The Student Honors Research Bulletin , published each summer, contains outstanding research papers and honors theses. The Bulletin is intended to represent Western's best student research and to inspire other students to strive for excellence in their scholarship and writing. Each honors student receives a copy. The Bulletin includes papers nominated by faculty from across campus and selected by the co-editors, Dr. Sam McFarland and Mr. Walker Rutledge. The following policies govern the selection of papers.
Priority is given to papers which provide models of serious and sustained scholarship.
Papers that are shorter than 15 pages must be unusually good to be considered. The student, with the aid of the faculty member nominating a paper, must carefully edit the paper for good grammar and writing style. All papers must be submitted on paper and on disk in WordPerfect or in a word processing program which can be converted to WordPerfect. However, papers are reviewed prior to receiving a disk copy if the student agrees to type the paper on disk as soon as the paper has been accepted for publication and the faculty member agrees to edit the disk copy quickly. The Honorable Mention , published twice each semester, is the honors program newsletter.