From Wingspan staff

Wingspan will not post during the summer. The staff of Wingspan will return in August. Look for the first issue hitting the stands Sept. 17.

Board approves facilities plan

Wingspan Staff

The Laramie County Community College Board of Trustees unanimously approved May 16 the 2012–2020 facilities plan. The board agreed to consistently call a new building for instructional space for the arts and humanities division the Fine and Performing Arts Building.

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First Amendment Guardian

Wyoming Press Association Executive Director Jim Angell accepts the Howard Major First Amendment Guardian Award from Laramie County Community College student and Wingspan writer Katie Blaser at the LCCC Wingspan annual awards luncheon on April 30.

Photo by Bruce Enever

Students name WPA executive director 'First Amendment Guardian'

The executive director of the Wyoming Press Association received an award April 30 for his work supporting the First Amendment from journalism students at Laramie County Community College.

The WPA's Jim Angell was named the third recipient of the Howard Major First Amendment Guardian Award. In 2010, the award was created in honor of Dr. Howard Major, who retired in 2010 as dean of LCCC's Arts and Humanities Division and was a champion of the First Amendment and the "marketplace of ideas."

Wingspan, LCCC's student newspaper, gives the award when someone or group supports one of the First Amendment's five freedoms—speech, press, religion, assembly and petition—from infringement at LCCC.

In giving the award at the newspaper's annual awards luncheon, Katie Blaser, Wingspan managing editor, said: "Jim Angell testified during the fall semester on the open records rules proposed for approval by the LCCC trustees, cumbersome rules that would have made LCCC less transparent. He assisted Wingspan in the fight that resulted in the rules not being adopted."

Major was the first recipient of the award, and Dr. Kevin Kilty, LCCC trustee and former LCCC instructor was the second recipient.