Editorial Board:

• Rachel Witzig, Coordinating Editor
• Kelci Foss, Copy Editor
• Daniel Hintzke, Copy Editor
• Abrafi Osei-Kofi, Copy Editor
• Diana Rubi, Copy Editor
• Stephanie Saey, Copy Editor
• Sophia Slocum, Copy Editor
• Riley Van Velsor, Copy Editor
• Haley Willits, Copy Editor
• Isaac Willis, Publicity Editor
• Sarah Lang, Publications Editor
• Cole Downey, Secretary and Treasurer
• Hadley Smithhisler, Assoc. Student Editor

Front Matter:

• Front Matter

Articles:

• Hume’s Pride or Our Prejudice? A New Take on Hume’s Love of Fame
  Nathan Porter, University of Utah, 2017
• Concerning Power: An Exploration of Character and Leadership in J.R.R Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
  Brittany Andrews, Crown College, 2017
• MacIntyre’s Dependent Rational Animals: A Justificatory Framework for an Impoverished Moral Culture
  Kayla Morrow, Mount Saint Mary’s University, 2017
• Addressing the Inanimate: Apostrophic Address in W.S. Graham’s “Lines on Roger Hilton’s Watch”
  Garrett Jones, University of Central Missouri, 2017
• Depression and Purpose in Life among the War-Affected Population in Syria
  Hind Allouch, Monmouth College, 2016
• The Inviability of Narrow Mental Content
  Anja Wang, Knox College, 2017
• Escapee Veiled in a Secluded Suicide: Achieving Autonomy In Lin Yutang’s Moment in Peking
  Anesce Dremen, Carthage College, 2017
• Industrious or Iniquitous?: Virtue and Vice in the Colonial South Carolina Backcountry
  Matt Bersell, Monmouth College, 2016
• The European Refugee Crisis: Nationalist Backlashes within the European Union
  Rebecca Mendelsohn, Macalester College, 2017
• The American Refugee Camp: Detention Centers in the Current Refugee Regime
  Rachel Crane, Macalester College, 2016
• The Dow: Risk and the Return Paradox
  Anthony Peterson, Coe College, 2016
• Black Lives Matter: Pain, Protest, and Representation
  Austin Hoffman, University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2015
• Evaluating the Impacts of Phragmites australis Pretreatment Methods on Biogas and Methane Production in Anaerobic Digestion
  Jacob Pelegrin, University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, 2017

Advisory Board:

• Marsha Dopheide, Ph.D.
• Judi Kessler, Ph.D.
• Anne Mamary, Ph.D.
• Blake Nielsen, Ph.D.
• Kevin Roberts, M.Ed.
• Brad Rowe, Ph.D.
• Michelle Holschuh Simmons, Ph.D.
• Tim Stiles, Ph.D.
• Fred Witzig, Ph.D.

Marie Prince, MJUR Staff Support