved forward this year. Our average meeting attendance was more than double what we had last year, and our activities were a great success. Perhaps most notable was our series O w on Women and the Church. We packed out Apple 103; hundreds of students and faculty attended these So - . cutting-edge seminars with Drs. Haffey and Hoffeditz. , We plan to host more campus-wide stuff next year; our goal is to make our honors society accessible and beneficial to the entire campus." Although in the past they have had a reputation for being somewhat elitist, Cedarville's honors organizations demonstrated acommitmentthis year notonly to academic 100 excellence but to interaction with the entire campus. As Dugan declared, "This is a commitment we will definitely keep in the future." -;$ "ink* Officers of Alpha Beta Phi,the local chapter of Alpha Psi Omega,the National Honorary Theatre Society, demonstrate their charisma at the org fair, where they earned the SGA competition for best interactive booth.They did "glamour shots." These officers are Georgianna Smith, Rebecca Joy Johnson, Sarah Clift, Susan DeConcini, and Crystal Missler. Missler said,"Throughout this year we sponsored several events including the ABP/NeXtage production of Another Antigone and a staged reading of The Laramie Project, and provided concessions at all mainstage productions. Along with The Laramie Projectwe also provided support during AIDS Awareness Week by wearing red ribbons and sending members to the AIDS Summit." of,A, • r•roi Senior Laura Davis reads her winning poem, Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society during their "W(h)ales" during Alpha Kappa Delta's spring Induction Ceremony in November. Inductees are poetry contest reading in the Hive. juniors or seniors in the engineering program. Alpha Kappa Delta Co-President Brian Masser reads from the list of winning entries at Alpha Kappa Delta's fall prose contest and reading. Organizations 219