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Student Newspaper Staff Receives Awards, Holds Anniversary Ceremony

MARCH 31, 2006--The Student Voice, the student-run newspaper at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, was recognized for its quality at the Associated Collegiate Press Best of the Midwest College Newspaper Convention in February.

Award winners will be recognized at a Student Voice 90th anniversary banquet on May 6.

Jennie Oemig ,a senior journalism major from Cornell and the Etcetera editor for the Student Voice, won second place in news writing. Helen Clarke, a senior journalism major from Woodbury, Minn., and assistant editor, received an honorable mention in news writing. Jen Dolen, a senior art major from Shoreview, Minn., and photo editor, received an honorable mention in news photography. The newspaper as a whole received an honorable mention in the "Best of Show" category for broadsheets published at four-year colleges.

Advisor to the Student Voice is Andris Straumanis, assistant professor of journalism. In celebration of the student newspaper’s 90th anniversary, current staffers, alumni and journalism department faculty invite Voice alumni back to campus for an awards ceremony, dinner and program on May 6.

The student awards ceremony is at 5 p.m., followed by a social hour at 6:15 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m., and a program at 8 p.m. Cost is $25 for alumni, and reservations are requested by April 24. For more information visit www.uwrf.edu/voice90.

The ACP is the oldest and largest national membership organization for college student journalists. Since 1921, ACP has offered members resources to help improve its publications, such as newspapers, yearbooks, magazines, broadcast programs and online publications.

ACP operates as a division of the National Scholastic Press Association, a nonprofit organization that provides many benefits to high school publications.

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