EDUCATION : Colleges : 2 Student Newspapers Win Awards at State Conference
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Two area colleges have won high marks for their student newspapers.
A special edition on the outbreak of the Persian Gulf War helped the Long Beach City College Viking win first place in general excellence at the recent annual state conference of the Journalism Assn. of Community Colleges, a group of about 80 community colleges in California and Arizona.
Contest judges also praised the paper’s overall coverage of campus news and politics. Five staff members won individual honors.
Four staff members of Rio Hondo College’s El Paisano newspaper also won prizes in the same competition. El Paisano ranked fourth in the state in its newspaper category. Its front-page design won a fifth-place prize.
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