The Ithacan has been named a Gold Medalist for the Fall 2005 and Spring 2006 semesters in the Columbia Scholastic Press Association's annual College Newspaper Critique.
Each year the CSPA uses more than 150 criteria to judge member papers based on overall content, news, depth of reporting, features, opinion/editorial, sports, arts/entertainment, editorial/headline writing and design/graphic. The paper earned 990 points on a 1,000-point scale for both semesters.
The Ithacan has been ranked as a gold medalist consistently for more than a decade.
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