From:
Carol Smallwood [mailto:kazmier@cmsinter.net]
Sent: Saturday, November 12,
2005 11:42 AM
To: harriss@voyager.net
Subject: Contest for the
Newsletter
Spay Day USA
Essay Contest
The Humane Animal Treatment
Society (HATS) serving Isabella County is offering a nonfiction writing
contest for CMU Students to observe the 12th Annual Spay Day USA, February 28,
2006, sponsored by the Doris Day Animal Foundation. The student chapter, HATS
of CMU, will help narrow entries for judging by Assistant Professor of
English, Dr. Rochelle L. Harris, contest faculty advisor.
First Prize $200, Second Prize $120, Third Prize $80; Two Honorable Mentions:
Dance Packages worth $50 from Toni's Dance
Studio. Winners are eligible to have their work on the HATS website and print
newsletter, CM Life, local newspapers, Michigan Federation of Humane Societies
and Animal Advocates newsletter, Doris Day Animal Foundation Events, and
related sites.
Articles are to be typed, double spaced. Please include your name, student
status (such as freshman/junior), major, and e-mail. Students may include one
or all the following topics:
1. Health benefits of
spaying/neutering pets
2. Pet owner benefits by spaying/neutering
3. Reducing animal suffering by spaying/neutering
4. How spaying/neutering
improves communities/saves taxes
Topics must be backed with statistics from:
AND statistics compiled by the Isabella County Animal
Control Facility in Mt. Pleasant, AND State of Michigan statistics which may be enlarged/printed from: www.hatsweb.org . For other questions about the county's statistics, please e-mail:
plentz@isabellacounty.org
(Attn: Annette on Subject Line)
Number of Words: 900-1000
The style of the writing (personal, research, etc.) is up to the writer as
long as the important statistics HATS is committed
to communicating are accessed and utilized in the essay. Please keepin mind that HATS wishes to raise awareness that not spaying and neutering has ethical consequences.
Enter: November 17, 2005-February 17, 2006
Please send entries to:
hatsofcmu@hotmail.com (Attn: Contest, on the Subject Line).
Questions? Please contact Stephanie Dueweke, President of HATS of CMU:
duewe1sl@cmich.edu