Academic Bowl 2007
ASU held the university's second Academic Bowl Oct. 10 - Oct 23, featuring 16 college teams competing for scholarship prizes and the President's Cup trophy. The competition, sponsored by the offices of Public Affairs and Student Affairs, is modeled after the national College Bowl. Four-member teams squared off in a question-and-answer format on a wide range of subjects, including current events, history, science, sports and culture. The four members of the winning team will each receive $4,500 in scholarships. CLAS wins! The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences team members celebrate their victory in the 2007 Academic Bowl. Carlos Ross hoists the trophy above his head as fellow teammates Ken Lan, Eli Bliss (cap) and Erin Hutchinson look on.
The road to the finals began over two nights in the Pima Room of ASU’s Memorial Union as 16 teams were pitted against each other in the first rounds. Here, University College puts up a spirited match against the team from the Herberger College of the Arts.
Bill Silcock reads a question to the attentive team from College of Human Services. Pictured from left to right are teammates Jared Tremp, Ruth Faulkner, Alex Quinn and Kate McCausland. They were victorious over the School of Global Management and Leadership.
The team from W. P. Carey was all business as they confer on an answer in their first-round match against the College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation. Pictured from left to right are teammates Rishi Mohnot, Aaron Oaks, Derek Guizado and Alexander Porter.
Bobby Hunnicutt, Wonda Baugh and Miranda Hantla of University College celebrate an early score in their match against the Herberger College.
Beth Carbine rolls her eyes after answering a question incorrectly as fellow teammates from the School of Applied Arts and Sciences, Lauri Seckington (left) and Sarah Snyder look on.
At first glance you might believe Andrew Holle of Fulton Engineering, who was on last year's winning team, was doing research to help his teammates prepare for their match. He was really following the Diamondbacks-Rockies game on his laptop.
Pictured from left to right, Joe Cox, Jordan Napier and Justin Adams of the Cronkite team prepare themselves for the next question in the competition’s second round.
The Mary Lou Fulton School of Education celebrates as they gain on their opponents, the Cronkite School, late in the match. Pictured from left to right are teammates Tyler Edwards, Jessica Dailey, Nathaniel Hudson and Katarina Gomez. While it appeared that the School of Education had won the match, the results were overturned when it was confirmed that they had violated a rule earlier in the match, costing them 40 points and making Cronkite the winner.
The Morrison School of Management and Agribusiness team reacts following their upset of the Fulton School of Engineering team. Pictured from left to right, Michael Zajas, Michael Neider, Andrea McBurney and Mark Chancerelle.
The semifinal and final matches moved from the friendly confines of the Memorial Union’s Pima Room to Studio B of KAET’s television studios as the show’s director runs the operation from the studio’s control room.
CLAS overpowered the team from the Morrison School of Management and Agribusiness, quickly establishing a strong lead. Dean of the Herberger School of the Arts, Kwang-Wu Kim, served as the moderator.
The Cronkite School put up a strong fight in the second semifinal match of the evening. Justin Adams answers a question as teammates (pictured from left to right) Joe Cox, Jordan Lapier and Megan Getz listen.
Moderating the second semifinal match, Collen Jennings-Roggensack, executive director of ASU Public Events, delivers a question to the W. P. Carey team. Pictured from left to right, teammates Alex Porter, Derek Buizado, Aaron Oaks and Rishi Mohnot.
ASU President Michael Crow, moderating the final round, listens as CLAS teammate Carlos Ross answers a question.
The CLAS team hoists the President’s Cup, the trophy of the Academic Bowl, following their victory over the W. P. Carey School of Business in the 2007 competition.