Our Voice

The competition was fierce, but The Colonnade came prepared to battle to the death. Okay, so maybe a fight to the death is a bit of a stretch.

The truth is that every year The Colonnade enters a state-wide competition against many of the finest college newspapers in the state. The competition, Georgia College Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest, was held in Athens this past weekend.

Anxiously, ten Colonnade staffers awaited the unveiling of the awards.

And, for the fourth straight year The Colonnade walked away with the grandest of awards, the coveted General Excellence Award.

For General Excellence, (and all general categories) we compete against other four-year schools with 8,000 or less students.

Oh, by the way, The Colonnade also placed first or second in six other categories.

We came in first place in Campus Community Service for Sports, Campus Community Service for Editorial Excellence, General Photography and General Advertising. We also grabbed second place for Campus Community Service in Features and for Layout and Design.

Colonnade staffers also grabbed four individual awards.

In the individual categories, The Colonnade competes against all four-year schools in the state, even much larger schools such as Georgia Tech and Georgia State.

Former photo editor Erin Gish earned two individual awards highlighted by first place in the Best Photo Essay category. The senior also placed second in the Best Features or Editorial Photo category.

Fellow senior photographer Ross Couch also won an individual award, placing second in Best Sports Photo.

Finally, Editor in Chief Corey Dickstein placed first for his article entitled, “NIU shootings prompt GCSU Connect-Ed signups to rise.”

The Colonnade wants to thank all of its contributors. The awards are excellent recognition of an extremely hardworking staff.

We would also like to thank all of the businesses and individuals who advertise with us. Without you we could not begin to afford to do the things we do to earn such high recognition.

We also want to say thank you to the administration. Without your constant help we would not be able to provide students, faculty and staff with the information necessary to provide as professional a publication as possible.

Finally, we would like to thank our readers. You are the most important part of this publication. If it was not for you, we would be doing a whole lot of work for, well, nothing. We hope you continue to pick up The Colonnade every week.

Thank you very much GCSU.

Posted by Colonnade Archives on Feb 13 2009. Filed under Our Voice. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry