The 2008 Campus Activities® Magazine Readers’ Choice National Campus Entertainment Awards recorded the largest vote in the industry’s history. The final tally was 12,216 votes, more than SIX times that of 2006 and nearly 2,000 more votes than 2007. The surge in voting came from the convenience of students being able to vote online. Online voting began in 2007 and this year the system was coordinated with vote verification by email address.

The trend toward LIVE NOVELTY continued for 2008, but all categories experienced increases in buyer participation. Legendary Small Venue performer, Jason LeVasseur was nosed out by less than ten votes by Sean McConnell. Only 20 votes separated Best Music Performance winner Recycled Percussion from second place winner

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Former NBA All-star Jamal Mashburn has worked his way through life using the lessons instilled in him by his mother at a young age as a boy growing up in Harlem. A self-made man, Jamal is a gifted athlete, an insightful entrepreneur, a dedicated husband and father, and an incredibly motivating speaker.

With a successful 12-season NBA career, Jamal retired with an impressive 19.1 points per game average and is the third youngest player to ever score 50 or more points in a single game. He was selected 4th overall by

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Jason Hawes is one half of the duo on Sci-Fi Channel’s break out hit, “Ghost Hunters.” Campus Activities® Magazine had the chance to sit down with Jason shortly before Halloween for an exclusive interview.

For those not familiar with the show, “Ghost Hunters” has been one of Sci-Fi Channel’s highest rated programs and is now in its fourth season with over 60 episodes produced.

Before the show met with its success, T.A.P.S. or The Atlantic Paranormal Society, founded by Jason and soon joined by his partner Grant Wilson in the early 1990’s, was already in full swing. And, as a significant part of their work, the pair was already making appearances on many college campuses. “Long before the show, we were speaking at colleges all over the place,” Jason relates.

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