The students won three first-place awards in the on-site competition for stories written on deadline at the convention: Junior journalism major and former Independent intern Lanie Cook was awarded first place for arts/entertainment writing; senior journalism major Nick Fontenot won for sportswriting for the second consecutive year; and junior journalism major Tiffany Segura won for copyediting. The university placed second overall in the on-site competition for the second year in a row.
In the conference’s Best of the South competition for work published or broadcast in 2010, UL took home four awards, which went to KRVS (third place, best college radio station), Hope Rurik, another former Ind intern (fourth place, feature writing), Elizabeth Brown (sixth, arts/entertainment) and Alison Moon, editor of UL’s student newspaper, The Vermilion (seventh, press photography).
The SEJC comprises 33 schools from the southeastern United States. More than 300 entries from 29 schools in two dozen categories were judged in the 2010 Best of the South competition. Sixteen UL students attended the conference with Dr. Robert Buckman, faculty delegate and journalism professor.
In rendering his ruling, District Judge John Trahan all but called the real estate developer a liar for inconsistencies in his accounts of what prompted him to punch a school teacher unconscious.
Frank’s Casing Crew, now doing business as Frank’s International, will make its final appearance on ABiz’s list of the Top 50 Privately Held Companies in Acadiana this year, and once again it will likely be at the top with more than $1 billion in annual revenues. The 75-year-old company specializing in tubular fabrication and installation services to the oil and gas industry plans to offer shares of its stock to the public for the first time.
The defeat, or rather highjacking of House Bill 420 in the final days of this year's Legislative Session, say Reps. Vincent Pierre and Terry Landry, is the result of the propaganda spread by one unidentified local media outlet and an unnamed former state Representative, but nothing to do with the original legislation's lack of checks, balances or details.
City-Parish Council Chairman Brandon Shelvin heaped steady doses of condescending ire on a Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Louisiana executive while failing to reveal his financial ties to a BC/BS rival.
Abbeville native David Primeaux was a popular professor until his death late last year, and while he was successful at camouflaging a dark past, he couldn’t outlive it.
Tehmi Chassion’s failure to recuse himself in the school board’s selection of a group health benefits provider raises ‘serious questions’ on whether he violated state ethics law.
He’s a singer. A songwriter. A piano man. A family man. He’s even got his own Wikipedia entry. He’s David Egan. And he knows ancient secrets about the monolithic stones of Stonehenge that he’s not willing to share.
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