On the Edge has been selected as a national finalist for Best College Newspaper in the four-year, non-daily category by the Associated Collegiate Press. This is the second consecutive year that On the Edge has been chosen as a finalist in the ACP's national competition. This year, there were entries from 234 universities and colleges.

 

All finalists and prize winners this year will be honored at the ACP's National College Media Convention on October 28, 2006, in St. Louis.

 

Finalists were selected by a panel of professional journalists from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, based on excellence in the following: 

       1. Coverage and content
       2. Quality of writing and reporting
       3. Leadership on the opinion page
       4. Evidence of in-depth reporting  
       5.Layout/design
       6. Photography, art and graphics

 

Last year, On the Edge received the third-place national award in Reporting and honorable mention in Editorial Writing in the Associated Collegiate Press national competition.

 

Congratulations to the editors of the 2005-2006 On the Edge: Katjusa Cisar, Brianna Donovan, and Maisie Ramsay. Congratulations to the entire staff, and to Prof. Jack Vitek, faculty advisor to the student newspaper.

 

David Young

Chair, Student Newspaper Advisory Board