Florida State Honors Program Newsletter Issue #16 - February 2019

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITYÂ

HONORS

ISSUE #16 FEBRUARY 2019

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ADVISOR'S CORNER

13 ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

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UPCOMING EVENTS

14 ACHY BREAKY BANK

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DIRECTOR'S DESK

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STUDENT SUBMISSIONS

16 BLACK HISTORY MONTH

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TED BUNDY GETS THE

18 MEET THE E-BOARD

VALENTINES DAY

HOLLYWOOD TREATMENT STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

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Advisor's Corner Study Abroad: How to Make and International Experience a Part of Your College Education

When I meet with first year students in the Honors program and I ask what their goals are for their time in college, so many of them want to study abroad. By graduation, though, many of them still haven’t met that goal. Some people get messages along the way that “study abroad won’t work with that major” or “FSU doesn’t have a study abroad program” for what they want to do.

A lot of this comes from the idea of study abroad as a pre-set program that either works for you or doesn’t. The reality is that FSU offers a wide variety of ways to experience travel or life in another country.

To counter this, I always ask students firs to think about what they want from a study abroad experience. Do you want to go to a specific country or part of the world? Are you hoping to improve your language skills? Are you looking for a cultural immersion? Do you want to be taking classes, or engaging in internships or service projects?

Once you know what your answers are, it’s easier to find the program that’s right for you. Here are some programs offered through FSU. Don’t forget, Honors students can apply for the Bess Ward Travel Grant to receive up to $1000 for a study abroad experience.

FSU International Programs (https://international.fsu.edu/) The most central office for students who want to study abroad is FSU International Programs. In addition to offering several international opportunities, they can also help you

get your passport and health insurance that will work while you’re abroad.

FSU IP has several study centers around the world where FSU owns classroom space and housing. These are in Valencia, Florence, London, and Panama. FSU IP also offers specialty programs with focuses in all different areas, and cultural immersion programs to countries where we don’t have a Study Center.

Special Features: These courses are taught by FSU faculty on an FSU campus, so the credits all transfer back easily

Global Scholars (https://cre.fsu.edu/programs/gsp) Global Scholars is a program run through the FSU Center for Undergraduate Research and Academic Engagement.

Students apply in November for a year-long learning experience. Students prepare in the spring semester for a 2month internship or research experience in a developing country. Often students live in the community they serve and partner with a vetted non-profit organization. Upon returning to campus in fall, students reflect on their experience and present at the Global Scholars Showcase.

Special Features: This program allows students to travel to less-travelled destinations, including Morocco, Ghana, and Peru. The program is designed to allow students to really immerse in the host community.

Global Exchange (https://global.fsu.edu/exchange-programs) Global Exchange is offered through FSU’s Center for Global Engagement. Students in this program apply to take courses at an FSU partner university at countries all over the world. This allows access to more courses than are offered through International Programs. Instead of studying with FSU in a different country, these students actually enroll for a semester at a foreign institution (although many classes even in non-English speaking nations are taught in English) and use their FSU tuition to pay for it.

Special Features: this program gives student access to universities in countries like China, Australia, the Netherlands, Sweeden, and more!

Internship Abroad (https://international.fsu.edu/Internships.aspx) Sometimes you’re not looking so much to take classes as to build up your professional experience. The FSU International Programs office can help you find and apply for internship opportunities abroad. For these programs you can stay at an FSU study center location and earn college credit for your internships.

In the Know Food and Fun Feb 22 Bubbly Tea Bar (Relay for Life) 2020 W Pensacola St, All Day Mar 7 Mardi Gras Event HSF, 6-9pm Mar 10 HSA 5-K Unconquered Statue, 9:30am

Feb 25 General Body Meeting HSF, 6pm

Director's Desk

Greetings, Members of the Honors Community: The new year in the Honors Program is off to a fast and full start! The Honors program launched a new 1-credit course for 45 future Honors Colloquium Leaders. These students are remarkably energetic and focused in our 8 AM class sessions and we look forward to seeing them work with incoming honors students this fall.

