Student Newspaper

ST. MARY'S CITY, Md. -- Rowan Copley of Hagerstown is on the staff of the student newspaper at St. Mary's College of Maryland, which won first place with special merit in the American Scholastic Press Association's annual newspaper competition. Copley has been the arts and entertainment editor of The Point News, the school newspaper. This is the third consecutive year the student newspaper has received high honors. "I'm immensely proud of Rowan and the entire Point News staff for their hard work this year," said Justin Perry, Editor in Chief of the publication.

ST. MARY'S CITY, Md. - St. Mary's College of Maryland senior Julia Copley, of Hagerstown, ends her stint as managing editor of The Point News, the college's student newspaper, on a high note. Last year she served as the paper's editor-in-chief. Named "Best College Newspaper for 2007-2008" by the American Scholastic Press Association in April, The Point News tied with Knight News CUNY at Queens College in Flushing, N.Y. Copley, a religious studies major, is also a recipient of the school's David and Ginny Rosenbaum Award for Journalistic Excellence, which she received at a recent awards convocation ceremony on campus.

Locked-out bathrooms at jefferson High By DAVE McMILLION / Staff Writer, Charles Town SHENENDOAH JUNCTION, W.Va. - At least one member of the Jefferson County Board of Education is concerned about a decision to lock student bathrooms at Jefferson High School because of bomb threats. About a month ago, high school administrators started locking bathrooms during classes to prevent students from planting bomb threat messages in the bathrooms, Superintendent of Schools Jud Romine said.

FREDERICK, Md. - Frederick County Public School student Christine M. Liu, 15, earned a perfect score of 1600 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test she took this spring. Since her kindergarten year at Yellow Springs Elementary School, Liu's teachers have nurtured her math and writing skills. After kindergarten, she was urged to attend the magnet program for gifted and talented students at North Frederick Elementary School. During Liu's sixth-grade year at North Frederick, she was introduced to Governor Thomas Johnson Middle School teacher Nick Diaz.

I've read many times by many different writers that regardless of how old we really are, in our minds we always see ourselves in our youth. At my age, that requires overlooking a few very minor details, such as a balding pate, aching feet, a bad back and worsening eyesight. I thought about that when I realized it was 30 years ago this year that I graduated from college. Those college years are the prism through which I seem to view many things, perhaps because I've carried over to middle age many of those college-era passions and ideals.

Racism survey at Waynesboro High WAYNESBORO, Pa. - In November, the editor of the Waynesboro Area Senior High School student newspaper, prompted by seeing students wearing Confederate flags on their clothes, wrote an editorial titled "The Shadow of Racism. " The newspaper also asked about 120 of the school's 1,350 students if they thought racism was a problem. About 70 percent said it was. The survey was unscientific and polled only a fraction of the student population, but it raised a flap that reached all the way to the Waynesboro School Board.

SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. - Bill Press, the now ex-host of CNN's lively "Crossfire" who makes his living trying to sort out the truth in the babble of politicians, found himself at the center of the spin cycle Wednesday. Within the last 24 hours, the liberal talk show host learned he had lost his job on the spirited and sometimes rough-and-tumble news show, in which he and conservative commentator Robert Novak debate issues. Press has watched plenty of politicians and other official types lose their jobs and try to put the best face on it. How would he handle it?

charlestown@herald-mail.com SHENANDOAH JUNCTION, W.Va. - A longtime cook at Jefferson High School who was described as a "real-life angel" was killed Tuesday afternoon when she lost control of a Ford Explorer on Flowing Springs Road and struck an embankment, police and Jefferson County Schools officials said. Sim May, 62, of Shepherdstown, W.Va., was thrown from the sport utility vehicle when it overturned, said West Virginia State Police Senior Trooper M.A. Cole. May was thrown through the driver's side window, Cole said.

When I walked through the front door of West Virginia University's student newspaper on a cold, gray January day in 1976, little did I know the journey I was about to set out on. Since then, I've been in the same room with three U.S. presidents and met scores of U.S. senators, congressmen and governors. I've interviewed an astronaut (Jim Lovell), an Olympic gold medalist (Jean-Claude Killy) and a larger-than-life preacher (Jerry Falwell). I was able to meet a bunch of media superstars, including all four of my newspaper heroes - Ben Bradlee, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward and Katherine Graham - the finest foreign affairs reporter-newspaper columnist of his generation, Tom Friedman, and the best political reporter of his era, David Broder.

