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BY SCOTT DANIELS
Photographs by Gene Daniels
I
t's 9 a.m., in the Daily office at the
University of Washington in Seattle.
Vinee Gonzales, dressed in sweat
pants and a T-shirt, sits on the edge of
a desk piled high with newspapers.
Four reporters wait for the young edi-
tor to give them their assignments.
Deadline is six hours away.
"Here are some of the stories we
need today," said Vinee, getting the
editorial meeting underway. "Cindy,
why don't you do a round-up on the
team competitions? Steve, the
Osmond Brothers are appearing
Wednesday night. Can you give me an
advance on that? Donna, you're doing
a piece on the fun run, right?
"O.K., next on the list. We need to
have photo assignments ready for
Mike by 10 o'clock. If you have any
ideas, jot them down. Don't forget all
copy is due at 3 p.m. Let's go."
The reporters file out of the
newsroom with their notepads.
Another day on the BOLO staff begins.
The BOLO, which stands for Be On
the Lookout, is the daily newspaper of
the National Law Enforcement
Explorer Conference. More than 2.000
Explorers attended the week-long
event last July, and Vinee and fellow
Explorers Donna Hamilton, Shelly
Andrews, and Steve Parkhurst pro-
vided news and feature coverage of the
proceedings.
The young journalists are members
of Syracuse, N.Y., Post 932. Back
home they publish the Herald Junior,
a twice-a-year newspaper circulated
to more than 5,000 high school stu-
dents in 24 schools. Larry Richardson
and Jay Goldman are the post's Advi-
sors. They work for the Syracuse
Herald Journal the post's chartered
organization.
Putting out the BOLO is nothing
new for Post 932. Since it began in
1977, the post has provided newspa-
per staffers for six BSA national
events, including the Explorer Olym-
pics and the National Explorer
Conference.
On Deadline at the
Herald Junior
Careers in journalism is
what interests these
Syracuse, N.Y.. Explorers.
Their Herald Junior
newspaper is circulated tc
5,000 students in two
dozen high schools.
"Working on one of these papers is a
great experience," said Vinee. You
come in at 9 a.m., go out on a story,
come back, check some facts, write
your story, and have it all ready by a 3
p.m. deadline. There's no time for fool-
ing around. It's just like a real daily
newspaper."
The pressure of a daily deadline is
the big difference between the BOLO
and the post's own newspaper.
Above, the Explorer
journalists of Post 932 learn
how to edit newspaper copy
and write headlines on video
display terminals in the
newsroom of the Syracuse
Herald Journal.
"You don't have a month to write a
story like you do for the Herald
Junior," said Vinee. "You've got
maybe four hours if you're lucky."
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