March, 2019 - The McKendree Review

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Model UN Success

All images from Katherine Gemmingen, Editor Last week, McKendree University had yet another success. McKendree represented Poland at the 59th Midwest Model United Nations conference in St. Louis February 20-23. Senior Andrew Wagner won an Outstanding Delegate Award. Other students attending the conference were Haylee Christ, Aron Durant, Justin Fausz, Taylor Ganz, Katherine Gemmingen, Cameron Nollman, Caden Owens, Rebecca Postula, Hannah Voudrie, and Corben Zanger. Many students may not know what Model UN is since the group is relatively small. Students go to conferences as delegates of a designated country in the United Nations and attempt to represent the country's stances on specific issues. In addition to the St. Louis conference, McKendree's Model UN team travels to Chicago every...

McKendree’s Speech and Debate Team Came Home With Some Heavy Hardware

McKendree University speech and debate students took home 79 awards, including 13 1st place finishes, this spring to complete the regular season. In debate, McKendree’s students Mitch Deleel and Adeja Powell are the 4th ranked team in the nation (of 458 teams) and have qualified to compete at the National Parliamentary Tournament of Excellence (NPTE). Caden Owens and Rebecca Postula are the 43rd ranked team and may qualify for the NPTE. As a program, McKendree is ranked 15th (of 132 schools). In speech, McKendree students have qualified ten events to the prestigious American Forensic Association’s National Individual Events Tournament (AFA-NIET). Andrew Wagner has qualified in six events: communication analysis, extemporaneous speaking, impromptu speaking, duo interpretation (with Smith)...

What is Intellectual Wellness?

By Tiffany Davis, Contributing Writer Pictures: google.com While we are in college we are oftentimes so focused on studying and earning good grades that we forget about our intellectual wellness. When discussing intellectual wellness, we often mistake it for learning or the amount of knowledge we have accrued in our current life, but it is so much more than that. Intellectual wellness includes our ability to learn and grow from experiences while utilizing various intellectual capabilities. It encourages personal creativity while also focusing on stimulating mental activities. In order for people to be considered intellectually well, they must be capable of using resources available to them to expand their knowledge and improve their skills along with expanding their potential to share ...