The Daily Egyptian staff won 15 awards at the Illinois College Press Association’s annual conference in Chicago Saturday, taking home more awards overall than any other Illinois college newspaper.

DE associate editor Dave Katzman won first place for headline writing, his second ICPA award, with a headline for a movie review of Nine Months.

It’s nice to be recognized for a job that I do day in and day out, Katzman said. Although the award I received has my name on it, it was the result of a group effort, like everything else done here.

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Adam Meier also won first place in graphic illustration for his front page design of the October issue of Oasis, the DE magazine. The cover pictured a person being gagged by the American flag for a story about freedom of speech on college campuses.

Coverage of President Bill Clinton’s visit to SIUC last September won second place in the news story category. The main story was written by DE editor-in-chief Marc Chase with sidebars written by reporters Donita Polly, Cynthia Sheets, Julie Rendleman, Lori Clark, Signe Skinion, Carey Jane Atherton, Jim Lyon, Alan Schnepf, Dave Kazak and Jeremy Griggs.

The collaboration for Clinton’s visit showed a lot of energy and dedication on the part of the entire DE staff not just those listed with the award, Chase, who has won a total of three ICPA awards, said.

Other second place awards went to Grant Deady, Sean Walker and David Vingren in sports news reporting for the article, Carr chooses NBA over senior season; Lynn Lee in Sports page design for the Dec. 9, 1994 issue; Mike DeSisti, Kim Raines and Lynn Lee in the photo essay category for a spread depicting basketball tournament fans; and Mike DeSisti in sports photo for a picture of a Marcus Timmons jump shot.

Jay Fares, Dustin Coleman, Adam Meier and Mark Christian also placed second in feature page design forOasis; Marc Chase placed second in Editorial Writing for the editorial, Search for law dean should be national; and Kelly Mall placed second for a Halloween Arrest news photo.

It’s nice to see that a smaller and less accredited university like SIUC can compete with bigger schools like University of Illinois and Northwestern in the field of journalism, DE Special Projects Editor Dustin Coleman said.

DE reporter Aaron Butler won third place in for his feature article, Whistle Blower, a profile of Jack Tursman published in the October issue of Oasis.

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I was happy to find an interesting person to write about, Butler said. He (Tursman) did all the work, and I got to write a good story about it.

Third place also was awarded to Rob Neff, Kellie Huttes and Sean Walker in the news story category for coverage of the February Garden Park Apartments fire, and to Heather Hendricks, former DE news editor, in front page design for three February issues of the DE last year.

Honorable Mentions were awarded to Aaron Butler in a critical review for the movie, Strange Days, and Mike DeSisti for his Feature Photo titled Stormy Weather.

Faculty managing editor Lloyd Goodman said the winning entries came from every aspect of the newspaper’s production.

There were more awards than in past years, and the whole realm of everything that is done here was covered, he said.