Vol. 31, No. 2StetMichigan Interscholastic Press Association

June 2004

Inside

Hilary LeFevere from St. Johns HS took this photo, which won first place in the On-site contest. Hilary’s adviser is Cindy Irish.

On-SiteFirst Place Winner in Photography

Pied Grafs is back!

4On-site Conference winners

82004 Spartan Yearbook Contest Entry Form

112004-2005 MIPAMembership Form

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Stet is the official news-letter of the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association, an agency of the School of Jour-nalism, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1212. Stet is published four times a year by the MIPA execu-tive director and MSUstudents.

StetJulie Price, Haslett HS (517) 339-8249Brian Wilson, Waterford Kettering HS (248) 673-6287 Rod Satterthwaite, Dexter HS (734) 426-3991Kim Kozian, L’Anse Creuse HS North (810) 949-4450 ex 45Nikki Faricy, Stevenson HS (810) 268-4700 Amber Gilmore, Clarkston HS (248) 623-3600Sandra Strall, Carlson HS (734) 379-9617Julie Price, Haslett HS (517) 339-8249Gloria Olman, Utica HS (586) 254-8300 ex 61Betsy Pollard Rau, H.H. Dow HS (517) 839-2482OpenDiane Herder, Laingsburg HS (517) 651-5091Lynn Strause, East Lansing HS (517) 332-2545Jeff Nardone, Grosse Pointe South HS (313) 343-2133Cheryl Pell, Michigan State University (517) 353-6761Jane Briggs-Bunting, MSU School of Journalism (517) 355-1520 E-mail: mipa@msu.eduhttp://www.mipa.jrn.msu.eduStephanie Guzdzial, Traci Carpenter

President1st Vice President

2nd Vice PresidentSecretary

TrusteeTrusteeTrustee

Newspaper ChairLegislative Chair

Workshop ChairMiddle School Chair

Broadcast ChairYearbook Chair

Hall of Fame ChairExecutive Director

J-School Director

Editorial Assistant

MIPA Officers 2003-2004

JULIE PRICE ■ HASLETT HS

The President’s Column

Please see PRESIDENT’S COLUMN on page 3.

I’M hanging up my MIPA presidential robe soon. The gavel will become the

responsibility of someone else, as will understanding Robert’s Rules of Order.

As of April, my two-year term as president officially ends. Stepping in will be Brian Wilson of Waterford Kettering High School. I know Brian will serve MIPA well, as he’s already shown during his time as a trustee and first vice president on the board. And I am positive he will do better than I with old Robert’s Rules.

While I leave office confident for the future, I also feel a bit melancholy. I can’t believe it’s over. Two years have raced by, and I don’t think I’ve really done all that much. But Cheryl Pell said (and I always listen to Cheryl) that I need to look back on all that’s been accomplished during my term. She pointed out that we’ve boosted our broadcasting options, our adviser mentorship program is a rousing success, and the middle school fall conference got off to a great start. Our finances are in good shape and we continue to offer scholastic journalists wonderful educational opportunities and advisers a solid support system.

OK, so maybe some things have been accomplished during my two years.

But it’s not me who did these things. It’s the entire board and MIPA organization. I have been a firsthand observer of how when you bring together a group of creative minds passionate about a common cause

– in this case scholastic journalism – the potential for

accomplishment is boundless. I’ve been president for the past two years, but more importantly, I’ve been a member of an organization that continues to inspire and refresh me. In this day and age when disenchantment with schools, government and sometimes our world can be overwhelming, it’s lifesaving to be involved in something that I continue to feel positive about, even after eight years of involvement.

As I ramble on about ending my term as president and hanging up that robe, you must know that I’m reaching out and immediately picking up another robe. It is the one I will wear as MIPA newspaper chair.

This robe is quite different. It’s slightly tattered and has newsprint and coffee stains on it. This is the one I wear in the morning when I shuffle to the kitchen, pour a fat mug of steaming java and settle down to read the daily newspaper. It’s a robe I’ve worn for years. It’s a favorite robe and one I hope will serve me well in my new MIPA position.

I love newspapers. I’ve loved them since I was a young kid and lived to read the comics pages each morning in the Detroit Free Press. Newspapers are where I learned about the world and politics and what wonderful writing can be. Newspapers are where I made my living for 15 years, beginning at the age of 17 when an old editor at the Romeo Observer

Picking up a different robe

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took me under his wing and sent me out to cover township board meetings. I’ll never forget the first time I saw my byline in a newspaper.

And now newspapers are where I see high school students find their voices and learn first-hand how their words can make a difference for other people. It’s not my byline in the paper anymore, it’s Tricia’s and Katie’s and Ann’s and Jim’s and Andrew’s and, well, the list can go on and cover nine years of students. I am pleased to step into the newspaper chair position and help MIPA offer its students and advisers the opportunity for healthy competition and useful critiques. I am excited to help continue a strong program and, hopefully, make a difference by initiating change when it is needed. We want to keep fresh for the good of our young journalists.

