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Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Highlights from Homecoming 2013
HOMECOMING cont. from page 1 a lot of debate, they also chose
Mead explains, “The reason we decided to do this is — we had a big conversation about how whenever we have homecoming voting there’s always a board where there’s just a picture of the person, but there was never any other information.” This usually led to people voting based on the looks of the people, regardless of who they were and what they did here at Shepherd. “We wanted to refocus it on Shepherd and Shepherd’s core values: What does it mean to be a Ram? What does it mean to represent the student body?” The Program Board decided to make the homecoming title more geared towards recognition of involvement on campus. They also tried to tie it more to Shepherd’s core values. Nominees had to submit a short essay about why they are a good representation of Shepherd and our values. Those essays were put on the ballot so that students could vote based on that, not how a person looks in a picture. After
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to not put categories of first, second, third and fourth-year students. “We think it should be about what you contribute. If it’s all seniors, it’s all seniors. If there’s a first-year student who really embodies Shepherd, then that person should get it, too. It seems kind of artificial to put them in a box. So instead we decided to flatten it. There’s going to be no male or female, no class category — it’s just going to be ‘Are you a great representation of Shepherd’s core values?’” said Mead. A lot of thought and discussion went into this change. It all seemed to have worked out with eight Shepherd students who have contributed enormous amounts of time and effort to our school taking the new and improved title. Congratulations Jeffrey Acosta, Kat Adams, Katy Coleman, Nicholas Etheridge, Ellie Johnson, Tom Jones, Michael Lesko and Rose Tribby! Thank you for all that you have done for our school.
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