News & Media

April 5, 2005

April 5, 2005, Greencastle, Ind. - Student journalists and creative writers at DePauw University collected a total of thirteen honors at the 2005 Indiana Collegiate Press Association Awards, which took place over the weekend at the ICPA's spring convention at Indiana University in Bloomington. The DePauw, Indiana's oldest college newspaper, won six first place awards, and two each for second and third place. The literary magazine, A Midwestern Review, received one first place award, and two third place citations.

The DePauw:

• First Place - Best Stand-alone/Pullout Section: Staff, "Monon, 2004" (Judge's comment: "Such a clean tab. You didn't overdo anything and by extension, really hit a home run. Professional quality.")
• First Place - Best Non-Deadline News Reporting: Kate Holloway,  "Fake IDs Abound On and Off Campus"
• First Place - Best Staff Editorial: Editorial Board, "Diversity an Issue for Everyone"
• First Place - Best Sports Feature Story: Mike Morris, "A Good Thing"
• First Place - Best News or Feature Series: Ashley Baxstrom, Pam Munch, Kelly Wilson and Rebeca Martinez, "Who Are We? Diversity at DePauw"
• First Place - Best Feature Photo: Lindsay Morris, "Pipes Get Campus Hip-Hopping"
• Second Place - Best Investigative Story: Summer Black, "Racial Slurs Shake Community"
• Second Place - Best Photo Essay or Picture Story: Lindsay Morris, Adam Ratner, Kenney McConnaughey and Adam McClean, "Pride: Monon Bell Game"
• Third Place - Division II (non-daily papers at schools with enrollments of 2,000 or more full-time students) Newspaper of the Year
• Third Place - Best Front Page Design: Adam McClean, Lindsay Morris, Jeff Fulcher and Sarah Preuschl, "Who Are We? Diversity at DePauw"

A Midwestern Review:

• First Place - Best Short Story: Blake Royer, "Stories in Winter" (Judge's comment: "This story of remembrance was beautifully written about the author's childhood friend and the impact of that relationship. The last paragraph was particularly poignant -- and true. This short story would be appropriate in the New Yorker because of its blend of sophistication and innocence."
• Third Place - Best Single Issue: Staff, Fall 2004
• Third Place - Best Short Poem: Catherine Calabro, "Cowboy Speak"

Founded in 1852 as Asbury Notes, The DePauw has a rich tradition of being the springboard for the careers of many of America's great journalists. Alumni of the student newspaper include "business journalist of the century" Bernard Kilgore (photo at right) and Kenneth C. Hogate of the Wall Street Journal; Eugene C. and Eugene S. Pulliam of the Indianapolis Star and Central Newspapers chain; Donald Maxwell, former editor of the Chicago Tribune; Robert Giles, curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University and former editor of the Detroit News; John McWethy, ABC News Senior Pentagon Correspondent; and James B. Stewart, Pulitzer Prize-winning former front page editor of the Wall Street Journal, and author of the current bestseller, DisneyWar. The paper -- which is completely independent, and staffed and managed entirely by students -- celebrated its 150th anniversary three years ago today (read more here). Visit The DePauw online here.

A Midwestern Review is a semi-annual literary magazine of university arts and issues with a long history of publishing a wide range of superior student and faculty work several times each year. Learn more by clicking here.