So as one robe is hung up, a good old favorite will be pulled down and put to use. Thank you for letting me be your president and I look forward to my new role. It’s easy to go into it feeling confident when I have all of you wonderful folks to help me be good at it. Just don’t be offended by the coffee and newsprint stains on my old, but well-loved robe.

Book Corner

■ 159 pages

■ Includes sample lay-outs from 19 diverse mag-azines

■ Includes a two-page glossary of

design terms

■ US $30 (paperback)

■ Rockport Publishers, Inc.

■ ISBN 1-56496-758-1

Additional facts about the book

Magazine Design That Works: Secrets for Successful Magazine Design

Would you like to write a review for Stet? If the book is related to scholastic journalism, please feel free to send in a review. We’ll also need a photo of the book. E-mail mipa@msu.edu.

PRESIDENT’SCOLUMN,cont. from page 2

By Amber Gilmore, Clarkston HS

If you are a publication adviser, you just might be what “Magazine Design that Works” author Stacey King calls a “magazine junkie.”

After listening to countless presenters, evaluators and instructors in the journalism world, you may have learned to absorb magazines rather than simply read them. You may now realize that a copy of Martha Stewart Living provides more than just napkin folding tech-niques. For you, it includes sample headline styles, possible folio

treatments and new presentations for pulled quotes in your year-book or newspaper.

While this is wonderful, it may have lead to another realiza-tion: possessing this knowledge yourself is a lot easier than

passing it on. It is one thing to recognize good design. It is another to teach it.

Thankfully, that’s where “Magazine Design That Works” can help. No, it doesn’t directly teach how

to design a yearbook layout. But, it does present samples of layouts from some attractive magazines,

including Real Simple, GQ and Entertainment Weekly—magazines you probably already use for inspiration.Best of all, these layouts are accompanied by clear,

concise explanations of why these designs are attractive. When it comes time to teach students how to create their own

attractive designs, these explanations help. With them, students are able to move beyond looking at a layout and saying, “That’s cool.” They are able to explain just what the “coolness” is.

After a brief introduction that discusses four F’s of design: format, formula, frame and function, the book is divided into sections featur-ing individual magazines. Use of color, creative use of type, legibility, text as illustration, photography and appeal to a target audience are just a few of the topics discussed in each section. And, while publica-tion advisers aren’t magazine publishers, these are clearly topics we address in our own student publications.

In addition, the book includes several feature sections particularly useful to share with students. “About the Grid” may help students more reluctant to follow design “rules” see that even professional designers work within certain guidelines. “Creative Process” shows the evolution of specific layouts from certain magazines, lending credibility to the revision process. Finally, “Designing for Success” features a question and answer section that presents several interest-ing metaphors, including one stating: “It [design] is the icing on the cake, and if you have good cake, you better spend some time on the icing.”

This information, combined with a conclusion that discusses trends in modern magazine design, makes this an informative and exciting addition to a professional library. While we are not magazine designers, their work influences ours. Simply calling attention to this concept may strengthen the designs in your own publication.

REVIEW OF A BOOK BY STACEY KING

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ven though she’s a lot smaller than I am, Cheryl Pell is quick. So quick, in fact, that she managed to catch me a couple of weeks ago and challenge me to an arm wrestling contest. The loser would write Pied Grafs. After we evened out the competition by letting her use three Greater Lansing Area Yellow Pages phone books as a base, the contest began. I didn’t find out until much, much later that Cheryl Pell’s nickname is “San-tiago.”

Once the swelling in my arm went down and the ice packs were removed, I began to read high school papers from around the state and realized I was not a loser after all. Forget “Santiago” Pell, forget the half read Nora Roberts’ novel on my night stand—these papers were great reading!

I did not know about the new twist in jelly brace-lets until I read the article by Amber Sanders in the Western High School Prowler. Amber—your informa-tive story on “Snap” was informative and insightful. I learned a lot.

And unfortunately, I see the Portage Central year-book staff has learned a little this year, too. A story by

Shawna Esman in the Central Stampede told about three incidents of theft—

one where a lockbox containing approximately $5000 in checks was taken from the yearbook

room. Shawna did an excel-lent job answering ques-tions readers might have, and she let the voices of her sources propel us through the story.

Multiple sources were used by Novi HS writer,

Nick Preketes in a story about their

superintendent, who was tar-

geted in a golfing

con-tro-versy

news-cast by WDIV-

TV

this fall. Preketes, a writer for the Wildcat Roar, inter-viewed the TV reporter and the superintendent to get both sides of the story on this very sensitive issue.

On a lighter note, Ben Pancy made me laugh out-loud when I read his column about teen drivers in the Buc’s Blade from Grand Haven HS. I especially enjoyed the list of who goes first, second, third, etc. at a four way stop. Funny!

