Daily Staff Writer

Three Iowa State students and two faculty members were honored by the Committee on the State of Iowa State University.

The five have been named Don Biggs Constructive Critics of the Year, and the awards will be presented Tuesday, May 5, at noon at St. John’s Episcopal Church and Student Center.

The Committee on the State of Iowa State was established in 1988 to encourage “a broad-based, high quality academic program at Iowa State” and to stimulate “constructive, robust dialogue on campus.” The Don Biggs Constructive Critics of the Year Award was named after the late Don Biggs, a co-founder of the committee and a geology professor at Iowa State.

The faculty members awarded are Suzanne Hendrich, professor of food science and human nutrition, and Bryan Cain, professor of mathematics. Hendrich was honored for “opposing the privatization of the university and for her defense of diversity.”

Cain was cited for his “concerns about faculty welfare and attempts to curb administrative infringement on faculty rights.”

Students honored were Meron Woodwosen, senior in political science and French, Allan Nosworthy, graduate student in English, and Brian Johnson, senior in English and philosophy. All are members of The September 29 Movement, a group advocating more implementation of diversity and multi-culturalism on campus. One of their proposed measures was the renaming of Catt Hall.