For the student monologues held at the Union on Jan. 20, “students wrote their monologues, submitted those, and were to be judged by faculty and staff judges with a rubric in order to win prizes,” said Whitney Roberts, assistant director for civic engagement.
For the 11 entries that were picked, seven people were chosen to go on to the finals at the Union. “For those seven people, I didn’t judge at the Union, it was Kimberly Sluis, Donnavieve Smith, and Whitney Roberts who did the judging at the Union,” said Dorothy Pleas, director of multicultural affairs.
“I think it’s just a unique opportunity to have a chance to share your own story, but also to maybe win something out of it and to think about the quality and delivery as really a chance to grow and a chance to learn,” said Roberts. “I hope students get out of this (show), just a chance to hear a different perspective or hear someone’s story, whether that’s Sho’s story, or whether that’s the student monologues.”