I was impressed with the design and the writing in a hair feature printed in the Haslett HS Longboat. “All shaggy all the time,” a great story by Emily Saterlee, was reversed over a graphic of a boy with shaggy hair. Your lead is what pulled me in, Emily. Keep up the good writing and reporting.

I also enjoyed “Clunk of the Month” by Stephen Jando in the New Lothrop HS Sting. What a great way to feature individuals in your school who love their wheels. I’m pretty sure that clunk used to be mine!

One of the papers I read had the best overall writ-ing I’ve seen in a student paper in a long time. Con-gratulations to the Kearsley HS Eclipse on excellent coverage and reporting.

Designwise, I have to mention five papers. I loved the presidential feature in the Feb 13 issue of the Laingsburg HS Informer. I flunked the trivia quiz but had fun doing it.

The Freeland HS Talon has some of my favorite folio tabs. This paper, which has no color, uses shades of grey, reverses and shadows to present a tasteful design and get a lot for less.

The Plainwell HS Trojan Torch has an attractive new flag, which does the same thing—uses shades of gray to send an attractive “read me” message.

And I see the Dexter HS Squall, which has switched to broadsheet, is having lots of fun with design. It looks great. I love the monthly message above the flag. It’s irreverent but fun. Jan 30: “We wast-ed valuable study time for the lining of your bird cage.”

Probably the most refreshing and effective design improvement I saw was in the Holt HS Ramparts. What a great package your staff has designed and pro-duced. I loved it! Clean, sophisticated, cool.

Speaking of cool, as the spring conference approaches, I look forward to meeting some of the writers and designers I’ve admired this year. Please come up and introduce yourselves to me. I’m serious.

However, for your safety and sanity, I recommend you steer clear of Cheryl Pell. She’s dangerous . . . and armed.

Pied GrafsE

Probably the most

refreshing and effective

design improvement I saw was in the

Holt HS Ramparts.

By Betsy Pollard Rau, H.H. Dow HS

Back by popular demand . . .

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Deadlines, after school work and Friday nights

are just a few things that keep teachers from wanting to advise the yearbook or newspaper, let alone both at the same time. Why? It’s extremely difficult. Yet for Novi High School yearbook and newspaper adviser Lydia Cadena, it was a challenge that she wanted to take on.

Originally a U.S. his-tory teacher, Cadena was given the position of yearbook adviser in her second year at Novi. Shortly after she found herself wanting to advise the school’s newspaper as well.

Newspaper adviser and friend Joan Car-michael wanted to be finished with newspaper, and after 10 years asked for someone else to take over. Cadena jumped at the opportunity even though everyone thought she was crazy for want-ing to take on both. Finally, after a new news-paper adviser had come and gone, Cadena was made newspaper adviser.

“I love doing both because you end up hav-ing relationships with students that go beyond relationships with history students, and the oppor-tunity for two groups of students to do that with is rare and wonderful,” said Cadena.

Cadena gradu-ated from the Univer-sity of Michigan with a bachelor’s degree in

communications. She then returned to receive a degree in both social sciences and journalism. Currently, in her eighth year at Novi, Cadena teaches Journalism I, Journalism News (news-paper), and Yearbook.

Along the way there have been many chal-lenges and difficulties for Cadena, including man-aging deadlines, many of which overlap, as well as managing her time outside of the classroom. When Cadena began to feel that she was sacrific-ing time away from her new baby, she realized that she had to let things such as deadlines go. She then made it clear that she was no longer going to stress herself out about things that her stu-dents could handle.

“I wouldn’t have been

able to do this if I didn’t have the kind of students that I have. I am very honest with them about the priorities and time in my life,” said Cadena.

Cadena believes that her students are special because they are

hers, but says they are not unique. She feels there is no reason why every school can’t have publications like Novi’s. Cadena says if you take slightly above average

Adviser Watch

Students, personal relationships keys to adviser’s success

Please see ADVISER WATCH on page 16.

Cadena works with Kelly Hallett, editor of the academ-ics section of the yearbook, on some final proofs.

Photo by Terry Welsh

Photo by Kelly Hallett

Adviser Lydia Cadena coaches student Terry Welsh as he works on a music review. Cadena advises both the yeabook and the newspaper at Novi HS.

By Stephanie Guzdzial

Michigan State University

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Some people are passionate about sports or music, while others are passionate about

clothes or food. But Joe Grimm is passionate about something entire-ly different. Joe Grimm is passionate about journalism.

“You have a passion for some-thing when you’re always thinking about it. That’s passion; when it creeps into other parts of your life,” Grimm said. Grimm, who has been newsroom recruiter and staff devel-opment coordinator at the Detroit Free Press since 1990, wasn’t always passionate about journalism. In fact, it could be said that Grimm got started in journalism by mere fluke.

“I thought journalism meant something like creative writing, so my junior year of high school, I took a journalism class,” Grimm said. Grimm ended up learning that journalism was a bit different than creative writing, but nevertheless, stuck with it his senior year, at which time he became editor-in-chief.

