Competing with both two- and four-year colleges, San Antonio College’s student newspaper “The Ranger”won First Place for Best All-Around Non-Daily Student Newspaper in Texas and Oklahoma in the annual Mark of Excellence Awards competition held by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and will advance to national competition.  Texas State University and Rice University came in second and third places, respectively.

      “We are particularly proud of recognition from SPJ because the non-daily newspaper categories include both two-year and four-year colleges,” said Marianne Odom, Professor and Chair of the Journalism-Photography Department.
 
      Student editors of “The Ranger”during the contest period were Julian Aguilar and Joyce Flores.  In addition, TheRanger.org (at http://www.theranger.org) won Third Place in the Best Affiliated Web Site category, and the magazine “The Fourth Write” won Second Place in the Best Student Magazine category.
 
      Students who won individual awards included Regis L. Roberts (Second Place) for feature writing, Julio Borjon, Jon Coker and Justin Gomez (Third Place) for editorial cartooning, D.A. James (Third Place) for breaking news photography, and Alberto Dekampo (Second Place) and Bridgette Sturts (Third Place) for feature photography.  Faculty advisors are Instructor Irene Abrego, Chairperson and Instructor Marianne Odom, Instructors Susan Merkner and Edmund Lo, and Laboratory Technician Tricia Buchhorn.

For more information, contact Marianne Odom at 733-2870.