Campus Read Essay Contest - Deadline Today!

A reminder ... the deadline for submitting your entry for the Campus Read Essay Contest is today, Wednesday, November 27, at 5 p.m.

See the previous posting for details.

Campus Read Essay Contest & Scholarship Opportunity

Clint Hill’s Mrs. Kennedy & Me

 
You’re already reading, discussing, and writing about Mrs. Kennedy & Me, this fall’s Campus Read selection.  Shape up those ideas and submit an essay to the Campus Read Essay contest.

Full-time students with the winning essay will be awarded a $500 tuition scholarship from the BSC Foundation for the Spring 2014 semester.  Part-time or dual credit students will be awarded up to three credits of scholarship funds.

Essay Guidelines

·       Submit your best work of 600 words or more.

·       The topic for your essay may be anything related to your consideration of the selection.

·       The essay may be a critical response to the book or a narrative essay relating your own  experiences that relate to the theme of the book.

·        Don’t be afraid to be creative with other ideas.

·       Quoted, paraphrased, or summarized material must be correctly cited (any recognized format accepted).

·       The essay must be typed.

·       Include a cover page with your name, student ID number, address, phone number, and email address.

·        Essays that do not follow the guidelines will not be considered.

Essays will be judged anonymously by Bismarck State College staff, faculty, and administration. 

The deadline to submit an essay is Wednesday, November 27.  Essays may be submitted electronically as an attachment and emailed to Michael.Tomanek@bismarckstate.edu.

The winning essay will be published in the Mystician.

Get Ready for the JFK Symposium

Along with Mrs. Kennedy and Me, JFK Symposium planners have some other reading suggestions for preparing for the sympoisum: 

• Robert Dallek. An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
• Robert Caro. The Years of Lyndon Johnson. Volume 4: The Passage of Power
• Robert Kennedy. Thirteen Days: a Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
• Garry Wills. The Kennedy Imprisonment: a Meditation on Power
• David Talbot. Brothers: the Hidden History of the Kennedy Years
• Henry Fairlie. The Kennedy Promise: the Politics of Expectation
• Craig Nelson. Rocket Men: the Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon 

The BSC Library also recommends Dallas, 1963 by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis.  It's hot off the press and has had rave reviews.

Check them out!  BSC Library