When I walked through the front door of West Virginia University's student newspaper on a cold, gray January day in 1976, little did I know the journey I was about to set out on. Since then, I've been in the same room with three U.S. presidents and met scores of U.S. senators, congressmen and governors. I've interviewed an astronaut (Jim Lovell), an Olympic gold medalist (Jean-Claude Killy) and a larger-than-life preacher (Jerry Falwell). I was able to meet a bunch of media superstars, including all four of my newspaper heroes - Ben Bradlee, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward and Katherine Graham - the finest foreign affairs reporter-newspaper columnist of his generation, Tom Friedman, and the best political reporter of his era, David Broder.

ST. MARY'S CITY, Md. -- Rowan Copley of Hagerstown is on the staff of the student newspaper at St. Mary's College of Maryland, which won first place with special merit in the American Scholastic Press Association's annual newspaper competition. Copley has been the arts and entertainment editor of The Point News, the school newspaper. This is the third consecutive year the student newspaper has received high honors. "I'm immensely proud of Rowan and the entire Point News staff for their hard work this year," said Justin Perry, Editor in Chief of the publication.

Esaite Lakew, a senior at North Hagerstown High School, has been awarded a $2,500 National Achievement Scholarship as part of $2.6 million in awards nationally to approximately 800 black students for their academic achievement. The grant is provided by more than 40 corporations and organizations across the country, along with the National Merit Scholarship Corp. Esaite's probable career field is chemical engineering. STAUNTON, Va. - Hannah Reed Vargason of Sharpsburg has been honored at Mary Baldwin College for her academic and civic achievements.

ST. MARY'S CITY, Md. - St. Mary's College of Maryland senior Julia Copley, of Hagerstown, ends her stint as managing editor of The Point News, the college's student newspaper, on a high note. Last year she served as the paper's editor-in-chief. Named "Best College Newspaper for 2007-2008" by the American Scholastic Press Association in April, The Point News tied with Knight News CUNY at Queens College in Flushing, N.Y. Copley, a religious studies major, is also a recipient of the school's David and Ginny Rosenbaum Award for Journalistic Excellence, which she received at a recent awards convocation ceremony on campus.

I've read many times by many different writers that regardless of how old we really are, in our minds we always see ourselves in our youth. At my age, that requires overlooking a few very minor details, such as a balding pate, aching feet, a bad back and worsening eyesight. I thought about that when I realized it was 30 years ago this year that I graduated from college. Those college years are the prism through which I seem to view many things, perhaps because I've carried over to middle age many of those college-era passions and ideals.

The seventh- and eighth- graders of Heritage Academy traveled to The Herald-Mail Co. and to The Maryland Theatre on Friday, March 3. At The Herald-Mail, students toured the company and had the opportunity to learn the process of making newspapers. Seventh-grader Taylor McIntire said, "It was really neat to see how much work was put into publishing just one newspaper. " The students also went to The Maryland Theatre, where they saw numerous plays, including "The Necklace," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "Legends of Sleepy Hollow," "The Monkey's Paw" and "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.

charlestown@herald-mail.com SHENANDOAH JUNCTION, W.Va. - A longtime cook at Jefferson High School who was described as a "real-life angel" was killed Tuesday afternoon when she lost control of a Ford Explorer on Flowing Springs Road and struck an embankment, police and Jefferson County Schools officials said. Sim May, 62, of Shepherdstown, W.Va., was thrown from the sport utility vehicle when it overturned, said West Virginia State Police Senior Trooper M.A. Cole. May was thrown through the driver's side window, Cole said.

SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. - Bill Press, the now ex-host of CNN's lively "Crossfire" who makes his living trying to sort out the truth in the babble of politicians, found himself at the center of the spin cycle Wednesday. Within the last 24 hours, the liberal talk show host learned he had lost his job on the spirited and sometimes rough-and-tumble news show, in which he and conservative commentator Robert Novak debate issues. Press has watched plenty of politicians and other official types lose their jobs and try to put the best face on it. How would he handle it?

Locked-out bathrooms at jefferson High By DAVE McMILLION / Staff Writer, Charles Town SHENENDOAH JUNCTION, W.Va. - At least one member of the Jefferson County Board of Education is concerned about a decision to lock student bathrooms at Jefferson High School because of bomb threats. About a month ago, high school administrators started locking bathrooms during classes to prevent students from planting bomb threat messages in the bathrooms, Superintendent of Schools Jud Romine said.