Category Archives: The Campanile

Student Media, The Campanile, The Rice Thresher

ACP Best of Show Awards 2025

Congrats to Campanile yearbook editors Eugenia Sung and Ananya Lertpradist for placing in the Best of Show awards for their designs—as well as Rice Thresher journalists Riya Misra and Chi Pham for their reporting and Cali Liu for their photojournalism—at the recent Associated Collegiate Press national convention in Long Beach!

Annnnd congratulations to everyone for both Thresher and Campanile’s overall award in Best of Show. They put in the work, that work is being recognized, and that’s a beautiful thing.

KTRU, Student Media, The Campanile, The Rice Thresher

Student Media & Arts Fair 2024

Do you enjoy writing, taking pictures, playing music, watching films, illustrating, attending concerts, going to art gallery exhibitions or otherwise getting creative in your free time?

Want to see a live ktru DJ set?

Do you just like free food and cool art?

Come to the Student Media & Arts Fair at the Moody Center for the Arts on September 7 from 6-8 p.m. and explore the many creative-minded clubs, organizations, and resources at Rice. Happening alongside the Moody Student Collaborative’s Student Reception, you can discover more about the creative side of campus at the Student Media & Arts Fair! Meet all the clubs, organizations, and resources making art happen. Don’t miss out on a chance to connect and get inspired. Participating groups include:

Whether you’re looking for a creative outlet, a public platform or like-minded Owls, the Student Media & Arts Fair is your one-stop shop for making connections and meeting new friends. This event is in conjunction with Do Ho Suh: In Process Student Opening Reception. Food will be provided.

At the students-only reception you will enjoy a behind-the-scenes look at artist Do Ho Suh’s research and collaborations including the series The Bridge Project which features the work of Rice Engineering students. You will also be able to contribute to Suh’s Artland, a sculptural landscape where you can shape your own characters from clay.

KTRU, Student Media, The Campanile, The Rice Thresher

Student Media & Arts Fair 2023

Do you enjoy writing, taking pictures, playing music, watching films, illustrating, attending concerts, going to art gallery exhibitions or otherwise getting creative in your free time? Want to see a live KTRU DJ set? Do you just like free food and cool art? Come to the Student Media & Arts Fair at the Moody Center for the Arts on August 24 from 4-6 p.m. and explore the many creative-minded clubs, organizations, and resources at Rice. Participating groups include:

Whether you’re looking for a creative outlet, a public platform or like-minded Owls, the Student Media & Arts Fair on August 24 is your one-stop shop for making connections and meeting new friends. In addition to free food and cold drinks, the open house will also provide tours of the Moody Center’s makerspace — a 3D-printing lab, woodshop, metalworking studio and more, all free for Rice students to use year-round ­— alongside special access to JooYoung Choi’s exhibition at the Moody, Love and Wondervision, which closes August 26.

To RSVP scan the QR code above or click here.

The Campanile

Free shipping of 2020 Campanile

Hello! We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy! Just a quick update from the Campanile yearbook regarding the distribution of our 2019-2020 book – there is a lot of uncertainty going into the fall about what campus is going to look like and because not everyone is going to return to campus, we wanted to extend the senior shipping opportunity to students in all years! The link provided is for students to sign up to have your book shipped directly to your home address (unfortunately, we do not ship outside of the US) Here is the link: https://docs.google.com/…/1JlEWAcCDHVCRvt_HTdLNv_MM9S…/edit…

Feel free to contact Amy Zhang or Phoebe Dang if you have questions! Thanks and love y’all ❤

Student Media, The Campanile, The Rice Thresher

Campanile, Thresher win 16 national awards

Eric Stone | The Rice Thresher

 Rice Campanile and the Rice Thresher won a combined 16 awards at the joint Associated College Press/College Media Association convention in Louisville, Kentucky last weekend.

The CMA’s Pinnacle Awards, along with the ACP’s Pacemakers and Individual Awards, recognize the nation’s best in college student media for the 2017-18 academic year.

Campanile won a first-place Pinnacle from the CMA for Best Yearbook Entertainment Spread. It placed second in the overall category, Yearbook of the Year. It also received honorable mentions for Best Yearbook Cover and Best Divider. Joanna Yang and Kira Chen were editors-in-chief for the 2017-18 Campanile, entitled “Outside the Lines,” and current Campanile Editor-in-Chief Charis Wang accepted the awards.

