Work of Five Ithacan Students Honored

From left: Sabrina Knight ’16, Emily Fuller ’15, Erica
Pirolli ’13, Rachel Woolf ’15 and Steven Pirani ’16

The work of five staff members of The Ithacan has been honored with Gold Circle Awards by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association in its 30th annual Gold Circle competition. The awards are for work produced during the 2012–13 academic year.

The following work from The Ithacan was honored with awards:

Emily Fuller ’15 and Erica Pirolli ’13, First Place for Overall Tabloid Design

Sabrina Knight ’16, Second Place for Sports Photography, for "When Push Comes to Shove" (October 12, 2012, p. 28)

Rachel Woolf ’15, Third Place for Photo Illustration, for “Breaking the Bank” (April 11, 2013, p. 1)

Steven Pirani ’16, Certificate of Merit for General Feature Story, for “Local Indulgence: Guests Explore Origins of Food and Wine on New Tour” (April 4, 2013, p. 13)

Since 1984, the CSPA has recognized outstanding achievement in both verbal and visual categories for newspapers, magazine and yearbooks. Digital media categories were added in 2009. This year's competition attracted 12,847 entries produced by students at colleges, universities and secondary schools throughout the country. (Secondary schools are judged in a separate category from colleges and universities.)