Journalism class obviously had an impact on Grimm’s future pas-sion for journalism, but it was an anonymous letter written to the

editor where Grimm discovered his true journalistic passion. “When I was 17, I wrote a letter to the editor of [our town’s] local paper after the Vietnam War, and [when it was published] I realized people would respect me for what I thought and how I expressed it,” Grimm said.

Grimm carried his passion with him through his college years at the University of Michigan, where he studied both journalism and teach-ing. “When you’re trying to find your passion, you’re trying to figure out whether you have talent or not,” Grimm said.

Apparently, Grimm discovered that he did indeed have talent in

the field of journalism, but more importantly, a passion for it.

“If you have the passion, then you’ll find a way,” Grimm said.

For his job as a newsroom recruiter for the Detroit Free Press, Grimm faces many risks when it comes to recruiting new people.

“I try hard to hire people who aren’t normal, ordinary, cookie-cut-ter people,” Grimm said. Examples of these recruits include an ex-pris-oner and people who have never had any prior experience with internships.

“I won’t always take the most qualified person,” Grimm said. “I’d much rather take the hard-working, average person than the lazy, intel-ligent person because the work is what gets the job done . . . some-times I lose, but usually I win. Some people just don’t have the passion.”

Grimm described his experience with journalism and the Detroit Free Press as “fast.”

“I can’t believe I’m still doing this,” Grimm said. “Where did all the time go? Maybe that’s a sign of passion.”

Grimm not only has a passion for journalism, but also a passion for sharing his passion with poten-

Grimm shares his passion with students, receives Field Award

April 23, 2004

By Gillian NordquistClarkston HS

Joe Grimm

Please see GRIMM on page 8.

On-SiteFirst Place Winner in News Writing

MIPA Awards &On-Site Contests Conference

Photos on these two pages by Katie Rausch and Kelsey Maniez, Fenton HS students

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Warren Kent of Mona Shores HS receives a Golden Pen Award this year. Present-ing it to him is one of last year’s Golden Pen advisers, Ellie Sharrow, of Flushing HS.

Darrick Puffer, left, of Flint Kearsley HS receives the Golden Pen. Rod Satter-thwaite of Dexter HS, who received the award last year, presents the plaque to Puffer.

Four newspapers inducted into MIPA Hall of Fame

H.H. Dow High School—The Update

East Grand Rapids High School—East Vision Fenton High School—The InPrint

Laingsburg High School—The Informer

Two receive Golden

Pen

The MIPA Hall of Fame

Editors, advisers, former advisers, administrators school board members attend induction ceremony

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Congratulations to all of the On-site Contest winners. More than 150 students took part in the contests.

Many thanks to those who entered and to the advisers who helped to judge the entries. We could not provide this opportunity for students without your help!

Many thanks go to contest coordinator Terri Martin, Flint Central HS, who pulled everything together for the event along with Lynn Strause, East Lansing HS.

News WritingFirst Place Gillian Nordquist Clarkston HSSeond Place Danielle Sellers South Lake HS Honorable Mention Lindsay Selengowski South Lake HSHonorable Mention Justin Linne Grosse Pointe South HS

Feature WritingFirst Place Ashley Hughes Clarkston HSSeond Place Jake LaDuke Portage Central HS

Third Place Carol Carlson Grant HSHonorable Mention Katie Parker Grosse Pointe South HSHonorable Mention Timothie Davis Berkley HSHonorable Mention Rikki Miller Traverse City East Junior High

Editorial WritingFirst Place Brent Rioux & Brad Linden Rochester HSSecond Place Megan Main & Lauren Slete Jackson Northwest HSThird Place Heather Thompson & Tyson Hass Berrien Springs HSHonorable Mention Stephanie Martin & Alison Sansom Clarkston HS & Novi HSHonorable Mention Elizabeth Kelly & Emily Stowell South Lake HS

Carry-In PhotoFirst Place Hilary Lefevere St. Johns HSSecond Place Scott Przytas Gladwin HSThird Place Kyle Dopke Inland Lakes HS

Honorable Mention Kelly Dougherty Clarkston HSHonorable Mention John Zdankiewicz Holt HS

Special ProjectsFirst Place Advanced Journalism Class Editor: Kristin O’Brien H.H. Dow HSSecond Place Central Stampede Staff Portage Central HSThird Place Matt McCallum, Mark Garland & Ted Pierce Clarkston HSHonorable Mention Staff Southfield HSHonorable Mention Jessi Brooks Fenton HS

Current EventsFirst Place Ryan Lath Grant HSSecond Place Mark Heydlauff Sturgis HSThird Place Andrew Vanderput Dexter HSHonorable Mention Adam Wallace Berkley HSHonorable Mention Molly Gaddie Berrien Springs HS