“Winning the awards was honestly very humbling,” Wang said in a written statement. “There were so many outstanding books, and it made me realize how much work, time, and collaboration it takes to create something that even closely resembles a yearbook.”

The Thresher was a finalist for the ACP’s Newspaper Pacemaker award, which recognizes the best student newspapers in the nation. This is the second straight year the Thresher has been a finalist and the fourth time overall. The 37 Pacemaker finalists represented the top seven percent of newspapers which entered the competition, according to the ACP.

The Thresher and its staff came in first in three Pinnacle categories, including Best Newspaper Sports Spread, Best Podcast and Best Newspaper Nameplate. Other Thresher Pinnacles included a second place for Best Advertisement and honorable mentions for Best Sports News Photo, Best Photo Package, Best Sports Section and Best Social Media Main Page.

Both the ACP and CMA recognized then-Thresher Sports Editor and current co-Editor-in-Chief Andrew Grottkau for his long form piece, Immortality: An Oral History of the 2003 Rice Baseball Team. The piece garnered a second-place ACP Individual Award for Best Sports Multimedia Story and a third-place Pinnacle in the same category. The Pinnacles also recognized Grottkau with an honorable mention for Best Sports Columnist.

These awards follow the Princeton Review’s recognition of the Thresher as the third-best college paper in the nation.

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Thresher and Campanile celebrate 100 years with awards

The Rice Thresher and Campanile celebrated their 100th years by garnering numerous first place awards on the national and state level.

The Thresher placed first place in College Media Association’s Apple Awards presented at the Spring National College Media Convention in March. The editor in chief was Andrew Ta. Additionally, The Thresher won the overall excellence award at the Texas Intercollegiate Press Awards presented in early April. The student-run newspaper received a total of 20 awards in the annual contest.

For the fourth year in a row, the Campanile won the sweepstakes award for yearbook in the Texas Intercollegiate Press Awards presented in early April. The award was granted based on total points earned in the other categories of the annual contest.

In addition to the sweepstakes award, Campanile won first place Overall Excellence and nine other first place categories alone. The yearbook won 20 awards in the contest this year.

The 2015 book was the 100th edition of the Campanile, and featured a padded cover, gilded edges and a placeholder ribbon. Additionally, every copy came in a clamshell box. The theme was Confessions and the editor in chief was Anastasia Bolshakov. Additionally the 2015 Campanile placed eighth in the Associated Collegiate Press’s Best of Show awarded at the Fall National College Media Convention.

Thresher TIPA Awards

In-Depth Reporting
2nd place: Yasna Haghdoost
Critical Review
2nd place: Canon Lewis
Feature Page Design
First place: Samantha Ding
Sports Page Design
Third place: Sarah Nyquist
Feature Story
Third place: Lenna Mendoza
Feature Photo
Third place: Vidya Ghiri
Illustration
First place: Staff
Information Graphic
2nd place: Justin Park
General Column
2nd place: Bridget Schilling
News Feature Story
First place: Elena Margosis
Special Edition/Section
2nd place: Staff
Editorial
Third place: Staff
News Photo
Honorable Mention: Anastasia Bolshakov
Sports Column
First place: Jeremy Reiskind
Honorable Mention: Evan Neustater
Sports Action Photo
2nd place: Sean Chu
Page One Design
Third place: Justin Park
Headline
Two Honorable Mentions: Staff
Overall Excellence
First place: The Rice Thresher

Campanile TIPA Awards

Academic Photo

Third place: Anastasia Bolshakov

Academics

First place: Staff

Cover Design

First place: Anastasia Bolshakov

Endsheets

2nd place: Anastasia Bolshakov

Feature Photo

2nd place: Rahul Kothari

Sports Action Photo

First place: Anastasia Bolshakov

Sports Feature Photo

First place: Janet Ni

Opening

First place: Anastasia Bolshakov

Academics Copy

First place: Staff

Feature/Student Life

First place: Anastasia Bolshakov
2nd place: Anastasia Bolshakov

Organizations Copy

First place: Staff

People Spread w/Mugshots

2nd place: Anastasia Bolshakov

Photo Story

Third place: Anastasia Bolshakov

Sports

First place: Zoe Wu

Sports Copy

First place: Zoe Wu
2nd place: Zoe Wu

Student Life Copy

First place: Staff
2nd place: Staff

Overall Excellence

First place: Staff
 

The Campanile

Campanile recognized nationally

The Rice Campanile placed third in the prestigious Pinnacles Awards presented by College Media Association on October 30, 2015. The 2014 book, with the Awkward theme, received third place in the Four-Year Yearbook of the Year award.

