llT First-Year Students and Graduating Students (Seniors) TAKE Want to win a $50 Best Buy® gift card? DISAGREE mi AGREE x STRONGLY AGREE HT is participating in the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). You will receive your survey by email from NSSE soon. r» $ Respond by May 3 for a chance to win one of 12 Best Buy“? gift cards! We want to hear your feedback about HT! Your opinions count and will help "T to improve academic and social programming at the university. ‘5 HAVE QUESTIONS? ' mu oarecuuotoov Contactthegffice of Assessment and H-EA Compliance at emmons’éiiite'du. Full-time IIT Undergraduate Students: Enter the 49th Annual llT Writing Contest RSVP: tinyurl.com/|lTWastellpdate All full—time undergraduate students are encouraged to enter the 49'" Annual llT Writing Contest, sponsored by the Humanities Department. You must be enrolled for at least 12 credit hours in Spring 2014 to enter. First Second Third Edwin H. Lewis Prize for Fiction $300 $200 3100 Edwin H. Lewis Prize for Nonfiction $300 $200 $100 Freshman Essay Prize $300 $200 $100 Mollie Cohen Prize for Poetry $300 $200 $100 *Prizes will be awarded as Amazon.com gift cards. Deadline for all submissions: 5:00 p.m. on Monday, March 31, 2014. Winners announced on the Humanities Website: Wednesday, April 16‘“. Reception for all entrants, with awarding of prizes: Wednesday, April 23”. For more information, contact us: iitwritingcontest@gmail.com CONTEST RULES 0 Entries may include fiction, poetry, plays, nonfiction (such as essays, reviews, and technical or scientific papers), and essays by freshman. Nonfiction (including essays by freshman) should be readable by an educated person with no special training in the subject of the essay. - All entries must include an entry form as a cover sheet attached to each entry. Forms are available in 218 Siegel Halll, or you can download the from: hit.ly/1gD|Xvw - All entries must be submitted in duplicate. One should be keyboarded, double~spaced, on 8.5 x 11 paper. Do not put your name on the paper copy itselfor any of its pages. Deliver paper submissions to Susan Mallgrave at the Lewis Department of Humanities, 218 Siegel Hall. The second copy should be submitted as an MS Word .DOC or .DDCX file to iitwritingcontest@gmail.com. The file name should be Lastname.Nonfiction.doc, LastnamePoetrydoc, Lastname.Fiction.doc, or LastnameFreshmandoc, depending on the category it is to be entered into. a You may enter several categories, and you may submit more than one entry in a category. Limit of one prize per category to any one student. I Entries will not be returned, so keep a copy. You are encouraged to submit work that has been the subject of a class assignment, but be sure to send a clean copy, free of any comments, marks, or grades. All submitted short stories and plays will be considered for the Edwin H. Lewis Prize for Fiction. Submissions must be limited to no more than 25 double-spaced pages. All submitted poems or groups of poems will be considered for the Mollie Cohen Poetry Prize, which seeks to honor the effort to master the art of poetry rather than the exhibition of emotions. You may submit all the poems you wish; however, multiple poems by the same student will be judged as a single entry. All submitted nonfiction will be considered for the Edwin H. Lewis Prize for Nonfiction. All submitted freshman essays will be considered for the Freshman Essay Prize. Freshman is defined as any student who is in their first year of full-time college enrollment in Spring 2014. Authors retain all rights to their works, howeverthe authors grant “T, the Humanities Department, and TechNews the rights to publish their works for one calendar year, from April 4, 2014 » April A, 2015. Campus nahility Susta Frida March7 12302pm _,_ eArmcur,Dinin:R00m° become our new DISlRlBUlION HAN/\GLR email editor@iechnewsiitcom