Alumni win awards for senior seminar papers

For the fourth year in a row, students from Ripon College have won student paper awards from the Wisconsin Sociological Association.

Holly Kortemeier ’15 of Whitewater, Wisconsin, won first place for her senior seminar paper from last semester, “Pupils to Peers: Socializing Graduate Students into the Counseling Profession.”

Kyle Novack ’15 of Two Rivers, Wisconsin, won third place for his senior seminar paper from last semester, “There’s a Future Inmate: How Criminals and Potential Criminals are Otherized by Law Enforcement Officials.”

Jacqueline Clark, associate professor of sociology and chair of the department, and Marc Eaton, assistant professor of sociology, attended the annual meeting of the Wisconsin Sociological Association Oct. 1-2 at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.