Communications department racks up awards The Loyola Bateman team will travel to Honolulu on May 3 for the national finals of the National PRSSA Bateman Competition. Teams from throughout the country sent plan books in for the competition. The books outlined the public relations campaign that the teams designed for this year's competition client, Contiki travel. The three teams with the best plan books were invited to the national competition. There, they will present their plans to PRSSA judges and representatives from Contiki holidays. The judges will rank the teams. The Loyola Ad Team recently placed first in the regional Ad Team competition. The team put together a mock advertising campaign for Banc of America Investments. The plan included print, radio and television advertisements. The team's first place finish earned it a trip to Bal Harbour, Fla., which is just north of Miami, to compete in the national competition. "We worked day and night on this. We didn't leave before one or two every morning for about two months. We deserved to win, and we did," said Guy Schaafs, drama/communications senior and Ad Team member. The Maroon was named best weekly college newspaper at the recent Society of Professional Journalists conference in Fayetteville, Ark. The Maroon went up against colleges from Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee for the award. "I think that this award reflects the hard work that all of the staff members have put in this year," said Jason Dupuy, communications senior and editor in chief of The Maroon.
Moot Court team one of world's finest The Law School placed in the top eight for the second consecutive year at the Ninth Annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court held in Vienna, Austria, on March 22-28. Of the 26 U.S. law schools competing in the worldwide event, only Loyola finished in the final eight. Team members included Susan Rogge, Marc Roark, Holly Roberts and Thomas Richards, all of whom are students at the Law School. They were coached by Henry Gabriel, De Van Dagget professor of Law.
Plus/Minus decision postponed Faculty voted to table the plus/minus system proposal for one year at the College of Arts and Sciences Assembly on April 18. The assembly will meet again next spring to decide whether the grading scale should incorporate minuses. Before the vote, students and teachers were divided on the merits of the system. If approved next year, the earliest the scale could be implemented is fall 2003.
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