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Bart Bixenstine, a 1971 graduate of �鶹ӰԺ’s Honors College and the recipient of the 2019 Distinguished Honors Alumni Award,

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says that the connections he has made at �鶹ӰԺ State continue to help him today, as he has run into and worked with people who also attended �鶹ӰԺ State over the years. Bixenstine also enjoys the opportunity to periodically teach a course at �鶹ӰԺ State on the First Amendment, for which he jokes that he “shamelessly plagiarize[s] the approach taken by” his professor at the University of Chicago Law School.
 

His connections at �鶹ӰԺ State have also brought some “neutral work” in law. When asked how his education at �鶹ӰԺ has helped him give back to the community, Bixenstine says that it is “a matter of appreciating what �鶹ӰԺ does.” He says that it takes time and distance to reflect on one’s life and what has made a difference, and he realized that �鶹ӰԺ State has had an impact on him. He told students in his Distinguished Honors Alumni Award acceptance speech at the Senior Honors Luncheon that �鶹ӰԺ State and the Honors College as they are today is even better than what they were for him, and that he hopes students may complete their education and are able “to achieve the goals the Honors College has given you.”