The Nomination Hello! This is Nick Sansone, a current sophomore here at Uni. I am writing to nominate a project that my friends Kristi Emilsson, Masha Gelfand, Diane Plewa, and I made last year in computer science class for the Wylde Q. Chicken Award. The assignment was to create anything that interested us (a newspaper, a web page, a program, or whatever) as long as the creation involved computers. Along the way, we were supposed to send weekly progress reports to tell what we had done, what software and hardware we used, and what our goals for the week to come were. Once the projects were completed, each group was supposed to go in front of the class and give a twenty-five minute presentation on the project, the creation of it, and how it works. We also had to complete a final paper on the construction on the project. We were given fifty minutes a day for basically a whole semester to complete the project. Our group got together to decide what we wanted to do. None of us knew how to make web pages or programs, and making a plain old magazine was far too boring for us. Therefore, we turned to the dark recesses of our mind for inspiration and decided to create: A TABLOID!!! Almost all of the pictures were self-taken, all articles were self-written, and all pages and pictures are self-edited and designed (we apologize, but a few of the pages are missing). This just goes to show you what happens when you give four wacky students an open-ended assignment, unlimited access to computers, and practically no censorship. Although we may not have gotten quite as much out of doing the project as the teachers may have hoped, we certainly had fun and came up with an original product which was probably much unlike they had ever seen before. As you can see, we took some...um...creative liberties at every step along the way. This was what we actually turned in, and, amazingly enough, we didn't even flunk. (By the way, be sure to notice what the message is if you take the first letters of each of the lines of the last paragraph of the paper.) Thank you so very much! Enjoy! Love and sunshine from Nick, Kristi, Masha, & Diane

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The Daily Cheese Crew

Nick Sansone	Diane Plewa
Kristi Emilsson	Masha Gelfland