Month: January 2011

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University accounting students will assist taxpayers with an income of less than $40,000 in the preparation of Internal Revenue Service income tax forms 1040, 1040A, 1040EZ and the Kentucky form 740. The service is free. Student volunteers will be available each Wednesday in February (2, 9, 16 and 23) from 3-5:30 p.m. on the first floor of Transylvania’s Cowgill Center for Business, Economics and Education on Third Street. This is a popular program and taxpayers will be served on a first-come, first-served basis. Transylvania accounting students, who have completed an income tax preparation training program, will work under the supervision of accounting professors to aid taxpayers. Individuals interested in this free service should bring with them all of the necessary information including: their W2s, 1099s (interest income), state and federal tax returns from last year, the IRS forms received in the mail and the birthdates and social security numbers for any dependents. Transylvania has offered this free program to the Lexington community for more than 20 years. For more information, contact the public relations office at (859) 233-8120 or Stephanie Coriale at (859) 233-8104.

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University’s student newspaper, The Rambler, was again a big winner in the Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Association (KIPA) awards competition. Current and former staffers picked up four first-place awards and several second- and third-place honors at the group’s annual conference in Louisville this past weekend. The yearly competition for two- and four-year campus newspapers features a variety of categories designed to showcase the talent of student journalists throughout the state. The Rambler writers, photographers and page designers competed in the division for schools with fewer than 5,000 students. Among the top winners was sophomore Jake Hawkins, the paper’s news editor. Hawkins won two first-place awards in news-one for his story on Kentucky’s texting while driving law and the other for his work with 2010 graduate Kim Rodgers covering the university’s search for a new president. News judges Kevin Kelly and Brenna Kelly of the Cincinnati Enquirer had high praise for Hawkins and Rodgers in particular, saying they “did a great job of chronicling the school’s search for a new president. The paper covered the candidate forums with students, profiled each candidate, then interviewed the winner.”  The judges commented that Hawkins and Rodgers were very thorough in their coverage. Also bringing home a first-place award was photographer Ian Gerard in the feature photo category. His photo of Transy students marching in the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Freedom March in Lexington last year was deemed “a nice moment from an

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