ENG 310 3/17/16—Headline Exercise 1.
Indicate the character count for each line in your headlines. One count for each letter or
space (Hangman-style). Type your heds as “downstyle” heds (cap only first word and
proper nouns), noting point size and number of lines. Hand in printed versions March 24.
Headline Exercise 1
Write a one-line hed (30-point type). The maximum count is 33.
You can write your key terms here.
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If you want, write your summary sentence here.
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Type your headline here.
BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) -- It can't fluff a pillow or serve a bowl of chicken soup, but
students rate the self-treatment room at Lehigh University's health center as the next best
thing to Mom.
Tucked around the corner from the nurses station at Lehigh's medical center is a
7-by-7-foot room filled with drugstore samples, simple medical equipment and a
personal computer.
If students have sniffles, cramps, headaches, stomach aches or poison ivy, they're
sent to the self-treatment room first. They see a doctor only if the nurse observes serious
symptoms or if the room's computer directs them to a professional.
The self-treatment room has had a dramatic effect on student health care. It has
freed nurses to take care of more seriously ill patients and has saved the school about
$20 per student served, according to Dr. Stanley E. Yellin, the center's medical director.
The approach also helps teach students that not every sniffle, cramp or fever is
life-threatening.
"In the real world, they're going to learn that you can't run to the doctor every
time they're sick," said Marie Cristy, the center's director of health education.
About four years ago, at a nurse's suggestion, Lehigh opened up a "cold room"
near the nurses station. After signing in, students with sniffles and sneezes learned how
to treat their symptoms and what signs would indicate that something more serious was
developing.
"It's the contemporary analogy to people having books, self-help books that
people have purchased for generations," said Dr. John Dossett, head of the ethics
committee at Penn State University's Hershey Medical Center. "We're in the computer
generation now."
The self-treatment room proved such a success that "some of the people here
began calling it the 'Mom' room," Cristy said.
Leigh Wormick, a freshman from southern New Jersey, has used the selftreatment room five times.
"It's like mom away from home," Wormick said.
The center was used 7,300 times in its first three years -- 84 percent of the time
for colds. Lehigh has about 6,100 students.
Questions posed on the computer are designed to send anyone suffering from
serious problems to a nurse and doctor.
"It's pretty unlikely that someone will come in and self-treat and walk out with
meningitis," Yellin said. "Nobody has walked out of here and then walked back in later
with serious problems."
Under colds, for example, the computer asks about fevers of more than 100
degrees, white patches in the throat, painful lymph glands or colored mucus, all
symptoms indicating more serious diseases. Under menstrual cramps, the computer asks
whether the patient might be pregnant. The gastroenteritis section tries to single out
appendicitis, gall stones or other serious problems. There also are programs for
headaches, poison ivy and minor cuts and scrapes.
Typing carefully is important; over the years, two male students wandered into
the menstrual cramps section and got stumped on the question, "Could you be
pregnant?"
School officials say students seek help more quickly because the self-treatment
room takes less time than a doctor's visit.
"It can relieve a lot of problems from occurring later on," Cristy said. "Also, if
they do this on their own, they're more likely to follow up on their own."
Lehigh has found it costs about $1 for students to use the self-treatment room,
including the costs of free medication provided for whatever ailment is diagnosed. Each
visit that involves a nurse and one of four staff physicians costs the university about $20.
The visits eat up a large chunk of the health center's $488,000 annual budget.
However, Cristy said, "Money wasn't the main incentive to do it. We wanted to
educate our students, help them take care of themselves."
Headline Exercise 2
Write a two-line hed (18-point type). The maximum count is 14 per line.
(key terms.)
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(summary sentence)
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Write your headline here.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP)--Police said it was a hit-and-gallop accident: a man
crashed his truck into the back of a car, then fled on the horse he was pulling in a trailer.
"He took off like a bat out of, well, you know," said Anna Vacca, who witnessed the
accident. "He was at a full gallop. The horse was going wild."
