FHSTheFlash The Flash Volume 46, Issue 6 April 2006 | Page 17

WIN PASSES! & Invite you and a guest to an X-TRA special screening! The Flash Editors-in-Chief Alleysha Tucker Kristen Schatow Assistant Editor Amanda Dupure Advisory Editor Nicki Hinchman Photo Editor Kyle Snarski Exchange Editor Petia Kapintcheva Web Editor Andrew Kauffman Web Master Aaron Hamel Flash Reporters Ashley Bletch Paul Digiovanni Robert Druzynski Aaron Hamel Arthur McCall John Milby Jerica Pitts Sarah Zalewski Samantha Saenz Adviser James Flanagan For your chance to enter to win, send an email to [email protected] 25 students will be selected at random to win one pass good for two! Please be sure to include your contact information. No purchase necessary. One entry per person. Employees of The Flash and 20th Century Fox are not eligible to win. MIPA AWARDS Every year the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association (MIPA) holds an award ceremony to honor the state’s top high school journalists. Out of 79 schools and a total of 2,783 entries, the following staff and students were given the following awards for their submissions: - The Flash Staff was awarded the Silver Medal in the Newspaper Spartan Contest and four Awards of Merit. - Aaron Hamel and Kyle Snarski were awarded third place for reviews. - Robert Druzynski was awarded third place for his feature column. - Alleysha Tucker received an honorable mention for her sports feature. The purpose of the Flash is to inform and entertain our audience, which includes the entire community, on subjects that may affect our readers. We also aim to be an open forum for the audience to be heard and make comments and observations. It is our intent that we provide this information in a clear, meaningful, and journalistic way. The Flash is a member of the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association (MIPA). Editorial Policy The editorial board is the decision-making group for the newspaper staff. It includes the editor-in-chief, assistant editors, and all other writers, web editors, and photographers. The board is in charge of making the decisions on what will go into the newspaper. If a controversial issue arises, it is the common assumption that there will be nothing published in the newspaper that is libelous, obscene, copyrighted, disrupting, or advocating illegal activities. Contact Us At the Flash, we encourage letters to the editor so that our readers can cooperate with us to make a better newspaper. Any signed letter of which is not libelous, obscene, or regarding defamation or incitement may be accepted to be published. Letters are subject to edit for grammar and content if necessary. Please keep letters 250 words or less. Letters can also be submitted in the box outside of the journalism room or in the main office, as well as via email to [email protected] Letters to the Editor should be addressed to: Letter to the Editor, The Flash, 34270 Garfield, Fraser, MI 48026