IU Student Media pick up several awards at New York conference

Representatives of IU Student Media traveled to New York City during spring break to take part in the College Media Advisers Spring National Convention. At the awards presentation concluding the conference, IU Student Media received five major awards.\nThe College Media Advisers awarded the Apple Award for yearbooks with more than 304 pages to the 2006 Arbutus yearbook. The Indiana Daily Student’s March 2 paper, which highlighted Michael McRobbie’s promotion to president, was given the Apple Award for four-year daily broadsheet newspaper. Of the more than 100 colleges and universities represented at the conference, only one publication was chosen as best-in-show for each of the 12 categories.\nDuring the ceremony, the Columbia Scholastic Press Association awarded the IDS two Gold Crown awards, one for spring semester 2006 and one for fall semester 2005. The Arbutus also received a Gold Crown for the 2006 book. More than 1,800 college newspapers, magazines and yearbooks published during the 2005-2006 academic school year were eligible for the awards. Only four other yearbooks and two other newspapers received the Gold Crown.\nIndividual awards were also given in visual and verbal categories by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association to 26 IDS and Arbutus staff members.