Yearbook Copy/CaptionFirst Place Dani Dimmitt Holt HSSecond Place Sarah Jerome Breckenridge HSThird Place Amanda Sacud Rochester HSThird Place Tamara Petzold Berekley HSHonorable Mention Elizabeth Eastman Clarkston HSHonorable Mention Robert Ardelan South Lake HS

Yearbook Student Lfe LayoutFirst Place Mallory Mast & Katie Opie Clarkston HSSecond Place Josh Corbat & Tyler Martinez Breckenridge HSThird Place Ashley Robinson & Dave Herndon Bedford HSHonorable Mention Danielle Delhorn & Jessica Scott Grand Haven HSHonorable Mention Jaymee Mason & Brieanne Vaillancourt Waterford Mott HSHonorable Mention Erike Nardin & Danielle Chetcutl South Lake HS

On-site Contest winners

tial future journalists. “If you don’t have a passion for jour-nalism, keep looking,” Grimm said. “Get out there and find what you’re passionate about. You don’t need a license for practicing journalism; you’re doing it right now . . . you’re not the future; you’re right now.”

MIPA presented Joe Grimm with the John Field award right before he spoke at the opening session at the conference. Grimm has helped MIPA in numerous ways over the years including speaking at many of the conferences.

GRIMM, cont. from page 6New MIPA board members elected

Advisers at the business meeting at the Spring Conference elected new officers

for the MIPA board. Rod Satterthwaite, who served as second vice president, was elected to the position of first vice president and will become MIPA president in 2006. Rod advises the newspaper and yearbook at Dexter HS. David Hebestreit, newspaper adviser at Livo-nia Churchill HS, was elected to the position of second vice president. He is new to the board.

Also new to the board are Cheryl Braford and Jeremy Van Hof, who were elected to trustee positions. Braford is the newspaper adviser at Portgage Central HS, while Van Hof advises the newspaper at Grand Ledge HS.

Brian Wilson, yearbook and newspaper adviser at Waterford Kettering HS and former first vice president of MIPA, now takes over as president of MIPA.

SatterthwatieHebestreit

Wilson

Braford

Van Hof

MIPA Meeting 1004-2005 Dates(Members welcome)

Sept. 10, 2004Dec. 4, 2004Jan. 15, 2005March 4, 2005May 14, 2005

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Carry-in Photo winners

Third Place Kyle Dopke Inland Lakes HS

Honorable Mention Kelly Dougherty Clarkston HS

Honorable Mention John Zdankiewicz Holt HS

Second PlaceScott Przystas Gladwin HS

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By Lynn Strause, East Lansing HS

WE ALL HATE BEING JUDGEDBeing judged is bad enough. But with

yearbooks, we have one shot at doing well. If we don’t do well, we have to wait an entire year to try it again. One thing we learn from being judged is that nobody’s perfect—not even the judges. Every year the MIPA board examines contest feedback and criteria, trying to make changes that reflect the desires of our members as well as keep the judging ser-vice of value to them.

We thought you might appreciate know-ing a little more about how our yearbook competitions work and why we do the things we do.

JUDGESEvery year Cheryl coerces people to serve

as judges for our Spartan contest. If you’ve ever judged for a state contest or for CSPA or NSPA, you know how time consuming it can be. All the judges for the Spartan contest are from out of state, and many of them are among the top advisers and yearbook jour-nalists in the country.

Our individual contests are judged by advisers from around the state, basically who-ever we can get to help on our Saturday judg-ing day. If one of the advisers who judges has entries in certain categories, that adviser does not participate in the judging of those catego-ries.

JUDGE’S COMMENTSWe instruct our judges for the Spartan

contest to offer lots of constructive comments. We tell them to keep in mind how much ownership these students have in their prod-uct. Remind your kids that this is one per-son’s opinion based on the criteria. Also keep in mind that, since the judges come from dif-ferent parts of the country, what seems harsh to us seems only honest to someone else.

For example, I teach in Texas, and the kids think I’m mean when I offer the same com-ments in the same way that our Michigan kids think is just fine. If the comments are hurtful, way off base or lacking, let Cheryl know. She will review whether to use that judge again.

We do not have judges make comments on entries for individual contests or on entries for on-site competition. There just is not enough time. This year the individual contests took us about five hours to judge. Putting comments on all the entries would add significantly more time. Imagine the response when we ask people to judge for eight or nine hours on a Saturday!

RATINGSAs with any contest, you pay your money

and take your chances. Again, you’re dealing with one person’s interpretation of the crite-ria. We have discussed bringing in a number of people to spend the day judging all the yearbooks.

Forget the fact that it would be a logistical nightmare for that many top journalists to agree on a day. The cost would be astronomi-cal. Since this is one person’s opinion, it may be very different from another’s. That means that a book that does very well in one com-petition gets shut out in another. This hap-pens often. Look at the list of CSPA crown winners and see how many did not even make it to the NSPA Pacemaker finalist rank.

