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Pacemaker 100
To celebrate our 100th birthday, we’ll honor our top Pacemaker winners and announce the Top 10 at the fall convention.

Tammia Jacobs
The Hornet Tribune, Alabama State University, Montgomery, Alabama
“It’s Time to Protest”

Ashleigh Fields
The Hilltop, Howard University, Washington, District of Columbia
“A Look Inside: Student Organizer And HUSA President Meet With President Frederick To Discuss Student Demands”

Dania Kalaji
The Red & Black, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
“UGA professor resigns mid-class after student refuses to wear mask”

Sarah Michels
Kentucky Kernel, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
“NewsShowcase The worst tornado in Kentucky history, told through one Bowling Green neighborhood’s survival stories”

Elizabeth Napolitano
NYCity News Service, The City University of New York, New York, New York
“Too Close to Home”

Suhail Gharaibeh, Rachel Fadem, Rachel Cohen, Arnav Binaykia, Ryan Kawahara
Washington Square News, New York University, New York, New York
“NYU student shot on Brooklyn campus”

Milla Surjadi
The Chronicle, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
“Student Commencement speech bears striking resemblance to 2014 Harvard student address”

Connor McNeely, Aine Pierre, Cooper Sullivan
Old Gold & Black, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
“’Our house shook with the explosion:’ Students evacuate in aftermath of local fire”

Kate Cuadrado, Marek Corsello, Ryan Reynolds
The Beacon, University of Portland, Portland, Oregon
“Students gather to protest Fr. Dan’s residence in Lund Family Hall”

Amy Needham, Charlotte Matherly
The Breeze, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia
“Community Shares Personal Stories at Vigil”

Anushka Chakrabarti
Daily Bruin, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
“UCLA Medical School Faculty Allege Racially Biased Practices In Psychiatry Department”

Cate Charron
Indiana Daily Student, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
“Dissonance in due process”

Isaac Gleitz
The Franklin, Franklin College, Franklin, Indiana
“Uncovering Thomas Minar: A lifetime of achievement swallowed by consequences of hidden life”

Joey Sills
The Ball State Daily News, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
“Ball State students call for an on-campus minimum wage raise”

Hannah Pinski
The Daily Iowan, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
“UI students express the complications and challenges faced when reporting sexual violence and misconduct through university resources”

Rohan Goswami, Martha Sanchez
The Tulane Hullabaloo, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
“‘Chaos’ at Campus Health: Employees cite burnout, abuse, dangerous levels of turnover”

Vanessa Kiefer, Julian Wray
The Michigan Daily, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
“Daily investigation finds 30 years of alleged unprofessional conduct by two musicology professors”

Sarah Bakeman, Soraya Keiser
The Clarion, Bethel University, St. Paul, Minnesota
“Devastation from a distance”

Nathan Varnell, Casey Stavenhagen
The Battalion, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
“The Rudder Association”

Grant Johnson
The Breeze, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia
“Struggling in Silence”

Ta’Kyla Bates, Jeffrey Kelly
Alice, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
“Protest Music: Not a Genre, Not a Style, But a Method of Engagement”

Luc Stringer
Pursuit, California Baptist University, Riverside, California
“Our 9/11: How COVID-19 changed everything, again”

Esteban Preciado
The Southwestern College Sun, Southwestern College, Chula Vista, California
“Gorillas in Our Midst”

Maddy Franklin
The Red & Black, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
“Finding beauty in death: A day in the life of the Oconee Hill Cemetery caretakers”

Shelby Anne Taylor
Observer, Elgin Community College, Illinois, Illinois
“Ernesto Olea’s story is still being written: First-year ECC nursing student refuses to let HIV diagnosis define him”

Josie Fischels, Rachel Schilke
The Daily Iowan, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
“After 20 years, the UI and Daily Iowan remember 9/11”

Lily Mae Lazarus
The Tulane Hullabaloo, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
“Expel rapists:’ Survivors testify to sexual violence at Tulane”

Haeven Gibbons
Empire State Tribune, The Kings College, New York, New York
“Train Ride to Nowhere: Facing Homelessness in NYC After Aging Out of the Foster Care System”

Abby Gunderson
BYU Daily Universe, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
“How social media is widening the ideological divide in America”

Meredith Moran
The Collegian, University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia
“UR alumnus fights for Ukraine”

Ashlee Woods
The Crimson White, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
“Alabama ends 100-game win streak in College Station”

