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Bateman Team wins national PR competition The Loyola Bateman Team was awarded first-place honors in the 2009 Bateman Case Study Competition. The annual competition, organized by the Public Relations Student Society of America, asks teams from universities to tackle a full-scale public relations campaign for a nonprofit organization. This year, students worked with the Consumer Bankers Association to raise college awareness among public school students. Janine Sheedy, Heather Miranne, Sarah Mackota, Ashley Sutton, and Vicki Voelker comprised Loyola’s team, whose campaign, “The Bling Starts Here,” focused on showing high school students the correlation between attending college and maximizing earning potential. The team crafted a successful community and media awareness campaign, which included workshops in New Orleans-area public schools, staffed by team members and Loyola instructor Lisa Martin; college funding information sessions for parents at local large employers; and a day of tours and mentoring for high school students on Loyola’s campus. The team garnered much media coverage, including a coveted interview on WWL-TV’s “Eyewitness Morning News,” the highestrated local morning show in the U.S., and segments on ABC26 News and NOLA38. The Loyola Bateman Team has a history of high honors in this competition, having placed first nationally in 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005, and 2008, and second in 2001, 2004, and 2006. Public Relations Professor J. Cathy Rogers, Ph.D., supervises the public relations sequence and advises the Bateman competitors.
Student Successes Law student Michelle Augustine was awarded a Fulbright grant to study in Turkey this past summer. Law student Tim Kappel was a finalist for the GRAMMY Foundation’s 11th Annual Entertainment Law Initiative Essay Competition. Law student Alison McCreary received the Louisiana State Bar Association’s 2009 Law Student Pro Bono Award. Business student Ricardo Rivera was awarded a two-year academic scholarship and paid summer internship by the Richard B. Fisher Scholars Program at Morgan Stanley. Pre-med biology student Danish Siddiqui received the Martin Luther King, Jr., Community Service Award at the 23rd annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Week for Peace celebration hosted by Loyola, Xavier, Tulane, and Dillard universities. Loyola’s student newspaper, The Maroon, and magazine, The Wolf, won five major national awards and were nominated for an additional 13 honors at two journalism competitions. The Loyola University New Orleans College of Law’s Trial Advocacy Team placed second in the regionals of the American Association of Justice National Student Trial Advocacy Competition in Atlanta, Ga. Loyola students Elaine Donaldson, Kristen Lee, Matthew McCabe, and Kevin Welsh were chosen to participate in The Washington Center for Academic Internships and Seminars summer session. They worked at various agencies in the capital and attended academic classes and leadership seminars.
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