Victoria Temple
  • Graphic Design
  • Class of 2015
  • North Little Rock, Ark.

Victoria Temple of Little Rock earns college media award

2015 Apr 28

Victoria Temple of Little Rock, Ark., received an award at the annual Arkansas College Media Association Conference, which recognizes the best of the state's media output and is made up of colleges and universities throughout Arkansas.

Temple is a studio art major at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. The award was for work on The Forum, the student newspaper of UALR.

The UALR Forum staff took home 11 awards, including five first-place awards and a prestigious General Excellence Award for the event held at John Brown University in Siloam Springs.

The awards were as follows:

  • Buslig, The Forum's head graphic designer/art director, won Designer of the Year in the competition's General Excellence category while also winning first-place in newspaper advertising.
  • Rogers, sports editor, won two top awards in the online category: one for breaking news story and the other for sports photo.
  • Fox, entertainment editor, received first-place for newspaper headline writing.
  • Gregory, staff writer, won the category for election/political articles, also in the online category. Gregory also earned a second-place award for online sports photo.
  • Collins, the publication's executive editor, placed second in the newspaper general column writing category
  • Mason, an illustrator, won a third-place award in categories for newspaper editorial cartoon and newspaper cartoon strip or single panel entertainment cartoon.
  • Temple, a graphic designer, placed third in the classified newspaper advertising category.

"I am very pleased with The Forum's showing," said Faculty Advisor Sonny Rhodes.

"The competition this year was extremely strong, and our students represented UALR admirably. I am very proud of them."