The Ithacan has been honored with the prestigious National Newspaper Pacemaker Award, which recognizes "general excellence and outstanding achievement." Entered in the category of non-daily newspapers at four-year colleges, the paper received the award at the National College Media Convention in Washington, D.C., on November 4. This is the third consecutive year the Ithacan has been a finalist for the award, the second time in three years it has won.
In addition, during the convention Jeff Selingo '95 and Marnie Eisenstadt '97 received honorable mention in the news category of the Los Angeles Times/Associated College Press story of the year competition. They were recognized for their story "When Words Collide," which appeared in the November 3, 1994, issue of the Ithacan. That story had already won first place in an in-depth news/feature story competition sponsored by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association and third place in a regional competition conducted by the Society of Professional Journalists.
Ithaca College Television programs took first place in 4 of 10 program categories at the National Association of College Broadcasters Fifth Annual National Student TV Awards, announced November 18 in Providence, Rhode Island. Receiving the top awards were The Creature Chronicle, produced by Paula Maguire '95 and Russell Tucker '97, experimental/animation category; The News Tonight (news directors Matt Gaffney '96 and David Frick '95), newscast category; Broken Families, produced by David Muir '95, news/sports report category; and Semesters, volume four, episode one, produced by Heber Sambucetti '95 and Brett Winn '95, drama category. A fifth program, The Heroes We Grew Up With, produced as a project by Marshall Mattie '95 and Tim Tunison '96, received honorable mention as a finalist in the documentary category.
Cynthia Baughman, assistant professor of cinema and photography, has been awarded a residency at the Ragdale Foundation, an internationally acclaimed artists community in Lake Forest, Illinois.
In the spring of 1995 three students from the class of 1996 attending the Los Angeles communications program --- Chris Hyssong, Dave Smith, and Kate Harrington --- were interns on the feature film Dorothy Day. The students worked for over eight weeks as production assistants alongside Hollywood professionals for the independent film, which was produced by Peter Burrell '68. The movie is the story of a newspaper reporter who championed the poor and oppressed. It stars Martin Sheen and Moira Kelly and was shot on the Paramount lot and in various locations around Los Angeles.
The graduate program in communications marks its 20th anniversary this year. Helping to kick off the celebration was David Berlo, noted author, teacher, and pioneer in the field. After 35 years his classic book, The Process of Communication, is still in print in seven languages, and he continues to develop the relationship between theory and practice in organizations.
On October 26 Berlo gave a keynote address, "Organizational Communication: Its Origins and Future Directions in Shaping the Workplace," in Park Hall Auditorium. Tom Bohn, dean of communications, and Mary Lee Seibert, dean of graduate studies, gave welcoming remarks after being introduced by Sandra L. Herndon, chair of graduate studies in communications. Honored were professors emeriti Ron Nicoson, the founder of the graduate program, and Palmer Dyer, one of its major developers.
Under this agreement a number of communications majors from NTU may spend a semester on the Ithaca College campus while Ithaca communications majors may choose to spend a semester on the NTU campus. Several NTU students applied for the 1996 spring semester at Ithaca.
The communication majors offered by both schools are compatible. The exchange program will provide opportunities for students to learn about the various societies and cultures and to study the impact of the flow of information between nations in this region and those around the world. Furthermore, it will provide opportunities to students of both schools to explore new horizons and learn from each other.
Professor John Keshishoglou, who is spending the academic year
at NTU's School of Communication Studies, facilitated the development
of the exchange program. He strongly urges students to choose
international communications as an area of concentration or as
a minor and to seriously consider spending a semester at NTU.
Having lived and worked in 27 different countries on four continents,
Keshishoglou says that Singapore is a fascinating island city/state.