By FHSU University Relations<\/p>\n
Students in the Criminal Justice Club \u2013 Delta Tau Omega, Fort Hays State University\u2019s chapter of the American Criminal Justice Association, won nine awards, including four first-place awards, at the association\u2019s recent national conference in Cleveland.<\/p>\n
The conference included written competitions on topics such as corrections, juvenile justice, police management and crime scene investigation. Also included were paper competitions, which requires an original manuscript about an issue related to criminal justice, and a lip sync competition.<\/p>\n
The chapter also visited the FBI regional headquarters, toured the Lutheran Metropolitan Ministries Shelter, Cuyahoga Hills Juvenile Correctional Facility, and the Cuyahoga County Jail and Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n
Members performed volunteer service while at Lutheran Ministries and the juvenile correctional facility.<\/p>\n
Competitors and awards are listed by divisions:<\/p>\n
Written Competitions<\/strong><\/p>\n Corrections<\/strong> Juvenile Justice<\/strong> Police Management<\/strong> Crime Scene Investigation (teams of three)<\/strong> Paper Competition<\/strong> Lip Sync Competition<\/strong> \u2013 All members of the group participated in the lip sync competition and placed third: Casey Higgins, McPherson senior; Jaden Flower, Cawker City senior; John Ramirez, Oakley junior; Abby Escamilla, Weskan sophomore; Luedke; Jamiel; Sundell; Walsh; Petersen; and Markley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By FHSU University Relations Students in the Criminal Justice Club \u2013 Delta Tau Omega, Fort Hays State University\u2019s chapter of the American Criminal Justice Association,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37729,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37728\/revisions\/37729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLower Division (freshman, sophomore) \u2013 Brooke Luedke, Scandia sophomore, third place.
\nUpper Division (junior, senior) \u2013 Andrea Jamiel, Hays senior, third place.<\/p>\n
\nLower Division \u2013 Beatrice Walsh, Thornton, Colo. freshman, third place.
\nUpper Division \u2013 Anneka Sundell, Salina senior, first place.<\/p>\n
\nUpper Division \u2013 Jamiel, first place.
\nProfessional Division (faculty or members who work full time in the criminal justice system) \u2013 Dr. Tamara Lynn, assistant professor of criminal justice, first place.<\/p>\n
\nLower Division -\u2013 Tayler Petersen, Grainfield sophomore, Breanna Markley, White City freshman, and Walsh, honorable mention.<\/p>\n
\nUpper Division \u00ad\u2013 Jamiel, first place. The prize is $150 and publication of the article in the next edition of the American Criminal Justice Association journal.<\/p>\n