Also, I congratulate all of the students recently elected to serve on the HSA Executive Board and on HSA committees. Many of the HSA activities this month revolve around professional development and extra-curricular engagement, which builds social relationships, increases satisfaction with one’s university experience, helps students develop effective time management strategies and builds a sense of self-efficacy, which strengthens resilience. Beyond the benefits to the participant, thoughtful community engagement helps create and sustain a better university and local environment. As a medical sociologist, I am familiar with the literature on health, which shows that social integration – connecting with others, creating community, and having a good social network – is associated with higher levels of trust and well-being for individuals and whole communities. Believe it or not, the most highly integrated communities have a high life expectancy, too. FSU and the Honors program both offer many opportunities for engagement beyond the classroom no matter where your heart lies. So, live long, learn, and prosper – connect, participate, and engage!

On other fronts, our Honors Experience Program has been buzzing with activity. In addition to movie nights, speaker events, and Equali-Teas, the three faculty members and I accompanied 18 curious and fun-loving HEP students on a civil rights history trip to Montgomery and Selma, Alabama on MLK weekend. The faculty picked some great jams on the ride down and our weekend was filled with action from start to finish. After a lovely group dinner, a trip to the local Walmart, and wonderful discussions, faculty and students met their matches in a lively game night.

The month of February ushered in some other great news on the HEP front. Molly Rimes and Ezra Prather, first-year honors students received two of three paper awards given by the Florida Collegiate Honors Council in the “Freshman/Sophomore Research and Critical Thinking” category! The three of us headed to Orlando this past weekend, where Molly and Ezra presented the papers at the FCHC conference. They did a fantastic job on their presentations and made the FSU Honors Program proud. Congratulations to Molly and Ezra! As icing on the cake, Ezra joined a group of honors students from another program and they swept trivia night!

As you can tell, I am very excited about the shape and direction of our honors program and hope we can help every student be as fulfilled and successful as possible! We welcome your feedback about the program to make it student-friendly and worth your investment of time. Meanwhile, I wish you all a great semester ahead – you still have a way to go to the finish line, so I encourage you to find time to rest, unwind, or just let your mind (and body) wander from time to time. If you need any help figuring out how to do that, have a look at my two “girls”, Lilly and Rosie, who are experts at napping.

- Dr. Schwabe

Student Submissions featuring Carolyn Sizemore

Shown are pieces from Sizemore's collection "gooey", featured in Calvin's Coffee House this past fall

About the Artist Carolyn Sizemore is an Editing, Writing and Media major at FSU with a special interest in design. Since coming to FSU, they've really enjoyed the vibrancy of the art community and all of the opportunities available.

They approach art-making as a tool of self-care as well as a communication of love and acceptance. They are inspired by highly edited minimalist aesthetics as well as Americana folk tradition. They hope to eventually work as an illustrator and multimedia designer for a business that is small enough to be a tight-knit community and large enough to provide healthcare.Â

Ted Bundy gets the Hollywood Treatment

On the night of January 15, 1978, Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman were brutally raped and murdered in their bedrooms. The girls were students at Florida State and both living in the Chi Omega house just across the street from campus. Their murders gripped FSU and the Tallahassee community with crippling fear, righteous anger, and profound sadness.

Today, the world may not remember Lisa or Margaret or any of the other 30 women who are suspected to have shared the same killer, but it seems that he has not left the spotlight even 30 years after his execution.

Above: Lisa Levy

The man? Ted Bundy.

Bundy, known for the ruthless murders of women across at least four states, has become a pop cultural icon and a favorite topic among true crime fans. His numerous portrayals in movies and documentaries have perpetuated his handsome and charismatic image, downplaying the gruesome reality of his crimes.

