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April 22, 2008: The
CJ/LS Department would like to
congratulate and recognize Samantha Gabbard and Whitney Wagner for the
outstanding work in the 1st Annual MWSU
Critical Thinking Contest. Students from
fourteen departments submitted sixty
essays and twenty students were selected
as Western Scholars. Two of our majors,
Samantha and Whitney were among the
twenty students recognized for their
essays. Each winning student received a
certificate and a monetary award of $250
to be used at the University Bookstore.
To our scholars we say - well done!
April 12, 2008: During the week of April 6th through April 11th 2008, Delta Phi Upsilon attended the 71st National Conference sponsored by the American Criminal Justice Association/ Lambda Alpha Epsilon; five days of workshops, competitive activities, guest speakers, entertainment, and displays. This year’s conference was held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, MO. MWSU Criminal Justice Department’s own Professor Jill Miller, member of the ACJA for over 30 years, was this year’s Conference Coordinator. Professor Miller is also DPU’s academic advisor.
This year’s conference theme was “Secrets of the Dead.” The first speaker, Dr. Mary E. Case, was an expert on crimes committed against children and presented how one goes about investigating the bodies of the deceased for clues to solve crimes. The second speaker, Mary Fran Ernst, presented a two-hour workshop on “The Role of the Medico Legal Death Investigator and How to Become a Medico Legal Death Investigator.” The final speaker, Richard Warrington, presented “Gizmos & Gadgets.” This was a presentation about basic latent fingerprint processing, developing/lifting prints on textured surfaces and crime scene investigation. Participants were able to sign up for a workshop where Warrington showed how exactly one goes about doing such and were issued certificates for attending.
What never changes about this annually held conference, however, are the firearms, physical agility, crime scene investigation, and written competitions. Firearms are where individuals or teams show their proficiency with a weapon. Physical agility is basically tested with a timed obstacle course. Crime scene is where teams of three attempts to solve a purported crime committed and write up a report of their findings. The written competitions are multiple-choice exams with 75 questions each and may have short-answer tie-breaker; the subjects are as follows: juvenile justice, corrections, criminal law, police management, and LAE knowledge. Students and professionals tied to the criminal justice field from all across the nation compete to test their knowledge/skills and, overall, win.
Leona Long placed third in the physical agility competition for females of an age 26 – 35.
An upper level team (students have more than 70 credit hours) consisting of Frankie Olson, Vern Wheeler, and Lolita Murphy placed second for Crime Scene, and;
A lower level team (students have less than 70 credit hours) consisting of the aforementioned Leona Long, Whitney Wagner and Clint Payne placed first for Crime Scene. Again, this was a national competition.
Other DPU members who competed: Tommy Ervie, Logan Parker, Jerri Ann Donelson, and Kameron Foster. Professor Frederica Nix also attended the conference but did not participate in the competitions.
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