Matt Brown
Daily Forty-Niner, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, California
“Freshman phenom Jadon Jones sends Long Beach State to Big West Championship”

Jared Tay
Daily Bruin, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
“UCLA football takes down USC in highest-scoring win of 2021 season”

Robert Read
The Daily Iowan, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
“Hawkeye fans storm Duke Slater Field to celebrate Iowa’s win over Penn State”

Griffin Wong
The Harvard Crimson, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
“Last-Minute Comeback Lifts Football to 34-31 Win Over Yale in 137th Playing of The Game”

Ethan Ott
The Heights, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
“Eagles Drop Heartbreaker In Death Valley”

Jared Greenspan
The Michigan Daily, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
“Michigan shocks Ohio State, ends eight-game losing streak in The Game”

Jackson Roberts
The NewsHouse, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
“Syracuse women’s lacrosse bested 15-13 in Kayla Treanor’s return to Boston College”

Shane Hoffman
The Daily Emerald, The University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
“Oregon again dismantled by Utah, loses 38-10 in Pac-12 Championship”

Lawson Murrell
The Daily Gamecock, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina
“Analysis: Dawn Staley leads Gamecocks women’s basketball to 2022 national championship victory”

Anthony Gharib
Daily Trojan, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
“Inside Boogie Ellis’ mission to prove everyone wrong”

Ammy Sanchez, Victor Gonzalez-Vaca
The Reporter, Miami Dade College, Miami, Florida
“He Defected From The Cuban National Team In June, Now He Pitches At Miami Dade College”

Evan Gerike
Indiana Daily Student, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
“’The program is doomed’: Players say coach created a culture of fear”

Ian Hansen
The Ball State Daily News, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
“How K.J. got his cape: Ball State Football defensive line coach Keith McKenzie’s son, K.J., won a five-year battle with sickle cell anemia”

Robert Read
The Daily Iowan, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
“From Suwanee to Iowa City: Tyler Goodson’s path to becoming Iowa’s All-Big Ten running back”

Christopher Cicchiello
The NewsHouse, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
“Why doesn’t Syracuse University pay Otto the Oranges?”

Sasha Richie
The Chronicle, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
“46 years of family: Coach K on and off the basketball court”

Sadie Wuertz
The Beacon, University of Portland, Portland, Oregon
“More than the uniform: Volleyball players speak out about body image and sexism”

Max Ralph
The Daily Collegian, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
“Penn State football running back Noah Cain’s fight through adversity rallies hurricane-damaged hometown”

Lindsay Wyson
BYU Daily Universe, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
“Name, image, likeness: leveling the playing field for female athletes”

Editorial Board
The Crimson White, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
“Autherine Lucy Foster’s Name Does Not Belong Beside a Klansman’s”

Camila Gonzalez
The Southwestern College Sun, Southwestern College, Chula Vista, California
“Racists Co-opt First Amendment”

Jordan Parker, Nijzel Dotson, Emma Hall, Erick Salgado, Ayaana Williams
The State Hornet, California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, California
“President Nelsen, we don’t accept your apology — you should resign”

Corryn Brock
Daily Eastern News, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois
“Racism towards Homecoming Court not OK”

Parker Yamasaki
F Newsmagazine, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
“Tell Me How You Really Feel”

Gillian Stawiszynski, Brooklyn Kelley, Rayleigh Deaton
Kentucky Kernel, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
“Game over: UK can no longer hide behind its lawsuit”

Editorial Board
The Harvard Crimson, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
“On the Unnecessary Comaroff Letter”

Srishti Bungle, Alex Tey
Washington Square News, New York University, New York, New York
“Do no harm, Grossman. Reject Sabatini.”

Staff
The Appalachian, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina
“Nikole Hannah-Jones, the UNC System does not deserve you”

Nora Smith
The Vanderbilt Hustler, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
“Masked up; Let down”

Erik Uebelacker
The DePaulia, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois
“I joined Truth Social so you don’t have to”

Shannon McCloskey
Ball Bearings Magazine, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
“My Pink Snowsuit”

Yassie Buchanan
The Daily Iowan, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
“Evaluating Iowa’s racial disparities in infant mortality”

Hana Kiros
The Harvard Crimson, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
“’A Slow Motion Version of the Death Penalty’: Why Harvard Shouldn’t Invest In Prisons”

Rachel Blood
Textura, Bethel University, St. Paul, Minnesota
“Learning to live”

Ary Russell
Washington Square News, New York University, New York, New York
“Ranked: NYU students who will break your heart by senior year”

Ian Grenier
The Daily Gamecock, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina
“Column: USC’s historical markers tell an incomplete history”

Debbie Wang
The Vanderbilt Hustler, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
“WANG: What’s in a name?”

