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Show Page The Dixie Sun 2 April 2, 199ft 1 Campus Info The Sun takes 13 awards home from convention BY LOREN WEBB DXIE SUN ADVISOR The Sun, Dixie College's student newspaper, won 13 awards at the Rocky Mountain Collegiate Media Association (RMCMA) 72nd annual conference in Colorado Springs, Colo. Despite a quirk in competition rules that placed Dixie in comcolpetition with large, two-yeleges, Dixie took three, first place awards, including best sports photo, best editorial writing and best critical review at the RMCMA awards banquet on ar March 23. Former Sun Editor Fred Moesinger was Dixie's biggest individual winner, collecting five awards, including first place for sports photo, first place for editorial writing, third place for headline writing and two honorable mention awards for typography, design and layout, and for special sectionsupplement. Editor Opinion Holly Braithwaite also garnered a first place award in the critical review category. Receiving two awards was former Sun Production and Advertising Manager David West who received a third place award for ad campaign and an honorable mention in the single ad category. Former staff artist Nathan Baertsch also took two third place awards, including news illustration graphic, and editorial cartoon. Staff Photo Editor Tyler Thorsted won two second place awards in the feature story and CLUB OF THE QUARTER photo story categories. Dixie College Yearbook staff photographer Robin Cahoon also won a second place award for a photo story published in The Sun. Staff writer Lisa Perry, who is also station manager of Dixie College's KRDC radio station, also won an honorable mention award for her radio broadcast of a live competition debate centermatering on "sexually-oriente- d ial on the Internet: legal restrictions versus unrestricted access." The debate featured restriction advocates Donna Enough is Enough, Fairfax, Va.; Janet LaRue, senior counsel for the National Law Center for Children & Families in Santa Ana, Calif.; while arguing against Internet restrictions was James Joy, executive director, Colorado American Civil Liberties Union, and professor James McCluskey, School of Mass and Journalism Communications, University of Oklahoma. The Rocky Mountain Collegiate Media Association consists of two-yeand four year schools in a region. Newspapers compete in one of four divisions: large four-yeschools, small four-yeschools, schools and small large two-yetwo-yeschools. The distinction between large and small schools is based on e enrollment. Thorsted, Moesinger, Braithwaite, Perry, and advisor Loren Webb attended the three-da- y convention. s, ar te ar ar ar ar full-tim- The club was voted the club of the quarter by the ICC last Thursday. They have done many fundraisers and have a lot of neat ideas including the Valentines sundae bar last quarter. Offered for the first time at Dixie College... Job skills program for students By KATHY HAMBY THE DIXIE SUN Job Skills is new at Dixie It is a program where a student can come to the Academic Center the (in Browning Building) and work through modules to bring their skills up to a higher level. Students can qualify for Job Skills if they a) qualify for a Pell Grant; b) are from a family where neither parent received a college degree before the student was eighteen; or c) student has a learning disability. If you have been in a resource program during your school years, we can help you make the transition to college. Businesses can finance the use of this program to help employees gain skills. Students use it free, unless they are using it for credit. There are variable credits available. College! 1- Evans Hairstyling College Have You Tried Us Yet? 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There are modules on stress management, goal setting, job interview skills, skills to please an employer, and more! The modules are video, cassette, and computer assisted. If you are in any Vocational class, and you are having trouble, come and see what is available. If you are home, and have considered returning to school, yet worry about low skills, come and see what we can do for you! If you are a senior in high school, and you think you will qualify, contact Kathy Flamby. The program coordinator went through Dixie College beginning with very low skills. You, as the student, will be treated with compassion and understanding by someone who has "Been There". Contact Kathy Hamby at Browning Building, room 8 110. Kathy Hamby is a guest writer for The Dixie Sun. Total Exposure Tanning Why Not? We Change Our Lamps twice a Year. Oct. & April Open 6am - 7pm 955 E. Tabernacle 628-901- 3 |
