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Monday, April 21, 2025
Volume 112 Issue 7
A Lasting History
Photo By Kaley Muse
THE CAMERON COLLEGIAN Amanda Purser
family we share as Cameron journalists.” Bublitz has extensive experience writing in Managing Editor multiple compositions, to include newspaper Founded in 1926 Cameron University’s and books, so he gives careful attention to every student-led newspaper remains a creative outlet page before it is submitted to print, although the and hands-on opportunity for Aggies to publish managing editors are given the final decision on news content in their voices. each issue’s content and format. The Collegian staff is headed by the managing “To put it bluntly, and speaking from my editor(s) who write and layout for the front experience as a professor,” Bublitz said, “the page, and a page editor for each section of the students are far and above the best part of paper which is currently News, Voices, Arts and working on campus.” Entertainment, Student Life and Sports. The goal Bublitz has enjoyed his more than a decade of is to provide a variety of coverage across campus, serving the Aggies as faculty advisor, learning representing the various organizations, student from the students and watching the talent evolve activities, achievements and events as they as he gets to guide a new group each semester. pertain to the Cameron experience. In addition to “I am proud of each one of my student the editors, many talented staff writers contribute journalists,” Bublitz said. “I am proud of their to the stories shared in this publication each work, their dedication to the university and week. student body, and the service they provide every The newspaper has a faculty advisor day to the campus community as a whole.” who oversees the budgets, allocating funds The Collegian has been a multi-awardfor scholarships and arrangements with our winning paper for more than a decade, since it publisher each semester as well as providing has been entering various contests across the guidance to all students on staff. The Collegian state of Oklahoma. The records we have access has been fortunate to work under the advisement to only went back as far as 2012, since then of Associate Professor David Bublitz since every year that the Collegian entered either 2012. Bublitz works in the Communication, the Oklahoma Press Association (OPA) or the English and Foreign Languages department Oklahoma Collegiate Media annual contests and has been faculty at Cameron University we have placed within the top three for multiple since 2012, which is also where he completed categories. his two undergraduate degrees Bachelor of The Collegian has won the prestigious Arts in English and Journalism and a Master of Sequoyah Award, from the OPA’s Better Education. He obtained his Master of Fine Arts Newspaper Contest for the years 2020, 2021 from Oklahoma City University in 2014. and 2023. This award is based on points given “The Collegian staff is composed of students for ranking in various categories and the more from all over campus,” Bublitz said. “Each awards won contribute to your paper’s total, with student brings unique perspectives, interests and the highest amount aesthetics that breathe life into the newspaper being awarded and help to create the sense of community and the Sequoyah.
Contestants we compete against include collegiate publications across Oklahoma. Former Managing Editor Brittney Payette is one of the most awarded members of previous staff. She walked away from the 2023 Oklahoma Better Newspaper Contest with 1st, 2nd and 3rd place for the front-page design category. Payette won 2nd and 3rd place for the news photograph, 3rd place for feature photograph, 2nd place in education story and 1st place in community leadership. Her hard work and talent were certainly a factor in the Collegian’s success and contributed to their third Sequoyah award that year. Current managing editor Kaley Muse is spending her last semester at Cameron serving the staff of the Collegian in one of the most important roles. She started as a student life editor in 2023, performed as copy editor and then the Arts and Entertainment (A & E) editor during her time here. Muse has learned a lot within her time on the Collegian and has enjoyed every issue she has been a part of. “I definitely learned to step out of my comfort zone,” Muse said, “I still am a shy person, but not nearly as much as when I first got on staff. Getting out and meeting people, doing interviews and taking pictures, you hone your craft and you also network in a way that’s really special to what journalists do, especially student journalists.” Every issue sheds light on a different or new area of campus that needs to be addressed or highlighted and each journalist given the opportunity to be a part of the Collegian staff walks away more experienced and prepared for whatever their futures hold.
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