Awards
In November 2009, the paper took home over a third of the prizes at the Guardian Student Media Awards, and were nominated for a further two. Patrick Kingsley was named Student Journalist of the Year; Michael Stothard won in the Best Reporter category; Zing Tsjeng was the Best Feature Writer; Ben Riley-Smith was Best Sports Reporter; while Charlotte Runcie was awarded Best Columnist, with Rob Peal runner-up.
For several consecutive years in the 1950s and 1960s the paper won the award for Britain's best student newspaper. (In the mid-1950s it was temporarily banned from entering for the award on grounds that it was "too professional" and other publications should be given a chance to win.) Recently, it was successful in the 2004 Guardian Student Media Awards where it won the prize for best columnist (Archie Bland) and came runner-up in best sports writer category (Sam Richardson). In 2005 Varsity writer Sam Richardson won the Guardian's Student Diversity Writer of the Year award. In 2006, Sophie Pickford was the runner-up for best sports writer of the year.
In 2007, Varsity won the Guardian Student Media Awards' Student Publication Design of the Year.
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