The accident on a city highway occurred during the Monday evening rush-hour
and resulted in a six-car pileup, police said. No one was seriously injured. Before police
arrived, the man saddled up his horse and rode away; they spotted him along the
highway's grassy shoulder, "riding into the sunset," said police Officer E. Fitchett.
Police caught up to the suspect inside a nearby home, where he was making a
telephone call. The horse was roped to a tree in the yard. Jose Luis Mendietta, 34, was
arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, driving with a suspended license and
failing to stop and render aid at an accident scene.
Headline Exercise 3
Write a two-line hed (24-point). The maximum count is 11 per line.
(key terms)
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(summary sentence)
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Write your headline here.
DETROIT (AP)--No shirt, no shoes: no justice.
That's the edict in Detroit's 36th District Court, where a dress code forbids shorts,
sandals, blue jeans and any skirt more than 2 inches above the knee.
"They come in here in Levis all ripped, clothes or shorts up to practically their
crotches," said Paul Kanan, a court administrator. "You've got guys coming down here
dressed with their T-shirts showing off their big chests, and the judges don't want that.
"This is a courthouse. We want respect."
The dress code, spelled out on placards posted this week at the entrance to each
courtroom, applies to spectators and people appearing in court. It doesn't apply to those
being arraigned, except for prostitution suspects who must follow the 2-inches-abovethe-knee rule for skirts. Legal briefs are still OK.
Headline Exercise 4
Write a one-line hed (42-point). The maximum count is 24.
(key terms)
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(summary sentence)
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Write your headline here.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP)--An intoxicated German passenger jailed for making a
bomb threat really meant that his bladder--not the plane--was about to explode, a federal
judge ruled.
Johann Peter Grzeganek, 23, who speaks little English, was freed Wednesday
after spending nine months in prison on federal charges of interfering with a flight crew
and making a false bomb threat.
On Thursday, however, he was back in jail because his tourist visa had expired.
"It is a disgrace he's been in jail this long," Chief U.S. District Judge Norman Roettger
told federal prosecutors. "Do you see anything that happened that couldn't have been
remedied by letting this man go to the bathroom?"
Grzeganek agreed nine months ago to plead guilty to an interference charge but
could not make bond. Prosecutors agreed to recommend he be sentenced to time served.
In January, Grzeganek was arrested aboard a flight to Germany. After the
incident, the pilot landed at the Hollywood-Fort Lauderdale Interna-tional Airport.
Grzeganek, who's afraid of flying, told Roettger that the problem started when he
told a flight attendant he needed to use the bathroom. Since the plane was taking off, an
attendant told him to sit down.
"'No, no, no, the roof would go,'" Beate Westerhouse, a German-speaking
attendant, recalled Grzeganek saying.
"I said, 'No, it is a safe airplane,'" she testified Wednesday.
"He said 'No, the roof will go if I sit down,'" she said.
Westerhouse took that to mean a bomb was aboard. Roettger asked her if she had
ever heard the German phrase: "Then the roof flies," which is slang for having to use the
bathroom.
Authorities said Grzeganek will remain in the Metropolitan Correctional Center
near Miami and may be held until he can be deported.
Headline Exercise 5
Write a three-line hed (24-point). The maximum count is 11 per line.
( key terms)
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(summary sentence)
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Write your headline here.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP)--A piece of Luther Gill went with a chunk of house that a
construction company crunched accidentally.
On a stroll to his mailbox Tuesday, a friend passing by told Gill the house for
which he is caretaker was being flattened by a bulldozer.
Oops. The contractor had the wrong house.
"It just tore me all to pieces," said Gill, who lives near the roomy, two-story
home.
The owner, Herbert Ruffin, died years ago and a lawyer oversees the property,
valued at more than $574,000. Gill, 78, was cook and chauffeur to the Ruffin family.
The home had eight rooms, two fireplaces and a spacious living room before
Tuesday. Afterward, about half was left. The demolition company agreed to make
repairs, then moved on to the house it was paid to raze.