A screening of Bell's film on Friday took the audience on a journey through tattoo parlors, living rooms of illegal tattooings and laser surgeries. After close-ups of biceps rippled in skulls and girlfriends' names, the film ended with Bell's decision, leaving half of the audience shuddering and the other half -including the Hoopes sub-committee--cheering.

The 2000 Hoopes Prize winners are:

Nisha S. Agarwal, David W. Foster, Katherine H. Sigelman and Robin Wasserman, of Adams House; Thalia Chantziara, Benjamin S. Edelson, Daniel M. Loss, Jacob A. Lurie, Garrett B. Moritz, Patricia L. Santos and Flora Zhang, of Cabot House; Han Ping Davin Chor, Matthew S. Povich, Aziz F. Rana and Gregory M. Sulkowski, of Currier House; Nora F. Lehmann, Rebecca Reider and Nitzan Shoshan, of Dudley House; Rodrigo A. Cruz, Sara M. Jablon, Joseph C. Krupnick and James L. Young, of Dunster House; John W. Baxindine, Randolph A.G. Bell, Jacqlynn Duquette, Daniel J. Hopkins and Margot L. Minardi, of Eliot House; Stephanie N. Ajudua, Paul C. Dilley, Ilana Kurshan, Linus Lee, Oliver M. Lewis, Ceen-Yenn Cynthia Lin and Emily B. Wong, of Kirkland House; Eliza C. Block, David L. Edeli, Jarasa Mangkorn Kanok, Siddharth Mohandas, Jennifer M. Stager, Daniel M. Sussner and Laura Winthrop, of Leverett House; Jacob F. Lentz, Caitrin E. Moran, Mary W.D. Nicklin, Mathhew T. Ozug, Emma F. Phillips, Benjamin A. Railton and James S.F. Wilson, of Lowell House; Arif N. Nathoo, Nicholas R. Parrillo, Erwin R. Rosinberg and Derek D. Smith, of Mather House; Nadarajan Chetty, Tricia M. Michels and Hannah K.R. Weiss, of Pforzheimer House; Julie M. Lau, Nora B. Morrison, Jason D. North, Dasa Pejchar, Samuel P. Tepperman-Gelfant and Griffin M. Weber, of Quincy House; and Michael R. Grunwald, Jamie L. Jones and Galit A. Sarfaty of Winthrop House.

Honorable mentions went to Erko N. Kiprilov of Eliot House, David Roddenberry of Dunster House and Beini Zhou of Leverett House.