Zach Freeman
The Battalion, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
“And nothing else matters”

Tagwa Shammet
The Commonwealth Times, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
“Tea Time With Tagwa: This nation’s justice system delivers anything but justice”

River Lisius
The Occidental, Occidental College, Los Angeles, California
“’It doesn’t meet the threshold’: Asian students reported anti-Asian texts in November 2021, the search for solutions continues”

Matt Cohen
Indiana Daily Student, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
“Indignity in death: Unmarked graves in Bloomington indicate long history of racism”

Staff
The Harvard Crimson, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
“The Harvard Crimson”

Harm Venhuizen
Chimes, Calvin University, Grand Rapids, Michigan
“Walking a tightrope’: Calvin’s complicated stance on LGBTQ+ issues has caused problems for decades”

Emma Roberts, Savannah Heeren, Estefania Rosal, Matt Tiegland
Textura, Bethel University, St. Paul, Minnesota
“Fear for the fearless: A mother spends years fighting for her disabled son, but when she loses her job, she must let go to rely on him”

Jade Neptune, Jennifer Tran, Adele Morris, Liv Reilly, Maydha Devarajan
The Daily Tar Heel, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
“DEI Package”

Chris Kuo
The Chronicle, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
“Meet Durham’s Friendship House, a community of Divinity School students and people with disabilities”

Olivia Bennett
Flux Magazine, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
“High School Students Fight for Representation in Newberg”

Katherine Oung, Rachael Perrotta, Charlotte Mauger, Ekta Anand, Mae Monette
The Vanderbilt Hustler, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
“Diversity at Vanderbilt”

Ashlyn Campbell, Kamryn Koch, Jake Conley
The Breeze, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia
“Divided Over Diversity”

Ana Paola Olvera
The Southwestern College Sun, Southwestern College, Chula Vista, California
“COVID Angel“

Misael Cruz
Inside Fullerton, Fullerton College, Fullerton, California
“Finding Art During Adversity“

Ana Acosta
Daily Forty-Niner, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, California
“From incarceration to liberation“

Brady Caskey
Mustang Media Group, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, California
“The Man Behind the Maze“

Emmalyse Brownstein
Distraction Magazine, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
“She’s Got Rhythm“

Grayson Buning, Tess Crowley
The Michigan Daily, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
“Photo Essay: Sam Grewe“

Soraya Keiser, Majo Diaz, Bryson Rosell
Textura, Bethel University, St. Paul, Minnesota
“A bus, a brocha and bullet holes:
Checha Taj drives one of the most distinctive forms of Guatemalan public transportation despite the danger that comes with the job“

Chris Kuo
The Chronicle, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
“I wish I could do it forever:
The story of Dean Sue’s decades at Duke, from student to dean to faculty-in-residence“

Sarah-Mae McCullough
Flux Magazine, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
“Between Two Worlds“

Jose Romero
The Collegian, Tarrant County College, Hurst, Texas
“A man, his art and phenomenology“

Nina Irani
The Guardsman, City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
“Saving San Francisco One Species at a Time”

Elizabeth Wilson, Emma Robertson
Mustang News, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, California
“How San Luis Obispo Communities are affected by the California drought”

Ryan Mulroy
Distraction Magazine, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
“Eco-Illusion”

Elle Larson
Ke Alaka’i, Brigham Young University Hawaii, Laie, Hawaii
“A combination of harvesting and coastal erosion continues to deplete the world of its second most used natural resource: sand”

Hanalei Potempa
The Arbiter, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho
“The climate crisis in Idaho: Experts share environmental and health concerns”

Nate Eisenmann
Drake Mag, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa
“Beating the Heat”

Ellie Rose Mattoon
The Johns Hopkins News-Letter, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
“Who was the plastic bag ban designed for?”

Laura Bratton
NYCity News Service, The City University of New York, New York, New York
“One Flood Too Many”

Jules Kourelakos
The Chronicle, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
“Duke students’ nonprofit Operation Climate tackles science misinformation through storytelling”

Chloe Bryant
Flux Magazine, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
“Stewards of the River”