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Model UN Best Ever
Two teams of CSU, Chico students garnered high honors at
the Model UN conference in New York City in April 2003. The
conference was attended by more than 3,000 student delegates
from universities around the world. Students representing
Palestine won an Outstanding Position Paper Award and an Outstanding
Delegation Award, an honor earned by only eight of the 206
delegations. The team representing Bosnia-Herzegovina won
an Outstanding Position Paper Award and a Distinguished Delegation
Award, an award given to only 12 delegations. Professor
Rick Ostrom is adviser to the team.
Winning Trailer Hitch
A team of six manufacturing technology students, advised
by Leonard Fallscheer, took the grand prize
in the Western Tool Exposition and Conference (WESTEC) Advanced
Productivity Exposition in Los Angeles in March 2003. The
team won with their design of a trailer hitch insert.
Speech and Debate Champions
At the Cross Examination Debate Tournament in Arizona in
March 2003, the debate team won the first-place western region
sweepstakes award for the third straight year. The forensics
team won the Northern California Forensic Association (NCFA)
Championship Tournament first-place sweepstakes award at Cal
Poly, San Luis Obispo in February, besting 35 institutions.
Chekechea Pryor and Nic Palmer
were named Junior State Champions. Professor Kristina
Schriver was named 2002 Director of the Year by the
NCFA.
 SIFE
in Top 8
The CSU,
Chico Students in Free Enterprise team was named first
runner-up in the four-year division at the 2003 SIFE USA National
Exposition in Missouri. More than 800 teams presented their
educational outreach and entrepreneurship projects. The team
is recognized as one of the top eight schools in the United
States. The
CSU, Chico SIFE team was named International Champion
in 1999, won first place in 1998, and second place in 2002.
Pictured right, Allison Steltzner with 6th
grader Mekayla Alter-Reitz.
The Orion Sets the Standard
The
Orion, CSU, Chico's award-winning student newspaper,
was named Newspaper of the Year by the Associated Collegiate
Press in March 2003, taking first place in the four-year college
weekly division. This marks the third straight year and the
fifth time in six years that The
Orion has won the first-place award. The
Orion was also named the nation's best college newspaper
in 2002 by the National Newspaper Association.
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