If you truly feel your judge did not give you a thorough and accurate evaluation, let Cheryl know. You also have the option of hav-ing the book re-evaluated. However, because this involves hiring an additional judge, you need to pay to have it done.

It’s disappointing when the book doesn’t do as well as we wanted. Then there’s the frustration of not being able to try again for a year. My best advice is to write a thorough, comprehensive cover letter directly to the judge.

Include all your special circumstances such as complete turnover of staff each year, shortage of computers, how much your stu-dents loved the book, anything that affects your program, both negative and positive. This is also the place to explain any mistakes the printing company made in your book.

Don’t forget to set aside a few books to enter in competitions. Remember if you plan to enter the individual contests, you may need more than one book that you can cut up for various entries.

Please continue to give us feedback on all

the contests. We review all your comments and suggestions. We’ll always try to let you know the reasons behind the decisions we make in reference to the contests.

Lynn Strause is the yearbook chair on the MIPA board. Much of what she says here can be said for the newspaper contest as well. We invite your comments.

EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT MIPA

Yearbook Contests

Can we submit work from this year’s yearbook, like copies of proof pages, for the individual contest? That way current students could get recognition.

We discussed this but decided it would be too easy to alter those pages. It would be difficult to determine whether the pages or photos had been changed or enhanced. There could also be problems with students submitting proof copies one year and resubmitting the same pages from the book the next year. For now, we have decided to limit entries to the finished publication.

Why aren’t the entries for individual yearbook broken into divisions like the newspaper?

At this point we do not have enough entries to do that. Once we do, we will use number of pages to place books into divisions. In the meantime, in the two years of the contest, size has not been a factor. Good copy is good copy. Good design is good design.

Why isn’t there a separate division for junior high/middle school books?

Again, the problem is in the numbers. We have been searching for someone to take over the middle school chair position and increase those numbers, but we haven’t had any success. Anyone out there interested?

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT YEARBOOK JUDGING

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3 Advisers, please estimate the percent of work done.

Writing

Editing

Design

Photography

Pasteup/Pagination

Graphic Effects*

Total Production

Adviser

StudentsOther

=100%

=100%

=100%

=100%

=100%

=100%

=100%

4 Important stuff! Please read!1. Since only student photographs are considered for awards, include in the front of the book or on a separate sheet the system for which student photos are marked. For example,“Student photos are highlighted with *.”

2. Write a memo to the judge. In it list any special school situations, con-cerns or problems with this yearbook’s production on a separate sheet. Judges need this information.

3. Keep a copy of this form for your files. You might include a self-addressed stamped postcard that we will return to you when we get your book so that you know it arrived safely in the MIPA office.

4. Do you want your yearbook returned? Then send a postage-paid, self-addressed mailer with your yearbook. Your yearbook will be returned by the judge. If you do not want your yearbook back, the judge will have the option to keep it or discard it.

5. Please mail your yearbook along with your check for $40 (or $80) payable to MIPA. Send to:

MIPA, School of Journalism305 Communication Arts Bldg. Michigan State UniversityEast Lansing, MI 48824-1212.

1 Please check one.Spring–delivery yearbook. Mail to MIPA office postmarked on or before July 15, 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$40.00

*Late Spring–delivery yearbook. Mail to MIPA office postmarked on or before Aug. 15, 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$80.00

Fall-delivery yearbook. Mail to MIPA office postmarked on or before Nov. 15, 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$40.00

*Late Fall–delivery yearbook. Mail to MIPA office postmarked on or before Dec. 15, 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$80.00

5 Final Check. Please mark.

Yes No

1. Did you mark student photos?

2. Did you include a check for $40?

3. Did you include a self-addressed, stamped mailer if you want book returned?

4. Are you meeting the official postmark deadline?

5 Are you meeting the late postmark deadline?

2004 MIPA Spartan Yearbook Contest FormThe MIPA Board of Directors has studied the contests that MIPA sponsors in order to improve them. The measure voted on by the Board at its March 2001 meeting was to allow a yearbook to still be judged if it misses the official postmark deadline. The late postmark deadline will always be one month from the official postmark deadline. When you use the late postmark deadline, your publication may not be back in time for the Spring Conference awards. There will also be an added fee for this service. All Spartan contests will have the same opportunity to use this procedure.

2 Please fill out this part completely.

School

Address

City State ZIP

School phone ( )

Adviser’s name

Adviser’s summer e-mail Name of yearbook

Theme Printing company

Number of yearbooks sold Price

6 Advisers, please sign.

For office use only: judge

official postmark deadline: ck. # amt pd

secondary postmark deadline: ck. # amt pd

*late postmark deadline

Please read & sign the following: I have read this form. I understand only student work is to be judged for awards by MIPA. All materials submitted represent student work or is designated as not being student work.

