Architecture students again named best in U.S.

An architecture student organization at Mississippi State is again receiving recognition as best in the nation for 1997.

The campus chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students is sharing first-place honors with the University of Hawaii. The honor is a repeat for the Mississippi State organization, which also took first-place honors in 1993 and is the only national chapter to twice earn the distinction.

Representing 123 chapters, the national organization annually chooses its most outstanding on the basis of membership increases, funding procedures, and level of activity.

Chapter president Kevin Patterson of Madison said members "worked hard to have a nearly 100 percent increase in membership over the past year and to prove that a self-supported chapter can have just as much success as other (fully funded) chapters."