The Collegian - Hutchinson Community College

07/22/2024

Congrats to Lizzie, who will be our Campus Editor this coming fall!

2024 Distinguished Dragon - LIZZIE KIPP

From Hutchinson, Lizzie Kipp is studying Elementary Education while at HutchCC. Her nominator writes about her great work as a staff writer for the Hutchinson Collegian as well as about her success in her classes while working two different jobs in the community. She has also been recognized for being named repeatedly to the President’s Honor Roll and has received scholarships for journalism as well as education.

Her favorite HutchCC experience so far has been working on the Collegian and meeting all the wonderful people along the way. She would like to thank Brad Hallier for his support and leadership, which both greatly influenced her to return to school after taking a semester off.
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Nominated by the faculty and staff of Hutchinson Community College, Distinguished Dragons are students who demonstrated outstanding character traits, campus involvement and academic success during the previous year. Look for more Distinguished Dragon posts on social media during Summer 2024.

07/19/2024

Congrats to outgoing sports editor Sam Ojeda for being named third team academic All American!

73 BLUE DRAGON ATHLETES EARN NJCAA ALL-ACADEMIC HONORS

07/14/2024

Congrats to our outgoing Editor In Chief!

2024 Distinguished Dragon - CARLY THOMPSON

From Hutchinson, Carly Thompson completed an Associate of Arts while at HutchCC. Her nominator writes that she has been an excellent Editor in Chief of the Hutchinson Collegian not just from a journalism perspective but also from a leadership perspective. He adds, “Carly’s attention to detail and taking every story - no matter how big or small - serious made her an easy choice for this role.” In addition to being a key member of the Hutchinson Collegian staff, Carly is a member of Phi Theta Kappa as well as a recipient of both the Reno County Activity Scholarship as well as the Annual Fund Drive Scholarship.

One of her most fond experiences at HutchCC is serving as the Editor in Chief of The Collegian. When it comes to thanking someone at HutchCC, she writes, “I would like to thank Brad Hallier for being so supportive and believing in me when I didn’t believe in myself.” She would also like to thank her parents and friends for being her support system and adds that she would not have made it through without them.

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Nominated by the faculty and staff of Hutchinson Community College, Distinguished Dragons are students who demonstrated outstanding character traits, campus involvement and academic success during the previous year. Look for more Distinguished Dragon posts on social media during Summer 2024.

05/15/2024

Rob Yates shares his path to education at HutchCC. It wasn't easy. Story by Greta Klein.

Rob Yates, a speech professor at Hutchinson Community College, is someone who has overcome adversity in his life.

05/02/2024

Opinion Page Editor Lynn Spahr reviews a new Netflix show.

http://hutchcollegian.com/2024/04/28/were-eating-monsters-now-netflixs-new-show-gets-creative-with-its-menu/

05/02/2024

Chris Johnson has been soaring to new heights for the Blue Dragon track and field team. Final byline by our outgoing Sports Editor, Sam Ojeda.

http://hutchcollegian.com/2024/05/02/chris-johnson-soars-to-new-heights-for-blue-dragon-track-and-field-team/

05/02/2024

The Collegian staff won dozens of awards at the annual KCM contest, and also won two prestigious staff awards. Editor In Chief Carly Thompson was also named runner-up for two-year college journalist of the year.

A list of all winners is in the link below, compiled and written by Sammi Carpenter.

The Hutchinson Collegian staff had the chance to go to Wichita State for the Kansas Collegiate Media Convention. Every year KCM holds a convention for

04/30/2024

Opinion - What does the loss of community spaces mean? It means fewer human connections.

What happens after work? 

04/30/2024

Refugees come to HutchCC to try to improve their lives. Story from Lizzie Kipp, photos from Grace Vallejo.

Among them, HutchCC recently welcomed some refugee families to the Adult Education Center, which is located in Lockman Hall.

04/29/2024

Staff writer Lizzie Kipp wishes Generation Z would appreciate rock much more.

However, here’s what bothers me: I feel like no one in Generation Z listens to rock anymore, which has been a staple in the music industry for decades. 

04/27/2024

First-year Blue Dragon baseball coach has Blue Dragons sitting on top of Jayhawk West and contending for Region 6 title. Story by Greta Klein, photo from Grace Vallejo.

Many people search for this type of community throughout their lives. For Hutchinson Community College baseball coach Brock Nehls, home has consisted of

04/26/2024

David Grann's visit to Hutchinson included discussion on the history rarely taught in school. Story by Jolie Shultz.

However, certain subjects, like the topic of David Grann’s 2017 novel “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI”, seem to be

04/26/2024

President Paramore - VP of Academic Affairs discusses her promotion at HutchCC, taking over for the retiring Carter File. Story and photos by Carly Thompson, in her final byline for the Collegian.

Tricia Paramore began her career at Hutchinson Community College as a biology instructor in 1996. 

04/25/2024

Congrats to our Sports Editor, Sam Ojeda, a pitcher for the Blue Dragons!

Crown them!👑

For the first time since 2021, Blue Dragon baseball has won the Jayhawk West title, it's 13th conference title in team history!! 🐉

04/23/2024

From Online Editor Jolie Shultz: The first year of college has taught me a lot about who I am.

With only three weeks left in Hutchinson Community College’s 2024 spring semester, my freshman year of college is almost over. It may sound like a cliche, but

04/23/2024

Back to back!

04/23/2024

From Collegian advisor Brad Hallier.

What an incredible weekend. The Collegian won 39 individual awards at the annual Kansas Collegiate Media Conference, and had the runner-up for two-year college journalist of the year.