Adviser’s signature:

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Sandra Strall, adviser at Carlson HS in Gibraltar, was named a JEA Distinguished Adviser at the JEA/NSPA convention in San Diego in April. Linda Puntney (left), JEA executive director, con-gratulates Strall.

&Notes News

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Melissa Nixon, a senior at Everett HS and staff member of The Voice, had the opportunity to cover Condoleezza Rice’s visit to Michigan State University on May 7, when she gave the commencement address. Nixon was the only high school student in the press corps. Her adviser, Chad Sanders, made some phone calls and worked to make it happen.

MIPA CalendarJuly 15, 2004 Spring delivery Yearbook Spartan Contest entries due Literary magazine Spartan contest entries due

July 19–23, 2004 Publication Advisers Workshop ■ Week One Photoshop for Teachers (Instructor: David Stedwell) Power Advising (Instructor: Betsy Pollard Rau)

July 26–30, 2004 Publication Advisers Workshop ■ Week Two Newspaper Advising (Instructor: Terry Nelson) Yearbook Advising (Instructor: Lynn Strause) Publication Design (Instructor: Betsy Pollard Rau) Student Publication Writing (Instructor: Bobby Hawthorne) Beginning Photography (Instructor: David Stedwell) Video Production(Instructor: Diane Herder)

Aug. 1-5. 2004 High School Summer Journalism Workshop

Aug. 15, 2004 Late: Spring Yearbook Spartan Contest entries due Late: Literary magazine Spartan Contest entries due

Oct. 5, 2004 Fall Conference at Lansing Center

Nov. 15, 2004 Fall delivery Yearbook Spartan Contest entries due

Dec. 15, 2004 Late: Fall Yearbook Spartan Contest entries due

November (Date to be announced) Junior High/Middle School Conference at MSU Union

Feb. 25, 2005 Individual Category Contest entries due (Newspaper, Yearbook, Video Journalism) as well as Golden Pen, Admin-istrator of the Year, Student Journalists, All-MIPA, etc.

March 5, 2005 Judging Day (Newspaper, Yearbook, Video Journalism)

April 22, 2005 MIPA Spring Awards and Contests Conference

Photo by Dave Loney

Photo by Greg Kohuth

The MIPA board is planning to sponsor a ten-day trip to Great Britain in June 2005. All interested teach-ers/spouses are invited to go. We plan to make this an educational tour as well as a sightseeing adventure. Those who wish may sign up to take independent study credits. Please e-mail mipa@msu.edu to let us know if you are interested, and we will keep updated with e-mails.

Join us for a European trip

Meet the MIPA crew

MIPA is lucky to have three nearly full-time staff members this summer. Penney Aiken, in the center, is starting her second year with MIPA and is the office manager. Julia Ridgway, left, is new to the MIPA office and is studying to be an English and journalism teacher. Also new is Traci Carpenter, right, a journalism senior. Not pictured, but working part-time is Jen Buske, a former All-MIPA winner. These wonderful students will help you in any way they can this summer!

Bookmark it! mipa.jrn.msu.edu

Photo Cheryl Pell

New date:Yearbook

advisers please

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Name of literary magazine

School, city, ZIP Date of publication

Editor’s name

Adviser name

I understand that all material submitted by our school represents students’ work. If non-student work or alteration has affected the printed product, notations have been made to indicate those changes.

Adviser signature Summer e-mail

2004 MIPA Spartan Literary Magazine Contest Deadline Literary magazines must meet the official postmark deadline of July 15, no matter what year. Unfortunately, this deadline has changed several times. Now it will not. We will send the literary magazines out to judges soon after we get them from you. The late postmark deadline is Aug. 15. No entries should be sent in after that date.

Directions This form is your Literary Magazine entry only. If you choose to use the official postmark deadline, the fee is $15 (payable to MIPA). Staple the form below to the back of your magazine. Magazines must have been published after the spring conference this year, which was April 23, 2004. If you choose to use the late postmark deadline, the fee is $30.

Criteria One entry per school. A literary magazine emphasizes fiction, poetry, essays, drama, art and photography for its content. Feature articles and reviews may be included occasionally. The subject matter should be original material created by students and within their world of experience. First-hand experiences, situations occurring to friends and family and observations within the writer’s environment are potential topics for fiction. Quality of all forms of material should be the first consideration. A mixture of serious and light writing may serve the magazine’s purpose better than concentration on one topic. The standards for evaluating this entry will be graphic design, lay-out, photography, writing, headlines, consistency of content, artwork and typography.

Awards Magazines will earn Spartan awards or certificates based on their scores. Awards will be presented at the 2005 Spring Conference in April. The judges will fill out evaluation forms, which will be returned to the editor and adviser.

Literary Magazine Contest Entry Blank

1. Glue or staple this entry form to the back of your literary magazine. Do not use paper clips or tape.

2. Include the $15 entry fee if you are using the official postmark deadline. (July 15)

OR Include the $30 entry fee if you are using the late postmark deadline. (Aug. 15)

3. Mail in an envelope of its own to: Literary Magazine, MIPA office, 305 Communication Arts Building, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1212.

