The Baldwin awards for excellence in student filmmaking were held March 26: Man of the Year, a stop-motion film written and directed by Kevin Nihill ’11 about a young man and his inflatable doll gone-bad, won Best Picture. • The communication department’s Leonard Persuasive Speaking contest took place April 13: Valerie Bell ’12, advanced the pros of offshore drilling and brought home the $800 first prize. • The topic of the 118th annual Fulton Prize debate, held April 14, was “Resolved: The Second Amendment should be incorporated against the states by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.” The negative side argued that striking down gun laws would increase gun violence and won by a 3–0 decision. Brendan Benedict ’12 garnered the Fulton Medal. • And the first prize of $10,000 in seed money at the Boston College Venture Competition April 15 went to PIQC, a search engine specializing in highly complex queries developed by David Tolioupov ’10 and Shahbano Imran ’09.

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