The Advocate won 10 awards at the Oregon Newspapers Foundation’s annual Collegiate Day conference, the second most it has ever won.

Sponsored by the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, the Collegiate Day Conference was held at Western Oregon University in Monmouth on Friday, May 6.

College newspapers all over Oregon submitted 550 entries in 22 categories, and were judged in three divisions.

The Advocate’s editor in chief Kevin Hudson said, “A lot of times, at a college, you write in a vacuum. These awards serve to validate the work we’ve been doing.”

• Best section

    Honorable Mention       A&E.

• Best editorial

   1st     Jill Aho: Help MHCC's luster.

   2nd     Kevin Hudson: A time of loss for Mt. Hood.

• Best overall photography

2nd     Janice Tarlecki: Gazing on the Washington Monument; Mount St. Helens erupts; Greenspace for MHCC.

• Best spot news photo

   1st     Janice Tarlecki: View of Mount St. Helens eruption from the window of an airplane

• Best feature photo

   1st     Janice Tarlecki: Greenspace for MHCC

• Best sport photo

   2nd     Christina Hammett: Track practice

   HM      Kevin Hudson: Scott Zea feature

• Best graphic

   2nd (tie with Clackamas Print)  Evan Green: The 47th Grammys

• Best overall cartooning