But the day got better when we found out that we won the All Kansas Award for a second straight year as the top juco newspaper in Kansas.

And then … well, I didn’t see this coming. The organization started a new award last year called the Big J. It is given to the publication that went way above and beyond. Last year, Emporia State’s newspaper won this thanks to their coverage of the mass layoffs of tenured faculty. They set the bar so high that I never imagined The Collegian would ever win something like this.

I was wrong. KCM gave the Collegian the Big J for covering the NJCAA women’s national championship game in Casper, Wyo. I just thought we should do what any reputable news organization should do. Go to the big event, and cover the heck out of it.

I can’t say enough about this staff. So much goes on that nobody sees, especially that week of the championship game. Not only did Sammi Carpenter, Graciela Vallejo, Greta Klein and Jolie Shultz expertly cover the game in a myriad of ways, but Sam Ojeda did work back in Hutch while watching the game, and Carly Thompson and Lizzie Kipp helped design a special section celebrating the win on a week they weren’t slated to do a print edition.

Folks, continue to support these kids. They’re doing a great job helping fill a news gap in our community.

Local journalism for the win!

04/22/2024

The final round of awards were presented today. Here are the Collegian winners. The categories were in various divisions.

First place
Sammi Carpenter, Sports Feature Writing
Braedon Martin, Headline Writing
Sam Ojeda, Social Media Reporting; Sports Game/News Writing
Carly Thompson, Front Page Design; Column Writing
Ainsley Trunkhill, Feature Writing

Second place
Lizzie Kipp, Feature Writing
Greta Klein, Sports Feature Writing; Sports Game/News Writing
Josie Schrag, Social Media Reporting
Jolie Shultz, Headline Writing
Carly Thompson, Front Page Design

Third place
Victoria Lewis, Sports Feature Writing
Braedon Martin, Front Page Design; Editorial Writing
Sam Ojeda, Sports Game/News Writing
Jolie Shultz, Social Media Reporting
Lynn Spahr, Headline Writing

Honorable Mention
Victoria Lewis, Feature Writing
Connor Keating, Feature Writing
Sam Ojeda, Sports Game/News Writing
Lynn Spahr, Headline Writing; Column Writing

04/22/2024

Here are the results from the first round of awards for the Collegian at the annual KCM contest.

Categories were in various divisions.

First place winners
Danae Moser - Inside Page Design
Sam Ojeda - Profile writing
Josie Schrag - Feature photography
Ainsley Trunkhill - Breaking/General News

Second place winners
Paige Asberry - Inside Page Design
Jolie Shultz - Feature photography
Lynn Spahr - Review Writing
Carly Thompson - Breaking/General News
Graciela Vallejo - Sports photography; Portrait photography

Third place winners
Connor Keating - Review Writing
Sam Ojeda - Inside Page Design
Ainsley Trunkhill/Laci Sutton - Profile Writing
Graciela Vallejo - Sports photography

Honorable mention winners
Carly Thompson - Headline Design
Ainsley Trunkhill - Breaking/General News

Congrats to the winners! More to come tomorrow!

04/22/2024

From advisor Brad Hallier:

We had our first round of awards at the annual KCM convention tonight and we’ll get to all those later.

First, we want to congratulate our fearless Editor In Chief Carly Thompson. She was named the runner-up for two-year college journalist of the year! The progress this kid has made has been substantial. She would have rather eaten a box of deep-fried plutonium than been EIC when I asked her about it last year, but Carly showed she was more than capable! She joins a long line of Collegian winners in the Journalist of the Year contest.

Proud of you Chief!

04/20/2024

We're trying out a new feature that we hope to carry into next year - Student Spotlight. Check out the first version of this Q&A, as staff writer Cassidy Peterson interviews Nickolas Zizumbo.

Nickolas Zizumbo is from Hutchinson and has attended Hutchinson Community College as a full-time student for two years. He is majoring in Pre-Pharmacy and

04/18/2024

BREAKING: Hutchinson Community College announces that the Board of Trustees have approved Tricia Paramore as the next college president.

Paramore is currently the Vice President of Academic Affairs at HutchCC.

Paramore, a 28-year veteran of the institution, will take over for the retiring Carter File. Paramore is expected to take over on July 1.

04/18/2024

Carly Thompson lets you know about the finalists for the next HutchCC president.

Each candidate came to the HutchCC campus for open forums for faculty, staff, students and the public. Within the past week, after last Thursday’s announcement.

04/18/2024

Blue Dragon baseball continues strong push to the conference title. Story by Greta Klein, photo by Jolie Shultz.

By Greta KleinStaff writer

04/16/2024

The voice of the Blue Dragons is signing off. Story by Cleary Percy.

It has been quite the broadcasting career for Glen Grunwald.

04/16/2024

There's a new math option coming for students starting this fall.

Good news is on the horizon for the Hutchinson Community College students that are not looking forward to having to take a higher math class. 

04/12/2024

Next DLS speaker has written a popular novel that turned into a blockbuster movie last year. Preview by Paige Asberry.

David Grann is a New York journalist and novelist, whose bestselling book, “Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI”, was

04/11/2024

It seems many HutchCC students are carrying around a cup. What's in there? Carly Thompson spoke with several students to get an idea of what's in the cup?

By Carly ThompsonEditor in Chief

04/11/2024

How acceptable is swearing in the classroom? Jolie Shultz with the story.

By Jolie ShultzOnline Editor

04/11/2024

The final theatre production of the academic year will be this weekend. Preview by Carly Thompson, photos from Jolie Shultz.

By Carly ThompsonEditor In Chief