Black Student Alliance is sponsoring a quiz bowl competition at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Cyber Cafe in the Main Library.

The free event, which was created to celebrate Black History Month, will feature teams answering questions in categories such as black leaders and scientific inventions by black people. Prizes will be awarded for correct answers.

Mary Phillips, the group’s president, said the event was designed to increase students’ knowledge.

“If you don’t know, you can learn,” the health studies senior said. “If you do, you can share with others. We didn’t want it to be competitive.”

This is the first time the quiz bowl event has been scheduled.

“I think it’s a good idea that black students on campus, no matter what the situation is, take advantage of learning more about their history,” said alliance Programming Director Darren Lamb. “You can never learn enough about it. Historians learn things every day. A student can learn a whole lot, especially from a quiz bowl. It’s not about competing, but the learning experience.”

Camille Spencer

Newspaper wins editorial, ad awards

In each division, there are 24 categories in editorial and advertising sections of the newspapers. The State News placed in 20 of the categories, and swept the top three places in three categories. The State News won first place in Best Overall Design and second in General Excellence.

The State News competed in Division I, along with other four-year schools that publish more than once a week. Division II is for newspapers that publish once a week or less, and Division III is for community colleges.

In the Journalist of the Year category, senior Editor In Chief Jeremy W. Steele received first place while sophomore Campus Editor Jamie Gumbrecht received third place. The Ad and Business Manager of the Year was senior Sarah Brewer and senior Beth Maxson was Sales Rep. of the Year.

The first place awards include Steele’s deadline news story “McPherson OK’d infiltration” and alumnus Tim Mosley’s deadline sports story, “Former women athletes to get varsity ‘S.’” Nondeadline award winners were Gumbrecht for her news story, “Alumnus tangled in land-swap controversy” and alumnus Eric Lacy for his sports story, “The Flint machine.” Alumna Photographer Jennifer Jankowski also received first place in the feature photo category.

Advertising placed first in Campaign, with the Jones Vision Center advertisement. Other first places include the Classified Section and the Academic Orientation Program advertising section.

Amy Bartner