For the first time since 2003, The Bulletin was named the All-Kansas college newspaper for four year public institutions. Seven members and adviser Max McCoy attended the annual Kansas Associated of Collegiate Press on Sunday and Monday in Hutchinson, where the paper received the All-Kansas award, the top award given by the KACP, Gold Overall for its website and 21 other individual awards.

“I’m very proud of our staff this year,” said Kelsey Ryan, senior political science major and editor-in-chief of The Bulletin. “We’ve worked hard and I’m glad we’ve been recognized by KACP.”

Ryan joined The Bulletin staff during the spring semester of her freshman year and has been the editor-in-chief for the past two years. She said that despite ESU’s lack of a journalism major, the paper’s quality comes from a diverse staff and supportive adviser.

“Our staff comes from different backgrounds and majors, so each staff member brings a unique skill set that helps strengthen the paper,” Ryan said. “Having a strong advocate for adviser has also helped tremendously.”

Max McCoy, assistant professor of journalism, has been The Bulletin’s adviser for the past four years and said the paper has improved consistently each year.

“I’m very proud of all the staff, and The Bulletin leadership in particular,” McCoy said. “I’ve been lucky to have a number of talented people in key positions.”

McCoy said that over the years, each staff has had their own strengths which were reflected in the different sections of the paper.

“Looking at the judges’ comments in the overall competition, they stressed the variety of news, the solid coverage, the consistency between issue to issue and the willingness to tackle significant and in depth reporting, and I can only agree that those are the strengths of this year’s staff,” McCoy said.

McCoy said the All-Kansas is a validation of the staff’s efforts throughout the year and that a new benchmark has been set for future staffs. Whereas other areas of the competition focus on single aspects of the paper, this award is given for overall excellence of the publication.

“Journalism has taken a beating in the current economic climate,” McCoy said. “No one knows what’s going to happen to newspapers… but awards like this are particularly important for the future of journalism – it’s going to thrive in the universities.”

According to the KACP’s competition results, The Bulletin staff received awards for the following categories:

• Editorial Writing

Eric Hemphill, 3rd place, “Brownback Already Turning His Back on Education”

Eric Hemphill, HM, “Ban Bombs, Not Books”

• Single Ad Design

Juhye Bak, 2nd place, “www.esubulletin.com”

Ellen Weiss, 3rd place, “Reporters and Columnists Wanted”

• Special Section

Kelsey Ryan, Kellen Jenkins & Shane Wilson, 2nd place, “NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball Champions”

• Headline Writing

Kelsey Ryan, HM, “Yoga Mama Gets Bendy: ‘You’re as young as your spine is supple’ ”

• Infographics

Ellen Weiss, 1st place, “Red Hot Chili Peppers”

• Sports Column

Brandon Schneeberger, HM, “The Beauty of the DII Athlete”

• Review Writing

Steven Stanek, 1st place, “Choo-Choo!”

• Series Writing

Kenzie Templeton, HM, “‘Pot’ Culture”

• Sports Photography

Kellen Jenkins, 1st place, “Hornets hang on for late win”

Kellen Jenkins, HM, “Women loose to Gorillas”

• Feature Photography

Kellen Jenkins, 3rd place, “A Look Through the Lens”

Megan Gartner, HM, “All in the Family”

• Illustration

Ellen Weiss, 1st place, “Student use online dating to find <3”

• Columns

Eric Hemphill, 2nd place, “Kansas Arts in Trouble”

Eric Hemphill, HM, “Literary Censorship: The Comeback Kid?”

Kelsey Ryan, 3rd, “No News Not Always Good News”

• Cartoons

Ellen Weiss, 1st place, “Brownback Already Turning His Back on Education”

Ellen Weiss, HM, “Ban Bombs, Not Books”

• Individual Online Newspaper

Kellen Jenkins, 2nd place

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Faculty Senate met Tuesday afternoon to discuss student retention and administrative reviews.

Associate Provost for Enrollment Management Jim Williams said he was pleased with the progress the university has made with retention and that there had been a 5 percent improvement since initial efforts had begun with the long-term goal of 80 percent retention by 2020.

Administrative reviews were also discussed and have been postponed this year. Joella Mehrhof, Faculty Senate president, said that the procedures for the review need attention and that it will be postponed until the procedures can be fixed.

Max McCoy, Assistant Professor of Journalism, was a new member of the senate joining his first meeting Tuesday. Assistant Professor in the Health and Physical Education department Paul Luebbers is the new Campus Governance chair.

Dwight Moore, professor of Biological Sciences, brought to the table a fundraiser for the United Way, which involves a change drive to give a student orfaculty member a pie in the face.

The next faculty senate meeting is Oct. 19.

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The experiences of three local World War II veterans were brought to life on Nov. 5 at the World War II Roundtable meeting. The oral histories of James T. Stolfus, Dwight L. Spencer and Donald C. Coldsmith were read by Loren Pennington, emeritus professor of history, Christopher Lovett, professor of history and Max McCoy, assistant professor of English, modern languages and journalism, respectively.

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“We expected to have all three men on the program, but we ended up with none of them on because Don Coldsmith died, and both Spencer and Stolfus are not in good enough physical shape to be on the program,” Lovett said.

All three men were fifth class technicians in the war, which Pennington said meant that they were in-effect corporals. Stolfus was a local school superintendent, Spencer was a professor of biology at Emporia State and Coldsmith was a local doctor. The men were a part of an oral history project that was meant to include interviews of all living WWII veterans in America, and 52 veterans that were connected with Lyon County were interviewed as a part of the project.

The meeting was the roundtable’s second of the year, the first was a presentation of the film “Triumph of the Will”, on Oct. 22. The film was in conjunction with this semester’s theme of Adolf Hitler and the rise of Nazism.

Sophomore history major Britten Kuckleman said the video was interesting because it showed a different view of Hitler than we as Americans are used to.

“We obviously have a bias towards him and we’re seeing something that actually portrayed Hitler as a savior, so it was a really cool view point,” Kuckleman said.

Senior history major Tiffany Humiston said she has been to about four of the roundtable meetings. She said she likes them because most of the meetings have a tie to Kansas and she thinks it is important to get the stories of the veterans.

“It’s a huge part of not only U.S. history, but world history,” Humiston said. “I mean it encompassed the entire world, hence the name. I just think it’s something that especially our generation, I think we need to learn about it and appreciate what the old generations did for us.”

Pennington said the WWII Roundtable has been going on for six years. There were originally four meetings a year, but now they have cut back to two. He said the main goals of the meetings are to talk about the war in macrocosm and microcosm.

“To talk about the war in macrocosm, we usually bring in some outside speaker for that general idea,” Pennington said. “To speak about it in microcosm, we’ve done more and more to look at the war through the eyes of the ordinary soldier or the ordinary serviceman.”

Humiston said she thinks it is important for people to come to the roundtable meetings even if they think it’s going to be boring because they can learn something from it.

“It’s only an hour and a half or two hours out of your life and you get to come out and hear their story,” Humiston said. “They went through so much and I think it’s important that somebody hears their story.”

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