![Last year’s “Why Humanities?” competition winner, Rima Asfour (centre), accepts congratulations from UWindsor provost Douglas Kneale and Humanities Research Group director Kim Nelson.](http://www.uwindsor.ca/dailynews/sites/uwindsor.ca.dailynews/files/styles/full/public/900_dkneale-rimaasfour-knelson_0.jpg?itok=1Ua84-Ge)
Oct 9th, 2019
Contest offers cash for defending the value of the humanities.
Contest offers cash for defending the value of the humanities.
Political science student Rima Asfour won the “Why Humanities?” competition with an impassioned poem inspired by a horrific terrorist attack.
A video sharing his perspective on the humanities won a semester’s tuition for its creator, first-year business student Cameron Badour.
Badour beat out seven other finalists in the Why Humanities? competition, UWindsor president Alan Wildeman announced Friday at a pizza party wrap-up to Humanities Week.