2008 Woodie Awards
Freshman Uzzial Dominguez, also known as "Z", is fluent in Navajo and English because he grew up in the Navajo Nation, a reservation located around the four corners area of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah. There is a lot of alcohol abuse as well as a lot of poverty on the reservation.
Senior Megan Ross and Southwest Baptist University graduate Melissa Tinker worked in the mountain farms of Thailand for six months last semester. Ross and Tinker left for Thailand June 10 and returned to the United States Dec. 12. Ross, a double major in Intercultural Studies and Sociology, and Tinker, an Intercultural Studies major with a Nursing concentration, spent their six months abroad in Nan, Thailand.
Seniors Sarah Lewis, Matt Gallion, Stephanie Luce and Travis Weil and Dr. Bing Bayer, professor of Old Testament and Hebrew, experienced a rare event; they viewed original manuscripts at the "traveling" Dead Sea Scroll Exhibit in Kansas City Saturday, Feb.