Four incoming students earned prizes after entering the Summer Common Reading essay contest.
The annual contest, open to all first-year and transfer students, was based on this year’s Common Read, Ignorance: How it Drives Science by Stuart Firestein, who spoke at Linfield’s opening convocation in August. Prizes included gift certificates to Barnes and Noble Linfield College Bookstore and were sponsored by the Linfield College Office of Enrollment.
Winners, along with links to their full essays, include:
First place — Ehren Cahill ‘18
Second place — Maddy McCaslin ‘18
Third place — Emma Coleman ‘18
Transfer student winner — Suzanne Johnson ‘16
The Common Read project identifies a single book for all first-year and transfer students, and serves as a centerpiece for discussions and special programs throughout the year during Colloquium and the college’s PLACE initiative (Program in the Liberal Arts and Civic Engagement). This year’s PLACE theme is “How do we know? Paths to wisdom.”
