Outstanding journalism students honored at Hopi High School

Hopi High School journalists display their Arizona Interscholasic Press Association awards. Pictured from left are: Superintendent Paul Reynolds, award recipients DeAnn Honanie, Marice Lalo and Madeline Jackett, and principal Glenn Gilman (Photo by Stan Bindell/The Observer).

Hopi High School journalists display their Arizona Interscholasic Press Association awards. Pictured from left are: Superintendent Paul Reynolds, award recipients DeAnn Honanie, Marice Lalo and Madeline Jackett, and principal Glenn Gilman (Photo by Stan Bindell/The Observer).

POLACCA-Four Hopi High School students won awards from the Arizona Interscholastic Press Association's (AIPA) fall contest held Nov. 7.

This was the tenth straight year that Hopi High has won journalism awards from AIPA. Unlike sports, small schools and large schools are judged together. Most of the awards were won by schools from the Phoenix and Tucson areas.

The four Hopi High award-winning student journalists were Marice Lalo, Carmelita Hernandez, Madeline Jackett and DeAnn Honanie.

The awards were based on articles that appeared in the Hopi High Bruin Times newspaper last school year. Lalo, who graduated in 2005, won an excellence award for an editorial about the courts allowing an expansion of Snowbowl. She thought the court's decision was unfair.

Lalo attended a summer journalism camp at the University of Arizona and is considering taking college journalism courses.

Hernandez received an excellence award for an editorial about the complicated issues involving drugs and alcohol.

Jackett, who continues to write for the Times, won an honorable mention for a column calling for Hopi Junior High School to have a separate building from the senior high school due to the problems that arise when junior high and high school students are placed together.

Honanie, a junior, won an honorable mention for an editorial describing why the Arizona's Instrument to Measure Standards (AIMS) test should not be a requirementfor students to graduate from high school.

An excellence rating is equal to finishing second in that category and an honorable mention is equal to finishing third in that category.

Paul Reynolds, superintendent of Hopi Jr/Sr High School, praised the awards and the students.

"These awards speak well of these journalism students as well as the journalism program and the Bruin Times. These students work hard to produce a product that we can all be proud of," he said.

Hopi High principal Glenn Gilman said journalism is important because it takes higher level thinking skills to write a good article. Gilman added that elective courses, such as journalism, are important because it keeps some students interested in their school work.

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