CNU student residential leaders earn conference honors

CNU's Virginia Association of College and University Residence Hall 2006 delegation displays their entry into the conference's banner contest outside of the Housing Services office. Pictured, from left, are: Ryan Brown (advisor), Amaka Ozah, Lauren Owens, Kearsten Ruud, Mike Scott, Anna Richter, Chad Gardner, Kim Dodson, Dan Zimmerman, Betsy Groves, Tim Wacek, BethAnn Crocker, Anna Hastings, Jeni Ramos.

CNU's Virginia Association of College and University Residence Hall 2006 delegation following the closing awards banquet at Radford University, in which they just received numerous statewide awards. Students, from left, are: Dan Zimmerman, Tim Wacek, Betsy Groves, Anna Hastings, Jeni Ramos, Kearsten Ruud, BethAnn Crocker, Lauren Owens, Amaka Ozah, Anna Richter, Mike Scott, Kim Dodson, and Chad Gardner.

(NEWPORT NEWS, Va.) — Christopher Newport University’s residential program won numerous awards at the annual Virginia Association of College and University Residence Hall conference in February at Radford University.

CNU's resident assistants and residential leaders dominate the state in innovative social and educational programming. All of the monthly award nominations were written and submitted by CNU's newly formed National Residence Hall Honorary and its President Jeni Ramos and Vice President Amaka Ozah.

Fourteen residential student leaders represented CNU at the conference: Anna Hastings, Anna Richter, Lauren Owens, Jeni Ramos, BethAnn Crocker, Kearsten Ruud, Tim Wacek, Kim Dodson, Mike Scott, Amaka Ozah, Chad Gardner, Betsy Groves, Dan Zimmerman and Ryan Brown. These students met colleagues from a dozen other schools, learned about many new ideas in programming and residential leadership.

CNU won these awards:

• 2006 VACURH National Communications Chair of the Year: Jeni Ramos
  
  
• August 2005 Social Program of the Month: Shari Hopkinson's “CNU Cribs”
  
  
• August 2005 Advisor of the Month: Kate Griffin
  
  
• September 2005 Educational Program of the Month: Kim Dodson's “History of Grandparent Day"
  
  
• September 2005 Advisor of the Month: Rebecca McKeon
  
  
• October 2005 Educational Program of the Month: Jamin Valentine, Marcelle Clavette and Michelle Aellen's “Sex In The Elevator”
  
  
• October 2005 Social Program of the Month: Lauren Owen's “Ghosts of Williamsburg Tour”
  
  
• October 2005 Student of the Month: Chelsea Renner
  
  
• November 2005 Educational Program of the Month: Kyle Chandler and Marcelle Clavette's “IHOS v. 4South”
  
  
• November 2005 Social Program of the Month: Chris Topping's “Happy Unbirthday!"
  
  
• January 2006 Student of the Month: Karl Hedlund
  
  
• Top 7 Program Award Winners: Mike Scott and Anna Hasting’s “ResLife Unit”
  
  
• Presenting Advisor: Ryan Brown’s "Commandos On Campus? Lessons Learned From Laos To Fallujah and Why Your Hall Needs A Counter-Insurgency Doctrine”