{"id":2218,"date":"2014-06-04T15:47:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T19:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/now.etown.edu\/?p=2218"},"modified":"2014-06-04T15:50:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T19:50:20","slug":"political-science-department-honors-second-president-with-mock-trial-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2014\/06\/04\/political-science-department-honors-second-president-with-mock-trial-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown Employees Honor Second President with Mock Trial Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From left to right: Dr. Kyle Kopko, Maiza Rahman, Jean-Paul Benowitz, and Paula Knudsen Burke.<\/p><\/div>\n

Elizabethtown College employees recently created a new award to honor an outstanding member of its Mock Trial team. The first George Ness Falkenstein Outstanding Advocate Award, honoring the college\u2019s second president, was granted Saturday, April 12, at the third annual Elizabethtown College Pre- Law and Mock Trial banquet.<\/p>\n

The Rev. Dr. George Ness Falkenstein<\/a>, who was president from 1901 to 1902, served as secretary to the Board of Trustees and taught history, government and the classics. Falkenstein has been said to have had an influence on all of the forensic debating clubs on campus, to this day.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is without a doubt one of the most important \u2013 if not the most important \u2013 founders of Elizabethtown College,\u201d said Dr. Kyle Kopko, assistant professor of political science. \u201cIn many ways, the Mock Trial Team embodies the academic and intellectual traits that Falkenstein and other founders sought to develop in E-town students \u2013 particularly the ability to think critically and critique and defend ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Jean-Paul Benowitz, director of Student Transition Programs and assistant director of Academic Advising, said that the origin of the idea to establish this award came out of his research for writing the new history of the college, which was published in February<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cI thought this award would be an excellent way to recognize the true founder of the College, whose impact is still evident today.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In many ways, the Mock Trial Team embodies the academic and intellectual traits that Falkenstein and other founders sought to develop in E-town students \u2013 particularly the ability to think critically and critique and defend ideas.\u201d–Kopko<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n

To honor Dr. Falkenstein and annually recognize the best student member of the Elizabethtown College Mock Trial Club, Kopko and wife Sarah along with Benowitz and wife Amy have funded the creation of the George Ness Falkenstein Outstanding Advocate Award. This year\u2019s winner, Maiza Rahman was granted a certificate, a cash prize of $100 and an engraving of her name on a plaque listing the honorees. The plaque is displayed in the corridors of the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Legal Studies.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaiza was a dedicated mock trial participant for several years and, this year, she served as a team captain,\u201d said Kopko of the awardee. \u201cShe also served as president of the Pre-Law Club.\u00a0 She has demonstrated leadership to her peers and professors and excelled in Mock Trial competitions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recipients are determined by vote of the Mock Trial Team and Pre-Law faculty and by individual scores from Mock Trial competitions. The award recognizes the significant and on-going contributions of a competitor.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is certainly a high honor,\u201d said Kopko, \u201cMock Trial members spend countless hours preparing their cases for tournaments throughout the academic year. This award honors their outstanding contributions throughout the year and, by naming this award after President Falkenstein, it also recognizes that the student\u2019s accomplishments are part of a long tradition of academic excellence at Elizabethtown College.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College employees recently created a new award to honor an outstanding member of its Mock Trial team. The first George Ness Falkenstein Outstanding Advocate Award, honoring the college\u2019s second president, was granted Saturday, April 12, at the third annual Elizabethtown College Pre- Law and Mock Trial banquet. The Rev. Dr. George Ness Falkenstein, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":2220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[273,289,564,293,510],"class_list":["post-2218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community","tag-jean-paul-benowitz","tag-kyle-kopko","tag-mock-trial","tag-political-science","tag-pre-law","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2218"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2229,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions\/2229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}