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Show Wednesday, February 16, 1994 Page 12 Orem-Geneva Times Computers (Continued from Front Page) deadlines and the stress by sometimes some-times staying late at night to work, but lightening things up by bringing in food and music. "We've spent a lot of hours in this room," Tasso said. Steps to a paper The first step now in producing produc-ing a paper is to decide how many pages the new issue will be. Story ideas are formulated by checking the school calendar, asking student stu-dent council members about upcoming up-coming events, and surveying staff members for suggestions. Articles are assigned to reporters and tentative space in the paper is mapped out for each article, so there is a general idea of how long it should be. When articles are completed, they go through editing and revisions. Tasso said that there has been more emphasis this year, as time has gone on, to having writers print out their own stories and make corrections, so that the editors and layout people are not getting all the benefits. Style pallets are used to take highlighted text and automatically automat-ically format headlines, captions, and by-lines. The tabloid-sized printer prints out the set newspaper, and with almost no cut-and-paste, an issue is ready for the printer. Jenny Gessel, news editor, said that her favorite articles have been the editorials that she has written. The paper frequently publishes a pointcounterpoint column that argues both sides of an issue. Gessel remembers writing writ-ing one in which she argued against gun control, even though she actually believes in it. "For the most part, we write our own viewpoints, but sometimes we do the opposite," she said. Gessel also wrote a feature on Martin Luther King that was a memorable assignment, and she and Tasso once collaborated on an article on overcrowding at Orem High School. They had to laugh when they came across a 1987 issue of the paper which complained com-plained about the same problem. Other benefits Benefits of the new computer equipment extend beyond the newspaper and yearbook staffs to the school as a whole, and to the community. New desk-top publishing classes clas-ses are being taught this year, also under Hemond's direction. Student teacher David Henderson Hender-son said the goal of the class is to teach the students a number of programs, including PageMaker, FreeHand, and WordPerfect 3.0 for Macintosh. "It gives them a taste of this kind of environment, and maybe it will be a career choice for some," Henderson said. He envisions the desk-top classes eventually becoming a training ground for future members of the TIPS Ve want the scoop on what's happening in Orem. Call in news tips. Orem-Geneva Times 225-1340 V ! if f f Ik 3 "V 1 4 Taylor Eshelman, staff writer, studies the screen of one of two Quadra computers in the recently-upgraded lab. yearbook and newspaper staffs. Hemond also works with art teacher Cindy Clark in a team-teaching team-teaching approach where Clark teaches the art aspects and Hemond teaches transferring art to computers. Orem High School students who go out into community elementary schools to tutor grade-schoolers in Lego Logo and EKI kits (electronic assembly projects), have created worksheets for those programs at the new lab. The OHS parent newsletter and teacher newsletter newslet-ter are also produced there. As the lab "inches its way" toward a goal of networking, where the computers are hooked together in the system so that they can "call up" from each other, "talk", and share information from computer to computer, Hemond herself may be disconnecting discon-necting from Orem High for a while. She has received a fellowship fellow-ship to go back to graduate school and study history and constitutional constitu-tional issues. She is in the process of applying at Boston College, and Two Orem agents Northwestern Ins. Leaders Steve B. Heinz and Roger L. Merrill, both of Orem, ranked seventh and ninth, respectively, among all agents in the Western Region in 1993 sales for the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance In-surance Co., Milwaukee, Wis. Northwestern has more than 7,200 agents coast-to-coast. Heinz and Merrill are associated as-sociated with Northwestern's Terry McPartland general agency, agen-cy, Salt Lake City. Northwestern has 103 general agencies nationwide. Northwestern Mutual is the nation's eighth largest life insurance in-surance firm, with assets of more than $44 billion. In 1994, for the 12th time in as many years, Northwestern was ranked by Fortune For-tune magazine as "the most admired" ad-mired" among the nation's 10 largest life insurers. securing a sabbatical from the school district Regardless of where her dreams take her next, Hemond has made a lasting difference through her efforts to upgrade the lab and take student publications to new levels of excellence. Rep. Ellertson schedules town meeting for District 61 A town meeting will be held with Legislative District 61 for south Orem, northwest Provo, Vineyard, and Lakeview on Thursday, February 17, 1994. The meeting will be at 7:00 p.m. on the Utah Valley State College campus in room 2 13A of the Student Stu-dent Center. Representative R. Lee Ellertson will give a short presentation and then open the floor to constituent questions and concerns. Representative Ellertson serves ser-ves as the co-chair of the Executive Execu-tive Offices, Courts, Corrections, and Legislature Appropriations Subcommittee. He is also a member mem-ber of both the Health and Environment En-vironment Standing Committee and the Rules Standing Committee. Some bills that Representative Repre-sentative Ellertson has introduced intro-duced include: H.B. 134, amending amend-ing youth corrections provisions on assault by a prisoner; H.B. 135, assault on a correctional officer; of-ficer; H.B. 136, absconding from a halfway house; H.B. 140, service ser-vice of expungement petitions;: H.B. 284, employer-based trip reduction programs; H.B. 319, Utah Money Management Act amendments; H.B. 331, Clean Air Vehicle Loan Fund; H.B. 333, bail bond surety licensing amendments; and H.C.R. 9, resolution opposing EPA's Enhanced En-hanced Motor Vehicle Inspection. Inspec-tion. 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