Spring Break
Student publication wins national award
Brittani McNeill
Issue date: 3/24/09 Section: News
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"The Rebel" is a magazine produced for and by ECU students. It is an outlet for student designers and contributors to share their work and artistic talents. Not only does it provide a medium for students to display their creativity and artistic abilities, but it also provides an opportunity for contributors and designers to build their portfolios with an example of quality, professional work.
"Rebel" is not limited to art majors. Submissions are solicited during the fall semester, and any student with a desire to share their creativity with the ECU community is encouraged to submit their work. An independent panel of judges chooses the winners, and the individual writers and artists retain the rights to all work published.
ECU alum Lacey Siva was the editor of "Rebel 50," and said receiving the award is a gratifying experience.
"It was really awesome, especially having graduated and left the school and still hearing about it," she said. "Knowing that all our hard work really paid off and it was worth everything we put into it."
Siva said they wanted to produce a great magazine to represent the creativity of current students as well as to recognize the history of the magazine, in honor of it's 50th anniversary.
"Our whole driving force was just to represent the students as best as possible," she said. "And remembering that it was an important event and paying homage to all the other 'Rebels' before us."
The 2009 Crowns were judged at Columbia University on Dec. 13-15, 2008. Finalists were revealed as either Gold Crowns or Silver Crowns at an awards ceremony during the Spring College Media Convention in New York City last week. ECU Student Media Director Paul Isom accepted the award.
"Rebel" is a representation of the varied artistic talents of ECU students. According to Isom, the magazine offers a broad spectrum of material.
"There's no limitation, there's no specific subject matter. It's anything and everything related to art," he said. "A lot of people don't realize that in the back it has a DVD that has music and sometimes animation and film categories that are submitted, so when you get the book you can also watch and listen to things that ECU students have created."
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