Local News in Brief : Mission Viejo : College Newspaper Gets National Recognition

Saddleback College’s student newspaper, the Lariat, has been recognized as one of the best community college newspapers in the nation by judges at the University of Minnesota-based Associated Collegiate Press, the nation’s oldest and largest college press organization.

The Lariat received two All-American ratings--one for fall, 1987, and the other for spring, 1988. The lead judge for the spring-semester issues said in his summary statement: “This is the best paper I’ve seen at (the community college) level; more than that, it is better than the overwhelming majority of weeklies produced by four-year schools (and) most professional weeklies. . . . “

In a separate rating, the lead judge for the fall, 1987, issues said of the Lariat: “There is much to praise and little to criticize in this very excellent paper.”

Saddleback College President Constance Carroll said she was “delighted” that the Lariat had been honored at the national level.

“The newspaper is excellent in every way due to the talented students in the journalism program who produce it and their adviser, Prof. J. Michael Reed,” she said.