were also judged on honors,
awards, the difficulty of their col-
lege course work and their abil-
ity to express themselves in
writing.
"I have never won anything of
this size," said Mr. Chudler, a
West Bloomfield resident and
avid fiction writer. "The good
thing about this was the oppor-
tunity it gave me to meet 19 oth-
er like-minded people. We are
the type of people who see some-
thing missing and fill the void.
"What makes me do what I
do? I cannot answer that. We all
talked about it and everyone
feels the same way. The only an-
swer I can think of is, how can I
not?"
Mr. Chudler, who spent the
entire weekend in Washington,
went to the nation's capital with
his father Gerald and his acade-
mic adviser. His mother Brenda
did not make the trip.

Jonathan Chudler
was selected from
1,231 applicants.

Mr. Chudler, who filled out a

USA Today application last fall

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while he was applying to law
school, was selected from a field
of 1,231 applicants from colleges
throughout the country.
Now, the English major may
use some of his $2,500 cash prize
to visit some of the six law
schools to which he has applied.
Although he is already accepted
to Harvard and Stanford, Mr.
Chudler still awaits a response
from Yale, Michigan, North-
western and Cornell.
One of the things the MSU
senior had to send in with his
USA Today application was an
essay on his involvement with
Unity.
It is an organization he start-
ed to resolve racial and other con-
flicts in the Lansing and East
Lansing area.
The idea behind the organi-
zation, comprised of Mr. Chudler
and two other students, is to
build bridges between different
communities. "Unity works as
the facilitator, bringing groups
together and then letting them
decide the agenda," Mr. Chudler
said. "If a pro-choice and pro-life
group wanted to do something
together we°would help orches-
trate it.
"The two groups we've been
working closely with are the
black and Jewish student
groups. Our hope for Unity is to
make the organization obsolete
because groups should eventu-
ally contact each other without
Unity's help."
This summer, Mr. Chudler
and another award recipient
from Detroit plan to work on a
bridge-building project between
the city and its suburbs. ❑

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