Above: Margaret Bowman

The same romanticism that drew young women to his murder trial 40 years ago continues to pervade his image today. The recent release of Netflix’s documentary series, Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, is a striking example. Even as the documentary spells out the details of Ted Bundy’s heinous crimes against women, the series invites the viewer to be captivated by Bundy’s eerily calm explanations. Attention is diverted from the victims and the tragedy left behind to look into the mind of a killer.

Whether intentional or not, the documentary trivializes the deaths of Bundy’s victims, while catering to the public’s fascination with his convoluted mind and charming personality.

Sources: https://www.tallahassee.com/story/ne ws/2019/01/23/conversations-killerted-bundy-netflix-documentary-storydeath-row-tapes-true-crimetallahassee/26073https://www.washin gtonpost.com/nation/2019/01/28/zacefron-hot-ted-bundy-romanticizedserial-killer-or-convincing-one/? noredirect=on&utm_term=.9f1cfc85cf02 05002/

Perhaps even more concerning is the feature length film about Bundy released in January of this year. The film, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, has Hollywood heartthrob, Zac Efron, playing the star role of Ted Bundy himself. Using Efron’s innate charm and good looks could be an effort to capture Bundy’s deceiving nature, but nonetheless contribute to the romanticism of Bundy. This is only reinforced by the upbeat, action-movie style trailer that promises romance and one-liners instead of tragedy.

Unsurprisingly, Netflix has already bought the rights to the movie to further capitalize on the sensationalism of Bundy’s murder spree. Little has been said about Lisa or Margaret or any of the other victims aside from the details of their death, but murder makes good TV. For FSU students today, the Chi Omega murders seem to have drifted into the category of lore—seeming no more real than the ghost stories at Westcott fountain. But while popular media continues to profit off sensationalizing a serial killer, it becomes even more important to recognize the real tragedy that occurred in Tallahassee back in 1978.

Above: Still from Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Vile, and Evil

Student Spotlight Owen Cockrell is a sophomore athletic training major here at FSU. During his time at FSU, Owen has been extremely involved with the Honors College. He served as an Honors Colloquium Leader Fall semester where he had the opportunity to lead and mentor first-year Honors students. Not only is Owen involved with Honors College, but he also works with Coach’s Video as a part-time job. In this position, he records practices and games for nearly all of the sports teams on campus. Last year, Owen had the opportunity to travel with the football team to North Carolina State last year, an experience for which he is very grateful. In addition, Owen is also a member of the Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society as well as the Student Athletic Trainer Association.

When deciding which college to choose, Owen chose FSU because he grew up near Miami and wanted to get the experience of a smaller, college town. Bright Futures also played a role in his decision. In reflecting on his time in the Honors Program, Owen feels as though the Honors Program has benefitted him in that it has has allowed him to be around lots of driven people, which he finds very motivating.

It has also introduced him to many people who he can reach out to for advice including faculty, fellow students, and his former Colloquium Leader. His favorite memory through the Honors Program has been getting to teach his own class as an Honors Colloquium Leader. He found it very rewarding to help first-year students adjust to their first semester at FSU. With regard to future plans, Owen hopes to attend Physical Therapy school at UCF following his undergrad here at FSU.

Alumni Spotlight Featuring a Q&A with Alyssa Knisley What were you involved in during your time at FSU? While I was at FSU, I was the editor of the undergraduate research journal, The Owl, and the assistant director of the Student Council for Undergraduate Research and Creativity. I completed an HITM thesis supervised by Prof Dan Maier-Katkin on rehabilitative penal thought in the Nordic countries and American carceral exceptionalism, funded by an IDEA grant.

How has your experience in honors influenced where you are now?

Participating in the honors program gave me the opportunities and support needed to explore research in practice early in my education.

What are you doing now, and where do you hope to take your career in the future?

I currently work as a Research Assistant on the Illegal Governance Project in the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge. Eventually, I’d like to continue working in research and reform in criminology.

Do you have any advice for honors students?

