Rampage takes Pride in work at JACC

By Pedro Quintana

The Fresno City College Rampage takes home the gold and pride with its hard work for stories that meant hardwork and dedication. Rampage reporters won several awards at the Journalism Association of Community Colleges Convention which took place in Los Angeles from April 3 to 6 . Over 55 community colleges attended the convention which was held at the Wilshire Grand Hotel. The following reporters won awards: Cody Gless, Shirley Nakagawa, and Francine Ramos won second place in Enterprise Story/Series, and awarded general excellence in newspaper writing. Carrie Gunther and Joseph Rios won fourth place in the enterprise story/series with the Hillary Clinton story that was published last semester.

Out of 55 community colleges, only 15 receieved the General Excellence award. The Rampage was one of the 15 that received this award. The general excellence award is based on the content, layout, and balance of issues covered. The Rampage staff was very excited for this important honor that was received in the JACC.

Ife-Chudeni Oputa won fourth place on her Opinion piece for the Fresno City College Rampage. Joseph Rios won first place in the sports feature photo. We interviewed the editor and chief about his big win on the sports feature photo. “Well I’m not a photographer, at least I don’t think so” said Rios. “It was a complete surprise to me”. Rios also won Honorable mention in the Bring-In ad.

The JACC brought a new competition to the state convention called Team Feature 2.0 which had three students from each school participate in finding a story in a certain place in LA. The Rampage was sent to Olivera street. There they would found an amazing story about an artist that had amazing cultural paintings. During the JACC banquet showed the top 3 videos were showed, The Rampage was the first video to be previewed. The team was glowing excitement. A special thanks to Jeannie Batey, Cynthia Moreno, and Joseph Rios for their dedication to this video.

Rampage adviser Dympna Ugwu-oju was elected president of Northern California(Norcal) Branch of JACC. In the board of directors she will serve as the vice-president of the JACC. Rampage reporter Pedro Quintana was also elected president of Nor-Cal in the student branch.

The Rampage is very honored and blessed for all the recognition that they received at the JACC for all their hard work. As our adviser always say ” We can only go up, the sky is the limit for us”