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Index and Detours
win national awards
The Index newspaper
and Detours,
a travel magazine, won best in show
awards
at the College Media Advisers
annual spring convention in New York
City. This is the fourth time in five years
the Index has received
this honor, beating
out newspapers from across the country.
Judges looked at various criteria when
determining the winner
including news
judgment, journalistic quality, quality of
writing, variety and diversity of news,
photography and layout and
design. This
is the second consecutive year that
Detours, Truman’s regional travel
magazine, has won the Apple Award
in
the general interest category. The
competition
pitted the publication against
more than 30 student publications
from
across the United States, including
colleges of
every size.
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Four students receive
Summer Research Grants
Allison Schlobohm, senior with a double
major in
Communication and English, was
one of four students from the
Division of
Language and Literature to earn a
Summer Research Grant. Alongside Gina
Cook and Emily Murdock in
English,
and Jessica Gasch (news editor for the
Index) in Linguistics, Ms. Schlobohm will
receive two-thousand
dollars to begin
original, archival research. Ms.
Schlobohm's
innovative project will
engage educational resources designed
by international health agencies to combat
the spread of
HIV/AIDS in African nations.
Ms. Schlobohm plans to use the
summer
for archival research at
John Hopkins
University. Under the
tutelage of Assistant Professor Leslie A.
Hahner, Ms. Schlobohm will culminate her
research with a
scholarly essay and a
presentation at the 2008 Student
Research Conference.
Becker and Reininger named
Top Editing Prospects
Junior Nathan Becker from Pacific, Mo.,
and senior Alan Reininger from
Wentzville, Mo., competed
in the annual
copy-editing internship sponsored by the
Dow Jones Newspaper fund. The fund
named them as top editing
prospects for
internships during the summer of 2007.
Spring 2007 Intern
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Index Named Best in State at Missouri
College Media Association Conference
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Student Media Leaders Selected for
Upcoming Academic Year
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Truman Broadcasters Win Awards at MBEA
Convention
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Students Win Five First-Place Awards in
SPJ Competition
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Debaters Reach "Sweet 16" at Nationals,
Rank 8th Nationally for Season
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Index Wins Apple Award for Best Non-
Daily Newspaper
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Detours Wins Apple Award for Best
Collegiate General Interest Magazine
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Communication Scholarships
Available
You can apply or donate money to the Foundation Scholarship program online.
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