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Michigan Interscholastic Press Association

Summer Journalism Workshop

Michigan State University

Aug. 1–5, 2004

There’s still time to be a part of the magic! Download the brochure at mipa.jrn.msu.eduAdvisers: Visit the workshop on Adviser Day on Tues, Aug. 3. For details & how to register, go to the MIPA web site.

M PMagicASPENDA WEEKOR TWO

•Publication Advisers Workshop •School of Journalism • Michigan State University •

July 19-23July 26-30

2004

Interested?E-mail pell@msu.edu and ask for a packet.

Power AdvisingPhotoshopYearbook AdvisingNewspaper AdvisingTeaching Video JournalismWriting Design Photography

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School of JouUniversity ••

Interested?E-mail pell@msu.edu and ask for a packet.

Power AdvisingPhotoshopYearbook AdvisingNewspaper AdvisingTeaching Video Journalism

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•Publication Advisers Workshop •School of Journalism • Michigan State University •

MSU

SCHOOL

Address

City State ZIP County

Phone ( ) Fax Number ( )

Newspaper Name Newspaper Adviser

Home Phone ( ) E-mail

Yearbook Name Yearbook Adviser

Home Phone ( ) E-mail

Lit. Magazine Name Lit. Magazine Adviser

Home Phone ( ) E-mail

Video Journalism Name Video Journalism Adviser

Home Phone ( ) E-mail

Web Journalism Name Web Journalism Adviser

Home Phone ( )

Today’s date

List school as you want it referred to on membership certificate and other documents.

1 publication or production

Other publications or productions($10 for each beyond the first one)

Add $5 if this is being mailed after Oct. 5, 2004

Total enclosed

2004-2005 MIPA Membership Application FormMembership runs from September through August. Deadline: Schools must join MIPA by Jan. 31, 2005, to participate in contests for that calendar year.

Send this form and check made out to MIPA to:

MIPA, School of Journalism305 Communication Arts BldgMichigan State UniversityEast Lansing, MI 48824-1212

For office use only please: ck # amt

$

$

$

$

Write very clearly, please!

Also on the Web

Write very clearly, please!

Write very clearly, please!

Write very clearly, please!

Check the publications

that are joining.

MEMBERSHIP FEES $37.50 for one publication $47.50 for two publications S57.50 for three publicationsS67.50 for four publications

No $10 fee for

Web. E-mail

Anything you’d like the MIPA office to know?

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kids, put them together and teach them the skills they need, then there is no reason why they can’t put together a publication like the Free Press. She said you have to raise the bar.

“I have brought the expectation of excellence and my students have risen to it,” Cadena said.

Cadena’s students have done more than risen to her expectations; they have exceeded them. Under Cadena’s direction, the “Reflections” yearbook has increased in size from 224 pages to 336 pages over the past seven years. The newspaper, known as “The Roar,” has also evolved from a 11x17 publication which folded to an over 12 page broadsheet monthly publication with color on both the front and back.

In addition to the changes in both publications, there have been many other accomplishments and team moments. At the MIPA Spring 2002 conference, Cadena said Novi’s newspaper staff took home many individual first and second place awards.

Cadena says that one of the reoc-curring yearbook moments is at the end of the year when the final proofs are dropped off at FedEx.

“It’s the moment of putting it in the box, closing it and knowing there is nothing else to do. There is a moment of thinking it’s done, but we hope it turned out the way we wanted. The combinations of fear and happiness make that moment so

thrilling,” Cadena said.Every year Cadena maintains a

yearbook motto that reads “Don’t miss out on our best yearbook ever.” With the optimism that each book will exceed the last, the staff contin-ues to produce issues they consider to be the best in the school’s history.

For Cadena, the yearbook and newspaper aren’t just for winning awards and getting recognition, but also for devoloping personal rela-tionships and helping students grow throughout their years on staff.

“The yearbook and newpaper staff is an elite group of students that produce publications in school while forming special bonds with each other that no other students could possibly understand,” Cadena said.

Cadena not only has high expec-tations for her students and the publications every year, but truly cares about the development of her students as journalists.

“I have more students who I get to see develop from failing journalists to kids who will win scholarships at national level and even pursue col-lege careers involving journalism,” Cadena said.

In the future Cadena would not only like to win the Spartan award for the newspaper but also begin entering the yearbook into competi-tions. Cadena hopes her students walk out of the room everyday knowing they can get through any-thing and can do it better than most people.

ADVISER WATCH, cont. from page 5

Advisers Pam Bunka of Fenton HS and Jeff Nardone of Grosse Pointe South HS enjoy the tunes of the Laingsburg HS Jazz Band. Lively music greeted students and advisers as they arrived at the conference. The band was directed by Patrick Dudzinski.

Photo by Katie Rausch