Work hard but remember to have fun too—and the Black Dog by Lake Ella is a great place to study and unwind.

Achy Breaky BANK Post-Valentine's Date Ideas Valentine’s Day romance came with a price tag, and for those of us who survive on meal swipes and Pop Tarts…it seems like we're doomed to "Ramen by phone light" dinner dates for the rest of the semester. You don’t have to drain your bank account to keep celebrating your significant other or have a fun night with the gang! Here are some wallet-friendly ideas that we’re crazy about: 1. Go get coffee or desserts: This can be as fancy or casual as you want-maybe re-visit your first date or find a new favorite spot. Try something other than Starbucks (unless of course it's one of their favorites). RedEye (coffee), Sweet Shop, and Lofty Pursuits (ice cream) are some local gems.

2. Find a park: Tallahassee has beautiful parks for picnics, stargazing, or just hanging out, and this weather is perfect for a day outside. If Landis Green is too crowded for you, Cascades Park is a perfect spot.

3. Look for discounts: Most movie theaters have student discounts, and often local businesses will have them available too. Don’t be afraid to use coupons or gift cards on a date- spending your money in smart ways is, well…smart!

4. Get active: If you and your significant other are outdoorsy – or if your friends prefer adventure over rom coms– go for a bike ride, take a hike, or find a game to play outside. The FSU Reservation (the “Rez”) offers free admission and lots of outdoor activities on the weekends, so it’s a great choice if you’re busy during the week. Tackle a ropes course, kayak on the lake, or dominate disc golf until 6pm!

5. Hairspray! Show your FSU Theatre department some love by coming to one of the final $5 student showings of the production.

6. Put some thought into it: Maybe your first date was an FSU football game-see if you can find the ticket stub. Surprise him with his favorite food/candy and a card. If spending time together means the most to them, then do your best to clear your whole schedule.

Valentine's Day isn't the only day to embrace your Hallmark side and really show someone that you love them. The "random" special times together can make for the best memories...so get creative and have fun!

If Valentine’s Day was a hard holiday for you, remember that you DO have “Somebody to Love”….YOU! Try some of these tips for yourself, or ask some friends to hang out and help remind you to give yourself some love!

Source: https://www.collegemagazine.com/14valentines-day-date-ideas-14/

February Marks the Start of Black History Month!

Many historical textbooks provide a very skewed version of history, a version minimizing the meaningful contributions of historical figures from the black population. While black people have been in America since the colonial times, they did not start appearing in history textbooks until wellinto the 20th century, and frequently their portrayals were tainted by tones of racism throughout the text. Likewise, many entries in textbooks focused only on the inferior social status society gave them as opposed to their accomplishments. .

In modern times, the month of February has been designated as Black History Month. The modern celebration of Black History month can be attributed to Dr. Carter G. Woodson. Dr. Woodson was born in 1875 to two former slaves and grew up coal-mining.

However, through determination and hard-work, he enrolled in high school and went on to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1912. Upset with the portrayal of African Americans in history books, Dr. Woodson was inspired to change this. Dr. Woodson went on to form the organization that eventually developed into the modern Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History. Additionally, he

selected the second in week in February to honor Black History because two of his greatest role models, Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, were born in this month. However, in 1960, just ten years after his death, Dr. Woodson’s idea was extended as the month of February was designated to celebrate Black History Month.

Black History Month is crucial because it gives voice to a people that are often silenced. As college students especially, it is important to listen to recognize the importance of learning the history of all people utilizing it to understand different perspectives and bridge divides. The United States was founded on the principle that “all men are created equal”, and as such, it is important to treat every man’s history with utmost importance.

Meet the E-board Meet your new HSA E-board! We are so excited for the upcoming year!

To get to know the team better, check out our yearbook: https://issuu.com/fsuh sa/docs/hsa_yearbook

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: JORDAN BLOCK CONTENT CREATED BY: LILLIE BRODY, MARTHA SIZEMORE, & MEREDITH FREEMAN