Bowling Green, Ky. - Western Kentucky University’s student newspaper has joined the WKU yearbook as a finalist for national Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker awards.

The College Heights Herald, which competes in the four-year non-daily newspaper category, has won the national Pacemaker 11 times. Editors for the 2005-06 year were Shawntaye Hopkins and Michael Casagrande, both of Louisville.

Earlier this year, the ACP announced that the 2005 edition of the Talisman is among finalists for the Pacemaker in the yearbook category. Katie Clark of Bowling Green was editor of the 2005 Talisman.

The Talisman, which resumed publication in 2003 after a six-year absence, has won nine national Pacemakers including 2003 and 2004.

Last year, WKU was the only school in the nation to win newspaper and yearbook Pacemakers. The Herald and Talisman have won national Pacemakers at the same convention five other times – 1981, 1982, 1984, 1988 and 2003.

This year’s winners will be announced during the National College Media Convention Oct. 25-29 in St. Louis.

Student Publications director Bob Adams will be inducted into the College Media Adviser Hall of Fame on Oct. 26. Adams is receiving the group’s highest honor for his dedication to student journalism and College Media Advisers. Adams, Herald editor in 1964, has been an adviser to the paper since 1968 and has been director of Student Publications since 1990.

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For information, contact Bob Adams at (270) 745-6278.

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