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2008
1. Joel Wilson, Strict DUI Laws are Bad
2. Nate Cohn, South Re-Re-Construction
3. Gary Wang, Media coverage of NBA and Racism
4. Dave Mathews, Body Modifications
5. Sally Sorte, Online Dating
6. Chris Fleming, Paintings challenging conventions
7. Annie Hickman, Blackface, Irony, and Race
8. Amy Soderquist, Space Cults
2007
1. Andrew Stokes, Plessy v Ferguson
2. Eric Chalfant, Thad is Happy
3. Matt Schissler, Confessions
and Whitman Students
4. Stephen Reed, Give me First
5. Ben Meiches, Circumcision
6. Jeff Wilson, Listening to Music
7. Andrew Kelly, South
Park
8. Sam Allen, Male Rape
2006
1. Eric Suni, Parking at Whitman College
2. Matt Schissler, Bonnie and Clyde
3. Andrew Kelly, Facebook
4. Lydia
Eberly, Segregated Neighborhoods
5. Jeff Buntin, Switch Side
Debate
6. Sam Allen, Sam “Pwns”
Ross
7. Rob Olsen, BioDiesel Project
Funding
8. Kathryn Bergh, Poker
2005
1. Beth Pearson, "Title IX Sports"
2. Eric Suni,
"School of
Americas"
3. Bridget Kustin,
“Dowries”
4. Scott Thompson, “US
involvement in Haiti”
5. Matt Schissler, “MLK,
Gandhi, and Non-Violence”
6. Chris Chamness, “The
Food Coop”
7. (tie) Beth Schueler,
“Sexual Misconduct Policy” and Laura Hanson, “The Food
Coop”
2004
1. Beth Pearson, "Emergency
Contraception"
2. Eric Suni,
"Allowing P-D-F for Distribution"
3. Patrick Carter "Christian
Broadcast”
4. Mike Winnike
"End Plan Columbia”
5. Kim Schlesinger "US Patriot
Act”
6. Beth Schueler
“Materialism and Art”
7. Scott Thompson “French
Secularism”
8. Dana Randall “Makah
Whaling”
The rules were changed again in 2004 to
have 8 top finishers in additional to multiple honorary mentions who are not
listed.
2003
1. Beth Pearson, "Stop Invasive
Species"
2. Eric Suni,
"End PLAN Columbia"
3. Darrell Miller, "A Great
Man"
4. Emily Marr, "European Queer
Movements"
5. Brian Ward, "Stop the RAVE
Act"
2002
TOP FIVE (The rules were changed in
2002 so that there are five place finishers regardless of gender with
additional honorable mention winners)
1. (tie) Nicholas Thomas (problems
with happiness)
2. Bridget Kustin
(animal rights)
3. Denice
Kelly (pro-diversity perspective needed on Whitman’s campus)
4. Joey Bennett (military’s
don’t ask, don’t tell policy)
5. Emily Cordo
(post-modern mergence with radical feminist approaches)
2001
MEN
1. (tie) Nicholas Thomas (male
feminism)
1. (tie) Keola
Whittaker (worthiness of videotaped oration)
3. Thad Blank (disputing performances
in coalitions)
WOMEN
1. (tie) Emily Cordo
(post-modern revisions of African feminism)
1. (tie) Liz Briggs (radical
democracy promotion)
3. Nashaunte
Pleasant (ex-con voting)
2000
MEN
1. Nicholas Thomas (feminist
appropriations)
2. Thad Blank (terrorist talk)
3. Brian Simmonds
(child protection act)
WOMEN
1. Denice
Kelley (trans-racial adoptions)
2. Jessica Clarke (critique of "ex-gay"
speaker)
3. Emily Cordo
(new national feminism)
1999
MEN
1. Nicholas Thomas (Inconsistency)
1. Neil Kornze
(Hookups)
3. Gary Vandenberg (Dog bites)
WOMEN
1. Wanjiru Kamau (African and Western Feminism)
2. Abby St. Lawrence
(oral contraceptives)
3. Jessica Clarke (deconstructionism)
1998
MEN
1. Tony Torres (male contraceptives)
2. David Pietka
(alcoholism)
3. Derek Banducci
(moratorium on congressional action)
WOMEN
1. Jessica Clarke (responses to
cultural relativism)
2. Karen Skantze
(communication decency act)
3. Abby St. Lawrence
(hello)
1997
MEN
1. Matt Johnson (reduce military)
2. Kristofer
Peterson (heart defibulators)
3. Matt Carter
WOMEN
1. Karen Skantze
(communication decency act)
1996
MEN
James Kuwahara
(late-term abortions)
Steve Rowe (weapons proliferation)
Andy Backlund
WOMEN
Gina Fleck (English as the official
language)
Karen Skantze
(People should vote)
Erin Carlson (Feminism and the
Catholic Church)
1995
MEN
Greg Schnorr
(Perma-agriculture)
Kristofer Peterson
Sean Harris
WOMEN
Karen Skantze
Erin Carlson
Amanda Elegant
1994
MEN
Ryan Hagemann
Greg Schnorr
John Reed
WOMEN
Jennifer Becker
Melanie Lawler
Casie Buckner
1993
MEN
Ryan Hagemann
David Bruggerman
WOMEN
Christina Olson
Beth Anderson
Charlotte Smith (Democracy in History)
1992
MEN
Derek Buescher
David Bruggerman
Charles Teals
WOMEN
Jean Tobin
Charlotte Smith
Jennifer Becker
1991
MEN
Jason Lillis
Derek Buescher
Todd Myers
WOMEN
Charlotte Smith
Daphne Teals
Jean Tobin
1990
MEN
?
2nd or 3rd John Moe
WOMEN
?
1989
MEN
Drummond Kahn
Andrew Rao
WOMEN
Daphne Teals
Nancy Hilpert
1988
MEN
Erik Highberg
Drummond Kahn
Andrew Rao
WOMEN
Lanora Welker
Cara Elston
Daphne Teals
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