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The staff of Clemson's yearbook recently received national and state recognition for this year's TAPS yearbook.

Jostens, Inc., a supplier of yearbooks, graduation products, class rings and school photography featured TAPS in their publication, the "Gotcha Covered Look Book," which showcases covers, endsheets, spreads and photographs from yearbooks around the country. Jostens recognized the TAPS staff for their 2005 yearbook display cover.

The American Scholastic Press recently named the same edition of TAPS "Best University Yearbook." The association also awarded the yearbook "First Place with Special Merit."

According to the association's website, every school yearbook who applies for consideration gets scored on a point system. From these points, the publication can recieve first, second or third place.

Only publications with exceptional design and content receive the "First Place with Special Merit" award. According to TAPS' managing editor Mandy Baker, the scoring rubric adds up to equal 1,000 points, and TAPS received 970 of them.

TAPS also entered the same 2005 edition in the Columbia Scholastic Press Association's Crown Awards. This association plans to announce the winners at the College Media Advisers' 82nd Annual Scholastic Convention on March 17.

Eight members of the staff will attend this conference. During their stay, the staff members will be given the opportunity to learn more about the "latest technology available to produce quality campus media, as well as opportunities to network with other students and advisers from around the country," said Baker.

The eight staff members also hope to hear TAPS announced as a winner as they check out more than 500 newspapers, magazines and yearbooks that entered and will be displayed at the convention.

"We are excited about the awards the 2005 Taps has already received and hopeful that the CMA conference will bring more awards!" said Baker.

"The sophistication and quality of the work produced by yearbook staffs is remarkable. The design, photography, reporting and journalistic quality of many school yearbooks approach the work of professionals," said Gary Lundgren, senior program manager. "The Jostens "Gotcha Covered Look Book" features the best of the best."

These accomplishments affect not only the students working with TAPS, for the faculty and students purchasing the yearbook benefit as well. According to the American Scholastic Press's website, "Many studies have shown that the school yearbook is the one single item most often saved by graduates and can be located by most people even 10 years later."

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