The book, edited by Anastasia Bolshakov, Duncan 15, also received second for Best Yearbook Cover, second for Best Yearbook News page/Spread and third place Best Yearbook Sports Page/Spread. This is the second year in a row that the student-run yearbook received awards in the Pinnacle contest, but the first for best overall book.

Additionally the 2015 Campanile placed eighth in the Associated Collegiate Press’s Best of Show awarded last week at the Fall National College Media Convention. This book, the 100th volume of the Campanile, is still in production, but the publishing company advanced an incomplete copy to the staff in order for them to submit it for the contest.

For the full list of Pinnacle winners, go here.

The Campanile

Campanile again named Pinnacle finalist

As the Campanile prepares to distribute its 100th volume, it learned it has been named a College Media Association Pinnacle Award finalist in four categories, the most exciting being Four-Year Yearbook of the Year.

The 2014 yearbook, themed Awkward, is also a finalist in three design categories – Best Yearbook Cover, Best Yearbook News Page/Spread and Best Yearbook Sports Page/Spread. For more information and to check out the competition, click here.

This is the second year in a row the Campanile has placed in the Pinnacle awards, but the first time it has been named a finalist in Yearbook of the Year category.

The Campanile, The Rice Thresher

Thresher and Campanile bring home more than 30 TIPA awards

The Rice Thresher student newspaper and the Campanile student yearbook have both won numerous awards in the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association contest. In addition, the Campanile won the Sweepstakes Award for Yearbook Division 2. The award is based on how many points the publication accumulated during the contest.

The Campanile won 18 awards, with eight first place finishes. The 2014 book boasted three different covers and focused on the “Awkward” elements of the Rice experience. Anastasia Bolshakov was editor in chief. The awards are as follows:

  • Sweepstakes Award
  • 1st place – Overall Excellence
  • 1st place – Sports Feature Photo
  • 1st place – Academics Copy, by Editor in Chief Anastasia Bolshakov
  • 1st place – Opening
  • 1st place – Feature/Student Life section
  • 1st place – People Spread w/Mugshots
  • 1st place – Academics
  • 2nd place – Sports Action Photo, by Sean Chu
  • 2nd place – Student Life Copy, by Anastasia Bolshakov
  • 2nd place – Sports Section, by Zoe Wu
  • 3rd place – Photo Story, by Anastasia Bolshakov
  • 3rd place – Sports Copy, by Zoe Wu
  • Honorable Mentions – Sports Action Photo (Soorya Avali), Academic Photo (Jason Liu), Student Life Copy, Organizations Copy, Cover Design

The Rice Thresher was judged for the 2014 calendar year, and the editors were Rachel Marcus and Miles Kruppa. The paper received five first place awards, four second place, seven third place and four honorable mentions. The awards are as follows:1st place – Feature Story, by Tina Nazerian

  • 1st place – Feature Story, by Tina Nazerian
  • 1st place – Sports News Story, by Evan Neustater
  • 1st place – News Photo
  • 1st place – Sports Feature Photo
  • 1st place – Feature Page Design, by Carrie Jian
  • 2nd place – News Story, by Yasna Haghdoost
  • 2nd place – Critical Review, by Kaylen Strench
  • 2nd place – Sports Page Design, by Sarah Nyquist
  • 2nd place – Special Edition
  • 3rd place – Photo Story, by Anastasia Bolshakov
  • 3rd place – In-Depth Reporting, by Miles Kruppa
  • 3rd place – Sports Column, by Evan Neustater
  • 3rd place – Sports Feature Story, by Evan Neustater
  • 3rd place – Feature Photo, Frankie Huang
  • 3rd place – Op/Ed Page Design, by Mitch Mackowiak
  • 3rd place -Information Graphic, by Claire Elestwani
  • Honorable Mentions – General Column (Yasna Haghdoost), News Photo, Single Subject Design, Illustration (Non-Photo)

 

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