Better Newspaper Contest

Page 50 Division 5 Headline Writing/Category 7 First Scott Underwood The Herald Bulletin (Anderson) Play Pokemon GO, but watch out for that tree! Prague toilet museum to have bowl movement Man who bit girlfriend loses his appeal These headlines are clever and a lot of fun. Second Tom Swenson The Herald Bulletin (Anderson) Chanel raises stink over train route He had a career that wasn't shaken, though it did stir Penny Lane? More like Dollar Highway Third Penny Reid The Herald-Times (Bloomington) Goodbye, Yellowwood Road Citywide fiber deal with Axia unravels Dying to be heard Best Short Feature Story/ Category 8 First Stu Hirsch The Herald Bulletin (Anderson) Defying stereotypes Well written, engaging and great way to localize a national story. Second Becky Jacobs Post Tribune (Merrillville) Bills aim to protect referees Third Emma Kate Fittes The Star Press (Muncie) The love story behind Muncie's castle Best Profile Feature/Category 9 First Dave Bangert Journal & Courier (Lafayette) Holocaust survivor's empty seat at Mackey This was a compelling story and well told. One of the things that stood out to me was that the story mentioned Kor's history (and wife), but it was not really about his past or his struggle. It was about his love of basketball and that's some- thing everyone can relate to. Second Sue Loughlin Tribune-Star (Terre Haute) Sister Rose Marita won't be kept from the kitchen Sister Rose is truly an inspiration and you captured her story and spirit nicely. The details were great and well-placed, es- pecially how she took a break, but had to get back to baking. May we all have her energy in our old age. Third Dakota Crawford The Star Press (Muncie) The Dark Side of a Player in the Spotlight This story shows that depression and mental illness can impact anyone and is not always easily recognized. It did a nice job of telling the entire story and including the views of people who witnessed it. It also included a hotline number or a way to get help, which was nice to see. Scott Underwood The Herald Bulletin (Anderson) Play Pokemon GO, but watch out for that tree! Prague toilet museum to have bowl movement Man who bit girlfriend loses his appeal Holocaust survivor's empty seat at Mackey Stu Hirsch The Herald Bulletin (Anderson) ANDERSON — He shows up for an interview wearing a three- piece suit. Graduated from Anderson High School last year, and was part of the Mayor's Youth Commission during Kevin Smith's administration and worked on his re-election campaign. His political philosophy can be described as moderate Republican; he's no fan of Donald Trump. He's paying his own way through Anderson University, attending classes in the daytime while working a security job at night. He pays taxes, but receives no government benefits, grants or student loans. He hopes to attend law school after graduating from AU and, someday, become a citizen, vote and perhaps run for political office one day. Meet 19-year-old Jose Espinoza, undocumented immigrant. Espinoza's parents arrived in Anderson from Mexico in 2001 when he was 3 years old. The family crossed the border from Mexico into the United States illegally, confident they could find work; hopeful for a better life here that would, eventually, lead to citizenship, Espinoza said in a recent interview. His family found that better life here in Anderson. But the election of Donald Trump and the populist anti- immigrant sentiments he fomented during the presidential election, and then moved quickly to implement after taking office, has sent fear through many communities. That sense of dread increased after U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement agents made several high-profile raids in cities around the country. Although Espinoza said he personally isn't worried about being deported, other people in Anderson are. "There was a rumor going around, I never found out whether it was true or not, that ICE had arrested someone in Anderson," after those raids in February, Espinoza said. "The message was spreading through Facebook, and it got to the point where everybody was panicking." In the past 20 years, Congress has attempted to reform the nation's immigration laws, considering both comprehensive and piecemeal measures. The Democrat-led Senate passed a comprehensive immigration reform bill in 2013. The measure included a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants as well as provisions to strengthen border security. The Republican-controlled House of Representative chose not to hear that bill. Meanwhile, in 2012 President Barack Obama created a program to provide temporary legal relief for many undocumented immigrants. The most significant is known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). It offers renewable, two- year deportation deferrals and work permits to undocumented immigrants like Espinoza who were brought to the United States as children and have no criminal records. The deferral program gives him legal status, but it is not a path to citizenship. "I have a couple of friends — they're protected through DACA currently — but they're considering moving to Canada because of this. One just started to work at NTN," Espinoza said. As of September 2016, more than 750,000 people have taken advantage of DACA, according to a report published by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency. For the complete story, visit hspa.com. Dave Bangert Journal & Courier (Lafayette) TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – If things had fallen into place, the plan was for Mickey Kor to be in his seat – Section 3, 14 rows up from the visiting bench – for Saturday's game at Mackey Arena against Michigan State. But his son, Alex, a podiatrist in Milwaukee, wound up on call the day before. The drive from Milwaukee to Terre Haute and then backtracking another hour and 40 minutes to West Lafayette – even without an obligatory stop at the Beef House in Covington on the way – for a 4 p.m. tipoff would have been a stretch. Alex Kor knew his dad, now 91 and on the other end of a series of ailments no one was sure he'd survive, would need a steady hand and constant attention from start to finish if he was going to rely on his walker. So here Mickey Kor was, instead, in his room at Harrison's Crossing, an assisted living facility on the north side of Terre Haute, where he'll tell you the care is "efficient and kind." He gets ESPN on the screen mounted to the wall in his room. It's where he's caught all the Purdue games this season. He was set. A few miles down Third Street, in a space big enough to handle about 100 people, a full house was forming two lines to get selfies with Eva Kor, Mickey's wife, at the CANDLES Holocaust Museum. Saturday afternoon's lecture was Eva Kor's 21st just a month-and-a-half into 2017. Like the others, this lecture detailed the memories of parents and siblings murdered at the hands of the Nazis; her twin sister, Miriam, and she being put through the human experiments of Dr. Josef Mengele at the concentration camp at Auschwitz; and how she found peace through forgiveness, even for the worst of all evils. "At Auschwitz," Eva Kor tells an audience that has arrived in assorted minivans and small school buses, "dying was easy. Surviving was a full-time job." Telling that story has become Eva Kor's calling, if not full-time work, just as keeping a relatively low profile about the horrors of his own story has been the tactic of Mickey Kor. When he's told his story – about a Latvian teen losing his parents to the Nazis, about being forced into slave labor at a satellite of the Buchenwald concentration camp, about living "like a dog in a cage," about finding his way to America after Allies liberated those who survived the concentration camps – Mickey Kor somehow has circled back to sports at his alma mater. Purdue games were where sadness disappeared, if only for four quarters at Ross-Ade Stadium in the fall or two halves at Mackey Arena during the winter and spring, he told reporters who came to ask. On the Saturday of the Michigan State game, dressed in a Purdue sweater and a bright yellow bucket hat embroidered with the school's name in block letters, Mickey Kor admitted he wished he could be in Mackey. He pointed out his seats each time the camera followed a possession toward the end with the visitor's bench. And he offered the sort of color commentary ESPN's Dan Dakich – "A player for Bob Knight at IU," Kor said, "but fair to Purdue" – would have to look up on Wikipedia. For the complete story, visit hspa.com. A student defying stereotypes

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