The Ithacan newspaper has been named a gold medalist for the fall 2007 and spring 2008 semesters in the Columbia Scholastic Press Association's annual college newspaper critique.

Each year the CSPA evaluates member papers on overall content, news, depth reporting, features, opinion/editorial, sports, arts/entertainment, editing/headline writing, and design/graphics on the basis of more than 150 specific criteria.

This year the newspaper's scores on the critique's 1,000-point scale were 948 for fall and 948 for spring.

The CSPA consistently ranks the Ithacan as a gold medalist, its highest category.