A University journalism student has won a prestigious national award to be presented at Indiana University this October.
Emerald summer Editor in
Chief Jared Paben, a junior, will
receive a $2,000 scholarship, airfare, lodging and limosine
transportation to Indiana University for placing as a runner-up in the Roy W. Howard national reporting competition. The award sponsor, the Scripps Howard Foundation, will also present a $750 grant to the Oregon Daily Emerald.
“I nearly threw the award
notice away when I received it in the mail,” Paben said. “I wasn’t aware that [former Emerald editor]
Brad Schmidt had submitted my story for an award.”
Paben’s award was based upon a series of stories he wrote last year about a controversy involving the Department of Public Safety. An officer struck a fleeing cyclist with his patrol vehicle while pursuing the suspect on a pedestrian-only area. The officer later resigned, and DPS is currently drafting a vehicle-use policy.
Clarence Page, columnist for the Chicago Tribune, will present Paben with the Howard award October 11 at Indiana University.

— Michael A. Booth