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Honorable News Volume 9, Issue 4

Thanking Dr. Bowie —Dr. Howe, Director of the Honors Program

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Of the many things that make up honors (thesis proposals and defenses, lunches, the seminars, and all of the other formal components of honors), at the heart of them all is an ongoing conversation, rich in constructive debate, full of questions with no simple answers.

Inside this issue: Senior Thesis

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Discussion Board– Dr. Bowie’s Response

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This time of year, always, there are many comings and goings, full of closures and new openings. With seniors looking to finish up their last year at Regis and heading out towards their futures beyond our campus, there’s also a brand new class finalizing plans to matriculate here in the fall. And while these are things that happen every year, this spring brings us to a unique closure and beginning.

Dr. Bowie, who has directed the Honors Program for 10 years, will be moving on as he has been appointed the Academic Dean for Regis College. It is a wonderful and fitting step forward and the college is sure to reap the same extraordinary benefits that the Honors Program has from Dr. Bowie’s vision and leadership.

I know that all of us in the honors community are thankful for everything that Dr. Bowie has done. In particular, I’d like here to highlight one encompassing feature of honors at Regis that bears his significant imprint. Of the many things that make up honors (thesis proposals and defenses, lunches, the seminars, and all of the other formal components of honors), at the heart of them all is an ongoing conversation, rich in constructive debate, full of questions with no simple answers. More than anything else, Honors is a commu-

nity, composed of individuals with different disciplinary interests, but united in a love of learning that is directed toward serving our common good. Dr. Bowie has worked tirelessly and with great love at cultivating a community in Honors that is vibrant, compassionate, and full of people striving to do their best work. He has drawn us into conversations with great works of literature and authors, compelling us to reflect on the value of edu-

cation, along with putting us in the middle of ultimate questions concerning justice and meaning, and showing us, all along the way, how an engagement with great, timeless ideas matters to us, in whatever place of the world we currently inhabit. I hope in these final weeks of the semester that you’ll join me in thanking Dr. Bowie for making Honors the great community it is today.

Senior Thesis Shannon Doherty

Stuart Jenkins

Katarina Mendoza

Grumpy Cat on Hump Day: Animals' Effects on Mind, Body, and Spirit--And What We Ought to Do About It

Hell fire from Abuse: A Moral Inqiry into the realtionship between Drones and the Just War Traditons

I conducted my own experiment to measure the effects of HAI on human compassion and empathy. I analyze the results of my experiment, combine them with previous studies documenting the effects of animals on the mind and body, and argue that HAI helps humans achieve cura personalis.

This thesis explores the relationship and mutual implications between drones and just war theory. It addresses the moral issues at stake in the debate about the military use of remotly piloted aircraft in the global war on terror.

My thesis compares Switzerland's universal healthcare with the private healthcare industry in the United States through a justice perspective. It is an exploration of justice in healthcare, it is an informative piece about current the healthcare systems in the United States and Switzerland, and it advocates for the implementation of a patient-centered healthcare system in the United States.

Hannah Breece

Sean Daru

McKenna Mettling

Play Dough and Plato: Finding Harmony in the Childhood Experience

A Study of Augustinian, Calvinistic, and Thomistic Methodologies for Old Testament Interpretation with Applications in a Rational Critique of the Old Testament

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This thesis explores the relationship between philosophy and children's education, especially children's literature, and how the relationship affects the development of the moral imagination.

My thesis explores the frameworks provided by Augustine, Calvin, and Aquinas for interpreting the Old Testament.

Building upon some of the work of Aquinas my thesis then explores the possibility for using reason as a hermeneutical key to the text of the Old Testament.

I looked at the current quarterback passer rating system to determine how the current formula was developed. I then used linear regression to develop new formulas that could be more accessable and easier to use.

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Nenani Sichone Sanctions and World Polarity: Analysis of the Efficacy of Sanctions as the World Shifts from Unipolarity to Multipolarity; and How This Change Affects the Order of the International Polical Economy This paper tries to explore how exactly sanctions work, how they are enforced by countries that impose them, how sanctions are examined and evaluated, and what sanctions say about the international political and economical polarity of the world.

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Class of 2014 Maggie O'Connor

Rachel Sellers

Hannah Jones

The Benefits of Animal Assisted Therapy: How using AAT can aid in the therapy and healing process when working with children who have experienced trauma

From Linguistic Cues to Visual Reality: Exploring the Relationship Between Narrative and Illustration Through the Creation of Illustrations Based on European Folktales

Repainting the Future: A Community Mural Project, or, How does art help us share stories?

This thesis discusses the benefits of implementing animal assisted therapy techniques when working with adolescents. The thesis concludes by looking at an existing organization that started an animal assisted therapy program and have seen tremendous progress with some of their youth.

From Linguistic Clues to Visual Reality examines the process of interpreting and illustrating five folktales from across Europe with the aim of exploring how illustration works as a narrative medium in relation to a textual source.

Come find out as Hannah Jones shares her fascination with the power of public art as a catalyst for social change and her desire to do something creative, nontraditional and focused on feminism for her senior thesis.

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"Quizzical Encounters Cumulate Over a Lifetime": Mapping the Relationships of Trauma, Memory, Writing, and Healing

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This collection of creative nonfiction essays explores the effectiveness of writing in processing traumatic memory. The essays, in the form of personal narratives, map the encounters of the writer's life, including: imaginary islands, a trip through South America, and a summer spent on a pig farm.

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Kate Gavin

Sean Typher

Equine Assisted Therapy and its Uses: How the Use of Equine Assisted Hippotherapy, Psychotherapy, and Equine Assisted Learning Can be Integrated to Benefit Physical, Emotional, and Cognitive Needs in the Model of Cura Personalis

The Well Rounded Doctor:An analysis of the necessary intelligences of today's physician and the efficacy of medical school admissions in their evaluation of such This thesis is divided primarily into two sections. In section one, I use Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory as a framework through which I analyze which intelligences are essential for a physician. In section two, I examine the medical school application process to determine if the proper criteria are being used to evaluate applicants for these intelligences.

This thesis will explore the benefits of the mental, physical, and emotional facets of hippotherapy, equine assisted psychotherapy, and equine facilitated learning.

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We Say, They Say: What New Heights Do You Hope To Reach During Your Time In Honors At Regis?

The discussions on our Honors board continue to excite enthusiastic responses and thought-provoking ideas. This round our question came from Dr. Bowie.

See what students have said and what Dr. Howe’s answer is, and stop by the Honors study room to see what our next question is!

Words From Dr. Howe Of course I am interested in new heights, making progress, setting goals, striving for them, and

all sorts of movements like that, but I’d like to add that achieving new heights is best done, maybe paradoxically, by also digging ourselves in and reaching downward for new depths. I’m thinking here of Dr.

Bruhn’s Chester Alter Lecture a couple months ago when he reminded us that we should look back even as we’re seeking to leap forward.

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