Associated Collegiate Press (ACP)
Pacemaker Award
For the ninth consecutive year, Flux magazine won the Associated Collegiate Press (ACP) Pacemaker Award. The award is considered the highest honor for college magazines and is based on content, quality of writing, leadership, design, photography, art and graphics. Flux also won 12 Gold Circle Awards from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association in the following magazine categories: Overall Design, Photography Portfolio of Work, Title and Contents Page, Color Photographs, Color Design, Spread Design, and Nonfiction Article. The ACP also named Flux first place in its Story of the Year category for Jenny Moore's, MA '01, piece on Hmong immigration, titled "Daughter of the Secret War." A photo essay on vintage bicycles designed by Sarah Cohen, '03, won second place Design of the Year. A spring term magazine class puts out Flux magazine once a year under the guidance of faculty advisers Carol Ann Bassett and Bill Ryan.

The 2002 issue of Flux is on sale in local bookstores and can be ordered directly through the School. The latest issue focuses on communities in transition including a story about Washington state farmers who have begun to harvest wind power, a profile of a struggling Coos Bay oyster farmer, and a look into the life of a gold miner in the Siskiyou National Forest.

Flux magazine 10th Anniversary issue

Northwest Regional Emmy Awards
In May, "First Generation: The History of Chinese Immigration to Portland," a film produced by students in Assistant Professor Dan Miller's documentary class, was nominated for a Northwest Regional Emmy Award. The awards were distributed in Portland by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences this spring.

Two documentaries, "Oregon Movie Palaces" and "The Music of Kevin Burke," produced last year by SOJC alumni and current staff member Erik Talbert, '01, along with Carol Spellman, a graduate student, were chosen to screen at Sam Bond's Film Festival in Eugene in May. In addition, Animania, the story of the UO animation program, produced by Oregon Documentary Project students Sridevi Palivenu, Mark Rouch and Amy Mills, took a silver medal at the Kalamazoo International Animation Festival in June.

One Show Exhibit
Advertising students also celebrated several awards. Eleven students from Professor Bill Ryan's portfolio course were selected to exhibit their work at the 8th Annual One Show Exhibit in New York City. The exhibit is sponsored by The One Club for Art & Copy, a not-for-profit organization designed to promote high standards of creativity in advertising. According to advertising professor Charlie Frazer, the One Show is the most prestigious advertising competition in the country. "It's an exclusive group, and it's an honor just to be invited—let alone be judged well," he said. The University of Oregon was one of only 23 schools internationally to be selected for the show. Other schools included Parsons School of Design in New York, the Fashion Institute of Technology, and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

The student work hung in the One Club's New York City gallery for the month of May. Professor Ryan also accompanied five of the students—Justin Kistner, Jason Fong, Bruno Rinaldi, Kipp Wettstein and Ben Jenkins—on a trip to New York City in early May to participate in the One Club's Young Creatives Competition. The competition is open both to college students and advertising professionals under the age of 25.

Rhodey Awards
In April, the Rhodey Awards gave advertising students another chance to test their creativity. Each year, SOJC students organize the Rhodey Awards and invite advertising professionals to come to the School and act as judges. The winners of the Rhodey Awards go on to exhibit their work at the Portland Advertising Federations' Rosey Awards, which take place in May. This year's Rhodey judges included alumni Anne Rothlisberger, '99, of Wieden and Kennedy, Aaron Robinett '98, of Cole & Weber in Portland, and Mark Waggoner, of Portland. The judges selected Justin Kistner, Ben Jenkins, Chad Verly, Bruno Rinaldi, Marissa Jones, and Rob Nollen-berger as the 2002 winners.

In May, SOJC alumni and advertising professionals had the chance to view the students' work at a reception hosted by the Portland Advertising Federation. The reception was held at Portland's American Advertising Museum, where twelve large panels at the museum's entrance were set aside to show the student work.

Edward Arnold Newspaper Design Awards
Magazine design and advertising students also placed well in the Society of Newspaper Design's annual Edward Arnold Newspaper Design competition. Winners include Justin Abbott, Third Place for Feature Design and Feature Promotions/Poster Design. Arlene Juan and Morgan Dethman received honorable mentions in this category. In the advertising category, Kipp Wettstein won First Place, Justin Kistner Second Place and Shannon Kaiser Third Place, with honorable mentions going to Ben Jenkins, Jeff Oliver and Chad Verly.