[418]STUDENT-LED ‘COLLAGE’ PUBLICATION BRINGS HOME SILVER, AGAIN

Release date: April 22, 2008


News & Public Affairs contact: Randy Weiler, 615-898-2919
Collage/Honors College contact: Marsha Powers, 615-898-5759


STUDENT-LED ‘COLLAGE’ PUBLICATION BRINGS HOME SILVER, AGAIN

(MURFREESBORO) — “Collage: A Journal of Creative Expression,” MTSU’s student literary and arts publication, was awarded its second Silver Crown Award in two years at the annual College Media Convention.
The award ceremony, held March 16 in the Westside Ballroom of the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City, honors outstanding college publications nationwide. Together, the fall 2006 and spring 2007 issues of “Collage'” received one of 31 awards out of 1,355 submissions.
Only 13 publications were awarded the highest honor, the Gold Crown, and 18 collegiate publications received the Silver Crown Award, the Columbia Scholastic Press Association’s second-highest award. “Collage'” adviser Marsha Powers and the editor of the fall 2006 issue, Travesty Vasquez-Terry, accepted the award. Talia Cunetto was editor of the spring 2007 issue.
“As editor of the fall 2006 edition of ‘Collage,’ I experienced so many emotions and successes, but none compare to the gratification of knowing that all the hard work, hours of dedication, and sleepless nights all count for something, and that someone thinks that all of that work is worthy of an award as prestigious as the Silver Crown Award,” Vasquez-Terry said.
The award ceremony was held by the CSPA, an international press organization founded by Columbia University in 1925. The CSPA unites student journalists and faculty advisers through award programs, educational conferences, textbooks and idea exchanges.
“We are extremely pleased and proud of our staff and faculty, and especially our many fine students who have contributed to the success of ‘Collage,’” said Dr. Scott Carnicom, associate dean of the University Honors College. “It is a labor of love, and to be counted among the nation's finest literary and arts magazines is truly an honor.”
While “Collage'” is a publication of the Honors College, its content represents the student body as a whole, and all MTSU students are encouraged to submit their creative works to the biannual publication.
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Brett McIntosh, a senior majoring in journalism (newspaper/magazine concentration), wrote this story. He also is prose editor for the spring 2008 "Collage.''