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# Corsair wins 21 awards in state competition
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/corsair-wins-21-awards-in-state-competition/
- Published: 2004-04-23T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T04:14:36.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Education, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

Santa Monica College’s Corsair newspaper has won 21 awards, including top honors for general excellence for the online publication, in the statewide Journalism Association of Community Colleges’ competition.

The general excellence award for Corsair online was given for its fall issues under editor Jesus “Z” Aguirre.

SMC students also captured first-place awards in the on-the-spot competition — Nicholas R. Chen and Margaret Molloy tied with Mark Sandstrom and Marie- Claude Hamel, the current Corsair editor, in the photo-illustration category.

The awards for the print edition of the paper reflect achievements of the staff under fall semester editor Nehemiah Slaughter as well as Hamel. The faculty advisor is Barbara Baird.

In the mail-in category, from the fall semester staff, a second-place award went to the Corsair staff for best overall use of photo and graphics, and third-place honors went to Danny Grace for column writing.

Several other students won fourth-place awards and honorable mentions in both the mail-in and live competitions. They are Slaughter, Hamel, Andrei Lucien, Jonathan Derby, Blair Clarkson, Marie A. King, Molloy, Sandstrom, Chen, Dan Sandoval, Morgan Genser, Raul Vasquez and Josh Hill.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 23, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/042304.pdf?ref=smdp.com)