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Ariel Hobbs for her Who Cares about the Latin Mass?
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Liam O’Toole for his Joker: A Catholic Perspective
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Gideon Lazar for his Why I Converted from Orthodoxy
The Clarifying Cup is a semi-annual competition between institutions for viewership on articles. For an in-depth list of our top articles, check out our Best of Fall 2019. This year, we are proud to announce the first ever winners. Below is an explanation for how the competition progresses:
- The school that gains the most amount of views among articles in a week (Monday through Sunday) gains 6 points
- Second place gets 5 points, third 4 points, etc.
- These points are compiled throughout the semester, and the institution with the most number of points wins the Clarifying Cup
- The individual with the most number of views per week is listed as an MVP, though this does not impact their status of the Thomas Aquinas Awards that are given to the articles with the most views
Here are the results of Week 15, the final week of the first ever Clarifying Cup!
Congratulations to The Catholic University of America for winning the Clarifying Cup!
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Cum Laude Award
Ariel Hobbs for her Who Cares about the Latin Mass?
(853 Views)
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Magna Cum Laude Award
Liam O’Toole for his Joker: A Catholic Perspective
(1,027 Views)
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Summa Cum Laude Award
Gideon Lazar for his Why I Converted from Orthodoxy
(16,063 Views)
Here is a list of first place winners and MVP’s by week:
Week 1: Catholic U / Gideon Lazar
Week 2: Catholic U / Gideon Lazar
Week 3: Catholic U / Gideon Lazar
Week 4: Catholic U / Gideon Lazar
Week 5: Catholic U / Rachel Le Melle
Week 6: Franciscan / Gideon Lazar
Week 7: Catholic U / Liam O’Toole
Week 8: Catholic U / Gideon Lazar
Week 9: Catholic U / Ariel Hobbs
Week 10: Catholic U / Kelsey Nowack
Week 11: Catholic U / Samuel Ng
Week 12: Catholic U / Natalie Bauman
Week 13: Catholic U / Gideon Lazar
Week 14: Franciscan / Faith Kowitz
Week 15: Franciscan / Faith Kowitz
The St. John Paul II Award
The St. John Paul II award is given to contributors who are instrumental in the process of expanding the project, and it can only be won once. The following individuals are being recognized for their dedication to Clarifying Catholicism.
Joe Bukuras for his foundational role in Clarifying Catholicism‘s expansion, as our first ever Executive of Organizational Development
Maddie Sanders for serving as Co-Director of Editing for two years
Jenna Drummond for serving as Co-Director of Editing for two years
GraceAnne Sullivan for recruiting many writers and staff from Franciscan University of Steubenville
Faith Kowitz for proposing and initiating expansive projects for Clarifying Catholicism
Rachel Alexander for managing the Clarifying Catholicism Facebook page, which nearly met its goal for expansion.
Before we conclude this semester’s content, we would like to express our sincerest thanks to all of you for helping our mission, which as you can see below, has expanded massively.