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Snieder named to USA Today academic team
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Feb 17, 2005
Mick Snieder, a junior political science and economics major at Northwestern College and a member of Orange City’s City Council, was named an honorable mention winner in USA Today’s All-USA College Academic Team competition on Feb. 17. He is among 24 students to receive honorable mention and a total of 84 to be recognized out of 602 nominees.
An Orange City native, Snieder is the only Iowa college student to be honored in this year’s competition. Among colleges that are members of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities, only one other student was selected.
Snieder carries a cumulative grade point average of 3.8 while serving as chair of Northwestern’s College Republicans and treasurer of the Student Government Association. An executive board member of the Iowa Federation of College Republicans, he has been an active volunteer in campaigns for state and national offices.
In November 2003, Snieder had the second-highest vote total in a six-man race for three seats on the city council. A city-wide door-to-door campaign, a Web site and efforts to encourage young people to vote were among the factors that led to his success.
“Mick possesses an increasingly rare combination for many who serve in public life: intellectual rigor and curiosity as well as political ambition,” says his faculty adviser, Dr. Jeff VanDerWerff, assistant professor of political science. “Many students who are political activists tend to be less committed to their academic pursuits or, at best, see them as simply a means to an end. Mick allows his studies to inform his politics in meaningful ways.”
In the summer of 2003, Snieder interned in Washington with U.S. Rep. Steve King. Snieder envisions a future in politics, working in lobbying or on staff at the state or national level.
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