In honor of my retirement this year, my friends at the Butler University Bookstore decided to hold an academic contest, of sorts, with submissions coming in the form of a haiku. The Blue II Haiku Contest stood as an invitation for people of all ages to pen some prose about yours truly with a 5-7-5 syllable structure and potentially win some swag.<\/p>\n
I’m pleased to report that haiku submissions have been read and my trusty panel of haiku experts have made their selections. The following people have won best haiku for their respective category and Butler fan, Linda Engle, is the “Best in Show” or overall winner.<\/p>\n
For their efforts, the category winners will receive a $20 gift certificate to the Butler University Bookstore and our overall winner gets a brand new 16 MP Nikon CoolPix digital camera, complete with a 16 GB memory card pre-loaded with hi-res photos of me! Not bad for a little tickle of the keyboard, right? It pays to enter my contests.<\/p>\n
My\u00a0congratulations\u00a0to the winners, listed below, and my thanks the more than 100 people who submitted an entry. I was impressed with your creativity, cleverness and wit. Now feast your eyes on these great works:<\/p>\n
Category: k12 –\u00a0Samantha Guadagnino<\/strong><\/p>\n Dribble down the court<\/em> Category: Butler Student –\u00a0Kim Van Wyk<\/strong><\/p>\n America’s dog<\/em> Category: Butler Faculty –\u00a0Kathleen Hood<\/strong><\/p>\n Devoted mascot,<\/em> Category: Butler Alumni –\u00a0Matthew Tapp<\/strong><\/p>\n You came a puppy<\/em> Category: Butler Fan\/Overall Winner –\u00a0Linda Engle<\/strong><\/p>\n Not my first Big Dance<\/em> Category: Special Mascot Submission –\u00a0Butler Blue III<\/strong><\/p>\n I look up to Blue<\/em> In honor of my retirement this year, my friends at the Butler University Bookstore decided to hold an academic contest, of sorts, with submissions coming in the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1697,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5629,52506,52574,52528],"tags":[11555,52487,8758,52579,135281,135280],"class_list":["post-1751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-campus-events","category-school-spirit","category-special-eventsopportunities","tag-bookstore","tag-butler-blue-ii","tag-butler-university","tag-contest","tag-haiku","tag-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1697"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1751"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1758,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions\/1758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Run eat play sleep then repeat<\/em>
\n always in our heart!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n Stolen hearts, broken brackets<\/em>
\n Nine years of greatness<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n Representing Butler U,<\/em>
\n Blue II will be missed!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n And through the years we have shared<\/em>
\n We all became Dawgs<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n Nine winters – still I bleed blue<\/em>
\n It’s the Butler Way<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n America’s Dog so true<\/em>
\n Big Paws to fill soon<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"