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COMMUNICATION STUDENTS WIN AWARDS AT CAROLINAS CONVENTION

Two College of Charleston communication majors won first and second place in the 2007 Carolinas Communication Association's prestigious Mary E. Jarrard Undergraduate Paper Award competition.

The Jarrard Award winners were named at the Annual Convention of the Carolinas Communication Association was held Sept. 27-29, 2007, in Boone, NC.

Kathryn A. DuRant won first place honors for a paper she wrote for Dr. Celeste Lacroix's Media Criticism class. Her paper was titled "Ugly Betty/Ugly Stereotypes: An Image Analysis of the Latino in American Media."

Matthew McClellan took second place with a paper titled "Cultural Criticism of the Motion Picture Crash," which was written for Dr. Robert Westerfelhaus' Media Criticism class.

"Only the most highly motivated undergraduate students present academic conference papers," said Brian McGee, Chair of the Department of Communication. "My faculty colleagues and I congratulate Kathryn and Matthew for their achievements."

Two other College of Charleston communication students, Bonnie Gerlaugh and Mary Catherine Kennedy, also presented undergraduate papers at the Carolinas Communication Association Convention.

This year, Dr. Lacroix served as CCA's president. Though she stepped down from that office at the conclusion of the conference, she will continue to serve on the association's board in her new capacity as immediate past president.

Also attending this year's CCA conference from CofC were Dr. Lynn Cherry, a past president of the association, and Dr. Robert Westerfelhaus, who presented a competitively chosen paper examining Pope Benedict XVI's controversial Regensburg speech.



 

 

 

 

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